Li Kuanghua squatted in front of Prince Qian, quietly staring at the fresh blood seeping from between the fingers he was using to cover his ear.
"You're not allowed to stop the bleeding," she said calmly. "Otherwise, I'll cut off your fingers, one by one. It's fine. Just put your hand down. After it bleeds for a while, it'll stop on its own. You might not have any experience with this, but you'll get used to it slowly. Actually, you're quite lucky. You should be happy that you fell into my hands."
Nearby, Li Wei was also casually browsing the spoils of war.
Most of it was unsuitable for his clansmen. In fact, they hadn't even fully figured out the Dharma Treasures they already possessed, let alone all these looted items. In the end, they were all destined to be melted down and reforged.
After Li Yaotie returns, these spoils from the Duravia Trade Prefecture, along with the treasures obtained from the recent internal strife in the Eternal Sun Prefecture, will mostly be taken back to the Heavenly Light Grotto to be reforged.
Within the Heavenly Light Grotto beneath Mount Furnace stands the Emberforge Tree — a marvel born of heaven and earth, its sacred flames ideal for the forging of treasures.
Li Yaotie has already planned to tailor-make Dharma Treasures for his clansmen, and at the same time, he will attempt his breakthrough to the Divinity Transformation realm.
When Li Wei saw a jade ring, his eyes immediately lit up.
[Profound Clarity Jade Ring (Low-Grade Dharma Treasure)]
[Can protect a cultivator's mind and spirit, automatically absorb spiritual power to form a Rank 5 protective formation, and possesses a vast storage space.]
A storage ring that was also a low-grade Dharma Treasure was a precious item, after all.
The things inside were even more precious!
"Damn it, that kid..."
Li Wei looked at Prince Qian, who was trembling in fear before Li Kuanghua. He figured the prince hadn't suffered much in his life if he couldn't even handle losing a single ear.
"Just what kind of great fortune did you amass during your years as a Prefecture Lord???"
The contents of this storage ring were rich—so rich they were practically overflowing!
Some of the items inside were the kind of treasures that could form the foundation of a great power.
It was an ancient, unadorned pagoda, no bigger than a 500ml water bottle.
The pagoda had about nine layers, yet it radiated a grand and magnificent aura, and its carvings were vividly lifelike.
[Myriad Dao Divine Bell Pagoda (Supreme-Grade Dharma Treasure)]
[The inherited Dharma Treasure of the Myriad Dao Immortal Palace, passed down through generations.
The pagoda is a place for cultivation where the flow of time is accelerated relative to the outside world.
Consuming a large amount of Spirit Stones can increase this time multiple times, up to a maximum of nine times.
It can only accommodate one person for cultivation at a time.
The Divine Bell Pagoda can be used to defend against enemies; a cultivator can expend their spiritual power to make the pagoda's bell chime up to nine times.
The resulting soundwave attacks the enemy's Divine Soul.]
This time acceleration feature alone has already made it an exceptionally rare treasure in the world!
As for ringing the divine bell... Li Wei discovered that even at the peak of the Divinity Transformation realm, he could at most ring it four times, but the power from that was already astonishing.
Li Wei already had a plan.
He would place this treasure in the family residence. Anyone who needed to break through or had hit a bottleneck could go inside to cultivate. Furthermore, it could even be used as a reward for the family's subordinates and guest retainers.
Speaking of which, the family now had guest retainers as well.
Daoist Shanchen was one of them.
The former members of Skynet had also stayed behind: the Boss, the Old Man, Gu Yinming, and Dongfang Xuan.
As for Han Yun, he had clamored to become a Region Prince, so they let him, counting it as part of the reward for Skynet's service.
There was another item that Li Wei also liked a great deal.
[Ethereal Immortal Grove (Rank 5 Spirit Object)]
[A Spirit Object from the Aeternus Sect of sixty thousand years ago, created by nurturing it with the Wu Clan's Jungle Arts. It can manifest as an illusory jungle that stretches for 50 miles.
Using the Grove as a formation base, it can draw in a ceaseless supply of Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi to create a Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land.
Within the Ethereal Immortal Grove, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures are more easily nurtured, and it is favored by demon beasts.]
Sixty thousand years ago... Times really have changed. It seems that back then, the Aeternus Sect wasn't just a collection of immortal mountains like it is now.
"Good, good, good!"
Li Wei couldn't help but feel delighted. "Mosquito Daoist and the others finally have a place to go," he thought.
Back when Xu Cuihua brought the cultivators from the Fox Clan to the rescue, it wasn't as simple as it looked. In this age of great chaos, the condition for them to enter the territory was that they could never return to the Demon Clan.
Xu Cuihua had said that the Fox Clan's situation was not good.
The Fox Saint's body was growing weaker by the day, but even with its lifespan nearing its end, it was still the body of an Integration Realm expert.
Demons prey upon one another, and both human cultivators and the Wu Clan coveted such a powerful body.
Li Wei had a faint feeling that the venerable Fox Saint was arranging his final affairs. When its avatar had come to the Eternal Sun Prefecture, it wasn't because its main body didn't want to come, but likely because it couldn't.
Who knew how many people were coveting its body? If not for the old fox still having some strength left for a final, desperate battle, others would have likely stormed the gates of the Fox Clan long ago.
It was just that, for a matter of this level, the Li family was not qualified to intervene. However, they could at least offer Mosquito Daoist and his people a place to settle down.
Following that.
Li Wei's gaze fell upon a long spear. The Heavenly Fire Divine Spear he had just obtained had already been shattered, but fortunately, this one was even better.
Now, he could become 'Dual-Spear Old Master Li' again.
He then glanced at the pagoda.
Dual-Spear Old Master Li plus the Divine Bell Pagoda. Nice.
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