Chapter 1195: Chapter 1189: Special Event pleted
“Damn it!”
Within the Dao Domain.
Ten days had passed. Where did Uncle Rain still retain that awe-inspiring, god-like appearance from before?
His blue robe was finally torn at one corner. His once-flowing hair was disheveled from the battle. Wielding a long spear, he frantically hunted for enemies within the Dao Domain.
The Dao Domain had been sealed by the Old Tree along with the bined power of Azure Cloud Prefecture, yet Uncle Rain refused to give up.
Fighting for ten consecutive days, he unleashed all his divine abilities, showing absolutely no sign of his Spiritual power waning.
This battle waged on for ten days.
The Seven Ironclads and the Demon Lord died repeatedly, Li Wei and Uncle Rain engaged in a frenzied, desperate struggle, and Ah Tie fought with all his might, relying on his Dharma Treasure-like body and the Spiritual power transmitted to him.
Both sides had thoroughly studied and understood each other’s moves and Dao methods.
“How long is this fight going to last?”
Li Wei drifted through space, only to see Uncle Rain unleash the divine ability ‘Thunder Rain World Destruction’.
The rainwater within the Dao Domain carried the power of thunder; the Seven Ironclads and the Demon Lord were blasted to smithereens, and Li Yaotie flailed wildly from the shocks.
Li Wei simply flickered right next to Uncle Rain, using ‘One Dao Converts into Myriad Methods’ to block a spear thrust.
Uncle Rain couldn’t escape, Uncle Rain couldn’t be killed, and they couldn’t be killed either.
The stalemate would hold unless a few more Body Integration experts arrived to break it.
However, Uncle Rain was covered in treasures, and the family’s secrets absolutely could not be pried into by outsiders.
“Let me leave!” Uncle Rain roared. Clearly, after ten days, even he had grown anxious.
“Let you out? Fine!”
Li Wei rebuked angrily, “Slit your own throat and ascend to heaven, then you can naturally leave!”
“Just relying on you?!!”
“If ten days can’t kill you, then a hundred days, a thousand days!”
A ferocious glint flashed in Li Wei’s eyes.
Did this guy really think his 100,000 Family Will Points were spent for nothing? He could keep this descent going for a hundred days!
…
[Special Event — Life and Death Crisis, pleted!]
[Under the sudden attack of the cultivators led by Uncle Rain, your family resisted with great difficulty.
Uniting their efforts in the rainy night, they painstakingly survived the murderous crisis.
The invading enemies were fierce; seventy percent perished at the hands of your family, while the rest either fled or were captured by the cultivators of Azure Cloud Prefecture.]
Ten days had passed.
At Mount Langdang in Azure Cloud Prefecture, above which lay the location where the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree sealed Uncle Rain, the gloomy clouds in the sky showed no signs of clearing.
Experts were stationed upon Mount Langdang, and bigwigs from all factions in Azure Cloud Prefecture had arrived, creating a grand and bustling occasion.
“Thank you all for your assistance.”
Huang Xiujin led the family’s two Patriarchs, Li Qiuming and Li Chuxiu, bowing in gratitude to the many Azure Cloud Prefecture bigwigs who had e to aid them.
Azure Cloud Prefecture was the Li Clan’s territory, but the Li Clan had always followed their ancestral rules: they never oppressed the major factions of Azure Cloud Prefecture, nor did they forcefully dictate their actions.
“Hahaha!”
At this time, Patriarch Feng Chunlin of the Feng Family let out a loud laugh, his eyes brimming with joy.
“Good, good, good! Back when Li Jianshu wanted all of Azure Cloud Prefecture to cultivate, it was exactly when heaven and earth spiritual qi were severely lacking.
The karmic luck of our Azure Cloud Prefecture has grown increasingly robust.
Now that over a thousand experts have perished in the lands of Azure Cloud Prefecture, the spiritual qi within their bodies will dissolve into heaven and earth, alleviating our shortage for at least several hundred years.”
Hearing this, the people from the Three Families and Six Sects of Azure Cloud Prefecture, as well as the major factions, all revealed bright smiles.
Back when Li Jianshu wanted to turn Azure Cloud Prefecture into a state of bat readiness, everyone had participated.
It was simply because the Human Emperor was dying and a great war was imminent.
Exhausting the heaven and earth spiritual qi of Azure Cloud Prefecture was far better than being annihilated with it pletely unspent.
At worst, the spiritual qi would just bee as thin as it was back in the Azure Cloud Region.
“After ten days of pursuit, this person falling into my hands can offset a hundred years of sect development.”
Xuanji, Sect Master of the Black Tortoise Sect, clutched a captured Divinity Transformation cultivator with endless smiles.
He turned to Patriarch Tianye of the Heavenly Eye Ghost Sect and said,
“Senior Tianye, please assist me in refining him into a Living Pill. In exchange, a treasure mountain in Azure Cloud Region will be gifted to your sect to plant spiritual materials.”
The captured cultivator nearly fainted. A Living Pill was a type of Human Pill.
Ordinary Human Pills were refined using dead bodies, but a Living Pill… was refined from a living person, burned alive.
Such methods had long gone extinct in the world, yet unexpectedly, they still existed in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
“Acceptable.” Patriarch Tianye nodded slightly.
The art of refining Living Pills had been pieced together over hundreds of years, following ancient texts, bined with step-by-step experimentation over the years due to their numerous enemies.
It was a matter they now had a firm grasp on; it seemed the ing days would be busy.
Soon after, everyone glanced into the distance where the Li Clan members were bustling about.
They saw the Li clansmen forcefully pressing down a kneeling Zishu Ling.
Everyone sighed in collective admiration.
So many years had passed, and with the world in chaos, it wasn’t as if these former factions of Azure Cloud Prefecture hadn’t made a name for themselves within the Imperial Dynasty; their Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation cultivators scrambled for karmic opportunities everywhere.
However, they gradually discovered that the gap between them and their old friends in the Li Clan was growing wider and wider, and the stakes of the Li Clan’s actions were getting higher and higher.
There were some matters they simply no longer dared to meddle in, such as… executing Zishu Ling.
“You cannot kill me!” Zishu Ling knelt on the ground, glaring unwillingly at the Li Clan members.
At the very front was Li Chang—a mere musician in the Imperial Dynasty—who was actually looking down upon her from a high vantage point, making her face flush with anger and humiliation.
“I am a member of the Zishu family! I have imperial blood! Haoqiong Immortal Master is my teacher, and the elders of my Zishu family regard me as their closest kin!”
“If I die in Azure Cloud Prefecture, every single one of you will be buried with me!”
Li Chang did not respond.
He slowly brought out a bamboo scroll.
Just seeing the bamboo scroll, Zishu Ling let out a cold sneer.
That bamboo scroll was golden, bearing the crest of the Zishu family’s ancestral temple.
“The elders of my family would never let anything happen to me. I am Zishu Ling!”
The bamboo scroll was slowly unrolled. Li Chang wiped his hands clean, smiled warmly, and began to read aloud.
“Zishu Ling conspired with the Imperial Dynasty traitor, Uncle Rain. She is the shame of the imperial family, the shame of the Imperial Dynasty…”
Zishu Ling’s expression froze. “Impossible. The family would not do this. Absolutely not!”
“Clatter.”
Numerous jade slips fell to the ground.
Li Chang said calmly, “These are letters sent by the major factions, identical to the one sent by your Zishu family.
I merely glanced at one or two of them, and they are exactly the same as the letter your Zishu family sent.
Has Miss Ling ever considered that you and the people who invaded Azure Cloud Prefecture this time are no different?”
“How could I possibly be the same as them? How is it possible?!!”
Zishu Ling’s eyes were practically splitting open in fury.
“If it weren’t for Grand Tower, I could have annihilated you all and helped Uncle Rain break free!”
Li Chang frowned slightly.
In truth, Zishu Ling and her final batch of invaders had never escaped the eyes and ears of the Li family.
They just couldn’t be bothered to deal with them; whether these people fled or attacked made no difference.
They had simply run themselves right into the muzzles of Consort Ji and the others.
Seeing Zishu Ling still maintaining her high and mighty posture, Li Chang shook his head and turned his back.
“With Uncle Rain being kept in Azure Cloud Prefecture, you still haven’t understood what our Li Clan represents in the world today.
We have already bee a top-tier immortal clan. We are not something a self-righteous creature like you can shake.”
“Even the Empress should clearly understand that our Li Clan is not someone she can just move against on a whim.”
Behind Li Chang were the Li clansmen.
They were in a state of wild revelry!
Two Body Integration experts, and their Old Ancestor was a Body Integration expert who possessed spatial rules!
The ones who should be trembling in fear right now was the entire Imperial Dynasty!
Having exhausted half his Spiritual power to descend from the cloudy sky, Daoist Mosquito walked up in front of Li Chang.
A cold light flashed in his narrow eyes as he grinned hideously and grabbed the muttering “impossible” Zishu Ling.
He turned back to Li Chang and said, “I will be taking this person.”
“The demonic beasts of the Ephemeral Grotto-Heaven are hungry.”
With Li Chang’s nod, Daoist Mosquito dragged Zishu Ling away.
Zishu Ling began to struggle.
“You cannot touch me, I am a member of the Zishu family! You only have one Body Integration expert; we are not afraid of you!”
Daoist Mosquito looked up at the Dao Domain in the cloudy sky, then glanced into the crowd at the Martial Emperor, whose body was gradually exuding coercive pressure and traces of Dao rhythm.
He spoke faintly, “Wrong. As long as the karmic opportunity arrives, there will be… three.”
“Or perhaps, more.”
…
Time passed slowly; in the blink of an eye, a year went by.
[Your family obtained a massive amount of spoils of war]
[Obtained Family Will: 150,000 points]
Within the Dao Domain.
Li Wei was still engaged in a great battle with Uncle Rain.
After a year had passed, they had finally worn Uncle Rain down significantly, grinding away at least twenty percent of his Dao cultivation.
He also had the leisure to check on the status of his descendants.
Among the descendants in this great battle, the most formidable was undoubtedly Li Yaoqing.
[Your descendant Li Yaoqing fought alongside the Old Tree and Li Zhiheng against over a hundred enemies.]
[Using aura-concealing medicinal pills and Li Zhiheng’s Heavenly Dao Divine Heart, the trio slipped unnoticed among the invaders.
Relying on the Divine Heart—which bypassed physical defenses to strike directly at the soul—Li Zhiheng assassinated them one by one, working from the weakest to the strongest.
To prevent the Divine Heart from overwhelming him, he devoured the invaders’ karmic luck and channeled it as massive feedback to nourish Azure Cloud Prefecture.]
[Forged in the crucible of this battle, Li Zhiheng is gradually mastering a fear-based technique that strikes the soul directly: Inner Soul World.
By penetrating an opponent’s soul, he can drag those with damaged minds into an alternate dimension to do battle.
Death in the Inner Soul World results in death in the real world.
The stronger his cultivation grows, the easier it bees to pull opponents into this domain.]
[Obtained Trait: Mind Controller. prehension of illusion and soul techniques increases by 20%.]
[From the spoils of war, he acquired a supreme-grade Dharma Treasure found in the spatial ring of an overseas Void Refining cultivator: the Soul-Holding Lamp.
By drawing an opponent’s Spiritual power into the lamp, the flame brightens, plunging the victim into inescapable illusions.]
Previously, Li Zhiheng had always cultivated silently, learning a very mixed variety of things.
Now, with the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart, he had bee the family’s strongest grandmaster of illusions.
Currently holding a lamp and floating outside the Dao Domain, he was slowly infiltrating illusions into the Dao Domain, attempting to affect Uncle Rain.
[In this battle, your descendant Li Yaoqing’s Divine Art advanced to new heights.
Wielding the Mountain-Suppressing Demon-Subduing Ring, rare is the person in the Void Refining realm who can withstand even a single strike from her.
Highly proficient in pharmacology, she kills without leaving a trace.
Supported by the Chaos-Green Jade Bamboo, which maximizes the essence of flora and nature, she fights with the presence of a mountain god.
The title ‘Holy Maiden of Nature’ has begun spreading throughout the world.]
[The thousand-plus invaders were adventurers from various lands, carrying rare treasures and numerous pill recipes.
Your descendant Li Yaoqing is currently piling them into a grand pendium of medicinal pills.]
[Obtained Trait: Azure Cloud Medicine God.
The probability of refining new medicinal pills increases by 3%, and the chance of upgrading the grade of refined pills increases by 5%.]
And within the clan, the person who caught Li Wei’s attention the most was Li Yunlin.
During this enemy invasion, Banshu Ao was among them.
Even the Azure Cloud Li Clan had heard of Banshu Ao’s title as the number one person beneath the Body Integration realm in Grandhaven Prefecture.
Just as Li Wei was planning to personally handle Banshu Ao, Li Yunlin stepped forward on his own.
Everyone in the family was worried and prepared to quickly resolve their own troubles to go rescue Li Yunlin.
They stuffed all sorts of treasures onto Li Yunlin, but in the end, all those treasures were returned.
When asked what happened to Banshu Ao, Li Yunlin merely replied: Banshu Ao lost to him by half a move, and died.
Currently, Li Yunlin was keeping a low profile, leaving only Banshu Ao’s corpse behind in the family vault as proof.
A year had passed, and rumors in the outside world claimed Banshu Ao had been slain by a hidden Body Integration cultivator from Azure Cloud Prefecture.
[Your descendant Li Yunlin engaged Banshu Ao in bat. Initially, he merely felt that Banshu Ao’s ‘World’ space was extraordinary.]
[After a short exchange, Banshu Ao proved unable to break through the defense of Li Yunlin’s ‘Skyveil Hall’.
Sheltered within, Li Yunlin’s soul remained pletely undisturbed by the shifting environment.]
[Having fought numerous Void Refining experts in the Western Frontier for over a hundred years, Li Yunlin had never encountered a true rival in the Void Refining realm.
Without being pushed to his limits, his techniques lacked the pressure needed for true refinement.
After probing Banshu Ao’s abilities for three hours, Uncle Rain made his move elsewhere on the battlefield, prompting Li Yunlin to finally fight with all his might to end things quickly.]
[A few years ago, beneath the Old Tree, he peered into twenty-three Dao paths, only to find all of them obstructed.
He immediately shifted his focus to fusing those twenty-three paths, desiring to forge an entirely new method.
Blending the various Daos within his Skyveil Hall could have formed Tai Chi, but the path of Tai Chi yielded no results. Burdened with a hundred Daos, he was forced to plot his next move.]
[Fusing the twenty-three obstructed Dao paths and his methods of blending Daos, he created the ‘Skyveil Slash’—a strike that severs both flesh and soul—and unleashed it against Banshu Ao.]
[He shattered the ‘World’ with a single strike. He had originally anticipated a drawn-out battle, but unexpectedly… it was an instant kill.]
[Obtained Trait: Defender of the Dao Path]
[With traditional Dao paths continuously occupied by others, he is forced to seek alternative methods.
His bat power beneath the Body Integration realm scales with the number of accumulated Dao paths he possesses.
He is a defender standing before the Great Dao, yet also represents the end of the road.
He is resolved to never walk paths tread by others, disdaining the idea of achieving Body Integration with a mere Void Refining physique.]
“…”
Thinking of Li Yunlin’s figure, Li Wei scratched his head.
The twenty-three Dao paths were occupied, and Tai Chi had been occupied by him, the Old Ancestor.
“How is our Yunlin… even more unlucky than Sword Venerable Drizzle?”
At this time, in the City of Merit, Sword Venerable Drizzle, who was currently staying in Azure Cloud Prefecture, let out an untimely sneeze. “Who is cursing me?”
Sword Venerable Drizzle frowned, looking up at the cloudy sky at the young Daoist holding the swirling multifaceted black box.
“This kid is Li Yunlin, the son of Sword Venerable Yaozu.
In all directions of the Sword Pavilion, I have never met my match beneath the Body Integration realm, yet I actually feel a sense of dread from him.
Good, very good. I will wait until he finishes dealing with the Uncle Rain matter, and try fighting him.”
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