Chapter 1106: Chapter 1100: We Are Different
“Eldest Brother.” Li Jianning stood up, wiping the sweat from his body, and walked toward Li Jianshu.
Li Jianshu and Li Jianning chatted casually about their recent circumstances.
Subsequently, Li Jianshu informed him of the matters in the Northern Frontier and smiled,
“This time, the elders in the Western Frontier have matters to attend to.
Min Tiange has laid out the grand scheme of the blood moon, and the elders have to fight almighty experts.
We juniors will handle the matters in the Northern Frontier; it wouldn’t be good to distract the elders.”
“That’s fine. Let’s go find Father and Grandfather. It’s not like we haven’t dealt with hidden immortal clans before.
The Qiu Clan in the Northern Frontier is not even as good as the Zhao Clan.”
Li Jianning grinned.
He didn’t understand the convoluted schemes behind those clans. Now that he had strength, wherever the elders and his Eldest Brother told him to strike, he wasn’t afraid to give it a try.
He smiled, “It’s nothing more than us standing on the front lines this time. How could we let the elders lose face?”
“Hahaha, good!”
Immediately after, the two brothers informed Ancestor Lan and prepared to leave the Eternal Immortal Sect.
Just as they were walking on the path of the Eternal Immortal Sect, they saw a figure.
This person was handsome, but his return was sorry and disheveled.
He had bloodstains on his body and a pale face.
It was none other than Li Chuyuan.
This rebellious Li Clan genius saw his two elders, a flash of joy passing through his eyes, and hastily bowed.
“Chuyuan greets Grandfather and Great-Uncle.”
The Azure Cloud Li Clan had displayed immense might in the Western Frontier, an event that spread throughout the world in a short time. How could Li Chuyuan not know?
It was just that he still found it unbelievable.
The family had existed in the world for over eight hundred years, and at one point had been slandered by the world, saying that the Azure Cloud Li Clan’s destiny had come to an end, with two Void Refinement experts losing their lives at the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems.
This had scammed Li Chuyuan miserably.
Not only were the two Void Refinement Ancestors perfectly fine, but Sword Venerable Li Yaozu had also unleashed a breathtaking sword strike in the Western Frontier.
In a short period, over a dozen Void Refinement cultivators from the Li Clan had popped out in the Western Frontier.
There were even rumors that the Azure Cloud Li Clan was fundamentally a hidden immortal clan that had been developing in secret for tens of thousands of years.
“Why are you so heavily injured?” Li Jianning asked casually.
“The Wu tribe appeared in Westfall Prefecture. Your child followed the immortal sect disciples to kill the enemy. Please rest assured, Grandfather, your child is fine.”
Li Chuyuan’s face was full of smiles.
“Grandfather, you rarely leave the forbidden grounds. Now…”
“A clan member in the Northern Frontier was injured, so we have to make a trip,” Li Jianning smiled.
After a few more words, he and Li Jianshu continued forward.
Upon arriving at the gate of the Eternal Immortal Sect, Li Jianning halted his steps.
Seeing his younger brother’s demeanor, Li Jianshu frowned and waited alongside him for a moment.
He saw Li Jianning occasionally glancing back toward the inner sect.
After waiting for half an hour, Li Jianning finally sighed. “Eldest Brother, let’s go.”
“Mhm.”
Li Jianshu shrugged and rode the clouds and mist with his younger brother.
Seeing Li Jianning look back yet again, he comforted him, “Jianning, let it go. We have many other clan members in our family.”
“But Eldest Brother, I only have this one grandson.”
Li Jianshu narrowed his eyes.
Back then, Li Chuyuan looked down on the family and alienated himself from it, which could be called unfilial.
In recent years, as the family rose to prominence in the Western Frontier and that kid ended up being nothing but ordinary in the Eternal Immortal Sect, he had started trying to curry favor with the family again.
For this kind of person, the only reason Li Jianshu hadn’t struck him dead with a bolt of lightning was out of respect for his younger brother.
Unfortunately, Jianning could never let it go.
Even just now, he had still given Li Chuyuan a chance.
With a clan member in the Northern Frontier having an accident, if Li Chuyuan had followed along to avenge his clansman, the family elders would probably have looked upon him more favorably.
It was just a pity… At the very least, Li Jianshu despised this kind of child from the bottom of his heart.
Li Jianshu suddenly smiled.
“You’re only at the Golden Core realm right now, so your bloodline isn’t that overwhelmingly strong yet.
The family has secret fertility arts. If you want bloodline heirs, I, as your older brother, will find you eighty to a hundred sisters-in-law.”
“Eldest Brother, let’s drop it,” Li Jianning replied, but then suddenly looked stunned.
Li Jianshu said seriously, “I said I’d find sisters-in-law for myself, not wives for you. I’ll just adopt the children out to you.
If that really doesn’t work, we’ll have Father find eighty to a hundred stepmothers for us, two brothers. Once they give birth to grandsons, they can also be adopted to you.”
“You’re shameless!”
In a flash, Li Jianshu fled at the speed of lightning.
Li Jianning gritted his teeth and chased after his older brother, seeming to return to their childhood days playing and wrestling in Immortal City.
Inside the Eternal Immortal Sect.
Li Chuyuan had long since sat cross-legged in his courtyard. Having healed his injuries for half an hour, he abruptly opened his eyes again, his anger unceasing.
“Why are they still unwilling to invite me back to the family? For me, Li Chuyuan, to be at the Nascent Soul realm at such an age is rare in this world.
This time, I killed a hundred Wu tribesmen and beheaded a Wu tribe priest.”
“Where else does the family have an outstanding talent like me? Grandfather and Great-Uncle only have their current abilities because the family’s foundation granted them benefits.
If those resources were bestowed upon me, I might already be at the Half-Step Divinity Transformation realm by now.”
“One day, you will all know that I am the true Heaven’s Pride of the Azure Cloud Li Clan!”
Taking a deep breath, pacing footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door.
He saw the Duanmu Clan elder—who had previously brought Li Jianshu into the immortal sect—push open the door to his room.
The elder glanced at Li Chuyuan, whose face was still full of lingering anger, and a seed radiating golden light appeared in his hand.
Li Chuyuan stared fixedly at the seed, his expression struggling.
He heard the Duanmu Clan elder say, “Li Chuyuan, the Azure Cloud Li Clan has eyes but fails to see; they did not recognize your aptitude.
The Eternal Immortal Sect is purely profit-driven, alienating you to curry favor with Li Jianshu. They are all ignorant fools, but we are different.”
“Swallow this Dao Seed, and I will lead you on a meteoric rise. You will be just like us, standing above the clouds and looking down upon the people of the world.”
After a long time.
Li Chuyuan scrutinized the Duanmu Clan elder and let out a sneer.
“Elder, do you take me for a foolish disciple? I want to see the person behind you. Otherwise, I will go find Ancestor Lan right now.”
“You…” The elder was instantly enraged, unleashing his Divinity Transformation pressure.
Under the pressure, Li Chuyuan felt as if he had sunk into a quagmire.
His face, originally pale from his injuries, lost all traces of blood. Yet, he merely stared coldly at the elder, devoid of fear.
“Do you dare to kill me? Although I am not valued, the Li Clan will not let the matter rest. Tell me, if they could investigate so many things in Shadowfell Prefecture, could they not uncover your identity?”
“You have two choices now: one is to take a gamble, and the other is to do as I say.”
The Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven, a sacred ground for cultivation.
Having reached his current realm, Li Wei no longer frequently used the supreme-grade Dharma Treasure, the ‘Myriad Dao Pagoda’.
This item, along with the ‘Secret Stele’ that recorded cultivation methods and transmitted the Dao, had simply been placed in the Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Aside from this, the massive amount of treasures the family had harvested in the Western Frontier had also been sent to the Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Beneath the ground here lay two Tier-4 spiritual veins.
For the descendants cultivating here, progress could truly be described as advancing a thousand miles in a single day.
The Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven had also been built into the Li Clan’s premier cultivator training base, inferior to not a single sect in the Azure Cloud Prefecture.
Presiding over this place were the two cultivators of the Azure Cloud Li Clan who had the fewest desires and worldly demands: the father and son duo, Li Yuanwu and Li Zhiheng.
Inside the Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven, members of the Li Clan, as well as geniuses from various sects and clans of the Azure Cloud Prefecture who had come to leech off the spiritual energy, were sitting cross-legged.
In the cloudy sky formed by Spiritual power, a man wearing a Daoist robe was floating with his eyes closed.
It was none other than Li Zhiheng.
The Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven appeared tranquil.
Yet everyone’s divine soul had already been drawn into a space—Li Zhiheng’s Void Refinement space.
Within the four walls of the Void Refinement space, there were wonders formed by various Daoist techniques.
Numerous clones of Li Zhiheng were among these wonders, deducing Daoist techniques.
However, in such an excellent place of cultivation, for some unknown reason, one could always hear a “thump, thump” heartbeat sound.
“Truly worthy of a Tier-2 spiritual item.”
Li Wei had already appeared beside Li Zhiheng.
The children in the Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven couldn’t see it, but Li Wei could faintly discern that as Li Zhiheng cultivated, the entire Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven had already been enveloped by the phantom of a massive, ferocious heart.
It couldn’t help but remind one of the terrifying and bizarre scene when the Eternal Zhao Clan Ancestor appeared back then.
The Tier-2 spiritual item, the ‘Heavenly Dao Divine Heart’, had been inherited by Li Zhiheng.
This thing had followed the Zhao Clan Ancestor all the way to Half-Step Mahayana and had essentially recorded all of the Zhao Clan Ancestor’s Daoist techniques.
Li Zhiheng was merely walking a path that the Zhao Clan Ancestor had already walked once before.
[Your descendant Li Zhiheng, over the years, has used the trait ‘Pure Heart’ to fight against the greed within the Tier-2 spiritual item ‘Heavenly Dao Divine Heart’.
Remembering the instructions of the family elders, he has never dared to forget them, only absorbing luck from the few Wu tribe cultivators who invaded the Azure Cloud Prefecture, forcing the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart to summon spiritual energy.]
[Constantly observing and comprehending the rules of heaven and earth, relying on his own comprehension, he has cultivated over sixty cultivation methods from the ‘Secret Stele’.]
[Swallowing various spiritual medicines refined by Li Yaoqing that elevate cultivation, he naturally broke through to the peak of the Divinity Transformation realm.
Using the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart to draw upon Spiritual power and the power of laws, he forged his Void Refinement space and broke through to the initial stage of the Void Refinement realm!]
[Acquired Void Refinement Space: Sacred Heart Domain.
A supreme-grade Void Refinement space containing multiple laws, available for cultivators to observe and comprehend, while simultaneously capable of using laws to slay enemies.
Within the Void Refinement space, one is undisturbed by divine soul or illusion attacks, and through the Sacred Heart Domain, can induce greedy desires in cultivators.]
[Acquired Void Refinement Technique: Heart Punishment.
Under this technique, cultivators whose greedy desires reach their absolute limit will be controlled by the technique, resulting in a shattered heart and annihilated soul.]
“A true genius.”
Li Wei nodded gratifyingly.
Li Zhiheng’s cultivation speed was fast to the absolute extreme, and across the entire world, there were probably few who were as fast as him.
To break through to Void Refinement, people of the world invariably had to make numerous preparations.
In the Western Frontier, Li Wei had even seen people slaughter tens of thousands of cultivators just for the sake of a breakthrough.
Yet Li Zhiheng had broken through so easily, without the slightest bottleneck.
In addition to that, his Void Refinement space was also out of the ordinary.
“Heart Punishment?”
Li Wei murmured.
He had seen Li Zhiheng use this technique once against a Divinity Transformation cultivator of the Grand Tower in the Thunder Fire Demon Cave.
That person, unwilling to stay in the Thunder Fire Demon Cave, had incited Void Refinement cultivators to act as retainers for the Li Clan, intending to seize control from within.
In order not to provoke disgust from the other Grand Tower cultivators, Li Zhiheng, with Holy Monk Yidian’s permission, only made a single trip to the Thunder Fire Demon Cave.
The technique linked with the other party’s luck, and from far away within the Martial Immortal Grotto-Heaven, he manipulated the other party’s desires, causing the other party’s Dao heart to shatter and ultimately die from cultivation deviation.
However, looking toward Li Yuanwu…
Li Wei frowned slightly.
He saw a skin-and-bones old man with one foot in the grave, exhaustingly practicing martial arts. After a single set of fist techniques, he was already panting heavily.
[Your descendant Li Yuanwu, Foundation Establishment realm.
Lifespan nearing its end.
Refuses to eat the family’s life-extending medicinal pills.]
[Martial artists bear the exuberance of life, and must also endure the bitterness of decline.
Studying living beings, battling against heaven and earth, breaking the limits of the human body, and seeing through life and death is the true foundation.]
Stubborn as a mule.
Li Wei shrugged.
The Ancestor’s Spirit Tablet at the waist of Li Zhiheng, who was cultivating cross-legged, lit up.
Li Zhiheng opened his eyes, a flash of astonishment passing through them.
“Ancestor, you are saying that if Yuanwu remains stubborn, we should tie him up and force the medicinal pills down his throat?”
“Wouldn’t that be inappropriate?”
Hearing this, Li Wei glared.
At a time like this, what does “inappropriate” even mean anymore?
Only to hear Li Zhiheng say, “His current body is old. Why not just let him possess someone else’s body?”
“…”
Li Wei stared closely at Li Zhiheng and rummaged through the historical logs for a long time before finally confirming that Li Zhiheng simply felt that possession was the easiest method, and wasn’t being controlled by the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart.
“My good child, please don’t turn out like Yunbing!”
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