Chapter 1097: Chapter 1091: Seventy-Two Golden Bells
At this time.
Li Kuanghua, who had stayed in the Western Frontier for many years, was currently returning to the Azure Cloud Prefecture alongside Li Yaoqing.
Just after passing through the Sunreach Prefecture and heading home, Li Kuanghua’s mouth was already slightly agape.
She saw that across the lands of the Azure Cloud Prefecture, even small villages were planting spiritual herbs, and cultivators could be seen flying on swords.
On some mountains, there were more Immortal Masters. Even on the roads, armies formed by numerous cultivators could be seen.
The spiritual energy of the Azure Cloud Prefecture was unprecedentedly rich.
“Great-Grandaunt, worldly spiritual energy thrives and declines. This state cannot be maintained for long.” Li Kuanghua instantly saw the underlying issue.
The more cultivators and heavenly materials and earthly treasures there were in the Azure Cloud Prefecture, the more spiritual energy they absorbed.
Only when cultivators died and heavenly materials and earthly treasures returned to the earth would worldly spiritual energy return to heaven and earth.
But cultivators have long lifespans. Once they finished absorbing the spiritual energy, the worldly spiritual energy would be gone.
The same applies to the world. Three thousand Great Daos are already the limit; only then can the world endure for a long time.
“This is the doing of Jianshu, a child of our family. Let him be,” Li Yaoqing smiled warmly.
“I suppose we must.”
Li Kuanghua shrugged. Having cultivated for so many years, she also knew many things.
A prefecture possesses worldly luck, which also represents the capacity for worldly spiritual energy.
Even Void Refinement cultivators like them needed worldly spiritual energy. The maximum number of Void Refinement cultivators a prefecture can accommodate is limited.
Otherwise, they should simply stop consuming worldly spiritual energy altogether, and just sit cross-legged to comprehend the laws without seeking personal breakthroughs.
Only places like Shadowfell Prefecture and Deston, where people die continuously, could truly be considered places of opportunity.
Hence, the people of the world often say, “Heroes emerge in troubled times.”
As for elders like them, apart from staying in Grotto-Heaven, they had already begun slowly cultivating in various places across the world.
Otherwise, Li Kuanghua was certain that if all the people of their family stayed home, the cultivators of the Azure Cloud Prefecture would have to drink the northwest wind.
The two returned to the family, and soon the family descendants came to meet the elders.
After just a brief meeting, Li Yaoqing returned to her pill furnace and locked Nun Dairou inside it.
Meanwhile, Li Kuanghua built a Buddhist temple nearby and chanted scriptures for Nun Dairou to hear.
At night.
Li Jianshu knelt and bowed to the elders, respectfully leaving after receiving their reprimands and instructions, his mind filled with fascination.
“Deston and Shadowfell Prefecture…”
“The elders of my family actually settled the scores with the Undefeated Marshal Bi Shihu, the Half-Step Body Integration Yun Hongcai, and even the Body Integration realm Nun Dairou in Shadowfell Prefecture.”
“Even the Nirvana Sage Elder was severely injured and fled from the hands of the elders. This…”
The matters of Shadowfell Prefecture had long since spread back to the Azure Cloud Prefecture, but having heard rumors and having the elders personally admit it were two entirely different things.
This made Li Jianshu scratch his head and ears in wonder. “Just what degree of power has our Li Clan reached?”
Having succeeded as the Patriarch for decades, he still didn’t know how deep the family’s foundations truly ran.
He only knew that leading the family now, even when facing a single Void Refinement cultivator, he had to handle it carefully, looking both forward and backward with caution.
“The items in here…”
Li Jianshu grabbed the spatial ring sent back by the elders.
Sending his divine soul into it, his expression instantly turned to sheer terror.
Even the worst items inside were Spirit Artifacts and Tier-7 items.
Besides that, inside the spatial ring were seventy-two golden bells, which, when used together, could form a supreme-grade Dharma Treasure.
[Supreme-Grade Dharma Treasure: Vast World Seventy-Two Golden Bells]
[The foundation passed down through the Dusheng Nunnery over many years. Seventy-two golden bells, each individually capable of acting as a supreme-grade Spirit Artifact.
Striking the bell can summon Nascent Soul techniques, capable of inflicting ‘Immobilization’ and ‘Soul Shattering’.
If one person holds each golden bell, possessing the power of a supreme-grade Dharma Treasure, they can summon the Vast World Bodhisattva to guard a region or defend against enemies.]
“It requires seventy-two Nascent Soul experts to drive it at full power. This…”
Amidst his thoughts, he had already arrived in the main hall.
Even though it was night, Huang Xiujin arrived with hurried steps.
“Patriarch, under your orders, the major clans of the Azure Cloud Prefecture have already gone to develop the sea regions.
This can temporarily alleviate the current conflict of having too many cultivators in the Azure Cloud Prefecture, and it can also allow us to seize the worldly spiritual energy and luck of the sea regions.”
Li Jianshu noticed the hesitation in Huang Xiujin’s expression and frowned, asking, “What else is the matter?”
“It is the Northern Frontier.”
Huang Xiujin said, “Miss Zhijing of the Northguard City found traces of a dragon, but before she even had time to arrange a capture, it was snatched away by someone else. And Miss Zhijing… was also severely injured.”
“Who dares to hurt her?”
Li Jianshu’s face turned gloomy.
When his great-grandfather went to Shadowfell Prefecture, he passed the position of Patriarch to him, repeatedly instructing and urging him that, even separated by thousands of miles, he must take care of the demon-suppressing branch in the Northern Frontier.
Li Zhijing was his grandaunt. Back when Li Zhijing cultivated in the Azure Cloud Prefecture, let alone him, even his great-grandfather would give way to her.
Huang Xiujin replied, “A fellow member of the Asura Army, the family of the Second Commander, Qiu Chuxian. His clansman, Qiu Xunfa.”
At this time.
[Your descendant Li Zhijing was severely injured by Qiu Xunfa, and then hunted down by the other disciples of the Qiu Clan. Her life hung by a thread. You used a family skill to save her life…]
Li Wei was sitting inside a cave, keeping a fire burning, looking at Li Zhijing, who had been unconscious for several days.
Outside the cave lay the corpses of over a dozen Qiu Clan disciples, even their blood frozen stiff by the ice and snow.
Li Wei looked at the burning campfire and raised an eyebrow.
“Qiu Xunfa? Never heard of him. Where did this nobody come from, costing me 5,000 Clan Will?”
“Oh well. On the path of seeking the Dao, I might as well play with you all. Hopefully, there will be someone somewhat decent.”
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