"Run!!!"

The Qing Mu Sword Sect's deacon, a man with seven imprints, felt his scalp crawl. Seeing that his sword couldn't even break the defense, he knew something was terribly wrong. They had encountered a monster.

In this world, there were plenty of powerful experts who liked to pretend to be newbies. Without a doubt, they had likely just run into one!

So, without a second word, the power of all his Yuan Imprints exploded, helping him break free and fly away into the distance.

The other three also felt their blood run cold. They turned to run, but it was already too late.

Compared to the seven-imprint deacon, they couldn't even break free from Li Cheng Yi's emotional threads. They could only struggle in mid-air like flies caught in a spider's web.

"If I were to kill you now, the sect's sensors might alert the Four Factions too early. That wouldn't fit my original plan."

Li Cheng Yi looked at the seven-imprint expert who had barely managed to escape and moved his mind.

A semi-transparent sword light shot out from beside him. It was the Sword of Wisdom!

Nurtured by the Sword Palace, the Sword of Wisdom was now at least several times more powerful than before.

In just an instant.

The escaping man spurted blood from his back and fell to the ground, convulsing. Then, he was carried back by the Sword of Wisdom.

Now all four were together.

Li Cheng Yi neatly set them down on the ground beside him.

Qiu Chen had already run to seek help as he had instructed. Only Li Cheng Yi remained at the scene.

He stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the four people on the ground. They felt their scalps crawl and their eyes filled with despair.

Killing them just like that with his current realm and strength would arouse too much suspicion.

It would be detrimental to the subsequent investigation of the truth.

So...

At times like this, the Language of Flowers ability he had chosen earlier could come into play.

"Sorry," Li Cheng Yi hesitated, but finally made up his mind.

"For my safety, I can only wrong you."

He reached out, and the mark of the Flower of Evil on the back of his hand glowed with yellow light.

'Language of Flowers: Seal of Love!'

Biu!

The yellow light turned into a beam and suddenly shot onto the seven-imprint deacon.

Instantly, a stream of fragmented information flowed into Li Cheng Yi's mind.

'You have decided to seal this person with a power containing love. Calculated according to the positive difference between your vitality units and the target's vitality units, and based on the supreme principle of using life to love, the target's life will be sealed from this moment until it is reborn in fifteen thousand years.'

'Warning: The sealed target's maximum lifespan is not enough to live until the time of rebirth. During the sealing period, the sealed target may die. Please confirm whether to continue the sealing.'

'Fifteen thousand years...' Li Cheng Yi's mouth twitched. This was sealing someone to death.

To be honest, he felt that being sealed to death like this was much more cruel than being killed by a sword.

However, for his own safety, he could only wrong them.

As for the Seal of Love's effect of attracting guardians, that was actually a disguised free jailer...

Li Cheng Yi understood in his heart and confirmed the feedback information.

Instantly, the yellow light rapidly deformed, completely covering and enveloping the seven-imprint deacon, turning into a huge yellow love heart bubble. No one could see what was inside.

The love heart bubble rapidly contracted, becoming smaller, and then turned into a thumbnail-sized yellow love heart crystal, which flew into Li Cheng Yi's hand.

Then, he looked at the other three. The three of them were dumbfounded.

"What the hell did you do, you fiend?!" One of the An Xiang members shouted, clearly not someone who feared death and clung to life.

"You came to hunt me down, but you're calling me a fiend? Interesting." Li Cheng Yi smiled.

"Forget it, let's just leave it at that. I thought you guys had some skills, but you dare to come after me with just this?"

He was too lazy to waste words, and activated the Language of Flowers one after another.

Immediately, three yellow love heart bubbles formed again.

'With a power containing love, you have sealed this target's life from this moment until it is reborn in twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-nine years.'

'With a power containing love, twenty thousand five hundred and ninety-two years later...'

'...twenty thousand six hundred and three years later.'

Basically, all three of them would meet again in twenty thousand years.

After turning all four of them into little love heart stones, Li Cheng Yi breathed a sigh of relief and took off again towards the Faceless Sword Sect, returning on his way.

'Judging from the lifespan of the seal targets, I can now live for about thirty thousand years. As expected, the Language of Flowers is even more monstrous than imprints... This extended lifespan is likely largely due to the Language of Flowers of the Meconopsis: tenacious life.'

But he had only flown less than five hundred meters.

He suddenly remembered the Qing Mu Sword Sect disciple who had been coerced by Qiu Chen. He hadn't been dealt with yet.

He immediately turned around and searched rapidly around.

Soon, he found the trembling man behind a hill.

"Don't, don't kill me!" the man shouted. He had clearly seen Li Cheng Yi's scene of dealing with the four people earlier.

As a result, he didn't even have the courage to resist now.

Li Cheng Yi was too lazy to waste words and raised his hand, and a Sword of Wisdom shot out.

Clang!!

Just then, a gold-masked man in black suddenly appeared before him, as if teleporting.

He raised his hand and blocked the sword.

Bang.

The Sword of Wisdom was crushed by his fingers.

"I didn't expect that I was just planning to come and see that guy Chun Yi temporarily, and I discovered such a big secret..." The gold-masked man let out a disgusting and unpleasant shrill laugh.

"Bai Lu, the number one of the new generation of the Faceless Sword Sect's Four Little Swords, is actually hiding so much strength. Even a seven-imprint deacon was dealt with by you on the spot... Brilliant, really brilliant!"

He gently clapped his hands.

"A mere twelve-year-old guy can hide his strength and lurk in the Faceless Sword Sect for so long without being discovered. Amazing!" the gold-masked man laughed.

"I just, just hid a little bit of talent." Li Cheng Yi said calmly. "Also, since you know that even a seven-imprint is no match for me, you still dare to show up. You must be very confident in yourself, right?"

"You're right," the gold-masked man laughed, "In An Xiang, everyone, regardless of their rank, wears a golden mask, so..."

Suddenly, he raised his hand and blocked to the left.

Bang!!

A huge tremor exploded.

Li Cheng Yi had disappeared at some point and appeared on his left, slashing down with his sword.

The two collided with great force. This time, Li Cheng Yi did not hold back. The pure force of a hundred thousand tons suddenly condensed on the Ding Yuan sword blade, pressing down and bending the back of the opponent's hand.

"You!?" The gold-masked man suddenly changed color, feeling that something was wrong. This power seemed a little too great...

He quickly retreated, taking the opportunity to unload the force.

Streams of fiery red flames burst from his hand. As the flames splashed, they also quickly vented and spread the explosive force to the surrounding area.

Before he could recover, the Faceless Sword Decisive Killing Move, Instant Prison, had already erupted.

Li Cheng Yi's figure flashed, and the Ding Yuan Sword in his hand suddenly split into several cyan lights, shooting out like lightning. They merged into one in mid-air and slashed down fiercely.

His original speed, with the help of Instant Prison, directly broke through from fourteen times the speed of sound to sixteen times the speed of sound.

Only a point of cyan light could be seen in the air, flashing and disappearing.

More than one hundred thousand tons of force condensed on this extremely fast point and burst out at close range.

Even Li Cheng Yi himself, facing this move, would have no way to avoid it and could only withstand it head-on.

But the gold-masked man actually shook his whole body, and large swaths of gold-red flames seeped out from the pores of his skin.

The flames swept around, turning into a storm, bursting out with huge thrust, and collided head-on with the Instant Prison sword light.

"Fiery Phoenix!!"

After a sharp cry.

The cyan sword light was knocked off course and shot into the distance.

Accompanied by the cry, a gold-red sword blade flew out from it and stabbed towards Li Cheng Yi.

In that instant, Li Cheng Yi's pupils narrowed, and the imprint ring on his chest finally lit up slightly for the first time.

This meant that he was using his full strength in this state.

The ten imprints on the ring lit up with different faint lights, and a trace of all the light was divided and gathered in the center, forming a point of illusory semi-transparent silver light.

The moment that light lit up.

Li Cheng Yi's whole body suddenly burst into silver flames.

The fire shot into the sky, like the opponent, knocking away the flying gold-red sword blade.

"Imprint Ring Illusion!? You are also an Imprint Ring? How is that possible!?" The gold-masked man's voice came from the flames, with tremendous shock and disbelief.

"Unfortunately... To prevent leakage," Li Cheng Yi lowered his eyes, "I can only ask you to die."

He spread his arms.

With a loud bang,

White smoke exploded and scattered, and all the imprints lit up with dazzling light at the same time.

Vast gray-white clouds instantly covered the surrounding thousands of meters.

Before the other party could react, a giant gray-white trident, tens of meters long, suddenly broke through everything in the cloud and smashed down.

The gold-masked man's heart felt as if it was pierced by needles, and a deadly crisis caused goosebumps to appear all over his skin.

He hurriedly used a magic weapon, wanting to move away.

But abruptly, he looked at the clouds in front of him, his eyes paused, and he also stopped strangely.

The clouds faintly showed the face of his deceased wife.

Boom!!!

A terrifying roar erupted.

Circles of huge tremors, bringing with them a strong airflow, caused the ground in the grassland to roll and tear, and the soil and rocks were lifted like rain.

The ground presented a cone-shaped pit hundreds of meters deep. Even the survivor who had just survived was completely destroyed.

Accompanied by a flash of yellow light, the smoke and clouds dissipated, and everything returned to calm.

Not long after.

Li Cheng Yi shot out from the remaining clouds.

On the way back, he successively gathered Qiu Chen and the rest of the sword sect disciples, but he never encountered Huo Qing Kong and Elder Yun Ling.

After returning to the sword sect and reporting the situation, a group of elders quickly came forward, some to respond and some to appease.

Li Cheng Yi was taken home by Kui Ling to check if he was injured.

After confirming that he was not injured, Li Cheng Yi and several Qing Ying group disciples were let go.

The energy of the sword sect's people was focused on the Da Zu members.

After all, the Da Zu was at least at the five-imprint level, and upwards, they would either become elders or deacons, which was already considered the backbone of the sect.

It wasn't until after eight o'clock in the evening that Huo Qing Kong and Elder Yun Ling finally returned to the sword sect with the remaining disciples.

The Qing Ying group was fine, but the Da Zu was missing one person, and the two accompanying deacons were also gone.

Yun Ling was covered in blood and had fallen into a semi-comatose state. She was urgently taken away for treatment.

On the other hand, Huo Qing Kong was not injured at all.

Inside the Faceless Great Hall.

Saintly Spirit Taoist looked at Huo Qing Kong, who was slowly entering.

"The Qing Mu Sword Sect and the Jade Balance Sect have joined forces. What about the Years Gate?" He looked a little tired, apparently having just suppressed the backlash in his body.

"The Years Gate has not taken any action. The other party seems to have broken their promise on the original joint plan," Huo Qing Kong said lightly.

"." Saintly Spirit was silent.

"Sect Leader, I'm sorry. The other party made a deadly move and started a little too heavily." Huo Qing Kong's eyes showed some helplessness.

"I know you. In that situation, you couldn't have held back," Saintly Spirit Taoist sighed.

"Since the conflict has already started, let's all prepare for war. Fortunately, we were lucky this time. The members of Small Group One all managed to escape."

"If there's nothing else, I'll go down first," Huo Qing Kong said.

"Go. It seems that the fact that I can't leave the main hall for a long time should have been found out by them," Saintly Spirit Taoist said, "Next, it may depend on you and several elders to stabilize the sword sect."

"Master, don't worry. As long as I'm here, the sect will never be in chaos," Huo Qing Kong said seriously.

Saintly Spirit watched his only disciple leave the main hall, sighed softly, turned around, and looked at the Faceless statue.

Huo Qing Kong single-handedly killing Red Frost Sword Ding Zou and two other nine-imprint and eight-imprint experts seemed satisfying, but experts at this level don't just appear out of nowhere.

The people of An Xiang are almost all internal spies of the various factions. Strong men at the eight-imprint level, even they have at most a few people. This time, killing a nine-imprint and an eight-imprint expert is simply a complete blow to the entire Spring Division. The subsequent storm will definitely be even more tricky.

Saintly Spirit sighed in his heart.

In fact, even he himself was now unable to see Huo Qing Kong's true strength.

(End of this chapter)