Li Wei watched as the three children were taken away. He believed that the twenty-three experienced old men would know how to help the youngsters improve their cultivation and combat abilities.
This was their final stop!
The experiences they would have here would far surpass the imagination of ordinary people.
Soon.
[Year 110, the once-a-ten years Grand Ceremony begins!]
On this day, all the Li family members emerged from their secluded cultivation. Beside Li Yaowen, the Thunder Flame Fury Python emerged from the ground, its massive head rising high.
Even the Primordial Blood Tree within the Li family estate stirred, its blood-red leaves swaying. Its ancient human face materialized, its eyes opening to gaze at the sky through the canopy of leaves.
All the Li family members murmured.
"War is coming."
Altars were set up, and resources were once again offered to Li Wei.
With the conclusion of the ten-year Grand Ceremony, the Li family members prepared themselves. Even Li Yunlin, who had been wallowing at the Skyveil Sect, tossed aside his wine gourd, his eyes gleaming with determination.
They knew that this time, it would determine whether they could return to their family estate and whether their clan could finally go home!
It would either be the dawn of an era in the Azure Cloud region belonging solely to the Li family, or the Li family would be completely annihilated within the Azure Cloud region.
Li Wei, before the screen, was equally serious.
He was absorbing the tributes offered by his descendants.
Time passed once again.
As the Li family was making war preparations, a notification window appeared on the screen.
[Year 112: Your descendants increasingly feel that a hand from the heavens is reaching towards the Li family.]
[Special Event - Masters of the Era]
[With the Li family driven to a frenzy by the Pig Demon King's sacrifice, the entire Azure Cloud region was like a pot of boiling water about to erupt in fury. All the forces in the Azure Cloud region sense the changes of the era. Every faction is preparing to fight for supremacy. As long as they can achieve victory this time, they will become the defining legend of the Azure Cloud region, just like the Azure Cloud Pavilion hundreds of thousands of years ago.]
[Your family is but one of the contenders in this era.]
The game's special event has been triggered on this day!
Li Wei's expression grew even more serious. Li Yaoqing had been investigating all these years and had long since discovered the unusual situation in the Azure Cloud region.
According to Li Yaoqing, this was an inevitable outcome for the Azure Cloud region. The Li family was merely the catalyst and had become a thorn in everyone's side because of it.
For one hundred and thirty thousand years, the Azure Cloud region had been plagued by scarce resources. These resources were gradually divided up, and for many years, not a single cultivator had advanced to the next realm.
Sooner or later, a great calamity would occur, forcing all the factions to fight to the death, vying for the destiny of the Azure Cloud region.
There was a sect called the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. They claimed that the Li family had nearly seized half of the Azure Cloud region's destiny over the years.
This sect was also the most mysterious one in the Azure Cloud region.
Li Yaowen had been searching for the secrets of this mysterious sect for many years. Despite her efforts, she still didn't even know who their leader was. She only knew that they had been stirring up trouble all these years.
"The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion?"
Li Wei frowned. If he hadn't learned about it from Li Yaowen, he wouldn't even know this sect existed.
Not to mention him, even many Nascent Soul powers were unaware of it. Even Feng Qingyang had only heard rumors, and he seemed quite apprehensive about it.
Lost in thought, Li Wei switched the screen!
On this day, heavy snow fell, blanketing the world in white.
In the Li family estate, Li Dalong emerged from his coffin. A carrier pigeon from outside landed in his hand, carrying a message from Li Yaowen.
Li Dalong's eyes gleamed with determination. He tucked the ancestral tablet into his inner robe and, instead of strapping the Heaven-Piercing Coffin to his back, hoisted it onto his shoulder and soared into the air. "The Azure Cloud region competition is about to begin," he declared. "May the ancestors protect me and grant me the power to slay a Nascent Soul cultivator!"
After flying for some time, he quickly arrived outside the gates of the Azure Cloud Pavilion!
As soon as he approached, the Azure Cloud Pavilion went on high alert, and the sect-protecting formation activated!
"BOOM!"
Li Dalong slammed the coffin vertically onto the ground, sending dust and smoke billowing into the air. He let out a booming laugh.
"Hahaha! Back then, Yaowen single-handedly suppressed your Azure Cloud Pavilion, and no one dared to move. Today, I, her father, will do the same!"
"Isn't your Azure Cloud Pavilion the memory of hundreds of thousands of years ago?" he taunted.
"Aren't the people from all the major sects and forces in the Azure Cloud region all descended from the Azure Cloud Pavilion?"
"You dared to expel my great-grandson. Today, we'll settle both old and new scores. If there are any real men left in your Azure Cloud Pavilion, then send out your best!"
As he spoke, his expression grew grim.
"Fight with me, Li Dalong—"
"To the death!"
The aura of a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator erupted in all directions, kicking up dust and sand. The heavy snow outside the Azure Cloud Pavilion unexpectedly reversed its course, flowing upwards toward the sky with Li Dalong at the center!
Over a dozen Golden Core experts from the Azure Cloud Pavilion stood on the wall, their faces grim as they stared at Li Dalong clamoring outside the gate.
This Li Dalong was just a burly man, his right hand resting on the coffin beside him, grinning broadly. He looked just like a farmer in a field, holding down a sprouting seedling.
Many of them were stronger than Li Dalong, yet no one dared to step out of the sect!
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