Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan Chapter 1938: 1438: Departure

Once the passage was unsealed, Li Zhixuan and Li Mingyao, the two Heavenly Immortals, guided most of the clan members plus a band of loose cultivators, and they promptly embarked on their journey. Using the cover of the utterly black night, they quietly left their base.

Prior to launching their assault, they had already pinpointed the factions they intended to strike.

Selecting the right targets demanded thorough deliberation; factions that were overly mighty or excessively feeble couldn't be chosen. The strong ones would prove too tough to overrun in a short time.

The frail ones, though simple to wipe out, weren't valuable enough to merit spending such vital moments on them.

Thus, the ideal choices were those possessing balanced power.

Besides evaluating the foes' might, they also needed to account for proximity; destinations too distant were impractical, since excessive time would be lost traveling.

Following meticulous picks, the Li family settled on six groups within this realm as their objectives.

After roughly two hours of rapid travel aboard the spirit boats, Li Zhixuan's team reached their initial stop—Spirit Medicine Mountain!

Its very name indicated the group's focus on growing spiritual items and crafting spirit pills, even if their fighting prowess fell a bit short.

Right then, the first light of dawn was emerging; the enormous convoy loomed like a swarm of dark forms, difficult to discern sharply.

Still, nothing escaped the sharp sight of cultivators.

Maybe because Spirit Medicine Mountain had savored tranquility for ages, their alertness had waned; Li Zhixuan's crew had nearly reached the defensive array without anyone spotting them!

A mix of letdown and ease stirred in her chest—letdown since no intense fight would unfold. As a sword cultivator honed through flames and carnage, she inevitably sensed a twinge of sorrow.

Nevertheless, she felt eased too—this approach allowed a quick resolution, reduced casualties on their side, and saved energy for the following aim.

Crack—

Li Zhixuan quickly steadied her feelings. A fractured sword materialized in her grasp, and without any fancy motion, she casually unleashed a sword slash.

The blade's glow hit the defensive array like it was smashing fragile ice, shattering it to pieces right away.

“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!”

At last, Spirit Medicine Mountain stirred. A shrill, urgent shout echoed from above, rousing countless cultivators from sleep.

Rumble—

Yet prior to any readiness, brilliant spiritual lights plummeted from the sky, joined by rolling stones that tumbled down, crashing straight into the cave dwellings of numerous disciples with incredible velocity.

In that split second, untold cultivators perished amid the dim pre-dawn gloom, some never grasping their doom in their last breaths.

The survivors surged forth immediately, faces etched with grief, yet their gazes locked on Li Zhixuan's forces blazed with overwhelming fury!

“Aaaahhh…”

“I’ll kill you all!”

Certain cultivators bellowed in wrath, hurling assaults with all their strength.

However, with merely a handful of them, how could they possibly injure Li Zhixuan and her companions? They were simply courting peril.

Upon the initial encounter, their strikes got obliterated outright; the force pressed on undiminished, and when it struck them, they exploded apart in an instant, powerless to resist.

For a brief while, the chaos was savagely gruesome—gore and limbs scattered amid ghastly bursts.

This gruesome display stunned numerous cultivators, like a douse of icy water that quenched a good deal of their vengeful fire.

“These must be the Outer Realm fiends from the east!”

“Weren’t they supposed to be pinned down? Why are they here now? Did all the cultivators besieging them perish at their hands?!”

Though Spirit Medicine Mountain hadn't joined the strike against the Li family, belonging to Floating Light Realm's Immortal Tao and situated so close, how could they have stayed out of it?

Hence, they possessed solid knowledge of the Li family's circumstances.

And merely imagining that outcome sent shivers through their frames, rejecting it repeatedly, reluctant and incapable of accepting it!

For should that event have truly occurred, it signaled that the whole Floating Light Realm faced dire peril.

“Today, the foundation of Spirit Medicine Mountain, built up over thousands of years, will be destroyed in an instant!” The sect leader gazed at the blazes flaring all around and couldn't hold back a heavy sigh.

Deep down, he mourned intensely—how could he remain unmoved, watching a lineage spanning generations crumble under his watch?

But at present, he needed to bury all sentiments and ensure a spark remained for the sect's tomorrow!

Only thus could the heritage endure, and the toil of millennia not vanish completely under his tenure…

Therefore, upon surveying the fight and seeing no path to turnaround, the sect leader stayed hidden; he instead rallied all true inheritors and a few elders, addressing them gravely:

“I trust you all see the sect’s plight—it won’t be long before we are utterly destroyed…”

“Sect Leader, even if we are doomed, we will die defending the sect!” a disciple could bear it no longer and cried out, desperate to stay and fight.

“There is no need for you to act! What you must do now is preserve your lives and find an opportunity to rebuild Spirit Medicine Mountain!” the sect leader said, face stern.

As he spoke, they arrived before the escape tunnel that had been constructed over countless years, yet never used until now.

The sect leader produced a small seal, opened the heavy door, herded several dozen people inside, and said rapidly:

“Go! Flee with all your might to the west! Tell the other factions what has happened, warn them to be vigilant, and seek a chance to rebuild Spirit Medicine Mountain—do not let our forebears’ efforts go to waste!”

As his words fell, the door shut with a roar.

Unseen by the others, the sect leader destroyed the control seal, activating the defense to its highest setting!

In this way, to enter the escape tunnel again, one would have to destroy all the defenses to forcibly open the door.

You should know, this escape tunnel had been strengthened without pause for thousands of years by Spirit Medicine Mountain—the defenses could withstand a full assault by several Human Immortals for fifteen minutes!

Even with Li Zhixuan’s current power, she would need to spend a full quarter of an hour.

Given that time, the escaping cultivators would already have slipped out, vanishing without a trace.

So, after dealing with most of Spirit Medicine Mountain’s cultivators, Li Zhixuan arrived, tested the door with an attack, and gauged its toughness—then decisively gave up.

If it took a quarter hour but could not catch those cultivators, why waste her effort on such a useless task?