Rebuild the Xiuxian Family

Chapter 1033 Fear
Over the past hundred years, the Li family has made great progress and improvement in all aspects.

The first is their strength. For example, Jiang Fengwu successfully broke through the fusion and became the fifth person in the Li family to achieve the fusion. Li Chengsheng, Li Xianxun, Li Mingyao and others who followed her now have at least the cultivation level of the middle stage of the refining void.

There are more than thirty cultivators who have reached the Nascent Soul stage, and hundreds who have reached the Spiritual Transformation stage.

Although the current Li family cannot compare with the old forces such as the Zhang family, it is already worthy of the title of a combined family.

After gaining strong power, the Li family's territory also expanded a lot.

There were stronger forces in the west and south, but the Li family did not provoke them. However, there were many vacant areas in the eastern sea area, so the Li family built islands to control the area.

The current Li family territory is smaller in the west and larger in the east. In the west, there is only an area of ​​500 miles centered on Wanxian Mountain. However, if you advance eastward for 2,000 miles to the easternmost sea area, the width from north to south is more than 1,000 miles.

But unfortunately, it was not able to merge directly with Wanling Island, as there were still some forces in between.

However, as the strength of the Li family continues to grow, they will sooner or later become vassals of the Li family, and then their territories will be connected. I believe this day will not be too far away.

At present, the Li family’s territory is sufficient to meet the needs of development. However, because the size of the territory will affect the fortune, after gaining strong strength, the Li family has been looking for ways to expand the territory.

There are more powerful forces to the west and south that the Li family cannot afford to provoke. The east has also expanded to its limit. Before its strength is further enhanced, the Li family has only one direction of development, and that is the north!
To the north is a very wide area of ​​mountains with huge ups and downs. The Thousand Mountains where the Li family is located is just a small part of the remnant.

But perhaps because it is located at the junction of Dongzhou and Beiyu, the spiritual energy is very thin, making development very difficult.

Moreover, these mountains are like a continuous barrier, towering into the clouds, separating the two continents. If you want to pass through, you either have to go around the sea, find a rugged path, or climb over the mountains.

Even if cultivators have the means to move mountains and fill the sea, facing such a huge mountain, even the powerful ones in the immortal realm cannot move it.

What's more, no combined force has been born in the Thousand Mountains for so many years. At that time, they couldn't even drive away the demon clan, so how could they have the mind and energy to think about expanding to the north?

The Li family did not have the power to change the world. They developed the mountains in the north simply because they wanted to take advantage of the peaceful situation to transfer a large number of cultivators to expand their territory.

The mountains are rugged and steep, and most of them are rocky. Even though the Li family has spent a lot of effort to develop them, they are unable to use them to grow spiritual objects. However, for the sake of the family's fortune, the many cultivators of the Li family did not give up no matter how hard it was.

It has to be said that the Li family has been passed down for so many years, and although there are many problems, big and small, within the family, it also has many excellent qualities.

For example, for the development of the family, the clan members are very active, unlike some forces that will not take action until they have gained enough benefits for their factions.

The northern stone mountain newly developed by the Li family is not suitable for the survival of cultivators, but it is a good place for mortals because the spiritual energy is thin and it is difficult for monsters to be born, so they don’t have to worry about being attacked by monsters.

As for the lack of food, we can trade with the mortals in the mountain and sea plains in the south.

In order to control this place, the Li family relocated 100,000 mortals and dispersed them into villages and towns.

In addition to the strength and expansion of territory, the Li family has also made significant improvements in other areas. For example, in the field of cultivation skills, the Li family has trained many high-level technicians. Now, nearly 15% of the spiritual objects in Shanyuan Prefecture are provided by the Li family!
Don't think that this 15% is a small amount. You should know that in the current Shanyuan Prefecture, there are five major combined forces: the Li family, the Zhang family, the He family, the Qingzhu Sect, and the Huoyang Sect.

Among these five families, the Li family has the weakest strength and the weakest foundation. It is already very remarkable that they can occupy 15% of the market.

And this is all thanks to the many craftsmen trained by the Li family.

Especially in terms of spiritual beasts, the Li family occupies the largest market. It’s a pity that taming beasts is ultimately a minor art, and there are not many cultivators who practice this art.

The rapid development of the Li family naturally brought about a lot of trouble. After all, Shanyuan Prefecture is so small and has so many resources. If the Li family takes more, the other families will naturally have less.

Among them, the Zhang family hated the trap set by the Li family that year, which led to their defeat by the three families of the Qingzhu Sect. They had to give up thousands of mountains and a part of the ten thousand feet plain, and their territory was greatly reduced.

So over the years, except for not taking direct action, they have been targeting the Li family openly and covertly.

Specifically, the spiritual objects refined by the Li family were suppressed by the Zhang family and could not enter the immortal cities and markets owned by the Zhang family. If some of the spiritual objects of the Li family were not inexpensive and of high quality, and were not deeply loved by casual cultivators, they would not be able to maintain a 15% market share.

Also, when the Li family cultivators are training outside, if they encounter the Zhang family cultivators, they will be targeted and killed.

As all these hatreds accumulate, a life-and-death battle will sooner or later break out between the Li family and the Zhang family.

The reason why it hasn't broken out yet is entirely because of the Li family's forbearance and concession.

There is no way, who made the Li family weak and inferior in skills?

Fortunately, the Zhang family has not recovered from the huge losses they suffered hundreds of years ago, and they do not have the confidence to take the initiative to attack the Li family's Wanxian Mountain.

Moreover, the Li family also attracted external aid, that is the Huoyang Sect!

There were not many conflicts between the two families to begin with, and with the Li family's deliberate efforts to make friends, the relationship between the two sides became closer.

In fact, the Li family knew clearly that if the Zhang family really wanted to take action, the Huoyang Sect would not be able to act directly, and the Li family would have to pay some price to persuade them.

The reason for showing a close alliance attitude is just to make the Zhang family more cautious.

So now there are many conflicts between the Li family and the Zhang family, but no one has openly torn their faces apart.

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Wanxian Mountain, Shuanglong Valley.

After consolidating his cultivation, Jiang Fengwu's first thing after coming out of seclusion was to further improve the family's mountain protection formation.

When she was still in the Void Refinement Realm, she combined the power of all the formation masters in the family and crossed realms to set up a seventh-level mountain protection formation.

Jiang Fengwu is now in the fusion realm and her formation skills have made tremendous progress. She certainly wants to continue improving the mountain protection formation. If she can deduce an eighth-level formation, that would be great because this is also part of her practice.

Moreover, this mountain protection formation was originally created by Jiang Fengwu by combining multiple formations, so she was very familiar with it.

By then, even if we cannot upgrade the formation's grade, we will be able to perfect the formation!
Jiang Fengwu spent twenty to thirty years upgrading the star array to the seventh-grade level, consuming a large number of spiritual objects during the process.

Many members of the tribe complained about this, thinking that instead of spending so many spiritual objects to strengthen the mountain protection formation, it would be better to use them on themselves, and maybe they could make a breakthrough.

"Ancestor Jiang, can the mountain protection formation be upgraded to the eighth level?" asked clan leader Li Taiyao.

"Ugh!"

Hearing this, Jiang Fengwu sighed and said, "Okay, I have the confidence, but it will take a long time and a lot of resources." How could Jiang Fengwu not know the complaints of the tribesmen?

This time it only took thirty years, but if you want to advance to the eighth level, it will take at least two or three hundred years, and more resources will be required!

By then, the family will probably really complain.

"Ancestor, you don't have to worry too much. As long as you have confidence, the family will definitely do its best to support you." Li Taiyao said with a firm look.

Jiang Fengwu shook his head and said, "Let's do this for now. It will be better to do this when my realm is improved."

In fact, after being perfected by Jiang Fengwu, the mountain-protecting star formation has increased its attack and defense capabilities by at least five times. If it is fully activated, it can withstand the attack of a Mahayana cultivator for an hour.

And there is also an effect that is beneficial to the entire Wanxian Mountain and all the tribesmen, that is, they can absorb a large amount of star power through the formation and transform it into spiritual energy!
The converted spiritual energy can not only maintain the daily use of the formation, but the rest can also increase the spiritual energy concentration of Wanxian Mountain.

Moreover, according to Jiang Fengwu's calculations, it would only take five or six hundred years for the spiritual energy in Wanxian Mountain to reach a higher level!
Five or six hundred years is nothing for a combined family. The time required just to accumulate spirit stones, allow the spirit veins to absorb slowly, and passively advance is not much faster than this.

But this does not require any spirit stones at all.

"The tribesmen are short-sighted and don't know the benefits that the mountain protection formation brings, but the elders and I are clear about it, so everyone supports you to continue to improve the star formation." Li Taiyao continued to persuade.

However, Jiang Fengwu had made up her mind. The complaints of her clansmen were one reason, but more importantly, she herself felt that her realm was not high enough. Even if she could barely deduce it, there would still be many problems. It would be better to do it in one step, which would also save a lot of spiritual objects for the family.

"I have made up my mind, you don't need to persuade me anymore."

Seeing this, Li Taiyao wanted to say something, but finally closed his mouth.

Jiang Fengwu turned around and returned to the cave, where he began to summarize his experiences over the past few decades and cultivate his own Dharma image.

Time passed, and one day more than ten years later.

A small spiritual storm occurred in Wanxian Mountain, and it was caused by Li Chengshuo who was in seclusion.

"It's only been a few years since Shuo'er broke through to the fusion stage. How come he broke through to the middle stage of fusion so quickly?" After Jiang Fengwu came out of seclusion and learned about this, he couldn't help but think of Li Zhirui's inexplicable worry at the time.

"Could it be that the opportunity that Shuo'er got back then really contained some huge hidden dangers?"

But when asked Li Chengshuo, she didn't think there was anything wrong.

Jiang Fengwu had also personally investigated and found that Li Chengshuo had no hidden dangers or drawbacks in terms of realm, cultivation, or Dharma appearance, which made her feel a little more at ease.

In the end, there was no other choice but to ask Li Chengshuo to pay more attention and come to him immediately if he found anything wrong.

And one day, Li Chengsheng left Wanxian Mountain and embarked on a journey to find a breakthrough and fusion.

Originally, he had refined that trace of the sun's true fire, and the road to fusion was unobstructed, but Li Chengsheng always felt that something was missing and it was not perfect enough.

So I chose to go out and try to make up for the last bit of shortcomings.

Not only Li Chengsheng, but also Li Xianxun, Li Mingyao and others left the family one after another to look for opportunities to break through and merge.

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Kunlun Province.

Li Zhirui came out of a secret place, exhausted, with a tired look on his face.

This trip to the secret realm is really full of dangers.

It can be said that this is the most dangerous secret realm he has experienced among the hundreds of secret realms over the years!
The one who caused all this was a possessed and irrational fusion monk.

I don’t know what kind of martial arts this madman practiced, but he could actually bewitch people.

Obviously, they are all cultivators of the fusion and refining stages. Although their Daoist faith may not be as solid as a rock, at least they cannot be bewitched by ordinary means.

But in front of that madman, few people can resist!
He bewitched a large number of monks, constantly provoked people in the secret realm, accumulated conflicts, and finally triggered a war that affected the entire secret realm!
At the beginning of the disaster, Li Zhirui met the crazy monk.

After just one encounter, he felt a little dazed. If it weren't for his crazy spiritual sense reminding him of the huge danger, Li Zhirui would probably have really fallen into it.

After realizing that something was wrong, Li Zhirui immediately hid in the space and avoided the other party.

At that time, Li Zhirui felt extremely horrified. How could such a thing exist!
He didn't even notice the other party using his magical powers. He just glanced at him, and then Li Zhirui felt as if he had been bewitched.

Li Zhirui stayed in the space for three full days. He confirmed again and again that there were no hidden dangers before he dared to leave and became extremely cautious.

At first, Li Zhirui didn't notice anything wrong until he frequently saw the corpses of monks and a lot of traces of battle, then he realized something was wrong.

There have been casualties in secret realms in the past, but it is impossible that there were so many. After all, the primary purpose of everyone entering the secret realm is to find spiritual objects or to train through the monsters in the secret realm, not to fight each other.

Then Li Zhirui encountered a war involving hundreds of monks. This small-scale war was not enough to surprise him.

But when he saw the crazy monk he had met before, controlling these monks to fight each other like a puppet, he felt an endless chill in his heart.

It was like a puppet show among mortals. Hundreds of cultivators in the Nascent Soul and Fusion stages were puppets in his hands and could only act according to his will.

Li Zhirui turned around and left without thinking. Such a terrifying existence was not something he could afford to provoke. Those cultivators had nothing to do with him anyway, so there was no need for him to try to save them.

Li Zhirui even suspected that this person was most likely not possessed as other cultivators said, but had awakened the memories of his past life!

Judging from his methods, he was most likely an old monster who practiced magic at a terrifying level in his previous life.

Li Zhirui ran all the way with his head down, and only stopped when he felt he was far enough away from him.

In the following time, in addition to searching for spiritual objects in the secret realm, Li Zhirui hid in the space, waiting for the secret realm teleportation array to open.

There has never been any secret realm experience like this one where I was so eager to leave.