Rebuild the Xiuxian Family

Therefore, out of concern for Li Debo's safety, the elders strongly opposed his going to the battlefield to command.

However, under his strong insistence, the elders could not persuade him in the end and had to compromise, but they also made some demands, such as that he could not come to the front line in person and could only stay on the specially made spirit ship behind everyone.

When Li Debo first left Wanxian Mountain, the elders remained as usual and did not engage in any underhanded activities. However, as the clan leader was away from the clan territory for a long time and a large number of spiritual items were handled by them every day, they gradually lost control of themselves!
When the first elder made his move, the other elders were dragged into the mess, either willingly or unwillingly.

Before long, they had connected a tight network.

Those lost spiritual items were treated as normal wear and tear, and outsiders couldn't detect anything amiss!

Of course, they weren't very bold and didn't dare to take too many spiritual items. They were more like rats moving house, taking away spiritual items little by little in order to avoid arousing suspicion from others.

Despite taking various precautions, they had no idea that from the very beginning, some of them had joined with ulterior motives!
This person was Elder Li Dehou, who had previously revealed some information to Li Debo, thus prompting him to take action.

The elders knew, of course, that Li Dehou had never participated in their distribution of spoils before, so his trustworthiness was not that high.

However, since he controls a link in the transportation of spiritual objects, without bringing him in, this operation could not be expanded to a small scale and could only be carried out on a small scale.

However, the torment and agony of watching countless spiritual beings pass by them every day without knowing where to begin made them feel extremely uncomfortable.

Then they learned that Li Dehou's Daoist partner, Liu Xianglan, had encountered an accident while training outside and was seriously injured, which damaged her very life force. She needed a lot of spiritual items to stabilize her life.

However, the price to pay for a full recovery is even greater, requiring a large amount of spiritual items!
So after a few tests, they successfully pulled him into the group, and before long, the number of rare spiritual items they had increased from a few dozen to several hundred.

……

Wanshan Mountain belongs to Li Dehou's small cave dwelling.

“What you’ve done will likely lead to your expulsion from the family once it’s exposed!” Liu Xianglan said with a worried expression as she looked at Li Dehou, who was recording how many spiritual items had been embezzled during the transport of these items and which ones they were.

Although she was lying in bed, pale-faced and seemingly near death, it was all an act. She was not injured, let alone seriously injured.

Li Dehou did not respond, but focused intently on recording everything. After finishing, he solemnly sealed the jade slip in a hidden corner of the cave.

"I know, but some things need to be taken responsibility for!"

A smile appeared on Li Dehou's face as he said, "Besides, the clan leader isn't the kind of ruthless person who would discard someone once they're no longer useful."

"Hmph! I've never seen you have any contact with him, yet you're so certain you believe him?!"

"Don't worry, even if the clan leader is that kind of person, don't we still have Ancestor Rui and Ancestor Yao in the clan? How could these two ancestors not know about such an important matter?"

Hearing this, Liu Xianglan's anxiety finally subsided considerably. Indeed, with these two patriarchs around, they would never let her Daoist partner suffer any loss or hardship.

Perhaps he could even catch the eye of the two patriarchs because of this!
Thinking of this, Liu Xianglan couldn't help but feel a little excited.

……

Talking two ends.

Wanling Sea, Wanling Island.

After arranging things properly, Li Debo came here to oversee the situation. Another purpose was to wait for those reckless elders to make their move.

"Hmph! These rats, they can't wait to make their move?"

In just half a month, Li Debo discovered that the number of spiritual items delivered this time was slightly less than the last time, only a few hundred in total.

If you insist on categorizing them as losses, there's nothing wrong with that. But from the beginning, he had a preconceived notion in his mind, so the moment he discovered the problem, he subconsciously blamed it on the elders!
In fact, Li Debo's idea was not wrong, but there were some problems with his approach, since he did not have any substantial evidence and relied on his own guesses.

"I wonder how well Marquis De completed his mission, and whether he recorded it truthfully. If he also falls into depravity because of this, then..."

As he spoke, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes.

Although Li Debo trusted Li Dehou to some extent, he couldn't simply abandon such a major event that would shake the entire family based on trust alone.

Therefore, in addition to him, Li Debo also mobilized the secret agents known only to the successive clan leaders and Li Zhirui and Li Mingyao, to collect clues and evidence in secret!
"It's not the right time yet. Right now, we've only lost a few hundred spiritual items. Even if we find them, we won't be able to punish them severely enough to give our people a lasting lesson."

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer..."

Li Debo kept repeating this to himself, suppressing his inner impulse and anger, putting down the jade slip and stopping thinking about it.

He then took out another jade slip, which reported the process of his people fighting in the East China Sea.

The battlefield situation was roughly as everyone had initially predicted. The sea tribe did not have many powerful water demons guarding the area, so they could be said to have had a smooth journey with almost no danger.

However, the gains were not particularly significant either.

After they captured a spiritual vein, they only found some less valuable spiritual items. The unfilled pits meant that the more valuable spiritual items had been taken away.

"Did the sea creatures voluntarily withdraw after receiving news of the immortals' invasion of the East Sea?"

Li Debo frowned involuntarily. If that was the case, then the current situation would make sense.

They left behind some less valuable spiritual items to attract cultivators to pick them, or even fight over them, so that the water demons would have enough time to leave.

And the sea creatures' actions were indeed just as Li Debo had guessed.

After learning the news from the immortal spies, they immediately organized the water demons to retreat, abandoning those spiritual veins and discarding some less valuable spiritual items.

In any case, given the nature of cultivators, they would never intentionally damage the spiritual veins and thus incur karmic consequences. At most, they would use the Spirit Transfer Technique to extract the spiritual veins and take them away.

However, there are not many cultivators who practice such secret techniques. Moreover, the East Sea is vast, and ordinary cultivators do not have such enormous magical power to migrate spiritual veins to the land.

"It seems that the gains from this attack on the East China Sea won't be as great as we imagined," Li Debo sighed helplessly, shaking his head.

The cultivators on the front lines felt this deeply!

They all came with the idea of ​​gaining a lot, but reality dealt them a heavy blow.

After all that hard work, I didn't get many spiritual items. Even if I did, they were low-grade, quite common items, not worth a few spirit stones at all. "Damn it! How could this happen!"

"It seems the water monsters received the news early this morning and fled back to the deep sea."

The cultivators present looked extremely grim. They were now caught in a dilemma. If they continued their search, they could travel hundreds of miles and only obtain some low-level mortal spiritual items. However, they were unwilling to retreat now.

Ultimately, the group of cultivators parted ways, with some choosing to venture deep into the East Sea and others returning home.

"Those cowards! Cultivation is going against the heavens, and they're not even willing to take such a small risk. How far can they go on the path of cultivation?" A cultivator sneered as he watched the departing figures of the other cultivators.

"Exactly! They clearly have no future."

This person has the highest cultivation level and the strongest strength. Next, he will be training and searching for treasures in the East China Sea. Naturally, the others all echoed him, afraid of displeasing him and putting themselves in danger.

"A bunch of fearless bastards!"

The monks who chose to return to land also looked down on the other group with contempt and disdain.

But if someone observed closely, they would notice that all members of the Li family were in the returning queue! It was as if they knew something in advance or had received some instructions.

Those cultivators who chose to venture deeper into the East Sea soon regretted their decision!

They encountered a large group of water monsters not far ahead, and after paying a price, they successfully eliminated them.

They obtained many spiritual items from the corpses of these water demons alone, not to mention their storage magic treasures.

This excited them greatly and made them even more convinced that their decision was correct; some even began to dream about a bright future.

But before long, their beautiful dream was shattered by cruel reality!

A group of powerful water demons suddenly appeared in front of them and attacked without hesitation.

In an instant, towering waves and howling winds gave the cultivators no time to react, and the situation became extremely precarious, with the risk of losing their lives at any moment.

"Impossible! My wish to break through to the Earth Immortal realm and establish my own sect has not yet been fulfilled. How could I perish here, dying at the hands of you beasts!?"

The leading cultivator roared angrily, his aura suddenly surging, as if he intended to forcibly escape from the water demons.

Unfortunately, he underestimated the strength of these water demons, as well as their desire for revenge!
Forced by the immortal cultivators to abandon their ancestral lands and spiritual veins, and to flee back to the deep sea in disarray with their people to escape this disaster, they could not possibly be without resentment and anger in their hearts.

Now that they have a chance to get revenge, of course they want to vent!
However, this caused great misfortune to those cultivators who ventured deep into the sea.

Apart from a few powerful cultivators or those protected by secret techniques who managed to escape, thousands of cultivators in the Li family's territory alone were seriously injured or killed.

If we look at the East China Sea, the greed in people's hearts has led to the deaths of nearly 50,000 cultivators!
Regardless of the cultivators' strength, their sheer number is comparable to that of a large power.

This also tells Xiandao that the strength of the sea race has indeed weakened, but they are definitely not to be trifled with!

However, this warning was of no use.

After all, the demonic path paid such a high price to get the immortal path to help. If there were no restrictions, the immortal path could easily fool them without achieving any effect. Wouldn't the demonic path be giving away a lot of resources to the immortal path for nothing? The demonic path isn't that stupid!
The condition is that the immortal path must maintain a strong sense of oppression over the sea creatures, forcing them to summon water demons from the Western Sea to help them!

So despite the sea creatures' prior warning, the immortals completely disregarded it and instead mobilized more cultivators and a greater force to enter the East Sea.

"Damn it! Could it be that these immortal cultivators are really willing to pay a heavy price for the demonic path?!" a water demon exclaimed in astonishment.

Although it seemed incredible, the cultivators who were traveling at breakneck speed could not deny that they were indeed heading for the sea race.

There was no other way; the cultivators had already come knocking on their door, so how could the sea race not make a move? In fact, they even took the initiative and tried to gain the upper hand.

However, the cultivators sent by the Immortal Path this time were all Earth Immortals with extremely strong physical bodies, comparable to body cultivators, and the attack from the Sea Clan did not cause them much damage.

They alone put considerable pressure on the sea creatures, and this was only the beginning, because as time went on, more and more cultivators entered the East Sea, constantly forcing and compressing the sea creatures' living space.

……

Meanwhile, on the other side, in the Western Continent, a great river that had already fallen into the hands of the sea creatures.

"Damn it! Those cultivators are willing to pay such a high price for the demonic cultivators! They intend to force us to return to the East Sea!" A certain celestial being was quite angry about this.

"So now we have to decide whether to stay in the West and seize the waters along the way, or to give up and return to the East China Sea."

When this situation was brought to the forefront, they had no other choice but to return to the East China Sea!

"Those cultivators had better not retreat so quickly; I must experience their strength firsthand!"

Despite the fury of some of the water demons, they had no choice but to set off immediately to return to the East Sea.

"No! We can't just retreat like this! Before we leave, I plan to prepare a surprise gift for the demonic cultivators!" A cruel smile curled at the corner of a certain celestial water demon's lips.

"How to say?"

Many water spirits were very interested in this and asked curiously.

"We retreated as originally planned, but secretly returned. When those demonic cultivators came to check the situation, we launched a surprise attack, catching them completely off guard!"

"it is good!"

The plan was very crude, but it received the unanimous agreement of most of the water demons.

Not long after, the sea creatures suddenly began to retreat, but they were very cautious, afraid that they would reveal a weakness and allow the demonic cultivators to seize the opportunity to attack and cause a great disturbance.

The news reached the demonic cultivators within half an hour.

"Are we finally going to retreat?"

Several celestial immortals and demonic cultivators breathed a sigh of relief. (End of Chapter)