[Your desdant, Li Yaowen's, heavenly tribution is immi. She has unleashed the power of all four seasons, an act that usurps the natural order of heaven ah. The heavens are enraged!]

  "Whew~ Thankfully, those elders of the Azure Cloud Pavilion all value their lives."

  Watg the se on the s, as the area around Azure ountain shifted from wi, and everyone in the Azure Cloud Pavilion, from top to bottom, hesitated to intervene due to the threat of the heavenly tribution, Li Wei's worries finally subsided.

  He and Li Yaowen had been pnning this for seven years!

  This coordinated operation had been premeditated; they had calcuted every aspe advance.

  One of their objectives was to utterly ruin the Azure Cloud Pavilion's reputation. What is "memory of Azure Clion"? A rotten memory, a memory of cowards, does that even t as a memory?

  This is the price the Azure Cloud Pavilion must pay now!

  Li Yaowen, alone, using her own heavenly tribution as a threat, had intimidated the entire Azure Cloud Pavilion; their Golden Core elders dared not take half a step out of their mountain gates!

  "Aor, there are molden Core auras within the Azure Cloud Pavilion."

  Li Yaowen tio stare at the Azure Cloud Pavilion with an impassive expressioly stroking the aral tablet as she whispered softly.

  At this moment, the cultivators who had been s on their swords outside the Azure Cloud Pavilion, under Pavilion Master Gu gsheng's orders, had retreated baside and were vigintly watg Li Yaowen. Judging from their posture, if Li Yaowen took a siep forward, the disciples and elders of the Azure Cloud Pavilion would scatter in all dires.

  [Be careful]

  "Yes, Aor. If they truly act impulsively, this child is not foolish. I will simply flee."

  Li Yaowen merely smiled faintly.

  [Aor's Warm Embrace x2]

  ...

  This day, ih year of the Li family, was truly like a harsh winter blizzard for the entire Azure Clion.

  At the foot of Azure ountain y Azure Cloud Torosperous nd where the people were skilled in martial arts. tless talented youths from all over the Azure Clion gathered there, hoping to gain the favor of the legendary Azure Cloud Pavilion and bee its disciples.

  [Azure artial Pavilion]

  Braving the swirling snow, talented youths from all twenty-four districts of Azure Clion, none older than fifty, had gathered here. It was time for the young martial artists' petition. The champion would bee a personal disciple of an Azure Cloud Pavilion elder. Even those withiop ten could directly "leap over the dragon gate" and bee inner disciples of the Azure Cloud Pavilion.

  After several rounds of petition, it was finally time for the final showdown on the arena.

  It was the most exg moment of the petition.

  Suddenly...

  "Bang!"

  After shaving his beard, Li Tianyi, still disheveled, desded from the sky. Dust and smoke billowed within the arena, attrag the attention of the thousands gathered there.

  Li Tianyi gnced around at the crowd. After spending seven years digging graves, he wasn't quite used to seeing so many people upon emerging.

  "Tehs," he decred. "Those uo the Azure artial Pavilion, leave immediately. You won't find a future with the Azure Cloud Pavilion, because the Azure Cloud Pavilion itself has no future."

  His words were like hot oil, causing an uproar within the Azure artial Pavilion.

  Some hurled insults, some sensed something amiss a, while others immediately moved to surround Li Tianyi.

  Li Tianyi remained unfazed. He calmly took out his Cloud Tide Zither, and the spirit on, the Great River Dragon General Picture, materialized behind him.

  Even more people fled from the Martial Pavilion.

  He calmly observed the surrounding crowd, the cmor no longer reag his ears. He silently set up the altar and lit the inse.

  When the people of the Azure artial Pavilion saw the character "Li" on the aral tablet, along with the name of the Pig Demon King, their expressions finally ged!

  Li Tianyi remained unmoved, simply bowing respectfully.

  Many years ago, when he was still a child, his maternal great-grandfather told him that one day, with his talent, he would surely stand out amongst his peers. His great-grandfather would watch from below as he became the most outstanding genius in all of Sky Jade region.

  Back then, he didn't take those words to heart at all. pared to that, he was more ed about whether his younger siblings would be actally killed while pying with his great-grandfather and the spirit beasts of the Silver Iron Forest.

  Whether he became a genius or not truly didn't matter to him; the safety of his younger siblings was the most important thing.

  But now...

  "Tehs have passed."

  In an instant, cries of anguish filled the air!

  From the image of the Great River Dragon General, the teiques once used by the aor of the Su family emerged. Dragons rampaged, and shrimp soldiers and crab generals swarmed forth!

  The twenty-three old men materialized behind Li Tianyi. They theered the bodies of the dragons, shrimp soldiers, and crab generals, assisting Li Tianyi in the sughter.

  Even though they were only fragmented souls, those old men were once beings above the Soul stage. The Azure artial Pavilion, located in a mere rural town, was hailed as a cultivation sanctuary, but it only had a few False Core Formation experts. None were a match for them.

  Li Tianyi sat and pyed his zither.

  The zither's sound resonated, and the strings burst forth from the instrument, slig across the necks of those so-called geniuses!

  Floating clouds desded from the sky, eng the entire Azure artial Pavilion.

  This was a teique from the Earth-grade cultivatiohod "Azure Cloud Unfallen": using the azure clouds to trap the enemy!

  After half an hour, aside from Li Tianyi, there was no o alive iire Azure artial Pavilion. The zither strings returo the Cloud Tide Zither, and Li Tianyi pyed the final note.

  He then withdrew the image of the Great River Dragon General, held his zither, and pced the altar ba the martial arts stage. In this pce littered with corpses, he once again lit inse and k in worship.

  "Great-grandfather, did you see that?"

  "Your child truly is a genius, not just in Sky Jade region, but the most formidable genius iire Azure Clion!"

  "From today onwards, everyone will know about your child, and they will know that I am yreat-grandson."

  Li Tianyi kowtowed so forcefully that he cracked the fighting ptform.

  It was as if he wao knock all his regrets bato the world.

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