What? You opened a resort on the battlefield of all races?

Faced with Xiao Qiong's questioning, Li Junshan calmly straightened his clothes.

He stood quietly in place, letting the strong wind make his brocade robe flutter in the wind.

After a long while, he slowly raised his head to face Xiao Qiong's terrifying, scarlet eyes.

At first, Li Junshan's expression was only a chilling indifference.

It was like a stagnant pool, without the slightest ripple.

From the day he decided to send the first batch of Moonshadow Flying Fish into the Haichuan Prefecture's logistics camp, he knew that this scene would happen sooner or later.

He slowly turned his head, his gaze passing over Xiao Qiong and landing on the martial artists from Haichuan Prefecture behind him.

Looking at those faces that were once incredibly fervent towards him, now filled with fear and disbelief.

A complex undercurrent flashed in Li Junshan's eyes.

Do you feel guilty?

No, it's a profound sense of powerlessness.

That was the helplessness he felt after struggling in the mire for half his life, trying his best to break free from the shackles of fate, only to end up dragging everyone down with him into the abyss.

"call--"

Li Junshan exhaled a long breath, his chest heaving more and more.

He turned his gaze back to Xiao Qiong.

Then, the muscles in his face began to twitch slightly.

"hehe……"

A cold laugh escaped from between his teeth.

Then, the laughter burst forth like a flood breaking through a dam, becoming uncontrollable.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Li Junshan raised his head, his laughter growing louder and more unrestrained, even drowning out the rolling thunder in the sky and the booming sound emanating from Xiao Qiong's illusory figure on the road.

He laughed so hard his shoulders shook violently, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"Xiao Qiong, oh Xiao Qiong..."

Li Junshan abruptly stopped laughing.

"My good brother."

He emphasized these words, each syllable conveying an intense, overwhelming bitterness and jealousy.

"You are high above, you are the center of attention."

Li Junshan took two steps forward, his eyes fixed on Xiao Qiong's face.

Do you know how much I've envied you all these years?

Xiao Qiong didn't speak, but the hundred-foot-long blood-red blade behind her emitted a bloodthirsty hum, and her scarlet eyes stared coldly at him.

"You are a true cultivation genius!"

Li Junshan suddenly spread his hands out, as if protesting to the world.

"You can circulate your energy through your body with just one glance at martial arts techniques, and grasp their true meaning by practicing a single set of fist techniques!"

"Breaking through realms is as simple and natural for you as eating and drinking!"

He clenched his fists tightly, the veins on the back of his hands bulging out like coiled green snakes.

"But what about me?!"

A beast-like roar suddenly erupted from Li Junshan's throat.

"Do you know how bitter it is inside for someone like me, labeled a useless person by God?!"

He stared intently at Xiao Qiong, a burning jealousy blazing in his eyes.

"Back then, we studied at the same high school! We both had two arms and two legs, so why was one of us given the other's privilege?"

"Why is it that when you graduated from Martial Arts High School, you were still fighting tooth and nail to break through to the Rock Realm, while you..."

"You've already reached the Flying Realm?!"

Li Junshan's voice echoed across the empty battlefield, piercing everyone's eardrums.

"To be admitted to a martial arts university with the cultivation level of the Flying Heaven Realm, how impressive!"

"You're a super genius in the eyes of all the professors, a highly sought-after talent by all the powers that are vying for you. When you walk around campus, people even look at you with shining eyes!"

He stretched out his hands, gripped his hair tightly, and pulled it violently.

"And me? I'm just an unknown piece of trash!"

"He's an ant who's not even worthy of carrying the shoes of geniuses like you!"

Li Junshan's chest heaved violently as he gasped for breath, his eyes bloodshot from extreme excitement.

"If I hadn't been lucky, if I hadn't been so fortunate..."

He suddenly raised his head.

"If it weren't for that stroke of luck during my exploration of the secret realm, when I obtained a bottle of Marrow Cleansing Elixir, which changed my fate against all odds..."

He sneered, pointed at Xiao Qiong with his finger, and then pointed at himself.

"Do you think I have the right to stand here right now?"

"Do you think I'm worthy to speak to you, the high and mighty Lord Xiao, with such an equal attitude?"

Xiao Qiong's murderous aura intensified, and her voice was as cold as ice.

"So, this is your reason for harming millions of martial artists?"

"A reason? I don't need a reason!"

Li Junshan suddenly flung his arm away, as if he wanted to release all the pent-up frustration he had accumulated over half a lifetime.

"I know my own situation! Although that bottle of Marrow Cleansing Elixir changed my aptitude, allowing me to climb all the way up and enter the Fusion Dao Realm!"

At this point, his voice suddenly lowered, revealing a deep sense of despair.

"But... that's where it ends."

Li Junshan shook his head with a wry smile.

"I can feel that my path has been cut off."

"The Dao Integration Realm is like an insurmountable iron wall, firmly blocking my way."

"It's mocking me, mocking me, this useless person who relies on external shortcuts, destined to be forever barred from achieving enlightenment!"

A deathly silence spread between the two.

A thunderous roar followed, and then a torrential downpour.

"But I'm not willing to accept this!!!"

Li Junshan suddenly roared to the sky, without using his Yuan Power to block the rain, letting the raindrops mixed with evil energy fall on him.

"I'm not willing to be stuck at the Fusion Realm!"

"I refuse to be trampled underfoot by a genius like you my whole life! I refuse to be a useless piece of trash my whole life!!!"

Looking at her former classmate who had gone mad, Xiao Qiong took a deep breath.

The crimson in his eyes was gradually replaced by a chilling killing intent.

"so……"

Xiao Qiong gritted her teeth and asked, word by word, "So you've pledged allegiance to the Abyss? Willing to become the Demon King's lackey?"

Upon hearing this, Li Junshan, who had been in a frenzy, suddenly quieted down.

He slowly straightened up, straightened his slightly disheveled clothes, and once again curled that eerie smile at the corner of his mouth.

"No."

Li Junshan gently shook his head.

"Xiao Qiong, you're wrong."

"I, Li Junshan, will never be anyone's dog."

He stared into Xiao Qiong's eyes and said, word by word, "I only... borrowed his power a little."

Xiao Qiong's brows furrowed sharply, her thick eyebrows almost forming a knot.

Everything that had happened during this period flashed through his mind, from the Moon Shadow Flying Fish that could enhance cultivation, to the strange phenomena that occurred when martial artists broke through, and then to Li Junshan in front of him.

Alignment with the Dao? Bait?

A vague clue emerged in his mind. He seemed to have grasped something key, but it was like looking at flowers through a fog, always separated by an impenetrable layer of paper, and he couldn't get to the point.

"What exactly do you mean?"

Xiao Qiong asked in a deep voice, and the phantom of the decapitation sword behind him tilted forward slightly, the blade pointing directly at Li Junshan.

"Don't you understand yet, my genius brother?"

Li Junshan grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth, and made no attempt to conceal the grand scheme he had been planning for many years.

"That's right, the Moonshadow Flying Fish was indeed bait sent by Aro. But I have no intention of giving away the warriors of Haichuan Prefecture to the Abyss as nourishment for nothing."

He opened his arms, closed his eyes, as if experiencing something wonderful, his expression one of intoxication and greed.

"I used the edible flesh and blood of these alien races provided by Aro, and added a little of my own divine soul power to it."

He suddenly opened his eyes, and two terrifying beams of light shot out.

"The moment the warriors of Haichuan Prefecture consumed this flesh and blood, the moment they refined its energy, the moment they broke through their cultivation realms because of this power..."

Li Junshan's hands were clenched loosely in front of him, as if he were grasping an invisible net.

"That slight resonance with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth during the breakthrough, those fragments of rules that erupted when breaking through realms..."

"Everything will flow back to me through the divine soul power I've implanted!"

Upon hearing this, the entire room fell into a deathly silence!

The warriors of Haichuan Prefecture, who were lying paralyzed in the mud, stared wide-eyed at their once-respected prefecture lord as if he were a monster.

They thought they had consumed a treasure that would enhance their strength, but they never expected that they were just tools used by Li Junshan to comprehend the Great Dao.

"I'm not talented, I'm slow-witted, I'm truly a useless person!"

Li Junshan's voice became high-pitched and fervent, causing the surrounding rain to burst open.

"But Haichuan Prefecture has countless martial artists!"

"One person's slightest resonance isn't enough, but what about ten? A hundred? Ten thousand?!"

He suddenly raised his arms upwards, as if to lift up the entire sky.

"Many grains of sand make a tower, many small things make a robe! By accumulating little by little, who says that even the most worthless cannot achieve the Dao-realm?!"

With Li Junshan's roar that soared into the sky, the Great Dao manifested, and the aura of the Fusion Dao Realm suddenly erupted from his body like a volcano!

"Boom!"

A series of muffled explosions echoed through the heavens and earth.

Before everyone's shocked eyes, the void above Li Junshan's head was brutally torn apart.

Water, and the illusory images of two great paths appear!

However, this time...

These two illusory paths are different from Xiao Qiong's pure path.

It was filled with countless chaotic points of light, some containing the intent of a blade, some sword energy, some raging wind, some raging fire...

That was the chaotic resonance generated when tens of thousands of martial artists from Haichuan Prefecture broke through to higher realms!

But at this moment, these forces that should have been mutually exclusive were forcibly kneaded together under Li Junshan's frenzied control.

"Just you wait, Xiao Qiong!"

Li Junshan's eyes were wide open, and blood even gushed from the corners of his eyes.

"Today, I'll show you how a piece of trash like me can achieve Dao Integration before you do!"

Amid his roar, the two turbid and enormous Great Daos of Heaven and Earth in mid-air began to twist violently.

Under the pressure of his power, those jumbled specks of light actually began to collapse and merge towards the very center, bit by bit!