Chapter 738: Upper and Lower Red Dust

Now taking the letter and looking at the handwriting, it was indeed his own elder brother. Li Li Xizhi was as polite and thoughtful as usual. The letter to the family when this elder brother first ascended to the position of the Master of the Ultimate Heaven Pavilion was just as polite. At that time, it seemed humble. Now that Li Li Ximing had achieved True Person, he still had the same tone, so it did not seem snobbish. Li Li Ximing finished reading and pondered secretly: "Si Xunhui, 'Empty Response Powder'."

'Empty Response Powder' was precisely one of the three Daoist lineages of Small Chamber Mountain. The direct line of the Si family went to cultivate this Dao and even specifically came to say a word, wanting to worship into their own mountain gate. The attitude was very obvious:

"After all, his Li Yuanxiu has not much lifespan left. The Small Chamber Mountain lineage cultivates its own direct line. It is hard to say that they will get some opportunities. True Person Li Yuanxiu wants to intervene."

"And this chess piece, on one hand, enters Small Chamber Mountain through my family, and on the other hand, shows favor to my family. Worshipping under the elder brother's gate is also to find help for the future Si family..."

Si Si Boxiu's favor was not a bad thing for Li Li Ximing. Green Pool was his own back and abdomen, and currently, it was undoubtedly the more stable, the better. He calculated: "Si Xunhui has just refined Qi, and Wang Li Quwan is already about to establish the foundation. The two of them are unlikely to bump into each other, but the remaining two Daoist lineages of Small Chamber Mountain don't know where they went, so it's not necessarily that there is no opportunity."

He took out paper and pen, wrote a reply, let Li Li Jiangqian send it back, and asked:

"Looking at your appearance, is there any happy event?"

Li Li Jiangqian smiled: "The True Person's eyes are like torches. The Viewing Pavilion has been completed and stands at the Chengqing Gate. The Mount Yuting has also been built and is located under Mount Yuting Mountain. The palace chambers are continuous, and all the Court Guards have moved into them. There is one Foundation Establishment, nineteen who have obtained Qi, eighty-nine in Tai Xi, and more than twenty thousand mortal elite soldiers. It is truly worthy of the name. More than ninety-six thousand people live under the mountain, all of which far exceed the conditions for gathering Qi."

"A few days ago, Protector Li Wen entered to gather Qi, and he really had the signs of 【Red Dust on the Court】! The "White Head Knocking Court Scripture" in the family can finally be cultivated!"

"Good!"

The Viewing Pavilion was an important place for his own family to refine spiritual embryos. Li Li Ximing had always been paying attention to it, but he hadn't obtained a suitable magic treasure, so he hadn't been in a hurry to urge it. He didn't expect it to be completed so early.

As for obtaining 【Red Dust on the Court】, with an extra Purple Mansion lineage in the family, Li Li Ximing was naturally overjoyed. Moreover, the "White Head Knocking Court Scripture" was originally an ancient cultivation method cultivated by the direct line of the Jiang family, the descendants of the Immortal Mansion. Now that it met the prosperous day of jade, it might not be weak at all!

Li Li Jiangqian brought a smile, bowed respectfully, and replied:

"I am here to ask for the True Person's immortal decree. How should this cultivation method be arranged?"

Li Li Ximing knocked on the jade table and said:

"The Court Guards in the family cultivate the quick-success "Knocking Court Garrison Art". Although the cultivation method is not outstanding, it wins in the process from Tai Xi to Qi Refining being extremely fast. Often, cultivators with low talent from poor families are chosen to refine... When these people meet cultivators who cultivate the "White Head Knocking Court Scripture", the lineage is restrained and difficult to resist. The cultivation of the "White Head Knocking Court Scripture" must be firmly held in my own family's hands."

The reasons for the Li family choosing the "Knocking Court Garrison Art" went far beyond this. In fact, there was a more important point. This cultivation method only needed Jade Well Cold Armor to gather Qi. Digging a well would be enough to gather Qi. The cost was shockingly low, and there was no need to spend any spirit stones.

He asked: "The Jiang family was destroyed, and this cultivation method spread and scattered. The descendants of the Jiang family should all have records. Fortunately, they were annihilated before and after, leaving only the An family lineage. I remember that my father had long since cut off the cultivation method. Has this matter been investigated and confirmed?"

Li Li Jiangqian said respectfully:

"Reporting to the True Person, the junior has started to investigate. There are still a few families in Nanzhang that are outside surnames of the Yu family. However, they could not break into the Yu family's treasury during the rebellion and failed to obtain the "White Head Knocking Court Scripture". It was when I read the Yu family's history that I discovered a small family on the north side of the east bank surnamed Pu, which is a descendant of the Jiang family. I specifically let Protector Uncle Li Chenghuai make a trip and found out that they had hidden a copy of the "White Head Knocking Court Scripture"."

Li Li Ximing signaled him to continue. Li Li Jiangqian replied: "I invited the direct line of the Pu family over, let their father and son make a spiritual oath, and cut off the inheritance of the cultivation method. As compensation, I set up a hereditary position in the Mount Yuting to protect their descendants. This branch lineage will cultivate in the Mount Yuting from now on. When the time comes, leave a newborn descendant to inherit the position in the Pu family. As long as two generations pass, this cultivation method will be considered broken."

"Not bad. Although the Qi is held in one's own hands and others have the cultivation method, it is useless, but guarding against it also prevents the secret of the lineage from being peeped at."

Li Li Ximing sipped his tea and answered in his mouth, but he had other thoughts in his heart.

Li Li Zhouwei's children were not close to each other. He had long known about this. More than a hundred years had passed since the establishment of the clan. The three main lineages remaining in the family were still somewhat close, but the number of people was really scarce.

And now, more and more cultivators on the continent were branch lineages separated from the main lineage, relying on the number of people to pile up geniuses and return to the main lineage. These branch lineages had rolled outside the continent before returning, making them even less close. Now Li Li Jiangqian was in charge of the middle and high levels of the continent, gradually dominated by outside surnames and returning main lineages.

"The kindness of a gentleman is cut off in five generations. The Ji lineage relied on the elder brother to push Li Chenghuai and Li Zhouluo out, but the Bo lineage sank into Lake Continent along with the huge number of mortals. Although there are many cultivators, there are no geniuses..."

Li Li Jiangqian did this matter beautifully, and Li Li Ximing also nodded without saying much. However, he also understood in his heart that the An family had considerable influence in the Mount Yuting. Li Wen was a lonely minister, and the Pu family branch in the Mount Yuting was undoubtedly Li Li Jiangqian's person.

Looking at every cultivator in the family could not be done with personal eyes. Li Li Jiangqian was not just Li Li Jiangqian; he was also the Zhong lineage, and his mother's family was the An family. Whether it was Li Li Jianglong or Li Li Jiangxia, loving power was one aspect, and the power obtained was not just for him alone, but also for the factions behind them.

Li Li Jiangqian had a group of people behind him, the An family, the Zhong lineage, and even a large group of cultivators who supported the direct eldest clan system. From another perspective, this change was not a self-rescue move by the An family in the face of shaken power after losing An Siwei?

This was not wrong, and Li Li Ximing did not say much, only saying: "This cultivation method is not weak. Someone in the direct line must cultivate it. I remember Li Jiangliang is only Tai Xi. Wait until he achieves it, and the Qi will just be gathered. Let him cultivate it."

"The junior obeys the order."

Li Li Jiangqian replied: "It's just that Li Jiangliang had a marriage engagement with Profound Heaven in those years."

"They don't dare to mention it anymore."

Li Li Ximing responded casually, but hesitated for a moment. If Profound Heaven truly had a Purple Mansion breakthrough in a few years, this matter might not necessarily not come true, so he said: "Then let Jiangnian cultivate it... Li Jiangliang... wait for your father to arrange it!"

Li Li Jiangqian responded and withdrew. Li Li Ximing waited for a moment and then escaped into the Grand Void.

East Sea.

Pitch-black reefs stood tall, and waves surged, but no white was seen. Instead, it was pitch-black like ink, and there was no reflection on the sea surface. Here, it reached the east of the East Sea, the spiritual machine gradually became thin, and the Grand Void also became flat.

Passing through the sea surface, the seawater was pitch-black. Occasionally, a few spiritual fish swam by, and nothing else was seen. Traveling through the deep sea scenery, a young man wearing a green robe and a golden tassel at his waist was sitting quietly cross-legged in the depths of the seawater, his eyes closed tightly.

Before him lay a massive array woven with emerald-colored patterns, like a giant agate dome suppressing the deep seabed. Beneath it, reefs that had accumulated over millions of years—hard enough to be difficult for Foundation Establishment cultivators to move—were sliced clean through as if they were tofu, scattered haphazardly into the sea.

It is unknown how much time had passed when the young man finally opened his eyes slowly. His pupils were a pale cyan, and surging, unsettled Lushu water rolled around him, appearing completely out of place with the seawater of this seabed, gathering into a pale emerald halo.

"Fellow Daoist! What do you think of this array of mine?"

The young man's pleasant inquiry traveled through the seawater, completely unaffected by the deep ocean, and flew into the array. Only a breath later, the seawater surrounding the entire array suddenly boiled, and a thunder-like shriek echoed: "Chi Chi Buzi! What madness are you spouting! When have I ever offended you?!"

Chi Chi Buzi stood up from the reef, stepped down through the water, and laughed: "It is precisely because you have never offended me that I am able to trap you here, is it not? It has only been two years of refining, and I haven't even made a move yet... What is Fellow Daoist in such a rush for?"

"Furthermore, this place is the World Navel, the territory of the True Lord of the Transformation of the Wonderful Dao. This humble Daoist admires and respects her old self to the utmost, so naturally, I will not take your life here. Just rest assured!"

After Chi Chi Buzi finished these words, the demon inside the array was so enraged that it paused for a full three breaths.

Chi Chi Buzi certainly knew how frustrated this demon was. He had personally laid out the plan bit by bit, using four great divine abilities of the late Early Zifu stage to bully the weak, revealing so-called traces of ruins, pretending to be in seclusion nearby, and then sitting and waiting for the other party to come and invite him.

After all, this was a place of Early Zifu seclusion. Although the demon saw the array while in the Grand Void, it did not take it to heart. As soon as it approached this place, it was deceived by Chi Chi Buzi's 'Chou Gui Cang' and did not discover that the array was a circle larger than what it had perceived with its spiritual sense.

Even so, the demon had come from afar across the water to inquire, which was still beyond the reach of the array. Chi Chi Buzi patiently circled with her for nearly two years before the other party accidentally stepped in front of the array and was deceived by his divine abilities.

Once the demon entered the array, Chi Chi Buzi suppressed it with a magic treasure, reinforcing the divine abilities on the array every day. He waited silently for two years; the demon had almost thought there was something wrong with the array and that he, Chi Chi Buzi, had also been deceived.

Now that the truth was out, the other party was so angry it wanted to vomit blood. The voice was unexpectedly a delicate female voice, and it only cursed:

"Chi Chi Buzi! Even beasts know their parents. You, a person without a sect or clan, watching as Mount Qingchi changes hands, are truly a fickle villain! Not a single word from your mouth can be trusted. I only regret believing your words, not knowing you were a madman without origin!"

Chi Chi Buzi laughed instead: "Only beasts understand that. Sects have oral traditions and private teachings, using internal and external legal systems to threaten and deceive; clans have blood ties and degrees of kinship, using the distinction of surnames to be dictatorial and tyrannical. Both have me in you and you in me; they are all muddy currents. How could they allow me, with my divine abilities, to waste my life in the vulgarity of the red dust? It is only you, this beast, who remembers parents and uses such words."

Although this demon was also Early Zifu, how could it argue against Chi Chi Buzi, who had read scriptures since childhood? It was blocked by a single sentence and replied: "Although I am a beast, you are a demon, so why can't I say it!"

Chi Chi Buzi did not respond to her anymore. He stepped through the water into the array, and the seawater turned from black to cyan, transforming from bottom to top into two states of turbidity and clarity, rising all the way to the surface of the sea, where rain began to fall with a pitter-patter in the sky.

Chi Chi Buzi had already stepped into the array through the Lushu water. The Early Zifu demon was startled; it had only just broken through to Early Zifu, and once the Grand Void was sealed, how could it be Chi Chi Buzi's opponent? It said: "Chi Chi Buzi, I have at least bowed under the Tongxin Li. The Luan species also know my name. You had better look carefully."

Chi Chi Buzi responded with a laugh and only replied: "It is precisely you I chose! So what if they know? You only bowed once; now, at this moment, who cares about you?"

For a time, the great array surged with loud sounds, Lushu divine abilities rippled, and intense Shaoyin brilliance was scattered within the array, transforming into many floating ice crystals like white snow. Gloomy air currents emerged, but they were firmly suppressed by the Lushu water.

This demon was in the appearance of a young girl, exceptionally beautiful, draped in semi-transparent blue gauze, with nothing else on. Unfortunately, after being struck by the Lushu water, it finally could not help but reveal its original form, which was a spiritual sparrow with blue and white feathers.

Chi Chi Buzi did not even glance at the previous young girl appearance, as if afraid of dirtying his eyes. Now that it had transformed into its original form, it made his eyes light up. He could not help but look it up and down, sighing:

"Good, good, good. It really is another feathered beast. Ancient books say... Shaoyin transforms into feathers, Mingyang transforms into shells. The latter is often thought to be a fallacy, but the former is not far from the truth!"

This spiritual sparrow completely did not understand why this person, who was perfectly fine, wanted to harm it. Seeing him rambling about ancient books, it gritted its teeth in anger and cursed: "Stupid thing..."

The two fought together, causing the seawater around the array to surge. Light and darkness intertwined on the sea surface, but the rain never stopped. It rained for a full half-month, and several cultivators even passed by this place, stopping to watch on the sea surface.

"The Lushu water does not stop. Could there be a treasure in this place?"

The cultivation of these few cultivators could not fly to the seabed, so naturally, they gained nothing. The Early Zifu demon on the seabed fought a round and felt overwhelmed. Most of the feathers on its body were shaved off, so it had to forcefully withstand the Lushu water and rush to the edge of the great array.

The demon was muddle-headed and rammed its head into the great array. This ramming was done with desperate force. With a loud boom, the demon's entire head exploded into a thick, blood-like forest-white, spraying out and scattering onto the great array.

The divine ability suddenly appeared. This great array had been under attack for half a month and was hit so hard again that it finally wavered. Just for that moment of wavering, a trace of the Grand Void was revealed, and this demon disappeared into thin air.

Chi Chi Buzi was not in a hurry. He gently beckoned, and the great array rapidly shrank and flew back into his sleeve. He had the blessing of divine abilities and magic treasures; that demon could not outrun him even in its prime, let alone now that it had suffered not-insignificant injuries.

He only muttered: "Such an obedient demon. I said it couldn't die at the World Navel, and it really went elsewhere!"

Chi Chi Buzi broke through the Grand Void and galloped away, but the Grand Void was empty, and it seemed that there were no traces left. He did not even look at it, stretched out one hand, hooked his little finger, pointed his thumb at his index finger, and chanted:

"Where do clarity and turbidity come from? The Ice, Great Brother Xuan, and Cold seen in the Flower Pond are traces of Shaoyin."

His eyes lit up, and he stepped through the Grand Void and left. In mid-air, he caught a glimpse of that spiritual sparrow. The other party's speed in shuttling through the Grand Void was already fast enough, but it was still not as good as his. After flying halfway, it had no choice but to exit the Grand Void and fly into the present world.

As soon as the spiritual sparrow exited the Grand Void, it arrived at the sea surface. That group of cultivators was still surrounding the area, scattered with more than ten people, all thinking that a treasure had appeared, confronting each other. The Early Zifu demon happened to be injured, and it ate them all clean in one bite. It did not know how many ancestors of families and masters of temples it had eaten before flying away muddle-headedly.