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Chapter 1324: Chapter 1318: Special Event — Retaining The Old Friends
The people in the Immortal Suppression Department were geniuses recruited from all over the world.
These geniuses were often orphans with no one to rely on.
Free from the constraints of families and sects, the members of the Immortal Suppression Department could adhere to its most traditional teachings: to suppress ancient immortals for the Imperial Dynasty and the Human Race, and to eradicate the demons and monsters that endangered the mortal realm.
Zhao Guang had lived a brilliant life. From an independent cultivator revered by everyone in a small town, he became a nurtured member of the Immortal Suppression Department.
It was an era of global chaos, marked by a great war between the Human Race, the Wu Tribe, and the Demon Race.
He witnessed the Human Race rise from being oppressed to the Human Emperor suppressing the entire world.
He had heard of immortals long ago; that was the very purpose of the Immortal Suppression Department’s existence.
Unfortunately, at that time, his cultivation was far from reaching a realm where he could suppress immortals.
During his days in the Immortal Suppression Department, news of the deaths of his superiors and brothers in arms would arrive every single day.
Then, the ancient teachings would echo in his ears: protect the Imperial Dynasty, protect the mortal realm.
For a very long time, these teachings became his unwavering code of conduct. But time grinds away memories, making people forget ancient teachings.
Just like his gradually fading lifespan. Subsequently, everything in the mortal world, along with the passage of time, would erode a person’s original goals and convictions, just like the decaying Imperial Dynasty itself.
In the Western Frontier, he could turn a blind eye to Fei Heng consuming people, and he could watch the birth of the Blood Moon with utter indifference.
When the Spear Saint Gu Fenghua was besieged by Min Tiange, he offered nothing but apathy and a few hypocritical sighs.
When the Imperial Dynasty indulged the Blood Moon and allied with it, he remained completely silent, even consuming the immortal seed bestowed by the Empress.
And now…
“Are you crazy?!!”
In the void, Zhao Guang flew madly toward the Blood Moon, roaring furiously behind him.
Trailing him were vines coiling forward, an omnipresent pair of sinister eyes, and reaching dark claws.
Accompanied by the ‘thump, thump’ of a beating heart, the Red Dust Realm forged by the combined efforts of six people attempted to drag him into their Dao Domain.
Immortals and demons!
The nine figures behind him pursued him madly without uttering a single word.
“How is this possible… Immortals, Demons… how can there be so many?!!” Zhao Guang cursed inwardly.
He had sensed something was wrong when he was at the Li Clan, but only when the Li Clan members actually pursued him did he realize their terror far exceeded his imagination.
Moreover, when he had previously acted alongside the Li Clan, he had met Li Yaoqing and Li Yunbing.
Now, they had taken on entirely different, horrifying appearances. Then what about the rest of the Li Clan?
He finally understood why the Empress insisted on sending him to persuade the Li Clan to leave the Southern Frontier.
The current Li Yaoqing was already a Heavenly Immortal. Li Yunbing had become a complete and utter demon overlord!
In a brief moment of distraction, Zhao Guang’s face turned deathly pale.
The immortal seed he consumed had only made him a half-immortal. The entities chasing him made him feel an instinctive, primal fear.
“Boom!”
Upon reaching the borders of Grandhaven Prefecture, the earth suddenly shook, and the mountains swayed. With a soft resonance, his expression turned horrified.
Mountains collapsed, and the earth shattered as massive black tentacles, towering like pillars supporting the sky, burst forth from the newly formed rift valleys.
The sky and the ground formed black array formations, and the tentacles covered in suction cups and fangs whipped toward him.
Due to this brief obstruction, he heard the clamor of the mortal realm; he had evidently been drawn into the Red Dust Realm.
“Thump… thump!”
A massive, hideous heart appeared bloody and raw amidst the mortal realm, and mangled, flesh-and-blood experts crawled out from within it.
Trees grew within the Red Dust Realm; these hundred-meter-tall green plant entities walked like humans, standing guard at the edges of the Red Dust Realm.
As a colossal, hideous octopus revealed its head from the ground, he saw Li Yunbing—with tentacles extending from his back and a third eye opened on his forehead—flashing a sinister smile at him!
“Commander Zhao, it has been a long time. I trust you have been well?”
“…”
Zhao Guang looked around, remaining speechless for a long time.
As he was trapped, he could feel experts gathering from all directions.
A true immortal, a true demon—he didn’t know what possible chance he had to escape.
The Three Prefectures had mobilized, and Ancestor Lan hadn’t even struck yet, but he was already facing this kind of desperate predicament.
He took a deep breath. With a complex expression, he sighed at these familiar yet foreign members of the Li Clan, “How did all of you become like this?”
Li Yunbing replied with an eerie smile, “Commander Zhao, why have you also become like this?”
Zhao Guang was left with absolutely nothing to say.
……
[Special Event — Retaining the Old Friends Who Came to Advise]
[Under the persuasion of your family, the three old friends who came to advise you were moved by your family and remained in Azure Cloud Prefecture.]
At this time, Li Wei was watching the clansmen escort the three individuals toward the family estate.
The brief battle couldn’t help but make him marvel.
As time passed, Li Zhiheng, who possessed an immortal artifact; Li Yaoqing, who controlled an immortal body; and Li Yunbing, who had turned into a demon, had pulled significantly ahead of the other clansmen in terms of strength.
With their combined efforts, they were actually able to completely strip a Half-Immortal at the Dao-Integration realm like Zhao Guang of the courage to even attempt a desperate struggle!
Zhiheng’s mastery over the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart grew increasingly powerful.
To a Half-Immortal, he was still seeking the path to a breakthrough, accumulating his foundation to reach the Body Integration realm.
The Tier-2 Heavenly Dao Divine Heart was comparable to a Great Golden Immortal.
By using the immortal art ‘Rebirth’ through the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart, he could summon numerous powerful combatants.
As for Yunbing, over the past decade or so, he had already mastered the immortal art once used by Banshu Weide.
His ‘Evil Thoughts’ were currently traversing the Western Frontier, searching for his own unique immortal art.
As for Li Yaoqing… the ancient immortal residing within her had now fully awakened!
[Your descendant Li Yaoqing acquired the Trait: Heavenly Immortal]
[The Nine-Leaf Clover formed by the immortal seed has sprouted a new leaf, forging an immortal body.
The Dao of Nature was merely the foundation for forging the immortal body; with Lu Niang’s help, it has become the body of a Heavenly Immortal.
Possessing the most primal power in the world, she commands the physique and Spiritual power intensity of the strongest race in the world.]
Though there were no percentage-based boosts, the unique nature of the strongest race was already enough to exert absolute suppression over anyone in the same realm.
[Lu Niang’s ancient immortal power continues to alter her body. Acquired Trait: Mother of Nature]
[As the master of nature, reviving the dead and regenerating flesh on bare bones are merely her most common methods.
She can draw the power of nature from heaven and earth, gathering it to enlighten living beings.
Mastering the power of the mortal realm, it is comparable to the ultimate Dao paths of the ‘Dao of Plant’, ‘Dao of Life’, and ‘Dao of Nature’, gradually deepening her comprehension after transforming into an immortal body.]
[Acquired Immortal Art: Spirit Enlightenment.
Gathers the natural power of heaven and earth to heal living beings. Consumes natural power to accelerate the growth speed of spirit plant living beings.]
[Acquired Immortal Art: Nature’s Deprivation.
This immortal art can strip the life force and Spiritual power of the natural living beings of heaven and earth, returning them to nature.
It exerts extreme suppression on weaker opponents, impossible to resist without immense strength or special methods.]
[Acquired Immortal Art: Borrowing from Living Beings.
Borrows power from the living beings of heaven and earth to push the physical body to its absolute limits, possessing the ultimate Spiritual power, physical strength, and soul power of a Heavenly Immortal until all life force within the surrounding area is extinguished.]
[Immortal Arts…]
Li Wei found it difficult to imagine just how powerful Lu Niang was at her peak.
But he knew clearly that Li Yaoqing, who now possessed a portion of Lu Niang’s power, was an absolute, unequivocal god!
For example, right now.
After turning into a demon, Li Yunbing had finally managed to escape the seal within the divine tower to handle affairs for the family.
His eyes darted around shiftily. Despite years of suppression, it was still difficult to counteract the instinctive evil desires brought about by his demonification.
While a voice in his heart told him to obediently stay inside the divine tower, another voice echoed in his head.
“The Blood Moon is imminent, and Clearpeak Prefecture is right before our eyes.
Xuanyuan Liqun is a frivolous playboy; you’ve long found him an eyesore. Cut him up and turn him into a eunuch. And that Iron-Eating Beast of his must be incredibly delicious!
Don’t you want to capture Zhangsun Feng and have a mighty figure praise your prowess every single day? Wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing…”
His body couldn’t resist the urge to put these thoughts into action.
But suddenly, his neck was clamped down. Entering his vision were Li Yaoqing’s eyes, brimming with playful amusement. “Where is my good nephew off to?”
“Nephew…” Li Yunbing wore a serious expression.
“Nephew is going to inform our good friends in Clearpeak Prefecture of the good news. Please rest assured, Second Aunt, nephew has suppressed the evil thoughts in his body and now only wishes to be a good person.”
Li Yaoqing wore a bizarre expression. She twirled her slender fingers around her temple and pulled out a black thread.
Li Yunbing immediately shrank his neck; this was the evil thought he had used to bewitch his Second Aunt!
“Tsk, tsk. You want to eat the Iron-Eating Beast, but you didn’t even leave a single bear paw for your Second Aunt,” Li Yaoqing said with evident dissatisfaction.
Hearing this, Li Yunbing’s eyes lit up brightly. “Nephew will only eat the head; the rest will all go to Second Aunt!”
His joy didn’t even last three seconds before his Second Aunt smacked him on the back of the head.
Only absolute clarity remained in Li Yunbing’s eyes as he muttered, “If you want to hit me, just hit me. Why bother testing me?”
Behind them, Li Zhiheng watched his two elders, unable to help but shake his head and smile.
As the saying goes, everything has its vanquisher. It seemed that Great-Grandfather Yunbing could still be suppressed, which also made him breathe a sigh of relief.
He looked toward the six Masters behind him.
After the battle at Grandhaven Prefecture back then, the three Masters he had swallowed had been released once again.
These six were now back under the Red Dust Immortal’s command. However, he could clearly feel that these six Masters were currently losing their Spiritual power.
The Red Dust Immortal’s methods bestowed by the Red Dust Immortal were intrinsically tied to the entirety of Grandhaven Prefecture.
The fall of Grandhaven Prefecture also meant that the order built by the six Masters of the Martial Academy was collapsing.
They were aging visibly every single day, and within a century, they would perish alongside Grandhaven Prefecture.
“This is our final battle. At the very least, it can still take place on the soil of Grandhaven Prefecture.”
The First Master smiled at Li Zhiheng. “Prepare yourself; we do not have much time left.”
Li Zhiheng remained silent.
The First Master then looked at the other five Masters.
Everyone’s hair showed streaks of gray that had never been seen before.
Even the Fourth Master and Fifth Master, who had constantly refused to yield to each other and bickered their entire lives, weren’t arguing as they usually did.
Not long after.
The group returned to the Xuanyuan Clan.
Zhao Guang, who had been escorted back, looked down at the pale-faced Wenren Jiuyue tied to the Pillar of Shame.
The numerous experts below were still discussing how to deal with Wenren Jiuyue.
Just then, Wenren Jiuyue raised his head and roared furiously, “Zhao Guang, save me!”
In an instant, their eyes met. They only saw awkwardness and despair in each other’s gazes.
Sitting in the distance beside the numerous experts, Gongyang Ju rolled his eyes continuously while eating the many delicacies on the table.
Last time, when he followed Zishu Ling’er and Uncle Rain to attack Azure Cloud Prefecture, he had fled with his tail between his legs.
He knew Azure Cloud Prefecture wasn’t a good place to be. This time, he thought following these two meant they were just here to negotiate.
Great, he didn’t even have the chance to escape.
Pointing at the table full of delicacies, he nervously asked Li Tianqi, who was guarding him, “Daoist Friend, this isn’t my last meal before execution, is it?”
“It is.”
Gongyang Ju’s mind went blank. All he could think of was that the old Li family was actually quite meticulous, yet his body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Li Tianqi casually added, “However, we generally don’t execute people by beheading. I’ll just skin you alive and send it to Wenren Xianyi.”
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