When he opened his eyes, he was already at the Dawn Headquarters.
He saw that Li Changyao was already standing before Li Yaowen, recounting the troubles caused by Mi Shufeng's pestering, as well as the marriage that Feng Qingyang had arranged for her this time.
"Don't worry, Changyao. With us here, no one can bother you."
Li Yaowen smiled, "I've looked into Mi Shufeng. Aside from being a bit of a womanizer, he's a decent person. He values credibility and is extremely proud. Arrange a time to fight him. If you defeat him, whenever he sees you in the future, he'll lower his head in respect and go out of his way to avoid you."
"With your abilities, plus this specially crafted spirit bow that is perfectly compatible with you, defeating him will be a piece of cake."
"As for Feng Qingyang... you go on ahead, he's not worth worrying about."
Li Changyao took the pink spirit bow that Li Yaowen handed her and left.
Shortly after, Li Yaowen summoned some assassins from the Dawn organization. As various regions were attacked by the Wu Clan and the great war raged on for years, the number of assassins in Dawn paradoxically increased. It was likely that even the most core members of the Li family were unaware of just how vast and powerful Dawn had become.
Just by looking, Li Wei could tell that among the ten assassins Li Yaowen had summoned, there was one at the peak of the Golden Core stage!
She took out a thick book and expertly flipped to a page. Inside... was all sorts of information on the Prince's Mansion, detailed enough to include even the illicit affairs of the servants within!
"I've killed so many of your descendants, assassinated your younger generation to the point of near extinction, and you still haven't learned your lesson."
Li Yaowen let out a cold laugh, "Seems you haven't suffered enough yet."
[Your descendant Li Yaowen is currently assigning tasks to ten assassins from Dawn. Without exception, every single one of them has a deep-seated blood feud with the descendants of the Prince's Mansion!]
Seeing the contents of the mission.
Li Wei grinned, "That's ruthless enough."
Ten days later.
Li Wei was still meditating. He sat and watched the sun rise and the moon set, day and night intertwining, as he comprehended the power of the Heaven, Earth, sun, and moon.
This was also a part of Yin and Yang.
Suddenly, a message caught his eye.
[Your descendant Li Yaowen reports to you that Feng Qingyang's prodigy, only slightly over two hundred years old, was undergoing tribulation to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. He personally led the Feng family members to stand guard, and a large-scale defensive formation was set up.]
[In this secret location, among the Feng family's experts, a traitor removed the formation's foundation. Ten of Dawn's death warriors fearlessly charged into the area covered by the thunder tribulation from a weak point. The power of the thunder tribulation increased fivefold, and the ten death warriors perished together with the Feng family's prodigy who was about to break through to the Nascent Soul stage!]
[Li Yaowen assures you that after this incident, Feng Qingyang will never have a moment's peace.]
"After all these years, has my Li family's power reached yet another level?"
With Li Kuangtu handling relations with the Wu Clan and Li Yaowen secretly overseeing everything in the family, Li Wei felt completely at ease.
Just as he was about to continue his comprehension.
Li Wei saw Li Changyao approaching, carrying a pink longbow on her back. Opposite her was a handsome man who said with a wry smile, "Yao'yao, my feelings for you are genuine. After spending so much time together, you can see what kind of person I am."
"I admit that I was a bit of a playboy before, but I promise that from now on, I won't fool around anymore. We'll grow old together, get married, have children, and our child will be called..."
He's already thought of a name for the child...
Li Wei really wanted to slap some sense into the guy.
Li Changyao, however, just snorted coldly and silently took out her pink longbow, "Defeat me, and I'll give you a chance!"
"Why must you be like this?" Mi Shufeng's face was filled with bitterness. "Yao'yao, I'm a genius. No one of my generation can defeat me."
Hearing this, Li Changyao drew her bow and nocked an arrow, her gaze ice-cold.
Seeing her stance, Li Wei was very pleased. He saw in Li Changyao the spirit of past generations of Li family descendants. It was the pride of the Li family, the fearlessness of the Li family! This little girl was so much stronger than that lazybones Li Changsheng...
Just as this thought occurred to him, the corners of Li Wei's mouth, which had just curled up, froze.
"Genius? My father said that in their presence, no one of the same generation dared to call themselves a genius. In my generation, it's the same; no one dares to call themselves a genius in front of my Li family descendants."
The pink longbow blazed with light, and spiritual energy formed a powerful aura of pressure. She represented the dazzling brilliance of the new generation of Li family descendants!
Li Changyao said with utmost coldness, "Before my Shoo-Shoo Pink Bow, your defeat is certain!"
Li Wei: ...
Mi Shufeng: ...
The members of the Li family who were investigating the situation with their divine sense and were ready to provide assistance in secret: ...
Li Yaotie, who was forging in the forging pavilion, paused his work.
His mind seemed to explode. Everyone in the Li family was asking him if he had given the bow that name.
His eyes seemed to lose their luster, and he muttered blankly.
"No, no, I've never touched that thing. That's right, I don't know how to forge longbows. I never have. It wasn't me. Fourth Sister, you back me up."
"He did forge it, but the name probably wasn't him."
Li Yaowen's telepathic message was honest.
Honest to the point that Li Yaotie slumped to the ground, utterly defeated. This day, he had completely lost face.
...
Meanwhile, In the Prince's Mansion, Feng Qingyang had aged considerably. His hair was streaked with silver and scattered about.
"My Lord, your subordinate has already investigated, but found no trace of them. We don't know where those ten death warriors came from. However, Radiant Region has a grudge against us. Could it be them...?"
Before he could finish speaking, the Golden Core junior guard who had come to report could not utter another word. He was seized by the throat by Feng Qingyang, and the aura of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator locked onto him. Feng Qingyang sneered, "Heh, Radiant Region? Over the years, the Li family's Dawn organization has planted many spies in my Prince's Mansion."
"This time, when my junior was breaking through, you were also present. Now you're saying it's Radiant Region, are you trying to shift the blame?"
"Foolish imbecile, the Li family are traitors to my Azure Cloud region, notorious and reviled. How can they compare to my Prince's Mansion? You've chosen the wrong side!"
The guard struggled in pain, his eyes somewhat dazed, and said with difficulty, "No... it wasn't... My Lord..."
Before he could finish his words, he died.
As a servant came to collect the guard's Golden Core, Feng Qingyang stared intently at the servant. Even after the servant handed the Golden Core to him, his face remained full of caution.
He felt like everyone in the Prince's Mansion was someone from Dawn!
Only a few days had passed.
Feng Qingyang's eyebrows twitched. His Nascent Soul had detected that everyone in the family, from top to bottom, was now saying that he, Feng Qingyang, was paranoid and saw everyone as a spy. Throughout the entire region, rumors were spreading that the Prince's Mansion was no longer what it used to be.
He, Feng Qingyang, held the position of Prince, yet he was powerless to turn the tide. He couldn't even bring back his own daughter. Even his most outstanding descendant was killed right in front of him...
Someone wanted to make him completely lose face, to ruin his reputation!
He slowly walked to the table, unhurriedly picked up a teacup, and drank tea with an air of indifference. He laughed, "They want to defeat me with this? Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous."
He sneered and left the hall.
"Boom!"
Buildings collapsed, and dust filled the air.
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