Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 498

When the first evil spirit successfully escaped, the remaining evil spirits were clearly stunned for a moment.

It seems that this freedom came too easily, catching them completely off guard.

Those who were captured and suppressed by the Dragon King back then and have not been completely eliminated to this day are not simple. It is possible that there are those who are exceptionally talented but have low intelligence and act only on instinct, but the vast majority of them possess terrifying minds.

Li Zhuiyuan had just discovered that some evil spirits, even though they had already broken free and poked half their bodies out from underground, were deliberately dawdling, intending to let other evil spirits scout ahead.

Perhaps even they think that even if they come out of the Dragon King's Domain, they will have to go through a bloody battle to wear them down or be sealed and trapped. After all, even if the Dragon King of the past has long since passed away, the Dragon King's legacy still exists, and the Dragon King's descendants will fight to the death to stop them.

But in reality, it didn't stop them.

The grand formation at the Chen family ancestral home has been fully integrated, but the young man who controls the key to it refuses to activate it.

The evil spirits were overjoyed, and even more violent waves of energy shot into the sky, stirring the clouds above them like churning ink. They followed closely behind, one by one running outwards to pursue their own free world.

The longer they are suppressed, the stronger their craving for blood becomes. One can imagine that once they enter densely populated areas, countless towns will become their delicious meals in various styles.

Jiang Xiuzhi stared at all of this in disbelief.

The Chen family members behind her were also stunned.

As the inheritor of the Dragon King's lineage, the evil spirits suppressed by his own family are both a burden that requires constant worry and a testament to the achievements of his ancestors.

Therefore, if they are not properly guarded and escape, causing disaster, the karmic retribution from Heaven will be secondary; the key issue is that the reputation of the entire Dragon King's clan will be reduced to ashes.

Having exhausted himself in the process of integrating the formation, Chu Qiufeng stared at the young man before him, his face pale.

His eyes seemed to be telling a story:

"You suspected me of being the mole, but it turns out the mole is you yourselves."

This son-in-law knew that Old Master Chen had a personal grudge against the man in front of him, so it was indeed plausible that the other party would try to overthrow a powerful family in this way.

Even if the Chen family members were placed outside beforehand, and even if they all survived this calamity, Dragon King Chen was still completely destroyed.

This kind of revenge doesn't kill people, but it destroys their spirit.

Chen Yueying turned around, looked at Li Zhuiyuan standing on the steps of the ancestral hall, and questioned him sternly:

"What do you mean?"

The rest of the Chen family members also looked at Li Zhuiyuan with confusion and, more importantly, anger.

If they could have recalled their personnel in time, and if they hadn't handed over the core of the great formation, they could have delayed these evil spirits even with their own strength, instead of letting them escape freely as they are now.

Jiang Xiuzhi: "How dare you!"

This rebuke was not directed at Li Zhuiyuan, but at his own children.

Jiang Xiuzhi looked at Li Zhuiyuan:

"Continue to follow Patriarch Li's instructions in everything!"

Li Zhuiyuan remained silent.

Jiang Xiuzhi continued, "Although I cannot understand the current situation, I believe in the integrity and tradition of the Qin and Liu families and would never do anything to deliberately release evil spirits to bring disaster to the world!"

Li Zhuiyuan suppressed the urge to smile and prevent himself from making a move.

He disappointed the old lady; what she thought was impossible, he had actually been preparing to do all along.

Having lived a life of luxury in the Dragon King Chen family for decades, even if she could empathize with Grandma Liu's difficult situation, it was still difficult for her to fully put herself in her shoes.

The repeated crushing of her hopes and the driving her to the brink of despair had caused the jar in Grandma Liu's heart to shatter countless times.

To put it bluntly, it was only because Miss Liu's shrewish and unruly nature was known throughout the martial arts world that this martial arts world still had a last bit of fear of her.

If it were someone else standing alone, they would bully you relentlessly without any scruples, certain that even if your entire family were wiped out, you would not do anything to harm the common people!
Jiang Xiuzhi struggled to suppress her tone, trying to make it as normal as possible:
"Patriarch Li, what should we do next?"

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Jiang Xiuzhi and answered, word by word:
"My grandma and the others didn't come this time."

Jiang Xiuzhi: "..."

The old lady of the Chen family was struck as if by lightning, trembling so badly that she could barely stand.

Li Zhuiyuan knew what she was still hoping for deep down: that her sister Liu outside would step in and plug the hole in time.

She was hoping that perhaps she just felt that the house was overwhelmed by too many evil spirits, so she would let some of them out first and let outsiders deal with them before activating the formation.

The boy extinguished her hope with his own hands.

In the days leading up to his death after being struck by lightning, Grandma Liu repeatedly came to his bedside and gazed at him. You, the Chen family, should also experience this sense of despair.

Zhao Yi likes to say that he is vengeful.

Li Zhuiyuan never refuted this.

After all, there aren't many people on this river who understand him better than Zhao Yi.

Li Zhuiyuan sat down on the steps.

Before him, Zhao Yi's body was still convulsing, and the blood from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth seemed unstoppable, while wisps of black smoke kept oozing from the crack in his chest, the gate between life and death.

The damage to the soul is far more terrifying than these outward manifestations.

If Li Zhuiyuan were to bear the backlash, his condition would certainly be much better than Zhao Yi's, but he would still suffer a severe blow.

Fortunately, this time Jiang Shui pushed Zhao Yi to himself.

No matter the occasion, as long as Zhao Yi is by your side, he is always very useful and practical.

However, even while convulsing and confused, Zhao Yi still managed to raise his right index finger.

This finger was raised before the backlash came, as a reminder to myself:

"One condition."

We should help him by promoting his subordinates.

The convulsions were so severe that the index finger kept rubbing against the steps. And coincidentally, when Zhao Yi's body tilted to the side, the finger was pinned under him, demonstrating a high-difficulty one-finger Zen technique.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and pressed Zhao Yi's index finger back down so that Zhao Yi could lie down and relax.

But as soon as he pressed down and lay down, the index finger suddenly stood up again, forcefully lifting him up all over.

He pressed down again, lay down, and then stood up again.

Though he said nothing, it spoke volumes, like an old man on his deathbed with unfulfilled wishes.

Li Zhuiyuan: "I promise you."

Whether he truly listened or his body convulsed more violently and his consciousness became more blurred, in any case, as soon as the boy finished speaking, Zhao Yi withdrew his index finger and finally lay down peacefully.

Ah Li took out a bottle of Jianlibao (a type of Chinese herbal drink) from the outer pocket of her backpack, opened it, inserted a straw, and handed it to the boy.

Li Zhuiyuan took the drink, took a sip, and then handed it to A Li, meaning that he was in very good condition.

Ah Li took it, bit the straw, revealed two small dimples at the corners of her mouth, and started drinking.

A distraught Jiang Xiuzhi staggered toward this place.

A red arm flew out from the blood-stained porcelain bottle that Ah Li was holding in her other hand and blocked Jiang Xiuzhi's way.

Grandma's best friend, but she didn't recognize her.

Even now, Liu Yumei wouldn't dare say she really knows him.

It should be noted that it was Liu Yumei herself who first suggested to Li Zhuiyuan that he take the evil spirits from his home to the Chen family in Qiongya.

Jiang Xiuzhi stopped and looked at A Li with a kind smile on her face.

"She really looks just like Sister Liu back then, and is as beautiful as her."

She still remembered the first time she was brought to the Liu family. Sister Liu was sitting on the steps just like this, holding a glass of expensive fruit wine that she had just stolen from an elder of the Liu family.

Before coming to the Liu family, she had heard of Miss Liu's formidable reputation, where she would beat her brother and slap her sister at home.

The fierce competition among her peers in the Dragon King's family had long since made her silent and timid in front of them. Even the elders were helpless against her because she could go to the Liu family ancestral hall to complain.

If any elder dares to punish her by making her kneel and be confined to reflect on her mistakes, the Dragon King spirit in the ancestral hall, who dotes on her the most volatile temper, will make that elder kneel in the ancestral hall as well.

"What's your name?"

"My name is... Jiang Xiuzhi."

"What are you good at? Needlework, music, calligraphy, or painting?"

"When my family brought me here, they taught me how to flatter the young lady properly."

"I happen to be short one person by my side. Come, sit down and let me offer you a drink."

After drinking, Jiang Xiuzhi got drunk.

When she woke up, she saw Mu Xueci feeding her hangover soup.

"The young lady said that as long as you flatter her well, no one will dare to bully you here, and your mother and younger brother at home will not be bullied by the maternal relatives."

Jiang Xiuzhi sat down on the bottom step, facing all the Chen family members in front of her, which was equivalent to stopping them all and preventing them from doing anything out of line.

The old lady of the Chen family gently patted her knees, as if she had finally let go, and murmured:
"If that's the case, then it's only right, it's only right."

After a pause, Jiang Xiuzhi turned her head slightly and glanced out of the corner of her eye at the boy sitting on the higher steps behind her:

"Xiao Yuan, after they all run away, Grandma will personally escort you away from here."

It's not just about protecting against the threat of evil spirits; the Chen family is still here.

Once this gets out, the Chen family will surely retaliate, and the entire Dragon King Clan will hunt him down. It will be very difficult for Li Zhuiyuan to leave Qiongya safely.

Li Zhuiyuan looked northward.

Now, it all depends on whether Chen Xiyuan and her team can find the Faceless Man's body in time.

The Chen family ancestral home is located in the middle of mountains. In such an environment, finding a well-hidden body, even if you only know the "north," is just reducing the difficulty from finding a needle in a haystack to finding a needle in a lake.

But this is precisely why Li Zhuiyuan let Chen Xiyuan lead the team.

Sister Chen shouldn't think about anything. The more you think, the more burdened you become. She just needs to follow her feelings.

In the waves, the river will guide her.

Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head and looked down at the ground.

Once you truly see through it, you realize that the Faceless Man's tricks are nothing special, nothing particularly mysterious or profound.

It's like walking on your own bank of a river; the process itself is very simple.

The difficulty lies in the fact that, despite the seemingly simple principle, the operation cannot be replicated by others.

Like itself, it figured out and mastered the rules of the Heavenly Dao, making the Heavenly Dao seem easy to fool throughout the whole process.

This self-planning, self-suppression, and self-production and self-sales style is very similar to his own "river-going-from-the-shore" approach.

The difference is that Heaven deducts one's merits, so one can gain greater authority and freedom by keeping them on hold.

This faceless man is very much like another blade of Heaven's Way, an old blade.

Beneath that snow-capped mountain palace, the faceless man eliminated countless restless elements harboring dreams of immortality for the sake of Heaven.

But this knife has been used up, has served its purpose, and has generated sufficiently large and untimely ambitions; it is time to break it.

The incident at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and the one at the Chen family ancestral home today, are essentially examples of Heaven using a new blade to cut down an old one.
At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan seemed to see a rehearsal of his future fate.

When the Dao feels that its value has been completely drained and that it is no longer allowed to grow, it will treat itself in the same way.

By then,

Could it be that I'm the one helplessly roaring down below?

……

"No, how could this be? How could this be! You're insane, insane, Li Zhuiyuan, you're really insane!"

The faceless man holding a bell is equivalent to raising a torch.

The scenario it envisioned, where Li Zhuiyuan risked his life to prevent the evil spirits from spreading, did not occur.

Moreover, even if it didn't want to kill Li Zhuiyuan to eliminate this future threat, and intended to immediately set itself on fire and "perish together" with these evil spirits, it couldn't do it now.

Because these evil spirits have already left the Chen family's ancestral home, and its lava can only cover this Chen family's home, those evil spirits are now beyond its reach.

Why did this happen? Why did you do this? Why?

The faceless man could not understand Li Zhuiyuan's motives for doing this.

Once these evil spirits are released, even if a few experts remain to guard the perimeter, they will be outnumbered and unable to stop all of them.

Just then, the faceless man noticed that the flames on his body and on the three dragon king corpses were beginning to weaken.

This means that Heaven is legitimately deducting its merits.

"No, no, you can't, you can't!"

Every bit of merit lost is a step backward from its goal of becoming an immortal.

It originally intended to take a gamble, make a profit, improve itself, and gain a promotion; now, it has become a case of deliberately causing trouble and releasing evil spirits, so that Heaven can rightfully use its merits to offset the karmic backlash.

The faceless man raised his head and looked up:
"Do you intend to perish together with me? Heh heh heh... Don't forget, which has more merit, yours or mine!"

above.

"call……"

The warning signs of crisis in Li Zhuiyuan's heart rose and fell like waves, coming and going again and again.

Li Zhuiyuan was already used to this feeling; it was his account, which he couldn't withdraw money from, being constantly being debited.

Being on the river and amidst the waves, he clearly had the means to stop it, yet he deliberately allowed the evil to spill out, and Heaven has already brought back karmic retribution upon him.

This is also why, when the Yu family faced the wave of evil spirits, Tao Zhuming and others preferred to fight to the death rather than retreat and run away; they knew they could not bear such a great karmic consequence.

Li Zhuiyuan is only getting a taste of the appetizer now; the real karmic backlash is yet to come. The final reckoning will only come when those evil spirits begin to wreak havoc on the world.

You might say that the way of Heaven is easy to fool, and it is indeed easy to fool. Sometimes, it can be fooled by just a few words spoken loudly to itself. But at other times, it can appear to see through everything. This ambiguity is what makes it so rare to be confused.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and rubbed his forehead. He didn't need to look in the mirror; his forehead must be alternating between dark and clear.

The boy murmured:
"It's alright. I know you have accumulated a lot of merit, but I've also saved quite a bit here."

……

"North, North, North!"

Chen Xiyuan stood on the mountaintop, looking at the northern mountains in front of her.

The jade flute in her hand creaked as she squeezed it.

Everyone behind her was waiting for her next move, which put immense pressure on Ms. Chen.

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"

The roars of evil spirits emanated from the direction of the Chen family's ancestral home.

Chen Xiyuan glanced back, then immediately looked back north.

The Liang sisters and Xu Ming turned around and looked back at the terrifying scene that was unfolding in the direction they had come from.

Liang Yan: "Is this an evil spirit uprising?" Liang Li: "So, our attempt has failed?"

The one who found it most unacceptable was Wang Lin.

But the chubby boy didn't show it; he just stood there with his head down.

He didn't understand what was going on. Why would someone so terrifying make such an incomprehensible arrangement, which couldn't hold them off for even a moment, allowing all the evil spirits of the Chen family to escape?
The chubby boy frantically searched for the answer on the piece of paper in his heart, but no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find a reasonable explanation.

At the same time, a great terror descended upon him.

My journey along the river has come to an end?

This not only means that I will be unable to expand the area that illuminates this paper and find my true origin, but this is not an ordinary failure. The subsequent impact of this wave is very large. I will inevitably suffer karmic consequences. The torch will become weaker and weaker until I become a blank sheet of paper, an idiot.
The chubby boy raised his head. He gave up looking for answers in the paper and looked in front of him. He noticed that the boy's men, including the young lady Chen, seemed unusually calm about the situation.

Tan Wenbin walked to Chen Xiyuan's side and comforted her:

"Miss Chen, do you trust Brother Xiao Yuan?"

"Of course I believe in my little brother. Have you forgotten? I can be tied up by my little brother too."

"Since you trust Brother Xiaoyuan, what are you still worried about?"

"But the exact location..."

"Before we discovered it, the location was not fixed; wherever you went, that was the location."

"I... hiss... wheez..."

Chen Xiyuan began to take a deep breath.

Tan Wenbin: "It's just like when you used to walk along the river, following your feelings. Isn't that how you always walked along the river?"

Chen Xiyuan closed her eyes.

Even though he was mentally prepared, Tan Wenbin's face was still a little stiff. He knew that Miss Chen was getting into character.

Tan Wenbin suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. Such a person would be terrifying to be an opponent.

Inside the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, the flames of three lamps flickered violently, casting afterimages.

Chen Xiyuan opened her eyes, her gaze fixed on a bird flying in the distance.

It was a very ordinary bird; I looked at it simply because I happened to see it. Moving my gaze downwards, I saw a small hill below; I looked at it simply because it was directly below the bird.

There's no reason, no explanation, it's just a feeling, it just happens.

Chen Xiyuan leaned forward, her body landing, and her feet quickly pushed off the cliff slope, rushing towards the small hill.

Tan Wenbin waved and said, "Found the spot, keep up!"

Everyone immediately started running together, but the chubby boy lagged behind. He didn't understand how they had found it.
It wasn't noticeable from the outside, but once they entered the area around the small hill, everyone realized something was wrong.

No matter how fast they ran, they could no longer get closer to the mountain.

There is a formation here, and it is an extremely sophisticated formation.

The good news is that this means they've really found the right place.

The bad news is... Xiao Yuan and Zhao Yi, who are best at formations, are not here.

Chen Xiyuan waved the emerald flute incessantly, and her domain was activated, but all her efforts were in vain, and she could not make any progress.

Runsheng scratched his head.

Lin Shuyou looked at Tan Wenbin.

"Brother Bin..."

Ah You knew that Brother Bin usually liked to read Brother Xiao Yuan's books on formations.

Tan Wenbin: "You flatter me too much, Brother You."

Tan Wenbin has some skill in formations; after all, he has studied for so long and must have gained some knowledge. However, when faced with such advanced formations, his level is like a primary school student reading an advanced textbook, only recognizing the table of contents.

This formation is very sophisticated and deeply connected to the surrounding environment. Even if Brother Xiaoyuan were to come in person, it would take him a lot of time to break it, because every step of the mountain path from the bottom to the top must be calculated.

Finding the answer isn't difficult, but the sheer number of answers would fill an entire thick book.

Moreover, the higher one goes, the greater the reverse force on the formation after taking the wrong path, which may cause the formation to activate on its own and cause an internal upheaval. Since the faceless man's body is known to be there, it is very likely that the formation will push that body into some crevice or ravine and bury it completely.

In the Faceless Man's original plan, he would wait until the deed was done before personally activating the formation and finding the most suitable place to hide and sleep.

However, because Li Zhuiyuan wrapped the red rope around it with a red thread, it was forced to sever its connection with its main body immediately and lose control of this place.

Tan Wenbin looked at the Liang sisters, who both knew a little about formations.

The Liang sisters shook their heads, indicating that they were powerless to help.

Finally, Tan Wenbin looked at Wang Lin.

At this moment, only this chubby little boy has the potential to bring everyone a surprise.

Wang Lin: "I don't know any formations."

Although he demonstrated his array formation skills more than once in Yuxi, he wasn't lying; he genuinely didn't know them.

Just like when he cooks a dish, if the ingredients and seasonings are prepared, he can cook it very deliciously. But if he is allowed to adapt to local conditions and improvise freely, he will make it very bad.

Tan Wenbin: "Why don't you look for it yourself?"

Wang Lin's face wrinkled.

He deeply regretted trying to probe the boy's background that night when the pack of wolves was camping. Not only did he fail to find anything, but the boy also exposed him completely.

Once his secret is revealed, countless forces on the river and on the shore will fight over him as a rare treasure.

But for now, all he could do was nod, close his eyes, and start searching.

Time passes minute by minute.

Tan Wenbin lit a cigarette and started smoking.

Wang Lin opened his eyes halfway through his cigarette.

Tan Wenbin immediately stubbed out his cigarette and asked:
"found it?"

Wang Lin nodded: "This is an ancient formation that has been lost for a long time, called 'Heaven and Earth Coexisting'."

Tan Wenbin: "Quickly turn to the last page and see if the answer sheet is still there. Did you not hand it in to the teacher?"

This analogy made Wang Lin feel very uncomfortable.

But he had to admit that Tan Wenbin's description was very vivid and accurate.

Some of the things on his paper were just notes without solutions, like conjectures. Since there were no answers at the time, they couldn't be recorded.

However, this concept of "living as long as heaven and earth"...

Wang Lin: "There is a solution, but if the person who set up the formation makes changes, then I have no way to solve it..."

Tan Wenbin: "Since it's a lost ancient formation, there's no need to change it, right?"

Wang Lin: "That makes sense."

Tan Wenbin: "Come on, you lead the way, we'll follow in your footsteps and walk faster."

Wang Lin nodded, walked to the front, and began to lead the way up the mountain.

With each step he took, he deliberately left footprints, and all the big guys behind him followed those footprints to move forward.

As we walked, we found ourselves no longer going backwards, and we were indeed getting closer and closer to the mountaintop.

Tan Wenbin reminded you, "Don't be too hasty, be steady, be careful, and don't copy it wrong!"

When the group reached the halfway point of the mountain, they looked up and could see an amber-colored, semi-transparent coffin lying on the mountaintop.

Inside the coffin lay a body that resembled crystal.

Tan Wenbin opened his snake-like eyes and carefully observed the situation beforehand.

The body inside the coffin was damaged in many places, with pits and bumps everywhere, and some parts were obviously detached and reconnected by mechanisms.

Even so, when you observe it, a sense of awe for the power of the Creator will still rise in your heart.

This body is so beautiful that even in its damaged state, it makes one feel ashamed of their own appearance.

However, compared to being broken and repaired, the only regret about this body is probably the impurity of the crystal material, with a few impurities remaining.

If these impurities could be removed... Tan Wenbin shook his head vigorously. Just imagining it made him feel an urge to worship.
Tan Wenbin was worshipping Li Zhuiyuan, and he carried Li Zhuiyuan's status and karma. His gaze seemed to irritate the body inside the coffin.

Just as Tan Wenbin was about to see the face of the body from a little higher up, the amber-colored coffin began to melt, turning from semi-transparent to opaque, enveloping the body and completely concealing it.

Wang Lin was the first to arrive at the mountaintop, and what he saw was a human figure encased in amber.

Tan Wenbin: "Destroy it!"

Chen Xiyuan took the first step, opening her domain to its fullest extent, and forcefully smashed down with the emerald flute in her hand.

"Buzz!"

Amber raised her hand, grabbed the jade flute, and then threw a punch at Chen Xiyuan.

"boom!"

Even with the domain effect, Chen Xiyuan was still blasted away, and her body slid a long distance after landing.

Amber sat up, placing her hands on her knees. She did not launch any further attacks, but a terrifying pressure swept out, causing a sense of despair to arise in everyone's hearts.

Tan Wenbin:
"It's okay, there's a chance. This is just its body's instinct to protect itself."

……

The Chen family ancestral home, underground.

"my body?"

Although it has lost its direct connection with the body, the faceless man can still sense what is happening on the other side of the body.

"They actually found it? How is it possible?"

At that moment, the faceless man seemed to suddenly understand something. It raised its head, its faceless body facing upwards, not towards Li Zhuiyuan above, but towards the gaze from even higher up.

"It was you! It was you!"

"The Chen family of Qiongya ascended to immortality in the end. You're so cruel, so incredibly cruel! I did so much for you, I gave you everything, but you wouldn't even give me the slightest chance!"

There can't be so many coincidences, and there won't be so many accidents. Everything shows that while it was laying out its plans, it also walked into the alley that fate had designed for it.

"Hahahahaha!"

It knew it was finished; its path to immortality was almost severed unless it could orchestrate another millennium-long plan. But it no longer had the will or courage to repeat it. Who could guarantee that a thousand years from now, it wouldn't face the same fate?

The faceless man's "mouth" opened, and amidst the blood and gore, amber light surged upwards. On the other three dragon king remains, the amber light converged, forming a gigantic faceless face that pierced upwards. It wanted to leave this place, return to its own body, and accept its defeat.

Unable to ascend to the level of the Fengdu Emperor, it could only become a powerful evil spirit.

And this is Heaven's ultimate reward for this sword!
"boom!"

A massive amber-colored face, carrying terrifying power, burst forth from the ground of the Chen family ancestral home.

Inside the ancestral hall, Jiang Xiuzhi suddenly stood up, and the rest of the Chen family members also looked horrified. There was such a powerful evil spirit in their ancestral home, and it had even delayed until now before choosing to leave.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and took the blood-stained compass in his hand.

The enormous face let out a defiant roar and flew straight toward the north gate.

Li Zhuiyuan gently fiddled with the compass with his fingertips and spoke:

"close the door."

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!"

The grand formation at the Chen family ancestral home was activated, and a sturdy cage was erected.

The enormous face slammed into the Chen family's great formation, and in an instant, the entire world seemed to tremble.

The power and resources of the Dragon King Chen family were on full display at this moment. The great formation remained stable, and the enormous face was unable to escape.

"Ha ha ha ha ha……"

Laughter erupted, and the enormous face ceased its futile attempts. If all the evil spirits had been imprisoned here previously, it was confident it could force its way through with them. Now, it knew it lacked the ability to do so.

It turned its head, as if a huge, blurry, invisible entity above it was pouring boundless fury towards the Chen family ancestral hall:

"My today is your tomorrow!"

Li Zhuiyuan: "I know."

"No matter how much you do for it, it doesn't care about your feelings at all."

Li Zhuiyuan: "You're naive."

In Wei Zhengdao's book, and in Qing An's retelling of Wei Zhengdao's words, there was a sentence that appeared very early on:

【Heaven is ruthless】

This is why Li Zhuiyuan embarked on a path of wits and courage against the question setters from the very beginning. The young man never thought that he would move the heavens with his sincerity and hard work.

"Why would you be willing to die with me for it?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "No, I didn't."

The boy pinched out a piece of yellow paper with his fingertips, and a white, crystalline hair was wrapped around it.

Fearing that the Chen family would discover it beforehand, Li Zhuiyuan marked the location where the trucks were parked, which was a bit far from the Chen family's ancestral home. The evil spirits that had escaped from all directions earlier had not yet broken into the outer circle of trucks.

However, it should be arriving soon.

Since the one at the deepest point has already emerged, let's launch the operation ahead of time and close the net early to avoid any fish escaping.

The yellow paper at Li Zhuiyuan's fingertips burned, igniting the white hair in the process.

In an instant, thick black pillars of energy shot straight into the sky from all around the Chen family compound, creating a more terrifying and frightening spectacle than when the evil spirits had been unleashed from the Chen family ancestral home.

Even though they were still far apart, this suffocating sense of despair seemed to choke all the Chen family members inside the ancestral hall.

Jiang Xiuzhi opened her mouth wide and looked at Li Zhuiyuan.

She finally understood what the boy meant when he told her when he first entered the room that there were more guests than just them.

Those who didn't enter the ancestral home and remained outside were not Sister Liu and the others, but rather a much larger and more terrifying group of evil spirits.

Terror was evident in Jiang Xiuzhi's eyes. If she had harbored evil intentions and had not deployed the Chen family's power elsewhere, but instead had intended to suffocate the boy here, then in the end, it would have been the entire Chen family that would have been suffocated.

This child came prepared to annihilate the entire Chen family, the Dragon King!
Li Zhuiyuan stood on the steps, hands behind his back, looking at Jiang Xiuzhi:
"Did I scare you, Grandma?"

……

The white box was opened.

An unimaginable aura of divine beasts pressed down upon this valley.

A figure dressed in white robes slowly rose from the sky, followed by a thunderous roar from the clouds above.

"Today, let this martial world witness the power and strength of the Qin family!"

(End of this chapter)