Sword Aura to the Heavens
Chapter 105 - 101: First Cousin (Female)

Chapter 105: Chapter 101: First Cousin (Female)

This night was destined to be restless for Chuzhou City; the Chen family was raided by various forces, and the once illustrious Chuzhou Family was destroyed overnight.

The Chen family’s properties were looted clean, and both of their Condensed Core Realm great practitioners died in battle, completely becoming history.

Outside was a tumult, but Li Fan returned to the courtyard, appearing somewhat weary.

The Heavenly Nine Declines Sword Technique was too draining; if it weren’t for his sword intent and his senior brother’s support, he would never have easily used the Heavenly Nine Declines, otherwise, using it would spell certain doom.

Li Fan took out a demon core, the demon core of a Five Realms Peng Demon, radiating a dazzling golden stream of light in the darkness, illuminating the entire courtyard.

Suddenly, a tumult arose in his body, as if a thirsting power, blood and energy roared, and Li Fan opened his mouth, immediately swallowing the demon core into his belly.

Inside his body, the demon energy rampaged, fiercely moving, devouring the golden core, a ray of light appeared, akin to an eye.

The demon core emanated an extremely magnificent golden brilliance, and a phantom-like figure appeared, resembling a golden roc, as if possessing life.

The demon core is where the essence of demons resides, with remnants of the demon’s soul will within.

With an internal tumult, Li Fan closed his eyes as a continuous roar sounded; golden light appeared on his body, strands of golden radiance flowed over him, illuminating the night.

As time passed, his energy and blood grew increasingly robust, gradually surpassing its previous peak state, with golden mana furiously flowing, refining his physique.

At midnight, a sharp screech emerged from within him, strands of golden light seeped out, shooting into the night sky, lighting up the entire night sky, a strand of sword intent enclosed his courtyard, preventing any leakage.

Golden stream of light continuously seeped from Li Fan’s body, gradually condensing into a phantom, this phantom grew larger, also gradually solidified, its wings spread open, seemingly about to flap away.

A long cry, golden light filled the sky, behind Li Fan appeared a gigantic roc, brilliantly radiant, forged of a golden body, though somewhat resembling the Peng Demon slain by Wen Ruyu, but it was a golden body, like an evolution of that Peng Demon, approaching a Golden Winged Roc.

Li Fan opened his eyes, the golden light within his eyes flowed sharply.

Last time he devoured the demon core of Yu Qing and his father’s dragon soul, forging the Jiao Long Martial Spirit, now he has reached the Innate realm, devouring the demon core of a Five Realms peak Peng Demon, and condensed another martial spirit.

This Peng Demon had a strand of Golden Winged Roc bloodline, if there was a chance, there was an opportunity to evolve into a Golden Winged Roc, yet, after being devoured by himself, this evolution surprisingly manifested in his martial spirit.

"Can the Golden Roc Martial Spirit now fly through the air?" Li Fan stood up, the martial spirit and his body seemed to fuse, the golden roc spread its wings, and Li Fan’s body soared into the sky.

"Indeed it can." Li Fan’s body hovered in the air, though it consumed mana.

No wonder when practitioners cultivate to high levels, they need to rely on various practice resources to condense and strengthen their martial spirits and dharma forms; powerful martial spirits and dharma forms are of great assistance to cultivators.

"The martial path is about to break through again." Li Fan pondered, feeling the demons within no longer greedily devour everything as before, they would now feedback upon his body.

Moreover, he sensed the other party assisting him in condensing the martial spirit, which led to the evolution of this martial spirit he had gathered this time.

"What kind of demon is this?"

Li Fan pondered internally.

His figure descended, Li Fan withdrew his aura, sat cross-legged, and continued cultivation.

Moments later, starlight descended from the sky above.

The majestic night of Chuzhou City, for Li Fan, was merely a small interlude on the path of cultivation.

He in the Soul Emergence Realm was already the Li Mountain Sword Master, bearing a mission upon him.

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The next morning, peace returned to Chuzhou City, the demon chaos did not affect many places, only rampaged at the gates of Chuzhou City for a while, later halted by Wen Ruyu.

Next was the place where Li Fan lived, where an extensive battle erupted, affecting quite extensively.

Though the demons had been vanquished, the influence of this event lingered, with the streets and alleys of Chuzhou City discussing yesterday’s affairs.

At the morning market’s teahouse, the storyteller spoke eloquently.

"It was said that yesterday the demon army invaded the city, a sword flew in from beyond the heavens, and on that sword stood a Sword Immortal who killed all the demons in the city with a single strike. Can you guess who this Sword Immortal was?"

"Naturally a Li Mountain Sword Cultivator." The surrounding people clamored.

"Correct." The storyteller nodded vigorously: "The one who came was indeed the Li Mountain Sword Cultivator Wen Ruyu, born extraordinarily, the son of the previous Li Mountain Sword Leader, inheriting his father’s mantle, after killing the invading demons, he struck again, this strike crossed dozens of miles, slaying the Peng Demon, and thus ended the Chen family."

The teahouse was full of admiration.

Someone said, "This court is just a bunch of useless people; demons invade, yet the Li Mountain Sword Cultivator has to come to save Chuzhou City, what’s the government for?"

"You don’t know, it’s said that among those colluding with demons this time, there were people from the government, Sun Qian, the deputy commander of the Demon Slayer Bureau, was one of the main culprits, and he had always been close to the Chen family."

"A bunch of fools, such a government, but the court still wants to destroy Li Mountain?"

"Gentlemen, such words are a bit exaggerated." Just as the crowd was filled with righteous indignation, a voice came from a corner of the teahouse, attracting the crowd’s gaze to see two figures quietly sitting there enjoying breakfast.

The speaker was a young man, appearing eighteen or nineteen, with hair tied up and a commanding presence, dressed elegantly, exuding an aura of nobility, seemingly a young master of a prominent family.

Opposite him was a middle-aged man quietly eating noodles, apparently savoring them.

"What’s incorrect?" Someone asked.

"Without the court deploying troops to guard various places, the world would have been in chaos long ago. Just look at Chuzhou; without the court’s stationed troops, how could the people live in peace?" The young man spoke with a smile: "To my knowledge, over the years, this is the only time demons have invaded Chuzhou City, how can one incident negate the court’s efforts?"

"Even without the court, practitioners would naturally resist the demons, this demon incident also shows how the Chuzhou government is merely a decoration." The other party retorted.

"Are you aware of Da Li from a thousand years ago?" the young man asked.

The crowd was stunned, a thousand years ago?

Life is but a few decades, how could they know a thousand years ago?

"A thousand years ago, demons rampaged, the world in chaos, demons feasted on humans, and humanity’s survival was threatened. It was then that a group of visionaries arose, rallied practitioners to slay demons, and finally established Da Li."

"Since then, humanity has not faced such assaults as a thousand years ago, even when demon chaos arose over the years, it was promptly subdued by the court."

"So, just from one thing, gentlemen, are you not unfairly dismissing the court’s millennium of efforts to protect the people?"

The crowd, after hearing this, fell silent, unsure how to rebut.

Based on what was said, it seemed reasonable.

"Are you a scion of a noble family? Why speak for the government?" someone questioned.

"Sort of." The young man replied calmly, while the middle-aged man with him finished his noodles, wiped his mouth, tossed a piece of silver on the table, and looked up at the young man: "The taste of these morning market noodles is quite good."

"Mister, accustomed to delicacies, might find it agreeable to have a change?" the young man laughed.

The middle-aged man shook his head: "Eating is not just about taste, it’s about experiencing the common life."

"Makes sense." The young man nodded with a smile: "Since you’re done, shall we go?"

"Let’s go." The middle-aged man nodded and stood up, his tall form draped in a cloak, every movement exuded an aura of authority.

The teahouse quieted, sensing the extraordinary nature of these two individuals.

As they headed outside, reaching the door, the middle-aged man’s footsteps suddenly paused, slightly raising his brow, in an instant a terrifying pressure enveloped the teahouse, rendering everyone momentarily breathless.

The release of such casual but potent pressure allowed them to experience death’s breath up close.

"If the court were truly corrupt, your words today would have been enough for death a hundred times." Having spoken, the middle-aged man stepped out, leaving the teahouse.

Finally, the crowd breathed heavily, relieved, watching the departing figures in awe.

Who were they?

"Mister, there’s no need to bother with them, just a bunch of common folks." The young man said.

"Precisely because of that, they still live." The middle-aged man responded.

"Finally having come out for a walk, could you relax a bit more to enjoy this life amongst the common people?" the young man suggested with a smile, appearing particularly relaxed.

"Your Highness is right." The middle-aged man nodded: "Where should we head now?"

"Naturally, to see that young man." The young man looked afar, feeling somewhat curious.

The young man who killed Chu Zili and defeated Jiang Taie on the Peak of Li Mountain, who exactly was he?

Chu Zili aside, he knew Jiang Taie; Lingxiao Pavilion held him dear as a treasure, grooming him as a future successor, and indeed he could achieve that potential.

Yet he was defeated by an unknown youth.

This stirred quite a ripple within that imperial city.

Not only was he curious, many were.

Of course, what truly interested him wasn’t that the youth defeated Jiang Taie.

But rather, his cousin.

When he was young, he liked to follow his cousin; she was then the esteemed Princess of Da Li, cherished by many, brilliant and radiant.

Even as circumstances changed, and their statuses swapped, seeing his cousin again, he still felt amazed.

In terms of talent or beauty, both were rare in the world.

Yet such a woman returned to the royal palace for that youth, just to ensure his survival.