True Lord Huitian Yanshi

"Little Ancestor."

Watching Zhang Yuan's retreating back, Zhongshuang parted her lips slightly. After a brief silence, she cupped her hands toward the approaching Li Huixi.

"Mm."

Neither joy nor anger showed on Li Huixi's face. He nodded lightly and walked slowly toward the Main Hall of the Third Princess’s Residence.

The Princess’s Consort had fled, so the bridegroom snatching could be considered a success. Now came the aftermath.

The Main Hall.

Xiao Yuanjun stood with her hands behind her back, her eyes flickering and her presence imposing.

Directly before her, Li Houjin's face was dark as thunder, while Chu Miaofu and Dongfang Caibai looked utterly incredulous.

The Li clan, the Chu Clan, and Dongfang Caibai had all been unwilling to let Zhang Yuan leave, so the three had briefly joined forces, determined to defeat Xiao Yuanjun as quickly as possible.

Yet, contrary to their expectations, Xiao Yuanjun was terrifyingly strong.

Chu Miaofu was at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, while Li Houjin and Dongfang Caibai were both at the Mid-Stage of Foundation Establishment, with Dongfang Caibai's Daoist Attainment a notch higher. Even together, the three could not subdue her.

"She has a Dao Domain," Dongfang Caibai said with a frown.

She had originally intended to find an opportunity to turn against her stepmother, [True Lord Wanlü Chiming], using the National Fortune carried by herself and Zhang Yuan as leverage. But Xiao Yuanjun's interference had now thrown everything completely off course.

Li Houjin and Chu Miaofu nodded gravely.

After so many exchanges, even though their opponent had not revealed a Dao Domain, they could tell she certainly possessed one. Otherwise, she could not possibly have been this strong.

In fact, their guess was correct.

She was the only Qi Refinement Perfected in the present age to have attained the realm of a Foundation-Building Heavenly Being through tenth-turn Qi refinement and four life-bound divine abilities.

The moment Xiao Yuanjun ascended to become a Heavenly Being, her fourth Divine Ability, [Heaven-Sundering Four Absolutes Immortal Domain], had become her Heavenly Being Dao Domain on its own, sparing her the effort of forging one.

But unlike Li Houjin and the others, whose Dao Domains overlaid the existing world,

[Heaven-Sundering Four Absolutes Immortal Domain] overlaid her own body. Its effect was the same as during Qi Refining: it could vastly elevate her own standing and Daoist Attainment.

The path I comprehended really was sound in every way!

Xiao Yuanjun was thoroughly pleased with her performance.

She had not dared to be certain before, but now she could declare that her "Congenital True Law of Self-Transcendence" was the strongest Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method under heaven, bar none!

Zhang Yuan truly was blessed to receive her inheritance.

Creak.

Someone pushed open the Main Hall's door.

Li Huixi and Zhongshuang walked slowly inside, drawing everyone's attention.

"Oh? You've reached Foundation Establishment. Not bad," Li Huixi said mildly, glancing at Xiao Yuanjun.

Xiao Yuanjun raised an eyebrow. She remembered this terribly ill-mannered Li Clan Daughter.

Ill manners were beside the point. She had successfully reached Foundation Establishment, and all he had to say was "not bad"?

These Li Descendants really did set their sights higher than the heavens.

"My respects, Young Ancestor," Li Houjin suddenly said reverently.

Xiao Yuanjun and Dongfang Caibai were puzzled by Li Houjin's form of address.

Little Ancestor? Who?

Li Houjin was calling this short young girl Little Ancestor?

Had the beating left Li Houjin so dizzy that he could no longer recognize people?

Li Huixi ignored everyone. Standing in the Main Hall, he tilted his head slightly and looked toward the Firmament above.

In an instant,

the heavens parted, revealing light.

The black clouds and mist blanketing the Capital City dispersed entirely, revealing True Lord Xuanqing Tianhua and the Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress locked in fierce magical combat.

The Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress sat on a broad fox tail, with a stone table and tea set before her, leisurely brewing and drinking tea.

True Lord Xuanqing Tianhua stood upon an auspicious cloud and swept his Fly-Whisk. The surrounding clouds transformed into a sky full of Talismans, assailing the Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress.

Faced with True Lord Xuanqing Tianhua's Talismans, the Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress casually plucked a fox hair.

She lightly tossed it down, and the white fox hair drifted in the wind.

That slender white fox hair became ten, then a hundred, then a thousand, finally transforming into countless white fox tails. Layer upon layer, like tangled vines, they sealed the sky so tightly that not a sliver of cloud remained visible.

The Talismans True Lord Xuanqing Tianhua had Enlightenment conjured dissipated without a sound.

"Cloud Seal Register, Fate Vine Knot," Li Huixi said.

Every Golden Core True Lord in the present age, herself included, possessed a Dao Art Fruition.

True Lord Xuanqing Tianhua's Dao Art Fruition was [Cloud Seal Register], while the Demon Empress, True Lord Wanlü Chiming, possessed [Fate Vine Knot].

The two fruitions governed different mysteries.

[Cloud Seal Register] governed the spiritual essence of Heaven and Earth, while [Fate Vine Knot] governed the Karma of all things.

As the mist deliberately laid down before the battle dispersed, True Lord Xuanqing Tianhua and the Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress both lowered their heads and saw Li Huixi standing at the Main Hall's entrance.

Li Huixi's face was expressionless. His numinous eyes shifted, reflecting the Sun and Moon.

True Lord Xuanqing Tianhua rejoiced.

He could do nothing to the Demon Empress himself, but with Li Huixi here, the battle would turn in an instant.

"True Lord Huitian Yanshi..."

The Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress's pupils contracted slightly. Her figure, seated on the fox tail, burst apart with a bang, turning into countless fox hairs.

She fled.

The True Lords of the present age fell into two categories: the Lesser Sovereigns of Heaven and Earth, and all other True Lords.

Who would willingly fight a hot-tempered Lesser Lord of Heaven and Earth?

Li Huixi reached forward.

Everyone in the Main Hall faintly heard flowing water, as though Li Huixi had thrust his hand into a river.

Li Huixi gently grasped.

Whoosh. He plucked a figure out of thin air.

It was none other than the Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress.

The Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress froze, staring at her own condition in disbelief.

She clearly remembered using her Divine Ability and the mysteries of her fruition to reverse effect into cause, transporting herself to Qingqiu.

Suddenly, understanding dawned on the Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress.

She had indeed escaped and returned to her homeland, Qingqiu.

But he had seized the version of her from the instant before her escape. Or rather, the future in which she escaped to Qingqiu had been delayed.

"Lesser Lord, whatever the matter, we can discuss it..." The Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress offered a dignified smile, every inch an empress.

But before she could finish, a fist came hurtling toward her face.

Bang!

Her body was punched straight into a bloody mist, and the National Fortune lingering within her scattered.

"There will be no next time," Li Huixi said mildly.

The Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress's body regenerated out of thin air. "Thank you for sparing my life, Lesser Lord," she said pitifully. "May this little fox leave now?"

"One more thing," Li Huixi said after a moment's thought.

"What else do you command, Lesser Lord?" the Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress asked quietly.

"Don't tie red threads at random again," Li Huixi said.

The Bian Kingdom's Demon Empress was taken aback. She had not expected Li Huixi to say this to her.

Tying red threads at random? When had she done that? All she had done was bring Dongfang Caibai and Zhang Yuan...

Hm? No!

The Demon Empress's expression turned stunned. Immediately, she invoked her fruition's mysteries and discovered that Zhang Yuan's marriage bond, whose Karma should have been severed by [Fate Vine Knot], remained perfectly intact!

In that instant, countless thoughts passed through her mind.

Having finished speaking, Li Huixi looked at the people standing dumb as wooden chickens in the main hall and addressed Dongfang Caibai. "My Sun-Moon Cliff lacks an attendant. Since you were Enlightenment into human form and attained the realm of a Heavenly Being, you shall henceforth cultivate under my guidance."

Others might not have known, but the Bian Kingdom's Third Princess, Dongfang Caibai, had actually been brought into being by the Demon Empress, True Lord Wanlü Chiming, using a fox tail combined with a drop of blood from the Bian Kingdom's imperial family and Enlightenment.

That was precisely why she had been able to attain the realm of a Heavenly Being at nineteen. A half-human, half-demon bloodline alone could never have accomplished that.