Finally, in [Year 139], Li Wei opened his eyes, ing out of his closed-door cultivation. Beside him, Li Yaotie was still f, and nearby was a mold that closely resembled Li Yaotie's left foot.

  This time, however, it wasn't because he had prehended any ws.

  A fsh of joy passed across his face.

  "It's done!"

  [The Aor Hall Guardia passed the heavenly tribution in Coldstone Valley! As a Thunder Fme Fury Python, it possessed the power of thunder and fire, which are mutually destructive. When the heavenly tribution desded, the force of the heavenly ahly punishment was even more severe. Uhe collision of thunder and fire, it nearly died several times, but this also turned out to be a blessing in disguise.]

  [The Thunderfire Wyrm transformed into a — Raging Sky Floon.]

  [It el the Heaven ah Qi into its body. Wherever it goes, thunder and fire roar in unison, creating powerful explosions.]

  [The supreme-grade spirit artifact 'Sky-trolling Pearl' gifted by the family shattered and fused with its body, being its Intrinsic (life-bound) Floon Core!]

  [Uhe collision of thunder and fire, it gave up the opportunity to transform into human form, preserving its spiritual power to sustain itself. It obtained a sed form: the Mist Floon.]

  [The collision of thunder and fire transformed into mist, making its whereabouts difficult to track.]

  However, after seeing the description ierface, Li Wei still frowned. He could sense how difficult this breakthrough had been.

  He didn't dare to dey and quickly had the members go to provide assistance.

  ...

  At this moment, The once Coldstone Valley, which used to have thick yers of icy dust, now saw the ice that had formed over tless years crag aing. Rocks tumbled down all around Coldstone Valley, and a gigantic red floon y amidst the rubble!

  Around it were numerous members of the Wu . Above, bergy erupted, and the pressure from the battle of Soul stage cultivators made the air below, for an unknown number of meters, feel heavy and oppressive.

  This time, four or five members of the Li family had e to stand guard, including Li Yaoqing and Li Dalong's Heavenly Corpse, Xuan Tianzi. But uedly, in such a secluded pce, they entered a Wu detat of about a thousand people who were on a mission!

  The Raging Sky Floon's eyelids drooped heavily.

  It had experiehe most terrifying dahe heavenly tribution of transf into a floon. Even with a supreme-grade spirit artifad this excellent location for undergoing the tribution, it was still difficult to face. The thuribution had nine as its extreme number, and it had endured a full six nines of heavenly lightning!

  It had not a bit of strength left.

  It couldn't eve these ant-like members of the Wu ! But likewise, these guys shouldn't even dream of killing it!

  "Kuanghua... Kuanghua..."

  The Raging Sky Floon's vision was blurred, but it could still see that everyone was fighting. And in front of it, a girl with her hair tied up in buns like a Vajra warrior, was standing in front of it, shielding it. She repeatedly charged at the approag Wu members, only to be beaten back by them.

  Time and time again she was covered in wounds, yet she still charged fain and again.

  "None of you motherfuckers... are getting through!!!"

  Li Kuanghua wiped the blood from her mouth, looking like a ossessed!

  She stood firmly in front of the guardian spirit beast, shielding it with her body. Her body had bee even more robust, and the power of the Iade her physique seem like ice.

  No matter who it was, anyone roached the guardian spirit beast would be met with her ultimate power!

  In the space of five finger snaps, her arm was broken.

  In the space of twenty finger snaps, she could feel her ribs break.

  But she still staggered on in battle, until the sound of a sword's cry rang out, and she returo her inal form. The Grand Elder tossed a medial pill into her mouth, and a warm current flowed through her body, healing her injuries. She was carried to the floon's side, and she faintly heard the Grand Elder tellio rest.

  Li Kuanghua wao get up, she wao tinue fighting, but she had nth left.

  She remembered Grandpa Yunbing asking her why she worked so hard at cultivation. She had said that she didn't want to be bullied anymore. Now, she realized that she didn't want her family to be bullied.

  She looked up at the sky helplessly, as if seeing the se ihunderfire Demon Cave again. Back then, behind her and her older brother, there was always a useless younger brother running, who needed help to get up and keep running. The useless younger brother would be tormented by the demon cultivators every day. Evehey were with the elders, her younger brother was always the one dragging them down.

  If time could flow backward, she wished she could return to the past. That way, her younger brother wouldn't have to grow up, wouldn't have to bee some damned family head!

  These past few years, her younger brother had bee like a withered pnt, no longer daring to face his family, just like a true coward.

  She didn't believe it. She wao prove...

  The Raging Sky Floon closed its heavy eyes. Its blood flowed onto Li Kuanghua's body.

  Li Kuanghua suddenly stood up, her body once again bulging with muscles, covered in a yer of id rock. She charged towards the Wu again madly!

  "Great-granduncle, Sed Great-grandaunt!"

  Li Kuanghua roared, "Every time Kuangtu fell, he would get back up! He was afraid of demon cultivators, but he always mustered his ce to approach them. He worked very hard. Every siime, he tried to keep up with our pace."

  "He's just like me. No matter what happens, he will stand by our side, or even in front of us!"

  "Believe me... believe me!!!"

  That furious roar, that terrifying punch, with a shockwave extending a hundred meters, one Wu member after another fell.

  High up in the sky, Li Yaozu and Li Yaoqing frowned, exging a look.

  They could both see that this child didn't o be so battered and bruised. But it was as if she were crazed, trying to prove something, choosing the toughest oppos, aing her emotions.

  Li Yaozu desded once more, intending to carry Li Kuanghua to the Raging Sky Floon, but Li Kuanghua grabbed his wrist tightly. The junior's eyes were bloodshot, staring fixedly at him, but Li Yaozu could sehat she robably already delirious. Yet she still choked out between sobs, "Kuangtu is not a coward..."

  Until she fainted.

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