Chapter 434: The Effect of Spirit Stones

"Trash!"

"Idiots!"

A roar from Prince Wei Zhu Gan came from a large courtyard in the Yu Kingdom spirit mine.

"Your Highness..."

Several soldiers with disheveled faces lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound.

Last night.

It wasn't just demonic cultivators; in fact, the Fifth Prince had also sent people disguised as demonic cultivators, trying to get a share of the pie.

But he didn't expect.

They didn't get the spirit stone, but instead were schemed against by the Qingwei Sect, and even the Yu Kingdom's people were killed as demonic cultivators.

These were all Zhu Gan's private soldiers, and they weren't easy to cultivate.

Just in one night yesterday, seven or eight died directly; he was naturally angry.

And what was even more infuriating was that this matter couldn't be clarified at all.

They could only swallow the bitter fruit.

Truly stealing a chicken only to lose the rice.

Zhu Gan had never suffered such a big loss, so he was naturally furious.

He turned his head and glanced at Tan Hu, who was also covered in blood beside him, but didn't say anything.

If it weren't for Tan Hu, the entire army would have been wiped out last night.

Zhu Gan suppressed the anger in his heart:

"General Tan, handle the aftermath well; don't let the Qingwei Sect know that our people also intervened."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Tan Hu nodded in a muffled voice and left to take the order.

Zhu Gan felt a burst of irritability in his heart and waved his sleeve: "All of you, get down."

Hearing this.

The few remaining personal guards breathed a sigh of relief.

On the other end.

Spirit mine.

In Li Rui's mansion.

When Li Rui pushed the door open, he saw Yuan Xiong sitting in the courtyard, pouring tea and drinking tea by himself.

"Brother Yuan."

Li Rui chuckled.

Yuan Xiong smiled slightly: "Brother Li, the few people sent by Prince Wei have already been sent away by me."

"Thank you, Brother Yuan."

Last night.

When something happened on the Qingwei Sect side, Yuan Xiong went to find Li Rui for the first time.

Then he discovered that Li Rui wasn't in the room.

As intelligent as he was, he naturally understood that Li Rui should have already acted.

So he stayed in the courtyard to guard the rear.

Sure enough.

The Fifth Prince sent people to investigate his and Li Rui's situation, and he easily sent them away.

Yuan Xiong became curious: "Brother, how is the situation?"

Li Rui sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and took a sip before saying: "The Qingwei Sect set a trap to kill most of the demonic cultivators; the top-grade spirit stone is fake and is not in the Qingwei Sect's spirit mine; it was transferred away by the Qingwei Sect using a secret method."

Yuan Xiong was shocked:

"What scheming!"

If he weren't an outsider, perhaps he would also have been deceived by the Qingwei Sect.

Li Rui continued: "However, the top-grade spirit stone was intercepted by a strange expert."

Hearing this.

Yuan Xiong was speechless.

It was really a case of being too clever for one's own good, only to have others benefit.

He was even more curious: "Does that person know the way?"

Li Rui shook his head: "Don't know, I guess it should be a banished immortal."

He was a secret guard and also a person from Annan Town.

He had long ago recorded the characteristics of everyone on the world's martial arts evaluation, and the person who struck didn't correspond to anyone on the martial arts evaluation.

Either it was a banished immortal, or a hidden expert.

Looking at the immortal arts he used, the possibility of a banished immortal was greater.

Yuan Xiong narrowed his eyes: "Truly the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."

Li Rui:

"This time the Qingwei Sect suffered such a big loss, they will definitely retaliate; perhaps in a few days, we will know who acted."

Yuan Xiong nodded: "Indeed."

Although the Qingwei Sect is a Daoist sect, their actions are not at all clear and bright; there are too many times they have used thunderous methods.

Daoist He Wenxuan is almost called the Old Demon He Wenxuan in the South Sea.

Chun Xu died in the South Sea.

The murderer wasn't found, but many demonic cultivators were killed.

There are too many situations like this.

The Qingwei Sect has never been able to suffer a loss; of course, their own foundation is strong enough, otherwise they wouldn't be qualified to compete with behemoths like the Yu Kingdom and the Wu Kingdom for spirit mines.

Having suffered a big loss this time, naturally, they couldn't swallow their anger.

"Brother Li, since you are back, I will leave first, lest our Prince Wei be suspicious."

Yuan Xiong drank the tea in one gulp.

He stood up and left.

Only Li Rui was left sitting alone in the courtyard, quietly drinking tea.

Just now he didn't tell Yuan Xiong about the top-grade spirit stone.

It wasn't that he didn't trust him.

But it wasn't necessary.

Yuan Xiong helped him, and he would naturally return it in other forms; although they were brothers, he couldn't just take without giving, as such brotherhood wouldn't last long.

Li Rui finished a pot of tea.

He prepared to wait for the storm to subside before finding a place with no one to quietly refine the top-grade spirit stone.

Now was not the time.

Then he closed his eyes and felt carefully.

The Evil Puppet Array still existed.

Clearly, those array masters who set up the Evil Puppet Array didn't participate in last night's events, or they successfully escaped from the Qingwei Sect's pursuit.

Li Rui narrowed his eyes slightly.

Lost in thought.

Deep in the Ten Thousand Mountains.

An old man in a black robe covered in blood stains was struggling to walk through the mountain forest.

It was Daoist Wan Gui.

At this time, his aura was withered to the extreme.

He was an evil array master in the upper Tongxuan Realm; if he had been prepared and set up an array, his strength would naturally be extremely strong.

But now he was the object of pursuit.

There was no time to set up a great array, so his combat power was naturally greatly reduced.

Last night.

He rushed into the Qingwei Sect spirit mine with a large group of demonic cultivators, and even broke the defense line with an evil array.

A group of demonic cultivators was able to rush into the spirit mine.

Didn't expect.

The damn Qingwei Sect actually used deception.

If he hadn't been prepared and his strength hadn't been strong enough, perhaps he would really have died in the spirit mine like other demonic cultivators.

Over a hundred demonic cultivators, just in one night.

Almost all those below the Third-Rank were executed, and quite a few Third-Rank experts also died.

Even Old Monster Jiuxie was beaten into serious injury by the two stinky Daoists Xuan Wei and Xuan Yu.

If it weren't for the fact that Xuan Wei and Xuan Yu didn't know what they were attracted by, they might have died directly.

It was more than just miserable.

Even now.

The Qingwei Sect still didn't intend to let them go, sending a large number of experts to surround and intercept them.

Daoist Wan Gui glanced behind him.

Spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

He had been deceived.

And he was deceived by both sides at the same time.

The Qingwei Sect, and that young cultivator from the Wan Fa Hall.

That young cultivator said he would let him come to find fortune, and he would go too.

As a result, he didn't even see a shadow, but he was in danger, and he didn't know if he could live until tomorrow.

How miserable.

Daoist Wan Gui's resentment at this time was even greater than a ghost's.

Of course, asking him to give up and wait for death was absolutely impossible.

Just when he gritted his teeth and intended to use a forbidden technique.

The space ahead fluctuated.

Then he saw a familiar young cultivator walk out of the void.

It was Ji Lei!

Daoist Wan Gui saw Ji Lei appear, and his eyes were instantly filled with ecstasy.

Saved!

He had originally thought Ji Lei wanted him to be cannon fodder to die, but he didn't expect him to really come to save him.

Ji Lei looked at the disheveled Daoist Wan Gui:

"Fellow Daoist has worked hard; you also know that Xuan Wei and Xuan Yu are really hard to deal with, and to shake them off, I spent quite a bit of effort."

Hearing this.

Daoist Wan Gui was shocked.

Realization flashed in his eyes.

So it was the young cultivator before him who had lured the two evil stars Xuan Wei and Xuan Yu away just now.

'What exactly did he do?!'

Before Daoist Wan Gui could ask, Ji Lei stepped forward and took out another talisman.

It was a Small Teleportation Talisman.

"Let's go, let's leave here first."

Ji Lei smiled slightly.

As the Small Teleportation Talisman was thrown out, the two instantly dissipated into nothingness.

Just a few breaths.

The Qingwei Sect experts pursuing Daoist Wan Gui arrived.

The leading elder looked at the ground, his brow furrowed.

"Ran away?"

He looked annoyed and angry.

If he wasn't wrong, there was still an accomplice of that demonic cultivator hidden in these Ten Thousand Mountains, which was why they could escape.

"Continue searching!"

That Qingwei Sect elder still didn't intend to let it go.

For demonic cultivators, of course, one had to eliminate evil completely.

The storm subsided.

Li Rui only stayed in the spirit mine for a few days, then found an excuse and returned directly to Qinghe.

This day.

He came to a wilderness outside Qinghe City and escaped a hundred zhang underground.

Only then did he take out the top-grade spirit stone sealed layer by layer by talismans from his bosom.

Li Rui didn't completely unseal it, but only unsealed a part.

Then refined it with Wan Gu Chang Qing Qi.

Doing this, the speed of refining the top-grade spirit stone was slower; originally it would take a month, now it directly became three months, but it was sufficiently concealed.

Cultivating underground for three months without eating or drinking.

When Li Rui appeared again.

His soul was fuller and more abundant than ever before, completely without any fatigue from not eating, drinking, or sleeping.

'The top-grade spirit stone is indeed a divine treasure coveted even by First-Ranks.'

He only obtained a top-grade spirit stone the size of a fist, and it actually saved him a full dozen years of hard cultivation!

The effect was astonishing.

Not only that, this top-grade spirit stone could actually increase the perception of the Great Dao.

The importance of the Great Dao went without saying; this point alone was enough to make cultivators in the world go crazy.

Otherwise, if it were just a large spirit stone, it naturally wouldn't be enough to make those demonic cultivators risk their lives so much.

Having refined the top-grade spirit stone, Li Rui returned to the Qingwei Sect.

After that night.

The Qingwei Sect disciples were all like victorious roosters.

After all, in their view, the Qingwei Sect had used a clever plan to execute all over a hundred demonic cultivators.

They had done a good deed of eliminating demons.

The Qingwei Sect's status as the leader of the righteous path was even more stable.

As for the top-grade spirit stone, very few people knew about it.

Changqing Peak was as quiet as ever.

It was not affected by the storm outside at all.

The courtyard was silent, everyone was cultivating in the room, and the only one who made a sound was perhaps only Tan Hu, who had no intention of cultivating immortality.

"Big brother, why don't we go down the mountain to play."

Tan Hu rubbed his hands in anticipation.

Li Rui: "Tiger, don't even think about it within a year."

Ever since the demonic cultivators attacked the Qingwei Sect last time, the Qingwei Sect not only reinforced the great array but also became stricter in its supervision of the Yu and Wu kingdoms.

He knew from Sang Kong's words that.

That night, not only the Fifth Prince Zhu Gan, but the Wu Kingdom also sent quite a few people.

All suffered secret losses.

Zhu Gan was angry, and the Wu Kingdom was also angry.

But the angriest was definitely the Qingwei Sect.

Li Rui naturally knew that the Qingwei Sect had even lost the top-grade spirit stone this time, and it was far from as successful as it looked.

This account would naturally be calculated on that mysterious expert.

And it would also be calculated on the Yu and Wu kingdoms.

The first to bear the brunt were Li Rui and Sang Kong.

Sang Kong had complained to him more than once these days, saying that the Qingwei Sect was bullying people too much.

But apart from the word "endure," there was no other way.

Who told them to be the ones to strike first? Now it was calculated on the two of them.

Li Rui didn't care about this.

As long as he didn't leave this Changqing Peak, what could the Qingwei Sect people do to him?

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