The Second Elder's expression changed drastically. He quickly waved his whisk, and the silver threads of the whisk blocked his way.
"Pfft!"
The rusty iron sword pierced through the silver thread, and although its force was weakened, it still managed to penetrate the Second Elder's left shoulder, drawing out a string of blood beads.
"Ah!" The Second Elder screamed in agony, his breathing becoming disordered.
Jiang Li, having succeeded, did not linger in the fight. Using the momentum, she retreated and at the same time flipped her wrist, causing the back of her sword to strike the Fifth Elder's short dagger, forcing him to take a half step back. Then, with a light tap of her toes, she shot like an arrow toward the opening left by the Fourth Elder while he was blocking the Third Elder's attack!
"Stop her!"
The four elders, now blinded by rage, ignored their injuries and surrounded the enemy once more.
But Jiang Li's goal was not to break through at all—her real purpose was to disrupt the formation and defeat them one by one!
The moment the four drew near, she suddenly turned around, her swordplay abruptly changing. She no longer pursued speed, but instead concentrated all her spiritual power. A layer of dazzling white light shone on her rusty iron sword, which was her "Breaking Illusion Sword," a fusion of the sword intent of the Cangxuan Realm and the laws of the Xuanqiong Realm!
"break!"
The sword light flashed like a bolt of lightning, slashing straight at the three elders at the front!
The Third Elder had just regained his footing when he saw the sword light coming and quickly used his hammer to block it.
"clang--!"
With a loud crash, the Third Elder's twin hammers were knocked out of his hands by the sword light, and a deep, bone-revealing sword wound appeared on his chest. Blood gushed out, and before the horror in his eyes had faded, he fell straight down.
"Third brother!" The second elder's eyes widened in fury.
In that moment of distraction, Jiang Li was already upon him, her rusty iron sword flashing back, precisely slicing open his throat.
The Fourth Elder and the Fifth Elder were terrified. They never imagined that a peak Dao Seeking cultivator could kill two late-stage Dao Proof cultivators in a short time!
"Retreat!" the Fourth Elder roared, turning and running away.
The Fifth Elder also realized what was happening and turned to flee.
Jiang Li would never give them a chance. She used Shadow Step to catch up with the Fifth Elder in an instant, and stabbed him in from behind with her sword, swift and clean.
The last remaining fourth elder had only run ten paces when he felt a chill in his back. Looking down, he saw the tip of a rusty iron sword piercing through his chest. He turned back with difficulty and saw only the cold eyes beneath the silver mask before his consciousness sank into darkness.
The forest fell silent again, leaving only the corpses of the four elders and a scene of utter devastation.
Four elders in the late stage of the Dao Proving Realm were all killed by a red-clad woman at the peak of the Dao Inquiry Realm within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea!
Jiang Li swiftly drew her sword, ignoring the lingering warmth on the corpses, and reached out to remove the storage rings of the four elders, her movements as swift as flowing water.
She knew that the people from the Void Fiend Sect would soon come looking for her after their soul tablets were broken, so it was not a good time to stay here.
Without the slightest hesitation, Jiang Li turned and disappeared into the dense forest. Her red dress flashed in the shadows of the trees and vanished completely, leaving only a lingering scent of blood carried by the wind.
Her figure darted through the forest, her face beneath the mask expressionless. Killing the four elders was merely the beginning of her revenge.
Xu Sha Sect, wait for me.
In her mind, there was only this one thought, which, along with the lingering killing intent on the rusty iron sword, grew increasingly fierce in the depths of the Black Wind Mountains.
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