The Prince's Mansion.
Feng Qingyang, who had already been secretly stripped of his position as patriarch, was playing chess alone on a stone bench. But as a knock echoed from the gates of the Prince's Mansion, his hand, holding a chess piece, froze. The piece dropped onto the board. "Chunlin... he... how could he have returned?!?"
His pupils constricted. All these days, he had been scheming how to turn the current situation around.
He could sense that the Li family members were now outside Azure Cloud City, preparing to take his life, to take everything from him.
Fear was spreading, but his desire to survive was even stronger.
And now...
he realized that the thing he truly feared was only just beginning to arrive!
"Father, it's been many years. You've grown much more haggard."
At the entrance to the courtyard, Feng Chunlin stood beneath the gate, bowing to Feng Qingyang just as he had done many years before.
With Feng Chunlin's arrival.
Feng Qingyang's expression turned to one of despair. In the sky, in addition to Li Tianyi, who had been constantly watching his movements, phantom projections of the Nascent Soul ancestors of the Azure Cloud region appeared one after another!
"Now that the Wu Clan has been completely driven out of Azure Cloud region, our Black Tortoise Sect has heard rumors of a traitor within the Prince's Mansion. Hahaha, I, Tiangui, know a thing or two about the Prince's Mansion. How could such a conscienceless scoundrel possibly emerge from there?"
"Exactly, impossible. It's simple to resolve this matter. Now is the perfect time for our Azure Cloud region to launch a counterattack against the Wu Clan. Friends of the Prince's Mansion, why not prove your innocence by joining us?"
"The Ghost Eye Sect hopes that the Prince's Mansion can send out some experts to assist us!"
.....
Within the scene, five figures emerged from the Prince's Mansion – a testament to the ancient power that could, single-handedly, hold sway over all of Azure Cloud region.
All five were Nascent Soul cultivators, and the eldest among them possessed an aura even more powerful than Guan Tian's!
The youngest was barely over two hundred years old, and also the most talented among the younger generation of the Feng family.
At this moment.
The five Nascent Soul cultivators from the Prince's Mansion glanced at Feng Chunlin and Feng Qingyang, father and son, playing chess inside, then sighed, smiled, and agreed to the requests of the various major powers.
In just half a month, they had already led the experts of the Prince's Mansion towards the border of Azure Cloud region, where the armies of the various major powers had also gathered.
No sooner had these fellows left than Li Wei noticed the information in the event log.
[Your descendant Li Yunbing reports to you that he now sees a tremendous opportunity!]
The scene shifted.
Li Yunbing was seen acting furtively in a dimly lit room, deploying numerous arrays to block any detection. He took out an ancestral tablet and knelt, "Ancestor, Feng Chunlin and his son are now at the Feng family estate, and all the Feng family ancestors have left. We've created the perfect opportunity for them to fight to the death."
"No one will know if we kill Feng Qingyang. Besides, it's perfectly normal for people to die on the battlefield, and it would be equally normal for all five Nascent Soul cultivators of the Feng family to perish in battle."
"Then, we can put Kuangren on the throne, or even Mi'er. Once our Li family's descendants have secured the throne for generations to come, from then on, our Li family will also be considered royalty!"
"And then, we can inherit Feng Qingyang's plan. Sheltered by the Prince's Mansion, we'll wait for the war to end. All of Azure Cloud region will be ours, and we can even set our sights on the Azure Dynasty!"
"...."
Li Wei was stunned, staring at the excited Li Yunbing.
Well, his earlier thoughts had been completely correct. This fellow was even more Feng Qingyang than Feng Qingyang himself. It was no wonder that, back in the family, Li Yunbing had said he had countless ways to deal with Feng Qingyang.
[Do not mention this matter again.]
Li Wei casually left these five words on the ancestral tablet: no more 'Feng Qingyang Plus.' Just look how miserable Feng Qingyang was now. Besides, the situation in Azure Cloud region was already complicated enough; adding the Azure Dynasty to the mix, Li Wei truly wasn't sure if he could handle it.
While communicating with Li Yunbing.
Li Wei frowned slightly.
Li Yunbing, who had been kneeling, about to implement another scheme, suddenly turned his head. After kneeling again towards Li Wei, he burst out of the room!
Li Wei quickly shifted the scene to follow.
The scene showed the direction of the Prince's Mansion. With the departure of the Feng family's ancestors, the Feng family's great protective array was blasted open!
That scoundrel Feng Qingyang was fleeing!
Then...
"Do you think you can escape?"
Li Wei gave a mocking smile.
.....
"Bastards, bastards!!!"
Feng Qingyang roared. He was going mad!
For thirty years, ever since Li Kuangtu surrendered to the Wu Clan, all his plans had turned to ashes.
That scoundrel Li Yaowen had not let a single day pass without having Dawn harass him, making him jump at every shadow, constantly on edge and filled with fear.
Those damned Wu Clan were defeated so quickly, and the Li family sent Li Yunbing!
This child is even more vicious.
He ruined his reputation and made him live in constant fear!
"You want to escape? Where do you think you're going?"