novelraw Chapter 504: Going Into Devil’s Way
Chapter 504: Going Into Devil’s Way
"Line up, right dress, eyes forward, salute!" Xia Yong’s heart was also in great pain. After thinking for a moment, he decided to say goodbye to Lin Feng in a military manner. With that thought, he immediately organized the formation and saluted Lin Feng with a military salute.
The nine men of the scout team lined up in a row, their military posture incredibly standard, their salutes immaculate. They were expressing their special feelings toward Lin Feng with their actions!
"Let’s go, start the car!" Lin Feng waved his hand, closed the car door, and signaled the driver to drive.
Upon hearing Lin Feng’s words, the driver started the car and slowly drove away.
Qian Duoduo’s eyes turned red.
Shang Yi’s eyes had also reddened.
The members of the scout team still maintained their saluting posture...
And on the car, Zhang Wenhua, who was responsible for leading the way, had nothing but respect for his commander’s younger brother. Never had there been a person, never had there been an instructor who could command such respect from the members of the scout team. Lin Feng, he truly was...
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Meanwhile, at the base of Jingming Mountain, chaos reigned within the Li Family, one of the four great prominent families, because their Young Master, Li Zerui, had succumbed to demonic obsession during cultivation!
After being defeated by Lin Feng, Li Zerui, filled with hatred for Lin Feng being more powerful than him, for Lin Feng taking his fiancée who should have belonged to him, he hated Lin Feng...
This obsessive hatred drove him mad, so after returning from Tianhai, Li Zerui began to cultivate with reckless abandon, like a madman ignoring all else. It has to be said that sometimes such stimulation can indeed be effective. A few days after his injuries had healed, Li Zerui’s cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds, to the sheer joy of the Li Family. Under such circumstances, Li Zerui was likely to surpass the old ancestors and become an S-level expert before the age of 30!
However, Li Zerui chose not to stop and consolidate his newly broken through AAA-tier peak realm. Out of hatred for Lin Feng, he recklessly sought to break through to the S-tier without any rest. Li Zerui cloistered himself alone, resolutely consumed all kinds of super elixirs from the Li Family, and coupled with his desperate forced cultivation, he touched the threshold of the S-tier in unbelievable conditions.
The Li Family was stunned to hear that Li Zerui had reached the S-tier bottleneck in such a short period, all of them were amazed. The journey from the late AAA-stage to the S-tier bottleneck usually takes at least five to ten years for others of his caliber, as the S-tier bottleneck is a vast divide. Thus, after reaching the late AAA-tier realm, one must accumulate True Qi over a long period until it becomes strong enough to touch the S-tier bottleneck. Yet astonishingly, Li Zerui did it in half a month!
The Young Master is truly a genius!
The Young Master is truly defying the heavens!
The Young Master, he...
...
At this moment, the entire Li Family was utterly shocked by Li Zerui’s extraordinary speed of cultivation. Such a rate of progress was unprecedented in the Li Family, even in the entire cultivation world. Several of the Li Family elders even decided that at all costs they would allow Li Zerui to focus on cultivation and become this generation’s S-tier expert in the Li Family. Becoming an S-tier expert before the age of 30 would be a legendary presence in the cultivation world, and perhaps... perhaps he could even reach another legendary level, a level that many have heard of but no one has ever entered!
With the tacit approval and support of his family, Li Zerui became even more frenzied. Every time he thought of Lin Feng, every time he recalled the events at Tianhai, Li Zerui was consumed with rage and intensified his cultivation efforts. Even during his numerous attempts to breach the S-tier bottleneck, Li Zerui’s mind was still shrouded by Lin Feng’s shadow!
Too much is as bad as not enough, especially when beset by the demons in one’s heart, and forcibly attempting to break through the S-tier was practically seeking death. However, to Li Zerui, the taboos of cultivators seemed non-existent as he continued his mad cultivation, ceaselessly charging at the S-tier bottleneck. He considered himself a cultivation genius, certain he could safely succeed in the breakthrough. Once he became an S-tier expert, the first thing he planned to do was to return to Tianhai to kill Lin Feng and take back Ding Wan’er...
Indeed, an accident occurred!
Today, as he prepared to breach the bottleneck again, Li Zerui couldn’t control the demonic obsession in his heart towards Lin Feng any longer. At the critical moment of the breakthrough, he lost control of his body and fell into demonic obsession!
"Ah!"
Li Zerui’s consciousness had disappeared, his eyes had turned blood red, his body exuded a boundless murderous aura, and his clothes were shattered in an instant, revealing skin covered in bulging veins. Now, Li Zerui looked as terrifying as a demon emerging from Hell!
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
...
Li Zerui, with no purpose, fiercely unleashed Punch Auras, striking the rocks of the cave walls where he cultivated, causing them to burst apart like thunderous explosions...
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
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Under the orders of the Li Family Patriarch, the old steward stood at the entrance of the cave where Li Zerui was cultivating, assisting Li Zerui in his seclusion. However, upon hearing the abnormal sounds from inside, the old steward knew something had gone wrong! Without the luxury to think any further, he immediately rushed into the cave and upon seeing Li Zerui, he instantly understood what had happened!
Disaster! The Young Master has succumbed to demonic possession!
Seeing the situation before him, the old steward knew there was no time to waste. Resolutely deciding to seal the Young Master’s meridians at all costs, otherwise he would definitely suffer a violent death due to his body exploding! With that thought, the old steward, who was also at the peak of the AAA-grade, swiftly charged toward Li Zerui, who appeared to be possessed by a Demon God!
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
...
Although Li Zerui had lost his consciousness, his body was still madly throwing punches filled with Fist Aura without any aim. To seal Li Zerui’s meridians in the shortest time possible, the old steward had no choice but to withstand the Fist Aura, forcefully approaching and pressing his True Qi against all of Li Zerui’s major acupoints to seal his meridians!
"Pfft!"
After completing this task, the old steward’s clothes were nowhere to be found, having been shattered by Li Zerui’s Fist Aura, and his body was covered in wounds. If it weren’t for the old steward’s abundant True Qi, he very likely would have been killed by Li Zerui just now. But even so, the old steward had sustained serious injuries. Seeing that Li Zerui’s meridians were successfully sealed, he could no longer hold on and spewed out a mouthful of fresh blood before fainting.
It wasn’t until evening, when Li Lei, who was responsible for delivering food to Li Zerui, entered the cave, that he saw the grievously damaged interior and the two people lying on the ground, causing him to be utterly shocked. He immediately ran non-stop to the Patriarch.
"Patri... Patriarch! The Young Master... The Young Master has succumbed to demonic possession! The Young Master has succumbed to demonic possession!" As Li Zerui’s attendant, who grew up with him, Li Lei was one of the people who cared most about Li Zerui. Upon seeing Patriarch Li Litian, he blurted out the news in panic. Although he was only an A-grade expert, he was very clear about what demonic possession entailed. There could be no mistake about such a matter.
"What! Zerui, he!" Upon hearing Li Lei’s words, Li Litian was instantly dumbstruck. He was well aware of the consequences of demonic possession. He had just been celebrating his son’s prowess, who managed to reach the brink of the S-grade in such a short time. It never crossed his mind that such an accident would occur. Impossible! Impossible!
"Patriarch, you must hurry and see the Young Master. The old steward is also on the ground heavily injured, and it looks very serious!" Knowing that the Patriarch might not believe it was true, Li Lei insisted. He had seen it with his own eyes; it definitely looked like a case of demonic possession, which was no laughing matter!
"Zerui!" Li Litian, finally believing Li Lei’s words, cried out in pain. Like a gust of wind, he vanished from the spot. Right now, he just wanted to see what state his son was in. He had never dreamt that his talented son would succumb to demonic possession—it was more agonizing than death itself!
But when Li Litian arrived at the cave where Li Zerui was cultivating, and saw the scene before his eyes, his heart felt like it was shattering. To raise his son, he had put in an immeasurable amount of effort to get Li Zerui to the level he reached. But now... he was lying before him, causing Li Litian’s heart to break!
Moreover, seeing the old steward’s wounded state, Li Litian realized that it was thanks to the old steward’s selfless actions that his son’s meridians were sealed, saving him from certain death!
But now...
"Ah!"
Li Litian shouted loudly, then picked up a person with one hand and disappeared like the wind back into the cave...
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"Dong! Dong! Dong!"
The loud sound of the Ancient Bell rang three times, signifying that all members of the Li Family responsible for household affairs were to gather for an important discussion. Normally, the bell would only be rung once during the New Year!
What on earth had happened?
Why was the bell ringing now?
This was too strange!
...
Hearing the sudden ringing of the Ancient Bell, those in charge of the Li Family affairs hurried to the Council Hall. The unexpected ringing of the bell surely indicated that something serious had occurred, and they could not afford any delay, rushing towards the Council Hall at top speed.
When everyone arrived at the Council Hall and saw Li Zerui lying on a bed inside, their hearts shook. Li Zerui... had he succumbed to demonic possession? How could this be possible? He was the Li Family’s most prized genius, just having reached the bottleneck of the S-grade, and now... now he has succumbed to demonic possession!
It’s over!
It’s wasted!
What a pity!
...
On seeing Li Zerui lying there, everyone immediately thought to themselves that it was such a pity for such a formidable talent to have succumbed to demonic possession at such a young age. He could have possibly entered the S-grade before the age of 30, rising to become an unparalleled existence in the entire Cultivation World, challenging the prevailing belief that it was impossible to reach the S-grade before 30. But now... he was wasted like this, truly a terrible pity...