Follow the path of Dao from infancy

"Child, this is all we can do."

Ancestor Li Tianyuan spoke to Li Hao in a warm voice, "If we continue to forge a path for you, we might all burn out completely and still not be able to fill you up."

"But it's alright. You've already far surpassed your peers and entered a much broader heaven and earth. In the future, if you can cultivate another top-notch Soul Condensing Skill on your own, you'll be able to reach a higher level."

Seeing his weakened state, Li Hao sighed inwardly and nodded, "I understand."

"The efforts of our soul condensing have used up tenfold energy, yet only achieved a tenth of the effect. If you cultivate on your own, it will be much easier. This is just the beginning," another ancestor said.

"The future of the Li Family rests on your shoulders."

The other ancestors also voiced their thoughts, their spiritual thoughts significantly weakened, but their voices still firm and resolute.

"I will do my best to protect Dragon City."

Li Hao murmured softly.

The many ancestors didn't say much more, continuing to strengthen his Divine Travel Realm and Fifteen Li Realm, but the enhancement was limited.

Even the Power Passage Realm's strengthening only added a hundred thousand jin of strength to Li Hao.

The blessings received from the True Dragon were immense for ordinary people, but for Li Hao, if he could find more cultivation techniques, he would be able to accumulate even more strength.

The greatest gain this time was letting Li Hao know that 360 Heaven and Earth Law Manifestations were not the limit, and thus he could realize that the Extreme Realm he had initially forged was just the beginning.

However, this so-called beginning, over thousands of years in the Dayu Divine Dynasty, only a scarce few were able to touch it.

And not every realm could reach this initial Extreme Realm.

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With the inheritance of the True Dragon, Li Hao gained more freedom, and his needs became the Li Family's top priority.

Li Tianzong brought Li Hao many cultivation techniques, allowing for a quicker improvement of his cultivation level.

Li Hao then stopped going to the martial practice fields, only cultivating in his own courtyard.

He spent his days cooking and painting, with his artistic skills improving rapidly.

With the absorption of numerous cultivation techniques, all the major veins in Li Hao's body, including the 108 Veins plus the Yin and Yang Dual Pulse, opened up the Heaven and Earth Vein for him.

The Soul Refining Skill and the Object Control Qi Circulation Skill also became stronger. If he could safely leave the Mo River, Li Hao's Divine Travel Realm and Fifteen Li Realm would also be further enhanced, as the memories of his cultivation here could be taken with him.

At the age of eleven, Li Hao smoothly stepped into the Grandmaster Extreme Boundary, a terrestrial immortal.

With the assistance of the Heaven and Earth Vein in the transformation into an immortal, Li Hao attempted to manipulate the rules, and indeed there was an effect. His recollection of previous cultivation revealed more, giving him a sense of déjà vu during regular practice.

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Now, Li Hao was focusing on achieving Spiritual Awakening through the path of cooking.

He must successfully awaken spiritually before the age of eighteen to step into the Three Immortal Realms.

As Li Hao grew rapidly, the demons outside Dragon City grew increasingly restless.

The harmonious and joyful atmosphere within the Divine General Mansion gradually decreased. Most evenings, Li Tianzong would even stare blankly at maps and military manuals, unaware that his food had gone cold.

And the eldest, Li Xingbei, second brother Li Fengping, and others, would don their armor and serve in Dragon City, guarding the city walls.

When they occasionally returned, they often carried with them a solemn aura, clearly having been stained with much blood.

As others aged, they also left the Green Lotus Courtyard, some to venture elsewhere, some to guard Dragon City, leaving the courtyard deserted.

Li Hongzhuang was also nine years old, her bones measured as a ninth-grade battle physique, an elite talent.

But when Li Tianzong looked at his only daughter, he didn't encourage her to learn martial arts; instead, he hoped she would be an ordinary daughter and marry off, leading a stable life.

Though practicing martial arts could provide protection, once embarked on that path, one could no longer live in peace.

For instance, should some border town be in trouble, if she did not practice martial arts, she wouldn't consider going to reinforce them.

The moment one stepped onto the martial path, becoming entangled in the rights and wrongs, merits and faults, escape became difficult.

Li Hao could understand Li Tianzong's thinking. Looking at Li Hongzhuang, who had barely survived defending Heavenly Gate Pass, he knew that if she had not practiced martial arts, at least she herself would have had a much more comfortable life.

Given the wealth and status of the Li Family, her in-laws wouldn't dare to mistreat her, and at least she could enjoy a peaceful life of ease.

However, the Li Hongzhuang here was tracing embroidery designs, but the Li Hongzhuang outside had already picked up the sword and stepped onto the battlefield. Perhaps this was the destiny etched into the Li Family's bloodline.

Li Hao did not know what the Li Hongzhuang outside was like as a child, but he guessed she was mostly the same as now, once handling embroidery needles like a young lady from a reputable family, until everything was shattered by the invasion of demons and the consecutive deaths of the nine sons of the Li Family.

Li Hao took a deep breath. He knew that as he continued to grow, the overlap with history would soon arrive here as well.

At the age of thirteen, Li Hao achieved spiritual awakening in cooking.

The strength of his own cultivation level reduced the influence of the Mo River's rules on him, and that somewhat illusory sensation helped him to successfully complete the spiritual awakening.

With the addition of points, Li Hao also stepped into the Three Immortal Realms, and such growth had brought a welcome surprise to Li Tianzong, whose temples had begun to turn white over the past two years, easing the wrinkles on his forehead considerably.

Li Hao took the opportunity to propose that he wanted to go outside Dragon City to slay demons.

He had discussed with Li Xiaoran that if he grew at a fast enough pace, he could reduce the number of demons beforehand. By the time he was to defend Dragon City, the pressure would be much less.

Li Tianzong was somewhat hesitant about this, but Li Xiaoran stepped forward, promising to secretly protect Li Hao. Seeing this, Li Tianzong agreed and temporarily entrusted the Listening Rain Tower to the care of the third son, Li Xuanyin.

Li Xiaoran had by now found his Tao Heart and reached the Tao Heart Realm. Looking at Li Hao, who entered the Three Immortal Realms at the age of thirteen, he smiled wryly, thinking that this pace of growth seemed even faster than Li Hao's outside cultivation progress.

But here, Li Hao still needed to sleep, skipping over a lot of time.

They had been inside for less than a month in total.

"Now that I have you as my assistant, we can start by eliminating the demons lurking within the city," said Li Xiaoran.

At this moment, Li Hao's strength was not much different from that of his true body outside the Mo River.

Li Hao had no objections to this; the familiar feeling of power gave him a sense of security.

Besides easing Dragon City's defensive pressure by hunting the Demon King in advance, Li Hao also wanted to use the corpses and precious blood of these demons to test out the heretical cultivation technique he had deduced.

The cultivation techniques he comprehended here were slightly different from the ones outside. For example, Li Tianzong had borrowed some peerless techniques from other Divine General Mansions through letters, exchanging them for the unparalleled techniques of Listening Rain Tower, which allowed Li Hao to deduce two unfamiliar cultivation techniques relying on the seventh stage of the Physical Body Path.

One was a cultivation technique that strengthened the physique, while the other refined the physique.

However, this physique-refining cultivation technique was somewhat nefarious, requiring a large amount of demon flesh and blood.

Li Hao just took this opportunity to hunt demons for cultivation.

As Li Hao stepped out of the Divine General Mansion, golden light converged before his eyes, forming into the characters of the Mo River.

Activate the second side quest, Exploration.

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Li Hao was somewhat surprised, but then thought that it seemed to be his first time leaving the Divine General Mansion while conscious.

Whether he had left during the skipped times, he did not know.