Chapter 684: Chapter 685: Dancing in a Minefield
The golden figure in Li Xiaobai’s body let out a chilling cackle, clear and audible, making listeners shiver uncontrollably.

The power of the Primordial Spirit was no secret to those at the Void Merging realm, but for ordinary martial artists, it was an invincible divine technique beyond their grasp.

That golden figure was the essence of the old man’s Primordial Spirit Power, its cultivation level fully embodied. Although the ministers did not understand the usage of the Primordial Spirit, they knew that with the Ancestral Emperor’s Primordial Spirit entering Li Xiaobai’s body, he had gained an absolute advantage.

Perhaps at this moment, Li Xiaobai’s life and death were at the whim of the Grand Emperor!

“So you’re that confident you’ve got me in your clutches?”

Li Xiaobai’s eyes flashed with a menacing light; the opponent’s prized golden figure was worthless in his sight, lacking even the qualifications to make him resist. He intended to use the most brutal method to shatter the opponent’s will.

“Ha, demon head, you’re still clueless even at death’s door, no better than your cheap slut of a junior sister!”

Chen Yuanyuan couldn’t help but sneer at the side, believing the Grand Emperor had sealed his victory. In her view, the demon head was merely being stubborn. After all, how could a young man barely over twenty compete with a century-old monster?

She had been overly worried before.

“Shut your mouth, you venomous wretch! How dare you mention my junior sister? I won’t just kill you outright. I will subject you to the most agonizing tortures in the world, letting you die unwillingly amidst endless regret.”

Li Xiaobai roared in fury.

“Oh, scare me to death, why don’t you? Full of fire for such a young man. But I, your sister, insist on mentioning her. Your junior sister is nothing but a whore, rejecting with her words while her body tells the truth, acting coy and inviting my pity!”

“And one more thing you should understand, being able to serve the Grand Emperor is the highest honor, a virtue accumulated over eight generations by that whore. If you want to accrue some virtue for your descendants, I suggest you kneel and kowtow to beg for forgiveness. Perhaps if the Ancestral Emperor is in a good mood, he might spare your dog’s life!”

Chen Yuanyuan’s face showed a cold smile as she relentlessly provoked Li Xiaobai, touching his sore spot.

In truth, she had no idea what had happened inside the Grand Emperor’s sleeping chambers, but that didn’t stop her from stirring the pot with wild conjectures, igniting Li Xiaobai’s rage.

“Well said, that woman indeed had a fine taste, and what’s more valuable is that she was a virgin. The old man here also regrets her death.”

The elderly man’s eyes flashed with a teasing light as he bantered.

At this moment, his Primordial Spirit had settled within Li Xiaobai’s body, navigating through the eight extraordinary meridians to soon reach the Dantian, controlling his life and death. He hadn’t acquired the desired Cultivation Technique yet, so he decided to toy with him first.

“People listen to your teachings, treating you like saviors and calling me a demon head, not realizing those in their hearts they hail as saviors are the ones truly guilty of heinous crimes. I always believed that right and wrong were clearly defined, as black and white, one or the other.”

“But now, you’ve taught me a lesson, that good and evil are written by the strong. You manipulate the will of the people, obscuring the truth, committing unspeakable atrocities in secrecy, and playing with the lives of all beings as if they were fools—what a pity!”

“You just mentioned, you want to devour my Dantian? Ants cannot swallow an elephant.”

“Go ahead and try, for I will make you realize the difference between a firefly and the bright moon!”

They say that extreme anger brings a calmness, and this is the state Li Xiaobai was in now, but only he knew that such a state was even more terrifying. All he needed was an opportunity, a moment to unleash the power to rend heaven and earth, and then he would tear the person before him to shreds with the swiftness of thunderclap!

“Sharp-tongued and ungrateful!”

“After the old one cripples you, let’s see what else you have to say!”

The elder’s expression was quite somber, as the power of his Primordial Spirit swept through, his mind fully invested in the golden figure, commanding it to swiftly travel through Li Xiaobai’s body and, in the blink of an eye, reached the Dantian.

“Hmph, I have already reached the Dantian, boy, brace for fear…”

A sinister whisper came from the Dantian, but immediately, the laughter stopped abruptly.

What followed were the elder’s screams of shock.

“How is this possible, how can this thing possibly be the Dantian!”

“How can your Dantian be so vast and magnificent!”

“What sorcery have you cultivated!”

Inside Li Xiaobai’s body, the hoarse voice kept coming, shouting and clamoring, leaving the surrounding civil and military officials dumbstruck; they could not see the internal scene and did not understand what had happened.

It seemed as though the Grand Emperor’s Primordial Spirit had encountered something terrifying within Li Xiaobai’s Dantian?

Inside the Dantian.

The gold-colored Primordial Spirit stood above the Dantian, before him lay an endless vast starry river, with the roaring river of Inner Strength seemingly penetrating the universe, flowing into the boundless aeons. This was not a Dantian; this was clearly a universe!

Most crucially, all of this was transformed from Inner Strength, and it was unimaginable just how profound that Inner Strength had to be. It could no longer merely be described as profound; perhaps all the Inner Strength of the world’s Martial Artists combined would not compare to the scene before his eyes.

Compared with that, the small lake within his Dantian was like a tiny pellet of land, unable to stir the slightest ripple in this universe.

“Is this also the effect brought by the Spirit Realm Technique, continuously absorbing Inner Strength to fill the Dantian, with Inner Strength evolving into a starry river? This is something I dared not even contemplate, but this child has achieved it with ease. I must get my hands on this Spirit Realm Technique!”

A hint of ruthlessness flickered in the eyes of the gold-colored figure. No matter how strong the Inner Strength was, at their level of realm, it was ultimately just an external object, a lower form of energy. Only the power of the Primordial Spirit was the purest force between heaven and earth.

He intended to use the power of his Primordial Spirit to destroy this universe that was the Dantian!

“Kill!”

The gold-colored figure turned into a sword light, charging directly into the starry river, exploding the stars one by one, as the sky filled with Inner Strength churned, and the sound of thunder roared.

The elder laughed heartily. “What use is an abundance of Inner Strength if it can’t keep up with the power of the Primordial Spirit? It’s just a paper tiger in the end. Watch me shatter your Dantian and blow up your starry river!”

The power of the Primordial Spirit vibrated, stirring up stormy waves throughout the entire Dantian, shattering stars one after another as the golden figure sped along, aiming to breach the barriers of the Dantian and utterly crush this expanse of the void.

What he didn’t know was that at this very moment, the outside was a completely different scene.

The few remaining officials had their eyes glued to the area around Li Xiaobai’s belly, feeling the terrifying fluctuations emanating from within, which made their hearts tremble and their bile rise, aware that the Grand Emperor was using his supreme Divine Skills to attempt to smash the opponent’s Dantian.

But Li Xiaobai’s reaction took them completely by surprise.

The young man’s stomach rumbled loudly; he reached out to touch it, muttering to himself, “Should I eat it now or wait a while longer to eat?”