Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 1238: Chapter 1088: Being Born into the World

Therefore, Li Taichang hesitated briefly, partly to probe, but upon seeing Bai Weiyang’s sincerity and confirming that the Cave Abyss Sect indeed wished to dissolve its subordinate relationship with the family, he agreed.

Of course, Li Taichang did not assume that this meant the Li family could now stand on equal footing with the Cave Abyss Sect; his attitude toward Bai Weiyang remained one of considerable respect.

After a warm reception, Li Taichang personally escorted Bai Weiyang out of Mount Wanxian, and promptly reported the matter.

After completing a day’s cultivation, Li Zhirui received Li Taichang’s communication talisman and a thoughtful glint appeared in his eyes. After a moment, he muttered to himself: ”The era of great strife!”

”Could it be that even a powerful sect like the Cave Abyss Sect faces this calamity with such caution?”

During the banquet, Bai Weiyang had mentioned that if the era of great strife were to arrive, with the Li family and Cave Abyss Sect being geographically close, they should watch over one another and form an alliance.

Li Taichang did not dare agree to this outright and simply expressed gratitude for the Cave Abyss Sect’s regard, deflecting the topic with pleasantries.

However, Li Zhirui understood clearly. What the Cave Abyss Sect valued was not the Li family itself but the three members of the Li family who were now on Taiyin Star.

As for the Cave Abyss Sect’s attempt to hint at an alliance...

Li Zhirui believed it unwise to agree. After all, they had no idea about the current situation of Li Chengshuo and the other two. If the time came and they were unable to assist, the Cave Abyss Sect might simply push them forward as expendable pawns.

It would be better to maintain the current state of independence, keeping a distance that allowed the Li family to preserve a degree of mystery.

”Alas!”

After relaying his thoughts to Li Taichang via a communication talisman for further discussion and refinement, Li Zhirui suddenly sighed.

Before Li Chengshuo departed, he had foretold that the era of great strife would arrive in a few hundred years, no more than a thousand at most!

If there were enough time, Li Zhirui felt he had a good chance to transcend tribulation and ascend, but if it were to descend within five hundred years, he feared he would still be struggling in the Great Vehicle Realm.

Unless Li Zhirui could obtain a treasure like the Great Dream Enlightenment Pill to rapidly elevate his realm!

If his realm broke through, he could then focus on cultivating mana, such as by consuming large quantities of precious pills!

Others might worry about the accumulation of Dan Poison harming their foundations and affecting their future path, but for Li Zhirui, who had mastery over the Purification Principle, this was not a concern.

He could fully employ the Purification Principle to remove the Dan Poison from precious pills or wait until enough poison accumulated within his body and then use the Purification Principle to refine his body and cleanse his marrow.

Unfortunately, such treasures are rare and elusive, and even if one were lucky enough to encounter them, securing them would not be guaranteed—like the auction in Taisui Immortal City that saw a Great Dream Enlightenment Pill sold for an astronomical price of 1.89 billion Spirit Stones.

Previously, Li Zhirui had refrained from using such extreme methods. First, he was wary of mana instability that might require significant time and effort to address later.

Second, he had underestimated the rapid shift in circumstances. Despite being aware of the era of great strife for some time, he had always regarded it as distant and had not taken it seriously.

Another crucial reason was the Li family’s insufficient strength and remote location. Even if the era of great strife arrived, the Li family would be unable to take center stage, relegated instead to playing a marginal role.

Shaking his head, Li Zhirui dispelled these thoughts to avoid unsettling his mind.

All he could do now was make his best effort and leave the rest to fate.

Afterward, Li Zhirui went back into closed-door cultivation, striving to elevate his cultivation as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile, as Li Zhirui cultivated in seclusion, Jiang Fengwu, Da Qing, Li Xianxun, and other Integration-level clansmen left the family one after another to undergo training in the outside world, hoping to leverage external pressure to advance their realms and cultivation.

Ordinary family members might not know what major events were unfolding, but how could the high-ranking members of the family remain oblivious?

Thus, while time remained, they sought to enhance their strength as much as possible to contribute more when needed.

Of course, some Integration-level clansmen stayed behind at Mount Wanxian.

Some had lost their boldness to forge ahead; some felt their path had ended and only wished to live out their years peacefully; others had recently broken through and were still consolidating their realms with no bottleneck to necessitate traveling outside.

Among them, however, was one who did not fall into any of these categories—Li Chengsheng!

No one knew whether it was due to some provocation by Li Chengshuo or another reason; ever since that night, he had secluded himself in his Cave Mansion, immersing in cultivation, refusing to be disturbed by anyone.

The changes in the Li family extended far beyond this!

Not only were Integration-level cultivators like Jiang Fengwu striving to elevate their power, but under Li Taichang’s arrangements, younger members deemed to have high potential received more resources.

The Li family also began encouraging clansmen to venture outside for training; task rewards were increased...

It could be said that Li Taichang and others were exhausting efforts to enhance the family’s strength for the approaching calamity.

But as the entire Li family immersed itself in cultivation and the pursuit of power, major events began unfolding in the Primal Spirit Realm!

The Human Dao Dynasty, originally confined to the East Continent, had somehow extended to the Southern Domain and West Continent!

In the Southern Domain, the situation was chaotic as factions intersected like jagged teeth, but this disorder had ironically provided an opportunity for a power named the Great An Dynasty to grow and rise.

Within mere centuries, the Great An Dynasty, once occupying only a single state domain, had expanded to control over twenty state domains. Their power had multiplied dozens of times, transforming into an unignorable giant in the Southern Domain!

Furthermore, not long ago, the Great An Dynasty annihilated a ninth-tier Devil Beast faction and used the event as a sacrificial ritual to formally ascend to the status of a dynasty!