Chapter 383: Chapter 163: Can a Maid’s Son Not Attain the Supreme Dao? Li Shentong, I Killed Him—So What? (2)
The disciple pleaded bitterly.
In the forest, a thousand riders encircled, with ambushes lying in wait from all directions. Canyuan Taoist clenched his wide sleeves and gritted his teeth, forcibly employing his Profound Skill. A Heart Demon thought constantly plagued his mind.
That thought told him that he could break through the ’troop formation’ before him, and by using the blood and qi of the troops, he could fill himself up, thereby brewing a ’Nirvana Tribulation’—the more he killed, the stronger he became.
Just as he held to the ascetic precepts of his sect, hesitating and undecided...
"Canyuan Taoist, for the sake of these Life and Death Disciples, I implore you not to struggle and return quickly to the Duke Mansion with me."
"If you join under Duke Tongye, as former Life and Death Disciples, the Lord will certainly receive you as honored guests. Henceforth, you will no longer have to suffer these days of displacement and relentless pursuit!"
The terrifying sharpness of the military spirit converged on one person’s body. With a roar, the cavalry commander released a torrent of snow and wind, resembling an avalanche charging forth.
At that moment, he found himself cornered, with his eyes blood-red, ready to ’fight to the death’.
However...
Just as the cavalry rode forth, about to crash into his face!!
Crackling!
An ear-piercing light illuminated the snow-clad forest!
"What is that?"
The commander exclaimed in surprise and doubt. A cluster of white light suddenly rose, and he felt a growing threat before him...
And then————
Bam!
A gigantic hand formed entirely from ’qi’ appeared.
It covered the cavalry formation, and with a single strike!
Nigh a thousand riders... including the person who led the gathered ’military edge’, were smashed with a ’bam’, and the battle formation shattered, directly pressed into the vast snow!
Subsequently,
in the stunned expression of Canyuan Taoist,
a young man with white hair, exuding ’Qi’, with even his hair melding into heaven and earth, floated over, like an Immortal.
He looked at the disciples of the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect...
Beneath his dust-free handsome face, visible sorrow and anger emerged:
"Li Shen Yao... Oh, Li Shen Yao..."
He murmured slightly.
His eyes expressed apology:
"Canyuan, and the few of you."
"This time, it was my mistake."
Zuo Shanhe rushed over upon hearing the dire chase suffered by ’Life and Death Mountain and River Sect’, his heart filled with seething anger at its peak:
"This time, if not for your ’Junior Brother Ta Xian’ awakening me, giving me an opportunity..."
"I’m afraid due to a moment’s error, my Life and Death Mountain and River Sect would have ceased to exist entirely."
His gaze was complex, looking at a man and a woman standing before the already ’dispersed’ cavalry formation, imbued with ’Qi Flow of the Week’, gathered at the Forehead Ancestral Acupoint, resembling a Divine Being.
Finally, with a wave of his broad sleeves:
"Today... I descend the mountain!"
"Then all involved in the siege of ’Life and Death Disciples’ in the entire Tongye State... must, and have to, give me, Zuo Shanhe, an explanation!"
...
Tongye State, Duke Mansion.
Passing through two stone lions guarding the martial spirit, with a grand vermilion gate adorned with shining bronze nails, walking along the corridor, guards and servants on one side lowered their heads, yet Li Xuanzong continued without pause.
Until he reached the front hall, coincidentally seeing his father, Duke Tongye, Li Shen Yao, removing his armor.
And...
His mother, hailing from Divine Capital as one of the ’Six Pillars of Divine Blood’, the legitimate daughter of Grandmaster Dong, Dong Hongshuang.
The woman’s skin was snow-like, as jade, with slightly closed phoenix eyes, long eyelashes, dressed in a deep purple palace gown embroidered with gold and silver threads, adorned with dragons and phoenixes soaring.
Her head full of jet-black hair held by a golden jade hairpin, her demeanor and visage exuded calmness and elegance.
This was his mother, born with a silver spoon, with a father who was a power authority in the world, and married to a husband who was a duke ruling a region.
Moreover, back then, Li Shen Yao had yet to firmly establish himself and pleaded earnestly for the union with Grandmaster Dong, hence Duke Tongye always showed respect to his wife.
Although he hadn’t promised her ’forever and always’, he at least treated her with courtesy, never speaking harsh words.
However, when Li Xuanzong unexpectedly arrived.
He saw Li Shen Yao, filled with anger, hair bristling, reprimanding his wife Dong Hongshuang!
"Look at what you’ve done!"
"Clearly, we could have handled this with gentleness, yet you insisted on using those thunderous means of your family!"
"Originally, I sent Xuanzong to ’Nirvana Mountain’. Once he brought Shun Fan back, the Mountain and River Immortal’s teachings would gradually assimilate all ’Life and Death Disciples’, step by step, convincing them with virtue, winning their trust."
"But look at you, impatient and reckless, privately dispatching a thousand riders to hunt and arrest the Life and Death Disciples behind my back, don’t you know I once viewed Mountain and River Immortal as a mentor, though never taken in?"
"Regarding this, the world knows!"
"Madam..."
"You are putting me in a position of disloyalty and unrighteousness!"
Dong Hongshuang, pointed at her forehead, remained unperturbed, instead sipping her tea leisurely, and then, noticing Li Xuanzong returning from Nirvana Mountain, glanced reproachfully at her furious husband:
"Li Shen Yao, didn’t you see our son has returned?"
"You always look before you leap, overly considerate; if not for King Yin increasingly pressing us, you wouldn’t have revolted against the Various Demon Ancestral Courts in the northwest."
"Do you suppose my father wouldn’t support you?"
"His elder’s cultivation aligns with creation, and my adopted elder brother guards ’Celestial Prison Pass’, who can lead troops to besiege you?"
