Chapter 49

Dense and strange sounds came from the ground, like scissors cutting stones. The surging black smoke became thicker and thicker, and Li Youyi didn't dare to be careless, quickly holding his breath.

"Watch out for the ground! It's alien fierce insects; there's an insect controller nearby."

The warning came from the spirit tablet on the table.

Li Youyi had heard the senior in the spirit tablet talk about "alien fierce insects" and "insect controllers," but how could he have imagined that the Long Forest Gang had such a person?

So he quickly retreated, lifted his sword, and leaped up.

He went up along the trunk of the old poplar tree and didn't stop until he was several feet off the ground.

Insect controllers—also practitioners of the Spirit God path, are a small classification of Mind Masters.

Not to mention the Nether Realm, in the Life Realm, the ground is ruled by human powerhouses and fierce demon kings, but the underground is the world of the insect race.

Insect controllers often walk in wild mountains and great marshes, deep rivers and abysses, searching for various rare and exotic insects to tame and drive. Sometimes an insect controller is comparable to a provincial army, able to attack cities and seize land alone, or even sweep the world with the power of one person.

In times of war, legendary insect controllers often emerged.

"Swish!"

A white spider silk as thick as a hair flew out from the mud like an arrow, wrapping around the ankle of Li Youyi's left leg.

The spider silk was very tough, getting tighter and tighter, pulling downward.

Li Youyi mobilized the magic power of the five springs before breaking it with a "bang."

This explosive force pulled a spider the size of a fist out from the ground.

It had eight legs, but its back was like a turtle with a hard shell, and its sharp teeth were like constantly opening and closing scissors. Being bitten by it would definitely mean losing a large piece of flesh.

He swung his sword and cut it in two.

"It's a soldier-level fierce insect, a Pincer Spider. Watch out for the spider silk they spit from their abdomens; any level of magic martial artist below the Five Seas realm has the possibility of being bound and killed. One Pincer Spider is not hard to deal with, but the scary thing is a group," the senior in the spirit tablet said.

"Swish! Swish!"

One after another, Pincer Spiders broke through the ground in the courtyard, dense and numerous, all shooting spider silk at Li Youyi on the poplar tree.

If he were wrapped by several or dozens of them together, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Li Youyi used his magic power to urge the Huang Long Sword, a bright light appearing on the blade, and he danced the sword rapidly, never letting the spider silk get close to his body.

The Pincer Spiders on the ground were like an army, suddenly separating more than a dozen to rush toward the room where Zhao Meng and the others were hiding. At the same time, seven or eight fast-moving shadows appeared on the courtyard wall.

Among them, two shadows held crossbow-like weapons, aiming at him.

Li Youyi immediately performed the Huang Long Ascending to Heaven, stepping on the void and flying toward the courtyard wall six or seven feet away.

The crossbow-like weapons fired windless heavy arrows like flying needles, but with two "clangs," they were slashed away by Li Youyi, who had been prepared.

The two Long Forest Gang members who fired the windless heavy arrows were shocked. The heavy crossbows in their hands were divine weapons, and killing those of the fourth and fifth springs was just a matter of course. Caught off guard, even experts of the sixth and seventh springs could die.

Who exactly is this kid?

Did the people who scouted the location get it right?

There was no chance to fire a second time. Li Youyi was like a ghost, already above their heads. They were terrified and trembling, about to jump off the wall to escape, but the yellow sword blade had already cut through the night and reached their eyes.

"Pfft!"

The first sword beheaded them.

The second sword pierced their hearts.

The two fourth-spring gang members, along with the heavy crossbows in their hands, fell off the ten-foot-high courtyard wall.

Li Youyi's figure moved rapidly on the courtyard wall, killing from south to north, one sword per person. The night was filled with screams. After a few breaths, all seven or eight black shadows fell down.

The next moment, he flew down to the stone steps in front of the house where Zhao Meng and the others were hiding, swinging his sword toward the ground to intercept those Pincer Spiders.

"Sss! Sss!"

The number of Pincer Spiders crawling out from the ground was increasing, and spider silk kept falling on him.

Wrapped around his wrists, even if he could break it, the speed of swinging the sword would slow down. Wrapped around his legs, moving and dodging would become sluggish.

There were even seven or eight Pincer Spiders working together, weaving a web.

At this moment, Li Youyi finally understood what the senior in the spirit tablet said: any level of magic martial artist below the Five Seas realm could be bound and killed. If he didn't have the Huang Long Sword, his situation would be even more difficult than it was now.

The senior in the spirit tablet's voice came: "Pincer Spiders fear cold! Use the Ghost Flag; freeze them."

"Ghost Flag?"

Li Youyi was puzzled.

Li Youyi had urged the Ghost Flag of Yu Tounan, but it could only release nether mist and at most had a partial defensive effect.

"The power of a magic martial artist urging a magic tool when opening the fourth spring and the fifth spring is different. The magic power in the body has already undergone an essential improvement," the senior in the spirit tablet clearly had some understanding of that Ghost Flag.

Li Youyi took out the Ghost Flag, and the magic power surging from the five spring eyes in his body ran through the sixty trace meridians, all injected into it. Suddenly, nether mist and cold air erupted and dissipated, like a black cloud, covering most of the residence.

Not long after.

"My Pincer Spiders! My Pincer Spiders..."

A hoarse voice, accompanied by rapid footsteps, rushed into the courtyard.

How could the insect controller Master Qi not be anxious?

He had spent decades painstakingly cultivating nearly a hundred Pincer Spiders, allowing him to sit on equal footing with Five Seas realm experts and enjoy the treatment of being above others; even the leader of the Long Forest Gang had to respect him.

But at this moment in the nether mist.

All the Pincer Spiders on the ground were frozen stiff, unable to move, each covered with a thin layer of frost.

"Swish!"

The tip of the Huang Long Sword pointed at his throat.

Master Qi was tall and thin, wearing a wide white robe, his eye sockets deeply sunken. Even though Li Youyi could take his life at any time, there was not a hint of fear in his eyes.

"Whoosh!"

He gritted his teeth, his hatred monstrous.

The Spirit Realm between his eyebrows lit up like a lamp, launching a mental attack.

Mental power is formless and shadowless, but it is like a sword that can directly attack the enemy's soul.

But his mental attack fell on Li Youyi, and not only did it fail to kill the enemy, but a series of bell sounds appeared in his own mind, shaking his consciousness into temporary chaos and mania.

It was as if he had been countered by the combat intent of a Five Seas realm magic martial artist.

"Five Seas realm... you are Five Seas..."

Master Qi fell to the ground, holding his head with both hands, his expression painful, his face as white as paper.

Li Youyi was wondering why this old man called him Five Seas realm when two strong winds came to his ears. So he swung a palm and knocked Master Qi unconscious first.

"Swish! Swish!"

The two middle-aged men who had previously stood by the window on the third floor of the brothel arrived at high speed. They were guests of the Long Forest Gang, both of whom had opened seven springs.

They hadn't planned to make a move in tonight's operation at all, just wanting to have some fun and help look after things, preventing anyone from escaping and bringing unnecessary trouble.

Such a small job could be done silently by Master Qi's means, and it would be finished in less than a quarter of an hour. It wouldn't disturb the City Defense Battalion, nor would it disturb the surrounding residents. The next day, everyone would only think that this group of outsiders had been attacked by fierce insects and died.

No one would investigate, and it wouldn't cause any waves.

Master Qi fed the insects, and they got the money; everyone was happy.

But now, the commotion was too big. Just in this brothel alone, many people were looking over as if watching the fun.

If it wasn't resolved, the people from the City Defense Battalion would probably arrive.

Hearing the sound of the two moving rapidly, Li Youyi judged their cultivation level and felt a chill in his heart, raising his spirit to the highest level.

Two peak Spring-Gushing realm experts who had opened seven springs?

One against two?

The last time he was able to single-handedly kill Fang Tong, who had opened seven springs, was by borrowing the powerful Evil Camel Bell and the Black Iron Seal. But at this moment, he didn't know how many eyes were watching, so he didn't dare to be too ostentatious.

As for the Ghost Flag and the Huang Long Sword...

The power of these two items looked like low-level magic tools, so even if exposed, the impact would be limited.

After all, who among those who have stepped into the Five Seas realm doesn't have one or two low-level magic tools?

The middle-aged man with a black mole between his eyebrows rushed in from the front door, his speed like a residual shadow. He threw a punch, the air caved in forward, and then it exploded with a roar.

The punch was overbearing, like a cannonball.

Li Youyi resisted this punch, his body flew backward, and he swung his sword to slash at the other seven-spring expert with thick whiskers who had climbed over the wall and was preparing to attack Zhao Meng and the others.

Both of them had combat wisdom and were not reckless men who only knew how to use brute force.

One restrained him from the front, and one wanted to capture his companions, making him unable to attend to both ends, which would make it easier to deal with him.

Since Li Youyi saw through it, he naturally decided to go along with the plan, preparing to take this opportunity to severely injure one of them first, so as not to be attacked from both sides while fighting one against two.

Therefore, he used all his strength in the sword slash toward the thick-whiskered seven-spring expert, drawing an arc-shaped sword mark in the darkness.

How could the thick-whiskered seven-spring expert have expected Li Youyi to come so fast? He was shocked.

But after all, he was a person who had been immersed in martial arts for nearly sixty years, and his mentality was extremely stable. Even at this critical moment of life and death, he could respond calmly.

The crescent-shaped short knife in his hand swung out, intersecting with the blade of the Huang Long Sword.

"Sss! Sss!"

Sparks flew, and the friction was ear-piercing.

The two separated in an instant.

Li Youyi landed in front of the door where Zhao Meng and the others were, looked at the blood sliding off the blade of the Huang Long Sword, and then looked at the thick-whiskered seven-spring expert rolling to the bottom of the steps, a look of disappointment appearing in his eyes.

Just a little bit off.

The middle-aged man with a black mole between his eyebrows chased after him, and Li Youyi had lost the chance to strike another sword.

With his current cultivation, even with the help of magic tools, and even when caught off guard, wanting to kill a seven-spring martial artist with one sword was still as difficult as ascending to heaven.

The thick-whiskered seven-spring expert stood up quickly, touched his neck, and his hands were full of blood.

He looked at the crescent short knife in his hand, and a deep notch had appeared on the blade.

You must know, this was not an ordinary weapon, but a dense heavy weapon. Even for a magic tool to damage a dense heavy weapon, it was by no means an easy task.

This target is a bit thorny!

The two looked at each other and attacked from left and right at the same time.

They were not attacking Li Youyi, but the building behind him.

The more the opponent wants to protect, the more they want to attack.

(End of chapter)