Read Novel Full Chapter 1260: Chapter 1254: Swallowing Grandhaven Prefecture
Chapter 1260: Chapter 1254: Swallowing Grandhaven Prefecture
“Clatter.”
In the Sage Master Martial Academy, atop the towering stacks of books, the silently reading Red Dust Immortal was stunned.
He maintained his original posture, completely oblivious to the book slipping from his hands.
A bookboy climbed the layers of books and handed a newly appeared text to the Red Dust Immortal.
“Master… Master? Why are you frozen?”
The bookboy called out, staring with large, innocent eyes.
The Red Dust Immortal finally snapped out of his daze, yet his eyes still lacked focus.
He picked up the dropped book from the floor, oblivious to the fact that he had grabbed the wrong one, and then absentmindedly took the bookboy’s book.
“How could another immortal appear so quickly?”
“Another?” The bookboy clearly knew a thing or two about immortal affairs.
“Didn’t Master say that in Grandhaven Prefecture, there was only the watchdog of the Banshu family, and Immortal Linghu who wishes to become an immortal?”
Suddenly, the bookboy’s eyes flashed with golden light.
He scanned his surroundings, his gaze finally stopping in the direction of Grandhaven City, his mouth dropping wide open. “Wh-what a massive heart.”
“It is someone from the Azure Cloud Li Clan.”
The Red Dust Immortal held the book, continuously tapping it against his hand, his expression grave.
“I had long heard of the Azure Cloud Li Clan’s extraordinary nature. Having cultivated for around a millennium to reach this point, they must definitely be harboring an immortal.
Ordering the six Masters to venture out this time was precisely to test the abilities of all factions.”
“This…”
Seeing the Red Dust Immortal hesitating, the bookboy suddenly recalled his Master playing chess.
After pondering for a moment, he replied, “We only moved a pawn one step, and the opponent immediately put us in check.”
“Sigh.” The Red Dust Immortal let out a sigh.
In his eyes, there was only that beating heart.
He racked his brains, groaning in deep frustration, “Why can’t I remember which old friend that is?”
“Then… what do we do?”
The bookboy blinked. Having followed the Red Dust Immortal for so long, this was his first time seeing him act so timid and overly cautious.
The Red Dust Immortal did not hesitate. Patting the bookboy’s head, a cold light flashed in his eyes. “A mere heart, how could it possibly do anything to me? Let’s go!”
…
A moment later.
At the Sage Master Martial Academy, only a scattering of disciples remained in the courtyard.
They frowned, watching a person brazenly walk into the academy.
This man wielded a long spear and wore a profound-colored suit of armor.
Beneath his helmet, a pair of lightning-like eyes captured the soul; beneath his single glance, all evil retreated.
He walked completely unimpeded right up to the doors of the Sage Master Martial Academy’s library pavilion.
Li Xinghuo tightly gripped the spirit tablet in his hand and pushed open the wooden doors of the library pavilion with the tip of his spear.
Books were scattered all over the floor. No one was there.
“Old Ancestor…”
Li Xinghuo’s expression was heavy.
“Following the corner of the rules Zhiheng transmitted back, we found this place, yet there is no sign of the Red Dust Immortal. I fear he has set his sights on our clansmen.”
After learning of Grandhaven Prefecture’s secrets from Banshu Qingping and seeing the Banshu family’s secret ground, the family had been relentlessly searching for these so-called ‘immortals’.
Zhiheng had battled the three Masters, and his Sacred Heart Domain struggled against the Red Dust Realm for a long time, all to strip away a sliver of the Red Dust Realm’s rules to locate the Red Dust Immortal.
After all, if an immortal wanted to hide, how could they be so easily found? Li Xinghuo had tracked him down to the Sage Master Martial Academy.
“…”
At this time, Li Wei was already by Li Xinghuo’s side.
Before his eyes was the screen.
[Special Event — Swallowing Grandhaven Prefecture]
[After multiple investigations in Grandhaven Prefecture, your family learned of the immortal affairs.
Aside from rescuing the righteous figures of Grandhaven Prefecture, they are attempting to swallow the immortals of Grandhaven City.]
…
[Special Event — The Fleeing Red Dust Immortal]
[The Red Dust Immortal attempted to dispatch the six Masters to test the strength of the various factions.
Unexpectedly, Li Zhiheng’s Heavenly Dao Divine Heart suddenly appeared, prompting his decision to flee…]
Looking at the empty library pavilion, Li Wei was left utterly speechless.
Feeling the scattered books and the scent of ink in the library pavilion, he remained silent for a long time, his facial muscles twitching slightly.
“Bro, you’re the Red Dust Immortal. We haven’t even met face-to-face, and you just ran away on me?”
At this moment, Li Wei felt a profound sense of powerlessness—as if he had geared up for a vicious battle, only to find he had been preparing to fight thin air.
On their trip here from Azure Cloud Prefecture to swallow Grandhaven, their primary motivation was knowing the Peerless Hall definitely had schemes here.
The locations of these immortals were just like the cultivators scheming for karmic opportunities in the Western Frontier; the family’s main goal was still to seize the immortals’ karmic opportunities.
Now that the common people of Grandhaven Prefecture were being slaughtered, if the Red Dust Immortal had been in Grandhaven Prefecture for tens of thousands of years, how many people in Grandhaven Prefecture could have died? How many treasures like blood qi were left on the Red Dust Immortal’s body?
Li Wei wanted to try and see if he could snatch them away.
If he truly couldn’t win, he was fully prepared to lure the entity straight to Ancestor Lan.
Who knew the Red Dust Immortal would just run away.
However, Li Wei quickly realized something.
Immortals were legendary existences, but they had already been defeated by the Human Race in ancient times.
Looking at the current situation, whether it was the Blood Moon of the Western Frontier, the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor’s Heavenly Dao Divine Heart, or the immortals of Grandhaven Prefecture, they were all existing in a hidden state after suffering defeat.
Therefore, they were inherently incredibly cautious.
Just like that divine infant of the Banshu family—the moment it discovered it was being spied upon, it fled without hesitation.
The Red Dust Immortal had dispatched three Masters to deal with Zhiheng, but Zhiheng unleashed the Divine Heart.
It was as if the opponent had played a mere ‘three’, and their Li Clan had directly thrown down a pair of ‘jokers’…
However, the current Zhiheng was indeed formidable.
“Old Ancestor, look at this book.”
Li Xinghuo’s call interrupted Li Wei’s train of thought.
Li Wei’s phantom figure walked to Li Xinghuo’s side. He saw Li Xinghuo holding a book.
The book was open, and the text within it was actually moving.
There were figures in the book; a single glance revealed the mortal world.
The book recorded a portion of the tens of thousands of years of Grandhaven Prefecture’s history.
The methods of gods and immortals.
Li Wei’s mind raced.
“Immortals feed on the offerings of all living things in the world. The Heavenly Dao Divine Heart is like this, the Blood Moon is like this… what does the Red Dust Immortal feed on?”
“Old Ancestor, within the book left behind by the Red Dust Immortal, there is an aura that is only found in the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart. Perhaps this is immortal qi.”
Li Xinghuo knew the Old Ancestor was right beside him. He wore a puzzled expression.
“Right now, the Sage Master Martial Academy of Grandhaven Prefecture is slaughtering the commoners. Logically speaking, it is to prepare for the Red Dust Immortal.
But the books the Red Dust Immortal left behind are merely records—they seem to be purely memories. There is absolutely no living blood qi or souls like we guessed.”
“Unless the one giving the orders to kill isn’t the Red Dust Immortal at all.”
Li Wei frowned deeply.
Things involving immortals were always so complicated.
He relaxed his mind and stopped worrying too much about it.
Regardless, the purpose of this trip was to devour the Peerless Hall and these ill-intentioned factions to strengthen themselves.
Grandhaven City, within the Red Dust Realm.
This Void Refinement space had long been razed to the ground; everywhere the eye could see was yellow earth, and the great battle kicked up blinding clouds of dust.
The massive Heavenly Dao Divine Heart continued to writhe and pulsate.
“Second Master!!!”
The Third Master of the Martial Academy stood nine feet tall. His robes were already shredded, revealing solid muscles with blue veins that looked as if they would burst through his skin.
If there was an absolute pinnacle of body cultivation, this was exactly it; his blood qi was abundant to the extreme.
He let out a furious shout toward the Second Master in the cloudy sky.
Before him stood Zhao Tingyu of the Zhao Clan, an enemy the Li Clan had dealt with in the past.
Using his palm as a blade, the absolute attacking rules of ‘Destruction’ and ‘Ruin’ from when he was alive were replicated without the slightest flaw.
Furthermore, an array master like Zhao Buqun was rapidly forming hand seals to cast a grand array.
The two coordinated perfectly, leaving even the Third Master overwhelmed and struggling to cope.
With a single chopping strike from Zhao Tingyu, countless sharp blades capable of piercing all things arrived simultaneously like a brilliant rainbow.
Even though the Third Master possessed a physique rarely seen in the world, he was still slashed, leaving chaotic, mangled wounds.
Though his abundant flesh and blood rapidly healed the injuries, it was unknown how long he could hold on.
In the cloudy sky, the Second Master, who manipulated rules, found that powerful experts continuously emerged from within the heart.
Everything the Li Clan had encountered in the Immortal Domain back then was now reappearing before them.
Even if the cultivators emerging from the heart were killed, it wouldn’t take long for them to crawl right back out.
“How can there be such an evil entity?!!” The Second Master’s face was deathly pale.
The Red Dust Immortal was a true immortal, yet she had absolutely no idea that a true immortal could be such a terrifying existence.
She manipulated rules, capable of severing the rules of others through her own regulations.
However, with an endless stream of experts emerging from the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart, how could she possibly sever them all?
At this moment.
Beside the heart where Li Zhiheng stood, Li Wei was right by Li Zhiheng’s side.
Looking at this beating heart and the people crawling out of it, Li Wei couldn’t help but recall the terrifying scene in the Immortal Domain from back then.
It was a pity these three didn’t have a million Zhao Clan members turning against their own to charge in, let alone Changsheng’s ‘Human Emperor’s Eye of Authority’, nor did they have the Old Tree and the family’s grand array.
[Your descendant Li Zhiheng, after suppressing the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart for many years, employed ‘starvation therapy’ to gradually force it into a compromise, establishing a symbiosis with the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart.]
[Acquired Trait: Master of the Divine Heart]
[Control over rules increases by 30%. Possesses the qualification to cultivate immortal arts. Lifespan increases to ten times the original realm’s limit. All attributes increase by 500%.]
[Acquired Heavenly Dao Divine Heart Technique: Replication]
[Transforms into the main body of the Divine Heart. As long as the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart possesses sufficient karmic luck and nether merit, any transformable entity in the world can have its bloodline preserved, allowing the cultivator to be replicated and reborn.]
[Acquired Technique: Devouring Heavenly Luck]
[Devours karmic luck and hidden merit, storing them within the Divine Heart to be used for replication, to peer into the bloodline rule techniques within the Divine Heart, and to elevate the main body’s strength.]
Over the past years, Zhiheng had gradually taken control of the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart.
However, the current Zhiheng was still engaged in a battle of wits and courage with the Divine Heart, though this did not hinder his formidable strength in the slightest.
Upon the Divine Heart, the bloodlines of the Zhao Clan members were impressively recorded.
The bloodlines of some of the cultivators who had barged into Azure Cloud Prefecture on that rainy night back then had similarly been ‘Replicated’ by Zhiheng!
Looking at Zhiheng atop the heart, Li Wei felt his scalp tingle.
With Zhiheng having cultivated diligently for nearly a century, this was his first time seeing Zhiheng unleash his full firepower.
“An immortal? These people called Zhiheng an immortal, which means that Zhiheng, having mastered the Divine Heart, is no different from an immortal? No wonder the stat boosts are so massive.”
“No, that’s not right. Mortals can never become immortals. Then he can only be… a Half-Immortal?”
The current Zhiheng was equivalent to the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor from many tens of thousands of years ago…
Furthermore, it was the complete, prime Zhao Clan Old Ancestor at the Void Refinement realm!
Li Wei found it difficult to imagine just how powerful Zhiheng could become in the future.
Amidst these thoughts.
“Red Dust Immortal, save me!!!”
An alarmed cry snapped Li Wei back to reality.
He saw Li Zhiheng atop the heart, holding the Soul-Holding Lamp in his palm.
The lamp’s flame flickered, and Li Zhiheng’s eyes turned into a profound, pitch-black abyss as he stared intently at the Sixth Master.
This Sixth Master of the Martial Academy only had time to cry out for rescue before standing numbly in place, his eyes turning just as pitch-black as Li Zhiheng’s.
“Sixth Master!!!” The Third Masters let out an alarmed cry and charged toward the Sixth Master.
Deploying a technique, a massive membrane within the Red Dust Realm, resembling the myriad manifestations of all living beings, blocked the incoming Zhao Tingyu.
However, despite using Spiritual power to rescue him, the Sixth Master remained completely unresponsive.
“It’s useless.”
Li Zhiheng’s voice rang out, calm and indifferent, yet speaking atop the heart made it seem sinister and ruthless.
“He has already fallen into my Inner Soul World. His emotions are under my control; he is nothing but a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.”
“You are not an immortal! You are using evil arts! I will kill you!!!”
Seeing his attempts to awaken the Sixth Master bear no fruit, a flash of resolution passed through the Third Master’s eyes.
He actually caused his lifespan and blood qi to violently erupt, his body transforming to a height of a hundred meters.
This punch carried his Dao of Enlightenment cultivated over tens of thousands of years, along with the immortal teachings of the Red Dust Immortal.
He could not escape the current Red Dust Realm, as this place had already been occupied by Li Zhiheng’s ‘Sacred Heart Domain’.
This punch seemed capable of breaking through all rules, arriving instantly right in front of Li Zhiheng.
“Boom!”
With a single punch, any revived cultivator blocking the heart was annihilated. Flesh and blood burst forth; he had struck the heart itself!
“It’s shattered! It’s shattered! Second Master, Sixth Master, we won!!!”
The Third Masters began to cheer, the flesh and blood of the heart splattering onto his body.
He turned his head, unable to wait to share the joy with the two Masters, but upon turning around…
The Second Master in the sky was gone, and the Sixth Master who had just fallen into the Inner Soul World was also gone.
His smile gradually froze.
With a stiff body, he slowly turned his head back around.
The massive heart that had just been smashed to pieces was similarly… gone.
There was only a flattened stretch of barren wasteland.
Everything dissipated like smoke and dust.
In this empty, nihilistic world, he only heard Li Zhiheng’s voice echoing:
“The one who just cried out for the Red Dust Immortal to save them wasn’t the Sixth Master; it was you. The one who fell into the Inner Soul World is also you.”
“N-No… you’re lying to me. I’m not afraid of you!”
“Red Dust Immortal, save me!!!”
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