Li Wei appeared beside Li Zhiheng.
He watched as Li Zhiheng made 'transactions' with everyone he met.
This kid was still quite principled; when conversing with someone with whom he had no grudges, even if they were an enemy, he had to trigger keywords like 'want to die', 'ready to die', or 'don't want to live' before he would devour their karmic luck and place them on his must-kill list.
At this moment, a trace of anger flashed across Li Wei's face.
[Special Event — The Spirit Lord's Trap]
[The Seven Ironclads had harassed them for days.
The Spirit Lord's 'Color Fairy' is a spirit of heaven and earth, acting as the eyes and ears of Grandhaven Prefecture, capable of prying into much intelligence.
The Spirit Lord knew the Xuanyuan Clan's movements like the back of his hand, and lay in wait at Wen Yan's location, ready to catch the Xuanyuan Clan all in one fell swoop at any moment.]
These days, they had been constantly searching for the clansmen of the Xuanyuan family.
They never expected that the Xuanyuan Clan also possessed methods to shield themselves from heavenly secrets.
With matters reaching this point, the family had already made preparations for a rescue.
"Sigh."
Li Wei let out a long sigh.
Two hours later.
"..."
Standing at the bow of the boat with Zhiheng, having rushed to Wen Yan's location alongside the grand army, Li Wei's face turned dark.
...
Beneath the Blood Moon, heading toward the location of a half-immortal, numerous Xuanyuan clansmen stood atop auspicious clouds.
Various array formations blocked the three spirit boats.
Aboard the spirit boats, the Blood Moon cultivators glared furiously at the Xuanyuan clansmen.
The leader, wielding a bronze hammer, had a chilling expression. "Xuanyuan Liqun, aren't you at General Wen's location?"
"Hahaha!" Xuanyuan Liqun sneered coldly.
"You underestimate my Xuanyuan Clan far too much.
Over the years in Grandhaven Prefecture, the Li Clan's Seven Ironclads have harassed you continuously, yet the Spirit Lord has never made any major moves. He was clearly hiding malicious intent."
"Did you truly think I would be foolish enough to jump into a trap?!!"
...
General Wen Yan was once a subordinate of Gu Fenghua.
Though she appeared completely unremarkable, all the soldiers in the Spear Saint's camp had received her training, and she commanded a hundred array masters.
After Gu Fenghua's death, she became a half-immortal under the Spirit Lord, cultivating immortal soldiers and presiding over a City.
Inside the City, barriers and array formations covered all directions.
In the cloudy sky were reinforcements coming from all over Grandhaven Prefecture; the heavens and the earth were entirely filled with the Spirit Lord's top experts.
Within the trapping array.
The besieged "Xuanyuan Clan cultivators" were all sitting on iron-eating beasts, exuding a powerful aura and brandishing their claws in all directions, and then...
...they turned into individual stalks of bamboo.
"Heh... hehehe..." Li Tianqi looked awkwardly at the bamboo fallen on the ground.
As the bamboo hit the earth, dark dust kicked up. He slowly raised his head. Awkward laughter was useless; the cultivators in all directions and their converging auras were suffocating.
The Xuanyuan Clan was truly capable. Li Tianqi had come to the rescue, but these bamboo disguises were so realistic that even he hadn't realized they were fakes.
It wasn't until he broke through Wen Yan's grand array, preparing to take the Xuanyuan Clan members away, that he finally understood what it meant to walk right into a trap.
"Sure enough, there isn't a single good thing in the Xuanyuan Clan."
Li Tianqi muttered.
The auras of half-immortals and immortals were numerous, present everywhere.
Before his eyes, the woman clad in armor, a short-haired woman with fiercely arched eyebrows looking down at him from a pegasus, was none other than General Wen Yan.
Suppressing the anger in his heart, Li Tianqi spoke gravely to Wen Yan,
"I am Li Tianqi of the Azure Cloud Li Clan. I heard early on that the Xuanyuan Clan did not know what was good for them and intended to come assassinate General Wen.
I fear the General might laugh, but I have long admired General Wen for many years.
My only hope was to be the first to take the head of that old dog Xuanyuan and present it as my military pledge!"
"Do you not even blink when you lie?" Wen Yan, beautiful yet not lacking a valiant spirit, curled her lips into a mocking sneer.
"Hahaha!"
The Spirit Lord's subordinates all burst into loud laughter.
Li Tianqi's expression remained completely unchanged.
"My feelings toward General Wen are completely sincere.
The only lie I ever told was the one I kept telling myself day and night—that I would never dare enter this domain because I feared the Blood Moon.
Yet here I am... I still came to see you. In the end, my fear could not overcome my longing for you."
"Longing for me? I think you're longing for death!" Wen Yan scoffed and waved her hand. "Kill him!"
"Hold on!!!"
Seeing the various colors of Spiritual power from all directions and feeling the suffocating, oppressive might bearing down on him, his vision filled entirely with enemies.
Dripping with heavy sweat, Li Tianqi took a deep breath, his cold gaze sweeping across his surroundings. "So there's no room for negotiation?"
Seeing Li Tianqi's arrogant demeanor, many of the Spirit Lord's subordinates clutched their stomachs in laughter.
The lone Li Tianqi and a pile of bamboo looked incredibly comical.
"Hahaha, foolish enough to jump right into our trap, and you still want to negotiate?"
"A mere clown, kill him!"
"Someone this brazen, this is my first time seeing it."
"..."
Yet, amidst the mocking laughter, Li Tianqi instead grew increasingly composed, even a bit... eager to try!
Wen Yan narrowed her eyes.
During the great war with the Wu Tribe in the Western Frontier, she had met Li Yunlin, Li Yunbing, and other members of the Li Clan, and knew perfectly well that the Li Clan was absolutely not simple.
She saw Li Tianqi suddenly shoot a cold glare, spreading his hands wide. Between his palms, two array discs spun, and array diagrams unrolled one after another behind him.
While they were still shocked that Li Tianqi would actually initiate an attack while heavily surrounded, a cold shout suddenly rang out.
"The situation has changed. Do not drag out the fight, break out!"
A resonant, booming voice suddenly echoed from a Dharma Treasure carrying cultivators in the cloudy sky.
The cloudy sky instantly fell into chaos, as a black polygonal cube floated into the air, spinning madly.
"Yes!"
Responses echoed one after another.
Powerful Spiritual power suddenly erupted from all directions: a massive Golden Ape, an Asura and Bodhisattva statue with three heads and six arms, a black dragon spewing black fire...
Figures materialized one after another.
Outside the Blood Moon, a scorching fireball rose like a sun.
Wen Yan looked with an incredibly ugly expression at the enemies emerging from right amidst their own ranks, while the Li Tianqi before her drew closer and closer.
She heard Li Tianqi let out a furious roar.
"You motherfucking Xuanyuan Clan!"