Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant-Chapter 298 - 223: Survival at the End of the Road

Chapter 298: Chapter 223: Survival at the End of the Road

After obtaining the demon blood, Li An immediately returned to the Xiling Forbidden Zone.

Along the way, Li An heard of the Great Li Dynasty’s latest decree: anyone attempting to break through to Nascent Soul without permission would be directly executed by the Great Li Dynasty!

The decree caused an uproar, as even though the Great Li Dynasty was powerful, such actions disregarded the world of sects.

Many sects voiced their opposition, only to be swiftly uprooted and destroyed!

This even included two powerful Nascent Soul families.

For a time, the world was silent in fear.

Those True Core cultivators who were about to attempt breaking through to Nascent Soul were even more worried, not knowing what to do.

To resist the Great Li Dynasty was a path to death, and trying to secretly break through was impossible, as the commotion of breaking through to Nascent Soul could be sensed from miles away and couldn’t be concealed.

Moreover, the reason given by the Great Li Dynasty pointed directly at Li An: Li An, who should be at the Core Formation stage, must not be allowed to step into the Nascent Soul realm.

...

"What a tactic by Shangguan Shengxian!"

Even Li An couldn’t help but sigh. Shangguan Shengxian’s scheme left him breathless.

As Shangguan Xiaoxiao said, once Li An entered the Nascent Soul realm, he would essentially be free—at that time, his value to Shangguan Shengxian would greatly diminish.

And Shangguan Shengxian’s method of dealing with it was crude and direct.

Don’t allow anyone to break through to Nascent Soul!

Even if Li An was given top-grade Nascent Soul Pill and spirit veins as support, he wouldn’t dare to easily break through.

Because, the earth-shattering phenomena when forming a perfect Nascent Soul were incredibly astonishing and could last for days—it was impossible to hide from Shangguan Shengxian.

Shangguan Shengxian had forced him into a dead end. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"How many more years can your sister survive with her current cultivation?"

Li An, holding on to a glimmer of hope, asked one last question.

"Two to three thousand years, it’s not a problem."

Li An felt utter despair!

Now in his late-stage Golden Core, he was already over four hundred seventy years old, and his life span was only two thousand years.

He could live at most another fifteen hundred years.

Damn, he couldn’t outlast her!

It was his first encounter with an enemy he couldn’t outlive.

At this juncture, he had no choice but to go all out, and even needed to take the initiative to attack—

When escape was futile, Li An was definitely not afraid to face it head-on!

...

"Are you sure the entrance to the Demon Emperor’s tomb is nearby?"

In front of the Yellow Springs Valley, Li An asked, looking at the muddy river flowing out from the valley.

"It’s here."

Shangguan Xiaoxiao reassured him.

"What a pity."

Li An deeply lamented, the Demon Emperor’s tomb lay right before him; what kind of treasures might lie within the tomb of such a renowned figure in the Spirit Realm?

It’s beyond imagination!

Unfortunately, Li An dared not touch it at all right now.

Shangguan Shengxian had her eyes on Xiling, waiting for the Demon Race to uncover the Demon Emperor’s tomb, so she could find the entrance.

Li An and Shangguan Xiaoxiao trying to open the Demon Emperor’s tomb would undoubtedly cause a seismic shift—tombs hidden in the dimensional space have unimaginable spatial fluctuations when the dimensions intersect.

At that time, Shangguan Shengxian would certainly be the first to kill them.

Perhaps Li An and Shangguan Xiaoxiao wouldn’t even touch the Demon Emperor’s coffin before being killed by her.

The emperor’s tomb couldn’t be excavated, with the demonic pursuers behind them.

Now, they could only make preparations and lure Shangguan Shengxian here first—

"The demon blood is in hand, and we’re at the Yellow Springs Valley. Here is the Fifth Grade soul medicine you wanted; the entire Demon Race only has three of these."

In front of Yellow Springs Valley in the Xiling Forbidden Zone, Li An opened a cave mansion, set up an array to conceal his aura, and then released Shangguan Xiaoxiao from the Spirit Platform.

Li An handed her the three spirit medicines!

Celestial Soul Flower, Earth Soul Stone, Celestial Human Yellow Essence.

Even Li An was envious of these three spirit medicines, having never seen such treasures in two lifetimes.

Even a great cultivator at the Divinity Transformation Stage would fight over them!

If not for Shangguan Shengxian’s strong pressure, both Tan Qingxue and Li An would absolutely not hand such things to anyone else...

Now, Shangguan Xiaoxiao was the only hope.

Of course, Li An was not unprepared—after obtaining these three spirit medicines from Tan Qingxue, he nourished them using the aura of his Life Seed and his own poison.

After all, if Shangguan Shengxian had designs on the Demon Emperor’s tomb, wouldn’t Shangguan Xiaoxiao have the same?

Would she betray Li An?

Poisoning was Li An’s countermeasure!

Moreover, the poison refined by the Life Seed, once absorbed by her, could directly affect her Primordial Spirit state. Li An believed that even Shangguan Xiaoxiao would find it difficult to resolve the Life Seed’s poison.

"Even though I don’t know what tricks you’ve played, I can tell you that it’s all unnecessary."

Shangguan Xiaoxiao glanced indifferently at the three spirit medicines and said, "Leave behind the demon blood, and also give me the Rank Five Creation Jade, then go outside and protect me!"

Aside from the Rank Five spirit medicine, Li An had also asked the Demon Race for a Rank Five Creation Jade.

Tan Qingxue generously provided everything—evidently, the existence of Shangguan Shengxian terrified her as well.

－－If Shangguan Shengxian couldn’t be dealt with, even a wealth of resources and treasures would be meaningless.

...

Li An exited the cave, taking advantage as Shangguan Xiaoxiao restored her Primordial Spirit power, and meticulously surveyed the topography of Yellow Springs Valley.

Yellow Springs Valley got its name from a river that originated and flowed out from the valley, its water murky and yellowed, resembling the legendary underworld river of Yellow Springs.

According to legend, this place used to be the ancestral ground of a great power, and the river before him was once an endlessly spiritual holy river, but later that power collapsed, and the Spirit River turned into a dead river.