Chapter 556

Shenxiao City is indeed amazing.

'Mother, this immortal city is really flying.'

Tan Hu grinned, feeling his throat a bit dry.

Before even stepping into Shenxiao City.

He saw magnificent palaces floating in mid-air, the whole body shrouded in five-colored immortal light; there were twelve jade bridges in the city connecting the palaces, and cultivators driving magic treasures shuttled between them.

In the Yu Kingdom, where could one see such an immortal scene!

Ge Hong's eyes were also shining.

"It is worthy of being an immortal city; it truly has immortal energy!"

By comparison.

Li Rui was much more indifferent.

He lifted his foot and headed toward the city gate.

Under the city gate, there were cultivators from Shenxiao City guarding it; the cultivators in Shenxiao City are generally divided into two categories: one category is permanent residents—these people are either elders and disciples of Shenxiao City, or immortal cultivators who spend a lot of spirit stones to rent spiritual dwellings in the city; these people are given tokens. The other category is temporary cultivators entering the city; these people are not allowed to stay overnight in the city and must leave on the same day, otherwise they will be expelled by Shenxiao City.

Li Rui was naturally the former.

He did not do the foolish thing of traveling in brocade at night, directly showing the waist token exclusive to a C-rank elder.

Those Shenxiao City guards, who had originally been a bit arrogant, suddenly became sycophantic.

"So it is you, Elder; I really have eyes but failed to recognize you."

The leading cultivator slapped himself in the face.

Li Rui took the token.

And did not speak.

He strode into Shenxiao City with Tan Hu and Ge Hong.

Attracting envious expressions from those cultivators waiting in line.

No matter where one is.

Strength and status are the reliance for dignity.

If Li Rui had not stepped into the Purple Mansion, or was not an elder of Shenxiao City, he would have had to honestly wait at the end of the line.

Of course.

Li Rui did not have the ridiculous thought of not using privileges; the privileges brought by status were meant to be used, and used to the fullest, otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste?

He finally glanced at the cultivators under the city gate.

'The disparity between people is truly too great.'

Isn't it?

It is the same outside the city and inside the city.

Look at those twelve immortal palaces.

In Shenxiao City, the hierarchy is also extremely strict; those at the bottom can only live in the outer city, where spiritual energy is thin; those in the middle can enter the inner city, where spiritual energy is significantly improved by a large margin, and the grades of elixirs and magic treasures in the shops are several realms higher.

Those at the top, of course, live in the immortal palaces.

Those inside are all the high-level figures of Shenxiao City, as well as old monsters in secluded cultivation in the city.

Li Rui belongs to the upper-middle.

He is only one step away from living in the immortal palaces—stepping into the Body Integration Realm.

So he actually doesn't envy it very much.

And if he wanted to live there, relying on his status as the grandson of the deputy city lord, it would be even easier.

Not bad.

His private secretary, Gao Tianxia, lives in those twelve immortal palaces, and he occupies one palace alone.

Li Rui did not step across the twelve jade bridges.

Instead, he came to a residence in the city that looked extremely ordinary.

Knock, knock, knock.

The knocking sound had just rung out when the courtyard door was pushed open from behind, and then he saw a familiar face, He Qiannian.

"Brat, you're here."

Seeing He Qiannian, Li Rui performed a disciple's salute, and then said: "Master."

Although his strength was now greater than He Qiannian's, He Qiannian was his master, so the etiquette could not be less.

This is the rule.

He Qiannian led the three people in front of the door into the courtyard.

After sitting down.

Li Rui originally thought that He Qiannian would tell him Gao Tianxia's instructions one by one, but what he never expected was that He Qiannian directly took out a small net woven from gold thread, with electric light faintly flashing on it, from the storage bag in his sleeve.

"Five-Thunder Divine Shield!"

Even Li Rui was full of surprise.

When his private secretary sent the sound transmission, he said that this Five-Thunder Divine Shield was in the hands of Qinglingju, as an extremely important final item for the Qinglingju auction.

Who would have expected.

He had originally planned to participate in the auction, but it appeared directly in He Qiannian's hands.

No need to think.

It must be the work of his private secretary.

That kind of immortal cultivation plot where one participates in an auction, is targeted, and finally has to buy the treasure and then snatch it back, is impossible to happen.

Li Rui even felt a bit regretful.

He Qiannian smiled and stuffed the Five-Thunder Divine Shield into Li Rui's hand: "You brat are a person with great prospects; your private secretary said that he hadn't given you anything before, so this Five-Thunder Divine Shield will be your New Year's money."

Li Rui's mouth twitched.

He was a person who had lived for nearly sixty years, and he could actually still receive New Year's money.

It was really living more and more backward.

He naturally knew that this was Gao Tianxia's excuse, fearing he wouldn't accept it.

For this grandson of his, he really had nothing to say.

His painstaking efforts.

Li Rui's heart warmed.

At this time, He Qiannian teased: "If you brat feel bad, then put the feelings you have for your private secretary onto your master; your master can afford it."

Li Rui rolled his eyes.

But he really did throw a storage bag to He Qiannian.

Inside were elixirs and spirit stones urgently needed for the Below Tongxuan Realm.

The value was actually equivalent to the Five-Thunder Divine Shield.

However, he would not think that this was repaying the favor; wanting to obtain this Five-Thunder Divine Shield, having sufficient financial resources was one aspect, but the key was to have the ability to protect the treasure after the auction.

It was inevitable that there would be some twists and turns.

His private secretary saved him from a segment of karma.

This storage bag was something he had long prepared; it was the filial piety of a disciple to his master, unrelated to profit.

The master is kind and the disciple is respectful—this is the simple family style.

He Qiannian calmly accepted the storage bag.

This was the filial piety of his disciple.

He looked deeply at Li Rui.

He naturally knew what the Five-Thunder Divine Shield was used for.

It was to be used for crossing the tribulation.

Li Rui's Purple Mansion tribulation had long been crossed, and the Purple Mansion heavenly tribulation didn't need the Five-Thunder Divine Shield at all.

So he was certain that Li Rui must have already harmonized with the Dao, and this was to cross the Body Integration tribulation!

Land immortal.

He Qiannian only felt that everything was too unreal.

When he taught Li Rui the Great Great Henglian, he had once said that Li Rui should prove the Earth Immortal realm through external martial arts.

How many years had passed since then?

It wasn't even enough for sixty years.

Li Rui was actually going to make it a reality.

This speed, how terrifying.

No wonder even Gao Tianxia was willing to break the rules and take action to protect Li Rui's Dao.

Having easily obtained the Five-Thunder Divine Shield.

Originally, Li Rui had thought about taking Tan Hu and Ge Hong to have a good time in Shenxiao City before the auction started, but now he could only give up.

To avoid long delays and many troubles.

Li Rui immediately took the two of them and left Shenxiao City, heading straight for East Sea City.

East Sea City is one thousand li away from Shenxiao City.

This distance for mortals is naturally very long, and the journey takes several days, but for cultivators, especially great cultivators like Li Rui, it is only half a quarter of an hour.

The flying boat magic treasure shuttled over the waves.

"Almost there."

Tan Hu and Ge Hong looked at East Sea City, which was already the size of a small black dot.

Their hearts relaxed.

They knew what was important.

Compared to traveling in Shenxiao City, Li Rui's matter was undoubtedly more important.

But just as East Sea City was already in sight—

A sudden change occurred.

Only to see a mass of black Qi rising from the seabed, shooting toward the flying boat.

Li Rui frowned.

He clearly saw.

There was a person hidden in that black Qi.

It was actually the Body Integration Realm demonic cultivator who should have died in Wan Mo Ku long ago—Zhuo Sha!

"Corpse Demon?"

Li Rui's pupils shrank suddenly; he recognized the origin of the monster in an instant.

This scene was so familiar; how similar it was to when Fu Rui was killed.

He was certain that he had no enmity with the Corpse Sect, so this Corpse Demon should have come for the city lords of the thirty-six cities; looking at it this way, it was highly likely that other Shenxiao satellite cities also had Corpse Demons in ambush.

Upon recognizing the identity of the Corpse Demon while he was alive.

Li Rui's expression also suddenly became ugly.

Wan Mo Ku's Zhuo Sha was a great cultivator of the Body Integration Realm; even if he was now refined into a Corpse Demon, his combat power was definitely not something that a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator could compare to.

Otherwise, characters like Fu Rui would not have fallen into the hands of the Corpse Demon.

"How bold."

Li Rui snorted coldly.

Deputy City Lord Zhong Hua personally took action, and it was said that he wiped out quite a few Corpse Demons in one breath; he thought it could be quiet for a while, but never expected that they would actually pull a "black under the lamp" trick, with the Corpse Demon hiding directly in the territory of Shenxiao City.

This was to slap Shenxiao City hard in the face!

Without hesitation.

Li Rui waved his sleeves.

Tan Hu and Ge Hong only felt themselves wrapped in a light breeze, and in the blink of an eye, they were sent dozens of li away, far from the center of the battle.

Only to see Li Rui not dodging in the slightest, his large hand actually pressing directly toward the Corpse Demon Zhuo Sha!

"Brat, seeking death!"

Seeing Li Rui so arrogant.

Zhuo Sha snorted coldly.

He was resurrected as a Corpse Demon, but unlike other Corpse Demons, he still retained a trace of intelligence.

He was a True Person of the Body Integration Realm when he was alive.

Even now, he still had nearly thirty percent of his strength left; placed in the Yu Kingdom, if one said that the Body Integration Realm was a land immortal, then how could he now count as a half-immortal?

Just a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator, how dare he!

Zhuo Sha was furious.

His eyes also turned into bloodthirsty scarlet in an instant.

That corpse-liberated immortal had already promised him that as long as he could kill Li Rui, he would help him liberate his corpse and walk the path of becoming an alternative immortal.

That battle in Wan Mo Ku.

He had already died once, and now that he was resurrected and saw an opportunity, he naturally had to fight for it with his life.

Zhuo Sha had great awareness.

Past glory was already smoke.

Now he was just an ordinary Corpse Demon; what he had to do was kill this Purple Mansion cultivator before him.

Magic power surged wildly.

Black Qi soared.

Instantly turning into a large black python rushing toward Li Rui, spitting its tongue, its fierce power shaking the sky!

This strike.

He had the certainty of a sure kill.

But soon, his expression changed.

Only to see Li Rui colliding with the python; the scene he had envisioned—this little cultivator being swallowed by the black Qi, directly turning into a pile of dry bones, and even his spiritual embryo being dissolved—did not appear.

On the contrary.

The black python was actually blasted to pieces by a single punch!

"Proving the Dao through strength?!"

Zhuo Sha's pupils shrank slightly, and he saw the clues in an instant.

He naturally knew that this Jin Ting Small Cave Heaven had a special feature, which was that there were many body cultivators.

But walking the path of a body cultivator did not mean one had to prove the Dao through strength.

And just from this move, it was not hard to see that this person had clearly walked extremely far on this path; it was not impossible that that step had already been achieved.

Thinking of this.

Even Zhuo Sha's level of knowledge was startled.

There are many geniuses in the immortal cultivation world, but those who can prove the Dao through strength are extremely few, existence as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

The slaughter power is so great that it is difficult to estimate.

Once harmonizing with the Dao is successful, crossing the tribulation has at least a ninety percent chance of success, and there is a great probability of becoming a Body Integration Realm cultivator.

Having such a terrifying opponent.

It really makes people sleep and eat in peace.

Zhuo Sha was not sure if Li Rui had already reached that step; only by exchanging moves would he have a chance to test it, and he now had no way back.

Li Rui threw another punch.

This punch had an extremely high concept.

No one before me!

It was precisely that punch taught by Gao Tianxia.

The fist intent even wove a cage around Zhuo Sha, sealing himself together with Zhuo Sha inside.

In other words.

Today, only one person could walk out of this cage.

He dies, I live!

Li Rui's eyes were filled with fighting intent; this fist-intent cage could not only trap the opponent but also isolate external detection.

It was originally a means to deal with the heavenly tribulation.

Never expected.

It would be used on Zhuo Sha.

"Break!"

Li Rui gave a low shout, his right fist carrying the power of ten thousand Great Daos, crashing down toward Zhuo Sha.

This punch.

Enough to topple mountains!

"Hmm..."

The magic power spiritual shield that Zhuo Sha had just condensed before him shattered instantly; Li Rui's fist landed on his chest, and a hole the size of a human head appeared, passing through his chest, and one could even see the small East Sea City behind him.

'Damn it...'

Only three moves.

Zhuo Sha had completely fallen into a disadvantage.

The shock in his heart reached its peak.

'Did he really succeed?'

Now he could be certain that the Li Rui before him had already taken that step, had already harmonized with the Dao, and coupled with proving the Dao through strength, he could completely be seen as half a Body Integration Realm cultivator.

He harmonized with the Dao through a vessel.

But following that battle, his physical body collapsed, and his natal magic treasure was also shattered; he could only rely on his magic power to fight others.

He had already broken an arm.

Now that Li Rui was unexpectedly fierce, how could he respond? There was no way to respond!

Li Rui's fist momentum became increasingly domineering.

It even had a bit of the spirit of his private secretary when he became a land immortal, almost hammering the Sword Emperor to death.

Zhuo Sha was now completely panicked.

He had already smelled the familiar scent of death.

It was not easy to live, so how could he die again?

"No, no, no."

Only those who have died once know how important it is to live.

Reaching this step.

Old monsters with high realms are also afraid.

Li Rui's eyes were indifferent, his domineering external martial arts—the True Martial Nourishing Soldier Formula combined with Gao Tianxia's fist intent—were displayed to the fullest.

One punch.

Right shoulder shattered.

Another punch.

The head exploded.

That is to say, Zhuo Sha was originally a corpse, and the physical body was just a shell; otherwise, such injuries falling on other cultivators would have long since resulted in the physical body shattering, and they would only be able to abandon the body and escape.

Zhuo Sha's eyes were splitting.

He hardened his heart and gritted his teeth: "Fight!"

Going on like this.

There was only a dead end; it was better to fight, and perhaps that corpse-liberated immortal would be willing to take action to resurrect him again.

Having made up his mind.

Zhuo Sha did not hesitate, his body suddenly swelled, and the cage restriction was shrouded in infinite black Qi in an instant.

He wanted to self-destruct!

Fu Rui of Shenxiao City died from a Corpse Demon self-destructing.

Zhuo Sha originally did not intend to go to this step, but Li Rui's strength was too strong, and he had no choice but to do so.

The speed was extremely fast.

Tan Hu and Ge Hong, who were watching the battle, did not react in time.

Boom!

A huge explosion that shook heaven and earth suddenly rang out.

The terrifying aftermath even impacted East Sea City a thousand li away.

Ten thousand acres of waves were even blasted into a huge deep hole because of this.

A full quarter of an hour.

The violent black Qi then dissipated.

Only to see Li Rui's figure slowly walking out of the black mist.

He was actually unharmed.

Even the heavenly tribulation could not hurt him in the slightest; a Corpse Demon self-destructing... was just a breeze brushing against a mountain!

(End of chapter)