Volume 3, Chapter 360 – Save Me!

The moment the sword qi struck, Chi Jingwen’s guards reacted without hesitation.

Several warriors surged forward simultaneously, drawing their blades and throwing the force of their slashes against the incoming sword qi.

A resounding clang rang out. The shockwave tore through the room, reducing it to splinters in an instant.

Under cover of the guards, Chi Jingwen fell back step by step.

His eyes were wide with shock.

The Chi family’s formation had already been fully activated. Just who was this person, to slip through the heart of the estate while the grand formation was in effect?

The warriors regrouped atop the rubble, their eyes locked warily ahead.

As the dust slowly settled, a mysterious figure emerged. White robes, white hair, a silver mask.

Chi Jingwen’s eyes narrowed slightly. He did not recognize the figure in white.

What was more, he found that he could not read this person’s cultivation at all.

That meant their cultivation far exceeded his own. At the very least, Sixth Realm.

“Who are you?!”

“What grudge do you have against the Chi family?!”

A soft laugh drifted from behind the silver mask.

“I am the person who has come to take your life.”

The moment the words landed, the white-robed figure struck again without warning.

The long sword blazed with fierce sword light, flashing toward Chi Jingwen like a bolt of lightning.

Several warriors stepped forward again to intercept.

But the figure in white was faster.

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Before the warriors could cut them off, they had already reversed direction like lightning, pivoting sharply.

After several rapid feints, the white-robed sword cultivator found an impossibly precise angle and drove straight into the heart of the warriors’ formation.

In an instant, they had seized the formation’s central point.

Alarm flashed across the faces of the warriors.

The opponent was too fast. In barely a breath, every gap in their formation had been read.

The next moment, sword light bloomed outward like a flower.

With the formation shattered, the warriors could only scramble to defend individually.

But a sword cultivator was the most offensively gifted type of cultivator by nature.

And this one’s cultivation towered above everyone present.

The warriors had no way to hold. Under the eruption of the sword cultivator’s qi, they were sent flying, spraying blood as they crashed to the ground.

The white-robed figure was left standing alone, sword in hand.

She tilted her head slightly. Behind the silver mask, a gaze of cold contempt found its mark.

At that, Chi Jingwen grew calm.

What he could not work out was how this person moved so freely through the Chi family’s active formation, as though the grand array were nothing but decoration.

While he was still puzzling over it, a small flame ignited on the white-robed figure’s body.

A talisman flickered into view, drifted to the ground, and crumbled to ash.

The moment Chi Jingwen saw it, everything became clear.

A talisman. One forged through the combined work of a formation master and a spirit inscription master.

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This person had used it to slip past the Chi family’s defenses so easily.

Once he understood that, Chi Jingwen felt his heart sink.

He was not unfamiliar with this kind of talisman. Merging formations and spirit inscriptions was not exactly a closely guarded secret.

But to craft a talisman capable of circumventing a grand formation, one would need to know that formation intimately.

“So there is a traitor inside the Chi family,” Chi Jingwen said, his voice low and hard. “Who hired you? When did the Chi family produce such filth?”

“Ha…” The white-robed sword cultivator only laughed softly. She had no intention of answering him.

Instead, right before his eyes, she produced another talisman.

A faint mystic light rippled. She activated it.

Boom.

The sword qi around the white-robed figure erupted again, this time aimed solely at Chi Jingwen.

“Family Head! Fall back!”

A flash. A strange spatial distortion.

Mu Wu appeared at Chi Jingwen’s side in an instant.

With him came three more warriors, each radiating a formidable aura.

Every one of them was at the peak of the Fifth Realm, brushing against the Sixth.

The four moved together, their combined force merging with the energy of the Chi family’s grand formation.

Under the formation’s amplification, the aura of all four surged in an instant, breaking through to the Sixth Realm.

Four Sixth Realm warriors striking in unison. Even a peak Sixth Realm sword cultivator could not recklessly meet that head on.

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“Take her down!”

They shouted together and moved like dragons, each claiming a cardinal position, drawing on the formation’s power to box the white-robed sword cultivator into the center.

Two on defense, two on offense, all four coordinated with seamless precision.

This was the true strength the Chi family’s guard was capable of.

For the first time, the white-robed sword cultivator’s composure shifted.

Her voice came out low, carrying a trace of surprise. “So it was a trap.”

“Even if you could bypass the Chi family’s formation with a traitor’s talisman,” Chi Jingwen said, “you are not a true formation master. Those talismans alone cannot break the grand array.”

“Surrender.”

At Chi Jingwen’s command, the formation encasing the estate surged into full motion.

Wave after wave of formation energy crashed down, carrying the weight of heaven and earth with it.

Surrounded by the warriors’ assault and the formation’s binding pressure, the white-robed sword cultivator lowered her eyes slightly.

No one could see what lay in their depths.

“Is this all the Chi family amounts to?”

Her voice drifted out calmly.

Even as she spoke, blinding sword light flared around her again.

Then, a moment later, it began to contract, condensing inward to a single point.

As the light collapsed into that point, the world around it seemed to dim.

Chi Jingwen felt a chill crawl up his spine. A violent sense of danger screamed in his chest.

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A Sixth Realm sword cultivator was never this simple.

He stepped back, trying to create distance.

But his feet would not move. They felt as though they had been filled with lead.

He had been locked down. The Sixth Realm sword cultivator had fixed him in place with her aura.

Cold sweat broke out across Chi Jingwen’s entire body. He had never felt so close to death.

The killing strike of a Sixth Realm sword cultivator was not something an ordinary Fifth Realm cultivator like him could survive.

“Stop her! Protect the Family Head!”

In the instant the sword light erupted, all four warriors struck at once.

But the sword light, condensed into a single razor-thin line, sheared through the Chi family’s formation like it was nothing and pierced clean through the warriors’ bodies.

Only then did Chi Jingwen remember.

Why sword cultivators were called the foremost in offensive power among all cultivators.

When a sword cultivator wanted to kill, no one of the same realm could stop them.

Between life and death, terror had no equal.

At this moment, Chi Jingwen had no dignity left to preserve as family head.

He screamed out, “Save me!”

With a crack, a fissure split open in the air before him. A rotting yet overwhelming aura seeped out from within. A withered fist thrust through and drove itself into the white-robed sword cultivator’s sword light.

The two forces met and erupted in a violent shockwave.