Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan Chapter 2068 1503: Transcendence

The question startled Li Debo, making him briefly wonder if he had indeed misjudged the moment.

Yet he finally responded, "The time is still early, let's wait a bit longer, it's just these few days anyway."

The Elder fell silent from then on, since it demanded only a little time anyway.

Yet the cultivators outside lacked such patience for further waiting, as greater numbers began departing.

The Li family paid no heed to this issue.

It mattered little if those cultivators remained or left, and their grumblings fell unheard by the Li family.

Come afternoon, the previously bustling spot bore scant signs of any cultivators left.

And right when all had endured a full day of waiting with scant hope and prepared to depart, Li Zhirui stepped out from the cave mansion.

"Didn't expect to draw such a crowd, looks like I've made you all wait the whole day."

Next, his eyes shifted toward Jiang Fengwu as he asked, "When did Fengwu come back?"

"Just these last few months."

"That's quite a coincidence." Their exchange cut off suddenly there.

Li Zhirui skipped personal talks with others, merely flashing a smile to the group before producing two storage magical treasures and declaring, "Inside these lie all my lifelong cultivation insights and musings, plus various spiritual items and pills I've gathered, to clear my karma with the family."

These encompassed not just cultivation insights, but also profound understandings of the Alchemy Dao and laws, rendering them immensely valuable.

"Ancestor Rui, the family fully acknowledges your immense contributions—everyone knows this, so no need for these spiritual items. Instead, we owe you greatly; please take them back." As family head, Li Debo quickly rose to voice the clan's position.

Li Zhirui merely let out a light chuckle and shook his head without further words, simply adding, "Take them; see this as my final gesture of kindness to the family."

"Yes." Li Debo parted his lips, eager to speak yet unsure where to start, managing only this reply before quietly receiving the two storage magical treasures.

Once Li Zhirui had fully passed on the storage magical treasures, a wave of relief washed over him, like a massive weight finally lifting from his shoulders.

Afterward, he soared skyward, beginning to burn through his merit to sever his karma ties with the Primal Spirit Realm.

With his merit steadily diminishing, Li Zhirui sensed his form growing ever lighter, as if on the verge of true immortality.

But simultaneously, the heavens started repelling him, deeming his presence unwanted and eager to expel him.

This showed externally as Li Zhirui ascending nonstop, though not by his own will—it was the heavens thrusting him away.

Differing from Li Zhixuan, Li Zhirui sensed no danger throughout this phase.

Furthermore, no Heavenly Dao Laws manifested, and zero unusual phenomena appeared.

Right when he believed he'd smoothly dissolve his karma with the Primal Spirit Realm and ascend in peace, the Heavenly Dao abruptly materialized!

Suddenly, a powerful urge to retain him flooded Li Zhirui's sea of consciousness, yearning for him to remain in the Primal Spirit Realm rather than depart.

This sudden bizarre shift prompted an instinctive frown from him, halting his body's prior skyward rise.

Normally, Heavenly Dao's appearance with emerging laws aids realm advancement, making it ideal to grasp the moment for insight.

However, the clan members ignored such logic, viewing the spectacle as Li Zhirui facing obstacles in his transcendence.

"Would the Heavenly Dao meddle during a transcendence?" Qingpeng uttered gravely.

Even though they'd lose sight of Li Zhirui forever, he refused to see Brother Jiu's long-awaited transcendence end in failure.

Li Chengsheng, well-versed on the matter, shook his head and explained, "A Heavenly Immortal's presence burdens the Primal Spirit Realm heavily, so Heavenly Dao never hinders transcendences."

Truth be told, absent the karma repayment requirement, Heavenly Dao would prefer ejecting most Heavenly Immortals outright, barring them from lingering in the Primal Spirit Realm.

"Then what's happening now?"

Puzzlement gripped everyone.

Just Li Zhirui, locked in '交流' with Heavenly Dao, grasped the true cause.

The cause proved straightforward: Heavenly Dao cherished him, desiring his stay in the Primal Spirit Realm to periodically cleanse and purify the Polluted Sea, easing the realm's strain and allowing full focus on elevating its own grade.

At the same time, Heavenly Dao vowed that should he remain, it would grant complete access to the Law Origin site for unrestricted comprehension.

Additionally, all future realm breakthroughs would skip tribulations, proceeding as smoothly as minor realm advances.

In the face of Heavenly Dao's lavish proposals, Li Zhirui stood firm without a hint of disturbance, his mind serene like a timeless ancient well, utterly still.

Such terms were truly bountiful; for most Heavenly Immortal cultivators, resisting those irresistible lures and declining might prove impossible.

Yet Li Zhirui decisively rejected Heavenly Dao's summons.

The cause was straightforward: he rejected being shackled in this realm, where the cultivation path ended far too abruptly, capped at the Profound Immortal Realm!

Besides, from his present cultivation base, advancing required little time, and Li Zhirui felt assured of conquering any tribulations during breakthroughs unscathed.

To advance to Profound Immortal first, then pour tens of thousands of years into perfecting that stage before stopping—this path held no allure for him, nor did it align with his true aspirations.