After the Liu Lineage began its northern expedition, everything went as smoothly as Liu Changxu had expected.
The three battalions thrust forward like three sharp swords, sweeping the court and clearing the caves as they advanced fearlessly. The first-tier demon beasts they encountered along the way were no match for the Liu Household's battalions of cultivators. Whether they lived in packs or were powerful solitary beasts, none could withstand the Liu Household's forces. They either fled or were slain by its cultivators.
A string of victories brought numerous first-tier spirit veins along their route into the Liu Household's hands. The spirit treasures nurtured by those veins naturally became its spoils as well, leaving every cultivator who took part in the fighting with substantial gains.
After ten days, the Liu Household's northern expedition reached its first relatively tough bone to crack: Black Tiger Mountain, a second-tier spirit mountain occupied by three second-tier Blackflame Tigers. However, this was not the Black Tiger Mountain that was their ultimate destination. Because three second-tier Blackflame Tigers dwelled here, people called it Little Black Tiger Mountain.
Liu Changxu even suspected that the three second-tier Blackflame Tigers on Little Black Tiger Mountain might be descendants of that third-tier Blackflame Tiger. This was no groundless speculation; the possibility was quite high.
Since the mountain housed three second-tier Blackflame Tigers and no first-tier ones, the Liu Household did not send its Qi Refinement battalions into battle. Instead, the more than seven hundred Qi Refinement cultivators waited in the camp before Black Tiger Mountain while Li Zhenxin led the Liu Household's Foundation Establishment cultivators onto the spirit mountain.
Before long, the Blackflame Tigers' roars and the thunder of spells rang out from deep within the mountain. The Liu Household's Qi Refinement cultivators waiting outside could see the spiritual radiance and