They all were loyal to Li Xin and not any other leader of the Li family, specially selected among the different branches of the Li family.
Each knew about special families, which oversaw research of demon paths and how to integrate special features of demons and other species, so they would serve them.
What was very special was that few of these elders had demon hearts.
What was so special about demon hearts was that their natural ability for cultivating was elevated much higher and their passive natural energy absorption would let them ascend higher cultivation stage even without cultivation.
This was one of the huge differences between humans and other races. Humans couldn't absorb natural energy and cultivate without cultivation freely.
Animals, plants, and others had the natural disposition for cultivating after becoming sentient creatures, so even if they didn't cultivate, they could have a cultivation base and create a cultivation core. Usually thanks to eating other creatures with cultivation or cultivators.
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Everyone from the Li family went back into one of the peaks which was under the control of the Li family. They went into a very old not good-looking mansion, and after they raised strange protective barriers around, they went to the array formation, like the one which was in Fey underground complex, but this array was much bigger and complicated.
This array could connect to the other arrays, which were set by Li Xin, so they will move between them as they pleased.
Unlike the smaller one, this one had twenty-one spots where they used mid-grade spirit stones and started all QI Condensation elder went into the formation. Wang Xin placed the shining tablet in the middle of the formation and start pouring his natural energy into the array.
The array quickly activated and both this and the one other array in Fey mansion started shining. As the arrays light envelope elders inside they start disappearing and turning into the shadows as they leave the array.
In one moment, Li Xin felt like the arrays on the other side start losing power, so Wang Xin released his early-stage Core Formation realm and start using his spirit energy to support array formation, so it will not break apart.
His first rock-solid look starts slowly turning dark as he uses more and more of his inner energy. He didn't know that it was happening, but something must have happened on the other side of the array. "What the fuck happened there. The Array was ready to be used otherwise it will not be able to use it at the first time."
As the connection was weakening more and more, the consumption of spirit energy, which Wang Xin needs to spend was even more. Just then a strange flash of light started editing from the array formation before him, as all the energy he poured into it wasn't able to go through and start accumulating here.
At this moment he didn't care about the lives of other members of the Li family and instantly severed himself from the array formation teleported outside of the defensive formation and started reinforcing it, so nothing from the inside would leak out and warn others of the Li family. His eyes were bloodshot, and he had nearly none of the spirit energy inside his body.
He looked like he aged a hundred years in a few seconds as he saw his carefully selected disciplines for hundreds of years of secret planning and acquiring demon heads die in array formation.
If the other supreme elders found out that he was doing something like that, his reputation and position would be damaged, and other elders would rip him and Li's family into shreds. The Peng sect did tolerate demonic cultivators but if someone found out that the Li family was creating demon cultivators, they would be cast out of Peng City.
They will surely be founded out that a few members of the inner part of the Li family died, because everyone had their life tablets in the Wang life shrine, which Wang Xin had to guard, and he was responsible for their deaths.
As he placed more and more restrictions around the place, the array overloaded and exploded with the might of Element finding power and shook the whole mountain range. Even as he placed extreme amounts of restrictions around, the bag spread through the whole sect, and mountain peaks around started shaking violently and falling apart.
All supreme elders from other families quickly arrived where Li Xin was and saw him as he was destroying a mountain peak where they currently were flattening to the ground.
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Mei Lin slowly opened her eyes and saw that she was still lying on the grass where she fell as she escaped from the cellar. Her body was on fire, and she lost a lot of blood. Her vision was blurry, and she felt terrible.
She tried to get up, but after trying to help herself with her hands, she felt hopeless. She still felt like she had both hands, but one was missing. The pieces of the wood ripped her other hand and still a lot of small chips were inside.
Many of these started turning skimmed-around red and uncomfortably itching. Mei Lin finally sat up into a lotus position, pulled out the jar with blood she had already had many times and drank nearly half a litter.
She felt sick from drinking it, so she placed the jar back into her storage ring pulled out a sealed bottle with healing pills, and placed one of the three green pills into her mouth.
The healing pill immediately dissolved as it touched her tongue. A large amount of natural energy spread through Mei Lin's body and started slowly healing her wounds and replenishing her depleted natural energy inside the cultivation sea.
Mei Lin felt a very pleasant sensation from all around her body, as rich natural energy from the pill started slowly healing her body.