Chapter 68

Li Xiangping walked slowly into the courtyard and gently lifted the mirror on the stone table with both hands. Lu Jiangxian in the mirror suddenly woke up, his spiritual sense sweeping across Lijing Mountain, and some changes from the past five years instantly entered his mind.

"The Li family's juniors have also grown up."

Li Changhu's posthumous son, Li Xuanxuan, was reading in the courtyard, flipping through the bamboo slips, seemingly troubled. Li Xiangping's eldest son, Li Xuanfeng, was sitting by the tombstone on the hillside with his hair disheveled, looking dazed.

Withdrawing his spiritual sense slowly, Lu Jiangxian looked at Li Xiangping before him.

Li Xiangping's mind was in turmoil, many thoughts flashing through his heart. He walked slowly into the side courtyard and looked silently at Li Xuanxuan.

Li Xuanxuan was organizing the bamboo slips in distress. Seeing Li Xiangping enter the courtyard, he was startled and said:

"Family Head..."

Li Xiangping waved his hand to interrupt him and said in a deep voice:

"I ask you: if your uncle cannot return, what will you do?"

Li Xuanxuan was stunned, not daring to think about Li Xiangping's words, and said with a choked voice:

"Uncle... how could it come to this..."

Seeing Li Xiangping frowning tightly, Li Xuanxuan had to adjust his emotions and compose his expression, trying his best to remain calm:

"Retrieve the magic mirror."

Li Xiangping nodded and replied:

"And if you can't find it?"

"Conceal the intelligence, claim Uncle is in seclusion to break through, immediately send people to control the clan soldiers, secure the area east of Li Daokou bordering the Wan family, and request help from the prefecture at any time..."

Li Xuanxuan's expression was solemn, speaking faster and faster. Li Xiangping waved his hand to interrupt him, saying somewhat dejectedly:

"That's enough."

He patted Li Xuanxuan's shoulder and said in a deep voice:

"Your uncle left me three talismans before leaving home to return to the sect, and he holds this mirror. Even if he encounters a Qi Condensation cultivator, he has the strength to fight. Don't worry too much about me."

"My Li family has people cultivating in the sect. No matter what the situation reaches, the sect will somewhat protect my Li family's bloodline. As long as the mirror is in hand, my Li family has the foundation to rise again."

"Go call Feng'er."

Li Xiangping had always forbidden concubine-born or outsider cultivators from contacting direct descendants, just to hide whether the direct descendants had spiritual apertures. Now that he was going to ambush Ji Dengqi, it was extremely dangerous, so he had to plant the talisman seed in Li Xuanfeng first, preparing for the worst.

Li Xuanxuan quickly brought the unhappy Li Xuanfeng over. Li Xiangping couldn't care about talking; his magic power flowed through Li Xuanfeng's body, passing through the Qi Sea point, and sure enough, it was empty.

Li Xiangping sighed secretly. His magic power flowed through Li Xuanfeng's whole body, but he suddenly froze.

A gas vortex was clearly emerging in the Lesser Palace point of Li Xuanfeng's right hand. Li Xiangping was terrified, his mind blank, and he muttered:

"This, how can this be?!"

"How can Feng'er's spiritual aperture be at the Lesser Palace point of his right hand? Spiritual apertures aren't just in the Qi Sea?! Doesn't that mean they can also be in the Life Gate Mansion or the Mud Pill Palace?!"

Before he could think about it, a second thought popped into Li Xiangping's mind.

"From now on, if my Li family's direct descendants have spiritual apertures, should I still grant them the talisman seed?"

One had to know that only by being granted the talisman seed could one cultivate the "Taiyin Breathing and Wheel-Nurturing Scripture." If those with spiritual apertures couldn't be granted the talisman seed, wouldn't they only be able to cultivate the loose cultivator's "Green Origin Wheel-Nurturing Method" like the concubine-born? What kind of logic was that?

Carefully recalling the "Introduction Method," the surprise on Li Xiangping's face grew stronger.

"The Mysterious Pearl True Elixir. At the beginning of the first turn, the elixir descends into the heart meridian, so it is said that the elixir cave is in the Middle Palace, and the elixir descends as one turn..."

"It seems... it was originally possible to grant it to those with spiritual apertures..."

Lu Jiangxian, watching from above, looked at the stunned Li Xiangping below and guessed what he was thinking, muttering:

"My Mysterious Pearl talisman seed can naturally be planted in anyone. If planted in a commoner, they ascend to immortality; if planted in an immortal aperture, cultivation is twice the result with half the effort. It's just, Li Xiangping, do you want two mediocrities, or one genius?"

"As for this Li Xuanfeng, he actually has a spiritual aperture at the Lesser Palace point of his right hand. It seems there is a great secret behind this spiritual aperture matter."

Li Xiangping couldn't think too much. Watching time pass second by second, and the time agreed with the Wan family drawing closer, he had to say in a deep voice:

"Feng'er, do you still remember the technique your father told you to memorize last year?"

Seeing Li Xuanxuan and Li Xiangping both looking solemn, Li Xuanfeng couldn't help but feel nervous and whispered:

"This child has already memorized it all."

"Come."

Scanning the tablets in the back row, Li Xuanfeng saw his grandfather, Li Mutian, leaning on a cane in the room, looking up at the stone table in the center.

Following Li Mutian's gaze, Li Xuanxuan saw pale moonlight permeating down from the stone table like mist, and a grey-green mirror was floating in the air.

Li Xiangping whispered in Li Xuanfeng's ear for a while. Li Xuanfeng nodded and bowed, saying in a childish voice:

"Li family disciple Li Xuanfeng respectfully requests the Mysterious Brightness Technique, to command life and calm the spirit, to serve the Dao and cultivate."

"I shall speak of merit in time, not fail the trust, burn the talisman with the record, and offer my body to the Taiyin."

A white pill suddenly leaped from the mirror's surface—round and glowing. White light flickered, illuminating the courtyard in a vast whiteness, and it went straight into the top of Li Xuanfeng's head.

Li Xiangping watched Li Xuanfeng sit cross-legged and begin to guide the Mysterious Pearl talisman seed in his body, saying to Li Xuanxuan in a deep voice:

"Watch over Feng'er and explain it clearly to him."

Only then did he bow, take the mirror down, place it gently into his bosom, his expression complex, and sigh longly:

"The arrow is on the string; it must be fired."

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Lu Jiangxian watched Li Xiangping descend Lijing Mountain alone, cast a God-Speed Technique on his legs, and quietly leave Lijing Village. He walked along the Ancient Li Road for a while, and seeing he was close to the Wan family's territory, he stopped and took out the mirror, whispering:

"Li family disciple Li Xiangping, receiving the Mysterious Grace, respectfully requests the Mysterious Brightness Technique, to release the Taiyin Taiyin Xuanguang, to execute the wicked, to break filth and capture demons!"

Lu Jiangxian moved his spiritual sense and shared everything he saw, only to find they were still far from Huaqian Mountain, not yet within the range of the Taiyin Taiyin Xuanguang.

Li Xiangping clearly discovered this problem too. He walked cautiously, gripping the talisman in his hand, and taking out the mirror from time to time to confirm his position.

As Huaqian Mountain gradually entered the range of his spiritual sense, breaths appeared in his perception, and Lu Jiangxian finally sensed something was wrong.

"One, two, three, five... nine, ten."

"Ten Qi Condensation cultivators?!" ===== CHAPTER 69 =====