Chapter 251: Longcheng Decisive Battle, Sacrifice of the Nine Sons

Li Hao used Frost to cut his finger, but it healed instantly.

The residual sword aura attached to Frost also failed to block the speed of healing.

Li Hao felt that even if he were to lose a limb now, he could grow it back in a single breath. What kind of terrifying vitality was this?

Undying, indestructible, and undecaying is the Three Imperishable Realms. At this moment, he seemed to be truly close to being undying and indestructible.

"If it were the extreme realm, it should be called true immortality..."

Li Hao thought to himself.

But it was a pity that although he was extremely close to the limit, he hadn't truly broken through yet and hadn't reached that extreme realm state.

At this moment, when Li Hao was seventeen, the demons outside Longcheng were already restless.

Demons invaded the city one after another, although no real great war occurred, they were repeatedly testing.

And every time they tested, if the soldiers of Longcheng didn't resist stubbornly, the demons might really take advantage of the situation and attack.

At the dinner table in the Divine General Mansion, the atmosphere was increasingly heavy.

"Where is Xingbei? Is he still guarding the city?"

Li Tianzong picked up the food, his face low and heavy as he asked.

The pearls and jade on Chen Hefang had also decreased, looking more plain. Now, many resources in the Divine General Mansion were sent to the front line, and everyone in the mansion was frugal.

"He and Fengpin are over there, looking after each other, so you don't have to worry too much."

Chen Hefang felt pain in her eyes, and said softly: "Since you are back, rest well and recharge your energy."

Li Tianzong was slightly silent, saying: "If I could step into the Taiping Dao Realm, those demons wouldn't be so rampant..."

Chen Hefang smiled bitterly: "The Taiping Dao Realm is not so easy to achieve. Every step of the Four Standing Realms is like climbing to heaven. You are already good enough."

Li Tianzong didn't speak anymore, just buried his head in eating.

It was just that when he glanced at Li Hao, the serious and low expression in his eyes softened slightly, revealing a look of relief.

"As long as we persist for another ten years, Little Ten will definitely step into the Taiping Dao Realm. By then, those demons will definitely be afraid..." He had great confidence in Li Hao's talent.

Although at the level of the Four Standing Realms, he didn't care much about the root bone talent in the early stage, but rather more about opportunity and comprehension, he felt that Li Hao could do it.

Li Hao sighed in his heart when he heard this. It was afraid that they couldn't wait for ten years.

In a year, could his strength help him hold Longcheng?

Li Hao also wanted to pass the level, but thinking of what Li Xiaoran said, hundreds of demon kings appeared in four days of guarding the city, the pressure in his heart was also extremely great.

This time, that Candle Zhu Huoshen and Lu Yuan were hidden inside.

Li Hao shook his head. He didn't dare to continue comprehending the Dao heart here, worried that the time progress would jump directly to a year later, so he could only try his best to improve his physical strength before this, and cultivate other realms to a more extreme degree.

Only in this way could his combat power be maximized.

After eating, Li Hao stood up to leave and went to practice.

If he could enter the spirit of another art skill, and then raise the Imperial Dao to Level 7, he could also greatly improve his combat power.

Li Hao placed this hope on the Painting Dao.

He immersed himself in painting skills with all his heart. When resting, he would follow Li Xiaoran to patrol the city and slay demons.

Now, the demons in the city had basically been cleared.

They occasionally went to search near the outside of the city.

This Longcheng was larger than Li Hao imagined, but the sky in the distance outside the city was endless darkness, like an abyss.

It seemed to be a place that thoughts couldn't reach, hiding countless demons.

Li Hao hunted demon kings and absorbed them with the Ten Thousand Blood True Demon Technique. His physical body was continuously condensed and grew stronger day by day.

"Painting..."

Li Hao occasionally sat on the city wall, looking at the distant sky, picking up a brush to paint.

Such a scene made other soldiers guarding the city feel surprised, but they all knew that this Li Clan son had extraordinary talent and shocked the past and present, so they didn't discuss much, just doing their own duties.

The tip of the brush outlined the dark and deep sky in the distance, like an inverted abyss, making people feel cold.

The Painting Dao experience was already perfected. Li Hao immersed himself in it, comprehending the spiritual rhyme in the painting.

Since then, Li Hao sat on the city wall every day to paint. For ten consecutive days, countless paintings fell, including the dark sky outside the city and some ferocious demons drilling out from inside.

It wasn't until Li Hao painted a picture of ten thousand demons coming out of the abyss that he gradually touched a trace of spiritual rhyme.

Perhaps it was because of the atmosphere of withered grass flying outside the city, his mood was desolate, and the demons in the painting seemed to be struggling to fly out.

While Li Hao was comprehending the Painting Dao, he felt that the time around him was also accelerating, just not as fast as when comprehending the Dao heart.

Li Hao vaguely felt that this seemed to be intentionally done by the hidden rules of the Mo River to avoid people comprehending the Dao here.

Once immersed in comprehending the Dao, the Mo River would accelerate until it kicked them out or let them reach the final desperate situation.

"It seems that unless it is the Taiping Dao Realm, covering the body with the Dao Domain to isolate the Mo River rules, one can survive here freely," Li Hao thought to himself. He didn't know how that Candle Zhu Huoshen was doing now. He should be hiding among the demons, was he cultivating, or was he plotting and ruling a part of the demons?

He didn't know, but right now, as he hunted demons every day and comprehended the Painting Dao into the spirit, the time of the Mo River passed quietly for more than half a year.

The demon attacks became more rampant and violent.

After a time jump, Li Hao returned to the mansion, but saw two coffins lying in the main hall, they were the Eldest Brother Li Xingbei and Second Brother Li Fengpin who had not yet been buried!

Li Hao's expression changed slightly, seeing Li Xiaoran was also there, he immediately leaned over to inquire via sound transmission.

Li Xiaoran had now restored his cultivation before death, reaching the Absolute Learning Realm. He told Li Hao via sound transmission that Li Xingbei and Li Fengpin were attacked by demon kings during a surprise attack while guarding the city. They barely held the city but lost their lives.

Both were in the Three Imperishable Realms. Although their talent was extremely high, they couldn't slay demon kings with the Three Imperishable Realms like Li Hao.

Li Hao's expression was gloomy. The Longcheng battle hadn't started yet, and the nine sons of the Li Clan had already begun to fall.

The cause of death of these two brothers was also different from the outside of the Mo River, due to the environment here, many things developed in a trajectory that deviated from the outside.

"Don't be too nervous. Passing the level is difficult in the first place. If it really doesn't work, I'll take you to retreat from the ancestral hall. That is the exit to leave Longcheng, and also the exit to leave this Mo River," Li Xiaoran said to Li Hao via sound transmission: "You are only in the Three Imperishable Realms now. Even if you reach the Dao Heart Realm, it's difficult. I suspect that in the last few days of Longcheng, there will be demon kings in the Taiping Dao Realm, and the difficulty is greater than usual because of the Taixu Realm master who entered this time."

Now, seeing the peerless talent Li Hao showed, Li Xiaoran's thoughts had changed quietly.

Rather than taking risks to pass the Mo River, ensuring Li Hao's safe retreat was the key.

As the Eldest Brother in the Mo River said, Li Hao was the hope of the Li Clan's future!

With Li Hao's talent, as long as he continued to cultivate, he would surely lead the Li Clan to the most glorious future, comparable to the ancestor era!

Hearing Li Xiaoran's sound transmission, Li Hao nodded slightly. Their main mission was to guard Longcheng, and that Candle Zhu Huoshen's main mission was likely to destroy Longcheng.

"Eldest Brother's residual thought knew that our Li Clan descendants would come to liberate him and take him home, so he left us a back door..."

Li Xiaoran looked at the Eldest Brother in the hall who was grieving. Although the other party was not the Eldest Brother when he was alive, he was just a soul thought, or even a soul thought influenced and enslaved by the Mo River, but his emotions still had some waves at this moment.

However, he quickly restrained himself.

He had already come to this Mo River more than once.

The scene before him had also been seen many times.

Li Hao looked at the hall and also fell into silence.

The other seven sons, including Lin Qingying who was already fifteen, were all grieving, some with hateful eyes, some clenching their fists, all carrying hatred and killing intent toward the demons.

Lin Qingying was wearing a lady's skirt and jewelry. Once the skirt and earrings moved too much, they would lose their beauty. It was both a decoration and a reminder of posture and etiquette.

But at this moment, her eyes were red and swollen, staring fixedly at the coffin, seemingly thinking about something.

Li Hao knew that this "little sister" in this Mo River would walk the path outside again, turning from a wealthy lady into a female general holding a sword.

Perhaps this was a fate that couldn't be avoided.

Li Hao didn't look anymore and chose to skip the sad scene before him. His emotions remained calm, watching the growth mission gradually approach 100%, he knew that eighteen years old was coming soon.

With the accident of Li Xingbei and Li Fengpin, the prelude to this battle had already sounded, and he needed to focus more on martial arts.

A few days later, Sixth Brother Li Ziye was shot dead by a demon king who sneaked into the city. When Li Hao and Li Xiaoran arrived, they only saw the other's half body, miserable beyond compare.

Although he knew it was the Mo River, and everyone in Longcheng except Li Tianzong was born due to Li Tianzong's obsession, seeing this father of Li Yuanzhao die miserably before his eyes, dying so painfully, Li Hao felt his emotions were still ignited, and a kind of anger surged up.

He suddenly pulled out his sword, split the demon king, and even cut off the street together, erupting with divine power.

After killing the demon king, Li Hao rushed to Li Ziye's side. The other party's breath had already stopped, but his eyes were still not closed.

But there was a trace of relief in his eyes, and there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he saw the demon king being beheaded, saw himself rushing to reinforce...

Li Hao closed his eyes with his hand.

Thinking of the demon attack at the banquet when he was four years old, the first thing he saw when he woke up on the bed was this "Sixth Brother," who was trying to stay awake and guarding the bedside.

Although it was only born due to obsession, Li Hao had heard Li Xiaoran say that these people were all the appearances Li Tianzong saw before he died, and their personalities were not much different.

This also meant that if it were in reality, this "Sixth Brother" was also this gentle and careful personality, the best at taking care of people.

Yuanzhao, you have a good father... Li Hao thought to himself.

It was a pity that Yuanzhao's father died in battle when he was born, and they didn't even meet.

He carried Li Ziye's corpse and returned to the Divine General Mansion.

Seeing the sad appearance of "Mother" Chen Hefang, Li Hao found that a few strands of white hair had quietly grown on her temples.

Li Hao's lips moved slightly, wanting to comfort her, but suddenly didn't know what to say, and finally remained silent.

He clenched his fists slightly and chose to accelerate time, skipping the sad eyes before him, and the wailing like weeping and complaining.

One month after Li Ziye's sacrifice, the Third Brother and Fourth Brother also had accidents one after another.

In the Longcheng that had been cleared, many demons sneaked in from nowhere. The magic array guarding the city seemed to lose its function of warning demons, which puzzled Li Hao.

"The Longcheng at that time was also like this, sneaked into by demons, and that demon killed the demons who had orders from the Great Yu Divine Dynasty and seized their tokens..." Li Xiaoran said in a low voice.

Li Hao was silent. This should be imprinted in Li Tianzong's heart, becoming his inner demon, which led to such an unreasonable situation.

As Li Hao comprehended the Painting Dao again, before he finished immersing himself, his growth mission, which was close to 100%, finally appeared with a prompt.

Mission completed.

The four characters were put together, which should be a thing worth rejoicing, but Li Hao felt a sinking in his heart.

He looked at the Mo River pass progress. The completion of the growth mission only provided 10% of the pass progress.

And the many demons he killed, accumulated together, were only 3%.

Currently, it was 13%.

At the same time, the main mission also sent a prompt at this moment, officially opening.

When the golden ancient characters of the Mo River disappeared, Li Hao felt the city wall under his feet suddenly tremble slightly. ===== CHAPTER 252 =====

It is currently at 13%.

At the same time, the main quest also sent a notification at this moment, officially beginning.

When the golden ancient characters of the Mo River disappeared, Li Hao felt the city wall beneath his feet suddenly begin to tremble slightly.