Chapter 5868
“Blood Refining Soul Array!”
a knowledgeable old cultivator exclaimed in shock. “This is an ancient demonic array! Retreat!”
Everyone’s expression changed drastically, and they frantically retreated.
Kai also retreated immediately, but he already understood that this was indeed a trap!
Moreover, the person who set up this trap was extremely vicious; they not only wanted to kill but also refine souls!
Just as everyone was still in shock, more than a dozen figures silently emerged from the shadows around the cave.
They were all dressed in black, wearing hideous demon masks, and their auras were cold and murderous.
The three leaders possessed auras that had reached the seventh rank of the Heavenly Immortal Realm!
The other dozen or so were also experts at the fifth or sixth rank of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
They completely blocked everyone’s escape route.
“The Evil Path Hall!”
Kuang Dao’s face was ashen as he gritted his teeth and spat out these three words.
Liu Wenyuan had already retreated to the side of the Evil Path Hall members and bowed to the leader of the men in black, saying, “Lord Ghost Fiend Envoy, the person has been brought.”
The leader of the men in black nodded, his gaze sweeping over the trapped people before finally landing on Kai. His voice was hoarse and cold: “You are Kai?”
Kai’s heart sank. Sure enough, the other party was after him!
“It’s me.”
Kai stepped forward, his expression calm. “The Evil Path Hall’s intelligence network is truly impressive. I’ve only just arrived at the eleventh heaven, and you’re already eager to die.”
“Die?”
The man in black sneered as if he’d heard a joke. “A first-grade Heavenly Immortal, daring to spout such nonsense?”
“Boy, the Hall Master has ordered that whoever takes your head will be rewarded with a million high-grade immortal stones and promoted to elder. We three brothers will accept this generous reward.”
He looked at his two companions: “Third brother, you go and deal with the others, leave no survivors.”
“Second brother, come with me to capture this kid. Remember, alive, the Hall Master needs his soul.”
“Yes!” The other two men in black responded. One lunged at the trapped cultivators like Mad Blade, while the other, along with the leader, slowly approached Kai.
The Crimson Cloud Demon Lord roared, blocking Kai’s path, his dark red demonic energy surging forth.
“Demonic cultivator? Interesting, but not enough.”
The leader of the black-clad men sneered, raising his hand and waving, “Attack!”
Before his words even finished, he and another black-clad man attacked simultaneously!
One wielded a short, jet-black dagger, its tip gleaming with a ghostly blue poisonous light, silently stabbing towards Kai’s throat!
Its speed was like a viper’s flick of its tongue!
The other held a pair of metallic, ghostly claws, the claws tearing through the air, aiming straight for Kai’s heart!
The attack was powerful and heavy, accompanied by a piercing shriek!
The two worked in perfect coordination, one fast and one ruthless, one skillful and one heavy, sealing off all of Kai’s escape routes, clearly aiming to defeat him in one move and end the battle quickly.
In their view, dealing with a mere first-grade Celestial Immortal was a trivial matter for the two of them working together; there was absolutely no possibility of failure.
Meanwhile, the trapped cultivators, including Kuang Dao, were being besieged by the third black-clad man and his men, in dire straits, and had no time to spare for anything else.
The Crimson Cloud Demon Lord wanted to help, but was entangled by several fifth or sixth-rank cultivators from the Evil Path Hall and couldn’t break free.
Seeing that Kai was about to die on the spot—
Kai moved.
He neither dodged nor defended.
Instead, he drew his sword.
The instant the Dragon-Slaying Sword was drawn, a sharp sword intent that severed cause and effect and annihilated all laws soared into the sky, and the temperature of the entire cave seemed to drop several degrees!
“Slash—Void—!”
Kai shouted softly, his longsword tracing an unfathomable path as it lightly sliced through the incoming short dagger and ghostly claws.
There was no deafening sound, no dazzling light.
Only a thin, almost transparent gray sword thread silently extended from the tip of the sword.
Where the sword thread passed, subtle ripples appeared in the space, as if a pebble had been thrown into a calm lake.
The next moment—
“Swoosh! Swoosh!”
Two soft sounds, like cloth being torn by a sharp blade.
The poisoned short dagger, only three inches from Kai’s throat, suddenly snapped in two! The break was as smooth as a mirror!
The two powerful ghostly claws, upon touching the sword thread, shattered like rotten wood, turning into countless metal fragments!
The two men in black, who were charging forward, froze abruptly, their eyes filled with disbelief and horror.
They looked down at their weapons, then at the slowly dissipating gray sword thread, as if witnessing the most unbelievable thing in the world.
“This… what kind of swordsmanship is this?!” the leader exclaimed in shock.
His answer was Kai’s cold gaze and the second sword strike.
This time, the sword thread was no longer a single, thin strand, but split into two, like two serpentine snakes, silently slithering towards the necks of the two men.
Fast!
Faster than thought!
The two men in black’s expressions changed drastically as they frantically activated their protective immortal power, trying to dodge and block.
But the sword thread seemed to ignore spatial distance; the moment they even had the thought of dodging, it had already grazed their necks.
“Pfft! Pfft!”
Two heads wearing demon masks flew high into the air, blood gushing from their severed necks, which was then vaporized into a blood mist by the scorching heat of the cave.
Two elite assassins from the Evil Path Hall, both at the seventh rank of the Celestial Immortal Realm, were instantly killed without even a single blow!
The entire arena fell silent.
Whether it was the third black-clad man besieging Mad Blade and his group, or the Evil Path Hall cultivators locked in combat with the Crimson Cloud Demon Lord, everyone stopped, staring in disbelief as the two headless corpses slowly collapsed.
Liu Wenyuan’s smugness and obsequiousness froze completely, replaced by boundless terror, his body trembling like a leaf.
Mad Blade and the others were also stunned. The elation of surviving a calamity hadn’t even begun to rise before the shocking scene before them left their minds blank.
A first-rank Celestial Immortal Realm expert, killing two seventh-rank assassins with a single sword strike?!
This…this completely overturned their understanding!
Kai sheathed his sword, his face slightly pale.
Using “Severing the Void” twice in succession had consumed nearly half of his immortal power.
While this sword technique was powerful, it was a considerable burden for him in his current state.
But he had no time to recover, because the third man in black had already reacted, letting out a shrill scream:
“Form the formation! The Netherworld Three Kill Formation!”