With Highsun City successfully defended, the military and civilians, led by Feng Tu, were celebrating in the city.
Seeing the Golden Toad Divine Palace outside the city, the heart that Zhou Chengli had kept suspended during his hurried return from the Shadowfell Prefecture finally settled.
The existence of the Golden Toad Divine Palace, representing the presence of the Azure Cloud Li Clan, had undoubtedly become the guardian deity of the rear of Deston Prefecture.
Originally, Venerable Elder Yuanliang's three hundred thousand-strong grand army had charged into Highsun City, and the scattered Wu tribesmen in the Central Plains were continuously flocking over.
Now that these Wu tribesmen heard the news, they slammed on the brakes and turned back, preventing the three hundred thousand-strong force from swelling into a million-strong grand army.
He had wanted to ask what the rest of the Azure Cloud Li Clan members were going to do, but in just a few short days, the people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan and the Azure Cloud Army had hidden themselves back inside the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
"Mr. Zhou, the Azure Cloud Li Clan won a massive victory in this battle, and Highsun City is celebrating. Why have they hidden themselves away instead?"
Amidst the ruins, the military and civilians of Highsun City were celebrating.
Feng Tu had given quite an impassioned speech; it was exactly the time to rebuild Highsun City from the ruins.
Now, standing with Zhou Chengli on the city wall erected by cultivators using Spiritual power, he gazed at the Golden Toad Divine Palace outside the city, his eyes filled with gratitude.
"I knew long ago that the Azure Cloud Li Clan was more reliable than that son of a bitch Bi Shihu and his ilk. If it weren't for them, I'd be dead for sure."
"They are on guard against us," Zhou Chengli smiled bitterly.
Feng Tu was stunned. "After such a great merit, they're on guard?"
"Over these years, Lord Ba joined hands with Bi Shihu and the Yun Clan to suppress the Azure Cloud Li Clan.
The Li Clan didn't say a word, but their hearts were as clear as a mirror.
Regarding the Spear Saint's surprise attack on the Shadowfell Prefecture, Lord Ba led his men away without saying a word, not informing the Li Clan in the slightest.
What were Lord Ba's intentions?" The more Zhou Chengli spoke, the deeper his brows furrowed.
"Lord Ba tacitly allowed Bi Shihu and the Yun Clan to murder the Li Clan?" Feng Tu's eyes widened.
"Is that something a fucking human would do?"
"The Li Clan defended Highsun City because they deeply understand the principle that 'if the lips perish, the teeth will freeze,'" Zhou Chengli said.
"But they also know that once the news of this battle reaches Lord Ba's ears, he will realize the Li Clan's strength and will inevitably harbor thoughts of using them.
Therefore, the Li Clan has shut their doors and refuses to come out."
Hearing this, Feng Tu nodded slightly.
That bastard Ba Siyu wanted to harm the Li Clan. For the Li Clan not to scheme to kill him, or not to just coldly watch Highsun City fall, was already the utmost of benevolence and righteousness. And you still want to use them?
"The Azure Cloud Li Clan... wouldn't happen to have their eyes set on Lord Ba, would they?" Seeing the solemn expression on Zhou Chengli's face, Feng Tu blinked.
"They probably... probably wouldn't." Zhou Chengli said, lacking confidence.
"Lord Ba is at the Dao Comprehension stage, not your ordinary Body Integration expert.
Furthermore, without Lord Ba, who will resist the Wu tribe's Body Integration mighty figures?
They probably... probably aren't bold enough to reach that extent."
.......
Meanwhile, inside the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
The two hundred thousand-strong grand army spent several days to finally finish gathering their spoils of war in the massive Highsun City.
They returned to their small rooms within the dwellings for two hundred thousand inside the Golden Toad Divine Palace to digest their gains from this great battle.
Li Wei appeared within the Divine Palace.
Looking at the Azure Cloud Army in the dwellings for two hundred thousand, his eyes were filled with gratification.
Hundreds of years had passed, and this troop—cultivated by the clan and the entire Azure Cloud Prefecture—had displayed formidable combat power in this battle.
For a powerful army to hunt down top-tier experts was clearly impossible.
But by using array formations, they were enough to guard a territory, and even slay some experts who dared to bombard the army head-on.
After hundreds of years of cultivation, when the Azure Cloud Army formed array formations, defending against Void Refinement experts was not a problem.
[Your clan led the Azure Cloud Army to annihilate the ambushed three hundred thousand-strong Wu tribe grand army and Bi Shihu's three armies.
Their practical combat experience has increased, and they have obtained a massive amount of Wu tribe spoils of war. After this battle, their combat power will increase.]
[Your clan defeated all members of Bi Shihu's three armies, as well as Venerable Elder Yuanliang and two other Void Refinement experts.]
Under normal circumstances on the battlefield, how could it be so easy to kill Void Refinement experts?
They all possessed trump cards and would vanish without a trace to who knows where.
However, with the existence of Li Wei's spatial laws, and his strength having reached such a level, if the opponent wanted to escape, they truly needed no small amount of capability.
Void Refinement cultivators were often brimming with confidence. No matter where they hid their treasures, it was never as safe as hiding them on their own bodies.
At this moment, in the gathering place of the clan members, corpses stood in neat rows, sealed using special methods to prevent the Spiritual power within these corpses from returning to heaven and earth.
The corpses of Void Refinement realm cultivators would be searched thoroughly.
The clan members would probe them from head to toe, digging out anything beneficial, before sending them to the Netherworld for Li Dalong, or using them as fertilizer for the ancient tree.
A rigorous process had already been formed.