Inside the house.
Li Yaowen rubbed her three fingers together, seemingly deep in thought.
Suddenly, she froze. The ancestral tablet in her arms floated up, and a line of text appeared before her.
[Can the Beast-Loving Tribe be trusted?]
"Ancestor!"
Li Yaowen's face lit up with joy. "As expected, you've also noticed it."
In front of the screen, Li Wei's toes curled. He only had a vague feeling of distrust. As for what he had noticed... he had noticed that Shou Qing swayed her hips when she walked, like a corgi.
Li Yaowen smiled faintly. "Ancestor, the Beast-Loving Tribe, after all, doesn't eat our Li family's food. They and I are merely cooperating."
As she spoke, Her expression turned playful. "However, this time, they agreed a bit too readily."
Li Wei grinned.
He understood now. It seemed the Beast-Loving Tribe was playing a new game.
Unlike Li Yaowen in the game, Li Wei narrowed his eyes, his voice turning cold.
"In that case... they've really miscalculated!"
...
Hundred Mountains.
The three Li family youngsters were moving forward.
The Wu Clan's territory was indeed the Wu Clan's territory. Poisonous miasma was everywhere, Wu Clan traps could be seen all over, and many Wu Clan members were hunting in the forest.
Fortunately, they were all people who had come through trials and tribulations.
Traps? Poisonous miasma?
What kind of trap hadn't Li Tianyi seen in tombs? What kind of ghostly miasma hadn't he evaded?
Formations?
What kind of place hadn't Li Tianming barged into?
As for the Wu Clan members... Li Tianqi would strap a tortoise shell to his back, lure them away with his wild shouts, and always return safely.
"I thought the Wu Clan was so fearsome. Turns out they're nothing special."
Inside a small cave, Li Tianqi, whose body was completely blackened by Wu Clan techniques, pulled out the hundred or so arrows from the tortoise shell on his back.
Li Tianyi picked up an arrow and examined it, his eyes lighting up. "Tianqi," he said, "quickly go and lure them around again! These arrows are all made of Ninth-grade materials. Bring back more, and our family can forge a lot of artifacts. Isn't this faster than me robbing tombs?"
"... Big Brother, do you think I'm some kind of tortoise shell meant for collecting arrows?"
Li Tianqi rolled his eyes. "We'll reach Hundred Mountains soon. Brother Tianming... huh? Where's Brother Tianming?"
"Yeah, where's Tianming? Did he go missing?"
Li Tianyi was also stunned. He was so focused on dodging that he forgot about Li Tianming.
Just then, a sound came from outside the cave.
"I'm over here!"
Li Tianming walked in, grinning, with what looked like traces of freshly wiped blood at the corner of his mouth. He avoided their eyes, feigning innocence. "I just got lost," he said.
"I don't believe you. Where did you go..."
Li Tianyi had barely finished speaking when...
"Clang!"
A bowl slipped from Li Tianming's arms and clattered to the ground. His expression changed, and when his two brothers noticed the spatial ring on his finger, he quickly hid his hand behind his back, looking flustered. "Mine!" he exclaimed. "It's all mine! Don't even think about taking it!"
But in the next second, he was pinned down by Li Tianyi and Li Tianqi.
"Tell us, where did you just go?"
"I... I went to steal things from that tribe that was chasing us! Ah! Don't take my spatial ring! I should have known better than to put it all in the smallest ring; it can't hold everything!"
A moment later.
The three brothers were dividing the loot. Li Tianming pouted with a wronged expression. The tribe he robbed was small; there wasn't a single spiritual artifact. He had even stuffed their iron bowls into his spatial ring.
The three brothers exchanged glances, each understanding the mischievous glint in the others' eyes. A shared smirk spread across their faces.
[Your descendants are on their way to Hundred Mountains. They have decided to observe the situation there while simultaneously looting all the nearby Wu Clan members.]
[Your family has obtained many spoils of war.]
[Low-grade common artifact: Warm Jade Bed]
[Yellow-rank cultivation technique: Golden Vine Sixfold Flash]
[Pitchfork...]
"Can't you guys focus on the mission?"
Li Wei's eyelids drooped. He had assumed these three would be cautious in Wu Clan territory, but as soon as he switched the view, he saw them working with a clear division of labor: Li Tianqi drawing the enemy's fire, Li Tianyi locating treasures, and Li Tianming breaking formations and killing...
Seeing these three together, Li Wei could already foresee the Li family's future notoriety.
But despite their chaotic antics...
They hadn't forgotten their main objective.
Half a month later.
[Hundred Mountains]
True to its name, there were a hundred tall mountains here, standing out starkly in the Endless Forest. Amidst the lush greenery, the hundred barren mountains were completely bald, devoid of any vegetation, with only scattered rocks and stone beasts that had once invaded the Li family wandering about.
On the mountains, various caves were visible, and one could see traces of the Giant Rock Spirit Jade Tribe's past inhabitation.
Li Tianyi and the others were currently in one of these caves.
This time, twenty-eight elderly figures appeared behind Li Tianyi. If he hadn't given four to Li Changyao, he would have had even more.
[Your descendant emerged from cultivation. Recalling the encounter with the soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator in a previous tomb, and following the advice of twenty-three elderly figures, he followed in the footsteps of his predecessor and absorbed all the remaining living Nascent Soul elders in Azure Cloud region into his body.]
[Gained Trait: Elder Harvester]
[He can more easily find the souls of predecessors and gain the favor of their remnant spirits.]
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