With Feng lin's departure, Li Yaowen looked at Feng Qingyang with amusement. "Lord Feng," she teased, "it seems I uimated you. Even your own so know what kind of person you truly are."

  "My son is foolish," Feng Qingyang replied. "His life mirrors that of my Feng family aors."

  Feng Qingyang shook his head and sighed. "He's tent with the status quo," he said. "His greatest desire is for Azure Clion to remain peaceful forever. But in my view, that's utterly foolish. People's ambitions only grow with time."

  "One hundred and thirty thousand years ago, if our manor had seized the opportunity to destroy the Azure Cloud Pavilion one by one, we could have pletely trolled the Azure Clion long ago."

  "Unlike now, where all the fas are vying for power. Especially your Li family, your ambitions are eveer, wanting to bee the new rulers of Azure Clion, to make this era belong to the Li family? You are far too ambitious and spicuous."

  Li Yaowen smiled but said nothing.

  Feng Qingyang raised his head curiously and asked, "How did your Li family ma? The Heavenly Secrets Pavilioheir teiques, and Yu Xian of the Azure Cloud Pavilion had been a member of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion for two hundred years. He couldn't possibly betray them for the Li family. After all, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion promised him a breakthrough to Soul, a temptation no one could resist. Your Li family couldn't offer him anything parable."

  "And what about the other seven forces?" he tinued. "How could they possibly retreat? Your Li family supposedly possesses half of Azure Cloud's destiny. To bee the new overlords of Azure Clion, they would even risk the annihition of their ows to try and seize it!"

  Hearing this...

  Li Yaowen's expression turrange. Her words caused Feng Qingyang to crush another white Go stone in his hand.

  "Lord Feng," she said, "do you also believe in sutangible things as destiny?"

  "I told you before, it was us who instigated the major sects to besiege the Li family today. We are the true chess pyers."

  "Many years ago," Li Yaowen expined, "the members of my Dawn anization spread the news, telling everyohat my Li family would repce the Azure Cloud Pavilion and bee the new rulers of the Azure Clion. People everywhere were saying that this era beloo our Li family."

  "The effect was excellent. People always respect the strong. Over the years, the number of our enemies has decreased, while we have gained many friends. Unfortunately, the Soul sects are arrogant and aloof. I sent people to iate with them many times, but they were unwilling to befriend the Li family, nor did they want to bee our enemies."

  "This included... the rumor that my Li family trolled half of Azure Clion's destiny!"

  Feng Qingyang frowned.

  He uood now. The Li family's ambition was eveer than he had imagined!

  But he was still puzzled. "Rumors, wheed often enough, bee reality," he said. "Even if the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion tries to expin, it will be useless. Aren't you afraid, Li family, that you're weaving a co around yourselves?"

  "To dispel a rumor, you only need someoh suffit prestige."

  "Or eveer, on this day, to hold back all our enemies for us."

  "It just so happens that my Li family has a group of such people."

  Feng Qingyang was stunned. "What?" he asked. "A group of what?"

  ...

  "A group of what? Grandpas, of course! Didn't expect that, did you?"

  At this moment, in front of the s, Li Wei grinned.

  The se shifted. After many years, Li Tianyi finally emerged from the dark ae aomb!

  At this moment, he was gathered with the Soul experts from the seven major forces under a pavilion on a mountaintop. Spiritual mist swirled around them. He sat, while the seven Soul experts stood, their faces filled with bewilderment as they looked at the twenty-three old men behind Li Tianyi.

  "Oh my, the current leader of Everlife Mountain is truly unimpressive. I was alive thirty thousand years ago, and your leader back then even fought a duel with me."

  "This geion of the Ghost Eye Sect is not bad, though. I was alive one hundred and thirty thousand years ago. Back then, it was my disciple who fouhe Ghost Eye Sect. I always said he had a poor character. Ah, I heard that my disciple reached the peak of Soul and died a natural death. I didn't expect the Ghost Eye Sect to bee a Soul power now."

  "Hahaha, these youngsters are truly foolish. Let me tell you, that rumor about the Li family possessing half of Azure Cloud's destiny? Fake! I was still around when that rumor was being spread."

  "Alright, alright, Tianyi will return to the Azure Cloud Pavilion soon. A desdant of the Li family will be the new Pavilion Master. You don't o worry. Yrudge with the Li family isn't that deep. It's the Azure Cloud Pavilion that has a bigger score to settle with them."

  "If even the Azure Cloud Pavilion won't be destroyed, how could they possibly annihite you?"

  "That's right, don't get involved in this mess. We didn't e out at the Azure Cloud Pavilion; we were waiting for this day."

  "Stop targeting the Li family. There's no be in it. If you really try to fight them, you'll be living in fear every day."

  "..."

  Li Tianyi sat in the pavilion, listening to the chattering of the old men behind him. He looked at the numerous Soul experts in front of him, exging puzzled gnces. His heart pounded, and he swallowed hard.

  When the seven major forces mobilized, the disciples of the Azure Cloud Pavilion intercepted all the Soul cultivators and brought them to him.

  The mountains here were truly high, and the auras of the seven Soul cultivators were incredibly powerful. The wind here, was fierce.

  He felt like g but had no tears.

  He didn't know if these Soul cultivators would capture him and use him to threaten his family.

  Or perhaps they would kill him on the spot and take away those old men behind him.

  Or maybe they wouldn't even care about those a old men.

  All sorts of thoughts raced through his mind, and he felt utterly miserable.

  "'t you just let me peacefully make my fortune iomb?" he thought. "Fourth Aunt, I'm scared!"

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