Chapter 0153

Chapter 153: To Seek the Selfless Realm, Step onto Jade Purity Sect

Zhou Tong frowned and said in a low voice: “I look seventy percent like him?” He knew what this meant. That Li Clan might be his own family. Parents, brothers and sisters, blood relatives… each word flashed through his mind like thunder.

Mu Rong Ya’s voice called him back as she said gently: “Little one.”

“I’m here,” Zhou Tong answered at once. His spirit pressed down like a heavy cauldron and smoothed all ripples.

He looked ahead and said evenly: “I will go to the Li Clan.” There was no hope in his tone and no fear. What held him up was a thin line of duty. In past and present lives he had endured many hardships. Even without parents or elders to shelter him, he could still charge forward. But now that he might know where his family was, he had to confirm it.

You Jing Feng watched him regain calm in a breath and could not help praising him: “Brat, you are remarkable.”

He added with care: “I must remind you. Since losing their child, the Li Clan Patriarch and his wife took in an adopted son to ease their pain. They favor him deeply and treat him like their own. The boy has also done well. His talent is great. His cultivation grows by leaps and bounds. He has won much fame for the Li Clan. In great clans, what they value most is profit.”

The words he held back were clear. Even if the patriarch and his wife were Zhou Tong’s birth parents, after seeing Zhou Tong, they might not place him above the adopted son. The strong thrive, the weak fall. It is a rule that does not change.

Zhou Tong smiled bright and said: “I understand.” Ever since his rebirth he had made up his mind. If you care for me, I will repay you like a spring. If you abandon or insult me, I will strike with thunder and pay you back a hundredfold.

You Jing Feng cupped his hands and said: “Then I truly take my leave.” His figure vanished into the wind.

Zhou Tong turned and said: “Let’s say goodbye to the empress. Then we go back.”

Two gentle, caring gazes met his eyes at once.

Mu Rong Ya said with deep warmth: “Little one, we will always stand by your side.”

Zhang Chu Qiao added with a soft smile: “Junior brother, we will always be here.”

The three of them shared a look and smiled. Nothing more needed saying.

Just then, a Half Saint aura streaked across the sky. The empress arrived in haste.

With eyes only for Zhou Tong, she asked with feeling: “Guest minister, are you truly leaving?”

Zhou Tong nodded slightly and said: “We must part in the end.”

She said with sincere, steady eyes: “If you stay, I am willing to share the country with you. Would that not be wonderful?”

Anyone would soften before such a beauty, but Zhou Tong still shook his head and said: “This is only a Heavenly Dao domain. It is still too small.”

Qian Miao Yu trembled, and her eyes turned red at once. She understood. The youth before her was like a Kunpeng of the Nine Heavens. Only the endless sky could hold him. Power and riches were dust in his eyes and not worth a mention.

She turned away and said in a tight voice: “Fine then. Go. We will meet again. When we meet at the peak, I hope you will not regret it.”

Zhou Tong’s voice drifted over as the ship prepared to leave: “We will meet again.” That only made the empress angrier. She spun back, grabbed his arm, and bit down hard.

Zhou Tong sighed and said helplessly: “That makes four marks now.” He let her vent.

Mu Rong Ya would not let it pass. She lifted her Saint might to teach the bold empress a lesson and snapped: “Presumptuous!” But the empress had guessed her move and had already slipped away to watch from afar.

With a heavy rumble, Zhou Tong, Mu Rong Ya, Zhang Chu Qiao, Holy Heart, and Lian Han Xing boarded the Red Dust. The ship roared to life and vanished over the horizon.

The empress clenched her fist toward the sky and said with firm resolve: “What I set my eyes on will be mine.”

They sped north like the wind. When they came, they were high-spirited; when they returned, they were eager to go home. Zhou Tong stood at the bow and opened the energy shield. He let his body split the fierce wind. His true body did not move an inch.

Lian Han Xing leaned close and asked in a whisper: “What’s wrong with him? He looks troubled.”

Zhang Chu Qiao smiled and said: “You read it wrong. My beloved does not waste time on such useless worries. He is meditating to seek a breakthrough.”

Lian Han Xing stared in shock. How far beyond reason had Zhou Tong gone? Was he still not satisfied?

She still remembered the first time they met. Zhou Tong had only been in the Soul-Turning realm. After subduing her, he broke through in front of her eyes to the Heart-Merging realm. But that was only the start. In the Heavenly Dao domain, he kept breaking limits and made miracle after miracle. In the Saint-slaying battle, he crossed the barrier of the extraordinary. He climbed nine small levels in a row and reached the peak of that realm. One more step and he could cross into the Life-and-Death realm. His speed would make those so-called geniuses of the Central Continent die of shame, yet he still was not satisfied. He was greedy to the extreme.

But as Zhang Chu Qiao said, Zhou Tong was not chasing a simple realm break. His spirit kept every step rock solid. From now until the near Dao stage, he would face no major bottlenecks. What he needed most was to dig deeper into his own potential and step into the next of the Six No Realms in the Emperor Realm: the Selfless Realm.

This realm is mysterious. It is called selfless, yet it is everywhere the self. I am the world. I am yin and yang. I am mountains and trees. I am the River of Time. I am you. I am me. Once someone in the near Dao stage enters this realm, people call him a Half Emperor. If nothing goes wrong, he will become an Emperor.

Yet stepping into the Selfless Realm is harder than words can say. To become selfless, you must first see the self. Zhou Tong had to learn where he came from. So he had to return to the Li Clan in the Central Continent, and he had to step onto the Jade Purity Sect. There was one more key point. You Jing Feng had said the Li Clan’s child was lost at age four. But when Mo Liu Su found Zhou Tong, he was already eight, and he had no memory from before age eight. If the two were the same child, what happened in those four empty years? If he could not figure this out, he could not step into the Selfless Realm.

Without noticing, the ship entered the Three Pure Domain.

All at once, the world’s spiritual energy rioted. Light flashed on all sides. Killing intent spread and rolled straight toward the Red Dust.

A familiar voice and face shattered Zhou Tong’s meditation as a shout came: “Zhou Tong, little beast, today is your death day!”

The Jade Purity Sect had come to find him first.