Chapter 468

Chapter 468: Stealing Ore, Striking it Rich

“Your dad, Li Xiaojun, is quite simple; he has the cultivation level of a Taiyi Golden Immortal. His main goal is to expand the family tree. According to some people in the group chat, the more bloodline descendants he has, the more useful it will be for him, though I don’t know exactly how…”

“Our mother was forced to have relations with Li Xiaojun, which is how you and I came to be…”

Before Duanmu Yun could finish her sentence, Li Zixuan directly interrupted, “That’s not right! My mom was not forced by my dad; they always seemed to love each other.”

In Li Zixuan’s memory, his parents were always very affectionate. How could his mother have been forced?

"And also, you refer to our dad as ‘my dad,’ so isn’t he your dad too? That sounds strange…”

Upon hearing Li Zixuan’s words, Duanmu Yun couldn’t help but roll her eyes.

“Li Xiaojun is my biological father, but I don’t recognize him as my dad. As for whether our mother was forced, at least initially, it was forced…”

“Alright, enough about that. Your dad’s situation is like this: he fathered you and then continued having you and your descendants keep having children.”

“The reason he is transforming so many life planets is also to breed more bloodline descendants…” Duanmu Yun explained to Li Zixuan.

Hearing this, Li Zixuan was a bit puzzled.

“So according to you, our parents are transforming five hundred life planets to reproduce offspring, but how long would it take to produce that many?” Li Zixuan asked.

Duanmu Yun smiled upon hearing Li Zixuan’s question.

“Do you believe that in less than a thousand years, ninety-nine percent of people in the cultivation world will be your descendants? By then, people with your bloodline will appear in every corner of the cultivation world,” Duanmu Yun said with a smile.

“I don’t believe that.”

Li Zixuan was firm in his disbelief.

If he were told that his descendants could number in the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, he could accept that.

But to think they would cover the entire cultivation world and account for ninety-nine percent of the population was simply unbelievable.

Seeing that Li Zixuan doubted her, Duanmu Yun explained, “You need to understand that any offspring of Li Xiaojun will inherently have spirit roots, and at least they will all have top-grade spirit roots.”

“Do you know how rare spirit roots are in the cultivation world? About one in a hundred people has spirit roots, and it takes one hundred million people to produce one top-grade spirit root…”

“But the descendants of Li Xiaojun will possess top-grade spirit roots at birth. Do you have any idea what that would lead to?”

“What outcome?” Li Zixuan was confused.

“The outcome is that various Immortal Gate forces will find a way to marry your descendants and will greatly cultivate those with the Li Xiaojun bloodline…

To ensure your descendants have many children, some Immortal Gate forces might even give your descendants hundreds or thousands of concubines.”

“Just imagine, if one person can have a thousand children, and those thousands of children grow up to have another thousand each, before long, in just five generations, your bloodline could expand to trillions. In less than ten generations, the entire cultivation world would be filled with your descendants…”

“Just ten generations could take only a few hundred years, not even needing a thousand.”

Li Zixuan was stunned hearing Duanmu Yun’s words.

She never expected that according to Duanmu Yun’s analysis, it would only take ten generations for her bloodline to occupy the entire cultivation world.

Li Zixuan was very clear about her descendants; each one born would possess top-grade spirit roots.

At first, she hadn’t realized this was related to Li Xiaojun’s bloodline.

Now, hearing Duanmu Yun say this, Li Zixuan realized that as long as she combined with his descendants, they would have children with top-grade spirit roots.

In that case, it was indeed likely that her bloodline—or rather, Li Xiaojun’s bloodline—would eventually dominate the entire cultivation world.

“Sister, does that mean my dad’s bloodline will always have spirit roots, no matter how many generations it reproduces?” Li Zixuan asked Duanmu Yun.

“Of course, this has been confirmed, so you don’t have to doubt it at all,” Duanmu Yun nodded.

…

In the starry sky.

Li Xiaojun finished transforming another life planet.

He then sent a message to Duanmu Yun: “Prepare the work ahead; I need to leave for a while.”

“Okay.”

Duanmu Yun didn’t ask Li Xiaojun what he was doing.

Li Xiaojun left the cultivation world where Duanmu Yun was and went to the Kunlun Realm.

Li Xiaojun’s purpose for coming to the Kunlun Realm was simple: to steal high-quality immortal essence stone veins from the demon tribe.

Last time, he stole from a demon tribe’s immortal essence stone vein, but after several thousand years, it was almost depleted.

So, he needed to obtain more high-quality immortal essence stones.

Only with high-quality immortal essence stones could the system continue to absorb their energy to generate energy value.

Only with energy value could he enhance his descendants’ spirit roots.

Without energy value, many of his bloodline descendants would only have low-level spirit roots.

In the Kunlun Realm.

Several thousand years later, Li Xiaojun returned to the Kunlun Realm.

Although entering and exiting the Kunlun Realm was as simple for him as going home, he hadn’t been there since his awakening, and this time he had no choice but to go due to a lack of immortal essence stones.

“Dad?”

Li Xiaojun directly appeared beside one of his daughters, and as soon as he did, she noticed him.

“Hmm.” Li Xiaojun nodded.

“Dad, what brings you here?” his daughter asked Li Xiaojun.

“How many high-quality immortal essence stone veins of the demon tribe do you know of, after all these years in the Kunlun Realm?” Li Xiaojun asked his daughter.

Upon hearing Li Xiaojun’s question, the daughter shook her head. “I don’t know any high-quality immortal essence stone veins of the demon tribe, but I know about the human race’s high-quality immortal essence stone veins.”

“Forget about the human race,” Li Xiaojun waved his hand. “You carry on; I’m leaving.”

After saying that, he vanished.

A few months later, Li Xiaojun arrived at the demon tribe’s territory using a teleportation array.

After several thousand years, over ninety percent of the beings in the entire Kunlun Realm had Li Xiaojun’s bloodline.

However, Li Xiaojun felt no attachment to these bloodlines.

For instance, when it came to the demon tribe’s bloodline, he could kill without any burden.

Once he entered the demon tribe’s territory, Li Xiaojun found several demons to perform Soul Searching.

Before long, he located a high-quality immortal essence stone vein of the demon tribe.

Two months later.

Li Xiaojun arrived directly at the mining vein.

A demon Taiyi Golden Immortal guarding the vein didn’t notice any trace of Li Xiaojun.

After breaking through to Taiyi Golden Immortal, Li Xiaojun collected the immortal essence stones several times faster than before.

So, in less than a year, he gathered more than twenty billion high-quality immortal essence stones from the entire vein into the system space.

A few months later, Li Xiaojun appeared again in another high-quality immortal essence stone vein of the demon tribe.

In under a year, he collected nearly ten billion high-quality immortal essence stones from this vein.

Over the next decade, Li Xiaojun performed Soul Searching on hundreds of demons and found seven high-quality immortal essence stone veins in total.

These seven veins brought Li Xiaojun a total of one hundred and ten billion high-quality immortal essence stones.

This many high-quality immortal essence stones would last Li Xiaojun for a long time.

Of course, while performing Soul Searching, Li Xiaojun also learned of one piece of news.

That was, the demon tribe had a superior-grade immortal essence stone vein.

However, this vein was guarded by two Da Luo Golden Immortal powerhouses of the demon tribe.

Li Xiaojun was very tempted by the superior-grade immortal essence stones.

Because superior-grade immortal essence stones could increase the system’s energy absorption speed by a hundred times.

After finishing collecting all the high-quality immortal essence stone veins of the demon tribe, Li Xiaojun hesitated whether he should try to steal the superior-grade immortal essence stones.

Two demon tribe Da Luo Golden Immortals would be a significant challenge.

If discovered, with his Taiyi Golden Immortal strength seeming like an ant to a Da Luo Golden Immortal, he could possibly get hurt again.

However, he had the system; if given a moment, he could easily escape.

“Not entering the tiger’s den, how can one catch the tiger cub? Let’s do it.”

In the end, Li Xiaojun decided to go for it.

Since he had learned about the superior-grade immortal essence stone vein, he would feel unfulfilled if he didn’t give it a try.

A superior-grade immortal essence stone was equivalent to one hundred high-quality immortal essence stones, worth one million low-grade immortal essence stones, which meant one hundred billion system energy value.

Most importantly, the system’s absorption speed for superior-grade immortal essence stones was a hundred times faster than for high-quality immortal essence stones.

……

Li Xiaojun disguised himself as a Profound Immortal demon and then took a super teleportation array to the closest location to the demon tribe’s superior-grade immortal essence stone vein.

Upon reaching the vicinity of the vein, Li Xiaojun used the system to shield all his aura and fluctuations, quietly approaching the demon tribe’s superior-grade immortal essence stone vein from underground.

At the same time, Li Xiaojun paid close attention to the movements of the demon tribe Da Luo Golden Immortals.

If the demon tribe Da Luo Golden Immortals discovered him, he would immediately leave the Kunlun Realm.

“Hmm?”

When Li Xiaojun got closer to the demon tribe’s superior-grade immortal essence stone vein, he found that it was located a hundred thousand kilometers deep underground.

What left Li Xiaojun speechless was that the entire superior-grade immortal essence stone vein was covered by a vast formation.

If Li Xiaojun forcefully broke through the formation, he would surely attract the attention of the guarding demon tribe Da Luo Golden Immortal.

However, this did not pose a challenge for Li Xiaojun.

Li Xiaojun had comprehended over fifty percent of the rule of space.

Additionally, he had elevated his formation skills to the realm of the Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Spending a year in continuous study, Li Xiaojun quickly created a small hole in the formation shrouding the demon tribe’s superior-grade immortal essence stone vein.

Following the hole he had quietly made, Li Xiaojun soon entered the vein.

“What rich spiritual energy!”

Sensing the spiritual energy within the formation, Li Xiaojun was quite surprised.

He discovered that it was all "water," which was liquid formed from condensed immortal essence.

Moreover, this liquid spiritual energy was exceptionally pure, and its purity could easily rival that of high-quality immortal essence stones.

Li Xiaojun quietly entered the formation and was not detected by the demon tribe’s Da Luo Golden Immortal.

Once inside the formation, Li Xiaojun successfully saw what the superior-grade immortal essence stones looked like.

These stones were crystals formed from pure spiritual energy, with a purity nearly a hundred times stronger than that of high-quality immortal essence stones.

Li Xiaojun found that collecting superior-grade immortal essence stones was much more challenging than collecting high-quality immortal essence stones because he had to ensure he didn’t trigger the formation.

Therefore, it took him nearly two years to steal all the superior-grade immortal essence stones from the formation.

The demon tribe’s superior-grade immortal essence stone vein provided Li Xiaojun with over one billion three hundred million superior-grade immortal essence stones.

While this number seemed very small compared to high-quality immortal essence stones, it was still equivalent to over one hundred billion high-quality immortal essence stones.

Thus, its value was not much lower than the system energy value obtained from the seven high-quality immortal essence stone veins.

……

After collecting the superior-grade immortal essence stones, Li Xiaojun glanced at the ocean-like liquid spiritual energy in the formation.

After a moment of hesitation, Li Xiaojun decided to collect this liquid spiritual energy.

With all his might, he activated the system space to gather the liquid spiritual energy.

As Li Xiaojun worked hard to collect, the liquid spiritual energy in the entire formation began to vanish at a visible rate.

Due to Li Xiaojun’s rapid collection, a massive whirlpool formed on the surface of the liquid spiritual energy sea.

“Who?”

Just as Li Xiaojun was on the verge of completing his collection, a tremendous divine sense pressure suddenly descended.

“Time to go, goodbye!”

Without any hesitation, Li Xiaojun activated teleportation.

In the next moment, his body disappeared.

Just as Li Xiaojun vanished, an overwhelming attack struck down.

Boom!

The next instant, the area where Li Xiaojun had been was instantly obliterated into emptiness.

“Who? Who is it?”

Moments later, two demon tribe Da Luo Golden Immortals appeared in the formation.

However, both demons looked extremely grim.

Their tribe’s only superior-grade immortal essence stone vein had been quietly raided by someone.

Such a situation deeply angered the two Da Luo Golden Immortals.

Superior-grade immortal essence stones were extremely important for a race.

These stones could significantly increase the chances for a Golden Immortal to break through to a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Furthermore, after becoming a Taiyi Golden Immortal, a great deal of superior-grade immortal essence stones was also needed to cultivate into a Da Luo Golden Immortal.

Now that the demon tribe’s superior-grade immortal essence stone vein had been raided, it was equivalent to severing the tribe’s lineage to the Da Luo.

How could this situation not infuriate the Da Luo of the demon tribe?

A few months later, all the Da Luo of the demon tribe gathered together.

“This must have been done by the Immortal Tribes; we need them to give us an explanation…"

“They must provide an explanation; otherwise, this matter will not end here.”

“Since the Immortal Tribes stole our mine, I think we should reclaim their superior-grade immortal essence stone vein…”

“I agree, our demon tribe cannot let others steal our mine; since the Immortal Tribes have taken from us, we shall take from them…”

“Let’s go and raid their door; while the Da Luo of the Immortal Tribes need time to gather, we can easily reclaim their superior-grade immortal essence stone vein…”