Countless disciples of Cold River City were shocked by Qu Yi’s hasty flee. They found it hard to believe that.
In their eyes, the lord of Cold River City was a legendary figure on the Bitter Star. He was also the spiritual pillar that supported the pride and dignity of the Cold River City. And all that started to collapse from the moment Qu Yi fled like a disowned dog.
Many of the disciples could not believe what they had just witnessed.
“Stop him!” Qu Yi bellowed while running away.
He had no time to mind what the others would think right now.
When he saw Li Mu rushing over to back Ye Wuhen up, he realized that things were not going well.
However, the pride he held deep down and his confidence as the lord of Cold River City made him feel that he might be able to take a few moves from Li Mu, instead of being defeated in seconds like Qin Rushuang, Li Muzi, Duan Feng and the others.
However, he soon found that he’d got it wrong.
He’d got it ridiculously wrong.
The broadsword, which was shining like flowing moonlight, was simple but magical. With a single hack, it completely shattered his confidence.
The moment the blade cut into his neck, Qu Yi’s rage dissolved, and so did his fighting spirit.
“Stop him for me!”
Without looking back, Qu Yi ordered the disciples of Cold River City to intercept Li Mu.
The so-called interception basically equaled committing suicide.
Since Li Mu took the Moon-scrubbing Broadsword, though he did not perform the corresponding Dao-using method and just simple horizontal and vertical hacks, the power of the Moon-scrubbing Broadsword had been increased for multiple times. With a casual chop, the vast Broadsword Qi and Broadsword Intent comparable to the Milky Way falling from the highest heaven immediately ripped the void apart and tore up the disciples of Cold River City who had rushed to him like a swarm of hornets.
It was an overpowering massacre.
At first, the disciples of Cold River City dashed desperately toward Li Mu to buy time for Qu Yi to escape. But soon, no matter how loyal the disciples were, they could not stand this kind of horror and also fled in all directions.
“Demons and monsters, none of you can be left alive… Drop dead!”
Li Mu cast the Somersault Cloud and leaped forward in a flash.
A total of four men who looked exactly like Li Mu appeared in the void. Even the Ye Wuhen they were holding in their arms and the Moon-scrubbing Broadsword they grasped were exactly the same. The four Li Mu raced in four directions, chasing after the disciples. The broadsword light swiveled and then vanished. Then, the four Li Mu returned to the same place, and the four figures merged into one.
This was not the Doppelganger Technique.
Instead, it was a series of shadows he left behind in the void when he had reached the fastest speed.
Those disciples of Cold River City who fled in all directions stiffened in the air and then split into irregular pieces. Like birds that suddenly lost their lives, they fell to the ground. None of them managed to escape.
Li Mu had killed them all.
Holding Ye Wuhen in his arms, Li Mu continued to chase after Qu Yi.
Ye Wuhen felt that a warm flow was constantly injected into her body from Li Mu’s palm to cure her. The pain she felt did not matter anymore. It was the first time that she had been held in the arms of a man in this fashion, which was quite weird for her.
The world-renowned Virgin Goddess of the Moon Dao Sect of the Devil Cult had never been so nervous before.
She was even more nervous than the first time she pulled out a broadsword to kill someone.
Another jet of broadsword light flashed past.
Qu Yi’s body was cleaved in half by the waist.
However, the blood mist began to swirl and glint. Soon, his body parts once again reassembled.
“Taoist fellows, help me, quick!” Qu Yi was extremely startled. So he swallowed his pride and activated his natural qi, shouting out loud for help.
His voice spread to the Desktop Peak like rolling thunder.
“Stop chasing him. Let’s go back.” Ye Wuhen sobered up a little and said, “The leaders of the nine major sects are all here. If we continue to the pursuit, we will be besieged.”
Riding the flying broadsword, Li Mu tilted his head and looked at the peerlessly exquisite face in his embrace. When he saw the wounds and bloodstains on the girl, a soft part of his heart was awakened. He rejected, “No, I’ll kill him to avenge you.”
Ye Wuhen turned her head and said, “You’re courting death.”
Li Mu looked at her and said, “You were also courting death before, weren’t you?”
Ye Wuhen looked into Li Mu’s eyes and said, “But I don’t want to die now. Take me back.”
Li Mu smiled and said, “Are you afraid that I will die here? Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing.”
Ye Wuhen gave a cold snort and spoke no more.
She could not see through Li Mu’s strength.
“He hacked a master like Qu Yi with just one hack. That is obviously the power above the Void-breaking Realm!”
“Has the future leader of the Fate-defying Sect already become so powerful?”
She found it hard to believe.
Yet, Li Mu’s firm attitude toward hunting Qu Yi down gave her a strange feeling that was hard to describe or explain. It sort of confused her, but also somewhat aroused her expectancy and moved her in a way that she hadn’t felt for a long time.
“Kill!”
Like a cat catching a mouse, Li Mu instantly closed the distance between him and Qu Yi and launched a hack again.
Qu Yi had no leeway to fight back at all. As if a clay sculpture, he was cut open again from the middle.
However, Qu Yi did not hesitate to activate his source energy to distance him from Li Mu and reassemble his body.
Blood mist surged.
The revival power of the expert in the Void-breaking Realm was indeed incredible, which had even involved the Taoist Principles. Even though Li Mu’s Broadsword Intent kept invading his body, Qu Yi was still able to reshape his body again.
After Qu Yi endured several hacks, the Desktop Peak was finally in sight.
Hundreds of rays of light shot to the air from the Desktop Peak as though twinkling comets streaking across the sky.
Almost all of the strongest high-level figures of the nine major sects had come out to fight in an instant.
Apparently, the news had already reached the Desktop Peak.
“It’s him! He dares to come to battle alone. Does he really think that there is no capable member left in our nine sects?” snarled Qin Rushuang, the Top Sword of West Sea. He caught sight of Li Mu at first glance, and was filled with anger and fear.
His martial art spirit had been undermined by Li Mu’s one hack. It was an insult that he could hardly get over with.
Only by killing Li Mu could he fully recover.
Originally, it was almost impossible for him to do that.
But now, seeing that Li Mu was chasing Qu Yi like a mad lion that had lost his mind in anger while holding a seriously injured woman, Qin Rushuang realized that the best opportunity to take Li Mu out was right before him.
Some other experts in the Void-breaking Realm, such as Li Muzi, Duan Feng, also had the same thought.
Previously, Li Mu hid in the stone forest and could escape at any time. He was in an invincible position, so they could do nothing to him. But now, as Li Mu had come out of the stone forest and was still so overweening, as long as they surrounded him, they could slowly drain his energy and then kill him.
“Get him!”
“Confront him together.”
“When dealing with such a monster of the Devil Cult, there is no need to follow the rules of the martial arts world and make this a fair one-on-one battle. Let’s go together and kill this savage enemy!”
Those standing at the top of the pyramid of the nine sects almost attacked at the same time.
“Be careful,” Ye Wuhen uttered despite herself.
Li Mu burst out laughing.
In an instant, his speed was as fast as lightning. At the pivotal moment, he darted to Qu Yi, Lord of Cold River City again. With a flash of broadsword light, he chopped Qu Yi’s body into halves again.
Next, there came broadsword styles, sword styles, palm prints, cudgel shadows… Countless moves and combat techniques flooded at Li Mu along with a raging wave of power.
Li Mu moved as fast as a ghost and successfully dodged the attacks.
The distance between him and Qu Yi was yet constantly widened.
Eventually, Qu Yi took refuge in the crowd.
He breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and looked at Li Mu, his eyes glimmering with intense resentment.
He had been chopped into pieces by Li Mu five or six times in a row. Although he seemed to have reassembled his body every time, the strikes had damaged his source energy and consumed too much blood and vigor, which nearly caused to him fall out of the Void-breaking Realm. It would take him decades to restore his previous cultivation and combat capability. So, how could he not hate Li Mu?
“Little bastard, you’re surely going to die today!”
Seeing Li Mu almost engulfed in the violent destructive energy tide, Qu Yi let out a cold roar.
“Kill him!”
“Don’t let him escape no matter what the cost is!”
“Well, there’s a way to heaven, but you don’t want to go. There’s no door to hell, but you force your way in.”
The experts of the nine major sects flooded over.
The seven supreme experts in the Void-breaking Realm launched strikes almost at the same time.
Li Mu looked like a small boat that was submerged by the waves of an ocean, which would be smashed by the waves at any time. It seemed that he was in imminent danger.
Ye Wuhen gritted her teeth and did not speak, for fear that Li Mu would be distracted.
“Haha, little bastard, come here and kill me!”
Qu Yi sighed with relief, then he laughed provocatively and taunted.
That was not because he was gleeful about his victorious escape, but because he was doing this to provoke Li Mu and distract him.
“Be patient. I’ll absolutely rip your head off today.”
Between Li Mu’s eyebrows, the Third Eye opened. The starlight in the vertical eye swirled, capturing the route of every blow. Every time Li Mu was about to be hit, he managed to duck the attack at the very last second. He seemed to be dancing on the blades, which was rather frightening.
“Well, little bastard, how dare you still shamelessly stick to your big talk after reaching a dead end. My head is here. Come and take it.” Qu Yi sneered, ridiculing Li Mu non-stop.
By this time, Li Mu had also sported some wounds.
Too many people were besieging him.
Qin Rushuang, Duan Feng, Li Muzi, and the other experts in the Void-breaking Realm also kept launching sneak attacks on him. What was more, Li Mu was still holding the injured Ye Wuhen in his arms. And they all knew that Ye Wuhen was his weak point, so they simply targeted her in an attempt to hold Li Mu back from launching more strikes. For several times, Li Mu was forced to shield Ye Wuhen from broadsword hacks with his own body.
Suddenly, Li Mu opened his mouth and bit the handle of the Moon-scrubbing Broadsword. He put Ye Wuhen on his back and whispered, “Hold me tight.”
Ye Wuhen subconsciously put her arms tightly around Li Mu’s neck.
Only then did she realize how intimate that movement was.
Her towering breasts were almost pressed against Li Mu’s back. The sense of squeezing was extremely distinct. The thin robes could not prevent them from feeling each other’s temperature.
However, Ye Wuhen was not a timid girl. And she was also aware of how grave the situation was at this time. Thus, instead of letting go, she leaned on Li Mu’s back and hugged him tightly so as not to obstruct his battling.
“Very well.”
Li Mu laughed and uttered the words through his nostrils.
It was unknown whether he was praising Ye Wuhen for holding him tightly or commenting on the tide of attacks coming at him from the opposite side.
Sticking the Moon-scrubbing Broadsword between his lips, Li Mu slightly bent his knees and made a horse stance that could not be more in midair. His fists hang in front of the crotch. Then his left fist went up in an arc, while his right fist moved downward in an arc. As if holding Yin and Yang in his hands, he drew a round circle in front of him. His movement seemed to be slow, but layers of fist prints were rotating in front of him, forming an absurd vortex.
That was the start of the Grasping the Bird’s Tail of the Zhenwu Boxing.
Like a black hole, the vortex of fist prints swallowed up the tides of energy flooding at him from all directions.
Li Mu slowly moved his arms.
The tide of energy raging all over the sky and all kinds of moves and skills converged into the vortex of fist prints as Li Mu flung his left and right fists and arms.
The Grasping the Bird’s Tail was a punching skill that was defensive at the beginning but then turned offensive.
The most amazing feature of this move was that it could capture and reverse the opponent’s strength, double it before bouncing it back. It was similar to the Tipping Stars, South Murong’s unique skill in the martial arts novel of Louis Cha Jing-yong. As long as the capacity of his physical body was large enough, theoretically, he could deflect any kind of force.
Now, as Li Mu’s physical body had been refined by the Heavenly Tribulation of the Evil Dragon Mountain, he was robust to an inconceivable degree. Therefore, he could completely withstand the siege of the nine sects.
When the esoteric fist technique was displayed, the experts of the nine sects also vaguely felt that things were not like they had anticipated.
“Get out of my way, all of you!”
Li Mu abruptly roared and swung his fists at the opponents.
All the power gathered, bounced back, rushed out, and swept in all sides.
In an eruption of screams and screeches, in the face of the power that was twice as strong as that of their own, the experts of the nine sects were all in a fix. They retreated in a haste, bleeding, with broken bones and cracked weapons… Even experts in the Void-breaking Realm were no exception.
In all the chaos, Li Mu darted forward in a flash and landed right in front of Qu Yi, Lord of Cold River City.
There was a flash of broadsword light.
His head flew into the air.
Without waiting for him to reassemble his body again, Li Mu thrust a trace of his Broadsword Intent into Qu Yi’s body. The power of the Emperors’ Fire frantically penetrated his body.
Li Mu held Qu Yi’s head with one hand and muttered, “Actually, it’s not that hard to rip your head off.”
