Chapter 77: Slaying a Spirit Transformation Clone, One Sword Instant Kill

Three days later, the remaining power within the Holy City weakened, and Nascent Soul stage cultivators from every major faction entered one after another.

You followed behind Xiang Wanqing and entered the eerie Holy City together.

The moment you stepped inside, a dark, gloomy aura rushed at your face, making you extremely uncomfortable.

Here, you felt that even your Nascent Soul stage cultivation was suppressed, and you could only produce seventy percent of your original strength.

After entering the Holy City, your gaze swept the surroundings, and you quickly discovered where Wang Qiang was.

You studied the ten Nascent Soul stage cultivators beside Wang Qiang. Every single one of them was at the ninth layer of Nascent Soul.

Wang Qiang naturally noticed you as well. He first whispered something to the ninth-layer Nascent Soul cultivator beside him, then walked over to Xiang Wanqing with a smile and greeted her.

“Wanqing, let’s go together.”

You pushed aside the black-clothed men on either side and walked step by step to Xiang Wanqing’s side. Looking at Wang Qiang before you, you grinned.

In the next second, you suddenly struck, seizing Wang Qiang’s wrist in one go and slamming a fist into his stomach!

“Urgh, ah! My, my cultivation!” That punch held nothing back. Wang Qiang’s dantian was directly shattered by you, his entire cultivation destroyed, leaving him gravely wounded.

Xiang Wanqing looked at you in shock, her eyes filled with disbelief.

The ten Nascent Soul stage cultivators charged with protecting Wang Qiang had clearly had no idea you would suddenly strike. After snapping to their senses, they hurriedly moved, wanting to rescue Wang Qiang from your hands.

Since you had already struck, you naturally had no desire to let Wang Qiang off just like that.

One hand gripped Wang Qiang’s throat, frightening everyone into holding back.

“Stop! You dare kill a Young Master of my Wang family? Are you courting death?”

“Miss Xiang, does your Xiang family want to go to war with my Wang family?” One of the Nascent Soul cultivators demanded loudly of Xiang Wanqing.

“This person belongs to the Immortal Treasure Pavilion. I have no authority to command him. Do as you please.” With that, Xiang Wanqing led her people back to one side, clearly unwilling to get involved.

“Good, good, good!” The Nascent Soul cultivator laughed in fury and casually crushed a jade talisman.

The figure of a middle-aged cultivator slowly materialized. Seeing this, Wang Qiang forced a sentence out of his throat. “Father, cough, save, save me!”

“You’ve got nerve, daring to harm my son. Do you want to make an enemy of my Wang family!” the middle-aged man roared, and at the same time a powerful pressure rushed at your face.

In your eyes, the Martial Dao Formation Eye appeared. You looked toward this middle-aged man and only then discovered that what had come was an avatar, its strength comparable to early-stage Spirit Transformation.

You smiled contemptuously. Under the middle-aged man’s disbelieving gaze, you forcefully crushed Wang Qiang to death!

“Good, good, good! You already have the path to death!” The middle-aged man said “good” three times in a row, his face hideous, a killing intent fully released.

The middle-aged man swatted over with one palm, raising his hand to suppress you here.

You felt that full-power strike of early-stage Spirit Transformation, yet your eyes held no fear in the slightest. With just one punch, you directly shattered the middle-aged man’s attack.

“This, how could that possibly!” The middle-aged man refused to believe it, raising his hand to look at his own right hand, seemingly unable to believe it.

The leading Wang family cultivator could not help but retreat a step, terror in his heart. He knew well the strength of this avatar of the middle-aged man.

Even Xiang Wanqing, watching from the sidelines, had her eyes beneath the mask widen drastically.

You seized Wang Qiang’s head and twisted it off, tossing it toward the middle-aged man, while the power of Heavenly Lightning surfaced beneath your feet.

At the same moment Wang Qiang’s head arrived, your figure also suddenly appeared behind the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man looked at Wang Qiang’s head right before his eyes, hands trembling as he accepted it, entirely failing to notice your sneak attack.

You held nothing back. Toward the Spirit Transformation avatar before you, bang bang bang, three punches came down, directly blasting this avatar apart!

Before the avatar dissipated, a voice transmitted over. “I’ve remembered you. Prepare to face my Wang family’s fury!”

Having dealt with Wang Qiang and his father, you turned your head, your gaze sweeping toward the ten Wang family Nascent Soul stage cultivators below.

Sensing the killing intent revealed in your eyes, the Wang family cultivators could not spare a thought for avenging Wang Qiang and hurriedly fled.

You did not move from your spot. You offered up a hundred flying swords and unleashed the Returning Unity Sword, attacking the ten Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

This strike of yours, even a Spirit Transformation cultivator would find hard to withstand, let alone this group of Nascent Soul stage cultivators whose cultivation had been suppressed by thirty percent?

The Returning Unity Sword came straight for a chilling pierce, not only exterminating the life force within the Nascent Soul stage cultivators’ bodies, but even their Nascent Souls did not escape.

With just one sword, ten Nascent Soul stage cultivators, dead!

“This!!!” The cultivators beside Xiang Wanqing wore expressions of utter terror, unable even to speak clearly.

You cleaned up the corpses, collected the spoils of war, and only then walked toward Xiang Wanqing.

Seeing this, the Xiang family cultivators came before Xiang Wanqing on trembling legs, desperately blocking you.

“Don’t, don’t come closer! Come any closer and don’t blame us for being rude!” One Nascent Soul stage cultivator, hands trembling as he raised a spirit sword, looked at you as you approached, as if facing a great enemy.

You stopped in your tracks, looking toward Xiang Wanqing in the crowd, and said nothing.

“Everyone move aside. This is one of our own.” Xiang Wanqing walked out from the crowd’s protection and came directly before you.

“You killed the Wang family’s Wang Qiang. Once we leave, I’m afraid you’ll face the Wang family’s retaliation.” Xiang Wanqing transmitted to you.

“If you can’t stay in the Immortal Treasure Pavilion anymore, you can come find me. My Xiang family does not fear the Wang family!”

“You’re trying to recruit me?” You smiled and asked.

“With Nascent Soul cultivation, slaying ten ninth-layer Nascent Soul cultivators with one sword, and even blasting apart an early-stage Spirit Transformation avatar with three punches — that is worth my Xiang family making an enemy of the Wang family!” Xiang Wanqing said with utter seriousness.

You shrugged, noncommittal.

“Wait until I finish this task, then we’ll talk.”

Xiang Wanqing’s gaze remained fixed on you the entire time, studying you for a long while, but in the end she still did not say much more.

You surveyed the surroundings. Apart from the two of you, the cultivators of the other factions had long since departed, searching through the Holy City.

You did not know what their purpose in coming here was, and you did not want to know. You only wanted Xiang Wanqing to leave the Holy City alive and to complete this task.

Therefore, you remained silent the entire way, merely following at Xiang Wanqing’s side, following her deeper into the Holy City.

“Our target is the City Lord’s Mansion. I need to go there to retrieve something.” On the way to the City Lord’s Mansion, Xiang Wanqing explained to you.

“I am only responsible for protecting your safety. Everything else is none of my concern.” You made your stance clear.

Above the Holy City, a powerful restrictive force prevented you from flying for long, so you could only proceed on foot.