Read Novel Full Chapter 1245: Chapter 1239: That Is An Immortal
Chapter 1245: Chapter 1239: That Is An Immortal
A moment later, Li Tianming was clutching a stack of spatial rings.
Don’t be fooled by his silly demeanor; he hadn’t lost a single bit of the plundering craft he learned from Li Tianyi and Li Tianqi, having stripped the numerous corpses completely clean of their treasures.
In the distance, the survivors of the Banshu family wore incredibly ugly expressions.
With their spatial rings gone, they secretly resolved to bury their spatial rings in the dirt before ever venturing outside in the future.
Banshu Qingping walked over to the Lord of Thunder’s corpse.
Li Tianming had wanted to leave him alive for questioning, but his alternate personalities had failed to stop themselves.
“When your Li Clan sent me the message mentioning the Blood Moon, I already sensed something was wrong.”
Li Tianming listened quietly. He didn’t bother analyzing these complicated matters, leaving that to the bad guys inside his body.
He watched as Banshu Qingping fiddled with the corpse, seemingly probing for a Dao Seed.
He must have found it, as his eyes narrowed sharply.
“Throughout the many years the Blood Moon has existed, I have also been investigating in secret.
The ‘immortals’ your Li Clan mentioned can only be found as faint traces within ancient texts. I would like to ask, what exactly have you discovered?”
“We didn’t investigate much; these past years we’ve just been preparing our defenses. But we are certain the Blood Moon is a Dao Seed, and there are immortals hidden inside.”
Li Tianming answered honestly.
Li Zhiheng had always told him that only by being sincere and honest could one guarantee perfect communication.
See, he wasn’t stupid; it was just that the bad guys in his mind were calling him stupid again.
“I have also found some clues. Immortals and gods were originally born of heaven and earth.
In the end, they are just a race that was born much earlier. They cannot reproduce, but they can reincarnate.” Banshu Qingping’s expression grew exceedingly grave.
“Reincarnate?” Li Tianming didn’t understand.
“Yes.” Banshu Qingping took a deep breath and slowly stood up.
“Immortals and gods rarely appear in the world, and ancient texts record very little about them.
Perhaps they have already manifested in other ways; based on our limited understanding, we barely know a thing.”
“The appearance of the Blood Moon—I have deduced this for many years—is a method by which a Dao Seed is somehow allowing immortals to reincarnate and manifest in the mortal realm.
Therefore, the Blood Moon’s continuous expansion is inextricably tied to this.”
“Have you ever wondered why the Blood Moon has constantly been expanding towards our South?”
Li Tianming froze for a moment.
All these years, they had been laser-focused on preparing to deal with the Western Frontier.
As for why the Blood Moon was expanding from the Western Frontier in the first place, they really hadn’t given it much thought.
Simply deciding not to think about it, he asked, “Do you know?”
“I don’t know.”
“…”
Li Tianming’s facial muscles twitched violently. Then why did you say it so confidently?
“But I do know why the Lord of Thunder came to intercept and kill me, and why our Grandhaven Prefecture harbors so many spies from the Peerless Hall.
Leaving Grandhaven Prefecture leaderless is only one of the reasons they want to kill me.”
“Hm?” Li Tianming held the bun in his mouth and scratched his head.
“Follow me.”
As Banshu Qingping’s voice fell, he dismissed his subordinates and led Li Tianming deep into a bizarre, jagged mountain.
Banshu Qingping concealed his aura, took out the ‘Banshu’ family token, and instructed Li Tianming to do the same. In a flash, they bypassed a barrier and entered a secret ground.
People came and went in this subterranean place, all in a state of absolute numbness, walking around clad in loose robes like empty husks.
Just as Li Tianming was feeling puzzled, he heard a powerful baby’s cry.
He didn’t know where such a soul-stirring cry from an infant was coming from. But suddenly, the unseen baby let out a piercing, unnatural screech: “Hungry! I’m hungry!”
Within the secret ground, the earth violently squirmed. Countless bloody tentacles pierced out from deep underground, brutally stabbing into the bodies of the numb, walking people above.
The gory sight of the tentacles made Li Tianming’s scalp tingle, and he forcibly swallowed his nausea.
He saw that these people, hoisted up into the air by the tentacles, actually revealed faces full of sheer, ecstatic happiness.
They allowed the tentacles to siphon their blood and vital essence like greedy tracheas, even letting out contented, euphoric voices: “May my Lord be eternal!”
Once these tentacles had eaten their fill, they left behind seven mummified corpses and retreated underground.
Using his Dharma eyes, Li Tianming clearly saw a baby floating in the very center of this chamber—it was exactly the baby who had just been crying.
The baby let out a satisfied burp, its breathing growing long and steady.
“This is…” Li Tianming swallowed hard. From this thing’s body, he felt an eerily similar aura to the one he had encountered on the Zhao Clan’s Old Ancestor in the past!
“This is the existence our Banshu family has guarded for generations, and the very thing that allows us to possess spiritual roots generation after generation.
My family’s Old Ancestor, Banshu Ao, achieved the strength of the number one person beneath the Body Integration realm exactly through it.
Our Banshu family refuses to let it eat its fill, mutually utilizing it to maintain a delicate balance.”
Banshu Qingping exhaled a long, heavy breath.
“It’s just that upon reaching the peak of the Void Refinement realm, my Old Ancestor could no longer advance a single inch.
This ghost-like entity never bestowed strength upon him again.
In order to perfect his ‘World’, the Old Ancestor had no choice but to set foot on the path to Azure Cloud Prefecture, ultimately losing his life at the hands of your eldest uncle.”
“Our Banshu family passes down an ancestral rule to never let it eat its fill, mutually utilizing it to maintain our balance.
Now that many people from the Peerless Hall have gathered in Grandhaven Prefecture, I suspect this is exactly what they are looking for.”
“The Peerless Hall couldn’t wait to make a move against me, possibly… because they discovered this secret.”
“Now, I suspect… that it is an immortal.”
Li Tianming blinked his large, innocent eyes and then scratched his head vigorously. His head was so itchy.
“Who goes there?!!”
Right at this moment, a stern, commanding shout rang out across the secret ground.
Banshu Qingping’s expression shifted in absolute shock. “Let’s go, it’s the Patriarch, Banshu Weide!”
Li Tianming didn’t have time to overthink.
Suppressing the numerous brothers in his body who were clamoring to rush out and fight to the death, he fled madly alongside Banshu Qingping.
He turned his head back slightly. Even though they were already fleeing far away, he still hadn’t forgotten that final, fleeting glance.
The mountain within the secret ground collapsed and the earth split open, revealing a massive, indescribable entity.
Those bloody tentacles were born exactly from it. The floating baby landed on the monster’s colossal body and seamlessly melded into it, disappearing from sight.
Finally, the monster’s giant eyes rolled rapidly before it transformed into ethereal clouds and vanished into thin air.
“That giant octopus…” Li Tianming looked at the endlessly terrified Banshu Qingping.
“That was the Patriarch, Banshu Weide. He violated the ancestral rules and has thoroughly become a running dog for the immortals.”
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