Chapter 189: Myriad Swords Return to Sect! For You, I Am Willing to Use My Body as a Sword!

"Rumble—!!!"

With Bone Sword Immortal's hoarse roar, the mountain of scrap iron swords at the bottom of the entire abyss completely boiled over.

Tens of thousands of rusted broken swords and remnant blades, carrying the resentment and Death Qi accumulated over a millennium, broke free from the soil and cracks in the rocks, suspending themselves in mid-air.

The densely packed blade edges were like a swarm of infuriated hornets, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

That terrifying Killing Intent, formed by the convergence of tens of thousands of fragmented Sword Intents, directly drained the surrounding air, forming a massive vacuum slaughter field.

Standing dozens of zhang away, Hongxiu, Lanyu, and Jiang Wanqing were forced to retreat repeatedly by this Aura, finding it difficult to breathe.

Meanwhile, Gu Lan, who was at the very center of the storm, bore an unimaginable amount of pressure.

"Old lunatic! Are you playing for real?!"

Deep within Gu Lan's mind, the Soul-Devouring Sword Spirit let out a pig-slaughtering screech.

[Big shot! This old fellow is going to shoot us into a sieve! Think of a way quickly!]

"Shut up! Give me all you've got!"

Gu Lan let out an angry roar, his feet slamming fiercely into the ground to create a deep pit as he steadied his stance.

He grasped the hilt of the soul-devouring sword with both hands and raised it high above his head.

"Green Lotus Core Flame! Red Lotus Karmic Fire!"

"Burning Heaven Absolute Flame Shield!"

Boom!

Two utterly distinct colored strange flames surged wildly out of Gu Lan's body, spreading along his arms onto the soul-devouring sword.

The purple-black Devilish Qi and the interwoven cyan-red flames fused instantly, propping up a massive semi-circular light barrier with a diameter of three zhang around Gu Lan's body.

On the surface of the light barrier, flames churned and Devilish Qi rose, resembling a molten lava crater inverted on the ground.

"Fall!"

Bone Sword Immortal violently waved his arm, which was reduced to mere white bones, downwards.

The rain of swords across the sky poured down overwhelmingly like a breached flood, carrying an Aura capable of destroying everything!

"Clang clang dang dang—!!!"

The dense sounds of collision instantly merged into one, the piercing soundwaves causing the few women in the distance to cover their ears one after another.

Countless rusted broken swords smashed like a rainstorm onto Gu Lan's flame light barrier.

As soon as some swords made contact with the light barrier, they were instantly melted into molten iron by the terrifying high temperature; others carried intense Death Qi, forcefully piercing half an inch into the barrier before being devoured by the Devilish Qi.

However, the quantity of the sword rain was simply too massive.

The moment one sword melted, tens or hundreds more immediately rushed in to replace it.

"Crack… Crack…"

The scrap iron ground beneath Gu Lan's feet began to collapse on a large scale, and his legs had already sunk deeply into the mud.

Under countless impacts, the flame light barrier flickered violently, its original diameter of three zhang being forcefully compressed down to one zhang, and it was still constantly shrinking.

"Puff!"

A sweetness welled up in Gu Lan's throat, and a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed onto the inner wall of the light barrier.

That massive rebound force caused excruciating pain, as if his internal organs had been displaced, even though he had undergone the Ice and Fire Refined Golden Body.

"Junior Brother!!!"

Seeing Gu Lan vomit blood in the distance, Jiang Wanqing's eyes instantly turned red.

She desperately wanted to rush over, but was tightly held back by Hongxiu.

"Are you insane! With an attack of this level, going in there is sheer suicide!"

Although Hongxiu was also so anxious that tears were spinning in her eyes, she was much calmer than Jiang Wanqing. She knew that with their current strength, rushing in would not only fail to help, but would instead become a burden to Gu Lan and distract him.

"Let go of me! He can't hold on much longer!"

Jiang Wanqing struggled frantically, her detached and cold face filled with despair and madness.

With the taie sword snatched away, her cultivation had indeed reached the Half-step Nascent Soul stage, yet before such ultimate moves from an old monster, she still appeared so powerless.

"Jie jie jie…"

Suspended in mid-air and watching Gu Lan struggle to support himself, Bone Sword Immortal let out a strange, night-owl-like laugh.

"Kid, your bones are indeed quite tough."

"But this 'Myriad Swords Return to Sect' of mine can exhaust even a Middle Stage Nascent Soul cultivator to death alive."

"Let's see how long you can hold out!"

Along with Bone Sword Immortal's wild laughter, the onslaught of the sword rain grew even more violent.

Gu Lan's flame light barrier had shrunk to the extent that it clung closely to his body, and the tips of even a few swords had pierced through the defense, tearing his clothes and leaving several bloody gashes on his body.

As soon as those wounds appeared, grayish-white Death Qi burrowed inward along his blood, attempting to freeze his Meridians.

"Want to exhaust me to death?"

Gu Lan bit down on his bloody teeth, staring fixedly at Bone Sword Immortal in mid-air.

Due to excessive exertion, the muscles on his arms bulged high, and his veins protruded like small snakes.

"Old dog, do you think I only know how to take a beating?!"

Gu Lan knew that blind defense was a dead end.

He had to counterattack!

"Sword Spirit! Devour this scrap metal for me!"

Gu Lan roared in his mind.

[Big shot! I'll devour it! I'll devour it with my life on the line!]

At this juncture of life and death, the Soul-Devouring Sword Spirit no longer dared to hold anything back.

On the body of the soul-devouring sword, that scarlet demonic eye suddenly opened to the extreme.

A devouring force a hundred times more evil than Bone Sword Immortal's Death Qi erupted with a boom!

The broken swords that had penetrated the light barrier and were about to pierce Gu Lan, the moment they contacted this devouring force, unexpectedly melted like ice and snow, directly transforming into the purest Evil Qi and being swallowed in one gulp by the soul-devouring sword.

"Hum—"

The soul-devouring sword let out a satisfied humming sound, its blade growing increasingly baleful, and its purple-black light even overshadowing the surrounding strange flames.

Gu Lan's pressure plummeted abruptly, his gaze instantly turning incomparably fierce.

"Right now!"

He abruptly withdrew the flame light barrier above his head.

Without the obstruction of defense, the sword rain across the sky smashed straight down.

"Is he crazy?!"

Hongxiu and Lanyu exclaimed in unison.

At the critical juncture when the sword rain was about to submerge Gu Lan,

"Shadowless Demonic Trace!"

Gu Lan's figure vanished from the spot without warning, just like a ghost!

"Rumble!!!"

Countless broken swords smashed into the spot where Gu Lan had just been standing, directly blasting a bottomless crater into the ground.

"Disappeared?"

In Bone Sword Immortal's hollow eye sockets, a red light flashed violently.

His Divine Sense instantly spread out, wanting to capture Gu Lan's whereabouts.

However, the bottom of this abyss was filled everywhere with the resentment of remnant swords, which severely interfered with the probing of Divine Sense. As a top-tier concealment movement technique of the Demonic Sect, Shadowless Demonic Trace exerted miraculous effects at this moment.

"Old fellow, I'm above you!"

An ice-cold voice suddenly came from directly above Bone Sword Immortal's head.

Bone Sword Immortal abruptly raised his head.

He saw Gu Lan wielding the soul-devouring demon sword, descending from the sky like a swooping falcon carrying an unstoppable Aura.

In his two eyes, on the left and right respectively, a cyan and a dark red fire lotus danced.

"Burning Heaven Sword Art Third Form—Blazing Sun Heavenly Fall!"

With this sword strike, Gu Lan compressed all the remaining strange flames and Devilish Qi within his body to the absolute limit.

The long sword swung down.

No sword light flew out.

However, around the blade edge of the soul-devouring sword, due to the extreme high temperature and the compression of Devilish Qi, a circle of black Void Realm cracks appeared.

"Court death!"

Although Bone Sword Immortal had lost his legs, his reaction was extremely fast.

He did not dodge, but instead let out an angry roar and held the polluted Taie bone sword horizontally above his head.

"Nine Nether White Bone Shield!"

The eight black iron chains coiled behind him instantly came alive, wrapping around the Taie bone sword like eight venomous snakes to form a massive circular white bone shield.

"Clang—!!!"

The soul-devouring demon sword hacked fiercely onto the white bone shield.

This time, upon collision, there were no sparks, no loud noises.

There was only a teeth-aching grinding sound.

That was the strange flames frantically scorching the white bones, and the Devilish Qi devouring each other.

Gu Lan pressed down desperately on the sword hilt with both hands, his body trembling violently in mid-air due to the immense reaction force.

Bone Sword Immortal's body suspended below was also forced to plunge downwards by more than a dozen zhang under this immense strength.

"Little bastard, your strength is indeed quite large!"

Bone Sword Immortal's withered lower jawbone opened and closed, letting out a disdainful sneer.

"But you cannot break this old man's defense!"

What he said was right; although the white bone shield was being scorched to sizzle, those black iron chains seemed endless, continuously repairing the gaps in the shield.

"Is that so?"

A cruel smile suddenly curved at the corners of Gu Lan's mouth.

His hands gripping the sword did not loosen, but his left hand quietly released the hilt, and a thumb-sized, interwoven cyan-red fire lotus instantly condensed at his fingertips.

That was the product of him forcibly kneading the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Red Lotus Karmic Fire together.

Extremely unstable!

Extremely dangerous!

"Taste this advanced version of the 'Ice and Fire Dual Heavens' move—Buddha's Wrath Flame Lotus!"

Gu Lan flicked his left hand abruptly.

That dainty fire lotus instantly slipped through the gaps of the white bone shield, landing lightly upon the right shoulder joint of Bone Sword Immortal's arm that grasped the taie sword.

"What is that thing?!"

Bone Sword Immortal didn't even clearly see what it was before feeling a destructive fluctuation emanating from his shoulder.

"Explode!"

Gu Lan let out a sharp cry, his entire body retreating frantically backward utilizing the rebound force of the soul-devouring sword.

"Boom—!!!"

A blindingly glaring light burst open at Bone Sword Immortal's shoulder.

The terrifying explosion shockwave instantly swept across the entire abyss.

"Ah—!!!"

Bone Sword Immortal let out the most wretched and shrill scream since breaking his seal.

His proud, indestructible white bone right arm, under the terrifying power of the Fusion and explosion of the two strange flames, actually snapped right off at the root!

Along with that polluted Taie bone sword, it was blown flying away, falling into the pile of scrap iron below.

"It succeeded!"

Hongxiu and Lanyu in the distance let out a joyful cheer.

However.

Gu Lan hadn't even had time to rejoice.

"You… how dare you… destroy this old man's arm!!!"

Amidst the smoke and dust came Bone Sword Immortal's malicious roar, sounding like a vengeful ghost.

He had not died.

Not only did he not die, but because he lost an arm, he completely plunged into a state of demonic madness.

"Whoosh!"

An afterimage violently rushed out from the explosive smoke and dust.

Its speed was more terrifying than any time before!

That was Bone Sword Immortal!

He abandoned all defenses, and didn't even care about the dropped taie sword.

He had only the sharp bone claw of his left hand remaining, carrying Death Qi that was dense to the extreme, heading straight to gouge out the heart of Gu Lan, who was still flying backward in mid-air with nowhere to leverage his strength!

"This old man is going to skin you alive!"

The distance was too close!

The speed was too fast!

In order to release the Buddha's Wrath Flame Lotus just moments ago, Gu Lan's inner Zhenyuan had experienced a brief vacuum period, and at this moment it was completely too late for him to gather Qi and dodge.

He could only watch helplessly as that grayish-white bone claw expanded infinitely within his pupils.

"This is bad!"

At this critical, life-or-death moment,

A white figure, like lightning cutting through the dark night, rushed over from the side without warning.

There was no sword.

Her entire person was a sword—the sharpest and most resolute of all!

"Don't you dare harm him!"

Jiang Wanqing!

She had somehow broken free from Hongxiu's tugging.

When Bone Sword Immortal's bone claw was only half an inch away from Gu Lan's heart, she threw her body forward.

She did not push Gu Lan away, but instead directly opened her arms and tightly hugged Bone Sword Immortal's sole remaining left arm!

"Courting-death lassy!"

Bone Sword Immortal was furious, his left arm shaking violently in an attempt to shatter Jiang Wanqing into pieces.

But he miscalculated.

At this moment, the Half-step Nascent Soul Ice Marrow Sword Qi within Jiang Wanqing's body was completely detonated without reservation, as if burning her very life!

"Ice Marrow Absolute Domain—Freeze!"

Piercing, ultimate cold qi poured wildly along Jiang Wanqing's body into Bone Sword Immortal's left arm.

"Crack… Crack…"

Visible to the naked eye, blue frost instantly covered Bone Sword Immortal's entire left half-body, and even the Death Qi within the crevices of his bones was forcefully frozen for a split second.

Although it was only a brief half-second.

But for a duel between experts, that was enough!

"Senior Sister—!!!"

Gu Lan's eyes were bloodshot, his eyes split wide open with fury.

He saw a massive amount of fresh blood overflowing from the corners of Jiang Wanqing's mouth—that was the severe backlash from forcibly detonating her Origin.

"Gu Lan… kill him…"

Jiang Wanqing tightly hugged Bone Sword Immortal's arm, turning her head to look at Gu Lan, a poignant yet beautiful smile blooming across her pale face.

"You dare touch my Senior Sister?! I'll grind your bones to dust and scatter your ashes!"

Gu Lan completely went berserk.

He let out a beast-like wild howl, the potential within his body being completely forced out.

The soul-devouring demon sword in his hand was raised high, carrying a world-destroying black sword radiance as it hacked fiercely toward Bone Sword Immortal's frozen neck!