The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 416 Receiving

Chapter 416 Receiving

Liu Zhixing, Zhao Weihuang and others, along with their many disciples had sneaked into Chengde. They thought that no one knew of their presence in Chengde, but the Black Office had been tracking them all along. And as such, when Li Ye got here, he did not give Wang Jingchong the appropriate courtesy.

Since Li Ye was determined about the fact that Wang Jingchong did not have any leverage to negotiate with him. Then the only left waiting for him was death. And from that perspective, the way Li Ye treated Wu Gou and Qin Zongquan was already “courteous” enough.

Suddenly stones and pieces of wood exploded out from the ruins and a figure in ghostly white robes flew out from amid the smoke and dust. He was also carrying a young Taoist in blood-stained robes who was dripping blood. His breathing was weak like a dying man.

It was the old Taoist who with the horsetail whisk.

His elegant immortal like temperament had disappeared. Now his face was full of anger. When he saw Li Ye he yelled, “Li Ye you lil b*stard, how dare you be so arrogant? You’re asking for your own funeral...”

Before even finishing his words, the old priest was interrupted by his own scream of shock because a moon-shaped green Sword Qi was coming straight at him!

Li Ye attacked with his sword and said indifferently, “I, the lone king, will now open the gates of hell for you. You just be on your way.”

The old Taoist’s cultivation was quite high, who was originally an immortal brought into the mortal world by He Jingcheng. He still had the strength of the Sky Immortal Realm, except that his fairy child did not have the same cultivation as his. Right now, his fairy child only had the cultivation of the Yang Spiritual Master level.

Naturally, an immortal must have a style in the immortal world, so having a fairy child as an assistant was a must. And thus he had always brought along a fairy child wherever he went. He did not expect that he would indirectly harm the fairy child. When Li Ye had brought the house down, he almost killed the fairy child.

Because of this, the old Taoist was furious and immediately thought of vengeance for the fairy child. He thought now that Li Ye had appeared, he could capture Li Ye. But he did not expect that before he could even make a move, Li Ye had come attacking with his sword.

If it were an ordinary attack, the old priest would be able to handle it. But Li Ye’s sword attack was extraordinary. The old Taoist felt the power of the Sword Qi, and hidden within was an indescribable Imperial Qi, which made you want to surrender!

In addition, this sword attack had the power to split mountains and rivers!

The old Taoist instantly sensed that this sword attack had the power to severely damage him. He couldn’t block it at all, which frightened him to the extreme. It was so frightening that it made his hair stand.

When Li Ye came out of the Tao of Heaven’s secret region that day, he killed Zhang Ji with the Sword of heaven and Shield of heaven. But his strength had not yet reached the level where he could defeat a Sky Immortal Realm cultivator. Thus the old Taoist did not think that he would be in danger.

It’s only been a few days since the old Taoist had seen Li Ye, and yet the cultivation Li Ye revealed with his sword attack had increased to another level. Although it had not yet contained the power of the Immortal Area, it was already much stronger than before.

In such a panic, the old Taoist no longer cared about the fairy child and tossed him aside. At the same time, he began chanting spells. In the nick of time, he waved his horsetail whisk and his cultivation erupted.

A force that could Topple Mountains and Drain Oceans rushed out from his horsetail whisk, forming a huge yellow Invocation, which blocked the Sword Qi. He was then able to hurriedly pull back.

He thought that the Invocation barrier could block Li Ye’s sword attack, but to his surprise, just as the Sword Qi was about to reach the old Taoist, a green lotus bloomed before the old Taoist’s eyes!

Before the old Taoist could react, his Invocation barrier was shattered! Then, his retracting body was like being struck by thunder, and he fell off balance and began to vomit blood. He smashed the courtyard wall and made a large pit on the ground!

He then quickly got up from the deep pit, but his hands and feet were weak, so he couldn’t accumulate strength. He couldn’t help falling on his knees and looking at Li Ye with eyes full of terror.

Aside from the Imperial Qi in Li Ye’s sword attack, he also felt the power of the way of Yin and Yang. When his Invocation barrier shattered, he had also heard a loud dragon roar!

In such a rush, he couldn’t detect the mysterious energies hidden within the sword attack. Only after being wounded did he realize how extraordinary the attack was. The sword attack looked normal with only a few meters of Sword Qi, but it had a lot of hidden power within!

Li Ye glanced at the old Taoist indifferently. “The fact that you can take my sword attack proves you have some skill.”

The old Taoist’s anger had reached boiling point, and he roared with gritted teeth, “Don’t be too arrogant! You think you can kill me? The power of the Immortal Realm is not as simple as you think!”

As he said those words, his eyes suddenly became deep, and an energy light began circulating between his eyebrows as if his third eye had opened. After getting wounded, his weak body began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if there were countless Spiritual Qi pouring into his body from all directions!

Then, his body glowed with infinite vitality, and the vast current-like cultivation power frantically wrapped around his body. The surrounding plantation and stones all flared up forming a tornado and wrapped him inside. It seemed to have extraordinary momentum.

“Drawing power from the Immortal Area?” Li Ye wondered with his mouth slightly raised.

The Immortal Realm was reliant on the Immortal Area, which was mysterious beyond measure. It formed a world of its own, and with the accumulation of all the five elements it could operate on its own too, so in order to open up the Immortal Area, one must first comprehend the rules of the Great Tao.

Since the realms of the cultivators were different, the size of their Immortal Areas varied accordingly; And because cultivation also varied in direction, their Immortal Areas had different uses as well. One common theme was that all cultivators could draw power from their Immortal Areas.

If there were sufficient Spiritual Qi in their Immortal Areas, cultivators could draw the Spiritual Qi from their Immortal Areas with their will. The healing power of the Spiritual Qi exceeded that of some elixirs, and the key was that it was like a custom-designed elixir for the cultivator.

Seeing the old Taoist draw power from his Immortal Area, Li Ye’s expression did not change. and instead, he sneered. “As long as your Immortal Area does not contain the power of the Great Tao, then the time it takes for you to draw Spiritual Qi is too long.”

With that said, Li Ye attacked once again with his sword. “I forgot to tell you that the number of Immortal Realm cultivators I have killed could not be counted with both hands!”

When you comprehend the Great Tao, you could have the opportunity to open up your Immortal Area and then break into the Immortal Realm. But if you wanted to accumulate the power of the Great Tao in your Immortal Area, so that you could draw that power to kill an enemy, you would need to go to the next step in your cultivation, which meant entering the Tao.

Generally speaking, only true Real Immortal Realm cultivators could achieve this stage.

Nangong Diyi mentioned that he wanted to enter into Tao with just one step and achieve the Immortal Realm. He wanted to bypass the Yang Spiritual Master stage and at the same time, disregard the Immortal Court orthodox, so the desideratum was even higher.

Li Ye knew all of this and he also knew the details involved. He had learned all of this because the Feihong Bodhisattva had told him, not because he was a genius.

Li Ye did not hold anything back with his sword attack. He had used the Dragon Qi to the extreme.

These past days, the Dragon Qi had pretty much fully digested the power gifted by the Tao of Heaven. The power-ball of the Tao of Heaven in his body had disappeared and was fully integrated into the Dragon Qi. Thus after this, the Dragon Qi had advanced to the third step, to harmonize Tao.

When the Dragon Qi initially appeared in Li Ye’s body, it had to first, evolve into form. Then, the initial form was complete; There had been an advancement once before, which was to resolve the content, then there was the content to collaborate with the content of the Way of Emperor, and the power to collaborate with the power of the Way of Emperor; This time it was to harmonize Tao, so that it could integrate with the power of the Great Tao.

Li Ye had not yet achieved the Immortal Realm, nor had he entered the Tao, so he could not accumulate and borrow the power of the Great Tao from his Immortal Area. However, with the advancement of the Dragon Qi, it could help him draw the rules of the Great Tao from a certain area around his body. Although it could not compete with the power of the Great Tao drawn from the Immortal Area, it could still greatly increase the power of his attack.

With Li Ye’s sword attack, the Dragon Qi was manifested in the sword body, turning the sword into a dragon. Within 100 feet of his body, a mysterious force invisible to the naked eye, gathered from all directions as if it was summoned. It then condensed into the sword body full of Dragon Qi.

The Luke Sword suddenly shook, letting out a sword groan. The originally green Sword Qi was implanted with rune-like black threads, and it was suddenly powerful and unpredictable.

The Sword Qi was like a dragon going after the enemy.

The old Taoist, who was still drawing power from his Immortal Area, looked up suddenly and could not help trembling.

From this sword attack, he could sense a heart-shattering power. It made you shudder, like falling into the abyss.

The old Taoist yelled, forgetting about drawing power from his Immortal Area. He then violently waved his horsetail whip and once again formed an Invocation barrier in front of him!

He didn’t even have the courage to attack, and the only thing he could do was defend.

Because only defense could save his life, whereas attacking could end him.

But he couldn’t even save his life.

the Sword Qi cut through his Invocation barrier like cutting through a piece of tofu. It then cut into his body through his forehead.

His body was split open from the middle and a halo of greenish black lines was coming out of it.

His eyes had suddenly lost color and not even a drop of blood was left in his body, which then scattered into the air dust and dissipated like smoke.

His last bit of consciousness was full of fear and doubt, “How could he use the power of the Great Tao without reaching the Immortal Realm?”

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The old Taoist was dead, and the Immortal Court cultivators he brought along flew out from all directions and began attacking Li Ye.

But they couldn’t get close to Li Ye’s body.

For the demon clan cultivators had arrived and began fighting with them.

Meanwhile in the ruins, Liu Zhixing, Zhao Weihuang and others were overturning stones and wood trying to climb out of the ruins while spewing blood.

However, from looking at the two of them, it was clear that they were lucky to have survived and they no longer had an ounce of strength to battle.

That was to be expected, because the strengths of Confucianism and Militarism was not suited for one on one battle which the Taoist sect cultivators were the best at.

Now that the old Taoist had been killed by Li Ye, and that the other Immortal Court cultivators were held up by the demon clan, Liu Zhixing, Zhao Weihuang and others couldn’t even protect their own lives, let alone threaten Li Ye.

Seeing Li Ye turning his focus towards them from midair, Liu Zhixing, Zhao Weihuang, and others were all frightened stiff even though Li Ye’s gaze was not fierce. They felt like a mountain had landed on their shoulders.

The Chengde commissioner, Wang Jingchong was still alive. He crawled out of the ruins with his hair all messed up. He knelt on the ground and vomited a lot of blood. When the house came collapsing down, the old Taoist’s first reaction was to get him out of the house. Although he did not succeed, he was still able to protect Wang Jingchong for a while. By the time the old Taoist turned to protect his fairy child, it was already too late.

Li Ye came before Wang Jingchong, who was covered in dust and busy vomiting blood. Not to mention that half of his body was still under rocks and wood, he couldn’t even climb out fully from the ruins.

Li Ye grabbed Wang Jingchong by the collar and pulled him out. Li Ye then threw him on the ground and leaned down to pat the dust off his body. Li Ye then asked him with a smile, “Didn’t general Wang say a moment ago that I, the lone king, could not fight against your Chengde army with just 10,000 cavalrymen?”

Wang Jingchong’s trembling body was crawling backwards from fright, and he had a terrified expression as he was about to pee his pants. Seeing Li Ye’s inexplicable smile, he just felt that his heart jumped out of his throat, and he even forgot to vomit blood. He stuttered, “Prince An... Your Highness, spare me, spare my life...”

Now that he had fallen into Li Ye’s hands, Wang Jingchong had finally come to his senses. Li Ye, did not bring ten thousand cavalrymen to “attack” Chengde, but to “take over” Chengde