[Year 1010]
[Your family cultivated diligently for five years.
Your descendant Li Dalong has become an Underworld King; Li Yaoqing coexists with an immortal; Li Kuanghua cultivates Buddhist Dharma; Li Yaowen cultivates reincarnation methods to shelter the family; Li Yunbing has transformed into a demonic body; and Li Zhiheng possesses a half-immortal physique.
The family possesses the Spirit Treasure, the Golden Chapter of Enlightenment, has imprisoned an Immortal Infant, and is cultivating the techniques passed down by the Red Dust Immortal.]
[The Ancient Tree of Delusion Breaking has birthed new fruits one after another.
The family possesses ancient bloodlines such as the 'Blue Phoenix' and 'Golden Ape King'.]
[Amidst monstrous immortal qi and demonic qi, your family is gradually receiving the protection of heaven and earth.
Immortals and demons shelter your family; this is the most primordial power in the world.
Coupled with the threat of the Blood Moon, they have unconsciously caused your family to undergo a transformation.]
[Your family has acquired the group trait — Azure Cloud Ancient Clan]
[The family is protected by immortals and demons.
Clan members' karmic luck increases by 5%. Traits are more easily born under the shelter of immortals, demons, and ancient bloodlines.
Their physiques will grow over time, their Spiritual power and immortal power will also be enhanced, their spiritual roots will increase by 2-5 points, and their chances of breakthrough will increase by 1-1.5%.]
Beneath the old tree.
Li Kuanghua waited for the old tree to bear a new 'Primordial Blood Fruit'.
Still holding her wooden fish and mallet, she quietly chanted scriptures beneath the old tree.
The old tree's canopy grew increasingly lush and took on a reddish hue, as a crystal-clear red fruit was currently forming.
Clatter, clatter...
She tugged on the rope. The other end of the Heaven-Imprisoning Chain bound Nun Dairou.
As she chanted the scriptures, Li Kuanghua felt a hint of pity.
The old tree was about to bear fruit, and it was also time for Nun Dairou to reach her conclusion.
Over the past few centuries, she had already learned everything there was to learn from Nun Dairou.
This person possessed two Daos. Having spent day and night together, Li Kuanghua thought about how, after killing her, there would no longer be a nun following by her side.
After pondering it over, she decided she had no choice but to refine Nun Dairou into the [Buddha-Demon Lotus Platform].
"Among the ancient methods left by the Red Dust Immortal, there is one that cultivates two bodies in one entity—one immortal and one demon.
I will cultivate one demon and one Buddha, transforming Dairou into the Buddha body."
Li Kuanghua muttered to herself.
Back when she fought the immortal, she had brought Dairou along.
With merely a Void Refinement realm cultivation, they were actually able to battle an immortal. Her Bodhisattva body could even inflict damage upon it.
Later, after returning and asking around, she learned that the Buddha was originally cultivated from the Dao, but the method of devouring faith was also learned from the immortals.
Therefore, the Buddhas bewitched the mortal world by taking a shortcut.
However, because they took a shortcut, their foundation in cultivation realms was lacking, and their true strength fell short.
Over these several centuries, Li Kuanghua had pondered bitterly.
The bewitching power of the Buddhist Dao was its true essence; it could corrupt the soul even more effectively than illusions.
A demonic body was robust, possessing extraordinary means for frenzied combat against enemies.
With the augmentation of both one demon and one Buddha, it would be even more formidable than an immortal.
She immediately sat in meditation.
In Li Kuanghua's eyes, a vast world became visible.
Within the Void Refinement realm her Spirit Soul peered into, there was a Buddhist mountain.
Beneath the two jade Bodhisattva statues, monks came and went, burning incense beneath the statues.
These monks sometimes passed right through each other, seemingly oblivious to one another's existence as they arrived before the Buddha statues to pray.
In reality, these monks were in various temples of the Martial Dao Bodhisattva Body spread across the world.
The incense they offered was 'faith'. This faith would cause the Bodhisattva statues on the jade mountain to grow stronger—strong enough to push open the Dao Gate.
Once enough faith was accumulated, with just a single thought, she could devour her believers.
However, Li Kuanghua did not do so.
She faintly sensed that the reason the Lotus Ferry Nunnery and the past generations of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the world had died so miserably was precisely because of that 'single thought' to devour.
Believers came one after another.
Li Kuanghua gradually came to understand the amusement the Old Ancestor felt when he manifested his presence back in the day.
She would also manifest her presence from time to time, while simultaneously... gathering intelligence.
With her Bodhisattva body, she observed the world, peering through the boundary of the Blood Moon to watch the common people of the Central Plains, the Northern Frontier, and the Imperial Capital.
...
"Brother, why don't you walk on your own?"
Li Changyao was pushing a wheelchair, with Li Changsheng sitting in it.
Sporting a ponytail and wearing a light, refreshing summer outfit, Li Changyao didn't even know how many times she had asked this question, venting her dissatisfaction.
At home, she was the apple of everyone's eye, but in front of her brother, she was just a wheelchair-pushing maidservant.
Over the years, her brother had been managing the family's affairs.
When she followed him outside, she had been mistaken for a maidservant countless times by outsiders, being ordered around to do this and that.
Li Changsheng stroked the Mid-Grade Dharma Treasure wheelchair beneath him and said earnestly,
"You don't understand. I've sat in a wheelchair for far too long.
Now, all the experts in the entire Southern Frontier know that our Li family has a 'Young Master Changsheng' who sits in a wheelchair, and they all know I'm faking it.
After all, no mortal could live to such an old age."
"Don't they already know then?" Li Changyao frowned.
"Exactly. Think about it: everyone knows I'm faking it. If, after faking it for so many years, I suddenly stand up, wouldn't they be terrified?
The world is already chaotic enough. If I stand up now, it will only become more chaotic."
Li Changsheng waved his hand dismissively.
"Ah, Changyao, it seems my destiny in this life is to have a perfectly healthy body, yet willingly paralyze myself in a wheelchair."
"..." Li Changyao blinked.
Her brother was definitely just trying to fool her into continuing to push the wheelchair, but his words did make a strange kind of sense.