Read Novel Full Chapter 1242: Chapter 1236: A Path To Your Own Doom
Chapter 1242: Chapter 1236: A Path To Your Own Doom
Putting on the smiling mask, for some unknown reason, Li Tianming’s aura suddenly changed.
He only thought of what his eldest brother and Tianqi had told him: no matter what you do, putting on a mask means you can play the bad guy and do bad things; taking off the mask, you are still a good person.
An unknown courage welled up within him, and the fear of being asked to deal with these people suddenly faded quite a bit.
“You are not from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.”
The leader of the fake Heavenly Secrets Pavilion group had a deep, resonant voice. Recovering from his initial panic, his tone turned disdainful. “I know you.”
“Li Tianming of the Azure Cloud Li Clan. I was wondering who was playing the pig to eat the tiger like this.”
When wearing a mask, you absolutely must tell lies.
Li Tianming said in a firm, resonant tone, “I am not, and I am not playing the pig to eat the tiger.”
The surrounding space had already transformed.
With sizzling sounds, looking around, arcs of lightning flashed everywhere, and the ground had become a pool of lightning. Chirping bird sounds rang out.
Amidst the crackling of lightning arcs, within the Void Refinement space, dense swarms of thunderbirds materialized behind the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion member—who was already covered in flashing lightning arcs—like a swarm of bees awakened from their hive.
Li Tianming looked left and right. Behind him, Banshu Qingping stared at this ultimate lightning rule, his face showing extreme horror.
The rules of lightning were the most resolute and fierce.
He had never seen such a figure before, and in an instant, he knew he was no match for him.
The imposter stood before the countless thunderbirds, staring solely at Li Tianming’s mid-air talismans, his voice calm.
“Every generation of the Li Clan produces vicious people. Many years ago, I heard that among the Li Clan’s vicious people, Li Tianming was the absolute worst—a born bad seed.”
“Qiu Anran of the Qiu Clan in the Northern Frontier exhausted her entire clan’s strength but still lost her life under your trick of playing the pig to eat the tiger.
I didn’t expect you to have already broken through to the Void Refinement realm.
It is indeed just like the rumors; your Li Clan possesses a secret method to help people break through to Void Refinement.”
“But I say… it is a good thing I ran into you today.”
In the Void Refinement space, the lightning pool and thunderbirds surged, unexpectedly charging toward Li Tianming and the members of the Banshu family without any warning.
“Not good!”
Banshu Qingping was at the mid-stage of the Void Refinement realm. His Void Refinement space was fairly standard: a colorful, radiant glazed glass.
The glazed glass crawled onto the space barrier ravaged by lightning, only to shatter inch by inch.
He instantly sensed that this person was using his full strength right from the start.
The lightning also contained rules brimming with murderous intent. One look was enough to tell he had twenty to thirty thousand years of cultivation base.
Li Tianming had only just entered the Void Refinement realm. Even if the two of them joined forces, how could they be a match for the person before them?
The white bead beside Banshu Qingping was a supreme-grade Dharma Treasure. Milky white gas liquefied to protect the crowd, and Li Tianming’s talismans were already pasted on their left and right.
Surprisingly, these thunderbirds couldn’t break through for a moment.
Li Tianming, at the initial stage of the Void Refinement realm, took out a stack of talismans and carefully counted them, his expression indiscernible.
“Little friend?” Banshu Qingping gritted his teeth.
The masked man had revealed Li Tianming’s identity, and he knew a little bit about it too; he feared the masked man had hit the mark.
Seeing this situation, the masked man stood before the countless thunderbirds like a God of Thunder, growing even more certain.
“I have investigated every single person in your Li Clan. Your talismans are just a disguise.
Stripping away this disguise, you are just a mad dog. But when facing a mad dog, as long as I am one step faster than you, you are nothing.”
The thunderbirds shrieked; the masked man sneered.
“Of the remaining three in the Li Clan’s ‘Tian’ generation, you have always been together. Without Li Tianyi and Li Tianqi, you are just a solitary rabbit.”
“The Li Clan is going to add a new grave today.”
Li Tianming was still counting his talismans.
Banshu Qingping gritted his teeth. This person’s thunderbirds were truly formidable.
He didn’t know what kind of Void Refinement technique it was, but it had already been cultivated to a profound depth.
He was genuinely afraid Li Tianming would rush out madly just like in the intelligence reports, and couldn’t help but shout,
“Little friend, he is trying to bewitch your mind! His thunderbirds are powerful, don’t fall for his trick and act impulsively!”
“I know!”
Li Tianming finished counting the talismans, took a step forward, and walked to the front of the white shield where the thunderbirds were flashing.
Seeing this, Banshu Qingping grew even more anxious.
The masked man’s mouth curled up slightly. He knew this Li Tianming was good at disguising himself, but had an impulsive and bloodthirsty nature.
The Heavenly Thunder Orthodox Method was the perfect counter to the evil arts Li Tianming used to ‘pollute’ and corrupt people’s minds on the immortal mountain of the Qiu Clan in the Northern Frontier.
Banshu Qingping really hadn’t advised him wrong. The masked man was already prepared to instantly grant Li Tianming a fitting death for his madness the moment he rushed out like a lunatic.
However, he never expected…
Li Tianming stood at the edge and made no further movement.
The expected madness did not appear, nor did the scarlet eyes appear within the eye sockets of the mask, let alone the maddened ‘polluting’ aura mentioned in the intelligence reports.
“This is…”
Banshu Qingping was startled.
Li Tianming, with his initial-stage Void Refinement spiritual power, casually tossed the stack of talismans in his hand.
Looking up, the sky was filled with talismans. The talismans reached mid-air, showing no intention of drifting down.
Then, these talismans began to emit radiant spiritual power, gradually overshadowing the glow of Banshu Qingping’s supreme-grade Dharma Treasure, the protective secret treasure, the White Radiance Bead.
“When he appeared in the Northern Frontier, he was only at the Half-Step Void Refinement realm.
In just a short century, how could he have this kind of Talisman Immortal Master cultivation base?!!”
Hundreds of talismans, the lowest being Tier-5, with no fewer than twenty Tier-4 talismans—Banshu Qingping couldn’t help but be amazed.
For Talisman Masters, besides the talismans they sell, which can be used as consumables to save spiritual power, truly terrifying Talisman Masters can use their talismans as an extension of their own spiritual power.
Upon reaching the Void Refinement realm, the Void Refinement space is also strengthened by talismans.
The runes on the talismans are engraved within the space, representing a type of Dao method!
Now, with the handful of talismans Li Tianming threw, a new spiritual power suddenly appeared in the Void Refinement space, which was originally ravaged by lightning and made dazzlingly radiant by the appearance of the glazed glass, as runes crawled all over the entire space.
Li Tianming’s talismans instantly forged his unremarkable Void Refinement space into a top-tier one.
“Immortal Talisman, Earth Talisman, Underworld Vengeful Ghost Talisman…”
“Little friend???”
Banshu Qingping had an elegant and refined temperament, but seeing Li Tianming use so many talismans and then pull out another stack to scatter, causing thousands of Li Tianming avatars to appear in the Void Refinement space, Banshu Qingping couldn’t help but curse inwardly.
Even if he started practicing talismans in his mother’s womb, he couldn’t have crafted this many talismans, right?!!
“Impossible!” The many masked men were terrified.
But this shock quickly turned into terror as Li Tianming walked out from the shield.
He slowly took off his mask, revealing that face that looked slightly afraid, yet possessed innocent and guileless eyes.
The leading masked man summoned hundreds of thunderbirds to attack.
Surprisingly, Li Tianming didn’t evade the peak Void Refinement spiritual power in the slightest.
His physical body shattered, only to turn into a talisman, and his body reappeared on another talisman, still maintaining that harmless appearance.
No.
Besides that frightened look from just now, his harmless appearance now contained an extra trace of… calmness and profound wisdom!
“The little doll told you to leave long ago. Why did you have to disturb us?”
Li Tianming spoke faintly.
Amidst the Void Refinement space where thunderbirds, glazed glass, and talismans burned, he was as unruffled as an ancient well, as indifferent as water.
With one hand behind his back, he pinched a talisman between two fingers of his other hand and abruptly flicked it to the right.
Instantly, the talisman caught fire. Spiritual power brushed against his face, causing his hair to dance wildly. His gaze was like lightning as he declared, “A path to your own doom!”
“No, you are not the person from just now. Who are you?!!”
The leading masked man shouted sternly.
The talismans and thunderbirds collided, their spiritual power exploding into smoke and dust.
Li Tianming had disappeared, but he could clearly sense that the Li Tianming currently vanishing into the mist was not the Li Tianming he had seen at the very beginning, nor was it the Li Tianming from the intelligence reports.
Through the mist, a completely emotionless voice echoed out.
“Lowly scoundrels beneath my talismans, how are you worthy of knowing me?”
The leading masked man took a terrified step back.
He changed again… This wasn’t the person from just now either.
No… it was still Li Tianming, but it wasn’t the Li Tianming from just a moment ago. This Li Tianming was arrogantly domineering!
In the mist, he seemed to see one Li Tianming after another, staring intently at him!!!
In the family’s secret ground stood a long spear. It was the long spear of the Spear Saint, containing his entire Dao.
Li Chang was sitting cross-legged in front of the spear, comprehending the Spear Dao.
And in front of Li Chang.
The Old Ancestor had also entered the world, sitting cross-legged.
Perhaps having comprehended the crux of a bottleneck, he opened his eyes.
[Special Event — Rescuing Grandhaven Prefecture]
[The Blood Moon has struck Grandhaven Prefecture.
The Peerless Hall has operated in Grandhaven Prefecture for many years, welcoming the arrival of the Blood Moon and hindering the cultivators of Grandhaven Prefecture from leaving.
Your descendants have gone to their rescue, aiming to make Grandhaven Prefecture join the camp resisting the Blood Moon, thereby preventing the Dao Seeds from strengthening when the Blood Moon arrives.]
Seeing the special event, Li Wei remained unmoved and continued his secluded cultivation.
Having reached his current realm, as long as a problem arose with his descendants, he would naturally be able to appear at the very first moment.
[Your descendant Li Tianming has fired the first shot against the Peerless Hall.]
[Currently engaging a Peerless Hall expert — Lord of Thunder: A lightning-summoning Void Refinement expert from the Auric Empire, at the peak of the Void Refinement realm.
His lightning is exceptionally fierce. Having cultivated in a lightning pool for over thirty thousand years, he is one of the top-tier experts of the Auric Empire.
His Heavenly Thunder Orthodox Method is majestic and vast, rarely matched by those in the same realm.]
“Tianming was sent to deal with an expert of this caliber?”
Li Wei raised an eyebrow, not the least bit panicked. The current Li Tianming was no longer the Li Tianming from a century ago.
During the battle at the Qiu Clan in the Northern Frontier, facing Qiu Anran, Li Tianming had triggered the mad personality within his body.
After a century of cultivation since returning, his second personality… had become another path in Li Tianming’s cultivation.
“A Talisman Immortal Master with multiple personalities—whoever runs into Tianming is in for some real trouble.”
Li Wei smiled faintly and continued to comprehend the Spear Dao.
Meanwhile, on a certain mountain.
The old sect master of the Eternal Immortal Sect, He Hao, dressed as a farmer, walked out of a thatched cottage.
Before his eyes was a lush, thriving spiritual field.
This top-tier talisman expert, who had once fought an inextricably fierce battle against Li Wei and Li Dalong in the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems, had now lost his former majestic appearance.
Instead, he possessed a detached calmness toward worldly affairs, and his hair had turned gray.
Even though his Dao Seed had been extracted, he hadn’t dared to return to the Eternal Immortal Sect for hundreds of years.
“The sun is quite nice today.”
As he smiled faintly, a beautiful woman in the field—who had rolled her pant legs up to her knees and was carrying a bucket to water the spiritual field—waved him over. Her expression was joyful.
“Big Brother He, come quickly! Our seedlings are growing so well!”
“Coming.”
He Hao trotted over. Looking at Consort Ji, who was squatting on the field path beside him and looking down at the seedlings, he nodded in gratification.
“In a few more decades, our seedlings will be fully grown, and we’ll be able to consume our own spiritual medicines.
We have to keep a close eye on the beasts from the Ephemeral Grotto-Heaven, though, and not let them steal our spiritual herbs.
Otherwise, all the hard work we’ve put in as a couple will be ruined.”
“As if they would dare?!!”
Consort Ji gritted her teeth. This reaction made He Hao laugh.
Seeing He Hao’s genuinely tranquil demeanor, Consort Ji was momentarily stunned.
“Big Brother He, do you really not want to return to the Eternal Immortal Sect? Can you truly be a farmer with me for the rest of your life?”
“There’s nothing left to return to.”
The dusky setting sun in the fields fell upon He Hao’s slightly wrinkled face.
He no longer possessed the ambition and calculation from when the morning sun rose; instead, he had gained the peace of mind and tranquility of dusk.
“With the Dao Seed having been in my body, I did too many wrong things that I didn’t want to do.
I can never make up for them, but life must go on. It’s better not to face outsiders, and only face our long time together. It will help us fade everything into oblivion.”
“Big Brother He also taught two good disciples,” Consort Ji giggled enchantingly.
“Hahaha, that kid Li Tianqi still has a long way to go if he wants to learn my Array Dao.” Mentioning his two disciples, He Hao laughed heartily.
He briefly mentioned Li Tianqi, but when speaking of Li Tianming, the corners of He Hao’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch. “That kid Tianming… I really have nothing left to teach him.”
Consort Ji, taking on the role of a master’s wife, wore a strange expression.
“Big Brother He, you shouldn’t have let the other ‘him’ inside his body help him practice talismans back then.”
“A born bad seed—it was my first time seeing one too.” He Hao rested his forehead against his hand.
He recalled that when he was teaching Li Tianming, he had casually instructed Li Tianming’s other soul as well.
As a result, that guy was a true lunatic.
When practicing talismans, it was like he was facing an enemy… drawing talismans while shouting, ‘Trash talisman, I’ll practice you to death, you little plaything!’
When he practiced to the point of madness, a third soul actually began to appear…
“Big Brother He, just what kind of disciples did you teach?”
Under the setting sun, the couple worked in the cozy pastoral fields, casually chatting about mundane affairs.
When curls of cooking smoke rose in the distance, He Hao gazed at the signs of myriad households preparing meals.
His stubbly beard moved slightly as the corners of his mouth lifted.
“They will certainly surpass me as their master. It can be considered that my Dao has been successfully passed on.”
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