The Mysterious Sword Master, ranked on the Venerable List!

"Do you think you Tom, Dick, and Harry have the right to lay a finger on my family's possessions?"

A chilling voice suddenly came from outside the hall.

The sound seemed to contain endless chill, instantly causing the temperature in the entire hall to plummet to freezing point.

Everyone instinctively turned around to look.

At the main entrance, a man and a woman stood side by side.

The woman, dressed in a moon-white long dress, possessed a cool and noble temperament, like a celestial maiden descended to earth; she was none other than Gu Qingxue.

Her beautiful eyes flashed with murderous intent as she coldly stared at everyone in the hall.

boom!

next moment.

A terrifying pressure belonging to the Nascent Soul stage erupted from her without reservation, sweeping across the entire area like a tidal wave.

Pfft!Pfft!

Under this oppressive force, Zhou Yi and Chu Batian, who were originally extremely arrogant, suddenly collapsed to their knees, their faces filled with terror.

Even Liu Chengfeng, who was in the late stage of the Golden Core realm, had a drastic change in expression and had to circulate all his spiritual energy to support himself. Even so, his legs were trembling violently, as if a mountain was pressing down on his back.

"Yuan... Nascent Soul stage?!"

Liu Chengfeng struggled to lift his head, his eyes filled with horror: "How is this possible... How could the Gu family have a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

The Gu family members were stunned, but when they saw who it was, they burst into thunderous cheers.

"It's the young lady!"

"The young lady is back!"

"My God! The young lady has broken through to the Nascent Soul stage!"

Looking at his granddaughter, whom he both loved and hated, Gu Changsheng wept uncontrollably, "Qingxue..."

Ignoring everyone's reactions, Gu Qingxue moved gracefully into the hall, her aura growing stronger with each step.

Standing before Liu Chengfeng, she looked down at him and said coldly, "You just said you wanted the Gu family to get out of Tianyuan City?"

Liu Chengfeng was sweating profusely and couldn't utter a single word.

Just then.

Liu Ruyan, who had been standing behind Liu Chengfeng, suddenly stepped forward.

hum!

The jade pendant at her waist suddenly shone brightly, transforming into a sword-shaped light barrier that actually blocked Gu Qingxue's Nascent Soul pressure.

With this shield in place, Liu Ruyan's initially panicked expression instantly calmed down, replaced by an even stronger sense of jealousy and resentment.

She naturally recognized Gu Qingxue.

Back in Tianyuan City, Gu Qingxue was a favored daughter of heaven, while Liu Ruyan was just an insignificant supporting character. This disparity had always been buried deep in her heart.

"Oh, who do we have here? It's none other than the genius Gu from back then."

Liu Ruyan crossed her arms. Although her cultivation was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, she dared to look directly at Gu Qingxue, who was at the Nascent Soul stage, under the protection of the jade pendant.

"Gu Qingxue, don't think you're so great just because you've reached the Nascent Soul stage."

She pointed to the jade pendant at her waist, her face full of pride: "Look carefully, this is a protective jade pendant bestowed upon me by the Sword Venerable Xuanji, and it contains a wisp of the Venerable's sword energy."

"My husband is the Xuanji Sword Master of the Great Luo Sword Sect, ranked tenth on the Eastern Wilderness Venerable Ranking!"

"If you dare to lay a finger on me, my husband will tear you to pieces. Not only you, but the entire Gu family will be buried with you!"

When the Xuanji Sword Master was mentioned, Liu Ruyan became even more confident.

In her eyes, although Gu Qingxue was a Nascent Soul cultivator, she was still just an ant in front of a Venerable at the peak of the Divine Transformation stage.

Gu Qingxue frowned slightly.

She had naturally heard of the name of the Sword Master Xuanji; he was a renowned Nascent Soul expert who was indeed quite troublesome.

Seeing Gu Qingxue remain silent, Liu Ruyan assumed she was scared and became even more smug: "Scared, aren't you?"

"If you're scared, quickly kneel down and kowtow to me to admit your mistake. While you're at it, have your ancestor hand over the land deed. Maybe if I'm in a good mood, I can plead for you with my husband and make you a foot-washing maid..."

"Noisy."

Just as Liu Ruyan was rambling on and on...

Lu Yuan, who had been standing behind Gu Qingxue as if he were invisible, finally spoke.

He slowly walked forward, a faint sneer on his lips.

"The Mysterious Sword Master?"

"Such arrogance."

"If you didn't know better, you'd think it was some random Tom, Dick, or Harry who just popped up out of nowhere."

Liu Ruyan was furious: "How dare you! Who are you to insult the Venerable One?"

Lu Yuan didn't even glance at her, but casually raised his right hand and grabbed at Liu Ruyan from a distance.

"Since you enjoy bullying others so much, then make him come here to see me in person."

boom!

A terrifying pressure, hundreds or even thousands of times stronger than Gu Qingxue's earlier, suddenly descended.

Late stage of Nascent Soul!

Faced with this oppressive force, the jade pendant at Liu Ruyan's waist, which had originally shone brightly, was like fragile glass hitting a hammer.

Click!

A crisp cracking sound rang out.

That so-called Venerable Sword Qi didn't even qualify to be activated; it was directly crushed by Lu Yuan's oppressive aura.

The jade pendant shattered into powder.

"what!"

Liu Ruyan let out a scream, lost her support, and collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud.

She looked up at Lu Yuan in terror, the dread that came from the depths of her soul making her unable to speak coherently.

"Transformation... Nascent Soul stage..."

At this moment, the entire Gu family hall fell into a deathly silence once again.

This time, however, all eyes were focused on the man in the blue robe, their eyes filled with awe and fervor.

Liu Ruyan gritted her teeth and suddenly crushed a jade tablet in her hand, a life-saving measure given to her by the Sword Master Xuanji.

Click!

As the jade pendant in Liu Ruyan's hand shattered, a phantom yet majestic figure slowly materialized.

"Who dares to bully my woman!"

A fierce and unparalleled sword intent surged forth, like a flood bursting its banks, instantly engulfing the entire hall.

The pressure of a Nascent Soul cultivator!

The sword intent was like frost, chilling to the bone.

He was a middle-aged man dressed in a black and white Taoist robe, carrying two swords on his back. Yin and Yang energies swirled around him, and his eyes seemed to reflect the rotation of the sun and moon.

It was a law clone of the Xuanji Sword Master of the Great Luo Sword Sect.

Although it was just a clone, the fluctuations of the Three Transformations Sword Law made everyone present, including Gu Qingxue who had just broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, feel a sense of suffocation.

"My husband!"

Seeing her powerful backer arrive, Liu Ruyan, who had been slumped on the ground, grasped at a straw, and her eyes instantly rekindled with hope and resentment.

She scrambled to her feet, pointing at Lu Yuan and screaming, "It's him! My husband, it's this man who broke the protective jade pendant you gave me and tried to kill me!"

"You must avenge me! He should be torn to pieces!"

The Xuanji Sword Master's clone did not immediately pay attention to Liu Ruyan. Instead, he stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes blazing, and arrogantly surveyed the entire scene.

"I'd like to see which blind fool dares to touch my concubine."

"Don't you know that you have to consider the owner before you beat a dog?"

His voice was loud and clear, carrying a sense of superiority, as if everyone in the room was nothing more than lambs to the slaughter in his eyes.