[Year 812]
Within Highsun City, Li Xinnian returned from his daily trip to Silver Wolf Lake.
A faint smile graced his face, as if he hadn't just caught and eaten two people at Silver Wolf Lake today.
Upon returning to Highsun City, he also went to meet Ba Siyu.
With the numerous battles in Deston Prefecture, the clan's two hundred thousand-strong army was plundering the Wu tribe everywhere from within the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
There would always be some bigwigs in Deston Prefecture asking the clan for help.
"The people of the Yun Clan have become increasingly hard to catch these past two years; they've grown vigilant.
That fellow Bi Shihu is also hiding from our Li Clan, refusing to engage. And then there's Ba Siyu..." The corners of Li Xinnian's mouth curled up slightly.
"This profit-seeking mighty figure has been asking our Li Clan for help less and less over the past two years. How interesting."
Before long, he returned to the Li Clan's Chamber of Commerce.
Inside the Chamber of Commerce, people were still bustling back and forth.
In such a war-torn land, the demand for elixirs, spiritual artifacts, and talismans was immense.
Every year, a massive amount of spirit stones fell into the clan's pockets, which were then used by the Chamber of Commerce to purchase large quantities of world-rare natural treasures to send back home.
Li Xinnian entered a secret room in the Chamber of Commerce, sat cross-legged, and looked inward.
Within his Soul Sea, his Blood Spirit Dharma Body looked like a God of War that had crawled out from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Above the head of the Blood Spirit Dharma Body, a blood sphere resembling a red sun was rotating; that was the Spiritual power he had obtained from eating Yun Clan members over the past few years.
A pill fell into his hand, brimming with spiritual energy.
The moment it appeared, its fragrance spread throughout the entire secret room.
"A Grade 4 pill, the Void-Breaking Pill. After consuming it, one can deduce the Void Refinement Space and comprehend the laws of heaven and earth.
One pill grants ten years of seated comprehension.
Ancestor Yaoqing concocted a furnace of three Void-Breaking Pills these past two years, and one of them has fallen into my hands."
"Coupled with the vitality and Spiritual power hidden within my body obtained through demonic arts over the years, ten years of seated comprehension."
"Everyone in Deston Prefecture, let me have a good time playing with you all."
...
Inside the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
Li Yunlin had come from Sunfall City and sat cross-legged opposite Li Yunbing.
In his hand, the Skyveil Hall rotated in the shape of a cube, while Old Cat hopped on Li Yunlin's shoulder.
The ground naturally formed an Eight Trigrams array, causing the pseudo-Void Refinement Spiritual power on Li Yunbing's body to surge majestically.
Behind Li Yunbing emerged his Lightning Eagle Dharma Body.
This Dharma Body could only be considered decent even within the Divinity Transformation realm.
Li Yunbing had seized the body of Jiang Chenghuan and inherited his Spiritual arts.
Jiang Chenghuan's own strength was inferior to Li Yunbing's to begin with. Coupled with the demonic obsessions in Li Yunbing's heart over the years, his cultivation had constantly lagged behind.
He could be said to be the weakest Void Refinement expert in the world.
"Your Lightning Eagle employs the dual spiritual methods of Lightning and Metal, so your Void Refinement Space also requires the laws of these two aspects.
My Skyveil Hall will extract these two types of spiritual items to assist in your cultivation."
Li Yunlin handed Li Yunbing the "Void-Breaking Pill" sent by the clan.
"The Metal and Lightning aspects are extremely unyielding and fierce.
When you consume the Void-Breaking Pill to comprehend, you might as well mimic the posture of an eagle striking the vast sky to re-forge your Void Refinement Space.
With Old Cat and me helping you, it is not impossible for you to forge a true Void Refinement realm."
Within the clan, the Immortal Martial Grotto-Heaven was considered highly adept at cultivation, and Li Zhiheng cultivated even more diligently.
But when it came to true comprehension of cultivation, it had to be Li Yunlin.
Old Cat, the artifact spirit of the Skyveil Hall, possessed vast experience, and the Spiritual art knowledge inherited from Ming Daozi was like a vast ocean.
Li Yunlin was truly worthy of the position of Supreme Elder of the Skyveil Sect; he was a master of cultivation rarely seen in the world.
"Yes, Eldest Brother."
Li Yunbing had already restored his appearance to what it was back then.
Although he still looked middle-aged, his expression strongly resembled the obedient, "pure-hearted child" he was in front of his Eldest Brother back in Green Valley Village. Yet, his gaze lacked no firmness.
"I wouldn't dare disappoint the painstaking efforts of Second Aunt and Eldest Brother. Ten years of seated comprehension; I will treat it as a do-or-die situation."
"Focus on your comprehension with peace of mind. Your Eldest Brother is here."
Li Yunlin patted his second brother's head just like when they were young.
...
Clad in armor transformed from a "Turtle Shell," Li Tianqi headed toward the Shadowfell Prefecture.
Having caused mischief year-round with his Eldest Brother and Tianming, sneaking away from the battlefield for a trip to the chaotic Shadowfell Prefecture was no difficult task.
Before long.
Li Tianqi saw thousands of people kneeling in worship before a statue of Tianyue gazing west into the cloudy sky.
In front of Tianyue's statue, his Eldest Brother sat cross-legged.
The Profound Seals Talisman had reached sixteen, floating closely behind his Eldest Brother.
Upon arriving here, Li Tianqi lowered his eyes. He still hadn't dared to tell Tianming what had happened to Tianyue.
In the past, their generation used to run all over Azure Cloud, but in the end, only a lonely few remained.
Now that Tianyue was gone, Li Tianqi was truly afraid that Tianming would go mad again.
But looking at his Eldest Brother's appearance, Li Tianqi knew that the one who grieved the most was still his Eldest Brother.
None of them had been disciplined much by the elders; they were practically all raised by their Eldest Brother and Old Pig.
Mischief aside, Li Tianqi also knew that the eldest brother was like a father.
As Li Tianqi slowly approached his Eldest Brother, Li Tianyi opened his eyes.
The two brothers, who used to laugh and curse whenever they were together and were full of petty schemes, exchanged a glance in silence.
A clear breeze blew by, lifting the long hair of the two brothers.
Li Tianqi could see the exhaustion in his Eldest Brother's smile.
"Tianqi, how are the Yun Clan and Bi Shihu's three armies faring over there in Deston Prefecture?"
"Rest assured, Eldest Brother. With Second Uncle and Xinnian dealing with them, not a single one will escape."
Li Tianqi let out a long breath. With a flash from his spatial ring, the "Void-Breaking Pill" and the "Void-Soul Exchanging Dao Technique" prepared by their grandfather appeared in his hand.
He offered them to Li Tianyi. "Eldest Brother, you've stayed here for twelve years, it's about time..."
Li Tianyi frowned. If it had been the past, he definitely would have shaken Tianqi clean of all his belongings and pocketed everything himself.
He shook his head at Tianqi.
"With the seniors helping me, I don't need them. I will wait here. Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years—I can wait.
Those bastards will show their heads sooner or later, and I will use their blood and heads as a sacrifice to Tianyue.
What you need to do now is return to Deston Prefecture and collect the heads of the Yun Clan and Bi Shihu."
"Yes, Eldest Brother."
Li Tianqi took a deep breath, not daring to argue. He took back the two items.
He didn't dare say another word; even the seniors within the sixteen Profound Seals Talisman didn't dare to speak.
After staying here with his Eldest Brother for seven days, Li Tianqi let out a long sigh and headed toward Deston Prefecture, preparing to break through.
Looking back once more.
He only heard the sound of the Zither.
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