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Chapter 246: Supreme Venerable of Vast Heaven (Part 2) (Part 2)
Chapter 246: Supreme Venerable of Vast Heaven (Part 2) (Part 2)
He had only sensed a faint aura from that distance.
"Dao, the Dao Seed was consumed?"
Compared to the anger in Three Ancestors' words, Ji Daosin's eyes widened as he turned to Ji Yunyue, his voice trembling, "The child, is he dead?"
Ji Yunyue shed tears, "He fell into the Abyss and was consumed by the Demon Sage."
Ji Daosin's pupils dilated in disbelief.
Seeing the sharp gaze of Three Ancestors, he quickly regained his composure, his face changing as he lowered his head.
"I intended to wait for the Wasteland Sea to calm before sending someone to retrieve his mother, but the child couldn't wait. He saw his mother suffering through the Sky Observation Mirror and insisted on going himself..."
Three Ancestors' expression grew even darker, but he understood the situation.
Ji Daosin's words, however, caused Li Tiangang and Ji Qingqing to pale. Ji Qingqing's body trembled, and she burst into tears.
"Three Ancestors, what about the Demon Sage now?"
Ji Daosin asked urgently.
"He has already left. It's not yet clear whether he achieved Transcendence, Sainthood, or if his obsession has dissipated", Three Ancestors replied coldly.
"What about the child's remains?"
A trace of sorrow appeared in Ji Daosin's eyes. In terms of talent, the child was undoubtedly one of the top prodigies in the Ji Family's ten thousand years. To fall so suddenly?
And to fall in the Ji Family's secret realm, it was a ridiculous way to die!
"Wenren Ji's flesh has rotted into a lake, with Dao Intent raging above it. There's no way any remains could have been left. They would have been obliterated long ago."
Three Ancestors' face remained grim, "I haven't yet truly reached the Sage Realm, and even I would have been affected. For a child, it would have been impossible. Even if there were a million-to-one chance, I would have searched. But now, there's not even a sliver of hope."
Speaking of this, he glanced at the people below, his eyes cold, and said to Ji Daosin:
"Ask them for the details. You can decide how to deal with them yourself."
With that, he turned and stepped away, vanishing in an instant.
After hearing the Three Ancestors' words, Ji Daosin and the others all looked ashen-faced.
Not even a one in ten thousand chance?
Annihilation?
Li Tiangang and Ji Qingqing were both pale-faced.
The news of Li Hao's demise had spread from Holy Mountain, causing a great upheaval throughout the Ji Family.
In recent days, Li Hao's reputation had shone like the sun in a secret realm, known to all. Any news related to him was quickly picked up, let alone his death.
"What?"
In a cave dwelling, Ji Xuanshen, who was in cultivation, suddenly stood up when he heard his father's words, his eyes filled with joy:
"He's dead?"
"That's right. It's said that the Sage Mark on his body awakened the Demon Sage sealed beneath Heavenly Prison Island, and the Demon Sage devoured him!"
The middle-aged man sighed, "I've lived for hundreds of years, and it's only now that I've learned there's a Demon Sage sealed beneath Heavenly Prison Island. It's said that the Sage Ancestor sealed the Demon Sage there out of old feelings. Who would have thought it would help us so much today!"
"That boy is dead, and now you will be the Ji Family's Dao Seed again!"
Looking at his son, the man's eyes were full of pride and a hint of awe:
"Everyone says that heaven envies talent. I've truly seen it now. That boy had shallow blessings, unable to bear the favor of our Ji Family. The Sage Mark on him turned out to be a disaster. Tsk tsk..."
"Stop talking!"
Ji Xuanshen abruptly shouted.
The middle-aged man was stunned, his face changing slightly, but he didn't get angry. Instead, he looked bewildered:
"Xuanshen, you..."
"What do I, Ji Xuanshen, fear about an opponent? I lost to him only because I wasn't strong enough!"
Ji Xuanshen's eyes blazed with anger as he glared at his father, "Do you think I would cherish the Dao Seed position that fell into my lap because he's dead?!"
The middle-aged man was taken aback, "But, but it's the Dao Seed..."
"Sparrows can't understand the aspirations of swans!"
Ji Xuanshen looked at his father with disdain, his face cold, "Leave me alone. I need to meditate!"
"..."
The middle-aged man looked at him, a bitter smile on his face, and left.
"I was looking forward to another battle at the Enlightened Realm..."
Ji Xuanshen sat back on the Dao Platform, his face grim. Although he felt aggrieved after being defeated by that young man, he also felt an unprecedented drive in his cultivation.
In this mindset, he felt he was on the verge of reaching the Enlightened Realm.
The battle with that young man had given him a glimpse of his own path.
But now, that young man was dead.
"Bastard!"
He angrily slapped the Dao Platform, shattering it.
The news of Li Hao's death caused a great commotion, with countless people gathering outside the council hall to learn more.
Ji Daosin, Ji Tianchao, and other War Gods and Elders arrived to interrogate everyone present.
After hearing the details, they were all stunned, even Li Tiangang, who looked at his wife in shock.
The criminals, trembling with fear, shifted all the blame onto Ji Qingqing, saying they had given her a choice, and she hadn't stopped them.
Faced with the accusations, the grief-stricken Ji Qingqing had no strength to argue. The choice she had made at that moment left her with no defense.
"You, how could you..."
Ji Yunqing and Ji Yunyue, who were present, only now understood the full story, and they nearly fainted with anger.
"That's your son!!"
Ji Yunyue stamped her foot, "He had a future, how could you bear to ruin it?!"
Ji Qingqing trembled, tears blurring her vision, and sobbed:
"I didn't want to choose. If I could, I would give my life for him. But there was no such choice. I didn't know what to do. My husband and I have been through life and death together for over a decade. I couldn't betray him."
"Then you could betray that child?"
Ji Yunqing, furious, shouted at his niece, "Do you know that he risked his life for you, coming to our Ji Family as a Mixed Blood? He endured humiliation and battled prodigies. He never intended to inherit the Ji Family's Dao Seed. He only fought to the death for you. How could you be so heartless!!"
"Without him, you would never have been able to clear your name, and your husband would never have been able to live in our Ji Family!"
Ji Qingqing froze, turning to look at Li Tiangang. "Didn't you bring him here?"
Li Tiangang had already composed himself, but his wife's words broke through his defenses. He felt a mix of sorrow, anger, and self-loathing. If he hadn't stepped onto that chain, they wouldn't be in this situation.
"I came to find him. He betrayed the Li Family, and I wanted to bring him back..."
Li Tiangang turned away sadly, unable to face his wife.
"Betrayed the Li Family?"
Ji Qingqing was stunned.
Li Tiangang didn't want to delve into the details. "After Yanbei returned from the campaign, we had some conflicts. It was all my fault. I was too strict with him. I came here to find him because I was afraid something might happen to him..."
Ji Qingqing was taken aback. "But you told him the name we had agreed upon. Weren't you on good terms?"
"Li Hao has been smart since he was a child. He remembers things from when he was just a few months old. I never told him, so he must have remembered it from you..." Li Tiangang's eyes welled up with tears.
Ji Qingqing's face lost its color. She suddenly recalled the time she had whispered to the child while holding him before Yanbei's departure. That was the only time she had mentioned that name.
The child... had remembered it.
Then he must have remembered the other things she said as well.
Tears streamed down Ji Qingqing's face as she covered her mouth. She couldn't bear to imagine how the child must have felt, coming with such high hopes only to fall so far, filled with despair.
"It's my fault, all my fault..."
She sobbed uncontrollably.
Ji Daosin and the others looked at them with a mix of anger and helplessness. No amount of anger now could change what had happened.
Ji Daosin ordered that all the prisoners on Heavenly Prison Island be executed, including the Old Madman.
The Old Madman, upon hearing the sentence, didn't beg for mercy. Instead, he laughed maniacally, as if he had truly gone mad.
An Elder angrily suggested that Li Tiangang be executed and Ji Qingqing be sent back to Heavenly Prison Island.
Many agreed, but others opposed, arguing that the child, though dead, was still a Dao Seed of the Ji Family. Given his status as a Dao Seed, his parents held a certain respect. Executing them might not sit well with the others.
After a heated debate, Ji Daosin made his final decision.
The couple was to be exiled from the Ji Family, never to return.
Li Tiangang was spared execution out of respect for being Li Hao's biological father and because the situation was complex. Li Tiangang was not the direct killer, so his life was spared.
However, without Li Hao, Li Tiangang, as an outsider, would be completely cut off from the family.
Ji Qingqing was also stripped of her Ji Family identity. Although she wasn't the primary culprit, she was indirectly responsible for Li Hao's death.
Failing to protect a Dao Seed in peril was a grave offense!
Time passed quickly.
A month had already gone by since the news of Li Hao's death. The initial shock and discussions had given way to occasional mentions, not because they had forgotten, but because they didn't want to reopen the wound.
Ji Daosin and Ji Tianchao personally visited the Abyss. Seeing the silent blood lake below and the rampant Dao Essence above, they fell silent.
No wonder the Three Ancestors hadn't acted. Such Dao Essence would even strip the skin off a falling person, requiring immediate struggle to escape.
"Is the fortune of the Ji Family waning...?"
Ji Daosin stood at the edge of the Abyss, muttering to himself, his eyes dark and downcast.
He had never imagined that their one World-Class Prodigy, a Mixed Blood, would turn out to be such a pleasant surprise, a gift from the heavens, only to fall so suddenly.
Ji Tianchao remained silent. While he mourned the child's talent, what he truly regretted was the brief time they had spent together, the child's character...
He had failed to fulfill Third Brother's request. If Third Brother knew, he would be deeply saddened.
...
...
Deep in the calm blood lake beneath the raging Dao Essence of the Abyss.
A small, white skull, no larger than an infant's fist, floated in the blood water.
Apart from the skull, the rest of the body had vanished.
Occasionally, the skull emitted a golden-red glow.
The Spirit Sacrifice True Demon Art was still active, refining and drawing power from the blood lake. Li Hao's consciousness was calm, and the threads of power he absorbed were steadily pushing against the bottleneck.
Unaware of the passage of time, Li Hao couldn't afford to pause. If he did, he would be plunged into eternal darkness.
A few more days passed, and the skull, washed by the blood water, shrank even further, now the size of a thumbnail.
Li Hao's consciousness became extremely weak, but he refused to give up.
The bone drifted, gradually eroded until it was as small as a soybean.
His Divine Soul was compressed within, almost having nowhere left to go. Filled with sorrow and anger, he chose to burn his Divine Soul, drawing blood power from the blood lake at the fastest possible speed.
As the Divine Soul burned like a flickering candle within that tiny bone, the rate of absorption suddenly increased dramatically.
With a thunderous boom, the bottleneck was suddenly shattered.
An unimaginable surge of vitality flooded into the bone.
Li Hao felt himself enter a mysterious state, one he was very familiar with, as it was the same when he entered other Ultimate Realms.
He immediately understood that the bottleneck he had broken was the Three Immortalities Ultimate Realm!
Although only a tiny bone remained, Li Hao had a feeling that with this incomprehensible surge of vitality, he could regenerate even from a single drop of blood!
In addition to the surge of vitality, his Divine Soul seemed to have undergone some form of refinement, allowing it to completely merge with the tiny bone.
As long as a part of his body remained, that part would contain his Divine Sense, and with a single thought, he could regenerate from a drop of blood!
Immortality, Unbreakability, and Unfading—these are the Three Immortalities.
Now, this Ultimate Realm, Li Hao named it the Indestructible Realm!
The Three Eternities Realm is fundamentally a realm for refining the physical body, allowing for Divine Blood inheritance in the Eternal Realm. In the Indestructible Realm, one can dominate in the midst of thousands of troops with an unbreakable Treasure Body. The Unfading Realm, on the other hand, unleashes the hidden potential of the physical body, allowing for an infinite burst of power in a short period.
This Ultimate Realm hones the physical body to its utmost, storing divine essence in a drop of blood, and regenerating through Divine Sense!
In other words, unless Li Hao's body was utterly shattered and ground to ashes, he could not be killed!
Compared to the other Three Immortalities, this realm offered a qualitative leap in survival capabilities!
At that moment, as Li Hao's thoughts turned, the surge of vitality erupted from the bone, causing it to rapidly grow, hair to sprout, and flesh to coalesce.
In the blink of an eye, a head appeared in the blood lake.
But at this point, Li Hao paused.
Having reached the Ultimate Realm, his control over his physical body became even more precise.
He could sense two extremely faint auras within his body.
These auras belonged to Li Tiangang and Ji Qingqing's bloodlines.
He suddenly felt like laughing.
Amidst the snowstorm, the young man was forced out of his home.
Holding the Twin Flowers high, he was struck by a chain and thrown into the Abyss.
That vine demon, which he had once ignored, had secretly made a promise of eternal companionship by entwining his pinky finger.
The whisper that surged into his body at the last moment, helping him approach the limit, now granted him a new lease on life!
He laughed and dissipated his power.
His body rapidly rotted, the bone dispersed, and the newly formed head was quickly reduced to a single drop of blood.
But even in that single drop of blood, the two faint auras of the bloodlines remained.
Li Hao took a deep breath. He knew what he was about to do was extremely risky, and even with the Indestructible Realm, there was a chance he could perish.
But he chose to do it anyway.
"From now on, I am myself, seeing the heart of heaven through my own heart, and proving my heart through the heart of heaven!"
Li Hao's Divine Soul erupted, using his immense Will to sever the two auras within the drop of blood.
Thoroughly split!
The half-drop that split off quickly vanished.
But this act was as if he had suffered a severe blow while already on the brink of death!
He could die at any moment.
Yet, Li Hao's Will had never been more vigorous, more powerful!
His previously confused Dao Heart coalesced in that moment.
He established his heart through heaven and earth!
He forged his bones with mountains and rivers!
He shaped his muscles with the sun, moon, and stars!
He made his blood from the supreme Dao Will!!
"I am the true me, I am Hao Tian, the supreme sovereign!!"
Mountain-shattering and sea-tsunami-like power erupted from the half-drop of blood, causing the calm blood lake to tremble and churn, stirring up waves and undercurrents!
That drop of blood, immune to the blood lake's erosion, now burst into an intensely brilliant light. The blood coalesced, moving with a will of its own, shaped by the supreme Dao Will, and burst out of the blood lake!
Above the Abyss, boundless light seemed to converge, and flesh began to regenerate!
Beneath the flesh, bones reshaped and grew rapidly, eventually forming a pulsating heart in the chest cavity.
The perfectly proportioned young man's body slowly raised its head, emitting an aura that stood alongside heaven and earth!
(End of Chapter)
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