"With the life essence of the world entering my body, who among all the people under heaven can possibly be my enemy?!!"
The life essence of the world gathered from all lands, flowing into Lin Wudao's body.
This man rose into the air, feeling the immense power within him. He was driven to a state of frenzy, and even his roars were filled with joy.
"My spiritual power! This is my spiritual power now!"
Over a hundred different Rules, Domain after Domain converging, and an immeasurable amount of life essence.
The spiritual power Lin Wudao now commanded made him feel like an omnipotent god.
Even Lin Wudao himself had never imagined that Tian Xing's ten-thousand-year scheme could actually make his Divinity Transformation realm so powerful.
He slowly lowered his head, gazing at the Li family members and those thousand-plus geniuses who were still on Qilin Mountain.
Now, these people who hated him to the bone seemed so laughable before his eyes.
Thinking this, he declared, "Do you see this? This is the power I now command! Your struggle of these past hundred-plus years means nothing to me! Next..."
"I will personally send you to meet your clansmen!"
And yet, under this immense oppressive might from Lin Wudao, the Li family members actually remained indifferent, their gazes simply fixed on him, completely unmoved.
Lin Wudao did not understand. They were clearly in such a hopeless situation, so why were the Li family members still staring at him as if he were the one who was already dead?
These people should be fleeing in a wretched state; they should be crying and begging him for mercy!
Those thousand-plus geniuses, facing the oppressive might, slowly lifted the cages containing the Tian Xing avatars.
"Hahaha! Are you trying to threaten me with my own avatars? Useless! Do you think that by imprisoning them, you can stop me from obtaining their spiritual power and prevent me from growing ever stronger?!"
Lin Wudao laughed wildly, mocking the Li family's naivety.
"For ten thousand years, Tian Xing has schemed for ten thousand years!
How could he possibly not have thought of this?
This was merely a weakness designed to lull the Grand Tutor and the Imperial Preceptor into a false sense of security!
Only by doing this could they lower their guard against me and allow me to set up the grand formation!"
"Even with these avatars in your hands, they are of no use whatsoever. They can only be considered a hot potato..."
Lin Wudao's wild laughter came to an abrupt halt.
The spirit tablets carried by the Li family members floated up into the air. Just as it had been when he invaded Merit City all those years ago, the spirit tablets were gathering within his Domain, and a figure of black mist appeared before them!
Beneath his feet, he trod upon a Yin-Yang diagram, and in his hand, he held a top-grade Dharma Treasure in the form of a long spear.
Over a hundred years had passed, yet Lin Wudao was still extremely familiar with this figure.
This Old Ancestor of the Li family, whose origins were unknown, grasped Rules that even he could not see through.
And then there were the hidden weapons he controlled, which could threaten any Divinity Transformation expert and were, it seemed, even immortal and indestructible!
But this time...
"It's you again!"
Lin Wudao glared furiously at the figure of black mist.
"Good, you've come! Hahaha! Back then, you let my caged geniuses go, but now I'm not afraid of that hidden weapon of yours, hahaha!"
But the next moment, His laughter came to an abrupt halt.
The figure of black mist didn't even charge forward to kill, nor did the hidden weapon appear in its hands.
Its eyes began to gleam with a black and white light, and its stare chilled Lin Wudao to the bone!
Under the heaven-covering oppressive might, fierce gales rose, yet the Li family members remained standing calmly behind the figure of black mist.
Not a single one of them retreated. They were mocking him!
The voice of the black mist figure rang out.
"Over a hundred years ago, you caught our Li family completely unprepared.
You made our Li family flee in a wretched state.
Today, all of it will be returned to you, piece by piece."
As his voice faded, from within that red leaf.
A spirit tablet once again emerged.
It was... Li Yaowen's spirit tablet!
"What?!!"
Lin Wudao instantly sensed a familiar aura. Upon that spirit tablet was attached the soul of Li Yaowen, a soul that had reached the Divinity Transformation realm.
He and Li Yaowen had fought for over a hundred years, and it was Li Yaowen who, in these past few months, had completely severed his connection to his numerous avatars!
And yet, at this very moment...
He felt his connection to those identities... had been restored!
"What is this... what is happening?!!"
A severed thread had been reconnected; it was the thread that connected him to one of the Tian Xing avatars!
The avatar's memories surged into Tian Xing's main body!
Tragic memories flooded in like a tidal wave.
One of those geniuses had captured him and, right before his eyes, had.... (dark tortured scene).
He struggled helplessly; that avatar of his was weak and could only watch, bit by bit, as that genius tortured and killed the people most important to him, before throwing him into a cage!
The tragic memories contorted his face into a ferocious expression.
Inside their cages, all the avatars began to wail in agony from these memories that had caught them completely off guard!
Lin Wudao stared deadly at the genius who had tortured his avatar's family, unable to ignore the rage in his heart. "I'll kill you!"
However, he had only just begun to manipulate the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi.
Another soul thread connected.
This time, his avatar's cultivation had been sealed, and he had been thrown into a pigsty full of boars that had been fed a drug to induce chaotic lust!
The despair of being violated by beasts, along with the pain of his body being torn apart, made him wish for death.
The Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi he was manipulating stagnated in that instant!
"Ahhh!!!"
Amidst Lin Wudao's agonized wails, the members of the Li family gazed at him with satisfaction, and the voice of the figure of black mist was calm.
"Did you think," the Ancestor said, "that we went through all the trouble of severing the connection to your avatars merely to make you lose awareness of them?
The first things a person recalls are always the most painful.
This is a lesson you taught our Li family, and it is a lesson that must now be returned to you."
"Over a hundred years ago, we experimented on your avatars. You are powerless to stop painful memories from flooding into the mind."
Thread after thread was connected.
The painful memories caused Lin Wudao's Domain to dissipate; he was unable to maintain his spiritual power!
He wanted to stop it, but Li Yaowen's spirit tablet was still shining brilliantly!
"You..."
Lin Wudao's face was filled with horror as he abruptly stumbled backward.
In this state, his movements were impaired!
"Now is the time!"
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