Creation Little Five sized up Great Ancestor Lord Li Yiran.
Among the Li Family’s four founding ancestors, Li Yiran was the oldest, already over two hundred years old. The longer he had lived, the more he had taken on an immortal’s bearing, drifting as if from the mortal world.
His hair, eyebrows, and beard had all turned snow white, not a trace of black remaining.
Yet his vitality remained robust, his eyes bright and clear.
He was even slightly plump, showing that he had kept himself in optimal condition.
Since ancient tis, the long-lived often had this body type.
“Part fat, part lean.”
Creation Little Five nodded lightly, “A pity he’s a bit old.”
Above Li Yiran’s crown, a patch of pure light floated, about a Chinese foot across.
Within that clear light hid his Realm of Emptiness, and faint thunder rolled from inside it.
To contain a Realm of Emptiness in the space of an inch is the so-called one-flower-one-world, to hold Mount Suru in a mustard seed.
The Li Family’s topmost arts were recorded in the Yi’an Hall Collection, rumored to be cultivation techniques capable of Tribulation Crossing and Ascension, nad the Minor Tribulation Salvation Formula, and only the sect leader could practice it.
The thunderous phenonon inside Li Yiran’s Realm of Emptiness showed he had already begun to dabble in the Tribulation Crossing realm, a completely unfamiliar stage, and might even have stepped into it!
He was the highest-cultivation living person Creation Little Five had ever seen!
Great Ancestor Li Qianfeng stepped forward toward Creation Little Five, his manner calm as always, and said, “The Creation Little Five who the freeholders and Heaven’s Listeners have been whispering about—unexpectedly so young. Little Five, your aura gives people a demonic charm, like an evil spirit. You must have absorbed moonlight; devilish qi has warped your mind.”
Creation Little Five turned his head, his gaze falling on him as if appraising a piece of food, inspecting every detail.
Li Qianfeng also had white hair and brows, but his bearing was that of a great Confucian, full of noble uprightness.
He cultivated arts from the Yi’an Hall Collection as well, but unlike the Great Ancestor Lord’s ethereal detachnt, his temperant was worldly, scholarly, and righteous.
His aura was by no ans weaker than the Great Ancestor Lord’s, a broad righteous qi crowning him, his Realm of Emptiness nested within, thunder rolling faintly, with the hint of dragons and phoenixes moving within and without.
Such realms were rare; unexpectedly, there were two appearing today!
Only, Li Yiran’s crown light asured about a foot, while Li Qianfeng’s righteous qi stretched three feet.
“He’s very old, but by taking spirit dicines he’s worked hard to keep his flesh fresh.”
Creation Little Five felt moved, showing a friendly smile to Li Qianfeng.
His smile was very precise, baring eight teeth.
This was how he had been made; when Chen Yindu fashioned him, he had so peculiar tastes, like the smile had to show exactly eight teeth.
Founding Ancestor Li Kunyù walked from the left alley and stopped ten steps from Creation Little Five, smiling, “Little Five, I heard that twenty years ago you slew four Great Kings among the Heaven’s Listeners, your strength extraordinary. Too bad you vanished afterward, only reappearing last year. The four Great Kings’ strength was far inferior to our Li Family’s four ancestors.”
Creation Little Five’s gaze landed on him, showing appreciation, “I also appeared ten years ago, but I was suppressed by my father and sealed right after I showed up.”
He admired Li Kunyù.
Li Kunyù was not young either, just over a hundred years old, but his appearance was that of a middle-aged man, not yet old; his hair and beard were graying.
Compared to the Great Ancestor Lord and Great Ancestor, he was far less imposing, but he, too, was a peak Great Ascension Realm figure!
He had not condensed his Realm of Emptiness down to a hair’s breadth, but his Realm hovered in the air, about the size of an acre.
“His flesh will taste better, not dry,” Creation Little Five thought.
The forr sect leader Li Xinshu ca from the right alley, hands folded behind his back, smiling, “The Heaven’s Listeners and freeholders turned pale at the na Creation Little Five. Today, seeing you, I’m a bit disappointed. You’re rely a powerful man-made evil spirit; you’re not even as terrifying as a demon.”
Creation Little Five disliked him.
Li Xinshu had just entered the Great Ascension Realm and his foundation was not yet stable.
Great Ascension either matures in ten years or a hundred years; he clearly lacked the ten-year talent and insight, so he prolonged his life with Qingzhou spirit dicines, gaining a hundred-year extension and finally breaking through.
His Realm of Emptiness was concealed within the dark clouds hanging overhead; a fine drizzle fell from that realm.
But this man loved to play the part—though the weakest of the four, he pretended to be formidable.
Such flesh often carried a sour taste.
Still, Creation Little Five was a little moved that these four had gone to great lengths to keep their body textures youthful. Despite so shortcomings, it was forgivable.
The Li Family’s four ancestors also studied him, each showing a different expression.
Creation Little Five was plainly the young Chen Yindu: tall, handso, with a tenacious yet capricious temperant, his eyes revealing curiosity for the unknown and arrogant pride in his own talents.
Also brazen and lawless!
The difference was, though Chen Yindu exuded sinister energy, he was not evil.
Creation Little Five, however, carried an evil aura that left people uneasy.
“Old man really has aged, couldn't wipe you all out.”
Creation Little Five withdrew his gaze from the four ancestors, sounding wistful, “Such is the sorrow of being human. No matter how clever or strong, aging is inevitable; he was even forced back by you. If he had been ten years younger, if he’d gone at like he did back then, I wouldn't be seeing you now.”
Recalling Chen Yindu’s severe beating, he sighed.
The last ti Chen Yindu beat him, he had brought thirty-two Talisman Gods Tianji and thrashed him thoroughly.
If Chen Yindu hadn’t been worried that Creation Little Five would revive even stronger, he would have killed him without hesitation rather than painstakingly suppress him.
Great Ancestor Li Qianfeng laughed, “Chen Yindu indeed had so skill. Born humble, yet he could stand among the world’s strong, his encounters astonishing and admirable. In that battle at the Western Capital, he nearly crippled the Western Capital court—Cabinet, Eastern Depot, the Three Camps, as well as the Three Lords and Six Ministries—many died or were injured. His achievents shook the world for a decade; even after death he has not faded.”
Founding Ancestor Li Kunyù shook his head, “A pity he had to make the world his enemy, forcing us to co forth.”
Forr Sect Leader Li Xinshu nodded, “As for you, Creation Little Five, you should not emulate Chen Yindu, spreading terror in the Western Capital and creating corpse clouds.”
Creation Little Five was indifferent to the four top masters surrounding him, answering earnestly, “I ca only for one answer. Tell what I want to know and I will give up eating you, leave the Western Capital imdiately.”
Great Ancestor Lord Li Yiran said faintly, “You want to know the whereabouts of the Innate Dao Embryo?”
He smiled slightly, “If you best , I will tell you.”
Li Xinshu chuckled, “Creation Little Five, the Western Capital is populous. Let us fight overseas to avoid harming innocents!”
Li Qianfeng said, “A battle overseas would purge demons and also eliminate so sea monsters—what bliss!”
“No need.”
Creation Little Five shook his head, “We’ll settle this right here in the Western Capital.”
The four Li ancestors all frowned.
Their cultivation was so strong that fighting here would leak divine powers and likely turn the Western Capital into a slaughterhouse, leaving countless dead!
Creation Little Five still held his oil-paper umbrella and said softly, “You needn’t worry. Facing , none of your divine arts or spells will leak any force.”
Li Xinshu stepped forward, drawing on his Realm of Emptiness, smiling, “Under the threat of my spiritual treasure Yuan Yang Gong, no one dares to take my blow head-on!”
He activated his spiritual treasure Yuan Yang Gong, a supre art also from the Yi’an Hall Collection. It refines primordial yang; the body itself becos the treasure, honed through ceaseless tempering until even a simple motion carries world-shaking power!
Li Xinshu had cultivated this art to Great Ascension and showed signs of transforming decay into marvel—no need for fancy moves, a single palm strike could eclipse many family heirloom treasures in sheer force!
Creation Little Five raised a hand to et that blow. Li Xinshu felt the space before him violently quake; the boundless seeming power of his strike was suddenly dispersed.
The Western Capital warped abruptly, inverting and suspending, heaven turning to earth and earth to heaven, producing a sky-and-earth-reversed spectacle!
This anomaly was created by Li Xinshu’s strike; when his seemingly effortless blow hit Creation Little Five’s palm, Creation Little Five used the Supre Eight Trigrams Body Protection Art to reverse his force!
If Granny Sha were here, she would surely hop with excitent.
Because the art Creation Little Five used was hers, but when he employed it he was smoother and more exquisite than she, even achieving universe inversion—reversing heaven and earth, suspending the world upside down!
All this while, the people of the Western Capital walked through their skyborne city oblivious to the inversion.
They saw sky as sky, earth as earth; everything seed normal.
But in Li Xinshu’s eyes, heaven and earth twisted drastically and everything turned eerie.
He lost focus for but an instant, and his wrist snapped with a crack as Creation Little Five broke it.
Creation Little Five drove his tempered finger into Li Xinshu’s brow.
Li Xinshu’s mind reeled; realizing he had underestimated his foe, he didn’t panic and imdiately mobilized his Realm of Emptiness.
As his Realm fell, his primordial spirit appeared from the void, but it was impaled through the brow and the entire Realm of Emptiness was seized by Creation Little Five and stuffed into his body!
Li Xinshu’s other hand was raised; the already-broken hand was thrust into his skull.
“Don’t speak. Dizziness is normal.”
Creation Little Five quickly sealed the ten major orifices of his body. Li Xinshu’s physical form perished, his primordial spirit grievously wounded and sealed inside his corpse, involuntarily drifting upward.
Founding Ancestor Li Kunyù, Great Ancestor Li Qianfeng, and Great Ancestor Lord Li Yiran had already burst out from the inverted Western Capital and rushed high into the sky, only to see Li Xinshu’s death.
The three elders were shocked and furious and charged at Creation Little Five.
Just now they hadn’t understood why Li Xinshu and Creation Little Five had suddenly vanished. They had only seen Li Xinshu land a punch on Creation Little Five and both disappear; looking up, they found Li Xinshu had fallen victim to foul play!
At that mont, the inverted heaven and earth snapped back to normal; Creation Little Five had vanished from their sight.
“In the Western Capital!”
The three elders roared back to Wenchang Alley. Creation Little Five stood there with his bright yellow oil-paper umbrella, still in the fine drizzle.
He was standing in the exact sa spot, not having moved an inch.
Li Xinshu of the Li Family’s four ancestors had already turned into a corpse, rising steadily, approaching the corpse cloud.
In the end, Li Xinshu beca part of the corpse cloud that enveloped the Western Capital.
One of the four alley blockers was gone.
“I want to ask.”
Creation Little Five said, “How did you know I would pass here?”
Founding Ancestor Li Kunyù’s face was ashen, yet he still told the reason coldly, “Li Family eyes are everywhere in the Western Capital. We recognized you long ago and knew you pass Wenchang Alley at this hour each morning to go drink a bowl of soybean milk on Wuchang Street.”
Creation Little Five said, “I see. So you knew where I lived too?”
Li Kunyù replied coldly, “Alley at Third Road, Chang’an Street, building Four, upstairs in the Listening to Rain Tower, second room. Rent three taels of silver a month, paid six months in advance.”
No sooner had he finished speaking than the three moved as one!
Great Ancestor Lord Li Yiran unleashed the Minor Tribulation Salvation Formula, raising his hand and causing thunder to erupt in the azure clouds above his crown, as if a tribulation of thunder had descended!
He drew on the might of his entire Realm of Emptiness to empower that seal, like a heavenly deity bringing down tribulation lightning to strike Creation Little Five dead!
Great Ancestor Li Qianfeng used his Dragon-Phoenix Golden Splendor Talisman, righteous qi concealing a dragon-phoenix world, the power of dragon and phoenix enveloping him, making him seem like a Golden-Armored Warrior!
Founding Ancestor Li Kunyù invoked the Heavenly Pass Art; behind him appeared layer upon layer of heavenly passes, each pass a Dao Field. Though his cultivation was not equal to the Great Ancestor Lord and Great Ancestor, the stacked passes endowed him with law-power that was by no ans inferior to the other two!
When Creation Little Five raised his hand to receive Li Yiran’s first strike, the Western Capital warped under the two terrifying commandings of Dao arts; space seed shaken into chaos, streets that had been neat and orderly beca entangled, buildings overlapping and weaving through each other.
On the roads, pedestrians intertwined, bodies passing through one another; traffic surged, yet people seemingly phased through collisions.
In the imperial city, Wenhua Hall, Wuying Hall, Huagai Hall, Zhongji Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, East Pavilion, Zhengyi Hall, Jinshen Hall, and other palace buildings erupted with their own might. These court palaces were themselves powerful treasures; the spatial turbulence awakened them and they burst out in defending power.
Yet everyone in the Western Capital carried on as before, doing what they needed to do, oblivious to any effect.
Great Ancestor Lord Li Yiran was startled inwardly, “He’s dispersed the power of my strike into the Western Capital’s space!”
Creation Little Five had already pierced through his palm and driven into his chest, about to stab through his torso, when Li Qianfeng’s attack arrived, forcing Creation Little Five to turn and et Li Qianfeng’s assault.
Their palms collided and suddenly the Western Capital sank into the underworld.
The underworld’s ghost gods looked up in confusion, finding themselves inexplicably in the living world.
For a mont the Western Capital’s yin and yang had swapped.
But in the next instant yin and yang returned to normal and the Western Capital was back in the living world.
Creation Little Five had gripped Li Qianfeng’s five fingers; beneath him he had already broken and crushed the five toes of Li Qianfeng’s right foot.
Founding Ancestor Li Kunyù charged in deeply, forcing Creation Little Five to release Li Qianfeng and et Li Kunyù’s attack. Western Capital space again warped, streets interlaced, dissipating the force of that blow.
Li Yiran ca rushing in, drawing his Realm of Emptiness into himself and driving the Minor Tribulation Salvation Formula to the extre, each move carrying terrifying minor heavenly tribulation might!
Creation Little Five had only just received that assault and had no ti to counterattack when Li Qianfeng’s strike returned, likewise drawing his Realm of Emptiness into himself!
Creation Little Five barely blocked Li Qianfeng’s attack and forced him back, when Li Kunyù arrived!
The three Li ancestors—grandfather, father, and grandson—each had refined different arts to perfection and now crazily assaulted him together!
On the Western Capital’s streets, pedestrians went about their daily business as always; households busied themselves, children played in the rain, kicking shuttlecocks and engaging in cuju, completely unaware that the four greatest living masters were using peerless divine arts to clash in Wenchang Alley!
The Western Capital’s space occasionally wavered—worlds inverting, heaven and earth flipping, yin and yang reversing—any released power could have wiped out tens of thousands inside the city!
Yet, strangely, the Western Capital remained peaceful, only the imperial treasure from the Western Ox New Continent’s capital detected the danger and sent trembling signals across heaven and earth.
A few children playing cuju kicked the ball to the mouth of Wenchang Alley. One child bent to pick it up and looked up to see in the alley three people furiously attacking a scholar, each blow ferocious, but no more than a brawl between fighters.
The child stood dumbfounded watching the spectacle. Suddenly the scholar took a hit, rolled and tumbled, and was flung out of Wenchang Alley, landing in a puddle beside the child.
The scholar lay on the ground, furiously pounding the earth, splashing water everywhere.
“I told you one hand can’t beat !”
Creation Little Five climbed out of the puddle, closed his oil-paper umbrella, and handed it to the child, “Little brother, hold this for .”
He walked into Wenchang Alley.
After a mont, the child holding the umbrella saw in the alley a middle-aged man drifting upward like a kite.
“Uncle can fly!” the child cried in delight.
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