Starting with a Family System to Become an Immortal Official-Chapter 128: Deva Body Realm!

Li Qingmu returned to the private chamber he’d rented at the Flower Garden Tavern and sealed the door with a simple flex of his spiritual energy.

The room was quiet the way he liked it.

But its feng shui was nothing compared to his abode back at the Exalted Sage School.

He sat cross-legged on the wide bed, exhaling slowly.

Time to push forward.

With a thought, he unsealed his storage ring. Two items floated out and hovered before him: the pitch-black Ancient Devil Scale and the crimson Blood Dragon Horn that pulsed vibrantly like a living heart with veins of molten gold running through it.

Li Qingmu let out a self-satisfied smile.

"These two... they’re the perfect keys to unlock the fourth level of the Earthly Transformations. It tempers the mortal shell into something divine. First the organs become a cosmic engine that sustains itself and draws in heaven and earth’s qi without end. Then the bones turn to star-gold essence, and the blood becomes stellar rivers that are eternal. The whole body transforms into a microcosm, a perfect little universe that mirrors the macrocosm of creation itself."

He paused as his eyes gleamed.

"The Five Heavenly Transformations refine the immortal mind into a diamond-like realm... sharp, unbreakable, able to grasp the laws of the universe. But the second half of the Nine Celestial Transformations... that’s where most geniuses fall due to an unreliable foundation. So I must plan ahead and build the ultimate foundation from this moment on!"

He closed his eyes and began circulating his qi which drew the two treasures closer. They started rotating slowly in the air above his palms, fixed in place by his will. Black devilish mist and crimson dragon aura spiraled out, pouring into his meridians like twin rivers merging into an ocean.

As the energies flooded him, his consciousness sank inward into his mind world.

There, towering over a stormy black void, stood his massive Four-Armed War Asura. Jet-black skin, four muscular arms, each gripping a sacred conceptual sword. The idol threw its head back and roared until the sound shook the entire mental realm like thunder.

Li Qingmu floated before it and stared up in awe.

"The Ancestor Slaying Sword still hasn’t formed yet I can already see its full blueprint. Lineage-severing intent, a sword that cuts bloodlines, inherited techniques, ancestral spirits. One strike seals an opponent’s bloodline power forever. With this sword, I’d be unchallenged beneath the heavens!"

He formed a hand seal quickly.

"But it needs more. The Nine Celestial Transformations demand visualization that turns thought into reality. I have to force my intent deeper, use the fragrance of blood and devil to shape it!"

He moved both hands in graceful arcs around the rotating Ancient Devil Scale and Blood Dragon Horn. The combined fragrance of sharp devilish rot mixed with roaring draconic vitality gathered between his palms to condense into a brilliant golden ball of energy.

Li Qingmu spirit-refined it then pushed the orb straight toward the dharma idol.

The Four-Armed War Asura snatched the golden ball with its lower two hands.

A surge of power erupted.

RUUUUMBLEE!!

The energy solidified into a long, jet-black sword wreathed in faint blood-red runes.

The Ancestor Slaying Sword!

It happened in an instant.

The asura lifted it high and let out a heaven-shaking roar of triumph.

Li Qingmu’s eyes snapped open in reality.

Joy flooded his face.

"Haha! I did it! The Ancestor Slaying Sword is born and I’ve stepped into the fourth and final level of the Four Earthly Transformations! Now Deva Body Realm no longer seems like a dream to me!"

But then he froze.

His dharma idol... was glaring at him.

The massive asura’s three eyes burned with wild fury.

"Wait... what’s going on?" Li Qingmu muttered.

There was no warning. Only action.

BOOOOOM!

The asura roared again and lunged four swords slashing down in a storm of killing intent!

Li Qingmu cursed and shot backward through the mental void as he dodged frantically. The Nine Heavens Tyrant Blade in one of the asura’s hands unleashed massive waves of tyrant energy. The slashes tore apart floating rock formations the size of mountains and sent debris exploding outward.

"What’s happening—!"

He didn’t even finish the sentence. A colossal mountain peak dropped straight from the "sky" of his mind world and crashed toward him like divine judgment.

Li Qingmu summoned his Asura Annihilation Sword faster than one could comprehend.

"Six Strokes to Nirvana!"

Six blinding sword lights flashed.

The mountain shattered into twelve enormous chunks that rained down harmlessly.

He let out a relieved breath only for the asura to appear right in front of him in an instant. Two upper swords came slashing down with earth-shaking force.

Li Qingmu sealed his sword treasure away and unfurled the Map of the Nine Mountains. The scroll unrolled like a flowing river around him to summon nine towering spiritual mountains that met the attack head-on.

BOOM!

The clash shook his entire sea of consciousness.

Li Qingmu held both arms out as he poured spiritual energy into the formation to hold it steady.

"No way. Is it possible... this dharma idol has gained a mind of its own? That chaos core I fused into it after achieving Core Formation must have granted sentience. Now all it wants is to destroy me from the inside!"

The asura roared like a mad beast and struck again with its two lower swords. The spiritual mountain formation trembled violently but it held. This was an Imperial-grade defensive treasure, capable of withstanding the strongest attacks at the Grandmaster level!

Li Qingmu wasn’t worried about collapse...yet.

Problem was, he couldn’t sustain it forever.

"Gah!"

The nine mountains crumbled into motes of light.

Before he could react, the Four-Armed War Asura opened its maw wide and swallowed him whole.

Li Qingmu groaned in pain as he sank into darkness.

His clothes dissolved.

His skin began to crystallize, turning hard and starry.

But then... he understood.

"This isn’t an attack. Every drop of my blood, every cell is being tempered into star-metal essence. My organs are becoming a true cosmic engine. The dharma idol is trying to fuse with me! This is the breakthrough!"

Suddenly, the world shifted.

He floated above a vast, desolate plain.

His asura’s own sea of consciousness.

A spinning ring of blood encircled him and crystallized into glittering starry diamonds.

Deva Body Realm achieved!

A single jet-black curved horn sprouted from the right side of his head. Black asura markings spread across his face. One eye turned blood-red. Patches of indestructible dark scales appeared along his forearms, and sharp claws extended from his fingertips.

"The Blood Dragon Horn and Ancient Devil Scale... their meld has given me monstrous defense against deviant arts and blood-dragon vitality deep as an ocean. A single drop of my blood can take root and birth a lesser blood-spirit warrior loyal to me forever."

He slashed his palm open and let several drops fall onto the jagged ground. Each drop bubbled, then rose into armored knight-like figures that knelt before him.

Li Qingmu grinned wide.

"Amazing... this has to be the creation of the Nine Celestial Transformations at work."

His wounded palm healed instantly.

"I can even empower others with my blood now."

A faint system ding! rang in his mind.

[Devil Dragon Bloodline acquired!]

[Congrats! You’ve strengthened your family lineage!]

[Reward: Small piece of land granted in Immortal Cloud City’s eastern district.]

Li Qingmu laughed softly and closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, he was back in the real world and drenched in sweat and sticky black impurities expelled from his body.

Right in front of him knelt Miss Yueshan, staring at his face with wide, curious eyes, close enough that their soft noses almost touched.

She looked so cute up close.

Li Qingmu raised a brow and leaned back slightly.

"What’s wrong?"

She tilted her head.

"I was worried. You were sweating buckets and shedding so many impurities... are you alright?"

He flashed a proud smile.

"I’m fine. More than fine."

He held his chin high.

"I finally reached Deva Body Realm."

Yueshan’s eyes sparkled.

She clasped her hands together.

"As expected of my husband! So talented!"

Li Qingmu shook his head with a chuckle.

But then she paused.

"Hm?"

She leaned in even closer to study him intently.

That was when her beautiful face turned from the whites of a peony to the redness of a rose.

Her heart thumped thunderously and her supple thighs squeezed together tightly. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Wait... nothing. Did you... get more handsome?"

Li Qingmu blinked.

"Eh?"