Chapter 76: Sword Slays Xue Zheng

The murderous intent and "battle method intent" emanating from Shi Jiuzhai at this moment were enough to make any Spring-Gushing Realm martial cultivator tremble with fear and kneel down.

Li Youyi resisted this pressure with all his might, almost unable to breathe, gritted his teeth, and said with difficulty: "At this moment, how do you know that my strength is not enough to help you succeed? I think Dharma King Shi Shi's eye is better than yours."

Li Youyi's ability to resist pressure and his mental intent made Shi Jiuzhai secretly marvel. His eyes were uncertain: "In the hands of a Nine Springs martial cultivator, do you think you can hold on for a few moves and escape?"

Li Youyi collected more useful information and said: "It seems the Dharma King wants me to deal with a Nine Springs martial cultivator? That's strange; why can't you make a move yourselves? Could it be that the Nine Springs martial cultivator is in a place you can't go?"

Shi Jiuzhai felt that this kid's brain really had something; perhaps he could really succeed, so he said: "Not deal with, you are not that strong yet, just need to monitor him."

Li Youyi was hard when he should be hard and soft when he should be soft, bowed and saluted: "The two Dharma Kings might as well speak clearly. Now my life is in your hands. The things you entrust, I will definitely do my best to accomplish."

No matter what, saving his life was the top priority.

Seeing him return to the "little wolf cub" look from before, Shi Jiuzhai's anger disappeared, and he smiled: "I said it, this is you. You were so arrogant just now, I thought Shi Shi found the wrong person."

Shi Shishi said: "Have you heard of the Jiu Li Hidden Gate?"

Li Youyi almost couldn't hold it…

What's the situation, they actually know the Jiu Li Hidden Gate?

"Never heard of it," Li Youyi pretended to be blank and shook his head gently after thinking for a moment.

Shi Jiuzhai said: "You don't need to have heard of it. Go to the Jiu Li Hidden Gate and do one thing for us; after it's done, the old accounts will be wiped clean. Of course, you can also refuse, and then I will slap you to death here. After all, you know things you shouldn't know."

The matter of probing the Jiu Li Hidden Gate was of great importance; how could the Earth Wolf Army completely trust that mysterious old man of the Jiu Li Tribe?

So, naturally, they wanted to insert one of their own people to follow into the Jiu Li Hidden Gate.

The mysterious old man prepared to send Li Qing to the Hidden Gate, who was at the Nine Springs cultivation level. Then the person the Earth Wolf Army found couldn't be too weak, otherwise, they might be eliminated by Li Qing as soon as they entered the Hidden Gate.

Shi Jiuzhai naturally wouldn't tell Li Youyi too much and said: "You just need to do one thing! Survive, find the location of the Jiu Li Hidden Gate, and then escape and tell us. Simple enough, right?"

Li Youyi asked: "I don't even know how to go to the Jiu Li Hidden Gate."

"You don't need to worry about that; we have our own arrangements," Shi Jiuzhai smiled: "If you can complete this task, the benefits will not be lacking for you."

"Haha!"

In the dark forest, a low and distant laughter sounded, eerie, as if it came from all directions.

"Bang!"

A heavy human-shaped object fell from mid-air, smashing a shallow depression in the ground.

It was a sack, and a muffled sound of pain came from the bag.

Shi Shishi smiled: "Sixth Brother, why did you come back so late?"

"Swish!"

Li Youyi only felt a cold wind blow, and by the campfire, a thin, bone-like figure appeared out of thin air.

Shi Liuyu was as thin as a handful of bones, his eyes were green, and his short hair was also green, giving people an eerie and cold feeling.

He glanced at Li Youyi and laughed in a low voice: "Shi, the person you found doesn't feel very good. Look at the person I found; this person is known as the number one combat power below the Five-Sea Realm in Li Prefecture, and he is a pure immortal body."

Li Youyi looked at the sack wriggling on the ground and felt strange emotions in his heart.

Could it be that there was more than one unlucky guy tonight?

Shi Shishi untied the sack, and inside was indeed Xue Zheng, the silver pure immortal body who had been beaten black and blue.

Xue Zheng's knowledge was naturally not comparable to Li Youyi's, and he quickly recognized the identities of the three people in front of him. His face turned pale, and finally, his gaze fell on Li Youyi.

Shi Shishi said: "Sixth Brother, you came back late. We have already talked to Brother Tianshu, and he will go to the Jiu Li Hidden Gate to do things for us."

Shi Liuyu appeared indifferent and said lightly: "Just kill him to silence him; it's not a troublesome matter. Do you think he is a match for Li Qing, who opened Nine Springs? If you want to send someone, you have to send someone strong."

Li Youyi knew the ruthlessness of the Southern Border barbarians and was afraid that Shi Liuyu would suddenly make a move to kill him, so he hurriedly said: "Dharma King, this is wrong. Xue Zheng has a great reputation in Li Prefecture; everyone knows he is a disciple of the Sui Sect. Sending him to the Hidden Gate, his identity will be exposed instantly."

Xue Zheng was not a stupid person either and quickly saw the situation clearly. He knew that facing these barbarian Dharma Kings, he had to have utility value to survive.

He said: "Just Spring-Gushing Realm, what kind of great reputation is that? Let alone the older generation, even those existing in the 'Book of Sixty Years,' I'm afraid they don't know who Xue Zheng is."

Shi Liuyu nodded: "Look, this kind of cleverness is the kind of person our Earth Wolf Army should use."

Xue Zheng added: "As long as you give me a chance to survive, I will swear to be loyal to the Earth Wolf Army. I am the most potential new star of the younger generation of the Xue family and can do many things for the three Dharma Kings in Li Prefecture in the future."

Li Youyi never expected that Xue Zheng, who was usually upright and unyielding, could be so desperate and have no bottom line just to survive?

Shi Liuyu smiled: "Not bad, not bad, this attitude is right! Ninth Brother, Tenth Brother, what do you think? If Xue Zheng can complete this task, perhaps he can become an important chess piece we bury inside the Sui Sect."

Seeing Shi Jiuzhai reveal a look of being moved, Li Youyi hurriedly said: "Xue Zheng is only at the Eight Springs level; even if he is a pure immortal body, he may not be a match for a Nine Springs martial cultivator. He might not even be a match for me!"

After transforming into a pure immortal body, how could Xue Zheng put Li Youyi in his eyes? He said: "Li Youyi, do you want to fight me?"

"I just want to tell the three Dharma Kings that I am more qualified than you," Li Youyi said.

Shi Liuyu's green eyes overflowed with smiles: "It seems to have become interesting all of a sudden!"

"Brother Tianshu, you are the person I found; you can't lose to him," Shi Shishi said, even though he knew Li Youyi's real name, he still addressed him this way.

Xue Zheng knew that Li Youyi had a black iron seal that could release lightning and secretly considered whether to mention it, but he was worried that the three Dharma Kings of the Earth Wolf Army would kill him to silence him after learning that Li Youyi might be a seed of the Lei Xiao Sect inheritor.

Xue Zheng felt that Li Youyi probably wouldn't dare to expose this point easily. As long as he solved him in a few moves, he wouldn't have the chance to use the black iron seal.

To fight for a qualification, to fight for his life.

The two of them set up their stances by the stream, their eyes colliding sharply.

Without a doubt, tonight, it was either you die or I die.

Shi Jiuzhai said: "How about we three open a gambling game? The odds are one to nine; I bet on Xue Zheng."

Shi Liuyu said: "Ninth Brother, you are the dealer; even if you bet, it should be me and Tenth Brother betting against each other. Tenth, are you coming?"

Shi Shishi didn't know how powerful an Eight Springs pure immortal body was; it was absolutely capable of competing with a Nine Springs Supreme Person. Moreover, Xue Zheng was famous, and his battle method was extraordinary. Li Youyi's winning rate was truly slim.

Shi Liuyu said: "How about betting on how many moves that kid you found can hold on against Xue Zheng?"

"Swish! Swish!"

The gambling game hadn't started yet, and the two holding the saber and sword had already rushed toward each other at high speed.

Xue Zheng wanted to end the battle quickly, so the first strike was to mobilize the magic Qi in the Wind Mansion and perform the strongest strike that an Eight Springs martial cultivator could perform.

Li Youyi didn't dare to show too strong combat power, so facing this overwhelming strike from Xue Zheng, he could only try every possible way to dodge.

But dodging a Heavenly Dao Law Combination was already as difficult as ascending to heaven, and what's more, this strike had the blessing of the Wind Mansion's small Qi Sea, which even a Five-Sea Realm martial cultivator could only take head-on.

"Whoosh!"

Just as Li Youyi was about to become a ghost under Xue Zheng's blade, he saw that when he was only a hair's breadth away from the blade's edge, his figure was like a wisp of green smoke, escaping horizontally from the momentum of the blade's intent.

With a boom, the powerful blade light slashed out by Xue Zheng was like a light wave, flying five feet away, and the trunk of a bowl-thick tree in the forest exploded.

The combat power was indeed stronger than a month ago, Li Youyi thought secretly.

Shi Shishi stood up abruptly and cheered: "Good movement technique, it turns out you not only have Heavenly Dao Law Combination in sword technique, but even your movement technique is Heavenly Dao Law Combination!"

By the Sui River, he had seen Li Youyi perform a sword technique of Heavenly Dao Law Combination.

The movement technique Li Youyi was performing at this moment was naturally the Clear Void Cicada-Chasing Step, which he had practiced to the Heavenly Dao Law Combination in the Cang King's Tomb. The reason it was so fast was because he had practiced the Twelve Scattered Hands of the Chan Gate for over ten years.

Shi Jiuzhai nodded: "At his age, and in the Spring-Gushing Realm, being able to practice two moves of Heavenly Dao Law Combination is indeed quite extraordinary. Six-Color, how many moves did you practice?"

"It's Liuyu," Shi Liuyu corrected, then snorted: "I only wanted to impact the Wind Mansion and Ancestral Field and break through to the Five-Sea Realm back then. No matter how well you practice moves and techniques, if the realm is one level higher, you can crush them into pieces directly."

Shi Jiuzhai said: "No matter what, after Xue Zheng exhausts the Wind Mansion's magic Qi, that little wolf cub finally has a glimmer of a chance to win. Tenth, bet? The odds are still one to nine?"

Shi Shishi was a bit hesitant; these odds were too good.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

Xue Zheng and Li Youyi's figures crossed and shuttled, fighting from the shore to the stream, having already exchanged over a dozen moves.

Li Youyi controlled his strength, completely falling into a disadvantage, retreating constantly, extremely wretched, sometimes having a wisp of hair cut off, sometimes having a corner of his clothes slashed off.

Shi Jiuzhai observed the battle between the two and found that after entering the stream, Xue Zheng's movements obviously became sluggish. And Li Youyi, relying on his clever movement technique, could actually step on the waves and move, attacking the other's weakness with his own strength.

After Xue Zheng noticed this, he immediately wanted to pull the battlefield back to the shore.

It would have been fine if he hadn't thought so; after all, a mere stream wouldn't make his combat power drop too much. But he did think so, and just as he took a step toward the shore, Li Youyi immediately seized the opportunity to perform the Tai Yi Sea-Opening of the Heavenly Dao Law Combination level.

"Swish!"

The air was split, and the sword light seemed to be able to split the entire stream.

The Qi was sharp, and the sword sound was ear-piercing.

The leg Xue Zheng wanted to use to land on the shore was not slashed by the sword edge, but it was hit by the Qi, and the trouser leg was torn instantly, sounding a bang of metal collision.

If it weren't for his silver pure immortal body and strong defense, this leg would have been injured.

Even so, he still felt the pain in his leg, and his center of gravity was somewhat unstable.

Once Li Youyi occupied the upper hand, it was naturally a destructive force, and the sword covered the other party faster than one sword after another like a rain waterfall. At the same time, he secretly added a bit of strength, creating the impression that Xue Zheng had fallen into a disadvantage due to a misjudgment and had no chance to fight back, thus losing.

Shi Shishi never expected such a situation to occur and immediately said: "I bet!?"

Shi Jiuzhai stared at the two fighting in the stream and said: "No, now the odds are three to seven… four to six, five to five…"

The next moment, Shi Jiuzhai and Shi Liuyu stood up almost at the same time, their eyes full of disbelief.

Only to see in the stream, Li Youyi was beating Xue Zheng until he retreated steadily, his legs unable to stand firm, his steps becoming more and more chaotic, completely losing his rhythm.

Xue Zheng also thought he had fallen into a disadvantage at first, so he was beaten by Li Youyi and had no chance to fight back. But gradually he sensed something was wrong; he truly felt Li Youyi's strength increasing.

"Not good, this kid must have broken through to the Ninth Spring…"

Xue Zheng knew that he would have no chance of survival today, so he wanted to drag Li Youyi to die with him, and shouted: "He is actually…"

"Wind Mansion Sword, the strongest strike."

Li Youyi deliberately shouted this, suppressing Xue Zheng's voice, and performed the Tai Yi Sea-Opening of the Heavenly Dao Law Combination level again, falling from top to bottom onto Xue Zheng's head.

The next moment, the Yellow Dragon Sword appeared under Xue Zheng's crotch.

A drop of blood slid off the tip of the sword and dripped into the stream, rippling into a gorgeous blood flower, which was quickly washed away.

Li Youyi carried his sword and walked back. Behind him, Xue Zheng's corpse split into two halves and fell into the stream, his internal organs scattered, and it turned out that his whole body was not of silver texture.

"Ten to zero! Tenth, you didn't seize the opportunity I gave you; you don't have the courage to gamble at all," Shi Jiuzhai sighed.

Shi Shishi was so regretful that his intestines turned green. He rushed to the two halves of Xue Zheng's corpse in the stream, as if he wanted to sew him up, repair him, and let him fight Li Youyi again.

Li Youyi had just landed on the shore when a figure flashed in front of him.

Shi Liuyu's thin, ghost-like face was pressed in front of him, and then his fingers pressed toward the position of the Ancestral Field below his navel, and he let out a soft "eh": "Sure enough, the Ancestral Field has not been opened."

The next moment, Shi Liuyu's palm pressed toward Li Youyi's chest and lungs: "The Qi Sea has not been opened either, it's really strange. Could it be that by practicing moves and techniques to a certain level, a mortal can also slay a pure immortal body in the same realm?"

Shi Liuyu seemed to have opened the door to a new world, ecstatic.

After all, he was a relatively special deformed species and had always been wary of pure immortal bodies in the same realm, so he was naturally very unwilling in his heart.

Li Youyi was so nervous that his heartbeat was almost uncontrollable. He was very afraid that Shi Liuyu would probe his Wind Mansion, but fortunately, Shi Liuyu didn't suspect the authenticity of his Eight Springs cultivation at all.

Seeing Shi Liuyu turn around, Li Youyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly.

Without any warning, Shi Liuyu turned around like lightning, a complex green rune appeared in his palm, and he slapped him on the chest. Li Youyi flew backward for several feet and fell heavily to the ground.

Li Youyi was briefly suffocated, then breathed violently.

His chest was not only painful, but there was also a numb and unbearable force drilling into his body bit by bit.

After he caught his breath, he hurriedly pulled open his collar, but there was nothing there. He said coldly: "Dharma King Liuyu, what… what is the meaning of this?"

Shi Liuyu carried his hands behind his back and laughed: "First of all, congratulations on slaying Xue Zheng and winning the qualification to work for the Earth Wolf Army. But you should understand that we will not trust you, and you are definitely not willing. So we have to use some means to make you willing."

"What was hit into your body is a Six-Desire Rune."

"You must never think that anyone can help you remove the rune. The strokes of every Six-Desire Rune are different; only the one who cast the rune knows the correct method to solve it. Don't worry, when you come back after completing the task, I will help you remove it."

Li Youyi stood up slowly and said: "You might as well not have said this."

Shi Liuyu carried the magic artifact battle saber of Xue Zheng back and said: "I will guarantee it! If you can really come back after completing the task, I will not only let Sixth Brother help you remove the rune, but also introduce you to join the Earth Wolf Army. Because by then, you will definitely have no place to stay in the Cang Li Tribe or Li Prefecture, and all the cultivators of the Jiu Li Tribe will wish to smash you into ten thousand pieces."

Shi Jiuzhai said: "If you break through to the Ancestral Field, I will introduce you to the Heavenly King and let you be the eleventh."

Shi Jiuzhai's words were half true and half false.

False, he wanted to stabilize Li Youyi and let him do things obediently.

True, if Li Youyi could really break through to the Ancestral Field and come back after completing the task, he would indeed have a chance to be the eleventh Dharma King.

……

Not long after the four left, two Five-Sea Realm elders of the Cang Li Tribe followed the footprints Li Youyi left and arrived by the stream.

Before long, they found the residual corpse of Xue Zheng, who had been split into two, in a stream pool downstream.

One of the elders was shocked: "This… could this be his doing?"

"We followed his footprints and aura to find this place. It is possible that Xue Zheng was really slain by him with one sword," the other elder said.

"Then there is only one possibility: everyone has misjudged. Li Youyi must have broken through to the Ancestral Field and is a Nine Springs Supreme Person."

"Hard to say, let's take Xue Zheng's corpse back first. There is still residual aura on the wound; the Armor Head and the Young Tribe Leader should be able to judge whether it was slashed by Li Youyi's magic artifact battle sword."

"If he is really a Nine Springs Supreme Person… except for the Young Tribe Leader, the Cang Li Tribe hasn't produced a Nine Springs Supreme Person in thirty years…"

……

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