Chapter 259
Chapter 259
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Translator: Ace
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Chapter Title: Clash in Wenchang Alley
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Creation Little Five sized up Great Ancestor Li Yiran.
Among the four ancestors of the Li family, Li Yiran was the oldest, already over two hundred years old. The longer one lived, the more they exuded an immortal aura, ethereal and otherworldly. His hair, eyebrows, and beard had all turned snow-white, without a single trace of black remaining.
Yet he still brimmed with vigorous vitality, his eyes sharp and piercing. He was even slightly plump, a sign of being nurtured to peak condition. Throughout history, the longest-lived individuals often had this build.
"Plump yet lean."
Creation Little Five nodded lightly. "Pity he's a bit old." Above Li Yiran's head floated a patch of clear light, about a foot in diameter.
Within that clear light hid his Void Great Realm, from which faint rumbles of thunder echoed.
To store a Void Great Realm in a space no larger than a foot—this was the so-called "a world in one flower," containing Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed.
The Li family's most supreme arts were recorded in the *Yi'an Hall Compendium*, rumored to be a technique capable of transcending tribulations and ascending. Only the sect leader could cultivate the Minor Tribulation Transcendence Art. The thunderous phenomena in Li Yiran's Void Great Realm indicated he had already begun stepping into the utterly unfamiliar Tribulation Transcendence Realm—perhaps even fully entered it! He was the highest-realm living being Creation Little Five had ever encountered.
Supreme Ancestor Li Ganfeng strode toward Creation Little Five with a leisurely demeanor.
"So you're the Creation Little Five that Loose Cultivators and Heavenly Listeners have been gossiping about. Never thought you'd be so young. Little Five, your aura gives off an eerie, demonic vibe, like some evil spirit. You must have absorbed moonlight, letting baleful energy control your mind."
Creation Little Five turned his head, his gaze settling on him as if appraising his own meal, scrutinizing closely. Li Ganfeng also had white hair and brows, yet his bearing was like that of a grand scholar, radiating righteous qi.
He too cultivated arts from the *Yi'an Hall Compendium*, but unlike Great Ancestor's ethereal detachment, his aura was that of a worldly scholar brimming with righteousness.
His presence was in no way inferior to Great Ancestor's. Above his head hovered a beam of righteous qi three feet long, containing a Void Great Realm that transmitted thunderous sounds, with vague shapes of dragons and phoenixes swimming within, now hidden, now visible. Such a realm was exceedingly rare—yet two had appeared today!
However, Great Ancestor's clear light was only a foot across, while his righteous qi spanned three feet.
"He's quite old, but he consumes spirit herbs to keep his flesh tender and fresh."
Creation Little Five felt deeply moved, flashing Li Ganfeng a friendly smile. His smile was perfectly standard, revealing exactly eight teeth.
This was by design—Chen Yindu had some peculiar tastes when creating him, like insisting smiles show precisely eight teeth.
Family Ancestor Li Kunyu approached from the left alley, halting just ten steps from Creation Little Five. He chuckled.
"Little Five, I heard that twenty years ago, you slew the Four Venerable Kings among the Heavenly Listeners, your strength extraordinary. Pity you vanished after that. You only reemerged last year. The Four Venerable Kings were far inferior to us four Li ancestors."
Creation Little Five's gaze fell on him, revealing admiration.
"I showed up ten years ago too, but right after, my old man suppressed me and sealed me away."
He truly admired Li Kunyu.
Li Kunyu was no youngster either, over a hundred years old, but he looked middle-aged, not yet showing signs of old age, with mottled white hair and beard.
Compared to Great Ancestor and Supreme Ancestor ahead, he fell short, but he was still at the peak of the Great Vehicle Realm!
He hadn't refined his Void Great Realm to fit within a mere foot of space; it hovered in the air, about an acre in size.
"His flesh is even better, not tough at all."
Creation Little Five thought to himself.
Former Sect Leader Li Xishu approached from the right alley, hands clasped behind his back. He chuckled.
"Heavenly Listeners and Loose Cultivators turn pale at the mention of Creation Little Five. Seeing you today, I'm rather disappointed. Just a somewhat powerful man-made evil spirit— not even as good as a demon."
Creation Little Five didn't like him much.
Li Xishu had only just entered the Great Vehicle Realm, his foundation unstable.
The Great Vehicle Realm was either achieved in ten years or a century. Clearly, he lacked the talent and insight for a decade's breakthrough, so he relied on Qingzhou's spirit herbs to extend his life by a century before finally breaking through. His Void Great Realm hid within the dark clouds overhead, the pattering drizzle falling from it.
But this guy was such a poser—clearly the weakest, yet acting all high and mighty. Flesh like that usually had a sour tang.
Still, Creation Little Five was touched. These four had gone to great lengths to keep their texture youthful. Though imperfect, it was forgivable. The four Li ancestors eyed him in turn, each showing surprise.
Creation Little Five was unmistakably young Chen Yindu—tall and handsome, with a persistent yet whimsical air, eyes gleaming with curiosity for the unknown and arrogance in his own talents. Equally audacious and lawless!
The only difference: Chen Yindu had baleful qi but wasn't evil. Creation Little Five carried an aura of outright malevolence, deeply unsettling.
"Old Dad's really gotten old. He couldn't even take you all out."
Creation Little Five withdrew his gaze from the four Li ancestors, sighing wistfully.
"This is the tragedy of being human. Even someone as brilliant and mighty as him can't escape衰老, forced to retreat by you lot. If he'd been ten years younger, with the vigor he used beating me, I wouldn't be seeing you today."
He recalled his thrashings at Chen Yindu's hands, sighing deeply.
The last time Chen Yindu beat him, he'd brought thirty-two Talisman Gods of Heavenly Mechanism and pummeled him thoroughly.
If not for fearing Creation Little Five would resurrect even stronger, Chen Yindu would've unhesitatingly killed him instead of the painstaking suppression.
Supreme Ancestor Li Ganfeng laughed.
"Chen Yindu does have some skills. Born from humble origins, yet standing among the world's powerhouses—his fortunes astounding, worthy of praise. In that battle at West Capital, he nearly crippled the West Capital court: the Cabinet, Eastern Depot, Three Great Camps, Three Dukes, Six Ministries—all suffered heavy losses. His feats shook the realm for a decade, undiminished even in death."
Family Ancestor Li Kunyu shook his head.
"Pity he made enemies of the world, forcing us to emerge."
Former Sect Leader Li Xishu nodded.
"As for you, Creation Little Five—you shouldn't have imitated Chen Yindu, spreading terror in West Capital and creating that corpse cloud."
Creation Little Five paid no heed to the encirclement by these four supreme experts, his expression sincere.
"I've come only for one answer. Tell me, and I can forgo eating you all and leave West Capital immediately."
Great Ancestor Li Yiran said faintly,
"You want to know the whereabouts of the Innate Dao Embryo?"
He smiled faintly.
"Defeat me, and I'll tell you."
Li Xishu laughed.
"Creation Little Five, West Capital is crowded. Let's fight out at sea, spare the innocents!"
Li Ganfeng said,
"A battle at sea—exorcising demons while culling sea monsters. What fortune!"
"No need."
Creation Little Five shook his head.
"Let's clash right here in West Capital."
The four Li ancestors frowned.
Their cultivation was far too potent. Fighting here would leak divine powers, turning West Capital into a slaughterhouse with countless deaths!
Creation Little Five still held his rain umbrella, speaking softly.
"Don't worry. In fighting me, not a shred of your divine arts or spells will leak out."
Li Xishu stepped forward, mobilizing his Void Great Realm. He laughed.
"Under my Spiritual Treasure Primordial Yang Art, no one dares take my strike head-on!"
He unleashed the Spiritual Treasure Primordial Yang Art, another supreme technique from the *Yi'an Hall Compendium*. It refined Primordial Yang internally, forging the body into a spiritual treasure through relentless tempering. At its peak, every gesture shook heaven and earth! Li Xishu had cultivated it to the Great Vehicle Realm, showing signs of turning decay to miracle. Without fancy moves, a simple palm unleashed might surpassing many clan heirlooms!
Creation Little Five raised a hand to meet the strike. Li Xishu felt the space before him quake violently. The boundless power of his seemingly devastating blow suddenly dispersed. West Capital abruptly upheaved, inverting heaven and earth—qian became kun, kun became qian, forming an upside-down cosmos!
This anomaly came from Li Xishu's strike. As his artfully simple palm hit Creation Little Five's hand, the latter used the Supreme Eight Trigrams Protective Art to reverse the force! If Granny Sha were here, she'd stomp in fury.
For Creation Little Five wielded *her* art—but far more deftly, more wondrously, even achieving qian-kun reversal, inverting the universe! At that moment, West Capital's people walked the skies as if it were their capital, utterly unaware of the inversion.
To them, sky was sky, ground was ground—everything normal.
But in Li Xishu's eyes, heaven and earth twisted wildly, everything turning bizarre. He blanked for an instant—then his wrist snapped with a crack as Creation Little Five broke it. Creation Little Five plunged his tempered finger into Li Xishu's brow.
Li Xishu's mind reeled, realizing his underestimation. Unpanicked, he summoned his Void Great Realm.
As it descended, his soul manifested from the void—only for its brow to be pierced. Creation Little Five seized the entire Void Great Realm and stuffed it into himself! Li Xishu's other hand rose—only to be snapped and stabbed into his skull.
"Don't speak. Dizziness is normal."
Creation Little Five swiftly sealed his ten major apertures. Li Xishu's body perished, his soul gravely wounded and trapped within, drifting upward uncontrollably.
Family Ancestor Li Kunyu, Supreme Ancestor Li Ganfeng, and Great Ancestor Li Yiran burst from the inverted West Capital into the sky, only to witness Li Xishu's demise. Shocked and enraged, the three ancestors charged at Creation Little Five.
Just now, they hadn't grasped how Li Xishu and Creation Little Five vanished—only seeing Li Xishu punch him, then both gone. Looking up, Li Xishu was already doomed! At that moment, the inverted qian-kun righted itself, and Creation Little Five vanished from before them.
"He's in West Capital!"
The three ancestors whistled back to Wenchang Alley in West Capital. Creation Little Five held his bright yellow oiled paper umbrella, still standing amid the drizzle. He hadn't moved an inch from his spot.
Meanwhile, former sect leader Li Xishu among the four Li ancestors had become a corpse, rising steadily toward the corpse cloud.
In the end, Li Xishu joined the corpse cloud shrouding West Capital. One of the four alley blockers was gone.
"I want to ask something."
Creation Little Five said,
"How did you know I'd pass through here?"
Family Ancestor Li Kunyu's face was ashen, yet he explained coldly.
"West Capital is riddled with Li family informants. We spotted you ages ago, knew you'd pass through Wenchang Alley every morning at this hour, heading to Wuchang Street for a bowl of soy milk."
Creation Little Five said,
"I see. So you know where I live too?"
Li Kunyu said coldly,
"Chang'an Street Three-Way Alley, fourth building, Listening to Rain Tower upstairs, second room. Rent three taels of silver monthly—you prepaid half a year."
The words barely left his mouth when all three moved!
Great Ancestor Li Yiran unleashed the Minor Tribulation Transcendence Art. Raising his hand, thunder exploded from the blue clouds above, as if heavenly tribulation descended!
He channeled his entire Void Great Realm's power into this palm seal, like a thunder-god delivering tribulation to smite Creation Little Five!
Supreme Ancestor Li Ganfeng unleashed Dragon-Phoenix Golden Radiance. Dragons and phoenixes in his righteous qi bolstered him, turning him into a golden-armored deity!
Family Ancestor Li Kunyu activated the Heavenly Barrier Art. Layers of heavenly barriers emerged behind him, each a dao arena. Though his realm lagged behind Great Ancestor and Supreme Ancestor, the stacked barriers made his magic power no less potent!
As Creation Little Five blocked Li Yiran's first strike, West Capital warped under their terrifying dao arts. Space seemed to shatter chaotically—orderly streets suddenly jumbled, buildings crisscrossing. Pedestrians interwove, phasing through each other; carriages and horses collided yet passed harmlessly.
In the imperial city, halls like Wenhua, Wuying, Huagai, Zhongji, Wenyaan Pavilion, East Pavilion, Justice Hall, Jingshen Hall blazed with power. These palace treasures, sensing the spatial quake, unleashed their might in self-preservation.
Yet everyone in West Capital carried on as usual, untouched.
Great Ancestor Li Yiran was startled inwardly.
"He's dispersed my strike's power throughout West Capital's space!"
Creation Little Five pierced through the palm force, stabbing toward his chest—about to rend it open—when Supreme Ancestor Li Ganfeng's attack arrived, forcing Creation Little Five to counter. Their palms clashed, and suddenly West Capital sank into the underworld.
Underworld ghosts and gods looked up in confusion, finding themselves inexplicably in the mortal world. At that instant, West Capital's yin and yang flipped.
But the next moment, yin-yang realigned, West Capital returning to the mortal realm.
Creation Little Five gripped Li Ganfeng's five fingers, having already crushed the five toes of his right foot.
Family Ancestor Li Kunyu charged in relentlessly. Creation Little Five released Li Ganfeng to meet him. West Capital's space jumbled again, streets crisscrossing to dissipate the blow. Li Yiran rushed in, absorbing his Void Great Realm, pushing Minor Tribulation Transcendence Art to the limit—each move carrying mini-heavenly tribulation terror!
Creation Little Five barely blocked, with no chance to counter, when Li Ganfeng's attack came, Void Great Realm absorbed! He repelled Li Ganfeng—only for Li Kunyu to arrive!
The three Li ancestors—three generations of grandsire and descendants—each mastering different arts to their peaks, madly assaulted him!
On West Capital's streets, pedestrians bustled as ever, families went about their days, children played in the rain—kicking shuttlecocks, playing cuju—blissfully unaware that the world's four supreme experts clashed with world-shaking divine arts in Wenchang Alley!
West Capital flickered with spatial chaos, heaven-earth inversion, yin-yang flips. Any leaked power could've slain thousands! Yet the city remained serene—only the imperial city's treasures in Zhenxi Niu Xinzhou sensed peril, pulsing with earth-shaking warnings.
Some cuju-playing kids kicked their ball to Wenchang Alley's mouth. One went to retrieve it, looked up—and saw three men madly attacking a scholar in the alley, strikes vicious yet no different from street brawlers. The kid stared dumbfounded. Suddenly, the scholar took a hit, tumbling out of the alley to splash into the puddle beside him.
The scholar sprawled on the ground, pounding it in fury, splashing water everywhere.
"I said one hand wouldn't cut it!"
Creation Little Five crawled from the puddle, closed his umbrella, and shoved it into the kid's hands.
"Little brother, hold this for me."
He walked back into Wenchang Alley.
Moments later, the umbrella-holding kid saw a middle-aged man floating upward like a kite.
"Uncle can fly!"
The child cried out in surprise.