It must be the plague! Only this makes sense—why does the name of Ruan Minghui appear everywhere? It's as if he's everywhere.
Even if Fang Yuan destroys part of his surroundings, Ruan Minghui can quickly spread through the air!
And because of the plague, even though Fang Yuan has cultivated the resilient Wanxiang Golden Geng Body, he still can't resist Ruan Minghui's attack!
While thinking, the sound of his flesh being scraped by invisible blades continues incessantly, and numbers flash in his vision:
-200, -200, -200!
An invisible existence, an invisible attack, Ruan Minghui's sharp laughter echoes in the void, seemingly mocking Fang Yuan's incompetence.
Fang Yuan's face is covered with frost, and a layer of golden light rises from his body, accompanied by crackling thunder that bursts with brilliance. Violent winds surge around him!
The thunder, with a temperature of thirty thousand degrees, distorts the air, and wherever the heat wave passes, Ruan Minghui's red name disintegrates into nothingness!
Then, Fang Yuan taps his toes, and with a swoosh, he rushes into the sky!
The city of Yunlang in Fang Yuan's sight rapidly shrinks, turning into a blood-colored chessboard. Looking down, the entire city is covered with Ruan Minghui's densely packed red names.
Moreover, the scene in the city is even more shocking. The citizens, who were previously sickly, have now become distorted creatures, similar to Qi Yuan and others.
Their bodies resemble tattered cloth, pierced by bones turned into blades, leaving them riddled with wounds, lying all over the ground like twisted monsters.
What is even more terrifying is that, despite their bodies being so horribly deformed, these people are still lingering, not yet having breathed their last.
Their chests still rise and fall, and broken windpipes make unmelodious moans, as if enduring an endless torture.
Fang Yuan understands that the plague needs living hosts to spread. Once the host dies, Ruan Minghui, the source of the plague, will also perish with it.
That's why Ruan Minghui keeps these people lingering on the brink of life and death, just to sustain himself for a little longer.
As Fang Yuan flies higher and higher, the number of Ruan Minghui's red names around him decreases, until they disappear completely.
He has flown far enough from the source of the infection, and Ruan Minghui can no longer infect him.
"Little brat!" At this moment, Ruan Minghui's furious roar comes from the city: "Didn't you say you'd fight me once I became a grandmaster? Why are you running away like a turtle now?"
"Come on, come down and have some fun!"
"If you don't come down, the citizens of this city will become my food!!!"
Ruan Minghui, too, is a clever man. When he saw Fang Yuan soar into the sky, away from the crowd, he already guessed that Fang Yuan had seen through the nature of his Dao body's ability.
But there was nothing he could do about it. His so-called omnipresence could only exist near the infected.
Ruan Minghui's current state relies on the infected to survive. He cannot move too far away. When he saw Fang Yuan flying into the sky, he could only helplessly watch.
He could only try to force Fang Yuan down by threatening him.
"A city of commoners? Hahaha, do you think I care?"
However, Fang Yuan, floating in the air, chuckled lightly: "You don't need to do anything, I'll handle it myself!"
The next moment, he raised his hand and grasped at the void, and the world suddenly changed color!
Boom——!
Countless lightning pillars rose from the ground, like mad dragons tearing through the sky. They intertwined in midair and quickly formed a giant sword that spanned the heavens!
Where the sword pointed, space twisted, clouds shattered, and the immense pressure from the sword made all things tremble!
Seeing this, Ruan Minghui, transformed into an intangible plague, was shaken to the core! He had no doubt that if this sword fell, the entire city of Yunlang would be obliterated!
To eliminate him, Fang Yuan would be willing to sacrifice the entire city of citizens!
At this moment, Ruan Minghui understood: it was a fight to the death. He suddenly let out a sharp screech!!!
"All swords return to one!!!"
As he screamed, a continuous metallic trembling echoed through the city. Whether it was Qi Yuan and the other guards or the citizens, the bones turned into swords in everyone's body began to tremble!
This was a suicidal move. Once used, all the bone swords twisted from the infected people's bodies would be controlled by Ruan Minghui and transformed into a storm of flying swords to strike a deadly blow at the enemy!
Once this move was performed, Ruan Minghui could not survive. But if it could kill Fang Yuan, it would all be worth it!
At least the Kingdom of Qu would lose one strong enemy, and his daughter could live on!
Thinking of this, Ruan Minghui's roar carried an unstoppable momentum. He would use all the bone swords to fight Fang Yuan to the death!
But his movements were half a beat too slow. Just as the countless bone swords were about to leave the bodies of the citizens, Fang Yuan's terrifying thunder giant sword had already struck down!
Boom!!!
When the thunder sword fell to the ground, it instantly disintegrated, transforming into a burst of green light!
There was no killing power as expected from the lightning, but instead, the green light contained boundless vitality, rapidly spreading across the entire city!
The citizens covered by the green light only felt vast vitality entering their bodies, healing all the wounds and diseases within them.
The bones, which were once poised to transform into swords, returned to their original shape, and the decayed flesh reorganized. The plague infecting them quickly faded!
Thunder could destroy the plague with intense heat, while the Changchun Qingmu Body could heal the hosts and eliminate the plague!
Once again, it was a perfectly matched skill!
"Impossible?!"
Ruan Minghui's scream echoed. He finally realized that he had been tricked by Fang Yuan!
What appeared to be an all-destroying thunder was actually a façade, and the true force behind it was the immense vitality that healed everything!
This seemingly cold and mysterious officer from the Imperial Guard actually cared for the citizens of this city!
But realizing this was too late. Ruan Minghui's "All Swords Return to One" failed because the citizens were healed, and the plague was eradicated!
The aftermath of the failed sword technique immediately rebounded against him. Not only that, but as the plague was driven away, even he himself was likely to vanish into nothingness!
"Why, why do you have healing techniques?!!!"
Ruan Minghui's desperate scream resonated through the air. As a prince, he never lived a pampered life. From a young age, he started rigorous cultivation and later caught the eye of the Plague God, becoming one of the strongest figures in the Kingdom of Qu!
He had never been proud of his status as a prince. His whole life had been devoted to martial arts.
But even so, he had only mastered the sword and the plague techniques. Now, looking at this practitioner from Yan Kingdom, he couldn't understand how this person possessed not only strength, but also powerful techniques beyond his understanding, including the ability to heal!
He had worked so hard in his cultivation, but now, even achieving a mutual destruction with the enemy seemed impossible!
No response came from the sky, and as the last citizen in the city was healed by the green light, Ruan Minghui, the embodiment of the plague, met his end.
Back at the Imperial Guard's mansion, Ruan Minghui, no longer in his plague form, appeared once again. His bone sword had turned to dust, and his body collapsed like a slug, unable to move.
Life energy slowly drained from him.
In his final moments, Ruan Minghui remembered something even more important. With his last bit of strength, he cried out:
"Please, spare my daughter..."