Chapter 1064: Chapter 1058: The Fu.. Azure Cloud Li Clan…
“Report!”
On the battlefield of Shadowfell Prefecture, within the base camp of the human cultivators, a cultivator came to report to the Spear Saint.
At this moment, Spear Saint Gu Fenghua stood on a spirit ship. Behind him, the human cultivators were fully armed and waiting, ready to strike at any moment.
Listening to the cultivator report the events occurring in the Dusheng Nunnery, Gu Fenghua already knew about the three Body Integration experts sent by the Imperial Capital to besiege the nunnery.
He had even made preparations long in advance for any unexpected changes.
However, the multitude of events that transpired within the Dusheng Nunnery in such a short period still made his expression quite colorful.
“A mysterious person inside the Dusheng Nunnery broke the array formation, allowing the three Body Integration almighty experts to charge in with their subordinates.
To save her own life, Nun Dairou had no choice but to use the Crown Prince as a hostage.
Dharma Master Hongzhen attempted to break through to the Body Integration Dao-Glimpsing realm using the faith power of her believers, but was intercepted by Yun Hongcai.”
The subordinate continued the recounting, causing Gu Fenghua’s eyebrows to twitch continuously.
“Nun Dairou was furious and charged out to kill him, but unexpectedly, the Nirvana Sage Elder of the Wu tribe suddenly struck out, killing Dharma Master Hongdan in a single blow.
The Nirvana Sage Elder attempted to capture the Crown Prince, but the Crown Prince had already vanished without a trace.
Perfected Qinghe is currently searching for him, while the other two Body Integration experts are fiercely battling the Nirvana Sage Elder inside the Dusheng Nunnery…”
“Oh, right, My Lord. Li Yunlin of the Azure Cloud Li Clan discovered your subordinate.
He ordered me to return and report, telling you to seize the opportunity. Now is the time to reclaim our lost territories.
He asks that you quickly find the right moment in battle to turn around and assist the Dusheng Nunnery.
If a Wu tribe Body Integration expert were to fall in our Shadowfell Prefecture, it would be no small merit.”
Hearing this, Gu Fenghua was momentarily stunned.
He couldn’t help but ask, “Where are the people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan?”
As soon as the Dusheng Nunnery appeared, Li Yunlin left the army without hesitation.
Now that so many things had happened, and almost everyone related to the incident at the borders of Shadowfell Prefecture back then had gathered in the Dusheng Nunnery, Gu Fenghua could figure out with even half a brain that for those people to gather together, the Li Clan had put in a great deal of effort behind the scenes.
The people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan had waited in Deston Prefecture for decades just for today, making it clear they intended to catch all their enemies in one fell swoop.
But what kind of monsters and demons were these people?
Yun Hongcai, who dared to snatch food from the jaws of almighty experts; Nun Dairou, an evil demon wearing the cloak of the Buddhist sect; the Nirvana Sage Elder…
Picking out any one of them, they were all sinister existences that one had to keep an eye open for even while sleeping.
And what about the Li Clan?
Over the years, all he knew about were the five Void Refinement cultivators currently gathered outside the Dusheng Nunnery; Painting Ancestor Dongfang Xuan, who forged his own Dao of Painting to turn the fake into reality; and the mysterious Li Clan Ancestor, who broke the array and escaped from the Dusheng Nunnery.
Relying on just these few people… their audacity truly knew no bounds!
“When the various almighty experts began fighting in the Dusheng Nunnery, the people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan merely had your subordinate come to report, and then they left. Their whereabouts are unknown.”
The subordinate’s report made Gu Fenghua’s heart skip a beat. Having interacted with the people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan for decades, he had still underestimated the Li Clan’s courage.
“My Lord, there’s no time to overthink.”
Seeing Gu Fenghua lost in thought, the subordinate said in a deep voice, “Now is the best opportunity to attack. Since the Nirvana Sage Elder has left, he will definitely invite the Moon Dragon Totem to come to their aid. Such an opportunity in battle is fleeting.”
Gu Fenghua was still pondering. From the series of events reported by his subordinate, he thought of much more.
The Nirvana Sage Elder had been his opponent on the battlefield for many years, but the Nirvana Sage Elder’s hidden opponent was Min Tiange, the one who caused the great war to start between the two races.
Furthermore, this person’s true objective was also the breakthrough opportunity that Min Tiange had plotted for.
The duty of the Imperial Protectors Guard was to defend the homeland and protect the country.
Besides resisting foreign enemies, internal threats were an equally massive enemy in Gu Fenghua’s heart.
If there was a chance to help the Li family kill Min Tiange, as long as he didn’t get Min family blood on his hands, he didn’t mind putting the Wu tribe on hold for the time being.
But amidst his thoughts…
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
Gu Fenghua frowned slightly as he saw the Spiritual power of cultivators shining in the distance, illuminating half the sky.
“It’s Ba Siyu. He has charged out.”
At this time.
On another part of the battlefield, Ba Siyu received the same intelligence as Gu Fenghua. For him to advance a step further, he inherently needed “Earth Virtue.”
His Dao path was already something known to everyone, and there was no need to hide it. Thus, he led the human cultivators and charged out without hesitation.
“The fucking Azure Cloud Li Clan…”
Ba Siyu was decisive, but no one knew that his heart was full of apprehension at this moment.
The things Gu Fenghua could guess and worry about, Ba Siyu had also guessed with ninety percent accuracy. But he was different.
Over the past few decades, it could be said that the people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan had suffered greatly under him in Highsun City.
He, along with the Yun Clan and Bi Shihu, had opposed the Li Clan at every turn, offending the Li Clan juniors across the board.
Look at the Li Clan now: a massive setup in the Dusheng Nunnery had practically gathered numerous almighty experts, and even the Nirvana Sage Elder couldn’t resist joining the fray.
The people currently over at the Dusheng Nunnery—even those at the Void Refinement realm were not simple, daring to bite a chunk of flesh right off of Body Integration almighty experts.
“Five Void Refinement cultivators popped out all at once. Everyone involved is at the Dusheng Nunnery; they’ve all shown their faces.”
Ba Siyu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, a hint of dread flashing across his expression.
“The Li family was able to hide so well right under my nose. They definitely have more trump cards in Shadowfell Prefecture and Deston Prefecture. Hiss~”
Thinking of this, he truly felt a bit of lingering fear.
The people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan were seeking revenge.
If all the schemes used in the Dusheng Nunnery were deployed against him, even if he didn’t die, he would lose a layer of skin.
Looking at it now, his best strategy was to just honestly charge at the Wu tribe and lower his presence, making the people of the Li Clan forget about him.
After all, what he, the Yun Clan, and Bi Shihu had plotted all these years was to claim the lives of the Li Clan!
Ba Siyu let out a furious roar, “Radiant Sun Brute, come out and fight!”
Suddenly, battles raged everywhere in Shadowfell Prefecture, the flames of war stretching across the borders.
At the border between Deston Prefecture and Shadowfell Prefecture, spirit ships could be seen traveling back and forth, transporting troops, supplies, and weapons of war, as well as bringing back severely injured cultivators.
Massive puppets stepped on the ground, making booming sounds.
And at this busy border, a furious shout suddenly rang out.
The pressure of a Body Integration almighty expert descended, their divine soul sweeping over everyone present.
“Yun Hongcai, come out!”
A woman’s hoarse and ear-piercing voice echoed in the cloudy sky. However, the cultivators coming and going were too busy; they merely looked up at the cloudy sky and saw streaks of flowing light.
Formidable cultivators probed slightly with their divine souls and were surprised to discover that over a hundred streaks of flowing light were emitting three identical auras, scattering in all directions.
It was clearly an extraordinary illusion Array Formation.
But they didn’t dare to pay it any mind and continued busying themselves with their own affairs.
That was a matter between Body Integration and Void Refinement almighty experts.
If they truly targeted ordinary cultivators like them, unless there was someone taller to hold up the sky, they could only rely on their own luck to survive.
Among these cultivators who had resigned to their fate and were anxiously trying to protect their homeland, three bizarre figures appeared incongruously.
An old man with one foot in the grave, a burly and rugged man, and an alluring beauty—no matter how one looked at it, these three shouldn’t have gathered together.
“We did it, we did it!”
Heavenly Venerable Jiande did not conceal the excitement on his face in the slightest, still maintaining the high of surviving a life-and-death situation.
“That was right in front of four Body Integration almighty experts, on the Dusheng Nunnery’s home turf!”
Fairy Tinglan was equally excited, but much calmer than Heavenly Venerable Jiande.
Looking at the calm Yun Hongcai, she asked, “Boss, now that the Demoness Dairou is chasing the puppets tainted with our auras under my illusion technique, what should we do?”
“I need to break through.”
Yun Hongcai said in a deep voice, “Since Nun Dairou cannot find us in Shadowfell Prefecture, given her temperament, she will definitely head to Deston Prefecture.
Meanwhile, the Shadowfell Prefecture battlefield is already in the midst of a great war; it is the best place to break through.”
Hearing this, Fairy Tinglan froze for a moment. “Boss, how do you understand Bi Shihu and Nun Dairou so well?”
The three of them had been close friends for tens of thousands of years.
Back when they roamed the world, they had placed their lives in each other’s hands. The bond between them ran deeper than bloodlines, and their mutual understanding had reached the absolute limit.
But coming here this time and cooperating as they had for tens of thousands of years, they couldn’t help but feel that Yun Hongcai was hiding a secret.
Yun Hongcai hesitated for a moment, leading the two into a mountain before saying solemnly to his two good friends,
“During the hundreds of years of the great war between Shadowfell Prefecture and the Wu tribe, it was actually an opportunity for anyone from our Shadowfell Prefecture back then.
I also took advantage of this opportunity, attempting to seek the chance to break through to the Body Integration realm from the Wu tribe.”
Fairy Tinglan and Heavenly Venerable Jiande nodded slightly. They had received Yun Hongcai’s letter hundreds of years ago and were prepared to come help him.
Yun Hongcai’s expression turned gloomy.
“For many years, I cultivated the Dao of Spirit Snatching. After failing to break through, I turned to seeking Daoist techniques to ‘steal the heavens’, allowing others’ opportunities to enter my body and help me break open the Dao Gate.
Initially, I had the Yun Clan focus their attention on the Wu tribe.”
“At that time, Bi Shihu commanded four incredible armies, and Shadowfell Prefecture relied on his military merits. He was still young and cultivated the Great Dao of the Undefeated.
He only needed to progress step by step to become a Half-Step Body Integration expert, and eventually reach true Body Integration. He was in no rush.”
“Once the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems was destroyed, Holy Monk Yidian vanished without a trace.
Nun Dairou also began to re-cultivate the Buddhist Dao. The glory of the Buddhist sect was only a matter of time.”
“At that time, we…”
Yun Hongcai sighed,
“The few of us were all working hard for the great war in Shadowfell Prefecture. We communicated frequently, discussing how to drive the Wu tribe back into the forest.
When we had free time, we would gather at the Dusheng Nunnery. We all knew that we would have a place in this world.
Originally, every one of us should have been revered by the people of the world. With our united wills forming a fortress, Shadowfell Prefecture was indestructible.”
Fairy Tinglan’s expression changed. “Then why…”
All three factions became deserters, causing the defeat of Shadowfell Prefecture.
Fairy Tinglan had occasionally cursed this fact inwardly, but with the person involved right in front of her, it was hard to speak of it.
“Ever since Sunreach Prefecture was breached and the Wu tribe drove straight into the Central Plains, everything changed.”
Yun Hongcai narrowed his eyes slightly.
“Nun Dairou discovered that someone in the Dusheng Nunnery had been planted with a Dao seed. Bi Shihu and I also discovered this.
We further realized that Shadowfell Prefecture had fallen into a massive scheme. Someone in the shadows wanted our lives—wanted the lives of many people.”
“The three of us no longer trusted each other. Until the Nirvana Sage Elder charged into Shadowfell Prefecture, we had agreed to block the Wu tribe, but Nun Dairou was the first to run.
Bi Shihu, who originally wanted to intercept the Wu tribe, could only watch helplessly as Li Tianyue’s army was surrounded by them, in order to maintain his Great Dao of the Undefeated, ultimately fleeing in pain.”
“As for me… my descendant, Yun Manlou, received the news three months prior and made his decision.”
“We had long since gone from being an indestructible fortress to a scattered plate of loose sand; the defeat of Shadowfell Prefecture could not be changed.
At the same time, during those years, the three of us secretly began investigating each other. My target was set on Dharma Master Hongzhen, and I prepared for many years.”
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