At this moment.
Inside the Tranquil Heart Pavilion, Prince Feiheng had dismissed all the songstresses.
Before him was a bronze mirror, and upon the mirror's surface appeared a middle-aged man dressed in magnificent robes who looked like a scholar.
It was none other than the Imperial Preceptor, Min Youguo!
"Twelfth Prince, did you give Tian Xing's fate plate to the Li family?"
Min Youguo's brow was tightly furrowed. "Just now, Lin Wudao of Qilin Mountain sent me a message, asking me to implore you to retract your command. To this end, he is willing to swear a blood oath and pledge his loyalty to you."
"Teacher, you still trust him?" Feiheng said in a solemn voice.
"Back then, for the sake of his breakthrough, the fellow sect brothers he spent day and night with all perished beneath his lightning tribulation. In order to survive, he willingly became Lin Jiu's adopted son. In order to break free from Lin Jiu, he defected to our side."
"A person like him will never be content with being subordinate to others. Sooner or later, he will also break free from us."
Hearing this, Min Youguo fell into deep thought.
After a long time, he finally said, "It is indeed a pity about his talent. With him around, we also possessed a rich and prosperous land like the Eternal Sun Prefecture. His avatars occupied the entirety of Eternal Sun Prefecture; now that you have abandoned him, you have also abandoned all of Eternal Sun Prefecture. And as for the Li family, they are all just ignorant fools. If it were me, I would absolutely never choose to help them."
Speaking of the Li family, Min Youguo's anger flared up uncontrollably.
The Twelve Border Regions are impoverished to the extreme. To this day, he still cannot understand why those people from the Li family insist on defending that place to the death, causing him to lose all face at one point and making him wish for nothing more than to bury the entire Li family in a cesspit!
"Teacher, in this world, there are no absolute enemies, and no absolute friends. This is what you taught me."
Feiheng took out a map and said with a smile, "Back then, you had Tian Xing test the Li family, and the Li family met with disaster. Didn't they also have to lower their faces and come find me? Besides, if we continue to help Tian Xing, it's inevitable that we will suffer a backlash. As for the land of Eternal Sun Prefecture, as long as we are willing, it can still be ours. It would be better to ask for more benefits. Just take a look at this map."
Min Youguo looked at the map Feiheng held up and slightly raised an eyelid. "This is..."
...
In the Ancestor Space.
Li Wei was sitting on the ground, his ten fingers interlaced, propping up his chin, with his elbows resting on his knees. His expression was calm.
More than a hundred years had passed. Their style of doing things was long since no longer as reckless as it was before.
In this world, their enemies were also far more powerful than they had imagined.
People like Lin Jiu, Min Youguo, and even Tian Xing... these wielders of power were far more terrifying than the experts he had known.
They would absolutely not allow any person who could potentially become their enemy to grow in peace in some corner of the world.
A long time ago, the people of the Li family had thought that by being firmly entrenched in the land of Azure Cloud, they would have nothing more to fear.
They even dared to provoke the Human Emperor in his own imperial court; they seemed to consider everyone and everything beneath their notice.
They had thought that because they could resist the Wu Clan, the affairs of the world were truly that simple.
Reality had dealt the Li family a heavy blow, and it had dealt Li Wei a heavy blow as well, one that they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
Before Li Wei, the Li family members stood waiting quietly, waiting for their Old Ancestor to issue his command.
He slightly raised his head and looked at the Li clan members, one by one.
More than a hundred years had passed.
They were like trapped wild beasts, ready at any moment to break open their cage and tear their enemies to shreds!
Before his eyes, there was still the semi-transparent panel.
[Your descendant, Li Kuanghua, reports to you that she has already met with Prince Feiheng, and both parties have reached an agreement. Prince Feiheng will give the 'Tian Xing Fate Plate' to the Li family, and the Li family, in turn, will offer up two grand gifts: a peace treaty with the Wu Clan, and the Spirit Continent!]
If they wanted to kill Tian Xing, then they had to find his avatars. Otherwise, he would rally his forces in some other place and become even stronger!
In all these years, the Li family had been continuously searching for Tian Xing's avatars, but the results had not been very good.
But Li Wei believed that Min Youguo absolutely had to possess a method to counter Tian Xing; otherwise, he would never have taken him under his command!
"Tian Xing's Fate Plate. With this item, his avatars will have nowhere left to hide!"
A look of pleasant surprise was in Li Dalong's expression.
The Wu Clan and the Spirit Continent were not, in themselves, important. But in the struggle for succession, they could represent political achievements, and this made them seem exceptionally valuable.
In order to obtain these political achievements, Prince Feiheng would certainly agree to some of the Li family's conditions.
This was also the grand gift that Li Dalong wanted to give to Tian Xing!
But what Li Dalong hadn't expected was that the grand gift Prince Feiheng gave in return would be a considerable surprise for the Li family.
"But this has been an injustice to all of you."
After the pleasant surprise, Xu Cuihua looked towards Li Yunbing, Li Chang'an, and Li Xingchen, father and son.
"Yunbing, you have been in Azure Cloud for many years and have conquered no small amount of Wu Clan land; now, all of it will become Feiheng's achievement. And also Chang'an and Xingchen, you two fought bitterly in the Spirit Continent for over a hundred years and finally unified the entire continent, yet now you must hand this new land over to another."
Hearing this, Li Yunbing said with a faint smile, "It's merely an achievement. Besides, after fighting for over two hundred years, it's time for us people of Azure Cloud to have a rest."
Li Chang'an also spoke without concern, "When Xingchen and I were fighting our campaign in the Spirit Continent, our original goal was only for the sake of training. Now, what we wanted, we have already obtained. We even gained the allegiance of a force of the Spirit Continent's top-tier cultivators, and the most supreme treasures have also fallen into our hands."
"Mm."
On the main seat, Li Wei's cold eyes moved slightly. He looked towards Li Yaoqing in the crowd.
"Yaoqing," he commanded, "starting from the edges of the Imperial Dynasty, I want the Tian Xing avatars to have nowhere to run, no escape!"
"Yes, Old Ancestor!"
At this moment.
A fleet of about a hundred Spirit Arks, coming from the direction of the Auric Empire and crossing the Endless Forest, was rushing towards the Azure Dynasty!
Upon them were cultivator after cultivator, each and every one with the look of being long-weathered by the wind and frost. If anyone were to approach, they would definitely be horrified by the killing intent on their bodies.
They were none other than the thousand geniuses of the Azure Dynasty who had been rescued from Qilin Mountain all those years ago!
More than a hundred years had passed. They had been fighting for their lives on the battlefields of the Auric Empire, they had walked through the most dangerous places for those of their realm, and no small number of them had fallen into an eternal slumber in the Auric Empire.
Now, they had returned to their homeland with only a single purpose: to kill Tian Xing!
Li Yaoqing, at the head of the Spirit Arks, held a spirit tablet in her hands.
She abruptly opened her eyes and gazed towards the Azure Dynasty in the distance. In another 5000 miles away would be the Azure Cloud region, the place they had once depended on for their survival.
Her voice, faint and ethereal, entered the ears of every one of the Azure Dynasty's geniuses.
"I have brought you all good news."
As Li Yaoqing's voice fell, every person standing against the fierce wind suddenly opened their eyes, and the sharp glint of power within them was impossible to conceal!
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