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Chapter 1179: Chapter 1173: Bait
The Wu Tribe’s Divine Bird Tribe.
Following years of great wars, what was supposed to be a grand invasion of the Imperial Dynasty had turned into a defensive war.
Because of this, the interior of the Wu Tribe was left hollowed out, with very few experts remaining.
The place where the Divine Bird Tribe’s Nirvana Sage Elder once cultivated was known as Flaming Mountain.
The Great Dao of Heavenly Fire left the entire Flaming Mountain lingering with the most scorching flames in the world, making it the favorite cultivation spot for the Wu Tribe’s Fire Dao cultivators and Fire-attribute demonic beasts.
At this moment, these Fire Dao cultivators and demonic beasts were all glaring furiously at a group of people at the peak of the mountain.
Array formations were laid out across Flaming Mountain, and translucent boxes were using the grand array to siphon the rule power of the entire mountain.
This had been happening for several months.
The Flaming Mountain of the past used to be much hotter than it was now.
If not for the group of people setting up an altar up there today, even the Wu tribesmen and demonic beasts within Flaming Mountain wouldn’t have been able to figure out the cause.
“The wool still has to come from the sheep’s back.”
Li Tianqi looked at the array formation in Flaming Mountain with gratification.
“With over a hundred Heavenly Fire rules, if this still can’t blast open the Dao Gate, then we’ll be in trouble.”
Li Yaozu sensed the prying auras coming from all directions.
He took a deep breath.
“Quickly make the sacrifice, and then… we fight our way out.”
“Yes!”
…
Near the land, in a relatively shallow sea area, the seawater had evaporated, creating a massive void on the ocean’s surface.
Seawater from all directions was rushing back in at an extremely fast speed.
On the dried seabed, the Nirvana Sage Elder lay in despair.
The powerful experts of the Li Clan stood all around him, looking down at him with gloomy expressions.
He stared at Huan Gui—who had half his body burned and was using Spiritual power to restore his scorched skin—and laughed uproariously,
“To think I would fall into the hands of you ants, hahaha!”
A single slip causes everlasting sorrow.
Back in Shadowfell Prefecture, even he hadn’t expected the Li Clan to be prepared in advance.
He originally wanted to snatch away Fei Heng’s corpse, but unexpectedly fell into the Li Clan’s trap.
With everyone’s Spiritual power coming at him, managing to escape was already not easy.
But he was unwilling to accept this.
This bunch of trash had chased him for a solid number of years, practically running across the entire world.
If he were still at his peak… no, as long as he had even ten percent of his Spiritual power left, these ants wouldn’t be his match at all!
“What are you laughing at?” Li Dalong frowned.
He didn’t see the slightest hint of fear on the Nirvana Sage Elder.
“Do you really think the Great Dao of Heavenly Fire can be controlled by just anyone?
My name is Nirvana.
Under the Heavenly Fire, I am like my Totem Divine Bird, capable of nirvanic rebirth.
This is a wisp of Dao rhythm lent to me by my Master. You want my Great Dao of Heavenly Fire? Good, very good.”
The Nirvana Sage Elder sneered hideously, his smile carrying boundless hatred.
“I’ll give it to you. But I will return, bringing an even stronger Dao!”
Huan Gui snorted coldly, truly disliking this sort of madness in a desperate situation. Death qi corroded the elder’s final bit of soul.
The Nirvana Sage Elder was seen being burned by a profound flame.
A wisp of fire, which everyone wanted to stop but had no way to intercept, suddenly vanished into the horizon.
Li Dalong tried to use Corpse-Driving Arts to retain the corpse being burned by the flames, but found himself completely unable to do so.
The crowd was momentarily stunned.
“Can he truly achieve nirvanic rebirth?” Li Dalong’s face was gloomy.
No one wanted to be secretly hated by an enemy.
“I don’t know either, but that cluster of flames is a Mahayana method.”
Huan Gui took a deep breath and smiled.
“Even if he is reborn, relying on his experience from this life, achieving his current strength and occupying a new Great Dao will take an unknown number of years and months.”
…
“Boom!”
Above the cloudy sky of the rainy night, a rich and vast pillar of fire suddenly crashed down and then shot straight up into the heavens.
Even Uncle Rain’s rain was evaporated into mist under the Heavenly Fire.
The rainy night in Azure Cloud Prefecture, apart from the continuous thunder in the sky, finally had a different kind of bright light.
“What is that?”
“Dao rhythm… In Azure Cloud Prefecture, someone is using Heavenly Fire to break open their Dao Gate!”
“Who is it?!!”
In Westfall Prefecture, everyone looked toward the firelight under the gloomy clouds.
Duanmu Qi, who was anxiously heading toward Clearpeak Prefecture, stood dumbfounded in place.
“The Great Dao of Heavenly Fire… this is the karmic opportunity of the Nirvana Sage Elder in the Western Frontier.
Rumor has it the Nirvana Sage Elder disappeared after the battle in the Western Frontier… Could it be… Impossible, absolutely impossible.”
Inside the Eternal Immortal Sect.
Ancestor Lan, who was continuously making deductions because he was being targeted, was also slightly startled by this pillar of fire shooting into the sky.
“How did the Great Dao of Heavenly Fire become vacant? It’s Li Yaotie of the Li Clan.
No wonder… no wonder the Myriad Dao Divine Bell Pagoda has always been there.
The Li Clan actually occupied this Dao path faster than me; the person already has one foot inside the Dao Gate.”
Ancestor Lan stared with an ugly expression at one of the Dao Gates.
He saw a bare-chested, bald, burly man, behind whom floated translucent cubes containing Heavenly Fire rules.
At this moment, this person was biting and shattering one cube with a single mouthful, amplifying his Spiritual power.
Relying on the Spiritual power infused in his body, he pushed against the Dao Gate with his arm and forcefully shoved one leg through the crack he had pushed open.
It looked as though he was using every ounce of strength he had, gritting his teeth in exertion.
His leg stepped onto the Dao path, deeply afraid that someone else would step on it before him. And truth be told, he was faster than anyone else.
“…”
Ancestor Lan was speechless for a moment.
In his entire life, this was the first time he had seen someone ascend to the hall of the Great Dao in such an ungraceful posture.
He then let out a long breath.
“Breaking through on the spot… were they prepared in advance to deal with Uncle Rain?”
“No… that’s not it.”
Ancestor Lan’s expression suddenly changed.
He could no longer be bothered to deduce his own future situation, exclaiming in a low voice,
“The Great Dao of Heavenly Fire is fundamentally no match for Uncle Rain.
Back then, the reason the Nirvana Sage Elder obtained the Great Dao of Heavenly Fire was precisely because Uncle Rain killed the Fire Dao’s mighty merit figure.
The Li Clan should know this.”
“Li Yaotie’s breakthrough isn’t meant to deal with Uncle Rain, but rather… as bait.”
He peered through the void.
He looked at the black-mist figure standing calmly before the pillar of fire—this black-mist figure whom even he could not see through.
This person possessed the aura of Half-Step Body Integration.
“Heavenly Fire, the Great Dao of Heavenly Fire.”
Uncle Rain looked with a strange expression at the pillar of fire shooting straight into the cloudy sky, and then at the calm black-mist figure.
Even though he had lived for a long time and experienced many things, at this very moment, he couldn’t help but clutch his stomach.
Following that came roaring laughter, provoked by the arrogant words the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor had just spoken.
Uncle Rain’s laughter echoed across the cloudy sky alongside the thunder.
“What are you laughing at?” Li Wei reached out his hand.
In the distance, Li Kuanghua pressed various runes onto Nun Dairou’s body.
Even she could not control Nun Dairou for too long—a cup of tea’s time at most.
At this moment, the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock controlling Nun Dairou had vanished.
As Li Wei reached out his hand, the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock swam through the cloudy sky like a roaming dragon.
Making a clanking sound amidst the thunderclouds, it finally flew toward Li Wei, winding its way up his wrist like a docile snake.
Facing Uncle Rain, Li Wei showed not the slightest hint of fear.
The Yin-Yang Fish diagram appeared beneath his feet.
Now, this diagram was increasingly extraordinary, exuding a profound Half-Step Body Integration aura.
Even within the Half-Step Body Integration realm, there were differences in strength.
Back then, Li Wei’s Buddha Avatar only granted him the Spiritual power of the Half-Step Body Integration realm; what made him truly powerful was his high-tier spatial rules.
Mirrors brimming with spatial rules floated behind Li Wei, but the Yin-Yang Fish diagram blended the power of various rules.
As the black and white swirled, it divided these rule powers into two types of Spiritual power: extreme Yin and extreme Yang.
Such Spiritual power even transcended space itself.
“Dong! Dong! Dong!”
His sufficiently majestic Spiritual power was enough to allow the chimes of the Myriad Dao Divine Bell Pagoda—which Li Wei previously couldn’t ring for long—to echo endlessly throughout heaven and earth.
With two long spears falling into his hands and black mist billowing, Li Wei appeared fearlessly before the belly-laughing Uncle Rain.
“Half-Step Body Integration… hahaha!”
Uncle Rain laughed heartily, gradually straightening his back.
He had never seen anything so ridiculous in his life.
Pointing at Li Yaotie, who was struggling to step into the Dao Gate atop the pillar of fire, tears of laughter glistened in the corners of Uncle Rain’s eyes.
“I was wondering why the two of you dared to block me. My worries were superfluous, entirely superfluous! You don’t have Holy Monk Yidian.”
“Your trump card was actually him—his Great Dao of Heavenly Fire.”
“You want to rely on his Great Dao of Heavenly Fire, combined with your Half-Step Body Integration spatial rules, to hold me off.
You plan to wait until the Void Refining realm cultivators of Azure Cloud Prefecture slay all the invaders, and then surround me—just like the trap you laid for the Nirvana Sage Elder in the Western Frontier.”
“You think I am him! You think I am that piece of trash!”
“Hahahaha!”
This laughter pierced straight into the heavens.
Uncle Rain also couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The invaders had fallen into the Li Clan’s trap, and with merely two Li Clan members daring to stand in his way, anyone would have feared falling into a trap—let alone someone like Uncle Rain, who had spent years on the run.
When the invaders were defeated, he had grown anxious.
He had wanted to trick the Li Clan into handing over the method to break the Dao Seed, and then he could either help the invaders deal with the Li Clan, quickly snatch the Li Clan’s treasures, or simply flee.
He had too many options to choose from.
But now…
It was as if he had been vigilantly guarding against a ferocious beast that might leap from the dark, only to discover it was a laughable little white mouse.
Uncle Rain finally laughed enough and stood up straight, yet he still couldn’t suppress the mockery and disdain on his face.
“Just you two? Don’t you know that the Nirvana Sage Elder was only fortunate enough to step onto the Great Dao of Heavenly Fire because the mighty figure of my Imperial Dynasty, who once governed the Great Dao of Fire Virtue, lost his life?”
“Coincidentally.”
Uncle Rain reached out his hand—a pale, fair hand!
Dao rhythm radiated outwards.
The Spiritual power of the Body Integration realm caused the torrential rain pouring over the entire Azure Cloud Prefecture to stall.
As if frozen in time, all the raindrops hung suspended in mid-air.
Amidst the heavy rain blanketing the entire Azure Cloud Prefecture, this mere black-mist figure and Li Yaotie—who was struggling to step through the Dao Gate atop the fire pillar—seemed like nothing more than ants.
This included everyone in the Azure Cloud Li Clan!
“The master of the Great Dao of Fire Virtue died by my hands!”
“I will make your Li Clan forever remember the rain of tonight!”
He clenched his fist!
Those suspended raindrops, like sharp swords carrying the Great Dao of Rain, shot toward Li Wei!
The black-mist figure flickered.
But Uncle Rain just sneered.
Whatever he desired would become his.
The Azure Cloud Prefecture was nothing special.
He would soon be free of the Dao Seed; he would obtain the divine arts, the divine arts of the Li Clan woman, and the divine heart of that Li Clan member.
Just like when he had previously gained his freedom, effortlessly obtaining everything!
And this time, with the Li Clan’s profound foundation, heaven and earth would be truly nourished beneath his rain.
At this moment.
Li Wei flickered amidst the incoming torrential rain, the mirror surfaces shattering piece by piece.
Uncle Rain was even more terrifying than Nun Dairou and the Nirvana Sage Elder; the Dao rhythm of the rain made him feel as if he were plunged into the deep sea!
With a ferocious expression, he glared at the sneering Uncle Rain, who was drawing closer and closer.
“It’s the heavens making it rain! If you are the heavens, I will personally pierce a hole through the sky!”
The North Star Spirit-Breaking Spear, infused with Yin-Yang Spiritual power, shot out explosively, piercing through the incoming rain and aiming straight for Uncle Rain’s head.
Tonight, he wanted to see.
Whether the god from the stories could truly be felled!
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