Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan Chapter 1941: 1439: Confrontation (Part 2)

Previously on Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan...
Li Xiuyuan orchestrated a subtle propaganda campaign by encouraging returning loose cultivators, like Huang Hongming, to share their positive experiences in the Floating Light Realm at private gatherings, portraying the Li family as fair and generous toward them. These accounts, downplayed yet envy-inducing, spread rapidly, verified by multiple returnees, and ignited a frenzy among loose cultivators, surging registrations at Qingquan Peak and prompting the Li family to limit spatial fissure openings to evening hours. While cautious individuals sought private truths and hesitated, the phenomenon reached other states, inspiring forces like the Cave Abyss Sect to consider harnessing loose cultivators for Outer World conquests—though they rejected it for perilous realms like the Ten Thousand Lights Realm to avoid catastrophic risks. Weaker sects began imitating the strategy to bolster their own gains.

In a flash, those loose cultivators previously scorned by every group turned into prized assets that all sides scrambled to recruit with fervor.

Consequently, numerous loose cultivators started harboring delusions, convinced they had risen to prominence and could now selectively align with various sects and families.

These loose cultivators were easy to spot—they had lost their clarity amid fleeting success, their judgments clouded.

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Right now, within the Floating Light Realm, battles blazed fiercely everywhere, with innumerable lives perishing amid the turmoil.

However, this chaos is an inevitable stage when launching an assault on a new world!

To seize control of the realm, after all, the native forces must first be crushed.

For the time being, such events barely touched Li Zhirui, as he had no plans to actively eradicate local groups; his primary duty remained securing the camp.

Perhaps due to the heavy defeats the Floating Light Realm's cultivators had endured against him earlier, no one now ventured close to his position.

This peace granted Li Zhirui a serene space, free from interruptions, where he could immerse himself in grasping the Purification Principle, bolstering his knowledge, and refining his personal laws.

Regrettably, as merely a Middle Thousand World, the Floating Light Realm offered a Purification Principle with its distinctive traits, but nothing more. Li Zhirui fully comprehended it without expending much effort or time.

His cultivation saw a modest advancement too.

A few days later, Li Mingyao made his way back to the outpost.

“Ancestor Rui, affairs here are wrapped up, and nothing demands my presence right now, so I’ll return ahead.”

“Alright.”

Li Zhirui replied, “Go ahead and return. Should your assistance be required later, I’ll send for you.”

Li Mingyao gave a nod of assent, then traversed the spatial rift to rejoin the Primal Spirit Realm.

Among the Li family’s initial trio of Heavenly Immortals, only Li Zhixuan stayed directly engaged. This endeavor tied straight to her ability to settle her karmic ties and achieve transcendence without hitches, demanding her utmost attention and effort.

Currently, she commanded a team of elite family members, charging through the Floating Light territories to strike at the strongest Immortal Dao influences.

In her drive to swiftly dismantle the Floating Light Realm’s Immortal Dao strongholds, Li Zhixuan held back nothing in every clash, unleashing her full might.

No longer did she allow her kin opportunities for self-honing; speed was her sole priority.

Her relentless strategy proved devastatingly successful—in merely half a month, she eradicated multiple key factions!

This unleashed a massive peril upon the realm’s inhabitants!

Prior to this escalation, the Immortal Dao forces had already witnessed Li Zhixuan’s ruthlessness and attempted to ally with the Demonic Tao and Devil Race, urging them to bury old feuds and collaborate against the intruders.

To their shock, the Demonic Tao and Devil Race showed no willingness to move, opting instead to observe idly as the Immortal Dao’s might dwindled.

Their scheme was straightforward: rally the entire Floating Light Realm’s strength to expel the foes, but first, permit the invaders to cripple and subdue the Immortal Dao thoroughly.

With the outsiders repelled, they would then consume the Immortal Dao’s assets and domains, severing their roots in the Floating Light Realm forever!

Following repeated refusals from the Demonic Tao and Devil Race to aid the Immortal Dao, the latter finally pierced their selfish plots.

In that instant, Immortal Dao practitioners felt a deep despair—how could such shortsighted fools exist, fixated on trivial short-term wins, oblivious to the peril that the cold lips spell doom for the teeth?

When the Demonic Tao and Devil Race believed the Immortal Dao sufficiently diminished and extended overtures, they were stunned to discover just two of the five primary Immortal Dao sects endured!

The remaining three had fallen to Li Zhixuan and her kin as the Demonic Tao and Devil Race idly spectated; their inheritances and treasures now filled the Li family’s Scripture Storage Hall and vaults, or the personal storage artifacts of the clansmen.

Beyond those three premier Immortal Dao entities, countless other Immortal Dao groups perished, with loose cultivators contributing substantially!

Though individually feeble, their vast numbers compensated for gaps in the Li family’s ranks to some degree.

With over half of Immortal Dao eradicated, the Demonic Tao and Devil Race at last perceived the looming threat and gripped by dread.

“How is this possible! How can their power be so overwhelming? Isn’t the Heavenly Dao meant to restrain them?”

“Hahahahahaha…”

As representatives from the Demonic Tao and Devil Race confronted the leader of an Immortal Dao sect, the leader erupted in wild laughter upon hearing this, tears flowing freely.

Yet his face abruptly hardened into frost, and he snarled, “You fools obsessed with your narrow gains! You schemed to let them batter Immortal Dao, planning to swallow it whole afterward!”

“But you overlooked how, all along, the invaders’ ranks have swelled explosively. Even if each is feeble, countless ants can overwhelm an elephant, especially since they include Mahayana, Tribulation Transcendence, Individual Immortal, and even Human Immortal experts!”

“Scared now? Where were you when it mattered!”

Faced with the sect leader jabbing fingers and berating them, the Demonic Tao and Devil Race envoys flushed with embarrassment. They yearned to rage away, yet recalling Immortal Dao’s near annihilation and impending doom, they choked down their fury and endured.

How could they ignore the lips-and-teeth bond? Earlier blindness had veiled the hazard from them.

Awakened now, they vowed against such blunders.

The crisis demanded swift unity—combine forces, amass their strength, and repel the formidable assailants as one!

Before long, Li Zhixuan detected the shift—once the Floating Light Realm’s denizens forged an alliance, a particular Immortal Dao group grew immensely tougher to assault.

Peering through the array, she noted not just cultivators within, but also demon cultivators and devil race members.

“Heh!”

Li Zhixuan sneered coldly, “Trying to unite at this stage? Isn’t it far too late?!”

Still, she conceded that their threefold coalition rendered them genuinely formidable opponents.

Meanwhile—

“Hmm? Why have you all arrived?”

Back at the base, Li Zhirui noticed the initial arrivals via the spatial rift were Da Qing, Xiaoqing, and Cang.

“We learned Zhixuan is tackling the entire Floating Light Realm solo, backed only by family and a handful of loose cultivators. With us three idle, we thought to offer support,” Da Qing explained.

“This was intended as her ordeal…”

Li Zhirui shook his head while responding, “But since you’ve come, simply heed the compass and assist her.”