Chapter 25 Making Enemies

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"How did you guess?" Li Shilian asked with great interest, no longer in a hurry to return. "A tall tree attracts the wind, the wind shakes the tree!" Li Zhirui said, "The two businesses our family runs in the marketplace are so booming that every day a huge amount of Spirit Stones come in, surely stirring up envy." "Not to mention, the very existence of our family is a threat to those three families. With the family's growth momentum being so strong now, of course, they want to hinder our progress. Do you think they'd just watch idly as our family rises and eventually swallows theirs?" Li Shilian suddenly understood, but the three men's faces were ashen. If Li Zhirui had not guessed it, maybe they could have survived a little longer, but now that the reason had been deduced, their existence had lost its value. In fact, the calculations of these three families were not flawed. If today it had been Li Shilian alone going to the marketplace, even if he had the assistance of the Stone Ape, he would ultimately have been injured or even fallen. But it just so happened that today was the day Li Shiting and Li Shiren were handing over duties; one could only say that their fate was unfortunate. Another very important reason was that the various powers around them did not know that the Li family had once been a vassal force of Beast Taming Sect. They were also unaware that most of the Li family's cultivators had raised a Spirit Beast, thus underestimating the combat power of the Li family's cultivators. "Alright, you go to the marketplace first. I'll take these people back to Da Rong Island and imprison them to see how the Clan Leader decides to deal with this matter." Since it was a major issue, Li Shilian couldn't possibly settle it privately. "Don't be smug! It's not just our three families who want to make a move on you!" someone yelled hysterically.@@@@ Li Shilian's face turned grim, but no matter what methods he used to interrogate them, the three men stubbornly kept silent. Instead, they looked at his face which was full of surprise and let out bursts of satisfying laughter. The three split up, with Li Shiting taking Li Zhirui as usual to the marketplace, while Li Shilian scattered everyone's aura on the way back to the family to avoid leaving evidence that could allow the three men's families to find concrete proof of the Li family's actions. Even without proof, they could guess that it was the Li family who took action, but at least they wouldn't be able to take evidence to Yuanming Sect to adjudicate the matter. ... "Aren't you going to the marketplace to settle accounts? Why did you come back so soon?" Li Shiqing asked with confusion as Li Shilian appeared suddenly before him. In order not to let more family members know about this matter, Li Shilian had deliberately hidden the three men in a corner of the island and had not brought them directly to see Li Shiqing. "I'll explain to Second Brother later. Follow me for now." With that, Li Shilian flew towards where the people were hidden, with Li Shiqing hastily casting a spell to follow. At the same time, in the ancestral halls of the three major families, fragments of Life Tokens appeared. Life Tokens were closely connected to the cultivators; the shattering of a Life Token meant the fall of the cultivator! The sudden death of a Foundation Establishment cultivator was a very serious matter for the three major families. "Wasn't Zheng Mingkai ambushing that Li Shilian with the Foundation Establishment cultivators from the other two families? How could he have fallen so suddenly!" Patriarch Zheng shouted angrily. He could not believe that with such an overwhelming advantage on their side, Zheng Mingkai would suddenly fall. There must be some other reason! "Patriarch, could it be possible that after the ambush, there was an uneven distribution of the loot, and the cultivators from the other two families joined forces to kill Mingkai?" However, soon after, the other two families sent people to inform the Zheng Family that they too had lost Foundation Establishment cultivators and asked whether Zheng Mingkai was still alive. After the three families compared notes, they arrived at an unbelievable conclusion. "Was it the Li family who made a move!?" Patriarch Zheng exclaimed in disbelief, "Li Shilian is merely at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment; how could he possibly escape the ambush?" Even if he managed to escape and called for reinforcements from Da Rong Island, it wouldn't result in total annihilation of their three men! The other two families also felt it was unlikely, but no matter how much they didn't want to accept it, that was the reality. It couldn't be that all three were simply unlucky enough to encounter a large group of the Sea Clan, or a passing Golden Core cultivator, could it? In the end, it was because outsiders didn't understand the Li family well enough, they didn't know the true strength of the Li family, nor the family's background and hidden cards, leading to this cognitive discrepancy. As the anger gradually subsided, the three families suddenly remembered something very serious. Now that the Li family surely knew they were being targeted jointly by them, would they take this opportunity to wipe out their three families? The life of a Foundation Establishment cultivator was enough to turn them into mortal enemies. With such deep hatred and the Li family in a position of advantage, wouldn't they want to eradicate them completely? Therefore, for a long time afterward, the upper echelons of the three major families were plunged into a state of panic, fearing that the Li family might suddenly make a move against them.

Chapter 25 Making Enemies

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