Chapter 858: Calamity (III)
Li Family.
A continuous drizzle dripped and trickled among the treetops on Mount Qingdu. The atmosphere felt a bit gloomy inside the grand hall. The elder paced a few rounds in the hall, holding a letter in his hand.
He called someone in, his heart heavy, and said, "Go and summon the heir."
The letter contained some speculations by Li Ximing and Li Xizhi about the situation between the north and the south. Li Xuanxuan had just received it and glanced through a few lines, but it had immediately made him rather uneasy.
"The northern devil cultivators have lost their restraint and are swarming south. How could the defenses on the riverbank possibly hold?"
Li Xuanxuan read the letter over and over, unable to find peace in his heart. Li Ximing advised him to send the heir to the Eastern Sea, clearly implying they might not be able to hold the riverbank.
The letter even urged Li Xuanxuan and the others to flee to the Eastern Sea as well, which made the old man frown deeply and sigh heavily.
How could I abandon the lake and run? I have lived long enough already. If the north falls and the devil cultivators come south all the way to Moongaze Lake, I will still hold my ground to the last moment...
Someone needs to give an account if something happens to the sons and disciples. I should lead them to meet the ancestors in the netherworld. If the family is destroyed, there must be blood spilled.
He sat down and pondered for a few seconds, feeling much more composed in his heart. After a while, Li Zhouwei came in, wearing his armor. He was only eighteen years old, but he was already at the seventh layer of Qi Cultivation Realm, with strong dharma light emanating from him. He was almost progressing one layer per year.
Although the breakthroughs in the later stages of Qi Cultivation Realm were especially difficult and normally required several times the effort, at his speed, he would likely reach Foundation Establishment Realm at around twenty-two or twenty-three years old if he relied solely on self-cultivation.