Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 1356: Chapter 1147: Misunderstanding

”Jiu, should we make a move?”

Mu Yuan looked at the increasingly exhausted cultivators, whose strength against the Water Devils was growing weaker, and asked worriedly.

The Li family developed rapidly over the past century, but so did other powers!

Especially the Sea Clan, a power innately strong. Although they suffered heavy losses in the past centuries, high-level Water Devils couldn’t recover so quickly, but most of the beast tide was mere cannon fodder.

In producing cannon fodder, the Sea Clan and the Devil Race were absolutely the best.

Thousands, tens of thousands of low-level Water Devils, as long as they could wear down a high-level cultivator to death, it was a profit for the Sea Clan!

Those few scattered Immortal Water Devils hiding at the sea bottom, not daring to show themselves, thought this way.

As long as they survived, it didn’t matter if the millions of cannon fodder they brought died in front of these two Immortal Cities.

This was something Li Zhirui and Jiang Fengwu hadn’t anticipated at all. They didn’t expect these Water Devils to be so timid, not even daring to show their faces.

What they didn’t know was that among these scattered Immortal Water Devils attacking Shanhai State was Mo Qiu, who once escaped from them.

Even after one or two centuries, it still harbored fear toward the Li family.

Under its persuasion, the other Water Devils also decided not to take action, leaving the battlefield entirely to the cannon fodder.

If they won, they would be the greatest beneficiaries. If they lost, it had little to do with them.

After all, every time the Sea Clan launched a beast tide, not every region could defeat the cultivators. On the contrary, such victories were extremely rare.

Mo Qiu never showed its face, so Li Zhirui and the others didn’t know it was part of this beast tide. They thought those scattered Immortal Water Devils had some scheme, thus acting so cautiously.

”Mu, Fengwu, you two relieve the pressure on the two cities. I’ll keep an eye on the Sea Clan to see what conspiracy they have.”

Hearing Mu Yuan’s words, Li Zhirui finally decided to take action. Waiting any longer could really risk the two Immortal Cities being broken through!

This beast tide came too suddenly, and unlike last time, the Li family wasn’t fully prepared. That controlled scattered Immortal Water Devil had died in the battle of Wan Family State, leaving no inside agent to pass information.

Moreover, without the scattered Immortal Water Devils taking action, they couldn’t defeat and kill them to crush the Water Devils’ morale, causing the beast tide to fall into uncontrolled chaos—essentially a piece sacrifice battle!

Facing such a combat style, the Li family, with fewer numbers and valuing clan members, was at a disadvantage and couldn’t compete with the Sea Clan.

The endless, day-and-night battles left all the cultivators in the Immortal City exhausted, now holding on by sheer willpower.

Jiang Fengwu and Mu Yuan’s powerful intervention significantly relieved their pressure, giving them a moment to catch their breath.

The narrow canyon was filled with dead Water Devils, and the river flowing into the sea was clogged with countless corpses. The clear water turned red-black, with an all-pervasive stench seemingly detectable even with all five senses blocked.

This was no longer a battlefield but a purgatory!

Li Zhirui gazed at the scene before him, with no fluctuation in expression. In his thousands of years of life, he had witnessed countless gruesome scenes; why would this move him?

He was only contemplating what those Water Devils still hiding had in mind!

This would dictate his next move.

Not long after, a gentle breeze stopped in front of Li Zhirui, and Feng Buxi’s form emerged.

The Wind Breath Clan was not part of this war because, during the beast tide’s eruption, they were busy aiding their tribe’s fifth scattered Immortal in Tribulation Transcendence protection. Additionally, the northern Changli Mountain Range was showing unusual signs, and per the Li family’s instructions, they dispatched part of their tribe to investigate the cause.

Now that Feng Buxi was here, an answer was likely found.

”Fellow Daoist Li, a scattered Immortal Demon Beast suddenly appeared in the Changli Mountain Range. It plans to head west with a large number of devil beasts, seemingly intending to join the Qian Valley State’s Devil Race.”

”Hmm?”

Li Zhirui was surprised by this answer. He initially thought that the Sea Clan and Devil Race had secretly colluded to start troubles simultaneously and thus had Feng Buxi keep an eye on the Devil Race in the Changli Mountain Range. He didn’t expect a scattered Immortal to lead a large group of devil beasts away.

Especially at this critical time.

With most of the Li family’s forces engaged against the Sea Clan beast tide, if the Devil Race caused chaos and descended from the mountains to raid, it would be much easier and might even break through their defenses!

Yet the Devil Race chose to do something contrary to the major trend, abandoning easily obtainable benefits.

”Could it be that something happened to the Qian Valley State’s Devil Race?”

This was the only reason Li Zhirui could think of for them to pull a large number of devil beasts westward toward Qian Valley State.

But in the next moment, he dismissed this thought entirely.

With the Sea Clan beast tide at hand, this was the primary issue that needed a quick resolution. Events ten thousand miles away in Qian Valley State, regardless of their nature, shouldn’t and don’t need to occupy the Li family’s attention now.

”Fellow Daoist Feng, could I trouble you to use your divine power to spy on those scattered Immortal Water Devils and see what scheme they are preparing?” Li Zhirui straightforwardly said.

”Alright.”

Without a word, Feng Buxi immediately activated his divine power.

About half a day later, he finally heard the conversations arising from the sea bottom.

If it weren’t for the Wind Breath Clan’s innate divine ability, which consumes very little, it would be impossible to maintain the operation of the divine power continuously.