Chapter 1084: Chapter 1078: Someone Is Coming
“Dead…”
The Nirvana Sage Elder caressed the bloodstains on the ground with a gloomy expression.
The blood of the Dao-Glimpsing realm emitted Dao rhythm, gradually seeping into the ground under the world’s laws.
“Logically speaking, after an expert dies, if their body is not gathered using special methods, the Dao, laws, and Spiritual power within them will feed back into heaven and earth through the laws of heaven and earth.”
“But whether in Shadowfell Prefecture or Deston Prefecture, after the two races die in battle, some of their blood energy seeps underground and vanishes completely…”
The Nirvana Sage Elder murmured.
This was something he had discovered many years ago. The Dao, laws, and Spiritual power of the two races that originally should have returned to heaven and earth were disappearing. The reason he broke the rules and charged into the dynasty was none other than to find these missing things.
“In Deston, Sunreach, and Shadowfell Prefecture, cultivators have continuously arrived over the years, and battles occur daily.
After so many years, the casualties have accumulated for centuries. The worldly spiritual energy they left behind has reached an unimaginable level.”
“The human race’s Crown Prince, Fei Heng, broke through to the Body Integration realm simply by using a small amount of worldly spiritual energy, coupled with his Corpse-Driving Art.”
The Nirvana Sage Elder shook his head.
“It’s not too late. Through his corpse, I can still trace the source and find the location of the worldly spiritual energy.”
Having spoken, his aged body slowly stood up. The twist-braided dreadlocks behind his head swayed. Two flames flickered in his eyes as he gazed into the void.
He saw over a dozen cultivators besieging a Bodhisattva.
“The human race is truly full of people who use numbers to bully the few.”
Immediately, his lips moved slightly, transmitting his voice into the void, “Friend, I have come to assist you.”
…
In the void.
Li Wei sat cross-legged on an auspicious cloud, fine wine and delicacies set up beside him, watching the numerous cultivators besiege Nun Dairou.
He saw that the four Void Refinement cultivators from Highsun City, Li Yaoqing, and Perfected Qinghe were still using their previous techniques to fight Nun Dairou.
With the arrival of their Azure Cloud Li Clan, Li Yunlin and Li Tianqi had also joined the battlefield.
As for the others…
They were all spectating alongside Li Wei, slowly recovering after taking Yaoqing’s medicinal pills.
Fei Heng was, after all, at the Body Integration realm.
The sudden outburst just now had consumed a considerable amount of Spiritual power from the majority of the people present.
After a day of high-intensity battles, Li Wei also needed to cool down and collect himself.
[Congratulations, you have killed Crown Prince Fei Heng.]
[Obtained Body Integration realm corpse dragon corpse: Seven-Clawed Rot-Horned Azure Dragon.]
Inside the spatial ring, talismans and several Dharma Treasures were currently suppressing the dragon corpse to prevent its pressure from bursting open the ring.
The dragon corpse’s massive size was breathtaking.
Even though it was already dead, the dragon corpse still exuded a solemn pressure—an instinctive pressure from the bloodlines of heaven and earth that would make anyone who saw it feel a bit of dread.
“This thing is actually a dragon.”
The corners of Li Wei’s mouth twitched.
Back at the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems, he had seen this corpse dragon following the Corpse God.
At that time, he thought the Corpse God had used the Corpse-Stitching Art of the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems to stitch together bizarre corpses into the shape of a corpse dragon, ultimately creating this so-called corpse dragon.
But when the corpse truly landed in his hands, Li Wei confirmed that it was actually a dragon!
Out of the legends he had heard growing up, Li Wei was full of interest in the dragon corpse inside the spatial ring.
“The Dragon race is exceptionally gifted. They are existences that naturally drift through the void; as long as they reach adulthood, they can break through to the Void Refinement realm.”
Learning about the corpse dragon’s condition, Li Changyao rejoiced.
In recent years, the clan’s flood dragon, Bai Gen, had been trying to break through his racial limits.
The best method was to find a dragon for Old Bai to refine.
Naturally, the intelligence work for this had fallen into the hands of the Heavenly Principle Hall.
But how could dragons be so easy to catch? They were either deep within the Demon Race’s territory, raised by certain almighty experts, or dwelling within the Boundless Seas.
While the Dragon race was undeniably strong, aside from their arrogance, they also knew their bodies were full of treasures.
They didn’t cause trouble easily, making them even harder to find.
“Even after death, it could be refined into a Body Integration corpse dragon. This dragon is not simple; when it was alive, it was at least at the Body Integration realm.”
Li Changyao said excitedly, “The breakthrough for the clan’s Divine Beast is finally settled.”
Li Wei nodded slightly.
[Seven-Clawed Rot-Horned Azure Dragon]
[An ancient dragon corpse that died tens of thousands of years ago.
It was dug up by the Corpse God of the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems, who used its dragon energy to break through to Half-Step Body Integration.
After years of refining the corpse, the Azure Dragon was fused into a corpse dragon.]
[The dragon corpse decayed and later transformed into the main part of Crown Prince Fei Heng’s Body Integration realm physique.]
Aside from this, Fei Heng was practically completely broke.
“Back then, when the Corpse God of the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems and Holy Monk Yidian parted ways, the corpse of the Corpse God was sent to Fei Heng shortly after.
Fei Heng said that originally, in his and Min Tiange’s plan, they wanted the Corpse God and Holy Monk Yidian to fight to the death, and then give both of their corpses to Fei Heng.”
Thinking of this, Li Wei frowned slightly.
Generally speaking, Body Integration experts wouldn’t fight each other.
Even with the gap between the Dao-Glimpsing and Dao Integration realms, they wouldn’t make a move easily.
People aren’t fools; if they can’t win, they’ll run.
To kill a Body Integration expert, one had to use encirclements and traps like today.
At times like this, Void Refinement cultivators holding the line became extremely important.
“Holy Monk Yidian brought the people of the Grand Tower, and coupled with the presence of our Li Clan, shielded the heavenly secrets and escaped to the Thunder Fire Demon Cave.”
Li Wei pondered for a moment.
“As for the Corpse God fighting alongside the corpse dragon, they fought to a draw with Holy Monk Yidian at the time.
Even if he hadn’t used his trump cards, it showed the Corpse God’s strength. Unfortunately, the Corpse God had no assistance and fell into Min Tiange’s hands, which means…”
His heart grew as heavy as a mountain.
Their family had never truly come into contact with Min Tiange.
The only instance was back then, when Min Tiange, from an unknown distance away, used means to turn Yaotie’s Thunder Tribulation from the third tier of Divinity Transformation to the fifth tier.
Even if the Corpse God was injured at the time, Min Tiange being able to kill him was still a terrifying matter.
Amidst his thoughts.
The long sword in Li Yaozu’s sword box hissed. He slowly said, “Ancestor, someone is coming.”
Li Wei and the clan members looked toward the cloudy sky.
They saw that in the Dao arena, where the two Body Integration almighty experts were fighting, a cluster of flame landed on the barrier.
The flame gradually burned into a ring, incinerating the void, and also incinerating Li Tianqi’s Tier-4 array formation.
“Oh no!”
Perfected Qinghe—who was currently high-spirited under the assistance of Li Yaoqing’s life-filled Wood element Divine Arts—changed his expression.
A massive totem carved with a divine phoenix bird suddenly blocked the toxic venom spewed by Perfected Qinghe’s nine-headed dragon phantom, forcing Perfected Qinghe to retreat in panic.
However, Perfected Qinghe quickly breathed a sigh of relief.
Following closely behind were several auras; it was precisely Zhao Guang and Wenren Jiuyue.
…….
“You Wu tribe old scoundrel!”
The Nirvana Sage Elder arrived. Seeing that there were quite a few human race cultivators here, he also saw Nun Dairou’s predicament, and thus the two joined forces.
But before he could even ask about the whereabouts of Fei Heng’s corpse together, Zhao Guang’s sharp shout echoed from the void, causing him to sigh helplessly.
“A lingering ghost that refuses to disperse.”
At this moment, the vertical eye in the center of Zhao Guang’s forehead emitted a light that seemed capable of annihilating everything.
Under the Nirvana Sage Elder’s Dao of Fire, the spiritual pond within the Dao arena gradually turned into magma.
Spiritual power burst forth from the totem, causing the spiritual power within the magma to condense, transforming into a divine phoenix bird that charged at Zhao Guang.
The void grew even hotter.
Thirty-six massive statues, forming a grand array in accordance with the intent of the Thirty-six Heavenly Spirits, surrounded the area.
Like a God of War, Zhao Guang tangled with the divine phoenix bird and charged toward the Nirvana Sage Elder.
Zhao Guang’s Spiritual power was filled with the power of annihilation, while the Nirvana Sage Elder’s Spiritual power incinerated everything it touched.
Amidst the battle, the Void Refinement cultivators wore ugly expressions, forced to be extremely careful.
Fortunately, Wenren Jiuyue had arrived. Beneath the magma of the Dao arena, rolling shadows could be seen.
With just a light tap from him, countless flying daggers shot out, and centipedes and poisonous snakes burst forth from the magma.
However, they were firmly suppressed by the Nirvana Sage Elder’s Wu tribe techniques.
His Daoist techniques lived in the shadow of the Nirvana Sage Elder, though it could still be considered to have lessened the pressure on everyone.
“Perfected Qinghe, where is the Crown Prince?”
As soon as Wenren Jiuyue arrived, he asked Perfected Qinghe.
Hearing this, Perfected Qinghe hesitated for a moment, his face darkening. “Killed by the demoness.”
“Hmm?”
Wenren Jiuyue was stunned for a moment.
Then, following Perfected Qinghe’s evasive gaze, he looked toward the Li family members in the distance—who, despite the clash of such experts, remained safely in the void—and understood that Fei Heng had lost his life at the hands of the Li family.
Even though he had received orders from the Empress to eliminate Fei Heng, he was still endlessly surprised. “Are… are you joking?”
Wenren Jiuyue’s mouth gaped wide.
While battling the Nirvana Sage Elder, the Sage Elder had stripped Fei Heng down to his boxers in order to make them stop fighting.
Even when he arrived here, he had felt Fei Heng’s aura breaking through to the Body Integration realm!
But now Perfected Qinghe was telling him that the Li family killed Fei Heng?
He looked over at the cloud in the distance.
The Li family’s black mist figure stood at the very front, gripping two long spears and looking left and right.
That fellow Li Yaozu held an incredibly ordinary long sword, his eyes following Nun Dairou’s movements, looking exactly as if he was preparing for a sneak attack.
That fellow Li Yunbing looked totally unbothered, pondering unknown thoughts.
Li Kuanghua, looking like a little yellow bean, was wielding a heavy iron staff, seemingly trying to get used to it.
Li Changyao was staring distressedly at the four arrows in her quiver, counting on her fingers.
The youngest, Li Xinnian, seemed to sense his gaze and showed him a gentle smile.
“Monsters. What kind of bloodline does this clan actually have?”
Wenren Jiuyue sighed in admiration, already sensing that the age and innate aptitude of the Li Clan members were extraordinary.
Although these people looked… like they had absolutely no intent to fight, Wenren Jiuyue could also feel that they had already become a massive power within the dynasty.
But to say they killed a Body Integration expert?
Wenren Jiuyue didn’t believe it for a second.
The descendants of their Wenren Clan were not inferior in the slightest, yet when the children of the Wenren Clan faced a Dao-Glimpsing realm expert, the most they could do was repel them, and even then, they would suffer casualties.
Trying to kill a Body Integration expert was a mere fantasy.
Unless…
Looking again at Perfected Qinghe’s darkened face, he raised an eyebrow and smiled. “So that’s how it is. I understand.”
“What do you understand?” Perfected Qinghe deployed a technique. Seeing Wenren Jiuyue’s teasing expression, the corners of his mouth twitched.
Wenren Jiuyue felt clear in his heart and nodded slightly.
“I understand. Perfected Qinghe is an elder of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, fiercely loyal and devoted. How could he possibly lay a lethal hand on the Crown Prince?
It was definitely Nun Dairou who killed the Crown Prince, or otherwise, it must have been the Nirvana Sage Elder. On this point, this humble one can testify for Perfected Qinghe.”
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