The Name of Eternity.

Chapter 205: Ancestral Divine Weapons, Touching the Limit (Additional chapter for leader 'M Wumian', thanks)

Bang!
In a restaurant somewhere in Longcheng.

A figure suddenly flew out, broke through the railing and fell onto the street.

There was a sword wound on his chest, but what spurted out from the wound was not blood, but a dark demonic aura. After his body fell to the ground, it quickly turned into his original demon form, shaking.

But before his true form was fully revealed, a sword energy came like an autumn wind, brushing across his body. His trembling body suddenly stopped, and then he fell to the ground and died.

Li Hao and Li Xiaoran walked over to the railing.

The dead demons on the street were like a drop of ink falling into a lake, shocking the people around and making them dare not approach.

Li Hao glanced at the mission progress. The exploration mission did not increase, but the completion rate of the Dead River increased slightly by 0.001 points.

Li Hao was a little shocked to see that he only got such little progress in the mission after killing a demon in the Heavenly Realm.

If calculated according to this ratio, wouldn't 1000 demons in the Heavenly Realm only be equal to 1 point of the Dead River completion degree?

Now he has been completing the [Growth] mission for 13 years, and the completion rate of the Dead River has reached 7.2.

"According to the progress of the mission, surviving here is more difficult than hunting monsters."

“Normally, this should be the case. If an outsider came here to pass through the customs, without the blood of the Li family, and was reincarnated into an ordinary family, he might have been assassinated by the demons in the city.”

"Exposing one's talent will easily attract the attention of demons. If one does not expose one's talent, one will not be able to obtain cultivation resources. It's difficult!"

"Besides, there is even a possibility that you will be reborn directly into the demon's neighbor's house, which means you will be on your knees from the start."

"If it wasn't for the Fourth Master, I would have almost been killed at the banquet."

Li Hao's eyes flickered. Although he had not fought much with the monsters so far, he had already felt the difficulty of the Dead River mission.

No wonder the Taiping Dao realm only has a barely chance of passing.

If it weren't for the fact that this dead river was used to detain Li Tianzong, which led to the emergence of this Dragon City, it might have been even more dangerous and difficult to predict.

"Humph, this demon is just a small follower who provides information to the demons outside the city."

Li Xiaoran glanced at the dead demon and snorted coldly.

Li Hao knew that the situation inside the Dead River was different from that outside. There were more and stronger monsters, which resulted in only a few places in the city being considered safe.

Outside, in any large city where a general’s palace is located, people basically live and work in peace and contentment, and it is extremely stable. An incident of a demon attack is unlikely to occur for decades.

Organized demons dare not approach, and unorganized demons are also unable to approach. They can only rely on those who are intimidated by the demons or those who surrender to the demons to lurk in the city and spy on the intelligence of the God General's Mansion, but they are also extremely cautious.

However, the Dragon City here is home to many demon strongholds.

This is the third place they have destroyed.

I've only been out for half an hour.

Li Hao jumped off the railing, raised his hand and pressed it on the body of the demon. The energy in his palm started to work, absorbing a tiny amount of life essence from its flesh and blood.

This bit of life essence condensed into his own flesh and blood as the technique circulated, giving his body a slight boost.

This technique was derived by Li Hao by combining many body-refining techniques, and it is called "Ten Thousand Bloods True Demonic Art".

The grade is beyond the best, it is deduced from the seventh stage of the physical body path, and contains extraordinary power.

The name alone is tainted with demonic energy, and it incorporates a lot of demonic skills, as well as some forbidden body-training techniques, such as the Infant-Eating Art, Fetal Birth Fist, etc., which were ultimately integrated and deduced.

Forge itself by sucking the essence of life.

One success means thousands of corpses are buried!
Li Xiaoran saw Li Hao practicing martial arts, his eyes moved slightly, and he recognized that it was some extremely evil martial arts, but he did not stop it. As long as he could strengthen himself in this river of death, it would not be a problem.

Moreover, having witnessed many things such as the intrigues in the imperial court, the chivalrous men in the martial arts world, and the feuds between demons and monsters, he knew that the technique was secondary, and the person who mastered the technique was the key.

Although some evil and poisonous skills can confuse people's minds and lead them into dark and bloodthirsty emotions, the skill that Li Hao practiced seems to be just a little bit fierce and brutal, and there is no effect on Li Hao's character for the time being.

Moreover, when entering the Grandmaster realm, martial arts is the core, and techniques are just skills with limited impact on oneself.

The two then headed to the next location.

Inside the city, two figures were flying around everywhere, including a teahouse, a stage, a remote courtyard of a wealthy businessman, and an ordinary farmer's home.

Wherever they go, they leave behind the corpse of a demon.

Among these demons that were killed, the lowest cultivation level among them was only at the Fifteen Mile Realm!
Li Hao was in a heavy mood, and he felt more and more that the upcoming battle in Dragon City would be extremely tragic and difficult!

And this time, there is also the Candle Fire God and Lu Yuan.

Thinking of them, murderous intent flashed in Li Hao's eyes. If he could use this Dead River to kill the two big demon kings, it would naturally be the best thing to do.

Inside the city, in a mansion.

A rich man was sipping tea listlessly when a servant suddenly came over and reported:
"Master, the twenty-seventh young mistress has given birth again."

"Having another baby?"

The eyes of the rich master with a swollen chest and a big belly lit up slightly.

Beside him, the butler who was standing with his hands down had a gleam in his eyes, and seemed to swallow his saliva secretly, and said:
"Congratulations, Master. You can have an appetite again."

"Haha, hurry up and bring the child here."

"The midwife has brought her over."

The servant said respectfully, with a gleam in his eyes.

Soon, a midwife came in quickly, holding a baby in her arms, and said respectfully, "Sir, it's a cute baby."

"I smell it. I already smell it."

The rich master's eyes sparkled: "It smells so good, come on, give it to me."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and exerted force, and the swaddling clothes and the baby flew towards him.

The child in the cradle was a newborn baby, but there were fine scales on his cheeks and arms, and a twisted snake-like tail covered with mucus that had not yet fallen off.

Such a freak-like child made the rich master's eyes sparkle. He stroked the child with his hands and said infatuatedly, "How cute."

As he spoke, he rubbed his forehead against hers, as if being affectionate with a child.

But the baby seemed to be aware of something. His eyes, which had just opened, were completely black, with no whites. He pulled at the swaddling clothes with his hands, trying to turn over, crawl out, and escape outside.

At this moment, the rich master smiled and suddenly opened his mouth.

It turned out to be a ferocious bloody mouth full of sharp teeth.

With a whoosh, he sucked the baby into his mouth and began chewing it.

"It's delicious."

"Are there any demons that specialize in raising human babies to eat?"

"Yes, and the demon group is very large. They have to learn to escape from the nest as soon as they are born, otherwise they will be eaten by the mother."

Two voices followed, and then the flashes of swords and the shadows of sabers shot over at the same time.

The rich old man who was chewing was startled and was hit by the knife light, but he dodged the sword shadow.

With a "puff", the knife tore a large piece of armor-like scales on his chest.

Its body became ferocious, its head bulged out, its eyes were fierce, "Who is it?!"

Li Hao and Li Xiaoran had no intention of wasting time talking to the demon. They attacked directly and continuously. The scattered aftermath of the attacks alone was enough to kill the servant and the midwife next to them.

And the butler unexpectedly turned into a demon, with the aura of the Third Immortal Realm.

Seeing this, Li Hao didn't hesitate and slashed with his sword.

His skill points were still sufficient, and his swordsmanship had been upgraded to level 6. At this moment, the sword light slashed down like starlight and lightning, reaching the target in an instant.

Li Xiaoran's Tianya Xiaoyao Knife was derived from the "Sea Without Bounds" sword technique, and Li Hao's move was the same, cutting the distance in an instant, almost certain to hit. The bodies of the two demons flew backwards, the rich master was still breathing, but the housekeeper was dead, his body was split by Li Hao's sword light, and he could not stop it at all.

Li Hao had already seen that Li Xiaoran had also comprehended the "Boundless Sea" sword technique, and stripped out the sword intent within it and integrated it into his own sword technique. In other words, in addition to his unique sword technique, this Fourth Master also had a very high talent in kendo.

"The demon king has even sneaked in. This is incredible."

As Li Hao spoke, he quickly joined the battlefield and attacked together with Li Xiaoran.

"You bastard from the Li family, I didn't collude with the demons outside the city. I just want to settle down here. Why are you ruining my good deeds!"

The rich master roared, revealing his true identity.

But he was just expressing his state of mind. Li Hao and Li Xiaoran didn't waste any words. They launched a violent attack. The demon's skin and scales suddenly cracked and he soon fell in a pool of blood.

"The Li family... damn it..."

The demon king's breath disappeared.

Li Hao squatted down and stabbed his palm directly into his flesh and blood. While stirring inside, he was also practicing the Ten Thousand Bloods True Demonic Art to absorb the essence of his flesh and blood.

As expected of a demon king, the essence of blood and flesh in his body is extremely rich, comparable to a panacea.

Li Hao immediately transformed this power and condensed his indestructible body, making his body more refined.

His body has been refined with the Supreme Body and the True Dragon Body, which is comparable to the six-cast divine weapon and is very close to the physical body outside.

At this moment, he absorbed the essence and blood of the demon king, and his flesh and blood condensed, almost approaching the strength of the seven-cast divine weapon.

"Two or three more demon kings should be enough."

Li Hao said in his heart.

It was he who strangled the last spirit of the demon king. Li Hao looked at the completion degree of the Dead River and found that it had only increased by 0.1!

However, when he just killed the butler demon in the third immortal realm, his completion degree only increased by 0.01!

Li Hao was a little shocked. Is this a joke?

In other words, if you want to kill only the demon kings, you have to kill 1000 of them before you can pass this river of death!

Where can I find 1000 demon kings to kill?

1000? What a concept! These are the beings at the Four-Standing Realm. There are only a few of them in the entire Divine Generals’ Mansion. Even the Four-Standing Realm beings in the entire Dayu Divine Dynasty combined are far less than this many!
Not to mention killing them all!

"Fourth Uncle, how many days at most did you guard Longcheng?" Li Hao couldn't help but look at Li Xiaoran beside him.

“Have you seen the progress?”

Seeing Li Hao's shocked look, Li Xiaoran sighed and said, "This is the difficulty of the Netherworld-level Dead River. Even with the Dao Heart Realm inside, one can only barely protect oneself, and it is not absolute. If you are unlucky, you may die soon."

"The highest level of accomplishment I've ever achieved was just guarding Dragon City for four days!"

Li Xiaoran sighed: "The demons outside Dragon City are no longer the same demons as before. Among these demons, there are all kinds of demons that have never appeared in the Great Yu Dynasty. They are all demons that were swept into the Dead River and imprisoned in it!"

"There are countless demon kings. In just four days, I have encountered hundreds of them."

At this point, his face became a little heavy, and he said, "But fortunately, these demon kings are only at the Dao Heart Realm, so they are not that difficult to deal with. It's just that they become stronger as time goes by. The demon kings at the Absolute Learning Realm are the most terrifying."

The four steps of the four realms are extremely different from each other.

The Dao Heart Realm is the weakest, and the Juexue Realm can easily kill the Dao Heart Realm, even with just one full-strength move!
Those at the ultimate martial arts realm have basically mastered the ultimate martial arts, and their strongest killing moves are extremely terrifying, allowing them to fight to the death with their enemies.

This is also the reason why no one wants to provoke it easily.

To be precise, even the Dao Heart Realm is extremely terrifying. After all, the attack will definitely hit this point, which is enough to make the Three Immortal Realms feel terrified.

As for the ultimate learning realm, one has the qualifications to attack a powerful force alone and challenge it in a bloody battle.

Not to mention the Taiping Dao realm, the Dao domain is expanded and invincible!
"Only four days, hundreds of demon kings..."

Li Hao's eyes were heavy. There were a lot of demon souls imprisoned in the River of Death. This kind of Netherworld-level River of Death existed for an extremely long time. No one knew how many residual souls of demon kings were involved.

If we only reach the strength outside, it is probably far from enough, we need to become even stronger!
Li Hao took a deep breath and didn't ask any more questions. He and Li Xiaoran dealt with the corpse of the demon king, cleaned up the rest of the little demons in the house, and then turned and left.

In the following days, in addition to practicing and accumulating skill points, Li Hao followed Li Xiaoran to clear out demons in the city every day.

Upon learning that Li Hao was able to kill the Demon King at the age of thirteen, Li Tianzong was so shocked that he was speechless.

Although the other nine sons of the Li family are all extremely outstanding, they all seem to be overshadowed by Li Hao's brilliance here.

Even Li Junye was affected. He used to be the most dazzling person, but now he is just a firefly beside Li Hao, and is ignored.

But Li Junye practiced diligently and made rapid progress. Although he could not catch up with Li Hao, he had already entered the realm of heaven and man at the age of fifteen, which was earlier than the record of others who entered the realm of heaven and man at the age of seventeen.

Li Hao guessed that this might be due to the unreasonableness in many places in the Dead River, coupled with the appearance of himself and Li Xiaoran, which caused a butterfly effect.

As time passed, Li Hao hunted more and more demons, and his name frightened the demons in the city. Every day when he stepped out of the General's Mansion, a demon would die in the city, accompanied by bloody storms.

With the continuous hunting of demons and the many precious medicines prepared by Li Tianzong for Li Hao, Li Hao's practice progressed at a rapid pace.

Taking too much precious medicine will make one's realm superficial and the foundation unstable, but this is only for ordinary people. Li Hao possesses many skills, all of which are at the true state or even extraordinary level. With a little practice, he can completely digest the precious medicine.

His body was like a bottomless pit. No matter how much energy there was, it could be swallowed up. The energy would be absorbed by the skills and would temper every part of his body.

Li Hao's physical strength continued to rise and in the blink of an eye he reached the level of the Eight-cast Divine Weapon.

Li Tianzong also opened the Li family's core secret library to Li Hao, which contained the Li family's treasured magical medicines, secret treasures, skills, etc.

Li Hao was not polite, nor did he plan to keep any ideas for the future. After all, there was no future in this dead river. Everything was an illusion. Only the obsession of Li Tianzong in front of him was real.

Therefore, he absorbed and swallowed all of these magical medicines, and took out the ancestral magical weapons inside. The highest row inside was the weapons of the first ten ancestors, and the third one among them was a sword.

The first ancestor Li Tianyuan used a gun, and the third ancestor was his grandson, who used a sword.

That sword was forged nine times, approaching the level of the Sacred Heart Heavenly Treasure.

Li Xiaoran told Li Hao that it was a pity that the weapon of the first ancestor was broken and damaged. That was the Sacred Heart Heavenly Treasure. Since the Taoist Tianbao passed away thousands of years ago in the Dayu Dynasty, no one has been able to repair the Sacred Heart Heavenly Treasure.

The word "Tianbao" in Shengxin Tianbao is derived from the Taoist name of the Taoist who cast the weapon.

His disciples and grandchildren were not talented enough and no one could inherit his mantle. The loss of heritage was also a regret for the Dayu Divine Dynasty.

Today, the owner of the Wanqi Building is the great-great-grandson of Tianbao Taoist for many generations. He has the ability to forge the Sacred Heart Tianbao, but the success rate is not high.

Li Hao took the sword and learned that its name was 'Qingshuang', saying it was a nice name.

He then put on the sword and took this dusty ancestral magic weapon out of the treasure house.

Li Tianzong didn't say anything about this. After all, Li Hao was now the true dragon of the Li family and was qualified to inherit his ancestor's magical weapon.

If it were other direct descendants, they would need to consider it. After all, the ancestor's magic weapon is not only a powerful weapon, but also a symbol of status.

If every direct descendant could choose at will, many would have been lost long ago.

After equipping himself with weapons, Li Hao once again devoted himself to training and slaying demons.

The demons in the city were being cleared out continuously, and Li Hao's body became stronger day by day with the help of absorbing the demons' blood essence and the magical medicine in the secret library.

He tried to comprehend the heart of Tao, but in the process, his mind was distracted and time was quietly speeding up.

After listening to Li Xiaoran's story, Li Hao realized that this was a normal phenomenon. The process of Li Xiaoran entering the state of Tao heart and comprehending the Tao heart quietly accelerated by seven or eight years.

Li Hao just immersed himself in the experience a little bit, and time accelerated until he was seventeen years old.

The battle of Longcheng is approaching.

"My body seems to have reached the limit of the Three Immortal Realms..."

Li Hao felt himself, his flesh and blood were condensed, and the power in his body was like a viscous sea, with a feeling of endlessness.

(End of this chapter)