Chapter 5: The Path is Opened!

  The mighty aura of the lotus flower, however, caught Li Yunxiang's eye. At this time, he discovered that on the petals of the lotus flower, there were other living beings.

  Three six-winged golden silkworms were trembling and crouching on the lotus leaf. Li Yunxiang felt that the aura on his body was from the same origin as theirs. The three little guys in front of him also sensed the ancestral silkworm aura on Li Yunxiang's body, and they were so scared that they lowered their small heads even further. They had no resistance to the aura on Li Yunxiang's body, trembling with fear, and were naturally suppressed.

  Li Yunxiang's arrival was clearly unwelcome. At this time, a young girl suddenly appeared on the lotus leaf, wearing a dark-colored long dress and barefoot.

  "Brother!" A soft voice, yet it awakened Li Yunxiang from his daze. Looking at the shy little girl in front of him, Li Yunxiang was taken aback. He soon came to his senses, realizing that this was actually You Jing's transformed body.

  "What's your name, little sister?" Li Yunxiang asked softly, looking at the girl in front of him. Her cute expression instantly captivated Li Yunxiang.

  The little girl looked at Li Yunxiang, but she showed a puzzled expression.

  "Oh, it's your name." Li Yunxiang reminded.

  "My name is You Jing You Lian." The little girl said shyly. Li Yun Xiao was speechless, looking at the girl in front of him, but guessing that the other party's intelligence might not even have a name yet.

  "From now on, you'll be my little sister, and your name will be Li Youyou, okay?" Li Yunxiang said seriously to the little girl in front of him.

  "Woohoo" Oh, I have a name now! Haha, amidst the joyful laughter, it quickly ran to the bottom and flew around in excitement on top of three small golden silkworms.

  He withdrew the aura from his body and quietly looked at the few people below. The oppressive force disappeared, but the three small golden silkworms grew larger in size and flew to Li Yunxiang's front. Upon seeing Li Yunxiang's nine-winged golden silkworm body clearly, he suddenly understood why he had felt such fear just now. It turned out that the other party was actually the patriarch of his own clan, and the innate oppressive force could not be resisted.

  Looking at the three golden silkworms in front of him, he didn't expect that all three of them had already reached the realm of Tianxian. Although it was only the early stage of Tianxian, Tianxian was still Tianxian. The immortal spirit energy on their bodies couldn't be faked.

  The other party reached the realm of heavenly immortals in a short period of 10,000 years without the guidance of any cultivation method, which shows that the qualifications of these three golden silkworms are not bad.

  Three small golden silkworms gazed at Li Yunxiang for a long time before simultaneously folding their wings and kneeling down again in mid-air.

  "Alright, you three get up now. From now on, you will be the three deputy chiefs of my clan. I grant you the names Li Yu, Li Yun, and Li Zhi. You will be in charge of gathering and educating the newly born nine-winged golden silkworms in the valley." The three little golden silkworms were extremely delighted to have their own names.

  "Thank you, Chief," the three said.

  The appointment of the three was a sudden idea that burst forth from Li Yunxiang. Looking at the newly born three, Li Yunxiang knew that he himself was not of the same race as them. Since more people of their kind would inevitably appear in the future, unified education could not be neglected. As the only ones next to him who had transformed into a nine-winged golden silkworm, they were shouldering the responsibility of deputy clan leader.

  After finishing things here, Li Yunxiang walked towards the depths of the valley. Having come for thousands of years, he wanted to see how the Purple Gold Divine Bamboo, Enlightenment Divine Tea and Purple Gold Jade Grapes were doing.

  Last time, these three spiritual roots were just born with spiritual wisdom. Among them, the spiritual wisdom of Wudao Shenccha is the strongest, second only to the existence of Youjing Youlian, followed by Zijin Yutao and finally Zijin Shenzhu.

  It's only natural that as a top-grade congenital spiritual root, I would be subject to the natural suppression of the Heavenly Dao. Don't you see, in later generations, only two people with top-grade congenital spiritual roots successfully transformed into immortals: Bodhi Patriarch and Town Yuan Great Immortal. As for high-grade congenital spiritual roots transforming into immortals, it's just that I only know of one person, Ci Hang Daoist. This can illustrate just how difficult it is for congenital spiritual roots to transform into immortals.

  The birth of spiritual intelligence is the first step in cultivating the Tao, but whether or not one can transform and emerge is unknown to anyone. Perhaps one may never be able to transform in their lifetime, which is also entirely possible. It can be said that although the innate spiritual root is stronger than the innate flesh and blood spirit in terms of talent, it is even more difficult to transform. This is the rule of heaven and earth, where every drink and peck is predetermined.

  It's already so difficult to know the innate spiritual roots of heaven and earth, but compared to human disasters, it's much weaker. The heavenly and earthly spiritual roots that died before transformation were refined by humans into avatars, one after another. It can be said that if they hadn't met Li Yunxiang, these heavenly and earthly spiritual roots would have had no hope of cultivating the Tao.

  After a long time, Li Yunxiang finally flew into the protective array of the Purple Golden Divine Bamboo. After thousands of years of cultivation, the Purple Golden Divine Bamboo had grown to a height of 20,000 zhang. Its body shone with divine light, and its aura was extremely powerful.

  Feeling the arrival of a strange creature, on the divine bamboo appeared a three or four-year-old little boy. He flew to Li Yunxiang's front, looked for a long time, and finally recognized Li Yunxiang's existence.

  "Wow big brother, you've come to see me?" A soft and gentle voice came from the little boy's body.

  "Yes, brother has come to see you. From now on, you will be my fifth younger brother, and I will give you the name Li Zijin. You have four older brothers and sisters, remember to cultivate well and strive to transform and emerge as soon as possible." Li Yunxiao said with a smile as he looked at the child. After exchanging a few words with Li Zijin, Li Yunxiao left.

  Then Li Yunxiang looked at Wu Dao Shen Cha and named it Li Wu Dao. He also looked at the Zi Jin Yu grape and named it Li Zi Yu. Thus, Li Yunxiang finally visited all of his younger brothers, and his restless heart was finally calm. He could now focus on practicing the Knife Classics, breaking through the most important part of the Li Family Knife Classics, the Yindao Chapter.

  The Li Clan's Knife Classic, in Li Yunxiang's opinion, is divided into nine layers, corresponding to the cultivation system of the Desolate Continent. They are: Gathering Origin, Shaping Form, Guiding Dao, Forming Soldiers, Transforming Form, Human Dao, Earth Dao, Heaven Dao, and Breaking Dao. Nine layers in total. Corresponding to the Desolate World's Immortals, Human Immortals, Earth Immortals, Heaven Immortals, Mystic Immortals, Golden Immortals, Great Luo Golden Immortals, Quasi-Saints, Saints, and Heavenly Dao. Each realm is a great transformation that turns the world upside down. If one succeeds, they will have a smooth path before breaking through to the next realm; if they fail, their body will die, their knife will be extinguished, and they will turn to dust.

  This breakthrough was crucial, Li Yunxiang flew to the center of the Xiantian Golden Ancestor's vein and opened up a cave, starting a new breakthrough.

  Heaven and earth are profound and mysterious, the sun and moon mark the beginning. The Tao converges with the mysterious and again with the mysterious. With spirit as the guide, with the Tao as the sword, the great Tao of heaven and earth advances my divine knife, the divine fire emerges, and the ten thousand energies gather to form the heavenly knife... As the yuan shen within the knife moves along the great Tao's divine pattern, the original energy in the dan tian begins to wildly converge towards the flying knife. The original great Tao surges forth with the yuan shen, the sinews are all shaken out into crack after crack by the waves of the great Tao's divine pattern, appearing as if they were about to split apart.

  At this time, Li Yunxiang's primordial spirit flew out a divine ring to protect his primordial spirit. It was Li Yunxiang who used the last bit of essence from the residual soul of the Heaven-Opening Axe to refine a spiritual defense artifact. This was so that he could protect his own divine soul from destruction in the most critical moment. After all, before becoming a soldier, the primordial spirit was separate from the Heavenly Sword. In the vast expanse of the Hongyuan, various laws emerged, and no one knew whether there would be specialized attacks targeting the divine soul.

  Now is the crucial moment, it has proved that Li Yunxiang's choice back then was correct. The divine artifact emerged, and the fluctuations of the Great Dao God Pattern were blocked. Immediately after, only to see the Golden Great Dao first emerge from its origin, merging with the flying knife in the Dan Tian. At this time, the flying knife began to mutate, transforming into a tangible form, turning into a golden divine knife.

  Outside, the primordial energy of heaven and earth wildly entered his body, surging towards the Golden Blade. The Great Way's fire suddenly appeared, burning fiercely below the Divine Blade, forming a golden flame. Immediately afterwards, the fragments of the Time-Space God also emerged from their origin, flying into the Divine Blade.

  The heavens shook, and the divine fire within his body grew even stronger. The primordial energy of the universe surged wildly, increasing several times over. It was then that the spatial gods connected the external primordial energy to his body's dantian through the heavenly pathways. The divine knife grew stronger, becoming a tangible entity. At this moment, the previously silent Great Dao of Destruction finally burst forth from its source, pouring directly into the divine knife. Wherever it passed, all the muscles and veins in his body were reduced to nothingness, severely damaging his primordial spirit. Even with the protection of the soul-bound artifact, he was unable to avoid being heavily injured by the power of the divine seal.

  The crisis arrived, and the ultimate way to break through finally completely entered the divine knife. At this time, the primordial spirit was already fully covered with cracks, as if it would collapse at any moment. The size of the primordial spirit had also shrunk to less than one-tenth of its original size. If not for the powerful soul artifact, even if Li Yunxiang's primordial spirit was ten times stronger, it would still be destroyed along with his divine body.

  But the great way of destruction entered the divine knife, and the divine knife finally began to transform towards its ultimate form. The originally pure golden flying knife had now turned into a rustic black color, with only the edge of the flying knife still occasionally showing a golden light. Underneath the knife body, the Great Way's divine fire had filled up the entire dantian, and the innate primordial energy entered within, just like gasoline entering a fire, fueling the burning of the divine fire. The divine knife was quietly being tempered in the divine fire, constantly being refined, thus achieving the ultimate treasure of the acquired heaven.

  The vast expanse of time is forgotten, and another 10,000 years have passed in the blink of an eye. After 10,000 years of cultivation, Li Yunxiang finally restored his primordial spirit. Moreover, he made it twice as strong as before. The Heaven's Blade also finally fully merged with the Great Dao Divine Art, becoming a unified and accomplished acquired divine sword.

  At the same time, under the absorption of the golden spirit energy of this ten thousand years, Li Yunxiang finally refined 129,600 knife spirits. Each one has the power of a high-grade spiritual treasure. Omnipotent.

  In the dantian, the divine fire fills the sky. The Central Heaven Sword floats in mid-air, surrounded by 129,600 sword spirits drifting around it. From this moment on, the sword spirits will not be extinguished, and the sword's edge will never stop. The Heaven Sword will not be destroyed, and the sword spirits will exist forever. As the sword spirits take shape, hundreds of millions of sword edges within the body are constantly strengthening its intensity, changing its properties. If one were to say what attribute Li Yunxiang possesses now, it can only be said that he has no attributes or perhaps a "sword" attribute. Because in his current body, aside from the sword edge, there is no longer any primordial energy; as soon as the innate primordial energy enters the body, it will automatically be transformed into sword edges by the sword spirits. This is the essence of the Heaven Sword Dominance.