Chapter 30

East of Burial Immortal Town, the two-hundred-zhang-wide Sui River seemed to break off here and fall down, forming a spectacular cliff waterfall, like a dragon with a broken head, hence the name "Dragon-Killing Mouth."

The Jiuli tribe salvaged alien-world coffins from the Blood Sea Coffin Dock and had to carry the coffins through the extremely dangerous Dead Spirit Fog Domain for two hundred miles, then go up the small road stairs, and ascend to the Dragon-Killing Mouth. Here, they could board the Mengchong giant ships that had been prepared long ago and transport the alien-world coffins to the various cities of the various tribes downstream.

After Shi Jiuzhai entered Burial Immortal Town, the gray fog cloud clusters covering the three of them dissipated.

"Bang! Bang!"

Li Youyi and Gao Huan fell to the ground.

"Respectfully welcome Master's dharma carriage!"

"Xing Wanxing," "Fang Tong," and "Yan Qingqing," the three Dharma-Martial experts in the Earth Wolf King Army, stepped forward to greet Shi Jiuzhai.

The three of them led more than a thousand soldiers and arrived at Burial Immortal Town one day earlier than Shi Jiuzhai, and had already slaughtered all the more than two hundred clansmen of the Jiuli tribe who were responsible for receiving, dining, resupplying, and docking ships in the town, piling their corpses into a bloody small mountain in the center of the market town.

Xing Wanxing was Shi Jiuzhai's tenth disciple and also one of his money bags; he was not tall, had a big belly, and smiled: "Everything that should be interrogated has been interrogated clearly. This time, the one going to the blood sea to salvage coffins is the Cangli tribe, one of the Jiuli. It is led by Li Songlin, the number one expert of the Cangli tribe in this sixty-year cycle, and there is also Cangli, known as the number one talent of the Cangli tribe in the last thousand years, accompanying him."

"I only care about how much money we can make this time," Shi Jiuzhai said.

Xing Wanxing had already calculated clearly: "Li Songlin brought five thousand people, salvaging at least a thousand coffins. If we take them all, selling them for a million Spring-Gushing coins is a conservative estimate."

"They all say alien-world coffins are terrifyingly expensive and are things that only great cultivators can play with. They are truly worth a fortune, a business without capital," Shi Jiuzhai was in a great mood.

Xing Wanxing accompanied him with a smile: "If there are particularly rare alien-world coffins among them, one could sell for a million Spring-Gushing coins, which, converted into silver money, would be one hundred million."

"Besides, only the future patriarch of the Jiuli tribe is qualified to be named after the tribe. If we can capture Cangli, wouldn't the Cangli tribe obediently offer another million Spring-Gushing coins to redeem him?"

Shi Jiuzhai was in an even better mood, only feeling that this trip, although the mountains were high and the road was long, was worth it!

Yan Qingqing was twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with a plump and graceful figure, her eyes containing waves and coquettishness; she was a dog-like deformed human species, with furry ears, and a fiery red tail hanging from her skirt.

She reminded him coquettishly: "Master, the main purpose of our trip is not for money."

"Who said it's not for money? This master is for money."

Hundreds of millions of silver, let alone Shi Jiuzhai being jealous and anxious, even if it were the sect master of a ten-million-strong sect like Longmen or Zuoqiu who dominated a state, they would definitely take a fancy to it.

To raise such a large army, how can it be done without food and pay?

After Li Youyi was thrown to the ground by Shi Jiuzhai, he immediately stood up and found that he and the other three had gone to a remote place to discuss something secretly.

So, his eyes swept across the four directions quickly, observing the environment he was in.

The surroundings were full of sturdy men wearing brown monk's robes holding weapons, and there were also a small number of half-beast, half-human monsters with huge figures, accounting for only one or two percent, each one fierce and evil.

But when looking at the two of them, they were either suspicious or in awe.

Li Youyi quickly had an idea, pretending to be arrogant and fierce, and beckoned to one of the sturdy men who looked timid: "That's right. It's you, come over!"

Although Gao Huan couldn't understand what Li Youyi was saying, he felt that his demeanor, behavior, and tone were too arrogant, and his heart was so nervous that it was about to jump out.

After the timid sturdy man walked over, he immediately smiled, his mood even more nervous than Gao Huan's.

Li Youyi pointed his thumb at Shi Jiuzhai in the distance and asked: "Do you know who we are?"

"Know, know," the timid sturdy man said repeatedly.

Li Youyi said: "If you know, then say it?"

The timid sturdy man didn't know who he and Gao Huan were at all; everyone was temporarily drawn from the Earth Wolf King Army, rushed a thousand miles, and arrived at Burial Immortal Town only yesterday.

The timid sturdy man was of course not really timid, but afraid of Shi Jiuzhai behind the two, which was why he avoided Li Youyi's eyes just now.

Could those brought back by the Nine-Zhai King's magic cloud be ordinary people?

The timid sturdy man knew he couldn't afford to offend them, so he told the truth: "Everyone arrived only yesterday, and cleaned and arranged for a night, and haven't had time to rest yet. Forgive this little one for being blind, I really don't know the identity of the adults. But being able to travel with the Nine-Zhai King, the adults must be extraordinary figures that we can only look up to."

Li Youyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief and patted the timid sturdy man's chest: "It's good that you know. We two are the Nine-Zhai King's personal attendants. Is there anything to eat?"

"Yes, yes..."

The timid sturdy man hurriedly went to get it.

Li Youyi pulled Gao Huan and followed along.

He didn't want to be active under the nose of that so-called Nine-Zhai King, otherwise he would be exposed sooner or later.

Fortunately, Shi Jiuzhai was meeting a top-secret distinguished guest, discussing various arrangements for snatching the alien-world coffins, and had no time to pay attention to the two "little wolf cubs."

This top-secret distinguished guest, in a silver robe and white coat, wearing a black Buddha-head mask, could be seen from his heroic figure and the delicate, fair, and clean hands holding the flute that he must be quite young.

But it was such a young man who, facing Shi Jiuzhai, who was feared by everyone, stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes and attitude not arrogant, but not afraid at all.

He said: "The sect master's meaning is, not only to snatch the coffins, but to kill everyone. Only by being bloody enough can we provoke chaos in Lizhou."

Shi Jiuzhai only wanted to make money, his brows furrowed: "You nobles of the ten-million-strong sects are even more ruthless than us thieves. Before, you didn't say you wanted to kill everyone. This includes Li Songlin, the first head of the Cangli tribe, and five thousand Li people..."

The Buddha-head masked guest laughed: "Why, don't you dare? Afraid of provoking the old monsters of Jiuli Mountain and Jiuli City?"

Shi Jiuzhai shook his head: "This king's meaning is, snatching coffins is the price of snatching coffins, and killing is the price of killing. You have to add money!"

Under the guidance of the timid sturdy man, Li Youyi and Gao Huan had a full meal in the simple fire-head camp of the Earth Wolf King Army, eating very satisfactorily.

All strength and fighting spirit were instantly restored.

Gao Huan was frantically stuffing and packing, preparing to run away, whispering: "Just passed by the center of the market town, there was blood flowing like a river, and corpses were piled like mountains, it scared me to death! This group of people is definitely not practicing Buddhism, we must slip away as soon as possible."

Li Youyi said: "The robes similar to monk's robes on their bodies are all new, absolutely custom-made recently. It is precisely because they know that this kind of robe is only worn by their own people that the Nine-Zhai King would mistake us."

"If my guess is correct, the three people eaten by the Thousand-Headed Dragon Vine are very likely three of the personnel sent out to scout."

"Besides, although they call themselves the Earth Wolf King Army, I see that their military discipline is lax, they all have fierce energy, and their strength is uneven, not like a proper army."

"Third, I observed on the way, every intersection of this abandoned market town is blocked. It's not so easy for us to escape without anyone knowing. If we are discovered... by then, even the capital of borrowing the tiger's prestige will be gone."

Gao Huan exclaimed: "On the way here, my mind was full of food, I didn't think you observed so much."

"Not just that."

Li Youyi continued: "They are hiding in this market town, they must be targeting that coffin-carrying team. Just now on the low slope of the hillside, I calculated their marching speed; to reach here, it will take at least two hours."

Gao Huan said: "I know! Two hours later, when they start fighting, it will be our chance to escape."

"That's right."

After thinking for a while, Li Youyi added: "But I still have one thing I don't understand, they have so many people hiding in the market town, how can they hide? In that coffin-carrying team, it's impossible not to have experts, and experts' perception is extremely keen."

Shi Jiuzhai came to the mountain of corpses in the center of the market town, formed a seal with both hands, and spat out a gray fog magic power from his mouth, shrouding it. At the same time, a nearly transparent bead flew out from his body along with the gray fog, floating above the market town.

"Boom!"

Shi Jiuzhai's palm slammed into the earth.

Flame-like magic power rushed into the ground, and in an instant, the ground within a radius of ten zhang burned, and the heat wave rushed to every street in the market town.

The blood energy in the mountain of corpses steamed, like wisps of red smoke, rushing to the bead in mid-air.

After absorbing all the blood energy, semi-transparent scriptures burst out from the bead, and not long after, the entire Burial Immortal Town was shrouded in scriptures.

"Pass the order down, wait for half of the Cangli tribe to come up before acting, and cut the coffin-carrying team into two sections. Kill everyone, leave no one behind." Shi Jiuzhai was arrogant and intimidating, his tone extremely cold.

The fire-head camp was not too far from the center of the market town, Li Youyi heard this order from Shi Jiuzhai, and his face became extremely ugly.

Only then did he know that the timid sturdy man was not timid at all, but feared Shi Jiuzhai's cultivation and killing nature, so he also feared the two of them who followed Shi Jiuzhai.

"Kill everyone, leave no one behind. How many people are they going to kill?"

After Gao Huan learned about it, he said dejectedly: "I suddenly feel that wanting to survive is just as cruel everywhere, either be a cow or horse that works to death, or just be a pig or sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Only by standing out can one truly live."

Two hours later.

The vanguard of the Cangli tribe's coffin-carrying team had arrived below the Dragon-Killing Mouth waterfall.

The water roared, and the air was humid.

A barefoot girl as beautiful as a night fog elf walked at the forefront of the team, her five slender jade fingers holding a copper ancient lamp emitting faint blue fluorescent light. On her wrist, she wore nine silver bracelets.

Although she was barefoot, her skin was like jade, not afraid of the gravel on the ground.

Every step she took was light and silent, but she could cross more than a zhang, and blue fog light traces flowed under her feet.

She was the "Nether Lamp Guiding Envoy" Li Ling of the Cangli tribe's coffin-carrying team, a descendant of the priest, who could find the path through the Dead Spirit Fog Domain through nether light, thereby leading the clansmen to arrive and leave the Blood Sea Coffin Dock.

(Reader cameos already written: Qin Ke, Xing Wanxing, Fang Tong, Yan Qingqing)

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