How did a bastard like him become an immortal?

In an instant, spiritual energy swirled and sword light shot out in all directions. Li Tianquan couldn't even get within three steps of Li Muyun before countless blood swords shot out from Li Tianquan's body!

Li Tianquan's face turned deathly pale instantly, his eyes filled with disbelief. His chest heaved violently, and the next second, a mouthful of blood gushed out.

The entire training ground was completely silent. Someone gasped first, and then the sound of people gasping for breath echoed throughout the arena like a series of exhaust fans.

Is this Li Muyun's strength?!

It took Yuan Wuji a long time to calm his excited emotions. That last move was truly dazzling, like a sword immortal. Could this really be a celestial technique that a mere Foundation Establishment Level 4 kid could use?

"Quickly treat Young Master Tianquan's injuries. Young Master Yun has won this challenge!"

Li Muyun knelt on one knee, panting heavily. His dantian was empty, almost completely depleted of his true energy. This move was something he had figured out during his arduous training, and it consumed a great deal of energy. Moreover, it wasn't guaranteed to be successful. Li Muyun grinned, thinking he was lucky.

But at that moment, a surge of true essence suddenly emerged from his nearly dried-up dantian, and Li Muyun's aura actually rose again!

Li Muyun was pleasantly surprised by everything. He had reached the bottleneck of the fourth level of Foundation Establishment after his hard training, but he unexpectedly broke through through a hard battle with Li Tianquan.

Li Muyun immediately sat cross-legged to stabilize his cultivation level.

The onlookers, however, stared at Li Muyun as if he were a monster. The fourth level of Foundation Establishment was already astonishing enough, but he had broken through again! How were the others supposed to compete?

"Damn it, his cultivation level has improved like a freak, and his combat power is so strong, is he even human?" Someone said this, which made the group of young people participating in the coming-of-age ceremony nod repeatedly. They smiled bitterly, with a hint of despair in their eyes. The former good-for-nothing has now far surpassed them.

Just as Li Muyun was meditating cross-legged, Liu Ruyue arrived at the martial arts arena without anyone noticing. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she carried a black-patterned dagger in her right hand. She walked silently toward Li Muyun, cursing with venomous hatred in her eyes: "You bastard, how dare you injure my two sons like that! I'll make sure you die a horrible death!"

The black-patterned dagger emitted a faint glow. It was made from the fangs of a demonic serpent, and was exceptionally sharp and extremely poisonous!

While everyone was still in shock, the dark dagger plunged towards Li Muyun's back!

Li Rentu, the chairman in the stands, frowned, a moment of hesitation flashing in his eyes before disappearing.

Shi Miaochan's eyes widened in alarm as she cried out, "Li Muyun, watch out behind you!"

With a flash of golden light, Li Muyun's Golden Light Spell lit up, but the black-patterned dagger pierced through the Golden Light Spell as easily as cutting tofu, and continued to stab towards Li Muyun's back.

In an instant, cold sweat soaked through Li Muyun's clothes. He rolled forward in a disheveled state, a flash of anger crossing his handsome face. He then lashed out with a bolt of lightning.

Liu Ruyue gasped and stumbled backward, falling to the ground. The next moment, a figure in a black python robe appeared before her. The blue-purple lightning was crushed into dust by his terrifying aura as if it were child's play. The horrifying pressure made Li Muyun stagger backward, his chest feeling heavy.

Li Muyun groaned, forcibly suppressing the chaotic true energy within his body. He raised his head and looked at the man, whose cold eyes stared at him. His head suddenly felt like it was about to explode, as if a towering mountain was pressing down on him, with corpses and blood everywhere, and trees of bones and flesh covering the mountain!

"puff!"

Li Muyun coughed up a mouthful of blood, his body swaying precariously.

Li Rentu looked at Li Muyun expressionlessly and said coldly, "That's too much."

The white-clad boy's clothes were stained with blood, but a bitter and forced smile slowly rose from the corners of his mouth. "Father, do you think I went too far?"

Hearing Li Muyun call him father, his face softened for a moment, but looking at the boy in front of him who resembled that woman, his heart turned cold again. The Tang Dynasty was of utmost importance, and he would never allow such a thing to happen again.

Li Rentu remained expressionless as he said, "First you injured Tianci, then Tianquan, and now you even want to lay a hand on your elders?"

"Haha! Cough cough..."

Li Muyun burst into laughter, seemingly unconcerned even as he coughed up blood. His dark eyes stared stubbornly at Li Rentu as he said, word by word, "Wasn't it excessive for Li Tianci to destroy my mother's memorial tablet and severely injure me? Wasn't it excessive for Li Tianquan, with his sixth-level Earth Profound Martial Master cultivation, to try and cripple me? Wasn't it excessive for Liu Ruyue to try and kill me while I was recuperating?"

Taking a difficult step forward, Li Muyun raised his small face and continued, "Father, when I was breaking through, you used the killing intent of a Martial Saint to suppress me, almost causing me to suffer a qi deviation. Isn't that... a bit too much?"

Li Rentu met his gaze coldly, as if the boy before him was not his son at all. A murderous glint flashed in his eyes as he said in a deep voice, "Are you questioning me?"

Li Muyun remained unmoved. "Is this the answer from the Heavenly Slaughter Marquis?"

"You mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, with only a little achievement, dare to question Lord Tiantu? You truly have a rebellious streak!" Li Rentu flicked his sleeve, unleashing a torrent of murderous intent as vast as mountains of corpses and seas of blood. "If you were to gain power in the future, wouldn't you become a threat to my Great Tang Dynasty? Today, I will uphold justice and eliminate your kinship to prevent you from becoming a scourge to the Great Tang!"

A tear slid down the corner of her eye and dripped into the corner of her mouth, filling her mouth with bitterness.

What grand and righteous words! They spoke as if he were some heinous demon. What had Mother done to make them so fearful? Now even her bloodline was considered rebellious. Or had they done something shameful that they feared being exposed?

But no matter what, Li Muyun and Tiantu Hou are father and son. Doesn't Tiantu Hou even have him in his heart as his son...?

"Hahaha!" Li Muyun laughed loudly, "I really am a bastard! I deserve to be humiliated by Li Tianci, I deserve to be trampled underfoot by Li Tianquan, and I deserve to be stabbed to death by Liu Ruyue! Right, Marquis Tiantu?"

The young man, his clothes covered in blood, looked so small standing before the Heavenly Slaughter Marquis, yet his laughter was so jarring.

The King of Qin's face was grave, as if deep in thought, while Shi Miaochan's face was already streaked with tears. How disappointed must he have been to utter such words? How desperate must he have been to show such a smile?

Li Muyun picked up the poisoned dagger from the ground, gave a bitter laugh, and said, "You don't need to lift a finger, lest the world say you are heartless and ungrateful. You are my father, and today we are severing all ties and have nothing to do with each other anymore."

Li Rentu frowned, "Li Muyun, you..."

"Puch!"

A dagger gleaming with an eerie, demonic light pierced Li Muyun's chest...