Chapter 133 The Difficulty of Physical Body

"It's suspected that someone in the Xu family has achieved Foundation Establishment!"

Inside the Li family's ancestral burial ground, Li Luofang received the note half a day later, but its contents made his brow twitch.

"Zhifeng, take a look at this message."

Li Zhifeng took the note, glanced at it, and handed it back without a second thought.

"Father, we must strike first."

Li Luofang was not surprised by his son's reaction, after all, he was young and impetuous.

"What do you think is the probability of the Xu family members reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, given that you're a genius who just reached the Foundation Establishment stage?"

Li Zhifeng was now a Foundation Establishment cultivator. He had successfully established his foundation seven years ago, maintaining the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Li family and continuing to suppress the other two families.

"Among the Xu family members suitable for Foundation Establishment, there are only a few, such as Xu Yuanlang, Xu Yuanjing, and Xu Yuanzhen."

Xu Yuanlang, the strongest among them, is only a cultivator with five spiritual roots. Even with a Foundation Establishment Pill, his chances of successfully establishing his foundation are only 30%.

While the others may have better talent, in my opinion, their breakthroughs might not even match Xu Yuanlang's.

Speaking of Foundation Establishment, Li Zhifeng's face showed arrogance. Now that he had reached Foundation Establishment, he could naturally look down on those who had not yet reached it.

"That's true, but we still have to be careful. However, after the last incident, the Cao family member warned us not to act rashly."

"So what do we do, just stand by and watch?"

Li Zhifeng was filled with resentment. Now that he had finally succeeded in establishing his foundation, how could he not take revenge?

Li Luofang clenched the note, having made up her mind.

"Let the Ma family go!"

"The Ma family?"

"Yes, we were too careless last time and failed to involve the Ma family, which led to our crushing defeat. It was my mistake. This time, I must use all the strength of the Li family. Like a lion hunting a rabbit, we will show no mercy."

Upon hearing Li Luofang's words, Li Zhifeng frowned and hesitated before speaking.

"I'm afraid the Ma family wouldn't be willing."

"Hmph, the Ma family used to look down on us by doing whatever they wanted, which lowered our guard and allowed them to secretly amass a lot of power. Now they'll have to pay a heavy price."

Tell them that the Ma family now only has one path: obey or die.

Upon hearing Li Luofang's words, Li Zhifeng felt somewhat uneasy, but after thinking about it, he still readily agreed.

"yes!"

The mountain where the Ma family lived was called Lingyan Mountain. It was nearly a thousand feet high and its majestic appearance was even taller than Wuliang Mountain. However, the vegetation on the mountain was withered, and the flowing water had carved out many ravines.

From a feng shui perspective, this is a landform characterized by a rapid, cascading flow. Although the spiritual veins are of mid-grade second rank, they are scattered, numerous but not strong, thus falling into the lower category.

"kill!"

In a ravine, hundreds of early-stage Qi Refining cultivators were forming an array. Seven people formed a small array called the Small Big Dipper Array, and these Small Big Dipper Arrays were further combined into the Heavenly Dipper Array using the Heavenly Dipper numbers.

Although they are all Qi Refining cultivators, once the formation is complete, it is enough to contend with ten late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

Standing on the high ground, Ma Benxin looked down at the neat and uniform cultivators with great satisfaction. These early-stage Qi Refining cultivators were all pseudo-cultivators, with extremely little spiritual energy in their bodies, and their progress was much slower than that of orthodox cultivators.

Other families initially saw it as just adding more cannon fodder, which wouldn't help, but he was overjoyed, knowing that his family's opportunity had arrived.

The Ma family possesses a special array formation, which uses cultivators as its foundation. When the formation is fully formed, even a thousand people will be as one.

"What a pity!"

Seeing the auras of hundreds of cultivators merge into one, and a soaring killing intent suddenly burst forth, Ma Benxin couldn't help but sigh.

This formation is not complete. Its full name should be the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Formation. It is formed by combining the smaller Big Dipper formation of the Heavenly Gang number to form the Heavenly Gang Formation and the smaller Southern Dipper formation of the Earthly Fiend number to form the Earthly Fiend Formation. Only when the energy of both sides is in harmony can the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Formation be considered complete.

If the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Formation were fully formed, it could even contend with early Foundation Establishment cultivators. Unfortunately, the Ma family only possessed the upper half of the Heavenly Gang Formation.

In the past, although the Ma family had formations, they had never used them because the requirements for formations were extremely high, requiring at least two hundred people, and their cultivation levels also needed to be similar.

Previously, the entire Ma family had fewer than two hundred cultivators in total. Where could they find cultivators with similar cultivation levels? The emergence of pseudo-cultivators perfectly solved this problem.

Although he was extremely disappointed that he could not form the complete Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Formation, fortunately, the pseudo-cultivators in the ravine had formed three sets of Heavenly Gang Formations. While sighing, he couldn't help but show a proud look on his face. If he were to fight against the Dian and Xu families now, as long as he could hold off their Foundation Establishment cultivators, these three sets of Heavenly Gang Formations would be enough to sweep away all the cultivators of both families.

He scanned the faces of all the cultivators; years of training had made them all exude the same aura, their killing intent soaring to the heavens.

"Okay, okay!"

He said "good" three times in a row, and couldn't help but imagine the scene when these people came out of the mountains and shocked all the families in the vicinity.

"Chieftain."

Ma Yinglong, who looked like a teenager, fell from the sky with a worried look on his face. Upon seeing his expression, Ma Benxin felt a chill run down his spine and thought to himself that something was wrong.

"Yinglong, what's wrong?"

"The Li family said that someone in the Xu family is at the Foundation Establishment stage and asked us to interfere."

Upon hearing this, Ma Benxin fell silent. In his heart, he certainly didn't want to take action, but the Li family was too strong. They had lost Li Luomao before, but then they replaced him with the young clan leader Li Zhifeng, so the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators was still four.

For the Ma family, the Li family posed an even greater threat than the Cao family. After all, the Cao family was thousands of miles away, and it would take them some time to eliminate them, but the Li family could strike at any time.

"Can we delay this for a bit?"

"No, I'm afraid the Li family has found out that we're using fake cultivators to train the Heavenly Gang Formation. The messenger said frankly that if we don't take action, we'll be considered enemies."

Upon hearing this, Ma Benxin's expression changed, and he said with a wry smile:

"The Li family really hasn't changed their domineering ways."

Ma Yinglong's face was extremely ugly, and he looked at the clan leader with some resentment.

"We're afraid we have no choice but to obey."

"We are like fish on a chopping board. The Li family is so shameless, what can we do? Yinglong, tell the clansmen to be on guard. You and I are going together."

Ma Yinglong was startled, knowing that this was the only way.

Just as the Ma family was forced to set off, Xu Yuanlang on Wuliang Mountain reached a critical juncture.

Cultivators face three tribulations and three tribulations, the first of which is breaking through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, known as the Tribulation of Physical Body.

The lifespan of a Qi Refining cultivator is only 120 years, which is still an age that mortals can reach. However, a Foundation Establishment cultivator has a lifespan of at least 250 years, which is completely hopeless for mortals.

When you break through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, the first thing that changes is your physical body, or rather, the difference in your level of life.

Therefore, this hardship is called the physical hardship, and the corresponding tribulation is called the ant tribulation.