Shrouding the Heavens: The Years When the Female Emperor Was the Strictest Master

He firmly believed that once the situation worsened, the time would naturally come for that clan to beg at his door.

Whoosh...

Xiang Li stood where he was, staring in the direction they had vanished, his face frighteningly grim for the first time.

Mount Sumeru's conversion was far more troublesome than an open, forceful seizure.

It directly targeted the heart and one's faith, impossible to guard against.

Had his cultivation not already reached Saint, with a stable divine soul, he would likely have been affected just now as well.

"Pass down the order: all clan members are strictly forbidden from coming into contact with Western Desert monks in the near future!"

After a long while, Xiang Li gave the order dejectedly.

Trial after trial from every outside faction came one after another, pressing closer step by step. The situation was collapsing bit by bit, and now he could not even stabilize the affairs within this tiny patch of Stone Village.

However.

Outside, a number of baffling and unexpected events began occurring in succession.

The Immortal Platform deacon from Jade Clarity Paradise who had led the effort to cripple Xiang Ning previously mysteriously disappeared while traveling back to the paradise through a desolate mountain range.

Three days later, his corpse was found hanging from an ancient tree outside Jade Clarity Paradise's mountain gate.

The body was shriveled all over, as though all its blood essence and Origin had been drained away. Its death was miserable and horrifying, its chest had been cut open, and the divine organ of its heart was nowhere to be found.

Other than that.

After Golden Glow Sect seized the Xiang Family's medicinal fields at Golden Glow Slope, it stationed forty or fifty elders and disciples there to guard them.

But one night, every one of them