Looking back at the children heading to Hundred Mountains.

  By now, Li Yaowen had already ventured deep into the Endless Forest. However, she wasn't in Hundred Mountains.

  [Beast Divisio-Loving Tribe, Elder Shou Qing's Home]

  At this moment, Li Yaowen had ged bato Wu clothing and was ihe home of the Beast-Loving Tribe's elder.

  "Last time, Yaowen said she had some influehin the Wu . Could this influence be the Beast-Loving Tribe?"

  The more Li Wei thought about it, the more shocked he became. He couldn't even fathom how Li Yaowen had infiltrated them.

  A moment ter, Li Wei saw a young woman, wearing a tiger-skin coat, ehe small wooden house iree and sit opposite Li Yaowen.

  "Well? Did you find anything?"

  Li Yaowen in the image asked.

  Shou Qing had a delicate appearance, but in the information Li Wei saw, she was a Golden Core expert.

  Small text appeared above Shou Qing's head.

  "I haven't found any information about the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion cooperating with our Wu ," it read. "However, as far as I know, our three divisio, Ghost, and Spirit Jade—are desperately seeking allies. Two divisions have been swayed by the promised bes and immense glory and are eager to join the fight. It's only a matter of time before they do."

  "By the way, our Wu has been unusually quiet retly. All eyes are on the Azure Clion. Logically speaking, they should be charging in like madmen. I heard that's what happened years ago when a region's main city was destroyed. The ehey faced theen times greater than what Azure Clion is fag now."

  Hearing this, Li Yaowen furrowed her brow in thought, then gradually rexed.

  Seeing Li Yaowen's state, Shou Qing said in a serious tone, "Li Yaowen, I've heard that the Li family hasn't made any moves. reement was that you would help our Beast-Loving Tribe regain our position as a major power within the Beast Division and recim our flory. Yet, the Beast Division's forces attag Azure Clion haven't suffered any losses."

  "My people and priests want to see results."

  Li Yaowen replied calmly, "Elder Qingqing, to destroy the Beast Division, having you participate in a major battle is enough. But what about after the battle? Think about it, if the Beast-Loving Tribe remains pletely unscathed, won't they be iigated?"

  Shou Qing frowned. "That's not your . I just was."

  "Alright."

  Li Yaowen narrowed her eyes. "Help me obtain something, and I'll give you my full support!"

  "What is it?" Shou Qingqing asked, a look of joy appearing on her face.

  A moment ter, Shou Qingqihe wooden house and headed towards a cave within the Beast-Loving Tribe's territory. Inside, a Floon swam around, encirg the tribe's aged priest.

  "Great Priest, Li Yaowen of the Li family has fallen for the trap!"

  Upon hearing this.

  The priest opened his eyes and sneered. "Foolish humans. Greed and overfidence will only lead them to their doom. The leader of Dawn in Azure Cloud is nothing special."Shou Qingqing smiled darkly. "However, before that, Li Yaowen wants something—the spiritual treasure buried beh the Giant Rock Spirit Jade Tribe's territory!"

  "Hmm?"

  The priest narrowed his eyes. "Currently, all the tribes within Hundred Mountains are searg for it. In that case, I'll inform the High Priest about this matter first."

  "Yes!"

  ...

  Ihe room, Li Wei's tablet flickered.

  He saw everything—saw the colboratioween Li Yaowen and the Beast-Loving Tribe. Wherever there is life, there are disputes, and it seemed the Beast-Loving Tribe was no exception.

  " the Wu be trusted?"

  Li Wei stroked the mouse. In the past, he would have thought nothing of it and been delighted at the prospect of having an informant within the Wu .

  But now?

  Li Wei no lorusted anyone. Look at Yu Xian—he seemed like a timid fool, but his schemes were beyond imagination, tinuing to manipute even ih. Then look at Feng Qingyang—he ractically an old monster, having disguised himself for over seven hundred years, so thhly that even his own son had no idea what kind of person he really was.

  Li Wei couldn't shake the feeling that the cooperatioween Li Yaowen and the Beast-Loving had e about too easily.

  In Li Yaowen's personal records, Li Wei found information.

  [Your desdant, Li Yaowen, arrived in the Wu territory twenty years ago. She covets the fertile nd of the Endless Forest, a pce abundant in natural treasures, even richer in resources than the Azure Dynasty. She stantly schemes to cim the Endless Forest for her family. The Wu people here ourish the Primordial Blood Tree, fill the Heaven-Pierg Coffin, and provide corpses for her father to refine...]

  [She has been plotting for years, identifying six struggling tribes. Step by step, she orchestrated situations where she would iheir important members, thehem auro their tribes. This was her crude excuse to establish retions with the Wu . Even if discovered, it wouldn't matter; she was giving these desperate Wu tribes opportunities while also testing their intelligence...]

  "Pfft..."

  Li Wei, who had been drinking water, nearly spat it out. "I thought the Wu were the invaders. Good heavens, you've been scheming for over twenty years! If the Wu hadn't e to you, would you have eventually ihem anyway?"

  At this moment, Li Wei seemed to have an epiphany. It dawned on him that his Li family had always been the invaders... If everything that had happened before hadn't occurred, in a few decades, the situation would likely be different. Li Yaowen seemed even more terrifying and ambitious than Yu Xian and Feng Qingyang.

  The only difference is that the thoughts of the previous geions of the Li family bee ied into the thinking of every member of the family.

  Just like now. The family desires the spiritual object buried beh the Hundred Mountains. All four children have e to try and find it, and the family is also making preparations.

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