Invasion? The Li family's slaughterhouse!

"Holy crap? So many people?!!"

Li Xiang, sitting in front of the screen, hadn't taken this invasion event seriously at first. After all, many such incidents had occurred before; they were just starving refugees driven mad by a bad harvest, posing no real threat.

But this time, Li Xiang's expression finally changed.

On the territory of the Li Clan, dense clusters of red dots had appeared—a rough count suggested over a thousand people!

Last time, when facing a Thunder Python with strength approaching the Foundation Establishment Realm, Li Xiang had felt his blood pumping with excitement, but this time, he felt only tension!

Over a thousand people, scattered all across the map.

The power of his Ancestral Tablet was no longer enough; if he had to rely on it entirely, manually clicking to control the Ancestral Tablet for each one would likely keep him busy for half the day!

"Even if they are disaster victims, isn't this too many?"

Looking at these refugees wielding pitchforks and wooden clubs as weapons, their faces twisted with bloodlust, Li Xiang felt his scalp tingle.

He took a deep breath, looked at the Li Clan members who were already prepared and scattered in various locations, and furrowed his brows. "You'll have to rely on yourselves."

What comforted Li Xiang was this.

The members of the Li Clan were not afraid; instead, they took action the very first moment!

"Rest assured, Ancestor. As long as one of us in the Li Clan remains, no one shall step foot into the ancestral hall!"

Li Xiang's spirit tablet had floated out of the ancestral hall.

Li Dalong knelt on the ground, feeling the protection of the Ancestor. He kowtowed three times to the tablet before standing outside the Li Clan courtyard, blade in hand!

"Sss-sss-sss—"

Beyond the Li Clan lay an open area, and further out was the Spirit Beast Garden!

As the wind blew and the shadows of the trees swayed, one after another, ragged refugees soon burst out from the Spirit Beast Garden.

These starving, maddened refugees seemed not to see Li Dalong at all.

Their eyes were fixed entirely behind Li Dalong, where a vast expanse of lush green land was filled with crops! Beside the crops stood a large fence, enclosing a multitude of plump livestock!

In the center sat a large rock, upon which a little girl with twin ponytails sat, holding a book and reciting in a clear, ringing voice.

"I have fields of grain, a thousand acres wide, every blade of grass earned with sweat and pride."

"Invaders come to trample our home soil, now they act like wolves and tigers in their toil."

"Why... why must it be so?"

As a cool breeze blew, Li Yaowen's crisp, childish voice sounded particularly clear in the sudden silence.

Yet, her innocent voice failed to stir any compassion in these maddened refugees.

"Food, it's food!"

"Don't anyone fight me for it, I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat!"

"They only have one adult and one child, this all belongs to us, don't fight!"

They were mad, all of them were mad!

Even in their extreme hunger, the refugees burst forth with incredible speed, charging toward the Li Clan territory.

However, what they received was not food.

It was—

"Whoosh!"

A gust of wind blew as Li Dalong stepped forward, his two large broadswords swinging out horizontally. Two streaks of blade energy erupted, slicing the refugees at the front clean in half!

Flesh and blood flew everywhere!

At this moment, all the charging refugees finally regained a shred of sanity. The blade energy had carved a wide trench into the ground, acting like a chasm that these refugees dared not cross by even half a step!

Li Dalong let out a thunderous roar.

"This is my home! If you want food, I can offer you charity, but if anyone dares to cross this line, the dead are your example!"

As Li Dalong's voice fell.

The Iron Forest Horse, which had followed Li Dalong for many years, emerged from the house, pulling a cart loaded with pre-prepared grain.

The Iron Forest Horse transported the grain outside the Spirit Beast Garden, then quickly bit through the ropes and ran to Li Dalong's side.

"It's food, great, there's finally something to eat."

"Thank you for the benefactor's gift!"

"Grab it, hurry!"

Seeing these refugees rush out from the Spirit Beast Garden and begin scrambling for the grain, Li Xiang frowned.

Li Dalong's method of using the stick and then the carrot was quite clever.

Once these refugees were frightened and then received what they wanted, they likely wouldn't dare to act out again.

But...

While he was deep in thought.

In the game, just as the refugees were scrambling for food, a group of people suddenly appeared within the spirit herb garden—cultivators!

"What are you doing?"

"With so many of us, if we eat this meal, what will we eat for the next?!!"

"Look at their fields, look at their livestock; if we ration it, it will last at least a month! And their homes might even be hiding large amounts of grain. If we take their territory, we could even survive for a year!"

Human greed is truly bottomless!

Following the cultivator's words, most of the looting refugees stopped what they were doing, drooling as they stared at the Li family's fields and livestock.

"Right, the master is right!"

"If he can give us this one cart, he probably has ten more at home; he's hiding it all."

"You have so much grain, why only give us this little bit? Why not give us all the livestock?!!"

The refugees angrily questioned Li Dalong.

At this moment, Li Dalong had already gripped his machete tight.

Li Xiang, who was holding a cup of water, nearly crushed it!

"I'll give your mother, damn it!"

He slammed the water cup down.

[Consumed 20 points of Incense, used 'Ancestral Patriarch's Fury'!]

In an instant.

The Ancestral Tablet burst into brilliant light, rushing violently toward that group of cultivators!

He could see it now; there must be something strange behind why these refugees came to the Li family settlement, and it was connected to these cultivators!

Otherwise, why would cultivators bother getting involved in this mess during a year of great disaster?

Passing through the refugees.

The Ancestral Tablet headed straight for the cultivators, causing the one who was inciting the crowd to change color, "This is... what kind of strange magical artifact is this?"

However, before his voice even faded.

"Pfft!"

The tablet pierced straight through his chest, blood spraying like a fountain, and it also sounded the horn for the refugees to charge at the Li family!

A massive wave of refugees rushed toward the Li family.

"The Ancestral Patriarch's divine might!"

Seeing the Ancestral Patriarch fly into a rage, Li Dalong no longer hesitated.

He closed his eyes and lowered his head, seemingly feeling the rhythm of the ground, and just as the refugees approached, he suddenly looked up. True Qi kicked up the surrounding dust, and his twin blades swept out, unleashing blade energy that cut the refugees who had crossed the line in half at the waist.

He charged into the battlefield with his blades, showing not a shred of mercy, and roared to the heavens.

"I gave you a chance, but you forced my family's Ancestral Patriarch to fly into a rage!"

"Wife, children, today, our Li clan must not show a single ounce of mercy."

"Kill!"

Li Dalong simply vaulted onto his horse, leaving no survivors in his wake.

As his voice fell.

Commotion erupted from every direction of the Li family settlement.

The refugees, already terrified by Li Dalong's slaughter, looked around in panic.

"Mon... Monsters!"

"Help, this kid is crazy!"

"Run!"

These refugees only knew how to loot for food and wanted to seize this fertile land, but they didn't know...

Li Dalong was slaughtering wantonly, while the Ancestral Tablet streaked with purple light, chasing down that group of cultivators.

The rest of the Li family also began to appear on the battlefield from the perimeter!

Li Yaozu appeared directly behind the refugees.

He charged out wielding a long sword, accompanied by the spirit beasts that had been practicing martial arts with him. He moved like an elegant dancer, swinging his sword through the crowd and easily taking lives. Blood splattered onto him, but he felt no fear; instead, his eyes glowed red with madness!

"Sigh."

To the west, a giant eagle flew overhead. Li Yaoqing rode upon it, looking down at the slaughter below, and let out a long sigh.

She then slowly opened the bundle carried on the giant eagle, scattering black dust into the crowd, which landed upon the refugees.

Immediately following this, she tipped the bamboo tubes carried by the giant eagle, pouring out a black liquid.

Not long after.

The refugees began to scratch their reddening skin in agony, and those touched by the black liquid saw their skin begin to emit black smoke!

Having cultivated medicinal herbs for many years, no one in the Li family understood their properties better than Li Yaoqing!

Meanwhile, in the east.

Xu Cuihua and her son Li Yaotie appeared, accompanied by a large number of demonic beasts that charged into the crowd without mercy.

This woman, who appeared to be a simple farm wife, possessed a ferocity rarely seen in ordinary women.

Any refugees missed by the charging demonic beasts would face her merciless machete!

Though Li Yaotie, standing beside her, was still young, he lacked no combat prowess.

The Fury Lizard behind him struggled to pull a small cart filled with bows and arrows. Every time Li Yaotie drew his longbow to fire, the Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat would promptly retrieve another arrow for him.

"Swish, swish, swish!"

With one arrow every three seconds, Li Yaotie, a young blacksmith who already possessed significant strength, was like a mobile artillery battery!

These refugees did not know.

The Li family of today possessed the strength to protect their kin, as well as an iron-clad resolve!

Under the slaughter of the Li family, the frenzied refugees began to regain their senses. Seeing the ground covered in corpses and blood, they halted their advance and knelt to beg for mercy.

"Don't kill me, I know I was wrong!"

"Help me, I'll never do it again, please spare me!"

"Swish—"

Li Yaotie's arrow struck down a refugee who was kneeling and begging for mercy.

"So, the family I have cultivated has already become this powerful."

At this moment, Li Xiang, sitting before the screen, had stopped his movements after using the spirit tablet to kill twelve cultivators. Watching the Li clansmen slaughter their enemies, the tension he felt at the beginning finally eased.

His face was full of smiles; the strength of a family lay not only in their power but also in their formidable hearts.

Li Xiang was very glad that there were no bleeding-heart saints in the Li family; they acted with crisp and decisive efficiency!

Just then.

"Boom!"

Li Xiang frowned as his spirit tablet was shattered in an instant by a flying sword.

Immediately after, a black-clad cultivator emerged from the medicinal herb garden, the flying sword that had shattered the tablet hovering beside him!

"I never expected that outside of Tailin Town, there would be a family like yours, hahaha!"

Li Xiang merely frowned.

[Ancestral Patriarch's Fury] X10!