For some unknown reason, at this moment, they all simultaneously recalled that rural land outside the Silver Iron Forest.
Just like today, they had carried their ancestral tablets and faced numerous crises hand in hand.
Together, they had driven away bandits, ventured into the Silver Iron Forest, and charged into Tailin Town, carrying the hopes of their family.
Now, They had all grown old, weathered by time and the trials of life.
Time had bestowed upon them the trials and tribulations that life inevitably brings, and it had also altered the nature of their hearts from their youthful days. But what could never be changed was the courage they possessed to face any challenge when they stood together, hand in hand. This courage was called— Family.
Until, under the cover of the morning mist, they arrived at a mountain outside the city. Before the mountain stood a stone tablet, engraved with the character— Xiao.
"Who's there?!"
As soon as they stepped through the gates of the Xiao family estate, the two generations of the Li family raised their heads, gazing at the sprawling complex of buildings on the mountaintop. The guards at the gate were already on high alert.
No one answered.
The guards saw it.
An ancestral tablet slowly rose from the bosom of the middle-aged man at the forefront, replacing the sun that should have risen this morning!
The disheveled woman casually tossed out a gourd, and a gigantic black python, dozens of meters long, emerged from it. Its two soft horns twitched, crackling with intense thunder and fire energy!
It glared with crimson eyes, opened its bloody maw, revealing its fearsome, jagged fangs, and roared towards him!
This was the last scene the guard would ever witness in his life.
"Roar!!!"
Watching the family's guardian beast emerge from the demonic cave and charge toward the Xiao family, Li Dalong unsealed the Heaven-Piercing Coffin and leaped into the sky. The coffin's lid sprang open, and countless corpses roared as they surged out. The Xiao family's grand formation was activated.
Li Dalong looked at the spirit tablet before him, and his family members gazed at him in return.
A slight smile curved his lips.
"Leave no one alive!"
...
[The first and second generations of your family went to the Xiao family in the Azure Cloud region together.]
[Half an hour later, they left the Xiao family, bringing back a large amount of spoils of war.]
[After this battle, they dispersed silently.]
Li Wei witnessed the terrifying strength of the first two generations of the Li family, and even he felt a surge of excitement.
"Holy crap."
Li Wei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. It was an absolute blowout. What half an hour? They were just collecting the spoils of war!
The Xiao family, whose strongest member was only at the early stage of Golden Core cultivation, didn't even have a chance to fight back. Against the evolved Violet Tempest Python, their protective formation was like paper!
He saw countless corpses crawling out of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin carried by Li Dalong and ghosts emerging from the formations Li Dalong cast.
Xu Cuihua, in her fox demon form, with three tails swaying behind her, terrified the members of the Xiao family, who stood frozen in fear, awaiting their demise.
Li Yaozu's swords, Li Yaoqing's vines that nearly covered the entire Xiao family estate, Li Yaotie controlling the war puppet he had painstakingly crafted, and...
Li Yaowen, whose words could manipulate the very laws of reality and control the four seasons at will!
Even Bai Rourou possessed the power of a False Core Formation cultivator. She could even summon a wisp of the residual souls of two generations of Demon Kings to manifest as a Dharma Body!
"Have they all become this powerful?"
Li Wei recalled the previous battle at the Su family estate. If the current Li family were to go there now, they would crush them just as easily!
He had been prepared to descend into the game world again to help his descendants in battle, but it seemed he could save those incense points.
Not only was he not needed, but even the Primordial Blood Tree wasn't summoned in this fight.
During his twenty years of secluded cultivation, the Li family had already attained the strength to crush ordinary Golden Core families!
And they hadn't even used their full power!
[Congratulations! The special event—Xiao Family Elimination Plan—has been completed.]
[Received 10,000 incense value.]
[Your descendant, Li Yaowen, is presenting Xiao Huang'er of the Azure Cloud Pavilion with a grand gift—a grisly tribute made from the heads of the Xiao family.]
"Good! Xiao Huang'er, this is just the first payment!"
Despite witnessing such carnage, Li Wei, instead of feeling horrified, revealed an expression of satisfaction.
He couldn't forget the cold and merciless expression on Xiao Huang'er's face when he saw the Pig Demon King being brutally murdered in the spirit stone recording.
He believed that the Li family would never forget that scene either, and their hatred would only intensify with time.
It was time to unleash their fury!
Taking a deep breath, Li Wei switched the screen to the Azure Cloud Pavilion. He also wanted to see if Xiao Huang'er had truly severed her worldly ties.
He looked at Li Tianming's profile picture in the member list.
"With Li Tianming's help, the map of the Azure Cloud Pavilion will likely be revealed."
Li Wei grinned. Li Tianming was indeed a bit twisted, but this time, the kid was doing quite well, contributing to the family's cause.
Li Wei believed that with Li Tianming's abnormal intelligence, his undercover mission must have been very successful. Perhaps he had even infiltrated the higher ranks of the Azure Cloud Pavilion...
"Hmm???"
The scene changed, switching to Li Tianming's perspective.
Li Wei's lips twitched.
He saw it.
In the very center of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, a black iron cage hung from a pillar. Disciples of the Azure Cloud Pavilion walked back and forth on the bluestone pavement below, occasionally glancing up at the cage as if they were watching a monkey.
Inside the cage, Li Tianming gripped the iron bars tightly, his face practically squeezed between two bars, pouting his lower lip in a look of utter grievance.
A few words appeared above his head.
"Let me out!!!"
Li Wei: "..."