Chapter 112: Kill the Five Seas, Execute the Nine Springs

In the area by the river, the clouds and mist had already been scattered.

The most striking sight was the layers of light-gauze formations condensed by the two hundred young Wu Xiu of the Nine Li tribe as they activated their formation scripts.

They were slowly retreating, but were blocked by two experts of the Five Seas realm.

One of them was Wang Daozhen, one of the three great masters of the younger generation of the Wang family of the Sui Sect. He held a ten-foot-long formation-splitting whip; every time he lashed it out, the air exploded with a crack.

The sound was like thunder.

"Boom! Boom..."

The formation-splitting whip landed on the light-gauze formation, tearing long, fiery cracks into it.

Although the fiery cracks vanished quickly and were covered over by the light gauze again, if he kept lashing out like this, breaking the formation was only a matter of time.

Jiang Ning’s gaze fell upon the massive four-armed ape corpse on the ground, a look of shock appearing in her eyes: "The sixth-generation descendant of the Four Extremities Ape King, with astonishing physique and innate divine strength. Even without cultivating human techniques, at this age, its combat power is not inferior to an ordinary Nine Springs Supreme. Moreover, it was a 'Hundred Veins All-Silver Pure Immortal Body'—and yet it was slain by Sima Tan!"

"If he can cleave a Dharma-Dao Fire Ape with a single blade, killing that ape king cub is nothing more than a few extra slashes; it is nothing to be surprised about."

Jiang Ning’s star-like eyes were as calm as a deep pool, her voice melodious as she continued: "What did surprise me was his decisiveness in killing the ape king’s cub. This shows he truly has great confidence and isn't afraid of provoking an Ape King. Zhuang Yue, would you dare to kill the sixth-generation descendant of an Ape King?"

Zhuang Yue replied: "There are many sixth-generation descendants of Ape Kings, but there is only one sixth-generation descendant with a 'Hundred Veins All-Silver' body. In Li Prefecture, I would weigh the consequences repeatedly and could not be so decisive. If it were in the Central Plains' Ten Prefectures, then it wouldn't matter!"

"If even you wouldn't dare, what is his source of confidence?" Jiang Ning asked.

Zhuang Yue said: "Perhaps he is just a reckless hothead."

"Based on his performance on the ship, do you think he is a reckless person?" Jiang Ning’s gaze remained fixed on the blurry shadow currently engaging the two Five Seas realm experts.

Even the stealth power of a high-grade artifact night-traveling suit could not deceive her wise and intelligent magic-power eyes.

Jiang Ning said: "A very good opportunity to recruit him. Once he is at a disadvantage, you go and save him. I must make use of this person; in the Thirty-Three Li Mountains, only he can be invincible."

She did not believe that Li Youyi, at the Spring-Gushing realm, possessed the ability to break the current crisis. Crossing major realms was not that easy, and the Five Seas realm experts before them were no lightweights.

The leopard-like deformed Wu Xiu came from the Coffin Sea Pavilion, his cultivation at the first stage of the Five Seas realm.

Clearly, with his cultivation, he had not yet come into contact with the secrets of the Coffin Sea Pavilion's upper echelons. Therefore, every claw technique he unleashed was incomparably ruthless, intended to put Li Youyi to death.

After entering stealth, Li Youyi completely occupied the upper hand, beating him into a steady retreat.

Even with the speed boost from the high-grade artifact, the leopard-like Five Seas realm expert could not keep up, and soon he took two palms from Li Youyi. These two palms were heavier than he imagined, causing blood to spill from his mouth and nose.

"Swish!"

An electric arrow flew over, forcing Li Youyi back.

The leopard-like deformed Wu Xiu finally caught his breath and roared: "He is wearing a high-grade artifact battle suit! It not only boosts defense and speed but also grants stealth; I am no match for him. Where is the Great Thought Master? Hurry and break his stealth!"

The Sui Sect Great Thought Master, who was guarding the riverbank, struck together with an insect-controller from the Three Chen Palace.

"I will illuminate his stealth."

The short and stout Great Thought Master revealed a smile, and from the spiritual realm between his eyebrows, a piercing brilliance bloomed as six runes flew out in succession.

Under the control of his thought power, the runes flew from six different directions toward Li Youyi’s approximate location.

"Bang!"

The first rune exploded, the spiritual light illuminating several miles around, lingering for a long time.

The stealthy Li Youyi was immediately revealed in the spiritual light; his human silhouette was visible, with nowhere to hide.

"Swish!"

The crow-like deformed human locked onto Li Youyi with his battle intent and fired an electric arrow. At the same time, he dove downward, stowed his battle bow, drew a two-foot short sword, and attacked.

Li Youyi borrowed the speed of the high-grade artifact night-traveling suit, his feet stepping on trails of light as he broke the lock and avoided the lethal arrow.

Following that, he reached his palm out into the void.

He actually intended to catch the crow-like deformed human's short sword with his bare hands.

"You are too ignorant! To catch a sword with your hand—even an expert at the second stage of the Five Seas realm wouldn't have the guts."

"Ssh!"

The crow-like deformed human mobilized the magic Qi in his Qi sea, and the short sword began to burn.

Li Youyi’s right arm and palm turned into phantoms, as if there were countless hands reaching out together. He was executing the "Spirit Treasure Snatch" from the Chan Gate's Twelve Scattered Hands, which had already reached the level of Heavenly Dao Law-Harmony.

The short sword in the crow-like deformed Five Seas realm Wu Xiu’s hand was snatched away in an instant.

Just as he was dazed, Li Youyi had already backhanded the sword and slashed.

"Pfft!"

Hand rose and sword fell.

In a single encounter, the head of this deformed Five Seas realm expert was sent flying.

The headless corpse, possessing a pair of broad black wings, fell heavily to the ground.

The leopard-like deformed Five Seas realm Wu Xiu saw this scene and felt inexplicable terror. He felt that Li Youyi using a sword was actually even stronger than when he used a blade.

Li Youyi held the short sword, pursuing the leopard-like deformed Wu Xiu while keeping an eye on the entire battlefield.

The most dangerous battlefield was undoubtedly where Yao Yin and Hidden Twenty-Five were; the enemies were all Nine Springs Supremes, and some were even Nine Springs Supreme Pure Immortal Bodies. Five or six of the Nine Li tribe’s Seven Springs and Eight Springs Wu Xiu had already died.

At this moment, he could no longer worry about potentially exposing his identity.

He took an insect tube from inside his night-traveling suit and released the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors inside.

Three attacked the leopard-like deformed human.

Four attacked the Sui Sect Great Thought Master by the river.

Li Youyi finally freed his hands and charged toward the group of Nine Springs Supremes.

The Nine Springs Supreme of the Tianyi Gate, "Su Yunqing," was in her early twenties; although not a Pure Immortal Body, she possessed beauty that was the pinnacle among mortals, and a proud figure that young girls like Li Ling and Yao Yin did not possess.

She mobilized her Ancestral Field magic Qi, swung her battle sword, and went all out to block the short sword Li Youyi slashed at her.

"Bang!"

The battle sword in Su Yunqing’s hand was instantly knocked away.

The web between her thumb and forefinger, where she gripped the sword, was bleeding profusely.

Her face turned pale with fright, and she fled, only then realizing how terrifying the person who could cleave the Ape King’s sixth-generation descendant was.

Li Youyi pursued closely and pressed a palm against her chest. Her ribs snapped with a crackling sound, her chest collapsed completely, and her tall, graceful body was broken.

As the saying goes, when flowers are ready to be plucked, pluck them.

With all the bones in her body broken, she was naturally dead in an instant.

The Sui Sect Great Thought Master standing by the river never expected the opponent to be an insect-controller as well. He hurriedly manipulated the four runes in the sky to intercept the four flying Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors.

The only remaining rune flew toward Li Youyi.

"Whoosh!"

The rune landed on his body.

Li Youyi was unable to move, immobilized.

Huo Zhanbai, the Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body cultivated by the Three Chen Palace, knew that the rune could only immobilize Li Youyi for a moment. Therefore, he seized this rare opportunity, bypassed the crowd, and struck his chest with a heavy punch.

"Bang!"

This Heavenly Dao Law-Harmony Heart-Destroying Punch would have killed or severely wounded even a first-stage Five Seas realm Wu Xiu if struck. The heart was the most fragile organ for all Wu Xiu.

The turn of events was too fast; Yao Yin and Hidden Twenty-Five could not rescue him in time and were desperately rushing toward the direction of Li Youyi and Huo Zhanbai.

Although Li Youyi’s body could not move, the magic power and magic Qi within his body could still circulate, and they all surged toward the corpse-cloth soft armor he wore close to his skin.

This corpse-cloth soft armor was obtained on the bronze warship.

On the soft armor, there was a blood-handprint, and within the handprint existed countless scriptures.

Li Youyi’s cultivation had reached Nine Springs; under the mobilization of his Ancestral Field magic Qi, the blood-handprint on the corpse-cloth soft armor exuded wisps of blood mist, which quickly transformed into a cloud of blood that enveloped him.

Zhuang Yue, in the distance, saw this scene and was even more shocked than when she saw Li Youyi kill a Five Seas realm expert with a single sword, saying: "Miss, this person is not quite right! He hides a great secret."

On the other battlefield.

"Rustle!"

The elderly Three Chen Palace insect-controller released a swarm of iron-eating ants from his insect bag.

The iron-eating ants were only the size of rice grains, but their numbers were massive, like an army of thousands crossing the border, surging toward the light-gauze formation protecting the two hundred young Nine Li tribe Wu Xiu.

"Bang!"

Wang Daozhen swung his formation-splitting whip, striking fiery cracks into the light gauze.

The iron-eating ants then drilled through the cracks; immediately, several screams came from inside the light gauze, and it became chaotic, the formation collapsing as a result.

The two hundred young Wu Xiu were completely exposed.

Wang Daozhen finally breathed a sigh of relief; using the formation-splitting whip continuously had consumed a huge amount of magic Qi within his body. He said: "The hunt begins. Leave none alive; slaughter the younger generation of the Nine Li tribe."

"Boom!"

He struck first, the thick magic Qi of the second stage of the Five Seas realm sweeping out from his sleeves, knocking nine young Wu Xiu of the Six Springs and Seven Springs realms flying, all of them bleeding from their seven orifices and dying on the spot.

Wang Daozhen was able to come here with the cultivation of the second stage of the Five Seas realm because he wore the Nine-Rune Treasure Garment, which could to some extent resist the dangerous, mysterious energy between heaven and earth. At the same time, in Yang Qingxi’s view, it was necessary to have such an expert sitting in command to be sufficiently secure.

Huo Zhanbai’s screams came from afar; Wang Daozhen, intending to start a massacre, hurriedly looked into the mist, only to discover that several experts on his side had already fallen.

"What a bunch of trash! Two Five Seas realm experts and one Great Thought Master, and they couldn't take down one Spring-Gushing realm Wu Xiu."

Wang Daozhen was speechless; a crushing victory had turned into such heavy losses. He stepped on magic Qi, held the ten-foot-long formation-splitting whip, and charged over.

On the other side, Huo Zhanbai had punched Li Youyi in the chest, but was instead shaken back repeatedly by the blood-Qi mist surging from Li Youyi’s body, his arm going numb.

Yao Yin and Hidden Twenty-Five, who had rushed over quickly, entangled him for several rounds. Li Youyi broke free from the suppression of the immobilization rune, his figure as fast as a series of afterimages, and struck Huo Zhanbai flying with a single palm.

Huo Zhanbai fell to the ground with a scream, blood gushing from his mouth, unable to crawl up again.

"Pfft!"

Hidden Twenty-Five slashed his head off with a sword and snorted coldly: "With only the strength of ninety trace-veins, the Three Chen Palace dares to call you a seed of inheritance? Only a Hundred Veins All-Silver body has that qualification!"

Li Youyi locked his gaze on the rapidly approaching Wang Daozhen; enemies meeting are especially jealous. He whispered: "Stop talking nonsense! Hurry and escort the young Nine Li tribe Wu Xiu and Thought Masters toward the direction of Burial Immortal Town. Only after crossing the boundary of the true Five Seas realm will it be relatively safe. I will hold off all the Five Seas realm experts and Great Thought Masters here alone!"

"The boundary of the true Five Seas realm?"

Hidden Twenty-Five’s eyes were surprised, but he understood everything in a flash, his admiration for Li Youyi deepening. Afterward, he rushed toward the group of young cultivators and roared: "Run outward, you won't escape. Run inward—that is the path to survival."

Didn't sleep well last night, today is just right!