Nian Mo never expected her father to want to kill Mo Wuji too. She quickly reached out and grabbed Mo Wuji. Xi Jing's intention to kill Mo Wuji was just a casual strike, and with his daughter's intervention, he restrained his Yuan power even further.

"Boom!" The Yuan power handprint, crushing the space, swept past Mo Wuji, directly blasting the stone pier behind Mo Wuji into rubble. Even with Xi Nianmo's help in grabbing him, Mo Wuji was still hit by the aftermath, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Compared to Xi Jing, he wasn't even an ant.

Mo Wuji was furious and sighed inwardly. He knew Xi Jing was going to attack him, but he couldn't avoid it. If it weren't for Xi Nianmo's rescue, he would have been reduced to碎渣 (碎渣 means "shreds" or "rubble").

"Father, don't kill Mo Wuji. He's innocent. On the contrary, he came to our Thunder Sword Manor specifically to help me. If you kill Mo Wuji, I'll be uneasy for the rest of my life, which will damage my Dao heart..." Xi Nianmo didn't wait for Xi Jing to attack again and quickly explained Mo Wuji's situation.

Xi Jing glanced at Mo Wuji and said calmly, "In that case, Uncle Yi, take Mo Wuji to my cultivation cave for a period of seclusion to compensate for his contribution."

Having said that, he grabbed a token and tossed it to Xi Yibo.

At the same time, Xi Yibo heard Xi Jing's telepathic message, "Take Mo Wuji to my secluded place and kill him. Seal the secluded place so that Nianmo won't know. Also, we are about to leave Thunder Sword Manor. This Thunder Sword Manor will cease to exist."

"Yes." Xi Yibo, with a face of livid green, immediately stood up, grabbed Mo Wuji without hesitation, and flashed out of the clan's council hall.

"Father, but his nascent soul and spiritual roots have undergone Nirvana, so he can't cultivate at all..." After Xi Yibo left, Xi Nianmo reacted and exclaimed.

Xi Jing sighed and said, "My cultivation room has a rich concentration of Divine Spiritual Qi, as well as some top-grade Divine spiritual pills and my inheritance. Let him stay inside. Whether he can obtain an opportunity depends on his own fortune."

"But..."

Xi Nianmo wanted to say something more, but Xi Jing stopped her with a wave of his hand. Then Xi Jing said to the many people in the council hall, "I've only been back for less than half an incense stick's time and I've already heard things I don't want to hear. There's a saying: 'Those who are not of our race must have different intentions.' Xi Ba Ren, Xi Ti, Xi Zhen, and others were all taken in by me back then, and I bestowed upon them the surname Xi. After I disappeared, they all jumped out. Fortunately, those still sitting here are all direct descendants of my Xi family."

Everyone in the clan council hall was silent. Back then, the Manor Lord was boundless in his power. Over the years, the Manor Lord's strength had clearly reached a higher level. As for those who were killed, they were indeed not members of the Xi family.

Xi Jing's tone became somber, "If possible, I would prefer not to return to Thunder Sword Manor, but I have no choice. Because if I don't return, no one here will survive. This place holds the inheritance of my Thunder Sword Manor, my clansmen, and my family. I cannot abandon you..."

Small murmurs arose from the crowd. Xi Jing waved his hand again, signaling everyone to stop discussing, and said, "This calamity was brought about by me, so we must leave Thunder Sword Manor now. There are too many people here. I hope that after I take everyone away, you can each find a suitable sect for yourselves. No matter what happens in the future, please remember that you bear the surname Xi and come from Thunder Sword Manor. One day, my Thunder Sword Manor will rise again..."

"Father..." Xi Nianmo's heart trembled when she heard this. No one would survive here, and her father had said he would take everyone away, but why leave Mo Wuji in the secluded room?

"Boom!" Xi Nianmo had just cried out when the entire Thunder Sword Manor shook violently as if it had been struck by a giant hammer.

Xi Jing's expression changed. He didn't expect these people to arrive so quickly. He thought he would have at least half a day before they arrived, half a day would have been enough for him to take everyone from Thunder Sword Manor.

At this moment, he couldn't say much. He could only say urgently, "Xi Jun, immediately lead people to guard the defensive arrays of Thunder Sword Manor. I'll go reinforce the arrays..."

……

Xi Yibo's strength was very powerful. Grabbing Mo Wuji, he traversed tens of miles in a short time, and then began to descend continuously.

In just under half an incense stick's time, Xi Yibo stopped, imprinted the token in his hand into the void, and a seamless door slowly opened.

Xi Yibo grabbed a pill and fed it into Mo Wuji's mouth, saying, "Alas, for the sake of you helping Miss, I'll give you a piece of advice. Have better luck when you're reincarnated. This is the Manor Lord's secluded place, with rich Divine Spiritual Qi. It's not a loss to have it as your final resting place. Consider it some compensation for helping Miss."

After saying that, he ignored Mo Wuji's dazed gaze, threw Mo Wuji into the door, and quickly turned and left.

The door slowly closed again, leaving no trace behind.

Mo Wuji was thrown to the ground. He didn't move. The pill that Xi Yibo fed him was clearly a poisonous pill. As soon as the pill entered his mouth, the violent toxicity was detected by the 化毒络 (Hua Du Luo - Detoxification Meridian), and then swept away instantly.

Mo Wuji didn't care about the poison; what he cared about was whether he could escape this place.

Mo Wuji's nascent soul spiritual sense permeated out, and he quickly saw where he was. This was a closed secluded cultivation space. The Divine Spiritual Qi inside was extremely rich, and the room was empty.

Feeling that there seemed to be no danger, Mo Wuji immediately got up and checked the surrounding exits.

No matter how many times Mo Wuji checked with his spiritual sense, he couldn't find any exit. The protective array seemed to be naturally sealed. Similarly, Mo Wuji didn't detect any monitoring arrays. He took out array flags and directly set up a concealment restriction and a spirit concealing array.

Regardless of whether there were monitoring arrays he hadn't detected, Mo Wuji couldn't care less now. The fact that he swallowed the poison and didn't die had already exposed his problem. There was no point in concealing anything else now. He should focus on cultivation.

This was the first time Mo Wuji had cultivated in a place with complete rules and rich Divine Spiritual Yuan Qi. When he fully activated the Immortal Mortal Technique to absorb Divine Spiritual Qi, he felt as if he were immersed in the rules of heaven and earth. The surrounding Divine Spiritual Qi was frantically swept away by the circulation of Mo Wuji's Heavenly Cycle, and Mo Wuji's cultivation was rising at the fastest speed.

Not only that, but his神通 (Shen Tong - supernatural powers) rules were also being constantly perfected.

Originally, Mo Wuji planned to find a way to leave in a couple of days, but now he was completely immersed in cultivation, forgetting that he should leave quickly.

……

Mo Wuji didn't know that while he was frantically absorbing Divine Spiritual Qi to improve his cultivation, the Thunder Sword Manor had been blasted into ruins. If Xi Jing's strength hadn't been astonishing and he hadn't been proficient in array Dao, the Thunder Sword Manor would have been breached long ago.

Even so, the Thunder Sword Manor was teetering on the verge of collapse.

"Crack!" After persevering for more than twenty days, the Thunder Sword Manor could no longer hold on, and an array foundation was directly shattered.

At the same time that the array foundation was shattered, a black beam shot in from the outside, directly tearing through space and distance, and entering Xi Jing's chest. Dozens of figures rushed in, and the members of the Xi family who hadn't been killed by Xi Jing were turned into a cloud of blood mist again.

"Xi Jun, you must take Nianmo and escape immediately... Nianmo, don't think about avenging me in the future, remember..." As Xi Jing said these words, he pulled Xi Nianmo behind him and plunged into the crowd that had rushed in.

……

"Boom!" Mo Wuji felt as if his entire body had been blasted open, and an unparalleled power filled his entire body.

Immortal Emperor Late Stage. Mo Wuji wanted to roar with joy. If he were in the Immortal World, he would probably only be able to accumulate enough time to reach the Immortal Emperor Late Stage. Here, it only took him a month to advance from Immortal Emperor Middle Stage to Immortal Emperor Late Stage.

What made Mo Wuji even more delighted was that his immortal essence had been transformed, completely transformed into divine essence. Although Mo Wuji hadn't seen what real divine crystals looked like, Mo Wuji guessed that the cyan crystals he had obtained earlier should be fragments of divine crystals.

Because those cyan crystals had incomplete rules, they couldn't completely transform his Yuan power into divine essence. This was the God Domain, and the heaven and earth Yuan Qi was complete, which allowed him to easily transform divine essence, and at the same time, he gained a deeper understanding of his神通 (Shen Tong) rules.

No one had come to this place for more than a month, and Mo Wuji wondered if he had been forgotten. In any case, he had to leave as soon as possible.

Mo Wuji's advancement to the Immortal Emperor Late Stage, although it was only a small step forward compared to the Immortal Emperor Middle Stage, for Mo Wuji, his strength had increased greatly, mainly because his Yuan power had all been transformed into more powerful divine essence.

Mo Wuji's spiritual sense permeated out, and he began to deduce the surrounding defensive array.

Mo Wuji's array Dao originally exceeded the level of a ninth-level Immortal Array Grandmaster. The protective array he set up in 平梵仙门 (Ping Fan Xian Men - Common Immortal Gate) was barely close to the level of a first-level Divine Array. According to Mo Wuji's idea, he didn't want to break the array here, he just needed to find an exit array core, which shouldn't be too difficult in theory.

To Mo Wuji's dismay, he had been deducing for five days and hadn't even touched the surface of the array, let alone find the array core for exiting.

Several more days passed, and while Mo Wuji was still deducing the defensive array, the defensive array was suddenly opened without warning. Mo Wuji knew that this was his only chance to escape, no matter what. If he were taken back to Xi Jing, he would definitely not survive.

Almost at the instant the defensive array was opened, Mo Wuji rushed out, intending to teleport away at the same time.

However, when Mo Wuji saw the woman lying outside the protective array, he stopped teleporting. This woman was actually the pregnant woman from the clan council hall of Thunder Sword Manor. According to Mo Wuji's judgment, this woman should be Fan Chong's wife.

"You saved me?" The reason Mo Wuji stopped was because he saw a token in the woman's hand, which was the token to open this protective array.

(The second update may be delayed.)