Read Novel Full Chapter 1215: Chapter 1209: Sword Dao
Chapter 1215: Chapter 1209: Sword Dao
Time flew by.
[The mighty factions of the Imperial Dynasty came to attend the banquet, attempting to use the ‘Dao Field’ of the Azure Cloud Li Clan’s Body Integration expert to aid their own disciples’ cultivation.
Upon arriving in Azure Cloud Prefecture, they witnessed the Heavenly Fire Dao Field, Sword Venerable Drizzle breaking through his Dao within the prefecture, and the burgeoning Dao rhythm of the Martial Emperor…
Furthermore, they saw the Li Clan hanging those who had once invaded Azure Cloud Prefecture one by one at the gates of Merit City, exposing them to the blazing sun.]
[Unwilling to provoke the Li Clan’s rampant arrogance, they left behind heavy gifts and departed.]
Recalling when these people entered Azure Cloud Prefecture and saw that the family’s foundation was absolutely not as shallow as rumors claimed—with every Li Clan disciple cultivating in seclusion, and over a dozen Void Refinement experts of the family drinking tea with them—their trembling, fearful appearances almost made Li Wei want to laugh.
Li Dalong and the others had returned from the Western Frontier; they were people who had fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, fully accustomed to the deceit and treachery of the Western Frontier and the Imperial Dynasty.
Seeing the people from the major hidden factions this time, they knew these individuals merely wanted to trick the Li Clan into nurturing their descendants for them.
Yet, for some unknown reason, Li Dalong and the others actually felt that these visitors were amiable, pleasant-looking, and unequivocally a group of good people.
Instead, it was these faction leaders who fled Azure Cloud Prefecture as if running for their lives.
Even with the Li Clan’s exceptional hospitality, they couldn’t stay at the banquet for a single minute longer, making excuses to return home. Just listen to what the Li Clan members talked about while drinking?
Killing people.
[Your family has gained immense fame. Following this banquet, they have been completely recognized by all factions as the ‘Guardians of the Southern Frontier’.]
[Prestige increased.]
…
Once the clan members returned, they focused on cultivation.
The massive amount of spiritual liquid turned the secluded cultivation chambers across the family’s major Grotto-Heavens into the most bustling places.
[Your descendant Li Yaozu consumed a massive amount of spiritual liquid.
Combined with the Dao rhythm Sword Venerable Drizzle had left behind from his failed breakthrough years ago, his Sword Dao achieved completion, and his cultivation reached the peak of the Void Refinement realm.]
The sword box returned to his back once more, and along with it, his sense of security.
Carrying the sword box on his back, Li Yaozu arrived beneath the Old Tree.
[Through the Delusion-Breaking Eye, your descendant Li Yaozu caught a glimpse of his Dao path, but found no gate to his Dao path.]
“Swordsmen of the world have the hardest time completing their Dao,” a cold, clear voice drifted from within the sword box.
“Numerous weapons in the world are used by cultivators, and honoring the weapon itself naturally formed a Dao path.
However, there are far too many frontrunners, to the point where even heaven and earth Spirit Treasures have gained sentience, becoming natural Body Integration existences.”
“Therefore, for swordsmen of the world, being called a ‘Venerable’ is already the absolute limit.
Just like Sword Venerable Drizzle, who could only use the Great Dao of Rain to break through his realm. Ah Zu, you do not need to obsess over the single path of the Sword Dao.”
“Or bring some people along and kill everyone who uses a sword.”
Inside the sword box, Fang Linglong, sitting on a flying sword and swinging her long legs, remarked casually.
“I understand.”
Li Yaozu nodded slightly, then flew up into the cloudy sky.
Seeing Sword Venerable Drizzle sitting cross-legged, Li Yaozu furrowed his brows slightly.
Seeing Sword Venerable Drizzle again this time, the Sword Venerable’s breakthrough was different from when he was at the Sword Mountain.
He couldn’t help but say to the closed-eyed Sword Venerable,
“Senior, it has been many years. Congratulations on achieving your breakthrough.
It is just that your previous Dao was much more unbridled and fierce than this time, and its murderous intent was also much more majestic.”
“Ah, it’s you,” Sword Venerable Drizzle slightly turned his head, smiling at Li Yaozu.
“I am someone who believes in karma; you helped me, so I help you.
You were the ones who killed Uncle Rain, otherwise heaven knows when I would have been able to break through to Body Integration.
My accumulation is vast. Having received this merit from you, I should naturally repay it a bit.
It is nothing more than occupying this Dao Gate, exhausting over a century of my cultivation to transform my rain into the all-nourishing rain of Uncle Rain, gifting your Azure Cloud Prefecture a grand karmic fortune.”
“Thank you, Sword Venerable,” Li Yaozu smiled faintly.
“I didn’t expect that after so many years, you have already reached the peak of the Void Refining realm. It seems your Li Clan’s foundation is a hundred times richer than external rumors claim.”
Sensing the spiritual qi radiating from Li Yaozu, Sword Venerable Drizzle couldn’t help but marvel.
“It is merely the peak of the Void Refining realm, far from enough to find a Dao path. The path of the Sword Dao is far too difficult.”
Seeing Li Yaozu smile bitterly, Sword Venerable Drizzle also smiled bitterly.
“How long has it been since we parted ways back then? You have already walked a path that others couldn’t finish in several millennia. What more do you want?”
“I want to reach the heavens in a single step,” Li Yaozu said with utmost sincerity.
Sword Venerable Drizzle fell silent for a moment.
“I don’t want to talk to you anymore. Go on. There are many kinds of swords; do not rigidly adhere to the Sword Dao. The sword is within our hearts.”
A flash of realization passed through Li Yaozu’s eyes. He offered his thanks and departed.
From that day on, Li Yaozu stopped practicing the sword. Every day, he blocked the entrances of other people’s cultivation sites, simply staring at them as they cultivated.
[Your descendant Li Yaozu, through Sword Venerable Drizzle, gained enlightenment regarding the Sword Dao. He understood that when the sword is in the heart, all things are swords.]
[Acquired Trait: The Human Heart is Itself a Sword]
[Comprehension of the Sword Dao increases by 5%, probability of breaking through to the Dao realm increases by 2%.]
Li Yaoqing continued to refine pills every day.
She hadn’t even taken a single sip of the spiritual liquid.
Since she was already an alchemist, she had long ago broken through to the peak of the Void Refining realm through the characteristics of medicinal pills and her Divine Art.
With the Divine Art paired with her alchemy skills, no one had an easier time comprehending the Dao of Nature than her.
Merely the essence qi accumulated through refining pills was enough for her to reach the stage of pushing open the Dao Gate in just a few centuries, without even needing any other accumulation.
Unfortunately, her Dao Gate led to a dead end.
“It’s alright, Old Ancestor. This child is still young. Once the person occupying the Dao of Nature dies of old age, this child will naturally break through,” Li Yaoqing said softly and obediently, completely unbothered.
Li Wei smiled in response. “Good, we have plenty of time. Nothing to fear.”
Turning his head, Li Wei’s expression turned gloomy and ferocious.
“Don’t let me find out who is occupying my Little Qing’s Dao, otherwise I’ll act like a beast for once and fucking kill you!”
Immediately after, Li Wei calculated which descendants had a chance of breaking through in a short time with the help of the Old Tree and the spiritual liquid.
Among them, the most likely was Li Yunlin.
With twenty-three Daos, Li Wei truly didn’t know if anyone below the Body Integration realm was Li Yunlin’s match.
Li Wei even speculated that if he himself were to manifest with a Void Refining body, he might be just like Banshu Ao—completely unable to break through Li Yunlin’s defense.
His technique, merged with twenty-three rules, was simply too heaven-defying.
As for the Seven Ironclads and Changsheng… let’s not even mention them.
[Your descendant Li Changyao possesses the Ice Phoenix bloodline. By devouring various types of flames, she grew increasingly powerful, reaching the peak of the Void Refining realm with the help of the spiritual liquid.]
[The Heavenly Fire Dao Field is an excellent cultivation ground. With Li Yaotie’s help, Li Changyao devoured even more flames, strengthening her Ice Phoenix bloodline further.]
The extreme ice was located in the Northern Frontier.
Back when the Li Clan made a move against the Qiu Clan of the Northern Frontier, who cultivated ice methods, they hadn’t even touched the threshold of breaking through the Dao after tens of thousands of years, and could only seek out ‘Snow’.
Clearly, the Dao of Ice had been occupied.
Li Wei frowned slightly. Inside the Heavenly Fire Dao Field, apart from Li Changyao, there was also Li Chang.
[Your descendant Li Chang obtained the ‘Void-Soul Exchanging Dao Technique’ you gifted him and is currently breaking through to the Void Refining realm.]
[Obtained the ‘Primal Origin Blood Fruit’ gifted by the Old Tree, awakening the Flame Monarch bloodline and gaining the Trait: Flame Monarch]
[The Flame Monarchs were an ancient, special race. Born from heaven and earth, they originated within underground magma.
Comprehension of fire rules increases by 20%, cultivation speed of fire-attribute methods increases by 20%.
Can incarnate as a Flame Monarch descending upon the world, gaining an elemental body and doubling combat power.]
Chang cultivated an orthodox fire method. However, having just broken through to the Void Refining realm, the Great Dao of Heavenly Fire had already run out of space.
That said, back in the Western Frontier, Wenren Jiuyue also used fire—specifically Heart Fire, which differed from Heavenly Fire and could also constitute a Dao. Furthermore, this was still a long way off for Chang.
Vanishing instantly, he appeared beside Li Xinnian.
Currently, Li Xinnian was following Li Dalong around.
The secret cultivation ground he hid in the Southern Sea couldn’t escape Li Dalong’s eyes at all, resulting in him receiving a harsh scolding and lecture from Li Dalong.
Inside the secret chamber, the couple, Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya, obediently listened to Li Dalong’s reprimand.
“Feeding on humans is a demonic method! It is our family’s failure in discipline that allowed you two to act so recklessly!”
Li Dalong, accompanied by Xu Cuihua, pointed at their noses and scolded them, his face flushed red.
“…” Li Wei’s expression twisted as he covered his ears.
Li Wei was perfectly clear on this matter, but he had actually been persuaded by Li Xinnian.
Li Xinnian’s words had always made sense to him. But now, with Li Dalong lecturing them like this, Li Wei suddenly felt it didn’t make sense anymore.
This made Li Wei curse internally, “Sure enough, as people get older, their ears get softer, and they become easily duped.”
Under Xu Cuihua’s persuasion, Li Dalong finally stopped his scolding and exhaled a long breath.
“The demonic art you cultivate is the method of ‘Devouring Heaven and Earth.’ Follow me to the Underworld. You are absolutely forbidden from feeding on humans ever again.”
[Your descendant Li Xinnian followed Li Dalong to the Underworld to eat ghosts.]
…
[Your descendant Li Yunbing consumed the spiritual liquid and broke through to the peak of the Void Refining realm.
Now that Azure Cloud Prefecture is safe, he has handed everything over to the younger generation.
His clone has begun managing the Jiang family under the identity of ‘Jiang Chenghuan’. Relieved of all burdens, he obtained the Trait: Retired Overlord]
[Having spent his entire life scheming and deceiving, emptying his mind and soul for once allows him to briefly regain the ‘Childlike Heart’ trait. Cultivation speed increases; comprehension increases.]
Li Yunbing sat cross-legged in a bamboo forest. A lifetime of wealth and glory couldn’t compare to the tranquility of a bamboo forest and a thatched cottage.
Smoke curled upward from the thatched cottage; he was cooking.
“It’s just like the old Daoist Baimei back then.”
Li Yunbing picked up a spoon and took a sip of porridge.
Knowing he was no saint, he suddenly drew a comparison between himself and the old Daoist Baimei, who had pretended to be a kind-hearted man.
He suddenly understood that the more ambitious a person was, the more they loved such tranquil places. “I didn’t expect I would also become like Baimei.”
Enjoying his leisurely seclusion, night fell, Ancestor Tianye of the Ghost Eye Sect came knocking.
This old friend of the Li Clan was momentarily stunned upon seeing the tranquility of the place.
He then opened the door, looked at Li Yunbing resting on the bed, and laughed, “Yunbing, you certainly are quite leisurely.”
Ancestor Tianye lit the oil lamp and helped himself to some hot tea.
Li Yunbing didn’t get up. He asked casually, “Senior Tianye, have you clearly investigated the matter I asked you to look into?”
“I have.”
Patriarch Tianye nodded gravely.
“That fellow Banshu Ao once fought your eldest brother. The ‘number one person below the Body Integration realm in the Imperial Dynasty’, haha, truly a joke.
He was utterly obliterated by your eldest brother in a single move. However, it must be said that this person was extraordinary. The ‘World’ rule he used was an illusion.”
“Over the years, he had been cultivating a descendant, attempting to have both of them achieve Body Integration simultaneously upon breaking through.
Now, our people have infiltrated his side. This descendant is twenty thousand years old, and the method he cultivates is ‘Cloud’.”
Li Yunbing raised an eyebrow. “Cloud?”
Li Yunbing raised an eyebrow. “Cloud?”
“Yes.” Patriarch Tianye said,
“Banshu Ao was arrogant but not stupid. He had long since secured the Dao method of a Body Integration cultivator with a remaining lifespan of a few tens of thousands of years.
He had been cultivating his descendant, Banshu Weide, in the Dao of ‘Cloud’, waiting for him to break through and seize that person’s Dao.”
“Over in the Northern Frontier, they are also plotting for a cultivator to inherit the Dao of Cloud. Coincidentally, Daoist Yunshang only has ten thousand years of lifespan left, and he was injured during the Demon Race’s invasion.”
Li Yunbing finally sat up, staring at Patriarch Tianye for a long time, making Patriarch Tianye feel a chill down his spine.
Although Li Yunbing no longer commanded the military in Azure Cloud Region and had handed all power over to the Jiang family and other factions, everyone knew: never provoke Li Yunbing. Don’t even think about it, otherwise…
Other members of the Li Clan might minimize major issues and smooth over minor ones. But Li Yunbing would only make you wish you were dead.
After a long while.
Ancestor Tianye only heard Li Yunbing say faintly,
“Senior Tianye, help me keep a close eye on Banshu Weide. I am very interested in him. Oh, right, I also want to know his cultivation methods over these past twenty thousand years.”
[Your descendant Li Yunbing spent the night in the family estate, seeking out various array formations for seizing opportunities and karmic luck, as well as the array methods used by Yun Hongcai, the ancestor of the Yun Clan in the Western Frontier, to steal heaven and alter fate. He engaged in a long, heartfelt discussion with your descendant Li Tianqi.]
[Your descendant Li Yunbing, living in seclusion in the bamboo forest, resented Daoist Baimei, understood Daoist Baimei, and surpassed Daoist Baimei. Acquired Trait: The Mastermind Behind the Scenes.]
[Probability of obtaining opportunities, treasures, and breakthroughs increases by 10%.
Probability of being targeted by righteous figures increases by 10%.
Probability of revealing a flaw and being counter-killed by the protagonist increases by 10%.]
“???”
Li Wei looked at the pleasantly smiling Li Yunbing.
He had originally been worried about Li Yunbing, but seeing him acting so peacefully now, the ‘Childlike Heart’ had only just appeared before it flew away with a whoosh.
Li Wei was stunned for a long time before his face filled with bewilderment. “What are you trying to do?”
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