"What's going on, why are there so many people?"
Li Qi frowned, looking at the group of domain lords who had fled back in a sorry state.
Gu Mengping, an old acquaintance, was among them.
Gu Mengping caught his breath.
"There are fewer and fewer small domains in the Baiyang district, and we clashed with the domain lords of several other districts. They saw that we were few in number and decided to join forces to deal with us first. That's what happened."
As Gu Mengping finished speaking,
The domain lords from the outer domains, blocked outside the barrier, launched a frantic attack on it.
Techniques of various colors, carrying powerful destructive force, were unleashed from their hands.
They all landed on the barrier one after another.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom."
Within the barrier, the continent used as a foothold began to tremble.
The expressions of the domain lords beside Li Qi also turned somewhat grim.
At this moment, Li Qi's expression remained unchanged, and his faint voice echoed.
"Don't worry, although my personal combat power is low, the formation barrier I've set up, they are not qualified to break."
Upon hearing this, the domain lords of the Xiao Yan district cast their gazes upon the barrier.
As expected.
They discovered that although the combined attacks of those domain lords were terrifying, after landing on the barrier set up by Li Qi, they could at most cause a ripple on the barrier before disappearing completely.
Even the attacks from cultivators at the peak of the Void Returning stage were no exception.
The leading domain lords at the ninth level of the Void Returning stage outside the barrier also realized this and signaled the others behind them to stop their attacks.
With their cold eyes, they looked through the barrier at the domain lords of the Xiao Yan district within.
One domain lord at the peak of the Void Returning stage sneered mockingly.
"Such a large Xiao Yan district, are you all just a bunch of cowards who only dare to hide in a turtle shell and not come out? I don't believe you can hide here forever."
"Fellow Daoist, don't say that. If the people of the Xiao Yan district weren't cowards, how could we have jointly swallowed so many Heavenly Daos of small worlds before? I just didn't expect that after we left, these people from the Xiao Yan district would not recuperate but would think of taking advantage in the Baiyang district."
This remark immediately made many domain lords beside Li Qi blush with shame and immense anger.
"Damn it, if you guys hadn't ganged up on my Xiao Yan district back then, would you dare to come to our Xiao Yan district alone to cause trouble?"
"Then have the guts to come out of this turtle shell, and we'll have a fight?"
This question immediately left the group of domain lords beside Li Qi speechless.
Despite their anger, they were not fools.
The domain lords outside the barrier had come as an alliance of several districts.
Individually, their Xiao Yan district, which had already lost many domain lords, would naturally not foolishly go out to court death.
The domain lords of the other districts outside the barrier also understood that mere provocation would not force them out.
One domain lord at the peak of the Void Returning stage sneered a few times.
"Since they won't come out, we'll keep them trapped in this turtle shell."
"Looking at them, there should still be quite a few people in the Baiyang district who haven't entered this turtle shell."
"We'll wait here. If any other domain lords from the Xiao Yan district return, we'll capture them and kill them in front of them. I don't believe they can just watch."
The domain lord's voice was not concealed at all, and he even deliberately spoke loudly so that the domain lords of the Xiao Yan district within the barrier could hear him.
As expected, the faces of the domain lords beside Li Qi became even more grim.
They were currently trapped within the foothold's barrier and really had no way to notify other domain lords of the Xiao Yan district who were in the Baiyang district not to return, so as to avoid being ambushed.
At this moment, Li Qi's faint voice echoed.
"You talk too much. Can you shut up?"
Upon hearing this, the domain lord at the peak of the Void Returning stage outside the barrier looked at Li Qi and found that Li Qi was only at the seventh level of the Void Returning stage.
"Hmph, where do you, a seventh-level Void Returning cultivator, have the right to speak here? If you're not convinced, feel free to come out, and I don't mind killing you myself!"
Li Qi chuckled at this and said disdainfully.
"Kill me? You're not worthy. Although my combat power is low, even among cultivators of the same realm, I'm among the weakest. But I never need to kill people myself."
As his words fell, Li Qi's eyes instantly changed.
"Formation, rise!"
In an instant, formations hidden on this foothold continent gradually emerged.
There were a total of twenty formations.
Each formation carried a strong killing intent.
And at this moment, as these twenty formations merged, an even more terrifying aura erupted from them.
In an instant, the domain lord at the peak of the Void Returning stage who had just been provoking outside the barrier felt a tremor in his heart.
At this moment, Li Qi moved his mind and activated the formation.
"Boom!"
A terrifying spiritual power fluctuation was condensed by the formation and blasted towards the domain lord at the peak of the Void Returning stage.
In an instant, the domain lord's expression changed drastically, and an intense sense of crisis emerged in his heart.
But before he could dodge, the terrifying attack had already completely engulfed him.
"Peng!"
A loud noise came from outside the barrier.
Following that, a figure was instantly sent flying back from the center of the explosion.
This figure was precisely the domain lord who had been provoking just moments ago.
However, he was now covered in blood, his life hanging by a thread, with more than half of his body mangled, and his left arm gone.
If the power of that strike had been slightly greater, it might have directly annihilated him.
The domain lords outside the barrier turned pale.
But on the faces of the domain lords of the Xiao Yan district within the barrier, joy and admiration immediately appeared.
"As expected of Fellow Daoist Li, the strength of this formation is indeed formidable."
"Fellow Daoist Li, give them some more color to see."
"Basic operation, no need to be humble."
Li Qi said, his spiritual sense moved again, and the formation activated once more. A terrifying attack swept out again, directly towards the area where a group of domain lords had gathered outside the barrier.
"Peng!"
The attack exploded.
The attacks controlled by Li Qi were unbearable even for those at the peak of the Void Returning stage, let alone this group of domain lords mainly at the sixth and seventh levels of the Void Returning stage.
For a time, all sorts of shrill and terrified screams echoed incessantly.
Li Qi's attacks did not stop.
Controlling the formation, one attack after another was unleashed without pause.
With each explosion, many lower-level domain lords were directly annihilated.
Even if they were lucky enough to survive, they were all severely injured and in a pathetic state.
This scene also stunned the domain lords of the Xiao Yan district beside Li Qi.
The annihilation of the Dao Integration stage cultivators in the past was due to the superposition of hundreds of formations in Li Qi's Void Land.
But now, Li Qi had only set up about twenty formations in this foothold, yet they could cause such immense destructive power.
Thinking of this, the domain lords of the Xiao Yan district couldn't help but tremble, and their gazes towards Li Qi became somewhat uneasy.
Li Qi seemed to sense this and looked back slightly, giving a smile to the domain lords of the Xiao Yan district behind him.
"Fellow Daoists, there's no need to be alarmed. Although my strength is low, I do have some understanding of formations, which is enough to guarantee your safety within this foothold."