[Your descendant Li Yaotie, receiving guidance on artifact refining and puppet knowledge from Wang Jinhu, is making up for the deficiencies in his cultivation!]
[He suddenly had an epiphany! The bottleneck that had prevented him for many years from infusing spiritual power into his spirit limbs was instantly understood clearly. He even obtained some methods for infusing Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi into puppets!]
"Hitting the jackpot!"
Li Wei couldn't help but be delighted. Li Yaotie was already at the peak Golden Core stage; for years, he had found it difficult to make even an inch of progress, simply due to a scarcity of knowledge. Once Li Yaotie thoroughly mastered this new understanding, as long as the Li family had sufficient materials, they could mass-produce Rank 7 Golden Core stage spirit puppets! And even Rank 6 Nascent Soul stage spirit puppets might not be impossible!
"Hahaha, thank you for your guidance, General Wang! I get it! I get it, hahaha!"
Li Yaotie ran out of Wang Jinhu's residence like a madman. The over-two-meter-tall man dashed wildly through the border city, finally running to Li Dalong's place. He grabbed Li Dalong's arm, his crazed manner scaring Li Dalong so much that his tea spilled all over himself. To Li Dalong's completely dumbfounded expression, he shouted, "Dad, I get it! I'm going home to forge. From now on, take the kids and snatch more materials! Don't care who they belong to, just snatch them! This child needs to forge, hahaha!"
"..."
Li Yaotie thrust the storage ring at Li Dalong and dashed out of the main hall like a puff of smoke.
Li Dalong looked at the storage ring in his hand, which contained over two thousand spirit puppets. He finally recovered his senses and glanced around the main hall.
At this moment, the hall was filled with people, all leaders of Azure Cloud region's major powers. They had also reacted by now, staring warily at Li Dalong, one after another tightly clutching the storage rings in their hands. Obviously, these fellows had clearly heard Li Yaotie's words and were afraid the Li family would rob them...
"Ahem."
Li Dalong suppressed the urge to chase out and beat his third son half to death. Forcing a smile towards the wary crowd, he said, "My third son injured his head in the recent battle with the Wu Clan; his words can't be taken seriously. Let's continue our discussion. Resisting the Wu Clan now, and incidentally finding more helpers, should be more important."
As he spoke, Li Dalong kept looking at the storage rings in the experts' hands, his eyeballs darting about. He pondered how many precious materials the spirit stones the Li family had snatched over the years could actually buy. If they couldn't be bought, then he'd go find Yunbing to figure something out.
With everyone in the Azure Cloud border region, barely half a month later, Li Wei received good news.
[Your descendants Li Changsheng and Li Changyao report to you: After more than a year of lobbying everywhere, the brother and sister pair finally persuaded Region Prince Mi Zhunqi of Starfall Region. All members of Starfall Region are currently converging towards Azure Cloud region!]
"Hmm? They found helpers?"
Looking at the message, Li Wei, who was currently secretly learning from Daoist Shanchen, immediately raised his eyebrows. He hastily checked the past information.
[Your descendant Li Changsheng repeatedly tried to persuade Mi Zhunqi without result. Seeing that Mi Zhunqi was already preparing to lead the people of Starfall Region to settle down in Northstar Prefecture, he mobilized the hidden Dawn forces within Northstar Prefecture to spread rumors everywhere that Ye Xiu of the Myriad Arts Sect was about to break through to Divinity Transformation, and that Region Prince Mi Zhunqi was fiercely ambitious. This led the various powers in Northstar Prefecture to be wary, and the Mi family met with obstacles at every turn, becoming frustrated...]
[Your descendant Li Changsheng acquired the trait: Schemer]
At times like this, the power of intelligence, and the power of public opinion, are revealed...
Li Wei's scalp tingled. He could even imagine that as soon as the group from Starfall Region arrived in Northstar Prefecture, the local powers had united, and were ready at any moment to treat these outsiders as invaders.
Indeed.
Li Wei's phantom instantly teleported to Li Changsheng's location. He saw spirit boat after spirit boat heading towards Azure Cloud region. The expressions on the faces of the Starfall Region cultivators were all unpleasant, as if they had suffered some tremendous grievance.
At this moment, Li Changsheng was lying asleep at the edge of a boat cabin, while Li Changyao gently polished her broken pink bow.
"Brother... what we did wasn't good, was it?" Li Changyao's expression was normal as she transmitted her voice to Li Changsheng. Although her older brother was asleep, she was sure he could hear it just the same.
Sure enough.
Li Changsheng's lazy voice sounded in her mind, "There's nothing wrong with it. Even if I hadn't done this, they would have been treated as outsiders sooner or later, just like the experiences we heard about from our family's struggles in the Azure Cloud region during those years. Now, I merely made them recognize reality sooner, that's all. Them coming back with us now is also their choice."
"Brother, I understand."
"What do you understand?"
"That lazy people's brains really work well. Since you don't do any work all day, you just spend your time pondering despicable and shameless schemes."
"....."
At this time.
On the bow of the boat, Region Prince Mi Zhunqi and Ye Xiu of the Myriad Arts Sect stood together. Mi Zhunqi glanced at Li Changsheng with a strange expression.
Ye Xiu beside him tightly clenched his fists. "Damn that Northstar Prefecture! Calling us southern barbarian savages! If you hadn't stopped me, I would have beaten them all up long ago! I told you before, don't fucking run! Why did we have to go to Northstar Prefecture and lose face like that? We haven't even figured things out as clearly as that grandson of yours!"
"Better to live standing than die kneeling!"
As if hearing Ye Xiu's words, the experts of Starfall Region all glared furiously, their eyes wide.
Only Mi Zhunqi smiled faintly. "The old Li family... has its schemers."
The wind on the boat cabin deck lifted strands of Li Changsheng's hair. The kid snored facing the wind, sleeping peacefully. No one saw the faintly upturned corners of his mouth.
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