Outside Xiling City.
The great battle to contain Li Mu has begun.
According to the Yue family's battle plan, they should first try to persuade Li Mu to surrender, and it would be best if they could keep Li Mu with them.
If persuasion fails, then wage war, using a war of attrition to deplete Li Mu's spiritual power, and finally subdue him when he is exhausted.
If it cannot be subdued, the only option is to kill it.
The ancestor had the highest cultivation level, having reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, but he was troubled by the lack of Foundation Establishment Pills, which prevented him from establishing his foundation. Without establishing his foundation, he could not increase his lifespan.
In this great battle, the Ancestor, as a backup plan, will refrain from making a move if possible, thus preserving his strength.
Once Li Mu is dealt with, if we can obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill, the Ancestor can advance to the next level.
It must be said that it was no easy feat for the Yue family to make such a clear arrangement in such a short time.
However, no matter how well planned it was, it couldn't withstand Li Mu's unpredictable actions.
At this moment, Li Mu had no mercy left in his heart. Since the fight had begun, it was a fight to the death.
These people are different from the elders of the Tianxuan Sect. Over there, it's a friendly sparring session, but here they want to forcibly detain him, and kill him if they can't.
Even if he doesn't kill anyone, the other party won't let him go.
Under the relentless attacks of the three opponents, Li Mu's spiritual energy was greatly depleted, and their intention to exhaust his spiritual energy was quite obvious.
As Zhao Gucheng slashed down, Li Mu unleashed the second move of his Wood Fang technique, Water-Born Wood - Summoning Spirit.
A ripple appeared in the air, and the surrounding spiritual energy was instantly absorbed into the Wooden Fang Sword. With a whistling sound, the Wooden Fang slashed towards the greatsword.
"Clang!"
Swords clashed, the broadsword was cut in half, but the wooden sword continued its momentum.
"puff!"
Zhao Gucheng's body was severed in half at the same time.
For Li Mu, this was an unexpected gain; he actually managed to cut his opponent and his sword in two with a single sword strike.
"Gu Cheng!"
Having witnessed Zhao Gucheng's murder, Leng Shuang's eyes widened in fury, and she attacked Li Mu from behind.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
She wielded a pear blossom sword, creating a myriad of sword shadows.
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Li Mu's original intention was to defeat Zhao Gucheng and kill the old woman.
He had already dodged when the cold frost attacked, and by the time the old woman's sword shadow appeared, his wooden fangs had already returned to defense.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
"call out!"
After three sharp sounds, a flash of silver light disappeared.
The flying sword killed someone.
Leng Shuang's eyes, wide with fury, were still glaring at Li Mu when his head fell to the ground.
"Shuang'er!"
"Second Aunt!"
Upon seeing Zhao Gucheng killed, Yue family patriarch Yue Boqun made his move, throwing a punch at Li Mu from the side.
Before his fist even arrived, Li Mu's flying sword had already severed Leng Shuang's head.
At the same time that Zhao Gucheng was killed, Yue Qingsong also slashed at Li Mu's neck with his sword.
Li Mu killed two people in a row, seemingly gaining the upper hand, but in reality, he was on the defensive.
He had no choice but to block Yue Qingsong's sword strike, or he would lose his head.
He was hit by a punch from the side thrown by the Yue family patriarch. Although he used his flying sword to deal with it, he was still hit by the punch.
"Clang!"
"bump!"
He blocked a sword that would have severed his head, but was sent flying by a punch.
In the distance, two more Yue family martial artists arrived: Yue Qingyan and Yue Lei.
"Moon Spirit, seal off your five senses, and be quick."
Before Li Mu landed, he used a secret technique to transmit his voice to Yue Ling.
He was already injured, and with two more martial artists joining the Yue family, he had no choice but to use the Haotian Drum.
He hasn't fully refined the Haotian Drum yet, and he'll inevitably suffer a backlash when he uses it.
Yue Ling was hiding inside the protective shield created by the Soul-Summoning Bell, completely unaware of the situation outside. Hearing her husband's words, she had no choice but to obey.
"Qingsong, this boy must not be allowed to live. Follow me and kill him with all your might."
After Yue Boqun injured Li Mu, he jumped up again and punched Li Mu.
Before the patriarch could speak, Yue Qingsong had already drawn his sword and charged towards Li Mu, who had fallen to the ground.
At this moment, Yue Qingyan and Yue Lei, who had just arrived, also attacked Li Mu.
The four members of the Yue family attacked the injured Li Mu simultaneously.
Li Mu's life hung by a thread; he didn't even have time to take the elixir.
As soon as he landed, he took out a large drum and a club from his ring.
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The first to notice something was wrong was the patriarch Yue Boqun. He was in the air when he saw the drum and was shocked.
"Watch out, retreat quickly!"
Legend has it that there is a large drum outside called the Haotian Drum, which, once struck, causes the heavens and earth to collapse.
However, before the others could react, the drum was struck.
The mallet struck the drumhead, producing a dull and heavy sound.
"Thump!"
Within a radius of ten miles, the space itself began to shake.
The nearby city wall was shaken so badly that hundreds of meters of it collapsed.
The large bell that the summoning bell had transformed into was shaken and turned back into a small bell.
The moon spirit, whose five senses were closed, was knocked to the ground by the sound wave and opened her eyes.
The four members of the Yue family were thrown back more than ten feet by the shock, and blood flowed from their seven orifices.
Drummer Li Mu suffered a backlash, spitting blood, unable to stand, and unable to speak.
Of all those on the battlefield, only Yue Ling remained uninjured and able to stand.
Yue Ling put away the bell and ran towards Li Mu.
"Husband! What's wrong?"
Seeing Yue Ling approach, Li Mu slowly extended his hand to her.
However, as he raised his hand halfway, Yue Ling turned around and saw several people groaning on the ground.
She thought to herself, "Does my husband want me to kill someone? It's all these people's fault for beating my husband like this."
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Yue Ling mustered her courage and ran towards the four members of the Yue family, carrying the Cold Iron Sword.
"Ah! I'm going to kill you!"
She killed four people with her eyes closed.
After killing the people with a ferocious expression, he then trembled as he collected their storage bags.
Then, he returned to Li Mu's side and put away the drum and mallet.
She carried her husband on her back and ran away.
Li Mu, who was lying on Yue Ling's back, was speechless.
He raised his hand, meaning he wanted her to help him take the pill out of the ring.
What a fool! How could he dare to kill someone?
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Yue Ling, carrying her husband on her back, was somewhat panicked and ran blindly.
On a starry night, a woman carrying a man on her back runs at high speed across a wilderness, looking quite bizarre.
The man on her back was either too blood loss or stunned by her parkour moves.
She stopped in a grove of trees when she was too exhausted to run any further.
At this point, they were already over a hundred kilometers away from Xiling City.
When she put Li Mu on the folding bed, she realized that she had forgotten to feed her husband his medicine.
She took out all the healing pills from Li Mu's ring and poured out two of each.
She stuffed it all into Li Mu's mouth, and to prevent her husband from choking, she also fed him a liquid from a jade bottle.
The liquid was the water from the thousand-year-old stalagmite that Li Mu had always been reluctant to use, and half of the bottle was poured down in one go.
If Li Mu wakes up, he'll probably faint again from heartache.
They rested in the grove for less than half an hour.
A gentle breeze rustled the leaves and branches against each other, making a sound that made her feel danger and fear.
So she packed up the folding bed, carried her injured husband on her back again, and set off on a frantic run.
This time, she didn't stop until dawn.
Seeing her husband still unconscious, she rested for a while and then started running again.
Her idea was extremely simple: the farther they ran, the safer she and her husband would be.
And so, she carried Li Mu on her back and ran forward, running and running.
Until they ran into a frozen wasteland.
Li Mu had probably woken up.
However, being on the woman's back, he could still feel a rhythmic swaying, which forced him to continue sleeping.
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