Ancestral Patriarch's Raging Fury!

"Damn! They finally decided to come in?"

Li Xiang watched the little figures on the screen enter the village, the corner of his mouth twitching. With time accelerated, he was almost done with his second cup of milk tea by the time the Dragon and Tiger Brothers gave the order to attack.

He had even watched their exchange crystal clear through the screen.

Soon.

The Dragon and Tiger Brothers had already led more than two hundred disciples into the Li Family compound in the dead of night.

With lightning speed, they charged straight for the locations where intelligence had told them the Li Family's experts were.

The Dragon and Tiger Brothers rushed directly into the Ancestral Hall, intent on killing the Li Family's strongest fighter, the Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python.

On more than a dozen gleaming flying swords, the cultivators' formidable true qi surged!

And then...

[The Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python stood before the Ancestral Hall and struck first. The Dragon and Tiger Brothers immediately sensed that something was wrong.]

[Your descendant Li Yaozu led three hundred members of the Black Blood Hall out of the cellar. Using the Spear Forest Array in coordination with Xu Cuihua, they instantly killed 58 members of the Dragon Tiger Sect. Li Yaozu is asking whether you will spare the remaining 42.]

[Your descendant Li Yaotie, along with eight members of the "Nine Syllables Mantra Formation" among the Li Family's descendants and the remaining cultivators of Zhien Village, used nearly two hundred magical artifacts to form a Spirit Gathering Trap Formation, blocking every escape route within Zhien Village! Li Yaotie is asking whether he should close in step by step and trap everyone.]

[In Zhien Village, the eighth-rank Blood Spirit Fruit Tree sensed danger. Its roots burst through the earth and danced in the night! It could feel the hostility of the enemy and asked your Ancestral Tablet whether it could feast on the blood of the living tonight.]

"Holy shit?!"

Li Xiang was stunned too. He knew the Dragon Tiger Sect couldn't pose a threat.

But...

The Dragon Tiger Sect's attack had barely begun before it was already over!

Only the Dragon and Tiger Brothers remained, drenched in sweat beneath the torchlight blazing across Zhien Village, realizing they were surrounded.

"Impossible... How could this happen?!"

Kuang Long clenched his teeth as he stared at the scene before him. The experts of Zhien Village and the Li Family had all appeared. He knew that no matter how cautious he'd been, everything he'd seen had been a false image planted by the Li Family!

And the Li Family's lower-level fighters were far stronger than the intelligence he'd received had suggested.

And on top of that...

Li Dalong, Xu Cuihua, and twelve spirit beasts had closed in around them from the sky, while the Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python attacked from the ground with thunderbolts.

"A-Hu, let's run! As long as we're alive, the Dragon Tiger Sect won't fall!"

Li Xiang immediately realized what the Dragon and Tiger Brothers were planning.

To be honest.

With the Li Family's current strength, without the War Puppet repaired or the Silver Iron Forest's help, they probably couldn't stop two False Core Stage experts from escaping.

But...

"You think you can get away?!"

Li Xiang moved his mouse to the clan skills in the game—

[Ancestral Patriarch's Fury, skill level Lv.1, has met the 50-year family development requirement.]

[Would you like to spend 5,000 Incense to advance the skill?]

This skill was one of Li Xiang's main means of attack.

It had become eligible for advancement when the family reached its fiftieth year.

It was also the trump card that had given him the nerve to let the Li Family take the initiative and attack the outside world amid these chaotic times. The Li Family had simply always played it safe.

But today, the time had finally come to use it!

"Advance!"

Li Xiang clicked "Yes" without hesitation.

In an instant.

The Ancestral Tablets in every Li Family descendant's arms stirred, their brilliant purple light dazzling in the night!

"Huh? It moved! The Ancestral Tablet moved!"

"The Ancestral Patriarch has shown his power again! He's been fighting alongside us this whole time!"

"Dad was right. The Ancestral Tablet can fly on its own. This is our mysterious, valiant, invincible Ancestral Patriarch!"

"..."

The Li Family members were overjoyed.

Especially the seven children of Li Yaotie, each built like a bull. They looked as though they'd never seen anything like it, staring intently at the sky with fervent eyes, as if they'd met a living god.

[Your skill "Ancestral Patriarch's Fury" is advancing. It is advancing to—]

[Ancestral Patriarch's Raging Fury!]

[Using skill "Ancestral Patriarch's Raging Fury." Consuming 500 Incense!]

"My Incense!"

Li Xiang's heart ached. The skill "Love from the Ancestor" had actually advanced long ago.

It had become "Ancestral Patriarch's Warmth," but advancing it had only cost Li Xiang 500 Incense, and using it cost just 20.

Of course an offensive skill would hurt the wallet once it advanced!

"You're paying me back for my Incense!"

Without hesitation, Li Xiang clicked on the Dragon and Tiger Brothers on the screen. A small dot rippled across their bodies.

In an instant, all the Ancestral Tablets floating in the air blazed with light, leaping one after another into the night sky!

"What's that?"

The Dragon and Tiger Brothers had already hurriedly fled the Li Family members' attacks. Their expressions changed as they looked at the Ancestral Tablets surrounding them in the sky, fear creeping into their faces. Kuang Long exclaimed, "Those aren't ordinary tablets. They're special spiritual artifacts of the Li Family, and each one has the power of a peak Foundation Establishment expert!"

They had wanted to escape.

But the dozen or so Ancestral Tablets seemed to have eyes, relentlessly tracking their movements. Even their invisibility techniques couldn't shake them!

What was more, the Ancestral Tablets had once been ordinary objects, but now they had the hardness of top-grade magical artifacts. Even False Core experts would have trouble destroying them!

"What kind of magical artifact is this?!"

"Not good! There's something else inside this artifact. What is that?!"

The Dragon and Tiger Brothers brought out every trump card and fought with all their might to hold off the tablets, but their hearts were seized by terror once more.

Within the magical artifacts, shadowy figures emerged, shrouded in black mist. The mysterious beings leaped up and swung their fists at them.

After just a minute of resisting.

They had even figured out the pattern. Kuang Long shouted, "A-Hu, watch out! A shadow appears every four finger-flicks, then throws fifteen punches, each with the power of a mid-stage Foundation Establishment expert!"

Forget wiping out the Li Family. At that moment, Kuang Long realized the Li Family was a den of demons!

Five minutes later.

The Dragon and Tiger Brothers, who had come from Qingyun County and had once managed to survive twenty exchanges against a Golden Core cultivator before escaping, fell from the sky.

[After being tracked for a long time by the Ancestral Tablets, the Dragon and Tiger Brothers still couldn't destroy them, even after using their combined spell, Boiling Blood. In the end, Kuang Hu was pierced through the chest by an Ancestral Tablet, then beaten into a meat pie by more than a dozen shadowy figures. Kuang Long was surrounded by the Li Family members who arrived on the scene. Li Dalong crippled his dantian, and the Li Family captured him.]

"The Ancestral Patriarch's power is beyond even a Golden Core!"

Li Dalong stared in shock at the Ancestral Tablets floating in the sky, then knelt with his descendants to pay their respects.

Watching this, Kuang Long, trapped by magical artifacts, was already weak and delirious. "So... you really do have an Ancestral Patriarch? Those tablets are being controlled by a powerful expert... I suppose I didn't lose unfairly."

He already knew that since the Li Family had dared to mention the "Ancestral Patriarch" in front of him, they had no intention of letting him live.

He had meant to kill himself to avoid being tortured.

But when the Temple Guardian Beast let out a cry, Li Dalong immediately understood. He said coldly, "Kuang Long, tell us everything you know."

"Kill me." Kuang Long smiled scornfully.

But he soon stopped smiling. Li Dalong snorted. "You can choose to say nothing and die with a clean slate. But think about it: if you can come to the Li Family, we can go to your Dragon Tiger Sect too. You don't want us to wipe out all your disciples, do you?"

Only then did Kuang Long give in. "I can tell you what I know, but you have to agree to one condition: send out a message for me and tell the Dragon Tiger Sect's disciples to flee."

"Fine."

Soon.

The Li Family members had learned useful information from Kuang Long, then tossed him to the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree, which drained him dry.

Afterward, Li Dalong tossed Kuang Long's corpse into the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin to refine.

They believed in pinching pennies and making the most of everything.

After cleaning up the battlefield, the Li Family members gathered in the Ancestral Hall, the incense smoke filling the room.

"Ancestral Patriarch, your child was useless. If you hadn't stepped in, the Dragon and Tiger Brothers would've gotten away." Li Dalong kowtowed again and again.

[You used "Ancestral Patriarch's Warmth" on your descendant Li Dalong. Consuming 20 Incense.]

Li Xiang gave Li Dalong a dose of the skill.

Truthfully, this wasn't Li Dalong's fault. The Dragon and Tiger Brothers lived up to their reputation; they were stronger than any False Core experts the Li Family had encountered before.

Without "Ancestral Patriarch's Raging Fury," there was no guarantee they could have kept them there.

"This skill is incredible!"

Li Xiang glanced at the skill, still feeling a little excited.

Compared to its level-one version, this one was much easier to use. He didn't need to guide it with the mouse at all.

One click to activate, one click to track. The skill wouldn't end until the enemy was dead!

And the most terrifying part was...

While the skill was active, every Ancestral Tablet carried by a descendant within a thousand meters would increase the number of tablets used by the skill by one. Each additional tablet was equivalent to adding the battle strength of another peak Foundation Establishment expert!

"Worth every bit."

Li Xiang suddenly felt that those 5,000 Incense had been a bargain.

Soon, the special event also brought his Incense back up!

[You led your family in protecting its place of origin. You displayed your divine might, and all members of the Li Family witnessed your power.]

[Incense gained: 3,000!]

Li Xiang felt at ease.

The members of the family had already begun reporting the information they'd pried out of Kuang Long.

"Ancestral Patriarch, ten forces came this time from the three towns of Qingyun County. The weakest of the remaining nine forces has at least two peak Foundation Establishment experts. They were ordered by an elder of the Xuanwu Sect to seize a large number of Spirit Stones."

Li Dalong reported, "The strongest is Yunshu Wanghai Pavilion. Their Ancestral Patriarch is a Golden Core expert, and their lineage has been passed down for two thousand years."

Li Yaoqing pondered. "The Dragon Tiger Sect originally planned to wipe out Zhien Village first, then Tailin Town. In less than a month, Yunshu Wanghai Pavilion will probably learn that the entire Dragon Tiger Sect has fallen. We have one month to prepare. As long as no Golden Core expert appears, we have nothing to fear with the Silver Iron Forest at our backs."

"But now..."

She smiled. "Father, you promised to send a message for the Dragon Tiger Sect. We should keep our word. But after they flee, we can still kill them. The Dragon Tiger Sect's resources are important to us too."

As he listened to his descendants discuss how to survive and seek growth amid this chaos.

Li Xiang knew that the truly important matter wasn't any of that.

He clicked on the Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python's portrait.

The Purple Thunder Heavenly Sun Python let out a "hiss."

In an instant.

All the Li Family descendants turned around to listen to the Ancestral Patriarch's teachings.

Several of Li Yaotie's grown children didn't know the first thing about the Beast Taming Technique, but their faces were still full of longing.

Li Yundou scratched his head and nudged Li Yunbing beside him with his elbow. "Second Brother, what's the Ancestral Patriarch saying?"

Li Yunbing looked completely innocent. "The Ancestral Patriarch's telling you to sow your seed."

"Huh?!"

Li Yundou's mouth twitched.

Only Li Yunbing still looked confused as he turned to Xu Cuihua and asked, "Grandma, doesn't our family have lots of Spirit Fields? We have enough grain to eat, so why do we still need to sow seeds?"

"..."