Xia Li watched as the cultivators and demons of Sunscorch Valley departed.All of them had now beco sparks lit by Xia Li.How could young people like them willingly allow themselves to be suppressed for life by old and decaying things?Even those shallow-minded types who had once thought only of competing in strength and swaggering over others were now beginning to grasp sothing.After all, Xia Li's actions were genuinely thought-provoking."So this is how you're planning to break the deadlock?"Qiu Fu, too, was reflecting on the Dao Xia Li had transmitted.As a White Tiger descendant, she counted as one of those clans that possessed a Divine Path bloodline inheritance, so she could tell that Guidance Rotation was of the Divine Path, and yet not truly the sa Divine Path."What's wrong with that?"Xia Li turned and looked at Qiu Fu.He could tell she had sothing to say."How could there be anything wrong with it? The Dao you've taught is practically another way of cultivating the Divine Path. It breaks completely free of all the constraints of the old Divine Path.""If demons want to cultivate the Divine Path, they need the corresponding bloodline. If humans want to cultivate it, a senior must exhaust part of their own spirit to condense a Divine Path Seed for the junior. Add to that the rarity of Divine Path inheritances themselves, and those two reasons together are why the Divine Path could never flourish.""Without the support of the Divine Path, Soul Transformation has a hard ti breaking into Void Refining. That single barrier ans that true great powers rarely arise from people of humble backgrounds. And if they wish to go further, they can only offer loyalty and place themselves under others."Qiu Fu laid out what was most extraordinary about Xia Li's thod.This was a Divine Path inheritance that truly carried no such restrictions, one that could be spread on a broad scale.It could even be said that this was a new path that inherited the na of the Divine Path while surpassing it.It was better than what ca before, not worse.This was the Divine Path of a new era.It was absolutely not that old Divine Path weighed down by endless restrictions."The old Divine Path? That's sothing from tens of thousands of years ago. Heaven and earth change, humans change, demons change, all things change. Living beings should change too.""The age has changed..."Xia Li felt a realization stir in his own heart as well.Earth had been forced to carve out an entirely new road precisely because it lacked inheritance.With the aid of the Heavenly Dao Computer, the new road it had opened up might not yet be as broad as the ancient ones.But its foundations...were forged from refined steel.How could decayed wood and weathered stone, worn away by endless ages, compare?That was true of the Divine Path.And it was true of the Mystic Path as well.Once all the humans and demons within Sunscorch Valley had gone, so chose to leave outright while others hid farther away to observe, wanting to witness Xia Li's end.Dark clouds were gathering faintly in the north and south above Sunscorch Valley.Lightning flashed through the sky.A fierce wind rose from nowhere, sweeping up the still-burning embers on the ground and hurling them back toward heaven.The entire sky looked as though it had caught fire.But the sight made the faces of those onlookers change dramatically.Sunscorch Valley had been peaceful for nearly a hundred years.And now a fla storm was about to erupt again.This strange phenonon was the warning sign.When the storm ca, world-sweeping fire would burst from Sunscorch Valley, spread in all directions, and burn everything nearby to ash.Yet there was sothing strange about it too.Aside from the scorched charcoal forest nearest the valley, the land around Sunscorch Valley was overflowing with spiritual vitality, with spirit herbs and precious dicines growing in dense clusters.As it happened, the Vermilion Bird, which cultivated ten thousand fruits, understood the reason for this best.By burning away the old towering trees, the land was fed with the spiritual ash of vegetation and beca fertile again, allowing the young shoots that followed to bask in the light of the great sun.Sunscorch Valley simply happened to be a place where this process kept repeating itself, even now.But when Xia Li saw all this, he could only feel that his luck was truly terrible.He imdiately took Qiu Fu down into the valley floor and began searching, hoping to find the central region and take the treasure before the Golden Crow's remnant fire erupted in full.According to what the fox clan leader had told him, nearly a hundred years had passed since the last fla storm.By that reckoning, another one had indeed been due.But Xia Li had not expected it to be this exact mont, right when he arrived.Where was he supposed to hide now?There was no path forward and no path back.Wolves before him, tigers behind.
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This absolutely had not been part of his plan.In the end, human calculations still could not outmatch heaven's.As he released his divine sense to search for anything unusual, Xia Li also sorted through the information the fox clan leader had passed to him from mory.From the first warning signs to the actual eruption, a fla storm usually still required quite a long brewing period.If he could seize that window, obtain what he needed, and imdiately transmit back to Earth, then he could still escape safely.But...the violent fire-aspect spiritual energy surging endlessly from the cracks in the ground disrupted his divine sense so badly that Xia Li was nearly blind.Each ti Sunscorch Valley erupted in a fla storm, its terrain changed.The place where the seal had once stood was now impossible to locate."Xia Li, should we co back next ti instead? Right now, neither the Demon-Hunting Army nor the Human-Subjugation Army has reached us yet."Qiu Fu could see Xia Li's anxiety now.The impending fla storm had obviously thrown his plan into chaos."No. Once the flas fully erupt, Sunscorch Valley will beco a lake of magma. It will take at least ten years to cool before anyone can enter again. How many ten-year spans does a person get in one lifeti?"True, once it beca a magma lake, it would still be possible to dive down and search.But at Xia Li's current cultivation, he simply could not manage that.And if he rushed a breakthrough just for the sake of entering the magma lake, that would be putting the cart before the horse.He had to enter the seal before the fla storm broke in full."What exactly are you looking for? I'll help you search!""The remains of that Golden Crow!"The mont Xia Li said that, disbelief filled Qiu Fu's eyes.She had assud at most he had co for Golden Crow spirit fla.But the Golden Crow's remains?Those things did indeed appear in ancient records, but over the years, who knew how many great powers had searched for them? In the end, all of them had still stopped before the seal and failed.Even if ti had weakened the seal sowhat, the terrain of Sunscorch Valley had changed who knew how many tis since then.That sealed place had likely long since sunk deep into the earth veins."At our current cultivation, there's no way we can find it. And even if we do, how would you get inside?""I carry the bloodline of Yi, that great power of the Martial Realm!"At this point, Xia Li could no longer bother hiding such things.Bloodlines from the Martial Realm did exist in this world as well. They had simply been diluted through endless generations of intermarriage with this world's people.Earth's situation, on the other hand, was a bit different.Though its bloodlines had beco ordinary, they remained pure enough."So you're actually descended from the Martial Realm. But are you certain your bloodline still reaches the level of that dark-yellow blood they spoke of? Your blood isn't dark yellow.""That phrase doesn't refer to literal color. It's a symbol of the lineage itself. I'm certain I have it.""Understood. Then watch !"To help Xia Li, Qiu Fu ignored the burning ash around them and forcefully inhaled it into her body, trying to distinguish the scent of the distant archaic past, even though it scorched her lungs and heart.Several dozen breaths later...she coughed up a clump of ash mixed with blood, then looked at Xia Li with apologetic eyes."Sorry. I can't tell. Sunscorch Valley has been remade too many tis. Every trace of the old scents has already been buried.""It's fine. This isn't your fault."Xia Li frowned.The facts had already happened. What could he do now?Hate heaven? Hate earth?Or accept that perhaps his destiny simply was not strong enough, and that this opportunity had not yet arrived?Should he wait ten years?Ten more years would not truly matter.If he wanted, he could return to Earth, freeze himself, and let ten years pass in what felt like the snap of a finger.But could Qiu Fu wait?Could Lin Ge?For all that Xia Li spoke as if he did not care, his heart never quite managed to let go.And what about the little sister who should have t him long ago?If he slept away another ten years, would he miss her too?But an even greater difficulty was already arriving.Good fortune never cos twice.Misfortune never cos alone.From the towering cliffs around Sunscorch Valley, armies now appeared from both north and south, riding the clouds.The densely packed demon troops and human soldiers numbered far beyond one hundred thousand in total.Xia Li could only marvel that they thought so highly of him.To actually lay a heavenly net and earthly snare with over a hundred thousand troops and demon soldiers...they clearly had no intention of letting him slip away a second ti.
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