Hearing this, both Li Yaowen and Li Wei, despite being separated by the s, twitched their lips in unison. No wohose three Soul cultivators had arrived so quickly that day. It seemed like all the major forces in the Azure Cloud Pavilion instantly knew about the Li family's as. It turned out that this treacherous Yu Xian was behind it all.

  It seemed that after leaving the Azure Cloud Pavilion, this fellow had beely watg the Li family all along.

  "Aren't you afraid that the Li family will be destroyed?" Li Yaowen asked, her eyebrows furrowing into a single line. She now wao send Yu Xian's soul to her father.

  "What's there to be afraid of?"

  Yu Xian smiled. "If the Li family is truly destroyed," he said, "then I won't have to worry anymore. They will divide up your Li family's resources, and the Azure Clion will return to its former state. No matter what, I win. I eveurn to the Azure Cloud Pavilion and purge those from other sects who try to seize power."

  Ign Li Yaowen's expression...

  Yu Xian tinued calmly, "I am quite pleased that everything has gone acc to my pn. Xuan Tianzi, Abbot Wuyou, and Long Xuankong are all dead. The major forces in Azure Clion are now free from internal strife."

  "Li Tianyi of the Li family will bee the master of the Azure Cloud Pavilion," Yu Xian decred. "With the assistance of the twenty-three elders, the Azure Cloud Pavilion will one day rise to glain, even strohan it was one hundred and thirty thousand years ago."

  "The major forces in Azure Clion will unite in the face of this disaster."

  "The world sees your Li family as heartless, as evil beings. But I see that with you, Li Yaowen, and Li Yunbing ihunderfire Cave, your ambitions go far beyond this. Your Li family wouldn't simply elimihe major sects for the sake of resources..."

  Before he could finish speaking, he seemed to see Li Yaowen about to interrupt...

  But Yu Xian simply sighed and tinued, "I believe in you. You should have already discovered the news about the Wu 's impending arrival. Right now, I hope you will return immediately and have the Azure Cloud Pavilion disciples go to the major cities in the Azure Clion to evacuate the civilians and prepare all the cultivators..."

  "I already had people do that an ho," Li Yaowen interrupted.

  Li Yaowen's words caught Yu Xian off guard. "My father and elder brother went to the Azure Cloud Pavilion," she expined. "Hearing that you had been the Endless Forest for many years, I uood everything. The necessary arras have already been made."

  "Let's go. Now that Tianyi has bee the Pavilion Master, he will need yuidance, old fox."

  Li Yaowen turned around, her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed. Although she told Yu Xian to return, there was a hint of pity in her eyes.

  As expected...

  Yu Xian didn't leave. He gave a self-depreg ugh. "I've calcuted it," he said. "My death is today. Go, Lord of Dawn, or it will be too te."

  They saw, at the edge of the Endless Forest, the trees swaying!

  Spirit ships were approag from the sky!

  It was unclear whether it was dark clouds approag or flickering figures, but a vast, dark mass filled the horizon!

  Li Yaowen closed her eyes and vanished from her spot in an instant.

  "The Endless Forest is stirring!"

  "Quickly, activate the supreme-grade Spirit Artifad inform all the forces in the Azure Clion!"

  On this day, the supreme-grade Spirit Artifact of Azure Clion, which hadn't been activated for tless years, finally shoh a dazzling light uhe activation of the cultivator withiower!

  Within the Azure Clion, all the fas looked towards this dire in shod arm.

  The Li family desdants, scattered throughout the nd, all stopped iracks as they were returning to the family estate.

  Within the Jun Prince's Mansion...

  Feng Qingyang's lips curled into a slight smile. Amidst the panic within the manor, he kicked the stunned Feng lin aside and shouted to everyone, "Activate the grand formation! Elders, please remain calm!"

  ...

  The sky was bright.

  Yu Xian, withiall tower, had never seen such a brilliant light.

  He opened his arms wide, embrag the wind blowing from the Endless Forest into the Azure Clion. He could clearly hear the war cries of the Wu the distance, and the cultivatuarding the border below were screaming in terror, as if they were being sughtered.

  Dust, killing i...

  But Yu Xian was still greedily breathing in the air of Azure Clion. He held his head high, his aged face with its wrinkles clearly visible uhe light of the supreme-grade Spirit Artifact that guarded Azure Cloud. His robes billowed in the wind.

  At this moment, he appeared incredibly sacred, like a sage desding to the mortal realm, a stark trast to the Wu warriors speedih the clouds.

  Just as he finished breathing...

  A figure appeared behind Yu Xian. He wore a mask and a white robe with a symbol on his chest.

  In an instant, he pced his hand on Yu Xian's shoulder, his voicredibly cold.

  "I nurtured you for two hundred years," he said, "and raised a treacherous wolf in sheep's clothing!"

  Soul power invaded his body, his very soul!

  In an instant, Yu Xian's life force was extinguished!

  He fell powerlessly from the tall tower. In his final moments...

  He saw the masked man, one foot resting on the edge of the tower, his hand on his knee, looking down at him.

  He saw...

  The sky above the Azure Clion, brighter than it had ever been.

  He reached out toward everything he saw, as if trying to touch all that he cherished.

  An i smile spread across his aged, weathered face.

  "Li family," he said, "you must protect Azure Clio prosper."

  "This is the final request of this shameless old man."

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