The despicable and shameless Ancestor had distanced himself from the battlefield.
From hundreds of miles away, he watched the Body Integration Daoist techniques surge.
Seeing the three Body Integration realm experts enter the Dusheng Nunnery, Li Wei stood in the air with his hands behind his back.
Having single-handedly broken the Dusheng Nunnery's grand array—something even three Body Integration experts struggled to breach—it was hard for him to avoid feeling a bit proud.
Li Kuanghua stood beside Li Wei, pointing at him blankly. "Ancestor, are... are you alright?"
Hearing this, Li Wei frowned and looked down.
He saw that half of his body had already been blasted to pieces. Buddhist runes were crawling over his wounds like maggots.
"..."
Li Wei fell silent for a moment.
In the battle at the Dusheng Nunnery, in order to allow Li Kuanghua to break through, he had faced Nun Dairou all by himself.
In the end, Nun Dairou was also truly infuriated. Disregarding everything else, she had used her true abilities against him, intending to finish him off so she could deal with Li Kuanghua.
At that moment, Li Wei was also scared. He grabbed Li Kuanghua and ran, pushing his spatial laws to the absolute limit, and his time laws as well.
Everything was fine while he was running, but now... his physical body was burning, and his soul was being annihilated under the Buddhist Dharma mark.
After so many years, Li Wei finally felt extreme pain once again, as if countless ants were biting and tearing at his body.
"Calm down, calm down!"
Li Wei took a deep breath, slowly turned his head, and looked at Li Kuanghua, who was covered in sweat.
He said calmly, "It's quite interesting. The Demoness Dairou actually has a second type of Dao—Buddhist Fire. Once tainted by her Buddhist fire, death is certain. This is also her trump card."
"Go on. Yunlin and the others are waiting for you. Our Li Clan's reckoning with them has only just begun."
A gentle breeze blew through the cloudy sky, and the black fire on the Ancestor's body flickered.
The terrified Li Kuanghua was stunned for a moment.
As expected of the Ancestor! Even with half of his body destroyed, and his physical body and divine soul ravaged by Buddhist fire, he remained so calm and breezy.
No matter the situation, he always maintained this demeanor of a heavenly being.
She immediately complied. Sensing the bloodline auras of her clansmen nearby, she hurriedly went over.
As soon as Li Kuanghua left, Li Wei's face turned pale.
"Holy shit!" he growled through gritted teeth, before dissipating on the spot like a wisp of blue smoke.
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[You have died...]
[This descent into the game world consumed 5,000 points of Clan Will.]
[Currently entering the Ancestral Space in an illusory form...]
Li Wei reappeared in the Ancestral Space. The trip to the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems had yielded a massive amount of Clan Will.
Although he had consumed some over the years, he still had a reserve. This Clan Will was enough for him to resurrect dozens of times.
The scene of facing Nun Dairou in the Dusheng Nunnery just now remained vivid in his mind. Li Wei couldn't help but get goosebumps.
"I still underestimated the Body Integration realm, and I underestimated the Demoness Dairou.
I thought that by deepening my application of spatial and time laws through decades of cultivation, I would already be able to arm-wrestle a Body Integration expert. I was way off."
Inside the Dusheng Nunnery, he couldn't do anything besides run away and cause destruction.
Nun Dairou was also a shrewd schemer; she had long prepared a sure-kill method. Fortunately, he reacted in time at the very end and brought Li Kuanghua out.
"But it's no wonder Void Refinement realm cultivators dare to scheme for Body Integration realm opportunities."
Li Wei carefully pondered this battle.
In his view, reaching the Void Refinement realm meant the gap between it and the Body Integration realm didn't look huge, yet it was also a world of difference.
The Spiritual power intensity of Nun Dairou at the Body Integration realm wasn't excessively stronger than his.
His current strike was comparable to a 0.5-gram antimatter bomb, though the range wasn't as large. Nun Dairou's Spiritual power was, at most, twice as strong as his.
What made Nun Dairou truly powerful was her Body Integration pressure.
Under her Great Dao of the "Green Mountain," one would bear a heavy burden; wherever she looked, her Daoist techniques would manifest.
Wherever her will deemed to be a green mountain, that place became a green mountain, and cultivators would be forced to suffer the suppression of the green mountain.
Li Wei's cultivation base could withstand it, and his spatial laws allowed him to dodge it.
A Void Refinement cultivator with a slightly lower cultivation base and no special laws would likely explode and die.
Moreover, the application of techniques at the Body Integration realm relied more on the use of certain techniques, such as the Buddhist fire burning Li Wei's physical body and divine soul.
As for the world of difference, it lay in the fact that within the "Dao" of a Body Integration expert, laws could still be used.
Yet Li Wei discovered that no matter how he used his spatial laws, it was extremely difficult to cause any damage to Nun Dairou.
It was as if he were a miner using "spatial laws" to form a hoe.
By entering Nun Dairou's vicinity, he had entered her "Green Mountain," and it was very difficult for a single person to hollow out an entire mountain.
"It's not that the Void Refinement realm is completely incapable of dealing with a Body Integration expert.
As long as one exhausts the opponent's Great Dao, it can even cause them to fall, just like the Zhao Clan's Ancestor back then."
Gaining a deeper understanding of the Body Integration realm also gave Li Wei some peace of mind.
Now that Body Integration experts were contending in Shadowfell Prefecture, and their enemies were also at the Body Integration realm, as long as they weren't invincible, there was nothing to be afraid of.
Amidst his thoughts.
"Hmm?"
Li Wei let out a soft sound of surprise and vanished from the spot. When he reappeared, he was already beside his clansmen.