Chapter 492 - 305: Borrowing Luck to Break the Deadlock

"The Palace Master agreed?"

Su Qingyu shook her head. "I can’t win."

For someone with Su Qingyu’s personality to admit so openly that she couldn’t win, it was clear that Li Dingjie’s current strength was overwhelmingly and visibly dominant.

"That fiend truly lives up to his name as someone undergoing Reincarnation Rebirth. He should already be able to ’Leap the Celestial Gate’ and establish his Dao Foundation..."

"The only reason he’s delaying is most likely to ensure he can form a Celestial Tier Dao Foundation."

With a Celestial Tier Dao Foundation, barring any unforeseen circumstances, one was guaranteed to become a True Inheritor.

"So he has to pick a fight with us just to form a Celestial Tier Dao Foundation?" Although Zou Feng suspected Li Dingjie had some kind of obsession, he couldn’t understand it.

Su Qingyu chuckled wryly. "After awakening a portion of his past-life wisdom, he likely came to see his experiences during the Great Yan era as a humiliation."

"Didn’t he recall all those ’humiliations’ with perfect clarity at our last gathering...?"

At this, Su Qingyu’s expression turned solemn. "Even though I refused to face him on the Dao Discussion Platform this time, the related ’reckonings’ will keep coming."

"Your turn will likely be next..."

She had expected Zou Feng to find this news troubling as well.

This wasn’t a knock on Zou Feng’s strength; Li Dingjie was, after all, a powerful expert undergoing Reincarnation Rebirth, and his current power was difficult to gauge.

Unexpectedly, Zou Feng’s expression turned contemplative. "In that case, if we don’t eliminate this person, he’s bound to become a major threat..."

"Looks like I’ll have to send that reincarnated jackass on his way before he manages to establish his Dao Foundation!"

His words took Su Qingyu by surprise, but her shock quickly gave way to understanding.

It had been a long time since Zou Feng had last crossed paths with Li Dingjie.

’It’s only natural that he doesn’t grasp the current situation.’

"Calm down. That fiend has undergone a complete, fundamental transformation compared to how he was before!"

"Don’t let him provoke you into rashly accepting a duel on the Dao Discussion Platform."

"In any case, as long as we don’t agree and we act with extra caution from now on, he can’t do a thing to us for the time being!"

What Su Qingyu proposed was indeed the safest way to deal with Li Dingjie for now.

Zou Feng, however, clearly disagreed. "Palace Master, what happens when he establishes his Dao Foundation? Or when he advances even further and becomes a True Disciple? How long can we hide then?"

Su Qingyu fell silent for a moment. Then, her gaze sharpened as she looked at Zou Feng. "Are you truly confident?"

Zou Feng gave a confident smile and blurted out, "I will win!"

「In the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect, at a man-made Sword Tomb.」

All the swords scattered about, thrust into the ground, were extraordinary. Each was a treasured blade that had been nurtured by a Sword Cultivator for many years.

Yet now, the Sword Qi contained within these treasured blades was being continuously siphoned away by an irresistible, domineering force.

This multicolored Sword Qi swiftly converged upon a distant, cross-legged figure.

As the figure’s Spiritual Qi circulated, countless points of sword light flashed, and his entire body seemed to have been forged into a peerless sword, its edge terrifyingly sharp.

Even in the starry sky above him, the twinkling starlight seemed to trace the shape of a sword.

Who else but Li Dingjie, the "Celestial Sword" undergoing Reincarnation Rebirth, could possess such tyrannical and peerless power as a Sword Cultivator before even establishing a Dao Foundation?

A short while later, Li Dingjie’s eyes snapped open.

Even his gaze seemed to burst forth with chilling Sword Qi.

"Impressive. You’ve perfected the Qi Vortex Starlight Sword so quickly. You are truly worthy of being the reincarnation of an Emperor Star!"

An admiring voice rang out, and a man in white robes slowly materialized in the previously empty air.

This white-robed man was Lu Guanghua, one of the True Disciples of the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect.

Although Lu Guanghua was dressed in a youthful style, his features betrayed a deep-seated old age.

Normally, someone at the Realm of a True Disciple should not appear so aged, unless they were doing so deliberately.

It was obvious that he had failed in his attempt to break through to a higher Realm. His lifespan was now nearing its end, and he could no longer perfectly control his physical condition.

Though his own path forward was cut off, Lu Guanghua had not given up. He was utterly unwilling to just "lie flat" and live out his days, and was constantly searching for a way to break his predicament.

Fortunately, heaven never seals all paths. A turning point had indeed appeared.

His hope was the man before him: Li Dingjie.

Lu Guanghua’s own fortune had been exhausted, but he could borrow another’s momentum to reignite his own.

So, upon learning that a new Sword Cultivator undergoing Reincarnation Rebirth—one who possessed immense fortune—had joined the Immortal Sect, he had decisively made the first move and gone all-in.

He invested everything he had in Li Dingjie.

He was just waiting for Li Dingjie to maintain his momentum, soar to the heavens, and fulfill the potential he never could in his past life. Then, as one who had helped the dragon ascend, Lu Guanghua would naturally share in Li Dingjie’s great fortune.

"It’s not enough! If I can’t sever my past, my Celestial Tier Dao Foundation won’t be stable!" Li Dingjie said, agitated. "That viper, Su Qingyu! She was so capable back in Great Yan, wasn’t she? Now she doesn’t even dare to face me on the Dao Discussion Platform!"

"Isn’t there any other way?"

Lu Guanghua said, "You have the bearing of an emperor. In your past life, you must have been the Sword Emperor of an entire world."

"An emperor’s majesty is inviolable. Even after Reincarnation Rebirth, that pride is etched into your very bones. Therefore, if you don’t eliminate the figures from your past who are causing this blockage in your thoughts, your Foundation Establishment will inevitably be affected."

To put it bluntly, he was used to being high and mighty in his past life. But after reincarnating, he failed to be invincible in Great Yan and was still suppressed by top experts like Jing Huaisong and Su Qingyu.

Among his own generation, there was also the insurmountable hurdle of Zou Feng.

For an emperor, this in itself was a tremendous humiliation.

’He was an emperor! How could he possibly stomach such indignities?’

’He had to cut them all down. Only then could his mind be at ease.’

Of course, this method was an idea that Lu Guanghua had suggested to Li Dingjie.