Back to His Youth!
"Who gave you the nerve to impersonate our Battle Sect's eldest senior brother? Surrender at once!"
A cold shout rang out.
Li Daochen felt as though lightning had struck him.
The false accusations, the pursuit, his desperate flight...
He knew this scene all too well. Even if the seas turned to mulberry fields, he could never forget it!
"Didn't I blow myself up? Why am I dreaming of this?" Li Daochen was puzzled.
After a thousand years of arduous cultivation, he had become a titan of the demonic path. He had also endured countless hardships to find the Xuanyuan Emperor Sword, the greatest treasure of the ancient era. Just as he was preparing to use the sword to become an emperor, Yang Chen, the son of destiny, discovered him.
To stop him from becoming an emperor, Yang Chen tricked him into entering the Great Emperor Battlefield and killed him there.
Yang Chen killed him not only because he belonged to the demonic path, but also because of a long-standing grudge between them.
A thousand years ago, Yang Chen had called him an unforgivable villain. He had then dug out his Holy Dragon Bone, taken on his appearance, and replaced him as the Battle Sect's eldest senior brother!
Li Daochen, meanwhile, had been falsely accused of being the impersonator, stripped of his cultivation, and imprisoned.
And it had all started because Li Daochen had scolded Yang Chen's younger sister a few times about her cultivation!
Li Daochen had been somewhat overbearing in his youth, but that was all.
He possessed a Holy Dragon Bone unseen in the Battle Sect for ten thousand years and had extraordinary talent. What was wrong with being a little arrogant?
Besides, Li Daochen had never done anything that offended heaven and reason!
Yang Chen, however, cared about none of that. He had pretended to befriend Li Daochen while secretly plotting to take his place.
Laughably, Li Daochen had truly called him a brother back then, never expecting the son of destiny to be so underhanded.
Li Daochen later learned that Yang Chen had joined the Battle Sect to forge its legendary Battle Holy Dragon Physique!
The Holy Dragon Bone was essential to forging the Battle Holy Dragon Physique. If Yang Chen wanted to succeed, he had to make a move against Li Daochen.
So, to make himself stronger, Yang Chen had not hesitated to turn black into white, and in the end, he had even called himself righteous!
Such righteousness was laughable!
If Qingyuan hadn't believed me and secretly set me free, I probably would have died at Yang Chen's hands back then, Li Daochen thought, sorrow filling his heart.
Liu Qingyuan was one of his junior sisters. She had offended Yang Chen over this matter and refused to submit to him, and in the end, she too had been killed.
Just then.
Bang!
Li Daochen felt a tremendous force strike his back, shoving him violently forward into an ancient tree.
Pfft!
Li Daochen spat out a mouthful of blood, but paid it no mind. He stood rooted to the spot.
The intense pain, the lifelike scene, and that bone-chilling sense of danger...
It wasn't a dream!
Had he returned to a thousand years ago?
Li Daochen's pupils contracted sharply, and he looked at the person walking toward him.
Luo Cheng!
The adopted son of Luo Beiyue, the Battle Sect's grand elder!
They were at the edge of the Wailing Mountain Range, and Luo Cheng had come to hunt him down!
The grand elder's secret assistance had also been crucial to Yang Chen's ability to replace him.
After all, Li Daochen's father was the Battle Sect's vice sect master. Not just any random cat or dog could frame him!
They had only made their move while Li Daochen's father was away.
If his father hadn't had people in the sect who found the matter suspicious, he would probably have been killed on the spot instead of imprisoned.
"Run! Go on, keep running," Luo Cheng said, looking at Li Daochen mockingly.
In the vast Battle Sect, only a handful knew the truth about Li Daochen and Yang Chen, and he was one of them.
But it was precisely because he knew that he felt such delight.
Li Daochen had never taken him seriously before. Whenever they met, Li Daochen had looked down on him from on high, treating him like a lackey.
But now, Li Daochen was like a stray dog that had lost its home, and he didn't have long to live!
Luo Cheng stared at Li Daochen excitedly and said sinisterly, "Want to live? Then get on your knees and beg me!"
But.
"Hahaha!" Li Daochen burst out laughing, sounding somewhat mad.
He really had come back!
Heaven had finally opened its eyes for once, bringing him back and giving him a chance to fight through another lifetime!
In his previous life, although he had become a titan of the demonic path over a thousand years, his life had been full of misery.
Starting from the Wailing Mountain Range, Li Daochen had been suppressed by Yang Chen at every turn. Those around him had either died or betrayed him, and not one had met a good end.
In the end, Li Daochen had been driven onto the demonic path and forced to leave the Human Domain and join the Demon Domain.
Even in the Demon Domain, he had not escaped Yang Chen's shadow, suppressed by him until he could barely breathe.
As a great villain, he had been nothing more than a stepping stone for the son of destiny!
Now that he had another chance, he refused to believe he would lose so miserably again!
"What are you laughing at? Have you gone mad?" Luo Cheng shouted.
"I'm laughing because you're about to die!" Li Daochen sneered, pity in his eyes.
Luo Cheng had failed to kill him in his previous life, so naturally he had even less chance in this one!
Besides, Yang Chen had actually sent Luo Cheng to hunt him down as part of a scheme.
Anyone in the Battle Sect who knew Yang Chen's identity would be killed by him if they refused to submit!
"You're courting death!" Furious, Luo Cheng attacked at once, intending to cripple Li Daochen first.
But.
Li Daochen sprang into action first, his right hand forming a dragon's claw as faint threads of golden light appeared around it.
Rip!
Caught off guard, Luo Cheng had five bloody gashes torn across his chest.
"Ah!" Luo Cheng screamed, his eyes bulging. "How is that possible? Wasn't your cultivation crippled?"
Li Daochen's eyes were cold and fierce.
His cultivation had indeed been crippled, and his Holy Dragon Bone had been dug out!
But.
Not all of the Holy Dragon Bone had been removed. A tenth of it remained!
It was the most essential part of the Holy Dragon Bone, hidden deep within him and perfectly fused with his flesh and blood. Unless Li Daochen was killed outright, it was impossible to dig it out!
In his previous life, Li Daochen had relied on that tenth of the Holy Dragon Bone to set foot on the path of cultivation again.
"Even with my cultivation crippled, I can still kill you!" Li Daochen barked.
"I'm at the second layer of Spirit Foundation. You think I can't beat a cripple like you?" Luo Cheng shouted angrily.
There were twelve cultivation realms: Blood Refining, Spirit Foundation, Divine Bridge, Dragon Gate, Heaven Flying...
Each realm was divided into nine layers!
Luo Cheng's strength at the second layer of Spirit Foundation already far surpassed that of an ordinary person!
But the next moment, Luo Cheng's breath caught.
Li Daochen moved like a ghost, reaching him in an instant.
Without another word, Li Daochen unleashed a series of vicious combat techniques, leaving Luo Cheng scrambling to respond.
Luo Cheng could hardly believe it.
Among the Battle Sect's younger disciples, his use of combat techniques definitely ranked in the top three. Yet compared to what Li Daochen was displaying now, he looked like utter trash.
Moreover.
"What combat technique is that?"
It wasn't a Battle Sect combat technique at all, and every move was vicious and bizarre.
Great Demon Palm!
Li Daochen said nothing, but shouted inwardly.
This was naturally no righteous-path combat technique, but a demonic-path technique renowned for its extreme killing power!
Li Daochen had no Spiritual Qi to draw on at the moment, but he could use the power of the Holy Dragon Bone to unleash a demonic-path combat technique.
Bang!
Luo Cheng was blasted away by a palm strike. A pitch-black demonic mark appeared on his chest, continuously scorching his skin.
"Is that a demonic-path combat technique?" Luo Cheng was horrified. He then stared at Li Daochen in anger and fear. "You've actually joined the demonic path! You really are unforgivable!"
"Even the righteous path is merciless, so what does it matter if I join the demonic path?" Li Daochen's expression was cold, his killing intent on full display.
This Li Daochen felt like a stranger to Luo Cheng, and he could not help feeling a chill in his heart!
But.
"You brought this on yourself!" Luo Cheng growled. He unleashed the full strength of the second layer of Spirit Foundation and drew a spirit blade, his strength immediately soaring.
The two fought again!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With Spiritual Qi to support him, Luo Cheng gradually gained the upper hand!
Li Daochen's cultivation had been crippled, after all, and he could not sustain his fighting strength.
"Hahaha! Go on, keep acting arrogant! Let's see if you can escape death!" Luo Cheng laughed wildly, while also making sure Li Daochen couldn't escape.
But.
Li Daochen's eyes grew increasingly fierce, and he did not retreat a single step.
In his previous life, he had not been fearless in his youth. Whenever he encountered danger, he had thought to take a step back. Then one step had become another, and by the time he finally came to his senses, it was already too late!
What about this life, then?
Was he going to retreat again?
No!
He, Li Daochen, would retreat no more!
"I'll kill anyone who makes me retreat!" Li Daochen growled, preparing to unleash a demonic-path combat technique that would come at a price.
But at that very moment.
Boom!
A vast pressure erupted within Li Daochen.
At the place where Li Daochen's Holy Dragon Bone had been dug out, emperor's might suddenly appeared, and a black-and-white war sword emerged, engraved with the eight wastelands and six directions, the sun and moon, heaven and earth.
This... was the very Xuanyuan Emperor Sword that had led to Li Daochen's death in his previous life!