novelraw Chapter 49 : Slander, They Slandered Me
Chapter 49 : Slander, They Slandered Me
Chapter 49: Slander, They Slandered Me
The voice of the Nascent Soul Great Devil kept echoing within the grand hall, and one could feel the entire place grow oppressively silent.
Meanwhile, Li Tianchen, hiding in the corner, was even more dumbfounded than Li Tianwei.
After all, the reason he had attended this banquet of victory was to investigate Li Tianwei’s background—how exactly he had managed to sneak into the Sacred Land of Lingxu.
With the appearance of these Nascent Soul Devils and the surrounding Filthy Resentful Aura, Li Tianchen had already concluded that Li Tianwei must be a devil.
Only that could explain how he had successfully deceived the elders of the Sacred Land of Lingxu and entered it under the guise of possessing a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
Originally, once those two Nascent Soul Great Devils had slain Liu Muyu, the outcome should have been already decided.
Yet, Li Tianchen had never expected that those two Nascent Soul Devils—those extremely bizarre entities—would actually turn their attention first toward Li Tianwei.
From the words of the Nascent Soul Devils, Li Tianchen could see that their appearance wasn’t for Liu Muyu at all—it was for Li Tianwei.
Upon witnessing this scene, the impression Li Tianchen had painstakingly built toward Li Tianwei completely collapsed.
“What’s going on? Weren’t they on the same side?”
“What in the world is happening here?”
Li Tianchen tried desperately to find an answer, his face full of disbelief.
The disciples who had survived in the hall, however, reacted differently.
Upon hearing the words of the Nascent Soul Devil, they couldn’t help but cast strange looks toward Li Tianwei.
As his power had grown, Li Tianwei could also sense those abnormal gazes directed at him.
His expression grew darker and darker, until his face was pitch-black.
“Good. Good. Very good! Devils, is it?”
Rage ignited from the depths of Li Tianwei’s heart—he could scarcely imagine that devils could be this vile.
He had originally believed that these devils, possessing Nascent Soul Realm strength, had at least some trace of cunning humanity—to have gone so far as to set up such a Hongmen Banquet.
That, at least, would have shown their strength.
But he never thought that these devils were far more wicked than he had imagined.
They actually slandered him—slandered someone like him, born with a Heavenly Spiritual Root and who had achieved Foundation in a Hundred Days—calling him a False Spiritual Root!
How despicable, how shameless! Surely their purpose was to destroy his Dao Heart.
He trembled with anger.
Li Tianwei’s gaze seemed to emit flames as he glared at the devils before him, who were still frowning and scanning him with their strange senses.
Inside Li Tianwei’s consciousness, the System had also fallen silent.
When it heard the devils claim that Li Tianwei was a False Spiritual Root, an indescribable feeling rose within it.
For some reason, the System even felt an urge—to pray for those devils.
It seemed certain that Li Tianwei would erupt and crush these two Nascent Soul Devils on the spot.
“Did you get your intel wrong? Making such a fuss over a False Spiritual Root—don’t tell me you’ve exposed yourselves?”
Because of the absolute difference in power, the Nascent Soul Devil didn’t take Li Tianwei’s Foundation Establishment cultivation seriously at all.
It had no idea just how terrifyingly furious Li Tianwei had become.
Instead, it kept berating the other devils.
Upon hearing the insult once again, Li Tianwei could no longer endure it.
“You devils are far too evil! Kill if you must, but to use such vile tricks to insult a person—how could anyone tolerate that!”
Li Tianwei’s eyes blazed with anger, and his aura no longer hid itself.
In an instant, liquefied Golden Core spiritual energy roared out.
It burst skyward in a flash—the terrifying fission-like spiritual power erupted violently, shaking the entire hall several times.
Immediately after, the Dao Intents of Death, Resentment, Killing, and Evil manifested.
Black mist coiled around Li Tianwei, and behind him, a dark shadow appeared, baring its teeth in a vicious grin.
In that instant, everyone in the grand hall—whether devils or the still-living disciples of the Sacred Land of Lingxu—all turned their eyes toward Li Tianwei.
His surging, distorted spiritual energy was manic and violent.
Combined with the four Dao Intents of Death, Resentment, Killing, and Evil, no one knew why, but they all felt a strange, bone-deep fear.
It seemed… that Li Tianwei appeared even more terrifying and twisted than the devils themselves.
Realizing this, the still-conscious disciples of the Sacred Land of Lingxu turned their gazes toward the two Nascent Soul Devils’ manifestations—deformed, warped, and full of wickedness.
Yet—
The resentment surging from Li Tianwei’s eruption kept mutating, and the energy within him kept exploding and consuming itself.
For a moment, the dense aura of resentment was even stronger than those devil manifestations, enveloping the entire grand hall.
“Th-this…”
In the corner, Li Tianchen trembled upon seeing Li Tianwei’s sudden eruption.
In his eyes, Li Tianwei had never been a devil—perhaps just a demonic cultivator’s spy planted within the Sacred Land of Lingxu.
No matter how he saw it, that was what Li Tianwei was to him.
But now, feeling this overwhelming pressure, Li Tianchen realized he could no longer muster even the thought of fighting Li Tianwei.
“This must be a joke! How is this even possible?”
Li Tianchen’s eyes were full of disbelief.
In his heart, no matter how much Li Tianwei improved, he was still a False Spiritual Root—someone he would one day expose and trample underfoot.
Yet now, it all seemed laughable.
How could a False Spiritual Root possess such power?
He couldn’t understand—Elder Ling had clearly said that Li Tianwei was a False Spiritual Root, the type that could never form a Foundation in his lifetime.
Even if Li Tianwei had formed one now, it must have been due to some trick.
But as Li Tianwei’s power exploded, Li Tianchen began to doubt everything.
He even subconsciously touched the ring on his hand.
“Don’t ask me. I don’t know either. I’m starting to wonder if my Divine Sense was wrong—if I actually mistook treasure for trash.”
“Little Chen, can you swap your brother’s body with yours?”
Elder Ling couldn’t help but ask.
Even as a remnant soul of an Out-of-Body Realm cultivator, he could still sense the Dao Intent erupting from Li Tianwei’s body.
Four Dao Intents—within a Foundation Establishment cultivator!
“Is that still a False Spiritual Root?”
Compared to Li Tianchen and Elder Ling, the ones even more shocked were the devils.
They, too, stared at Li Tianwei in disbelief.
Even beings like them, who fed on filth and resentment, began to wonder—could Li Tianwei himself be a devil?
The two Nascent Soul Devils, sensing Li Tianwei’s sudden outburst, hadn’t expected him to unleash the liquefied Golden Core-level spiritual power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator—
and even possess four Dao Intents.
“False Spiritual Root? Something’s wrong.”
Although devils had no Divine Sense like human cultivators, their detection abilities were unique.
Li Tianwei’s spiritual root couldn’t hide from them.
At this moment, even they realized that Li Tianwei was not ordinary.
Just as one of them tried to capture him, Li Tianwei’s aura suddenly shifted again.
“Resentment Channeling Curse!”
Li Tianwei chanted, igniting all the powers within his body, instantly linking them with the resentment of heaven and earth.
Facing Nascent Soul Devils, Li Tianwei knew he had to go all out.
Besides, these creatures—must die.
A devil should act like a devil.
It was fine if they invaded his body—but to destroy his Dao Heart and slander him for no reason?
If they weren’t devils but humans, Li Tianwei would have already cursed them for being unworthy to be called sons of men.