Chapter 97: Chapter 97: Longquan Stone Vein
Li Mugu’s location, with its continuous mountains and hills, has countless valleys.
Li Mugu is the largest among them.
A massive tower is built at the valley’s entrance.
Atop the tower, several Li Family cultivators are constantly observing the surroundings.
They are always watching for any movements, relieved to see the Spirit-Blocking Robe cultivators of the Li Family appearing from afar.
The Divine Sense of Qi Cultivation Cultivators only stretches a short distance, and with Elder Li Yufei of the Li Family intervening this time, they are not worried!
As the Ye Family group approached, two of them swept their Divine Sense over them. Although blocked by the Spirit-Blocking Robe, their figures were vastly different!
These nuances might not be noticeable to mortals, but to cultivators, they are critical details that cannot be ignored!
He discreetly drew a Spirit Talisman and released it inside the tower.
A bell rang out!
Almost the moment the bell sounded, all Ye Family cultivators burst forth, releasing Blood Eagles and Jade-eyed Hanging Eye Tigers.
The distance to the tower wasn’t close, but the Li Family cultivators reacted swiftly!
However, Qi Cultivation Cultivators are still too tender and weak in front of Foundation Establishment Spirit Beasts!
The other spirit beasts of the Ye Family charged towards the valley!
Among them, Ye Xingqun, Ye Xingyao, and Ye Xinghuo, one Insect Cultivator and two Fire Cultivators with Red Crowned Snow Eagles, occupied the sky above the valley!
This way, not a single cultivator could escape!
This time, the Ye Family intended to leave no survivors!
The Li Family had infiltrated the Ye Family significantly, and the Ye Family had similarly infiltrated the Li Family!
Especially when the Ye Family could use spirit beasts to probe!
Of course, the most crucial element was the judgment of the spirit vein.
This Li Mugu had only a Tier One High-Grade Spiritual Vein, and one Foundation Establishment cultivator here had already stretched the spiritual energy thin, leaving few Late Stage Qi Cultivation Cultivators.
It’s known that the Li Family suffered not a small loss at Jade Dragon Valley, recalling many cultivators.
And, indeed, this was the case!
Inside the valley, there were only a dozen Li Family cultivators.
The majority were at the Qi Cultivation Fifth and Sixth Layer, with two even at the Qi Cultivation Third Layer.
The Late Stage Qi Cultivation had only two, one at the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer and one at the Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer!
That cultivator attempted to defend unto death using a Tier Two Array while taking out a Jade Talisman to start documenting.
And every ten breaths, they released a Sound Transmission Talisman!
But by then, the Ye Family had already blocked the valley using spirit beasts.
Every strand of spiritual light escaping would be intercepted by a Black Wood Ant, landing on the spiritual light to intercept the talisman!
As for the cultivators, the Li Family Elder had yet to send any.
Evidently, he understood that consolidating forces and defending for a bit longer was now paramount.
In the Li Family’s ancestral hall, the Soul Talisman would change, and the family would be informed of the events here!
As it turned out, he had been too naïve, as Ye Haiyi pulled out a Spirit Disc.
Opening the Spirit Disc revealed a Silver Mirror.
The Silver Mirror shone upon the array, and in an instant, the flow of spiritual energy and the array foundation became visible!
Three Tier Two Spirit Beasts attacked in three directions.
The entire Spirit Array immediately started shaking, revealing a Spirit Net.
A Tier Two Array might withstand one or two Foundation Establishment cultivators under a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but without any Foundation Establishment cultivator to host it, facing three with Foundation Establishment combat power.
It was entirely overwhelmed.
"Li Family members, scatter and escape, be sure to get the message back to the family, or you’ll all be sinners!" Li Mucheng viciously spat at the remaining dozen people.
"Don’t think about surrendering, the Ye Family’s sneaky nature, wearing Spirit-Blocking Robes, intends to leave no living witnesses!"
After these words, the dozen people scattered in all directions, some riding Flying Swords, some escaping through the forest, others using Earth Escape Talismans to begin their escape.
Boom!
The array finally shattered, while the first in were the Black Wood Ants from the sky.
Over a thousand Black Wood Ants, grotesque beyond compare, fell onto the back of every cultivator.
In numbers, they swarmed forward to devour; when few, they stayed at a distance, constantly vexing the Li Family cultivators.
Ye Jingcheng also charged out; without Foundation Establishment cultivators, only two Late Stage Qi Cultivation cultivators were left.
He naturally didn’t mind showing great prowess; Ye Haiyi had said earlier that each could keep the storage bags of the cultivators they killed!
Ye Jingcheng wanted to gather 2000 Contribution Points, and he was still quite short!
Finally, with the guidance of the Golden Scale Beast and Jade Ring Rat, Ye Jingcheng killed two Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer and one Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer cultivator!
Li Mugu’s array was disassembled in no time by the Ye Family.
They set up their array again!
"Head to the mine, it’s a Longquan Stone vein, though not as good as Jade Profound Iron, it’s quite a haul; unfortunately, the family can’t guard it year-round!" Ye Jingli commented somewhat wistfully from the side!
The group quickly headed to the mine!
Though most of the Longquan Stones were in storage bags, already taken by the Ye Family, many newly mined ones remained inside the vein.
Li Family’s mining of these Longquan Stones was done by gathering mortal martial artists.
Though slow, the many mortal martial artists were their advantage.
And there’s no need to consume Spirit Stones; a bit of Spirit Rice would suffice to get these martial artists to dig diligently!
The mine had evidently been exploited for a while, with seven or eight mine shafts already!
Out of about ten Ye Family cultivators, five came to the mines, with Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli entering two of them!
"Remember, even the Li Family’s mortal martial artists are to be killed without mercy, and Jingli, speak less!" Ye Xingqun warned them as he also had a share in the mine scrabble.
His Black Wood Ants thrived in the mines.
Crucially, Black Wood Ants could consume some spirit ore.
Ye Xingqun wouldn’t miss this opportunity.
Ye Jingcheng also headed inside the mine, with not much time left for them.
The walls inside the mine were lined with Moonlight Stones.
The Moonlight Stones were spaced roughly ten meters apart, totaling just about one hundred towards the mine’s depth.
Several mortal martial artists hid at the mine’s depth.
"Immortal Master, we have no ties to the Li Family, we were forcibly brought here!"
"Here is the recently mined rough Longquan Stone!" Several rugged gray-faced men handed over a giant cloth bag filled with rough Longquan Stones.
Ye Jingcheng waved his hand, the Flowing Shadow Sword flew out, slashing down all the martial artists.
The martial artist holding the bag also exposed a dagger.
This trick might have caught a freshly initiated clan cultivator in the Cultivator Realm off guard, but Ye Jingcheng would not fall for it.
His Divine Sense had long detected the hidden dagger on the opponent!
Ye Jingcheng waved his hand to collect all the spirit ore, checked the mine’s end, and seeing nothing else, turned to leave the mine; it was then that the Jade Ring Rat suddenly flicked its ears, dropping its pair of large Jade Ring Ears on the floor, then rushed to a wall, furiously scratching it.
"There’s still a cultivator!" Ye Jingcheng’s heart skipped a beat.
The Divine Soul Fluctuation from the Jade Ring Rat startled Ye Jingcheng!
His Divine Sense hadn’t detected any suspicious spirit shadow!