[Year 806]
It had been over half a year since they arrived in Deston Prefecture. No one knew what Xinnian was busying himself with every day.
Inside the Chamber of Commerce, Li Changsheng and Li Changyao consistently looked utterly bored.
Having arrived in this place filled with disputes from all sides, this brother and sister pair had instead ended up enjoying a leisurely time.
"Brother, you stroll around Highsun City every single day, wandering here and there. What difference is there between you and a street loafer?"
On the street, Li Changyao, dressed in white, wore a look of utter helplessness.
Rolling her eyes, she pushed her older brother, who was sitting in a wheelchair, all over the place.
It wasn't that he was crippled; he was simply lazy... Had it not been too bizarre to drag someone around on a flat cart, Li Changyao guessed her older brother would have laid on a bed and made her, his younger sister, pull him through the streets.
Li Changyao slightly suspected that this older brother of hers was treating her like a driver.
"You are completely wrong about that. What do you mean, 'street loafer'? One must plan thoroughly before making a move.
Right now, Deston Prefecture and the Wu tribes are fighting back and forth; who can say for sure that Highsun City won't fall on any given day?
Furthermore, there is the Lotus Ferry Nunnery, Min Tiange's Peerless Pavilion, and even Ba Siyu.
I can see right through it—every single one of them is secretly harboring malicious schemes in the dark, and all of them want to break through their cultivation realms."
Li Changsheng grinned and said,
"We not only need to fight them covertly, but we must also carefully keep our guard up.
And you—your temper is just as explosive as the High Ancestor's.
Since the family's Void-Soul Exchanging Dao Technique hasn't been applied to you, don't even think about trying to fight those people.
It's best if you just obediently follow my orders and stop thinking about stirring up trouble all day long."
"Since when do I stir up trouble..."
Just as Li Changyao's voice faded, Li Changsheng narrowed his eyes slightly.
A rumbling sound echoed from the clouds above, and a shadow gradually enveloped them.
Looking up, they saw spirit ships passing by from the Wu tribe battlefield one after another.
An unshakable, hostile aura began to radiate from Li Changyao's body, and the pink longbow that had accompanied her for hundreds of years had already materialized in her hand.
"What are you doing? Someone else will naturally deal with them!"
Li Changsheng suddenly sprang to his feet, snatched the longbow right out of Li Changyao's hands, and stowed it back into his spatial ring.
Hoisting his wheelchair onto his shoulder, he dragged Li Changyao into the crowd to hide.
Alongside a dark-faced Li Changyao, he watched the imposing man standing at the bow of the leading vessel among the dozen or so spirit ships.
This man was clad in a full suit of armor and wore a flowing cape.
With an eagle-like gaze staring straight ahead, he looked incredibly imposing and domineering.
"What right does he have? A deserter—what right does he have to command an army? What right does he have to act so high and mighty?!"
Li Changyao squeezed these words through clenched teeth.
"If this were our Azure Cloud Prefecture, I would have him executed this instant!"
Bi Shihu.
Li Changsheng stared calmly as the man passed overhead, his tone flat.
"He is still capable. Escaping from the Shadowfell Prefecture, leading his defeated troops to Deston Prefecture, going from being ostracized to winning over twenty major battles consecutively.
Now he is under the protection of the Imperial Protectors Guard, solely to preserve his army.
He is a talent; it is no wonder he is just as famous as Great-Aunt Tianyue."
"Brother, what is there to praise about such a person?" Li Changyao's expression was ugly. "I want to kill him!"
As if feeling that wasn't enough to vent her anger, she added, "I want to personally grind his bones to dust and scatter his ashes."
"The higher they stand, the harder they fall."
Li Changsheng smiled and said,
"You are taking him too seriously. In the matter of the Shadowfell Prefecture border pass, both he and the Yun family are merely chess pieces.
The ones we need to fight are the people behind the scenes. Your archery arts reaching great mastery is what is of the utmost importance."
"Mn."
Li Changyao nodded obediently; whatever her older brother said went.
Looking again at her older brother's cultivation level, it was even lower than it had been during their trip to Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems back in the day.
Li Changyao furrowed her brows tightly.
"Brother, why is your cultivation getting lower and lower? It has already dropped to the Early Nascent Soul realm now. Who knows when it might regress all the way back to the Golden Core realm."
"My cultivation regressing to the Golden Core realm is exactly because I am going to break through to the Divinity Transformation realm."
Li Changsheng smiled indifferently.
"Once I reach the Mortal realm, if I can dig out that pair of eyes inside my head, that will be a true liberation.
I have researched the Spiritual arts of the Human Emperor's Eye of Authority for hundreds of years, and I have slowly figured out some of its workings. When that time comes..."
Li Changsheng watched the spirit ships drifting further and further away.
"Then I won't have to hide anymore. Slaying Divinity Transformation realm cultivators will be like slaughtering pigs to me, and killing Void Refinement experts will merely require a bit more effort."
"As for you, you want to grind Bi Shihu's bones to dust and scatter his ashes.
Your Ice Phoenix bloodline needs to devour spiritual fire. Only when you reach the next realm will you be able to glimpse the laws of ice and fire.
With the Void-Soul Exchanging Dao Technique, you will definitely break through to the true Void Refinement realm within ten years."
Li Changyao's eyes widened perfectly round. "Brother, how can you see through everything?"
"I can even see where the spiritual fires of heaven and earth are hidden. You already ate all the spiritual fire in the Azure Cloud Prefecture. Deston Prefecture is a good place; the matter of your spiritual fire is settled."
Hearing this, Li Changyao's eyes lit up.
A white light welled up in Li Changsheng's eyes as he looked around in all directions, and everything in the world turned a pale white.
In the north and south, two clusters of flames could be seen slowly rising, with one cluster still actively shifting about.
"The uses of the Human Emperor's Eye are extensive indeed."
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