Read Novel Full Chapter 1268: Chapter 1262: I Am At The Body Integration Realm
Chapter 1268: Chapter 1262: I Am At The Body Integration Realm
The old Li family loved blockading doors.
The grand array in front of Jade Mist Valley exuded a majestic Dao rhythm.
Within the grand array, the cultivators of Jade Mist Valley stood in strict formation, ready for battle.
From within, the rule-based power of numerous experts emanated, resembling a mountain wildfire; the stifling silence hung in the air, as suffocating as breathing in volcanic ash.
Today, Li Yaotie was walking on the absolute frontline of fashion.
His massive iron hammer was planted head-down, handle up, though it tilted slightly because he had smashed it down at an angle.
This iron hammer was no more than three hundred meters from the mountain gates of Jade Mist Valley.
Shirtless and seated on the bare earth, Li Yaotie leaned his broad back against the hammer.
He rested with his arms crossed over his chest, the motion bunching his thick, iron-like muscles together.
His bald head gleamed with a cold luster under the distant reflection of the Blood Moon.
Streak after streak of probing auras washed over him from within Jade Mist Valley.
Li Yaotie was using this method to tell Jade Mist Valley: he had arrived.
If they knew what was good for them, they would obediently remain inside and thoroughly execute the demands Zhiheng had spread across Grandhaven Prefecture.
Otherwise, even the most exquisite materials among them would be hammered into useless scrap metal by his own two hands.
There was a bizarre harmony between the two sides. There were no so-called harsh words, only naked threats.
“I reckon they won’t eradicate the Peerless Hall. They’ve made up their minds to fight us to the bitter end.”
Li Yaotie shrugged. Upon first arriving, he had shouted that as long as the people inside behaved, he would gift them an autographed, personally forged supreme-grade artifact.
Unfortunately, these people didn’t give him, Old Tie, any face, and even spat at him. If he were younger, he would have absolutely cursed them out a few times.
Just as he was thinking this…
He suddenly heard a majestic, reprimanding voice echoing from afar:
“Since Jade Mist Valley consists of Human Race cultivators, why fight over immortals and associate yourselves with the Dao Seeds of the Blood Moon?
A single misstep breeds a lifetime of ruin. Turn back to the shore now, and you shall live to see the spring of next year.”
In the cloudy sky was a short, black-robed old man holding a whisk.
With a flick of the old man’s left sleeve, solid muscles and sinews were revealed.
He stood atop a flying sword, with a Buddhist bell hovering behind him—what an utter hodgepodge.
“…”
It was the Martial Emperor’s Martial Dao avatar.
Li Yaotie exhaled a long breath.
Before he left home, his wife had told him that he was now a century-old Body Integration expert, and needed to bear the demeanor of a transcendent master.
Li Yaotie had always felt he was easygoing, but seeing the Martial Emperor—who had only just entered Body Integration—so eager to show off, hanging all sorts of bizarre things on his body just to put on airs, he suddenly felt that he actually possessed quite a bit of a transcendent master’s demeanor.
Soon after, he rolled his eyes, closed them, and waited quietly, muttering to himself, “Senior Martial Emperor is still too young. True experts never speak.”
…
Li Yaotie oversaw the south; the Martial Emperor oversaw the west.
When a breeze blew through the air, the bristles of the whisk fluttered onto the Martial Emperor’s nose.
He shook his head to suppress the itch on his nose, then looked calmly at Jade Mist Valley.
Then, his white hair blew into his eyes.
In slow motion, he moved the whisk behind his back, adopting a posture with his hands clasped behind him, and put the whisk he had borrowed from Li Yunlin back into his spatial ring.
“Everyone, the shore of salvation lies right behind you. Please, turn back.”
Following his previous reprimand, Jade Mist Valley remained as silent as a graveyard.
He had no choice but to call out again, yet after a long while, there was still no response.
Just as he was about to continue reprimanding, he suddenly heard an impatient female voice transmission: “Stop yelling, you old geezer. Do you really think they’re going to pay attention to you?”
The Martial Emperor remained silent for a long time.
Answering a completely different question, he stated, “I am at the Body Integration realm.”
Directly opposite, on the other side of Jade Mist Valley, Huan Gui was leaning against a tree.
Hearing this ostentatious answer, her facial muscles, which were as pale as paper, twitched. “Go on.”
The Martial Emperor stopped yelling.
He frowned; to his left was Sword Venerable Drizzle in the cloudy sky, and to his right was Li Yaotie leaning against his iron hammer.
This kid Li Yaotie was too casual and clearly lacked the demeanor of an expert. As for Sword Venerable Drizzle… they weren’t very familiar.
He glanced at Jade Mist Valley and transmitted his voice to Huan Gui ahead, whom he had spoken a couple of words to and was somewhat familiar with.
“If there really is an immortal inside, I’ve seen one before.”
That massive heart.
If the Zhao Clan, from top to bottom, hadn’t been united in exhausting the already weakened Zhao Clan Old Ancestor’s Spiritual power, they would have suffered heavy losses that time.
And in Grandhaven Prefecture, there was actually a true immortal.
“You’ve seen one?” A trace of vigilance flashed across Huan Gui’s beautiful face, and the indescribable form of Taotie surfaced in her mind.
“Fought it for a long time.” The Martial Emperor’s expression was heavy. “There are more here. I’m telling you in advance, lest you get scared and flee mid-battle.”
To the north, Sword Venerable Drizzle also heard the voice transmission.
Reaching out to catch the light drizzle falling from the cloudy sky, he said,
“Senior may probe this fairy, but there is no need to probe me. Traveling all the way here from the Sword Pavilion to repay a debt of equal weight is a supreme principle of heaven and earth within my heart.”
“You’re not afraid of death?” The Martial Emperor was taken aback, and even Huan Gui was somewhat surprised.
When she first laid eyes on Taotie, even she—a woman who spent her days toying with corpses—had felt an absolute, bone-deep terror.
It wasn’t until a child tore its way out from that hideous mass of flesh that she felt the last lingering shred of pity left in her cold heart.
“If I am truly fated to fall here, it simply means this junior failed to grasp the pinnacle of his Dao.”
Sword Venerable Drizzle laughed freely.
“For us cultivators, gratitude and grudges are resolved in a single thought. We arrive open and aboveboard, and we leave open and aboveboard.
Those who cower in fear ought to shave their heads and become monks, or resort to despicable hidden weapons. How could such cowards be worthy of wielding a sword?”
“…”
Hidden in the shadows outside the encirclement of the four Body Integration experts of Jade Mist Valley, several old faces turned pitch black.
Sword Venerable Drizzle smiled. “If this is a matter of life and death, why did you two come?”
Hearing this, Huan Gui furrowed her elegant brows tightly.
She knew Sword Venerable Drizzle wanted to know their bottom line, so they could entrust their backs to each other during battle.
She hesitated for a moment before saying, “My younger brother is very safe in Azure Cloud Prefecture.”
“The fairy is exceedingly beautiful; I can trust the fairy.”
Sword Venerable Drizzle smiled faintly. He could see Huan Gui’s hesitation and inner struggle. More often than not, this was exactly what it looked like when someone clung fiercely to their bottom line.
Then, he looked at the Martial Emperor.
He had personally witnessed this man forge his Dao. To break through the Heavenly Dao using pure martial arts was a near-impossible feat; this senior could not be underestimated.
The Martial Emperor said without hesitation, “I am at the Body Integration realm. What is there to fear?”
Sword Venerable Drizzle shook his head. “Is it difficult for Senior to speak of?”
At these words, the Martial Emperor fell silent for a long time, then let out a melodious sigh.
“I had prepared to enjoy my twilight years in peace, tending to simple things. That boy Yuanshang was already making arrangements to provide for this old man’s retirement.”
“But I foolishly forgot about a certain stubborn mule I met. He asked, so I taught him. And whatever madness I taught him, he actually dared to learn.”
“I truly didn’t lie to him. That was a Dao I pursued my entire life but could never achieve.
Consequently, elevating martial arts into Dao techniques became my absolute dead end. I believed I would never break through in my lifetime, left only to wait for death.”
“But the heavens love to play tricks on mortals. I was born with extraordinary aptitude, yet they denied me the comprehension and perseverance required to anchor a singular heart.”
“Meanwhile, the boy I casually instructed possessed terrifying comprehension, yet his innate aptitude was tragically abysmal.
He paid a hundred times the effort and endured a hundred times the agony of ordinary men.”
The Martial Emperor took a slow, deep breath.
“Fate is just like that. Had the two of us never crossed paths, we would merely be two parallel lines extending infinitely into the void without intersection.
Fate is also a cruel, blind beggar. I walked alongside it for a long time, and forced to choose the tallest among dwarfs, it finally chose me.”
“So Senior is repaying a debt, acting in accordance with heavenly principles. Very well.”
Sword Venerable Drizzle finally felt reassured.
“I am merely finishing the task the original master of this Great Dao should have completed.”
Resting beneath the iron hammer, Li Yaotie slightly raised his left eyelid.
He had to somewhat admit that this old wretch, being older, did have a bit of a transcendent master’s demeanor…
“And moreover, I am at the Body Integration realm.”
Motherfucker, you ostentatious old geezer.
Outside Jade Mist Valley, the auras of the four Body Integration experts stationed in the four cardinal directions were completely unconcealed.
After the Martial Emperor and the others tested one another, the exterior of the valley appeared tranquil, but in the shadows, winds and clouds surged.
Inside, however, a commotion had broken out.
Although the oppressive might of these powerful experts was isolated by the grand array, these four had already stood guard for a month.
No one could enter or leave Jade Mist Valley.
Ironically, the cultivators who had not been planted with Dao Seeds were somewhat calmer; those who had Dao Seeds planted in them were left with nothing but despairing panic.
No one knew what would happen beneath the Blood Moon.
Rumor had it that the people in the Western Frontier couldn’t even step out of the Blood Moon’s range.
Having arrived at Jade Mist Valley, there was no need to go to the Blood Moon either.
The Southern Frontier was now a lawless zone; no one would care whether Body Integration cultivators carried out a massacre or not.
Furthermore, the world knew that the people of the Li Clan were not benevolent lords even in times of peace.
In the southern part of Jade Mist Valley, a solitary figure knelt on the ground, tears and snot streaming down his face as he kowtowed incessantly.
“Fire Ancestor, let your child out! You must have a way to dispel the Dao Seed. Your child knows that the people of the Grand Tower are right in the Demon Cave!”
“I beg you, your child will genuinely and wholeheartedly serve the family from now on!”
“Your child kowtows to the ancestors. I will burn incense; I will burn incense right now.”
“…”
It wasn’t just the grand array suppressing Jade Mist Valley; the suffocating Dao rhythms of the four Body Integration experts were equally omnipresent.
With a mere wave of his hand, Li Yaotie could now conjure the most primordial Heavenly Fire in the world over a vast expanse.
Channeling his Dao method to effortlessly obliterate a Divinity Transformation cultivator from afar was as simple as breathing.
He saw absolutely everything unfolding within the grand array.
Watching Li Chuyuan with his disheveled robes, clumsily erecting an altar to offer sacrifices to the ancestors, Li Yaotie furrowed his brow at this unparalleled disgrace of a descendant.
“This must be Eldest Brother’s seed. Yes, when I return, I must have Yundou thoroughly audit the genealogy.”
He immediately used his Dao rhythm to isolate the kid’s voice and continued to rest with his eyes closed.
In Jade Mist Valley right now, who had the time to care about this minor interlude?
At the location where Immortal Linghu was in secluded cultivation.
“Four… four Body Integration experts!”
Linghu Tiangong arrived.
Seeing his Ancestral Master remaining completely indifferent, he slammed his fist against the stone surface outside the secluded cultivation chamber, his face contorted in anguish.
“Ancestral Master, are you truly going to leave us with no path to survival?”
At this moment, even Immortal Linghu, who had always been aloof and paid no heed to outside worldly affairs, stood up, sensing the auras of the four Body Integration experts from the four directions.
No matter how egocentric his personality was, he couldn’t suppress the wild pounding of his heart.
“Four… and all of them are from the Li Clan. How can there be so many Body Integration cultivators?!”
Outside, Linghu Tiangong was still howling.
Immortal Linghu ignored him.
If Linghu Tiangong weren’t of his bloodline, he would have definitely executed him for such a cowardly and foolish disposition.
His ridiculous descendant had no idea that he was scheming to become an immortal.
As long as they survived this tribulation, Jade Mist Valley could become the Old Immortal Valley.
Even a Pyrrhic victory would mean that when he achieved the Dao, even his poultry and dogs would ascend to heaven.
Amidst his thoughts, Immortal Linghu caught a whiff of a foul fox stench.
He didn’t even need to look to know that the elusive Fox Saint had appeared beside him.
The old creature feigned profound depth.
“Four Dao-Glimpsing experts. I didn’t expect the Li Clan to hide their strength so deeply, but against Your Excellency, it is not enough.
The other Body Integration experts in the Southern Frontier are all watching from the sidelines. It seems Your Excellency has a high hope of becoming an immortal.”
“Hmph.”
Looking at the faint smile on the Fox Saint’s face, Immortal Linghu said arrogantly, “Even if a few more came, what harm…”
But before the word “harm” could fully leave his mouth, his arrogant expression suddenly stiffened, and he raised his head to look at the sky.
A spatial mirror suddenly materialized in the cloudy sky above Jade Mist Valley.
The Li Clan’s Old Ancestor, shrouded in black mist like blazing fire, arrived, stepping upon a Yin-Yang Fish diagram.
Li Yaotie and the others stationed at the four cardinal directions slightly curled their lips and raised their eyebrows.
“Hoo!”
At this moment, even the Fox Saint’s expression drastically changed.
The Li Clan’s Old Ancestor waved his hand.
Spatial Spiritual power was instantaneously deployed.
Several mirrors floated in the cloudy sky, slowly opening like ancient unadorned gates, from which stream after stream of Body Integration coercive pressure emanated.
The Fox Saint could feel the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor’s gaze pierce through the grand array, fixating on him before shifting to glare at Immortal Linghu.
Immortal Linghu lost all of his previous confidence and arrogant aloofness.
Only a hoarse voice echoed from the cloudy sky.
“Do you want to be a human, or do you want to be an immortal? Immortal Linghu, please make your choice.”
With his hands clasped behind his back, the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor looked down.
Like a towering mountain pressing down on Jade Mist Valley, all the cultivators in the valley raised their heads in sheer terror.
Every single word from the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor struck viciously at the hearts of the cultivators in Jade Mist Valley.
“The time left for you… is running out.”
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