True Martial Descent, Taking Root

Evergreen Peak, inside the cave abode.

Li Rui sat cross-legged.

He had already returned from Chongyao Province.

Having obtained a suppressive artifact, the next step was naturally Integration.

His name had already been inscribed in heaven and earth. There was no avoiding the true tribulation of Integration. Even before that, disturbances in heaven and earth would arise, and Dao Lords—or even some formidable True Lords—would discover that he was about to advance to True Lord.

Thus, there were two paths.

Either he broke through within the Immortal Cultivation World.

Or, like his grandmaster Gao Tianxia, he went to break through in the Outer Heavens.

Fortunately, he was no longer the mud-legged peasant he had once been. He had earned a Dao Lord's favor.

With Old Ancestor Zhuge of White Jade Capital watching over him, whether he remained in Chongyao Province or went to the Outer Heavens would be exceedingly foolish.

In Li Rui's eyes.

It was no different from possessing a fortune yet choosing to walk at night in brocade robes.

Wasn't this precisely when one's backing was meant to be used?

White Jade Capital was undoubtedly the most suitable place.

Look at the True Lords of the Immortal Cultivation World—seventy percent of them had Dao Lords protecting their paths.

For an immortal sect that had only True Lords, producing another True Lord was no easy matter.

One only needed to look at Ancestor Liang of the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty to understand.

Advancing to True Lord meant stepping into the domain of immortals. Dao Lords would surely be watching.

They did not need to act personally. Merely stirring karma and sending out a few elders of their sect would already be enough to block the Dao Paths of most cultivators.

Before, perhaps he would have needed to make other plans.