Taiyi Dao Fruit

"Jiang Li!!!"

A great shout, like the roar of a lion or the cry of a tiger, burst forth as Li Chongyue charged towards the white jade podium like a crazed demon.

However, Jiang Li had long since seen through his intentions, and even Li Chongyue's next move had been anticipated by Jiang Li before it was made.

In his left hand, he still held the scrolls, while his right palm was slightly raised upwards, gathering a spherical body of Innate Qi that flowed like water.

Three Points Return to Primordial Qi.

With a flip of his palm, Jiang Li pushed outwards. The Innate Qi, though released later, struck first, hitting Li Chongyue's body and sending him flying backwards, crashing heavily against the golden pillar of the great hall and then falling to the floor.

The Innate Qi surged into Li Chongyue's body, madly refining his True Qi. In an instant, Li Chongyue's power was completely dismantled, and an overwhelming sense of weakness enveloped his entire body, leaving him lying on the ground, unable to get up.

He had been crippled.

"Branch families venerate the main family not because they are inherently superior, or because their blood is purer. We are all descendants of Emperor Yan—none is above the other."

Jiang Li slowly lowered his hand and said, "The people of the main family can lead the Jiang Family because they bear the responsibility of protecting the entire clan. Only then can they enjoy the power revered by all the branch families. However, the main family has abandoned us."

"In the face of danger, they fail to take responsibility."

"The main line of the main family no longer has the right to lead the Jiang Family."

Like a stone causing a thousand ripples, Jiang Li finally revealed his true intention, trying to completely destroy the branch families' trust in the main family, or at least shatter the trust of most of the Jiang Family members present.

As these words were spoken, it wasn't just the clan members who realized their predicament— even the sect mates who heard it felt a connection.

With chaotic Qi Mechanism fluctuations reflected in his eyes, Jiang Li used his Qi Observation Skill to scrutinize everyone's Qi Mechanism and perceive the state of their minds, sensing the True Bodies of many Jiang Clan members.

The ability of Li Chunfeng's Dao Fruit allowed him to forecast the Heavenly Phenomenon, know the right timing, understand the weather, and observe people's Qi, while Divine Farmer's appearance made Jiang Li especially sensitive to all sorts of Qi Mechanisms, reflecting the surrounding Qi fluctuations like a mirror.

Combining both, Jiang Li felt an inner clarity, with everything in his sight observable and the shifts in people's hearts discernible.

'My Qi Observation Skill is complete.'

Surrounded by complex human emotions, Jiang Li had broken through the final barrier and developed a systematic Qi Observation Technique.

With star symbols, Eight Trigrams, and Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches appearing in his pupils, Jiang Li rose to his full height and descended from the podium, walking straight towards the kneeling figure.

As he passed, the other disciples who met Jiang Li's gaze felt an almost instinctive avoidance, subconsciously clearing a path for him to reach his destination, where he asked softly, "What is your name?"

The figure was a youth, similar in age to Jiang Li. At this moment, he appeared soulless and distraught, kneeling on the ground with his upper body leaning back, his eyes dull and confused.

Upon hearing Jiang Li's question, he responded as if in a daze, instinctively saying, "Wang Yue."

"I'm asking for your real name," Jiang Li shook his head, "You are a Jiang, not a Wang. You should live proudly in this world, not hide behind a mask like a rat that shuns the light."

"Jiang..."

The youth's pupils trembled, his mind touched.

"Jiang," Jiang Li affirmed decisively, "The Jiang of Jiang Li, the Jiang of Emperor Yan's descendants."

Seizing the opportunity, Jiang Li implanted his own name into the shattered heart of the youth.

[Just like a greenhorn taking advantage of a heartbroken beauty, entering at a time of weakness, performing the act of the Bull-headed man.]

The Karma Collection revealed a line of text at just the right moment.

"Although the metaphor used is a bit sleazy," thought Jiang Li to himself, a faint aura exuding from his body like the majestic presence of a crystal statue, resonating with the blood of his clansmen.

The subtle feeling was not enough to affect the youth's body, but it gave him a sense of blood connection, making him feel that he still had kin.

"Your relatives have met with calamity, and now your clansmen are your relatives," said Jiang Li, placing his hand on the youth's shoulder, making eye contact, "If the main family cannot help you, then the clansmen will. If the main family cannot avenge you, I will."

At present, with the Jiang family having relocated overseas and Jiang Zhuyun facing oppression from the Sect, it was not worthwhile for the Jiang family to use their latent strength to avenge a destroyed branch family.

And at this moment, Jiang Li—backed by the Sect, rumored to be in a relationship with Gongsun Qingyue, and possibly an apprentice to one of the Six Great Elders—might be the only person who could avenge the young boy.

His words were like a beam of light, illuminating the confused mind, and enlivening the eyes of the youth with a renewed spirit.

"Jiang Luo," he whispered.

"Louder, announce your true name to all your fellow disciples."

"Jiang Luo!" the youth, Jiang Luo, called out loudly, "I am from the Seventh Faction of Jiang's branch family, the orphan of the Jiang's in Yun County, descendant of Emperor Yan."

Very good, very spirited.

One look at his eyes, burning like wildfire, revealed the youth's life commitment to the cause of revenge and to the one who would avenge him. His future was uncertain, but for now, Jiang Luo's loyalty was pledged to Jiang Li.

This also stirred an indescribable impulse in the hearts of the other members of the Jiang clan.

No matter how loyal they were to the main family, they had to consider reality. It was a fact that the Jiang family was now fragmented; if the main family was no longer willing to protect the branches, they couldn't blame those branches for seeking their own paths.

Not everyone was as blindly loyal as Li Chongyue.

As everyone's thoughts were in turmoil, a torrential aura surged into Kaiyang Hall from outside, its frenzied heat snaking like an angry dragon.

"The main family cannot avenge you, so you will?" Just like thunder on a clear day, the voice of Jiang Zhuyun boomed into everyone's ears, an invisible might parting the crowd to reveal the figure now standing outside the hall.

Jiang Zhuyun had arrived.

He had no choice but to come.

As Jiang Li chanted loudly, swinging his hoe, digging furiously at the foundations, Jiang Zhuyun had to come before the entire wall collapsed.

"Third Young Master!"

From within the crowd, soft exclamations arose.

Adorned in a Red Robe, like a son of the sun, Jiang Zhuyun strode into Kaiyang Hall, his Dao Fruit power swirling around him like raging currents, elevating his presence to that of a Heavenly Deity, its vastness causing those standing to the side to become unsteady, hastily making room.

The previously crowded Kaiyang Hall somehow opened up space for Jiang Li and the approaching Jiang Zhuyun.

"I wondered who it was—"

Jiang Li lifted his head to look at Jiang Zhuyun, and in the face of divine pressure, he remained unflustered, even revealing a sneer, "It turns out to be Brother Ji, Ji Yunliu. I'm curious what guidance Brother Ji has for the matters of the Jiang family?"

If Jiang Zhuyun's aura was a towering wave, then Jiang Li was like a bright mirror.

His Aura was entirely withdrawn within his body, the Innate Qi circulating inside his crystalline form like a human-shaped mirror, reflecting all the imposing energy.

As the two faced each other head-on, Jiang Li did not retreat half a step.