[Special Event—The Words of a Good Man]
[Gossip is a fearful thing, and the words of a good man are even more so. Ming Daozi, a saint-like figure in the Duravia Trade Prefecture, has called upon all cultivators to surround and kill the people of Azure Cloud. This has caused the clans of the Duravia Trade Prefecture to unite against a common enemy. The Li family's reputation as followers of the Evil Path now spreads far and wide, to be remembered for generations to come.]
[The Li family and the people of Azure Cloud and Eternal Sun Prefecture are now considered evil demons in the Duravia Trade Prefecture. The level of hostility from the people of Duravia may reach 90%.]
At this moment, Li Wei felt anger surge within him.
Things had completely deviated from his family's plans, even exceeding the expectations of Li Yaowen and Dongfang Xuan.
The plan was for the Azure Cloud forces to assassinate Prince Qian. Then, with the Duravia Trade Prefecture like a dragon without a head, the Li family could subdue the enemy without a fight.
But now, Ming Daozi's proclamation had already sent things hurtling in the most extreme direction.
"Ignore everything else," Li Wei commanded Li Yaowen in the Ancestor Space. "Have Skynet and the White Qilin go to Prince Qian's Mansion at once!"
As Li Yaowen nodded gravely and vanished, Li Wei, with a single thought, appeared beside Li Yaoqing, Li Yaotie, and his wife.
...
When he materialized, Li Wei was stunned for a moment.
Before him.
This was a high mountain, completely covered in vines. Great roots snaked out from its base, moving as if they were walking, turning the mountain's foundation into literal 'mountain feet'. At the heart of the mountain, a cocoon of vines enveloped Li Yaoqing. The power of the Rules emanating from it had coalesced the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi into a protective shield.
Cultivators surrounded the mountain, ceaselessly attacking it. Flying swords, Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi, formations, talismans, spirit artifacts... all of them collided with the mountain's protective shield, sending out waves of brilliant, resplendent ripples.
And from within the cocoon, Li Yaoqing's body emanated the aura of the Divinity Transformation realm!
She was the Li family's next Divinity Transformation expert after Li Yaowen!
[Your descendant, Li Yaoqing, became an Imperial Physician in the Imperial Capital. By exchanging knowledge with many other physicians, her medical arts progressed greatly. The power she inherited from Tian Xing was neutralized by the 'Heaven's Wrath Wood and Plant Divine Art,' transforming it into the power of Wood and Plant and allowing her to possess a vast amount of Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi.]
[After the family took control of the Prefecture and obtained massive resources, she conducted numerous experiments, gradually comprehending the fifth-level of the 'Heaven's Wrath Wood and Plant Divine Art.']
[Obtained the Five-Leaf Immortal Embryo. Innate aptitude has transformed into a singular Wood Spirit Root.]
[With the Five-Leaf Immortal Embryo, she has broken through to the fifth-tier Divinity Transformation realm and obtained the fifth-level art of the 'Heaven's Wrath Wood and Plant Divine Art': Mountain God (Earth-rank). This art allows you to transform a mountain into a god, temporarily granting the plant upon it sentience and Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi to fight as your soldiers.]
[Obtained Domain: Healer Heart Domain. Within this domain, Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi is transformed into life force, helping living beings recover from their injuries and protecting them from the invasion of external evils.]
[Obtained a technique bestowed by Heaven and Earth, a Primordial Spirit Art: Profound Spirit Life Force Technique. It can temporarily enlighten all things in the world, granting them sentience.]
At this moment.
Li Yaoqing had unleashed her full strength, battling one Region three Divinity Transformation expert and its numerous Nascent Soul cultivators.
The mountain was Li Yaoqing, and she was the Mountain God!
Within the great mountain, one could see that every plant and tree had been granted sentience, and a continuous stream of Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi surged forth from the formation to slay her enemies.
To defeat her, they would have to either enter the mountain and find her true body or completely exhaust her spiritual power.
"Heavenly Fire!"
"Myriad Thunder Divine Technique—go! Find her true body within the mountain!"
"Damn it! The creatures in this woman's mountain are inexhaustible, and they recover instantly! My fellow Daoists, what are we to do?!!"
Outside, the sky was a dazzling display of spiritual technique as streams of fire fell like a waterfall.
A human face emerged from the Mountain God's form as Li Yaoqing roared at the three Divinity Transformation cultivators—two men and one woman.
She threw a punch that was blasted apart by the fiery torrent, only for a new arm to grow back in its place. Then, countless roots and vines surged forward to attack, crackling with the unique power of Thunder Punishment from her 'Divine Art'.
One of the attackers also used Thunder Techniques, but Li Yaoqing's techniques inherently possessed the trait of Thunder Punishment, giving her a natural advantage.
Another was a Divinity Transformation cultivator who specialized in domain-based suppression, which was utterly useless against the Mountain God; he could do nothing but continuously bombard it with his Dharma Treasures.
Li Yaoqing, all by herself, had left the three Divinity Transformation experts disheveled and humiliated. The other Nascent Soul cultivators could only attack from the outside with their techniques and formations, sending out their own Nascent Souls to try and locate Li Yaoqing's true body.
So strong, Li Wei thought.
A 3-kilometer-high mountain (about two miles) moved and fought, besieged by these Divinity Transformation and Nascent Soul experts. To Li Wei, it gave him the distinct feeling of a raid on a final boss in a video game.
Forget these other experts; Li Wei suspected that even he would have a difficult time fighting the Li Yaoqing of today.
Even if the domain of his Yin-Yang Fish Diagram were to enter the 'Mountain God's' body, it would be impossible to pinpoint her location.
Her aura had completely permeated the entire mountain.
Its only flaw was that the 'Mountain God' body lacked effective offensive power.
A fist made of a mountain might carry the spiritual power of the Divinity Transformation realm, but it was far too slow; even a careful Nascent Soul cultivator could dodge it.
"The ultimate meat shield."