Black clouds pressed low.The sky itself seed to be falling.Even Xia Li, beneath that overwhelming might of heaven and earth, could not help feeling small.And yet the xiao demon was this powerful, wholly worthy of being called a genius among the strong.So why had he been so cowardly before?"It seems that whether righteous or demonic, once soone is bound and dragged along by certain things, they inevitably end up as vermin...""The righteous path is burdened by reputation. The demonic path is lost in profit."Xia Li acknowledged the xiao demon's strength.If this had been the Xia Li from before he ford his golden core, he probably could only have fled in disgrace and activated the mysterious ring to run back to Earth.But although this move of the xiao demon's was powerful, it was still not enough to force Xia Li into Overheat Mode."Heaven Chip, activate Cognitive Intervention!"Xia Li unleashed the strongest function of the sixth-generation Heaven Chip.If the strength of the fifth-generation chip lay in Smart Bridge Technology, then the strength of the sixth-generation one lay in Cognitive Intervention.A true ability to use thought and imagination to interfere with reality itself.Of course, the prerequisite was that one had to understand the phenonon deeply enough, fully enough, and rationally enough.For example, if the humidity in the air was high enough, then Cognitive Intervention could turn that into rain.And that prerequisite could be t easily through spiritual power: using spiritual energy to call water from dry earth and then transform it into rain.That, in the language of cultivators, was Intent.Once paired with Intent, every move a cultivator made could carry the mighty force of heaven and earth.Thought followed the heart.The heart followed intent.And heaven and earth changed with it.The Heaven Chip Xia Li had installed was a fire-path chip.It contained exhaustive data on every known phenonon of fla, including the principles behind all kinds of fire-path arts.For cultivators to comprehend Intent, apart from those rare heaven-shocking geniuses, most had to sit in seclusion for countless years just to glimpse a thread of it.They wasted untold ti on useless contemplation and let countless years slip away.But the Heaven Chip needed none of that.Its vast ocean of information did not need to be comprehended.It ca preinstalled from the factory.All Xia Li had to do was move a thought,and the Heaven Chip would handle the countless details of control on its own.【Please select intervention thod and intervention target.】"Ignite the sky."【Analyzing atmospheric composition. Analysis complete...】【Generating optimal intervention plan. Generation complete...】【Intervening...】As the Heaven Chip reported the progress of the intervention, Xia Li felt huge amounts of spiritual energy being drawn out of his dantian and spread through every limb and bone.Both his telekinetic force and soul force began draining rapidly as well.Across the whole world around him, subtle changes began to appear.Heat.Dryness.A sense of imminent ignition.The falling sky was descending quickly, the storm seemingly intent on destroying everything.And then, all of a sudden...firelight appeared from nowhere.It detonated a mont later and set the whole sky ablaze.The montum of that collapsing sky imdiately slowed, and the gathered dust and ash ignited, turning into flaming rain that fell from above.The gases, spiritual energy, dust, and other matter making up the gale all ignited.And blazing winds naturally rose upward into the sky.That was simply the law of nature.The xiao demon could no longer suppress it.He burned within the storm of sky-fire, trapped by the very hurricane he himself had raised, his headless body thrashing desperately amid the flas.The surrounding spectators all stared wide-eyed at the sight of the boiling sky, where flas rolled and gathered and burst outward in exploding waves.No one could speak for a very long ti.This ability was already far beyond the utmost limit ordinary cultivators could achieve even with their lives on the line.This kind of world-shaping power belonged only to great cultivators who possessed complete Intent.Those so-called great cultivators were figures who could command wind and rain, summon thunder and lightning, create what was not there, and alter heaven and earth.Only once one had cultivated to that level did one count, in the broad sense, as a truly recognized powerhouse.Such beings were also called Great Powers."Is this... so kind of divine ability?""Doesn't seem like one. A divine ability on this scale should produce violent spiritual fluctuations and obvious signs beforehand.""Then could it be...""Most likely. Fire Intent... no, Fire True Intent! Lord Mu Yan of the Lihuo Sect also comprehends Fire True Intent. I once saw him ignite mountains and seas with a single thought.""Not Intent, but True Intent? Xia Li's cultivation is only what, exactly?""The last report said Golden Core, suspected to be at the Grand Pinnacle of Golden Core.""Heavens! A Golden Core cultivator who has already grasped True Intent?""Defying the heavens.""Number one in all history."At this mont, the spectators held only awe for Xia Li.Intent was sothing one normally could only begin to grasp in Nascent Soul.Most cultivators did not understand even a fragnt until Soul Transformation.Yet even that fragnt was enough to crush those at the sa level who lacked Intent.And only complete Intent could be called True Intent.It was also the embryonic form of a Domain,the sort of thod one only reached at Void Refining and Harmonization with the Dao.If a faction produced a genius who understood even one-tenth of Intent at Nascent Soul, the whole sect would celebrate.
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If it were three-tenths, the entire sect would rejoice as one.If it were five-tenths, a feast would be held and the genius granted an honored title.If it were seven-tenths, the whole world would be invited to a grand banquet to declare that the sect's future successor had arrived.As for nine-tenths of Intent?Such a person would probably be hidden away and never exposed.And True Intent?There was no need to ntion it.A genius of that kind, tied directly to the future inheritance of a sect, would beco the young sovereign of the entire lineage.The spectators could not help thinking this:What exactly was wrong with Lingxu Cave Heaven?How had they allowed Xia Li to wander out and suffer this kind of humiliation?If this were any sane faction, they would have thrown him into the deepest forbidden grounds, protected him with the strength of the whole sect, and poured every resource into raising him.And yet Lingxu Cave Heaven had simply let him roam free.Among the spectators, however, there were also people from the Heaven Alliance.As word spread outward from those onlookers...the Heaven Alliance was thrown into shock.A great Harmonization Patriarch erged and shot straight toward Manzhou, leaving a dazzling trail of light across the horizon.Deep within the forbidden grounds of Lingxu Cave Heaven,an emaciated old man suddenly opened his eyes.Brilliant light burst from his clouded pupils."The great era is about to appear, only... it isn't ti yet...""No... has the ti already co?""No. We cannot repeat the old mistake!"The old man understood very well.The Heaven Alliance was about to lose its mind again.In the past thousand years, the Heaven Alliance had gone mad a total of forty-six tis.Each ti, it ant high-realm cultivators going all out to slaughter a genius.The last ti had been just a little over ten years ago, when twelve Soul Transformation cultivators hunted down a single Golden Core woman, only to be killed by her in return.Before dying, the master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had cast one final divination for the Heaven Alliance and spoken these words:Of the Great Dao's fifty, heaven evolves forty-nine, one escapes.At that mont, the Heaven Alliance understood that such heaven-defying behavior could perhaps happen at most forty-nine tis.Beyond that, so sort of change would appear.And so, for the final few chances, the Heaven Alliance acted with the utmost caution.Only true geniuses were worth sending them into madness.Xia Li was the forty-seventh.The anti-Heaven-Alliance factions also knew of that divination, and they too were waiting for the fiftieth person, wanting to see what the change would be.Would the Heaven Alliance seize the great era,or would heavenly calculation finally fail to account for all things?"Enough. We cannot gamble. Perhaps I can stop it."In the end, the old man chose to act.But he would not gamble with Lingxu Cave Heaven's future.He would only help Xia Li once, only by intercepting the Heaven Alliance's stronger experts.After all, no matter what else could be said, Xia Li was still one of Lingxu Cave Heaven's own.That much duty, he would fulfill.anwhile, in Sunscorch Valley of Manzhou...Once the burning sky finally dimd and the flas went out, the xiao demon's charred body crashed to the ground, barely clinging to life.The xiao demon had only exchanged three proper moves with Xia Li:a probing strike,a full-power strike,and then his final trump card.This was how true masters fought.There was no such thing as battles that dragged on for days and nights while both sides used small techniques to wear one another down.Often, three moves,or even one,was enough to decide victory and defeat."Xiao...""You did your best. Now it's my turn."The blood cocoon floating in midair had remained unmoved by the gale and unburned by the heavenly fire.At last, cracks now began spreading across its surface.A deep, hoarse voice erged from within,and a strand of blood-light descended onto the xiao demon, healing his injuries."You... won't devour ?"The wind made a low sound beside the blood cocoon."At a mont like this, I find that I simply can't..."There was an indescribable emotion in Mo Ye's voice,as though he were rembering sothing far away.He and the xiao demon were perhaps each other's only true friend,the only one with whom they had ever spoken from the heart.Long ago, they had made a pact:if they ever reached a dead end, and one of them lost by a single move, then the other could devour him.The xiao demon asked himself honestly:if the positions were reversed, could he really eat Mo Ye?It seed...he would not be able to either.The headless xiao slowly rose into the air.Though miserable and drained of almost all strength, he still flew beneath the blood cocoon,as though he intended to beco Mo Ye's mount.Xia Li watched everything silently,watching how these two self-aware gu creatures chose their own end.They had spent their whole lives being vile and treacherous.And yet now they were sohow able to walk openly and upright toward their final road.To them, that itself was almost like grace.They deserved uglier deaths,deserved to rot in ditches.But considering that they had, in their own way, at least contributed the tiniest thing to the world,this kind of end could perhaps count as a reward for finding the path again, even at the very last mont.
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