The Last Opportunity

Lu Li silently accepted the various ideas and inspirations fed back by the Daoists. With a thought, he continued to refine his future path. In fact, Lu Li had already calculated the third step of a cultivator, the Golden Core stage.

With so many Daoists providing so much inspiration and some unexpected help, Lu Li's calculations went exceptionally smoothly. While calculating the Golden Core stage, Lu Li gradually deduced his future path.

However, it's not the right time to release the method for advancing to the Golden Core stage yet. After all, their goals haven't been achieved yet. Once the Golden Core stage is revealed, this war between humans and snakes will probably come to an end, which is not what Lu Li and the others want to see.

If you looked at him now, you would see that Lu Li's body was constantly radiating energy, which was constantly twisting and contorting. It was clearly a force of distortion. He had just tested the effects of the third step of the cultivator's cultivation, and after it seemed to work well, Lu Li Destruction it. The path of the cultivator was similar to the path he was going to take, but they were not the same.

After the distorted energy in his body dissipated, Lu Li fell from the Golden Core stage to having no cultivation. Then, with fingernails as sharp as knives, he cut open his own stomach, removed the Appendix Spirit Root, and casually tossed it aside. This top-tier spiritual root, which Lu Li had personally crafted, was left behind here.

Lu Li's stomach automatically recovered, and the appendix inside grew back. This time, the appendix no longer had the effect of spiritual roots, and Lu Li's body returned to its original state.

He stretched out his fingers again, cut open his chest, and took out his Doom Bead from his heart. This bead contained the date of his death, and was surrounded by various curses to prevent his death from coming.

Lu Li held his own death date bead. In most futures, it was because of this Doom Bead that Gheros was able to exploit his weakness, since the other party was the Herald of Destruction, or the Death Omen Star in the conventional sense.

But now there's no need to worry about that. Lu Li grasped the Doom Bead with his right hand, and the mark on his palm suddenly burst into blue flames. The power of time flowed on it, and the curse on the Death Bead peeled off layer by layer.

As the creator of the Zombie race, Lu Li was extremely familiar with the curse Implantation on it. Soon, only one layer of world curse remained on the entire Doom Bead. Lu Li felt the strong sense of death emanating from it and took out something given to him by a certain being.

It was a peach wood branch as hard as iron. Just holding it in his hand, Lu Li felt a surge of disgust. This peach wood branch was created by this world to restrain him, the Zombie king. This thing could easily pierce the world curse on Lu Li's Doom Bead.

Ignoring the instinctive disgust that welled up within him, Lu Li gripped the peach wood branch and his Doom Bead, Excitation the time imprint on his hand. Without hesitation, Lu Li stabbed the peach wood branch into the Doom Bead, shattering the world's curse and releasing Lu Li's death.

By now, Lu Li's death was long over, so once the death was released, various injuries began to appear on Lu Li's body. First, there were injuries from falling from a great height, then the bite marks from the big black cat, and then Fang Yi's headshot. All sorts of wounds appeared on Lu Li's body.

Lu Li was engulfed in death, his body gradually disintegrating until it was no longer human. Only the triangular and rounded shape in his palm continued to flicker with blue flames under the power Life-Death Interstice.

Then the blue flames suddenly expanded and finally disappeared completely. It was as if Lu Li had never existed in this world. The only thing that could prove his existence was the Appendix Spirit Root that Lu Li had thrown out.

This section of Appendix Spirit Root was later obtained by Correctors found it based on energy fluctuations. They discovered that this spiritual root surpassed the quality of any current Daoist priest, so it was taken for research. They discovered that this spiritual root was actually tissue from the Zombie King, which ultimately led them to discover Lu Li's identity.

With Lu Li's death, all the inherited items lost their effectiveness, causing panic among the Daoist community. Most of their current knowledge came from these inherited items; now that they were inactive, did it mean the lineage had been broken long ago, and they would have to find their own way after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage?

Han Mo and the others gathered again, their expressions not good. After all, their path forward was blocked. Although they had gained a lot of basic knowledge, it was almost impossible for them to create subsequent cultivation techniques on their own.

"I learned from a friend that they found that person's belongings." Fang Hao pushed open the door and walked in, his face extremely gloomy, but his eyes flashed with a crazed light. "A piece of spiritual root, the body tissue of the Zombie King, and the quality of the spiritual root far surpasses that of the rest of us."

Given the love-hate relationship between Han Mo and Nüba, and the fact that he had met Lu Li, it wasn't hard for him to know that the Daoist priest's mastermind was Lu Li. The fact that something possessed both the Zombie King and the best spiritual root, along with the fact that all the inherited items had lost their function, might really be Lu Li's relics.

"I asked around, and the quality of that thing far surpasses ours. Do you know what that means?" Fang Hao said with a fanatical expression, "It means that person has already found the path ahead, and even if they haven't succeeded, they're extremely close."

"That thing is quite difficult to destroy because it possesses the qualities of Zombie king, but it will be Destruction by tonight at the latest," Fang Hao said, his eyes bloodshot. "Once we obtain that thing, perhaps... no, we can definitely deduce the subsequent cultivation techniques."

"Are you sure your friend meant well?" the Eight Trigrams priest asked. "If we can think of this, then those Correctors must be able to as well. So why do you think this information was so easily obtained by you?"

"So this relic is a trap, an obvious trap," Han Mo said in a low voice. "Even without the subsequent cultivation techniques, the overall strength of us Daoists is now greater than theirs, so they feel unsafe. They released this news to lure us out and eliminate the top forces of us Daoists. It will be very difficult for Daoists to turn the tide."

"But we have no other choice!" Fang Hao said, his eyes red. "Even if we live to the end of our lifespan, we may not be able to deduce the subsequent cultivation methods based solely on our knowledge. Perhaps future generations might be able to after several generations of accumulation, but by then we will be dead. This is our last chance to find the path ahead."

"So, whether it's a trap or not, we have to step into it, unless you're willing to stay at this level forever, hiding from those Correctors all day, with no hope of ever getting ahead."

Han Mo watched the fiery red mark on his hand move, and various cautious thoughts popped into his head. But then he sighed slightly and said, "Let's take a gamble!"

I'll only update three times today. I need to adjust my schedule. Lately, I've been writing until the early hours of the morning to catch up on updates, and then I can't get up in the morning and have no energy at noon. It's like a vicious cycle. Everyone, get some rest.