"Senior Brother Qianmo, get out here!"

Li Yun’s voice instantly echoed throughout the entire Black Mountain Pavilion, making itself clearly heard by everyone inside.

"How dare you!"

The two cultivators guarding the gate were instantly enraged. They attacked at the same time, but Li Yun merely waved his hand casually and sent both of them flying.

Creak!

At that moment, the doors of Black Mountain Pavilion suddenly swung open, and a white-robed youth around thirty years old stepped out. His face was exceptionally handsome, and he carried an air of carefree elegance.

However, the white-robed youth’s expression was now extremely grim. He stared coldly at Li Yun and said icily, "Li Yun, I never imagined you would dare to be so brazen. What do you think Black Mountain Pavilion is? Do you really believe you can act so arrogantly here?"

"Enough talk."

Li Yun said indifferently, "Senior Brother Qianmo, you know very well why I am here. You have schemed against me from the shadows again and again. Today, you will pay the price."

"Price? What price?"

Just then, a resounding voice suddenly rang out, and a powerfully built man in an earth-yellow robe strode out from the depths of Black Mountain Pavilion.

"Senior Brother Qianmo is the vice president of our Black Mountain Society. Who do you think you are, to make him pay a price?"

The powerfully built man roared, and his formidable aura instantly surged forth like a tidal wave toward Li Yun.

Su Fengyan and Li Hao grunted, unable to stand firm under the pressure of this aura. They staggered back several steps, and their faces turned deathly pale.

This person was none other than the president of the Black Mountain Society, Mo Shanhe.

"You must be that Li Yun who has been making a name for himself lately, right?"

Mo Shanhe’s gaze fell on Li Yun as he shouted, "Li Yun, I do not care what grudge you have with Senior Brother Qianmo, but in front of me, Mo Shanhe, even if you are a dragon, you must coil, and even if you are a tiger, you must crouch. I will give you three breaths to leave this place immediately. Otherwise, do not blame me for being ruthless."

"Is that so?"

Li Yun’s eyes turned cold as he suddenly swung his sword, unleashing an unparalleled Sword Qi that whistled toward Mo Shanhe.

"Hm?"

Mo Shanhe’s expression changed.

The moment Li Yun struck, he immediately realized that Li Yun’s strength was extraordinary. He instantly erupted with a mass of earth-yellow light, forming a barrier in front of him.

Whoosh!

However, the Sword Qi descended and tore through the barrier in an instant. Then, it struck Mo Shanhe’s body, causing him to stagger and nearly lose his footing.

’Li Yun actually has such strength?’

His face paled.

He could tell that Li Yun had held back in that strike. If Li Yun had gone all out, Mo Shanhe likely would not have been able to block it so easily.

At that moment, he could not help feeling the urge to retreat. However, after only a brief hesitation, he immediately dismissed the thought.

The reason his Black Mountain Society had become the fourth-ranked force among the small factions of the Inner Sect was precisely because of his protectiveness. He never abandoned any member under him, and because of that, Black Mountain Society possessed the strongest cohesion among all the small groups in the Inner Sect.

If he retreated from this battle, losing reputation would be the least of his problems. The Black Mountain Pavilion he had painstakingly built might even face collapse.

"Ten Mountain Seal!"

Thinking of this, he roared and formed a hand seal with both hands.

In an instant, the illusory forms of ten massive mountains appeared. Each one exuded an incredibly heavy presence, causing even the surrounding air to grow denser. The weight pressing down from them reached a terrifying level.

Then, the ten mountain illusions floated upward at the same time. Despite their massive size, their speed was not slow in the slightest, and they descended toward Li Yun with lightning-like swiftness to suppress him.

"Stubborn fool."

Li Yun snorted coldly.

In his earlier strike, he had intentionally given Mo Shanhe some reputation by not defeating him outright. Yet he had not expected Mo Shanhe to be so obstinate and still insist on fighting.

This time, Li Yun held nothing back.

A green gourd appeared in his hand. It was the Sword-Nurturing Gourd.

He pulled off the stopper, and three hundred and fifty-six low-grade Heaven Rank flying swords whistled out at the same time, instantly forming a sword formation. Sharp Sword Qi radiated outward, and just a glance at it was enough to make the eyes of weaker cultivators nearby sting while their minds trembled.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The overwhelmingly sharp sword formation tore through all ten mountain illusions, then blasted Mo Shanhe’s figure away.

"What?"

"President Mo Shanhe was actually defeated!"

This scene caused everyone nearby to pale in shock, and they could hardly believe their own eyes.

Mo Shanhe was one of the top-ranked experts in the entire Inner Sect, ranked within the top fifty of the Earth Ranking. Such a figure had been defeated so easily by Li Yun. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, they never would have believed it.

"How is this possible? Li Yun’s strength has actually grown to this extent?"

Senior Brother Qianmo’s expression also changed.

He could not believe that Li Yun, whom he could have killed with a casual strike several months ago, now possessed strength that far surpassed his own.

At that moment, overwhelming regret surged within his heart.

He regretted why he had sent his fifth junior brother to act back then instead of killing Li Yun himself.

He regretted why he had not been willing to spend three million high-grade spirit stones to hire someone from the Blood Blade Tavern to kill Li Yun.

If he had killed Li Yun earlier, he would not have ended up in this situation.