[Your descendant, Li Yaozu, has spent seven years wandering the world with his sword, engaging in duels with other swordsmen of equal strength. His mastery of the "Ten Thousand Swords Return to One" sword intent has grown increasingly profound. He has achieved a breakthrough with the Hundred Shadows Sword Aura and created a new sword technique: Sword Travels a Hundred Miles!]
[He has acquired two thousand swords and fused five hundred of them into his body, making his physical form even more resilient.]
[After many years of cultivation, Li Yaozu has formed a Sword Core!]
At this moment, Li Yaozu soared through the sky with ten thousand swords.
His sword case, crafted by Li Yaotie, was merely a mid-grade spirit artifact, but it could hold countless swords, no different from a storage ring. It also possessed the ability to nourish and enhance swords.
The protective grand formation of Medicine King Valley had been activated. Called the Hundred Flowers Formation, it was a Seventh-Grade formation, and it was currently being bombarded by ten thousand swords.
Li Yaozu simply stood calmly beside the rainbow of swords, which surged forward like a raging dragon.
He hadn't fought many battles in these years, yet he was still known as the strongest swordsman in Azure Cloud, which was a testament to his power.
Having reached the Golden Core stage, his physical body had even attained the level of a high-grade Spirit Weapon. He no longer needed any spiritual power to control his flying swords.
He was powerful enough to fight a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator!
The Seven Ironclad were not to be outdone.
"Raaagh!!!"
They roared in unison, soaring into the sky with their demonic energy, taking positions in the air around Medicine King Valley. They launched a furious assault using their top-grade Spirit Weapons imbued with demonic energy.
They even threw out a formation disk.
It was the Eight Directions Formation Disk that Li Yunlin had once given them. The Black-Yellow Formation arose, and eight formation gates emerged from the ground, completely encircling Medicine King Valley!
Facing these eight members of the Li family, Medicine King Valley surprisingly did not retaliate.
Yao Xian'er, who had just spoken with such sternness and forcefulness, no longer had the same assertive air.
Because...
Elder Qiuye had been staying at Medicine King Valley for seven years. For seven years, Medicine King Valley had kept their whereabouts secret. But... when enemies came to Medicine King Valley, Elder Qiuye, without a word, grabbed the frenzied Xiao Huang'er and, at the same moment, the Li family's Eight Directions Formation Disk activated...
He ran away?!!!
"Qiuye, what are you doing?!"
Yao Xian'er stared in disbelief at the two figures escaping on a small boat-like spirit shuttle, propelled by a talisman. Xiao Huang'er was even clawing and struggling, trying to jump back down.
She couldn't understand.
She dared to confront these eight members of the Li family, who were rumored to be more terrifying than demon cultivators after seven years of notoriety, solely because of the presence of Qiuye and Xiao Huang'er. Qiuye was a peak Golden Core cultivator, and even though Xiao Huang'er was pregnant, she was still a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator. Combined with Medicine King Valley's own mid-stage and early-stage Golden Core experts, they had an overwhelming advantage against the so-called strongest swordsman in Azure Cloud!
With such an advantage, they actually fled?!
But Elder Qiuye didn't even look back. The spirit shuttle vanished in an instant, and cold sweat trickled down Yao Xian'er's forehead.
She saw it. The ancestral tablets that the Li family members had just worshipped were flying up into the air.
There were eight of them initially, but then they transformed into forty, and they began frantically attacking the sect-protecting formation.
[Ancestor's Fury x5!]
Yao Xian'er gulped.
"Gulp."
She swallowed hard. It was too late for regrets now. She could only grit her teeth and order the people of Medicine King Valley to prepare for battle.
Yao Xian'er stood atop the celestial lotus beside her, separated by the formation. She forced herself to appear calm as she gazed at Li Yaozu, who was still relentlessly attacking the formation with his myriad of swords.
"Sword King," she said, "my Medicine King Valley has aided the world, and countless people are indebted to us. Treating Qiuye and Xiao Huang'er was merely an act of kindness. Why must you needlessly make an enemy of Medicine King Valley?"
With a compassionate expression, Yao Xian'er continued, "Now that Qiuye and Xiao Huang'er have left, my Medicine King Valley, a place outside of worldly affairs, has no desire to be involved in these troublesome matters. You may all leave."
What a display of veiled threats and enticements, all while trying to save face.
However...
If she were speaking to Li Dalong and his wife, or even someone like Li Tianyi, it might have worked. But to Li Yaozu...
Li Yaozu only found it laughable.
He began practicing swordsmanship in his youth, and as a young man, he vowed to become the sword of the Li family. The people of the Azure Cloud region called him the strongest swordsman in Azure Cloud.
No.
Li Yaozu scoffed at such empty praise. He knew deep down that he should be the sharp sword standing before the Li family's gate, and he should be clear about who his sword should strike!
He didn't even spare Yao Xian'er a glance. He simply looked at the Seven Ironclad and saw their gazes following the direction in which Elder Qiu Ye and Xiao Huang'er had fled. He barked, "Pay them no mind! Someone else will deal with them! The mission given to us by our ancestors and your Fourth Aunt is—"
"—to take the lives of these hypocrites in Medicine King Valley and use their blood to dye the entire Azure Cloud region red!"
Only then did the Seven Ironclad snap back to attention.
Their eyes gleamed with bloodthirsty madness as they responded in unison, "Yes!"
They understood. They simply wanted to savor Xiao Huang'er's despair, the one who had killed Grandpa Pig, and witness Elder Qiuye's regret!
"Madmen! You Li family are all lunatics!!!"
Yao Xian'er finally let out a shrill cry, her face contorted in rage. But even so, she couldn't conceal the panic in her eyes.
She regretted her actions.
If she had known this would happen, she would have handed over that cowardly pair, Qiuye and Xiao Huang'er, long ago. She shouldn't have helped them exhaust every method to conceive that child over these past seven years!
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