Fulfilling the Wish

Inside the ancestral hall, Li Lingyue gently caressed her slightly protruding belly, a tender smile unconsciously blooming on her lips.

Yun Long had easily dealt with the two uninvited guests, and her worried heart finally settled completely.

She hadn't been unafraid of the terrifying scene that had just unfolded.

It was just that she trusted her husband even more.

Yun He's bright eyes sparkled with an unusual radiance.

The composure and power Yun Long had displayed with such ease just moments ago had deeply shaken her soul.

She had only had a vague concept of the power of Qi Refining Stage cultivators before.

Now, she truly and concretely perceived what kind of extraordinary power that was.

She wondered what she would be like after she reached Qi Refining.

Her heart was filled with anticipation and longing for the future.

Yun Long's only disciple, Shi Chen, had his mouth agape, unable to close it for a long time.

The sight of his master, Yun Long, descending like a god of war, had completely overturned his understanding of martial arts powerhouses.

He subconsciously glanced at the long sword he held tightly in his hand.

That weapon, which he had once cherished as a treasure, seemed pale and powerless against Yun Long's overwhelmingly dominant fist techniques.

After a moment of hesitation, he decisively tossed the sword aside.

Seeing Shi Chen's adorably naive appearance, Yun He couldn't help but chuckle.

She extended her delicate fingers, gently pinching Shi Chen's slightly chubby cheeks, her eyes full of laughter.

Just then.

Inside the ancestral hall, Yun Ji, who had been kneeling before the ancestral tablets like a stone statue, unmoving.

The bell chime that had split the clouds and shattered the stones seemed to have struck a thunderous gong in his mind.

His eyes, which had been closed for a long time, suddenly snapped open!

Countless past insights flooded his mind like a surging tide.

The cultivation bottlenecks he had struggled to understand for so long.

The profound principles of martial arts he had painstakingly pondered over countless nights.

And the inheritance information Yun Jiang had secretly passed down to him, now melted away like ice and snow, seamlessly integrating with all his life's accumulated knowledge.

A faint, yet resonant, boom exploded in his mind.

It was as if an invisible shackle had been forcefully broken at that very moment.

As his body slowly rose from the meditation cushion, the originally surging milky white True Qi within him began to compress and condense at an astonishing speed.

Finally, a peculiar Qi Refining, about six inches long, shimmering with a deep sky-blue luster, seemingly containing patterns of a mysterious turtle, slowly took shape in his Dantian.

Mysterious Turtle Sea Suppressing Qi!

After the battle ended, Yun Long clearly sensed the change in Yun Ji's aura. His gaze had been locked onto his father, Yun Ji, from beginning to end.

He clearly felt every subtle change in his father's internal energy, from its dim and unclear state to its vibrant vitality, and then to its current thick and solid form.

An indescribable joy, like a warm spring tide, quietly spread through his heart.

Father had finally achieved his wish and taken that crucial step.

From now on, Yun Ji was extraordinary and no longer a Mortal Stage being, embarking on the path of seeking immortality.

From this day forward, the Yun Family had gained another Qi Refining Stage cultivator.

The Yun Family finally had a Qi Refining Stage cultivator who could venture out!

The moment that Mysterious Turtle Sea Suppressing Qi completely formed.

Yun Ji let out an irrepressible, long cry.

The cry split the clouds and shattered the stones, soaring straight into the night sky.

An even more shocking scene unfolded.

Yun Ji's white hair turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the wrinkles on his face receded.

His originally slightly hunched body now stood tall and straight like a pine tree.

He looked as if he had suddenly become more than twenty years younger.

Shi Chen watched from the side, dumbfounded, almost unable to believe his eyes.

This, this was simply the method of immortals!

Yun Ji slowly opened his eyes. The first thing that met his gaze were the dark red bloodstains in the courtyard that had not yet dried, and the faint scent of blood lingering in the air.

A complex, unreadable emotion flickered in his eyes.

At such a critical moment for the family's survival, he had been engrossed in comprehending the Wudang Xiantian Gong, completely unaware of the battle raging outside.

Fortunately, fortunately, he had succeeded.

Fortunately, the Yun Family's crisis seems to have been resolved.

Seeing his father Yun Ji successfully break through, his aura perfectly harmonized without any hesitation, Yun Long bent down and picked up the heads of Li Yuan and Li Jiao from the ground, blood staining his palms.

"Dad, I'll leave the family to you."

Yun Long's voice was calm, betraying little emotion.

Yun Ji nodded heavily. His gaze swept over the bloodstains in the courtyard, then landed on his wife and children, safe and sound within the ancestral hall. His eyes were complex, yet resolute.

He stepped out of the Golden Bell Shield's light barrier, new strength surging through his limbs.

To be safe, Yun Long had not immediately dispelled the golden bell protecting Li Lingyue, Yun He, and Shi Chen.

Carrying the two severed heads, Yun Ji strode out of the mansion, towards the sounds of fighting still faintly echoing from outside.

He knew the battle raging outside was far more complex than the brief skirmish in the backyard.

At this moment, under the night sky outside the Yun Family mansion, the battle between Qi Refining Stage cultivators had entered its climax.

It wasn't just Ning Yongrui and Mo Wenjian locked in a deadly duel.

In three other directions, the magical light of Qi Refining Stage cultivators flickered continuously, their auras clashing and surging.

Yun Long's sudden, explosive punch in the backyard earlier, with its berserk intent and the might of the Arhat phantom, had already alerted these hidden observers.

They had all been biding their time.

Waiting for the outcome of the battle in the Yun Family's backyard.

However, none of them had expected the fight in the backyard to end so quickly.

The auras of the two Mid Qi Refining Stage cultivators from the Li Family had vanished completely within mere minutes of their exposure.

It was so fast that they could barely react.

Ning Yongrui inwardly mused, "As expected of a Yun Family Grandmaster who entered the Dao through martial arts, too fast! He must have condensed High-Grade Qi Refining!"

With this thought, Ning Yongrui held nothing back.

Opposite him, the Mo Family Ancestor, Mo Wenjian, was at the end of his strength.

"Great Cold No Snow!"

Ning Yongrui let out a low cry and struck out with both palms. Ice crystals appeared out of thin air, and bone-chilling coldness swept towards Mo Wenjian.

With each falling snowflake-like ice crystal, several meridians within Mo Wenjian's body were precisely sealed.

Mo Wenjian's aura visibly weakened at an alarming rate.

In the other three directions, figures of Qi Refining Stage cultivators also revealed themselves.

One of them was the Li Family Patriarch, Li Jun.

He was burly with a grim expression, his thirty-six three-inch-long white Qi Refining strands – the Flowing Cloud Water Qi – surging incessantly within him.

Another was Lu Chengze, another expert dispatched by the Lu Family.

Like Lu Xingyun, who had fled earlier, he had cultivated the Green Wood Eternal Spring Qi, but his was even more pure and condensed.

The last one was none other than Ning Yongrui's son, Ning Shaojie.

Limited by his talent, he hadn't managed to cultivate Mid-Grade Qi Refining like his father. Within his dantian, there were only eight three-inch-long Low-Grade Autumn Water Cold Frost Qi strands.

Li Jun clearly sensed the demise of two of his clansmen, signifying the deaths of Li Yuan and Li Jiao.

His eyes instantly turned crimson, his rage boiling over, and hatred surged within him.

But he forcefully suppressed the almost man-devouring fury.

He knew now was not the time for impulsive revenge.

That scourge of the Yun Family, who could repel Lu Xingyun, a cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Refining, with a single punch and instantly kill two Mid Qi Refining clansmen, possessed unfathomable strength.