Li Dalong's strength far exceeded their Skynet intelligence!
Ever since the Li family had defeated Tian Xing, Li Dalong had become the Prefecture Lord and hadn't personally fought since.
According to what Gu Yinming knew, when Li Dalong first took the title, he received a boon from Heaven and Earth that brought him to the mid-stage Divinity Transformation realm.
But the gains Li Dalong had obtained from Tian Xing were far greater than any intelligence report had indicated. Li Dalong…
Peak Divinity Transformation!
The man even had three Corpse Emperors—the Moon God, the Soul Duke, and… Gu Yinming could also hear the sound of a bell.
As one of the world's rare masters of souls and ghosts, Gu Yinming could sense it: inside that coffin lay a great terror.
"BOOM!"
Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light from the collision of Primordial Spirits lit up the sky, followed by a deafening roar.
The Skynet members raised their heads. Their Primordial Spirits sensed that high above in the clouds, the God of War was locked in battle with a single sword, and it made their expressions turn ugly.
"Trash, trash, TRASH!!!"
Han Yun was cursing—cursing Prince Qian for giving such a damned order.
What should have been a simple assassination had now ended in this sorry state!
"Flee!"
Han Yun's expression was grim. He looked around frantically; on the ground below, Jiang Chenghuan was still seated on his throne. Inside the Grand Hall of Region Prince Jiang, cultivator after cultivator was now appearing, revealing that two Divinity Transformation experts had been lying in ambush there all along.
But Dongfang Xuan simply said in a low voice, "There is nowhere to run."
Her voice had barely faded.
From the distance drifted the fragrance of medicinal herbs. A sea of flowers bloomed in the cloudy sky, transforming into ancient trees—a scene like a mirage.
A woman arrived, riding the clouds, the ancient tree behind her serving as her Dharma Body.
Vines snaked across the tree's branches, entwining a half-dead Divinity Transformation cultivator.
As soon as she arrived, the woman shouted to Li Dalong, "Dad, your daughter is home! I've brought you back a gift. Some idiot from who-knows-where tried to ambush me on the way. He must have thought I still had the same strength I did forty years ago."
Atop the silver coffin, Li Dalong gave a slight nod to Li Yaoqing, who stood before the ancient tree.
As Li Yaoqing's voice faded, a roar echoed from behind her Dharma Body. A pack of tigers and wolves with wings growing from their backs stampeded across the sky. Their silver bodies and wings created continuous sonic booms—it was a show of immense power. On the two beasts at the very front sat a powerfully built man and woman.
The bald man shouted angrily at the ancient tree, "Dad, don't listen to Second Sister's nonsense! It was obviously my Spirit Puppet that took him down! If you don't believe me, ask Rourou. I did most of the work!"
Li Yaoqing, with her hands on her hips and her eyes wide with anger, retorted, "It was obviously me! If I hadn't kept him hanging on by a thread, you would have killed him ages ago! Without me, how could he have even been sealed?"
"Bullshit! If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have even been able to stop him!"
"It was me. And I think you're asking for a beating."
"What can you do besides hit people? Can you change the facts?"
"It was me!"
"..."
Bai Rourou, holding onto a beast-shaped Spirit Puppet, came to a halt beside the ancient tree, staying safely outside the Skynet members' attack range. Her white hair fluttered in the air as she shot her husband a sideways glance, letting out an exasperated huff.
Looking up at Li Yaoqing on the ancient tree, she felt utterly helpless.
Honestly, how old are they?
This brother and sister argued over such trivial things every single day.
"Alright, that's enough! Stop arguing!!!"
Bai Rourou, brimming with anger, let out a furious roar that sent the surrounding vengeful spirits scattering.
She leaped in front of the trapped Divinity Transformation cultivator, drew a greatsaber, and a hundred beast souls materialized behind her.
Holding the saber over the cultivator's head, she said fiercely, "I'll split him down the middle, and you can each have half!"
Hearing this, the brother and sister's expressions changed, and they rushed to stop her.
If he were actually split in two, it would be a terrible waste of good material.
This family continued their antics, paying the several Skynet masters no mind whatsoever.
Those masters' expressions were already so grim they could have dripped water.
They stared intently at the captured Divinity Transformation cultivator.
Skynet's Number Eight!
"We're doomed. That damned Prince Qian." Daoist Poxu's scalp tingled with dread.
More and more members of the Li family were arriving!
A moment later, the Li family's Li Xinghuo appeared with the assassins of the Asura Army. They took up positions below the Grand Hall of Region Prince Jiang, forming a battle array, poised to strike.
Li Kuangren, Li Changyao, and twenty Nascent Soul experts from Hundred Treasures Mountain eyed them like tigers stalking their prey.
Within 15 minutes, red robes were seen fluttering in the distance.
The sun was the color of blood, and the scent of the battlefield drifted from afar.
Onboard a fleet of battle-worn spirit arks stood ranks of veteran soldiers. A woman with a heroic and valiant bearing rode a mount at the Transformed Spirit stage (Nascent Soul realm for humans).
With a single wave of her hand, the spirit arks halted, and their formations and battlefield war machines aimed directly at the members of Skynet.
Hanging from the sails of the spirit arks were more than thirty half-dead cultivators, all of them from Skynet.
After a short while, a new chorus of voices rang out.
"With a compassionate heart, I save all from suffering. The gods will not save this world, and even the Buddha struggles to. It is I who shall lead the afflicted to the Holy Land."
"I have heard it! I have seen it!"
"Members of Skynet, why must you endure such hardship? Come, I have a merit box. Here you can buy blessings, buy life, buy your rebirth."
"..."
The Li family members looked toward a brilliant, blooming light in the distance.
Those three of the 'Tian' generation returned, sitting cross-legged atop an auspicious cloud. Halos glowed behind them, and each wore an expression of profound compassion.
They looked just like the divine statues in a temple. Who knew how many people in a place like Duskwild Prefecture, where faith in gods and Buddhas ran deep, had been swindled by these three.
The other Li family members stopped watching the trio. They were never serious, but this charade of theirs was at least better than them going off to the Wu Clan to provoke its powerful experts.
Now that the Li family had gathered, the members of Skynet had become trapped beasts!
At this moment, every one of them was deeply apprehensive, preparing to flee for their lives.
Eternal Sun Prefecture was very close to Duravia Trade Prefecture, yet Skynet had never dared to covet even an inch of its land, precisely because of Tian Xing's existence.
And now… looking at these Li family members, it was as if they were seeing Tian Xing himself, returned to the world!
No…
They were more powerful than Tian Xing.
And then they saw him.
As the Li family completely surrounded the Grand Hall of Region Prince Jiang, a black mist materialized in their center.
A figure emerged, treading upon a Yin-Yang Diagram and dragging a battered body behind him like a dead dog as he looked down upon the members of Skynet.
In the distance, on the borders of the Azure Cloud Region, a figure was hidden amidst the clouds.
In his eyes, the members of Skynet had been completely engulfed by a black tide formed by the Li family.
He stared intently at the old Daoist Baimei, who was being held in the hand of the Li family's Old Ancestor, his expression flickering with uncertainty.
"Baimei really was defeated!"
This person was none other than Skynet's Number One!
He was also Skynet's strongest expert, a cultivator at the Void Refining realm.
The pleas for help from his Skynet comrades echoed continuously in his Divine Soul. He let out a long breath and, after a long moment of thought, concealed his figure and departed.
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