The Liu Family was, after all, a long-established Foundation Establishment Family with two Foundation Establishment cultivators under one roof. Its words carried considerable weight.
As the saying went, smashing someone's rice bowl was like murdering their parents!
No one thought the Liu Family was bluffing. In the cultivation world, when all was said and done, authority was won with fists.
One empty threat would invite endless bullying. The Liu Family would never slap itself in the face.
The many cultivators and merchant caravans traveling through the Azure Spirit Ward were heartened, and supported the Liu Family in following the trail of the Tribulation Cultivators and tearing them out by the roots.
The results were immediate: the Tribulation Cultivators outside the ward vanished without a trace.
If they stayed away for a day or two, they might be plotting something else; if they disappeared for ten or twenty days, they might merely be resting and regrouping.
But when half a year passed without another appearance, everyone finally understood: the Tribulation Cultivators themselves might not have been frightened, but the force directing them from behind the scenes must have been cowed by the Liu Family and withdrawn them, afraid of drawing the flames onto itself.
The Azure Spirit Ward was no longer a viable target, but the Xu Family remained beset by trouble.
"We've fought several small-scale engagements."
"Both sides have had wins and losses."
An icy gleam erupted in Xu Hanji's beautiful eyes, and she seemed like a block of ice that would never thaw, even after ten thousand years.
Clearly, she loathed the Qiu Family to the extreme.
"Mm..."
Lin Changheng nodded. "As long as you keep developing for another ten years, twenty at the latest, the Qiu Family will reap the bitter fruit of its own actions."
"My father