#1087 - Divergent

The light in the hall was dim.

The magic lamp beside the bed was refilled three times, warming the entire hall like a furnace, but the old man on the couch was still damp and cold, lying half-awake for three months, suddenly remembering that his surname was not Li.

'Back then, my father was called Ye Chengfu.'

When his father was still called Ye Chengfu, life was always hurried, seemingly making a living at the village entrance, but there was little work, so he had to work in other people's homes, occasionally bringing back a large bag of rice and beans, triumphantly stepping into the house, calling himself the third smartest person in Lijing Village.

The white-haired old man beside him coughed twice, his straight back bent down, and his drooping eyes were filled with tears, he replied:

"Wait… wait a little longer."

Li Qiuyang didn't remember much, but he still remembered kneeling in front of the old man when he was young, receiving the [Azure Origin Nurturing Wheel Technique], Li Mutian instructed him to respect the sect and honor the Dao, and to be kind to his relatives and neighbors, so he began to be surnamed Li.

From that moment on, Li Qiuyang's status was elevated for one hundred and sixty-five years, and even Foundation Establishment cultivators on Wangyue Lake had to be polite to him now.

"Old Ancestor… the Master is here, the Master is here!"

In a daze, a gentle breeze blew to his pillow, Li Qiuyang barely opened his eyes, and what he saw was also an old face, Li Xuanxuan was even older than Chen Donghe next to him, almost unrecognizable, but at least his energy was still there, his face full of tears.

"Qiuyang… old friend, you are leaving too…"

Li Qiuyang struggled for a while, but couldn't turn over. If it weren't for a 'Jia Wood' Foundation Establishment cultivator keeping him alive, he would have left long ago.

Li Xuanxuan had opened a shop in the Xiao Family Workshop in his youth and worked as a shopkeeper. Li Qiuyang and he had survived a Demonic assault together. The current Li family disciples could no longer comprehend the fear of that kind of precarious and helpless situation… In addition, his old friends were withering away, and the two embraced each other for warmth, so his relationship with him was very deep.

The Li Qiuyang of that year was no longer there. The old man lying on the bed was like a lump of rotten flesh. Bing Fire damaged his nature and life. That Bing Fire burned his body, and although it was later replenished, the damage to his foundation and lifespan could not be recovered. Li Xuanxuan could hardly recognize his appearance, and could only see two turbid pupils in his flesh.

Li Xuanxuan felt grief in his heart, and a terrifying loneliness surged into his mind. He lowered his head and said:

"Qiuyang… Qiuyang… what can't you let go of?"

The old man breathed twice, but there was no reaction.

Li Qiuyang's talent was not bad. The spiritual fruit back then helped him cultivate quickly, but it also made him hopeless in Qi Refining, and in the end he could only cultivate a miscellaneous Qi. However, none of his descendants were able to become talented. After more than a hundred years, no one was able to surpass him.

Li Qiuyang barely moved his eyes, staring at Li Xuanxuan.

In fact, he knew that this main family brother had many secrets, and he also knew that he had never truly entered the high level of the Li family. Let alone him, even if Chen Yang became a Foundation Establishment cultivator with outstanding talent, could he enter? The so-called Qing Du bloodline was just a joke.

But he had held Li Yuanxiu, led Li Xiangping's horse, drank tea with Li Xuanfeng, and walked through Lixia with Chen Mufeng. The moon set, the sun rose, and he had spent sixty-two thousand sunsets on Wangyue Lake. He held deep sorrow and love for this land that gave birth to him and raised him, and for the people of this land.

The old man seemed to have used all his strength, opened his mouth, and murmured:

"Xuanxuan… they are too close…"

Li Xuanxuan raised his eyebrows and was slightly stunned. He reached out to support him, and Sun Bai stood up in fear, instructing the younger generation beside him to moisten the Old Ancestor's lips with medicinal soup, and quickly retreated. Li Xuanxuan seemed a little lost, and said confusedly:

"Who… who is too close…"

Li Qiuyang struggled to get up. He coughed violently twice, as if trying to cough out his lungs. He groaned:

"Get out…"

Li Xuanxuan took the medicinal soup from the younger generation's hand, waved his hand to dismiss the irrelevant people, and Chen Donghe raised his eyebrows to look at the dying old man on the couch. Seeing him staring straight at him, he covered his tears and turned to leave.

Only Li Xuanxuan was left in the entire hall. Li Qiuyang began to pant heavily. There was more strength in his hand, he grabbed Li Xuanxuan's hand, and gritted his teeth:

"They and you… are too close… Jiang… Jiang family…"

Li Xuanxuan's lips trembled, the old man in front of him was chattering his teeth, and began to spit out blood, muttering:

"If… he was here, they would all be crippled… only then would they be clean…"

Li Xuanxuan couldn't tell who the 'he' in the old man's mouth was, was it the Old Ancestor Li Mutian? Or Li Xiangping? Of course, he knew what the Jiang family meant. Ever since Li Ximing became a Violet Palace cultivator, he had not considered this matter for too long…

'The Jiang family… was that Jiang family ancestor who was killed… but my family is thriving, not to mention Wei Wang, Jiang Qian and Que Wan are all Violet Palace seeds. If one day all the Violet Palace cultivators are lost, we will surely perish. Why worry about internal troubles…'

He was silent for a moment, and the old man in front of him finally fell back. Li Xuanxuan turned around, sat on the steps, first choked, and then cried in a low voice. There was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the hall. The first one to rush in was an unknown man, who knelt down in front of Li Xuanxuan with a thud and howled:

"Old Ancestor!"

The middle-aged man who followed closely behind him staggered from the collision, but was unwilling to be outdone, knelt on the ground and cried even more fiercely, his voice howling like thunder.

Li Xuanxuan raised his tearful old eyes and glanced at the people who were rushing in, vying to be first, and pulled up the curtain on the couch in confusion, waving his sleeves to throw all these people out.

The hall was instantly quiet, with no one else except Chen Donghe, who was closing his eyes and shedding tears. Li Xuanxuan cried for a while, and found that the crying outside the hall was sparse, mostly whispers. He said weakly:

"After six generations, they are no longer close, but they are very stupid."

……

Lulai Island.

The wind and rain on the sea subsided, and the sky showed a strange green color. All colors were blocked out by the light of the cave, and the blue-purple light on the walls flickered one by one, surging all the spiritual energy into it.

The woman sitting in the middle was dressed in white, with a pair of curved willow eyebrows and a calm face. Her vermilion lips were slightly open, as if containing a hazy colorful light, and her hands formed a seal in front of her abdomen, shining with divine light.

After an unknown amount of time, she put away her magic, and the colorful light returned to her Ascending Yang. She stood up, and the light in her almond eyes was bright and then dark, exhaling and raising her eyebrows.

'The difficulty of [Seated Colors] is much lower than expected… I estimate it will only take two years…'

Li Quewan spent a lot of time in her early cultivation on [Profound Witchcraft]. Her spiritual aperture was in her brow, and she was able to visualize Ascending Yang very early. She also had extremely outstanding witchcraft talent, but cultivating this technique was still like sailing against the current, with every step being difficult.

Fortunately, these cultivations were not without results. When she turned to cultivate the secret techniques, she had a feeling of unraveling silk, and seeing everything clearly. The time she spent in her early years was repaid many times over, as if she had divine assistance!

'『Complete Core』extremely tests one's Dao attainments. If 【Seat of Rainbows】were to be cultivated by ordinary people, it would be impossible to succeed without a decade or two... but it's very easy in my hands...'

She secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but her heart was filled with concern:

'I heard that my clan uncle has been enfeoffed as the Prince of Wei... I wonder how much trouble there will be. It's hateful that I can only stay overseas and can't help.'

Her desire to achieve the Violet Palace stage became more urgent day by day, but fortunately, she had patience, and simply worked harder. However, on the day of receiving letters from home, she always left seclusion on time.

She went out of the cave dwelling. The surrounding cultivators bowed one after another. Li Quewan hurried out and saw the hall of the cave dwelling was resplendent and dazzling. The purple-golden table reflected the light blue patterns on the murals. In the center sat a man, wearing a white fur coat, a precious pearl around his waist, and three vertical marks between his eyebrows, staring at the scroll on the table.

"Greetings, True Master!"

This person was none other than True Master Yuanbian, Liu Changdie.

Liu Changdie appeared very steady. In recent years, he had not spent much time in seclusion, and stayed on this island. He would go out for a stroll in the early days, but after the rainstorm that night, he had not taken half a step off this island.

No other reason, he was really scared!

The rainstorm that night was extremely abnormal, and it was obvious that someone was driving it. Liu Changdie suppressed his temper and did not go out. After this incident, he secretly deduced, combined with the mystery of his own supernatural powers, and really got a lot of clues.

'Someone with high cultivation must have taken action that night, aiming at me... but considering the great formation, and being in the East Sea, and being blocked by the Dragon race, he failed!'

Liu Changdie had been in the South China Sea and the East China Sea for a reason... many of the things on his body were 'opportunities' he accidentally obtained in the East China Sea and the South China Sea. He had long suspected that the Dragon race had a need to protect him secretly... This incident further confirmed his original doubts.

'I'm hiding in the East Sea, hiding in this great formation, and someone still wants to harm me... If I go elsewhere, who knows what will happen!'

Seeing Li Quewan, Liu Changdie seemed very happy. He nodded to her, then stood up and smiled:

"You are on time."

When Liu Changdie came to this island, he was instructed by Li Ximing to protect Li Quewan. So he paid attention to her. After a private exchange, he was immediately shocked. This junior's Dao attainments were so high, and her thinking on performing techniques was so clear, that she didn't look like a Foundation Establishment cultivator at all!

Then he asked, and then he knew that Li Quewan had been practicing witchcraft for many years, and then he felt a little relieved.

'The Witch Record Dao is so ancient, even more so than the ancient Immortal Dao of breathing and nourishing nature, and eating clouds and drinking dew, directly pointing to the root of the Great Dao...'

The ancient Immortal Dao of breathing and nourishing nature, and eating clouds and drinking dew usually refers to the Three Mysteries Dao lineage, originating from the Orthodox Beginning and Two Aspects. One of them continued to spread and develop, and became the Three Mysteries Dao lineage that later spread throughout the world, while the Witch Record Dao was a Dao lineage that spread throughout the world in the same era as the Orthodox Beginning and Two Aspects!

'Just a Witch Record Dao alone occupies the earliest three positions of 『Bingxiu』, 『Shangwu』, and 『Yuzhen』 in the combined ancient methods, and it is still the most important three positions of one nine, three nine, and six nine, which shows its power.'

'If you can make great achievements in the Witch Record Dao, it will be easy to control most of the spells of the Violet Palace Golden Core Dao...'

Of course, the difficulty of this great achievement is not low. It is definitely not enough to learn witchcraft and know some curses and suppressing techniques... At least it must be the orthodox heir of this Dao! Duanmu Kui could overwhelm the heroes in those years, and Jiang Boqing was proficient in both the Immortal and Buddhist Daos, which came from this!

For this reason, Liu Changdie was very optimistic about this junior of the Li family, and even saw her future path to the Violet Palace, and vaguely treated her as another Violet Palace cultivator, and smiled:

"Come! Take a look at this!"

Li Quewan was even more respectful to him, and walked forward quickly, standing sideways by the table, and saw a golden scroll on the table, with a soft texture, which seemed to be made of some kind of spiritual silk. The runes were mysterious, and there were several lines of large colored characters.

[Scroll of Myriad Transformations of the Divided Spirit].

Li Quewan looked at it carefully, while Liu Changdie smiled:

"This scroll was sent by your family, obtained from some Changxiao Sect. It is an ancient thing, so it was locked with a secret hiding method, and I was asked to unlock it... It took a lot of effort."

"Now it's open. It's a wonderful method of shifting shapes and changing bodies. It's quite clever. It can be used to refine an alternate body for the purpose of preserving life, cultivating the Dao, avoiding calamities, and hiding from disasters. If your Dao attainments are high, and you have some good things on your body, you might be able to use this technique to reincarnate."

Li Quewan's eyes were burning, staring at the golden characters in the scroll, and sighed:

"It's so precious!"

Although Li Quewan was not very clear about Li Zhouwei's current situation, she still understood the principle of either seeking gold or reincarnating when the supernatural powers are complete. Thinking that it might be useful to her own True Master, she immediately smiled and watched carefully.

This thing may not be anything in ancient times, but in today's era where most of the reincarnation and Great Void traveling methods have been lost, it can be said to be precious... Liu Changdie nodded and sighed:

"Unfortunately, the main purpose is still the first four. The ability to reincarnate is just a side effect... If you can refine that alternate body to the point where it can be used for reincarnation... the resources spent would not know how many Violet Palaces could be cultivated, and how much supernatural power could be increased for yourself... and it would not add much certainty, so why bother?"

"Compared with the ancient Demon Embryo, the Heart-Merging Ten-Colored Pearl... or even the Golden Nature, the possibility of success of this technique is too low, and there are many sequelae. It can only be regarded as a last resort."

He smiled:

"In short... it's still precious. I have benefited from it and looked at it a few more times."

Li Quewan quickly shook her head and respectfully said:

"The Grandmaster and my family's True Master are close friends, and it should have been sent to share... Where did this come from... We can't let the Grandmaster waste so much time to unlock the scroll for nothing..."

Liu Changdie shook his head and smiled. He no longer felt that his time was a precious thing. He only took out a letter from his sleeve and said:

"A letter from home... take a look."

Li Quewan took it as if she had found a treasure and read it, while Liu Changdie looked at her side face and sighed secretly:

'I had thought... If I had a son or daughter, I could match them with her, but now it seems... even if I really have children, they would not be worthy of her.'

Liu Changdie was thinking, but he saw a person quickly entering the cave dwelling in front of him, bowing and respectfully saying:

"Reporting to the True Master... there is a... there is a Demon King waiting outside the island! He wants to... see the True Master!"

'Demon King?!'

Liu Changdie's first reaction was the Dragon race. He was shocked, but suddenly felt something, took out a golden jade pendant from his sleeve, took a closer look, slapped the table and realized, a little embarrassed:

'Senior Fuxun has come to my door!'

Main characters in this chapter

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Liu Changdie [Early Violet Palace]

Li Quewan 『Waiting for Divine Manifestation』 [Peak Foundation Establishment]

Li Xuanxuan [Ninth Level Qi Refining]