Chapter 257: Leading with the Blood of Ancestors

The fierce fighting on the battlefield was extinguished by the heavy rain.

The rain was pouring down, and as the back of the demon wave was cut off by the rain of swords, the charge was unable to continue. With the help of the sword energy on the city top, the situation that had been forced to retreat steadily, and the situation of retreating while fighting was stabilized in the blink of an eye.

On the city wall that was submerged by the torrent of demons, the Xia family's battle flag flew again.

The pressure on all the soldiers suddenly dropped. After the demon in front of them was killed, no demons even continued to attack.

They were all stunned and looked at the reversal in front of them in disbelief.

"This, this is..."

"Who is guiding the sword? Who is saving us?!"

"Are we...saved?"

All armies and family armies, including those Jianghu sects who were temporarily recruited, stared blankly at the outside of the defense line.

The area outside the defense line was already like purgatory, with countless sword energy penetrating down, and all the demons wailing and perishing.

Those big demons in the Third Immortal Realm rolled up their huge bodies and tried to escape into the distance, but like moths struggling in the heavy rain, they were soon covered by the rain of swords and fell rapidly, making no more noise.

"Who is that..."

In the center of the defense line, Marshal Xia Changkong, the commander of the second line of defense, looked up with shock on his face.

Under the long river of sword energy, I saw a young figure sitting on the back of the red flame demon. The energy in his body seemed to be snow-white mist, which was visible to the naked eye. It surged towards the sword tide in the sky above his head and turned into endless sword energy sweeping down.

Next to the young man stood the head of their Xia family and his brothers.

"The head of the family, Yuan Wu..."

Xia Changkong was a little stunned. The head of the family actually rushed there in person. What about the owner of the Gluttony Valley?

He couldn't help but look behind the demon tide, but saw that there was no movement there.

On the battlefield, only a few elders from Gluttony Valley were left. They fled in panic into the distance, but were chased by long sword-qi dragons.

Soon, an elder from Gluttony Valley was injured. At this moment, it seemed that the sword energy dragon was not very powerful, so he chose to resist it with his body. But soon, his soul seemed to be taken away, and he fell rapidly.

The demons in the Valley of Gluttony are brutal and blood-drinking. They are generally physically strong and tyrannical, not much inferior to the dragons. They also rely more on the physical body when fighting, but in the face of 1% fatal attribute, they are no different from ordinary demons.

Li Hao looked at the falling demon figures under the rain of swords, his expression calm and unchanged. When the battlefield almost completely calmed down, he put away the wave of swords.

"You two, I'll leave the rest of the fish that slipped through the net to you. I'll leave first."

Li Hao said to Xia Linglong and the two people beside him.

The two of them reacted and were stunned. In just a moment, almost all the tens of millions of demons on the battlefield were wiped out!

This is so scary!

Is this the strength of the Taiping Dao realm? It feels beyond their imagination.

"General Haotian, don't worry, leave the rest to us. Once we clean up, we will send troops to Qingzhou immediately!"

Xia Linglong reacted and quickly said to Li Hao.

Originally, she said that sending troops was indeed a return of favor, but at this moment, she herself felt that in the face of an existence like Li Hao, their Xia family's troops were of little significance. At most, they could save the villages and towns in Qingzhou that had fallen everywhere.

After all, although Li Hao is strong, it is impossible for him to take care of the entire Qingzhou in a short period of time.

"Um."

Li Hao nodded and did not refuse the other party's kindness.

Then he gently stroked the head of the Candlefire God as a signal. Flames swept over the Candlefire God's body. He stepped out with his thick hooves like a unicorn, piercing the sky of the battlefield with the light of fire. He galloped away into the distance and left the battlefield.

On the defense line, many generals, family heads, and masters of Jianghu sects all raised their heads and stared at the figure riding the red flame demon away, remembering this scene in their hearts.

They didn't know who the young man was, but they knew that the Xia family would give them the answer.

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Qingzhou, Qingzhou City.

The once prosperous Qingzhou City was now on alert. All civilians were restricted from leaving their houses, and all the stalls on the streets were cleared, freeing up wide streets for the rapid passage of troops.

On the four city walls, golden magic circles were propped up, but outside the city was a mighty wave of demons gathering.

On top of the city, many Li family soldiers and Qingzhou City defenders gathered here with solemn expressions.

The fighting for several days made them exhausted mentally and physically, but no one dared to relax.

Three days ago, according to information obtained from the outside through the Li family's secret techniques, most of Qingzhou's land had fallen.

Hundreds of cities have been shattered and occupied by demons. Qingzhou, the headquarters of the Li family, has suffered unprecedented damage in thousands of years.

When the remaining cities that survived received the news, many people did not believe it and thought that the military information was wrong. However, it was not until they saw the large number of refugees fleeing from other cities and villages that they realized that there was really a big problem in Qingzhou.

After thousands of years of comfort, the people in most cities in Qingzhou have long lost their clear understanding of demons.

Occasionally, the Demon Suppression Department would hunt down demons that had been killed and parade them around the streets before transporting them back from outside the city. Countless people would come to join in the fun and watch, which was just a novelty.

Now that demons are sweeping across the city, every city is shrouded in unprecedented shadow and fear, and every city is on trembling alert.

However, compared to Qingzhou, which was already in war, the city of Qingzhou was now besieged on all sides and in danger.

On the city wall, Li Muchiu and Li Xiaoran were guarding this place, but both of them had pale hair. Compared with before, they looked obviously more than ten years older, and the wrinkles on their faces were more and deeper.

They suffered two heavy blows during this period, which made them feel heartbroken.

More than a month ago, when Li Tianzong's heroic spirit dissipated, they went to the Dead River in anger, but did not attack directly, but secretly explored. As a result, they unexpectedly discovered that the demonic power gathered outside the Dead River was beyond their imagination.

Longmen and Shenggong actually mobilized most of their forces there, and the leaders of the two major forces personally sat in charge, just to kill Li Hao.

They did not act rashly, but chose to take this opportunity to send troops to attack Longmen's nest.

This is a rare opportunity. The nest of Shenggong was destroyed by Prince Qing, and the defense of Longmen's nest was also empty.

Through the Tianji Tower, they mobilized a lot of intelligence and found Longmen's nest. After reporting to His Majesty, the Li family and the royal family sent troops to destroy it together.

It took more than half a month to destroy Longmen's nest. The leader of Longmen outside the Dead River got the news and was furious. He brought forward the plan to quickly attack Qingzhou and directly attacked Qingzhou City.

But Li Xiaoran and Li Muxiu already knew that Li Hao had left the Dead River, so they did not continue to guard outside the Dead River, but returned to Qingzhou in advance.

And they expected that Longmen might be angry with Qingzhou after learning the information that the old nest was destroyed, so they returned in advance to arrange defense, which led to the failure of the overnight Qingzhou attack by Longmen and the Saint Palace. They failed to break through Qingzhou City and exposed their purpose.

Since the failure of the Liangzhou plan and the Qingzhou City secret attack plan, Longmen and the Saint Palace could no longer take care of the secret. After discussion, they directly called on all demons to attack Qingzhou with great momentum.

So, this long-lasting fight began.

In this battle, both sides sacrificed countless lives. After more than a month, Qingzhou was finally broken.

The Li family retreated to the defense line all the way, abandoned most of the Qingzhou city, and finally defended all the way to Qingzhou City.

The army sent by the imperial city was intercepted by another demon force halfway, not only failed to reinforce Qingzhou, but also suffered heavy losses.

The demons that besieged Qingzhou were not only the Holy Palace and the Dragon Gate. In addition to the Taixu Realm that was still guarding the Dead River and welcoming their master's return, other top demon forces also died.

When they asked for help from the Xia family in Youzhou, they learned that the Gluttony Valley attacked the Xia family. Obviously, the Gluttony Valley's move was to clamp down on the Xia family. Although the five major divine generals' mansions fought openly and secretly, they helped each other in times of crisis, and the Xia family was the closest divine general mansion to the Li family.

The attack of the Gluttony Valley made it impossible for the Xia family in Youzhou to allocate troops to reinforce Qingzhou, and also cut off another hope for them.

In the past few days, the signals for help from Qingzhou to other parties have all fallen into the sea. Qingzhou seems to be surrounded and isolated by demons.

This time, the demons gathered more power than in Liangzhou, and it seems that they are determined to crush the entire Qingzhou and completely break through it.

They retreated all the way from the border, losing battles and throwing away armor. Now, they retreated to Qingzhou City, which is the last position.

If they lose it again, only the God General Mansion will be left, like a small boat in the sea, which can be destroyed at any time.

Li Xiaoran looked bleak. He and Li Muxiu almost died in the fighting for more than a month.

The leader of the Dragon Gate revealed his strength. From the original recorded intelligence, he broke through to the Taiping Dao Realm.

And the Palace Master of the Holy Palace was originally in the Taiping Dao Realm. Fortunately, Yan Bei was seriously injured in the fight with the Green Prince, and his realm fell. It seems that he has not recovered yet, and is only comparable to the level of the Half-Step Dao Realm.

If Li Muxiu was not also in the Half-Step Dao Realm and could hold up the Dao Realm to barely resist, I am afraid he would have died in the battle.

With the half-step invincible fist and the half-step Dao domain, Li Muxiu fought the leader of the Dragon Gate to a draw, greatly slowing down the speed of Qingzhou's defeat. Otherwise, Qingzhou would have been broken a month ago, and the city of Qingzhou would have been destroyed long ago.

But now, it is still in a desperate situation.

"Their target is our Li family, and they want to remove the God General Mansion from the list!"

After more than a month of fighting, Li Xiaoran has seen the purpose of these demons, who want to destroy the Li family, and this is just the first step for them to capture Dayu.

This plot may have been brewing decades ago. Since the nine sons fell one after another, the Li family's jurisdiction has been frequently attacked by demons. Now it seems that everything is traceable and targeted.

Want to make the Li family's bloodline broken and make the Li family have no successors. If you wait for decades, the Li family's direct bloodline will decline, and the selected real dragon will probably be inferior to most of the other God General Mansions.

That is the most suitable time to attack the Li family.

But now, the demon's plan changes seem to be ahead of schedule.

Li Muxiu's eyes were deep, and he slowly adjusted his breath. He had previously fought with the Palace Master of the Holy Palace outside the magic circle and defeated him, but he himself was also exhausted.

The leaders of these two major forces took turns to consume him, making him exhausted.

"Has Wuliang Mountain not replied yet?"

Li Muxiu's face was gloomy, and he looked to the west.

The demons there covered the top of the mountain, densely packed, giving the people in the city a great sense of oppression, but his eyes did not change, looking through the demons and looking further away.

That's where Wuliang Mountain is.

The relationship between the Li family and Wuliang Mountain is also close. They usually offer incense and worship. Until now, Li Qianfeng is still the direct disciple of the Buddha.

But the letter for help sent to Wuliang Mountain has no news.

I don't know if it was not received, or Wuliang Mountain is also in trouble.

"Notify Tiangang, I can't hold on any longer. Now the Li family is at the final moment of survival, it's time to call them back."

Li Muxiu retracted his gaze, knowing that he could not rely on Wuliang Mountain. He took a deep breath and his eyes became sharp.

Li Xiaoran was slightly startled, his face changed, but he remained silent.

He knew that now was the time for the Li family to fight to the death.

The glory of the past had faded, and now it was time to return to guard this glory and inheritance.

If the ancestral hall was destroyed, the scattered blood would be meaningless.

The inheritance of the thousand-year-old God General Mansion was not only blood, but also foundation. Once the foundation was destroyed, even if the blood was preserved, it would be impossible to make a comeback.

After all, many times, success is a matter of timing and opportunity, which cannot be replicated.

"I know."

Li Xiaoran glanced at his second brother, nodded slightly, and then stood up and flew quickly towards the God General Mansion in the city.

Soon, he landed in the God General Mansion like a stream of light.

In the mansion, in the Shanhe Courtyard.

Many figures gathered in the hall of the courtyard. The leading figure, with a burly figure and a majestic aura, was Li Tiangang.

On his right, a female general in armor sat on a rattan chair. It was his wife Ji Qingqing.

In addition to the couple, He Jianlan, Li Xuanli, Gao Qingqing and other ladies from various courtyards are also here.

But unlike the luxurious clothes they wore in the past, these ladies are now like Ji Qingqing, wearing armor and with frost on their faces, as if they are ready to go to the battlefield at any time.

"Wuliangshan didn't reply..."

"The sword saint from the Southern Sword House didn't reply either..."

The atmosphere in the hall was cold and solemn.

The connections of the former God General Mansion seemed to be suddenly stripped away at this moment, and there was no news at all.

However, in addition to these two major forces closer to the Li family, many other forces and sects that have received favors from the Li family have rushed over, but most of them do not have four-level realm powerhouses, and even the three-immortal realm is already the strongest existence.

Now, they urgently need the strong men of the absolute learning realm to come to help and share the pressure for Li Muxiu.

After all, this old man has to withstand the leaders of two major forces alone, one of whom is still in the Taiping Dao realm in his prime. It is too strenuous and he may fall down at any time.

With a whoosh.

Li Xiaoran's figure landed outside the hall. He didn't stop, but stepped in directly. Looking at the people with sad faces, he looked directly at Li Tiangang and said:

"My second brother said that he would prepare for the sacrifice and use the blood of the ancestors to call back all the blood of our Li family."

"In this battle, if we succeed, we can survive, but if we fail, the Li family will be exterminated!"

His eyes were deep and cold: "Success or failure depends on this one move, and my second brother can't hold on any longer!"

Hearing Li Xiaoran's words, everyone in the hall was stunned, but not too shocked, but looked miserable.

The fall of Qingzhou and the dense demons outside the city of Qingzhou made them understand that this was a matter of time.

When the blood of the ancestors was used, all the blood of the Li family would sense the danger of the Li family. This was a call with blood. It would only be activated when the Li family was really in danger of life and death and this God General Mansion that had stood for thousands of years was facing a desperate situation!

And the inheritance of thousands of years has branched out and spread out, and the scattered descendants are spread all over the Dayu Divine Dynasty. It is an extremely powerful force that can be sensed if guided by the blood of the ancestors.