Chapter 96

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"Thunder Ancestor's Evil-Breaking Spell."

Even with Lu Li's current peak Later Heaven strength, using it was still somewhat challenging. Before his breakthrough, he wouldn't have been able to use it at all, but its power was absolutely trustworthy.

Sensing the terrifying lightning energy contained within the thunderball, King Ghost Tuo Tuo darted into the air, trying to evade the attack. However, he clearly underestimated the Thunder Ancestor's Evil-Breaking Spell. As the saying goes, "swift as a bolt from the blue," the thunderball traced an arc in the air and instantly caught up with Tuo Tuo. It then dispersed, first forming a cage of lightning, followed by chaotic arcs of electricity.

Visible lightning continuously struck King Ghost Tuo Tuo, each strike releasing a large amount of primordial ghostly energy, and his form gradually became faint. When the last bolt of lightning fell, the nearly transparent ghostly body instantly dissipated.

Lu Li stood tall, his gaze calmly observing everything.

He and Tuo Tuo had once been on opposite sides, with some grievances but not too significant. If Tuo Tuo had been content to be a ghost king and focused on cultivation, even if they met again, he might not have tried to eliminate him; they might have even shared a drink and become friends.

Unfortunately, Tuo Tuo's evil nature remained unchanged, and he had killed so many people. If left unchecked, who knew how many more innocent passersby would fall victim to his cruelty.

"Dust returns to dust, and earth returns to earth; everything is over."

Lu Li sighed lightly, turned, and looked at the remaining nearly a hundred ghost soldiers, who were fleeing and quickly disappeared from sight.

After a while, the mist finally dissipated. The lights in the tunnel lit up one by one, and only the broken peach wood sword in the distance revealed that a fierce battle had taken place here.

"Damn, I'm exhausted."

With the ghost king eliminated and the ghost soldiers fleeing, Lu Li looked around and saw no more danger. He shivered, his knees buckled, and he collapsed to the ground.

The battle with the ghost king seemed to be without much risk, but only he knew how perilous it had been. King Ghost Tuo Tuo's strength was indeed formidable, almost solidifying into a physical form.

If someone like Song Wengui, a Celestial Master, were to be attacked by Tuo Tuo, they would instantly lose their ability to act, their soul tainted by ghostly energy.

Even if Lu Li himself were to face Tuo Tuo without those hundreds of talismans and without a suitable magical tool, it would have been a matter of life and death.

"At the peak of Later Heaven, one more step is to reach the Innate stage. Then I can attempt to cultivate the Nine Transcendences of the Red Dust, thus embarking on the path of cultivation."

Lu Li sat on the ground, looking down at his front, muttering to himself. After a moment, his brows suddenly furrowed, his eyes filled with confusion. He quickly closed his eyes and reached out, feeling around in the air.

"What kind of energy is this? I can clearly sense it, but I can't touch it."

With his eyes closed, he could clearly feel the specks of colorful spiritual energy surrounding him. This energy was not the heaven and earth qi he had cultivated before, nor was it the sinister ghostly energy, but a unique and unfamiliar energy.

Moreover, the colorful spiritual energy seemed to be everywhere, dense and full of vitality.

"Colorful energy? Could it be—Red Dust Qi?"

Lu Li suddenly opened his eyes, leaped up from the ground, and quickly ran towards the tunnel exit.

"I can sense the Red Dust Qi, which means my guess is completely correct?"

"Nine Transcendences of the Red Dust! Nine Transcendences of the Red Dust! Haha!"

As he ran, the thought of sensing the Red Dust Qi filled him with joy, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

At the entrance of the Shanhai Tunnel, Song Wengui stood in front of his car, staring at the entrance, his face grave. When the tunnel lights went out, he knew Lu Li must have encountered the ghost king. As time passed, no sound came from inside.

Seeing that half an hour had passed, he could no longer bear the anxiety and got out of the car to wait.

Not long after he got out, the tunnel lights suddenly came back on, and Song Wengui's expression became even more serious.

Was the battle over? Did the uncle-ancestor kill the ghost king, or had he already died?

After a moment, Song Wengui suddenly heard Lu Li's laughter coming from the tunnel. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he saw Lu Li laughing as he rushed out of the tunnel.

At this moment, Lu Li's clothes were disheveled, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, but his mood was extremely excited and agitated.

"Uncle-ancestor, how did it go?" Song Wengui hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"The ghost king's soul has been scattered, and less than a hundred ghost soldiers have fled. You need to deal with them quickly." Lu Li quickly opened the car door and said urgently, "Drive, back to Yanjing."

The uncle-ancestor actually single-handedly eliminated the ghost king?

Song Wengui was shocked and found it hard to believe. However, hearing Lu Li's instructions, he quickly regained his composure and quickly agreed, driving towards Yanjing.

On the way, Song Wengui kept glancing at Lu Li and soon noticed something was wrong.

He saw Lu Li's eyes slightly closed, his hands tightly clasped together, and his body trembling as if enduring immense pain. He was startled, "Uncle-ancestor, are you okay?"

"Don't disturb me, I'm fine."

Lu Li replied without opening his eyes.

He had no time to deal with Song Wengui. As he felt himself getting closer to Yanjing, the colorful spiritual energy became even denser, almost to the point of condensing into a liquid.

Such dense spiritual energy, in Lu Li's six-hundred-year memory, was second only to the spirit pools formed by the heaven and earth qi over a thousand years.

Even in the cultivation world of the past, whenever a spirit pool appeared, it always brought a storm of bloodshed, meaning the fall of many elder-level experts.

Now, the entire city seemed to be a giant spirit pool. As long as he could absorb the colorful spiritual energy, his progress would be rapid.

"Human beings have seven emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, fear, love, and hate. The colorful spiritual energy has seven colors, each corresponding to an emotion. The Red Dust trials are precisely to experience the myriad aspects of human life. From this, it must be Red Dust Qi."

Lu Li became increasingly certain and quietly began to cultivate the Nine Transcendences of the Red Dust.

As the cultivation technique operated, the colorful spiritual energy surrounding him began to fluctuate, forming 108 colorful threads that entered his body through 108 acupoints, eventually reaching his dantian.

"Damn, it's too powerful!"

Lu Li was inwardly astonished and became even more excited.

When he usually cultivated, the spiritual energy could only enter his dantian through the five points, but now there were 108 routes, making the cultivation speed more than twenty times faster. Especially with the Red Dust Qi being so dense, it seemed that breaking through to the void in just fifty years might not be impossible.

However, before his excitement had subsided, the Red Dust Qi that entered his dantian did not stay at all and quickly rushed out.

"Damn, what's going on!"

Seeing this, Lu Li's mind raced, and he soon became bitterly amused.

"The gold mountain is right in front of me, but I can't take it away. This is simply—. Sigh, without reaching the Innate stage, it's just not possible!"