Chapter 551

"Xinzhou is in the south, and the capital is in the north. Daoist, you can go all the way north."

Above the auspicious clouds, there was no wind or waves. Wang Hou Xin sat down directly, appearing quite carefree. He untied the package. Inside was nothing else but a jar of fine wine, a few small dishes to go with the wine, and a bowl of exquisite wheat rice. Besides that, there was nothing else.

Wang Hou Xin drank wine and ate wheat rice, seemingly feeling that this trip was a certain death, so he simply decided to be a full ghost. Before he came, all the big and small matters in the mansion had been arranged properly, just waiting for the news of his death to reach Xinzhou City.

"Are you very hungry?" Li Yi said.

Wang Hou Xin said: "I didn't eat much at the banquet, and then there was a shock. Now my stomach is empty. Thinking about it, I decided to bring food to have a full meal on the road. After all, I don't know when I'll be able to eat again."

"It seems you don't think you can return from the capital alive." Li Yi said.

Wang Hou Xin smiled self-deprecatingly: "Daoist, your ability is heaven-reaching. Going to the capital this time will definitely turn things upside down. If I get involved, I'll be satisfied if I can get a good death. I don't dare to ask for anything else."

"You don't believe I can protect your safety?" Li Yi asked.

"I don't." Wang Hou Xin continued to drink wine and eat food.

Li Yi said: "Your personality is not bad. You don't fear life or death, which is suitable for practicing boxing. If this world really can't accommodate you, I will send you away from this world to the Four Seas and Eight Continents to practice boxing and martial arts. Although you will suffer a bit and won't enjoy the life of a prince, perhaps years later, you can still become a martial artist with extraordinary strength."

"Leave this world?" Wang Hou Xin stopped drinking and eating, looking at Li Yi in shock.

As a prince, he had read many books since childhood and understood the major events of the world. He was also a clever person. With just one sentence, he had captured very important information.

"Daoist, are you not a person of this world?"

"He is also not." Li Yi said calmly: "When will the spring flowers and autumn moon end? How much of the past do I know..."

Before this poem was finished, a mouthful of wheat rice sprayed out of Wang Hou Xin's mouth. He stood up abruptly in shock and panic, shouting: "This is impossible... This is absolutely impossible."

His emotions were very agitated, as if something he had firmly believed in for a long time had been overturned. At this moment, he lost his previous calmness and frankness, immediately lost control, and began to roar. His face turned red, his whole body was trembling, and he kept repeating the words in his mouth, seemingly wanting to refute Li Yi with this.

Li Yi just turned sideways to avoid the sprayed food, then continued to ride the red auspicious clouds and go all the way north.

Here, the sky was high and the earth was wide, with no one for a thousand miles. No matter how the two talked or what the content was, no third person heard it.

"There is nothing impossible about this. Since I can come to this world, naturally others can come to this world. That poem is the best proof." Li Yi said: "Wang Hou Xin, you are a smart person. From the moment I recited the first sentence, you already guessed the truth, otherwise you wouldn't be so agitated."

"Impossible. You demonic Daoist must have stolen this poem from somewhere, which is why you came to Xinzhou to find me and then fabricated such a lie to deceive me. You want to use me to spread rumors to achieve some ulterior motive of yours." Wang Hou Xin was furious: "Demonic Daoist, kill me. Even if I die, I don't want to be your pawn."

As he spoke, this Wang Hou Xin actually rushed out of the auspicious clouds without a word, jumping down, wanting to fall from the high sky and die.

However, he didn't fall very far before a red auspicious cloud caught him and then lifted him back up.

"Don't be so agitated. If you want to seek death, wait until you help me find that lyricist." Li Yi said with a calm expression: "Moreover, your death won't solve any problems. I already know that person is in the capital. Even if you don't lead the way, I can find him if I spend a little more time."

Wang Hou Xin was still agitated: "This is different. Finding him is just finding him. No one will believe that the lyricist is a person from another world. But if I get involved, it's different. If, if..."

He didn't dare to continue speaking.

"So you were afraid. No wonder you were seeking death." Li Yi shook his head slightly: "However, the more you are like this, the more curious I am about the identity of that lyricist in this world."

He still couldn't be sure if that cross-world traveler was his father. Everything needed to be verified after seeing him with his own eyes.

"I am not afraid, but this matter involves a lot." Wang Hou Xin said: "I wish everything was a conspiracy of yours, you demonic Daoist. That would at least be a relief."

Li Yi laughed: "Do you think there is any meaning in me playing such tricks?"

Wang Hou Xin was silent. He stopped talking, just slumped on the auspicious clouds, and then picked up the jar of fine wine and poured it into his mouth, wishing he could get dead drunk, or better yet, die directly, so as to avoid getting involved in this dispute and turmoil.

"Think slowly. Don't seek death. Because death can't avoid anything, as I am also slightly knowledgeable about soul-detaining methods." Li Yi said.

Wang Hou Xin didn't speak, just kept drinking.

It's a pity that the jar of wine he brought was too small. Even after drinking it to the bottom, he couldn't get himself drunk. Instead, his head became clearer and clearer. He immediately threw the wine jar away in anger, lay back, and simply left it to fate.

The speed of the cloud-riding technique was very fast.

Li Yi went all the way north, crossing mountains, rivers, villages, and towns. Before long, a piece of dazzling light appeared on the earth in the distance. That was the brilliance of ten thousand family lights.

In this world similar to ancient times, for a city that could still have ten thousand family lights at night, there was no doubt that only the capital, which gathered the people of the world, could have such magnificence.

"Is that the capital?"

Li Yi lowered the speed of the cloud-riding. He looked at the city in the distance, which was truly magnificent.

Gathering the Qi of heaven and earth, with dragons coiling and tigers crouching, the momentum was extraordinary. The city was so large that it covered three hundred miles.

Backed by towering mountains, surrounded by nine rivers, with spiritual veins, earth veins, and water veins crisscrossing, it gathered the power of the incense and belief of the world, turning into dragon and tiger Qi that steamed into the firmament.

It was clearly night, but it was like broad daylight.

In the city, there were things similar to hot air balloons pulled by ropes, suspended high in the sky, emitting light and heat, lighting up the entire city. And even at night, the streets were still crowded with people, as if there was no distinction between night and day here, only extreme prosperity and noise.

Li Yi had also crossed many worlds and seen many cities similar to ancient times, but in terms of prosperity and magnificence, this world was the first.

And with such sufficient popularity, it also meant that incense was flourishing here. Who knew how many gods could be nurtured.

Just by looking from afar, he saw a thick green smoke coming straight here from the direction of the capital. In that green smoke was a general with a sword hanging from his waist, draped in armor, burly and majestic. Although that general was an incense god, he had been supported by the imperial court for countless years, and his body had turned from virtual to real. At this moment, he appeared like a divine general from heaven descending to the world.

"That is the Southern Nation-Protecting Divine General of the imperial court." Wang Hou Xin said in shock: "How did you, Daoist, attract that great god?"

As a prince, when he was in the capital, he had seen the divine statues of the four great Nation-Protecting Divine Generals. Each of those statues was eighteen zhang high, standing in the east, west, south, and north of the capital, looking at the mountains and rivers for ten thousand miles, and deterring the world.

However, this was the first time he had seen the manifestation of a Nation-Protecting Divine General. One had to know that usually, the Nation-Protecting Divine Generals would not easily show their faces. Only when monsters and ghosts that were enough to threaten the safety of the capital appeared would they hold divine weapons, step out of the capital, and slay demons and eliminate monsters.

Li Yi narrowed his eyes, flicked his Daoist robes, and stood up slowly: "Naturally, it was my powerful aura that attracted him."

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Even from far away, he could feel the power of this divine general.

The Mountain Gods and Earth Gods near Xinzhou City were simply small witches compared to this.

"I am the Southern Nation-Protecting Divine General of the capital, Zhang Jian Gong. The Daoist ahead, stop." The Nation-Protecting Divine General reported his name and stopped not far from Li Yi. At this moment, he strode forward, held the precious sword at his waist, and shouted.

Li Yi's red auspicious clouds hovered in the firmament. He was unhurried: "I am Taiyi, coming from Xinzhou, wanting to enter the capital. Why are you blocking me?"

Zhang Jian Gong was calm and looked him over: "Your aura is extraordinary. I saw a streak of red light carrying dragon and tiger Qi going all the way north from far away. The speed was so fast that it was unbelievable. The Mountain Gods, City Gods, and garrison generals passed along the way were simply unable to block you. Seeing that you want to enter the capital directly, I had to show my face."

"And the person you brought with you is the current Wang Hou Xin?"

He then recognized Wang Hou Xin and immediately bowed and saluted: "Greetings, Your Highness Wang Hou Xin."

Wang Hou Xin said hurriedly: "Divine General, you are too polite. Please get up quickly."

He didn't dare to put on the airs of a prince.

One had to know that the Nation-Protecting Divine General Zhang Jian Gong was an existence who had experienced twelve dynasties, with an extremely noble status. He, an idle prince, simply couldn't be compared with him.

The Nation-Protecting Divine General Zhang Jian Gong nodded slightly. After the etiquette was done, he ignored Wang Hou Xin and stared at Li Yi: "When did Xinzhou produce such a high-ranking person? Why doesn't this general know? Daoist, you brought Wang Hou Xin into the city. What for? If you don't tell the truth, this general will never allow you to enter the capital."

He could ignore some small monsters sneaking into the capital, but he would never dare to ignore this Daoist who called himself Taiyi.

The strength of this person's aura was truly rare.

Li Yi said: "I am entering the capital only to find someone, not to cause trouble. If the General can make it convenient, that would be best, and everyone can be at peace. Otherwise..."

"Otherwise what?" The Nation-Protecting Divine General Zhang Jian Gong asked, holding his sword.

Li Yi said directly: "Otherwise, if we start fighting and smash the three-hundred-mile capital, causing boundless slaughter, that would not be good. At that time, I can pat my butt and leave, but I'm afraid the General will be spurned by ten thousand people, the incense will collapse, and the divine statue will crumble."

"Bold! You Daoist dare to threaten this general?" The Nation-Protecting Divine General Zhang Jian Gong opened his eyes wide in anger, and the precious sword at his waist hummed.

Just with one anger, thunder rolled between heaven and earth, and lightning flashed.

Wang Hou Xin on the side opened his eyes wide, staring at Li Yi.

Is this Daoist usually this arrogant?

Disagreeing in one word, smashing the three-hundred-mile capital.

"It's not a threat, but a fact." Li Yi took another step forward at this moment. Dragon and tiger Qi entwined, and magic power soared into the sky. The Daoist robes faded, turning into a set of red-feathered purple-gold armor. In his hand, a divine wood large bow appeared out of nowhere. Although it was not drawn, a shocking divine power gathered within it.

The wind and clouds changed around him, silver lightning intertwined, and golden fire light jumped.

Such momentum was truly shocking.

Even the Nation-Protecting Divine General Zhang Jian Gong's face became solemn instantly at this moment.

(End of chapter)