Read Novel Full Chapter 1161: Chapter 1155: Year 853
Chapter 1161: Chapter 1155: Year 853
Within the Myriad Dao Pagoda, a mysterious energy was gradually born from its ancient materials.
Li Wei could distinctly feel the contrast between the environment inside and outside the pagoda.
Everything outside seemed to move more slowly than inside; Li Yuanshang and the clansmen all appeared to move like sloths, while his own speed remained normal.
Combined with the pagoda’s maximum limit—the nine-times time rule—a flash of enlightenment passed through Li Wei’s eyes.
“Time… speed, nine times the speed…”
He vaguely felt that he had captured the existence of the rule of time, representing another application beyond his technique, ‘A Single Thought’.
Just for this alone, Li Wei felt this trip was entirely worth it!
Soon after, he slowly closed his eyes, and his divine sense began to capture the most supreme rule in this world.
…
A year quickly passed.
[Year 853]
[As the war in the Western Frontier yielded victories, the entire nation celebrated.
Empress Wenren Xianyi inspected the various prefectures of the Imperial Dynasty.
The common people, immortal clans, and sects all lined the streets to welcome her.
Wenren Xianyi issued decrees benefiting the nation and the people, and the voices supporting her within the Imperial Dynasty grew louder.]
Inside the Heavenly Palace of the Imperial Capital.
Wenren Xianyi returned from her inspection and arrived at a resplendent place deep within the Heavenly Palace, securing an audience with the Human Emperor.
The Human Emperor was truly old, dressed in plain clothes, looking like a mummified corpse.
He appeared devoid of even half a fraction of majesty.
Wenren Xianyi looked at the Human Emperor with a complex expression.
Back when she was still a concubine, she had witnessed His Majesty’s authority with her own eyes.
When he sat in the royal court, no one dared to utter a single word.
As she gradually gained favor through the Wenren Immortal Clan, she had accompanied His Majesty on inspections just like now; even the Dragon Emperor of the sea domains had to obey his commands and dispatch divine dragons to bestow rain.
The people of the world all admire the strong, and she was no exception. But that kind of Human Emperor had now been reduced to this dying state.
“Your Majesty, your concubine has returned from inspection. The chaos caused by Crown Prince Sheng and Fei Heng has already been salvaged by your concubine.”
Wenren Xianyi’s tone was gentle.
Yet seeing the Human Emperor remain silent, not even raising his old eyes, her peerlessly beautiful face forced a difficult smile.
“Your Majesty, even those at the Body Integration realm possess lifespans of over a hundred thousand years. Why have you become like this? Open your eyes and look at your concubine.”
“Your concubine is cleaning up the mess of your Zishu family, your mess!”
Her words grew increasingly intense.
“Why won’t you open your eyes and look at me? Back then, in the prime of my youth, I came to your side.
You were the Human Emperor, the Human Emperor of the entire world, the number one person in the mortal realm.
The weak submit to the strong, and I accepted my fate, but what about you?!?”
“I now realize that you are nothing at all. You are just a dying man.”
“You couldn’t control the Wu Tribe, even though you clearly could have expanded a vaster territory for our Imperial Dynasty.
You can’t control the likes of Min Youguo and Lin Jiu; every single one of them harbors selfish motives.
You especially can’t control the Emperor Realm and Mahayana cultivators. You made them hide from the world, but how could you not foresee today?”
“Now, I will take control!”
After Wenren Xianyi’s angry rebuke, her twisted features gradually grew serene, ultimately becoming gentle and warm.
She said softly, “I will help you finish what you haven’t finished. The Wu Tribe broke into our Imperial Dynasty and awakened the people of the world; I will exterminate the twelve totems of the Wu Tribe.”
“Min Youguo and Lin Jiu confront each other. They are both enemies and friends, mutually suppressing one another.
You said their hearts lie with the Human Race and not with you; I will believe you this once.
Under my layout, they will go fight the Demon Race. They only have this one path to walk, so they won’t fight each other to the death.”
“Just remember one thing.”
Wenren Xianyi headed toward the door, her shadow falling directly in front of the Human Emperor.
Her voice was faint, “I dedicated tens of thousands of years of my time to you. Now that I am pacifying the world for you, this world is mine.”
Outside the room, four figures emerged from the shadows. Their auras were powerful, and they departed along with Wenren Xianyi.
The room door closed.
Yet unbeknownst to her, a single strand of hair fell silently into the room.
The withered old figure opened his cloudy eyes and let out a long, drawn-out sigh.
His aura transcended past and present as he silently took out a medicinal pill.
“Human Emperor Pain-Relieving pill. What kind of messy nonsense name did the little girl of the Li Clan give this? Truly disrespectful.”
He then swallowed the pill and finally struggled to crawl upon the ground.
Picking up Wenren Xianyi’s strand of hair, he lay on his side on the floor.
A flash from the spatial ring on his hand produced a bamboo cylinder holding numerous divination tokens.
He struggled to shake the cylinder. As those tokens shook violently, a fine silk thread appeared on Wenren Xianyi’s hair.
The Human Emperor’s old eyes looked outside the room, unexpectedly seeing a giant, intricately complex net formed by thousands upon thousands of fine silk threads.
Until a token fell to the ground, revealing the character on it.
Ominous.
“Heaven-damned karma, will these ominous omens never end?”
The Human Emperor murmured to himself, lying flat and gazing up toward the ceiling.
Up there was also a massive net, completely made of tokens.
Ominous, Ominous, Ominous!
“Quick, quick, quick! Calculate it for me!”
“This is my Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s divination method. It’s bad enough that you’re watching, but you’re actually disturbing this old man’s calculation.
If you keep making noise, this old man will leave right now.”
“Isn’t it just fortune-telling? No need to act so mysterious. Fine, you’re the expert. I’ll shut up, alright?”
The Deston Prefecture in the Western Frontier.
An altar had been grandly established.
The Heavenly Secrets Divine Number Array exuded a mysterious aura, the ground covered entirely in square blocks resembling a Bagua diagram, yet far more complex.
As the array activated, the Dharmic Avatars of Heavenly Secrets Pavilion disciples floated in the air from all directions, and a compass appeared in the cloudy sky, engraved with mysterious characters.
Standing just outside the array, Li Tianqi puffed his cheeks in irritation.
Far beyond the grand array, thunderclouds surged and rolled. The continuous rumbling carried a reddish glow, casting crimson leaves down from the heavy sky.
This divination was for the Old Tree.
“What’s the big deal?”
Li Tianqi muttered, still brooding over the scolding from Perfected Qinghe.
“What’s wrong with asking? You took our grade-four spiritual item; it’s not like I didn’t pay.”
Despite his grumbling, Li Tianqi sensed the Old Tree’s aura in the distance, his eyes laced with lingering anxiety.
He knew the old snake back home had taken over half a year to break through.
The Old Tree was an even heavier heavyweight—three years had passed, and it was only now reaching the critical juncture between life and death.
For years, the Li family had continuously funneled nourishing spiritual items to the Old Tree.
But for a divine tree to break through its bloodline constraints was an act of defying the heavens and changing fate. External help could only do so much.
Having exhausted all their own options, they had entrusted their hopes to this senior from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to divine the good or ill fortune of the tribulation.
If they could at least understand the karma involved, they might find a way to intervene.
Finally, the glowing hexagram vanished. Li Tianqi’s expression tightened.
Perfected Qinghe walked over, his eyes lowered, seemingly unwilling to look Li Tianqi in the face.
Li Tianqi’s heart skipped a beat. Forgetting his previous annoyance, he rushed forward. “Perfected Qinghe, how is it?”
Qinghe’s face was pale. He looked as though he wanted to speak but couldn’t bring himself to do so.
Li Tianqi felt as if he had been struck in the chest. He nearly dropped to his knees in despair, but suddenly, Perfected Qinghe reached out and hoisted him up.
“Great fortune!” the old man declared brightly.
“…”
Li Tianqi exhaled a massive breath, relieved for the Old Tree, but a furious fire instantly blocked his throat. He clenched his fists.
Over a dozen disciples walked out from behind Qinghe.
Seeing the thoroughly amused expression on the old man’s face, Li Tianqi was utterly baffled. How could a respected senior be this despicable?
Leaving behind a ruthless remark that only made Qinghe smile wider, he snapped, “I’m younger than you; you’d best find a hidden place to bury yourself when your time comes!”
Ignoring the old man’s trolling, Li Tianqi gnashed his teeth and stormed off toward the Old Tree.
As he walked away, the roar of laughter from the dozen disciples behind him drifted over.
His face darkened further. Motherfucker, these animals sure are having fun.
But he couldn’t afford to care about them now. The Old Tree was breaking through!
Void Refining realm Blood Trees were exceedingly rare.
In the Void Refining realm, demons were revered, and sentient plants that reached this stage were the undisputed kings among them.
Their strategic value was on par with a Body Integration expert.
A single one could anchor a clan for millions of years, continuously nurturing peerless geniuses.
Back then, the giant tree brought into the territory by the Nirvana Sage Elder had been powerful enough to annihilate an entire prefecture—and that was merely the Sage’s companion, the Divine Bird Totem Tree.
The Old Tree had devoured its spirit, yet still required a Body Integration-level opportunity to cross this threshold.
Now, the Li family faced external threats on all sides: the Imperial Dynasty’s covetousness, Min Tiange’s unresolved schemes, and the Wu Tribe’s invasion.
The Old Tree’s breakthrough was a beacon of hope in the dark… Why was he getting distracted by those despicable fortune-tellers?
The Old Tree’s breakthrough was a beacon of hope in the dark… Why was he getting distracted by those despicable fortune-tellers?
Rallying his clansmen, Li Tianqi hurried toward the Old Tree.
This wait dragged on for another half a year.
Gradually, the thunder subsided, though residual arcs of lightning continued to crackle through the air.
The Old Tree, hundreds of meters tall, had its fiery red canopy illuminated by the lightning, turning it a vibrant, pulsing crimson.
Then, the colossal shadow of the tree vanished.
Beneath the dim thunderclouds, a familiar red-haired old man floated in the sky.
A gentle, crimson rain began to fall.
The Old Tree reached out, catching the red rain in his palm.
His ancient eyes seemed capable of piercing through eternity, gazing past the future before finally resting upon Li Tianqi, who stood below to welcome him.
He saw the present.
“I saw it.”
Oh, he saw it again. Li Tianqi stood motionless in the rain.
The Old Tree acted like this every time he broke through.
He waited quietly, just as he had when the Old Tree had guided him in his childhood.
“I saw that Crown Prince Fei Heng will definitely die.”
“…”
Li Tianqi’s mouth twitched. During the Old Tree’s grueling breakthrough, he had already missed the chance to fight Fei Heng and the Nirvana Sage Elder.
Pointing out the obvious now… well, at least the old guy’s abilities were working.
Just as Li Tianqi was dismissing it, his eyes suddenly widened.
“I also saw…” the Old Tree murmured, “…your Dao.”
The old man extended his hand.
Blood-red threads gathered in his palm, weaving together to form a glowing illusion.
It was a Dao Gate, heavily engraved with profound arrays—yet it was firmly shut, entirely unopenable.
“Your Dao is a dead end.”
“My Dao… a dead end?!!” Li Tianqi’s eyes bulged.
He was only at the mid-stage of the Void Refining realm, and his cultivation had been largely piled up using pills.
Yet, hearing this pronouncement, he wasn’t the least bit discouraged. Looking at the Old Tree descending like a god in the crimson rain, Li Tianqi realized the true implication.
He can… see Dao paths!
“Old Tree???”
Suddenly, the “god’s” face turned deathly pale, and he plummeted from the sky.
Li Tianqi scrambled to catch the family’s ancient treasure. Sensing that the Old Tree had simply exhausted himself from the exertion, Li Tianqi rolled his eyes.
“You just broke through! What are you showing off for?”
Meanwhile, hidden inside the family’s Myriad Dao Pagoda, Li Wei was ecstatic.
Were it not for the fact that he was busy capturing a wisp of time rule, he would have descended immediately to kiss the Old Tree himself.
[Congratulations, your family’s Divine Tree has broken through!]
[Evolved into — Ancient Tree of Delusion Breaking!]
[Acquired Talent: Divine Fruit of Delusion Breaking]
[Produces one Divine Fruit of Delusion Breaking every hundred years. Consuming it allows the user to enter a profound Dao state for a short time. sitting in enlightenment within it increases comprehension by 500%.]
…
[Acquired Talent: Eye of Delusion Breaking!]
[Possesses the initial effects of the ‘Omen’ and ‘Heaven-Shielding’ talents.
It can pierce through all delusions. Techniques below the Body Integration realm cannot shield against its gaze.
Boosts the effectiveness of karmic methods by 50%, and can peer directly into the underlying structure of techniques and the cores of array formations.]
[Can pierce through delusions to gaze directly at a Dao Gate and determine whether a path has already been occupied.]
[At the cost of massive blood qi and living vitality, it can perform a major karmic deduction once every 3 years.]
“…”
Scanning the massive wall of text that continued to scroll downward, Li Wei finally realized his jaw was hanging open.
He absentmindedly reached up to manually close his nearly dislocated mouth.
“Damn,” he muttered. “After all these years, my old Li family has finally struck it rich.”
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