Hearing Li Butong say this, Li could not help nodding repeatedly. Put that way, Meng Po's lineage was definitely riddled with discord between master and disciples. First, fellow disciples had to kill one another, and then the outstanding ones had to contend with their master.
Meng Po did not represent any sort of authority; she represented a kind of fate. After Li bid farewell to the Li Butong brothers, he took the little girl back to their residence deep within Absolute Island. Yet before they had even made it halfway back, several cultivators approached them head-on. The moment they spotted Li, they hurried over. "Are you Li?"
At first, Li thought these people had come looking for trouble. Seeing how friendly they were, he lightly nodded. "And you are?"
They quickly replied, "We're independent cultivators without an alliance. But we heard that an alliance wants to challenge you."
"Oh?" Li raised a brow. He had not expected his reputation to be so fearsome that people would still willingly come to their deaths. "If they want to die, I'll accept."
With that, Li returned to their residence.
At this time, the Undead Quartet was cultivating. The little girl cried that she was exhausted the moment she returned, then immediately went off to sleep.
Li was not in the mood to cultivate either. He merely drew and wrote on the ground in silence. From this outing, he had gained a rough understanding of several alliances. First was the long-established Element Alliance. Because it possessed powerful treants, it had attracted a large number of cultivators to join.
Then there was the Different Alliance organized by Li Butong. They had many members, all gathered in that valley, but their stated stance was that they would not participate in conflicts. The people they took in