Fengdu City, inner city!
Li Su was back.
His teeth hurt, his head hurt, and everything below the belt hurt too.
After getting his hands on the soul crystals, he had briefly thought things would be safe from here on out. The Dead Soul Clan probably would not be able to stir up much trouble anymore. Even if they had ideas, there was basically no way they could act on them anytime soon.
There was still the Black Mountain Sect, of course.
But did Li Su care? He did not!
At the Taiyi level, having more people did offer a certain advantage, but it meant little against Li Su. If he wanted to leave, they could not keep him.
Moreover, he had already made preparations.
Passing down the scripture passages for the Interception Sect disciples to study was part of his plan.
This was not merely about giving his own people benefits. Li Su's further objective was to seize every official position in both the inner and outer cities.
Never mind the battlefield for now. As long as Fengdu City remained firmly in his grasp, what could two thousand-plus Taiyi cultivators do? Could they outnumber the underworld's ghosts?
On top of that, thanks to his second origin, Li Su could directly obtain the underworld's King Yama divine positions. The Interception Sect would basically have nothing to worry about in Fengdu City.
Yet who could have expected that although he had seized the soul crystals so painstakingly prepared by the Dead Soul Clan, the battle between the Kindling Flame Banner and the Dead Soul quasi-Saint would awaken the Book of Life and Death?
"If it were only the soul crystals, after losing the first and second origins, they would need roughly two years. But now, at most one year—and perhaps less