Enlightenment: Attaining the Dao at Age 8 - Chapter 94 - 83: Deterring the World

Chapter 94: Chapter 83: Deterring the World

Li Chang’an had been ready to leave, but he paused at the words and glanced at the old man. “What about my father?”

“He’s been chomping at the bit to retire for ages!”

Li Chang’an: “…”

“I don’t have time right now. We can talk about it after I become invincible!”

The old man rolled his eyes. “You and your father… really treating the throne like a ball to be kicked back and forth!”

But he didn’t say anything more.

To a true powerhouse, a worldly throne was indeed inconsequential.

…

After changing his clothes, Li Chang’an went to Phoenix Perch Palace to let Ye Xuan know he was safe. He then immediately rushed back to his room and began cultivating in seclusion.

Li Chang’an had taken enormous risks on this trip, but his rewards were directly proportional to them.

On this journey through the Jianghu, Li Chang’an had acquired more than a dozen Grandmaster Techniques alone. The other Innate, Acquired, and First-class Techniques he’d gathered formed a small mountain.

Add to that the Bodhi Fruit seized from the Buddhist Sect, along with various Magical Treasures and Weapons… this harvest was more than just bountiful.

He had absolutely struck it rich!

After entering seclusion, the first thing Li Chang’an did was take out the Cultivation Techniques Secret Manuals he had seized. Using his Heaven-defying Comprehension, he absorbed their strengths to perfect his own technique, completely integrating them into his Nine Heavens Chaos Technique.

The process was incredibly long, taking Li Chang’an an entire year to complete.

It wasn’t that his Heaven-defying Comprehension was lacking. Rather, there was always a slight gap between theoretical deduction and practical application, and it took a great deal of time to truly unify knowledge and action.

To put it in perspective, even with the Dayan Imperial Family’s centuries of accumulation, the Library Pavilion contained but a handful of Grandmaster Techniques.

Their collection didn’t even compare to what Li Chang’an had fleeced from the defeated Grandmasters in his recent duels.

It was only natural that this process of absorption and integration took a little longer.

This also showed just how much his Nine Heavens Chaos Technique had improved.

More than ten techniques from the Grandmaster Realm were forged into one, directly elevating Li Chang’an’s strength to a whole new level.

Now, if he were to face the Buddha and the encirclement of Buddhist Sect Grandmasters again, he would never be as battered and harried as before, even if he still couldn’t defeat them.

After completing all this, Li Chang’an finally turned his attention back to the Bodhi Fruit, which he had expended immense effort to obtain.

The small, translucent, humanoid fruit emanated a refreshing fragrance that made his mouth water, creating an irresistible urge to swallow it whole.

Li Chang’an followed his instinct, casually tossing the Bodhi Fruit into his mouth and swallowing it down.

Normally, consuming a Bodhi Fruit after reaching the Peak of Grandmaster would force a direct breakthrough. The fruit would forge a Dao Foundation for the consumer, allowing them to become a Grandmaster capable of communicating with heaven and earth.

Li Chang’an, however, had no intention of relying solely on a single Bodhi Fruit for his Dao Foundation.

Therefore, he didn’t plan to actually break through to that higher state. Instead, he would use his Heaven-defying Comprehension to forcibly deduce an alternative path during the breakthrough process—a path that would let him wield the authority of such a Grandmaster without actually becoming one!

In a way, what he was attempting was an act of defiance against the heavens.

How could it be easy to deduce an entirely new realm within the long-established system of the Martial Dao?

Yet, Li Chang’an was not particularly worried.

He possessed not only the Martial Arts Experience from his current life but also that of his past life on the Celestial Yang Continent and in the Main World.

By combining these experiences, he was confident he could forge a new, narrow path where none had walked before.

…

Time flowed like a river, and another year passed in the blink of an eye.

In the Jianghu, the rumors about Li Chang’an had long since begun to evolve into legends.

Some claimed he was a supreme expert from ancient times, reborn with an innate gift for the Martial Dao. Others said he wasn’t human at all, but an incarnation of heaven and earth.

A single day of his cultivation was said to be worth ten years for an ordinary person.

In short, the tales surrounding him grew increasingly exaggerated, spiraling in a direction beyond anyone’s control.

It couldn’t be helped. Li Chang’an’s battle outside Buddha Light Temple had simply been too legendary.

At only ten years old, he was already at the Peak of Grandmaster, and he had challenged the Martial Artists of the world with none able to stand against him.

He had even taken a palm strike from the Buddha and remained undefeated. Furthermore, interested parties discovered that the Buddhist Sect had seemingly mobilized in full force to ambush him, yet he had still managed to escape.

His very existence was like an anomaly in the world, as if he and all other Martial Artists occupied completely different planes of reality.

Li Chang’an’s emergence naturally aroused the collective wariness of the Four Great Upper Sects.

For the past two years, the Four Great Upper Sects had been making constant moves, meeting frequently in private. It seemed they were truly on the verge of forming another alliance.

The Dayan Dynasty occupied the most fertile lands on the continent, a prize the Four Major Sects had long coveted.

After waiting for so many years, they had finally seen it weaken and had a chance to claim the Central Plains.

But now, Li Chang’an had appeared out of nowhere. How could the Four Great Upper Sects possibly be willing to let a prize already in their grasp simply fly away?

Absolutely not!

In this environment, the atmosphere in the Jianghu grew increasingly tense. Even the lowest-ranking Martial Artists could sense that a storm was brewing.

…

Within the Imperial Palace, Li Chang’an’s secluded cultivation had reached its final stage.

The meridians throughout his body trembled uncontrollably, and the aura erupting from him threw the Azure Heaven Qi of the entire seclusion chamber into disarray.

If a Grandmaster were present to witness this,

they would see the Azure Heaven Qi within his body behaving like a series of unstable bombs, which he was carefully circulating through his meridians.