Cultivation through Skin Making - Chapter 704 - 249. Controlling the Li Family, Forming a Bond with Ice Phoenix (7.0K words - Subscription Requested)_2

Chapter 704: 249. Controlling the Li Family, Forming a Bond with Ice Phoenix (7.0K words – Subscription Requested)_2

At this moment, he looked at Li Kongming and suddenly laughed, “Do you still like hearing stories about defying celestial tribulations?”

Li Kongming was taken aback, then showed a bit of embarrassment.

When he was young, he particularly loved listening to stories, especially those where someone “defied celestial tribulations for the sake of their partner and changed fate against the heavens.” Every time he listened, he was thrilled, but the real Cultivation Realm had long since rid him of past romantic imaginations.

This matter was known by only a very few in the Li Family, and there was no doubt that the Family Head Xuanchan was among them.

Back then, he still occasionally called out, “Brother Xuanchan.”

Hearing this now, and listening to that familiar tone, he scratched his head. Seeing the ten Divinity Transformation disciples exchanging glances beside him, he coldly said, “Why aren’t you guarding the array! If the enemy finds a way in, you’ll be the ones to answer!”

The ten disciples hurriedly replied and then dispersed in different directions as rainbows of light.

Li Kongming changed his demeanor and said with a bitter laugh, “Family Head, I’m nearly ten thousand years old, yet you bring up past events. I’m afraid the youngsters might secretly laugh at me.”

Nearly ten thousand years old?

Song Yan sighed softly in his heart.

This age is actually extremely young compared to the Profound Yellow Realm.

One must know, the Celestial Venerable had been wandering for countless years and was still stuck in the Divinity Transformation Realm.

Truly, not all Divinity Transformation Realms are created equal.

Seeing Li Kongming engage, Song Yan chose a place, set out some Profound Tea, and chatted idly with Li Kongming. At this time, Li Xuanchan’s aura was fully displayed, appearing elegant yet somewhat inherently pretentious.

In no time, Li Kongming’s sense of familiarity returned. His eyes gleamed as he thought to himself, “Ah, it’s truly Brother Xuanchan, truly the Family Head Xuanchan, no one else can mimic this essence.”

Han Weizi’s beautiful eyes also sparkled, for her husband had regained that familiar feeling, proving to her that “her husband is still her husband and hasn’t become another man.”

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Half a day later, Song Yan left Qixia Forest with Han Weizi and went to the second location, Biluo Valley.

The cultivator guarding the array in Biluo Valley was named Li Jingyun, considered an outstanding talent of the Li Family. He was not raised in the Li Family’s main house but came up from the Lower Realm. Although he received quite a bit of Li Family resources in the Lower Realm, Li Jingyun wasn’t initially favored and didn’t receive any resources.

His ability to reach this stage demonstrates his formidable power, and in fact, Li Jingyun is also recognized as the most promising in the Li Family to break through the Profound Yellow Second Realm.

His Lifebound Talisman Character is “Lü”.

The character “Lü” is quite mysterious. It’s said that Li Jingyun was a descendant left outside from the Li Family’s main house extended for an unknown number of generations.

His youth was particularly difficult. Reportedly a sharp and flamboyant prodigy, he was framed and punished to reflect for a century on a solitary cliff originally meant for him to die there, during which his fiancée was also taken.

Li Jingyun was supposed to die there alone; even achieving the Crimson Palace Realm would give him no future.

However, in every era, there are always one or two absolute prodigies.

Li Jingyun was such a prodigy.

Over those hundred years, not only did he achieve the Crimson Palace Realm, but on that solitary cliff, he listened to the wind for a hundred years and heard a faint ethereal sword sound reverberating from the valley bottom.

There was no sword sound at the valley bottom; the sword sound came from his heart.

It was precisely these hundred years of enlightenment amidst the mundane world that allowed him to continue his cultivation journey and in the end comprehend “Lü,” a sword of sound killing, comprising twelve sounds: Huangzhong, Dalu, Taicu, Jiazong, Guxian, Zhonglü, Ruibin, Linzong, Yize, Nanlü, Wushe, Yingzong.

From Li Xuanchan’s impressions, Song Yan knew Li Jingyun was quite a reclusive individual who wasn’t particularly easy to get along with.

This fact quickly came to light.

When Song Yan arrived at Biluo Valley, Li Jingyun’s voice came from afar.

“Forgive me, Family Head. I must guard the Array Core and cannot leave.”

“No matter,”

Song Yan replied, and then proceeded towards the Array Core with little Wei’er.

This grand array was evidently “wind” oriented.

A figure clad in blue sat atop a sheer cliff, like a divine sculpture, the cliff exuding a sense of isolated arrogance, and that blue figure matched it.

Song Yan was momentarily puzzled upon seeing the figure because the outfit triggered some memories.

Li Jingyun’s eyes were wrapped in black cloth, not perceiving anything. The cloth fluttered wildly behind him…

This scene, how similar it was to the time he was in the Celestial Wondrous Sword Palace Lower Realm!

Back then, to avoid the “Wa Text Curse,” he dared not see anything nor use Divine Sense to observe; that was how he was.

One could imagine, having lost vision and Divine Sense, he would be like a real blind man, severely limited in the power he could exert.

Song Yan lowered his stance and said with a smile, “Mr. Jingyun.”

The blue figure with eyes bound in black cloth faintly replied, “You are unlike Li Xuanchan.”

Han Weizi’s heart skipped a beat again.

Unlike in what way?

You can’t even see, maybe check your own issues first, alright?

Hmm…

It is unlike.

No, it doesn’t matter if alike or not, he is still her husband.

Han Weizi somehow felt her body temperature rise, unsure what she was thinking about.

Li Jingyun stated calmly, “However, it’s not up to me to decide whether you’re the Family Head or not; if the ancestors recognize you, and the Li Family recognizes you, naturally I will also recognize you.

My duty now is to guard Biluo Valley, and if the Family Head is worried people below might not recognize you, making trouble, I think your purpose here has already been achieved.

I am loyal to the Li Family. As long as you are the Li Family’s Family Head, you needn’t worry about me not following orders.”