Rebuild the Xiuxian Family

Although it is still unknown when Li Zhirui plans to leave, Li Xiuyuan has to consider this factor.

After all, once these two ancestors have transcended, then the family will only have Jiang Fengwu and Li Mingyao left to hold the fort!
It should be noted that Jiang Fengwu and the Li family have no blood relation whatsoever!

If Li Zhirui were to transcend this world by then, it wouldn't be impossible for her to repay the karmic debt with the Li family and sever all ties.

Even if she became a rogue cultivator, a Grandmaster of Array Formation at the Celestial Immortal level could live a very comfortable life without worrying about cultivation resources.

Besides, don't you even look at Jiang Fengwu's identity and connections? Her Daoist partner is Li Zhirui, the most senior and most powerful ancestor in her family. Her two children are also powerful celestial beings, not to mention the influential Divine Star Lords.

Add her to the mix, and you have a family of four celestial beings!

You guys must be out of your minds to even think of offending this person.

Although Jiang Fengwu didn't care about these things, she was still aware of her family's actions. Many of the array masters had come to inform on her, hoping to curry favor with her clansmen, but she didn't take it to heart.

With Jiang Fengwu's current level of cultivation, unless one is narrow-minded, one would not take such trivial matters to heart.

Moreover, she had no intention of severing ties with the Li family. Although Li Xiuyuan's analysis made a lot of sense, having a powerful force, especially a relatively powerful one, was better than being all alone.

All she wants now is to perfect the formation as soon as possible, then stay with the family for a while before heading to the void to train and strive for early transcendence.

That's right!

Although Jiang Fengwu had only just broken through to the Celestial Immortal realm, she was already considering her future.

The reason is quite simple: it's her judgment on the changes in the world!
As a master of formations, her perception of the world far surpasses that of ordinary people. Although Jiang Fengwu is not yet clear about the future development direction of the Yuanling Realm, she can vaguely sense that this world seems to be undergoing subtle changes and will become increasingly unsuitable for their survival.

Jiang Fengwu didn't know exactly which beings "they" referred to, but it certainly included hers!
Therefore, she must prepare in advance to avoid being caught unprepared when a cataclysmic change occurs.

However, now was not the time to consider these things. Jiang Fengwu quickly focused his mind and concentrated on completing the mountain-protecting formation in front of him.

……

As the sun and moon revolve, decades pass in the blink of an eye.

hum-

Jiang Fengwu looked at the dazzling starlight emanating from the gate in front of him, as if the Milky Way were above his head, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Although it took more time and spiritual materials than she had initially anticipated, the results were satisfactory!

Most importantly, while helping his family perfect the formation, Jiang Fengwu also secretly kept some spiritual items to use in order to replicate the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Formation on his own natal magic treasure, the Wan Zhen Tu.

With such a Celestial Immortal-level array in hand, she wouldn't have to worry about her life even if she were besieged by several Celestial Immortals in the future.

Jiang Fengwu wasn't the only one who was happy; the array masters who assisted her, as well as Li Xiuyuan and other members of her clan, were also overjoyed.

The former is because they learned a lot of array formation experience and insights during the process of setting up the array, which greatly helped them; the latter is because the family has a powerful protective array, which provides stronger protection for their safety.

"Thank you for your hard work over the years, Ancestor." Upon receiving the news, Li Xiuyuan rushed over immediately to express his and his family's gratitude.

"Chief, you don't need to be so polite. This is simply my duty."

Jiang Fengwu smiled and said, "I have gained some insights into this formation, so I will take my leave first."

"Take care, Ancestor."

Li Xiuyuan bowed as he saw them off, while several clansmen accompanying him looked puzzled.

But one of the clansmen said, "Clan leader, is it necessary to do this? The clan supports our ancestor, and the ancestor protects the clan. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Basic respect is enough. Why be so humble?"

These words immediately turned Li Xiuyuan's face cold, and he rebuked, "Shut up! How dare you utter such treasonous words!"

"Is the reason why a clan is more united than a sect really just because of that bloodline that has faded to the extreme? No! It's because of the love, respect, mutual help, and trust among clan members!"

"If I ever hear anyone say something like that again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

But this problem also made Li Xiuyuan realize that what the family lacked was education, in addition to a sense of family identity, also the teaching to maintain inner respect for elders, especially those who have made contributions to the family!
Especially now that the family is growing larger and there are more and more members, education in this area should indeed be put on the agenda.

Unfortunately, his term is coming to an end, and this matter can only be handed over to the next generation.

In fact, according to the family rules, Li Xiuyuan's term as clan leader has already exceeded the time limit.

However, by sheer coincidence, they encountered a great calamity. Under such circumstances, suddenly changing the clan leader would be far from a good thing for the family. Even though the Li family already had a very complete process, the power transfer process was bound to encounter some twists and turns.

Therefore, after discussion among the elders and with the consent of most of the clansmen, Li Xiuyuan was not allowed to step down immediately, but instead his term was extended for a special period of five hundred years.

But now, the time is almost up, and he is already training candidates for the next clan leader. So although he has issued the relevant orders, the subsequent maintenance and improvement will still depend on the new clan leader.

After all, no policy is perfect from the start. Even if the plan is perfect, deviations can easily occur during implementation.

However, if we don't pay enough attention and make timely corrections when problems arise, even if the original intention is good, slight problems may occur during implementation, and the final result may be completely different from what was intended.

Not long after, Li Xiuyuan stepped down from his position as clan leader, and a clansman named Li Debo gained more recognition from the clansmen among the candidates and became the new clan leader of the Li family.

……

In recent years, Li Zhirui has stayed in his family, neither cultivating nor comprehending the laws, but instead has devoted all his time to summarizing his own cultivation insights and experiences.

In addition, he also possessed various techniques, including supernatural powers, secret methods, and elixir formulas. He recorded them all in jade slips, categorizing them according to their nature, as long as they could be passed on.

These things can be seen as the price he paid to settle his karmic debts with his family.

After completing this important task, Li Zhirui devoted his time to refining elixirs.

Aside from keeping some pills for himself to help him recover his strength as quickly as possible, he planned to leave the rest with the family.

As for the thousands of precious, mutated, or rare spiritual objects in the space, Li Zhirui planned to hand them over to his family before he left.

Of course, he will leave behind the seeds. After all, although the laws of the worlds are different, they are all within the same universe, and the basic laws of the Great Dao are still the same. These spiritual seeds can be used to exchange with other living beings, or to continue planting and refining pills.

From Li Zhirui's various preparations, it is not difficult to see that he has already made preparations to transcend and leave.

But this timing was truly beyond his control!
Because he intends to use the purification of the world's accumulated evil and filth to accumulate a great deal of merit, thereby offsetting these karmic consequences and achieving the conditions for transcendence.

However, a great calamity broke out not long ago. While the evil and filth have not been completely cleaned up, at least they will not hinder the development of the Yuanling Realm.

At this point, even if Li Zhirui purifies all the remaining evil and filth, the merit he receives will be slightly reduced.

So he will have to wait a while longer, or perhaps some unexpected event will occur that gives him more ways to gain merit.

……

The land of Xizhou.

After the great calamity, there was a period of relative peace for a few decades, but the flames of war were soon reignited!

Moreover, it was the demonic path that personally launched a fierce attack on the ghost race, which they had disregarded!
They initially thought this weak faction wouldn't be able to withstand their attack, but the result surprised everyone.

Because the Ghost Clan not only withstood the attack, but also gained some advantages by occupying the terrain, killing many demonic cultivators.

This result enraged the demonic path. They were a group that looked down on everyone and had been on the run from the Yin God lineage, but now they had been defeated head-on!
Although no one would believe that the Ghost Clan would be able to rival the Demonic Path from now on, how could the Demonic Cultivators swallow this insult?

Therefore, the Demonic Path decided to launch an army of 50,000, led by several Celestial Immortals, to attack the territory occupied by the Ghost Clan. Ideally, they would be completely crippled, and if that was not possible, they should be driven out of the Western Continent. They could not tolerate the Ghost Clan's encroachment on the Western Continent.

Even so, the demonic path was fighting very hard, and it was impossible to see the outcome in a short time.

Now, no one will underestimate the Ghost Clan anymore.

No one knows how the Ghost Clan managed to go from being hunted down by the Yin Gods to being able to withstand large-scale attacks from demonic cultivators in just a few thousand years.

But from then on, the Ghost Clan was no longer an existence ignored by all factions.

If the demonic path only has the Ghost Clan as an opponent, then they can rely on their profound foundation to slowly wear down the Ghost Clan's power. Although the speed will be very slow, the effect will at least be good.

The problem is that the Demonic Path has an even more formidable and troublesome opponent behind them: the Sea Clan, forcing the Demonic Path to fight on two fronts.

Then neither side gained an advantage...

On the battlefield, the Ghost Clan fared relatively well, at least preventing them from expanding further, and the two sides reached a stalemate. However, the situation was much worse for the Sea Clan, who had broken through the blockade and were planning to occupy more waterways.

In any case, the demonic cultivators were unwilling to see any other living beings appear within the Western Continent!
At first, they did not gain the upper hand, but gradually, with their numerical advantage, they were able to reclaim their manpower and territory, driving the sea creatures out of their heartland.

"Damn it!"

One of the demonic cultivators couldn't help but curse, "These damned beasts! If they hadn't launched that sneak attack, we wouldn't be in this situation!?"

The morale of the demonic path is low, many demonic cultivators are injured, and they don't know what to do.

It's only because the demonic path is still quite powerful that they're able to succeed; otherwise, their current performance would definitely make them a negative example for the future!

Moreover, faced with the overwhelming sea creatures, they were momentarily at a loss for how to respond, thus wasting precious reaction time.

at the same time.

In the Rahu Demon Mountain.

"Given the current situation, the demonic path cannot afford to fight on two fronts!" a demonic cultivator at the Celestial Immortal Realm said in a deep voice.

Although he was very reluctant to admit it, this was the current situation of the demonic path; they were no longer the powerful demonic path they once were.

They can only choose one of the sea tribe or the ghost tribe as their opponent for now, and after dealing with the former, they will try to find a way to deal with the latter.

Moreover, during this process, it is best if the other force is unable to launch an attack on the demonic path.

Clearly, no one can meet these requirements.

Therefore, the only option is to adopt a strategy of attacking aggressively on one hand and defending on the other.

Given the strength of the Ghost Clan and the Sea Clan, targeting the Ghost Clan was the best course of action, and that's exactly what they did.

"Defend against the sea creatures?"

This requirement gave the group of demonic cultivators a major headache. Their army was strong and brave, and the terrain was open and indefensible. How could they defend themselves?
"How about we send someone skilled in infiltration to the sea eye and use a secret method to corrupt it, forcing the sea creatures to retreat?"

It is unknown who made this suggestion, but it was quickly agreed upon by most of the demonic cultivators.

There's no other way; the demonic path simply can't handle the current complex situation in the Western Continent. We can only try to solve one target before considering the others.

Therefore, after making some preparations, a demonic cultivator at the Celestial Realm, skilled in stealth and concealment, set off with a gourd of filthy and sinister substances.

This person entered the Western Sea from the edge of the battlefield. Even the sea creatures did not expect that a demonic cultivator would take the initiative to break in, and then headed straight for the sea eye.

Don't forget, the Western Sea was controlled by the demonic path for a long time. He knows the location of the sea eye very well, so there's no need to waste time searching for it.

Unbeknownst to them, the demonic cultivator had already arrived near the sea eye.

The sea creatures did leave people to guard the area near the sea eye, but unfortunately, the one sent by the demonic path was skilled in stealth, so they didn't discover him at all.

Once he enters the sea eye, although he cannot reach its depths for various reasons, the evil and filthy things in the gourd in his hand will multiply and grow stronger on their own!
And it was precisely for this reason that, after a period of time, the sea eye began to emit a strong stench, and the seawater that should have been azure blue was now a light black sewage.

Such an unusual situation was immediately discovered by the sea creatures.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"How did you manage to let the demonic cultivator infiltrate the sea eye without you noticing at all?!" (End of Chapter)