Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Li Guanqi maximized his aura and used the ethereal Dao body to resonate with the heavens and earth.

He subtly gathered the wandering ice-type spiritual energy of the world, disguising himself with the aura of the old man who had argued with Xuan Lan.

Whoosh!!

"Stop!! Surrender now!!"

Beneath the black robe, Li Guanqi's face had already been transformed into the old man's appearance by the face-changing insect.

Looking at the two cultivators blocking his path, he stretched out a withered hand and clenched it violently!

Terrifying pressure erupted instantly, and the two cultivators were crushed into a cloud of blood mist as the space compressed around them!!

Then, Li Guanqi shattered the void without hesitation and disappeared.

The entire process took less than three breaths.

When Xuan Zhen and the others came out of the ice palace, they saw Li Guanqi killing two members of their clan and fleeing.

The man wore an exquisite ice-blue robe, a jade crown, and had a slightly gaunt face with high cheekbones.

He had single eyelids, a hooked nose, and his eyes were gloomy as he looked in the direction the black-clad figure had fled.

"Patriarch, a piece of cloth was found outside the main hall, and..."

Xuan Zhen narrowed his eyes, took the cloth, and confirmed that it belonged to someone from the Northern Faction!!

"And what else? Speak up!"

The disciple's face paled, and he swallowed hard, saying, "The main hall has been damaged."

The group's expressions changed slightly. Xuan Zhen flashed behind the main hall and frowned at the small hole, about the size of a thumb.

He turned to look at the people beside him and said coldly, "It seems Xuan Zhen and the others already know our plan."

One of the old men's faces was gloomy. "Damn it, they managed to sneak right under our noses without us knowing!"

After speaking, the old man looked up at the stern-faced man before him and said in a deep voice.

"Patriarch, what do we do now?"

Xuan Zhen's eyes flashed with cold killing intent, and the rolling energy around him caused the temperature to plummet.

The man slowly turned around, looked at everyone around him, and said coldly, "Prepare yourselves, and set off immediately!"

"Seize the inheritance, destroy the Northern Faction!!"

In an instant, the entire Southern Faction mobilized, and ice-blue combat cloud boats were brought out.

All the disciples hurried about, and cultivators continuously boarded the cloud boats.

After leaving the barrier seal, Li Guanqi casually wiped his face, changing his appearance to that of a Southern Faction elder.

Li Guanqi wore a sneer. In his eyes, both sides were now birds of a feather.

They all wanted to obtain the inheritance, yet they acted so high and mighty!

Originally, he had thought that since the Northern Faction didn't like him, he would become friends with the Southern Faction.

Now it seemed that the Southern Faction was no better, actually wanting to extract the inheritance by refining flesh, blood, and souls!!

In that case...

Don't blame him.

He sped up, pushing his speed to the limit, and a sound like thunder rumbled in the void.

A purple lightning bolt flashed and disappeared in the void, covering ten miles in an instant!

This time, Li Guanqi increased his speed by nearly double, and despite the consumption of his Yuan energy, he finally arrived at the Northern Faction family before they did.

After restoring his Yuan energy to its peak, Li Guanqi concealed himself in the void again!

He didn't plan to kill anyone at this time.

After all, the people from the Southern Faction hadn't arrived yet. If he made a move now, he would surely alert them.

He might as well look for Meng Wanshu's whereabouts at this time.

When the two sides started fighting, he would add fuel to the fire and take Wanshu away in the chaos.

He circulated the Breath Concealment Technique to its limit, and Li Guanqi quickly mixed into the Xuan family mansion through the void interlayer.

After knocking out a disciple, he threw him directly into the domain, changed his clothes, altered his appearance and aura, and mingled with the Xuan family.

His vast divine sense spread out cautiously, but he found that the disciples were deliberately avoiding certain rooms during their patrols.

But with his experience, Li Guanqi could tell at a glance that it was a trap.

Those rooms had faint spatial fluctuations, hidden but unable to escape his divine sense.

Li Guanqi frowned slightly, wondering where Wanshu could be if she wasn't in the Xuan family mansion.

Suddenly!

A reprimanding voice suddenly sounded.

"Xuan Suyang, what the hell are you doing wandering around here? It's almost time!"

Li Guanqi looked at the fierce-looking man and quickly put on a look of unease.

"Yes, yes, I'm going, I'm going."

As he spoke, Li Guanqi hurried outside.

At the same time, he directly controlled his divine sense to extract the soul of the knocked-out disciple.

After reviewing his soul memories, he understood what he had to do.

Following another disciple, he received a storage ring from the family's vault, and the two of them walked towards the back mountain together.

Li Guanqi's eyes flickered. Their mission was to fill a certain formation with ice crystal stones.

After passing through layers of checks, identity tokens, and passwords, they finally arrived at a mysterious ice cellar.

Li Guanqi finally breathed a sigh of relief. If he hadn't searched the soul in advance, he would have been exposed.

There was an extremely powerful seal barrier in this ice cellar.

If someone didn't open the barrier, even he would have to put in some effort to open it.

A cold glint flashed in Li Guanqi's eyes, and his terrifying divine sense instantly controlled the young man beside him.

He looked at the azure ten-zhang formation in front of him, his eyes flickering.

He obediently inlaid the ice crystal stones one by one.

He imperceptibly left a flashing rune under the ice layer, also under the formation.

This rune was enough for him to ignore the barrier here.

After doing all this, Li Guanqi shouted, "What are you staring at? Let's finish the work and leave."

"Oh, oh, hehe, I haven't rested well these past two days, so I'm a little dizzy."

Li Guanqi smiled coldly, and then followed the young man out of the barrier.

He glanced back inadvertently, and he had already sensed Meng Wanshu's aura behind this formation barrier.

Li Guanqi's eyes flickered. It seemed that Wanshu was sealed in a space under this barrier formation.

Moreover... her current state was more like she had fallen into a deep sleep.

Just as Li Guanqi left, the atmosphere of the entire Xuan family mansion became tense.

Li Guanqi smirked. It seemed that the people from the Southern Faction had arrived.

In that case... he had to hide himself well.

Neither Xuan Zhen nor Xuan Zhen was someone he could contend with right now.

The best situation was for him to disappear from both sides' sight.

Buzz!!!

Li Guanqi disappeared silently. The Xuan family was in chaos, and countless cultivators hurried about with solemn expressions.

A suppressed atmosphere spread throughout the Xuan family. Xuan Zhen, clad in silver-blue armor, stepped into the void.

His face was stern, and his eyes stared fixedly at the direction of the blizzard in the distance.

Several huge shadows slowly emerged from the snowstorm.

There were as many as six or seven massive cloud boats, tens of zhang in size.

The Northern Faction's Xuan Zhen and his forces all ascended into the air, densely packed with nearly a thousand people!

Everyone's expression was solemn, and their eyes looked coldly into the distance.

Xuan Zhen's face was cold and sweaty. Seeing Xuan Zhen and the others waiting early, he was even more convinced that the person who had sneaked in earlier was from the Northern Faction.

A great battle was about to break out. Li Guanqi frowned as he hid in the dark.

"Why isn't Xuan Lan here? Even if she's just a showpiece, she's still a Mahayana realm cultivator."

Thinking of this, a strange smile appeared on Li Guanqi's lips, and his whole person disappeared instantly.

When he reappeared, he was actually in the Xuan family's ice prison!!

Xuan Lan, who was lying on the bed bored, actually had a maid beside her!!

A playful look flashed in Li Guanqi's eyes.

Suddenly!!

The earth shook, the glaciers shattered, and the entire ice prison was shaking violently.

Li Guanqi was slightly stunned. He didn't expect the battle outside to start so quickly.

It seemed that the two factions had been feuding for a long time...