Breaking through to the Mahayana Realm!
That heart was attempting to break through to the Mahayana Realm!
The crowd from the Azure Cloud Region looked at each other in shock.
That was a realm they had never even dared to imagine.
Yet, their expressions remained solemn; no matter the cost, they had to stop that mad heart!
"Ancestor Feimeng, you should have killed him!
You should have killed him!
It wasn't me who was hopelessly deluded; it was him controlling me all along!"
"Your greed will be the death of us all!"
Zhao Qingguang's roar pierced the air.
Zhao Feimeng trembled violently.
Looking at her own form, which was neither human nor ghost, a wretched expression appeared on her face.
"Greed... is it greed?"
She did not know.
Even though she knew she had died long ago—that she was a brand-new "her"—the instincts within her body compelled her to resurrect her clansmen time and again.
They drove her to ceaselessly attempt to strengthen the family, and made her... yearn to keep every single clansman by her side.
In the entire clan, hers was the existence that spanned the longest era.
Yet now... she truly did not understand.
She could no longer tell truth from falsehood.
Zhao Qingguang cried out as he looked toward the members of the Li family.
"For over a hundred years, the Old Ancestor has been ceaselessly manipulating me, forcing me to goad the clansmen into attacking the Azure Cloud Prefecture.
From the intelligence I gathered, he knew that the Azure Cloud Prefecture was by no means a simple existence.
When he learned that you possessed two Void Refining cultivators, he became even more excited."
"But... Ancestor Buqun and Ancestor Bai Ling held fast to their instinctual drive.
They refused to let our clan risk their lives in an all-out struggle.
They were unaware that they were merely stalling—keeping the clan from plunging into war—while content to silently absorb Destiny.
To them, possessing Destiny was already enough."
"Wan and Ancestor Tingyu were also striving for the safety of our clan in the outside world.
They never once placed our clan in a perilous situation.
Even though our strength was formidable, when they arrived in the Azure Cloud Region, they did not move against the Li clan.
Their only wish was to protect the family—to protect us... the dead."
"But the war began nonetheless.
A foundation of one hundred and sixty thousand years served as the capital for the arrogance of the younger generations."
"Even I did not realize that it was the Old Ancestor manipulating me to make an enemy of you.
My thoughts ran completely contrary to those of the Clan Elders.
It wasn't they who looked down on you; it was... me!
I was the one telling them that the Azure Cloud Li Clan was nothing special.
I knew clearly that you were extraordinary, yet I simply could not control myself!"
"Do you know how excited the Old Ancestor was?
Especially after witnessing your strength, and hearing that Ancestor Wan had perished in the Imperial Capital..."
Zhao Qingguang's wailing transformed into a frenzied mix of weeping and laughter.
"I told you all to run! Why didn't you listen?! Why?!!"
"His Destiny has been converted into sufficient Blood Food!"
With a hideous expression, Zhao Qingguang pointed at the high towers that the people of the Azure Cloud Region had razed to the ground, and then at Li Changsheng.
"What you destroyed... was the formation sealing him!
And you—your Human Emperor Eye caused Ancestor Feimeng to lose control over the Old Ancestor, making her illusions fail!
The Old Ancestor's cry for help was a trick to lure you into his trap!"
"Now..."
"He is about to resurrect!"
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
A wild gale swept through the Immortal Domain.
No—that was the oppressive might of the world's supreme powerhouse!
Starting from that heart, the ground began to cave in!
Unknowingly, streaks of red thread suddenly appeared in the air, resembling the veins of a human body.
These veins pierced into the corpses of the Zhao clansmen scattered across the ground.
The blood within them surged, and the bodies rapidly withered away!
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
This powerful oppressive might struck terror into the hearts of the people of the Azure Cloud Region, leaving them unable to stop their bodies from trembling!
"Impossible... impossible!!!"
Red light flooded every corner of the Immortal Domain; even the sky itself was dyed a crimson red!
A shout that seemed to echo from antiquity erupted from within the heart.
"One hundred and sixty thousand years! Hahaha!
This Old Ancestor... shall see the light of day once more!!!"
The members of the Li family gathered together.
As the wild wind brushed against their faces, Li Wei glanced at his numerous clansmen.
Their expressions were complex at first, but then, amidst this oppressive might, the likes of which they had never felt before, they broke into smiles.
The corpses of the Zhao clansmen floating in the sky and the frantically writhing Zhao Clan Old Ancestor shimmering with red light seemed to hold no place in their eyes.
Li Wei cracked a joke to his clansmen.
"Children, let's make a deal right now: in the future, you are absolutely not allowed to seal this Old Ancestor inside a heart."
"Hahaha!"
The clansmen burst into laughter.
Facing the red light and the crushing pressure, they marched in unison toward the heart of the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor, which stood tall enough to rival the heavens.
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