Chapter 102

"Old Zhao, speaking ill of people behind their backs is not right. Also, my name is Sima Tan now." Li Youyi laughed.

Zhao Zhizhuo's expression was serious and extremely earnest: "This Miss Yin is truly a dangerous person; otherwise, why would I be in such a rush to find you? You are too young and inexperienced in the world. I worry that you will make the wrong judgment when facing the supreme beauty of a Pure Immortal Body woman, which is very fatal!"

He certainly knew Li Youyi's mind was mature and steady, but since ancient times, countless heroes have foundered on the rocks of beauty.

Li Youyi sat at the table and poured two cups of tea: "Isn't she just the granddaughter of the Medicine Li tribe chief? Could there be some other background?"

In his mind, he recalled the strange changes in Seeing Yao Yin in the ash region. The loud cries that rang out from within her body had scared off six extremely powerful Ember Spirits, which was indeed inconceivable.

Zhao Zhizhuo sat down, holding the teacup, and said: "To be precise, she is the granddaughter of the Medicine Li tribe chief, Yao Jingfeng. Yao Jingfeng has five sons and one daughter; this daughter is Miss Yin's mother, who was a Pure Immortal Body. In our era, her beauty was unrivaled, known as the number one beauty in Lizhou. Wherever she went, the streets were empty, and countless followers sought only to catch a glimpse of her beauty."

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhizhuo's eyes filled with the light of reminiscence, and he laughed: "To tell you the truth, I, Old Zhao, was also infatuated, but... you see my talent is okay, right? I broke through to the Five Seas at twenty-three and advanced rapidly thereafter. At forty-one, all five gas seas were opened, but at the time, I couldn't even stand within a zhang of Yao Qingxuan."

"I am a person with self-awareness, knowing that for a woman like Yao Qingxuan, I had no chance at all. So I chose to leave and focus on cultivation, no longer asking about her news."

"When I had achieved success in cultivation and was preparing to step out of the Cangli tribe to show my skills and make a name for myself, I heard the tragic news of her death. I was naturally extremely heartbroken. A woman of such peerless beauty, favored by heaven, with cultivation talent ten times better than mine—how could she suddenly wither in the prime of her life?"

"I asked many old friends and finally learned the ins and outs."

"This matter caused a huge uproar throughout Lizhou at the time, and everyone was watching the Medicine Li tribe's joke. Some said Yao Qingxuan was shameless, having an affair with a great demon and becoming pregnant, only to be tragically abandoned."

"Others said she was actually captured by that great demon, which is why she lost her chastity."

"Sometimes, human words are more terrifying than violence that hits the flesh. All kinds of rumors were extremely unbearable, wanting to trample that once-proud daughter of heaven into the dust, leaving her no way to live. It is said she committed suicide on a night when the snow was three feet thick, driven to death by the ubiquitous rumors."

"Even so, those who had once envied her talent and beauty, or those who couldn't have her, still wanted to mock her. Saying things like, only the truth can drive someone to death; if the rumors were false, she naturally wouldn't take them to heart."

Zhao Zhizhuo let out a long, turbid breath, furious and indignant; the past made him very uncomfortable: "In my eyes, the young Yao Qingxuan was absolutely the embodiment of perfection—high-minded, resilient, her smile could topple a country, her sword could convey the spirit. I never imagined she would have such a tragic ending. I originally thought she would live forever and become an immortal."

Li Youyi said: "Seeing Yao Yin's father never appeared from beginning to end?"

Zhao Zhizhuo snorted: "If he had appeared, how could Yao Qingxuan have died? Although I am very unwilling to believe it, perhaps the rumors have some truth."

"It's all hearsay; the truth is probably known to only a very few, or perhaps only Seeing Yao Yin's mother herself knew." Li Youyi said.

Zhao Zhizhuo nodded: "Miss Yin, who was still a toddler at the time, was handed over to the fourth son by the Medicine Li tribe chief, claiming she was his daughter. But as Miss Yin grew up, she looked more and more like her mother; how could the truth be covered up?"

Li Youyi suddenly understood: "I'm afraid she also had to endure all kinds of ridicule and mockery."

"That I don't know; I was already a cripple at that time. A few months ago, I did hear the third and fourth young ladies gathering together, laughing and talking about it, saying this Miss Yin inherited her father's demonic aura and ferocity, killing her own cousin. They also said that sometimes she would transform into a demon, losing her reason and slaughtering the innocent. In the Medicine Li tribe, she is hated by everyone, and only the chief still protects her." Zhao Zhizhuo said.

Li Youyi found it hard to reconcile the Seeing Yao Yin in Zhao Zhizhuo's words with the Seeing Yao Yin he knew, and snorted: "Li Ling's habit of hearsay really needs to be changed."

Immediately after, he added: "Old Zhao, what you're afraid of isn't Seeing Yao Yin's father, right?"

Zhao Zhizhuo was moved and whispered: "Legend has it that her father is a top-tier great demon from that ash region in the west, and even the Medicine Li tribe chief didn't dare to take revenge, only able to swallow this bitter pill. Getting too close to her is definitely not a good thing; it will bring a lot of unnecessary trouble. After all, even the Medicine Li tribe almost has no place for her."

"Fine, I understand, I have a plan."

Li Youyi suddenly asked: "Do you have blood crystals? Forget it, I suppose you can't afford them either. I happen to have one here, take it and use it first."

A blood crystal the size of a pigeon egg was fished out from his sleeve and placed on the table.

This blood crystal was worth eighty thousand silver coins and was purchased by Li Youyi before going to the Cang King's tomb, originally intended to subdue the exotic insects in the tomb, but it had never been used.

The function of the blood crystal was to heal damaged lungs.

Only by letting the lungs recover first could they support the gas sea.

Zhao Zhizhuo could feel that Li Youyi was sincerely trying to help him recover his cultivation, and naturally, he had the realization that such great kindness and virtue transcended the gifts and help of friendship.

The other party was buying his life.

Zhao Zhizhuo didn't say a word, cupped his hands, bowed to Li Youyi, and then took the blood crystal.

Li Youyi asked: "How long until the first lung lobe is healed?"

"Three days should be no problem." Zhao Zhizhuo said.

"Once healed, come find me."

After Zhao Zhizhuo left, Li Youyi fell into deep thought; to deal with Qi Shanshan, or rather Chan Hai Guan Wu, he had to be fully prepared. She was the number one person in the Lingxiao Life Realm a thousand years ago!

Releasing the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors and cutting off a jin of purple Cistanche to place on the table, Li Youyi instructed them to guard the cabin and not allow anyone to break in.

The seven little ones had extremely tough bodies; after eating a belly full of soil and stone in the ash region, they had forcibly digested it and were completely fine.

Over these two days, after eating two jin of purple Cistanche, their bodies finally showed changes.

The outer layer of their backs, the colorful wings, were the first to grow a section, radiating a brighter and more divine light.

But the inner membrane wings clearly needed more precious medicine to grow.

They were currently in the stage of transformation.

"Whoosh—"

Releasing spiritual light and mental power from the center of his brows, he activated the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.

Li Youyi entered the blood-mud space.

"Master Guan, why is this gas sea of the Ancestral Field only about the size of two squares? How much dharma Qi can this store?" Li Youyi asked, very puzzled.

A moment later, Master Guan's voice sounded from the ground: "The Wind Mansion and the Ancestral Field are two living inner-born worlds, true treasure vaults. Their value will only be reflected once your cultivation reaches the fifth realm of the Five Seas Realm."

"When first opened, all martial cultivators' Wind Mansions are very small, only able to store enough dharma Qi to unleash one martial art technique."

"The size of the Ancestral Field is not fixed! Most people's Ancestral Fields are the size of a square foot, able to store enough dharma Qi to unleash a dozen martial art techniques."

"Of course, like the Hundred-Vein All-Silver Pure Immortal Body Yang Shenjing you fought, he could unleash dozens of techniques at the Nine Springs Realm. I guess the size of his Ancestral Field is several times that of an ordinary person."

Li Youyi had been silently calculating: "Most Nine Springs ordinary people's Ancestral Fields are only a square foot. Then aren't I dozens of times larger than them? I can unleash hundreds, thousands of techniques? Calculated this way, it doesn't seem small."

Master Guan was silent for a long time before saying: "Large, of course it counts as large. After all, those Seven Springs martial cultivators' first gas sea in the Five Seas Realm is almost only one square, even smaller than your Ancestral Field."

Li Youyi said: "Then am I directly equivalent to a martial cultivator of the first level of the Five Seas Realm?"

"Of course it's not calculated that way; the grade of dharma Qi of a Five Seas Realm martial cultivator is far beyond what the Gushing Spring Realm can compare to, and the energy intensity is worlds apart. There is also combat intent, which also has a huge bonus to combat power." Master Guan said.

Li Youyi suddenly realized and said: "In other words, I am still far from being an opponent of a martial cultivator of the first level of the Five Seas Realm?"

Master Guan was stumped, his own martial arts system seeming to collapse, and he said: "That's also... not true; your current combat power, even without using those few powerful dharma artifacts, is not comparable to a Seven Springs Five Seas Realm first level."

Subsequently, he said in a fit of pique: "When you were at Eight Springs, you already fought with several sect leaders of the first level of the Five Seas Realm from the Long Forest Gang; don't you have your own judgment?"

This was the first time Li Youyi had seen Master Guan lose his temper, and he said: "I don't have a judgment in my heart; they are all at the first level of the Five Seas Realm, the combat power gap is too big!"

"Big, of course it's big, summarize it yourself in actual combat." Master Guan was speechless and didn't want to speak again.

Li Youyi secretly summarized that Master Guan's martial arts cultivation should be very high, but his state of mind and temper were a bit poor.

That jade dharma boat, over thirty meters long, was parked in the blood-mud space, always radiating jade-white precious light.

Li Youyi mobilized dharma Qi to activate it, but no matter how much dharma Qi surged in, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and the jade dharma boat didn't change at all.

Master Guan said: "This is a transport tool for a Prefecture Overseer-level powerhouse, able to cross the Lingxiao Life Realm, traveling ten thousand miles a day is easy; it's not something your current cultivation can activate."

"Then what realm is needed?"

Li Youyi was very envious of this jade boat; driving it to fly through the sky and burrow into the earth, just thinking about it was a pleasant thing, enough to make all the martial cultivators in the world envious.

Master Guan said: "At least you must reach the peak of the Five Seas Realm."

"The fifth realm of the Five Seas Realm?" Li Youyi said.

Master Guan said: "That's right! Once you open the fifth gas sea, you can start cultivating the Wind Mansion and the Ancestral Field, expanding these two living inner-born worlds to the limit. It is possible they will transform into two gas seas larger than the fifth gas sea. By that time, the advantages of Eight Springs martial cultivators and Nine Springs martial cultivators will truly be revealed."

Li Youyi laughed: "Equivalent to the sixth gas sea, the seventh gas sea?"

"That's right." Master Guan said.

Li Youyi said: "Since there is the saying of living inner-born worlds, I suppose there is also the saying of dead inner-born worlds?"

Master Guan said: "The five gas seas of the lung lobes are dead inner-born worlds. They are as big as they are when opened, and will always be that big."

"Then I must cultivate the Tenth Spring Navel acupoint even more, so that when I reach the Five Seas Realm, I will possess eight gas seas."

Li Youyi became more excited the more he thought about it, his fighting spirit soaring, and he immediately sat cross-legged, performing the Jade Void Breathing Method, gathering all his perception into the Navel acupoint in his navel.

When impacting other spring eyes, Li Youyi could feel the barrier between his body and heaven and earth at the acupoint, subsequently constantly surging with the breathing method to grind it thin, and finally breaking it open to open the heaven-man channel.

But when his perception acted on the Navel acupoint, it was a dead silence there.

Comparing the barriers of other spring eyes to a thin wall, knocking on them produced a hollow sound.

And knocking on the Navel acupoint was solid; there was simply no possibility of breaking it open.

"I have fifty-five golden trace veins protecting my body; since knocking doesn't work, then I'll just smash it directly. Smashing it again and again, I'll always be able to smash it open."

The smashing he spoke of was, of course, not real smashing, but using the Spring-Breaking Needle.

Hearing this, all three masters were frightened.

(End of chapter)