"Bang!"
"Rumble!"
Following the deployment of the Spear Forest Array Art by the Li Clan descendants, the summoning of a massive number of spirit puppets and zombies, and the final killing blow unleashed by the resentment-corrupted Qiu Anran at the end of his life, the descendants on the Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain struggled to resist.
The faith and willpower of the Qiu clansmen had already been crushed by Qiu Anran's words.
In that brief moment of distraction, they had already suffered massive casualties.
"Courting death!"
Qiu Xundao roared furiously and unleashed his Daoist arts.
He didn't have time to carefully consider when exactly these Li Clan cultivators had arrived.
With just one glance, he knew that his demoralized clansmen were absolutely no match for these murderous Li Clan cultivators.
Qiu Anran's final technique caused countless ice spikes to fall toward the ground.
Qiu Naihe blocked these ice pillars; the ice pillars collided with tiny, winged figures radiating powerful Spiritual Qi, causing massive ice boulders to fall from the cloudy sky.
However, just as Qiu Anran fell and his technique was neutralized, the Li Clan's spear forest, puppets, and zombies had already charged in.
For the besieged Qiu clansmen, this was no different from an apocalyptic disaster.
Without time to think, Qiu Xundao brazenly charged downward, simultaneously transmitting his voice to the other three Qiu Clan Elders:
"Do not be afraid! This is the Northern Border! With the Li Clan slaughtering our Qiu Clan, the Grand Tutor will absolutely not sit idly by, nor will our fellow Daoists of the Northern Border!"
"I am the Second Commander of the Asura Army, and I have many friends with whom I have shared life and death!
The Li Clan carries the ten deadly sins; they will come to our aid immediately!"
The three Qiu Clan Elders responded in agreement.
Qiu Xundao, fueled by rage, surprisingly charged toward Li Tianming in the distance.
He could sense that this man, disguised as harmless to humans and animals alike, possessed the Spiritual power that had killed Qiu Anran.
Qiu Xundao wanted to grind him to dust to avenge the clan!
But right at this moment, a figure blocked his path.
The phantom of an ancient ferocious beast charged from the cloudy sky, interrupting the technique he intended to use to annihilate Li Tianming.
"Li Xinghuo!"
Qiu Xundao's expression was icy as he let out a scoff.
"After your breakthrough, did I not injure you enough? How dare you leave the army! Even if I kill you, Adoptive Father will not blame me.
Since your Li Clan dared to come to the Northern Border, today is your Li Clan's doomsday!"
Li Xinghuo's face was pale.
He exuded a Void Refining aura.
He had indeed done exactly as he said in the military camp: after breaking through, he fought Qiu Xundao and took a beating under the witness of the Grand Tutor.
It was just a pity that his prediction was wrong.
Qiu Xundao was truly shameless; not only did he personally intervene, but he also directed his greed toward the entire family.
"Today is not my Li Clan's doomsday." Li Xinghuo's expression remained calm.
"Qiu Xundao, when Qiu Xunfa tried to kill my granddaughter, I already gave you ample opportunity.
Yet you insisted on leading your Qiu Clan to death; you brought this entirely upon yourselves.
Today, Adoptive Father will not blame us. When my Li Clan exterminates your Qiu Clan, no one will dare to come to your aid."
"What a joke!"
Qiu Xundao's expression changed, a sudden palpitation rising in his heart, yet he still snorted coldly.
However, Li Xinghuo's expression was frighteningly calm, even holding a trace of pity.
"Whether it is a joke or not, only Adoptive Father knows. It's just a pity that I won't let you see him."
...
At this moment.
In Grand Tutor Lin Jiu's study, the Grand Tutor was still wielding his brush, writing characters.
He appeared just as usual, except that there were many new items on the desk beside him.
The decrees of the Department of Immortal Suppression.
And a Memory Crystal.
The Grand Tutor had clearly already reviewed the evidence in the decrees.
The Memory Crystal continued to project a scene.
Within it, on the frozen Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain, Qiu Anran knelt on the ground.
Beneath his palm, a corpse was pinned down.
The corpse of Crown Prince Fei Heng.
The Li clansman, Li Xinjue, had led descendants into the Qiu Clan's Snow God Temple.
Inside, Li Xinjue found Wei Yu, the junior sister of the Undefeated Marshal Bi Shihu.
The woman laughed loudly, recounting the secret between Bi Shihu and Qiu Xundao.
"So what if it was us? My senior brother and the Qiu Clan's Qiu Xundao precisely intended to collude with the Wu Tribe!
They intended to desert their posts and let the Western Border fall!
Only in this way could we gain merit and secure unparalleled battle results for my senior brother!"
"With the fall of the Western Border, the Grand Tutor would be forced to dispatch troops from the Northern Border to protect the Imperial Dynasty, and Qiu Xundao would be the best candidate!
It was your Li Clan who ruined my senior brother! I want the Qiu Clan to demand your lives!"
Wei Yu fled.
In the Memory Crystal, stitched-corpse monsters suddenly appeared on the Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain.
A Qiu clansman cultivating the Corpse-Stitching Art was killed by the Li Clan.
Planting evidence and framing them—a cheap trick that anyone with discerning eyes could see through.
But sometimes, cheap tricks were just that effective.
The Grand Tutor set down his brush and sighed.
"Shameless to the absolute extreme."
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