Sword Qi to the Sky

Chapter 101 Cousin
This night was destined to be an uneasy one for the city of Chuzhou. The Chen family was ransacked by people from all sides, and the once prominent Chuzhou family was destroyed overnight.

The Chen family's property was looted, and the two great practitioners in the Nascent Soul Realm were killed in the battle, completely becoming history.

There was a lot of noise outside, but Li Fan returned to the yard, looking a little tired.

The sword technique of Nine Decays of Heaven and Man consumes too much energy. If he did not have the sword will and the backup of his junior brother, he would never use Nine Decays of Heaven and Man easily, otherwise he would be doomed after using it up.

Li Fan took out the demon pill, the demon pill of the fifth-level Peng demon, and it bloomed with dazzling golden light in the dark night, illuminating the entire yard.

His body suddenly became restless, as if there was a hungry power, his blood and energy roared, Li Fan opened his mouth, and immediately swallowed the demon pill directly into his stomach.

Inside the body, the evil spirit ran wild and moved fiercely, trying to devour the golden elixir. A bright light appeared, like an eye.

The demon pill released an extremely brilliant golden light, and an illusory figure appeared, like a golden roc, as if it had life.

The demon pill is the essence of the demon, and contains the residual soul and will of the demon.

With his body rioting, Li Fan closed his eyes. Rumbling sounds continued to be heard, and golden light appeared on his body. Strands of golden light flowed through his body, illuminating the night.

As time passed, his blood and energy became stronger and stronger, gradually surpassing his previous peak state. The golden magic power in his body flowed wildly, cleansing his body.

In the middle of the night, a sharp whistle came out of his body, and wisps of golden light overflowed and shot into the night sky, lighting up the entire night sky. A trace of sword intent sealed the courtyard where he was, thus preventing it from leaking out.

Golden light continuously emanated from Li Fan's body, gradually condensing into a shadow. The shadow grew larger and larger, and gradually solidified, with its wings spread, as if it was about to flap and fly.

With a long roar, golden light filled the sky, and a huge Peng bird appeared behind Li Fan. It was dazzling all over and made of gold. Although it looked somewhat like the Peng monster killed by Wen Ruyu, it was a golden body. It seemed like the evolution of that Peng monster, and was close to the golden-winged Peng monster.

Li Fan opened his eyes, and golden light flowed in his pupils, extremely sharp.

The last time he devoured Yu Qing's demon pill and his father's dragon soul, he forged the Jiaolong martial soul. Now that he has reached the innate realm, he devoured the fifth-realm peak Peng Yao demon pill and condensed another martial soul.

This Peng monster has a trace of golden-winged Roc bloodline. If given the chance, it would have the chance to evolve into a golden-winged Roc. However, after being devoured by himself, this evolution was actually reflected in his martial spirit.

"Golden Peng Wu Po, can you fly into the sky now?" Li Fan stood up, his Wu Po and body seemed to merge into one, the Golden Peng spread its wings, and Li Fan's body soared into the sky.

"It really works." Li Fan's body floated in the air, but it would consume his magic power.

No wonder practitioners who have reached a high level of practice need to rely on various practice resources to condense and strengthen their martial spirit and Dharma image. A powerful martial spirit and Dharma image are of great help to practitioners.

"My martial arts is about to break through again." Li Fan said to himself. He felt that the demon in his body was no longer as greedy as before, swallowing up everything and feeding back to him.

He even felt that the other party was helping him to condense his martial spirit, which caused the martial spirit he condensed this time to evolve.

"What kind of monster is this?"

Li Fan thought secretly in his heart.

After landing, Li Fan restrained his breath, sat cross-legged and continued to practice.

A moment later, starlight began to fall from the sky.

The turbulent night in Chuzhou City was just a small episode in Li Fan's road of cultivation.

When he reached the out-of-body state, he was already the master of the Lishan Sword, and he had a mission on his shoulders.

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On the morning of the second day, everything in Chuzhou City returned to peace. The demon chaos did not spread to too many places. It just wreaked havoc at the gate of Chuzhou City before being stopped by Wen Ruyu.

Secondly, a war broke out where Li Fan lived, affecting a wide area.

Although the demon has been killed, the impact of this incident is still there, and people in the streets and alleys of Chuzhou City are talking about what happened yesterday.

In the teahouse at the morning market, the storyteller was talking enthusiastically.

"Let's say yesterday that the demon army attacked the city. A sword flew from the sky, and on the sword stood a sword immortal. With just one strike of the sword, he killed all the demons in the city. Guess who this sword immortal was?"

"Of course it's the Lishan swordsman." The people around started to cheer.

"That's right." The storyteller nodded vigorously and said, "It was the Lishan sword cultivator Wen Ruyu who came. He was also born into an extraordinary family. He is the son of the previous generation of Lishan Sword Master. He inherited his father's legacy. After killing the monsters that entered the city, he struck out with his sword again. This sword spanned dozens of miles and cut off the head of the Peng monster. The Chen family was finished."

There was a burst of praise in the teahouse.

Someone said: "The imperial court is full of idle people. When the demons invade, they even need the sword cultivators from the mountain to save Chuzhou City. What do they need the government for?"

"You probably don't know this, but it is said that among those who colluded with the demons this time, there are government officials. Sun Qian, the deputy commander of the Demon Slaying Division, is one of the culprits, and he has always been very close to the Chen family."

"A bunch of good-for-nothings. With officials like this, the imperial court is still going to destroy Lishan?"

"What you said is a bit exaggerated." Just as the crowd was filled with indignation, a voice was heard from the corner of the teahouse. Everyone looked in that direction and saw two figures sitting there quietly enjoying breakfast.

The person who was speaking was a young man, who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, with his hair standing up, dressed in gorgeous clothes, and exuding a sense of luxury. I guess he was from a noble family. The person opposite him was a middle-aged man, who was eating noodles with his head down, looking like he was enjoying it very much.

"What's wrong?" someone asked.

"If the imperial court had not sent troops to guard the various places, the world would have been in chaos long ago. Take Chuzhou for example. Without the imperial court stationed troops in Chuzhou City, how could the people live and work in peace?" The young man said with a smile: "As far as I know, in the past few years, Chuzhou City has only had this one incident of demons entering the city. How can we deny the efforts made by the imperial court just because of this one mistake?"

"Even if there is no imperial court, practitioners will be able to resist demons on their own. This demon incident also shows that the Chuzhou government is nothing but a shell." The other party retorted.

"Do you know Dali a thousand years ago?" asked the young man.

Everyone was stunned. A thousand years ago?

Life is short, only a few decades long. How can they know about what happened thousands of years ago?
"Thousands of years ago, demons were rampant and the world was in chaos. Demons fed on humans and human survival was threatened. It was at this time that a group of knowledgeable people appeared and called on all the practitioners in the world to slay the demons and eventually founded Dali."

"Since then, humans have never switched back and forth between attack and defense like they did a thousand years ago. Even though there have been some demonic riots in the intervening years, they were quickly suppressed by the imperial court."

"So, you all deny the court's protection of the people of the world for thousands of years just because of one thing. Isn't that biased?"

After hearing this, everyone was silent, not knowing how to refute for a moment.

Judging from what the other party said, it seems to make sense.

"Are you from a noble family? Why are you speaking for the government?" someone questioned.

"I guess so." The young man replied calmly. The middle-aged man opposite him also finished his noodles, wiped his mouth, threw a piece of silver on the table, looked up at the young man and said, "This morning market noodles tastes pretty good."

"Sir, you are used to delicacies from land and sea, so you think you are okay with a change of taste?" the young man said with a smile.

The middle-aged man shook his head: "It's not just the taste that matters, it's the atmosphere of the market."

"That makes sense." The young man smiled and nodded: "Since you have finished eating, shall we go?"

"Let's go." The middle-aged man nodded and stood up. He was tall and wearing a cloak. His unintentional movements revealed a sense of majesty.

The teahouse fell silent. From the temperament of these two people, it was obvious that they were probably extraordinary.

The two men walked outside, and when they reached the door, the middle-aged man suddenly paused and raised his brows. At this moment, a terrifying pressure enveloped the teahouse, and everyone seemed to have difficulty breathing and their breathing almost stopped.

The invisible pressure released casually made them feel the breath of death at close range.

"If the imperial court is corrupt, what you said today is enough to make you die a hundred times." After saying this, the middle-aged man walked out of the teahouse.

Everyone then breathed a sigh of relief, and with horror in their hearts they looked at the departing figure.

Who are they?

"Sir, why bother with them? They are just a bunch of ordinary people." said the young man.

"That's why they are still alive." The middle-aged man responded.

"It's not easy to get out for a walk, sir, please relax a little. How can you enjoy the city atmosphere if you are so tense?" The young man said with a smile, appearing particularly relaxed.

"Your Highness is right." The middle-aged man nodded: "Where are we going now?"

"Of course, I'm going to go see that young man." The young man looked into the distance, feeling a little curious.

Who is the young man who killed Chu Zili and defeated Jiang Tai'a on the top of Mount Li?

Chu Zili is fine, but Jiang Tai'a knows that Lingxiao Pavilion regards him very highly and treats him like a treasure. He is being trained as the future successor of Lingxiao Pavilion, and if nothing unexpected happens, Jiang Tai'a can indeed grow to that level.

But he was defeated by an unknown young man.

This incident caused quite a stir in the imperial city.

Not only was he curious, many people were curious.

Of course, what really interested him was not that the young man defeated Jiang Tai'a.

It was his cousin.

When he was young, he liked to follow his cousin. At that time, his cousin was the Princess of Dali, and was the apple of everyone's eye and the most dazzling person.

Even though times have changed and their positions have changed today, he was still amazed when he saw his cousin again.

Both her talent and appearance are rare in the world.

But it was this woman who returned to the palace for the young man, just to save him from death.

(End of this chapter)