"Greetings, esteemed seniors of the Azure Cloud Pavilion."

  Li Yaowen's voice was calm, though faint, barely audible above the howling wind and snow. Yet, it clearly reached the ears of everyone in the Azure Cloud Pavilion. "Do you know what kind of family my Li family is?" she asked.

  The people of the Azure Cloud Pavilion furrowed their brows.

  They hadn't known before. They only khat the Li family was likely just another rural family in the Azure Clion, delusional about sting for thousands of years, pt with their meager abilities in that impoverished nd.

  But they were wrong.

  Over these seven years, they had e to uand. The Li family embodied all the evils of the world. They were utterly indifferent to life, employing wicked cultivatiohods and unorthodox paths, itting acts that angered both humans and gods, deserving to be ned by all!

  "My Li family is a family of great benevolence. During the twenty-year drought in variions, my Li family provided for thousands, tens of thousands of people."

  "During the decades-long war between the Skyveil Sed Bck Tortoise Sect, my Li family traveled far and wide, proteg over a million on people."

  "My father once said, 'With great power es great responsibility.' He said that when my Li family gains trol of Tailin, we should accumute blessings for the people, leave a good name for a hundred geions, and gather merit for our Li family."

  "My eldest brother once said, 'My sword is the sword of the Li family. It sys all enemies, but it also protect millions.' I have a sed elder sister whom I admire the most. She was a divine healer. She had dozens of disciples, and their number grew to hundreds. Later, all the physis in Tailin Town came from my Li family. They went to many town and city, healing hundreds of thousands of people."

  "..."

  Li Yaowen reted the Li family's benevolent deeds one by one, causing the disciples and elders of the Azure Cloud Pavilion to exge puzzled gnces.

  Gu gshe out a cold snort, interrupting Li Yaowen. "Lord of Dawn," he said, "is this all you have to say after ing to my Azure Cloud Pavilion? Your Li family has performed good deeds, but uhe heavens, is there a, any family, any that hasn't done good deeds?"

  Li Yaowen, however, ignu gsheng's words.

  She tinued listing the Li family's good deeds one by ohen said, "My Li family was meant to be a family of great kindness. That's why I left the Li family and haven't returned for so long. I have itted many evil deeds in my life and probably won't be able to accumute a for the family."

  "Back then, I thought I should die outside, lest the heavenly tribution befall me and affect the great merit and virtue that the family had accumuted over a hundred years."

  "But then..."

  Li Yaowen sighed deeply. "Old Pig died."

  "It turns out my father was wrong all along. Great kindness and benevolence are not rewarded. Those like you, high and mighty, rumored to be like celestial beings, the Skyveil Sect, and Bck Tortoise Sect, they it great atrocities and receive no karmic retribution. Old Pig never itted any great sins. In his entire life, he only killed a hundred cultivators who ihe Silver Iron Forest, yet he was brutally murdered by your Azure Cloud Pavilion's Elder Xiao Huang."

  "Actually, when Pavilion Master Yu Xia and you released Xiao Huang and Elder Qiuye, I was relieved."

  "This will teach my Li family a true lesson. What 'Heaven's Will'? It's blind. My Li family will bee the heavens of this Azure Clion."

  "Spring arrives."

  Li Yaowen's voice remained calm, but everyone in the Azure Cloud Pavilion's expressions ged drastically.

  What shameless arrogance!

  Boom!

  Thunder roared.

  Li Yaowen waved her hand casually, and the seasons shifted. Id snow melted, flowers bloomed on withered branches, and a fine drizzle fell!

  Gu gsheng excimed in shock, "Literary cultivation? Words maiy! What kind of literary cultivation is this?!"

  This heavenly tribution was being suppressed by some unknown literary power. As long as Li Yaowen willed it, the tribution would desd!

  Just as he finished speaking, a cultivator arrived on a flying sword from outside the Azure Cloud Pavilion. Ign the unseasonal spring blossoms in the middle of winter, he hurriedly delivered his report: "Pavilion Master, it's terrible! At the Azure artial Pavilion at the foot of the mountain, someone named Li Tianyi set up an altar, then charged into the pavilion without a word and massacred our disciples!"

  "What?!"

  The elders of the Azure Cloud Pavilion were enraged.

  But then, paper es, spirit stones, and other objects arrived oer another!

  The elders of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, upon receiving the intelligence reports, cried out in arm.

  "Pavilion Master, it's Medie King Valley! The Sword King, along with those seven devils, is attag Medie King Valley! They're requesting our support!"

  "The Wu family is requesting aid! The Aor of Spirit Puppets led dozens of spirit puppets and many zombies to attack!"

  "The demoness Xu Cuihua and Bai Rourou, along with the Beast King Li Tianshuang, have led a horde of beasts to assault the Hundred o! Pavilion Master, they're asking us to request reinforts from the Skyveil Sect branch!"

  "Whitewater town..."

  Oelligence report after another reached the Azure Cloud Pavilion.

  Gu gsheng was overwhelmed, his head spinning. As he looked at the giher and the old woman calmly sitting in her wheelchair, he felt sweat trig down his back.

  In an instant, he realized the Li family's choice of attack locations was no ce.

  Medie King Valley, the Wu family, the Hundred o... these locations were all pces the Azure Cloud Pavilion could quickly reinforce. They were also situated far from powerful sects and families. Even folden Core experts, it would take half a day to provide support.

  He should dispatch his disciples to provide support now; this was also the best opportunity to severely damage the Li family.

  But he uood even more clearly that this eration aimed directly at the Azure Cloud Pavilion!

  If the Azure Cloud Pavilion didn't send support, their reputation would be ruined.

  If the Azure Cloud Pavilion did send support...

  it wouldn't just be their reputation that would be ruined. If Li Yaowen brought down the heavenly tribution, with its Soul level power, the Azure Cloud Pavilion's sect-proteg formation would be rendered useless. The entire Azure ountain would be subjected to the baptism of thuribution!

  He was now even afraid that this ruthless woman, who had nothing to lose, would charge into the Azure Cloud Pavilion!

  Gu gsheng gred at Li Yaowen with fury.

  Li Yaowen gripped the armrests of her wheelchair. She lifted her , narrowed her eyes, and gazed at the cultivators of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, who stood high above her, a gentle smile spreading across her face.

  "You 't go anywhere."

  "After today, the Azure Cloud Pavilion's reputation will be in ruins, and my Li family will bee the rulers of the Azure Clion. The whole world will know that it was the Azure Cloud Pavilion, in their attempt to protect Xiao Huang, whht disaster upoire Azure Clion."

  "But don't worry, esteemed seniors. I, Li Yaowen, value my life, and so do you. Today is not the day the Azure Cloud Pavilion will fall."

  "You, the Azure Cloud Pavilion, stood by and watched as Xiao Huang wreaked havoc. Today, you shall watch as my Li family does the same."

  "You protected Xiao Huang back then, but whether it's today or iure, you won't be able to proteyone from my Li family."

  "This is the price you will pay."

  Hearing this...

  Gu gsheng furiously destroyed all the intelligence reports. His anger suddenly dissipated as he looked up at the sky, inhaling the fragrance of flowers that filled the air after Li Yaowen's alteration of the seasons. He let out a long sigh.

  "I'm old. It's time to relinquish this position of Pavilion Master."

  Hearing this, the elders behind him furrowed their brows and took a step back.

  Their eyes flickered with uainty. They sehat from this day forward, the Azure Cloud Pavilion would no longer be able to maintain its lofty position.

  The fear brought by the Li family crept into their hearts little by little.

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