Fierce Battle

"Whoosh!"

A gust of wind blew past; a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage expert from the Hu Family who had been besieging Li Xiang had been sliced in half at the waist!

[Energy consumption has reached 56%!]

[Left arm sustained severe damage; spiritual power in the shoulder laser cannon has been depleted!]

[Warning: Do not use Blade Storm again, or it will cause severe damage to the chassis!]

The Wang Family was more troublesome than Li Xiang had anticipated!

They possessed all sorts of trump cards; just moments ago, the Wang Family had even brought out ten magical artifacts, sacrificing them into a grand formation that caused significant damage to his War Puppet's mecha.

Fortunately, while the War Puppet was heavily damaged, the two remaining Foundation Establishment Peak Stage experts of the Wang Family were also covered in wounds.

On the map.

In Li Xiang's view, the members of the Li Family were also locked in a bitter struggle.

Xu Cuihua led the spirit beasts in the first wave of the charge, solely to break through the traps of Tailin Town. They were facing the Hu Family's ancestral Spear Forest Formation; such a formation actually linked the spiritual power of all Hu Family members, causing all the spears to descend like a torrential downpour.

In an instant, over a dozen slow-moving spirit beasts were unable to dodge in time and met their ends.

Close-quarters combat followed immediately.

Facing the various traps, formations, talismans, and magical artifacts laid out by the Hu Family and Wang Family in Tailin Town... backed by the centuries-old heritage of these two families, the spirit beasts that the Li Family had spent years cultivating appeared so fragile.

But soon, after the Spear Forest Formation in Tailin Town was breached, the villagers of Zhien Village charged in under the leadership of Li Dalong!

The Li Family guard team launched their first wave of attacks.

Although most of them were still ordinary people, after years of training and equipped with a large amount of gear, they could effectively strike at Qi Refining cultivators!

They halted, drew their bows, and nocked their arrows.

Bows forged from black iron rained down in their first volley, and each of their quivers held 15 iron arrows!

Following their volley.

The nearly one thousand villagers of Zhien Village were not to be outdone.

Once the attacks from within Tailin Town ceased, they quickly rushed to the vicinity. Instead of foolishly engaging the cultivators in hand-to-hand combat, they followed Li Yaotie's lead and brought out all their weapons.

In an instant, a scene unfolded where villagers were hurling kitchen knives, wood axes, and other sharp tools toward the direction from which the cultivators had just attacked.

Immediately after.

All the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators on the Li Family's side, along with the Li Family's three spirit beasts, seized the opportunity to charge into Tailin Town!

Li Xiang could no longer look after everyone!

He could only deal with the two Foundation Establishment Peak Stage experts.

While waiting for notifications from the game interface!

[A villager from Zhien Village is in critical condition...]

[One of your family's spirit beasts has been severely injured!]

[Villager death...]

"Damn it!"

Operating the War Puppet from inside the room while observing the game interface with his own eyes, Li Xiang gritted his teeth.

Having played this game for so long.

He had already realized that these were likely all living, breathing people!

One fresh life after another perished before his eyes, yet he knew clearly that he had to maintain enough rationality at such a time.

[Incense Value: 1342]

The cruel truth was that even though he possessed a considerable amount of Incense Value, he could not help everyone; he could only keep his eyes on the Li Family members to ensure nothing happened to them!

[Using skill 'Charge My Children', consuming 115 Incense!]

This was not the first time Li Xiang had used this skill, which could increase all attributes of family members by 10%!

However, the skill's consumption increased as the members grew stronger.

Using this skill on a Foundation Establishment expert required 50 points, while it only took 5 points for the Qi Refining stage!

"It's the Ancestor!"

"My cultivation has increased!"

"With the Ancestor helping me, let's see how you die!"

The Li Family members who had already broken into Tailin Town felt a powerful surge of true qi transmitted to them from the Ancestral Tablet!

That's right.

The current Li Family members all carried one of Li Xiang's spirit tablets in their bosoms, fighting alongside their ancestor!

Although... Li Xiang could use skills on them even without the tablets, carrying the ancestor's tablet into battle had already become a fine tradition of the Li Family.

"Boom!"

Inside the Hu Family estate, amidst the raging battle, the Chen Family ancestor led the entire Chen clan, using a secret family technique to shatter the Hu Family Protective Array!

At this moment.

With the Hu Family Talisman Array exploding, Hu Wei, who had previously sent men to severely wound Li Dalong, stood with several Qi Refining experts, gazing at the ruins.

"Hahaha! Overestimating yourselves! The brat of the Li Family actually wants to avenge his father? Take a look at yourself and see if you're even in the same league!"

Within the ruins.

Li Yaozu could be seen struggling to stand, sword in hand, atop the debris. From the very first moment he broke into the Hu Family, he had charged forward without hesitation to find Hu Wei.

For all these years, there hadn't been a single day he didn't dream of avenging his father!

But what he hadn't expected was that even after killing a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator protecting Hu Wei and breaking through the encirclement, he couldn't escape the Hu Family's hidden reserves; they possessed all manner of magical arrays!

"Men, kill this reckless fool. A mere bumpkin from the countryside wants to kill me?"

Hu Wei stared coldly at Li Yaozu.

Facing the charging cultivators, Li Yaozu, despite his severe injuries, felt no fear.

He extended his left hand, where the bloody bone was already visible, and gripped the Ancestral Tablet in his chest. Suddenly, he grinned, making him look like a demon crawling out of hell.

"Do you think only you have hidden reserves? My Li Family has them too!!!"

"What?"

Hu Wei's expression changed.

Because as Li Yaozu roared, the Ancestral Tablet in his hand suddenly glowed with a white light, and his wounds began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye!

[Consumed 100 points of Incense, used 'Ancestral Embrace', healing Li Yaozu's wounds!]

His injuries recovered significantly!

Li Yaozu gripped his long sword, his face grim as he walked toward Hu Wei, "Today, I take your head to avenge the near-death of my father!"

"The head of the Li Family is nothing but a country bumpkin, knowing only a set of mundane saber techniques and a footwork style learned from my Hu Family. How dare you come to my Hu Family to act so insolently!"

Inside the Hu Family estate.

Li Dalong held a long saber, facing the fierce onslaught of a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage expert!

Although he possessed four traits, Li Dalong was exactly as the Foundation Establishment expert had claimed; his Foundation Establishment Realm was truly lacking. The cultivation techniques he had learned were all common goods, and after reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm, he hadn't even had time to learn any spells. He was simply no match for a standard Foundation Establishment cultivator, possessing nothing but raw internal energy.

At most, he could only fight a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator to a draw.

Now, facing a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage expert, after just a dozen exchanges, he was already in a sorry state.

"Today, I will use the head of the Li Family head as a stepping stone under my Hu Family's threshold. From now on, all my Hu Family descendants will step on your skull as they come and go!"

As the opponent's attacks grew increasingly violent.

Li Dalong, whose movements had been chaotic, suddenly became increasingly calm, which left the Hu Family cultivator puzzled, "You still dare to counterattack? Where do you get the courage?"

Li Dalong grinned.

"The courage given by my ancestors!"

In an instant.

The Ancestral Tablet in Li Dalong's chest floated out and appeared before him!

"What kind of magical artifact is this?"

The Foundation Establishment Middle Stage expert froze.

This thing looked like a mere memorial tablet; who goes out to fight for their life carrying their ancestors' spirit tablet?

But a scene that filled him with terror unfolded!

The Ancestral Tablet split into ten, each one charging toward him before exploding!

The explosions were equivalent to the peak of the Qi Refining stage, forcing even him to defend.

The same scene was playing out for all the Li Family members!

Xu Cuihua had been fighting a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage expert; having never experienced life-or-death combat, she was naturally at a disadvantage.

But the Ancestral Tablet in her chest suddenly emerged, delivering a critical blow to her opponent!

Li Yaotie wandered the battlefield with an iron hammer in hand.

He was a complete brute; he charged wherever he found Qi Refining experts of his level. As long as there was no opponent stronger than him, he dared to charge into a crowd of a hundred men.

The Ancestral Tablet appeared by his side as well, always managing to instantly kill any Qi Refining expert trying to ambush him!

Compared to the battles of his family members.

Li Yaoqing was clearly more relaxed; she sat atop a giant eagle at the peak of the demonic beast level, aiming her bow and arrow at the enemies.

Behind her, a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator had been tracking her, but he dared not approach, for Li Yaoqing's medicinal powder was constantly drifting behind her.

She was also carrying out a harvesting operation.

"Hmph, you despicable coward of the Li Family, do you really think you can escape?"

The Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator was so anxious he was practically jumping, finally using a secret technique to appear before Li Yaoqing like a Shift Shadow Technique.

Yet Li Yaoqing remained unmoved, simply bending his bow and nocking an arrow in silence.

And then.

Two Ancestral Tablets flew out from Li Yaoqing's robes, launching a lethal attack toward the Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator, followed immediately by Li Yaoqing's venom-coated arrow!

On the battlefield.

One Ancestral Tablet after another rose into the air.

The two Wang Family ancestors, who were locked in a fierce battle with the War Puppet, naturally noticed the anomaly.

"So there was a special magic treasure after all!"

The seal used by the Wang Family ancestor continued to attack Li Xiang, yet he remained completely unfazed.

The appearance of these Ancestral Tablets could not change the situation on the battlefield; they had superior numbers and many experts, so the scales of victory would tilt in their favor as time went on!

"I admit we underestimated your Li Family; I fear no single family in Tailin Town has the power to fight you alone."

One Wang Family ancestor laughed loudly, attempting to affect Li Xiang's state of mind. "Unfortunately, your Li Family is too foolish, daring to walk into the inescapable net we set in Tailin Town all by yourselves. You are destined to be exterminated today!"

In front of the screen.

Li Xiang remained unmoved. He admitted that entering Tailin Town for this battle was reckless and incredibly difficult.

However...

He slowly clicked on the map to check the only Li Family member not currently in the battle. "It all depends on you now. If you don't arrive soon, I really won't be able to hold on!"

As his words fell.

Figures suddenly appeared, leaping across the rooftops of the houses in Tailin Town!

Several experts riding swords appeared in the sky above the battlefield!

They charged toward the battlefield and joined the Li Family's side!

A flying dagger tore through the air; even though the Wang Family ancestor dodged in time, his right arm was still severed.

The Wang Family ancestors all turned to look behind them.

A middle-aged man in purple robes retracted the flying dagger that had just severed the Wang Family ancestor's arm!

"Su Yun, you scoundrel, what do you think you are doing?!!"

Li Xiang, watching the screen, let out a sigh of relief.

In the distance, at the Su Family estate.

Li Yaowen was being pushed by a maid; she sat in a wheelchair, a relaxed smile appearing on her face.

To her left and right, the disciples of the Su Family surged out, weapons in hand!