Chapter 439 - 42: Heaven and Earth Transformed (Part 2)

"Hmm?" The Eighteen Tai Sui were all surprised upon hearing the words.

After all, the Immortal Masters of this era were all propagated by the royal family.

Since the Emperor said this person was not an Immortal Master... it caused them to waver in their judgment.

"Could it truly be some kind of peerless martial art?" Eunuch Wei’s eyes betrayed greed.

"Not an Immortal Master?" The youngest and most powerful Eunuch An’s eyes turned fierce and ruthless.

"The method that binds His Majesty now does bear resemblance to the outward release of our inner strength, thus... since His Majesty says it’s not an Immortal Master, it must not be."

"As long as it’s not an Immortal Master, there is a possibility of killing him!"

...

"Save His Majesty!" Eunuch An was the first to make up his mind, rising once more, releasing a palm with full Qi and Blood Activation toward Li Ji’an.

Li Ji’an’s eyes narrowed slightly, sending forth another Soul Shocking Needle, directly into his Sea of Consciousness.

An’s figure instantly fell from mid-air.

The difference was, this time, he could never get up again, blood flowing from seven orifices, dying with open eyes!

Meanwhile, the Qi Blood Palm Seal An delivered before his death finally reached Li Ji’an.

"Swish~" Li Ji’an casually waved his hand, dispersing it with only a Tier One peak physique.

Upon entering the Desolate Land, he already sensed the peculiarity of the spiritual energy here.

As soon as the Spirit Stones were taken out from the Storage Pouch, exposed to the air, all their contained spiritual energy was absorbed by this world, leaving not a trace.

Even when he used Pill Medicine to replenish magical power, once the pill was out of the Jade Bottle, its property to replenish spiritual energy rapidly diminished, in the end, only a tenth could be absorbed by the body, ninety percent flowed into this world.

Therefore, replenishing magical power in the Desolate Land came at an extraordinary cost, he could say his magical power was used up bit by bit.

Thus, unless necessary, he refrained from using magical power.

After all, within the Desolate Land map left by the old thief of the Liu Family, the routes of entry and exit were not the same, and the exit route would encounter a small storm at the outlet, where Li Ji’an was brought out for the first time by the junior of the Liu Family, using a quasi Second Tier Water Curtain Talisman to endure.

Li Ji’an was uncertain about the storm conditions there, so he hoped to face it in peak condition.

"Qi and Blood Power!"

"Everyone, the method of this person just now is Qi and Blood Transformation, more solid than that of our great Grandmasters."

"Given this, it proves this person is not a celestial Immortal Master, but like us, a Martial Artist. Let’s go together!"

...

Eunuch Wei noticed the physical strength Li Ji’an used to disperse Eunuch An’s attack, and was instantly delighted.

Others also felt hopeful.

As long as he was not an Immortal Master, he was human, and there’s a chance to defeat him.

At worst, with the Emperor ruling the land, even if it takes the lives of millions from the Great Wu Dynasty, he is sure to be killed!

"All soldiers heed the order, this traitor is not an Immortal Master, only a Martial Artist, he must possess peerless Martial Dao secrets."

"Follow us to save His Majesty, kill the rebellious traitor!"

...

In an instant, fear of the Immortal Masters disappeared, greed for the peerless Martial Dao secrets erupted, and favors for imperial authority occupied their hearts.

Over a thousand Forbidden Army all rose.

Li Ji’an’s brows furrowed slightly, sighing lightly, summoning with a single hand.

"Swish, swish, swish~"

Countless vines burst from the ground, entwining all the rising figures.

"..."

"Have mercy, Immortal Master, have mercy, we were all beguiled by them!"

...

Vines swayed all over the sky; once entangled, even a Grandmaster couldn’t break free.

If this isn’t an Immortal Technique, what else could it be?

Looking at the figure standing atop the sculpture’s head, everyone felt as if he truly was like the deity controlling life as proclaimed by the royal family!

The remaining seventeen Grandmasters’ faces turned ash gray.

"Immortal Master... there’s truly an Immortal Master..." The Emperor, suspended in mid-air, his eyes wide in shock.

"Pa!" Immediately, a vine swayed and struck the Emperor.

Li Wu’s leg was instantly broken, bones and flesh separated, blood spilling into the sky.

"Bringing chaos to the realm, exploiting the people, deserves death!" After the whip, Li Ji’an’s low voice spread over a hundred miles.

"Pa!" The second whip cracked, breaking Li Wu’s other leg.

"Abusing power and autocracy, ignoring the realm, deserves death!"

"Pa! Pa!" The next two whips broke his arms.

"For the sake of continuing power, even weakening the realm, banning martial arts and weakening the people, digging one’s own grave!"

"Pa!" The final whip severed his head.

"No dragon in the realm, everyone like dragons!"

...

In front of tens of thousands of civilians in the Imperial City, Li Ji’an enumerated his crimes and dismembered him to thank the heavens.

If lacking strength, keep oneself safe.

If overshadowing the realm, naturally some things need to be done.

For the millions of civilians in the Great Wu Dynasty today, Li Ji’an was like a god overshadowing the realm.

In the subsequent two months, everyone in the realm knew of the Great Wu Dynasty’s crimes.

After three more months, dozens of Cultivation Techniques, modified by Li Ji’an and suitable for this area, spread through the realm.

Meanwhile, people here understood that so-called Immortal Masters were merely cultivators, learned about Dharma Cultivators, Body Cultivators, and other basic information of the Cultivation Realm.

Additionally, they learned the relationship between this Desolate Land and the Cultivation Great World.

Another month later, the Seeking Dao Alliance was established to govern the realm.

On this day, Li Ji’an lightly tapped and destroyed the Immortal Master statue, drifting away without a trace.

Six months later, an image spreading throughout the land, depicting a body full of majesty but with a face blurred and chaotic, was worshiped by millions day and night.

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"It’s not that spiritual energy is severed! It’s that some special existence continually absorbs the spiritual energy here!" After carefully sensing around the Desolate Land repeatedly, Li Ji’an confirmed this judgment.

Furthermore, all dissipating spiritual energy wasn’t directed towards a specific spot but absorbed by the world enveloped by the Desolate Land.

Li Ji’an’s current Divine Sense couldn’t capture deeper directions; he speculates that ultimately it’s absorbed by the surrounding Storm Desert.

"What’s really in there?" Standing in the desert, Li Ji’an gazed deep into the desert, his heart growing increasingly apprehensive.

Based on ancient texts, all nine great Desolate Lands of the Great Marsh Cultivation Realm were formed in ancient times, spanning at least six thousand years.

Six thousand years of endlessly absorbing all spiritual energy in this area.

If it’s a living creature, Li Ji’an cannot imagine what existence could endure such a baptism of spiritual energy.

If it’s non-living, it is impossible to conceive of something that requires such continuously drawn spiritual energy.

Besides, he also confirmed the presence of Five Elements Spiritual Mechanism within the Desolate Land, among which the Earth Spiritual Mechanism was the most abundant, far more vigorous than what he saw in the Celestial Cyan Domain.

While Spiritual Mechanism isn’t spiritual energy, can’t nourish the human race’s body, can’t enhance Spirit Vein growth, it can safeguard children’s growth from lacking spiritual energy’s impact on Spirit Vein growth.

Here, the Earth Spirit Mechanism prevails, followed by the Fire Spiritual Mechanism; the other three Mechanisms can almost be ignored.

This was also the root of the difference caused by the influence of his Spirit Root before the age of eight.

"Divinity Transformation opportunity..." Eventually, Li Ji’an could only shake his head.

After resolving the Great Wu Dynasty’s issues, he spent nearly half a year, with half the time spent on meticulous inspection of the mundane life regions, gaining no chance.

Within the Desolate Land, even if there’s any Heaven and Earth Spirit Treasure, it would have already been drained of spiritual energy, turning to ashes.

Even a Qi Cultivation Peak cultivator like Li Ji’an was continuously being drained, and as time passed, the speed of absorption accelerated.

He barely persisted to this point with the rich pill heritage left from his past life.

In the latter half, he cautiously made a slight venture into the interior of the desert, resulting in enduring great fear daily, gaining nothing else.

"Not entirely fruitless, at least the refinement level of magical power now can be on par with years of training and magical combat." Li Ji’an smiled and shook his head, viewing it as the greatest consolation of his endeavor.

Every day resisting the Desolate Land’s pull on spiritual power, he almost constantly maintained magical power in full operation.

"Hope next time, everyone could be like dragons!" Finally, he looked back at the Great Wu Dynasty direction, decisively heading outside the Desolate Land.

This time, the memory almost overlapped with the departure one hundred eighty years ago; although he didn’t see the outside circumstances then, the sensing was not much different.

And when about to escape the desert, he indeed encountered a small storm, safely traversing under the protection of a Water Curtain Talisman.

Once out of the Desert Desolate Land, Gugu and Little Fire Spirit came to greet him, and Li Ji’an took the opportunity to replenish his Storage Pouch again.

However, before he could reunite well with the two little ones, Guo Wanzhi’s communication made him both joyful and worried.

The worry was, Qingmen Sect obtained support from Ten Thousand Laws Palace, giving Biyun Sect an ultimatum, either hand over Xu Xiaochun who poisoned the True Pill Seed, or face a pledge of execution set upon Biyun Sect’s True Pill Seed under Ten Thousand Laws Palace’s support!

The joy was, Xu Xiaochun eventually wasn’t an utterly incorrigible fool and had quietly escaped the sect at some unknown time.