Li Qiushui truly lived up to her reputation as a love-obsessed person. The moment she saw the Eight Treasures Thumb Ring, she immediately became worried about Wuyazi's situation, completely disregarding the fact that she had almost died at the hands of the person in front of her due to her recent offense.
Seeing Li Qiushui's lovestruck expression and her eagerness to get up and attack him again, Xu Xiao decided not to beat around the bush.
A lesson is enough; killing him wouldn't be in his interest.
The Minor Formless Art was exclusively passed down by Xiaoyaozi to Li Qiushui. Although Wuyazi also understood a part of it, he still couldn't match the other's mastery.
Although Xu Xiao looked down on the so-called ability of the Minor Formless Art to evolve into various martial arts, since it was a part of the Carefree Wind Riding Control Technique, it was naturally indispensable.
" Wuyazi passed the position of sect leader to me, so he's naturally living well in the Great Song. What? I sent someone to inform you, Uncle-Master, to gather in the Central Plains, didn't you receive it?"
"A notice? What notice?"
Li Qiushui was stunned for a moment, then asked in a puzzled tone.
This surprised Xu Xiao for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses.
It seems like only a few days have passed since he sent people to Western Xia from the Deaf-Mute Valley.
Because they needed to carry Wuyazi's handwritten letters and other items, the Martial Command Office's spies could only ride horses. In addition, Xu Xiao was not in a hurry at the time, so he did not require them to travel day and night.
Given the speed of communication in this era, the Martial Command Office's spies couldn't possibly reveal their identities and travel to a country with which they frequently clashed to deliver a message.
That time is probably not yet here.
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Realizing he had misjudged the time, Xu Xiao felt a little embarrassed, but he didn't dwell on the matter.
The topic shifted, and Xu Xiao personally invited Li Qiushui to the Great Song for a visit:
"Let's not talk about that, Uncle-Master. I've come here to destroy the Li family's dynasty in Western Xia, and I also want you to go to the Great Song to meet with Wuyazi."
"He misses you very much. You haven't seen each other for decades. Why don't you go and catch up?"
"Does Senior Brother finally want to see me?" Li Qiushui murmured, then realized the first half of Xu Xiao's sentence.
"No, what brings you, a member of the Carefree Sect, here to destroy the Western Xia Li family's dynasty?"
Li Qiushui is indeed love-struck, but this Western Xia is also her base of operations that she has cultivated for many years.
Xu Xiao was about to kill her, and she couldn't understand how she, or rather Western Xia, had offended him.
The key question is, when did such a person appear in the martial arts world, and why haven't I received a single word about him?
Li Qiushui was curious about Xu Xiao's background and identity.
Judging from the exchange just now, her opponent's martial arts prowess was unparalleled in her life. Apart from her master, Xiaoyaozi, with whom she learned martial arts in her youth, she had never seen such a powerful person.
With the enhancement of her Minor Formless Art from over seventy years, only two palm strikes could kill someone in the martial arts world.
Such a highly skilled martial artist shouldn't suddenly appear, unless...
"You wouldn't happen to be that mysterious person from the Great Song who broke into the palace and forced the Great Song Emperor to bestow upon you the Military Command Commissioner, would you?"
Li Qiushui thought of the message her scouts had sent back a while ago.
She only glanced at it at the time and didn't take the news to heart.
At this point, it seems far too easy for someone with such skill to enter the Great Song palace and force the emperor to grant him an official position.
"Not bad, Uncle-Master, you have a good reaction." Xu Xiao nodded.
"The world is still too fragmented; one voice is enough."
"Not only the Western Xia, I've already dealt with the Liao, and now I'll take over Tubo, Dali, and the Uyghur as well."
"I know that Western Xia is my uncle's base of operations, but now that I have succeeded as the leader of the Carefree Sect, I intend to gather all three of you, the senior members of the Carefree Sect, together to carry forward the Carefree Sect's glory."
"I hope you will be so reluctant to part with it, as this is also Wuyazi's wish."
Xu Xiao directly brought up Wuyazi as an example.
Anyway, the Northern Darkness Divine Art he learned was Wuyazi's exclusive teaching, so it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him his disciple.
"So you plan to kill the entire Li family?"
Looking at the corpses scattered all over the government affairs hall, Li Qiushui guessed Xu Xiao's methods.
By directly eliminating the ruling class of Western Xia through violent means at its root, the country would quickly disintegrate.
"That's right, I don't have that much time to waste on these trivial matters."
"Killing them all is the fastest way."
Xu Xiao nodded.
The spies from the Martial Command Office had been lying in wait in Xingqing Prefecture for a long time.
Apart from a portion of the Li clan members residing in key towns and villages, the majority of them lived in Xingqing Prefecture.
Once they are wiped out, the Western Xia Kingdom, having lost its central decision-making body, will soon fall into a state of collapse and division, and eventually perish.
After that, the rest can be left to the Great Song army to handle; their men would be eager to do something like annexation.
"Phew~"
" Wuyazi truly taught an extraordinary disciple!"
Li Qiushui breathed a sigh of relief. She could hear the determination in Xu Xiao's words; this was something that could not be changed.
She couldn't beat him in a fight, and besides, she didn't have much attachment to Western Xia.
Aside from her granddaughter, with whom she shares some blood relation, she has no other relatives.
She married Li Yuanhao only to indulge in pleasure and, incidentally, to spite Wuyazi. Now that her senior brother still remembers her, she has no reason not to go to the Great Song.
"Now that you are the new leader of the Carefree Sect, how you choose to act is none of my business, nor can I control you."
"However, I still have a granddaughter in the palace. As for a mere woman, there's no need for you to be so ruthless as to kill her."
Li Qiushui looked up at Xu Xiao, which was also a way for her to test him.
Let's see if this new leader of the Carefree Sect, who keeps calling himself his senior uncle, truly respects these elders.
When a person has held power their whole life, it takes some weighing of the options before they suddenly have to let go.
"Of course, since he is my uncle's flesh and blood, I will certainly give him face."
Xu Xiao nodded in agreement.
He couldn't be too ruthless, since the other party would have to suffer the essence of his Minor Formless Art, and then he would combine the three methods to cultivate the Carefree Wind Riding.
Given Li Qiushui's personality, if you offend her too much, even if Wuyazi intervenes, she might still secretly cause trouble.
"Alright, since you agree, that's good." Li Qiushui nodded with a smile, then continued:
"My granddaughter is named Li Qinglu, and she is a beauty of unparalleled grace. Since you are such a young and heroic man, I wonder if you are already married?"
' Li Qinglu! Meng Gu! So you're Li Qiushui's granddaughter!'
Xu Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then a smile appeared on his face.
"Not married yet, but..."
"There's nothing wrong with that. My granddaughter is just as beautiful as I was in my youth. I'll go find her. If she's suitable, you can take her in."
Li Qiushui didn't give Xu Xiao a chance to speak, fearing he would refuse, and disappeared from the spot in a few leaps.
"Please wait here a moment, I'll bring her over so you can see her."
Li Qiushui had her own plans.
This new leader of the Carefree Sect possesses unbelievably high martial arts skills and also harbors ambitions to conquer the world.
By marrying her own bloodline offspring to the other party, even if nothing else, she could still share in the benefits if the other party actually succeeded in doing so.
The relationship between a martial uncle and a grand-uncle is nowhere near as deep as that with a grandmother.
Even heroes can't resist the charms of a beautiful woman. If a beautiful woman whispers in her ear, and that person later becomes incredibly powerful and noble, she too can rise in rank and enjoy the power and influence of the world.