Li Wei floated into the air.
With the departure of the old fox and Banshu Qingping, the great battle resumed.
At this moment, there was obviously no need for Li Wei to make a move; cultivators from the Three Prefectures surrounded them in all directions.
Li Wei's face was still somewhat dark.
During this trip to Grandhaven Prefecture, the family had intended to catch everyone in one fell swoop.
The Martial Academy's Red Dust Immortal method commanded the Academy to slaughter commoners, absorbing their essence and souls in a manner no different from the Western Frontier, save for the absence of Dao Seeds.
The family had known about this and always suspected the people of the Martial Academy.
They never expected it to be the arrangement of the old fox and Banshu Qingping.
In the battle of wits against the old fox, the family had clearly fallen short.
The old fox had lived for an unknown number of years. With the ambushes in all directions completely exposed, what hidden trump cards were even left?
"The family had spies in Jade Mist Valley, which the old fox surely noticed. Looking at it now, he deliberately spared our family's spies."
As Li Wei deduced the situation, his face darkened even further, realizing they had been played.
"It was only because our Three Prefectures' cultivators arrived that the Red Dust Immortal fled, and the Six Masters of the Martial Academy were besieged by our Li Clan.
Otherwise, how would the Red Dust Immortal, the Six Masters, and even Linghu Xian and the watchdog have given them the opportunity to absorb the essence and qi of the commoners buried deep underground?"
"This battle was exactly what gave them that opportunity; the old fox had been waiting for this very day."
The anger in Li Wei's heart gradually extinguished, replaced instead by a sense of relief.
With the appearance of immortals in the world, the true masterminds also began to show themselves.
It was fortunate that this time they encountered the schemes of the old fox and Banshu Qingping.
Although those two were extreme and their actions could not even be described with the word 'animals', what if it had been the schemes of someone like Min Tiange, or the Empress?
"It seems I need to drag Changsheng out of his slumber at home to help."
Murmuring to himself, Li Wei looked down at the battlefield.
There was no longer any suspense in the battle's outcome.
Whether it was half-immortals or true immortals, their true terror lay in their combat power surpassing that of ordinary cultivators, as well as their intrinsic 'immortal methods'.
Linghu Xian wasn't actually that powerful; at the very least, Linghu Xian didn't dare to face him head-on.
What was truly disgusting was that Linghu Xian was almost always in a 'stealth' state, only locatable by Dao methods when he attacked.
However, this person's trait was practically useless against the immortal method of the Red Dust Realm.
Now that the Six Masters shared the Red Dust Realm, coupled with the First Master's Great Dao of 'Memory' and Li Zhiheng's illusion assistance, Linghu Xian hit walls everywhere inside the Red Dust Realm.
As for the watchdog, it was a true immortal.
As the battle progressed, Li Wei also saw through the watchdog's tricks.
Its tentacles were its true means of attack; the suction cups on the tentacles could absorb all techniques and Dao methods attacking them.
Its offensive capabilities relied entirely on the natural array formation in the sky, granting its tentacles formidable attack power, defense, and regenerative abilities.
But Li Zhiheng could sense that the watchdog was not yet fully mature, and even... inferior to the complete form of the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart.
If ranked by tiers, the Heavenly Dao Divine Heart would be Tier-2, while the watchdog was Tier-3.
It was just that this was the first time the cultivators of the Three Prefectures were facing such an entity and dealing with the methods of an immortal.
The massive battle against the watchdog raged on for a full three days.
The watchdog's massive body actually became its hindrance.
This immortal, which had been fed by the Banshu family for an unknown number of years, now had every single one of its tentacles entangled in array formations by cultivators from all directions, facing a relentless bombardment from the sky.
The Fox Saint wasn't wrong at all; none of the major factions from the Three Prefectures were honest.
An unknown number of people were lying in ambush in all directions.
Experts led the vanguard, but they also kept true desperate-situation trump cards hidden in the rear.
Especially Xu Xian of the Immortal Sect, who stood with his hands behind his back atop the jade staircase formed by a thousand Immortal Sect disciples.
After a full three days, he finally opened his eyes, his voice icy: "Since It wants to absorb, let It absorb to Its heart's content."
"What?"
The numerous cultivators who still found the watchdog troublesome were stunned.
The cultivators present, combined with hundreds of thousands of people from Azure Cloud Prefecture, formed the strongest group in the Three Prefectures.
Yet they couldn't take down the watchdog for a long time, nor could they even find its vital weak point.
Fortunately, everyone had adapted to the rhythm of fighting an immortal, trapping the watchdog's tentacles and preventing It from killing people and sucking blood.
Now let It absorb?
But as these words fell, Li Kuanghua, who was directing the Zhao Clan's Old Ancestor to bite down on a tentacle, was suddenly startled.
She recalled the fate of Han Ju after he absorbed a breath of dragon qi spat out by Old Dragon back in the day, and her eyes instantly lit up.
"Old Dragon!"
Li Kuanghua let out a sharp shout. In the cloudy sky, the black dragon exhaled dragon breath brimming with nether aura. Instantly, the sky-propping tentacle writhed madly.
The cultivators of the Three Prefectures instantly understood. "It is an immortal. If we use demonic methods and let It absorb them into its body, it will be enough to destroy It!"
In an instant, demonic qi surged overwhelmingly between heaven and earth.