Beaming with joy, he watched as more and more treasures were discovered within the Immortal Domain Grotto-Heaven.
What delighted Li Wei the most were the cultivation techniques left behind by the Zhao Clan—Heaven-rank cultivation techniques!
Heaven-rank cultivation techniques represent the absolute pinnacle of techniques in this world.
Within the family, only Changsheng's Human Emperor Sutra and Yaoqing's Divine Technique have reached the Heaven rank.
Yet, regarding these two, one attracts the gaze of unknown entities if practiced, while the other invites lightning strikes the moment one begins cultivation.
But there is no doubt that these Heaven-rank techniques are supreme existences.
The key difference is that the Immortal Zhao Clan's technique can be cultivated!
The Zhao clan had hidden this technique extremely deeply.
It was recorded in ancient runes on a wall deep within their clan grounds.
Fortunately, Yaowen made a trip back from the battlefield.
By using her clone in the God-Hunting Village to consult ancient texts for translation, and by sensing the cultivation pathways embedded within the wall, she was finally able to deduce the complete technique piece by piece.
[Mystic Yang Spirit-Genesis Scripture]
[Rank: Heaven Rank]
[The Mystic Yang Scripture consists of nine chapters. Even at the Qi Refining stage, it prolongs life and ensures a completely flawless foundation...]
In the early stages, this technique appears ordinary.
Yet, without exception, it renders the cultivator's physical and spiritual foundation extremely solid.
Upon reaching the Golden Core realm, one's spiritual power becomes incredibly potent—surpassing that of others by several times.
But the most critical aspect is that those who cultivate this technique can see their lifespan double!
Aside from the maxim that the strong reign supreme, what do the cultivators of this world strive for?
Immortality!
Furthermore, this technique contains the method for forging the Void Refining Space at the Void Refining realm, as well as the method of integration for cultivators at the Body Integration realm.
By the time one cultivates to the seventh chapter, the cultivator effectively possesses the "Mystic Yang Physique."
The eighth chapter confers the "Heavenly Yang Spiritual Body."
The ninth chapter is "Nirvana."
[Mystic Yang Physique: Increases the intensity and capacity of spiritual power within the body by 30%.]
[Heavenly Yang Spiritual Body: Increases the intensity and capacity of spiritual power within the body by 60%.
Grants immunity to invasion by external evils.
Provides one opportunity for epiphany every fifty years, which can be used to comprehend a Primordial Spirit technique or a Void Refining technique.]
As for the ninth chapter, not a single person, even within the Zhao family, had been able to comprehend it.
"It truly lives up to its reputation as a Heaven-rank cultivation technique; simply by cultivating to the required realm, one can obtain a special physique!"
Li Wei's face was brimming with smiles.
"The Mystic Yang Method shall become the closely guarded secret of my Li clan."
Immediately, Li Wei looked toward the cave abode where the Mystic Yang Method had been found.
This was evidently the "Scripture Pavilion" of the Zhao clan.
After all, with a foundation of one hundred and sixty thousand years, the sheer number of recorded and cultivatable Earth-rank cultivation Techniques and scriptures simply dazzled Li Wei's eyes!
There were a full thirty-two of them.
The techniques used by those six Zhao clan elders were among them.
But the most valuable aspect was the cultivation insights they had passed down for the Zhao descendants.
If one were to cultivate using these notes, they would certainly achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Talismans, formation, artifact refining blueprints, alchemical formulas...
Engaging in battle was one thing, but witnessing the foundation of the Immortal Zhao Clan, Li Wei felt truly shaken.
Amidst this joy, a message arrived from his clansmen.
Li Wei's expression turned cold as the text on the panel before him became clear.
[Your descendants report to you: After a great battle lasting two months, the Zhao Clan Patriarch has been captured.]
[Congratulations. Your family has eradicated the Immortal Zhao Clan, eliminating the scourge that devoured the human race Qi-Destiny, suppressing the Zhao clan with its one hundred and sixty thousand years of foundation, and suppressing the Zhao Clan Patriarch!]
[Obtained Family Will: 80,000]
[Your family obtains the entire foundation of the Immortal Zhao Clan.
Obtained Trait: Immortal Clan]
[Your clansmen's lifespan increased by 20%. Blessed by Human Race Qi-Destiny.]
Eighty thousand Family Will.
This was clearly a massive fortune, yet Li Wei felt no joy.
He instantly appeared on the battlefield.
At this moment, within that Void Refining Space, almost every cultivator from Azure Cloud Prefecture above the peak of the Nascent Soul realm had gathered.
In the center, the Zhao Clan Patriarch had already been sealed by layer upon layer of formation arrays, suppressing his spiritual power.
Yet no spiritual power worked as effectively as Li Changsheng.
That brat possessed the Human Emperor Eyes; simply by sitting beside the Zhao Clan Patriarch, the Patriarch was rendered into a mere mortal.
The man, covered in gaping wounds, continued to murmur with dull, lifeless eyes,
"Break through Body Integration, achieve Mahayana... I have the Divine Heart, the Divine Heart..."
He was unwilling to accept this.
Those descendants he had revived using the Divine Heart understood him best; they had used various formation arrays to leave him no escape, forcing him to fight.
It was those descendants of his—who had died long ago—who taught the Li clansmen the methods to seal and kill him, reducing him to this wretched state.
Clearly, he was about to achieve his vision.
He was just that close!
The people of Azure Cloud surrounded him on all sides.
He had become fish and meat on the chopping block, and these ants actually dared to attempt to devour his body!
"Changsheng, slice open his chest."
The spirit tablet beside Li Dalong lit up.
He spoke to Li Changsheng, "The Ancestor wants to see if his heart is red or black. We want to see it too."
"Alright. Who can give me a saber that's three meters long?
I'm afraid he might ambush me. Preferably something light, sharpened on both edges, so if he tries to grab my blade, it will slice his hand.
Oh right, does anyone have any Spirit Treasure-grade armor?
Ideally, the kind even an Immortal can't pierce. I..."
Li Changsheng stood two meters away from the Zhao Clan Patriarch.
This distance was neither too far nor too close; it was the safest distance.
Li Yaotie's eyes bulged in anger. "You brat, you're embarrassing us!"
Immediately, a three-meter-long saber was forged on the spot; after all, what that brat Changsheng said wasn't entirely without reason.
A moment later.
With a miserable howl, Li Changsheng sliced open the Zhao Clan Patriarch's chest.
Having already been reduced to a mere mortal, he naturally met his end then and there.
Everyone merely watched in silence.
For a man like him, who had spent his entire life pursuing the Mahayana realm—even going so far as to exploit the bloodlines of his own descendants—it was perhaps better to let him die in obscurity, like a nameless pawn!
However.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The expressions of the crowd remained grave.
Inside that open chest, a heart was still beating.
This heart radiated a thick, bizarre aura.
It was the primary reason why the Zhao Clan Patriarch had been able to devour the Qi-Destiny of others and sustain the existence of his deceased children in this world all those years ago!
It was an aura that belonged to neither Human, Demon and Spirit Beast, Devil, nor the Wu tribe—an aura that should not even exist in the mortal realm!
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