Chapter 536: Chapter 175: The Limit, Sister Yan’s Six Ghosts Ghost Realm, Zhao Chunxin Reaches Fifth Grade

He wanted to crush two ants, but he would never crush a third.

He wanted to break three legs of an ant, but he would never break a fourth.

A night of wind and rain.

The next day, early morning.

Xue Ning happily lingered in bed.

Li Yuan did not leave in a hurry either, instead, he lay under the same quilt, listening to the whistling, killing autumn wind beyond the oiled paper window in the warm bedding.

As soon as September passed on the Cloud Mountain Path, heavy snow would fall immediately, and the temperature was dropping rapidly now.

Xue Ning was afraid of the cold, at this time she was already working in front of the stove, and a hand-warmer was an inseparable item for her.

But now, holding her warm husband was much more comfortable than the stove and hand-warmer.

Suddenly, Xue Ning pushed Li Yuan and said, "Go attend to your affairs."

Her eyes were full of reluctance, but she didn’t want to burden her own man.

But, she couldn’t push him away.

Li Yuan smiled and said, "Today, let’s just do this."

"Do what? Stay in bed all day?" Xue Ning remarked, dissatisfied, "We’re an old married couple, yet still clingy like newlyweds? Besides, I really can’t handle you coming at me again."

Li Yuan said, "I won’t, let’s just hug a while longer."

Xue Ning pushed him again, speaking words like "a man should prioritize his career," but she couldn’t push him away no matter what.

Helpless, Xue Ning had no choice but to give up.

But in her heart, she didn’t know how happy she was.

She lay peacefully in Li Yuan’s arms and soon fell into a deep sleep again.

Li Yuan turned his head slightly, gazing outside the window...

After a while, the autumn rain messily began to fall, the entire courtyard, the entire manor, and the small town behind the manor and the green hills beyond were shrouded in this bone-chilling misty rain.

On the manor’s plaque, the four characters "Chenxi Manor" were repeatedly washed by rain, revealing their luster. This manor name was given by Xue Ning, who, it is said, hoped that the children would all be like the morning sun, able to flourish continuously. However, flourishing children often leave the original land, heading to higher, farther skies where family can no longer see them.

And within the manor, the sound of children loudly reading could be faintly heard. The content of the books was just some character recognition material, and the reading children had already adapted to being new generation Ice Barbarians here.

The crows flapped their wings in the rain, Xiaozhao sat quietly, with long, deep, jet-black hair tied into a ponytail cascading peacefully behind her, as she sat in the study, looking at various books and addressing various issues of the Cloud Mountain Commerce Association.

These allowed her to grow quickly, maturing from the little girl who "loved painting every day, shouting ’looking for daddy’." However, she was still just dealing with simple matters now. After all, without experiencing the baptism of blood and fire, how can one stand alone?

...

The next day, the autumn rain stopped, yet the sky remained overcast.

Li Yuan ate breakfast personally made by Xue Ning and routinely left "Chenxi Manor," heading to the distant desolate desert.

The consolidation of "Human World Transformation" suddenly made him realize "he no longer needed Celestial Thunder Possession to break through the Fourth Grade," and now he was going to try.

Once there was no one around, Li Yuan rose into the air, his flesh and blood rapidly moved in a way imperceptible to the naked eye, it was as if the sluice gates had opened, drawing fire to blaze across the entire heart.

This change caused his strength to rise momentarily.

He carefully sensed and confirmed.

Indeed, he entered the Fourth Grade. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Then, it’s to attempt integrating Dragon Breath into the power of ’Domain’."

Li Yuan closed his eyes.

Suddenly, a hum sounded, forming a violently vibrating sphere dozens of feet around him, cutting the air chaotically.

Li Yuan scattered the thought.

In an instant, the space around him formed deep red flames, this was normal use of fire.

Li Yuan pulled out the Cyan Snake Blade, and with a slight tremor of his palm, "Dragon Breath" had already gathered on the blade.

This destructive power quietly consolidated within the Cyan Snake Blade, but with just a slight touch, it would erupt into a crimson, scorching impact.

"One Breath."

Li Yuan whispered.

He tried to strip this power into the Domain.

As it was stripped, a stable deep red spherical cluster detached from the Cyan Snake Blade.

Its power was too violent, so it couldn’t be harnessed into a crescent blade shape like previous Sword Qi, only trying as much as possible to hold it within the "round" structure to achieve a temporary balance.

But in the next instant, this power exploded, blooming a dazzling light mid-air, igniting everything within several miles around.

If Li Yuan hadn’t specifically chosen a desert, just this one move would have ignited an unquenchable fire.

"No...once this power reaches the ’Domain’ level, it’s fundamentally uncontrollable.

I can’t even condense it into One Breath."

Li Yuan’s thought stirred, a crescent-moon blade energy appeared around him, forming eighty-one blades within several breaths.

The eighty-one blades merged into one, with a casual flick, Li Yuan shaved the top of the hair clean off a monkey perched on a treetop two or three miles away.

The monkey froze for a moment, then screamed in panic, "squeak, squeak, squeak," and ran around wildly.

Li Yuan casually flicked again.

Boom!!

A portion of a hillside not far away seemed to be gnawed by a monster, directly crumbling away a deep notch.

The peak remained straight, the mountain base unmoved, yet oddly a chunk was missing just from the hillside.

The fleeing monkey was dumbfounded, stunned in place, before fleeing far away in a panic once more.

Li Yuan retracted the Sword Qi and slowly descended.

"My control over Sword Qi has become more precise, I could even liken it to a surgeon’s scalpel, ensuring no accidental injuries occur."

"But...I can’t consolidate Dragon Breath into Sword Qi after it enters the ’Domain’ phase."