Beside the main road leading from the border city into the Azure Cloud region, there was a mausoleum. Today, a large number of Azure Cloud region cultivators have already come to the mausoleum. Nascent Soul experts used Heaven and Earth spirit Qi to create simple graves. A large amount of vegetation floated up, and under the power of the Nascent Soul cultivators, it was formed into coffins. Many, many fallen cultivators found their final resting place.
Half of the Azure Cloud region's surviving experts had come. They were all quietly looking at the neatly arranged tombstones. They were silent; some were sobbing, but more were raising their heads.
They were proud. Every person in the Azure Cloud region was a comrade-in-arms. They were proud of their comrades-in-arms. On the battlefield, facing countless Wu Clan members, no one retreated!
Not long after.
The bodies of one cultivator after another were laid to rest in the graves, their names engraved on the tombstones. Some fortunate cultivators had friends who found their bodies; their tombstones would have their life stories engraved upon them. But everyone present believed that even those nameless cultivators, those without memorial inscriptions, would not be sorrowful. Their seemingly empty tombstones bore the respect of all the people of the Azure Cloud region.
And in the future, perhaps those standing here will also die for this cause. They, too, would be like these cultivators, dying without regret!
"Great-grandfather, I want to leave for two days, to take Ming Xue and the children home."
Li Tianniu and his wives and children were weeping. Their branch was the largest in the family. Every day, their family would bicker and quarrel over trivial matters of life, but at this moment, there was no more open strife or hidden rivalry between them.
In this mausoleum, there were memorial markers for Li Tianniu's wife and two of his children.
They fought for the Azure Cloud region, and they should also have a monument erected here, forever watching over their homeland from the Azure Cloud region's border city.
Li Dalong sighed deeply.
As the graves were covered with earth and sand, everyone in front of the mausoleum raised their heads.
"Honk!"
A flock of geese, returning home in late winter, cut across the sky, heading towards the Azure Cloud region. It was as if these fallen Azure Cloud region cultivators were also returning home; they, too, would find eternal rest in the Azure Cloud region.
"Perhaps this is the meaning of our return home, of fighting for the Azure Cloud region."
Xu Cuihua held Li Dalong's arm, her eyes filled with a mesmerizing light. "Husband, let's go. For the Azure Cloud region, we still have many battles ahead. War is like this; it begins suddenly, but it's always difficult to end it as one wishes."
.....
But even outside the Azure Cloud region, there were still members of the Li family fighting for the Azure Cloud region!
Li Wei looked at the endless rows of tombstones, and finally sighed deeply. He switched the scene; it was the Endless Forest!
[Beast Division]
The great fire devoured the Beast Division encampment, turning the sky red and melting the wind and snow.
The Beast Division experts had returned.
On top of a high mountain, Li Yaowen was standing at the summit, with Li Tianming standing beside her!
They silently watched as one expert after another flew back to the Beast Division encampment. The old, weak, women, and children of the Wu Clan hadn't died, but were kneeling outside the sea of fire, wailing and weeping.
Li Yaowen's voice was faint, "They invaded our homeland, and yet they have lost their homes. But they are fortunate; the Endless Forest is vast, and they have many places to retreat to. We, the people of the Azure Cloud region, are different. We are still on our homeland, but we have nowhere left to retreat."
Last time, when Li Yaowen started fighting for the Li family's destiny, she had begun to revert to the appearance of a charming, mature woman. Now, she was even older, her hair streaked with gray.
"Fourth Aunt, you should have let me kill all their old, weak, women, and children, exterminate them all. Wouldn't the Beast Division experts have been driven to despair when they returned?"
Li Tianming placed his hands behind his head, chewing on a foxtail grass, and couldn't stand to listen to Li Yaowen's high-minded reasoning. "Have you grown so used to peace, old lady, and read so many books, that you actually believe the nonsense in those sage texts? Just setting a fire and having some of the spies you planted inside the Wu Clan spread rumors is so boring."
Hearing this.
Li Yaowen still had a kind expression, and she smiled gently, "Killing cannot solve everything; this is what I've realized over the past hundred years. Think about it carefully. If we had killed them all, exterminated them, would they have fled back?"
This stumped Li Tianming. "No, I guess if they were in despair, they would have fought to the death at the border city."
"If we had really done that, could you and I have escaped from the Wu Clan?"
"Probably not. Then, even the Divinity Transformation stage cultivators would really come out."
"Would they have let our Li clan go?"
"Even a fool could figure out that we were the ones who did it."
Li Tianming scratched his head sheepishly. "Fourth Aunt, you really thought of everything. But Fourth Aunt, although our family won this time, they can still continue to attack at any time, and there might even be Divinity Transformation stage experts... What do we do? Great-grandfather's aptitude has been exposed, and Second Aunt's aptitude as well. These are two existences who will face the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. Great-grandfather was even able to fight to a draw with Apostle Lei Dong; I bet they're itching to eliminate our Li clan as quickly as possible."
Facing the experts of the six divisions was far from a desperate situation; this is!
And this time, Li Yaowen also had no other solution. She just smiled faintly, "We've already borrowed a lot of destiny. How to survive the tribulation will depend on fate. The Primordial Blood Tree has also taken human form; he can provide guidance to the clansmen. As for us, there are still many things to do. If we want to truly overcome this calamity, endless fighting on the battlefield is far from enough to solve the problem."
"This should have been the Azure Dynasty's war to begin with, so let their war, which should have continued, continue. I want to see just how many people they can betray for this."
She looked towards the depths of the Endless Forest.
The Wu Clan's twelve great tribes, twelve totems, far more than just the Divine Bird Totem tribe!
And that is...
"Moon Dragon Totem!" Li Tianming's eyes lit up. "Fourth Aunt, are you going to..."
They walked in the shadows. They were not on the battlefield; no one would know what they had done, but they were still striving and fighting for the family!
[Your descendants Li Yaowen and Li Tianming are heading towards the location of one of the twelve great Wu Clan tribes' Moon Dragon Totem.]
[Your descendant Li Tianming emerged from the Heaven-Defying Grand Array. His undercover plan failed, and he was depressed for a full six months. Now, following Fourth Aunt on a secret mission, he finally feels the joy of being alive. Acquired trait: Fourth Aunt's Shadow]
[Unconditionally carries out Fourth Aunt's orders, Intelligence increased by 20%]
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