Family Management Game In Immortal Continent Chapter 792: No More Chances
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Within the Ding family estate, situated to the east of the Duravia Trade Prefecture.
Ding Yuanxiao, the Head of the Family, clutched a letter from the Immortal Domain, his eyes blazing with intense fervor. "Hahaha! The Zhao Clan has moved at last! It is finally happening!"
Overwhelmed with joy, Ding Yuanxiao could not suppress his boisterous laughter.
He had completely alienated Sun Haotian during that specific Zhao Clan banquet.
Sun Haotian, a companion of many decades, had chosen to cast his lot with the Li family. Ding Yuanxiao, however, had taken a different path, positioning himself directly against his old friend.
"Many years have passed. Sun Haotian, oh Sun Haotian, I suspect you were merely intimidated by the Li family's supporters at that feast and picked the losing side."
With a slow shake of his head, Ding Yuanxiao let out a sigh.
"For all this time, you have thwarted me at every opportunity, convinced you held the moral high ground. But you have drastically misjudged the Zhao Clan.
The backers of the Li family are of no concern to them. In the shadow of the Zhao Clan, the Li clan is utterly insignificant.
They were simply biding their time—waiting for the Li family to make their move!"
As his pitying sigh faded, the Elders of the Ding clan gathered. Throughout the Ding estate, ten thousand battle-ready clansmen and guest retainers stood prepared, occupying every pavilion and tower.
Despite the display, Ding Yuanxiao looked upon his kin with a sense of dissatisfaction.
Having visited the Immortal Domain, he had witnessed the true power of the Zhao Clan with his own eyes.
The Zhao Clan boasted over a million members, an invincible force where every single individual was a practitioner of Cultivation. Most terrifyingly, he had personally encountered three Void Refining mighty figures within their ranks—and that represented only half of their top-tier experts.
Taking a deep breath, Ding Yuanxiao addressed his assembled clansmen.
"The Li clan has already sent their forces toward the Duravia Trade Prefecture.
The newly appointed Zhao Family Head, Zhao Jingmiao, has informed me: the Li clan, driven by humiliation and fury over a mere junior, will soon attempt a massacre within our Duravia Trade Prefecture."
"That Li clan pushes us too far!
Years ago, the wedding of our clan’s genius, Ding Zerui, was ruined because of the Li clan’s interference with his fiancée, Liu Rusi.
The Li clan has seized an entire prefecture and even took the life of our own Prince Qian, a man of unmatched virtue and honor.
Every man of character in our Duravia Trade Prefecture has been nursing this resentment in his heart."
"But today... the hour of reckoning is here!"
"The Azure Cloud Li Clan possesses the predatory ambition of wolves.
They are not content with just the Azure Cloud Prefecture; they seek to usurp everything in our Duravia Trade Prefecture, just as they attempted a century ago.
From this moment on, the Li clan shall no longer tread upon the Ding family.
Our children will march upon the soil of Azure Cloud Prefecture, and we shall teach them that the Ding family cannot be provoked!!!"
Spurred by Ding Yuanxiao’s enraged shout, the blood of the Ding family members began to boil with excitement!
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
With eyes turning a deep shade of crimson, Ding Yuanxiao roared toward the heavens, his voice thundering through the entire estate!
His moment of glory had arrived. Soon, he would stand triumphant before Sun Haotian and prove that his choice had been the right one.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
In the midst of their spirited cries—
Swish—
A flash of frigid light streaked across the sky, as crystals of ice descended like shimmering starlight.
A sharp, piercing shriek split the air, sounding like the scream of a Blue Phoenix. It was so intense that souls shuddered and minds went numb.
The passionate war cries of the Ding family began to falter and fade.
The members of the Ding clan turned their heads toward the source.
Their eyes remained bloodshot from their previous shouting, but the fury was quickly replaced by bewilderment, which eventually curdled into pure dread.
An arrow slammed into the Ding family’s defensive grand formation, dragging a massive trail of ice behind it like a frozen comet!
As it was a Clan-Protecting Grand Formation, the ice arrow failed to breach the barrier despite its overwhelming killing intent.
Nevertheless, a heavy silence fell over the Ding family. It was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop, save for the ragged breathing of the terrified clansmen.
In that instant, Ding Yuanxiao’s entire body turned rigid.
The Sun family were masters of earth techniques, capable of manifesting stone statues from the very ground.
Suddenly, the earth surrounding the Ding estate began to buckle and heave as if the world were ending, with mountains seemingly collapsing in the distance.
The initial confusion caused by the ice arrow transformed into a state of total panic among the Ding clansmen.
"That ice arrow... where did it come from?"
"Patriarch, is this some technique of the Sun family?"
"To arms! Enemies!!!"
As terrified screams erupted, the Ding family members began scurrying about in total disarray.
Ding Yuanxiao stared blankly beyond the borders of his home.
While the earth continued to heave and his clansmen struggled to reinforce the estate with formations, a terrifying sight emerged.
Outside the Clan-Protecting Grand Formation, colossal stone statues summoned by the Sun family rose from the earth in every direction—towering hundreds, even thousands of meters high, completely obscuring the sun!
A sound like crashing rain began to fall from the sky, but it was not water...
It was a deluge of countless cultivators, all unleashing their techniques the moment they arrived!
Ding Yuanxiao could clearly discern the face of his former friend, Sun Haotian, among the attackers.
Sun Haotian looked down at him through the barrier with an expression of pity, sending a private voice transmission: "Old Ding, I am sorry."
Atop the pillar of ice created by the arrow that had struck the formation...
Li Changyao, wielding a longbow that exceeded her own height, glided down the frozen trail until she stood upon the very peak of the array's dome.
Her cold, phoenix-like eyes locked onto Ding Yuanxiao with a lethal gaze.
"Following the conflict at Prince Qian’s Mansion, the Li clan offered you mercy. Now, your chances have run out."
She nocked a new arrow and pulled the string taut!
Swish!
As her feet pressed against the dome, the sky full of cultivators descended in unison.