"g!"
Li Yaotie's massive hammer struck down, and a surge of true energy spread out, causing the tremors withihunderfire Cave to intensify.
He was inscribing the Thirty-Six Instantaneous Hammers teique into his Golden Core. Although it was only a Yellow Rank teique, it was undoubtedly the most suitable one for Li Yaotie!
Time flew by.
As the otion from Li Yaotie's f grew louder and louder, the eardrums of all the demon cultivators ihunderfire Cave were dominated by the sound of his hammering. They developed the habit of cultivating within "silent formations." Their greatest joy each day was to leave the Thunderfire Cave and join the cultivators of the Demon Subduing Allian b random locations, pining about the ck of peace within the Cave.
[Year 96]
The sound of hammering tinued, and the children were still running. But now, they had removed all the iron bars from their Nine-Layered Profound Heavy Armor. They could even run at high speed around the Thunderfire Cave. Li Kuahe most diligent cultivator, could even jump, and Li Kuanghua was surprisingly practig punches. Only Li Kuangtu was slightly behind.
No one knew what hardships they had ehese past two years. Besides pushing their physical aal limits, they even had to be wary of the demon cultivators' pranks.
Those mischievous demon cultivators would even take them a dozen kilometers away and make them run back.
Sometimes, the demon cultivators would cast teiques to increase gravity several times over, f the children to crawl like turtles. Other times, they would unleash a ferocious beast behind them, sg them into running for their lives to avoid further injuries to their backsides... The torment they endured was endless and varied.
Heaven knows how they entered so many pranks. What kind of psychological damage did those demon cultivators infli them during these short two years, causing such ges in their personalities?
"Huff, puff, finally free!"
In front of a cave emitting demoniergy with a hint of Buddhist light, the three children stopped. Li Kuangtu, panting heavily, let out a long breath.
Despite being more familiar with the demon cultivators, Li Kuanghua still maintained her delicate appearance. However, she now wore a mog smile and spoke with surprising boldness, making it hard to believe she was ohat timid girl who endured bullying without daring to tell anyone.
"Useless brother," she said, "you shouldn't be thinking about whether you're free from the armor, but about what we'll faext. Be mentally prepared, or it won't just be your backside getting bitten, you know. I've heard there are many pervert demon cultivators among them."
"What?!"
Li Kuangtu's expression ged drastically, and he quickly straightened his back, "I uand, sister, I want to keep my little brother!"
Li Kuangren now had the appearance of a young man. His expression was increasingly resolute, and the ers of his mouth curved upwards slightly. "Kuanghua," he said, "stop sg the you. Just a few months ago, he was captured by a pervert demon cultivator a his pants."
"Elder Brother..."
Li Kuangtu blushed. "How could I not be scared?" he retorted. "He even started taking off his clothes! If Sed Grandfather hadn't arrived, I would have been done for."
"Hahaha!"
Li Kuangren and Li Kuanghua ughed heartily, their chivalrous spirit even more pronounced.
Slowly, they removed their armor. Their expressions were filled with pride. If their great-grandfather weren't still in the midst of his breakthrough, they would have already goo his cave to tell him that they hadn't disappointed him.
The moment they took off the armor, they could sense a remarkable differen themselves pared to before they had put it on.
"BOOM!"
A surge of true energy erupted from their bodies, and they stared in disbelief at their transformation.
After being suppressed and undergoing interaining, ing tless pills, they had all reached...
The peak of Qi Refining!
After joyfully adjusting to their newfound strength and putting on clothes borrowed from the demon cultivators, they frowned and looked at the cave-dwelling before them.
Uher pces in the Demon Cave, this cave housed two young people, a boy and a girl, sitting on bd gold lotus ptforms.
They wore checkered monastic robes, one gold and one bck. Demoniergy and Buddhist power were uedly iwined, both geing and tering each other!
If these two peculiar monks were to stand up, one would surely resemble a wrathful guardian with fiery eyes, while the other, a serene figure radiating boundless passion.
"Why are Fourth Brother and Fifth Sister cultivating in such a strange way?"
Li Kuangtu's voice was filled with fusion. These were Li Kuangshi and Li Kuangcai, whom they had been iing with for several years. Back then, the two siblings would burn inse and worship Buddha every day.
It wasn't until Li Kuangtu came to the Thunderfire Cave and started cultivating with his elder brother and sister that he finally saw them.
Their eyes remained closed. As far as they khe two had maintaihis posture for two years, just like when they used to burn inse and worship Buddha. But they certainly weren't worshipping aial Buddhas now.
And now, despite their arduous cultivation, they found that they were still no match for Li Kuangshi and Li Kuangcai!
Meanwhile, in front of the s.
Li Wei smiled faintly. He clicked on the is of Li Kuangcai and Li Kuangshi and found their past events log.
[Year 92: Li Kuangcai and Li Kuangshi, who were devoted to Buddhism, were sent by the family to the Thunderfire Cave.]
[Their Buddhist nature was deeply ingraiheir focus solely on the Buddhist path, detached from worldly affairs. A wisp of the soul of Fang Linglong, the Demon Lord of the Cave, arrived, intrigued by the two children. She made a bet with them, leaving behind a demonic seed in their cave. If they could resist the demonifluence, she would allow them to return to the Buddhist temple. If they couldn't, it would prove they were unworthy of being Buddhists.]
[Year 93: They found it difficult to resist the demoniflueo prevent his twin sister, Li Kuangcai, from falling into the demonic path, Li Kuangshi absorbed the demonic seed into his own body.]
[Seeing her brother's as, Li Kuangcai, uo bear the thought of him succumbing to demonifluence, used her Buddhist power to maintain his sanity.]
[Through years of struggle between their demonid Buddhist natures, the demonid Buddhist powers within their bodies uedly grew and merged. They gradually realized that Buddhism and demonic cultivation were not mutually exclusive and came to uand the importance of family. Acquired trait —]
[Ohought, Buddha and Demon!]
[her Buddhism nor demonic cultivation strain their beliefs any loheir state of being, whether Buddhist or demonic, ot influeheir true nature. They cultivate all teiques and martial arts of both Buddhist and demonic paths. In their Buddhist state, their cultivation speed increases by 30%, and they suppress all evil teiques. In their demonic state, their bat power increases by 40%, and they are not restrained by righteous teiques.]
"Sending them to the Demon Cave back then was ihe right decision. We should be grateful to the Demon Lord."
Li Wei smiled.
These two were actually the most naturally gifted among the fifth geion of the Li family. Although they were no longer bound by Buddhist precepts, they had developed a dislike for noise and otion and preferred quiet cultivation.
The only noticeable effect was that they were quite indifferent to outsiders, except for each other. They were someolite to their Li family retives, though.
Li Wei had even overheard their whispers oheir greatest dream was to master their skills and kill the Demon Lord who had cast the demonic seed upon them.
Noart from cultivation, they focused solely on cultivation, paying no attention to the outside world.
No wonder Li Yaotie had said that these two children were almost useless.
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