On this day, all the members of the Li family within the Ancestor Space were seething with excitement.
They knew that there were still two years until the Tian Xing Cultivator Abode would open, but from the moment Li Dalong broke free from the Wu Clan's control, their contest with Tian Xing had already begun!
The family's hatred of many years made them wish for nothing more than to go and capture Tian Xing right now, to skin him and pull out his tendons!
At this moment, having received Li Wei's command, they had already returned to their physical bodies and had begun to take action.
Li Wei opened the clan member panel, found Li Yaoqing's information, and in an instant, he disappeared from within the Ancestor Space and appeared by Li Yaoqing's side.
On the Spirit Ark.
Li Yaoqing stood at the head of the ark. Behind her were over thirty people in total, all waiting for her to issue commands.
Over a hundred years had passed. Li Yaoqing had been lost and aimless for five years; only after Li Wei manifested his spirit again did she find herself once more.
She refined medicine in Auraria City until she became a pharmacist famous throughout the Auric Empire, and then spent a hundred years refining medicine on the battlefields of the Auric Empire border.
The her of today still had that same grimy appearance as before, always in that yellowed medicine robe, with disheveled hair, and an unremarkable face that seemed pure to the point of being a bit dazed. A medicine gourd still hung from her waist.
The thirty-two cultivators behind her, whenever they drew near to Li Yaoqing, would all take a deep sniff as a thick fragrance of medicine assailed their nostrils.
These thirty-two people, Li Wei knew clearly, were also the most elite thirty-two among these geniuses!
After being freed from Qilin Mountain and fighting on the battlefields of the Auric Empire, every one of these thousand-plus people had broken through to the Golden Core realm.
There were even those who had accumulated a deep foundation and waited to burst forth, and those with lofty hearts and proud spirits who swore they would not break through to the Nascent Soul realm unless it was through a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
A force of geniuses of this caliber, no matter where it was placed, would cause a sensation.
This was also all thanks to that fellow Lin Wudao's strange quirk of enjoying collecting geniuses and raising them.
One must know that these geniuses were the group with the most top-tier aptitude from the entire Azure Dynasty, who also had no faction affiliation.
Them being gathered together, one can only imagine what a terrifying thing it would be if, given time, they were to all grow to their full potential.
It was no wonder then that after these people were rescued back then, Lin Wudao was incomparably panicked, feeling deeply that a great disaster was about to befall him.
Among those thirty-two people, their cultivation bases were perhaps not the strongest, but they had been carefully selected by Li Yaoqing and Li Kuangren.
Their aptitude was formidable, and after these years of nurturing, they were absolutely loyal to the Li family. Under the Li family's command, they led the other geniuses.
What left the deepest impression on Li Wei was the fellow at the very center who had the appearance of a child.
This person wore his hair in an up-pointing braid, looked to be no more than five or six years old, was dressed in a red dudou and little shorts, and had a small, ruddy face that was a bit chubby. But in reality, he was already over twelve hundred years of age.
His name was Xian Tong. A thousand years ago, this Xian Tong had been hidden away by a sect who were preparing to use him as an ingredient for refining medicinal pills.
He was born unable to grow up, and even his intellect was somewhat low, but he was favored by the heavens.
He was born with Jade Bones, was bestowed a Heaven-tier cultivation method by the heavens, and the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi would autonomously gather within his body.
He established his foundation at fifteen, reached Golden Core at thirty, and at no more than eighty years of age, he had already broken through the Nine-Nine Nascent Soul stage.
Just when he was about to be used for pill refining, he instead fell into Tian Xing's hands.
From then on, Qilin Mountain had one more dog, who barked madly at Tian Xing all day long...
According to Xian Tong's own words, Tian Xing enjoyed having people like him, who were favored by the heavens, act as his dogs; in this way, Tian Xing could feel that he was even greater than Heaven itself.
Now, Xian Tong had already reached Divinity Transformation, a fifth-grade Divinity Transformation!
The people of the Li family had once discussed Xiantong's aptitude; within two thousand years, or less if he had sufficient resources, he would certainly break through to the Void Refining realm. And Xian Tong also regarded the Li family as his saviors.
This child had a one-track mind and especially listened to Li Yaoqing's commands. Other alchemists had all captured him to use him for refining medicine, but only Li Yaoqing fed him medicine.
Being simple-minded, he believed that Li Yaoqing was the best person in the entire world. It was also because of Xiantong's existence that these geniuses could be made to follow only the Li family's commands.
Among them were also many prominent figures of the Azure Dynasty.
There was a cold and beautiful woman named Liu Ruyan, rumored to be the reincarnation of a great power, who would awaken memories of her past life every so often.
There was one named Chess Saint, a genius of the Dao of Chess, who once had no equal in the entire Azure Dynasty.
There was a man who rose from humble beginnings, his name Liu Chengli, who had spent a thousand years sharpening a single blade, within the same realm, when that one blade struck, if the enemy did not die, the blade would shatter and the man would perish...
For this past millennium, geniuses had been a rare sight in the Azure Dynasty, and the reason why the people of the Li family could easily defeat those on the Nascent Divinity List right after their breakthroughs was not because the Nascent Soul cultivators of this Azure Dynasty were too weak, but because those who were truly blessed with extraordinary talent had all become birds in a cage!
And now, a force of this caliber was being used by the Li family and was waiting for Li Yaoqing's command!
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