Li Yue Leaps Off the Cliff, Tang San Follows

These Tang Sect Inner Sect Elders had cultivated to an extraordinarily profound realm.

With the Ice Bed cultivation method Li Yue had provided, their internal energy had accumulated to levels ordinary martial artists could never hope to reach.

Even the youngest elder, who was only in his fifties, possessed over a hundred years of cultivation.

Not to mention the oldest elders, who were already one hundred and twenty years old and possessed an astonishing three hundred years of cultivation.

The elders surrounded Li Yue and Tang San.

Second Elder was the first to strike, saying coldly, "Tang Yue, you have some nerve! You actually dared to privately pass the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record to Outer Disciple Tang San, gravely violating the Tang Sect's rules! Today, you must pay the price for this!"

Li Yue's elder master, Tang Tianba, stood to one side with an anxious expression. He wanted to plead for mercy, but the other elders stopped him with their eyes.

Third Elder also echoed, "That's right. The Tang Sect's rules must never be broken lightly, or the consequences will be unimaginable. Tang Yue must be severely punished to uphold the sect rules!"

Seeing the elders pressuring him just as he had hoped, Li Yue secretly rejoiced.

It was finally time. This moment he had waited more than ten years for—this was exactly what he wanted to see!

Li Yue understood that he would surely be unable to escape disaster today. Even if he grew wings, he could not fly out of Ghost's Worry.

Though he was delighted beyond measure, he still upheld an actor's professional standards.

Li Yue glanced at Tang San beside him.

His eyes held three parts reluctance, three parts self-blame, and three parts determination.

Li Yue took a deep breath and said with a resolute expression, "Master, elders, this matter began because of me, so it should end with me as well. It has nothing to do with Tang San. I am willing to accept punishment and uphold the Tang Sect's rules."

After speaking, Li Yue circulated his internal energy and struck the Guanyuan acupoint in his lower dantian with his palm, crippling his own martial arts.

Although he still had the Tanzhong acupoint in his middle dantian and the Mud Pill Palace in his upper dantian, the destruction of his lower dantian still left him severely injured.

Moreover, this was an injury that would be difficult to recover from. He would likely be nothing but a cripple in the future.

The lower dantian stored the internal energy of the Xuanxin Gong, Li Yue's foundational cultivation technique.

If the Lingbo Step, Bei Ming Hand, and Star Sucking Pupil were branches, then the Xuanxin Gong was the trunk and heart of the tree.

Can a vegetable live without a core? Can a person live without a heart?

Though the Xuanxin Gong was not Li Yue's literal heart, it held an important place in his cultivation system.

Li Yue's face immediately turned deathly pale, fresh blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

"Tang Yue!" Tang Tianba's voice trembled. He had only this one disciple and no descendants of his own, so he had always cared for Li Yue deeply and had never been willing to let him suffer.

Seeing Li Yue actually cripple his own martial arts,

Tang Tianba cried out as though he himself had suffered that blow.

When Tang Tianba saw Li Yue swaying unsteadily after losing his cultivation, he hurried forward to support him. His eyes were filled with guilt and grief. "Why must you do this?"

Li Yue looked at his master and forced out a faint smile. "Master, this disciple has failed you. I can no longer care for you in your old age or see you through to the end. But I do not regret it. Tang San possesses tremendous potential and is a talent worth nurturing. He has already recreated Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus. I believe that in the future, he will surely raise the Tang Sect's Hidden Weapons to new heights and bring the Tang Sect even greater glory."

Seeing Li Yue cripple his martial arts for his sake, Tang San was filled with guilt and gratitude.

Thinking of Li Yue's recognition and nurturing,

Tang San dropped to his knees before Li Yue with a thud.

Tears streamed down Tang San's face as he said, "Tang Yue Senior Brother, it was all my fault. I caused this to happen to you."

Looking at Tang San kneeling before him, Li Yue felt that he had raised Tang San fairly well. He had not gone astray.

He knew Tang San was sincere, and that was good.

Having cultivated the Xuanxin Gong, Li Yue was extremely sensitive to the emotions of others.

However, he did not particularly care about what others truly felt in their hearts.

He cared more about their actions. Even if they were only putting on an act, wasn't it enough as long as he enjoyed watching it?

Of course, if their words and actions matched, he did prefer that.

Li Yue forced his weakened body to endure and said to Tang San, "Tang San, you must live well and cultivate diligently. Do not waste your talent for Hidden Weapons. You have already brought back Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, the number one mechanical Hidden Weapon. You might as well recreate the Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles and the Peacock Plume as well."

At that moment, the system's voice rang out in Li Yue's mind. "Detected that the host has borne the consequences for Tang San and crippled his own martial arts. Your karma with Tang San has deepened."

Li Yue broke free of his master's support and forced himself to stand. His unprecedentedly weak body made him feel helpless, as though he might collapse to the ground at any moment.

Yet he still forced himself to stand straight.

He had now formed enough karma with Tang San.

Even if he stopped now, he could still obtain tremendous rewards, such as reclaiming the karma after Tang San reincarnated in Douluo Continent and became a god.

Then he would be able to obtain Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill internal energy after he became a god, perhaps even more.

But perhaps he could get even more. Looking at the elders, Li Yue grew somewhat impatient. Why aren't you making your move already?

Forget it. He would do it himself.

Li Yue looked toward the distant cliff. That was the cliff from which Tang San had leapt in Douluo Continent.

"Tang San, farewell in the next life..." Li Yue said with the last of his strength. Then, dragging his weakened body, he walked step by step toward the cliff.

"Tang Yue Senior Brother!" When Tang San saw where Li Yue was heading, his heart jolted. He was about to rise and rush forward to stop him.

But the elders held him back tightly. Tang San's meager internal energy was nothing in front of these elders.

Tang San could only helplessly watch as Li Yue moved step by step toward the edge of the cliff.

Tears flowed from his eyes.

Li Yue stood at the cliff's edge. The biting mountain wind stirred his robes, while his hair flew wildly around him.

He looked down at the valley shrouded in clouds and mist.

Then, without hesitation, he stepped forward and leapt off the cliff.

At that moment, Li Yue said in his heart, Karma System, I will use my life to form this great karma with Tang San.

The instant he leapt from the cliff, the system's notification rang in his mind. "Detected that the host has formed great karma with Tang San at the cost of his life. Rebirth Program activated..."

Li Yue felt everything before him turn black as his consciousness gradually faded. He only had time to tell the system, "I want Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor martial spirit."

When he awakened again, Li Yue discovered that he had arrived in an unfamiliar place.

As a newborn, he barely managed to squint his eyes open into narrow slits and vaguely saw numerous midwives and maids around him.

It seemed his family circumstances in this life were not bad.

At least he had not been born into a home with nothing but bare walls. It would have been miserable if he had started out like Tang San.

To be honest, he truly admired Tang San a little. Tang San's starting situation was hardly any better than being born in a school restroom.

The system's voice sounded beside Li Yue's ear. "Congratulations, host. Rebirth successful. You have been reborn in Holy Spirit Village of Douluo Continent and obtained the Blue Silver Emperor martial spirit."

At the same time, back in the Tang Sect.

The system's voice echoed invisibly, though none of them could hear it. "As Tang San has yet to repay the host's karma, he will continue repaying it in his next life."

Tang San looked toward the direction where Li Yue had leapt from the cliff, devastated by grief.

His heart was full of self-blame. He knew it had all happened because of him.

If Tang Yue Senior Brother had not given him the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record,

if he had upheld the sect rules and not studied the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record,

perhaps none of this would have happened.

Tang Yue Senior Brother would not have died for him either.

Tang San's gaze gradually became resolute. "Tang Yue Senior Brother, if there is a next life, Tang San will repay this debt of gratitude even if I must serve you like an ox or horse."

He slowly walked to the cliff's edge and leapt.

Like Li Yue, he too jumped off the cliff.

When Tang San opened his eyes again, he discovered that he had reincarnated and become a little baby.

Wait... it seemed something was missing!!

Before she even had time to rejoice, Tang San sensed her current body, and her expression became complicated. She... she had actually become a girl.

However, Tang San did not know that her martial spirits had also undergone a tremendous change.

Not only had her original Twin Martial Souls been reduced to a single Clear Sky Hammer martial spirit,

but that remaining Clear Sky Hammer martial spirit had actually mutated into a Fire Stick!

It turned out that Li Yue had requested the Blue Silver Emperor martial spirit from the system.

But Tang San's bloodline had not yet evolved at this time, and she only possessed the Blue Silver Grass martial spirit.

Thus, after the system took away the Blue Silver Grass martial spirit, it also absorbed the potential of the Clear Sky Hammer martial spirit to make up the difference and turn it into the Blue Silver Emperor.