Li Guanqi moved like lightning as thunder and lightning coalesced behind him into a massive pair of lightning wings.
With a flap of the lightning wings, his body turned into an afterimage of lightning, teleporting away and vanishing.
Two breaths later, he had already arrived outside the Pill King Tower.
The Pill King Tower had thirty-nine stories in total, gathering the most elite alchemists from the Six Domains and the Misty Immortal Domain.
The lowest in tier among them were seventh-grade alchemists, while the majority were eighth-grade alchemists in the Mahayana realm.
The Pill King Tower was milky white throughout; towering into the clouds, the pagoda shimmered with a faint flowing radiance, a magical artifact in its own right.
Within a hundred zhang of the Pill King Tower, one could catch a refreshing fragrance.
This was the pill fragrance built up over years of concocting pills within the tower.
With his identity jade slip, Li Guanqi entered the Pill King Tower without hindrance.
When the alchemists in the tower saw that it was Li Guanqi, they paused in their tracks one after another to salute him.
After exchanging brief pleasantries, Li Guanqi teleported to the very top floor of the Pill King Tower!
When he arrived, three elderly men and a middle-aged man were standing in the room.
Seeing the man, Li Guanqi was momentarily taken aback.
"Uncle Gu."
Indeed, the man was none other than Gu Li's father, Gu Changsheng.
Gu Changsheng shot Li Guanqi an exasperated glare and gave a cold huff.
Li Guanqi smiled with some embarrassment, his eyes sweeping across the room to take in the figures lying on the beds.
Gu Li's hand was wrapped up like a zongzi dumpling, yet he still managed to reach out and give a thumbs-up.
Ye Feng was wrapped so thoroughly from head to toe that not a single patch was spared, leaving only his two eyes and mouth exposed.
Fortunately, his aura had stabilized, and his realm had not dropped.
The others were in no better shape.
Li Guanqi took a deep breath. Looking across each of them in turn, he said in a heavy voice,
"You've worked hard, brothers."
With a deathly pale face, Tang Ru lay on the bed staring at the ceiling, grinning.
The few fellows lying immobilized on the beds chuckled foolishly.
Li Guanqi then turned and bowed deeply to the alchemists who had been laboring over them for so long.
Gu Changsheng said irritably, "If I'd known you were going to drag them into risking their lives like this every day, I never would've let Gu Li swear brotherhood with you back then!"
Hearing these slightly reproachful words, Li Guanqi did not argue back.
After all, any parent would ache seeing Gu Li in such a state.
Letting him vent a bit was only fair.
"I'm sorry, Uncle Gu. It won't happen again."
Looking at Li Guanqi bowing respectfully, Gu Changsheng did not complain further.
He knew full well how brutal the battlefield in the Fourth Domain had been.
For Li Guanqi to bring everyone back alive was already the greatest effort he could have made.
Besides, before breaking through, Li Guanqi had held off all the peak combatants by himself.
And when Gu Li was in danger, Li Guanqi was always the first to throw himself into the breach.
Gu Li, however, was displeased at this and blurted out, "Dad, what are you talking about?!
"What do you mean by saying you wouldn't have let me swear brotherhood with Big Brother if you'd known?
"Oh, so when I was breaking through realms left and right and you were heaping praise on Big Brother, that didn't count, huh?
"How can someone act like that!
"Besides, these past few years with Big Brother have been more thrilling than an entire lifetime! It was worth it!"
Gu Changsheng's face flushed crimson, turning slightly indignant from embarrassment under Gu Li's scolding.
Looking at his son standing on the bed with his hands on his hips and lecturing him, Gu Changsheng smacked him upside the head.
"You little brat, having no respect for your elders."
Having said that, the man had matters to attend to as well, so he said plainly,
"Enough. Just be more careful with your lives when fighting in the future."
With those words, Gu Changsheng tossed several jade bottles over to Li Guanqi.
"These contain top-tier healing pills. I'll leave them all with you.
"I need to go into secluded cultivation for a while myself. There is currently only one Tribulation Transcendence realm alchemist in the Immortal Burial Realm, and the pressure is immense."
Hearing this, Li Guanqi nodded slightly, then sent a soft voice transmission:
"Uncle Gu, let me know whenever you touch the barrier of laws. I can help."
Gu Changsheng's eyes immediately gleamed with an inscrutable light. Grabbing Li Guanqi's arm, he muttered in a low voice,
"The rumors are true? You can actually do it?!"
Li Guanqi smiled without a word. He had no intention of hiding this ability.
As for this ability, to call it formidable would be an understatement, but to downplay it... anyone who had never torn through a law barrier simply could not fathom just how heaven-defying Li Guanqi's ability truly was.
After this brutal battle, Li Guanqi understood...
He could not reserve this power of resonance solely for his brothers, Long Hou, and the like.
Only when the overall strength of the Seventh Domain's cultivators grew greater would they possess the confidence to face an invasion by cultivators from the Immortal Realm.
Moreover, he had already made up his mind to ask the Sword Spirit and Pengluo for help to forge a Heavenly King Pagoda with a roughly fivefold time flow for the entire Immortal Burial Realm!
Only by enabling everyone to raise their strength as quickly as possible could they succeed!
Now that the Fourth Domain was sealed, once Long Hou concluded his breakthrough, Li Guanqi intended to go find Grandfather to discuss this matter.
Rumble!
A terrifying pressure penetrated through several domain layers and reached the First Domain.
Li Guanqi's expression shifted slightly, and he teleported into the firmament.
Lifting his hand, he unleashed boundless lightning power to crush the escaping golden light.
Many cultivators flashed into the open air one after another, all sensing an overwhelmingly potent pressure manifesting.
A man stared blankly, dazed.
"Long Hou has broken through?"
"This pressure... middle Tribulation Transcendence realm?"
An elder's eyes flashed sharply as he narrowed them and said in a grave voice,
"As expected of Long Hou. Such a foundation... is truly terrifying."
Li Guanqi's eyes flickered, and he sped straight toward the Fourth Domain!
When he arrived at the Fourth Domain, he happened to see the man enveloped in golden light slowly open his eyes.
At this moment, the golden light around Long Hou slowly coalesced into the shape of golden armor. Holding his spear in one hand, he looked thoroughly awe-inspiring and commanding.
The scruffy stubble on his face was long gone, replaced by a handsome, resolute countenance.
With the knots in his heart undone, Long Hou was clearly in a good mood; his face had lost some of its former ferocity and gained a touch of gentleness.
Looking at the man before him, Li Guanqi also smiled faintly.
"Congratulations, Uncle Long."
Long Hou teleported beside Li Guanqi in a flash; aside from Li Guanqi, not a single person could clearly track his movement.
Taking hold of Li Guanqi, Long Hou laughed heartily and said,
"Good lad! If not for you this time, I would've suffered greatly."
Li Guanqi smiled and replied,
"It's because your foundation is profound, Uncle Long. Otherwise, you wouldn't have held out until I arrived."
At this point, Long Hou's expression darkened slightly.
Because he had already sensed the difference in Yu Shan: his gaze was at times dazed, at times vacant, and at times ferocious.
Having merged with so many clones, Yu Shan had received far too vast an influx of memories and emotions all at once.
"Can you help him?"
Li Guanqi nodded with a solemn expression and said in a deep voice,
"Of course!
"However... I need to go up and find Grandfather first. That will also give Senior Yu Shan time to prepare."
Long Hou clapped a broad, powerful hand onto Li Guanqi's shoulder and said seriously,
"Good. I'll help him prepare on this side and wait for your return."
Yu Shan had clearly heard their conversation as well and bowed slightly toward Li Guanqi with clasped hands.
Li Guanqi considered for a moment, walked up to Yu Shan, and condensed boundless lightning between his hands, compressing it into an inch of space until it ultimately formed a lightning necklace!
Handing it to Yu Shan, he said in a low voice,
"Wearing this will suppress the sinister thoughts within you. I will return shortly."
Yu Shan did not refuse. The instant he placed the necklace around his neck,
what seemed like a deafening roar of thunder resonated across his entire sea of consciousness.
Yu Shan froze slightly; immediately afterward, the clamoring voices in his ears and the manifold chaotic emotions actually weakened considerably.
The pale-faced man finally breathed a sigh of relief. Watching Li Guanqi fly upward, he murmured with feeling,
"The growth speed of this little fellow is truly astonishing..."
Nangong Xuandu shrugged.
"Still marveling? His cultivation realm is already higher than yours, so of course it's fast."
However, upon passing through the light gate of the Fourth Domain, Li Guanqi was momentarily taken aback...
Chapter 1315