Chapter 536 - 300: The Power of a Single Sword, Arrival of the Great Cultivator!

"This direction, could it be you still want to return to Commandery City... Have you lost your mind?!"

Noticing Su Mu’s gaze direction, Li Linfeng’s eyes suddenly widened, staring straight at Wang Chan with an incredulous expression, as if looking at a complete madman.

"Thank you for your kind intentions, esteemed seniors. Wang Chan has decided, I cannot leave with you now... If I were to leave, I would no longer be myself."

"You, you..." Li Linfeng was extremely anxious, "Wang Chan, you are still young, don’t act impulsively. With your talent, temporarily avoid the limelight, and once you become a Martial Arts Grandmaster, how can the Tao Family threaten you!"

"Quickly leave with the ancestor, otherwise it will be too late."

Su Mu remained unmoved.

Li Heng murmured the phrase ’I would no longer be myself’, his eyes flickering more and more, finally giving Su Mu a meaningful look and shaking his head.

"No need to persuade any further."

"Ancestor, this, this..."

"Want me to escort you? Even a Great Cultivator can’t stop me."

Su Mu’s heart trembled slightly, a wave of emotion flashing in his eyes. After he punched and killed Tao Jidong, the Tao Family, whether for revenge for Tao Xinglie and Tao Jidong or for maintaining their family’s image.

He and the Tao Family were now locked in a life-and-death feud.

Earlier, Li Linfeng had hinted that the Tao Family had more than one Great Cultivator, yet Li Heng could make such a declaration; he must have a card that made him unafraid of a Great Cultivator making a move.

Although the Li Family currently had no Great Cultivator to preside, they could stand alongside the Tao Family among Donglai’s Four Great Families, obviously having their own foundation.

After the incident, Li Linfeng and Li Heng did not rush to distance themselves; instead, they wanted to help him escape. Seeing him unwilling to leave, they were even willing to escort him, showing true loyalty in times of adversity.

Not to mention the Li Family, at least Li Linfeng and Li Heng were not callous or selfish people, worth befriending.

"There’s no need."

Su Mu lightly shook his head, unwilling to implicate the Li Family.

Upon hearing this, Li Linfeng wanted to speak again but was interrupted by Li Heng raising his hand; the two turned around to descend the mountain without further words. Until their figures disappeared, Su Mu withdrew his gaze.

Immediately, he placed his hand on his chest, injecting spiritual power into the fish-shaped jade pendant.

One breath later.

The pendant trembled slightly, from within a divine soul awakened.

"The ancestor once said if I encountered an unscrupulous Third Grade old fool again, I could use the secret technique to awaken the ancestor... Today, perhaps there will be a Great Cultivator wanting to make a move against this boy."

"You sure know how to stir up trouble..."

The ancestor spoke coolly, "At that time, open your mind, leave everything to the ancestor... But the ancestor says upfront, with your current petty strength, if facing Wuque Third Grade, the ancestor can naturally slay them with one sword..."

"But only one sword... After that sword, you are on your own, boy."

One sword’s strength, huh.

Su Mu immediately cupped his hands towards the jade pendant floating before him, "Then I’ll trouble the ancestor first. This boy has one more question, why did Tao Jidong inside not have a power from the Tao Family Ancestor?"

"Even in the eyes of all, a Third Grade can call themselves ancestor, they are nothing across the world, the Tao Family’s two only have Third Grade cultivation, whereas the one you slew earlier was already at Fourth Grade peak; to fully annihilate a Fourth Grade peak is mostly done by a Third Grade cultivator."

"Thus, whether to leave or not makes no difference? Besides, using such means consumes the original’s cultivation, if someone is slain even the original’s mind will suffer some degree of injury."

After speaking, the Sun Family Ancestor snorted without further comment; the light of the pendant dimmed returning to Su Mu’s chest. With the ancestor’s promise to act, Su Mu’s eyes flickered, his mind in a whirlwind.

He turned his head to glance towards White Flood Dragon Peak, with his terrifying eyesight able to see figures rapidly moving down from the mountaintop.

From afar, it seemed like a group of panicked, fleeing ants.

Su Mu’s body emitted a series of cracking sounds, flesh and blood shifting as his face changed, then he donned a plain Confucian robe, leisurely organizing his hair crown, the Small Faceless Transformation Technique operating nearly to perfection, mysterious power circulating through his limbs before descending into his dantian.

The surging qi and blood power within his meridians quieted within several breaths, swiftly his dantian’s Gangjin Pill’s operation stagnated, this ancestral secret technique from the Pharmacist, capable of concealing cultivation beneath the Grandmaster Realm, was now pushed to the extremes by Su Mu for the first time.

Moments later...

Since Su Mu’s fifth refining force formed Gang Force, the Gangjin Pill for the first time became completely silent; as Gangjin Pill fell into deathly silence, the four hundred seventy paths of Vast Qi began sprouting like bamboo shoots after rain.

Instantly brilliant, entering the qi sea dantian, Vast Qi circulated in the meridians, a unique aura belonging to Confucian Cultivation emanated.

A flash of spiritual light in Su Mu’s hand, a volume of "Nurturing Vast Qi" appeared in his grip, he casually rolled the yellowed footnote of the ancient texts, obliquely inserting it into his waist.

Several breaths later.

No one noticed that among the ant colony fleeing down the mountain, a Confucian Cultivator quietly added.

At the foot of the mountain, the Tao Family’s people encircle the mountain layer by layer, White Flood Dragon Mountain is one of Donglai’s Three Marvels, not only does it hold the legend of the thousand-year White Flood Dragon, but its terrain is also quite special.

The mountain’s three sides are like locks, steep and boundless, with only the front having a path to ascend the mountain, the other three sides with Dragon’s Might intertwined into the terrain, unless acted upon by a Great Cultivator, escaping from the other three sides is difficult.

And once someone ascends or descends from the other three sides, it will surely trigger White Flood Dragon Mountain’s qi mechanism, discernible at a glance.

At the moment on the mountain’s base plaza, several elders of the Tao Family unrestrainedly release powerful auras, a stream of formidable spiritual power probing over every descending figure.

Just as the elder at the Li Family Treasury once said, recklessly using probing techniques face-to-face to examine a cultivator’s cultivation is a grave taboo.