Family Cultivation: I Become a Mirror-Chapter 69 The Old Taoist

Li Xiangping closed his eyes and felt for a moment, his face immediately turning pale as he cursed through clenched teeth in a low voice.

"Damn it, ten Qi Cultivators? How is one supposed to save anyone from this plague? Where did the Ji Family get so many Qi Cultivators!"

In the mirror, Lu Jiangxian was also continuously urging the mirror to transmit information, watching as seven auras guarded the central one, he thought to himself:

"What kind of situation is this? If it weren’t for Li Xiangping’s extreme caution, anyone else rushing in would surely have died on the spot."

Only then did Lu Jiangxian let out a sigh of relief, but he suddenly discovered another Qi aura rising from Wangyue Lake.

Li Xiangping also closed his eyes again to check and sensed a powerful aura rising from the direction of Wangyue Lake, which lightly flickered in the air and headed west.

Lu Jiangxian’s heart immediately sounded the alarm, feeling a strong sense of familiarity and attraction from that aura, he almost cursed out loud:

"This damn thing is clearly the aura from Wangyue Lake a few years ago that could repair the Dharma Mirror!"

The blatant greed and malice of that Qi cultivator’s aura shone in the range of the Divine Sense like a big red lightbulb, and many thoughts flashed through Lu Jiangxian’s mind at lightning speed.

"This person is definitely targeting me, having lain in wait at Wangyue Lake for at least a dozen years!"

Li Xiangping also froze for a moment, seeing that aura charging directly at him like a shooting star, his hair stood on end; he slapped a Godspeed Technique on his leg and turned to flee north.

"Who is this person? How can they target me from such a great distance? Dammit, this time the Wan Family has truly doomed me!" 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

As he ran wildly, thoughts flashed continuously through Li Xiangping’s mind.

"This person came soaring through the sky, they must be a Qi Cultivator, I absolutely must not lead them back to the family in the west! My death would be a minor issue, but if I led this person to the family, it would be an unforgivable crime."

"The Dharma Mirror is still in my hands, I must not lose it at any cost."

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Wan Xiaohua looked at Ji Dengqi, who stood quietly outside the formation, with hatred almost flying from his eyes. Beside him stood a man draped in an indigo-colored silk cape, with a broad forehead and an arrogant expression on his face, who said discontentedly:

"Brother Wan, why haven’t the members of the Li family taken action yet? Wasn’t it agreed that they’d act as soon as the Huaqian Great Formation was activated?"

"Brother Pingyuan, be patient, let’s wait a little longer!"

This man was the newly advanced Qi Cultivator from the Lu Family that Li Tongya had seen at Guanyun Peak, whom the Wan Family paid a steep price to request his assistance, with the explicit aim to kill Ji Dengqi.

Wan Xiaohua gave a bitter smile, his heart full of doubts, thinking to himself:

"Li Xiangping is also a smart man; how could he not understand the principle that ’if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold’? If my Wan Family perishes, the Ji Family will be right next to the Li and Lu families. Even the fool Lu Pingyuan can see the need to support my Wan Family, so how could Li Xiangping not understand?"

He sighed deeply, feeling increasingly uneasy in his heart.

After waiting another period of time, Lu Pingyuan rose to his feet, cursing and ignoring Wan Xiaohua’s attempts to stop him. He rode his Flying Shuttle out of the formation and called down to Ji Dengqi at the foot of the mountain:

"Hey, Ji Family Head!"

"You can’t break through this turtle shell, so what’s the point in wasting time surrounding this mountain? My Lu Family has got the Wan Family covered, so beat it quickly and save us the hassle of a fight."

As soon as he finished speaking, both Wan Xiaohua in the mountain and Ji Dengqi below were rendered speechless. Wan Xiaohua felt suffocated, swearing viciously to himself:

"How can such a fool practice Qi Cultivation?! It’s truly unfair!"

Ji Dengqi narrowed his eyes with contempt, murmuring lowly:

"My underpants have more brains than this fool."

After that, he gripped his sword, ready to leap forward, but then burst into hearty laughter from the void as if an invisible curtain had been pulled away. The man in the golden robe, surrounded by a group of cultivators, finally appeared, holding his belly and laughing down at Lu Pingyuan, saying:

"Hahaha, indeed, quite interesting. To think there are those even more arrogant than this young master,"

Within the formation, Wan Xiaohua looked up at the sky, and upon spotting the group of cultivators standing aloft, his face instantly turned pale, a buzzing sound filled his mind, and his thoughts blanked out.

"One, two, three... eight, Qi Cultivation... they are all Qi Cultivators... How is this possible!"

He suddenly felt an extraordinary oppression in his chest, almost spitting out a mouthful of blood, and called out with difficulty:

"Yuankai! Wan Yuankai!"

Wan Yuankai was also taken aback, hurriedly going to support the family head, his eyes slightly red, he said gravely:

"Family Head, Yuankai is here."

Wan Xiaohua took a breath and said in a cold voice:

"Today, my Wan Family is likely doomed to escape calamity; that Li Xiangping hasn’t shown himself yet, I fear his chances are grim."

"Summon all direct lineage members of our family, once the Great Formation is broken, immediately split up and head in different directions over the mountain, towards the direction of the Li Family and the Lu Family."

Wan Xiaohua’s face was pale, yet his mind was exceptionally clear, he harshly slapped himself and said sternly:

"No, Ji Dengqi will never let off my Wan Family so easily."

"Pass my order, only those direct descendants who have opened their Spirit Aperture and are aged seven to fifteen may head west; the rest, including you and my direct lines, will stay on the mountain. And when the formation breaks, disperse and flee. Ji Dengqi will not stop until they are all dead."

"As for the children of concubines..."

As Wan Xiaohua was giving his orders, he suddenly felt the Great Formation shake violently, a rain of blood falling from the sky, with Lu Pingyuan begging for mercy to no avail, instantly torn into pieces by the golden-robed man laughing heartily.

The golden-robed man shook off his hands, casually took up his Storage Bag, and with his Spiritual Sense carefully inspected it, instantly frowning and muttering a curse under his breath.

"Pauper."

Turning his head to look at the shimmering golden Huaqian Formation, the golden-robed man brought forth a flame-tinged long sword in his hand and said with a smile:

"Let me try my hand at this Huaqian Formation."

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No sooner had Li Xiangping run for a while than he felt malicious winds surging around him, and an elder wearing a Taoist robe, riding on a Flying Shuttle, had already slowly stopped in front of him, raising the horsetail whisk in his hand with a smile and asking:

"Taoist Fellow, why such a hurry? Where are you going like this?"

Lu Jiangxian, reflected in the mirror, suddenly felt a chill, sensing a pulling force emanating from the elder, as if an invisible thread connected to himself, he thought:

"This person is already at the Middle Stage of Qi Cultivation, seems like the fifth or sixth layer, this is troubling."

Li Xiangping gritted his teeth and said in a low voice:

"And who might you be, to block my path?"

The elder laughed heartily and slowly said:

"This old Taoist has been guarding Wangyue Lake for nearly thirty years, at last, I’ve waited for you, Taoist Fellow."

After speaking, he gently withdrew a pure white Jade Pendant, which emitted a faint white light, its tail seemingly drawn by an invisible thread, directly pointing at Li Xiangping.

"Taoist Fellow, if you hand over the item, this old Taoist can still leave you a whole corpse."