Chapter 149: Annihilation—the Bloodbone Sword Is Mine

Yu Guiyuan withdrew his palm, his heart trembling violently.

He never expected that the Three-Corpse Profound Yellow Body forged for him by his master could actually be broken by someone!

In order to kill Xia Jiuxuan, he had paid an enormous price, sacrificing his very soul and turning himself into a walking corpse!

But what about now?

He could already feel that he still could not kill this young man.

"What on earth are you?!"

Yu Guiyuan's gray pupils contracted, his heart filled with doubt.

In just over a month, how could this brat have grown so terrifyingly powerful!

By this point, if Yu Guiyuan still regarded Xia Jiuxuan as an ordinary genius, he would be a complete idiot.

Xia Jiuxuan curled his lips into a cold sneer and replied indifferently, "What? Are you afraid?"

"Answer me!"

Yu Guiyuan roared coldly.

Murderous intent flared in Xia Jiuxuan's eyes. "Forget about you, even the one behind you isn't worthy of knowing!"

Swish!

Too lazy to waste any more words, Xia Jiuxuan took the initiative and charged forward.

The swordplay of slaughter unfolded once again.

Clang, clang, clang!

Blood-red sword bodies flew outward from around Xia Jiuxuan.

The sword shadows moved with extreme speed, making it utterly impossible for Yu Guiyuan to dodge.

Clang, clang, clang...

The barrage of sword shadows slammed into Yu Guiyuan's body, slicing open his tough skin.

Within a few breaths, Yu Guiyuan was battered into a bloody mess by the sword shadows.

"Raaah!"

Suddenly, he let out a frantic roar.

Gray wisps of energy surged over the wounds on his surface.

Gouts of purulent blood oozed from his lacerations.

In an instant, Yu Guiyuan transformed into a decaying corpse.

"Damn it! No matter the cost, I will kill you!"

Yu Guiyuan's voice turned harsh and raspy, extremely grating to the ear.

"Corpse transformation!"

Sensing the sudden surge in Yu Guiyuan's power, Xia Jiuxuan grew slightly more cautious.

"Die!"

Yu Guiyuan seemed to have completely lost his consciousness.

He lunged forward recklessly, resembling a rampaging primeval beast.

Boom, boom, boom!

His rotting claws lashed out repeatedly at Xia Jiuxuan.

For a moment, Xia Jiuxuan was actually forced back step by step under the bombardment.

"Slaughter!"

Feeling a sharp pain in his internal organs from the concussive force, Xia Jiuxuan forcefully executed a sword strike.

Roar!

Refusing to dodge entirely, Yu Guiyuan threw a punch straight at Xia Jiuxuan's incoming blade.

Bang!

Blood-red light soared into the sky.

Xia Jiuxuan's figure was sent spinning backward.

A wave of corpse poison seeped into his body along his broken wound.

Abruptly, Xia Jiuxuan felt his body begin to stiffen.

This poison was not a spell, so Xia Jiuxuan could not purge it using his powerful divine soul.

"Damn it!"

Xia Jiuxuan's heart sank.

If he allowed the poison to spread, he would soon become completely paralyzed.

He had to cut down Yu Guiyuan first!

Hum!

The air vibrated, and a phantom of slaughter materialized behind Xia Jiuxuan.

"Roar!"

Yu Guiyuan, who was about to charge forward, recoiled instinctively by several丈 at the sight of the terrifying slaughter phantom, frightened by its presence.

Xia Jiuxuan frowned.

"Wretch, your time is up!"

At this moment, the newly condensed blood-killing core within Xia Jiuxuan's body spun wildly.

The aura of slaughter converged upon his spirit sword.

"Sword of Slaughter's Genesis and Annihilation!"

Xia Jiuxuan swung the spirit sword in his hand.

A surge of blood-colored sword intent surged forward.

The surrounding space rippled under the agitation of this formidable murderous sword intent.

Enveloped by the aura of slaughter, Yu Guiyuan could not help but shiver.

Despair spread deep within his heart.

Rage and unwillingness flooded his mind.

He had never imagined that after exhausting everything and paying the price of his soul, he would be met with such an ending.

Rumble!

That despair-inducing sword intent finally descended.

"I refuse to accept this!"

A gray phantom emerged from Yu Guiyuan's entirely rotting body.

Together with the phantom, he threw a punch toward the incoming sword intent of slaughter.

The entire world fell into absolute silence.

The blood-red sword intent of slaughter sliced through the gray phantom and tore through Yu Guiyuan's tough physique.

Yu Guiyuan was cleaved in two, plummeting toward the ground below.

Even split in half, he still did not die.

The two halves of his body rolled frantically on the ground, struggling desperately!

Xia Jiuxuan swooped down, extending his palm in a pulling motion.

A blood-colored bone sword flew into his hand.

随后, Xia Jiuxuan released a fiery sword shadow, completely igniting Yu Guiyuan and burning him to ashes.

"Puff!"

Having completely slain Yu Guiyuan, Xia Jiuxuan clutched his chest and coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood.

He had just used the second form of the slaughter swordplay, which his current capability could not yet truly master.

Consequently, he suffered no small amount of backlash.

Coupled with the corpse poison still lingering in his system, movement had become extremely difficult for him at this moment.

"Xia Jiuxuan, how dare you kill my imperial father! Charge, kill him!"

At that moment, several imperial princes led dozens of the palace's strongest fighters into the fray.

In truth, these princes had been secretly observing the battle all along.

However, the earlier clash between the two was not something their level of power could participate in.

Now, realizing that Xia Jiuxuan was heavily injured, they rushed out with a host of experts to finish him off.

"Who dares move!"

Li Luoyan and Han Yu immediately flew over, shielding Xia Jiuxuan behind them.

Yet both she and Han Yu were severely wounded and were now powerless to resist this score of formidable experts.

"Kill them, slaughter them!"

The princes roared, charging forward recklessly.

"Who dares touch my big brother!"

Rumble!

The sky trembled as figures plummeted from the heavens, instantly landing in the airspace above the Taixuan Academy.

Sabers, spears, staves, and clubs lashed out in unison.

"Ah, ah, ah!"

Screams rang out continuously as corpses dropped from the sky.

"What is happening?!"

The princes charging at the very front panicked instantly.

How could such a formidable group of experts suddenly ambush them!

"Little Black, slaughter them! They are all your food!"

Swish, swish!

A black shadow flashed continuously through the crowd.

"No!"

Within the span of a few breaths, the experts led by the imperial princes were completely massacred.

"Quick, fight to the death! Kill Xia Jiuxuan!"

Knowing they were doomed to die today, the remaining princes charged at Xia Jiuxuan regardless of the consequences.

Clang!

Their swords thrust into a certain figure.

That person's entire body radiated a metallic sheen, harder than extraterrestrial cold iron.

The princes' swords snapped instantly in response.

Flash!

Sword light flickered, and the legs of all the princes were severed, sending them crashing to the ground.

Kill!

Showing no mercy, Mo Yongjian beheaded the princes with a single stroke of his sword.

"Big brother, are you alright?"

The man who spoke was none other than Mo Yongjian.

"I'm fine. Even if you hadn't blocked for me, their meager strength wouldn't have broken my bodily defense," Xia Jiuxuan replied.

"That won't do. If those beasts' swords had touched you, it would mean I, your little brother, failed in my duty," Mo Yongjian said with a smile.

A group of people flew down from the sky, surrounding Xia Jiuxuan.

"Big brother, our speed was much slower than yours, so we arrived late. Apologies."

The crowd looked at Xia Jiuxuan apologetically.

"Stop talking nonsense. You've arrived just in time, clean up the battlefield," Xia Jiuxuan instructed.

"Understood!"

The group sprang into action, burning the corpses and erasing the blood on the ground with their true energy.

Before long, the battlefield was cleared, and the stench of blood dissipated entirely.

Xia Jiuxuan swallowed some antidote pills, spending a quarter of an hour forcing the poison out of his body and recovering his mobility.

Just at that moment, high above the Taixuan Academy, yet another wave of figures approached menacingly through the air.