The wrath of the Lie family ancestors?!
Hearing Lie Qing's words, everyone present was stunned.
The protective formation that the Lie family relied on for fame had already been taken by Qin Xuan. What ancestral wrath was Lie Qing referring to?
A dream?
A curse?
It couldn't be that the deceased ancestors of the Lie family crawled out of their coffins to settle accounts with Qin Xuan personally, right!
Lie Qing's words left everyone baffled.
Only Lie Quan's mouth hung open, as if recalling something he had overlooked.
It was a summer over a hundred years ago. Lie Quan couldn't sleep and got up to wander.
In a daze, he seemed to see a white-haired old man discussing something with his father and grandfather.
When he tried to get closer to listen, his usually stern grandfather told him to go back to his room and not to run around.
Lie Quan was young then and full of resentment towards his grandfather.
But now, thinking back, that white figure seemed exactly the same as a portrait in the family's ancestral hall!
Could it be that the Lie family still had ancestors alive?!
The more he thought about it, the more Lie Quan's stiff body began to tremble slightly.
If the Lie family truly had ancestors who could live to this day, wouldn't their strength be at least at the peak of the Core Formation stage?
No, if it was the person in the portrait, and he had lived for so long, he must be at least at the Golden Core stage!
"Scoundrel, who dares to provoke my Lie family?!"
Perhaps to confirm Lie Quan's thoughts, a voice suddenly echoed from a mountain peak deep within the barrier.
It resounded through the heavens and earth, deafeningly loud.
Cultivators above the Core Formation stage felt their hearts pound, while those below the Core Formation stage were so shaken that their hearts stopped, their faces turning pale!
Fortunately, Qin Xuan reacted quickly, throwing out a spiritual energy shield the moment the voice sounded.
Otherwise, Qin Ling'er and Lie Feng, who had no cultivation, would have likely had their internal organs rupture from the sound!
"Hmph, at such a young age, to possess such strength, no wonder Quan'er and Qing'er are no match for you."
Another voice slowly sounded. Everyone looked up towards the source of the sound.
They saw a white-haired old man in a red robe standing in the air, looking down at Qin Xuan with majesty.
Qin Xuan frowned at this, and asked impatiently, "Who are you?"
"Who am I?"
"Heh heh."
"You brat are not worthy of knowing my name."
"You only need to know that having provoked our Lie family, today is your death day!"
With a cold snort, the red-robed elder reached out and uprooted Qin Xuan and the surrounding land.
Qin Xuan was stunned, seemingly frozen by the opponent's move.
The Golden Snake Old Monster nearby let out another strange cry, revealing a fact that made everyone's heart pound.
"Moving mountains and filling seas!"
"This, this is a divine ability that only Golden Core realm cultivators can use!"
The Golden Core realm, the next stage after the Core Formation realm.
Extremely powerful, capable of moving mountains and filling seas.
Legend had it that once a person reached the Golden Core realm, they would begin to shed their mortal form and gradually transform into an immortal body.
Upon achieving the Nascent Soul stage, they would no longer belong to the human category but would be considered immortals.
While this statement might be exaggerated, it held some truth.
Although the Golden Core realm could not truly move mountains and fill seas, it could borrow from the power of nature.
It could unleash attacks that the Core Formation realm could never achieve.
The red-robed elder was currently doing just that.
Qin Xuan felt himself enveloped by a strange force.
As the red-robed elder clenched his right hand in the air, the surrounding earth, like a grinding mill, attacked him.
Boom—!
Crack—
As the red-robed elder's right hand fully clenched, the clods of earth, along with Qin Xuan, were instantly enveloped and exploded violently.
Seeing this, everyone retreated. Ke Wudi and Zheng Wanqing wanted to rush forward through the dust and aftershocks of the explosion to save their beloved disciple.
Qin Xuan had confidently signaled them when dealing with Lie Qing.
But the current red-robed elder was clearly not on the same level as Lie Qing.
They were worried that Qin Xuan would be unable to contend with him and be severely injured.
If that were the case, they would risk their lives to protect Qin Xuan.
However, how could the red-robed elder give them a chance?
When the red-robed elder saw Ke Wudi and the other two charging forward, he waved his hand, knocking them both to the ground.
With a cold snort, he issued a stern warning to them.
"Go back and tell your Dragon Head that if you want to coexist peacefully, he should abandon his unrealistic ambitions."
"If he remains obstinate, then don't blame me for personally going to the Central Sea to discuss the consequences with him!"
"You!"
Hearing the red-robed elder's threatening words, Ke Wudi wanted to do something.
But the gap between them was too vast. Let alone resisting,
Just the pressure of the opponent's aura was enough to make him breathless!
If, by some chance, they could have a do-over, they would definitely do their utmost to prevent the Dragon Head from annexing the hidden forces!
But now, it was too late.
They were suppressed and unable to move, and Qin Xuan, the strongest among them, was in an uncertain state.
Even if countless missiles were already aimed at this location, with the red-robed elder's strength, it was uncertain if he could truly kill them.
Despair instantly enveloped Ke Wudi and Zheng Wanqing.
They didn't know what to do to save Qin Xuan, who was in danger.
Nor did they know what to do to resolve such a critical situation.
"Lie Quan, an unworthy descendant of the Lie family, pays respects to the Old Ancestor!"
Seeing Qin Xuan, who had severely injured his father, easily subdued by the red-robed elder, Lie Quan did not hesitate. He gulped and knelt on the ground.
He had not misidentified him. This powerful red-robed elder was his great-grandfather, Lie Xinyuan, revered as the Red-Robed Ancestor by the Lie family!
In the past, Lie Xinyuan was the most talented cultivator of the Lie family in nearly a thousand years.
However, due to the limitations of heaven and earth, humans could not break through the Core Formation stage and enter the Golden Core stage.
Lie Xinyuan refused to believe it, so he went into seclusion for a hundred years after reaching the peak of the Core Formation stage. In the end, he was severely injured and died because he could not resist the limitations of heaven and earth.
Who would have thought that his ancestor had deliberately faked his death back then!
Not only did he not die from a severe injury after breaking through, but on the contrary, he had truly broken through the shackles of heaven and earth, achieving the Golden Core realm, which could once be called the realm of immortals!
Awesome, so awesome!
With a Golden Core realm ancestor guarding the Lie family, the Lie family would be the undisputed number one family in Longguo!
What about the rogue cultivators of the Southwest, or the Lu family of Jiangcheng, they would all have to bow down and submit!
The moment Lie Qing saw Lie Xinyuan nod at him, he had already tacitly accepted the Lie family becoming the overlord of Longguo.
However, before this beautiful dream could be fully realized, a faint cracking sound interrupted his thoughts.
Following the sound, he saw the earth ball, which had been suspended in mid-air, begin to shed soil from the top downwards.
As the soil fell faster and faster, a huge crack gradually appeared on the entire earth ball.
Qin Xuan's voice came from within.
Hearing this voice, Lie Xinyuan couldn't help but frown, staring intently at the earth ball.
"You people, have you never read comic books?"
"If there's smoke, there's no damage, don't you understand?"