Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Another altar like this…

Li Guanqi's eyes flickered, and the vigilance in his heart reached its peak when he saw the altar.

Every time he sees these inexplicable altar things, it's never a good thing!!

Peng Luo stood guard, back-to-back with Li Guanqi, her sharp eyes scanning the surroundings.

"I haven't detected any other auras!"

Li Guanqi nodded slightly, noticing that Lu Kangnian's aura above the altar was relatively stable.

But immediately afterward, Li Guanqi couldn't help but frown.

Because he discovered that Lu Kangnian, whom he hadn't seen in just a few years, had actually stepped into the Integration Realm, and… his strength was not low.

Late stage of the Integration Realm…

Such a rate of progress could not be achieved through ordinary cultivation.

It seems that Lu Kangnian has had some significant opportunities in the past few years.

But… to be able to step into the late stage of the Integration Realm in such a short period of time.

That's not something that ordinary opportunities can achieve!

Lu Kangnian sat cross-legged in the center of the altar, with wisps of misty aura floating in the surrounding void.

However, this kind of aura is not visible to the naked eye.

If he didn't possess the Emptiness Spiritual Body, he wouldn't be able to detect the surrounding aura at all.

Those wisps of aura turned into strands of golden smoke, drilling into Lu Kangnian's nostrils.

Li Guanqi frowned and slowly closed his eyes.

Under the power of the Emptiness Spiritual Body, he quickly noticed something was wrong!!

Because although the aura here was constantly enhancing Lu Kangnian's strength.

At the same time, it was also plundering his life force, including… transformation!

Li Guanqi's mind suddenly recalled the broken and collapsed statue in the temple before he came in!

And the aura of the barrier around the temple was exactly the same as the misty aura floating here!!!

Countless thoughts flashed through Li Guanqi's mind.

"Something's not right…"

"The aura here… it's like the power of incense offerings!"

"It seems that this sect had predecessors who ascended to the Immortal Realm, so they have been offering sacrifices."

"But after the sect declined, the temple collapsed, and the statue shattered, the remaining power of incense offerings was all absorbed by the Sect Leader!!"

Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes, it seems that the power of incense here wants to transform Lu Kangnian into a statue?

If this continues, Lu Kangnian is likely to silently dissipate…

But…

Li Guanqi's eyes flickered, it was obvious that the power of incense here was the bait to lure Lu Kangnian to this place.

But if he could plunder the power of incense here, Lu Kangnian would receive a wave of immense opportunity!!

Li Guanqi sensed the remaining power of incense around him, if it could all be absorbed by Lu Kangnian, it might allow him to break through to the Mahayana Realm!

To put it bluntly, the power of incense here is already considered the power of immortals.

However, due to the existence of the boundary between the mortal and immortal realms, the power of incense here has never been able to be absorbed by the immortals of the upper realm.

Just as Peng Luo was still vigilantly looking around, Li Guanqi had already strode toward the altar!!

At the same time, Peng Luo began to silently tear through space, to prevent the space here from being sealed.

Da! Da!

Li Guanqi's footsteps towards the altar echoed in this empty void.

Li Guanqi, holding his sword in his left hand, slowly came to Lu Kangnian's front.

But at this moment, Li Guanqi's expression changed slightly, and he couldn't step down no matter what.

Buzz!!!

A strange spatial fluctuation came.

A fist-sized, completely azure blue pearl slowly emerged, suspended above Lu Kangnian's head.

Li Guanqi frowned slightly, took a deep breath, and looked around calmly.

"Still not showing yourself?"

The silent void was as eternally silent as ever, and no one responded to him.

Li Guanqi sneered, raised his hand, and the Red Lotus Sword emitted an extremely powerful force, slashing at the pearl with a single strike!!

Boom!!!

The void trembled, and the huge altar was shaking slightly, the sword blade collided with the pearl.

A huge force sent Li Guanqi flying dozens of feet away.

Li Guanqi retreated violently, his left hand was slightly numb, but the pearl burst out with brilliant light and remained intact.

Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes, his heart suddenly sank.

At the same time, a look of pain suddenly appeared on Lu Kangnian's face, and his vitality was rapidly draining away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The pearl was frantically devouring the life force in Lu Kangnian's body.

Li Guanqi's face became extremely gloomy, the other party was forcing him to use the power of the sword spirit to shatter this pearl!!!

Peng Luo's anxious voice rang in Li Guanqi's ear: "This pearl also possesses divinity, even more so than the divinity possessed by the Red Lotus Sword!!"

Li Guanqi's chest heaved violently, even now the other party is still thinking of hiding in the dark!!!

A conspiracy… a naked conspiracy…

Li Guanqi cannot shatter this pearl without the power of the sword spirit, and the pearl will continuously absorb Lu Kangnian's life force until he dies!!

Buzz!!!

Lu Kangnian actually slowly opened his eyes under this external force stimulation.

The pupils of his eyes gradually focused, and when he saw the surrounding environment clearly, his face was still a little wooden.

"Sect Leader!!"

An anxious shout came from his ear, Lu Kangnian slowly turned his head to look at his side, his pupils flickering with strange light, somewhat unbelievable.

"Guanqi?"

"Why are you here?!"

Lu Kangnian's thoughts gradually returned, somewhat not understanding why Li Guanqi would appear here.

Lu Kangnian frowned and murmured, "Could this be some kind of illusion? Am I hallucinating?"

"How am I… late stage Integration Realm?"

Lu Kangnian's voice was full of disbelief, even he himself didn't know how long he had been in meditation.

He vaguely remembered that when he first came in, he had just broken through to the Integration Realm.

He didn't expect that his current strength had actually reached the late stage of the Integration Realm.

But soon he noticed the pearl above his head was devouring his life force.

Li Guanqi used the simplest words to tell him the current situation.

Li Guanqi bit his teeth, thoughts turning in his mind, suddenly shouted to Peng Luo: "Do it!"

Before the words fell, a silver-white talisman in Li Guanqi's hand suddenly burned frantically!!

In an instant, silver-white spatial fluctuations covered an area of hundreds of feet, and an incomparably powerful spatial force instantly spread out.

More than a dozen spatial cracks, each about ten feet in size, slowly formed.

Li Guanqi waved his hand and was about to bring Lu Kangnian into his domain space.

As long as he takes Lu Kangnian away, he can then release him in the sword coffin space!

And the mastermind behind all this… he doesn't believe that the other party's strength is stronger than the Dragon King!!

Whoosh!!

Just as the spatial force released by Li Guanqi was about to touch Lu Kangnian.

A slender white palm suddenly stretched out from the dark void!!