Chapter 385: Chapter 164: Today You See My Disciple as the Moon in a Well; One Day, He Shall Stand Before the Heavens!
Dong Hongshuang.
Upon seeing this golden hairpin with a phoenix head, a young woman with an elegant and striking face.
The name suddenly surfaced in Jixia’s memory.
As ’Li Shunfan’, the name Shunfan was given to him by this head matriarch.
If it were only for this reason, the two would not have had any interaction or conflict.
After all, he was merely a newborn with no extraordinary abilities to catch the eye of the matriarch, who was the master’s legitimate daughter and a top-tier powerholder of the era.
However, it was an indisputable fact that, like crushing a ’weed’, she had ordered the execution of his birth mother fifteen years ago.
She had not even cast a single glance, lightly giving out an order.
The reason for sparing the life of the former Li Shunfan.
On one hand, it was because he was Li Shen Yao’s bloodline, thus giving Duke Tongye some face.
On the other hand, Duke Tongye’s foundation was immensely vast, commanding a province with six mansions bowing before him, controlling the boundary between demons and Divine Blood Great Yin.
He was arguably a contemporary hero, comparable to the Yellow Dragon Dao’s "Heaven-Soaring General", with deeper territories, roots, and connections.
Such assets naturally wouldn’t fall into the hands of a lesser immediate offspring, but in Dong Hongshuang’s eyes, her eldest son Li Qiankun, second son Li Xuanzong, and third son Li Shentong were all of high regard.
Should they traverse the world and devour the lands like tigers.
There also needed to be someone to lower themselves, to do the menial tasks in the name of the Li family.
To put it bluntly, an immediate son was at least more useful than those from collateral branches.
However, Dong Hongshuang hadn’t given Jixia so much as a glance in over a decade, refusing to acknowledge the title ’matriarch’, sending him far to the Divine Capital, to fend for himself.
Planning to use him when needed, to make him serve his brothers, to summon at will.
Therefore, when Li Shentong died.
Dong Hongshuang in anger could act unreasonably, demanding Li Treading Immortal’s death, to accompany her son in burial.
Because, in her eyes,
If her son died, why should you be able to escape death?
In the eyes of the duke’s daughter, a privileged lady, she viewed the immediate son as a weed, paving the way for her descendants, which was understandable but —
Why,
Must I die?
Jixia, awakened in a broken temple on a snowy night, with remaining fury at Dong Hongshuang’s injustice, began to ’hiss’ with anger.
Thus he stepped over the threshold, ascending the hall.
Daring to stand before Duke Tongye Li Shen Yao, his nominal brother Li Xuanzong, and this matriarch Dong Hongshuang!
Declaring that he, Li Treading Immortal, had killed Li Shentong!
In an instant,
The vast ’Duke’s Mansion’ was in turmoil.
"Who has invaded the hall?!"
"The Lord and Lady... are still inside!"
The guards outside, even the high-ranking tributor, all hidden talents, perspired cold sweat in that moment.
No detection.
No detection whatsoever!
Be it the Great Innate, or even the Primordial Pill level!
As Jixia and Luo Fuyao boldly stepped through the hallway.
As long as one hadn’t reached the ’Celestial Human Domain’...
No one could notice the abnormality!
And within the Tongye Duke’s Mansion, only the person inside the hall had reached the ’Celestial Human Domain’!
This made everyone else who was living off the state seem like useless burdens!
The person even brazenly called out the Duchess’s name, claiming... claiming to have killed the third young master??
Absolutely arrogant and tyrannical!
At once, everyone felt a chill down their spine.
Thinking it must be some mysterious expert who broke into the Tongye Duke’s Mansion.
But then, when some dared to peek through the threshold...
They found.
That it was nothing more than a fifteen-year-old youth!
Moreover, he bore a strong resemblance to Duke Li Shen Yao, except he appeared younger and more elegant, with wide robes and large sleeves embroidered with a vividly lifelike ’white phoenix’, like an immortal descended to this realm.
Who is this person?
Some were bewildered.
Until————
An old retainer who had once served in the Divine Capital saw the youth, rubbed his eyes, and finally spoke in disbelief:
"This is..."
"The illegitimate son who was sent away to the Divine Capital years ago!"
"Indeed... indeed fifteen years ago, the one known as ’the world’s first dancing girl’, Ren Baijun, captured by the Lord’s eye, only to enjoy days of good fortune before suddenly perishing...?"
"Hiss."
Could the maidservant’s son... not reach the height of a Prince, or stand alongside a True Master?
Recalling the inner residence’s hidden truths and rumors from years ago, the old retainers of Tongye Duke’s Mansion vaguely felt...
A storm might arise today.
...
Zuo Shanhe, atop Nirvana Mountain, awoke from a dream, successfully achieving ’Human World Demonstration Dao’, combined with his lifelong insights, deriving a Primordial Spirit Technique known as ’Removing the Shell, Revealing the True Self’, transforming his body into ’Innate Qi’.
He said, vaguely... he saw a realm beyond the Divine Soul, beyond the True Master, beyond this world, known as ’Primordial Spirit’!
However, it was invisible and untouchable, only glimpsed in tiny fractions, thus after rebirth from the flames, he established the ’Nirvana Primordial Spirit Skill’.
Now, as cultivation revived, it’s merely been over twenty years, far from where martial arts and cultivation technique frameworks under the fifth step of ’Dharma Seeker’ have applied.
But during the process of descending with Zuo Shanhe and reuniting with the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect lineage upon Nirvana Mountain.
Receiving Zuo Shanhe’s teachings and daily lectures, both Jixia and Luo Fuyao, relying on ancestral blessings, inherited Zuo Shanhe’s true transmission and thus gained insights.
