Annihilating the Sect (VII)
"Cough cough cough..." A child of about seven or eight years old stepped out from the crowd and said with a bitter smile, "The descendants are unfilial, and now we can't even protect the ancestral foundation."
"I created the Secret Martial Arts Heaven-Reversing Book, and I still have three years left to complete it. I never expected that I would have to break my cultivation prematurely today." The child stepped forward, his aura gradually becoming apparent.
This world may indeed be a low-level martial arts world, where countless martial artists are unable to break through to higher levels due to various limitations. However, it is undeniable that every martial artist who can break through to the Celestial Martial Path possesses extraordinary talent.
Because the martial arts knowledge in this world is compiled into books with detailed paths, only the Secret Martial Arts level has such detailed paths. Any master who breaks through to the Celestial Martial Arts level has broken with convention and forged their own path.
This shows how difficult it is to achieve the Heavenly Martial Arts. The child in front of us is even more terrifying. He was a disciple of the South Heaven Sect from previous generations. He was dull-witted and slow-witted. It took him more than ten years to truly cultivate his inner energy. He then endured twenty years of hardship in the sect before he came into contact with the secret South Heaven One Qi.
In fact, both he and others knew that he could never master the secret martial arts in his lifetime. However, too many things happened later that led him to master a mutated version of the South Heaven One Qi, and in the days that followed, he broke through to the Celestial Warrior level.
That year, he was already ninety-nine years old. He could sense that his lifespan was one hundred years, and he would die when that time came. So, based on his own mutated version of the South Heaven One Qi, he created a secret martial art: the Heaven-Reversing Book.
With the idea that the sunset will eventually fade and night will eventually fall, he reversed his immense internal energy, transforming it into pure life energy, allowing himself to enter a period of darkness, rejuvenate, and hope to use this secret martial art to live another life.
"Your body currently contains a vast life force that is modifying your true constitution. Once this process breaks down, you will likely have to give up halfway. You have persisted for seven or eight years. Why not retreat now and persevere for another three years?" Lu Li's eyes swept over the child, seeing through his true nature.
The other party is essentially still a 99-year-old man, but with his enormous life energy, he has entered the appearance of rejuvenation. During this period, the life energy will continuously modify his life essence, allowing him to truly live another life. This process will take about 12 years. He is now seven or eight years old, and he will succeed in three more years. However, now that he has broken the spell, all the cultivation he has done in the past seven or eight years will be wasted.
"I have no choice, I want to wait for her." The child Lu Li, his aura growing stronger and stronger. Lu Li observed that the child's immense life force had begun to transform into internal energy. With a carefree smile, he chuckled and said, "But I don't want her to come back and not be able to find her."
When the child walked in front of Lu Li, he was already about ten years old. Without the slightest hesitation, he chose to break his power and attack Lu Li. His whole body turned into red jade, like a beacon on the ground, but the surrounding area did not become hot. Instead, a large amount of heat was absorbed by the child, and the weather in August and September was actually cold.
"Yang Wuye of the South Heaven Sect," the child announced his name. Lu Li nodded and said, "I have no sect or faction, but I plan to destroy the South Heaven Sect and establish the Black Heaven Hall. You can call me Lu Li, the Black Heaven Hall."
"It's a fight to the death." Yang Wuye sighed softly and threw a punch at Lu Li. Black scales formed in Lu Li's hand as he parried with his backhand. Then he felt the heat in his body being absorbed by his opponent.
Unlike the ordinary South Heaven One Qi, the South Heaven One Qi that Yang Wuye accidentally cultivated did not release heat, but absorbed it. It was precisely because of this characteristic that he created the martial art of the Heaven-Reversing Book.
In a world with low martial arts, to be able to create a method for living again is truly terrifying talent. As the world progresses, Yang Wuye and Lu Li continue to fight. The boy, who is already twelve years old, is wearing children's clothes that are stretched taut.
With a clash of fists and palms, Yang Wuye's clothes ripped apart. In that instant, Lu Li raised his hand into a blade, a thin layer of black energy seemingly on his palm, and slashed towards Yang Wuye's head.
Yang Wuye leaned back and saw a large amount of black mist erupt, obscuring his vision. Then, a blade of energy burst forth, the very move he hadn't perfected before. Yang Wuye rolled to the side, dodging the blade of energy, and saw a tree in the distance behind him snap in two.
Recalling the feeling of facing the sword energy as if facing endless waves, Yang Wuye's heart tightened. If the other party wasn't lying, then that sword energy move really wasn't perfect. Could it be that after hearing about the Vast Blue Thousand Miles martial art, the other party had absorbed it so quickly and integrated it into their own techniques?
"Again!" Lu Li did not attack immediately, but thought for a moment before speaking to Yang Wuye. The next moment, rings of black mist enveloped Lu Li's aura.
Yang Wuye's gaze sharpened as he looked at the ripples of black mist. He thought to himself, "As expected, my opponent has begun to absorb the essence of the Vast Blue Thousand Miles martial art to create new moves. What talent!"
Yang Wuye had grown to the age of fifteen and his internal energy was sufficient. So he shouted, and his internal energy surged, causing Red Dawn to appear around him, and even the sky seemed to be dyed with a layer of red light.
Each punch and kick was like a cloud tinged with Red Dawn in the sky—ethereal yet undeniably real. The surroundings grew increasingly cold, more and more heat being absorbed by Yang Wuye, until finally, a light snow began to fall from the horizon.
The fine snow tinged with the Red Dawn emanating from Yang Wuye, and instantly, the area in front of the South Heaven Sect's mountain gate seemed to have entered a fairyland in the clouds, making Yang Wuye and his surroundings exceptionally harmonious.
When Lu Li fought with him, he could feel that the opponent's punches and kicks seemed to carry the power of heaven and earth, possessing extraordinary power. Yang Wuye was the same. The black mist around Lu Li made him feel as if he were in the middle of the ocean, making him feel unsteady, as if he was in the sea, being swept along by the waves and could only drift with the tide.
The surroundings grew colder and colder, and the fine snow outside turned into heavy snow. Yang Wuye seemed to have turned into a red-hot coal, clashing with Lu Li's black mist. The two fought fiercely, and Yang Wuye turned eighteen.
"What's your name?" Yang Wuye seemed to see the scene from back then. He was always dull-witted, and this was the first time he had ever walked down the mountain. He had encountered that girl, and when he heard her clear and bright voice asking him, he stammered back. That was the first ray of light in his life, and also the brightest light.
The surrounding air seemed to freeze. Yang Wuye opened his eyes, and the Red Dawn emanating from his body surged outwards. The terrifying heat turned all the snow into white vapor, which drifted in the air. His inner energy dyed it orange-red, making people think that they were truly in the Red Dawn of the evening.
As the red color faded from Yang Wuye's body, he became as white as jade. His originally ordinary appearance, set against the backdrop of his surroundings, made him seem like an immortal.
"Are you from the South Heaven Sect? I've heard that your South Heaven One Qi originates from the sunset. Could you use your divine power to place me within the sunset? I've heard that there are immortals within the sunset." That's what the girl said that year.