Chapter 125

Heavenly Human Realm at fourteen?

Li Li Hongzhuang still remembered the year Li Hao was born, which was also the year her Ninth Brother died in battle.

Fourteen years had passed since then.

Li Li Hongzhuang also remembered that even a monster like Li Li Junye had only stepped into the Heavenly Human Tianren Zongshi Realm at seventeen.

Now, the young man before her had actually achieved it at fourteen.

Exceeding it by a full three years!

"With such natural talent, you should be the True Dragon of the Li family's generation, right?" Li Li Hongzhuang came back to her senses and couldn't help but ask.

Such a treasure, actually thrown to Heaven Gate Pass?

What was her Seventh Brother thinking?

True Dragon... Li Hao's mouth twitched, he smiled, and said:

"It's just natural talent, nothing worth being surprised about; the Li family's True Dragon isn't anything surprising either. Only when one has real, solid strength can one be considered truly worthy of being looked at."

Li Li Hongzhuang said speechlessly: "You're saying this only because you lack nothing; what do you mean by 'just natural talent'? Standing and talking doesn't make your back ache. Reaching the Fifteen-Li Realm might be natural talent and family cultivation, but reaching the Heavenly Human Realm isn't something that can be explained by natural talent alone."

"This requires one-in-ten-thousand insight and realization!"

"One-in-ten-thousand, that's nothing either," Li Hao said faintly.

"For the sons of the Li family, one-in-ten-thousand natural talent isn't considered strange, but your natural talent is a song of the ages; it should be one-in-trillions among the martial artists of Great Yu for a thousand years!" Li Li Hongzhuang couldn't help but say.

Li Hao shook his head slightly, not wanting to discuss this with her anymore, and just waved the simple battle flag in his hand, saying:

"How does this look?"

"Not great."

Li Li Hongzhuang looked at it and said truthfully.

Li Hao smiled; it was just temporarily made from tent cloth, so it really couldn't be called majestic and refined.

But he hoped that even so, this battle flag could deter the demons.

Li Li Hongzhuang looked at the meat on the roasting rack and said: "I've eaten this Lion-Hoof Demon before; the taste wasn't this fragrant."

"That's because I didn't make it."

Li Hao said with a smile, his eyes revealing a cook's earnestness and confidence.

Li Li Hongzhuang glanced at him and didn't speak, just stared at the jumping campfire; in those cold, numb eyes that had seen so much slaughter, a few rays of light seemed to be faintly reflected.

【Cooking Dao Experience +182】

【Cooking Dao Experience is full, please improve as soon as possible.】

The cooking ended, and two prompts flashed before his eyes; Li Hao was already used to it.

Cooking Dao was the only art he had reached the Sixth Stage in so far.

But the experience value had long been full, and only by entering the spirit with his heart-mind could he improve to the Seventh Stage.

It was just that he hadn't found a way to enter the spirit yet.

This was different from the Third Stage of entering the heart, which only required enough focus and love, just a one-sided liking.

It also required, like a Tianren Zongshi establishing the heart, reaching a certain degree of transcendence.

But in the affairs of the world, talking about liking is easy, but talking about transcendence is difficult.

On the road of transcendence in Cooking Dao, Li Hao was still exploring.

He had checked the tents of each camp earlier, and could only say that the border was the border; there were no chessboards or painting paper in these soldiers' things, and even inkstones and brushes were only left in a few pieces, which should have been used for recording military intelligence and transmitting letters on weekdays.

Currently, he had mastered six types of arts:

Chess Dao Fifth Stage, Painting Dao Fifth Stage, Fishing Dao Fifth Stage.

As well as Poetry and Books Third Stage, Music Third Stage, Cooking Dao Sixth Stage.

Without entering the spirit through transcendence, his Flesh Dao and Sword Dao were also stuck at the Sixth Stage and could not continue to improve.

At present, condensing an art into transcendence and entering the spirit, reaching the Seventh Stage, was the top priority.

Li Hao had thought about it; with the simple conditions here, Chess Dao and Painting Dao could only be shelved for the time being. Currently, the most suitable one to impact, besides Cooking Dao, was Fishing Dao.

After reaching the Fifteen-Li Realm, Li Hao's fishing no longer relied on a fishing rod.

Using a fishing rod could only catch small demons like those in the Tongli Realm or Zhou Tian Realm.

Great demons were extremely difficult to hook, unless it was truly an accidental harvest...

Without a fishing rod or line, Li Hao could, like Li Li Muxiu, condense energy into a line and fish in all directions.

It didn't necessarily have to be a place with a lake to count as fishing.

Mountains, wilderness, as long as it was hooked by fishing, it could accumulate fishing experience.

Just like children using a fishhook to fish for frogs in the fields or hooking loaches in loach holes, that was also a type of fishing.

What is fishing?

Strike from ambush!

Li Hao had also thought about learning new arts, such as carving.

But he didn't lack art points for the time being; what's more, livering carving to the Third Stage also required entering the heart to continue improving, which would consume a period of time.

In this dangerous borderland, he had to improve himself to the Imperishable Realm as soon as possible, so that he would truly have the power to fight alone and protect himself!

At this moment, the roasted meat was ready.

Li Hao's thoughts also returned; he took down the roasted meat, first handed a portion to Li Li Hongzhuang.

Then he sliced off more, handed it to Ren Ren Qianqian and the little white fox, and finally picked up a portion himself and began to gnaw on it.

Li Li Hongzhuang took it, said a word of thanks, and very simply cut it open with the dagger she carried, picked up a piece with the tip of the dagger, and sent it into her mouth.

"Hmm?"

Li Li Hongzhuang's chewing motion clearly paused, then accelerated rapidly.

"Not bad."

She nodded slightly, her expression slightly approving, but her eyes revealed satisfaction.

Li Hao smiled and asked while eating: "Are you really going to stay here and die guarding it?"

Perhaps because of her many years of military life, Li Li Hongzhuang's behavior was like that of a man, and her sitting posture was also like that; one could hardly tell that in her childhood, besides practicing the sword, she had also been like a young lady in a boudoir, with a gentle posture, embroidering peony flowers stitch by stitch.

She tore off a piece of meat from the hoof casually and said randomly: "It's not really 'die guarding'; I'll just accompany these brothers for a while longer, and by the way, slay more demon creatures. Without reinforcements from the main army, this place will fall sooner or later; it just depends on how many I can kill!"

Speaking of this, a sharp cold light appeared in her eyes unconsciously.

Li Hao nodded, didn't speak again, and lowered his head to eat his portion of meat.

Once full, Li Hao took down another portion, wrapped it in tree leaves, and set it aside; this was left for Elder Feng.

Subsequently, he stood up, patted his butt, picked up the roughly made battle flags, and walked toward the outside of the camp.

Along the way, he planted the battle flags at the edges of the camp respectively.

There were four in total, planted at four wide angles.

They were flags made from tents, but the handwriting was still quite powerful, after all, he was at the Third Stage of Poetry and Books.

Li Hao looked at them and smiled; compared to the Blood Fiend Army battle flags planted here, they did indeed look quite desolate.

Once planted, Li Hao returned to the campfire; he took out some paper he had collected from various tents, took ink and inkstone, and recorded them one by one.

"What are you doing?" Li Li Hongzhuang saw it and asked: "Writing a letter home?"

Li Hao shook his head slightly; where would he send a letter home? Heaven and Earth are home; at this moment, this place is his home.

"This is the technique of the Listening Rain Tower."

"You want to record the technique?"

"Yes, record it, and then return it to the Li family."

Li Hao said with a smile, but his expression was very calm.

Li Li Hongzhuang thought of the matter between Li Hao and Li Li Tiangang, her face darkened: "Are you really going to break completely with the family? Blood ties cannot be severed!"

"There is nothing that cannot be severed."

Li Hao's eyes narrowed, and his words carried a bit more coldness: "Perhaps it's that your sword is not sharp enough."

Li Li Hongzhuang heard the thorn in Li Hao's words, raised her eyebrows, but didn't haggle with Li Hao.

She knew this child had just run away from home and mostly still had great resentment in his heart.

"However, do you think that recording the technique counts as returning it?" Li Li Hongzhuang said.

Li Hao said faintly: "The techniques I am returning are all advanced versions of the originals, which is enough to offset it."

That's right, he intended to write down the deep-level degrees of the techniques he had comprehended and return them to the Li family.

Although the Li family would make a huge profit from this account, he was too lazy to haggle and pull at it.

As long as it could be severed, it was fine.

"Oh?"

Li Li Hongzhuang was surprised and asked: "How many types have you cultivated?"

Pushing and advancing techniques requires great energy and heart's blood; if it were one or two techniques, it would be fine, but if the number of cultivated ones was large, how could it be that every single technique could be pushed to an advanced level?

How much energy and time would that consume?

"Several dozen types," Li Hao said casually.

He had already written down the first technique with his brush.

Stone Skin Hundred Refinements — Advanced Version "Golden Skin Hundred Refinements"

The original Lower Grade technique, under the improvement of his Sixth Stage Flesh Dao, had been deduced into an Upper Grade technique, enough to practice the flesh to be comparable to gold and iron.

Although they were both in the Tianren Zongshi Realm, Li Hao's flesh was more than ten times stronger than that of an ordinary Tianren Zongshi under these body-refining techniques.

In addition, Li Hao also wrote down the mysteries of the technique: Golden Skin Hundred Refinements · Vajra!

It could erupt instantly, and the defense of the whole body would increase several times.

If it were short-term, its effect would barely count as half of the defense of the "Imperishable Realm" of the Three Imperishable Realms.

If he waited until he reached the Imperishable Realm and then unleashed the Vajra mystery, that defense would be even more terrifying.

This mystery was not Stone Skin Hundred Refinements, so he didn't count as violating his previous words, using the Li family's technique.

As for the improvement brought to his flesh by many body-refining techniques like Stone Skin Hundred Refinements, he couldn't abandon it, so he could only use this more generous feedback to offset it.

"Several dozen types?" Li Li Hongzhuang was stunned upon hearing Li Hao's words.

She looked at Li Hao's face, solemn and earnest under the reflection of the campfire, not like he was joking.

She was slightly distracted; cultivating to the Heavenly Human Realm at fourteen, and also mastering several dozen types of techniques?

What kind of monster had the Li family cultivated in the years she hadn't been home!

Suddenly, Li Li Hongzhuang's face changed, and she looked back abruptly toward the outside of the camp.

In the night there, there were things like dark clouds, seemingly swaying, like shadows swaying in the forest.

"It seems they know we've withdrawn the army."

Killing intent rose in Li Li Hongzhuang's eyes, and her hand gripped the sword hilt beside her.

Li Hao also raised his head and stopped his brush.

The wind blew, carrying a fishy stench; it was demons.

"You stay here, I'll be right back."

Li Li Hongzhuang stood up, gave an instruction, and walked toward the night.

Li Hao didn't really intend to wait here; his spiritual sense flew out from behind him, and the night was as clear as day in the vision of his spiritual sense.

He saw that in the mountains and forests dozens of miles outside the camp, there were demon figures rushing over, like waves of dark currents rising and falling, spreading over the shrubs and rocks in the forest, approaching silently.

The number was not small.

Li Hao immediately put away his brush and the paper recording the techniques, and handed them to Ren Ren Qianqian: "Help me keep these safe."

Ren Ren Qianqian had already changed color upon hearing Li Li Hongzhuang's words and became nervous, saying: "Young Tianren Zongshi, are you going too?"

"You stay here, Elder Feng will watch over you in the dark."

Li Hao looked at the meat wrapped in tree leaves: "And he hasn't eaten dinner yet."

He smiled at the young girl, patted the little white fox's head, and then walked forward.

During the walk, he raised his hand slightly, and broken short swords everywhere on the ground all gathered toward his side.

One sword that wasn't too badly damaged was grabbed in his hand, while the others followed his figure forward.

"Li Li Hongzhuang!!"

"The army has all withdrawn, and you actually still dare to stay behind? Do you want to be buried with those soldiers of yours?"

"They are all in my stomach, come on!"

Outside the camp, a roar like a tiger's howl suddenly erupted, revealing a ferocious and satisfied evil spirit.

Clearly, being able to catch this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity made it quite happy.

"Chi Hu Jun!"

Li Li Hongzhuang, in bright red battle armor, holding a three-foot sword, stepped out of the camp, her beautiful face revealing coldness:

"I let you escape earlier, I've been waiting for you."

"Haha, did you think I would come alone? Feipeng, come out and meet this Iron Lady!"

In the darkness, a massive tiger demon wrapped in chains appeared, its face ferocious.