A Single Battle Establishes the Li Lineage's Prestige, Cangtian Condenses Eleven Life Palaces!

In the Heavenfall Ancient Land.

Xuan Yi's face darkened, a gloom settling over it.

The outcome of this battle had exceeded his expectations. It was completely different from what he had imagined.

He had not suppressed Li Zhixing with ease. Instead, the battle had been extremely difficult.

Xuan Yi had held nothing back, using all the innate divine abilities of his Supreme Bone and Ancient Nether Divine Body.

Yet he had still failed to suppress his opponent.

As for his Black Tortoise Emperor Bone and eleventh Life Palace, they were still in the process of merging and could not be fully activated, preventing him from defeating Li Zhixing immediately.

If they continued fighting, the battle would remain deadlocked, and Xuanming Divine Mountain would lose even more face.

It was better to end things here and keep the loss of face to a minimum.

Once his Black Tortoise Emperor Bone had merged perfectly and his eleventh Life Palace had been fully opened, he would come back and suppress Li Zhixing. He would see who still dared to utter a word of dissent!

"My Black Tortoise Emperor Bone is still merging. The next time we fight, I will kill you!"

Xuan Yi gave a cold snort, turned, and left with the people from Xuanming Divine Mountain.

"Those words go for you as well."

His white robes stained with blood, Li Zhixing watched Xuan Yi leave without trying to stop him.

After passing through the Fifteenth Ancestor's inheritance trial ground, the Indestructible Dao Body within him was undergoing a transformation.

Li Zhixing also understood that his current combat strength was nowhere near enough to forcibly suppress Xuan Yi.

On the contrary, he had not disgraced the Li Lineage in this battle. Instead, he had fought to establish its prestige.

A draw was a decent outcome.

The Three Lives Emperor Tomb was about to open. This was no time for a major fight, and forcing the battle to continue would benefit no one.

And so, the curtain fell on this earth-shaking battle.

"Xuan Yi didn't use his Black Tortoise Emperor Bone or his eleventh Life Palace. All things considered, the Third Holy Son, Li Zhixing, lost this battle!"

A prodigy said.

"Li Zhixing didn't reveal his Life Palaces either. With the freakish properties of his Indestructible Dao Body, if they both unleashed their full strength in a battle to the death, it's still uncertain whose hands the deer would fall into!"

Another prodigy retorted.

He held Li Zhixing in high regard. In a battle to the death, he did not believe Li Zhixing would lose.

The battle had come quickly and ended just as quickly.

According to everyone's guesses, the Three Lives Emperor Tomb was about to open, and it contained the chance to obtain the Three Lives Great Emperor's inheritance.

Most likely, Li Zhixing and Xuan Yi had each held something back because of the emperor tomb.

If they revealed all their trump cards to the world today, it would do them more harm than good on their trip to the emperor tomb.

Even so, this battle had finally prompted the many powers of the Primordial Dao Domain to reassess the Li Lineage.

They would treat it with the utmost caution, overturning their old game boards and working out their plans anew.

In the past, when Li Qingshu and Li Junlin fought prodigies from the outside world, they had stopped short of serious injury and had not unleashed their true strength or trump cards.

Thus, no one had a particularly accurate understanding of their overall combat strength.

Now, with Li Zhixing's combat strength as a measure, everyone finally realized just how terrifying the overall strength of the Li Lineage's younger generation was.

It left the many powers almost unable to breathe.

And this was only the strength of the Third Holy Son.

Above the Third Holy Son were the First and Second Holy Sons, and above them was the divine son, Li Xunyuan.

These calculations were worth pondering.

Many prodigies also wanted to know just how strong the Li Lineage's first two holy sons truly were.

Yet what everyone anticipated even more was the performance of the Li Lineage's divine son, Li Xunyuan.

If he fought Xuan Yi and Prince Xuan Tian, what a magnificent spectacle would unfold?

Within the Li Lineage's Ancient Realm.

Li Cangtian sat in the void, nine divine forms and phenomena appearing alternately behind him. Divine radiance flowed around him, and his pressure bore down upon the nine heavens.

During this time, he had refined the Immortal Crystals Li Xunyuan had left him, activating the Torch Dragon Divine Form, one of the nine divine aspects, and obtaining the inheritance of the Torch Dragon Divine Ability.

Not only that, he had also combined the nine Hegemon Body Divine Forms into one, transforming them into a single Life Palace to serve as his eleventh!

With eleven Life Palaces, he had broken the shackles of the Emperor Forbidden Domain and stepped into a whole new world. His overall combat strength had undergone a heaven- and earth-shaking change.

He had also mastered Heaven Annihilation, the first move of the Immortal-Slaying Art he cultivated, and comprehended its true profundity.

Li Cangtian felt that if he fought the self he had been in the Heaven-Subduing Ancient City, he could defeat himself in no more than three moves!

Meanwhile, inside the Li Lineage's divine hall.

Li Xunyuan remained immersed in seclusion, shutting out all perception of the outside world.

Li Qianqiu came to check on him from time to time, bringing a small number of Immortal Crystals each time. He had gone to great lengths, calling on many connections to obtain them.

Even as an elder of the Li Lineage, obtaining Immortal Crystals was no easy matter for him.

While the outside world had been in turmoil, Li Xunyuan had turned a deaf ear to everything beyond his window, advancing his cultivation in one sustained push to the First Heaven of the Creation Realm.

He had spent a long time consolidating his foundation in the Life Palace Realm, so breaking into the Creation Realm had been as certain as a nail hammered into a board.

All the Immortal Crystals Li Qianqiu had brought had also been used up.

Yet only a little over thirty Dao patterns had been tempered within his body, an average of three per immortal bone.

By that reckoning, he had tempered only ten ribs. His progress was far too slow.

Li Xunyuan had chosen to temper the immortal bones in his chest. After all, the area around his heart was relatively vulnerable, so it was better to be cautious.

For him, as the possessor of the Innate Chaos Sacred Body Dao Embryo, tempering perfect Dao patterns into all the immortal bones within his body was hundreds or thousands of times more difficult than it was for an ordinary prodigy.

This was tantamount to defying heaven.

During this time, Li Xunyuan had also been studying the conditions for activating his sacred body phenomenon, Chaos Grows a Green Lotus.

The phenomenon that had awakened when he was born did not mean it had been fully activated.

If he could fully activate the sacred body phenomenon, he could obtain its inherited divine ability and greatly increase his combat strength.

Unfortunately, after studying it for a long time, Li Xunyuan still had no clue. It seemed he could only ask the old man.

In the divine hall, Li Xunyuan sighed and stopped dwelling on the activation of the phenomenon.

He slowly rose and lifted his palm. Vast golden sacred power surged forth.

Hum!

As he blasted out a punch, Chaos Qi surged around his fist, and a green lotus swayed gently.

Rumble!

The light of his punch pierced heaven and earth, as though it could suppress and seal the great Dao of heaven itself. The shaken void trembled incessantly, and the clouds crumbled inch by inch!

The invincible light of the punch rampaged through the space of the universe, undoubtedly alerting many of the Li Lineage's disciples and elders.

"That's where the divine son's secluded cultivation hall is! That punch light is so overbearing. It looks like it was derived from the Immortal-Suppressing Art!"

"The Ninth Ancestor personally instructed the divine son in his cultivation. Could it be... that Lord Divine Son has mastered both supreme immortal arts, Immortal Severing and Immortal Suppressing?"

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