Chapter 50

"Well come!"

Li Youyi was full of heroic spirit and shouted, then performed the Clear Void Cicada-Chasing Step, taking the lead to intercept the thick-whiskered seven-spring expert who had already developed fear of him.

One sword opened the sea, the yellow light was a foot long, forcing him back.

Without chasing, Li Youyi turned and rushed toward the middle-aged man with a black mole between his eyebrows, reaching his back with the sword tip before the opponent could blow open the building door with a punch.

The black-moled man had no choice but to lower his body and roll to the right.

Li Youyi was waiting for this opportunity. Once the opponent dodged in a panic, a blind spot would appear in his vision. All combat methods, wisdom, and courage would be washed away because of the chaotic formation.

"Swish! Swish! Swish..."

Li Youyi attacked like a storm, one sword faster than the other, the sword shadows like a pouring waterfall.

When the thick-whiskered seven-spring expert rushed up to rescue, both arms of the black-moled man had been cut off, his shoulders were bloody, as if he had turned into a human stick.

He screamed hoarsely, unable to accept his miserable self.

The thick-whiskered seven-spring expert was terrified, all his fighting spirit gone, and he turned and fled.

And the human-stick-like black-moled man had a stronger desire to survive than him and had already taken a step toward the gate first.

"Crossed that door, and still want to leave?"

Li Youyi chased after him.

If a magic martial artist who has opened seven springs has a tenacious fighting will, the courage to fight to the death, a calm and rational mind, and the spirit of "who else but me," then in a head-on confrontation, it is not easy for Li Youyi to deal with any one of them.

If the two join forces, they can pose a life-and-death threat to Li Youyi.

But once their spirit collapses and they start to flee, it is much easier for Li Youyi to deal with them.

"What on earth are they doing in that residence? How can they fight so fiercely? It sounds like people have died; it's scary."

In the distance, in the brothel diagonally opposite, many young women dressed in colorful clothes stood by the railings, some curious, some frightened, some excited, discussing and communicating with the wealthy guests beside them.

"Such thick black fog, could it be passing spirits and fierce demons?"

"Don't be afraid, we definitely won't be affected here. It's those people from the Long Forest Gang who wanted to plunder the newcomers, but it seems they kicked an iron plate!" A magic martial arts expert who vaguely knew the inside story laughed like this.

"Who exactly are these newcomers? How dare they challenge the Long Forest Gang? Don't they know that the Long Forest Gang rules our district?"

"Look, the people from the City Defense Battalion have arrived."

"Arriving so late, they must be in collusion with the Long Forest Gang."

"Boom!"

The courtyard wall was smashed into a hole the size of a person by the thick-whiskered seven-spring expert, his body flying more than a foot away, falling on the street on his back, as if he had been blown out by a punch.

The rubble of the courtyard wall was scattered all over the long street.

Screams came from the direction of the brothel.

"Whoosh!"

Almost at the same moment, Li Youyi jumped out of the courtyard wall, his flying knee landed and hit his chest, and then a punch beat him beyond recognition, and the stone slabs on the street cracked.

"Stop!"

"Rebellion, daring to kill in the streets of Ninth Li City."

A team of City Defense Guards riding strong horses, with more than twenty people, all wearing armor and holding spears, shouted to stop them while still in the distance.

"Rumble!"

The sound of iron hooves came from far to near, and soon surrounded Li Youyi.

They wore white armor, and the strong horses they sat on had swallowed the blood of alien beasts, appearing mutated and nearly twice as strong as ordinary horses.

Li Youyi stood up slowly, his fists covered in blood, his eyes scanning the iron-walled City Defense Guards, not intimidated by their murderous aura. He bowed and saluted: "Xie Jin, a commoner of the Cang Li tribe, has met the military lords. These villains broke into a private house and wanted to do evil, so I have already subdued them."

The captain of this City Defense Guard team was named Chen Chuan, a seven-spring deformed human who was over sixty years old. He had a tiger head and a body three meters tall, looking extremely powerful.

"Even the breathing and heartbeat are gone; you call this subdued?" Chen Chuan snorted coldly.

With his cultivation, he could hear the subtle state of the person lying on the ground from several feet away.

Li Youyi said: "The strike might have been a little heavy! But the villain had no choice; the villain's cultivation was too strong and too fierce, so I had to fight for my life."

Chen Chuan knew the middle-aged man lying on the ground and knew his strength, so he was very clear that the kid in front of him had unfathomable cultivation, and he was in a dilemma for a moment, unsure whether to offend such a powerful person for the Long Forest Gang.

After all, the Long Forest Gang only sent him a thousand silver coins every month.

"You say you are a commoner of the Cang Li tribe, do you have a commoner register?" Chen Chuan asked.

"Yes!"

Li Youyi took out the commoner register that Zhao Zhizhuo had helped him handle in Yao Guan City from his arms.

More than 80% of the people in the entire Li Province were born in the nine major tribes, collectively known as commoners.

The commoner register can be handled in every city in Li Province. With the Young Master Cang Li speaking, many assessments are omitted, and it's just a formality.

Of course, things that are easy to handle are also easy to forge.

In recent years, as the major tribes of Ninth Li have declined, coupled with years of war in the outer provinces, many external forces have poured into Li Province, either to avoid the flames of war or to grab interests and territory.

Many crooked paths and evil ways have used forged commoner registers to run rampant in Li Province.

Chen Chuan was born in the Red Li tribe, so he naturally saw that Li Youyi's commoner register was not simple; it actually had a village fiefdom on it, with an accurate geographical location.

It couldn't explain anything else, but at least it could explain that this kid's commoner register wouldn't be forged.

Because forging such a commoner register is easy to be exposed, and the price paid after being exposed is also very high.

With a clatter, Chen Chuan jumped off the strong horse that was also covered in white metal armor, threw the commoner register back to Li Youyi, and then walked into the residence through the big hole in the courtyard wall, stepping on the rubble.

Seeing the scene inside clearly, Chen Chuan gasped, and his eyes looking at Li Youyi again suddenly added a bit of fear.

At the end of the street, the two Long Forest Gang members responsible for scouting fled in panic and disappeared into the darkness.

The residence where the leader of the Long Forest Gang was located occupied nearly a hundred acres, with high walls and large courtyards, and the gate was three feet wide.

Bone lamps were hung high in front of the gate, and four deformed human magic martial arts experts stood on the left and right, all wearing weapons.

Yang Qingxi wore a veil and sat in the position that originally belonged to the gang leader "Xu Changlin" in the main building, flipping through the accounts of the last three months. As a pure immortal body, her hair and skin had a luster different from ordinary people, and even her five snow-onion jade fingers had a beauty that made people's hearts beat.

The pair of wonderful eyes not covered by the veil were spiritual and focused.

Xu Changlin, who was standing by, Deputy Gang Leader Tang Yan, and Flag Master Shi Chuanyu, were originally ruthless characters that everyone feared in this district, but at this moment, they all tried their best to restrain their eyes, not daring to have any overstepping behavior.

Just because they knew that the eldest lady in front of them not only had the beauty of a pure immortal body, but also the cultivation of the Five Seas realm and the iron-blooded means of killing while laughing.

Yang Qingxi finished flipping through and closed the account book.

Her slender fingers picked up a bamboo brush from the pen holder to play with, and she swept her beautiful eyes calmly toward the three: "Your Long Forest Gang is getting better at making money. The income of this quarter this year is equal to half of last year. Should I praise you or reward you?"

Deputy Gang Leader Tang Yan smiled flatteringly: "Making money for the eldest lady is our duty... ah..."

"Swish—"

The brush flew out from Yang Qingxi's fingers like a stream of light, brushed past Tang Yan's cheek, and hit a rockery six or seven feet away.

The rockery couldn't withstand the surging magic power contained in the brush and collapsed with a roar.

The rubble after the collapse splashed layers of water in the pool.

One can imagine what would happen if this blow landed on a person.

A bloodstain appeared on Tang Yan's cheek, and his legs trembled like chaff with fear. At that moment, he almost felt that he was dead, his head was about to explode, and he couldn't dodge at all.

Also in the Five Seas realm, the pure immortal body was far more powerful than him, and killing him only required an ordinary brush.

Yang Qingxi looked coldly at Tang Yan, who had been frightened to his knees, and said: "The things your Long Forest Gang has done in the past few months, the specific amount of money you have earned, do you think you can hide it from the Yang tribe?"

Xu Changlin explained quickly: "Eldest lady, it was Deputy Gang Leader Tang who recruited a powerful insect controller for the Long Forest Gang. That insect controller keeps a nest of Pincer Spiders and must feed on human magic martial artists. Every time he makes a move to kill and feed the spiders, we just need to clean up. Over time, the unexpected wealth harvested has been quite abundant."

Yang Qingxi didn't think the Long Forest Gang could recruit any powerful insect controller and was not interested in this, her eyes serious: "If a faction wants to gain a foothold, it is okay to be ruthless. But in three months at the shortest and half a year at the longest, Li Province will inevitably be in chaos, and I'm afraid you will ruin the big event for small profits."

"In the past few days, several important friends of the Yang tribe will come to Ninth Li City from other places. Their identities are special, and it is not suitable for them to enter the city. You will receive them for the time being. During this period, all of you behave yourselves and don't let their whereabouts be exposed because of you."

An old man hurried to the outside of the main building, his expression urgent.

Xu Changlin gave Shi Chuanyu a wink, and Shi Chuanyu saluted Yang Qingxi before walking out quickly to ask the old man what happened.

After some whispering, Shi Chuanyu's face changed instantly: "Are you sure it's the Five Seas realm?"

The old man nodded: "Very strong! The brothers who were scouting said that only one person made a move and killed more than a dozen of our experts, including two seven-spring guests, and even Master Qi, the insect controller, was captured. Moreover, the opponent holds a magic tool and set up a spirit tablet in the courtyard, full of confidence. If this isn't the Five Seas realm, what is it?"

"What's even more terrifying is that the owner of the residence, that giant deformed human with a body six meters tall, never appeared from beginning to end, clearly even more unfathomable."

Shi Chuanyu's heart beat wildly, realizing that the reason he didn't perceive magic power when he touched someone else's hand during the day was likely because the opponent's cultivation was too high.

The old man added: "There is one more thing."

Shi Chuanyu tried to calm the shock in his heart, his eyes looking toward Yang Qingxi in the building, and his mood finally settled. He said: "Speak!"

"Chen Chuan of the City Defense Battalion has already rushed over, and the opponent claims to be a commoner of the Cang Li tribe."

Immediately after, the old man waved to the distance.

Two strong gang members carried Zhao Zhizhuo, who had been beaten to the point of being on his last breath, over.

Zhao Zhizhuo lay on the ground covered in bloodstains, beyond recognition, his arms dislocated, his eyes swollen from blood stasis struggling to open a slit, weakly saying: "They are really guests of the Young Master of the Cang Li tribe, you Long Forest Gang... it's best not to have evil intentions, the Young Master will not let you go..."

After being captured, Zhao Zhizhuo had no other way but to report the name of the Young Master, hoping to scare away the Long Forest Gang.

But he was met with the ridicule of the gang members and more brutal beatings. Someone asked him why he didn't report the name of the leader of the Cang Li tribe, and someone told him that reporting the name of Xu Fu's belly was more useful.

Shi Chuanyu looked at the old man with a questioning look.

The old man was also very distressed: "At that time, who could have thought that guests of Cang Li would rent a residence in the suburbs? Besides, what credibility could an old servant who opened two springs have? If everyone reports a name, I have to verify it, then anyone can bluff us. But if the person living inside is really the Five Seas realm... then it's hard to say!"

Yang Qingxi, sitting in the room, naturally took all the words of the people outside into her ears, glanced at Xu Changlin, and sneered: "This is the powerful insect controller you mentioned? Whoever caused the trouble, go solve it yourself."

"The subordinate will definitely handle it properly."

Tang Yan got up quickly and walked out, just wanting to leave this room that made him breathless as soon as possible.

Thinking of something, Yang Qingxi called him to stop, and after careful consideration, said: "Cang Li has always been generous and extravagant. If it is really a powerful person he has befriended, it is unlikely that they would be arranged in the suburbs. Unless there is another purpose... investigate, you must investigate clearly for me, what kind of background they have."

(End of chapter)