"Hu..."
Seeing the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree and the Eight Directions Formation Disc activate, their combined power creating layers of magical formations that enveloped the entire Su family estate, Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief.
[You are using 'Ancestor's Raging Fury,' consuming 500 incense value!]
The massive ancestral spirit tablet behind him transformed into a dozen smaller tablets, intercepting Elder Qiuli as he tried to break through the formation's restrictions!
Li Wei charged toward Elder Qiuli once again.
Elder Qiuli had been right about one thing.
The Li family's attack on the Su family was indeed a scheme within a scheme!
Neither Li Wei nor any member of the Li family had ever intended to let the Triad Assassins or the Skyveil Sect experts brought by Li Yunlin escape because...
"For Xu Cuihua's Sky Moon Fox and the Violet Tempest Python to break through to the Demon King realm, the fastest way is to obtain a Demon King Blood Pill. The Golden Core of a Golden Core cultivator should also be a viable substitute!"
"After all, that's how the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree reached the eighth rank before."
Li Wei narrowed his eyes. This was the true reason why he had taken such a risk and brought the entire Li family here.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have bothered to appear himself. He could have simply hired experts from Cloudsea Pavilion with a hefty sum of money.
As he observed, the roots of the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree had already penetrated the entire Su family territory. The ordinary people and Qi Refinement cultivators of the Su family practically became nourishment for the tree. Even Li Wei could sense the demonic tree's delight and excitement!
Li Yaozu didn't hesitate either. He leaped onto the top of the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree and threw down millions of spirit stones to sustain its spiritual energy and activate the formations.
Looking at the various inscriptions on the tree and the formation disc above its crown, it became clear that this was the key to the Li family's plan to trap everyone present and prevent any escape after receiving the intel.
Because... this thing practically carried half of the Li family's foundation!
Just as Li Wei had known before, spirit trees were unique entities. Back when the Dragon Tiger Sect Brothers invaded the Li family, the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree hadn't even truly revealed its power!
[Year 43rd: The Blood Spirit Fruit Tree absorbs blood daily, its roots spreading a hundred meters.]
[Year 44th: The Li family begins carving formations onto its roots.]
[Year 47th: The Spirit Gathering Formation is completed.]
[Year 48th: Its roots spread to a thousand meters...]
[Carving the Evil Slaying Formation... Carving the Thousand Swords Formation... Carving the Ancestral Spirit Formation... Carving...]
[Year 60: The roots extend ten thousand meters!]
The Li family rarely displayed their formations openly because the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree itself was the embodiment of their collective formations. Wherever it stood, the accumulated power of the Li family's formations manifested!
The Li family, over many years of development, was not merely a family sheltered by ancestral spirit tablets.
The Li family members were a bloodline forged within the Heaven-Piercing Coffin, a bloody clan nurtured by the roots of the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree!
...
"Kill!"
A hundred formations arose from the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree. The Eight Directions Formation Disc atop it was a mid-grade spirit tool, and its profound yellow power trapped an area of nearly twenty thousand meters. From beneath the earth, eight ancient stone gates erupted, their grandeur awe-inspiring.
Even Golden Core cultivators used spirit tools. The Eight Directions Formation within this disc possessed the power of a seventh-grade Formation Master.
Even Elder Qiuli couldn't break it with talismans for the time being.
He was being pursued relentlessly by Li Wei, fleeing in all directions.
With the emergence of the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree, the Li family showed the Su family the true strength of this seemingly insignificant clan from the small town of Tailin!
"The Li family are demonic cultivators!"
"Kill him, kill Li Dalong! He's controlling that coffin!"
"We can't get close! He's surrounded by zombies, and that coffin is extraordinary, just like that mysterious person's magical treasure. It's impervious to attacks!"
"..."
Li Dalong was enveloped in a torrent of black energy.
He gave the top-grade spirit tool, the Seal, to Xu Cuihua.
The Heaven-Piercing Coffin emerged from his storage ring!
Over the years, the Li family has killed countless enemies. Without exception, their corpses were offered to the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree for nourishment and then Refined within the Heaven-Piercing Coffin.
Normal corpses possessed the power of Qi Refinement cultivators. Flying corpses were comparable to Foundation Establishment cultivators, capable of flight and wielding deathly energy to kill!
And this... was merely the power obtained from unlocking the first seal of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin!
No one knew the true extent of the Death-Sealing Coffin's power.