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Chapter 1326: Chapter 1320: Immortal Seed
Li Tianqi was merely trying to scare them.
Zhao Guang and the other two were escorted to the Eternal Immortal Sect, where Ancestor Lan confined them using his methods.
The older generation of the Li Clan was no longer willing to expend their mental energy on the Imperial Dynasty.
The repeated betrayals and persecutions by the Imperial Dynasty had completely stripped them of their trust in outsiders.
They much preferred to focus on augmenting their own martial strength.
“Brother Chang’an, what exactly do you want?” Staring at the circle drawn on the ground, Gongyang Ju, his face deathly pale, asked Li Chang’an.
“Everything is negotiable. We came with sincerity.”
“Indeed, my young friend.”
Wenren Jiuyue’s body was stiff.
“We came to advise you for the sake of the Southern Frontier, and also out of consideration for our past friendship.
Immortals reside within the Blood Moon. Even if you continue to struggle, it is nothing but a dead end.”
Only Zhao Guang remained silent.
Li Chang’an stared at the three of them for a long time.
He was different from his elders; his gentlemanly demeanor bound him to doctrine, ensuring he didn’t lay a hand on these three while at home.
However, their conflicting stances compelled him to capture these individuals attempting to disrupt the order of the Southern Frontier.
He excelled at reading people. Through just a brief observation, he had already understood many things.
“The Human Emperor can no longer control Wenren Xianyi.”
“What?” Wenren Jiuyue was momentarily stunned.
“Wenren Xianyi sending you here was not to persuade us to surrender. Quite the contrary, she was absolutely certain our Li Clan would not leave.”
Li Chang’an looked at the three with pity.
“She intended for you to deliver intelligence to us, providing us with a bit of capital to deal with the Blood Moon.”
“You are just fear-mongering!” Wenren Jiuyue’s expression turned fierce; Li Chang’an’s words provoked a furious roar from him.
This caused Zhao Guang’s eyes to narrow.
“She is cooperating with the Western Frontier. There are many people she could have sent to the Southern Frontier. Why would she need two mighty figures like you?”
Li Chang’an’s voice was soft and deliberate.
Gongyang Ju frowned deeply. “And I am here as well.”
Li Chang’an merely glanced at Gongyang Ju, completely ignoring him.
“Because… because we can move swiftly, and if we encounter danger…” The ferocity on Wenren Jiuyue’s face suddenly drained into an ashen pallor.
“Her objective is Ancestor Lan’s Daos. What she wants is for us to exhaust every possible means to fight against the Western Frontier.
After all, no matter how foolish she is, she wouldn’t be foolish enough to let the Western Frontier expand infinitely.
Even if the Imperial Dynasty cooperates with the Western Frontier, they must maintain a dominant position.”
Li Chang’an continued,
“You three have thus become the key. Since you are our old friends, we wouldn’t immediately harbor killing intent towards you.
You can provide us with intelligence to bolster our chances against the Blood Moon, or… perhaps you three are, in yourselves, a karmic opportunity for our Li Clan.”
“No!” The veins on Wenren Jiuyue’s forehead throbbed wildly.
“I am a member of the Wenren family, absolutely loyal to Her Majesty the Empress! She would never do such a thing to me. Cease your nonsense!”
Li Chang’an completely ignored Wenren Jiuyue’s anger and rebukes.
After all, the truth was often too painful.
“What I want is intelligence. As for life or death, that rests entirely in your own hands.”
…
[Year 1020]
[You peered into three rules, all reaching 1%. Your strength at the Dao-Glimpsing realm increases by 3%.]
[Your family obtained a massive amount of intelligence from the three captives.
The Imperial Dynasty colluded with the Western Frontier to persecute the Southern Frontier in exchange for ‘immortal seeds’.]
Such a thing as an immortal seed was present in Linghu Xian’s body back in Jade Mist Valley, and Linghu Xian’s corpse still resided within the family.
Now that they had captured Zhao Guang, they finally gained a complete understanding of immortal seeds.
It turned out that beneath the Blood Moon, Dao Seeds would be planted.
Those implanted with Dao Seeds were essentially equivalent to the existence of an ‘immortal kin’.
An immortal seed, however, was an entirely different thing.
It was much like Lu Niang inside Li Yaoqing, altering Li Yaoqing’s strength and physical body bit by bit.
An immortal seed was a medium for an immortal’s revival, capable of awakening an immortal within their body.
Yet even an immortal could potentially be suppressed.
Take Linghu Xian, for example.
It was Linghu Xian who influenced the immortal seed within his body.
This was because the immortal seed inside him merely housed the existence of the Immortal realm—the weakest kind of immortal.
Even an immortal could only exert a minimal influence on a true powerhouse.
The immortal seed inside Zhao Guang granted him the strength of a half-immortal.
His physical Spiritual power grew increasingly potent, his lifespan was extended by more than tenfold, and it granted Zhao Guang the qualification to wield immortal arts.
However, this was not without its side effects.
The immortal seeds were suppressed by the entity within the Blood Moon.
But immortals were inherently the most powerful existences between heaven and earth; how could they willingly be exploited by the ‘inferior beings’ in their eyes?
An immortal would grow alongside the host body.
While it appeared they were growing stronger together, the immortal was ceaselessly eroding the host’s soul and mind at every moment, waiting to break free from its cocoon.
Just like Li Zhiheng, who had to rely on his Childlike Heart to suppress the immortal seed. Of course, his Heavenly Dao Divine Heart… was still quite mindless.
Li Wei estimated that while the immortal influenced the person, it was simultaneously influenced by the person.
After all, having endured the crazed, generation-after-generation internal struggles of the Zhao Clan, it was impossible not to suffer mental instability.
“In other words, the Imperial Dynasty is engaged in a contest just like the immortals.”
Li Wei pondered for a long time, having already formed a hypothesis in his mind.
According to the intelligence gathered by the Red Dust Immortal and Li Xinri in the Central Plains, some people had already been implanted with immortal seeds.
Wenren Xianyi had undoubtedly acquired many immortal seeds through her cooperation with the Western Frontier to bolster the power of the Human Race, all to achieve her ambition of dominating the world.
The immortals, in turn, were seizing this opportunity, attempting to hide within human bodies.
The Western Frontier and the Southern Frontier… were merely supply stations for the Empress to cultivate ‘half-immortals’.
Li Wei had witnessed just how much power a single half-immortal possessed on the battlefield in Grandhaven Prefecture.
“Immortal seed… immortal seed…”
Li Wei repeatedly murmured these two words.
The immortal arts taught by the Red Dust Immortal were also a conduit to awaken immortals.
The immortals were slumbering. Cultivating the immortal arts of an immortal carried a certain probability of earning that immortal’s favor and awakening them within one’s body, though this often occurred in weaker individuals.
“If I were to plant an immortal seed within my body…” Li Wei narrowed his eyes slightly.
After only a brief moment of thought, Li Wei shook his head.
The Yin-Yang Fish diagram encompassed three thousand Daos. He didn’t need to open the Dao Gate; he only needed to comprehend the rules to 100%.
In theory, his Tai Chi was not inferior to Ancestor Lan in the slightest, perhaps even stronger.
Since he could grab a Red Dust Immortal single-handedly, striving to become an immortal would actually be a step backward.
Amidst his thoughts, Li Wei was slightly startled.
One descendant had already planted an immortal seed.
[Your descendant Li Chuyuan fled to the Western Frontier following the battle at Grandhaven Prefecture.]
[Possessing the Secret Scripture of Corpse Stitching from the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems, he scavenged the corpse of a Void Refinement realm cultivator and stitched it into his own body.
Li Chuyuan’s strength reached the peak of the Divinity Transformation realm.
Even after witnessing the family’s immense power at Jade Mist Valley, filled with regret and resentment, he still refused to let go of his hope for survival. Acquired Trait: Extreme Escape]
[Always able to grasp a sliver of survival in the most dangerous situations, escape chance increases by 30%.]
“…”
Li Wei was speechless for a moment. In a certain sense, this Li Chuyuan was truly a rare talent.
Over the years, the family had even produced a few individuals who admired Li Chuyuan, secretly passing intelligence to him.
[Beneath the Blood Moon, cultivators have gone completely mad.
Possessing Dao Seeds within their bodies, they have become immortal kin. Within the Western Frontier, immortal seeds slaughter one another, belonging to different factions.
During a great battle between two Void Refinement half-immortals in the Western Frontier, your descendant Li Chuyuan snatched a half-immortal’s corpse amidst the chaos, dug out the immortal seed from the corpse, and swallowed it. Acquired Trait: Half-Immortal]
[Acquired Immortal Art: Kin]
The Blood Moon exuded a bewitching, dark crimson hue.
The Western Frontier had completely devolved into a land of chaos and madness. Beneath ruined walls lay cracked earth, a landscape of absolute devastation.
After consuming an immortal seed, Li Chuyuan stood atop a broken pillar with his arms wide open, seemingly embracing the Blood Moon.
He looked down upon the thousands of respectfully kneeling kin left behind on the ground after the great battle.
He was feeling all the changes after incorporating the immortal seed into his body; the entire world was so clear in his eyes.
He still could not forget everything that had happened in Azure Cloud Prefecture and Grandhaven Prefecture.
Now, his heart surged with excitement, and all his regret and resentment had vanished without a trace.
“The era created me, and I will also create an era! I crawled out of Azure Cloud Prefecture in a wretched state, but I am also climbing upward, straight toward the azure clouds!”
He slowly turned his gaze toward the Southern Frontier, his eyes icy. “With a brand new appearance, reaching a height you can never hope to touch.”
Given time, he would become a ‘watchdog’, becoming an existence like Linghu Xian.
As for the family, even the legendary Old Ancestor was helpless against Linghu Xian and the watchdog.
Those inferior clansmen of his simply did not possess the strength to battle an immortal.
“I am… an immortal!”
[Your descendant Li Chuyuan acquired the Trait: Born Traitor]
[Please believe that no matter how good the system and environment are, traitors will always exist. When engaging in betrayal, karmic opportunities and cultivation speed increase.]
…
“Bullshit, you are a half-immortal…”
Li Wei rolled his eyes, though he was still quite pleased at the moment.
This kid was simply a natural spy, the kind that no method could possibly detect.
Meanwhile.
Having obtained definitive intelligence from Zhao Guang, within the family’s secret grounds, the seal on Linghu Xian’s corpse was finally opened.
The secret grounds were actually the body of the Old Tree…
As an ancient tree at the Void Refinement realm, the Old Tree’s abilities were not inferior to the Body Integration realm. The space within it was a vast, boundless world.
Outside the Old Tree were Li Yaoqing refining pills and Lu Niang occasionally popping out to cool off on its branches, lending the Old Tree’s body a trace of immortal spiritual qi.
Li Tianqi, Li Tianming, Li Kuanghua, and Li Chang’an, along with others, stepped into the Old Tree’s body.
Within the vast, white world sat a man with a stubble-covered face, staring blankly with vacant eyes.
“Bang!”
Before Tian Xing could even react, a boot suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Li Tianming’s foot had already planted itself firmly onto his face, kicking the man flying.
Following that, corrosive ghost fire burned him, prompting screams of agony as he rolled all over the ground.
Li Tianqi was momentarily stunned. “Tianming, what are you doing?”
“I… I don’t know.”
Li Tianming scratched his head, looking in sheer bewilderment at the foot he had just retracted.
“I don’t know who used my foot to kick him, but they definitely have a mental problem.”
“…” The clansmen shrugged. He had many people inside his body, so he made the rules.
Reaching the end, the white mist partitioned the Old Tree’s body into a second world.
Within lay a corpse imprisoned by talismans, Dharma Treasures, and array formations. The Old Tree had many such places inside its body.
As the crowd arrived, the corpse began to squirm, floating out a phantom silhouette.
The clansmen furrowed their brows.
Inside Linghu Xian’s corpse was an immortal seed.
The humanoid phantom now floating out stood 1.7 meters tall. Its entire body was like flawless white jade and faceless, resembling the most perfect work of art in the world.
This was the immortal that had parasitized Linghu Xian’s body, the very immortal entity that even the Old Ancestor had been unable to detect.
After Linghu Xian was trapped, he originally still had his life, but this immortal thoroughly drained all his vitality, allowing its power to reach its absolute peak.
Seeing the people of the Li Clan arrive, this immortal seemed to have been waiting for a long time, letting out a cold sneer brimming with bewitchment.
“You were bound to come. I can give you everything you desire; after all, power is the fundamental element that decides all things in the universe.”
It surveyed everyone in the Li Clan. It could feel these mortals’ thirst for power. Ultimately, these people would become its food, just like Linghu Xian!
“So then, who wishes to coexist with me?”
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