Establishing a Clan in the Eastern Wilderness: A Daily Divination, Cultivating Longevity in a Grotto

"From this day forward," Li Changsheng said with great delight, "your name is 'Red Feather.' Try circulating your spiritual power."

Fire Cloud Chicken followed instructions and activated the unfamiliar, powerful force within its body.

The edges of its feathers shimmered with a faint blue-green light.

It raised its claw and stepped forward—a stream of blue energy appeared out of thin air beneath its claw, lifting it three inches off the ground. It took another step, and another stream of energy was generated, propelling its body higher and higher, staggering and tumbling in the void like a fledgling bird just learning to fly.

But it is, after all, a descendant of the Golden-Winged Roc.

In just a few breaths, it found its balance. It flew more and more steadily and calmly, and the bluish light at the edge of its feathers grew brighter and brighter.

Finally, it hovered three feet in front of Li Changsheng, its neck slightly raised.

Its expression was clearly that of an eagle.

And that feeling of utter despair when living in the chicken coop!

We went outside.

"Fire magic," Li Changsheng said. "Let's try it."

Akabane retracted her wind wings and closed her eyes.

After a moment, it opened its mouth—

A crimson flame erupted from its beak, like a bolt of lightning, like a cascading waterfall, condensing in mid-air into a fireball the size of a human head. Faint golden patterns flowed across the surface of the fireball, and the intense heat it emitted made the entire space sweltering.

A first-tier, top-grade fire spell.

Flames powerful enough to burn even a peak Qi Refining cultivator to ashes.

"Not bad, not bad!"

Li Changsheng was very satisfied.

The Li family now has one more late-stage Qi Refining combatant!

"Red Feather, you are very proficient in these two spells."

……

Li Changsheng turned and returned to the quiet room.

The stone gate closed, isolating the outside world from all noise.

Although the bandits who launched this attack retreated.

However, it remains unknown when the allied army of the seventy-two tribes of the Eastern Wilderness will withdraw.

Therefore, strength must be improved.

Li Changsheng took the jet-black Hundred Ghosts Banner from his waist.

The banner unfurled, revealing twelve pale, ghostly skeleton figures suspended in mid-air, arrayed in a menacing formation. Their empty eye sockets all stared at Li Changsheng, their eerie green flames flickering uncertainly, like soldiers awaiting orders.

A top-grade first-tier magic weapon.

It is only half a step away from the second order.

However, these twelve ghosts were only at the mid-stage of the first level. They could handle ordinary Qi Refining cultivators, but if they encountered a truly powerful expert, they would be nothing more than cannon fodder.

Li Changsheng lowered his eyes, his mind sinking into his sea of ​​consciousness.

The Book of Destiny floated silently, its pale golden light flowing like a tide. Within the opened page of the power mark lay a power he had not yet used—[Enhancement].

"I wonder what the effects of this new clan leader authority are?"

With a hint of anticipation.

He opened his eyes and his gaze fell on the skull in the very center of the Hundred Ghost Banners formation.

The first ghost born after the Hundred Ghosts Banner devoured the rain of mad blades, and also the one among these ghost soldiers who devoured the most souls and possessed the clearest intelligence. It stood in the center of the formation, the ghostly fire in its eye sockets three times brighter than the other skeletons, and its gaze towards itself held not only loyalty but also longing.

It wants to be stronger.

"You're the one."

He raised his hand and pointed at the skull.

At the same time, the book of mind-body communication—

[Clan Leader's Powers - Enhanced]

[Target Selected: Hundred Ghost Banner - Ghost General (Mid-Tier 1)]

[Consumes 1000 Luck]

[Current family fortune value: 2100 → 1100/2700]

[Confirm?]

"confirm."

boom--

The golden light of the Heavenly Book shot out from between his eyebrows, like an invisible and intangible mysterious power, pouring into the illusory skull.

The skeleton suddenly tilted its head back, opened its empty jaw, and let out a shriek that only the soul could perceive!

The eerie green flames in its eye sockets suddenly surged, transforming into two blazing green flames. The skeletal phantoms around it, also ghost soldiers, seemed to be seized by some invisible force, trembling violently and howling as they drifted toward it.

The first skeleton was swallowed whole by it.

the second.

The third.

……

Its devouring speed increased rapidly, like a hungry ghost pouncing on its prey, dragging its former comrades one by one into its ethereal maw. The skeletal phantoms twisted, struggled, and roared silently, but they could not escape the invisible pull, and could only watch helplessly as they turned into fragments, completely refined by the devourer.

Eleven skulls, not one left.

They all disappeared into the phantom of the ghost general.

Its form solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The once translucent skeleton was now almost solid, with faint golden patterns appearing on its stark white frame. The eerie green flames in its eye sockets burned ever brighter, even faintly tinged with blood red.

Its aura is rising steadily.

Mid-stage of first order.

Late first stage.

boom!

His aura remained steadily at the late stage of the first rank, just one step away from the peak of the first rank.

The ghost general hovered in mid-air, looking down at his bone claws that had solidified several times over, then raised his head to look at Li Changsheng.

In those eyes burning with blood-red ghost flames, there was no longer simple obedience.

It is reverence.

It's fanaticism.

It is a surrender that is imprinted deep in the soul and can never be erased.

It opened its jaws and let out a silent hiss.

Li Changsheng understood.

It is saying: Lord.

It let out a second hiss.

Li Changsheng understood as well.

That was its awakened magic—[Invisibility].

After casting the spell, the ghost general can completely conceal its aura, transforming into a faint, ethereal shadow that blends into the shadows. Even more remarkably, it can extend this concealment power to Li Changsheng, hiding its master as well.

Unless a Foundation Establishment cultivator who has developed divine sense uses it to investigate, no one can detect it.

Li Changsheng's eyes lit up.

This is more practical than attack spells.

He was adept at murder and robbery, and at escaping danger.

A thousand units of luck can be exchanged for a late-stage Tier 1 Ghost General and a high-level spell.

value!

Li Changsheng meditated and regulated his breathing. Even though he had a spiritual pill that could improve his cultivation, he dared not go into seclusion rashly, since the bandit rebellion was not yet over.

Before we knew it, it was past midnight.

My mind sank into the sea of ​​consciousness:

"Today's divination result is 'open'."

The celestial book shimmered with yellow light, and the deduced characters slowly emerged—

【Qingshi Town - Bloodshed】

Among the bandits was a heretical cultivator known as "Blood Refiner," who possessed peak Qi Refining cultivation and also practiced array formations.

A few days ago, this scoundrel led his men to attack the Wu family, but was severely injured by the Wu family patriarch's counterattack before his death.

He is currently lurking in the basement of the mayor's house in Qingshi Town, Qinglan County, setting up a blood sacrifice array in order to refine the essence and blood of all the mortals in the town to heal his injuries.

At the same time, he refined the first-tier peak ghost general in his Hundred Ghost Banner to help it break through to the second tier.

Once the Ghost General advances to the next level, this scoundrel will take advantage of the chaos caused by the bandits to massacre Qinglan County, sacrificing all the mortals and Li family cultivators together in an attempt to establish their foundations.

At that time, the Li family will face annihilation.

Li Changsheng's pupils suddenly contracted.

A chill ran down my spine.

If this demon succeeds, thousands of ordinary people in Qing Shi Town, tens of thousands of ordinary people in Qing Lan County, plus the entire Li family... will all become sacrifices for his breakthrough to Foundation Establishment!

He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

A powerful but still recovering evil cultivator at the peak of Qi cultivation.

A first-tier peak ghost general.

This is the opponent's full strength.

Meanwhile, on his side—

Chiyu, late stage of Tier 1, possesses considerable combat strength.

Green Wood Wolf, peak first rank, temporarily borrowed by Yun Jiuniang.

Hundred Ghost Banner Demon General, late stage of Tier 1, awakened [Shadowless and Unseen].

With three against two, we have a good chance of winning.

Moreover, the other party was already seriously injured.

"There's no time to lose." Li Changsheng stood up and pushed open the door to leave.