Chapter 993: Chapter 427: Swordsmanship Stirring Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi_3

The gaunt cultivator’s face showed a trace of cruel satisfaction.

He began to skillfully clean the battlefield, collecting the opponent’s storage bag and the azure flying shuttle spirit treasure. His movements were fluid and natural, clearly indicating that he was no stranger to the act of killing and looting.

"Friend, you certainly have remarkable skills."

A calm voice suddenly echoed in the field.

The gaunt cultivator’s body stiffened.

The next moment, he summoned several spirit treasures with gleaming orange light to protect his true body, quickly distancing himself, his expression mixed with suspicion and caution as he looked toward the source of the voice.

There, not far away, stood a cultivator in a green robe, his appearance ordinary and his aura concealed. The gaunt cultivator had no idea when he had arrived.

This set off alarm bells in his heart, putting him on high alert.

Xu Ping smiled at the gaunt cultivator, "I am quite interested in that swordsmanship just now, which could stir the primordial qi. I wonder if you might be willing to part with it for a trade?"

Upon hearing this, a chilling intent flashed through the gaunt cultivator’s heart.

That swordsmanship was his greatest reliance and secret, and anyone coveting it must die.

Yet, he maintained a calm facade, feigning difficulty and hesitation, "Friend, you must be joking. This is a secret not passed outside my sect, how could I easily reveal it?"

"I urge you, friend, not to force me..."

Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly flashed with a ferocity, and the golden longsword burst forth with dazzling light, slicing toward Xu Ping with the eerie pressure of primordial qi like a thunderbolt.

This strike, he held nothing back, releasing all his cultivation power at the peak of mid-stage Nascent Soul, confident that even a fellow peak mid-stage cultivator would not escape unharmed.

However, faced with the sudden and malicious ambush, Xu Ping merely let out a soft "tsk".

He simply raised two fingers like a sword, pointing casually.

"Zheng!"

A burst of emerald green Sword Qi shot from his fingertips, precisely striking the tip of the golden sword light.

The seemingly unstoppable sword light, charged with primordial qi, shattered like snow meeting the spring sun upon contact with the emerald green Sword Qi.

The accompanying invisible pressure of primordial qi also vanished into thin air, and the cultivator himself bore the backlash.

"Impossible?!"

The gaunt cultivator’s face showed horror.

He couldn’t understand how this person could effortlessly dismantle his divine technique of the magic sword.

Even for a late-stage Nascent Soul Cultivator, doing so would be nearly impossible!

Xu Ping’s face still bore that faint smile, "It seems you aren’t willing to have a friendly conversation, are you?"

The gaunt cultivator knew he had kicked a steel plate, feeling no sense of battle remaining, his Escape Light brightened as he prepared to escape by any means necessary.

"Trying to leave?"

Xu Ping’s gaze turned cold. To prevent the other from acting desperately with a mutual destruction move or an elusive secret technique, he decided not to hold back.

He opened his mouth.

A nearly invisible dark thread, faster than thought, ignoring spatial distance, instantly entered the brow of the gaunt cultivator.

Soul-Breaking Needle!

"Argh!"

The gaunt cultivator let out a voice of extreme agony, his body spasming violently, blood gushing from his seven apertures, his Sea of Consciousness as if pierced by millions of steel needles.

With Xu Ping’s current Divine Sense driving the Soul-Breaking Needle, it was far beyond what a First Rank mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator could withstand,

Xu Ping flickered into view before him, tapping with his finger as several restrictions were cast into his body, sealing both his Nascent Soul and all his mana completely.

Afterward, he grabbed him like a dead dog and threw him into the dark space of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

"Once we’re out of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain, I’ll see to you properly, to discover the profundity of your swordsmanship," Xu Ping thought to himself.

Capturing a peak mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator alive was far more challenging than killing one outright, if not for the Soul-Breaking Needle’s targeting of Divine Sense, success would not have been so swift and clean.

Yet, just as Xu Ping was about to leave this place after storing away the gaunt cultivator,

"Roar!"

A deafening roar filled with violence and madness suddenly erupted from the depths of a nearby mountain peak, cracked open by the battle’s aftermath.

Moments later, the entire mountain peak exploded, stones shooting through the air as a massive lizard-like demon beast, with thick bone armor and eyes blood-red, broke through the mountain.

The fierce energy it emitted astonishingly reached the level of a Tier Four Top-grade Demon Beast.

Furthermore, clearly long corroded by the pure demonic qi here, it had fallen into a frenzy, sensing Xu Ping’s presence, charging at him recklessly.

Xu Ping’s expression darkened.

He hadn’t expected the recent battle to alert such an existence, and its lair was right next door.

Faced with a rampaging Tier Four Top-grade Demon Beast, Xu Ping dared not be careless.

With a thought, the Soul-Breaking Needle once again transformed into a dark light, shooting straight at the demon beast’s Divine Soul.

However, this beast had lost its intelligence, its Divine Soul chaotic, the Soul-Breaking Needle only causing it a momentary pause and a painful howl, unable to instantly inflict grievous injury as with a human cultivator.

Taking this opportunity, Xu Ping fully unleashed his power.

"Clang!"

The Canghua Divine Wood Sword emitted a clear dragon cry, soaring into the sky.

At the same time, seventy-two secondary swords of spirit treasure grade, like soldiers receiving orders, immediately formed a solemn sword array.

The vast pressure of swords swept across the area, enveloping the oncoming demon beast.

Countless Sword Qi rained down like a storm, slicing against the beast’s hardened bone armor, producing a teeth-grinding clang of metal on metal!

The demon beast, feeling pain, grew even more frenzied, its massive tail sweeping, claws tearing, demonic qi surging, engaging in a berserk defense against the sword array.

The aftermath of the battle was extremely terrifying, causing the already fragile surroundings to violently shake. Tiny, pitch-black space rifts began to appear and spread, exuding a destructive aura.

"I can’t drag this out!"

Xu Ping frowned deeply, recognizing the need for a quick resolution.

Otherwise, with the space rifts increasing, it might endanger his very life.

Xu Ping immediately summoned the Puppet Array.

Buzz!

Instantly, an immense pressure locked onto the beast.