Read Novel Full Chapter 1280: Chapter 1274: Hurry Up And Play Your Trump Card
Chapter 1280: Chapter 1274: Hurry Up And Play Your Trump Card
“Boom!”
On the other side of Jade Mist Valley, the cultivators formed an array.
The grand array in the cloudy sky manifested the phantom of an old man, which unleashed a strike that slammed directly into Li Yaotie, whose entire body was wreathed in flames.
This kind of destructive method crashed down, kicking up a cloud of dust and smoke, yet the fireworks within the smoke remained as bright as ever.
“This…”
Zhangsun Feng stared in disbelief as Li Yaotie, having been directly struck by the destructive aura of the Jade Mist Valley’s grand array, charged out once more wielding his massive hammer.
That kind of attack, which anyone else would have been forced to dodge, hit Li Yaotie, yet he acted as if he were completely fine.
It could be seen that on Li Yaotie’s body, which was covered in the Dao rhythm of fireworks, the metallic luster of high-tier materials actually appeared, exuding an ancient and unadorned aura.
Then, the fire hammer smashed outward, and he kicked the edge of the grand array formed by the Jade Mist Valley cultivators.
His right leg exuded the nether aura of the Underworld, accompanied by the chilling sound of shrieking wails.
“Bang!”
The old man’s phantom fired another blast of destructive aura that struck Li Yaotie, sending iron shavings flying from his shoulder and causing his body to stagger backward.
Soon after, gripping his iron hammer, Li Yaotie let out a ferocious sneer and charged at the grand array once again.
Exclamations of alarm rang out from the cultivators outside the grand array.
“Not good. This person… exudes a powerful aura identical to the Spirit Treasures of our Jade Mist Valley.”
“We are fighting against a Spirit Treasure, and he is breaking our array!”
“He is going to break our array, yet our array cannot break his defense! What should we do?!!”
Zhangsun Feng was actually stunned in place.
At this moment, the Jade Mist Valley’s array formation no longer had the luxury to care about the other mighty figures.
Because Li Yaotie’s body was incredibly tough, and he was someone deeply versed in side-paths like artifact refining and the Array Dao, the eyes of all the cultivators in Jade Mist Valley were fixed squarely upon him.
If they didn’t stop Li Yaotie, Li Yaotie was going to shatter their grand array!
“I…” Zhangsun Feng looked at Li Yaotie, who resembled a God of War.
Li Yaotie commanded Heavenly Fire to descend from all directions. Wielding a pair of iron hammers and bare-chested, he smashed wildly everywhere, furious to the extreme.
This Li Yaotie no longer cared about any injuries, willingly allowing crack after crack to form on his body.
She had long known that the Li Clan’s Fire Ancestor was at the Dao-Glimpsing realm.
Facing the Jade Mist Valley’s grand array, she had originally intended for Li Yaotie to support from the flanks; she had even just wanted him to block the attacks of the grand array.
But now…
She was the one playing the supporting role.
It was the people of Jade Mist Valley who couldn’t break through Li Yaotie’s defense and were desperately trying to stop him from breaking their array!
“The Great Dao of Heavenly Fire… how could it possibly be this strong?” Zhangsun Feng looked at Li Yaotie in sheer disbelief.
She then turned to look toward where the Fox Saint was.
Numerous Body Integration experts had already pinned the Fox Saint down.
As for the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor, Zhangsun Feng finally understood where Li Yaotie got his death-defying demeanor from—it was passed down from the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor.
And the Dao-Glimpsing realm Li Clan’s Old Ancestor was actually suppressing Linghu Xian!
In this moment, Zhangsun Feng finally understood: the people of the Li Clan had never been afraid.
The trap set by Jade Mist Valley perhaps didn’t amount to anything at all to them.
At the very least, to the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor and the Li Yaotie before her, it was nothing!
“Daoist friend, why are you dazing off? Help me!” Suddenly, a resonant, booming shout snapped Zhangsun Feng back to reality.
She hurriedly stepped in front of Li Yaotie.
Feeling the scorching heat radiating from Li Yaotie’s Great Dao of Heavenly Fire, she unleashed her Dao method, blocking and deflecting the destructive power of the Jade Mist Valley’s grand array.
Finding a moment of relief, Li Yaotie violently smashed his hammer into the grand array.
Numerous cultivators could be seen looking horrified as he laughed fiercely, displaying unparalleled ferocity.
“I can even smash Tier-3 materials to pieces! Do you really think the likes of you can trap me?!!”
…
“Whoosh!”
The fireworks burned fiercely.
Under half a day of intense battle, the Jade Mist Valley’s grand array was actually hammered to the point of cracking by Li Yaotie.
The Dao rhythm of the Great Dao of Heavenly Fire drilled through the cracks toward where the Jade Mist Valley cultivators had formed their array, instantly annihilating several cultivators.
“What?!!” Linghu Xian, already being pressed hard by Li Wei step by step, grew even more anxious. “How is this possible?”
He was extremely confident in the grand array passed down through generations in Jade Mist Valley.
Even a Body Integration realm physical body wasn’t that much stronger than a Void Refinement one.
And the Jade Mist Valley’s grand array possessed Spiritual power capable of destroying both flesh and soul; even he and the Fox Saint had to temporarily avoid it.
But he never expected the Li Clan to actually possess such an anomaly—a Spirit Treasure body.
The Jade Mist Valley’s grand array could annihilate ordinary flesh, but it could not annihilate a Spirit Treasure!
The grand array was tottering on the verge of collapse.
“Let out the thing inside your body!!!” The hoarse voice of the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor echoed in his ears, making Linghu Xian’s expression turn exceptionally ugly.
This was an even worse matter.
The Li Clan’s Old Ancestor before him was equally a lunatic.
The immortal seed that even he was deeply wary of actually sparked intense interest in the eyes of the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor.
It seemed he couldn’t wait to fight against an immortal entity!
“How could it turn out like this?!!” Linghu Xian was deeply anxious.
Their Linghu family had calculated everything, devising a scheme within a scheme to lure the cultivators of the Three Prefectures into Jade Mist Valley, attempting to trap and kill the mighty figures.
Never did they expect they had severely underestimated the strength of the Li Clan members!
“Are you going to let it out or not?!!”
The Yin-Yang Fish diagram spun rapidly as Li Wei teleported instantly, arriving right behind Linghu Xian.
He thrust the North Star Spirit-Breaking Spear forward, executing the technique ‘A Single Thought’.
Linghu Xian still hadn’t unleashed the power of a half-immortal.
Li Wei could feel Linghu Xian actively suppressing the immortal seed inside his body, which made him incredibly anxious.
Charging forward to kill, he roared angrily, “Hurry up and play your trump card!”
“You bastard!!!” Linghu Xian transformed into wind, glaring furiously at the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor.
Besides the immortal seed inside his body, he truly had no other trump cards left.
In the mountains of Jade Mist Valley.
The masked Li Tianming and Linghu Tiangong were engaged in battle.
The Void Refinement space was filled with talismans in all directions.
Opposite Li Tianming, Linghu Tiangong exhibited extraordinary strength.
Within his Void Refinement space, a mountain of uncanny, supernatural craftsmanship had actually risen, and at its peak sat an ancient and magnificent grand hall.
This was the source of Linghu Tiangong’s power.
From the magnificent grand hall, stone-formed immortal soldiers and divine beasts could be summoned in an endless, continuous stream.
The people of Grandhaven Prefecture inherited their legacy from the Red Dust Immortal; the Spiritual power of many of them was related to the mortal world.
Linghu Tiangong was no exception.
He had likely trained under the Red Dust Immortal as well, possessing a profound understanding of the rules of mountains and stones to form his own world.
At this moment, Li Tianming was not disadvantaged in the slightest during his fierce battle with Linghu Tiangong.
Unleashing talisman after talisman, he had not yet used his full strength; at the very least, Li Tianming had not drawn the dagger he wielded as an assassin.
Yet Linghu Tiangong, who controlled the grand hall at the mountain peak, was deathly pale.
He could sense everything happening in Jade Mist Valley.
In his trap within a trap, the mighty figures of the Three Prefectures who had fallen into the Jade Mist Valley snare actually held the upper hand!
“Strength is the foundation.” Li Tianming’s voice was calm.
In such a massive battle, he had long since switched to his calm personality.
Bringing the four fingers of his left hand together, he fired three talismans from between them, causing an explosive roar ahead.
It was as if invisible hands were drawing talismans out of thin air, suppressing all the incoming enemies formed of mountain stone.
His calm gaze locked onto Linghu Tiangong at the mountain peak. “Whether you believe it or not, our Li Clan has far, far too many methods to deal with Jade Mist Valley.”
“Having merely gained a slight upper hand, how dare you speak such arrogant words, little friend?!!” Linghu Tiangong rebuked angrily.
But in his heart, he believed it.
Peering outside the Void Refinement space, he had even seen the look of utter disbelief in the eyes of the Fire Ancestor trapped within the grand array.
This newly advanced Fire Ancestor… seemed to not even believe his own overwhelming strength.
“To you, they are arrogant words. But to us, they are not.”
Li Tianming smiled faintly.
“Nearly a century has passed since Uncle Rain led over a thousand people to invade our Li Clan.
Those thousand-plus invaders were all elites among elites, and they brought our Li Clan many good things. To you, a century passes in a flash, but to us…”
“It is very long.”
“Very long?” Linghu Tiangong was dumbfounded.
The Li Clan had only been established in the world for about a millennium.
They had emerged almost precisely at the start of the chaotic era.
According to intelligence, as long as the Li Clan was given even a moment to catch their breath, they would undergo a complete transformation!
Yet, very few people in the world were truly wary of this.
Even now, many factions still believed the Li Clan was merely an ancient hidden faction wearing the disguise of a thousand-year history.
Li Tianming exhaled a long breath.
For nearly a century, he had stayed entirely within the family.
He clearly knew that while the family had experienced a century of peace, it had also been a century of madness.
The clansmen had all been striving with all their might to digest the treasures gained from the battle against Uncle Rain.
Great-grandfather and Xinnian were still cultivating in seclusion in the Underworld; they hadn’t even come for this battle.
Great-granduncle had set off to re-walk his path of sword cultivation from the past, leaving for nearly a century, and no one knew where he was.
But over the past century, the Heavenly Fire and the sound of forging within the Heavenly Fire Dao Field had never ceased.
Most of the family’s materials above Tier-4 had been used to forge his Grandpa’s Unorthodox Artifact Body!
Second Grandaunt’s supply of spiritual medicine had never stopped flowing.
A century was enough to yield two of the Old Tree’s ‘Primal Blood Fruits,’ enough for two people to awaken ancient bloodlines, and enough for three people to glimpse their Dao paths.
The massive harvest of spirit stones, along with the spirit stones Yuanshang earned through external trade… was also enough to activate the Myriad Dao Divine Bell Pagoda for many years.
And there was the Golden Chapter of Enlightenment—a complete Golden Chapter of Enlightenment.
His calm personality could sense that when the clansmen stepped out of Azure Cloud Prefecture after nearly a century, they didn’t even possess a true understanding of just how terrifyingly powerful they had become.
It was much like when his other personalities placed talismans beneath a Grand Elder’s chair, accidentally killing the person.
Or exactly like right now.
“I could kill you effortlessly, but I haven’t done so.”
Li Tianming stared at Linghu Tiangong with pity.
“Your painstakingly calculated trap hasn’t even forced the Old Ancestor, my Grandpa, or Kuanghua to use their full strength.”
“What???”
Linghu Tiangong’s mind went blank.
His unfocused eyes looked into the distance, only to see Li Wei still inside the Dao Domain, forcing his Martial Grandfather to retreat again and again.
The Fire Ancestor, wearing a ferocious sneer, forcibly tanked an array attack and smashed his hammer against the grand array; his iron hand pierced through a crack in the array, crushing a cultivator’s head into pieces with his bare grip.
And then there was Li Kuanghua… this Dao-realm Bodhisattva of the Li Clan sat upon her Buddha-Demon Lotus Platform, utterly tranquil.
But his skepticism toward Li Tianming’s words lasted for only a brief moment.
Following Li Tianming’s gaze, he clearly saw Li Tianqi, Zhuo Linlin, Gu Yinming, and other cultivators who were supposed to have fallen into his ambush and been eradicated by Jade Mist Valley.
They were actually all completely unharmed, having silently and stealthily positioned themselves right behind the Jade Mist Valley disciples maintaining the grand array!
With just a single sneak attack, they could have shattered the Jade Mist Valley’s grand array, yet they had not done so.
The people of Azure Cloud simply waited quietly.
They were like beasts toying with their prey!
No.
Linghu Tiangong’s body stiffened.
Hunters often do not play with their prey; hunters usually… use their prey to lure out even bigger prey!
He abruptly looked back at Li Tianming’s mask, his pupils dilating continuously.
“The Immortal Infant of the Banshu family, the Red Dust Immortal of the Martial Academy!”
“You only pretended to be locked in a desperate struggle with us. Your true goal is to lure them out!”
Li Tianming slowly turned his head.
Peering through space, he gazed at Linghu Xian—who was being forced back by the Old Ancestor and was gradually exuding an oppressive presence as Jade Mist Valley fell into a disadvantage.
His voice was faint and eerie.
“Changyao was right about one thing: the simplest way to understand immortals is to catch one.”
“Our goal in coming to Grandhaven Prefecture was, from the very beginning, to eat you all.”
“Many times, the prey is the true hunter.”
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