Read Novel Full Chapter 1211: Chapter 1205: We Lost
Chapter 1211: Chapter 1205: We Lost
In the Western Frontier, within the Golden Toad Divine Palace, the clansmen’s spirit tablets lit up.
This was also the moment when the clansmen in the Western Frontier were most fully assembled. They all gathered in the central main hall, looking at the glowing spirit tablets.
“Head back for a trip?” Li Dalong was slightly taken aback.
Ever since killing the Nirvana Sage Elder, he had temporarily stayed in the Western Frontier, leaving the matters of the Underworld to Xuan Tianzi.
When Uncle Rain attacked Azure Cloud Prefecture, the Old Ancestor didn’t tell them to return either.
Not knowing what Min Tiange was planning, and with the Blood Moon still reflecting upon the world in the Western Frontier, Li Dalong was deeply intrigued.
“Eldest Brother hasn’t returned from his mortal transformation yet,” Li Xinnian frowned.
Su Chen was walking in the mortal realm, undergoing mortal transformation, and had completely lost contact.
“It’s good to take a trip back. Third Brother broke through to Body Integration; we should congratulate him,” Li Yaozu smiled faintly.
He heard that Sword Venerable Drizzle obtained Uncle Rain’s Dao and broke through in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
He finally understood why Sword Venerable Drizzle had assisted him back then, allowing his Sword Dao to achieve completion.
“Father is right,” Li Yunbing replied.
“The Old Ancestor took a trip to the imperial palace and intimidated the Empress. Now, the high-ranking officials of the Imperial Dynasty all know that our family has produced two Body Integration cultivators.
They will treat our Li Clan with the respect due a hidden immortal clan; no one will dare to act against us recklessly.”
As he spoke, Li Yunbing patted Li Xinnian’s shoulder.
Over these years, Su Chen hadn’t returned, and his status was unknown. The one who cared about Su Chen the most was Xinnian.
He comforted him, “What Min Tiange stole sixty thousand years ago was Su Chen’s Dao.
As for how to deal with Min Tiange, Su Chen knows what he is doing. Having cultivated in our clan for so many years, he has also grown a lot.”
Li Xinnian felt much more relieved in his heart.
At this time, hurried footsteps sounded outside the room.
Everyone looked over to see Li Tianqi returning. Furthermore, as soon as he returned, he used a Tier-4 array formation to shield them from heavenly secrets.
The clansmen were puzzled. Having returned to their own territory, why use such a method?
He smiled bitterly and shook his head at the clansmen. “Eldest Brother hasn’t returned.”
Everyone frowned continuously.
Li Tianyi was still guarding Li Tianyue’s stone statue; the zither music there had resounded continuously for decades and had not ceased to this day.
Li Tianqi said solemnly,
“Tianyue left something beneath the stone statue, which is why she didn’t let anyone move her stone statue back then.
Those immortal soldiers guarding around her were also protecting it on her behalf.
The eldest brother said the reason the Nirvana Sage Elder couldn’t discover it was that Tianyue suppressed it with the blood qi from years of slaughtering the Wu Tribe.
No one dared to touch Tianyue’s remains. Now that the blood qi is gradually exhausting, the thing beneath the stone statue has slowly appeared.”
“What is it?” A trace of sorrow flashed in Li Dalong’s eyes as he asked softly.
“The reason Min Tiange unleashed the Blood Moon.
Tianyue… she died from exhausting her Spiritual power and life force. At the very last moment, she detected the grand array beneath the earth veins of Shadowfell Prefecture.”
In the moment right before death, people can always detect many things, especially cultivators.
Between being killed and dying from exhaustion, the latter leaves more time to use the spiritual sense to perceive things.
Everyone in the family remained silent.
Li Tianqi exhaled a breath of stale air.
“Beneath the earth veins, there are grand arrays absorbing her and the immortal soldiers’ essence qi.
These grand arrays were left entirely intact. Among them are the remnants of the array foundations Fei Heng used to extract the essence qi of the cultivators of Shadowfell Prefecture.”
“If we had discovered Fei Heng’s strangeness back then, then right now… we would know everything.” Li Yunbing clenched his fists tightly.
This was the clue Tianyue left them. He gritted his teeth and smashed his fist onto the tabletop.
“If we had detected Fei Heng and Min Tiange’s cooperation earlier…”
“There are no ‘ifs’.”
Li Yaozu patted Li Yunbing’s shoulder, then looked at Li Tianqi, a look of doubt on his face.
“You said among them was one of the array foundations…”
“There are still arrays underneath. The arrays are like leaf veins, facing west along with Tianyue, pointing directly at the Wu Tribe.” Li Tianqi narrowed his eyes slightly.
“Tianyue’s blood qi hadn’t been fully exhausted, so the map of the array veins remained on Tianyue’s body.
The veins only disappeared when the blood qi concealing the diagram was fully depleted.”
“This array is combined with some profound Dao method unseen in the world.
If it hadn’t dissipated at the moment of her death, not even my Dao cultivation as a Tier-4 array master could have detected it.”
Li Tianqi said faintly, “Eldest Brother said Tianyue saved our lives, and we had best listen to the Old Ancestor and leave the Western Frontier immediately.”
“Min Tiange’s Dao method?” Li Dalong’s expression changed slightly.
“He is the master of Dao Seeds, manipulating people’s hearts… for tens of thousands of years already.”
Li Tianqi pointed at the Blood Moon outside the array formation, filling the clansmen’s hearts with horror.
“I don’t know if he is watching us at every moment. That array formation connects all places where blood qi exists.”
“The array formation disappeared in just a moment. Eldest Brother and I watched closely, but we didn’t glimpse the complete array.
However, at the very least, it is connected to all of our blood qi. It either absorbs our Spiritual power and essence qi, or simply plants Dao Seeds in us.”
He looked around at everyone.
“The longer you stay under the Blood Moon, the easier it is to have a Dao Seed planted in you.
Perhaps there are already people in the Western Frontier who have been planted with Dao Seeds.”
Hearing this, the family members checked their minds and souls in horror.
“We must go back. If even we were planted with them, then hardly anyone in the entire Western Frontier could be spared.”
Li Dalong narrowed his eyes. “We cannot stay in the Western Frontier any longer.”
The Golden Toad Divine Palace bounded through the Western Frontier, heading toward Azure Cloud Prefecture.
The family members were weighed down with heavy thoughts.
Through the Golden Toad Divine Palace, they looked at the Blood Moon in the sky, and then toward the location of Li Tianyue’s stone statue in Shadowfell Prefecture.
Only now did they realize everything.
Just as Li Tianyi said, their lives were saved by Tianyue.
And the Blood Moon…
“We lost. We lost before we even fought.” Li Xinnian sat in his chair, his expression despondent.
The family members were speechless.
They had guarded against the Blood Moon in the Western Frontier for years, only waiting for Min Tiange to show himself so they could resolve all new and old grudges entirely.
It was just that they had severely underestimated Min Tiange’s methods and ambitions.
Having achieved too many victories over these years, they underestimated Min Tiange.
Over these years, they had cultivated fiercely, dealt with Nun Dairou and the Nirvana Sage Elder, and even struck down Uncle Rain in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
Yet now, they hadn’t even caught a shadow of Min Tiange.
The Golden Toad Divine Palace made a lot of noise, and it wasn’t long before it attracted many experts in the Western Frontier.
They frowned as they watched the departing members of the Azure Cloud Li Clan from afar, not knowing why the Li Clan had left without saying goodbye, hurriedly departing from the Western Frontier.
However, the Western Frontier had already secured a great victory now. Even with the Moon Dragon Totem coming to the rescue, the Wu Tribe still couldn’t reverse their defeat.
The lost territories had already been reclaimed, and they had even pushed into the Wu Tribe’s land.
At a time like this, whether the Li Clan was present or not wasn’t actually that important.
Seeing everyone watching them leave, Li Changyao’s straightforward personality flared up.
Seeing such a profound secret uncovered, and looking at those experts they had interacted with for years in the Western Frontier, she couldn’t help but feel a surge of compassion. “Should we inform them?”
“Nonsense.” Li Changsheng patted Li Changyao on the head.
Pained, Li Changyao immediately pouted her lips. “If we’re not going to, then we’re not going to. Why hit me?”
“You really are stupid.” Li Changsheng was frustrated by her failure to meet his expectations.
“Just because we weren’t affected doesn’t mean others weren’t! Any one of them could potentially have a Dao Seed planted in them.
It’s one thing if we just leave, but if you expose the secret, do you think we’ll be able to walk out of the Western Frontier?”
“Even if we return to Azure Cloud Prefecture, we can’t say anything.” Li Changsheng lowered his eyes.
“Do you still remember He Hao and Holy Monk Yidian? This thing called a Dao Seed is too heaven-defying; even Li Chuyuan from our own clan had a Dao Seed planted in him.”
Hearing this, Li Changyao was unconvinced. To avoid getting hit again, she preemptively covered her head and said stubbornly, “Are we really afraid of that Min Tiange?”
The Golden Toad Divine Palace bounded and hopped.
Croaking loudly, it leaped out of the Western Frontier.
Li Dalong looked at the distance away from the flames of war and smiled at the children. “The Old Ancestor said…”
“We have never known fear.”
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[Special Event — The Leftover Mysterious Array Formation]
[…]
Li Wei looked at the matters displayed on the interface before him; what Li Tianqi had said, he also knew now.
That freak Min Tiange was the most freakish existence in the past sixty thousand years.
Don’t let the fact that Su Chen was a Child of Destiny fool you; Min Tiange was someone who managed to kill a Child of Destiny early on.
Li Wei had never seen anyone more of a perverted freak than Min Tiange.
Not to mention, in Nangong Qingya’s dream, she had seen Min Tiange ascend to the throne of the Great Emperor.
His talent and scheming, coupled with sixty thousand years of layout and accumulation, were absolutely unmatched by any current genius.
Uncle Rain was merely one of the three elders of the Peerless Hall; the other two… were no easier to deal with than Uncle Rain.
“Truly fucking heaven-defying. The more I understand him, the more of a freak I feel he is.”
Li Wei stood up and stretched, his expression extremely relaxed. “He actually managed to make your grandpa here scared.”
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Here.
This was the City of Merit.
Outside the city, family disciples were rushing back from every direction.
The ones currently overseeing the household, Li Qiuming and Li Chuxiu, stood reservedly atop auspicious clouds, flying high above the gradually gathering clansmen.
Behind the two stood the family elders, their faces brimming with excitement.
Li Yuanshang stood beside his expressionless father, Li Zhiheng.
Even now, he still hadn’t recovered from the overwhelming joy of striking it rich after the family elders had entrusted him with countless treasures a month ago.
Grinning from ear to ear, he chuckled foolishly.
“We struck it rich… we struck it rich…”
As he spoke, he thought of his eldest brother.
Looking around but failing to find him, Li Yuanshang lowered his eyes and muttered,
“If we two brothers had been this rich when we were young…”
The younger generation, such as Li Xinri, Li Xinjue, and Li Xinghuo, all watched with eager anticipation.
As for the older generation, who had seen much of the world, even they couldn’t suppress the smiles creeping onto their faces.
Li Yaoqing held a light blue jade cup engraved with scenes of worldly prosperity, her slender hands trembling ever so slightly.
“Wherever natural disasters struck the world, Uncle Rain would go and absorb the resentment left behind. After refining it over tens of thousands of years, he transformed it into spiritual qi.
Even if we extracted the essence qi from every living person in the world today, it still wouldn’t compare to the amount of spiritual qi contained within this cup!”
“Whether it was Tian Xing or Nun Dairou stealing the world’s essence qi, blood qi, or power of faith, it wouldn’t even amount to one-hundredth of the resentment accumulated over those tens of thousands of years.”
“A Tier-3 spiritual entity… the Resentment Cup!”
“By absorbing all of this, our family’s descendants can undergo an enormous leap in cultivation.
It’s even faster than the pills I refine, and because the spiritual qi is so pure, they only need to prepare themselves for their breakthroughs.”
“Eldest Brother, Yunlin, Yunbing, Tianyi, Tianming, Tianqi… all of them can advance in leaps, reaching the peak of the Void Refining Realm in one go!
With the assistance of my medicinal pills and the Old Tree’s Delusion-Breaking Eye, even Half-Step Body Integration is within reach!”
Li Yaoqing went from holding the Resentment Cup with one hand to cradling it carefully with both, constantly glancing around as though afraid someone might suddenly snatch it away.
She simply couldn’t suppress the excitement and tremble in her voice.
In Li Wei’s eyes, she looked exactly like a bank robber who had just stolen the Imperial Seal.
“Thank you, Uncle Rain, for leaving our Li Clan such a precious legacy.”
Li Wei bowed solemnly toward the direction of the Imperial Capital before turning his gaze toward the Western Frontier.
“Min Tiange, let’s see which is stronger—your tens of thousands of years of accumulation and Dao Seeds, or this timely rain that Uncle Rain has bestowed upon our Azure Cloud Prefecture.”
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