Li Xiaoyao stood in the center of the array, as stream after stream of blood-red halos continually rose from beneath his feet.
The aura became stronger and richer; being within the array, Li Xiaoyao felt it most clearly and truly.
Inside his body, a deeply hidden power was incessantly seeping out from his blood and bones. This force excited him, making every cell in his body tremble.
Li Chengfeng, upon seeing this scene, took a long breath of relief, and his gaze towards Li Xiaoyao grew even more tender.
He is my son, the same blood flows in his veins as in mine.
"Look, the grade of the bloodline is starting to manifest!" someone suddenly exclaimed in a low voice.
All eyes turned, and indeed, surrounding Li Xiaoyao, a blood-red pillar of light with a particularly vivid red halo encircled him as if descending from the heavens.
A single blood-red halo represented a First Grade bloodline.
Under everyone’s watch, halos, at an extremely fast pace, kept descending from above. The higher the halo, the deeper the color, offering a stark contrast.
"Second Grade… Third Grade…"
"Sixth Grade…"
"Already Sixth Grade."
Surprise flashed across everyone’s faces, and the atmosphere suddenly quieted down as all eyes were locked on the blood-red halos atop the array.
"The strongest bloodline in the family is only Seventh Grade. Over the past hundred years, only Elder Li Changfeng and the Clan Leader have awakened the Seventh Grade bloodline. It’s impossible for him to awaken a Seventh Grade bloodline," some of them mused, staring intently at Li Xiaoyao, unwilling to believe that he could possibly awaken a Seventh Grade bloodline.
"Buzz~"
Another blood-red halo descended from the sky, encircling Li Xiaoyao’s body.
"Seventh Grade! A Seventh Grade bloodline!"
"It’s really a Seventh Grade bloodline!"
Shock spread among everyone, and those most unable to accept it were Xie Nan and Li Pengcheng.
Li Pengcheng clenched his hands into fists, his lips thinned like the edge of a blade, and disbelief mixed with fury filled his eyes.
"Why, why does he awaken a Seventh Grade bloodline? While I only have a Sixth Grade bloodline?" In Li Pengcheng’s own bloodline awakening ceremony, he was graded as Sixth Grade.
A Sixth Grade bloodline is undoubtedly top-tier in the Li Family. It’s also for this reason Li Pengcheng possessed such an astonishing cultivation talent.
Now twenty-four, his cultivation level had already reached the Seventh Rank of the Spirit Cultivation Realm.
Twenty-four years old and at the Seventh Rank of the Spirit Cultivation Realm, such cultivation was even more powerful than many of the Li Family’s External Elders.
Li Pengcheng was acknowledged as the most talented and gifted cultivator in the Li Family over the last hundred years.
Hence, even knowing that his father had another son lost out in the world, Li Pengcheng didn’t feel overburdened by it.
Especially since today, upon meeting Li Xiaoyao, his self-confidence grew once again.
This Li Xiaoyao, in terms of cultivation level, was merely at the Qi Refining Stage—what made him think he could compete with me for the position of Family Head?
Although the bloodline he tested now was Seventh Grade, Li Pengcheng was merely a bit surprised, that was all.
He is now twenty-eight and yet his cultivation level is still not on par with mine; even with a Seventh Grade bloodline, the chances of him catching up to me in terms of cultivation in the future are slim.
"He may have a strong bloodline, but he has already passed the most suitable age for cultivation, not worth fearing," Li Pengcheng quirked a corner of his mouth, a cold smile emerging on his handsome, chiseled face.
"It’s not Seventh Grade, not Seventh Grade!" Suddenly someone cried out, and the crowd saw another blood-red halo descending from the sky.
"Eighth Grade!"
"My God, it’s an Eighth Grade bloodline!"
"The first member of the Li Family to awaken an Eighth Grade bloodline since its inception!"
Li Chengfeng was also excitedly watching Li Xiaoyao within the array, his excitement no less intense than that of the others.
What the Eighth Grade bloodline represented, he knew better than anyone else.
The first Family Head of the Li Family had left a testament that if a clansman’s bloodline ever reached Ninth Grade, they would be sent into the Li Family’s Secret Realm to receive the Li Family’s legacy.
However, many years had passed, and the highest grade of bloodline awakening that the Li Family had seen was only Seventh Grade.
Let alone a Ninth Grade bloodline, even an Eighth Grade had never appeared before.
But now, Li Chengfeng saw hope.
"Another one!" Li Chengfeng roared inwardly.
The forty-some clansmen were also nervously watching Li Xiaoyao at this moment.
Eight blood-colored rings enveloped Li Xiaoyao, and it remained like that for about half an hour, with no further movement.
"An Eighth Grade bloodline, it probably won’t go any higher," everyone thought.
But just as they were letting out a sigh of relief, a somewhat piercing sound rang out, and everyone swiftly turned their attention to it.
Another blood-colored ring faintly coalesced overhead, and seeing this, the pupils of the onlookers constricted, and their hearts instantly raced, sharing the same thought.
"Damn, it’s a Ninth Grade bloodline!"
"Swoosh!"
The ninth ring descended from the sky and accurately enveloped Li Xiaoyao.
"A Ninth Grade bloodline, it’s really a Ninth Grade bloodline!"
Li Pengcheng’s face lost its smile, he could not bring himself to smile.
Even though Li Xiaoyao’s cultivation level was not as high as his, he possessed a Ninth Grade bloodline, stealing all the limelight today.
It was foreseeable that, after today, Li Xiaoyao’s name and the Ninth Grade bloodline he awakened during the bloodline awakening ceremony would spread throughout the entire Li Family at the fastest speed.
Moreover, with a Ninth Grade bloodline, Li Xiaoyao would receive cultivation from Li Chengfeng, who would give him the most bountiful of family resources.
After all, this was the first Ninth Grade bloodline that had appeared in the Li Family since its establishment.
Li Yiming’s elderly face bore a trace of shock and a smile; this kid was indeed extraordinary.
Although Li Yiming didn’t know how this youngster managed to conceal his actual cultivation, he was clearer than anyone that Li Xiaoyao’s true cultivation level was far beyond the Qi Refinement Stage it appeared to be. Enjoy exclusive chapters from Freewebnovel
People only knew that Li Xiaoyao had killed Li Shisan. Yet, very few knew that Xie Min, the Xie Family’s fifth elder, had also died at Li Xiaoyao’s hand.
Li Yiming had examined Xie Min’s corpse afterward and found that he had died from a broken neck caused by a stomp.
At that time, only Li Xiaoyao, Li Shisan, and Xie Min were in the tomb chamber. Li Shisan wouldn’t kill Xie Min, and with his cultivation level, he definitely couldn’t have broken his neck with a stomp. Thus, it must have been Li Xiaoyao who could possibly have killed him.
The thought that Li Xiaoyao had the power to kill Xie Min made Li Yiming somewhat astonished.
This member of the Li Family, who had been living outside for twenty-eight years, hadn’t received any formal cultivation instruction or inheritance from the Li Family during that time. Li Yiming had also thoroughly investigated Li Xiaoyao’s life over the years, knowing that he grew up in Yun Country and had lived the life of a mercenary until before his return to his homeland.
Being apprenticed to learn arts, such a thing was impossible.
It meant that, for twenty-eight years, Li Xiaoyao had been cultivating all by himself by blindly stumbling upon it.
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Yet, without any guidance, Li Xiaoyao had cultivated a powerful cultivation level, which Li Yiming found unbelievable.