"What? The Yun Clan's Old Ancestor isn't at Silver Wolf Lake?"
Inside Highsun City.
Li Changsheng had already received the message sent back by Li Xinnian. His expression was peculiar.
"If I were the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor, with Ba Siyu's tacit approval and while he was heading to the battlefield, I would have charged into Highsun City to capture the two of us siblings and Xinnian."
"Only Cai Yongzhen is at Silver Wolf Lake."
Beside him, Li Changyao pondered for a moment.
"In other words, neither Bi Shihu nor the Yun Clan members know our true strength at all.
They left Cai Yongzhen behind because they wanted him to make a move against us.
The elders in the Golden Toad Divine Palace and the seniors of our Azure Cloud Prefecture are the main targets of Bi Shihu and the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor."
"No... not necessarily."
Li Changsheng frowned slightly.
The fact that the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor wasn't at Silver Wolf Lake had also disrupted their Li Clan's plans; it was an unexpected variable.
Just as his words fell.
Li Changsheng looked around in all directions within Highsun City.
There were many cultivators in the city. This sudden war made all the cultivators in Highsun City panic.
With the great figures of the city gone, they also needed to adapt to this unexpected situation.
All of a sudden, the entire city was bustling with noise, and one spirit ship after another was still successively heading toward the battlefield.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the expressions of everyone in Highsun City changed.
At the very center of Highsun City, where the City Lord resided, a loud explosion rang out.
Void Refinement Spiritual power shot up into the sky, and a person flew out toward the outside of the city like an arrow.
A Divinity Transformation cultivator in the city could be heard using his Spiritual power, his voice brimming with uncontainable rage.
"Someone has stolen Highsun City's supplies! These are the rear logistical supplies of our Highsun City. Catch him!"
As the voice faded, the three Void Refinement auras remaining in the city furiously gave chase.
Above the Li Clan's Chamber of Commerce.
Li Changyao's expression turned cold. Staring fixedly at the fleeing cultivator, she drew the Pew-Pew Pink Bow once more.
Li Changyao's hand grasped one of the arrows forged by Li Yaotie, but before she could nock the arrow, Li Changsheng stopped her and shook his head.
"Don't waste the Dharma Treasure. You have only just entered the Void Refinement realm.
Killing trash like Yun Manlou is as easy as crushing an ant, but if you want to kill that person... it will be difficult."
Li Changsheng looked in the direction of the Shadowfell Prefecture.
Today, Ba Siyu's Xiaoyao Cloud had headed exactly toward the Shadowfell Prefecture. This caused him to let out a snort of derision. "Ba Siyu is reaping what he sowed."
Beside them.
Li Wei had long since landed beside his descendants. This opportunity for battle was similarly an opportunity for their Li Clan.
Ba Siyu had provided convenience to the Yun Clan and Bi Shihu, allowing them to act recklessly.
But this had similarly given their Li Clan the opportunity to take down the Yun Clan and Bi Shihu in one fell swoop.
It was just that plans could never keep up with changes.
[Your descendant Li Xinnian has sent a message back to you.
He has already fought his way into Silver Wolf Lake, and Cai Yongzhen, who was garrisoning the Yun Clan, has fled.
Within the Yun Clan's Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land at Silver Wolf Lake, the figure of the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor is nowhere to be seen.
Only the remnants of natural treasures left behind from the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor's cultivation, along with the dried corpses of the Yun Clan's descendants, remain.]
In addition to this, there was also a message from Li Yunlin in the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
[Your descendant Li Yunlin sends you a message.
They have already cast an inescapable trap, just waiting for Bi Shihu and the Yun Clan's helpers to arrive so they can catch them all in one fell swoop.
A day has passed, and there has been no movement from the enemy around the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
The members of the Heavenly Principle Hall monitoring Bi Shihu discovered that, after receiving Ba Siyu's approval, Bi Shihu changed direction halfway on his journey to the Golden Toad Divine Palace.]
"The Yun Clan's Old Ancestor and Bi Shihu never intended to make a move against our Li Clan at all."
Li Wei took a deep breath.
"The only one who has always wanted to strike out of inner anxiety was Yun Manlou.
The Yun Clan's Old Ancestor eats people and devours spirits; the ones he silently ate were his own Yun Clan members.
The supplies stolen from Highsun City... other than the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor, who else could have done it?
It truly is as the State Preceptor said back then: when these people want to break through, they lose all their humanity."
"Bi Shihu charged toward the Golden Toad Divine Palace but retreated halfway. He didn't want to risk his life; he had no confidence."
"A dog truly can't stop eating shit."
.......
Not long after.
Li Xinnian had already returned from Silver Wolf Lake.
At this time, Highsun City was in utter chaos.
The logistical supplies had been stolen—these were the spoils of war earned by the ordinary cultivators of Highsun City through decades of killing enemies, along with rewards sent by the various prefectures of the dynasty.
With these things gone, they truly didn't know if they would receive any return for killing enemies for the dynasty; military morale was damaged.
Taking a casual glance at the city, Li Xinnian bowed to Li Changsheng and Li Changyao.
"At Silver Wolf Lake, other than Cai Yongzhen, who fled, there were no survivors. None of the Yun Clan's helpers were present."
His words were casual, but one could easily imagine the mountain of corpses and sea of blood at Silver Wolf Lake.
[Your descendant, Li Xinnian, spent six years refining the Grade 4 Spiritual Pill "Void-Breaking Pill," breaking through to Half-step Void Refinement.]
[With the support of the clan's pills and Dharma Treasures, he has broken through to the early stage of the Void Refinement realm!]
[Obtained Void Refinement Space, Law: Devouring. Within the Void Refinement Space, it gradually devours the enemy's Spiritual power to replenish oneself.]
[Obtained Heaven-Bestowed Void Refinement Spiritual Technique: Holy Blood Demon Spirit.
By devouring an enemy's Spiritual power, he can see through the circulation of their bodily meridians, the mysteries of their Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Primal Soul, thus acquiring their special physiques.
Over the years, he can fully comprehend the enemy's cultivation methods and laws, integrating them into himself.]
The former Patriarch of the Li Clan, whose reputation for "kindness" was renowned throughout the Azure Cloud Prefecture, revealed a different kind of ruthlessness and decisiveness in Deston Prefecture.
It was unknown how many people he had killed at Silver Wolf Lake, yet upon returning to the Chamber of Commerce, he showed not the slightest abnormality.
"In other words, their target wasn't us?" Li Changyao wrinkled her delicate nose.
"Mm."
Li Changsheng said calmly,
"To the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor, the lives of the Yun Clan members are not considered lives at all.
His path to breaking through to Body Integration is undoubtedly devouring Spiritual power.
From what Xinnian saw, the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor devoured natural treasures and also human lives.
But if he wants to Glimpse the Dao, the path of devouring Spiritual power is far too common. Perhaps we have all guessed his Dao path wrong."
"As for Bi Shihu, this person was the former Marshal of the Shadowfell Prefecture, holding high position and heavy authority.
Now that he has been driven to this state by us and reduced to a running dog for Ba Siyu... if the Yun Clan's Old Ancestor breaks through to Body Integration, he will become the running dog of a running dog. How could he be willing?"
Hearing this, Li Changyao and Li Xinnian both frowned deeply.
The relationships between these people were complex, far beyond the surface.