Chapter 131: Unavoidable Sorrow
Li Yuanba cried like a child, and even his own women didn't know why he was crying so miserably. Whatever the reason for crying, there must be a reason, right? As Li Jiancheng's older brother, based on Li Yuanba's previous behavior, there was no reason to cry so hard! In fact, Li Yuanba did have a reason to cry like this, and it was something that others couldn't even think of - it was for those already vague memories! He lost his most beloved toy-like thing, and he couldn't hold back his tears...
Li Jiancheng's death is just a fuse!
This crying happened on Li Yuanba's body very naturally, but in other people's eyes, this is very abnormal.
When things were over, Li Yuanba, this overbearing person, also felt a bit embarrassed. Facing the exploratory eyes of his loved ones, Li Yuanba would dodge if he could. This behavior made Wang Ting and the others feel very curious and interesting. The enraged Li Yuanba had to make great efforts several times on the bed to extinguish their curiosity!
The changes brought about by the current energy storm are affecting the trajectory of this world, and even Li Yuanba dares not imagine where this world will go, the influence of the traverser is too great!
Repeated intense wars have altered the layout of the world's land, making several continents fundamentally unrecognizable. Islands that were once scattered and hidden are now exposed, forming new habitats for life to thrive. The original lands are either destroyed or no longer resemble their familiar forms, with various natural disasters and energy storms causing changes that have shrunk the original continents or even led to massive fragmentation due to battles between powerful magical creatures! Now, in this world, the only continent that can basically maintain its original appearance is the territory of the Great Tang, which is also the largest intact landmass on earth.
Africa has become the largest paradise for alien beasts and the most ideal place for the Tang Dynasty to provide meat! The broken island nation is ignored by everyone, because the poor land of Tongtian's alien beasts exceeds people's expectations. In order to fight for territory, the already semi-ruined island country was beaten into pieces, almost disappearing from the map! However, it also accelerated the battle between alien beasts and sea monsters, exposing them to the gaze of giant sea monsters in the ocean. The battle between alien beasts and sea monsters occurs every day, and soon the entire island nation will disappear!
The alien beasts that gradually lost their territory had to go to sea to find new territories, which led to even more terrible events. The neighboring small islands were gradually eroded. The coastal areas of the Tang Dynasty were constantly plagued by huge storms, and the alien beasts from the Tongtian realm frequently landed, forcing Li Yuanba to station himself on the coast of the Tang Dynasty! After the new territorial pattern was formed, humans truly entered the era of war beasts!
In the year 753, human population surged. The flesh of heteromorphic beasts further altered human physiology. Reproductive capacity also took a huge leap forward, leading humans to become dissatisfied with their current state and seek to reoccupy lands rich in resources!
The improvement of physique makes people's cultivation faster. The number of demon gods in the world has increased rapidly, and it has broken through the 100,000 mark! However, the original earliest entrants to the Demon God Realm discovered a problem that only the Demon God Realm can experience, which is the restriction on entering the Tongtian Realm from the Demon God Realm.
In the battles against those Transcendent Realm foreign beasts, those Magical Gods equipped with War Evolution Engines discovered that even if they were equipped with abilities that could amplify their own strength several times over, and even if they burned their life force to fight, they were still far inferior to these powerful foreign beasts! And yet, they easily killed the foreign beasts that possessed Magical God-level strength. This clearly did not conform to human logic!
Taking the human boundary as an example, one step at a time to reach the sky. Under the same equipment, legendary-level masters can easily kill innate, but when the number reaches ten, there will be a phenomenon of being suppressed, and over a hundred can be easily ground to death by the opponent! Mythical level against uploading legend and magic god against mythical, these gaps are also the case! However, when fighting these alien beasts, this realm named Tongtian is extremely powerful. Even with thousands of equipment war evolution devices, the full-strength blow of the magic god cannot cause fatal damage to these alien beasts, and it is even being suppressed and beaten!
This led to the conclusion that the Demon God Realm has a hierarchical phenomenon! In the bodies of the Tian Tian beasts killed by Li Yuanba, a strange energy crystal was found, which is generally located in the head of the beast. The reason why it was not discovered before is simple: all the beasts killed were beheaded by Li Yuanba! Moreover, with the progress of cultivation under the condition that there are Tian Tian beasts every day, he can feel the progress at any time, and even the war evolution device on the Demon God's equipment has three obvious evolution phenomena, but it cannot absorb the entire beast's blood.
The first energy crystal of the alien beast is a very strange alien beast, also known as an amphibian, which crawled out of the sea. Its body was covered with eerie tentacles, like a round ball; its head was very small and completely shrunk into its body; a stream of nauseating mucus constantly flowing from its body made Li Yuanba unwilling to stand on its head and kill it as before, several attacks were unable to take effect on the monster's body, just like hitting a soft ball, most of the attack power being dissipated by the soft body and nauseating mucus, unable to cause substantial harm. This is also the weakness of using heavy weapons like hammers, where great attack power encounters this soft and hard characteristic, far inferior to the practicality of a knife slash!
Even Li Yuanba's Musou technique can be deflected by this strange beast, showing just how heaven-defying it is. The enraged Li Yuanba directly injected his tyrannical fire-type true energy into the twin hammers, until they formed a pair of fireballs several meters in diameter, like monsters. With one pursuit skill, two fireballs sandwiched the strange beast in between, roasting it to perfection...
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the demons who dared to try everything, following the principle of not wasting anything, peeled off the outer skin of this strange beast, cut out all the tender-looking cooked meat inside, and finally found an energy crystal in that half-meter-sized head. The energy contained within made all the demons tremble with fear, and even the vastness of the ocean was insufficient to describe the energy contained within this several-centimeter-diameter spherical crystal! Li Yuanba curiously crushed this energy ball, but nothing happened, and a demon also curiously pinched a fine particle. Under the traction of true energy, they were frightened and hastily threw the unstable particle into the sea, causing a massive energy explosion that sent these curious people flying thousands of miles away! A thread of crimson blood flowed from the corner of their mouths, and even the indestructible War Evolution Device suffered varying degrees of damage. Li Yuanba was not blown away but ate a mouthful of sand and mud mixed with seawater...
Li Yuanba's tyrannical hand threw all the particles into the sea, to find those demon gods who were blown away. The particles entering the sea were eaten by the sea beasts in the sea, and they directly ignited a chain explosion with their energy attack, blasting the nearby sea into the deep sea...
People are strange creatures with hearts that can never be satisfied. Wang Ting and her friends have become legends, with a youthfulness that has lasted nearly a century. But now, over 150 years old, they watch as their once-red complexions gradually fade away. Every day is spent washing their faces with tears. A hundred years of glory may be a joyful thing for ordinary people, but it's also relative!
For them, it's like watching themselves grow old every day. Their loved ones still have that youthful face. How can they bear it! But humans are selfish creatures. Watching their loved ones grow old day by day, Li Yuanba is no less painful than they are!
The son's appearance was like a withered tree, making Li Yuanba unable to bear looking at Li Xing. Returning home and seeing the mournful scene, Li Yuanba slipped away, which was unthinkable for a tyrannical person like him! Since coming into this world, Li Yuanba had experienced so many separations and deaths, his heart could be said to have grown very large, but this prolonged torture was even more severe than that instant of sorrow! This pain was increasing day by day, without any ups and downs...
They say that love is fierce, like a volcanic eruption, and will disappear with the passage of time, leaving only memories of the past passion. But true love is not like that, it's about mutual support and pure affection. A hundred years of being together has made them accustomed to each other's existence, and the love that has been accumulating in their hearts has never disappeared, but only becomes more mellow with age! The daily torment is just a manifestation of that love, what's the point of suffering without love?!
Li Yuanba, although often stationed on the border, still frequently returned home. At first, he didn't notice any difference between returning home and being outside, but in recent years, he always felt uneasy, even when seeing his loved one's tearful face upon his return, it seemed like a sorrowful happiness.
In the year 763, Li Xingshou passed away. This was the first time a descendant of Li Yuanba had died of natural causes, and seeing his son's aged appearance gave Li Yuanba a sense of temporal disorder. Looking at his own children, who looked even older than himself, Li Yuanba's heart was filled with an unstoppable sorrow, and the topic of lifespan was truly a heavy one!
"Perhaps... someone like me shouldn't have started a family..." Li Yuanba looked at his son's blurry figure, and such thoughts involuntarily rose from the bottom of his heart.
This is a topic that they cannot avoid, just like those people who live as long as the heavens, how many such life-and-death separations will they experience in their lifetime. Imagination is after all imagination, Li Yuanba had thought about this kind of problem before, but at this moment, he suddenly discovered that it was completely inconsistent with the kind of carefree feeling he had imagined, and he simply couldn't be carefree!
After arranging his son's funeral, Li Yuanba was dealt an even heavier blow. His several loved ones, when they were over fifty years old, poured all their energy into a jade pendant that had been passed down since ancient times. They entrusted their attachment and reluctance to part with this small jade pendant, just so that their loved one would not see them grow old!
Receiving the mandate of heaven, longevity and prosperity. This is Li Yuanba's only possession from the imperial family, the He Shi Bi, also known as the National Treasure Seal, which has been kept in Li Yuanba's bedroom all along. He didn't dare to wear it on his body, because the tyrannical aura could instantly burn it into ashes during battles, but every time he was idle, Li Yuanba would always play with this mysterious jade stone that people considered divine. This mysterious jade stone is very spiritual and can store any energy without releasing it, belonging to the category of "having an entrance but no exit". Its hardness also makes people gasp in amazement, even high-ranking masters from the Demon God Realm cannot damage its slightest bit, except for Li Yuanba, no method can destroy it. Especially those legends about He Shi Bi made Li Yuanba very curious about how Qin Shi Huang carved it into this shape!
Now, nothing matters to Li Yuanba anymore, he's tired! After handing over all the affairs of the Tang Dynasty and appointing a grandson of his fifth brother Li Yuangui to the throne, warning not to disturb him until the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanba brought only the He Shi Bi to the former alliance headquarters in An Ding, where he wanted to quietly stay alone, away from the worldly troubles!
Li Yuanba's departure made the Tang Dynasty a truly complete and prosperous country. This country, which had always followed one person's will, began to have internal politics with intrigue and a truly bright and dark coexistence that belonged to everyone's will! Of course, this was the beginning of Li Yuanba's 20-year avoidance of the world!
