Five Elements Rotation Formation
That night, at midnight.
The Heavenly River Waters surged and roared, its roar like thunder, a torrent of waves.
On a concave bank of the Sky River, there is a large cluster of buildings built against the mountain, with hundreds of courtyards scattered in a well-organized manner.
Between the courtyards are dozens of artificial lakes, in which large, blue fish, resembling armored scales, can be vaguely seen swimming back and forth.
This is the residence of the Heavenly River Li Clan. The large blue fish is a famous Azure-Armored Spirit Fish in the Cultivation World. Eating it can improve one's cultivation level and strengthen one's physical body.
On the outermost artificial lake, two ordinary martial arts servants, each carrying a large wooden bucket and with a dim lantern at their waist, walked with some difficulty to the lake shore.
The wooden barrel was filled with fresh flesh and blood.
Two ordinary martial artists grabbed pieces of flesh the size of human heads and threw them into the lake.
Instantly, blood seeped out, turning a patch of lake water a pale red.
A large, blue fish, over two meters long, suddenly leaped out of the water, creating a huge splash. It bit into a chunk of meat and tore it apart with its fine, sharp teeth.
As chunks of meat were continuously thrown into the water, Azure-Armored Spirit Fish leaped out from underwater, vying for the meat.
Suddenly.
A servant's head exploded, and his body plunged into the lake.
Another servant, his face splattered with his companion's blood, had a thought flash through his mind.
"Enemy attack!"
"But aren't there Immortals from the Li Clan stationed around the perimeter? Who could possibly sneak into this place without a sound!"
The thought flashed through his mind, before he could even cry for help.
He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, and when he looked down, he saw a bloody hole the size of a bowl in his chest.
His body then fell into the lake.
Two fresh human corpses suddenly fell into the lake. The Azure-Armored Spirit Fish seemed to go berserk, and the school of fish instantly surged up, tearing and biting at the two corpses, creating waves.
A dozen or so figures flashed past the lakeside and sped towards the depths of the Li Clan.
These thirteen cultivators, driven by revenge, were extremely ruthless. Wherever they went, whether mortal or cultivator, whether or not they were of the Li Clan bloodline, none survived.
They charged straight towards the core of the Li Clan's territory, and in the blink of an eye, they had raided several miles, killing over a thousand people.
Finally, a cultivator from the Li Clan successfully issued a warning before his death.
A fireball crashed into the building, the huge explosion and the flames that instantly ignited were particularly conspicuous in the quiet, dark night, and quickly attracted the attention of the Li Lineage members.
The Li Clan was thrown into chaos: servants fleeing in panic, ordinary members of the Li Clan running around in all directions, and low-level cultivators of the Li Clan who were doomed to die in a single blow...
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack..."
The terrified screams and the panicked fleeing crowd filled Elder Li and his men with a sense of vengeful pleasure. Back then, their families and fellow villagers had also fled in such terror when faced with the Li Clan's massacre.
No mercy, no soft-heartedness!
Everywhere he went became a battlefield, and everyone he met became an enemy.
Today, we must eradicate the Li Clan completely to quell this long-held hatred.
Suddenly, a sharp shout came from afar.
"Who dares to be so insolent in the Li Clan!"
A figure riding a sword sped towards them from afar.
With the appearance of a Foundation Establishment expert from the Li Clan, the Li Clan cultivators seemed to have found their backbone and gathered from all directions.
A major battle between the two sides is imminent.
Of the thirteen seeking revenge, five Foundation Establishment cultivators were the main force, each wielding a Spirit Artifact and wreaking havoc in all directions.
The eight Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators roamed the perimeter of the battlefield, relieving pressure on the five Foundation Establishment cultivators.
As more and more cultivators from the Li Clan joined the fray, the battle quickly reached a stalemate.
Until a gaunt, ghostly old man appeared.
The old man looked like a dehydrated corpse, as if only a layer of skin and flesh were left covering his bones.
If a powerful expert in the Ghost Dao were here, they would immediately see that the old man had been ingested by an excessive amount of ghost energy, and had failed to truly refine it. The ghost energy had eroded his flesh and blood, turning it into something resembling rotten flesh.
If a solution cannot be found soon, this old man doesn't have many years left to live.
This old man was none other than Li Chenggu, the greatest enemy mentioned by Elder Li and others.
Li Chenggu opened his skull-like eye sockets and said coldly.
"A bunch of cowardly rats, do they think they can shake the Li Clan if they unite?"
After speaking, Li Chenggu gave an order to the younger members of the Li Clan beside him.
"You all step aside and deal with those Qi Refining Stage weaklings. While you're at it, surround these five to prevent them from escaping. Tonight, I'm going to personally wipe out this bunch of rats."
"Yes, Ancestor!"
The five Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators from the Li Clan withdrew from the battle, leaving the battlefield to Li Chenggu, and went to attack the Qi Refinement cultivators.
At this moment, only seven Qi Refinement cultivators remained, most of them wounded. They were no match for the five Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Li Clan, and were slaughtered in just a dozen breaths.
While the Li Clan cultivators were chasing the seven, Li Chenggu and Wang Yi and the other four had already engaged in combat.
He patted the two ghost-raising bags at his waist, and two ghosts appeared in mid-air, one with a blue face and fangs, and the other with a red face and red hair. These two ghosts were terrifyingly high-level ghost generals whose strength was comparable to that of Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator.
As soon as the two ghost generals appeared, a series of eerie winds swept across the Li Clan's residence.
Upon seeing this, Elder Li and the others were not surprised but rather delighted.
Elder Li roared, "Gentlemen, we have planned for many years, and success or failure hinges on this one move. If we do not kill the Li Chenggu, we swear we are not human!"
"Charge!"
Upon hearing this, the other four people sat cross-legged and surrounded Elder Li in the center.
Each of the four people held a Formation Plate, Formation Plate emitted a bright blue light.
Suddenly, nine Formation Flags around them lit up with a blue light.
It turned out that the eight Qi Refinement cultivators who were loitering on the outskirts had no intention of killing the Li Clan cultivators at all, but were secretly planting nine Formation Flags.
Li Chenggu's overconfident actions led him right into a trap meticulously designed by Wang Yi and his men. He risked his life alone and was trapped inside the formation.
Elder Li also held a Formation Plate in his hand, but his Formation Plate was slightly larger than the Formation Plates of the other four.
"Five Elements Rotation Formation, activate!"
A magical array barrier, shimmering with five-colored light, suddenly rose up, enveloping an area of about a mile in radius. The five avengers, along with Li Chenggu and the two vengeful ghosts, were all surrounded within it.
Elder Li, holding the Formation Plate, shouted loudly.
"Geng metal!"
Upon hearing this, the five people each cast Method Formula towards the Formation Plates in their hands.
In an instant, strands of extremely sharp Geng metal energy surged within the formation.
The energy of Geng metal rapidly gathered, forming sharp, transparent small blades.
The small, metallic blade, like a torrent of sharp blades, swept towards the two high-ranking ghost generals.
Li Chenggu's eyes sharpened as he was suddenly drawn into the Five Elements Rotation Formation, which was somewhat unexpected.
However, his ghost general was no pushover either.
A large amount of ghostly energy surged from the two ghost generals. The black ghostly energy condensed and did not dissipate, and soon transformed into a black armor that seemed to have a physical form, enveloping the two ghosts completely.