Three hundred years ago, the Li family of Coral Island was still a small family with only three cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

At that time, in order to compete for the position of patriarch, the cultivators of various branches of the Li family used various means and even resorted to recruiting external aid and eliminating other competitors. Li Haodong's father was one of the first losers to be eliminated.

After failing in the competition, Li Haodong's father did not react much due to his personality.

But no one expected that his son Li Haodong had such an extreme character. Just because he was ridiculed by his cousins, he killed two young monks of the same generation from the Li family.

Killing blood relatives is a serious crime in every immortal cultivation family. Many elders of the Li family were furious and wanted to enforce the family rules.

Although Li Haodong's father was also shocked and angry, even a tiger would not eat its own cubs. Out of guilt towards his own son, he secretly let Li Haodong go on the eve of the family punishment and told him never to come back.

Three hundred years later, Li Haodong changed his name and became a casual cultivator. Relying on his ruthless character, he was active in many markets.

On weekdays, he made a living by hunting monsters, and occasionally killed people for treasures and explored secret realms. He had experienced many disasters and had some adventures, and was fortunately able to advance to the late stage of Jindan.

Half a year ago, Li Haodong heard a rumor in Tianqing Market that the Li family on Coral Island was attacked by two independent cultivators. So he became interested and quietly returned to Coral Island to see the current situation of the Li family.

It was this journey home that caused all the remaining family ties in his heart to disappear, and he became filled with murderous intent.

It turned out that after his father let him go, his lineage had been ostracized in the Li family. Not only were all kinds of resources cut, but the children of the other branches and lineages of the Li family would also often come to cause trouble.

Until about two hundred years ago, when my father died of depression, the situation took a turn for the worse.

More than a hundred years ago, Li Haodong's lineage was completely extinct, and he was the only one left.

Upon hearing the news, Li Haodong, who had originally planned to come back to revive his family, quickly gave up the idea and instead found several Jindan-stage cultivators who had hunted monsters with him in the past, intending to destroy the Li family of the Coral Island that no longer had any relationship with him.

But what he didn't expect was that among several Jindan stage cultivators, there was actually a Yuanying stage senior.

After destroying the Coral Island and leaving home, this Yuanying stage senior admired his character and methods very much, so he showed off his own cultivation and led this group of Jindan stage cultivators who had tasted the sweetness of life to take action again, and successively destroyed several small families affiliated with the Luoyue Sect.

Perhaps because of Li Haodong's ruthless behavior of destroying his relatives and leaving no room for retreat, the senior was only willing to communicate with him through a single line.

If other Jindan stage cultivators want to know the current situation of the Yuanying senior, they can only find out through Li Haodong.

With the help of this relationship, Li Haodong gradually gained the right to speak in this small group.

It was also because of this that he was able to contact other accomplices privately while the Yuanying senior was recuperating, hoping to make another deal.

And the one he was targeting was the Zhou family of Qingli Island.

Although Li Haodong said that it was for the Li family's revenge, in fact, he didn't care.

The reason for dealing with the Zhou family was mainly because they had a late Jindan cultivator who had been famous for hundreds of years, and three early Jindan cultivators.

Being able to train three Jindan-stage cultivators within a hundred years shows that they have abundant resources, and that their income is far more than just the visible income.

In this situation, the Zhou family cannot afford to lose a late Jindan cultivator, so before this late Jindan cultivator dies, they are likely to mobilize the entire family and spend a huge price to obtain a spiritual object for the other party to form an infant.

Li Haodong's goal is to find the possible spiritual object that can form a baby, or the clues to the spiritual object that can form a baby.

A cultivator in the Jindan stage has a lifespan of 500 years. Li Haodong is now over 300 years old. Although he still has more than 100 years to live, time is becoming tight.

And it's not just him. The two people he found, Master Huangsha and Master Bingjiao, are both late Jindan cultivators around 400 years old.

To these older Jindan cultivators, the spiritual objects that could bring about the formation of infants were an irresistible temptation.

Because of this, when Li Haodong slightly raised this possibility, the eyes of the two monks couldn't help but light up.

"…Just like the previous operations, I also have an insider on Qingli Island."

"Qingli Island has a third-order island protection formation. We can't take it down by force, and we will only alert the enemy."

"According to the plan, my insider will lead us into Qingli Island. Fellow Daoist Sun will take the opportunity to use the Bewitching Heart Cicada to control the Zhou family's foundation-building cultivators, and then use it to lure and kill the Zhou family's early Jindan cultivators."

"Once the ambush is successful, we will rush out together and besiege the ancestor of the Zhou family."

After hearing Li Haodong's plan, Master Huangsha and Master Bingjiao looked at each other and were still a little worried.

"Friend Li, is your insider reliable?"

"Don't worry!" Li Haodong said with a smile, "He is a Foundation Establishment cultivator who married into the Zhou family. His name is Fang Shouye. He previously tried to negotiate with the Taoist partner of the Zhou family to change their second son's surname to his father's to continue the family line, but his wife refused and even beat and scolded him."

"Fang Shouye was holding a grudge, and took the opportunity of going on a mission to drink away his sorrows in Tianqing Market. I approached him and discussed the matter of an insider, and he agreed very decisively."

Upon hearing this, Master Huangsha suddenly realized: "So that's how it is."

Bing Jiao Zhenren smiled and said, "If that's the case, then I'm relieved... But it would be a bit too arrogant to rely on just the three of us. How about calling a few more Taoist friends to coordinate outside the island?"

Li Haodong raised his eyebrows: "Think carefully, one more fellow Taoist means one less resource."

Bing Jiao Zhenren said with a smile: "These are ordinary resources, so what's the harm in sharing the profits with them?"

"As long as we don't tell them about the birth of the spirit creature, there are only three of us on the island anyway, so we can hide it however we want..."

Huang Sha Zhenren nodded in agreement and said, "Daoyou Sun, what you said makes sense!"

Li Haodong frowned, thought for a moment, and nodded, "Okay, but you can only find two more people at most, and you must ensure that we can easily take them down together."

Bing Jiao Zhenren smiled and nodded: "Of course."

Li Haodong's frown relaxed and he said with a smile, "Very good, it's settled. I'll give you two three days. After three days, we will 'accidentally' meet the insider in Tianqingfang City and visit Qingli Island!"

Zhenren Huangsha and Zhenren Bingjiao looked at each other and could see the anticipation and excitement in each other's eyes.

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Three days later, a green flying boat came from a distance.

On the flying boat, a young monk wearing a green carp robe frowned, glanced at the three Foundation Establishment monks who were standing not far away with astonishment on their faces, and pulled the monk in front of him aside with suspicion.

"Brother-in-law, you said that these three are all second-level weapon refiners in Xingyuefang City?"

"yes!"

"What are you doing here, the weapon refiner from Xingyuefang City?"

"I don't know about that. I only know that the leader, Fellow Daoist Wang, seems to be here to visit a senior weapon refiner. It is said that he lives in seclusion in the sea near us..."

As he spoke, Fang Shouye coughed with a guilty conscience, and quickly changed the subject, "Yuan Xiu, don't be fooled by Brother Wang's plain appearance. He is a second-class upper-grade weapon refiner who can refine second-class upper-grade magic weapons."

"I went to Xingyue Market to purchase spiritual objects and met them by chance. We became friends."

"It is fate that we meet by chance in Tianqing Market today. I mentioned the Zhou family and asked them to come to Qingli Island for a visit."

"If there is a chance, maybe we can ask Brother Wang to give some pointers to the younger generation of our Zhou family and improve our family's weapon refining skills..."

Hearing Fang Shouye's words, Zhou Yuanxiu curled his lips: "They are just second-level top-grade weapon refiners. My fifth brother is much better than them!"

Fang Shouye laughed awkwardly and agreed, "Of course. Yuan Shuo is an inner disciple of Bailian Sect after all. The inheritance he received is definitely more powerful than the weapon refiners worshipped in the market. But then again, a sect is a sect after all. If they cultivate weapon refiners, they will definitely try their best to keep them. Whether they can return to the Zhou family in the future is still uncertain..."

Zhou Yuanxiu's face darkened when he heard this.

Fang Shouye was startled and quickly opened his mouth to explain.

Zhou Yuanxiu shook his head and sighed, "Brother-in-law, you are right, but there is nothing we can do. Fifth Brother is a person with both gold and fire spiritual roots. Our Zhou family does not have any suitable skills for him, and we cannot bear to waste his talent, so we can only send him away."

"Even if he really chooses to stay in the sect in the future, there is nothing we can do about it."

"I just hope that my Zhou family will become stronger in the future, and this kind of thing will never happen again..."

Fang Shouye breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly, indicating that he meant the same thing.

Not far away, Li Haodong and the other two, who had changed their appearance, glanced at Fang Shouye and Zhou Yuanxiu and whispered, "Fellow Daoist Sun, this young man named Zhou Yuanxiu seems to have some status. When we enter Qingli Island, you can control him directly and let him take us to find Zhou Shengwei and Zhou Shengzhi."

"Don't worry, I'm just a junior who is building a foundation."

Master Huangsha transmitted the message confidently.

Soon, the green flying boat arrived over Qingli Island.

A team of patrolling monks from the Zhou family came towards them, questioned everyone's identities with a polygraph, and then opened the island protection formation.

Zhou Yuanxiu turned around, looked at Fang Shouye, Li Haodong and the others, and said in a deep voice: "Come with me, remember to follow closely. My Qingli Island Zhou family has distinguished guests coming recently. Don't run around. If you offend them, I can't save you!"

...Distinguished guest?

Li Haodong frowned, looked at his two companions, and had a bad premonition in his heart.