CHAPTER 376: CHAPTER 64: FIVE-COLORED DIVINE BULL (PART 1)

Lie Mountain wrinkled his nose, smelling the tantalizing fruit fragrance, and looked at Li Qingming with a strong desire. Intelligent Little Lie Mountain understood that these fruits would truly belong to him only if Li Qingming agreed.

Li Qingming glared fiercely at Guang Chengzi, then spoke warmly to Lie Mountain, "Lie Mountain, this is your Uncle Guang Chengzi. From now on, don’t be polite to him; ask for whatever you need from him!"

Lie Mountain nodded with unrestrained joy, took the Spirit Fruits from Guang Chengzi’s hand, and began to chew them with big bites.

"This, Big Brother!" Just as Li Qingming watched Lie Mountain eating with gusto, Guang Chengzi lightly tugged at Li Qingming’s sleeve and said, "Earlier, when I clashed with the Yin Yang Realm Master Li Qianqiu, I suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon!"

Li Qingming rolled his eyes in speechlessness and said, "Can you not finish your sentence all at once?"

Guang Chengzi stared at Li Qingming with an odd expression for a moment, then said, "I actually felt the soul mark of Brother Qinglingzi on that Li Qianqiu. What’s going on?"

Upon hearing this, a smile appeared at the corner of Li Qingming’s eyes. He waved his hand to form a Barrier, leaned close to Guang Chengzi’s ear, and began to murmur.

After a while, Guang Chengzi’s face was full of shock as he said, "Is it really so?"

Li Qingming nodded and said, "Only Master, Master Laozi, and Uncle Tongtian know about this matter. You must not spread the word!"

Guang Chengzi felt his mind go blank, unable to understand why Li Qingming had arranged things this way.

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From that day onwards, Li Qingming stayed in the Lie Mountain Tribe, meticulously teaching Lie Mountain. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Qingming’s external image within the tribe was that of an ordinary middle-aged Cultivator.

And the tribal members only knew that a kind and affable middle-aged Cultivator had come to their tribe, never suspecting that this middle-aged man was their revered Saintly Father Li Qingming of the Human Clan.

Guang Chengzi shamelessly remained in the Lie Mountain Tribe as well. In his words, only by sticking with Li Qingming would he have good days ahead.

Time flew by, and the years hurried on.

Li Qingming taught for twelve years.

That year, Lie Mountain turned seventeen. Over these years, he practiced Body Combat Skills, cultivated the Yuqing True Essence; he learned the art of governance, the ways of healing... Li Qingming taught Lie Mountain everything a ruler and a healer needed to know.

Due to the many contributions Lie Mountain had made to the tribe over the years, the Old Clan Chief named Lie Mountain his successor before passing away, making him the new Tribe Leader.

It was also when Lie Mountain became the trusted Clan Leader of the tribe that Li Qingming forcefully took Guang Chengzi and left the Lie Mountain Tribe.

Upon leaving, Li Qingming did as Laozi had done. He handed over three sticks of Sandalwood Incense to Lie Mountain, stating that if he encountered unsolvable issues, he could burn the incense to summon Li Qingming. However, there were only three such opportunities—if the incense were used up carelessly, it would mean that Li Qingming had chosen the wrong successor.

After Li Qingming’s departure, Lie Mountain began his life as the Tribe Leader. He dealt with tribal affairs during the day and at night, continued to forge his physique and cultivate the Yuqing True Essence.

Since in his previous life he was a body of the Chaotic Demon Gods, he had some great aversion to nature’s spiritual energy, so the progress of his mana was not as fast as he had imagined, reaching only the Golden Immortal Realm. However, his Dao cultivation grew extremely fast; in just twelve years, his realm had reached the unimaginable Da Luo Immortal level.

That day, Lie Mountain was dealing with tribal affairs in the tribal council hall when a member of the Hunting Team stumbled in frantically.

The man was covered in blood, and even the beast skin clothing that wrapped around his body was barely half intact.

Lie Mountain was shocked and pale; ever since Emperor Fuxi made the great net to assist the Human Clan in hunting wild beasts, such a scene had rarely occurred. What happened today? Why was it so dire?

"Clan, Clan Leader, it’s terrible! Dozens of Blast Bull Beasts have broken through the outermost protective fences of the tribe and are charging directly towards the second layer of stone walls. Our brothers can hardly hold on!" The clansman’s mouth overflowed with blood, his face full of urgent despair.

"What?" Lie Mountain’s eyebrows furrowed tightly, and with a flash, he headed straight for the stone wall at the outskirts of the tribe.

By the time he arrived at the wall, he could feel the ground begin to shake violently, as if an earthquake was occurring.

Standing on the nearly three-foot-high stone wall, he looked down at the rolling dust in the distance: about seventy Blast Bull Beasts, emanating fierce Evil Qi, heaving with rough breaths as they charged this way through their massive nostrils.

"These Blast Bull Beasts are herbivores. Though naturally violent, they wouldn’t attack the Human Clan without reason. What on earth is going on?" Lie Mountain turned to the members of the Hunting Team nearby and said, "Can anyone tell me what is going on?"

"Clan Leader, we don’t know what’s happening either! We were hunting in the forest, and these damned Blast Bull Beasts started a mad chase as soon as they saw us. If we hadn’t run fast, we would have died right there!" The captain of the Hunting Team said with a somber face, yet his eyes were filled with confusion.

"Moo!"

As everyone was still puzzled, a loud moo resounded through the Void. Each of the Blast Bull Beasts, with bodies longer than three feet, went completely mad.

It was as if in that bull roar, they felt an indomitable force, and they all became restlessly violent.

"Hm?" Hearing the moo that clearly differed from the usual, Lie Mountain had a sudden realization. He released his Divine Sense, covering the surrounding hundred miles.

"Whoosh!"

About thirty miles away, in a small grove, a shadow about thirty feet long flashed by, disappearing in an instant. With Lie Mountain’s keen spiritual perception, not even creatures as small as flies could escape his well-honed Divine Sense.

"It’s you, stop running!" Lie Mountain’s eyes flashed with excitement, and immediately, his body shot out like the wind.

The shadow, hearing Lie Mountain’s pursuit, moved faster and faster, and the distance between Lie Mountain and it kept increasing.

"You run, I’ll make you run!" Lie Mountain coldly shouted, suddenly taking out a golden light-shining War Blade from his storage space. He threw the War Blade into the void and stood directly on it in midair.

The golden light-shining War Blade instantly radiated blinding brilliance, drawing a golden line across the void that broke through the sky.

With the aid of the Spiritual Treasure, Lie Mountain arrived above the elusive shadow almost instantly.

This being had the shape of a bull, standing eight feet tall and more than thirty feet long, its body covered in five-colored hair. From afar, it looked as if five different colored flames were burning on its body. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation vote and monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)