Chapter 366: Chapter 157: Hereditary Duke Tongye, Aspiring for Human World Demonstration Dao with Zuo Shanhe—Luo Fuyao Ascends the Mountain!
"Twenty-eight major restrictions, two barriers of the heavenly moat, this means he has already passed one and took it upon himself to change his name to ’Li Treading Immortal,’ without returning to the Tongye Duke’s Mansion."
"Is this still the once timid and overly cautious Li Shunfan?"
"Thus... mother’s words are not without reason. If the situation is urgent, Li Qing uses the ’backhand,’ and accidentally falls into the trap set by his half-brother in alliance with Divine Techniques, it’s not impossible."
"But now, these things are not important."
Li Xuanzong remained calm:
"What has already happened is settled."
"No matter what innate double pupils or Supreme Saint Son, if they are dead, they are dead; after all, once a person dies, all matters dissolve."
"Mother hails from one of the Six Pillars of Divine Blood, as ’Grandmaster Dong’s legitimate daughter. Given this connection, even if Great Yin dispatches soldiers from Ming Huang State to Tongye State, he won’t be the commander."
"And the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect, as the World’s First Mysterious Sect, though disciples are few, each possesses extraordinary skills and all hold great respect for the Mountain and River Immortal, willing to carry out orders unto death."
"If Li Treading Immortal truly becomes the last closed-door disciple before his master’s end, even if the Mountain and River Immortal is in his twilight years, enters the coffin, and becomes a corpse."
"Then, claiming the pretext of ’Zuo Shanhe’s’ testament to rebuild the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect and declaring himself sect leader, he could indeed rally a significant banner."
"After all, even father in his early years was just under the name of the Left Gate Leader, granted techniques, but compared to true attire disciples serving closely, there was still quite a difference."
"If one can use the name of the half-brother to reunite the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect for the benefit of the Tongye Duke’s Mansion, it wouldn’t work as a great asset."
Li Qiankun, Li Xuanzong.
Both repressed the divine light in their eyes, their abdomens secretly nurturing brilliance, evidently figures who have refined the Alchemy Dao.
In this era, cultivation speed is equivalent to ten times that of later generations, Great Innate experts emerge continuously, but the Primordial Pill Realm remains the benchmark of elite entry, rare in the world.
However, for those truly outstanding, they no longer need to spend enormous amounts of time like in later times, to accumulate Yellow Court True Qi and nurture foundations for breakthroughs.
Because, every breath of clear qi taken now is akin to a treasure pill, a treasure medicine in later generations!
This is the best era, flourishing in cultivation!
This is also the worst era, as scriptures are scarce, the path forward hard to find, Primordial Pill, Dragon Tiger, Celestial Being, nearly every threshold blocks ninety-nine percent of the Celestial Pride!
Some people’s cultivation advances rapidly, but their comprehension is lacking, failing to grasp true techniques, only knowing to adhere rigidly, following the paths of predecessors, then during this era...
It’s doomed not to become a legend remembered by history.
Li Shen Yao slowly turned around.
Looking at the two sons.
After a moment, he nodded slightly:
"You two have grown so much since a few years ago."
"Because of Divine Technique’s death, your mother is greatly enraged, wanting to kill Li Shunfan indiscriminately, to have him accompany Divine Techniques in death, but this... is extraordinarily unwise, inconsistent with the grand plan of our Li Family."
"Currently, Great Yin is mobilizing troops from Ming Huang State, ordering soldiers to attack ’Tongye State.’"
"The Baoping State, Northwest Wilderness monsters want us to serve as the ’gateway,’ to resist them, test Great Yin’s might. Tongye State is caught in the cracks, the situation is delicate; one careless move can lose everything."
"Qiankun, this time you shall go wield my military token, summon the ’Seven Mansions’ Soldiers and Horses,’ to fend off Great Yin."
"As for the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect... Xuanzong, you’ve been exerting for so long, both commanding and fighting formations, take a rest temporarily, let your elder brother handle it a bit, contact your half-brother, strive... to bring him back."
"Since Divine Techniques’ death cannot be undone, then the truth does not matter."
"Even if it was done by the Wuwei Sect, but Yellow Dragon Dao stirs up a hundred thousand Red Eyebrow chaos on the ’hundred thousand mountains’ in Changbai State, it’s a tremendous force, heard... he’s also a sworn brother of ’Wuwei Sect Leader.’"
"Even if it was Feng Zizai who killed him."
"But if we can connect with him through Xiaosi, then hook up with Yellow Dragon Dao, at that time with our two armies one west one east, forming a horn shape..."
"We might even charge into Divine Capital, change the world..."
"Possibly!"
...
Life and Death Mountain and River Sect.
Originally the World’s First Mysterious Sect.
Now, besides the sprawling Daoist temples, the sole survivor left is the aged Zuo Shanhe, along with Jixia.
Even masters of Canyuan and cultivation have refined Dragon Tiger Divine Power, reputedly the finest Primordial Pill figures under heaven.
Yet Zuo Shanhe remains expressionless, expelling them from the mountain gate, claiming henceforth, there shall no longer be a lineage of the ’Life and Death Mountain and River Sect.’
The same applies to other disciples.
Causing Jixia to clench his heart in simultaneous admiration of the sect leader’s decisiveness.
"I do this for their wellbeing."
"For human greed and avarice are infinite; when they find the path unbroken, only leading to a complete misroute..."
"The beliefs, will, morality of humans are actually fragile."
"Even if today they can uphold their baseline."
"Can you uphold for a year, ten years, can you uphold for sixty years, a hundred years?"
"Upon nearing life’s end, even heroes become cowards."
"The human heart is notoriously unpredictable; I cannot let these pupils I’ve nurtured and raised, walk a path of no return."
In the Mountain and River Palace.
The skeleton-thin Zuo Shanhe sat grandly in the Grandmaster’s chair, legs spread wide, sleeves draped over the armrest, ancient eyes shimmering with deep penetration of worldly affairs, making Jixia in a moment, deeply agree:
