The Li Family Now Possesses Absolute Confidence!

Li Xiang stared intently at the map of the Silver Iron Forest on his screen.

Since the Li Family had gained the ability to explore this map freely, the fog had long since dissipated; as long as he clicked on the map, Li Xiang could see the scene in any location.

And at this moment.

White dots from six different directions on the map were all converging toward the Silver Iron Forest!

"They've taken the bait."

Li Xiang narrowed his eyes slightly.

Ever since he learned that the Pig Demon King was actually an in-law of the Li Family, this had already become a trap that the Li Family had spent a great deal of time setting!

And Li Xiang knew clearly.

Within this grand scheme, the Lantian Wu Family was destined to bury years of their heritage right here in the Silver Iron Forest!

On this map, the essential path leading into the depths of the Silver Iron Forest was left completely undefended.

Because...

"It's bad! The Lantian Wu Family has been wiped out!"

"The Silver Iron Forest Demon King has appeared. It knew long ago that our seven great families were planning to surround it, so it intercepted the Wu Family early to pick us off one by one!"

"People from the Lantian Wu Family have come to ask for reinforcements. Our ancestor sent me to ask if you intend to save them?"

These families had only reached the middle section before they came to a halt.

On the map, four green dots were heading toward the four great families, delivering the news that the Lantian Wu Family had already been annihilated.

And these four green dots.

Represented the people from the Li Family and the Qingping Gu Family!

The four great families hesitated for a moment, but they all unanimously sent four Qi Refining experts to investigate before retreating in frustration toward the direction they had come from. They had no choice but to believe it; after all, this was a warning from two allies, and it was better to believe it than to risk their lives.

After all, if they died, what would become of their families?

"How could the news have leaked? Could there be a mole among us?"

"Regardless, we can only wait for news now."

"What about Master Shancai... Right, when we go back, we'll just say the Lantian Wu Family caused the trouble and ruined everyone's plans; it has nothing to do with us."

In front of the screen.

Li Xiang revealed a smile.

It was indeed a mole, and two of them at that!

Otherwise, the coalition of the seven great families would have driven straight in, leaving no room for such a layout.

Everything...

Was under the control of the Li Family!

"Patriarch, we have returned!"

At this moment.

In the direction of the Qingping Gu Family in the Silver Iron Forest, they had actually remained in place the entire time, never moving.

And the two who returned were the very people who had delivered the messages to the other two great families!

"Hmm."

The Patriarch of the Qingping Gu Family, who appeared to be a refined and gentle scholar, though his expression always held a hint of sinister intent, said coldly to the people of his clan: "This matter defies the world's conventions and must be kept strictly confidential. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

Everyone frowned and acknowledged the order.

But one elder in the clan asked suspiciously, "Patriarch, why harm the Lantian Wu Family? You must know that our Gu Family has suffered through years of drought and is in dire need of the resources from the Silver Iron Forest to replenish ourselves."

The Gu Family Patriarch was not angered.

His composure was rare indeed.

"A season ago, Li Yaozu of the Li Family came to see me. He asked me a question that I found quite interesting."

"Oh?" The others were puzzled.

The Gu Family Patriarch said: "The Li Family brat asked, if we were to storm the Silver Iron Forest, would there be casualties? If the elders we have spent a hundred years cultivating were to die because of it, would it be worth it?"

"This..."

The crowd looked at each other in dismay. Where could there be a life-and-death struggle without losses? They were all just aging men trying to acquire more resources to cultivate the younger generations of their families.

"It is not worth it. But we have an opportunity—an opportunity to obtain the wealth of a family that has stood for hundreds of years without spending a single soldier!"

The Gu Family Patriarch sneered: "Do you understand now?"

"The Lantian Wu Family!"

"Most of the experts in their clan have died in the Silver Iron Forest, and the Lantian Wu Family is very close to our Qingping Town. They are a piece of fat meat ready for the taking!"

"The Lantian Wu Family is nothing but a lamb waiting for the slaughter; so that's how it is!"

The many elders of the Gu Family realized the truth, and they could not help but be wild with joy.

Why wouldn't they be happy to receive a meal handed to them on a silver platter without having to risk their lives?

One of the elders suddenly had a flash of insight, "No wonder that little girl from the Li Family dared to offer suggestions in front of us. It turns out she had a plan all along; she spoke of heading straight into the Silver Iron Forest to shut the mouth of that old fellow Wu Mengqi! Then, once we announced we were surrounding the Silver Iron Forest from seven directions and spread the news that the Wu Family was about to be wiped out, all the other families would naturally leave."

As soon as these words were spoken.

The elder who had been questioning them earlier wore a grave expression, "If that is the case, then not a single soul from the Lantian Wu Family can be left alive. Otherwise, if this matter leaks out, our Gu Family will be treated as traitors to the human race. Patriarch, who is going to handle the Wu Family?"

"Naturally, the Li Family," the Gu Family Patriarch said nonchalantly.

"The Li Family?"

The elders of the Gu Family all frowned, their eyes filled with suspicion.

After all, with all the clans gathered here, the Li Family's meager strength was truly not worth mentioning.

But the Gu Family Patriarch simply smiled.

"You don't think the Li Family, which managed to wipe out two clans single-handedly and even made me look at them with new eyes, is just being overly arrogant, do you? When that boy Yaozu discussed this with me, I saw absolute confidence in him!"

"Absolute confidence, is it?"

Li Xiang watched the small text above the Gu Family Patriarch's head quietly, his expression calm.

Yes.

Absolute confidence!

The Li Family was no longer the same Li Family that used to tremble before the Hu and Wang families!

He looked at the map.

The members of the Li Family had already met with the Lantian Wu Family.

He clicked on the avatar of Li Dalong.

The scene appeared on the path deep within the Silver Iron Forest, where a breeze blew and the shadows of the trees swayed.

The sixteen members of the Lantian Wu Family had stopped in their tracks, all of them looking suspicious and uneasy.

Standing before them.

Li Dalong, carrying a silver coffin engraved with mysterious patterns on his back, stood alone and blocked the path of the Lantian Wu Family!

An Ancestral Tablet floated beside Li Dalong, emitting a brilliant, milky glow!

"Li Dalong, why aren't you leading the Li Family to attack from the southwest? Why are you blocking our path?!!"

Although he did not know why Li Dalong was acting this way, Wu Mengqi already sensed something unusual.

The members of the Wu Family were also on high alert.

They could feel the killing intent radiating from Li Dalong!

"Boom!"

Li Dalong did not answer; he simply unstrapped the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin from his back in silence. As the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin landed heavily on the ground, he stared at the members of the Lantian Wu Family as if he were looking at dead men.

"Whoosh!"

No sooner had he moved than the sound of something piercing the air came from afar!

"Not good!"

Wu Mengqi's expression changed drastically, and he shouted coldly, "It's a trap! Deploy the formation!"

Following his loud shout, the members of the Wu Family all looked up.

They saw that in the sky, countless spears were converging into a massive net, descending toward them!

The Spear Forest Array.

It was a formation the Li Family had obtained from the Hu Family, and now, there were over sixty people in Zhien Village who had mastered the Spear Forest Array.

However, the spears in the sky were not just from the Spear Forest Array; there were also spears and arrows thrown by other cultivators from Zhien Village!

The members of the Wu Family were quite capable.

A Foundation Establishment expert had already ascended into the air on his sword, using his spiritual power to resist the descending spear array.

But spears and arrows continued to rain down from the sky.

The spiritual barrier of the Foundation Establishment expert developed cracks in less than a heartbeat.

One must know that everyone from the Li Family who went out to fight used magical artifacts produced by the Forging Pavilion, and their power was not to be underestimated!

"How bold! Li Dalong, you actually dare to set a trap to ambush my Wu Family. You're courting death!"

Wu Mengqi was already consumed by rage.

With a wave of his hand, a peak Foundation Establishment clansman of the Wu Family understood his intent, and a surge of immense true energy erupted, rushing toward Li Dalong.

But then, a thunderous sound echoed.

Soil smelling of summer fragrance scattered into the air as the Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python burst from the earth, wielding the power of celestial thunder and terrestrial fire.

Accompanied by a wild roar, the Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python withstood a strike from a peak Foundation Establishment expert, but it did not linger, charging straight toward Wu Mengqiu, the 200-year-old False Core Stage expert of the Wu Family!

"Hmph! I had heard that your Li Family possessed a spirit beast, but what about a puppet?"

Wu Mengqiu was completely unfazed, his confidence evident!

"As you wish."

Seeing Wu Mengqiu acting so arrogantly.

Li Xiang, in front of his screen, had already clicked on the War Puppet!

"Boom!"

As Li Xiang's eyes turned white.

His consciousness appeared in the game world; the War Puppet, which had long been prepared in the Silver Iron Forest, rose into the air, its entire arsenal of weapons erupting as it charged toward Wu Mengqiu!

Back during the great battle in Tailin Town, this War Puppet had even lost an arm.

Yet, after five years, by retrieving the fragments of the War Puppet and utilizing the biotechnology within it, its wounds had long since healed. It was only because some fragments could not be recovered that it appeared externally aged and scarred!

"Not good!"

The roar of the Laser Cannon and the eruption of the Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python's thunder-fire power did not cause Wu Mengqiu to panic.

What truly terrified him.

Was the arrival of spirit beasts from all directions, following the appearance of the War Puppet!

These.

Were the spirit beasts guarding the Pig Demon King in the Silver Iron Forest. With the various clans having already departed, these beasts were now surrounding the Wu Family, turning this into a death trap for them from the very start!

This was the current strength of the Li Family.

The Li Family had formed an alliance with the Pig Demon King and now held a debt of gratitude over him; the spirit beasts of the Silver Iron Forest were already at the Li Family's disposal!

Gathering the full power of the Silver Iron Forest.

A full 50 spirit beasts—this was a force the Li Family would not have dared to imagine before. 50 Foundation Establishment Realm entities, among which were even four spirit beasts with strength comparable to the Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python!

"Flee!"

Seeing these spirit beasts, Wu Mengqiu felt his heart shatter. "Whoever can, spread the word! The trip to the Silver Iron Forest is a trap set by the Li Family. They have conspired with the Demon King; they are traitors to the human race!"

"Hahaha, flee? Let's see how you escape!"

Li Dalong finally spoke.

Those arriving spirit beasts had already perched on the branches, blocking their path of flight on their swords.

The terrified cultivators of the Wu Family scrambled to escape in every direction from the ground.

But soon.

Their hope of escape was shattered!

"Click-clack!"

The earth shifted; Li Dalong had opened the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin!

After obtaining this spiritual treasure, Li Dalong had dug up all the corpses buried beneath the Beast Blood Fruit Tree during the Tailin Town battle.

These corpses had all been refined into zombies through the Heavenly Coffin Corpse-Driving Technique and the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin!

One by one, withered hands broke through the soil, revealing matted hair and faces like tree bark as they crawled out from underground; there were even maggots crawling on their bodies.

Thousands of zombies blocked the path for the members of the Wu Family!

The members of the Li Family also joined the battlefield alongside the spirit beasts, intercepting the Wu Family experts who tried to flee.

Xu Cuihua transformed into her two-tailed fox form, wielding the Tianjun Seal seized from the Wang Family, and was even able to fight a peak Foundation Establishment expert.

"Thunder-Attracting Heavenly Scripture!"

This technique, which summoned celestial thunder, was obtained from the Litian Secret Canon. Xu Cuihua had mastered it, channeling celestial thunder into the Tianjun Seal, forcing even peak Foundation Establishment experts to avoid its edge.

"Phantom Heavenly Cluster Steps!"

"Hundred Shadow Sword Radiance!"

Li Yaozu fought the enemy, his movements becoming elusive and appearing highly illusory.

He had mastered the Phantom Heavenly Cluster Steps through constant practice with the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin, and now he had manifested ten clones, each possessing ten percent of his original strength. His Hundred Shadow Sword Radiance unleashed a hundred sword shadows with a single thrust. With the combination of these two techniques, the sky was filled with sword shadows; between the real and the fake, he could even fight a mid-stage Foundation Establishment expert!

"Quick, quick, quick! Entangle him, and I'll hammer him to death!"

Only Li Yaotie, that kid, seemed a bit out of place, holding a giant hammer thicker than his own body while calling for a tree demon to help him entangle a mid-stage Foundation Establishment expert.

His severed left arm had originally been a useless prosthetic, but after his breakthrough, he had tempered it with his Dantian Fire; now, his left arm was a magical tool, capable of lifting a thousand pounds with ease!

Gripping the giant hammer with both hands, he felt no pressure at all!

With every swing, a spray of blood erupted.