"From now on, Azure Cloud region will be a Haven for Criminals."
Li Dalong suddenly looked apologetically at the leaders of the various powers and said with a wry smile, "My apologies, everyone. I didn't expect you all to return and guard the Azure Cloud region with me, nor did I expect to be able to hold the Azure Cloud region this time. I thought I was certain to die, and was merely paving the way for my Li family's future. I never expected today's outcome."
Hearing this.
Feng Chunlin smiled helplessly. "This is actually a good thing. When these cultivators enter the Azure Cloud region, they will also fight for this 'Pure Land'. However, besides guarding the Azure Cloud region, we also need to speak with our disciples and clansmen. In the future, many experts with unknown backgrounds and pasts will come to the Azure Cloud region. Tell them to keep a low profile when they go out, lest they truly form karmic entanglements with someone they shouldn't provoke."
"Understood!"
Everyone nodded repeatedly; even without being told, they knew what to do. After all, a long time ago... they had encountered these Li family freaks.
Old Man Tianqing of Azure Cloud Pavilion's eyes lit up. "Everyone, to make these experts fight for the Azure Cloud region, why not embellish things a bit? Let's say we obtained secret treasures from the Wu Clan, or perhaps that someone among the Wu Clan achieved enlightenment overnight. This way, these bold cultivators will dare to venture into Wu Clan territory and fight alongside us."
Master Wushou, his expression calm, said, "We can speak of how the Wu Clan harms the people of our Azure Cloud region. This time, we can borrow the name of the legendary Heavenly Secret Pavilion, and operate again using 'Destiny'."
A sinister, hoarse voice spoke, belonging to Ancestor Tianye of the Ghost Eye Sect. "Has everyone heard of refining human pills? Of using humans as cauldrons? Such methods could be spread throughout the Azure Cloud region..."
Before he could finish speaking, many of the Azure Cloud region ancestors were already glaring furiously at him.
If such methods were truly spread, then thousands or tens of thousands of years later, the Azure Cloud region would genuinely become a land of evil. They feared that even they, the ancestors, would be captured and refined.
...
Inside the Skyveil Hall, the many old foxes were deep in secret discussion.
Li Wei truly felt like his eyes had been opened. In the eyes of other cultivators, every one of them appeared high and mighty, incomparably dignified; anyone who saw them would call them 'masters'. Even before this, when the Li family members first met them, they had all praised them highly.
But only when they were truly standing on the same ship together did one realize that none of them were exactly proper people. It was like two strangers: upon first meeting, everyone was a bit reserved, and the other person seemed refined and gentle. But after truly becoming friends, one might wake up in the middle of the night and complain, 'What a lunatic.'
"Perhaps in this world, there really isn't any distinction between good and evil; it just depends on whether everyone's values align and whether they get along."
Li Wei shook his head and smiled.
At least when the Wu Clan came, the Azure Dynasty's court, which governed everything, did not come to aid the Azure Cloud region. Instead, it was these seemingly bad fellows who steadfastly guarded this land alongside the Li family. Even on the battlefield, the demonic cultivators brought by Li Yunbing charged at the very front.
Soon, two days passed.
Li Wei randomly switched his view among the Li family descendants and also saw the friends who had come from all over the Azure Dynasty to help the Azure Cloud region. These truly were righteous individuals. Most of them wore masks... It was unknown who had taught them, but they all had a Heavenly Secret Pavilion mark embroidered on their chests, and told everyone they met that they were members of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion.
They even had tokens.
[Your descendant Li Tianyue, colluding with the Old Tree, used the method of Suppressing Heavenly Secrets to create a new faction in the border city – Heavenly Secret Pavilion (Fake)]
[Righteous individuals from all over the Azure Dynasty join Heavenly Secret Pavilion (Fake) to fight for the Azure Cloud region]
[Current members: 2185]
"....."
Looking at the event log, Li Wei fell silent for a moment. The culprits had been found; as expected, it was his own family.
At this moment, above the Primordial Blood Tree, members of the Li family stood poised on their swords.
It was a valley, piled high with the corpses of the Wu Clan. Blood flowed freely. The Primordial Blood Tree had transformed into a ten-meter-tall ancient tree. Its roots and stems were even floating on the blood, like pipes, sucking up the foul-smelling blood.
[The Primordial Blood Tree asks if you wish to expend a large amount of its stored Essence Blood to glimpse a corner of the future for your descendants?]
"Proceed."
Li Wei nodded slightly.
This time, the clan members in the border city were gathering. Their expressions were all solemn. Many years had passed; if it hadn't truly reached a crisis that couldn't be resolved, they wouldn't come seeking a prediction from the Primordial Blood Tree.
They had already glimpsed many corners of the future before, and it was often not a good thing. Many times, they would glimpse the death of clansmen, their own deaths, or tragic futures, and all of that was very difficult to change. After experiencing it time and time again, no one doubted the Old Tree's abilities anymore.
"Old Tree, the Azure Dynasty is abandoning us, and the Wu Clan will not let us go either."
Li Dalong's expression was calm. "My aptitude for the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation has been exposed, and Yaoqing's aptitude is also known to others. I fear the Wu Clan is already impatient; I have no solution. The crisis is drawing ever closer. They will dispatch experts to come and kill us; this much I can sense."
Hearing Li Dalong's words, a human face emerged on the trunk of the Primordial Blood Tree!
The blood energy throughout the valley diffused like mist. The Primordial Blood Tree's ancient human face surveyed everyone in the Li family, its branches swaying. Everyone could feel its delight.
"I have seen."
"I have heard!"
Throughout the valley, the excited voice of the Primordial Blood Tree echoed, "I said long ago that the Azure Cloud region would become a forbidden land, the Li family's forbidden land!"
"Tonight, the Li clansmen are beneath a red moon, as red snow descends from the heavens."
"Everyone in the Azure Cloud region will see that this Azure Cloud region belongs to the Li family! All the powerful nobles of the Azure Dynasty will regret abandoning the Azure Cloud region!"
"This is a long-lasting war. We will stand firm in the Azure Cloud region; everything has only just begun..."
The members of the Li family, their faces composed, left the valley.
The Primordial Blood Tree's omens were always so vague, but they saw hope within them.
Everything had only just begun, they still had many, many opportunities, and they still stood firm in the Azure Cloud region. That was enough!
Perhaps someone would die beneath the red moon tonight, but if death could raise the family high into the sky, then it didn't matter.
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