"Delicious... the flesh on your bodies is simply delicious! This is the taste of my own descendants!"
"Hahaha!"
The heart twisted grotesquely out of shape, its blood-red veins filling nearly the entire territory of the Immortal Zhao Clan.
The Zhao Clan Old Ancestor was in a frenzy of excitement.
One hundred and sixty thousand years ago, he had used this heart to ceaselessly devour the destinies of others.
But in the end, the Devils exposed his schemes.
Facing the annihilation of his clan, and to save these descendants, he transformed himself into a heart, using his own flesh and blood to preserve their lives.
His original descendants had died long ago, yet his blood still flowed through these wretches.
And in the long river of time, they had actually dared to forget his existence!
Until one day, when a descendant died and entered the body of his "heart."
That was the first time, filled with resentment, that he tasted the flesh and blood of his own descendant!
"I will devour you all! Hahaha! The most delicious taste in the world!"
"I can grant you life, and I can grant you death! You have never been anything more than a part of my own body!!!"
The network of blood vessels within the Immortal Domain grew even denser.
The surging spiritual power drove the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor into a frenzy.
Just a little more... just a little more, and everything he had sacrificed would be repaid.
He would reach the Mahayana Realm!
"Just a little more..."
Squelch!
A long spear, charged with the spiritual power of the Void Refining Realm, pierced through from one side to the other, causing the massive heart to freeze for a split second.
It saw them!
A pack of fools, daring to trespass upon his territory.
It was the Li Family Old Ancestor, shrouded in black mist!
"It's you? Hahaha! You still dare to come here?!!"
"I must thank you. Thank you for liberating me from the seal of these unfilial descendants."
"I shall bestow a reward upon you!!!"
But the excited shouts of the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor echoing from the heart came to an abrupt halt.
The figure in the black mist stood before his clansmen.
Though his expression was obscured, he casually caught the returning Divine Spear with his left hand, while his right hand impatiently dug at his ear.
"Noisy thing. Does a piece of trash like you really think you're worthy of bestowing rewards upon us?"
The massive heart froze for a moment.
Then, the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor erupted in sky-high rage.
The heart writhed even more violently, its blood-red veins flailing wildly as spiritual power belonging to the Integration Realm poured out!
"You dare humiliate this Old Ancestor?!!"
The Zhao Clan Old Ancestor seethed with rage.
He was on the verge of the Mahayana Realm; he was destined to become the supreme powerhouse of this world!
These members of the Li clan should be groveling beneath his mighty power!
Taking advantage of his good mood and the favor they did by freeing him from his imprisonment, they should have been begging to become his dogs, nourishing him with Destiny for all eternity!
How dare they... how dare they?!!
...
The heart was furious.
In all his life, Li Wei had never seen such a disgusting thing.
It was a heart a thousand meters tall, towering almost to the heavens.
As the heart squirmed, eyeballs began to emerge one after another from the scars where the resurrected Zhao clansmen had previously torn their way out.
Soon, the entire massive heart was densely covered in a swarm of eyeballs.
Those eyes stared fixedly at Li Wei and his clansmen, seemingly burning with rage over his disdainful words.
Surrounding them in every direction was the network of veins and vessels, while the Li family stood their ground, looking up at this "Zhao Clan Old Ancestor."
The Zhao Clan Old Ancestor was still savoring the feast he had spent one hundred and sixty thousand years preparing.
Blood surged through the massive vessels, and the oppressive might of the Integration Realm—mingled with the nauseating stench of gore—turned the entire Immortal Domain into a spiritual quagmire.
Thunder had already begun to manifest in the sky.
The corpses of the Zhao clansmen, who had revived from death only to be slaughtered once more, served as the fuel that would allow the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor to ascend to the Mahayana Realm.
But let alone the Mahayana Realm...
Even the oppressive might of the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor's current Integration Realm cultivation was enough to make it difficult for the members of the Li family to take a single step, even standing ten thousand meters away.
Outside the Immortal Domain.
The cultivators who had come from the Azure Cloud Prefecture all watched the events unfolding inside with pale, bloodless faces.
"Boom! Boom!"
Thunderbolts were already gathering in the heavens.
The dark clouds above were dyed a crimson red, illuminated by the flashing bloody light of the terrifying, eye-covered Zhao Clan Old Ancestor below.
As for the surviving Zhao clansmen, if they were not being pierced by those red vessels—resembling human veins—and dragged into the sky to drift like leaves, they were scrambling away like wretched ghosts attempting to escape a blood-red hell.
The oppressive might of a cultivator at the Integration Realm breaking through to the Mahayana Realm was suffocating, even from such a great distance.
The stench of the Zhao clan's blood was nauseating.
"How can this be? How can he be so powerful..."
Li Xinnian was using his full spiritual power to defend himself.
The shockwave of the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor's rage just moments ago had swept him aside, leaving his face pale.
"Thump... Thump..."
The sound of the Zhao Clan Old Ancestor's heartbeat was like a countdown to death for the entire Azure Cloud Prefecture—a countdown to death for everyone.
People were already fleeing; that was the most rational choice.
In the face of a powerhouse on the verge of the Mahayana Realm, they were nothing more than insignificant ants.
"Xinnian, shall we flee?"
Su Chen appeared at Li Xinnian's side, his fists clenched tight and his eyes filled with indignant frustration.
They had already defeated the ancestors of the Zhao clan, yet the hidden reserves of the Immortal Zhao Clan far exceeded his imagination.
The Integration Realm was a boundary he had once strived desperately to break through, but an existence at the Mahayana Realm?
That was akin to a god in his eyes!
But Li Xinnian shook his head.
He looked around the surroundings; not a single person from the Azure Cloud Region had retreated.
They all stood gazing from afar at that seemingly invincible colossal heart.
The two sworn brothers exchanged a glance, took a deep breath, and then, suddenly, smiled with a sense of release.
"The Old Ancestor of our family said to leave everything to them," Li Xinnian said.
"And they are right there, inside the Immortal Domain."
The oppressive might of the heart continued to mount.
Suddenly, everyone narrowed their eyes.
Before that colossal heart, a new red light emerged.
This radiance rendered the originally bloody hue filling the Immortal Domain even more bewitching—the two shades of crimson were clashing for dominance!
"Boom! Boom!"
The earth began to tremble. Outside the Immortal Domain, with their faces illuminated by the blood-red glow, a root appeared before the eyes of every person from the Azure Cloud Region.
As if guided by spirits and gods, they reached out and grasped the roots of the Old Tree.
Inside the Immortal Domain, the Old Tree had grown to a height of a thousand meters.
Its branches pierced into the spines of the Li family elders one by one, hoisting them into the air!
Li Xinnian, Su Chen, and every cultivator from the Azure Cloud Prefecture holding a root narrowed their eyes.
From within the roots, the voices of the Li family were transmitted.
"Are you... afraid?"
Everyone gazed at that colossal heart, at the dense cluster of eyeballs, and felt the increasingly manic pressure of the Integration Realm.
Are we afraid?
Afraid of that wretched bastard?!
Their spiritual power was siphoned into the roots.
The wild wind of the bloody night whipped up the robes of the Azure Cloud people, revealing the character "Li" marked upon their exposed skin!
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