[Your descendant Li Yaotie, after the battle with the immortal, in addition to forging his Unorthodox Artifact Body, has begun researching demonic and immortal physiques, striving to overcome the frailty of the human body to find a method to rival immortals and demons without joining them.]
[Acquired Trait: Immortal and Demon Researcher]
[The 'Never Give Up' trait continues to exert its effect, giving him the belief that altering the physical body will one day yield power surpassing immortals and demons.
Comprehension of the Spirit Puppet Dao increases by 10%.]
Inside the Heavenly Fire Dao Field.
The current Nirvana Sage Elder, after a century, was now a young man.
Having reincarnated and recultivated, he had finally regained a bit of power, becoming a glorious Golden Core cultivator.
In the past, he was the one being carried in a basket by others; now, he was the one carrying an infant in a basket.
"Despicable creature, let me go, ah! Itchy, so itchy!"
The infant in the basket was covered in red rashes.
The Nirvana Sage Elder sprinkled itching powder, watching the Immortal Infant vigorously rub against the edge of the cradle, a look of profound satisfaction actually surfacing on his face.
He was certain that this powder could rule the infants of the entire world.
The talismans on the edge of the basket swayed. Look, even an immortal couldn't escape the supreme power of the infant world.
Handing the Immortal Infant over to Li Yaotie and his wife, the Nirvana Sage Elder slowly returned to the center of the Dao Field to educate the younger generation of the Li Clan and Azure Cloud Prefecture.
His expression was solemn.
Now, the Li Clan had torn off his seal. With the emergence of immortals, the fate of the world had surpassed the hatred between him and the Li Clan.
Unfortunately, he also knew clearly that even though the Li Clan's 'spiritual liquid' aided his cultivation, when the Blood Moon arrived, he would have absolutely no means to resist.
Even that damn Red Dust Immortal wasn't willing to teach him in the slightest... Clearly, in the eyes of the Red Dust Immortal, his esteemed Golden Core mighty self was nothing.
"I wonder what the current situation of our Divine Bird Totem is, and the Divine Phoenix."
The Nirvana Sage Elder murmured. The Divine Phoenix was also the master of the Divine Bird Totem, the totem's faith.
The latest intelligence was that not a single member of the Divine Bird Totem within the Blood Moon had been spared.
Immortal shadows had appeared within the Blood Moon, and the totem's final Sage Elder was sealed beneath molten lava, resisting the immortal's bewitchment.
The Moon Dragon and Verdant Wood totems had also fallen into disaster.
To make matters worse, the venomous snakes in the Human Race's imperial court were taking advantage of this opportunity to invade the Wu Tribe from another direction.
Until his preaching ended.
The Nirvana Sage Elder took a deep breath and headed into the distance, but suddenly trembled all over.
He saw a gaze staring at him from the distant cloudy sky. This gaze was profound, seemingly peering through all things in the world to glimpse the past and future.
It swept past him, seemingly leaving only after confirming he was harmless.
"The Li Clan's... Yaowen?"
The Nirvana Sage Elder murmured this name.
He had only heard this name from the older generation of the Li Clan, and initially, he paid it no mind.
Over these years, he naturally knew how freakish the Li Clan was.
This man Li Yaotie had snatched his Dao and stubbornly forged a path on the Great Dao of Heavenly Fire that had never existed before.
His physical body was tough to the extreme, and one person could even wield dozens of Dharma Treasures.
He heard that in the battle at Grandhaven Prefecture, this new Fire Ancestor hadn't even used his full strength in wielding so many Dharma Treasures.
He had also seen Li Dalong. Relying purely on intuition, he could feel this person's terrifying nature; glimpsing Li Dalong was like glimpsing death itself.
Li Yaoqing, Li Zhiheng, Li Yunlin... he had seen all these existences.
It wasn't until now, seeing Li Yaowen, that he suddenly realized he was far from seeing the Li Clan's true foundation.
Until Li Yaowen's aura vanished, he shuddered and wiped cold sweat from his forehead.
"Back then in the Western Frontier, could it be... could it be that the Li Clan didn't even use their full strength against me?"
Peering at Li Yaowen was like peering at a thousand people!
And these thousand people were all geniuses.
What was truly terrifying was that the karmic luck in the cloudy sky of Azure Cloud Prefecture had condensed into a vortex of karmic luck, constantly spying on everyone.
Within this karmic luck, there were the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter; mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas; birth, aging, prosperity, and decline; and the common living beings of the mortal realm.
"That's not right. At the Void Refinement realm, how could she possess such an oppressive might?"
.......
Li Yaowen stepped into Azure Cloud Prefecture.
Her figure was ethereal.
In all directions hovered spirit tablets; at the very front was the Old Ancestor's spirit tablet, followed by her father and mother's, then her elder brother and elder sister's, and finally the spirit tablets of the family's descendants.
As she moved, ripples undulated in all directions—these were the prying eyes from all corners of the world.
"Here they come again."
She saw a silk thread striking from afar. A trace of white mist flashed across her eyes, and through the thread, she instantly caught sight of a bustling, prosperous land.
This place was the Imperial Dynasty. While the Southern Frontier was suffering, the Imperial Dynasty was cheering for its revival and wave after wave of good news.
Li Yaowen didn't even know how many times she had encountered such silk threads.
Ever since she experienced the Five Decays of Heaven and Human and transformed into a spirit, she had been able to see many, many things.
It turned out that many mighty figures in the world were secretly divining and scheming behind the scenes, and these silk threads were one of their calculation methods.
Being connected by a thread was like becoming a string puppet, forever trapped within their chessboard. If not connected, the opponent would harbor numerous misgivings.
She hadn't fought alongside her family for a very long time.
Yet she was trapped in endless disputes.
Back when she walked out of Sky Jade Region, she had said that Sky Jade Region was a cage. Now she understood that the cage was always there.