Chunibyo in Cultivation World

The four were completely intimidated. These four from the Three Sacred Lands had cultivated for so many years—how could they possibly not understand what divine abilities were?

Innate aptitude was one matter; divine abilities were something else entirely.

To possess a divine ability depended entirely on enlightenment. One usually needed several thousand years, even close to ten thousand years, before possibly comprehending even the slightest trace of a divine ability. It required immense knowledge, vast time, and accumulation to achieve it.

Most importantly, according to the intelligence of the Three Sacred Lands, there was absolutely no information stating that Li Tianwei possessed a divine ability.

After all, Li Tianwei had only entered the sect a single year. Even if intelligence claiming he had comprehended a divine ability existed, it would have been dismissed as false. Information needed to be sorted, verified.

Originally, they were already troubled by Li Tianwei’s terrifying aptitude, but now that a divine ability was added on top of that, there was no choice left.

”He must die.”

Yun Danzhi thought so.

At this point, the Three Sacred Lands had already offended Li Tianwei to death; there was no alternative path.

”Never expected this! He even comprehended a divine ability. A body like this—its flesh, its blood, its soul—ought to belong to me.”

Below, the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood became excited as well. His gaze fixed upon Li Tianwei, wishing he could seize him immediately.

With such thoughts rising, neither side bothered to hide their power any longer. No matter what, even if there was a trap, they had to strike.

The blood pupils of the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood floated in midair, blood energy condensing. At the corner of the bloody eye, a bead of crimson liquid slowly emerged and then drooped downward.

Zzzt zzzt……

A strange sound echoed within the grand hall, as if some terrifying existence was on the verge of emerging.

At the same time, high above in the air—where the sky had been shrouded by Li Tianwei’s demonic flames—four figures stood, towering above everything.

Three Out-of-Body cultivators and one at the Union Realm—an overwhelming pressure descended.

All of West-Ling City suddenly seemed to fall into a bizarre moment of time-stagnation.

At that moment, the crimson droplet from the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood’s bloody pupil finally fell completely—landing in midair—then halted.

Next, that bead of blood actually began to roll, continuously dividing and reshaping itself. Very quickly, it formed blood vessels, bones, flesh, organs, skin.

A humanoid form appeared beneath the floating blood pupil—the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood had rebuilt a body here using a single drop of his blood.

As he appeared, the aura of a peak Union Realm cultivator erupted instantly.

Boom……

A brand-new pressure swept out. The four—who had just revealed themselves—immediately fixed their gazes on the figure exuding the terrifying presence of a peak Union Realm expert.

”He is the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood.”

The four, who had been rushing toward Li Tianwei, halted immediately.

Naturally, the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood also noticed the four figures in midair—one Union Realm cultivator, three Out-of-Body cultivators—seemingly coming straight at him.

”Such deep concealment, and such speed… I only just appeared.”

Seeing these four suddenly emerge, the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood thought so instantly.

For a moment, a situation that had been expected to end in a swift battle actually became deadlocked. Both sides stared at one another.

Compared to the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood, Yun Danzhi and the others felt far more pressure.

After all, the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood was not a simple figure. He had once reached the pinnacle of the mortal world—the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. Unfortunately, as a demonic cultivator, after accumulating sins for many years, the string that held his sanity together snapped. He nearly fell into madness.

Thus, the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood chose to abolish his cultivation to preserve his reason.

A powerful Union Realm expert who had fallen from the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

If they fought him, they would gain absolutely no advantage.

Moreover, the reason he suddenly appeared here raised an ominous suspicion in their minds.

”Could this be a trap arranged jointly by the Sacred Land of Lingxu and the Demonic Sect!?”

With that thought, the four grew alert, scanning their surroundings fearfully, worried that more experts from the Sacred Land of Lingxu might suddenly appear to slaughter them all.

”No wonder, when we divined Li Tianwei’s movements, we saw no experts from the Sacred Land of Lingxu present in West-Ling City. So they arranged for the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood to guard this place.”

”In that case, Li Tianwei also has a problem.”

Immediately, Yun Danzhi and the three Out-of-Body experts swept their divine sense across Li Tianwei.

Had they not looked, it would have been fine. But upon checking, the four instantly understood everything.

As Out-of-Body cultivators, the medicinal pill Li Tianwei had consumed earlier to conceal his spiritual root was long ineffective against them.

Thus, his False Spiritual Root—dull, dim, mottled with chaotic colors—appeared clearly within their senses.

”As expected, it is a trap. To think they actually used someone with a False Spiritual Root to receive Li Tianwei’s fate, using him as bait to lure us.”

The same thought sprang up among the four of the Three Sacred Lands. Meanwhile, on the other side, the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood also furrowed his brows deeply.

He didn’t care about these four people of the Three Sacred Lands. For him, dealing with them would simply take some effort.

”They look down on me this much? Setting up such a trap, even sacrificing such a Heaven-Defying Genius as bait—does the Sacred Land of Lingxu have this much confidence?”

The Ancestor of Heavenly Blood thought so, greedily eyeing Li Tianwei, wishing he could swallow him whole this very moment.

Yet at that moment, he sensed something amiss.

Before coming here, after confirming Li Tianwei’s identity, he hadn’t examined him carefully—and afterward Li Tianwei even unleashed a divine ability.

That was what drove the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood to reconstruct his body and descend—but now, with his true body present, his divine sense swept constantly.

And thus, he finally sensed the truth about Li Tianwei.

That False Spiritual Root—dim and mottled—was extremely clear under his divine sense.

At this instant, reality hit the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood like a slap across the face.

”False… False… Spiritual Root.”

His complexion darkened instantly, eyes filled with violent crimson.

At this moment, he finally understood why he was able to so easily calculate Li Tianwei’s existence and every one of his movements.

From the very start, everything had been a setup—a trap designed specifically to catch him.

Fine, a setup was one thing—but what enraged him most was that these righteous cultivators, in order to catch him like a turtle in a jar, couldn’t even bear to send someone with decent aptitude as bait. They actually used someone with a False Spiritual Root.

Who were they looking down on!?

The more he thought, the angrier he became. The angrier he became, the more he thought.

Worst of all—he had fallen for it. Yes, he had fallen for it.

The Ancestor of Heavenly Blood glared deathly at the four figures in midair. Now, he wanted to kill them. All of them. Kill them all.

As for Li Tianwei, who had become their target—he merely watched the appearance of both sides, his expression completely unchanged.