From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 636 Breaking the pot
Flying at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, Li Yang stared at the black dot in his line of sight, his eyes utterly calm, yet faintly gleaming with a cold light.

He was weighing the cost of killing this earth immortal silently.

"It's practically impossible to kill a seasoned Earth Immortal instantly; the best we can do is try to finish the battle as quickly as possible."

"The movement of the Law of Heaven and Earth is too great and will attract the attention of the Nine Sects... Or we can use the 'Clarity Primordial Spirit' to have a greater chance of success, but this will expose the Crimson Serpent Devouring Seal that is sealed by the Primordial Spirit, and it may attract even stronger experts to the Purgatory Valley."

Lanling Village was massacred by the Fire Crow Daoist of Purgatory Valley, which shows that Purgatory Valley has taken notice of Dali. Li Yang is worried that this exposure will attract the Celestial Giants of Purgatory Valley.

The inability to use the Law of Heaven and Earth and the Clarity of the Primordial Spirit are equivalent to discarding two major trump cards, which is extremely disadvantageous for Li Yang.

"With my current cultivation level, I can only summon the Southern Sea Sword and combine it with my sword, while simultaneously adding the Triple Thunder Magic True Body, in order to have any chance of killing this Grand Master of the Great Li Kingdom without being detected."

The blue Taoist robe on his body fluttered in the strong wind. Li Yang made a decision, and the "Extreme Dao Treasure Mirror" in his body began to operate silently. He had already connected with the Nanming Sword in the ancestral aperture between his eyebrows.

Zhang Hengming, who was in front, seemed oblivious to Li Yang's murderous intent behind him. His obese body kept emitting sonic booms, rising to even higher places.

Finally, they arrived at a place where the outline of the entire territory of the Great Li Dynasty could be seen below, and Zhang Hengming finally stopped.

No one could have imagined that this fat man with a face full of scars would be so fast. He turned around, his radish-like fingers counting, and after six seconds, he finally saw Li Yang's outline, with a half-smile.

"What superb flying skills! No wonder Luo Wuji died at your hands. Ordinary immortals would probably not even be able to touch the hem of your clothes in a fight with you."

Li Yang stopped 500 meters in front of Zhang Hengming, his forehead slightly sweaty, his eyes cold, and he didn't care about Zhang Hengming's praise.

He was obviously doing this on purpose to show Zhang Hengming. With his speed, even if he hadn't reshaped the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit yet, only a top-tier Extreme Earth Immortal could catch up with him after combining Man and Sword as One and Earthly Fiend Divine Power.

Li Yang is feigning weakness, displaying the strength of a normal immortal, and then looking for an opportunity to strike a fatal blow.

Zhang Hengming didn't find anything unusual. In his view, the strength Li Yang was displaying at this moment was normal; a slightly stronger Human Immortal cultivator...

With this, Zhang Hengming felt much more at ease and had a greater confidence in his plan.

"Bai Moro, I thought you would lose your temper halfway through and try to kill me to silence me."

Zhang Hengming sneered, clearly noticing the murderous intent emanating from Li Yang during the flight.

"If I'm confident, I will naturally take action."

Li Yang spoke up, a hint of resentment flashing in his eyes.

"You're not that confident." Zhang Hengming's eyes narrowed into slits as he looked at Li Yang with a half-smile, as if everything was under his control.

"Bai Moluo, the Crown Prince of Dali, is a mortal with a destiny. Ten years ago, he was kidnapped by the Immortal Lord Yan Jin of Purgatory Valley and taken to the Ancestral Star."

"It seems those guys from the Nine Sects didn't get any advantage on the ancestral star. So many Immortal Lords perished, but a little ant came back alive."

Zhang Hengming spoke quietly, observing Li Yang's expression. At this moment, Bai Moluo's appearance meant many things, each of which could cause a major upheaval.

One of the simplest, and most universally acknowledged gateways between the two realms—the teleportation platform—has been firmly guarded by the Nine Sects for hundreds of years. It's impossible for Bai Moro to escape from under their noses.
This can only mean one thing: Bai Moro has mastered another secret passage, one that is outside the control of the Nine Sects and leads to the Ancestral Star.

Based on this news alone, Zhang Hengming believed that those shameless old guys from the Nine Sects would spare no effort to hunt down Bai Moluo and attempt to search his soul and spirit.

The reasons why killing Luo Wuji and Bai Moluo allowed them to cultivate into immortals within ten years are no longer important.

Zhang Hengming's beady eyes scrutinized Li Yang, knowing that he had Li Yang's Achilles' heel.

"Tell me, if I were to turn around and fly to any of the Nine Sects right now, what tragic fate awaits you and your Great Li?"

"If you, Immortal Lord, really wanted to betray me, you wouldn't have returned to Jianruo City and gone to all this trouble to tell me these things..." Li Yang's body trembled, as if he was pretending to be strong under extreme fear, and his voice was also trembling.

"After you captured those soldiers in the Northern Frontier, you could have taken them directly to the Nine Sects, but you didn't. Instead, you came to me at this altitude of 10,000 meters."

Li Yang analyzed the situation with a trembling voice, but his body slowly began to move closer to Zhang Hengming.

This is tens of thousands of meters in the air. There isn't a single cloud in the entire space except for the two of them. Without any reference points, such a subtle movement is very difficult to detect.

He needed to get close enough for the other person to strike him with a single, coordinated attack.

"Hahahaha, as expected of the Crown Prince of Dali, I really don't want to kill you right now."

To Li Yang's surprise, Zhang Hengming changed the subject, shook his head, and looked westward with disdain, saying, "I have no interest in informing those guys from the Nine Sects. Even if I offer you up, those high and mighty guys won't reward me in any way."

“I know those guys too well. Handing you over won’t do me any good. In fact, it might just get me into trouble in order to silence you.”

Zhang Hengming sneered. It wasn't unheard of. Once, a top-tier rogue cultivator, nearing the Celestial Immortal realm, unexpectedly obtained a remarkable cultivation technique. After presenting it to the Xuanhuang Palace, he only received a few top-grade spirit stones in return.
After that, the entire Realm of Ultimate Truth never heard of this rogue cultivator again.

"Then what do you mean, Immortal Lord?"

“I don’t want to hand you over to the Nine Sects, but that doesn’t mean I can’t, Bai Moro. If you want to live, you have to help me accomplish some things.”

Zhang Hengming's beady eyes gleamed as he began to state his purpose bluntly.

Li Yang remained silent, seemingly tacitly agreeing to Zhang Hengming's conditions, but at this moment the distance between the two had decreased from 500 meters to 400 meters.

Three hundred and fifty meters—this is the distance at which the combined power of man and sword, along with the three lightning techniques, can unleash the strongest attack.

"There are several things sealed beneath the Dali Imperial Palace in Jianruo City. I need you to go down and retrieve them for me. If you can retrieve them, I will leave Dali immediately and never come back. I will also keep your secret to myself forever."

Li Yang frowned slightly, and his slowly approaching body stopped.

What lies beneath the Great Li Imperial Palace?

Li Yang asked aloud, his emotions fluctuating.

When he first entered the Dali Royal Palace, the "Ultimate Path Treasure Mirror" and the three Five Thunder Divine Qi within his body simultaneously showed unusual activity. Afterwards, he entered the Dali Royal Palace many times, but gained nothing and found nothing, which made him doubt that the unusual activity that day was just his imagination.

But according to Zhang Hengming's understanding, there was indeed something extraordinary down there.

"You don't need to know, and you don't have the right to refuse."

Zhang Hengming's expression was indifferent, and his obese body seemed as heavy as a mountain at this moment.

"You've been entrenched in Dali for ten years, with countless opportunities to obtain the treasure. Why would you ask me to do it?" Li Yang stepped forward and questioned. "I've said it before, you don't need to know, and you have no right to ask me. You can refuse, and then be destroyed along with Dali under your rule by the Nine Sects, and refined into a Xuan puppet."

"Think it over carefully. I'll be waiting for you at the palace in a quarter of an hour."

"Of course, you can hide, but there are billions of people in Dali below, as well as your sister and the emperor of Dali. They have nowhere to hide."

Zhang Hengming sneered, and before Li Yang could respond, his body plummeted from the sky like an arrow released from a bow.

After Zhang Hengming left, Li Yang stood alone high in the sky, hands behind his back.

In fact, Zhang Hengming miscalculated one thing: he was not Bai Moluo, so the premise that Zhang Hengming believed he could threaten him with the Dali Dynasty was nonexistent.

In other words, I can leave now, hide in a remote place, change my appearance, and lie low to develop again.

But should I really run away?

Li Yang fell into deep thought; he had rarely been caught in such a dilemma since he began cultivating Taoism.

With only about sixteen months left before the Nine Sects' second allied invasion of Blue Star, and having left Dali and cut off from cultivation resources, it would be impossible to rebuild the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit in sixteen months by relying solely on one's own arduous cultivation.

As for what lay beneath the palace, Li Yang didn't know what it was, but something that could simultaneously cause both the *Supreme Dao Treasure Mirror* and the *Five Thunder Divine Qi* to react, and that had kept a terrestrial immortal in hiding for ten years, was certainly no ordinary item.
That item must be of great importance, which is why Zhang Hengming was so cautious in bringing him to this altitude of 10,000 meters to discuss it, fearing that the news might leak out.

It might be a treasure that could greatly shorten one's cultivation time, or it might be a terrible trap that makes a terrestrial immortal hesitate to act for ten years.

But isn't this kind of adventure exactly what Earth needs now, and who I am now?

“Zhang Hengming is right. From the very beginning, I had no choice.”

Composing himself, Li Yang gave a bitter smile as he plummeted from a height of ten thousand meters.

The conversation with Zhang Hengming lasted only a few minutes. When they came down to the ground, Bai Yingluo was nowhere to be seen in the dilapidated courtyard. Li Qing was tidying up the broken stones and withered grass in the courtyard, with her skirt rolled up.

"Immortal, you're back!"

Li Qing's eyes lit up, and he immediately went to greet them with a big, painted face.

Li Yang glanced around at the place where he had lived in seclusion for four months, his eyes unwavering, before finally fixing his gaze on Li Qing's fair and hopeful face.

"The cultivation method I gave you before was somewhat of a waste of your talent. I will pass on another profound method to you on behalf of an old friend. If you practice diligently, you may become an Earth Immortal, which will be enough to avenge the deep hatred of Lanling Village."

Before Li Qing could react, Li Yang pointed a finger at her brow, and a piece of the Blue Star Qingcheng Mountain's inner alchemy was immediately injected into Li Qing's brow.

"Leave Jianruo City immediately, the farther the better, then find a place to hide and never show your face."

After doing all this, Li Yang immediately flew up and headed towards the royal city.

Li Qing swayed unsteadily, his mind reeling from the sudden surge of scriptures, but he still stumbled and ran towards Li Yang, shouting towards the sky as he went.

"God, will I ever see you again?"

"We'll talk about the future later. As long as your cultivation is sufficient, you will see me again."

Li Yang didn't linger, leaving behind a message from afar before his figure was already a kilometer away.

She couldn't catch up anymore. Li Qing watched Li Yang's figure drift away into the distance, her eyes reddening. She squatted down and shed tears once again.

What she didn't notice was that, for the first time, countless silver rays of light surged from her body without her entering a meditative state, like starlight, like a beast unleashing its gates, almost covering her entire skin...

The Imperial City, the Great Li Imperial Palace, the main hall.

When Li Yang arrived, the entire Dali Imperial Palace was a scene of utter devastation, with large numbers of imperial guards and soldiers lying on the ground like puddles of mud.

Walking into the main hall, past the densely packed kneeling ministers, the Emperor of Dali was slumped on the steps, trembling. Beside him stood Bai Yingluo, her eyes bloodshot and her limbs bound.

"You really came, White Moro."

In the very center of the main hall, on the dragon throne symbolizing the supreme ruler, sat a fat Taoist priest cross-legged, embracing two extremely beautiful women, who were unknown which of the emperor's concubines.

"Look how trustworthy I am. I promised you that even though your father and Bai Yingluo have been provoking me, I still haven't harmed them."

Zhang Hengming squinted and smiled at Li Yang below the steps, a hint of mockery on his lips.

The Emperor of Dali, kneeling below, lowered his head even further, and Bai Yingluo below seemed to have her mouth sealed as well, only able to shed two lines of clear tears.

"I'm here. Release the Emperor and the Princess. It's no use involving them in our affairs."

Li Yang spoke, and with a wave of his hand, the curses on all the princes, ministers, emperors, and princesses were lifted.

"You all leave. What follows is a matter between me and the Grand Preceptor of Dali."

The hall immediately erupted in clanging and clattering. A righteous minister rose to his feet, unable to bear such a humiliating disgrace, but was quickly covered in the mouth and nose by those around him and carried out.

Bai Yingluo freed herself from the ropes binding her and helped the pale-faced Emperor of Dali to his feet. Then, she looked at Li Yang with a worried expression.

"It's alright. I've already spoken with the Grand Preceptor. Dali will be fine. He's not one to break his word."

Bai Yingluo wiped away her tears, torn between her feelings, and could only nod at Li Yang.
"Brother, be careful in everything you do."

After saying that, Bai Yinglu helped the Emperor of Dali out of the main hall.

Zhang Hengming sat upright on the dragon throne, watching as the princes, ministers, emperor, and princess left the main hall. His eyes narrowed, but he did not stop them.

He knew that as long as the Great Li existed, these mortals would not be able to escape.

Once everyone had left the main hall, he exerted a little force with both hands, and the two miserable concubines screamed in terror as their supple waists snapped in two, and they were thrown out like trash.

"The thing I asked you to get is right here in the main hall. It's a scripture, which may be written in a book, or it may be engraved on a stone wall or somewhere else. I want you to find it and bring it to me."

(End of this chapter)