Swoosh!
The two swift-moving White Lotus Blood Infants on the ground seemed to sense Lu Xuan’s attack.
As if perceiving a tremendous threat, they immediately split apart, darting away in two different directions.
However, their speed was utterly futile against Lu Xuan’s Astral Energy, completely unable to shake off the pursuit of the purple astral force.
Almost simultaneously, explosive noises erupted from two different locations.
Two blinding flashes of deep purple firelight illuminated the surroundings, casting a mysterious purple glow over the earth.
In less than a few breaths, the two White Lotus monsters were incinerated by the all-consuming flames, turning into wisps of white smoke that dissipated into the world.
The auras of those two White Lotus monsters also completely vanished from Lu Xuan’s perception.
At the entrance of Liugou Village, the instant the two White Lotus monsters were destroyed.
The old woman’s eyes widened, and she let out a grief-stricken, mournful wail.
“Ah!”
“My White Lotus Holy Envoys!”
However, after just one cry, her body abruptly surged into motion.
In the blink of an eye, she had already appeared over a thousand meters away.
A powerful aura erupted from her entire body, with invisible currents of energy swirling around her.
Propelled by her terrifying speed, she tore through the peaceful sky, racing away in a direction leading far from the official road!
The entire process was smooth and fluid, without a single moment of hesitation.
As one of the longest-living elders of the Pure World White Lotus Cult,
and someone who had repeatedly escaped from that old devil Li Chengfeng, she naturally possessed exceptional abilities.
The old woman’s White Lotus Saint Envoy was someone she had carefully nurtured for decades, finally breaking through from White Lotus Saint Infant to White Lotus Saint Envoy.
It must be known that a White Lotus Holy Envoy is equivalent to a human martial artist at the Internal Qi realm.
Moreover, given the bizarre nature of the White Lotus Holy Envoys,
even a martial artist at the minor completion stage of the Inner Qi realm couldn’t completely suppress it, let alone eliminate it.
— let alone wipe out it.
A martial artist at the Internal Qi realm… isn’t that the same cultivation level as my own?
And now, her White Lotus Holy Envoys and White Lotus Blood Infants had only been gone for a short while.
The old woman sensed that the White Lotus Envoy and the White Lotus Infant, which she controlled, vanished instantly.
There could only be one reason for this outcome.
Her White Lotus Holy Envoys and White Lotus Holy Infants had been killed by a powerful martial artist in an extremely short time.
To eliminate a White Lotus Holy Envoy, comparable to a Minor Achievement Internal Qi realm practitioner, with such speed… the newcomer must be at the Great Achievement stage of the Internal Qi realm.
In the entire Baidao Prefecture, who else could it be but that person she hated most?
That old devil Li Chengfeng had actually come.
How could he appear in Qingyun County?
Didn’t that Bloodthirsty Corpse Fiend in Lanshan County manage to keep that old devil Li Chengfeng tied up?
The old woman’s hunched figure continuously dashed along the rugged path, as agile and elusive as a ghost.
But just as she was still puzzling over why that old devil Li Chengfeng had appeared in Qingyun County,
her thoughts came to an abrupt halt the next moment.
Because, ahead of her, appeared a tall and straight man.
The man wore a set of black robes, his arms crossed casually over his chest. He stood there with an air of composed indifference, watching the old woman rushing towards him.
“Hmm?”
“Who are you?”
Upon seeing the young man ahead, the old woman didn’t slow her forward momentum in the slightest.
She continued to channel the Internal Qi throughout her body, speeding onward.
With a Great Achievement Internal Qi realm expert like Li Chengfeng behind her, she dared not let her guard down for a moment.
The young man ahead, though he seemed somewhat unusual, did nothing to affect her determination to flee.
“Damned mortal food, how dare you block this elder’s path!”
“Die for this elder!”
As she closed in on the young man, the old woman’s eyes filled with boundless killing intent.
Her withered right hand clenched into a claw, condensed with astonishing Internal Qi, and shot towards the young man’s face.
This formidable strike of hers could only be withstood by a martial artist at the Internal Qi realm or above; no one else could possibly block it.
In an instant, the old woman was enveloped by a dazzling purple radiance, and her pale eyes also brimmed with a brilliant purple light.
“Such a powerful aura!”
“This is Astral Energy!”
The old woman stared in utter horror at the young man now right before her. A protective shield of purple Astral Energy shimmered around his body, emanating a heart-palpitating aura.
“Ah!”
“My hand!”
The old woman had no time to retract her right hand. Under her fearful and bewildered gaze, it directly made contact with that purple Astral Energy shield.
The next moment, her right hand behaved as if it had touched an intensely high-temperature flame, instantly igniting.
In less than a single breath, her right hand had already turned into white bone ash, scattering into the air.
Acting decisively, the old woman’s left hand transformed into a blade, wrapped in a sharp, imposing force, and she severed her entire right arm.
Then, her feet pushed off forcefully, and her hunched figure rapidly retreated backward.
Before her heels had even firmly landed, she cried out loudly.
“Who are you?!”
“How is this possible? How could there be… in Qingyun County…”
However, before the old woman could finish her words, the only response she received were two icy-cold words.
“Too noisy!”
In the void above the old woman’s head, a purple Astral Energy hand dozens of zhang long materialized.
Under the old woman’s incredulous gaze, the sky-obscuring, sun-shielding purple Astral Energy hand swiftly pressed down upon her.
Boom! Rumble!
The moment the purple Astral Energy hand descended, the solid earth trembled violently.
The ground, impacted by the purple, powerful hand, collapsed, creating a massive crater and unleashing a raging storm.
In an instant, dust and smoke filled the air within a radius of several kilometers!
And this young man blocking the old woman’s path was none other than Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan naturally showed no mercy towards these demons of the Pure World White Lotus Cult.
Nor did he intend to extract any information from them.
Because these demonic followers of the Pure World White Lotus Cult all practiced sinister martial arts techniques.
Their every action and thought were influenced by these unorthodox techniques.
Therefore, Lu Xuan held no expectation of getting a single coherent sentence out of these demons.
As the dust in the air gradually dissipated, a ten-meter-deep crater appeared before Lu Xuan’s eyes.
At the center of the crater lay a charred shadow, along with some ashes and debris left from being burned by intense heat.
Standing at the edge of the giant hand-shaped pit, Lu Xuan focused his perception for over ten seconds. Detecting no more presence of the Pure World White Lotus Cult,
the Astral Energy within him circulated once again, enveloping his body in a protective shield of purple Astral Energy.
After a few flickering movements, Lu Xuan’s figure vanished from the spot.
