Leaving Forest Village.
The many great powers of Eastern Yi behind Xie Xuanxi all wore dark expressions.
Any one of the great powers present, in peaceful times, would have been enough to be called a "saint" in the world. Mortals would never have the chance to glimpse them. In others' imaginations, they should have stood amid heavenly palaces, revered by all living beings. Even in the present chaos sweeping the world, they remained untouchable figures in the outside world.
Yet now that they had gathered here, every one of them was frowning in misery. Even the nine suns conjured by Wanrong's immortal art in the sky could not disperse the bleak clouds in their hearts.
"Senior, in your view, just how powerful has the Azure Cloud Li Family become?"
Unlike the Heavenly Immortal's attitude toward Xie Xuanxi, the arrogant Armybreaker was utterly respectful toward her. The few Mahayana cultivators of the ancient Eastern Yi clans were all existences beyond his reach. Any one of them was a pillar of the myriad races, a pioneer guiding the world's living beings toward the future.
As Armybreaker spoke, every great power turned their gaze toward her.
Many among them had never taken seriously the Azure Cloud Li Family's hidden stirrings in the shadows, at least not in the beginning. No matter how illustrious the Azure Cloud Li Family had been a thousand years ago, the Li Family was ultimately only a single family. What they faced, meanwhile, was a nation—the myriad races, gathered with the essence of civilization.
The great powers had been waiting for the Azure Cloud Li Family to reveal itself. Just as today, once the great powers swiftly closed in from all sides, it would be time to wipe out the Lis.
Yet all that awaited them was the wasteland