Chapter 114: That Man Has Returned

"Bang! Bang..."

Accompanied by the roaring sound of hooves, four sounds of bowstrings vibrating rang out in the mist.

The white mist surged, the wind force biting.

Four artifact arrows containing thunder and lightning power whistled past, heading straight for Hidden Twenty-Five ahead.

Hidden Twenty-Five had remarkable movement techniques, dodging all four arrows. But this delay caused his flight to lose speed, and a yellow figure wearing broad monk robes flew up from the back of his mount in the white mist behind, like a large bird flying in the sky, landing in front of Hidden Twenty-Five and cutting off his path.

"Rumble!"

The nine riders behind quickly surrounded them, dust flying.

They rode giant healthy horses, their bodies full of killing intent, magic Qi overflowing. The horses' heads were like lion heads, their fur entirely cyan, exceptionally majestic, clearly having drunk the blood of exotic beasts.

The nine people on the horses were all of Eight Springs cultivation, wearing monk robes.

Five held long-handled battle blades, four held bows and carried arrows.

The mutant Wu Xiu with wings who intercepted Hidden Twenty-Five was the most powerful, a Supreme who had opened the Nine Springs Ancestral Field. He wore bright yellow monk robes and held a heavy artifact battle blade.

The Nine Springs monk-robe Wu Xiu's wings were constantly flapping, his left hand forming a Dharma-preaching seal, saying: "Amitabha! The Five Seas Realm experts of the Sui Sect and Three Chen Palace are guarding the boundary; if you flee back, the killing intent there is even greater. Hand over the exotic medicine, and this monk will spare your life; those who practice Buddhism absolutely keep their word."

Hidden Twenty-Five gripped his battle sword tightly, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and gritted his teeth, scanning the surroundings: "Your Coffin Mountain is truly insatiable. The nine great tribes make tribute to that taboo every year, hoping to exchange it for peace. I didn't expect that those tributes couldn't satisfy your appetite at all, and you actually colluded with the Four Great Sects. What, you also want to carve up Lizhou?"

In the mist, a voice sounded: "You, a dignified Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body, why so much nonsense? What logic is there to speak with a Buddha-deceiving thief?"

Li Youyi no longer stayed invisible, appearing seven zhang away, his figure standing tall and outstanding.

In a Night-Walking Suit, blurry and mysterious.

Seeing Li Youyi, Hidden Twenty-Five was overjoyed and said: "You don't know, these ten people are elites carefully selected from the Buddha-deceiving thief Iron Arhat Army, and they have taken dyed-mist exotic medicine; all have stepped into the Eight Springs Wind Mansion, each with remarkable battle techniques. Ten people combined, without borrowing formation scripts, can surround and fight a powerhouse at the first realm of the Five Seas Realm."

"You can't beat them, I will fight."

Li Youyi took out the Evil Camel Bell, mobilized his Ancestral Field magic Qi to inject into it, and shook his wrist.

"Clang, clang!"

The bell sound rang out, and everyone felt as if they were in a vast desert of yellow sand.

Li Youyi was still very difficult to control at the moment, so the evil thoughts released by the Evil Camel Bell were indiscriminate attacks, appearing in the minds of the ten Buddha-deceiving thieves and Hidden Twenty-Five. Their heads felt as if they had turned into a bell, being shaken continuously, ringing without stop, their consciousness dim, negative emotions constantly growing.

"Boom!"

A giant camel, half-virtual and half-real, rushed out from the Evil Camel Bell, its four hooves running fast, its head held high, knocking the nine riders of the Iron Arhat Army into a heap.

It was like a fast-moving iron mountain, impacting them.

After falling to the ground, four people died on the spot.

Li Youyi unleashed his movement technique, stepping on flowing light, and after changing positions five times, the remaining five were also killed.

The whole process was done in one go, taking only two breaths of time.

Hidden Twenty-Five and that Nine Springs Buddha-practitioner were stunned there, the two of them feeling as if their heads were stuck, briefly losing the ability to think.

That Nine Springs Buddha-practitioner gasped, as if seeing a ghost, and immediately flapped his wings, wanting to fly into the sky and flee.

"Truly, the fortunes of the world turn."

Hidden Twenty-Five was only a zhang away from him, stomping his feet, magic Qi exploding from the soles of his feet, his body leaping three zhang high. He slashed out with his sword, forcing him back to the ground.

"I am a disciple of the Extinction Truth; you Li clan dare to kill me, do you know the consequences?" The Nine Springs Buddha-practitioner roared.

He felt an unprecedented death crisis, his heart full of fear, swinging his artifact long blade, fighting and retreating with Hidden Twenty-Five, just wanting to stay away from that killing god holding the bell.

"So what if you are a disciple of the Extinction Truth? He even dares to kill the Ape King's sixth-generation descendant."

Hidden Twenty-Five's combat power was much higher than the Nine Springs Buddha-practitioner's; after only ten rounds of dueling, he had already left three sword wounds on his body.

Li Youyi was looting the corpses on the ground, taking away one money bag after another.

The four sets of artifact bows and arrows naturally would not be let go, all packed into the inner space of the Evil Camel Bell.

Seeing Hidden Twenty-Five unable to take down that Nine Springs Buddha-practitioner for a long time, Li Youyi sighed and had to take out a set of bows and arrows.

The bow and arrowheads were all forged from dense metal, heavy to the touch.

The bowstring was a silver thread.

He nocked an arrow to the bowstring.

Li Youyi mobilized magic Qi, injecting it into the bow and arrow respectively, slowly pulling.

"Shhh, shhh!"

The silver light emitted by the bowstring became brighter and brighter. On the arrowhead, countless earthworm-like electric patterns appeared.

It was not very easy; relying only on physical strength, he could not pull it into a full moon.

Under the blessing of magic Qi, his arms exploded with ten thousand jin of force, pulling it to a full moon, and shot an arrow.

"Boom!"

The Nine Springs Buddha-practitioner's body was shot apart by an arrow, flesh and blood exploding, splashing Hidden Twenty-Five's face.

Li Youyi examined the black treasure bow in his hand, as if having obtained a treasure: "So, the power of artifact bows and arrows is so great; I see it is enough to threaten Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu."

Hidden Twenty-Five was covered in blood, not lightly injured, and hurried over: "Artifact bows and arrows are inherently more dangerous than other artifacts of the same grade. Those four Eight Springs Wu Xiu couldn't pull a full moon at all and couldn't exert their true power. Being qualified to wear them was just because the environment of Burial Xianzhen required it, allowing them to possess enough strength to come in and pick exotic medicine."

Li Youyi carried the bow and arrow tube on his back, quite dissatisfied with his performance: "Having transformed into a Pure Immortal Body, you couldn't crush a Nine Springs mutant. Your ability makes me very disappointed."

Hidden Twenty-Five said: "Every Nine Springs Supreme is not simple; except for you, how could it be so easy to be solved in two or three moves at the same realm? Give me ten more moves, and I will surely slay him."

Li Youyi lifted the artifact battle blade of that Nine Springs Buddha-practitioner; it was very heavy, nearly two meters long, and said: "I don't want to hear explanations. Grind your battle techniques more in Burial Xianzhen. If you can practice ten or eight moves of Heavenly Dao Law-Convergence, isn't killing Wu Xiu at the same realm just a matter of lifting a hand?"

Hidden Twenty-Five smiled bitterly, not explaining further, silently listening to the lecture.

Moves are hard to practice.

At his age, ten or eight moves—being able to practice one or two moves was already a heaven-sent talent.

"Where is the exotic medicine?" Li Youyi asked.

Hidden Twenty-Five hurriedly took out the three wooden boxes containing the dyed-mist exotic medicine from his bosom.

Li Youyi opened the wooden boxes to look, immediately looking at him with new eyes, and laughed: "Not bad, in just a few days, you actually picked three stalks of dyed-mist exotic medicine."

Hidden Twenty-Five said: "After the internal space of Burial Xianzhen expanded, many exotic medicines were born, making them much easier to pick than before. This is also the reason why young Wu Xiu from the entire Southern Region and even further away were attracted."

"Opening the Wind Mansion, opening the Ancestral Field, breaking through the Five Seas, Pure Immortal Body transformation—all are enough to make any force value them."

"These three stalks of mine, one was picked by myself. The other two were seized from the Buddha-deceiving thieves."

Li Youyi said: "Then you deserve to be pursued; why rob others of exotic medicine?"

"I broke out of the encirclement, preparing to rush back to Yao Guan City to report. The exotic medicine was just seized along the way."

Hidden Twenty-Five's expression was grave, and he added: "Although Five Seas Realm experts cannot come here, the Four Great Sects don't know what benefits they promised to forces outside the province, gathering a large number of Gushing Spring Realm experts to deal with us, and many forces participated. The ten riders of the Buddha-deceiving thieves were the strongest branch."

Li Youyi's expression tightened: "Wang Daozhen and the others mostly still guard the boundary of the Five Seas Realm; you can't get past. Go, follow me and kill our way back."

"Rumble!"

The two rode the lion-headed healthy horses, galloping downstream along the river.

"These three stalks of dyed-mist exotic medicine, keep them with me first; it's safer. I will bring them back to the Hidden Sect and hand them to the Hidden Lord. Without the Hidden Sect's cost-no-object cultivation, there couldn't be a Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body like you; learn to be grateful."

Li Youyi put away the wooden boxes and added: "It is best you don't leak a single word about the secrets on my body."

Hidden Twenty-Five didn't care about those three stalks of exotic medicine; after all, if Li Youyi hadn't acted just now, whether he could break out of the encirclement was a very suspenseful unknown.

It was Li Youyi's warning words that made him recall the strange power erupted by that bell earlier, his heart feeling both respectful and fearful, only feeling that this future Hidden God was truly unfathomable.

The further downstream, the brighter the white mist.

Strands of brilliant Immortal Mist shuttled through the mist, the field of vision gradually becoming open.

From afar, Li Youyi had already heard the earth-shaking sounds of fighting.

The two lion-headed healthy horses rushed up the hillside, reining in and stopping abruptly, the horses neighing and hooves raising.

Li Youyi mobilized magic power into his eyes, looking toward the red-earth wilderness below the hillside.

Only to see dust flying there, hundreds of Wu Xiu fighting in chaos, countless corpses on the ground, blades and weapons colliding, artifact brilliance constantly clashing together.

The Li clan had the numerical advantage, but enemies were everywhere, and the lowest cultivation was Seven Springs Wu Xiu.

Looking at the enemies' clothing and gathering methods, one could judge they came from more than ten forces.

This was a very dangerous signal!

Seeing one spot, one knows the whole picture.

The Four Great Sects rebelled, and the Li clan Hidden Sect could provide a bottom line. But if they offered benefits and invited more forces to participate in this feast of carving up Lizhou, the Li clan Hidden Sect might not be able to hold on.

Li Youyi successively found Cai Yutong and Gao Huan; they were Pure Immortal Bodies, their cultivation time still short, so they were protected in the center.

Yao Yin stood alone at the very front, fighting more than ten martial arts experts by herself, four of whom were Nine Springs Supremes.

Although her figure was thin and slight, she contained infinite energy, magic Qi turning into wind, her sleeves like flags, one person fighting a group, and from time to time, Wu Xiu were killed by her palms.

"What a fierce girl, her combat power is actually so remarkable; wouldn't she be a Hundred Veins All-Silver Pure Immortal Body?"

"So what if she is strong? The four of us combined, even a successor seed can be killed."

"Capture her alive; she is a Pure Immortal Body, her skin better than snow, her legs long and straight, just at the age of budding. Haha!"

The four Nine Springs Supremes besieging Yao Yin were none of them weaklings; they were leaders of Gushing Spring Realm from four million-level forces, their combat techniques high, their moves seasoned.

"Yao Yin took the exotic medicine she picked three days ago and broke through to Nine Springs. She should be a Hundred Veins Pure Immortal Body; although not yet all-silver, her combat power has already surpassed me by a large margin."

"Bang!"

Hidden Twenty-Five used the sword hilt to fiercely pat the horse's butt, riding down the hill, bringing a trail of smoke and dust, killing toward the wilderness battlefield, shouting: "Brother Sima Tan has come! Brother Sima Tan has returned! He is not dead!"

The three words "Brother Sima Tan" had great deterrent power.

The various Wu Xiu on the wilderness all looked toward the black-clothed figure riding on the horse at the top of the hillside, some surprised, some wary.

The young Li clan Wu Xiu were naturally overjoyed, shouting the name "Brother Sima Tan."

Besieged by multiple forces, they had originally lost all confidence, fighting with the mentality of "kill one to break even, kill a pair to make a profit." But as that man returned, everything was different; their confidence exploded, their fighting spirit vigorous.

Only Gao Huan in the crowd felt a sense of nausea; this same name made him very depressed.

Why call it anything else, but had to be called Brother Sima Tan.

"How could he still be alive?"

Yang Yun was very depressed, clearly having heard Wang Daozhen say Brother Sima Tan was dead, letting them hunt freely.

Could this one before him be a spirit?

Li Youyi bent his bow and nocked an arrow.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Five arrows shot in succession, one arrow for one person.

The more than ten Wu Xiu experts besieging Yao Yin immediately had five people explode, turning into broken corpses and flesh.

The power of the arrowheads was too great; once hit, it was hard to leave a whole corpse.

Yao Yin saw the group of besiegers stop, only then relaxing, her slightly raised chest heaving, gasping for breath. Those cyan gem-like eyes looked toward Li Youyi on the mountaintop, her eye sockets red, happy to the point of tears.

She truly thought Li Youyi had already died in the siege of the Four Great Sects' Five Seas Realm cultivators.

"Don't be afraid of him; how strong can he be? Come a few people, strike with me."

A Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body from outside the province, unlike Yang Yun, was not afraid of "Brother Sima Tan," quickly gathering more than ten Wu Xiu, each fast as an afterimage, rushing toward the top of the hillside.

The weakest of their cultivation was the Seven Springs realm, and there were three Nine Springs Supremes.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 115 =====