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“How is it that someone like me, Li Tianzong, could deserve such a son…”
At the dinner table, Li Tianzong was quite tipsy, and he started to slur his words.
Chen Hefang gave him a look and said, “Although Xiao Shi is exceptional, the other children are not bad either. You can’t just praise Xiao Shi.”
“Of course, they are all my good sons,” Li Tianzong laughed.
Chen Hefang turned to the other sons, smiling warmly and softly said, “You don’t need to compare yourselves with Xiao Shi. You all have your own shine, and mother can see that.”
The other sons’ eyes shimmered, somewhat touched, and the eldest, Li Xingbei, laughed, “We would never be jealous of the tenth brother. The better he becomes, the happier we are.”
“That’s right, if the tenth brother cultivates so quickly and surpasses us in the future, then I can be lazy in secret,” laughed Li Fengping.
“Younger brother ten is the target I pursue. It gives me more motivation to cultivate,” Li Junye said with a smile. At 11 years old, he already had the handsome looks of a youth.
After the New Year’s Eve dinner was over, Li Hao looked at the jubilant silence, the only thing left being the empty plates, and he smiled. After a brief stay, he hastened to the next period.
Not long after Li Hao revealed his amazing talents, another Demon King sneaked into the Divine General Mansion to attack, but was foreseen and killed by Li Tianzong and Li Xiaoran in advance.
Li Xiaoran, upon learning of Li Hao’s progress in cultivation, was so surprised he couldn’t close his mouth. A re-cultivation could be this fast?
He suddenly understood why, when he saw Li Hao at the age of fifteen, he was already in the Three Immortal Realms. Continue your saga on m|v-l’e -NovelFull.net
Moreover, he was even able to have a brief exchange with a Demon King in the Ultimate Study Realm. Such talent was truly unimaginable!
After the second attack of the demons, Li Tianzong started to keep Li Hao by his side more frequently, occasionally teaching him military strategies.
Meanwhile, Li Hao also took advantage of the time to compose poetry, play music, paint, and write calligraphy.
He seemed casual, but his artistic experience accumulated continuously, and his skill improved rapidly.
Li Tianzong didn’t stop him; Li Hao’s pace of cultivation was fast enough to satisfy him. While he might have been strict with other children, Li Hao was very sensible, measured in his actions, making Li Tianzong very reassured and not worried that Li Hao would neglect martial arts because of this.
After all, reaching the Fifteen Li Realm at eight years old had already shattered Dayu Divine Dynasty’s cultivation records, that too from the ground up.
With that, what reason is there for not letting the child do what he enjoys?
With Li Tianzong’s permissiveness, Li Hao’s accumulation of Skill Points for his Artistic Skills sped up.
As his cultivation level improved, he found that the constraints of the Mo River rules on him seemed to lessen. He became even more adept at immersing himself in various Artistic Skills.
The understanding he had of the Tao Realm gradually leaked out a little, impacting his current progress and speeding up even more.
His proficiency in many forms of artistry quickly reached the third level, accumulating over twenty Skill Points.
With plenty of Skill Points available, Li Hao then began to collect more Cultivation Techniques, studying and deducing them, hoping to establish a connection with the Heaven and Earth Vein here.
The Heaven and Earth Vein greatly enhances the body, acting like a foundation.
But the Listening Rain Tower had a limited number of Cultivation Techniques, so Li Hao had to explain his needs to Li Tianzong.
Upon hearing Li Hao’s words, Li Tianzong did not hesitate and immediately sent for someone to consult Tianji Tower to borrow their Peerless Techniques.
Additionally, he wrote to other Divine General Mansions to request Cultivation Techniques, and meanwhile, he planned to suppress a few Jianghu sects with nefarious intentions, loot their homes, and seize a batch of techniques to replenish Listening Rain Tower.
The main map of Mo River might be Dragon City, and according to Li Xiaoran, outside Dragon City are the forces of demons.
But many special rules within Dragon City are influenced by Li Tianzong, and within Li Tianzong’s obsessions lay the entire Dayu Divine Dynasty.
Thus, while the forces within the Dayu Divine Dynasty do not exist within this Mo River, if Li Tianzong needed, he could also temporarily evolve them.
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Just like the Qingqiu Mountain Daoist who took Li Hao’s measurements, coming from Qingqiu Mountain.
But outside Dragon City, there was no Qingqiu Mountain at all.
Perhaps once he left the Divine General Mansion, in some unnoticeable place, he would vanish into thin air, and that was Mo River.
With the talent that Li Hao displayed, he was almost granted everything he asked for within the Divine General Mansion, a darling of the heavens.
Under the full support of Li Tianzong, Li Hao’s improvement was rapid. Many cultivation techniques melded together, and his open meridians had already reached more than 100, only a few left to be unblocked.
Refining his divine soul and controlling objects also saw significant improvements.
Knowing that Li Hao enjoyed famous paintings and chess manuals, Li Tianzong also dispatched people to search for and bring back some.
At the age of nine, Li Hao smoothly stepped into the Heavenly Human Realm, using the numerous cultivation techniques he had collected to fill his mind. He consulted the Grandmasters about the wonders of the world and once again shocked the Divine General Mansion.
This entry into the Grandmaster Realm was even smoother than before, for he had gathered more cultivation techniques and possessed broader knowledge.
That year, Li Hao’s strength also completely surpassed that of the nine sons of the Li Family. Even Li Xingbei, who at 27 had already stepped into the Three Immortal Realms, Li Hao was confident he could compete.
However, since this elder brother was very kind to him, he had no intention of defeating him in adversity and breaking his martial spirit.
Beyond martial arts, tactics, etiquette, and the arts of the qin, chess, calligraphy, and painting, Li Hao displayed extraordinary wisdom.
Li Tianzong was completely satisfied with Li Hao to the point of finding no fault, and at the age of ten, he proposed to confirm the position of True Dragon in advance.
Aside from eventually leading the Divine General Mansion, the True Dragon would also receive assistance from the ancestors in the ancestral hall, further enhancing potential, which would be a great help in cultivation as well.
This news once again caused a sensation.
Guests filled the Divine General Mansion, and Li Tianzong took Li Hao to meet these noble families, allowing them the opportunity to make his acquaintance and to pave the way for his future.
But this was Mo River, and once the passage was cleared, everything would vanish into thin air and be meaningless. Li Hao naturally didn’t spend time responding and simply skipped ahead.
After repeatedly accelerating, Li Hao’s control over time leaping became even more precise.
He skipped to the end of the banquet, when all the guests had dispersed, and Li Tianzong, holding his hand, took Li Hao to the ancestral hall of the Li Family.
The selection for the True Dragon had ended and Li Hao indisputably secured the position. Regarding this, the other nine sons of the Li Family had no objections, and the direct descendants and illegitimate children from the other houses were also aware of Li Hao’s talent and didn’t dare to compete for it.
Gazing at the ancestral hall before him, Li Hao knew that Li Tianzong had brought him here for the ancestors to review and incidentally help him condense his divine soul.
However, with the degree to which he had already condensed his soul, there was very limited help the ancestors could offer him.
This time, Li Hao didn’t refuse the True Dragon. Firstly, because he could not find a reason to do so, and secondly, because this was Mo River, he had to seize every opportunity to grow.
After all, the Candle Flame God and Lu Yuan had also arrived here, and since Mo River was of the sinister Hades-level, the stronger one was, the better one could protect oneself.
Inside the ancestral hall, Li Hao saw a middle-aged man sitting at a corner of the courtyard.
He bore some resemblance to the fifth uncle Li Qingzheng but carried a bit of a ferocious aura, unlike the old gentleman with a calm presence he had seen before.
“Old Five,”
Li Tianzong greeted with a smile.
Li Qingzheng glanced over but did not engage, just curling his lip and saying, “You’ve fathered a good son.”
“Haha, you had the chance to marry but you wouldn’t,” Li Tianzong laughed.
“Mine is the fate of a lone wolf, too steeped in blood. I’d rather not bring such a curse upon future generations,” Li Qingzheng snorted coldly.