Chapter 1066: Chapter 1060: How Did You Find Our Location
“Once a person reaches a point where they have no control over themselves, they don’t have many choices left.
We cultivators at the Void Refinement realm fought against the people behind the scenes, and we lost.
We had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and make the optimal choice. At the very least, I am alive now.”
Looking at Yun Hongcai’s withered and aged face, Heavenly Venerable Jiande and Fairy Tinglan both frowned.
They hadn’t known that so many things had happened in Shadowfell Prefecture over the past few centuries.
“The two of you, stand guard for me.”
Yun Hongcai sat cross-legged and smiled.
“Let the matters of the past scatter with the wind; those who should live must still live. The people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan will eventually let things go.
The Dusheng Nunnery has been destroyed, and Nun Dairou will also lay down her grudges. A millennium from now, as long as we are still alive, that will be enough.”
Heavenly Venerable Jiande and Fairy Tinglan nodded slightly, saying no more.
Now that Nun Dairou was demanding their lives like a madwoman, they immediately erected a grand array in this mountain.
Fortunately, the entirety of Shadowfell Prefecture was currently embroiled in war. The chaotic spiritual energy of heaven and earth colliding everywhere truly made this an excellent place for a breakthrough.
A full seven days passed.
In the mountain, withered trees could be seen experiencing a second spring, exceptionally tranquil.
The Buddhist runes belonging to the Dusheng Nunnery were spreading out in all directions from where Yun Hongcai was cultivating.
Wherever the Buddhist runes reached, the faith power of all living beings—originally stolen from the Dusheng Nunnery—transformed into golden light and landed on the ground.
Unexpectedly, phantom silhouettes crawled out, roaring as they lunged toward Yun Hongcai.
It looked extremely similar to the scene when Dharma Master Hongzhen broke through.
The phantom of an ancient and unadorned grand door floated in front of Yun Hongcai.
This door was as pure white as jade, with an emerald-green luster flowing within, gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
It was clearly a Dao Gate of Daoist techniques, yet amidst the highly incongruous Buddhist runes and the Buddhist Dharma summoning the crawling faith power of all living beings, it unexpectedly extended densely packed jade hands, forcibly drawing those souls into the gate.
It appeared bizarre, yet it was filled with a certain aesthetic beauty.
“The Boss’s method has always been to ‘steal the heavens’.”
Fairy Tinglan smiled.
“I remember back when we roamed the world together; whatever we wanted, the Boss could always bring it back.
It’s just that over the years, the paths of using Spiritual power to absorb the spiritual energy of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and the Dao of the lives of living beings, have already been trodden by others.”
“With the Boss here, once he breaks through to the Body Integration realm, he can also help the two of us find our Dao paths.” Heavenly Venerable Jiande was overjoyed.
“The three of us will carve out our old reputation in this chaotic world!”
The Azure Cloud Li Clan, the Dusheng Nunnery—they no longer put any of them in their eyes.
Right now, while still at the Void Refinement realm, they dared to snatch a Body Integration opportunity.
Once all three of them reached the Body Integration realm, the world would be so vast that there would be nowhere they couldn’t go.
While the two were rejoicing, they completely failed to notice a single red leaf falling into the mountain.
…
Yun Hongcai looked at the Dao Gate before him, his expression agitated with excitement.
On the jade-colored grand door, the emerald jade was crystal clear.
That was the spiritual energy he had extracted from the heavenly materials and earthly treasures accumulated bit by bit through the efforts of the Yun Clan’s descendants, relying on the Spiritual power he had saved up for thirty thousand years.
Besides that, this grand door also contained the bloodlines of the Yun Clan’s descendants, the spiritual energy of the common people, and even the Spiritual power of the various metal, wood, water, fire, and earth elements.
“Attempt after attempt, seeking a breakthrough time after time…”
Yun Hongcai’s eyes brimmed with hot tears. No one knew how difficult his Dao path had been.
He, Yun Hongcai, was originally a world-rare genius. Breaking through to the Void Refinement realm had been a journey of effortlessly overcoming all obstacles.
In this life, he had attempted to break through to the Body Integration realm twice.
Whether it was the laws of “Spiritual Methods of Heaven and Earth” or “Bloodlines of Living Beings,” he had reached the very end, even pushing open the Dao Gate.
That was why he had such a magnificent Dao Gate within his Soul Sea.
But heaven did not grant man’s wishes. In both breakthroughs, he fell behind others. Pushing open the Dao Gate resulted in nothing.
Up until now, with his lifespan nearing its end, he had no choice but to take a desperate risk and steal the Dao of others.
Now… he saw it.
“Creak—”
The human figures formed by the faith power of countless living beings climbed onto the jade door.
Relying on his originally accumulated Spiritual power, the Dao Gate pushed open a crack.
A path filled with Buddhist runes was right before his eyes!
At the end of the path, a Buddha was waiting for him!
“It works! Dharma Master Hongzhen’s Buddhist Dao works!”
But right at this moment, Yun Hongcai narrowed his eyes, which were brimming with killing intent.
“Azure Cloud Li Clan, why are you so unwilling to let me go?!! Do you really want me to go to your Azure Cloud Prefecture and teach you how to accept your fate?!!”
The reviving vegetation in the mountain swayed under the blowing of a fierce wind.
“Who goes there?!!”
Fairy Tinglan let out a sharp shout, having already levitated into the air alongside Heavenly Venerable Jiande.
The red silk ribbons and long sleeves of Fairy Tinglan’s garments extended infinitely, sheltering the entire mountain within them.
Under the gloomy sky of Shadowfell Prefecture caused by the battles in all directions, it appeared full of aesthetic beauty.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”
Heavenly Venerable Jiande’s heaven-supporting iron staff continuously spiraled in the sky, growing larger.
As for he himself, he had already blended into the air. On the giant staff, pairs of iron eyes suddenly opened, blinking continuously.
From all directions, human figures could be seen approaching.
It was precisely the members of the Azure Cloud Li Clan in Shadowfell Prefecture!
“You…”
Fairy Tinglan gnashed her teeth. “How did you find our location?”
She had clearly exhausted all her methods; not even Nun Dairou could find their tracks. Yet the Azure Cloud Li Clan had simply found their way here!
The expressions of these Li family members were calm, and they didn’t say a word.
Their robes snapped loudly in the air. They just stared quietly, as if admiring struggling prey.
Li Wei glanced at these two people.
Ever since these three showed their faces at the Dusheng Nunnery, finding them was actually incredibly simple.
They ran fast, but no matter how fast they ran, they couldn’t outrun Li Wei’s spatial laws.
As for concealing their tracks, Li Wei could hide within the void, which was even more covert.
Looking again at Li Tianqi’s bizarre expression on the side.
In truth, back when their tracks were discovered in the temple, Li Wei could already have found them.
Besides that, although Li Tianqi wasn’t as utterly cunning as these three, he still possessed real skills.
Having rolled and crawled through the mud for many years, and being an Array Formation Profound Master, he wouldn’t have the face to see his brothers if he couldn’t find these three.
Then there was Li Changsheng; with a pair of Human Emperor’s Eyes, he could find two clusters of Heavenly Fire from an unknown distance away, let alone find three people?
“Do you truly think you hid yourselves deeply?”
A wisp of black smoke flashed from the Skyveil Hall in Li Yunlin’s hand.
The old cat leaped onto Li Yunlin’s shoulder, crawled to his other shoulder, and stared mockingly at the two rats with its feline eyes.
At this moment, standing among the Li family members was Dongfang Xuan. Hearing the old cat’s words, she looked at the painting in her hand with a frosty expression.
Looking again at the completely unperturbed expressions of the Li family members, she said in a deep voice, “You could find them on your own?”
“…”
The Li family members fell silent for a moment and also glanced at the painting in Dongfang Xuan’s hands.
Over the past few decades, Dongfang Xuan had traveled across almost the entire Shadowfell Prefecture and Deston Prefecture, painting numerous pictures.
The painting Dongfang Xuan held had already captured this mountain. The originally static ink-wash painting was moving; several figures appeared in the sky above the portrait.
It was exactly them, along with Fairy Tinglan’s silk ribbons and Heavenly Venerable Jiande’s iron staff.
Li Yunlin pondered for a moment and said sincerely, “Thanks to Senior. If not for Senior’s portrait, we definitely wouldn’t have been able to find them.”
“Right, with Senior here, it’s like having heaven’s help,” Li Yunbing casually added. Anyway, since his eldest brother said it, he just had to echo it.
“Mhm, mhm.”
Li Kuanghua nodded vigorously.
“Actually, not entirely…”
Li Changyao didn’t like to lie, but her mouth was immediately covered by Li Tianqi.
Complaining inwardly about his junior’s bluntness, and ignoring Li Changyao’s glaring eyes, Li Tianqi forced a smile at Dongfang Xuan, whose face had darkened.
She had spent decades, and although it was of little use, praising her a bit was still the right thing to do.
Only Li Xinnian, off to the side, couldn’t blend in with his elders’ mischief. He silently drew the Yun-Slaying Saber; the last member of the Yun Clan was right here in this mountain.
At the same time, the loud whoosh of a giant staff rang out, and a shadow enveloped the Li family members.
It was Heavenly Venerable Jiande launching an attack without hesitation.
The heaviness of his iron staff was no less than that of Bi Shihu’s heavy hammer.
At the same time, Fairy Tinglan also instantly charged over with killing intent, her silk ribbons spiraling as she summoned an illusion technique in tandem with the massive mountain.
The originally careless expressions of the Li family members instantly turned cold. They summoned their weapons and Dharma Body and charged forward.
The surrounding scenery began to change.
Every single one of them was at the Void Refinement realm. They gradually entered the Void Refinement space, their power of laws manifesting.
…
After so many years, this was the first time the clansmen engaged in a group battle.
Having reached the Void Refinement realm, Li Yunlin had almost fused with the Skyveil Hall.
Its interior was like a starry sky, containing the laws that the Skyveil Hall had refined and comprehended.
As the earliest clansman to break through to the Void Refinement realm on his own, Li Yunlin had already reached the peak of the Void Refinement realm.
Various Great Daos were at his disposal, and with the abundant Spiritual power of the Skyveil Hall, he was almost unrivaled among those of the same realm.
In the starry-sky-like Void Refinement space, Li Tianqi’s spatial tortoise shell embedded itself to form a bulwark.
This was also him using the “Forming an Array with a Single Thought” Void Refinement technique, establishing a Tier-4 array formation.
The blood patterns in Li Xinnian’s Void Refinement space, Li Kuanghua’s Buddhist Dao runes, and Li Changyao’s ice flames spread throughout the Void Refinement space.
Li Yunbing’s Metal Thunder Roc roared within the Void Refinement space.
The Blood Spirit Dharma Body and the Martial Dao Buddha Body statue emanated an ancient and mysterious aura within the Void Refinement space, while the Metal Thunder Roc and the Blue Phoenix soared through the space.
Although Dongfang Xuan, who had come along, was only at the early stage of the Void Refinement realm, she possessed the strongest aptitude within the Skynet.
Standing behind the Li family members, she simply raised her brush to paint, and a hundred manifestations were born.
“Kill them,” Li Yunlin said without hesitation.
He originally hadn’t wanted to tangle with these two, but since they insisted on fighting, they couldn’t blame him for not fighting fair.
“Tinglan, hold them off!”
Heavenly Venerable Jiande let out a loud shout. Among the Li family members, only Li Yunlin could make him feel a trace of threat.
Unfortunately, the opponents had too many people. As numerous techniques rained down, he expanded his iron staff to a height of 300 metres and said in a deep voice,
“As long as the Boss breaks through to the Body Integration realm…”
“A thief thinks he can break through to the Body Integration realm?”
Li Yunbing let out a savage laugh. “Daoist friend, with Senior Dongfang Xuan here, why do you think we chose to come knocking on your door today?”
Dongfang Xuan, who had been dipping her brush in ink, raised an eyebrow.
Her hand paused mid-motion, and a faint, almost imperceptible smile curved at the corners of her lips.
“What?!!”
The expressions of Heavenly Venerable Jiande and Fairy Tinglan changed drastically. It truly seemed as though these people had effortlessly tracked their movements!
At this moment.
a rift tore open in the air above the mountain. Li Wei stepped out from the darkness, leading an old man clad in crimson robes with matching crimson hair.
Frowning at the Blue Moon Divine Armor on his body, he cursed inwardly, “Great. It was already half-ruined, and now there’s barely anything left—below the waist, I’m down to just a pair of boxers.”
Without hesitation, he tore off what remained of the Blue Moon Divine Armor. Upholding his usual principle of thrift and good household management, he stored the fragments into his spatial ring.
Slowly looking up the mountain toward the Buddhist Dao rhythm emanating from Yun Hongcai, he turned to the old tree beside him and said, “Old Tree, centuries have passed. Do you still have the teeth to eat people?”
“Reporting to Master!”
At this moment, the Old Tree’s expression was agitated with excitement.
From the time he developed sentience until now, this was his first time acting alone with his mysterious master.
“I ate some back at Qilin Mountain. I definitely can’t do it alone; this is a Body Integration expert, after all. But I’ve kept the method firmly in my heart. Let’s eat him together.”
Li Wei patted the Old Tree’s shoulder in gratification.
“Your opportunity to reach the Void Refinement realm has arrived. Don’t drop the ball, or you’ll lose face in front of the Old Snake later.”
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