Returning to the chamber of commerce.
Li Changsheng lay on the bed and fell asleep again.
Li Changyao acted more like a female bodyguard. Currently sitting by the table, she had cast a perception-shielding technique around the four corners of the room.
On the table lay a pink longbow and nine arrows, all exuding a powerful aura.
Stroking the "Pew-Pew Pink Bow," Li Changyao stuck out her tongue.
"These nine arrows are wasted on me. I thought I'd get to shoot them once we reached Deston Prefecture."
Having arrived in Deston Prefecture.
At the very least, Li Changyao had originally planned to storm the Yun clan and go on a killing spree. However, Xinnian had told her that he would handle the Yun clan himself.
A year had passed, and Li Changyao still didn't know how Xinnian planned to deal with them. But she didn't ask, either.
Back in the Azure Cloud Prefecture, Xinnian had managed to resolve so many troubles one by one. If he wanted to deal with the Yun clan personally, he definitely had his reasons.
Coupled with her older brother's unwavering steadiness as always, Li Changyao found herself with nothing to do.
She immediately looked inward, only to see pale blue flames rising within her Soul Sea.
Her Ice Phoenix Spirit Soul cried out within the Soul Sea, just as restless as Li Changyao herself.
At this moment, Li Wei was observing this restless little girl, Li Changyao, and the nine arrows on her table.
Li Wei felt it would be better for Li Changyao to stay put...
Whenever Li Changyao took action, it was very expensive.
[Your descendant, Li Yaotie, has forged nine Mid-Grade Dharma Treasure arrows for Li Changyao.
They amalgamate eight types of Void Refinement law-attribute magical power: the Five Elements, Ice, Lightning, and Wind.
One "Zhao Bone" arrow, refined from the rib of the Zhao Clan's Old Ancestor and the Spiritual power that dissipated after his death, has reached the power of a Top-Grade Dharma Treasure.]
[The Pew-Pew Pink Bow, continuously refined over hundreds of years and remelted over a hundred times, has become a Low-Grade Dharma Treasure. Its artifact spirit can be nourished with spiritual fire.]
Archers were expensive... Li Changyao's nine arrows would be gone once used.
Whether that kid Li Yaotie could forge the exact same arrows using his "Fate-Guided Forging Method" was truly hard to say.
Hundreds of years had passed, and there were only these nine.
"If Changyao uses those two clusters of spiritual fire on herself, she should be able to take things to the next level."
Li Wei had also received the information Li Changsheng provided.
Just how powerful something like the Human Emperor's Eye was, Li Wei didn't know.
He only knew that Li Changsheng's cultivation realm was cultivated backward.
According to Li Changsheng, cultivating from the Nascent Soul realm back to a mortal would allow a breakthrough to the Divinity Transformation realm.
Cultivating from the Divinity Transformation realm back to a mortal would lead to a breakthrough to the Void Refinement realm...
If he used Spiritual arts more than a certain number of times during this period, his cultivation would be broken.
This was called returning to true simplicity.
[Following Li Changsheng's guidance, the Heavenly Principle Hall has located two clusters of heaven and earth spiritual fire in Deston Prefecture:
The "Primordial Wood Fire" and the "Myriad Era Earth Core Fire."]
Just as he was examining whether the Ice Phoenix bloodline within Li Changyao's body could be elevated to the next level...
Hurried footsteps echoed outside the chamber of commerce, and a group of people marched in furiously.
"Patriarch Li, Lord Ba requests an audience with you!"
.......
Inside the Carefree Cloud.
Li Xinnian stood to the side with a faint smile.
Yun Manlou, his face gloomy, complained to Ba Siyu.
"Lord Ba, ever since the Azure Cloud Li Clan arrived in Highsun City, my Silver Wolf Lake has been in a state of panic.
In just one year's time, forty-two cultivators who followed my Yun Clan from the Shadowfell Prefecture to settle at Silver Wolf Lake have disappeared!
Furthermore, the Life Tablet of our Yun Clan's Guest Elder, Han Lingmiao, has completely dissipated its Qi signature.
His talent was unmatched in the world, yet he died such a pitiful and senseless death, and we can't even find his corpse."
"I refuse to believe Patriarch Li knows nothing about this!"
Hearing this, Ba Siyu frowned.
Since the people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan arrived, they had lived in peace with the Yun Clan for the past year, and he didn't want to bother with these trivial matters.
However, if there truly was mutual slaughter occurring under his command, he had to take it seriously.
Forty-two experts—even if they had to die, it would be better for them to die on the battlefield against the Wu tribe.
"Patriarch Li, is there any truth to this?"
Ba Siyu's gaze was scrutinizing, but Li Xinnian showed not a shred of nervousness.
Maintaining that same smile, he shook his head,
"Lord Ba, the affairs of this world are truly fascinating.
At the Shadowfell Prefecture Border Pass, someone abandoned our clan elder. Our Azure Cloud Li Clan, considering the greater good, swallowed this bitter pill in silence.
But I suddenly feel that the kind-hearted are indeed easily bullied.
Before I could even question Prefecture Lord Yun's crimes, he has the audacity to falsely accuse me first."
Ba Siyu's expression turned peculiar.
Yun Manlou hesitated to speak, but simply couldn't get the words out.
"When one commits too many guilty deeds, they begin to fear too many people. Unknowingly, they jump at shadows and harbor biased opinions."
Li Xinnian's smile gradually faded, but his voice remained incredibly calm.
"Prefecture Lord Yun, I will give you one chance to repeat what you just said."
His voice was calm, yet it felt like an erupting volcano, causing Yun Manlou's expression to change drastically.
He had come here in a furious rage precisely because of the panic at Silver Wolf Lake; cultivators were disappearing one after another, and all of them were Divinity Transformation or Nascent Soul experts, or peerless geniuses.
But truly facing Li Xinnian, he unexpectedly lost all his confidence.
Ba Siyu frowned slightly.
Li Xinnian had always been gentle and refined, but today he was brimming with murderous intent, actually daring to threaten Yun Manlou right to his face.
"Prefecture Lord Yun, do you have any evidence?" Ba Siyu asked again, a hint of impatience appearing on his face.
"I..." A sense of crisis inexplicably arose in Yun Manlou's heart, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet.
"Within Silver Wolf Lake, there is a Guest Elder of the Azure Cloud Li Clan.
For an entire year, that demonic woman has sucked away the spiritual energy of my Yun Clan's Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
We are newcomers here, and only the Azure Cloud Li Clan harbors a grudge against us.
They are the only ones who could have made a move against us!"
"In other words, you have no evidence and are relying entirely on speculation."
Li Xinnian sneered,
"As for our Azure Cloud Li Clan's Guest Elder, you claim she absorbed the spiritual energy of your Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land—that's simply ridiculous.
Senior Dongfang is in the Void Refinement realm and cultivates the Spiritual arts of heaven and earth.
To her, Silver Wolf Lake is a treasured land, an excellent place to observe the laws of heaven and earth.
She was sent by the elders of my Azure Cloud Li Clan. To tell you the truth, if you can occupy Silver Wolf Lake, my Li Clan wants it too."
"You!" Yun Manlou's expression changed dramatically.
As they spoke.
Li Xinnian had already noticed the light gleaming in Ba Siyu's eyes.
"In the eyes of this Ba Siyu, everything can be weighed and measured. It's exactly as Grandfather said in his letter."
After pondering this in his heart, Li Xinnian ignored Yun Manlou and continued,
"Lord Ba, on this trip, including the soldiers still en route, my Azure Cloud Prefecture has a total of three hundred thousand troops.
Among them are seniors who fought against the Wu tribe in the past. My Li Clan has brought three Void Refinement experts; the one at Silver Wolf Lake is merely one of them."
"Three?!!"
Yun Manlou looked as if he had lost his parents.
That demonic woman painting on Silver Wolf Lake was already suppressing the entire Yun Clan so much that they couldn't lift their heads, assuming their Old Ancestor didn't emerge.
And the Li Clan had sent three such existences in total!
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Yun Manlou was secretly alarmed.
Now that the world was in chaos, even with the help of the Eternal Immortal Sect and their status in the Immortal Suppression Department, the Azure Cloud Prefecture would need at least three Void Refinement experts to stabilize the prefecture.
In other words, this Li Clan, so adept at hiding its strength... had at least six Void Refinement experts!
Looking at Li Xinnian's unfazed demeanor, these six Void Refinement experts obeyed the Li Clan unconditionally!