[Your descendant Li Chuyuan fled to the Western Frontier following the battle at Grandhaven Prefecture.]
[Possessing the Secret Scripture of Corpse Stitching from the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems, he scavenged the corpse of a Void Refinement realm cultivator and stitched it into his own body.
Li Chuyuan's strength reached the peak of the Divinity Transformation realm.
Even after witnessing the family's immense power at Jade Mist Valley, filled with regret and resentment, he still refused to let go of his hope for survival. Acquired Trait: Extreme Escape]
[Always able to grasp a sliver of survival in the most dangerous situations, escape chance increases by 30%.]
"..."
Li Wei was speechless for a moment. In a certain sense, this Li Chuyuan was truly a rare talent.
Over the years, the family had even produced a few individuals who admired Li Chuyuan, secretly passing intelligence to him.
[Beneath the Blood Moon, cultivators have gone completely mad.
Possessing Dao Seeds within their bodies, they have become immortal kin. Within the Western Frontier, immortal seeds slaughter one another, belonging to different factions.
During a great battle between two Void Refinement half-immortals in the Western Frontier, your descendant Li Chuyuan snatched a half-immortal's corpse amidst the chaos, dug out the immortal seed from the corpse, and swallowed it. Acquired Trait: Half-Immortal]
[Acquired Immortal Art: Kin]
The Blood Moon exuded a bewitching, dark crimson hue.
The Western Frontier had completely devolved into a land of chaos and madness. Beneath ruined walls lay cracked earth, a landscape of absolute devastation.
After consuming an immortal seed, Li Chuyuan stood atop a broken pillar with his arms wide open, seemingly embracing the Blood Moon.
He looked down upon the thousands of respectfully kneeling kin left behind on the ground after the great battle.
He was feeling all the changes after incorporating the immortal seed into his body; the entire world was so clear in his eyes.
He still could not forget everything that had happened in Azure Cloud Prefecture and Grandhaven Prefecture.
Now, his heart surged with excitement, and all his regret and resentment had vanished without a trace.
"The era created me, and I will also create an era! I crawled out of Azure Cloud Prefecture in a wretched state, but I am also climbing upward, straight toward the azure clouds!"
He slowly turned his gaze toward the Southern Frontier, his eyes icy. "With a brand new appearance, reaching a height you can never hope to touch."
Given time, he would become a 'watchdog', becoming an existence like Linghu Xian.
As for the family, even the legendary Old Ancestor was helpless against Linghu Xian and the watchdog.
Those inferior clansmen of his simply did not possess the strength to battle an immortal.
"I am... an immortal!"
[Your descendant Li Chuyuan acquired the Trait: Born Traitor]
[Please believe that no matter how good the system and environment are, traitors will always exist. When engaging in betrayal, karmic opportunities and cultivation speed increase.]
...
"Bullshit, you are a half-immortal..."
Li Wei rolled his eyes, though he was still quite pleased at the moment.
This kid was simply a natural spy, the kind that no method could possibly detect.
Meanwhile.
Having obtained definitive intelligence from Zhao Guang, within the family's secret grounds, the seal on Linghu Xian's corpse was finally opened.
The secret grounds were actually the body of the Old Tree...
As an ancient tree at the Void Refinement realm, the Old Tree's abilities were not inferior to the Body Integration realm. The space within it was a vast, boundless world.
Outside the Old Tree were Li Yaoqing refining pills and Lu Niang occasionally popping out to cool off on its branches, lending the Old Tree's body a trace of immortal spiritual qi.
Li Tianqi, Li Tianming, Li Kuanghua, and Li Chang'an, along with others, stepped into the Old Tree's body.
Within the vast, white world sat a man with a stubble-covered face, staring blankly with vacant eyes.
"Bang!"
Before Tian Xing could even react, a boot suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Li Tianming's foot had already planted itself firmly onto his face, kicking the man flying.
Following that, corrosive ghost fire burned him, prompting screams of agony as he rolled all over the ground.
Li Tianqi was momentarily stunned. "Tianming, what are you doing?"
"I... I don't know."
Li Tianming scratched his head, looking in sheer bewilderment at the foot he had just retracted.
"I don't know who used my foot to kick him, but they definitely have a mental problem."
"..." The clansmen shrugged. He had many people inside his body, so he made the rules.
Reaching the end, the white mist partitioned the Old Tree's body into a second world.
Within lay a corpse imprisoned by talismans, Dharma Treasures, and array formations. The Old Tree had many such places inside its body.
As the crowd arrived, the corpse began to squirm, floating out a phantom silhouette.
The clansmen furrowed their brows.
Inside Linghu Xian's corpse was an immortal seed.
The humanoid phantom now floating out stood 1.7 meters tall. Its entire body was like flawless white jade and faceless, resembling the most perfect work of art in the world.
This was the immortal that had parasitized Linghu Xian's body, the very immortal entity that even the Old Ancestor had been unable to detect.
After Linghu Xian was trapped, he originally still had his life, but this immortal thoroughly drained all his vitality, allowing its power to reach its absolute peak.
Seeing the people of the Li Clan arrive, this immortal seemed to have been waiting for a long time, letting out a cold sneer brimming with bewitchment.
"You were bound to come. I can give you everything you desire; after all, power is the fundamental element that decides all things in the universe."
It surveyed everyone in the Li Clan. It could feel these mortals' thirst for power. Ultimately, these people would become its food, just like Linghu Xian!
"So then, who wishes to coexist with me?"
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