46: This person, is he a friend or an enemy?

No one expected that the Imperial City Shi Family had not three, but thirteen Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm.

The three on the surface were just a fraction!

Three Out-of-Body Realm Family Guardians and one Nascent Soul Realm Family Elder left the defensive Formation and did not return, clearly facing a grim fate, as Long Aotian's actions had successfully enraged them.

How could they not be enraged?

This place was no less than the Shi Family's second stronghold, a place where the Shi Family specifically cultivated Family Genius Disciples and hid its strength, yet they had lost four people in quick succession.

A slap in the face!

A blatant slap in the face!

Even an uncle could endure it, but an aunt could not!

Under the command of Shi Tianjing, the Clan Chief of the Shi Family, whose face was so gloomy it looked like water would drip from it, ten Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm who were in seclusion in their Cultivation chambers were invited out one by one.

Shi Tianjing, the Clan Chief of the Shi Family, had a Cultivation of the Out-of-Body Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage, just a step away from the Spirit Division Realm.

If anyone were to carefully observe the Imperial City Shi Family, they would surely find that the Clan Chief of the Imperial City Shi Family was elusive, with most Family matters being decided and handled by Shi Gandang, the Family Head.

However, the actual situation was that the two had clear divisions of labor: Shi Gandang, the Family Head, managed the Imperial City Shi Family's visible forces, while Shi Tianjing, the Clan Chief, managed the Shi Family's hidden forces.

After the ten Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm from the Shi Family were invited out one by one, they learned that three more Guardians had fallen outside the defensive Formation, and immediately, each of them also showed a furious expression.

Killing their people near their stronghold was simply provoking a sleeping tiger!

Besides their anger, they also felt immense heartache.

Losing three Out-of-Body Realm Guardians at once! Their Shi Family only had a total of one hundred and eighteen Out-of-Body Realm Family Guardians, including the three lost now. In less than half a year, their Shi Family had continuously lost ten Out-of-Body Realm Family Guardians.

These were the core forces that were so difficult to Cultivate, yet so many were lost at once. How could they not feel heartache? How could they not be angry?

If the outside world knew the true strength of the Imperial City Shi Family, they would surely be shocked. Not only were the Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm displayed on the surface just a fraction of their total, but even the Out-of-Body Realm Family Guardians displayed on the surface were just a fraction of their total.

Inside the defensive Formation, there were not only ten Spirit Division Realm powerhouses, but also one hundred Out-of-Body Realm powerhouses.

Recently, due to the war with the Long Family, dozens of Nascent Soul Realm Family Elders of the Shi Family had fallen. The Shi Family members once suspected that this was not just the Long Family targeting their Shi Family, but also other forces with grudges against their Shi Family stabbing them in the back.

The continuous loss of so many Family Elders, Family Guardians, and even an Ancestor of the Spirit Division Realm in Feng Town, caused the Shi Family, which had hidden its true strength and possessed profound foundations, to feel a pang of heartache.

For this reason, the Shi Family decided to secretly select a group of Family Elders with good Martial Arts Talent to Cultivate, in order to recover the strength lost by the Shi Family in the past six months.

Shi Jing was one of the people selected.

He was Shi Gandang's second son, and could be called a Young Lord of the Shi Family.

Of course, he was by no means admitted through the back door.

With a Cultivation of the Nascent Soul Realm Early Stage, he was equivalent to a Family Elder in the Shi Family.

After the ten Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm were invited out, after some discussion, everyone unanimously decided to first send out two Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm to scout the situation.

They were also worried that sending out all ten at once might be a ploy by someone with ulterior motives to probe the Shi Family's true strength.

"Two Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm?!"

In the third layer of the Treasure Pagoda, Long Aotian couldn't help but gasp when he saw two Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm from the Shi Family suddenly flash out from within the defensive Formation.

He even ignored the ten Out-of-Body Realm powerhouses who followed closely behind.

Long Aotian wanted to kill only Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm, to truly make the Shi Family feel heartache.

Killing Out-of-Body Realm powerhouses now held no challenge for Long Aotian; his Level 6 Void Maelstrom Array killed Out-of-Body Realm powerhouses as easily as slaughtering dogs.

The moment the two Spirit Division Realm powerhouses appeared, Long Aotian withdrew the Void Concealment Formation in the Small Valley. At the same time, fearing that the Void Annihilation Array there might not be enough, he was still frantically carving Formations.

While Shi Tianjing and the others were summoning the Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm and discussing how to deal with the situation outside, Long Aotian increased the Level 6 Void Maelstrom Array in the Small Valley from fifteen to twenty-five, and even the Level 6 Void Maelstrom Array near the defensive Formation was increased to fifty.

It could be said that this place had been invisibly laid out with a net by Long Aotian, and even a Spirit Division Realm powerhouse, if careless, would meet their demise on the spot.

Long Aotian saw the two Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm from the Shi Family, and far from being afraid, he was filled with eager excitement.

"Hmm? There's a problem in the Small Valley!"

Long Aotian withdrew the Void Concealment Formation, and the four mangled corpses were quickly detected by the Divine Sense of the Shi Family's powerhouses. Immediately, the faces of each Shi Family powerhouse turned as ugly as if they had swallowed a dead cockroach.

"One person go and check, in case the other party has a trick!"

An Ancestor of the Spirit Division Realm from the Shi Family commanded.

"..."

The ten Guardians' expressions changed slightly.

Clearly, this was an order directed at them!

After barely a second of hesitation, a Shi Family Guardian stepped forward.

"..."

Seeing who had voluntarily stepped forward, Long Aotian's expression also changed slightly.

Wasn't this the fellow who, the second time he came out to scout the situation, stood motionless for three minutes before slipping away?

Long Aotian had originally thought this person was timid, but he hadn't expected him to volunteer to step forward at this moment, which surprised him a little.

He saw him flash to the vicinity of the Small Valley, then unleash a frantic output of spiritual power, bombarding it wildly.

If Long Aotian had set up an ordinary Formation, it might indeed have been destroyed by such a bombardment, with the Formation core being damaged.

Unfortunately, Long Aotian had set up a Void Formation. As long as the Formation was not activated, they simply couldn't see that there was a Formation in the Void Realm.

Moreover, even if they bombarded the Void Realm, it would be very difficult to scatter the Formation, unless Long Aotian actively disbanded it.

Otherwise, the Formation would still be there.

This was the wonder of the Void Formation, carved by those who had gained some understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

After a barrage of bombardment, Shi Xiaodan returned, cupping his hands and reporting to the two Old Ancestors: "Ninth Ancestor, Tenth Ancestor, no abnormalities were found!"

"...Very good, let's all go take a look!"

..."Ninth Ancestor, Tenth Ancestor? Damn, are there actually eight more Spirit Division Realm powerhouses within the defensive Formation? How much strength has this Shi Family hidden?"

Long Aotian was also a bit stunned.

The amount of information revealed by Shi Xiaodan's words was simply too great, so great that his heart was very unsettled.

"Bang bang bang—"

"..."

Just as the Ninth Ancestor, Tenth Ancestor, and the other nine Guardians moved to the Small Valley to investigate the situation, Shi Xiaodan remained near the defensive Formation, wildly bombarding the vegetation around it.

"...This guy, isn't he trying to sneak away again?!"

Long Aotian's expression was strange.

In his heart, however, he was wondering whether or not to let him off the hook.

Since he had slipped away last time, Long Aotian had set up a full five Level 6 Void Maelstrom Arrays at the entrance and exit of the defensive Formation.

Taking his life this time was just a thought away.

But what made Long Aotian hesitate was that this person seemed a bit strange. If the first time he could be called timid, then now, this second time, Long Aotian truly sensed that there was something wrong with this person.

Why?

Naturally, this fellow didn't use Divine Sense to transmit his voice, and he directly called out "Ninth Ancestor" and "Tenth Ancestor" instead of "the two Old Ancestors." It seemed he was deliberately trying to reveal information to him?!