When the Xuanyuan Clan charged into Grandhaven Prefecture back then, they set a precedent.
The greatest characteristic of the living beings who survive in any era is their adaptability.
They will exhaust every possible means to face the crisis before them, all for one simple reason: to survive.
Over the years, the entire Southern Frontier had been researching one ultimate subject: dealing with immortals.
The immortal methods of the Red Dust Immortal were merely the beginning.
Following that was how to coexist with immortals... exhausting every method to capture immortals, and learning from Li Tianming how to suppress them.
[Your descendant Li Xinjue, along with members of Azure Cloud Prefecture and the Hall of Heavenly Principle, searched for a method to deal with the Blood Moon.
Through cooperation and relying on Li Changsheng wandering the edges of the Blood Moon, they found an opportunity, entered the Blood Moon, and captured an immortal—Shenyin.]
[The immortal Shenyin, awakened from ancient times, was parasitic upon a Void Refinement realm cultivator.
It was the most cruel immortal of the ancient era, summoned by the nightmares of living beings.
It would devour the desires and fears in their dreams, ultimately turning desires into reality, and then, at the very moment their desires were fulfilled, strip away everything from the living beings.]
[Acquired Immortal Method: Immortal in the Mirror]
[The ancient fairy transforms into the person in the mirror, making the target see themselves in the mirror and directly face their desires, thereby becoming bewitched.
Through this immortal method, one's divine sense can appear in all reflections across an entire region, and one's divine soul can merge into mirrors to manifest from within them.]
This was also one of Li Xinjue's favorite methods.
Li Xinjue established the 'Shadow Division' within the family, similar to the Hall of Heavenly Principle's Shadow Division.
The vast majority of the Silver Moon lineage clansmen who emerged from the mines were Shadow Division members.
Today, with the entire Southern Frontier in a state of chaos, any factor detrimental to the family was a target for Li Xinjue to eradicate.
When they captured Shenyin from the Endless Forest, Li Xinjue knew that this method was the absolute best immortal method for him.
He was intimately familiar with human greed and understood human desires; desire was the very standard that dictated a cultivator's actions.
[Acquired Immortal Method: Kin]
[Acquired Immortal Method: Vow Fulfillment]
[Fulfills everything the supplicant desires, establishing a pact with them. Once the pact is fulfilled, Shenyin will extract the price.]
Li Xinjue sat at home, surrounded by square mirrors.
Occasionally, the images of descendants and members of the Hall of Heavenly Principle would reflect upon the mirrors.
This was another benefit of the [Person in the Mirror].
The members of the Hall of Heavenly Principle and the descendants of the Silver Moon lineage had benefited immensely from his immortal method over the years.
This immortal method surpassed the family's communication tools like the 'Spirit-Transmitting Smoke Gourd' and 'Dark Nests'.
All highly classified missions could be conveyed to him through mirrors.
The only trouble was...
Within the mirror, a heavily made-up, alluring woman suddenly appeared, posing seductively at Li Xinjue.
"Look at that bitter face of yours, is it really such a big deal? Your niece is bound to find out about my existence sooner or later."
"Is it just 'finding out'?" Li Xinjue turned his head away with an ice-cold expression, refusing to look at the Immortal in the Mirror.
"I am an elder, after all. For you to control my body to act so outrageously, how do you expect my descendants to view me?
If you make me lose face like this again, so what if I perish together with you?"
"Oh my, still so shy." The Immortal in the Mirror wasn't the least bit angered by this and silently vanished.
Li Xinjue's expression remained slightly cold, but upon recalling that Zhijing had broken through to the Void Refinement realm, his face finally softened significantly.
He could feel that after years of cultivation, the family's Divine Dragon bloodline within Zhijing had grown increasingly rich.
Coupled with her beast-taming method, the current Zhijing could hold her own, leaving him deeply reassured.
After handling the daily affairs of the Hall of Heavenly Principle and the Silver Moon lineage, he headed toward the City of Merit via the family's teleportation array.
Seeing the prosperous City of Merit now brimming with vibrant Spirit Plants, Li Xinjue revealed a smile.
However, upon encountering younger family members bowing in greeting along the way, he hurriedly put on a cold face.
With the family having developed to this point, he was already a clan elder; he absolutely needed to maintain an aura of fear among the younger generation.
It wasn't long before Li Xinjue arrived at the family's main hall.
The clan elders were gathered here, occupied with endless matters.
"Xinjue, come here." In the hall, Li Chang waved at Li Xinjue with a gentle expression, prompting a look of deep respect on Li Xinjue's face.
Li Chang was the patriarch leading the Li Xinnian lineage, and also Li Xinjue's granduncle.
After returning to the family, Li Chang had taken great care of Li Xinjue. Rumor had it that Granduncle An treated their father exceptionally well, viewing him as his own.
Grandpa An was a good man—law-abiding, proper, and respectful of etiquette.
However, his fate was unfortunate; Uncle Chen was used to a wandering lifestyle, and Li Xinnian was an elusive figure.
Now, word had it that he had already left the Underworld, joining Uncle Chen in traveling the world with his wife, Nangong Qingya, to search for Su Chen, who was undergoing his mortal transformation.
"Yes, Grandpa An."
Li Xinjue bowed to his elder; at this moment, Shenyin inside his body did not dare to emerge.
Subsequently, he bowed to the many clan elders. When he reached his father, Li Xinghuo, Li Xinghuo merely nodded at him and went back to studying the strategic map.
On the strategic map, Clearpeak Prefecture... had fallen by half.
That damned Blood Moon. Even after several decades had passed, the entire Southern Frontier still hadn't found a method to restrict its expansion.