Rebirth of the Useless Bastard Son

Li Tianyan’s movements were subtle and didn’t attract anyone else’s attention, but Cheng Qi, standing beside him, noticed something.

“Young master, is it okay?” Cheng Qi looked at Li Tianyan with a worried expression and asked.

Relying on death energy to practice could be considered a demonic skill. Li Tianyan hated evil cultivators more than anything, and he had promised his mother that he would never walk the evil path.

“As long as you keep your Taoist heart, it’s fine.” Li Tianyan smiled reassuringly at him.

As soon as the evil sect leader was killed, all the remaining evil cultivators of the Shura Sect were also eliminated. The sect leaders from several domains and the elders entered the evil cultivator’s palace together. They knew that if an evil cultivator could establish a force like the Shura Sect, he must have possessed many resources.

Next, it was time to discuss the distribution of merit. Li Tianyan had no intention of participating. The evil cultivator’s soul and the Nascent Soul puppet were already in his possession, so the other matters didn’t concern him.

Seeing this, the sect masters from other regions felt a bit relieved. Everyone knew that Li Tianyan should be credited with the first victory in this battle. If he wanted to take the lead, it would be difficult to challenge him. Xuan Zhen noticed that he had no intention of fighting for the merit, so he remained silent.

As for the Nascent Soul puppet, even if someone else obtained it, they wouldn’t be able to control it. Li Tianyan would be leaving Hengwu Continent soon anyway, so they let him take it.

The elders entered the palace in the middle, while the foundation-establishment cultivators searched the residences of other evil cultivators and dug out available resources.

Li Tianyan saw that everyone else was busy with their tasks and no one was paying attention to him. He turned to look at Cheng Qi, a slight smile forming on his face.

Cheng Qi only had eyes for Li Tianyan. When he saw the smile on his face, he unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth. In the next moment, Li Tianyan’s face suddenly moved closer, and he felt a soft touch on his lips. His eyes widened in surprise.

Li Tianyan looked at Cheng Qi with soft eyes and used his technique to split the flame in his body into two, sending one back into Cheng Qi’s Dantian.

The situation had been so urgent just now that Cheng Qi hadn’t thought much about it. But now, with so many people still on the Shura battlefield, he felt self-conscious about what they were doing. Even though he knew no one was watching them, Cheng Qi’s face still burned with embarrassment.

Li Tianyan didn’t go too far. He simply returned the flame and straightened up, then praised Cheng Qi, “Well done.”

If Cheng Qi hadn’t stopped the puppet from self-destructing in time, things might not have ended so smoothly.

Hearing Li Tianyan praise him, Cheng Qi forgot his embarrassment and felt a surge of joy. Li Tianyan, connected to Cheng Qi’s emotions, noticed his happiness and couldn’t help but ruffle his hair in amusement.

Afterward, the two didn’t remain idle. They sifted through the corpses of hundreds of evil cultivators on the battlefield, searching for the evil cultivators’ ghost flags. This type of item wasn’t typically used by cultivators, and when they heard that Li Tianyan wanted them, they were happy to let him take them without a fight.

Meanwhile, the core formation elders who had entered the palace took a long time to emerge, after which they led their respective teams to leave the Shura battlefield.

When everyone had withdrawn from the Shura battlefield and returned to the South China Sea, many core formation cultivators worked together to seal the entrance to the battlefield, completely trapping the Shura Sect within the sea.

On the way back, Tian Min handed a gourd to Cheng Qi. “There are some remnant souls inside. Tan Eyu should find them useful.”

“Thank you, Master,” Cheng Qi said gratefully as he put the gourd away. With the ghost flag he had found on the battlefield and the remnant soul of the core formation in the gourd, Tan Eyu would likely have enough to advance.

Li Tianyan looked at the puppet standing beside Tian Min, then asked, “Master, are you going to keep him like this?”

Tian Min was momentarily stunned, then glanced at the puppet. “Xiao Xuan was raised by me personally. I’ve long regarded him as my own son, even though he was just a chess piece arranged by the Shura Sect.”

Tian Min paused, his voice growing heavier. “Now that he’s become a puppet, I can’t treat him as a mere dead thing and store him away in a storage magic weapon. I’ll just consider him to be alive in another way.”

After hearing this, Li Tianyan said no more.

They returned triumphantly from the mission. Before their spaceship arrived at the Tianfan Immortal Sect, they could already see a sea of people below, all waiting to welcome them.

“Have you noticed anything different in the Southern Territory?” one cultivator asked.

“The spiritual energy seems stronger,” another replied.

“That’s right. The aura here is comparable to what we have in the sect.”

Cheng Qi overheard the conversation and felt the same change in the spiritual energy around them. The closer they got to the Tianfan Immortal Sect, the more abundant the spiritual energy became. Curious, he looked at Li Tianyan and asked, “Young master, do you know what’s happening?”

“It’s a gift,” Li Tianyan answered.

If the Shura Sect had succeeded in causing a catastrophe, the immortal sects would not have been able to protect themselves, let alone the mortals. At that time, the entire Hengwu Continent would have been devastated, with even the continent’s foundation shaken.

Now that the immortal sects had worked together to prevent the catastrophe in advance, saving the creatures of Hengwu Continent from suffering, they were receiving the continent’s feedback.

“So, when a catastrophe happens, it can be both a tribulation and an opportunity,” Li Tianyan added.

“I see.” Cheng Qi now understood what had happened to the Zidong Kingdom back then.

Note

Zidong Kingdom, remember that snake demon eating pregnant woman, that Concubine Li. After the couple took care of Tao Wu, who was planning to escape by releasing mutated animals and causing disaster, the spiritual energy increased too.