"Damn it!"
Within the Dao Domain.
Ten days had passed. Where did Uncle Rain still retain that awe-inspiring, god-like appearance from before?
His blue robe was finally torn at one corner. His once-flowing hair was disheveled from the battle. Wielding a long spear, he frantically hunted for enemies within the Dao Domain.
The Dao Domain had been sealed by the Old Tree along with the combined power of Azure Cloud Prefecture, yet Uncle Rain refused to give up.
Fighting for ten consecutive days, he unleashed all his divine abilities, showing absolutely no sign of his Spiritual power waning.
This battle waged on for ten days.
The Seven Ironclads and the Demon Lord died repeatedly, Li Wei and Uncle Rain engaged in a frenzied, desperate struggle, and Ah Tie fought with all his might, relying on his Dharma Treasure-like body and the Spiritual power transmitted to him.
Both sides had thoroughly studied and understood each other's moves and Dao methods.
"How long is this fight going to last?"
Li Wei drifted through space, only to see Uncle Rain unleash the divine ability 'Thunder Rain World Destruction'.
The rainwater within the Dao Domain carried the power of thunder; the Seven Ironclads and the Demon Lord were blasted to smithereens, and Li Yaotie flailed wildly from the shocks.
Li Wei simply flickered right next to Uncle Rain, using 'One Dao Converts into Myriad Methods' to block a spear thrust.
Uncle Rain couldn't escape, Uncle Rain couldn't be killed, and they couldn't be killed either.
The stalemate would hold unless a few more Body Integration experts arrived to break it.
However, Uncle Rain was covered in treasures, and the family's secrets absolutely could not be pried into by outsiders.
"Let me leave!" Uncle Rain roared. Clearly, after ten days, even he had grown anxious.
"Let you out? Fine!"
Li Wei rebuked angrily, "Slit your own throat and ascend to heaven, then you can naturally leave!"
"Just relying on you?!!"
"If ten days can't kill you, then a hundred days, a thousand days!"
A ferocious glint flashed in Li Wei's eyes.
Did this guy really think his 100,000 Family Will Points were spent for nothing? He could keep this descent going for a hundred days!
...
[Special Event — Life and Death Crisis, Completed!]
[Under the sudden attack of the cultivators led by Uncle Rain, your family resisted with great difficulty.
Uniting their efforts in the rainy night, they painstakingly survived the murderous crisis.
The invading enemies were fierce; seventy percent perished at the hands of your family, while the rest either fled or were captured by the cultivators of Azure Cloud Prefecture.]
Ten days had passed.
At Mount Langdang in Azure Cloud Prefecture, above which lay the location where the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree sealed Uncle Rain, the gloomy clouds in the sky showed no signs of clearing.
Experts were stationed upon Mount Langdang, and bigwigs from all factions in Azure Cloud Prefecture had arrived, creating a grand and bustling occasion.
"Thank you all for your assistance."
Huang Xiujin led the family's two Patriarchs, Li Qiuming and Li Chuxiu, bowing in gratitude to the many Azure Cloud Prefecture bigwigs who had come to aid them.
Azure Cloud Prefecture was the Li Clan's territory, but the Li Clan had always followed their ancestral rules: they never oppressed the major factions of Azure Cloud Prefecture, nor did they forcefully dictate their actions.
"Hahaha!"
At this time, Patriarch Feng Chunlin of the Feng Family let out a loud laugh, his eyes brimming with joy.
"Good, good, good! Back when Li Jianshu wanted all of Azure Cloud Prefecture to cultivate, it was exactly when heaven and earth spiritual qi were severely lacking.
The karmic luck of our Azure Cloud Prefecture has grown increasingly robust.
Now that over a thousand experts have perished in the lands of Azure Cloud Prefecture, the spiritual qi within their bodies will dissolve into heaven and earth, alleviating our shortage for at least several hundred years."
Hearing this, the people from the Three Families and Six Sects of Azure Cloud Prefecture, as well as the major factions, all revealed bright smiles.
Back when Li Jianshu wanted to turn Azure Cloud Prefecture into a state of combat readiness, everyone had participated.
It was simply because the Human Emperor was dying and a great war was imminent.
Exhausting the heaven and earth spiritual qi of Azure Cloud Prefecture was far better than being annihilated with it completely unspent.
At worst, the spiritual qi would just become as thin as it was back in the Azure Cloud Region.
"After ten days of pursuit, this person falling into my hands can offset a hundred years of sect development."
Xuanji, Sect Master of the Black Tortoise Sect, clutched a captured Divinity Transformation cultivator with endless smiles.
He turned to Patriarch Tianye of the Heavenly Eye Ghost Sect and said,
"Senior Tianye, please assist me in refining him into a Living Pill. In exchange, a treasure mountain in Azure Cloud Region will be gifted to your sect to plant spiritual materials."
The captured cultivator nearly fainted. A Living Pill was a type of Human Pill.
Ordinary Human Pills were refined using dead bodies, but a Living Pill... was refined from a living person, burned alive.
Such methods had long gone extinct in the world, yet unexpectedly, they still existed in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
"Acceptable." Patriarch Tianye nodded slightly.
The art of refining Living Pills had been pieced together over hundreds of years, following ancient texts, combined with step-by-step experimentation over the years due to their numerous enemies.
It was a matter they now had a firm grasp on; it seemed the coming days would be busy.
Soon after, everyone glanced into the distance where the Li Clan members were bustling about.
They saw the Li clansmen forcefully pressing down a kneeling Zishu Ling.
Everyone sighed in collective admiration.
So many years had passed, and with the world in chaos, it wasn't as if these former factions of Azure Cloud Prefecture hadn't made a name for themselves within the Imperial Dynasty; their Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation cultivators scrambled for karmic opportunities everywhere.
However, they gradually discovered that the gap between them and their old friends in the Li Clan was growing wider and wider, and the stakes of the Li Clan's actions were getting higher and higher.
There were some matters they simply no longer dared to meddle in, such as... executing Zishu Ling.