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Chapter 205: Ancestor Divine Weapon, Touching the Limit
Chapter 205: Ancestor Divine Weapon, Touching the Limit (Additional Chapter for Patriarch 'M Wumian', Thank You)
Bang!
In a certain tavern in Dragon City.
A figure suddenly flew out, smashing through the railing and falling onto the street.
There was a sword wound on its chest, but what spurted out from the wound was not blood, but dark black demonic aura. As it hit the ground, its body quickly transformed into its demonic form, trembling as it did so.
However, before it could fully reveal its true form, a Sword Qi like an autumn breeze swept by, passing over its body. The trembling ceased instantly, and it then fell to the ground, dead.
Li Hao and Li Xiaoran approached the railing.
The dead demon on the street was like a drop of ink splashing into a lake, causing the surrounding commoners to scatter, too afraid to come near.
Li Hao glanced at the mission progress. The Exploration mission hadn’t increased, but the completion rate of the Mourning River had slightly increased by 0.001 points.
Killing a Tianren Realm demon had only earned him such a tiny amount of mission progress, which made Li Hao feel somewhat horrified.
By this ratio, wouldn’t 1,000 Tianren Realm demons only equal 1 point of Mourning River completion rate?
He had been working on the Growth mission for 13 years, and the Mourning River completion rate had reached 7.2.
"According to the mission progress, surviving here is harder than hunting demons."
"Normally, it should be like this. If outsiders came here to complete the mission without the Li Family bloodline, they might be assassinated by the city’s demons long before they could make any progress."
"Revealing talent can attract demonic attention, but not revealing talent means not getting cultivation resources. It’s difficult!"
"Moreover, they might even be reborn next to a demon, which would mean they’re doomed from the start."
"If it weren’t for Fourth Uncle, I might have been attacked at the banquet earlier."
Li Hao's eyes flickered. Although he hadn’t engaged in many battles with demons yet, he could now feel the difficulty of the Mourning River mission.
No wonder the Great Peace Dao Realm only had a slim chance of completing it.
If not for the fact that this Mourning River was created due to the confinement of Li Tianzong, leading to the existence of Dragon City, it might have been even more dangerous and unpredictable.
"Hmph, this demon was just a low-level informant for the demons outside the city."
Li Xiaoran glanced at the dead demon and snorted.
Li Hao knew that the situation inside the Mourning River was different from the outside. There were more and stronger demons, which made it so that only a few places in the city could be considered safe.
Outside, in any major city with a Divine General Manor, life was generally peaceful and stable, with hardly any demon attacks occurring in decades.
Organized demons wouldn’t dare to come close, and unorganized demons lacked the ability to do so. They could only rely on people who were intimidated by or allied with demons to infiltrate the city and gather intelligence on the Divine General Manor, but they were always extremely cautious.
In contrast, Dragon City had many demon strongholds.
This was already the third one they had destroyed in just half an hour.
Li Hao leaped down from the railing, raised his hand, and pressed it against the demon’s body. His cultivation technique activated, extracting a trace amount of life essence from its flesh and blood.
This life essence, refined through his cultivation technique, condensed into his own flesh, enhancing his physical body.
This cultivation technique was a synthesis of many body refinement techniques, named the Myriad Blood True Demon Technique.
It surpassed the Peerless rank, derived from the Seventh Stage of the Physical Body Dao, and contained extraordinary power.
Just the name carried demonic aura, and it incorporated many demon cultivation techniques as well as some forbidden body refinement techniques, such as the Infant Devouring Technique and the Fetal Birth Fist, among others, ultimately fused and refined into a single technique.
It involved absorbing life essence to strengthen oneself.
One success, ten thousand corpses wither!
Li Xiaoran, seeing Li Hao using his technique, his eyes slightly moved, recognizing it as an extremely sinister cultivation technique. However, he didn’t stop him. In the Mourning River, anything that could enhance one’s strength was acceptable.
Moreover, having witnessed court politics, the chivalry of the martial world, and the enmities among demons, he knew that the cultivation technique was secondary; the person who wielded it was the key.
While some sinister cultivation techniques could cloud one’s mind and lead to dark, bloodthirsty emotions, Li Hao's technique seemed to only make him more ruthless and brutal, with no apparent negative impact on his character.
Moreover, once one reaches the Grandmaster Realm, the Martial Dao is the core, while Cultivation Techniques are merely skills with limited impact on oneself.
The two then proceeded to the next location.
Within the city, two figures leaped from place to place, visiting teahouses, stages, secluded mansions of wealthy merchants, and even an ordinary farmer's home.
At each location, they left behind the corpses of Demons.
The lowest Cultivation among these slain Demons was the Fifteen Li Realm!
Li Hao's mood grew heavy, and he increasingly felt that the impending battle in Dragon City would be extremely brutal and challenging!
Moreover, this time there was the Candlelight Deity and Lu Yuan to contend with.
Thinking of them, a glint of killing intent appeared in Li Hao's eyes. If he could use the Mourning River to slay those two Great Demon Kings, it would be the best outcome.
Within the city, in a certain mansion.
A wealthy Master was listlessly sipping tea when a servant suddenly approached to report:
"Master, the Twenty-Seventh Young Lady has given birth again."
"Given birth again?"
The Master, with a protruding belly, brightened slightly.
Beside him, the Steward's eyes gleamed as if he had swallowed something, and he said:
"Congratulations, Master. You can enjoy your appetite again."
"Ha ha, quickly, bring the child here."
"The midwife has already brought it in", the servant said respectfully, his eyes also shining.
Soon, a midwife carrying a swaddled baby hurried in and respectfully said, "Master, it's a plump and healthy child."
"I can smell it, I can already smell it."
The Master's eyes gleamed. "So fragrant. Quick, give it to me."
As he spoke, he reached out and the swaddled baby, along with the infant, flew toward him.
The baby in the swaddling was a newborn, but its cheeks and arms were covered in fine scales, and it had a snake-like, twisted tail, still coated with sticky fluid.
This monstrous child made the Master's eyes gleam as he caressed it, saying in a dazed manner, "So adorable."
As he spoke, he nuzzled the baby with his forehead, as if showing affection.
But the baby seemed to sense something and opened its eyes, which were entirely black with no whites. It tried to wriggle out of the swaddling, attempting to escape.
At that moment, the Master smiled and suddenly opened his mouth wide.
It was a grotesque, blood-red maw filled with sharp teeth.
With a swoosh, he sucked the baby into his mouth and began to chew.
"So fragrant."
"Are there Demons that specifically breed to eat human infants?"
"Yes, and this Demon clan is quite large. They learn to escape from their nests as soon as they are born, or they will be eaten by their birthing mothers."
Two voices drifted in, and immediately, a knife and a sword shadow shot toward the Master.
The Master, who was still chewing, was taken aback. He was struck by the knife but managed to dodge the sword.
With a thud, the knife tore a large patch of armor-like scales from his chest.
His body became more grotesque, his head protruding, and his eyes filled with savagery. "Who?!"
Li Hao and Li Xiaoran didn’t waste words and immediately attacked, their combined assaults sending shockwaves that killed the nearby servant and midwife.
The Steward also transformed into a Demon, emitting a Three Eternities Realm aura.
Li Hao didn't hesitate and swung his sword.
His Art Skill Points were still plentiful, and his Sword Techniques had reached the 6th stage. The sword light slashed down like a star's flash, reaching its target in an instant.
Li Xiaoran's Boundless Freedom Blade was derived from the Endless Sea Sword Techniques, and Li Hao's move was similar, closing the distance in a flash and almost guaranteeing a hit.
Both Demons were thrown back. The Master was still breathing, but the Steward was killed outright, his body split by Li Hao's sword light, unable to resist.
Li Hao had long noticed that Li Xiaoran had thoroughly comprehended the Endless Sea Sword Techniques, extracting the Sword Intent and integrating it into his own Saber Techniques. This meant that Fourth Uncle, besides mastering Saber Techniques as a secret technique, also had a high aptitude in the Sword Dao.
"Even Demon Kings have infiltrated here; this is truly serious."
As Li Hao spoke, he quickly joined the battle, fighting alongside Li Xiaoran.
"You Li Family bastard, I didn’t collude with the Demons outside the city. I just wanted to settle here. Why are you ruining my plans!"
The Master roared, revealing his true form.
But he was only at the Dao Heart stage, and Li Hao and Li Xiaoran didn’t waste words, unleashing a storm of attacks that instantly tore his scaly flesh. He quickly fell in a pool of blood.
“Li Family... damn...”
The Demon King's breath vanished.
Li Hao squatted down, his palm piercing directly into the demon's flesh. As he stirred inside, he also activated the Ten Thousand Blood True Demon Technique, absorbing the essence of the demon's blood and flesh.
Truly worthy of a Demon King, the essence of its blood and flesh was extremely potent, comparable to a spiritual elixir.
Li Hao immediately converted this power, refining his Unbreakable Treasure Body, making his physical form even more refined.
His physical body had already been refined by the Supreme Body and True Dragon Body techniques, making it comparable to a divine weapon that had undergone six castings. It was almost on par with the physical forms of those outside.
At this moment, absorbing the Demon King's essence, his entire body became even more condensed, approaching the strength of a seven-cast divine weapon.
"A few more Demon Kings should do it."
Li Hao thought to himself.
The last divine soul of the Demon King was extinguished by him. Li Hao checked the completion rate of the Mourning River, and it had only increased by 0.1%!
And when he killed the Steward Demons in the Three Eternities Realm, his completion rate only increased by 0.01%!
Li Hao was somewhat shocked. Was this a joke?
In other words, to complete the Mourning River, he would need to kill 1,000 Demon Kings!
Where could he find 1,000 Demon Kings to kill?
1,000 Demon Kings, what a concept! These were Fourth Establishment Realm beings. There were only a few of them in the entire Divine General Manor, and even when combined, the Fourth Establishment Realm beings in the entire Great Yu Divine Dynasty were far from this number!
Let alone killing all of them!
"Fourth Uncle, how long could you defend Dragon City at most?" Li Hao couldn't help but look at Li Xiaoran beside him.
"Did you see the progress?"
Li Xiaoran sighed when he saw Li Hao's shocked expression: "This is the difficulty of the Yudu-grade Deceased River. Even at the Dao Heart Realm, one can barely protect oneself, and it's not absolute. A slight misstep in Channeling Qi could lead to a quick death."
"The highest completion rate I achieved was defending Dragon City for four days!"
Li Xiaoran sighed again: "The Demons outside Dragon City are no longer the same as those outside Yanbei Dragon City. These Demons include various types that have never appeared in the Great Yu Divine Dynasty. They were all swept into the Mourning River and imprisoned here!"
"The Demon Kings are countless. In just four days, I encountered over a hundred Demon Kings."
As he said this, his expression turned grim: "But fortunately, these Demon Kings are only at the Dao Heart Realm, so they aren't too troublesome. However, the further you go, the stronger they become. The Demon Kings at the Ultimate Mastery Realm are the most terrifying."
The four steps of the Fourth Establishment Realm had vast differences between them.
The Dao Heart Realm was the weakest, while the Ultimate Mastery Realm could easily kill a Dao Heart Realm being with just one full-strength move!
And at the Ultimate Mastery Realm, they generally mastered the ultimate secret techniques of Martial Dao, making their strongest attacks extremely formidable, giving them the capital to engage in a life-and-death struggle with their enemies.
This is why no one was willing to provoke them lightly.
To be precise, even the Dao Heart Realm beings were extremely formidable. The fact that their attacks always hit their targets was enough to make Three Eternities Realm beings tremble.
And the Ultimate Mastery Realm beings had the qualifications to single-handedly challenge a major power and engage in a bloody battle.
The Great Peace Dao Realm was even more formidable, with their Dao Domain spreading, making them invincible!
"Just four days, over a hundred Demon Kings..."
Li Hao's gaze turned heavy. The Deceased River of Yudu grade had imprisoned countless demonic souls, and its existence had lasted for an extremely long time. No one knew how many Demon King remnants had been swept into it.
If he only reached the strength of those outside, it would likely be far from enough. He needed to become even stronger!
Li Hao took a deep breath, not asking any more questions. He and Li Xiaoran dealt with the Demon King's corpse, then cleared out the remaining small demons in the courtyard before leaving.
In the days that followed, Li Hao, apart from cultivating and accumulating Art Skill Points, spent his time with Li Xiaoran, sweeping through the city to clear out demons.
Upon learning that Li Hao could kill a Demon King at the age of thirteen, Li Tianzong was so shocked he was speechless.
The other nine sons of the Li Family, though all exceptionally talented, seemed to be overshadowed by Li Hao's brilliance.
Even Li Junye, who was once the most dazzling among them, now appeared to be just a firefly beside Li Hao, easily overlooked.
However, Li Junye's cultivation was diligent, and his progress was divine. Although he couldn't catch up to Li Hao, he had already reached the Tianren Realm at the age of fifteen, two years earlier than the record set by those outside.
Li Hao speculated that this might be due to the many unreasonable aspects of the Mourning River, combined with the butterfly effect caused by his and Li Xiaoran's presence.
As time passed, Li Hao hunted more and more demons, and his reputation struck fear into the hearts of the demons within the city. Every day, when he stepped out of the Divine General Manor, demons would die within the city, accompanied by a storm of blood and violence.
With the constant demon hunting and the numerous treasure medicines prepared by Li Tianzong, Li Hao's cultivation progressed at a divine speed.
Eating too many treasure medicines could make one's realm unstable and weaken their foundation, but this was only true for ordinary people. Li Hao possessed multiple cultivation techniques, all of which were of the True State or even Transcendent Level. A slight circulation of these techniques was enough to thoroughly digest the treasure medicines.
His body was like a bottomless pit, capable of consuming any amount of energy, which was then absorbed and refined by his cultivation techniques, strengthening every part of his body.
Li Hao's physical strength continued to increase, and before long, it reached the level of an Eight-Forged Divine Weapon.
Li Tianzong then opened the Li Family's core secret vault to Li Hao, which contained the clan's most precious divine medicines, secret treasures, and cultivation techniques.
Li Hao didn't hold back and had no intention of saving anything for the future. After all, there was no future in this Mourning River; everything was an illusion, except for Li Tianzong's obsession, which was real.
Thus, he absorbed and consumed all the divine medicines and took out the Ancestor Divine Weapons, including a row of weapons at the highest position, which belonged to the ten first-generation ancestors. Among them, the third one was a treasure sword.
The first-generation Ancestor Li Tianyuan used a spear, and the third-generation Ancestor, his grandson, used a sword.
This sword had been forged nine times and was nearly at the level of a Sacred Heart Celestial Treasure.
Li Xiaoran told Li Hao that unfortunately, the first-generation Ancestor's weapon had been broken and damaged. It was a Sacred Heart Celestial Treasure, and since the death of the Daoist Tianbao thousands of years ago, no one in the Great Yu Divine Dynasty had been able to repair it.
The name "Tianbao" of the Sacred Heart Celestial Treasure was derived from the Daoist name of the weapon forger.
His descendants lacked the talent to carry on his legacy, and the lineage was lost, which was a regret for the Great Yu Divine Dynasty.
Now, the lord of the Myriad Treasures Tower was a distant descendant of Daoist Tianbao and had the ability to barely cast Sacred Heart Celestial Treasures, though with low success rates.
Li Hao took the sword and learned its name was 'Blue Frost.' He commented that it was a good name.
He then strapped the sword to his side, taking this sealed Ancestor Divine Weapon out of the vault.
Li Tianzong didn't say anything, as Li Hao was now the Li Family's True Dragon, and he had the right to inherit the Ancestor Divine Weapon.
If it were any other main lineage disciple, there would have been more consideration, as the Ancestor's Divine Weapons were not only powerful weapons but also symbols of status.
If every main lineage disciple could choose freely, many would have been lost long ago.
With the sword on his side, Li Hao resumed his cultivation and demon hunting.
The demons in the city were being continuously cleared, and with the help of the demons' essence blood and the divine medicines from the secret vault, Li Hao's body grew increasingly strong.
He tried to comprehend the Dao Heart, but during the process, his mind wandered, and time seemed to accelerate.
Li Hao learned from Li Xiaoran that this was a normal phenomenon. When Li Xiaoran had entered the Dao Heart realm, the process of comprehending the Dao Heart caused time to accelerate by seven or eight years.
Li Hao had only slightly immersed himself in the process, yet time had already sped up to his seventeenth year.
The battle of Dragon City was approaching.
"My physical body seems to be touching the limits of the Three Eternities Realm..."
Li Hao felt his flesh and blood becoming more refined, and the power within him resembled a vast, viscous sea, giving him a sense of infinite potential.
(End of Chapter)
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