Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 1368: Chapter 1153: Silence

”How is the battle between the Cave Abyss Sect and the Sea Clan?”

After some pleasantries, Li Zhirui began to ask about the matter he was most concerned with.

”The Cave Abyss Sect won the final victory,” said Feng Buming.

”Oh? From what you’re saying, it seems the great war between the Cave Abyss Sect and the Sea Clan wasn’t smooth,”

Feng Buming nodded, organizing his words, and said, ”At the outbreak of the war, the Sea Clan came on aggressively; the Cave Abyss Sect could still resist with their defenses, but as the Sea Clan’s reinforcements grew more numerous and stronger, the Cave Abyss Sect started to struggle.”

”They were even once forced to break their defense line, fleeing in panic with everyone, and I originally thought the war ended there, intending to immediately return to inform you, but halfway through the flight, I received news from clansmen who stayed behind to understand both sides’ losses.”

”Only then did I learn that the previous setbacks and defeats were all disguises by the Cave Abyss Sect, aimed to draw the Sea Clan’s army into a trap they had set, then to massacre most of the Water Devils in one fell swoop, nullifying the Sea Clan’s offensive and severely crippling their strength.”

”In the end, less than three out of ten Water Devils escaped with their lives, the low-level ones fared the worst, almost all becoming corpses.”

After listening, Li Zhirui’s eyebrows slightly raised—although Feng Buming’s account was brief, it wasn’t hard to guess that to enact this ploy convincingly, the Cave Abyss Sect truly sacrificed a great number of cultivators’ lives.

If not, how could they easily lure the Sea Clan into a trap and slaughter tens of thousands of Water Devils?

This ruthless and merciless attitude, even for a person like Li Zhirui who had witnessed much life and death, felt somewhat chilling.

However, considering that the cultivators used as bait by the Cave Abyss Sect should not be their disciples, otherwise such a costly tactic, even if it temporarily achieved victory, when the Sea Clan reinforcements arrive, they couldn’t possibly hold, since reliable cultivators would have been wiped out, what could then resist the Water Devils?

But the Cave Abyss Sect’s actions may cause them to lose the people’s heart.

Perhaps those powers to which the cultivators belonged fear the Cave Abyss Sect’s strength and dare not rebel for now, and cannot even show a hint of resentment despite their grievances.

But once the Cave Abyss Sect appears weak, these forces might immediately pounce for revenge!

Li Zhirui’s thoughts whirled, but he quickly cast them aside; what does the Cave Abyss Sect’s outcome have to do with them?

”You’ve worked hard these days, Fellow Daoist Feng. There’s nothing major upcoming; please go back and rest for a while,”

Feng Buming acknowledged and turned to leave.

Withstanding the first wave of the Sea Clan’s counterattack, there shouldn’t be any conflict breaking out in the short term, just in time for everyone to rest well and unwind for a while.

Thus, besides dispatching a great number of scouting cultivators to monitor the Sea Clan’s movements, the cultivators and Spirit Beasts within the defensive line were left free to arrange themselves so long as they didn’t leave or cause trouble.

”It’s finally over!” A loose cultivator who received the news instantly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much more relaxed.

”Ha! Over? It’s far from over! How could this territorial war possibly end so quickly and easily?” A nearby loose cultivator couldn’t help but sneer upon hearing this.

”Wars like this, unless both sides fight to the death, one suffering unbearable losses affecting their very foundation or being utterly indefensible, there’s no end in sight.”

”Alas! If I had known it was this perilous, I might as well have left Shanhai State, perhaps evading this disaster.”

”Stop dreaming, this war against the Sea Clan involves every Immortal Dao influence, wherever you go, you can’t escape being conscripted. You should feel fortunate because the Li family of Shanhai State is the most benevolent towards loose cultivators; at least they haven’t forced us to become cannon fodder.”

Initially, it might have been the Cave Abyss Sect inviting the Yumen He Family, Xiaxian Sect, and Immortal Dao influences like the Li family on the coast, to seize the moment during the Sea Clan’s Ten Thousand Clans’ contentious period, while the coastal region’s power was vulnerable.

But now, as the Immortal Dao’s advantage grows, the bountiful result of seizing the entire coastal area is likely to fall back into Immortal Dao hands once more.

Those powers originally not planning to join the battle naturally became anxious, wanting to grab a share of the spoils.

And these three top-tier powers, the Cave Abyss Sect, didn’t stop them, because only by gathering all the Immortal Dao forces can they hold the coastal region.

The Li family is no short-sighted group either, so as more forces showed up wanting to occupy a coastal area, the Li family showed no sign of obstruction, instead providing some assistance, like maps of nearby sea regions or the Sea Clan’s gathering spots.

After all, these are beneficial things at no cost, and it earns goodwill, so why not?

Moreover, once these forces arrived, the areas they opened up were in front of the Li family, henceforth the Li family was no longer on the frontline fighting the Sea Clan, and the pressure they faced lessened significantly.

Nevertheless, Li Zhirui had worrying matters on his mind, notably Xiaoqing and Cang—their relentless battles earlier left them with severe injuries!

Even now, they remained unconscious.

Had their breaths not been strong enough, showing no signs of fatal risk, Li Zhirui might have felt even worse.

Initially, of his five contracted Spirit Beasts, Mu Yuan successfully broke through the Individual Immortal Realm; Shenling had no issues with bloodline; a stable progression is all that’s needed now.

Xiaoqing, having previously used its body to withstand countless attacks during the beast tide to protect the Twin Gorge Immortal City, was left gravely injured, still in a mystical state between life and death, and no one knows if it can survive.