Uncle Nine: Scattering beans to create soldiers? I'm using plants and trees to create soldiers.

hum!

Multiple spirits simultaneously manifested within Uncle Nine's body.

Various colors of divine light flowed and flickered within the magic aperture, and surging golden Dao Qi poured into the peach wood sword, making the entire wooden sword dazzling.

Immediately afterwards, Uncle Nine flipped his wrist and swung his sword to meet the attack head-on.

A dazzling sword aura tore through the air and slashed straight at the Grand Elder.

The sword light was incredibly fast. The elder's pupils constricted, and he tried to dodge, but it was too late.

"Stop them!" the elder roared in shock and anger.

He could only forcefully circulate his internal energy and gather all his power into his arms. The bluish-black scales on his body emitted a dazzling blood light, and thick blood mist surged and spread around him.

With a muffled boom, the golden sword energy struck his arms squarely.

The hard, dark blue scales shattered and flew everywhere on the spot, and the flesh and blood of the arm rolled to both sides, revealing the stark white bones.

The violent sword energy, undiminished in its force, carved a deep, bone-revealing gash into his shoulder and abdomen.

The remaining pure Yang sword light burned intensely at the wound, and wisps of black energy surged and rose continuously, while a piercing pain shot straight to the brain through the wound.

The elder staggered back several steps, spitting out a large pool of blood, his face turning as pale as paper.

He looked up, his eyes filled with boundless fear as he gazed at Uncle Nine.

With just one sword strike, the opponent managed to severely injure him!

This terrifying strength is probably even greater than that of those old monsters who have been immersed in the late stages of geomancy for many years.

"Second brother, quick, help..." The eldest elder, clutching his bleeding wound, turned to call for help.

However, just as he looked over, a sharp whooshing sound suddenly rang out beside him.

The Second Elder's blood and qi surged violently, transforming into a streak of red light as he fled madly out of the valley without looking back.

Grand Elder: ?!

In mid-air, the Second Elder, desperately fleeing, had his chest heaving violently, his heart pounding, not daring to even consider stopping.

Brother, I'm really sorry. It's no wonder I didn't help you in your time of need; the old Taoist priest behind us was just too terrifying.

If we brothers stay here, we'll both perish. As long as I can escape back to the ancestral hall alive, I will definitely beg the ancestor to come out of the mountains and avenge you.

In the arena, Uncle Nine glanced indifferently at the fleeing Second Elder, flicked his wrist, and casually unleashed another sharp sword aura.

The elder was already seriously injured and could not dodge the incoming sword energy. He could only grit his teeth and raise his arms to withstand it.

With a soft thud, the sword energy passed over his arms and struck his thigh directly, leaving two deep, bone-revealing blood grooves.

The elder screamed in agony, his massive body unable to support him any longer, and he collapsed to his knees.

Immediately afterwards, Uncle Nine flipped his left hand, and a yellow talisman appeared out of thin air between his fingers. He then quickly chanted.

"Golden ropes lock the meridians, sealing away the vital energy!"

"seal up!"

With a soft shout from Uncle Nine, the talisman transformed into a stream of light and landed directly on the head of the Grand Elder.

A burst of brilliant golden light exploded, transforming into more than a dozen slender golden threads that spread downwards along the top of the elder's head, sealing away all the blood and energy within his body.

After doing all this, Uncle Nine lightly touched the ground with his toes, and his figure transformed into a blur, shooting out of the valley.

Whizzing!

Two whooshing sounds pierced the air one after the other, and the distance between them was rapidly closing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Hearing the sound of clothes rustling closer and closer behind him, the Second Elder was terrified, his heart leaping into his throat.

How could this old guy be so fast? I used all my strength in the Blood Escape Technique, and I still couldn't even shake off the hem of his clothes.

"Old Taoist, don't push people too far!"

"My Li family patriarch will never let you get away with this!"

The second elder roared in terror, trying to intimidate the other party with the name of the family.

Uncle Nine ignored this and took a step forward, suddenly swinging his peach wood sword forward.

With a resounding hum, a pure Yang sword aura several meters long slashed down from the sky.

The second elder, his eyes blazing with fury, desperately channeled all his energy to turn and defend, but was still cleaved into the dust by the sword.

With a loud bang, his body slammed heavily onto the muddy ground, sending mud and water flying everywhere.

Before he could even struggle to his feet, a dazzling golden light shot rapidly down from mid-air.

The Second Elder's pupils contracted sharply, and he instinctively raised his scale-covered right hand to try and defend himself.

However, the golden light was unstoppable, piercing through his palm and then flowing into his forehead, pinning his head to the ground.

The Second Elder's wide eyes trembled violently, then slowly contracted, the light in them completely fading away.

Uncle Nine landed gracefully with the peach wood sword in his hand, and with a slight flick of his wrist, he pulled the sword out of the Second Elder's skull.

Looking at the lifeless corpse at his feet, Uncle Nine nodded in satisfaction, bent down, grabbed the Second Elder by the collar, and lifted him up.

This is a genuine early-stage Earth Master cultivator with extraordinary bloodline. For his precious disciple's spiritual field, this is absolutely top-notch fertilizer, and it cannot be wasted in the wilderness.

A moment later, Uncle Nine leisurely carried the corpse back to the heart of the valley.

Seeing this, Lin Xuan, who was in the corner, quickly led two spear-wielding soldiers to meet them.

Lin Xuan cupped his hands and smiled, "Congratulations, Master, on breaking through the bottleneck and entering the late stage of Earth Master! Your cultivation of the Great Dao has advanced even further!"

Uncle Nine smiled gently and casually tossed the corpse in his hand at Lin Xuan's feet.

"Master's successful breakthrough this time is all thanks to you, kid."

"If it weren't for the True Martial Armor Vine that you inspired, which emitted profound true meaning, Master wouldn't have been able to grasp the key points so quickly."

"Here, I'll keep this corpse of an early-stage geomancer for you. Take it back and refine it slowly."

"Thank you, Master!" Lin Xuan's eyes lit up as he looked at the corpse on the ground with a smile.

The elder, whose cultivation was sealed and who was kneeling beside him, trembled with fear upon seeing this scene, and a foul stench instantly emanated from his crotch.

Who are these two Taoist priests? They killed someone and then wanted to take the corpse away to "cleanse" it?!

Is this evil cultivation or the righteous path?

Uncle Nine glanced at the First Elder with disdain, then slit his throat with a backhand stroke of his sword, completing Lin Xuan's pair.

Lin Xuan skillfully waved his hand to collect the two early-stage Earth Master corpses, the two Pulse Locking and Breath Concealing Rings, as well as the Corpse Demon Sect Master and the Copper Armor Corpse next to him into his backpack, and then smiled at Uncle Nine.

"Master, we've collected so many corpses of high-ranking members of the Li family these past two days. When we get back, feeding them to the True Martial Mystic Armor Vine will definitely boost its growth rate significantly."

"Who knows, it might even trigger it to release its profound true meaning again."

Upon hearing this, Uncle Nine's eyes immediately lit up.

"Really?" Uncle Nine stepped forward, raised his hand and patted Lin Xuan's shoulder. "If we could really do it again, then the burden of Master breaking through to the peak of Earth Master would fall entirely on your shoulders."

"Ah Xuan, you'd better work hard at farming."

Lin Xuan smiled and nodded, "Master, rest assured, your disciple will do his best."

Next, the master and apprentice did not delay and, with two serpent spear soldiers, thoroughly swept through the main altar of the Corpse Demon Sect.

Lin Xuan dealt with the remaining evil cultivators and walking corpses, and then stuffed all the pills and corpse-refining materials from the stone palace's treasure vault into his system backpack.

After ransacking the entire Corpse Demon Sect, leaving not a single hair behind, Lin Xuan stopped and turned to look at his Ninth Uncle beside him.

"Master, those two elders were wearing green magical artifacts that specifically shielded their bloodline auras," Lin Xuan said seriously. "If I'm not mistaken, the Li family's ancestral shrine must also have a large-scale formation set up to conceal their auras and isolate their bloodlines."

"It's probably not that easy for us to rely on Li Qingshu to directly find and wipe them out in one fell swoop."

Upon hearing this, Uncle Nine nodded slightly in agreement, saying, "That's what I think too. Those two copper rings are not easy to forge, and the Li family certainly doesn't have many in stock."

"Otherwise, they would have already distributed them, and there's no way we could have taken down so many of their outposts in just two days."

"Master is absolutely right." A cold glint flashed in Lin Xuan's eyes as he spoke.

"In that case, we need to speed things up."

"Before they can fully react, wipe out all the henchmen outside the Li family ancestral hall as quickly as possible."

"In this way, we can both clip their wings and weaken their intelligence capabilities, and collect more of the essence and corpses of the Li family members."

"If we nourish Li Qingshu's soul to be strong enough, we might be able to break through the array's blockade and forcibly pinpoint the exact location of the Li family ancestral hall."

Hearing his apprentice's clear and logical plan, Uncle Nine nodded with satisfaction.

"Alright, let's do it your way. We'll set off now and speed up the search," Uncle Nine said decisively.

As soon as they finished speaking, the master and disciple smiled at each other, and in a flash, they became two afterimages and sped away into the night outside the valley.

……

Meanwhile, dozens of miles away, in a hidden underground cave, inside the main hall of the Li family ancestral hall.

Click, click!

Two crisp cracking sounds suddenly rang out in the deathly silent hall.

At the very top of the altar, the two dark blue-green life scales representing the lives of the First Elder and the Second Elder simultaneously became cracked and then shattered into a pile of debris.

On the futon, the Li family patriarch, whose hair was white but whose face was remarkably youthful, suddenly opened his eyes.

Upon seeing the two shattered scales on the altar, the face of the Li family patriarch turned deathly pale, devoid of any color.

"They're all dead... They're all dead..."

The Li family patriarch muttered to himself absentmindedly, his voice trembling violently.

The First Elder and the Second Elder were genuine early-stage Earth Masters, and they had also activated the dragon blood within them.

Now, including the Third Elder and Fourth Elder who were lost earlier, the entire upper echelon of the Li family's elders' council has been wiped out in just a few days!

Where on earth did this ferocious dragon from across the river come from? How could it possibly possess such terrifying strength?!

To be able to kill two early-stage Earth Masters in such a short time, could it be... that the person who made the move was a late-stage Earth Master?!

The moment this thought crossed his mind, the Li family patriarch felt a sharp pain in his chest, and his blood and qi flowed backward, causing him to show an expression of extreme pain on his face.

Overwhelmed by intense fear and regret, his once youthful and radiant face seemed to age by more than ten years in an instant.

After a long while, the Li family patriarch clutched his chest and managed to squeeze out a hoarse roar through his teeth.

"Someone, get in here right now!"

A Li family guard who was standing guard outside the hall scrambled into the hall and knelt down with a thud.

The Li family patriarch, gripping the edge of the altar, roared with a distorted expression.

"Immediately issue the order to abandon all clansmen outside!"

"From this moment forward, activate the clan's protective formation. The entire clan shall enter a state of absolute defense and isolation!"

"Without my personal permission, no one, regardless of who they are, is allowed to step out of this formation. Anyone who disobeys will be executed on the spot!"