Zhao Guang, Save Me!

As they emerged from Merit City, Zhao Guang and the others wore grim expressions.

"This is the Azure Cloud Li Family?" Zhao Guang sensed everything within Merit City. The entire city was lush and green, brimming with vitality. He had worked with the Li Family many times before. With his lifespan nearing its end, the Li Family had always relied on the Merchant Lineage's abundant wealth to supply him with life-extending pills.

Weird Arts Mountain, Grand Tower, the Western Border's battle against the Nirvana Sacred Elder... all had worked with the Li Family. Even then, he had known the Li Family possessed enormous potential.

But only now, upon reaching the Southern Border, did he truly grasp the Li Family's foundations.

Those verdant vines, along with the surging vitality suffusing the Li Family, formed a natural array imbued with the power of immortals.

Within the Li Family's ancestral lands were true immortals—not mere half-immortals created through gifts bestowed by immortals!

Perhaps... there was more than one.

As for Body Integration Realm cultivators, he could sense three whose auras were not concealed!

And beyond that—

As they passed the Li Family's Myriad Dao Divine Bell Tower, even Zhao Guang, a Body Integration Realm cultivator, could feel a pair of eyes staring at him from the void. There had to be something sinister within that divine tower, something that made even him feel a threat lurking everywhere.

"Li Family... just how many secrets are they hiding?" Zhao Guang murmured.

Beside him, Wenren Jiuyue looked grave. "Commander Zhao, Li Changan agreed to our terms. Do you think..."

"They're deceiving us."

Zhao Guang did not hesitate. "If the Li Family wanted to leave, they could take most of their foundations and depart the South Sea at any time. With the Li Family's current strength, the