Family Management Game In Immortal Continent Chapter 1397: No Other Choice
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Inside the Golden Throne Room, the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Imperial Dynasty walked out one by one.
Hearing this grief-stricken, tearful denunciation, they were all filled with indignation and shock, joining the chorus of verbal condemnation.
Li Wei just stood silently outside the Heavenly Palace.
Rather than paying mind to these curses, he was more inclined to find a quiet place to tally up exactly how much he had sucked into his spatial dimension using his spatial Spiritual power during his time in the Wenren family’s Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
Immediately after, everyone froze.
Time within the Heavenly Palace seemed to stand still as Wenren Xianyi arrived, surrounded by powerful experts.
Li Wei narrowed his eyes slightly; around Wenren Xianyi, he sensed many threatening auras.
Then Wenren Xianyi waved her hand, stopping the Imperial Capital cultivators who were worried about her safety.
She flew into the air, locking eyes with Li Wei across the grand array.
This was the second time Li Wei and Wenren Xianyi had met.
The circumstances of both meetings were less than pleasant.
The two stared at each other for a long time.
Wenren Xianyi’s lips parted slightly, her eyes filled with sincerity.
“All of us can get what we wish for. I have already won, and your Azure Cloud Li Clan can too.”
Li Wei remained silent.
Wenren Xianyi didn’t say much more, but what she was going to say was likely the exact same promise as Wenren Zikun’s.
Clearly, Wenren Xianyi’s words carried much more weight; after all, everyone currently in the Heavenly Palace looked just like a pack of tamed dogs.
At this moment, Li Wei could even see a hint of relief on Wenren Xianyi’s face, as relaxed as a bird that had wildly escaped its cage.
Seeing Li Wei remain silent, Wenren Xianyi’s eyes turned red, actually pleading with him.
“Just this once, let me go. I will compensate for everything I have done, and I will also let your Azure Cloud Li Clan go.”
The gambler had won her bet and wanted to bow out gracefully.
Taking her winnings, she intended to go live her dream life, washing away all the sins committed on her road of high-stakes gambling, attempting to make the people of the past forget everything she had done.
Wenren Xianyi was pleading bitterly, while the cultivators on the ground continued their angry curses.
Li Wei turned around and walked away.
Before stepping into the spatial rift, he heard Wenren Xianyi’s voice transmission.
This transmission was hoarse with exhaustion, full of unwillingness and anger.
“Why are you just unwilling to let me go?!!”
“Do you know exactly how hard it has been for me to reach this day? I have finally broken free from my father, and finally, I am no longer manipulated like a puppet. I no longer have to agonize day and night over the people around me refusing to submit to me, and I no longer have to fear being assassinated. I have everything now.”
“Why must you oppose me?!!”
Li Wei paused his footsteps once more.
This time, he finally sent a voice transmission,
“There is no going back. From the day you allowed the immortals within the Blood Moon to invade the Southern Frontier, you had already pushed our Azure Cloud Li Clan to the opposite side of the entire world.”
“You left us with no other choice.”
The black mist entered the spatial rift.
Wenren Xianyi’s mind went blank; she could feel Li Wei’s absolute resolution.
She had defeated Wenren Yiyuan, and she had defeated many cultivators of the Imperial Capital, but after going through this massive gamble, another opponent had emerged.
After standing dazed for an unknown amount of time, a cry of alarm rang out from within the Heavenly Palace. “Not good, Your Majesty, Li Wei… has gone to slaughter my sect!!!”
“What?!!”
Everyone in the Heavenly Palace was horrified; Li Wei was going to continue his massacre!
The Wenren Immortal Clan was merely the beginning.
Wenren Xianyi lowered her head.
Looking at the angry and fearful faces of everyone, she finally understood why Li Wei could not go back.
She could let the Li Clan go, but would these people—who were full of resentment towards the Li Clan because of everything that happened over these years, or those who feared the Li Clan—let the Li Clan go?
Would those Mahayana experts and Great Emperors allow the Li Clan to become a threat to them someday in the future?
In other words, the people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan would never let them go either!
Wei Gang, who had pursued him here, watched the disappearing Li Wei.
He stalled helplessly in the air, letting the cold wind of the cloudy sky snap his robes loudly.
…
Inside the Ancestral Space.
The Azure Cloud Li clansmen from all over the world had gathered, tens of thousands of them, having received permission from the Ancestral Space to enter over the past few days.
During this time, through the methods of Li Yaowen and Li Xinjue using destiny arts and mirror surfaces, they had witnessed absolutely everything happening in the Imperial Capital.
They were deeply shocked by the Old Ancestor moving through the Imperial Capital as if strolling through an uninhabited land; those existences resembling immortals and gods were like mere clowns before the Old Ancestor!
At first, there was excitement and cheering.
There was also anger upon hearing Wenren Yiyuan expose everything.
But today, as the Old Ancestor faced the entire Heavenly Palace and listened to those curses and insults, they were surprisingly calm, just like the Old Ancestor.
“There is no going back. We have no choice.”
Li Dalong murmured.
He surveyed the uniformly aligned clansmen behind him.
The Old Ancestor was fighting, the family’s spirit tablets were floating into the air, and the children’s eyes gradually turned resolute as they all looked toward Li Dalong.
They remained silent, just like the Old Ancestor’s unhesitating figure moments ago under Wenren Xianyi’s pleading gaze.
It wasn’t that they hadn’t placed their hopes on the Old Ancestor knocking some sense into the people of the Imperial Capital, nor was it that they hadn’t hoped this battle would return peace to Azure Cloud Prefecture.
The Blood Moon was too powerful.
Ancestor Lan leaving the Southern Frontier had also shown them just how terrifying this mortal realm truly was.
Inside the Imperial Capital lay a venomous snake, and hiding in the shadows were chess players capable of treating them like mere ants.
For many years, they had hoped to find a path to survival amidst this predicament, until now, when they saw the countless schemers, bystanders, and greedy individuals at the end of the road.
What should they do?
Li Dalong surveyed all the children; his expression froze, and he stiffly turned his head away.
He was terrified; he was in despair.
His family had fallen into a desperate situation.
The Imperial Capital had cut off their path to survival.
He realized that what their Azure Cloud Li Clan was facing was no longer just the Blood Moon, but the entire world!
Nearby, Li Yaozu saw his father’s fear.
He hadn’t expected that even his father would be so despondent over the current situation.
He said in a deep voice, “Dad, the Old Ancestor is right. We have no retreat, so we can only carve out a path of survival through slaughter.”
Li Dalong’s face was dark. “Then what about the children? What about you? What if we fail?”
Li Yaozu looked into his father’s eyes.
His father hadn’t finished his sentence. What if the children died because of this? What if he died because of this?
Li Yaozu smiled,
“Dad, if we fail, then I will tell our descendants that we have failed before, so they don’t need to fear losing. Losing is not terrifying; what is truly terrifying is losing the courage to strive with all one’s might for victory. This is the truth I realized after fighting in the Demon Tribe’s secret ground for decades.”
Hearing this, Li Dalong turned back around.
He looked at the descendants’ still-resolute gazes.
They were newborn calves unafraid of tigers; they were brimming with boundless vitality.
