The Weird Way of Immortality: My Taoism Progress in One Day a Year

Chapter 221 Pressure
"Ten out of ten people will die? That's normal."

Li Yan's eyes darkened. He had already expected this result.

If it was really that easy to break through to the second level, the first level wouldn't be as rare as it is today.

What's more, Xia Yu did not practice to the peak of the second level in order to make a breakthrough, so it was not surprising that he deduced that Xia Yu's chance of successfully breaking through was zero.

"If I am not here, if Da Xia wants to survive this disaster, it can only wait for the birth of the destined Confucian Sage Chen Yan."

"It's just that Chen Yan has a righteous spirit and has become a Confucian sage."

“But in Lu Liang’s memory, he became a saint only after the fall of the Great Xia Imperial City.”

“At that time, countless people of Daxia had already perished in the disaster of the demon god. Even if Chen Yan became a saint, he could not save them.”

"However, this is just the result of the deduction of heaven."

"With me guarding the imperial city, I will naturally not allow the demon gods to cause chaos."

Li Yan narrowed his eyes.

Not to mention that he is now the ninth prince of Da Xia and has received many favors from Da Xia.

If we allow the evil spirit to bring disaster to the world, it will inevitably harm millions of people.

Of course he couldn't let it go.

What's more, at that time, he felt that there was no need to hide his own strength any longer.

When the demon god attacks, just suppress it.

Even if someone had bad intentions towards him because of the true realm of strength he displayed, would they dare to attack him who was able to suppress the Demon God?

He didn't think that by that time, there would be anyone in this world who could be his opponent.

……

Time flies, and ten years have passed.

During the past ten years, under the focused training of Daxia, Lu Liang has made breakthroughs one after another and has now become a fourth-rank warrior.

At the age of thirty, he became a fourth-rank warrior.

This progress in cultivation is truly astonishing.

Even the ancestors of the Great Xia royal family came out to meet Lu Liang and taught him the secrets of martial arts.

However, Lu Liang knew in his heart that achieving the fourth level was the limit of what he could achieve at the moment.

If he wants to break into the third level, even if he has the memory and experience of his past life, it will take at least ten years of accumulation.

But now it's too late.

Just a month ago, a strong aura suddenly erupted in the Southern Region.

The aura was so strong that even Tai Xuanzi, who was in the Great Xia Imperial City, could feel it.

"The demon god has revived."

As Tai Xuanzi's words spread, Da Xia immediately prepared its entire army to fight against the demon tribe in the Southern Region.

"The Demon God revived two years earlier than in the previous life!"

Lu Liang came to the Observatory and found Li Yan.

He frowned and looked a little uneasy.

According to his memory, it would take another two years before news of the Demon God's revival could be heard.

But now it has been advanced so much.

This is obviously not good news.

During this period, he not only maintained his own progress in cultivation, but also communicated with the Tianding Confucian Sage Chen Yan, deliberately guiding Chen Yan's path.

His purpose was to try to see if he could help Chen Yan become a saint sooner.

If Chen Yan can achieve the status of a Confucian sage soon, then Da Xia will have the capital to fight against the demon god.

The rebellion of demon gods would not have caused the horrific casualties that he remembered.

Things turned out just as he expected. Since Chen Yan could become a Confucian sage, he was certainly not a stupid person.

Under Lu Liang's guidance, Chen Yan founded a school and passed on his own insights. His understanding of righteousness quickly deepened, and he has now become a famous scholar.

In Lu Liang's opinion, it shouldn't take long for Chen Yan to fully understand himself and attain the status of a Confucian sage.

But what he never expected was that even when everything was developing in the direction he expected.

The demon god suddenly revived.

This interrupted Lu Liang's plan and made him very anxious.

"Everything in the world is changing all the time."

"You intervened to interfere with Chen Yan's chance of becoming a saint, but the revival of the demon god also changed due to certain circumstances."

Li Yan looked calm, although he was a little surprised at the revival of the Demon God at first.

But now he has mastered the art of astronomy to perfection.

So he used the divine power to deduce the truth, and then he found out that there was someone behind the scenes fanning the flames.

The disaster caused by the demon god is not as simple as it seems.

The person behind the scenes helped the Demon God to revive, just to make Da Xia suffer the disaster of the Demon God in the absence of a first-class strong man.

"But what is the purpose of the person behind this?"

Li Yan was also quite puzzled by this.

If someone wants to do something bad to Da Xia, with the strength of the person behind the scenes.

Since we can deduce that Chen Yan is a saint destined by heaven, why not just kill Chen Yan? There is no need to go through so much trouble.

He wanted to damage the fortune of Daxia, but he didn't want Daxia to be destroyed.

Everything was calculated just right.

But he wanted to hide, and Li Yan also wanted to see how long he could hide.

After he kills the demon god, we’ll see if the person behind the scenes can still sit still.

Lu Liang felt very regretful.

He thought that it was his own behavior that caused the demon god to wake up early.

This cost Daxia two full years of preparation time.

"I was too reckless. The only plan now may be to unite with the Northern Territory and help the Northern Territory's second-grade peak martial saint, Dongfang Leiming, to advance to the first grade."

"As long as we survive this crisis, we won't have to worry about future troubles when the Confucian saint of Great Xia comes to the world."

Lu Liang sighed.

Yesterday, the envoy of Tianxiang Kingdom in the Northern Territory contacted Daxia, wanting to form an alliance with Daxia to help Dongfang Leiming break through to the first level.

In the previous life, Da Xia was worried that helping Dongfang Leiming to advance to the first rank would be like inviting a wolf into the house.

Even if the demon god is driven away, they may still face the threat from the Tianxiang Kingdom, where a first-class strong man is born.

After all, the covenant cannot completely restrain a first-grade strongman.

So he rejected the proposal and placed his bet on Xia Yu, the ancestor of Da Xia.

The results are obvious.

Now Lu Liang knew that Daxia would soon give birth to its own first-class Confucian saint.

Even if Dongfang Leiming was promoted to the first rank, there would still be Confucian saints to check and balance him.

Moreover, in his opinion, the more first-class strong men there are, the higher the possibility of successfully resisting the final catastrophe in the future.

So they supported the alliance with the Northern Territory.

With his current status and position, he has already had considerable say in Daxia.

Since he spoke, the attitudes of Emperor Xia and the Great Xia royal family have changed somewhat.

Perhaps he will soon agree to form an alliance with Tianxiang Kingdom.

The demon god has awakened and they don't have much time left.

It is estimated that in a month at most, the Demon God will be able to recover his combat power and come out completely, leading the high-level powerful demons to descend on the Great Xia Imperial City and start the massacre.

Therefore, a decision must be made as soon as possible, otherwise the demon god will attack before he can break through.

It was too late by then.

Li Yan did not react to Lu Liang's plan to help Dongfang Leiming break through.

To him, whether Dongfang Leiming broke through or not had nothing to do with him.

Moreover, he didn't think the person behind the scenes would let Dongfang Leiming break through so easily. After Lu Liang talked to Li Yan about his thoughts for a while, he set off to leave.

He knew that Li Yan was now very powerful and might even have broken into the third rank.

But the third level realm still plays no role in the current war situation.

Therefore, he finally told Li Yan to be careful. If Dongfang Leiming failed to break through successfully, then he should escape from the Daxia Imperial City as soon as possible, and wait until he broke into the first level in the future and then avenge Daxia.

……

"I have already reached the peak of the second rank, and now I am only one step away from breaking into the first rank. As long as you have the support of Da Xia, I have at least a 50% chance of breaking into the first rank."

"How long do you plan to consider this? The demon god has awakened and will soon attack Daxia."

"If you still can't make a decision today, I will have to leave and return to Tianxiang Country tomorrow."

Dongfang Leiming frowned and spoke coldly to Emperor Xia and the senior officials of the Great Xia royal family.

He believed that this was the wisest choice for Daxia.

As long as he could break through, the danger from the demon god would naturally be resolved.

In the world today, he is the only one who is closest to the first level and has the highest possibility of breaking through.

Although it seemed that he was taking advantage of Da Xia's help in his breakthrough, in reality, each side was gaining what it wanted.

Therefore, in his opinion, apart from him, no one else could break into the first level in such a short time.

Even for Xia Yu, it's impossible.

"Let me think about it again."

Xia Yu frowned and spoke slowly.

Although he wanted to break into the first level on his own, he knew that the chances were not high.

Now that Dongfang Leiming has appeared, it has provided the Great Xia Dynasty with an additional option.

However, if they really help Dongfang Leiming to break through, then in addition to the Southern Region, the threat to Daxia in the future will include the Northern Region.

Without a first-rank official in charge, even if you can hide for a while, you can never hide forever.

After he pondered for a moment, he separated out a divine will, came to the Observatory, and found Li Yan.

Lu Liang, the martial arts prodigy of Da Xia, supports Da Xia in helping Dongfang Leiming break through.

He wanted to ask the descendants of the Great Xia royal family, the proud sorcerers of Great Xia, what choice they would make.

If it was the same decision as Lu Liang, then perhaps it was destiny and he would not worry about it anymore.

"Yan'er, I think you already know the current situation."

"If it were you, what would you choose?"

Xia Yu spoke frankly and asked Li Yan directly.

Li Yan looked at Xia Yu calmly and said slowly: "I won't choose anything."

A hint of surprise appeared on Xia Yu's old face.

He thought that Li Yan might support it, or might not support it, but he didn't expect to get such an answer.

Xia Yu said thoughtfully: "Yan'er, do you think I can break through to the first level?"

After he said this, a hint of excitement appeared on his face, and he looked at Li Yan with anticipation.

If he really had the hope of breaking into the first level, why would he need to be so entangled and could just break through on his own.

Li Yan is the most outstanding sorcerer in the royal family of Daxia and even in the entire world.

In Xia Yu's eyes, he carries the fate of the entire Xia Dynasty.

As long as Li Yan said that he had a chance to break through, he would do so without hesitation.

"That's not the case. If you choose to break through now, you will die."

Li Yan shook his head.

Even if he helped Xia Yu when he broke through, Xia Yu would have no chance of success.

Although he had expected this, when Xia Yu heard what Li Yan said, a hint of disappointment clearly appeared in his eyes.

"Then how should we deal with the attack of the demon god? Without the first-rank commander, our Great Xia's current strength is far from enough!"

Xia Yu looked lost. As the ancestor of Great Xia, he naturally did not want to help the second-grade strongmen from other countries to break through.

But if we don’t make a choice now, when the Demon God attacks, who will be able to fight against him?

What awaits them is only a massacre.

"It doesn't matter, I will take action."

Li Yan looked at Xia Yu and said calmly.

"what?"

A look of surprise appeared on Xia Yu's face.

Although he felt that Li Yan would definitely become a first-class sorcerer and the future pillar of Daxia.

But Li Yan has only been practicing for 10 to 20 years.

To be able to become a fourth-grade warlock in such a short period of time is already a terrifying talent.

It would take at least a hundred years to reach the first level.

This time was as he expected and was already quite short.

Even for a warrior, achieving the status of a martial god in such a short period of time is incredible, let alone a sorcerer.

But Li Yan's current realm of strength is obviously far from enough to resist the demon god.

"With your current strength, how can you resist the demon god?"

Xia Yu frowned, then sighed, relaxed his brows and said, "If things don't work out, you should leave Daxia as soon as possible. If you can't become a first-class person, don't come out into the world!"

Naturally, he didn't want Li Yan to stay in the imperial city and take risks.

With Li Yan's talent, as long as he doesn't die, he will grow in the future.

Even if all the high-ranking and powerful men of the Great Xia royal family were killed or injured, Great Xia would still have a chance to rise again in the future.

Li Yan smiled lightly when he heard that.

next moment.

The aura that had been hidden in him for a long time completely blossomed and appeared in this level of the observatory.

The tower of the Observatory was shaking slightly.

Taixuanzi, who was in seclusion on the rooftop, suddenly opened his eyes. He vaguely sensed that there seemed to be some changes in the Observatory.

But as the master of the Stargazing Pavilion, he couldn't even notice anything different.

"In the end what happened?"

Taixuanzi felt confused and his eyes were full of confusion.

He quickly scanned the area around the imperial city several times with his divine sense, but could not find anything wrong.

And at this moment, Xia Yu, who was in front of Li Yan, sensed the infinite majesty contained in this space.

This majesty is high above and extremely powerful.

Even though the divine will was not directed at him, it still made his body tremble slightly.

Even just feeling a hint of the pressure was difficult for him to bear.

"First grade!"

Xia Yu looked horrified and cried out in surprise.

Even he, a second-grade immortal realm warrior, felt the terrifying pressure.

I'm afraid only a first-class strong man can possess such a coercive aura.

But when did Li Yan become a first-rank official?
His eyes were full of disbelief.

As a second-grade warrior, he naturally knew how difficult it was to break through the first grade.

But it seems that it has been less than twenty years since Li Yan started practicing as a sorcerer.

To achieve first-class status in such a short time?
If he hadn't felt the aura of oppression emanating from Li Yan, he would never have believed it.

"No, I'm still some distance away from the first rank."

Li Yan shook his head slightly.

Xia Yu looked puzzled. In his opinion, Li Yan possessed such a coercive power. If this was not first-grade, then how could he be called first-grade?
But he heard Li Yan continue: "However, although I am not yet a first-grade master. But even if a first-grade master attacks, he will not be my opponent."

(End of this chapter)