Despair crept into her heart, and fear, like ants swarming from their , g her soul, causing her unbearable pain.

  "No... this shouldn't be happening."

  Guan Ming shook her head, wishing that everything she was witnessing was just an illusion.

  She had been prepared for a desperate terattack.

  Even as one Li family squad after another arrived, she hadn't given up hope of finding a way out of this desperate situation.

  But after the Li family aor appeared...

  Everything ged.

  The Wu had many trump cards. Eae, if unleashed, could at least inflie damage on the Li family.

  But that man in the bck mist seemed omnist and omnipotent.

  The moment he appeared, he destroyed the totems used by the Wu to activate their grand formation, killed the peak Golden Core sto she was about to and to self-destruct among the crowd, and ruihe Wu 's secret ritual formation that she was about to use for a blood sacrifice...

  And then...

  The Giant Rock Spirit Jade Tribe had no ce of escape.

  "Kill!"

  Outside the battlefield were the zombies and flying corpses released from Li Dalong's Heaven-Pierg Coffin. It turned out that this fellow had already prepared to cut off all escape routes for the Giant Rock Spirit Jade Tribe.

  "I've made it in time!"

  "Seniors, please reveal yourselves and lend your strength to the Li family!"

  "Those of the Liu family, attack! Leave no member of the Wu alive, but do not harm our allies."

  "..."

  More and more members of the Li family arrived, and the allies brought by their desdants grew increasingly formidable.

  The once mighty army of the Giant Rock Spirit Jade Tribe was now being overwhelmed and scattered. She had no more trump cards left to py.

  ...

  Half a day ter...

  Guan Ming k otlefield, the surrounding area devastated and scarred. The priestess of the Giant Rock Spirit Jade Tribe had a vat look in her eyes, her hands weakly supp her on the ground.

  The Azure Dragon still soared through the sky, r.

  Beside her, Xuan Tianzi and the Blood Frenzy Demon Lord held her captive. Before her stood Li Dalong, the patriarch of the Li family!

  The Li family's demonic beasts, spirit puppets, and forces gathered from all dires were clearing the remnants of the battlefield.

  She seemed to hear the questioning voices of the Giant Rock Spirit Jade tribesmen.

  "Priestess, why did y us to this cursed pce?"

  "You promised us that we would flourish here... No, this isn't what you said!"

  "Priestess, you lied to us..."

  "....."

  The cold wind of the battlefield swept past, ruffling Guan Ming's hair.

  The small town ahead, which had initially seemed insignifit, still stood tall and ued, while the mighty army of the Giant Rock Spirit Jade Tribe y shattered on the ground.

  One by ohe members of the Li family gathered befuan Ming.

  They looked down upon her as she k i.

  Li Dalong and his wife stood at the forefront.

  The four members of the Li family's sed geion were chatting and ughing, seemingly uned about the ret battle.

  The nine members of the third geiohe most silent. The seven demon cultivators stood quietly. Li Yunlin and Li Yunbing, the two brothers, exged a smile. In their eyes, one could see the traces left by the years of separation.

  The children of the feion were pying and jostling amongst themselves at the back.

  Li Tianyi seemed to be scolding Li Tianming, pointing at his hen, he went to each of his siblings, scolding them one by one, until they all lowered their heads with pained expressions.

  The six children of the fifth geion seemed pletely unaware that their family was so powerful.

  Even after the battle, they stared at their elders in disbelief, as if asking, "You old guys who have been hiding your strength, just how many more tricks do you have up your sleeves?"

  Li gsheng, the sole member of the sixth geion, stood alone oy wall.

  He touched his nose, a pained expression on his face as he looked at his dumbfounded parents' geion.

  "I thought our family was weak and poor," he mused.

  "But it turns out that it's my parents' geion who are weak and poor!"

  "I thought I was ing back to a life of hardship. Who khat our family would bee so powerful? The four words 'living in the shadow of our aors' are almost suffog me!"

  This time, the Li family gathered together. Sihey left home... no, in this past tury...

  This was the first time they had truly reunited, with every member returning home!

  They were no longer hiding; they had brought all their forces with them.

  Just like the character "Li," still shining brightly in the sky above the Azure Clion.

  They were prog to everyone in the Azure Clion.

  That they, the Li family, were the true rulers of this nd. No other fa could pare to them.

  The blood of the fn raow flowing from the Li family's territory throughout the Azure Clion, was the best proof!

  "Impossible, this is impossible!"

  Guan Ming shook her head, seemingly uo believe what she was witnessing.

  Li Dalong heard her words. He slowly crouched down, grabbed Guan Ming's hair, and looked at the defeated priestess with a mog expression.

  "Nothing is impossible," he said. "You are the invaders, and we..."

  "...just happeo enter you, a slightly tough stepping stone, on our way home."

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