Read Novel Full Chapter 1396: Chapter 1390: You Will Die A Miserable Death
Chapter 1396: Chapter 1390: You Will Die A Miserable Death
[You killed the Wenren family Patriarch, Wenren Yiyuan.]
[You killed the Wenren family junior, Wenren Zikun.]
[You killed the Wenren family Void Refinement realm cultivator, Wenren Jinghai…]
This was a massacre!
The Wenren family’s Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, hidden within a speck of dust, was being destroyed by spatial power.
Everything was collapsing, flowing backward toward the spatial rifts that already blanketed the sky, swallowed into endless darkness.
Cold glints of light appeared one after another within the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, until all the cultivators frantically fled the area.
The battlefield shifted to the cloudy sky, where streaks of light were the wretchedly fleeing cultivators.
“Where is the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor?!!”
“Quick, flee toward the Heavenly Palace!”
“Help!”
These cultivators, who appeared as gods in the mortal realm, were fleeing madly.
They exhausted every means possible just to block that single glint of the spear, only to realize that under the power of Tai Chi, time, and space, all their resistance was completely futile.
Ultimately, they all understood one truth.
With their gazes fixed upon the Heavenly Palace, they realized that abandoning all resistance and funneling all their Spiritual power into fleeing was the best course of action.
They didn’t need to fly fast; they just needed to fly faster than the person in front of them, and that would be enough!
Fly, fly, fly!
The moment the Wenren Grotto-Heaven shattered, everyone’s mind was consumed by this single word, along with the silhouette radiating billowing black mist, those eyes entirely devoid of pity and hesitation, and that fatal long spear!
Terror was descending.
“Flee quickly, quickly!” Wei Gang roared.
In truth, he had prepared countermeasures against the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor long ago: barriers to imprison others, array formations to trap spatial power, spells to affect the soul…
But it wasn’t until the moment the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor thrust his spear that he realized everything was utterly useless!
No one could stop the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor.
Beneath the tip of the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor’s spear, everything became a futile effort.
The Junior Commander of Destiny, after crossing blows with the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor, had completely lost the courage to fight him again.
Ah Hei of the Emberwing Guard let out a single roar before fleeing.
The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion hadn’t even activated their array formations before their cultivators began fleeing under that spear glint.
The cultivators of the Imperial Capital were nothing more than a useless rabble, or rather…
They inherently lacked the conviction to put their lives on the line against the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor, nor did they have any reason to fight him to the death.
Despair spread across Wei Gang’s heart.
Flying through the cloudy sky, he watched as a spatial rift appeared behind a cultivator.
A spear shadow then pierced the cultivator’s back, dragging them into the spatial rift.
His mind went blank.
Suddenly, he looked at the Heavenly Palace, the very place he had ordered the cultivators to flee toward.
Piercing through the void, his gaze landed on the Golden Throne Room, upon Wenren Xianyi, who was receiving the submission of the cultivators and silently watching everything outside the Heavenly Palace.
In this moment, he understood everything.
He understood why the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor had come, why the Wenren family’s Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was invaded by the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor, and why Wenren Yiyuan died.
The Wenren family was fraught with schemes.
They were not an immortal clan beneath the skirts; they were an immortal clan that played with conspiracies.
“Stop killing, Daoist Friend, stop!!!”
Wei Gang roared furiously at the heavens, “All of this is Wenren Xianyi’s scheme! She is using you!!!”
But his furious roar could not stop the fleeing cultivators, nor could it prevent the spear glint from emerging from the spatial rift once more, claiming the life of a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion cultivator.
…
Within the spatial rift.
Li Wei heard Wei Gang’s despairing cry.
His footsteps paused for a moment, and he furrowed his brows.
Then he continued to kill.
He didn’t even know how many lives had fallen by his hands.
Clearly, he had been used by Wenren Xianyi many years ago.
This woman, Wenren Xianyi, did not care in the slightest whether the Wenren family fell into disaster, much less what predicaments the Imperial Dynasty would face.
What she wanted was clearly just absolute control over power.
Even Li Wei was shocked by the sheer ruthlessness of this woman.
But…
It didn’t matter.
From the destruction of the Wenren Immortal Clan’s Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to slaughtering all the way to the grand array outside the Heavenly Palace, it took no more than an hour.
Li Wei had lost count of exactly how many people he had killed.
Inside the magnificent Heavenly Palace were the cultivators who had survived the catastrophe.
They stared in horror at the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor, who stood upon the Tai Chi diagram outside the Heavenly Palace wielding his long spear.
Even separated by the Heavenly Palace’s grand array, they still continuously backed away, shivering in fear.
The North Star Spirit-Breaking Spear dripped with blood.
The boiling murderous intent could not pierce the grand array, yet anyone could feel that the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor’s murderous intent had reached its absolute peak, making them feel as if they were looking at a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
The Heavenly Palace became their final pure land in the mortal realm.
Li Wei didn’t know how many cultivators he had killed, but the cultivators inside the grand array were keeping count.
An old gentleman exuding awe-inspiring righteousness, wearing the traditional official robes of the imperial court and cultivating the Scholarly Dao, tallied the survivors and the dead.
With tears streaming down his face, he denounced the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor’s crimes to the heavens.
The cultivators who had managed to escape stood wretchedly and resentfully behind him, like refugees who had just survived a flood or a wildfire.
“Thirty-two Void Refinement realm cultivators of the Wenren Clan!
Within the Wenren Clan’s Grotto-Heaven, space shattered, and over one hundred and thirty thousand members of their entire clan lost their lives to spatial rifts and your Dao methods!”
“From the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the Imperial Protectors Guard, the Department of Immortal Suppression, the Emberwing Guard…
One Body Integration expert and seven Void Refinement experts lost their lives…”
“Every single one of them was a loyal and righteous subject of our Imperial Dynasty. They did not deserve to die such wrongful deaths.”
“Li Clan’s Old Ancestor, having committed such a monstrous sin of slaughter, heaven and earth will jointly execute you! You will die a miserable death! You will die a miserable death!!!”
Inside the Golden Throne Room, the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Imperial Dynasty walked out one by one.
Hearing this grief-stricken, tearful denunciation, they were all filled with indignation and shock, joining the chorus of verbal condemnation.
Li Wei just stood silently outside the Heavenly Palace.
Rather than paying mind to these curses, he was more inclined to find a quiet place to tally up exactly how much he had sucked into his spatial dimension using his spatial Spiritual power during his time in the Wenren family’s Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
Immediately after, everyone froze.
Time within the Heavenly Palace seemed to stand still as Wenren Xianyi arrived, surrounded by powerful experts.
Li Wei narrowed his eyes slightly; around Wenren Xianyi, he sensed many threatening auras.
Then Wenren Xianyi waved her hand, stopping the Imperial Capital cultivators who were worried about her safety.
She flew into the air, locking eyes with Li Wei across the grand array.
This was the second time Li Wei and Wenren Xianyi had met.
The circumstances of both meetings were less than pleasant.
The two stared at each other for a long time.
Wenren Xianyi’s lips parted slightly, her eyes filled with sincerity.
“All of us can get what we wish for. I have already won, and your Azure Cloud Li Clan can too.”
Li Wei remained silent.
Wenren Xianyi didn’t say much more, but what she was going to say was likely the exact same promise as Wenren Zikun’s.
Clearly, Wenren Xianyi’s words carried much more weight; after all, everyone currently in the Heavenly Palace looked just like a pack of tamed dogs.
At this moment, Li Wei could even see a hint of relief on Wenren Xianyi’s face, as relaxed as a bird that had wildly escaped its cage.
Seeing Li Wei remain silent, Wenren Xianyi’s eyes turned red, actually pleading with him.
“Just this once, let me go. I will compensate for everything I have done, and I will also let your Azure Cloud Li Clan go.”
The gambler had won her bet and wanted to bow out gracefully.
Taking her winnings, she intended to go live her dream life, washing away all the sins committed on her road of high-stakes gambling, attempting to make the people of the past forget everything she had done.
Wenren Xianyi was pleading bitterly, while the cultivators on the ground continued their angry curses.
Li Wei turned around and walked away.
Before stepping into the spatial rift, he heard Wenren Xianyi’s voice transmission.
This transmission was hoarse with exhaustion, full of unwillingness and anger.
“Why are you just unwilling to let me go?!!”
“Do you know exactly how hard it has been for me to reach this day? I have finally broken free from my father, and finally, I am no longer manipulated like a puppet.
I no longer have to agonize day and night over the people around me refusing to submit to me, and I no longer have to fear being assassinated. I have everything now.”
“Why must you oppose me?!!”
Li Wei paused his footsteps once more.
This time, he finally sent a voice transmission,
“There is no going back. From the day you allowed the immortals within the Blood Moon to invade the Southern Frontier, you had already pushed our Azure Cloud Li Clan to the opposite side of the entire world.”
“You left us with no other choice.”
The black mist entered the spatial rift.
Wenren Xianyi’s mind went blank; she could feel Li Wei’s absolute resolution.
She had defeated Wenren Yiyuan, and she had defeated many cultivators of the Imperial Capital, but after going through this massive gamble, another opponent had emerged.
After standing dazed for an unknown amount of time, a cry of alarm rang out from within the Heavenly Palace. “Not good, Your Majesty, Li Wei… has gone to slaughter my sect!!!”
“What?!!”
Everyone in the Heavenly Palace was horrified; Li Wei was going to continue his massacre!
The Wenren Immortal Clan was merely the beginning.
Wenren Xianyi lowered her head.
Looking at the angry and fearful faces of everyone, she finally understood why Li Wei could not go back.
She could let the Li Clan go, but would these people—who were full of resentment towards the Li Clan because of everything that happened over these years, or those who feared the Li Clan—let the Li Clan go?
Would those Mahayana experts and Great Emperors allow the Li Clan to become a threat to them someday in the future?
In other words, the people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan would never let them go either!
Wei Gang, who had pursued him here, watched the disappearing Li Wei.
He stalled helplessly in the air, letting the cold wind of the cloudy sky snap his robes loudly.
…
Inside the Ancestral Space.
The Azure Cloud Li clansmen from all over the world had gathered, tens of thousands of them, having received permission from the Ancestral Space to enter over the past few days.
During this time, through the methods of Li Yaowen and Li Xinjue using destiny arts and mirror surfaces, they had witnessed absolutely everything happening in the Imperial Capital.
They were deeply shocked by the Old Ancestor moving through the Imperial Capital as if strolling through an uninhabited land; those existences resembling immortals and gods were like mere clowns before the Old Ancestor!
At first, there was excitement and cheering.
There was also anger upon hearing Wenren Yiyuan expose everything.
But today, as the Old Ancestor faced the entire Heavenly Palace and listened to those curses and insults, they were surprisingly calm, just like the Old Ancestor.
“There is no going back. We have no choice.”
Li Dalong murmured.
He surveyed the uniformly aligned clansmen behind him.
The Old Ancestor was fighting, the family’s spirit tablets were floating into the air, and the children’s eyes gradually turned resolute as they all looked toward Li Dalong.
They remained silent, just like the Old Ancestor’s unhesitating figure moments ago under Wenren Xianyi’s pleading gaze.
It wasn’t that they hadn’t placed their hopes on the Old Ancestor knocking some sense into the people of the Imperial Capital, nor was it that they hadn’t hoped this battle would return peace to Azure Cloud Prefecture.
The Blood Moon was too powerful.
Ancestor Lan leaving the Southern Frontier had also shown them just how terrifying this mortal realm truly was.
Inside the Imperial Capital lay a venomous snake, and hiding in the shadows were chess players capable of treating them like mere ants.
For many years, they had hoped to find a path to survival amidst this predicament, until now, when they saw the countless schemers, bystanders, and greedy individuals at the end of the road.
What should they do?
Li Dalong surveyed all the children; his expression froze, and he stiffly turned his head away.
He was terrified; he was in despair.
His family had fallen into a desperate situation.
The Imperial Capital had cut off their path to survival.
He realized that what their Azure Cloud Li Clan was facing was no longer just the Blood Moon, but the entire world!
Nearby, Li Yaozu saw his father’s fear.
He hadn’t expected that even his father would be so despondent over the current situation.
He said in a deep voice, “Dad, the Old Ancestor is right. We have no retreat, so we can only carve out a path of survival through slaughter.”
Li Dalong’s face was dark. “Then what about the children? What about you? What if we fail?”
Li Yaozu looked into his father’s eyes.
His father hadn’t finished his sentence. What if the children died because of this? What if he died because of this?
Li Yaozu smiled,
“Dad, if we fail, then I will tell our descendants that we have failed before, so they don’t need to fear losing.
Losing is not terrifying; what is truly terrifying is losing the courage to strive with all one’s might for victory.
This is the truth I realized after fighting in the Demon Tribe’s secret ground for decades.”
Hearing this, Li Dalong turned back around.
He looked at the descendants’ still-resolute gazes.
They were newborn calves unafraid of tigers; they were brimming with boundless vitality.
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