Outside the red mist, the geniuses offered their congratulations.
It seemed the youngsters from the Tian Xing Cultivator Abode had "trained" the geniuses of Eternal Sun Prefecture quite well.
The essence Qi of Heaven and Earth now flowed from the Old Tree's roots, piercing their own abdomens and nourishing their cultivation.
Li Wei floated at the center of the black mist, enjoying the feeling of the Heaven and Earth essence Qi entering his body.
He glanced around. The "children" who had emerged from the Tian Xing Cultivator Abode were being exceptionally well-behaved before their elders.
They had been trapped in that Abode for nearly two hundred years.
Now, with the exception of Li Changsheng, all of them had been lifted out of the red mist by the Old Tree's roots and were undergoing their tribulations.
So many years of accumulating potential for this single moment. If it hadn't been for them, the Li family would never have learned Tian Xing's secrets.
The panel materialized before his eyes.
[Special Event—The Li Family's Blood Feud, Complete!]
[After nearly two hundred years of flight and struggle, your family has flourished in exile and hardship. You have returned to Eternal Sun Prefecture and seized the fruits of Tian Xing's victory.]
[Gained Family Will: 5000]
[Your family has acquired the Trait—Walking with Heaven]
[Your family will obtain everything that belonged to Tian Xing. Tian Xing has fallen, and the Li family has risen up in his place.
In these two hundred years, you have learned ever more of the Imperial Dynasty's secrets, and you have come to possess the will to truly pursue the Great Dao.
Cultivation Speed +20%, Qi Luck Increased...]
200 points of Family Will could allow Li Wei to manifest in the world for four hours, and now he had 5000!
For nearly two hundred years, the total accumulation of Family Will had only been 3000 points, and of that, merely a little over 2000 remained.
This massive amount of Family Will could let him do many, many things.
For instance, the healing methods among the family skills.
Upgrading the Ancestral Spirit Tablet...
This could also raise the family's strength to a whole new level!
"To rise up in his place, is it?"
Li Wei looked down at Tian Xing, who was now completely lost in despair.
Soon, he would be sealed within the body of the Old Tree.
What awaited him was the eternal agony of having his soul seared by his inner demons, which, day and night, would make him feel the unending torment of being alive.
But Li Wei knew with perfect clarity that some of the things Tian Xing had said earlier were absolutely right.
Tian Xing was the direct culprit, yes, but throughout the entire Azure Dynasty, there were many others who were, to varying degrees, involved in this affair.
Perhaps it was just a simple probe from them, or a casual remark made over a dinner table—but that was all it took to make someone like Tian Xing throw his life away for their cause!
Ascending to the peak of Eternal Sun Prefecture... this was far from enough.
Even after killing Tian Xing and obtaining everything that was his, the clan would still have to face the very same threats that Tian Xing himself once confronted!
"But before that," he declared, "let us first enjoy the fruits of this victory!"
BOOM!
Lightning Tribulation!
[Your descendant, Li Yunlin, has emerged from the Tian Xing Cultivator Abode.
The Skyveil Hall in his hands has devoured 36 different spirit objects, and he has long since reached the critical point for the Nine-Nine Nascent Soul Tribulation!]
The Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation!
Looking into the distance, one could see the Skyveil Hall appear in Li Yunlin's hand.
He and the Skyveil Hall were undergoing the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation together. Thirty-six different spirit objects emerged from within the Hall, each one representing a different Rule.
Hooo!
As the fierce wind howled, from within the red mist, the Li family elders unhesitatingly released spirit objects they had no use for. Dozens of orbs of light shot towards Li Yunlin.
Li Yunlin gave his clansmen a grateful nod, then raised his head and ascended into the sky.
To everyone's astonishment, his body took on the color of the pitch-black, starry cosmos, and with a single strike of his halberd, he severed the heavenly lightning!
[Your clansmen have gifted Li Yunlin 72 spirit objects of Rank 8 and above. He is borrowing the power of the Heavenly Tribulation to integrate these spirit objects into the Skyveil Hall.
After many years of deep cultivation, he has long since perceived the nature of the Rules.
Now, upon his re-emergence, he immediately breaks through to the stage of Nascent Soul 'Leaving the Body'!]
[The Skyveil Hall is advancing to become a Rank 5 Spirit Object. It can be integrated into the user's body, granting a physique with the resilience of a low-grade Dharma Treasure, and it can transform into the Skyveil Halberd.]
[Your descendant, Li Yunlin, has acquired the traits: Fire Spirit Body, Water Spirit Body, Ice Spirit Body... Trait Advancement: Hundred-Techniques Spirit Body.]
[Co-exists with the Skyveil Hall, possesses a hundred different types of elemental power, and is one with the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi.
Wherever the Skyveil Hall is present, a Divinity Transformation Domain, the 'Skyveil Domain', will naturally form within a thousand-meter radius.
While this Domain persists, the user's body merges with a hundred Techniques; so long as these Techniques are not extinguished, the body is indestructible.]
Watching his eldest son's heroic bearing, Li Yaozu nodded with gratification, his eyes filled with a smile.
He knew everything about how Yunlin had protected the other 'children' in the Tian Xing Cultivator Abode all these years, and he was deeply satisfied with his eldest son.
Just then, a hesitant female voice emerged from within Li Yaozu's sword box.
"Ah Zu," it said, "why do you never speak to me about your two children... and your wife?"
Li Yaozu was stunned into silence for a long moment. He didn't reply, only continuing to watch with gratification as Li Yunlin underwent his tribulation.
When his gaze shifted to 'Jiang Chenghuan,' however, he let out a long sigh.
...
[Your descendant, Li Tianyue, has broken through to the peak of the Nascent Soul realm!]
"Hmph!"
With a cold snort, the blood-clad female war god, who had once galloped across the battlefields of the Azure Cloud border, found she could no longer suppress her lightning tribulation.
She had originally intended to break through to the Nascent Soul realm by slaughtering the Wu Clan, but now, trapped within the Tian Xing Cultivator Abode, it was impossible to follow the Dao of Slaughter.
Gazing up at the gathering thunderclouds, the intensity of a Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, her expression was filled with dissatisfaction.
A flaming spirit stone suddenly appeared on her body, and a pair of flaming, spiritual Qi-filled spirit grasses dropped into her mouth.
Those were... the treasures Li Tianyi's group had found in the Tian Xing Cultivator Abode: the Rank 6 Phoenix Flame Stone and the Rank 6 Phoenix Feather Twin Spirit Grass!
"These years, being unable to slaughter the Wu Clan, my twin swords left unstained by blood—how dare a mere Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation like you come to humiliate me?"
Her blood-red armor whipped and snapped in the wind as Li Tianyue's twin swords floated into the air!
A pair of phoenix wings materialized behind her, and seething with rage, she slashed her swords at the heavenly lightning!
[Your descendant has integrated with the Phoenix Flame Stone and consumed the Phoenix Feather Twin Spirit Grass. Your descendant Li Tianyue is unable to obtain the true Phoenix bloodline. She instead obtains the Profound-rank technique 'Phoenix Wings' and breaks through the Seven-Nine Lightning Tribulation.]
"Damn It!"
Li Tianyue's eyes were filled with bitter resentment. This Seven-Nine Lightning Tribulation was the limit of her aptitude, but it was not the limit of her strength!
Her path was the Dao of Slaughter, but where in Eternal Sun Prefecture were there so many people for her to kill? Now, it was too late to kill any more!
Just then.
"Tianyue, take this Qilin soul!" Seeing the situation, Li Wei dared not delay.
He instantly appeared before Tian Xing and, from within the last vestiges of Tian Xing's Domain, drew out the fleeing Qilin phantom, hurling it towards Li Tianyue!
"Thank you, Old Ancestor!"
Within the thunderclouds, the Qilin's soul entered Li Tianyue's body!
AWOOO!
From the Raging Sky Flood Dragon, still circling the Blood Tree, a single drop of flood dragon blood floated towards Li Tianyue!
Outside Qilin Mountain.
Li Tianyue's son, Liu Wuhuan, seeing his mother undergoing her tribulation in the sky, had already rushed before the Old Ancestor of the Black Tortoise Sect. "Senior!"
The Old Ancestor of the Black Tortoise Sect was stunned for a long moment before cursing through gritted teeth, "You brat! You don't actually think that just because we're called the Black Tortoise Sect, we have the blood of the true Black Tortoise, do you?"
"You mean you don't?"
"I..."
On the ground below, they could only stare at each other, utterly speechless.
But up above, Li Tianyue had already charged into the lightning tribulation. The flood dragon's blood and the Qilin's soul entered her body. Her aura surged, climbing steadily higher, and the lightning tribulation, in turn, grew even more intense!
[Your descendant, Li Tianyue, having obtained the blood of a Flood Dragon, the wings of a Flying Phoenix, and the soul of a Qilin, has broken through the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation!]
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