Competing with Luohou for Blood Baleful Qi, the Twenty-Four Star Lodge Killing Formation Is Complete!

Penglai Immortal Island.

Beside the celestial waterfall stood a pavilion.

Li Yi lifted a jade cup and took a sip of clear tea. Before Yuanfeng even spoke, he had already guessed why she had come.

Sure enough, after tasting the tea for a moment, Yuanfeng spoke bluntly.

"I came today because there is something I wish to ask you, Fellow Daoist..."

Over the years, Li Yi had not stayed in his cave abode every moment while refining treasures. Yuanfeng and Yang Mei would occasionally come to his island to discuss the Dao, and over time, he had become fairly close with both of them.

Otherwise, Yuanfeng would not have told him such an important matter concerning her clan.

After listening to Yuanfeng explain the grudges between the three clans, Li Yi nodded slightly. He immediately guessed that Luohou was stirring things up behind the scenes.

Of course, that was merely the apparent cause. At its core, the three clans were competing for supremacy over the Primordial World. Luohou was at most adding fuel to the flames. Even without his secret instigation, the war between the three clans would have been difficult to avoid.

Although he knew words alone would not easily move her, Li Yi still told Yuanfeng what he thought.

"The matter of the three clans must be the scheme of some great cultivator behind the scenes, seeking the Merit of the Calamity Cycle..."

Yuanfeng's heart tightened at his words, and she instantly understood what Li Yi meant.

At her level of cultivation, she could vaguely guess that someone was fanning the flames behind the scenes. However, those within a calamity had their heavenly secrets obscured and could not calculate the person behind it, so she had harbored a trace of wishful hope.

"Who is that person?"

"The Demon Ancestor!"

Upon hearing Li Yi's words, Yuanfeng felt a surge of helplessness in her heart.

Demon Ancestor Luohou was a late-stage Quasi-Saint. When he had previously traveled through the Primordial World, he had used the God-Slaying Spear to crush the Ferocious Beast clans until they could barely breathe. His murderous nature was unmatched in the Primordial World.

Although her cultivation had improved, she did not believe she was his match.

Even if she somehow defeated him, she still could not stop the three clans from going to war! Luohou's scheme had merely hastened the war between them.

"Then in your opinion, Fellow Daoist, if I recall my clansmen and have them seclude themselves from the world, can we avoid this disaster?"

Li Yi said nothing and silently looked at Yuanfeng before him.

In cultivation, if one did not advance, one fell behind. She might be able to control her clansmen for ten thousand years or a hundred thousand years, but could she control them for a million or ten million years?

Those clansmen had not yet experienced the disaster that would nearly wipe out their clan. No matter how great Yuanfeng's prestige was, she could not make every one of them withdraw from the world to avoid the calamity.

Moreover, after regarding themselves as overlords of the Primordial World for so many years, the three clans had created no small amount of killing karma. Now, calamity qi clung to them and dust veiled their Dao hearts. How could they so easily withdraw from the world?

Feeling Li Yi's gaze, Yuanfeng understood his answer. A bitter smile appeared on her face as she realized she had asked a foolish question.

Looking at his old friend before him, Li Yi sincerely offered his advice.

"If it truly cannot be done, gather a group of exceptionally gifted juniors and have them flee early, so they may escape the calamity of clan extermination!"

Yuanfeng lowered her head slightly, her beautiful eyes fixed on the jade cup in her hands. She said nothing.

Only after a while did she rise, look at Li Yi, and smile.

"Thank you for receiving me today, Fellow Daoist, and for resolving my doubts!"

Knowing nothing more could be done, Li Yi nodded slightly and rose to see Yuanfeng off.

As he watched Yuanfeng's departing figure, Li Yi sighed inwardly.

That was the price of having a powerful force under one's command. Handling matters was naturally easy—give an order, and one's subordinates would scramble to carry it out.

But once a Calamity Cycle began, it became easy to be caught up in it.

Take Tongtian in later generations, for example. Even as a Heavenly Dao Sage, he could not stand by and watch his disciples and grand-disciples be slaughtered. He personally entered the fray and was swept into the Calamity Cycle.

Li Yi shook his head slightly before turning and returning to the immortal island.

In the blink of an eye, several hundred thousand years passed.

Over those hundreds of thousands of years, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans fought until heaven and earth darkened.

Of course, Li Yi's earlier words to Yuanfeng had not been entirely useless. Among the three clans, the Phoenix Clan suffered the fewest casualties.

Even ten thousand years after the war began, Yuanfeng specially arranged for three exceptionally gifted Phoenix Clan prodigies, each with the potential to reach the Peak Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, to be sent to Li Yi's Penglai Island as maidservants.

They were maidservants in name, but there was also a faint implication of entrusting orphans to him.

For the sake of their friendship, Li Yi did not refuse. He accepted the three women and had them keep Yuanling company.

With the killing calamity underway, Li Yi had no intention of entering the world. Every day, he refined the All-Heavens Twenty-Four Star Lodges Killing Formation he had conceived.

On this day, Li Yi sat cross-legged in a secret chamber. Looking at the Cosmos Cauldron before him and sensing the light and shadow within it that was about to emerge, excitement rose in his heart.

This secret treasure had taken even longer to refine than the Twenty-Four-Petal Pure World White Lotus!

After all, the Pure World White Lotus had originally been a Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure. He had merely used an enormous amount of Merit to refine it into an Innate Supreme Treasure, a transformation from quantitative change to qualitative change.

This set of formation diagrams, however, had been created from nothing. The Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls had nearly even had their origins replaced. He had added the baleful qi he had gathered while traveling through the Primordial World, making their power far greater than before!

Sensing that the Spirit Treasure was about to emerge, Li Yi increased the power he poured into its refinement.

For a time, endless baleful qi gathered within the void around Penglai Immortal Island. Even the blood baleful qi accumulated from the slaughter of the three clans converged there!

At the same time, in a distant region of the Primordial World.

Within a blood-red valley, four longswords lay around a black-robed man. Each emitted a chillingly fierce baleful aura. If one listened carefully, it seemed that demonic voices resounded from the swords. Anyone with an unstable Dao heart who heard the demonic voices lingering there would likely fall to demonhood in an instant.

Suddenly, the black-robed man sitting in the void opened his eyes, anger surfacing on his face.

"How daring!"

His efforts to fan the flames of the three clans' Calamity Cycle over the years had largely been for the sake of using their blood baleful qi to refine the greatest killing formation he had obtained from chaos!

But just now, he had clearly sensed that the blood baleful qi accumulated during the three clans' Calamity Cycle was being absorbed by an unknown object. Someone was clearly snatching food from his jaws and competing with him for that blood baleful qi!

With that thought in mind, Luohou immediately began deducing, intending to find the one behind it and personally kill him!

Such immense karma should have been impossible to conceal from his deductions with his strength. Not even Hongjun or Yang Mei should have been able to block him. Yet no matter how he calculated, he could not deduce the slightest information about the person behind it!

Luohou was so frustrated that he nearly spat blood. He could only abandon his deductions and increase the speed at which the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation seized the blood baleful qi. Yet what angered him further was that the unknown object could still madly absorb the blood baleful qi even beneath the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, faintly showing signs of dividing that blood baleful qi evenly with him!

Luohou hated it deeply, but there was nothing he could do. Only several days later did that absorbing force gradually dissipate.

At the same time, within Li Yi's cave abode, a blood lotus manifestation appeared out of thin air in the void. Twenty-four blood-red stars rose from the Cosmos Cauldron, their crimson starlight arranged according to the formation of the star lodges. In that instant, Li Yi felt as if he stood alone amid the stars of chaos.

Sensing that terrifying power of confinement and slaughter, a smile appeared on Li Yi's face.

The Twenty-Four Star Lodge Killing Formation was complete!