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Seeing Bai Jia, a late-stage Qi Refining expert, collapse in front of him, Li Ping couldn't help but look puzzled.

"What does your Bai family's business have to do with me?"

He had agreed with the Bai family patriarch and patriarch Bai Mingde that he would lend his Foundation Establishment cultivator title to the Bai family, and that he would not deny this when anyone inquired about it.

As for the rest, they are none of his business.

But since Bai Lin was still there, and Li Ping wasn't a completely heartless person, he patiently said for Bai Lin's sake, "Get up first, and tell me what happened in detail."

Upon hearing Li Ping's instructions, the late-stage Qi Refining expert from the Bai family immediately stood up and quickly recounted the crisis the Bai family was facing.

Because he was too anxious, his words were somewhat disjointed and incoherent, but Li Ping understood the general gist of it.

During the beast tide, the Bai family chose to hold their ground at Gaoji Mountain, but now they are in trouble. Five second-tier demonic beasts, equivalent to the Foundation Establishment stage, have led a horde to surround Gaoji Mountain.

Faced with such a large horde of demonic beasts, the Bai family was utterly unable to resist. Therefore, the Bai family patriarch sent this person to ask for help, hoping that he could go to Gaoji Mountain to save the Bai family once.

Of course, this help won't be for nothing. As long as the Bai family survives the crisis of extermination, he can name his own terms.

Upon hearing this, Li Ping simply shook his head. Given the perilous nature of the beast tide, he would not go out of the city to defend the Bai family against it.

It seems the other party's description isn't very dangerous. It appears that if he's willing to go, and with him and the Bai family patriarch joining forces, they can defend Gaojishan with 100% certainty.

But who knows what unexpected things might happen?

What if a third-tier monster appears?

Moreover, the Bai family told him to name his conditions, but in reality, he didn't have any demands on the Bai family.

However... when his gaze swept over the anxious Bai Lin beside him, he couldn't help but sigh.

Bailin's family is all in High Ridge Mountain. Once the High Ridge Mountain formation is breached by the beast tide, her family will surely die. You can imagine how anxious she is at this moment.

Even a day as husband and wife is worth a hundred days of kindness. Li Ping ultimately couldn't be heartless and couldn't completely ignore Bai Lin's existence.

After a moment's thought, Li Ping made a decision. He looked at Bai Jia, who was in the late stage of Qi Refining, and shook his head, saying, "I have only recently broken through, and my cultivation method is not good at combat, so I cannot go to Gaojishan to help the nobles resist the beast tide."

Upon hearing Li Ping's refusal, the late-stage Qi Refining cultivator from the Bai family couldn't help but show a sorrowful expression.

Bai Lin looked at Li Ping with pleading in her eyes.

Li Ping smiled and said, "Although I cannot go to Gaojishan, it does not mean that I cannot help the Bai family."

As he spoke, he took out five crimson talismans from his storage bag, attracting the attention of Bai Jia, a late-stage Qi Refining expert, and Bai Lin.

Li Ping didn't keep them in suspense, but explained directly: "These five second-tier mid-grade 'Exploding Flame Talismans' were bought from the black market a long time ago. Once activated, their power is equivalent to a strike from a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator. With the help of these five talismans, we should be able to get out of the siege of the Bai family."

The Explosive Flame Spell is a second-tier intermediate spell, which is generally only learnable by cultivators in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Even if a cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment learns it, using it once will consume most of their mana, and they will be unable to control the direction and accuracy, so they can only throw it like a firework.

Not to mention the highly difficult operation of sealing magic into a talisman.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, to draw a mid-grade second-tier spirit talisman, one must have at least the cultivation level of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

However, Li Ping is an exception. He has the blessing of the Tree of Inheritance. As long as Meng Qing also knows how to draw a second-tier mid-grade spirit talisman, his success rate in making talismans is 100%.

It can be said that in the art of talisman making, he has already surpassed his master!

In the past few years, although alchemy and cultivation occupied most of his time, Li Ping also drew seventy or eighty second-tier mid-grade spirit talismans, with roughly half being fire-type spirit talismans "Exploding Flame Talisman" and half being lightning-type spirit talismans "Giant Thunder Talisman".

Of all the second-tier mid-grade spirit talismans he possessed, these two were the most lethal.

Originally, the second-tier mid-grade spirit talisman was Li Ping's trump card, which was not convenient to reveal to outsiders. However, now that the Bai family is facing the crisis of extermination, and Bai Lin is looking at him with pleading eyes, it would be a bit unreasonable for him not to take any action.

Therefore, Li Ping gave the Bai family visitors five "Explosive Flame Talismans" and emphasized that he had bought them on the black market.

……

"Thank you for bestowing the talisman, senior." Feeling the faint pressure emanating from the talisman, the Qi Refining cultivator from the Bai family revealed a relieved smile. He hadn't expected things to take such a turn for the better so quickly.

Although we didn't get Senior Li's help on this trip, obtaining five mid-grade second-tier spirit talismans might be able to help the family overcome the crisis!

Of course, the best-case scenario would be if Senior Li were willing to go to Gaojishan to oversee things, but seeing Li Ping's resolute attitude, he knew that this was impossible, so he no longer insisted.

He immediately said respectfully, "Senior Li, I will take my leave now. The Bai family will surely repay you handsomely in the future."

After saying that, he turned and left.

But just then, Bai Lin called out, "Sixth Uncle, I'll go back with you!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Lin, who was in the late stage of Qi Refining, was taken aback. However, she then spoke again, but this time not to him, but to Li Ping.

With tears in her eyes, Bai Lin looked at Li Ping and said, "Young Master, I want to go back to High Ridge Mountain and wait until the beast tide is over before returning, is that alright?"

Li Ping's gaze fell on her face, where he saw her stubborn expression and eyes full of expectation.

After a long silence, he simply sighed softly and nodded: "Okay, be careful on the road."

"Thank you... thank you, young master." Bai Lin tried her best to hold back her tears, but after saying this, she could no longer suppress the grievances in her heart, and tears fell like rain.

……

Berlin is gone.

Li Ping didn't stop them because he knew it would be useless.

He rationally analyzed that there were hundreds of cultivators on Gaoji Mountain, and a Foundation Establishment stage ancestor was also in charge. As long as the Bai family ancestor wasn't stupid, he could use the five 'Explosive Flame Talismans' he gave him to concentrate his firepower and defeat them one by one, directly killing more than two second-tier demonic beasts.

There is absolutely no danger on Gaojishan.

But Bai Lin's family and friends are all in Gaojishan, constantly facing the threat of death. Concern can cloud judgment, so will she listen to Li Ping's rational analysis?

Unless he tied her up and prevented her from going back, Li Ping had no other choice.

As for him going to Gaojishan with him, that was not within his consideration.

"Even Gaojishan has five second-tier demonic beasts appearing. This beast tide seems to be quite unusual!" Li Ping thought to himself.

Then he thought of Master Hu, who was out, and a strange thought popped into his mind: "Could it be that he knew about the beast tide all along and ran away with his valuables beforehand? That's so unfriendly of him, he didn't even ask me to come with him when he ran away."

……

Watching from afar as Bai Lin and Bai Jia, both at the late stage of Qi Refining, successfully entered the formation with the help of the Bai family patriarch.

Dressed in black robes, Protector Yan couldn't help but burst into curses: "You took their spirit wood, you took their daughter, you reaped all the benefits, and now that they're facing a crisis of extinction, you don't even come to help! Is this how a human being does things? You made me wait all these days for nothing! You beast, you're a real beast!"

But after he finished cursing, he had no choice but to leave; he didn't have time to stay there any longer.