Chapter 1078: Chapter 1072: Why Must You Force Me
“Motherfucker!”
The might of the Body Integration great battle whipped up fierce winds in the cloudy sky.
As the words of Fei Heng atop the giant corpse dragon fell, Feng Tu’s long hair whipped against his face, leaving him deathly pale.
Fei Heng stared at the Li family members, and the Li family members were all frowning.
Feng Tu instantly looked at the Li family members with heightened vigilance.
He understood now; Crown Prince Fei Heng wanted the Li family members to kill those of them who had come from Highsun City.
Crown Prince Fei Heng was at the Body Integration realm, and with the other two Body Integration experts currently fighting, no one present was Fei Heng’s match.
If the Li family killed them, they would become Fei Heng’s accomplices, and the events of today would never be leaked!
“Young friend Xinnian, Brother Yunbing?” Feng Tu called out, cold sweat pouring down his forehead.
Even the usually calm Zhou Chengli was deathly pale.
Aside from the collision of the two Body Integration experts’ Spiritual power, the cloudy sky seemed eerily quiet.
Li Wei remained expressionless. Fei Heng was ultimately still considering some of their past ties, or rather…
“You are afraid that without our help, Nun Dairou will escape.”
Li Wei’s voice was hauntingly calm. “You are also afraid that we will escape.”
Hearing the Ancestor’s words, smiles surfaced on the faces of the clan members.
Fei Heng fell silent for a moment.
The corpse dragon was still absorbing the blood buried beneath the entirety of Shadowfell Prefecture, gradually growing larger.
Just floating in the air, it had already reached a thousand meters in length.
Hard scales grew on the blood-colored corpse dragon, which had already become a part of Fei Heng.
Every single one of these scales represented the life of a sacrificed cultivator from Shadowfell Prefecture.
After a long time, Fei Heng finally spoke: “Do you still not understand? It wasn’t easy for me to reach where I am today. I made it from a place like the Imperial Capital to where I am today!”
His voice gradually rose in pitch.
“I did it. I became a Body Integration expert. I have the qualifications to contend against existences I once couldn’t even face. The war here has begun; I will have more corpses, I will become stronger, until I am worthy of the Human Emperor’s throne!”
“Help me this once, just help me this once, and I will become the Human Emperor!”
“I don’t trust Min Tiange, but from beginning to end, I have trusted you. Ever since that day at Qilin Mountain, I have trusted you.”
A hint of pleading entered Fei Heng’s eyes.
“Help me. I will let you replace the Min Clan, replace Min Youguo. The world will be ours, and together we will create a more glorious Azure Dynasty.”
…
Replace the Min Clan, replace Min Youguo.
Under one man, above all others.
This was something their Azure Cloud Li Clan had once dreamed of achieving.
Fierce winds blew the hair of the Li family members.
The cloudy sky was covered in blood beads, reflecting the sky in a deep red.
Fei Heng, transformed into a thousand-meter blood dragon, grew ever more massive, his Body Integration pressure suffocating.
The clan members remained silent for a long time, then exchanged glances, all revealing smiles before looking toward the Ancestor.
The Ancestor was also silent, clearly contemplating the grand blueprint Fei Heng had mapped out for their Li Clan.
Then…
The Ancestor’s hands moved slightly, holding his stomach as he bent over, suppressing a laugh until the sound gradually grew louder, “Hahaha!”
Li Wei laughed until tears came to his eyes.
“What are you laughing at?!!” Fei Heng’s expression was ugly. He had pleaded to such an extent, yet no one from the Azure Cloud Li Clan was taking his words to heart!
Li Wei continued to laugh, his voice echoing through the cloudy sky. Finally, having laughed enough, he slowly stood up straight.
“I’m laughing because you’re a dumbass. Just like Bi Shihu and the rest of them, you’re all dumbasses.”
The Azure Dynasty did not yet have the word “dumbass,” and the Li family members raised their eyebrows, finding the term novel.
“Every single fucking one of you acts like you’ve suffered some massive grievance.
Bi Shihu said he was forced by circumstances and had no choice but to be a deserter, claiming he should have been a general revered by millions.
Yun Hongcai said he was just a bit unlucky, doing petty thievery while genuinely believing himself to be a peerless genius.
And that demoness Dairou truly treats herself as a Bodhisattva, a grand Bodhisattva indeed.”
Li Wei looked at Fei Heng with pity.
“You are no different from them. You just felt you had no other choice but to walk this path. I thought you could be a bit more open and honest about it.”
“You…” Fei Heng gritted his teeth.
“Do you have any more nonsense to spew?” Li Wei let out a scoff through his nose.
“You all think your lives are so hard; who in this world doesn’t have it hard? You think you had no other choice; who in this world isn’t constantly making choices?
Insisting on framing this vile bullshit as some grand principle is nothing but self-comfort, a fig leaf to cover your own shame.”
“Even when my family’s Yaozu sneak-attacks and kills people, he doesn’t spout as much bullshit reasoning as you do!”
Li Yaozu, whose face had been full of smiles, had his facial muscles twitch violently.
Even the other clan members pursed their lips, their faces turning red as they looked around left and right.
On the contrary, the few from Highsun City who were tense just moments ago cracked wide grins.
Dharma Treasures and spiritual items were revealed in everyone’s hands.
The Yin-Yang fish diagram appeared beneath Li Wei’s feet.
His expression gradually turned gloomy, and mirror surfaces appeared in all directions.
His body actually emitted Buddhist light. With the blue and silver twin spears in hand, he pierced through the air toward Fei Heng atop the thousand-meter blood dragon in the cloudy sky.
“You said we’ve changed, but you haven’t. Even after farming in my Li Clan for three hundred years, you are still the same tyrannical Fei Heng from Qilin Mountain.”
“Alright then, I’ll help you change—into a corpse!”
Under the Buddhist light, Half-Step Body Integration!
“You…”
The people of the Li Clan charged at Fei Heng with killing intent.
Fei Heng was stunned for a moment, then his expression turned ferocious, and the corpse dragon roared, “Why must you force me?!!”
The twin spears pierced through the void.
Spiritual power at the Half-Step Body Integration realm, fused with Buddhist light, was naturally effective against evil.
Yet when the attack struck the massive dragon’s scales, it left only shallow wounds—neither deep nor significant—which healed almost instantly.
Li Wei had never fought the Corpse God of the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems before.
With Min Tiange’s assistance, Fei Heng had used the Corpse God’s body as his Dao Foundation to step into the Body Integration realm. It was no different from seizing another body.
Now, Li Wei was finally witnessing the Corpse God’s strange nature firsthand. It was clearly at the Dao-Glimpsing realm, yet its Dao was unlike anything he had seen.
“The Dao of Corpses? No… this is different. Every scale represents a technique—the techniques these corpses used when they were alive.
Beneath the scales is living flesh and blood, constantly repairing the body… and there are souls as well…”
The moment his spears struck, Li Wei sensed the bizarre structure of the technique.
Ghostly entities surged from all directions around the corpse dragon, intercepting his twin spears. His Spiritual power was reduced by nearly half before it could even land.
“If the twin spears can’t break through… then…”
A golden light flashed in Li Wei’s eyes.
“Buddha’s Divine Palm!”
“This is—” Crown Prince Fei Heng’s expression changed drastically.
“How is this possible? How did he learn Buddhist Dharma?!”
Brilliant Buddhist light rose from Li Wei’s body.
Behind him, a towering Dharma Body took shape.
A black-and-white Bagua lotus platform appeared beneath it.
Seated cross-legged upon the lotus was a handsome monk clad in a kasaya—black on the left, white on the right.
A pair of Yin and Yang koi circled and leapt beside the Dharma Body, moving in perfect harmony.
The Buddha raised its palm.
Harnessing spatial laws, it struck effortlessly across the void, landing directly on the massive blood dragon and leaving behind a colossal palm print.
The countless souls within the corpse dragon could not resist the purifying force of Buddhist Dharma—it directly countered corpse energy.
“Ancestor, let me help you!”
Seeing the Buddhist light suppress the corpse dragon’s aura, Li Kuanghua shouted sharply.
The Buddha-Demon Disk appeared behind her as her Martial Dao Bodhisattva Body rose into the air, unleashing a Bodhisattva’s Divine Palm of its own.
In an instant, a Buddha and a Bodhisattva flanked the corpse dragon.
As the battle intensified, Li Kuanghua suddenly froze for a moment.
She heard the Buddha Dharma Body ask, “Kuanghua… how do you chant Buddhist scriptures?”
“….”
She glanced again at the Ancestor’s Dharma Body.
It was holding prayer beads—but instead of moving them one by one, it was fumbling them randomly with no rhythm at all.
After a brief silence, Li Kuanghua replied, “Ancestor… as long as the intention is sincere, that’s enough. Chanting scriptures or counting beads doesn’t actually increase the power of Buddhist Dharma.”
“…”
Li Wei also fell silent.
With a thought, the Dharma Body tossed the prayer beads aside and simply began unleashing the Buddha’s Divine Palm—punching and kicking through the void without restraint.
Pure Buddhist Dharma.
Watching the Divine Palms strike again and again through the “mirror surfaces” formed by his spatial techniques, a faint smile appeared on Li Wei’s face.
With Yun Hongcai trapped, the greatest beneficiary was undoubtedly the Old Tree, which was now breaking through to the Void Refinement realm.
The second was Li Wei himself.
[Your clan’s Divine Tree, while Yun Clan Ancestor Yun Hongcai used the “Stealing the Heavens” method to seize the faith power of Dharma Master Hongzhen’s Dusheng Bodhisattva at Dusheng Nunnery, activated the “Essence Harvesting Death Array Formation” alongside Fate Techniques to steal Yun Hongcai’s Dao path.]
[Your clan’s Divine Tree, the “Primal Blood Tree,” is using the Body Integration Dao path and accumulated blood essence to construct a Void Refinement space, resisting the tribulation of a demonic breakthrough.]
[It is currently advancing to the Void Refinement realm.]
[Through the array formation, the Primal Blood Tree is transferring the excess faith power it cannot absorb into your body.]
[You are acquiring Half-Step Body Integration Spiritual power!]
[You have obtained faith power.]
[Through the system, you have consumed 30,000 Clan Will to learn the “True Buddhist Mantra of Deliverance for Self and Sentient Beings” cultivated by your descendant Li Kuanghua, gaining the Three Forms of Buddhism!]
[Congratulations. You have refined a Buddhist Dharma Body — the Self-Delivering Arhat (Arhat — In Buddhism, it refers to: A person who has attained personal enlightenment.).]
[The Dharma Body is born from the heart. You have unintentionally stepped onto the Buddhist path—appearing as a Buddha, yet not truly one; delivering yourself, but not others.
You possess the Dharma of an Arhat, yet lack the heart of one.
You have comprehended a fragment of Dharma Master Hongzhen’s “Rebirth” laws.]
So… he had accidentally become a monk.
Li Wei controlled the Dharma Body with a thought. As Yun Hongcai was drained dry by the Old Tree, Li Wei reaped immense benefits as well—his power reaching Half-Step Body Integration.
What a pity.
If he had truly cultivated Buddhism, this faith power alone might have been enough to open the Dao Gate.
“Boom!”
Li Wei turned his gaze toward Li Kuanghua’s Martial Dao Bodhisattva Body.
At this moment, her Dharma Body had shed its earlier compassion.
Its expression turned fierce, manifesting three heads and six arms.
Behind it, the Buddha-Demon Disk shone like a dark sun, radiating black energy.
Wielding a massive staff, it smashed down toward the corpse dragon with overwhelming force.
[Your descendant Li Kuanghua’s Buddha-Demon Disk, after absorbing Buddhist faith power and accumulating blood energy for many years, has advanced to Tier-4!]
[A single thought determines Buddha or Demon, devouring flesh and blood.]
[In Buddha form: all evils retreat, and Buddhist Dharma is strengthened.]
[In Demon form: Spiritual power, physical strength, and regeneration are greatly enhanced.]
[When fused: Buddha and Demon coexist as one—fearless before all.]
[Unlocked Void Refinement extreme technique: Boundless.]
[Buddha and Demon share the same origin—the true heart. Dual laws merge within the body, transforming into ultimate physical power.]
[Acquired supreme-grade Dharma Treasure: Origin Staff. Its weight rivals mountains, capable of suppressing land and sea.]
[Your descendant Li Kuanghua’s Martial Dao Bodhisattva Body has learned the Void Refinement technique: Three Heads and Six Arms.]
[With six-directional perception, one person wields the strength of three, capable of unleashing triple techniques.]
Compared to Li Kuanghua’s ferocious three-headed, six-armed Bodhisattva, Li Wei’s Arhat seemed almost like a calm and gentle scholar.
But the Bodhisattva attacked without restraint.
The Origin Staff was no ordinary treasure. Planted on land, it could stabilize earthquakes and quell wildfires. Set within the sea, it could calm raging tides.
And if unleashed, it could just as easily summon those same disasters.
Even so, despite the relentless assault of a Luohan and a Bodhisattva—both wielding techniques that directly countered it—how could they truly defeat a genuine Body Integration expert?
Even one who had yet to fully master that power.
“Why… why do you insist on seeking death?!”
The corpse dragon roared.
With a single roar, the Buddha palms filling the sky shattered one after another.
In the distance, the observing members of the Li family exchanged glances.
Within Li Yaozu’s sword box, the blades trembled and clattered.
He spoke quietly to Li Yaoqing, “Second Sister… who are you planning to fight?”
Li Yaoqing glanced at the corpse dragon, then at the Buddha battling Perfected Qinghe behind her.
After a brief moment of thought, she smiled and turned toward the four stunned Void Refinement cultivators from Highsun City.
“Let’s go. If that old demoness escapes, none of us will gain anything.”
Feng Tu and Zhou Chengli exchanged a look.
They cast one last glance at the corpse dragon that Fei Heng had become, sighed, and nodded.
Without hesitation, they followed Li Yaoqing to attack Nun Dairou.
“Eldest Brother,” Li Yaoqing called out with a smile as she charged forward, bamboo pole in hand, “that old demoness is strong. Hurry and come help!”
A sword slipped from the box into Li Yaozu’s hand.
Standing calmly against the breeze, he positioned himself before his clansmen.
Behind him, the younger generation drew their weapons, unafraid of the overwhelming pressure of the Body Integration realm.
A sword rang softly.
Li Yaozu raised it, pointing directly at the corpse dragon. His voice remained steady.
“Don’t worry. It’s just a corpse dragon.”
“This will be over soon.”
Li Yunlin and Li Yunbing exchanged glances, not daring to respond.
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