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    “Nascent Soul, Nascent Soul. The Soul aspect is physical, and as for the Nascent part of the term, it rtes to the spiritual. Therefore, because what you are currently absorbing via breathing techniques is Immortal qi, which far exceeds ordinary spiritual energy... theoretically speaking, you should be able to pass through the Nascent Soul stage much more quickly!” Meng Hao’s voice was quiet as he continued to expound upon his understanding of the Spirit Realm.


    He had just used a vast quantity of Immortal jade to create a huge area for the exclusive purpose of allowing these several dozen people to absorb Immortal qi. In the entire Mountain and Sea Realm, few people could aplish such a thing. In fact, the only ones who could would be the Mountain and Sea Lords.


    Evenrge sects who could afford it would not, primarily because... it wouldn’t be worth it. Sects always had numerouspeting factions who were generally concerned with their own interests and thus wouldn’t agree to such a huge expenditure.


    Meng Hao might love money, and had always dreamed of being rich. However, sentiment and honor were important things to him, and no amount of money could be more valuable to him than family.


    Therefore, he didn’t think twice about the pain that usually came with spending money. As long as his grandfather’s bloodline could rise to prominence again, it would all be worth it.


    As he continued to deliver his sermon, there were some in the audience who experienced cultivation base breakthroughs. At the same time, rumbling sounds could be heard. A strange gleam could be seen in Meng Hao’s eyes, and he wore a slight smile as the ckpod imps came flying back. After circling around in the air a few times, they began to drop bags of holding down toward the ground. Soon, there were so many it seemed like it was raining..


    The women in the bloodline mansion stared with wide eyes as all of this happened.


    Meng Hao’s expression was very somber as he looked back at all the women and continued to speak.


    “You must all remember that we cultivators must never waste cultivation resources. If you venture out and see something, but don’t pick it up, then it’s the same as losing it. That’s our maxim, and the most important principle we must keep in our hearts! [1. Thements about picking something up or else losing it were originally told to Meng Hao by his mother in chapter 1167. He’s reiterated simr words a few times since then]


    “Don’t waste money, don’t live luxuriously! If you have a chance to profit, then don’t miss out on a single spirit stone!” The entire audience waspletely focused on Meng Hao, eyes burning with zealous adoration. As soon as the women heard his words, they fixed them in their minds. Apparently, their personalities were even affected, and gradually... their eyes began to shine brightly.


    Meng Hao was pleased with the look he saw in their eyes, although he didn’t take the time to think of what the consequences would be of having an entire group of people molded after himself.... In any case, he truly felt that this group was bing much more to his liking.


    As for the three old timers, they were watching with wide eyes, as were Meng Hao’s two Uncles.


    “This....” said one of Meng Hao’s grand-uncles.


    “He’s so much like little Lili....” Meng Hao’s grandmother said with a wry smile. After a moment of thought, she allowed things to continue on as they were. “With him here, the Meng n... we’ll definitely need to change things up a bit.”


    Outside in the courtyard, Meng Hao waved his hand, sending the bags of holding flying out to hover in front of the other n members, until each one had several.


    “Alright, you hang on to these bags of holding. I’m heading out for a bit to get you some more cultivation resources.” With that, Meng Hao rose to his feet, took a step forward, and vanished. When he reappeared, he was out in the mists. The ckpod imps flew around him, looking very friendly. Meng Hao waved his sleeve to collect them up, then took another step, vanishing and reappearing high up in the sky. A cold gleam flickered in his eyes as he looked toward the center of the continent, and... the Xu n!


    He had originally nned to exterminate the entire n, but then his grandmother had woken up, which had caused a slight dy. However, moments ago when the ckpod imps wiped out the cultivators outside the mist, Meng Hao had been watching closely.


    “Anyone who has a beef with my grandfather’s bloodline also has a beef with me,” he said coolly. Then he transformed into a beam of light which shot rumbling off toward the Xu n.


    Deep in the heart of the Xu n’s ancestral mansion, within a hidden chamber, a red-haired old man sat there cross-legged. Suddenly, his eyes opened, and he shivered. A terrible feeling had just risen up in his heart, as if a huge disaster were heading his way.


    His cultivation base was far beyond the great circle of the Ancient Realm, and was already half a step into the Dao Realm. In fact, he could make his attempt toplete that step at any time. However, he was very simr to Guru Heavencloud, who Meng Hao had encountered in the asteroid field back in the Ninth Mountain and Sea, and didn’t have the confidence to try to make the attempt.


    Therefore, it would really be less urate to say that he could break through to the Dao Realm whenever he wished, and more urate to say that he could force his way into the Quasi-Dao Realm at any moment!


    This man was Xu Yushan, leader of the Xu n. His cultivation base was why he was the n leader, and also the reason why the Xu n had been able to be a vassal n and upy one of the continents in the Meng n.


    “What’s going on... could it be... THAT bloodline of the Meng n?” The red-haired old man’s eyes flickered, and he frowned.


    “Impossible. That bloodline has declined to the point where it’s almost gone. In fact, that’s why I was stationed here, to keep an eye on them and to make sure that instead of being wiped out in an instant, they slowly fade away into nothing. In a few hundred years, that mission will be aplished.”


    After sitting there in thought for a moment, his face suddenly flickered. Without the slightest hesitation or forethought, the man crushed a jade slip and then vanished.


    The moment he vanished was the exact same moment that a Heaven-shaking, Earth-shattering boom caused everything to shake violently.


    An enormous hand was descending from above, fully 30,000 meters wide, so realistic you could see the palm lines on it. It descended with such incredible speed that mes burst out all over it, racing down to scorch the earth.


    As it descended, it caused numerous pagodas within the Xu n ancestral mansion to crumble under the pressure. Buildings copsed, bursting into mes, and the cultivators in the Xu n ancestral mansion looked up in shock. It was as if doomsday had arrived for them.


    “What is that?!?!”


    “An ambush!!”


    “Th-that hand, who does it belong to? Heavens....” The cultivators in the Xu n ancestral mansion werepletely shocked, and began to tremble from the explosive will of extermination which weighed down on them.


    In the blink of an eye, the hand mmed down onto the ancestral mansion, crushing countless buildings and sending a huge shockwave out in all directions. Thends quaked as if they were being struck by lightning, and the entire Xu n was instantly transformed into ruins, reced by the image of an enormous handprint!


    mes raged everywhere, burning everything to a pitch-ck crisp....


    Despite all of that, there actually weren’t very many cultivators who died. Meng Hao wasn’t a cold-blooded killer, and based on the level of his cultivation base, the divine senseced within the palm enabled him to detect exactly who within the Xu n harbored evil designs toward his grandfather’s bloodline.


    Those hostile cultivators were all killed, causing bloodcurdling screams to ring out from within the sea of mes. As for the other cultivators, the mes merely sealed their cultivation bases, but didn’t harm them physically.


    Thends still shook violently, though, and the enormous handprint in the ground was shocking to the extreme.


    Within the ruins that filled the palm print, the Xu n Patriarch blurred back into existence. As soon as he did, he coughed up a massive mouthful of blood. Face ashen, he looked around at the surviving n members, and then at the ruins. Then he threw his head back and howled viciously.


    As he looked up, he could see Meng Hao floating there in the air, radiating intense coldness. Considering what he had done with a single palm strike, he was clearly a terrifying individual. The Xu n Patriarch chuckled bitterly and asked, “Who are you?!?!”


    At the same time, he didn’t hesitate to begin a cultivation base breakthrough.


    “I’m Meng Chen!” Meng Hao replied coldly. Meng Hao didn’t want to drag the Meng n into his problems with the Heavengod Alliance, and therefore, he chose not to use his identity as Meng Hao.


    The Xu n Patriarchughed bitterly. He didn’t believe Meng Hao at all, but that didn’t matter. His cultivation base shot up explosively, and clouds began to form in the air as Dao Realm Heavenly Tribtion began to descend.


    Meng Hao’s eyes flickered in the face of the descending Dao Realm Heavenly Tribtion. He then waved his right index finger, which caused the air to distort, and wave-like ripples to spread out. Gradually the ripples transformed into an enormous wolf,pletely domineering, which howled as it charged the Xu n Patriarch.


    It was on him in the blink of an eye, before the Heavenly Tribtion could arrive. The Xu n Patriarch fought back viciously, but couldn’t stop himself from being swallowed up in a single gulp by the gigantic wolf.


    The Heavenly Tribtion, having lost its target, immediately began to fade away, and the path which had appeared vanished.


    Meng Hao waved his sleeve. Ignoring everything down below, he turned and vanished.


    Time passed. Around evening, more beams of light appeared above thends near Meng Hao’s grandfather’s bloodline. These people looked different than the Xu n cultivators, and were in fact from the Meng n.


    They were from the seventh of the nine bloodlines of the Meng n, which was a powerful group. However, only a few of their number hade; one was in the great circle of the Ancient Realm, one in thete Ancient Realm, two in the mid Ancient Realm, four in the early Ancient Realm, and several dozen were Immortals.


    A force like that was a powerful one indeed. Unless a Dao Realm expert showed up, they could wage an entire war on their own. Currently, the old man in the lead was flying along, enraged and bursting with killing intent.


    As the group flew along, colors shed in the sky and the winds screamed. Suddenly, the old man’s furious voice could be heard ringing out.


    “Xu Yushan, get out here right now!”


    The booming voice echoed back and forth, making it sound almost like numerous voices were shouting. A huge wind sted across thends, sweeping away the clouds in the sky and shaking everything.


    The old man hovered in midair arrogantly. In his view, the ideal way of handling this situation was to call out the leader of the vassal n that was guarding this ce and have him extinguish the rebellious bloodline that was on itsst legs.


    <strong>Chapter 1258: Exterminating the Xu n!</strong>