Chapter 117: The Ancient Town That Cannot Be Reached

"I have an artifact, I have!"

An Eight Springs Wu Xiu was overjoyed, took off his artifact saber, and seeing Li Youyi nod, immediately ran away frantically without looking back.

A Seven Springs Wu Xiu searched his body for a long time, crying and saying: "I only have five hundred Gushing Spring coins; who can lend me some? Let me gather three thousand Gushing Spring coins to buy my life; after I go out, I will surely take good care of your wives and daughters."

"Get lost, you only have five hundred Gushing Spring coins, what are you thinking? I have two blood crystals, which can be worth two thousand Gushing Spring coins; who can lend me some? We can't all die here, right?"

"I have a Five Seas Pill; can it be used to buy my life?"

Li Youyi's eyes became brighter and brighter; these peak Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu had hidden many good things. His face remained cold, saying faintly: "As long as it is something of value, gather thirty thousand silver coins, or three thousand Gushing Spring coins, and you can buy your life. I am a person who keeps his word."

Everyone knew that borrowing money was never an easy thing; it required strength.

People with strength could not pay back the money.

Soon, four Seven Springs Wu Xiu from the same force fought together.

In the end, only one person survived. He gathered all the treasures and money bags together, delivered them into Li Youyi's hands, and then dragged his heavily injured body away, limping. Whether he would encounter the Spirit-Passing Evil Demons or be able to return to Yao Guan City alive would depend entirely on his fate.

Li Youyi smiled bitterly: "I just wanted to kill as few people as possible; I didn't expect to make it even more cruel. How about this, just rob everyone who flees later, and let them all go!"

"Human nature is just like this; in order to live, they can do anything. When they were hunting the young Li clan Wu Xiu, they didn't think at all about how cruel they were. The Li clan had no grievances with them!" Yao Yin's hatred was clearly stronger than Li Youyi's.

"Fine, the rest will be left to you; the price is still the old rule."

Li Youyi glanced at Wang Daozhen in the distance, but still couldn't help asking: "If you take out one hundred thousand Gushing Spring coins, I can spare your life."

Wang Daozhen gritted his teeth and sneered, took two steps back, and turned to rush toward the direction of Yao Guan City.

With one Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu after another returning, the situation here could not be hidden at all. No matter how unwilling, how panicked, and how afraid he was, he had to rush back to report first.

Thinking of a good explanation might still give him a path to life.

Li Youyi found a place with higher terrain and flat ground to sit and heal.

Amidst the sound of footsteps.

Another group of fleeing peak Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu arrived at the boundary of the Five Seas Realm, all very excited, thinking they had finally escaped death.

The nine Clan Heads of the Li clan had been waiting at a place about a hundred li from the boundary of the Five Seas Realm, either sitting in meditation, closing their eyes to rest, or feeling anxious and uneasy.

For five days, only cultivators kept going in, but no cultivators returned.

This was too abnormal!

Li Songlin carried his hands behind his back, pacing back and forth on the two-zhang-wide road along the river, saying: "I feel something happened! Hurry!"

The Beast Li Clan Head said: "Perhaps the internal space of Burial Xianzhen has expanded, and a large amount of exotic medicine has appeared, so everyone is reluctant to come out and is busy picking medicine."

The Medicine Li Clan Head Yao Xingyue said: "Brother Sima Tan is strong, but in the end, he is only one person; two fists are no match for four hands. How about this, you wait here, and I will return to Yao Guan City with Songlin to mobilize the army. If there is no news by the ninth day, don't worry about any rules, just march the army in directly."

Pieces of pure white snowflakes fell one after another, cold and beautiful.

"Xingyue, you still have such a fiery temper; the Li clan has an army, but does the Sui Sect not? The armies trained by the Three Chen Gong, Tianyi Sect, and Coffin Sea Pavilion—are they just for show?"

The opponent was still ten li away.

Yet the elegant and gentle voice rang in the ears of every Clan Head, like a soft whisper. This cultivation was simply shocking, and all nine Clan Heads changed color.

Yao Xingyue was the strongest among the nine Clan Heads and could be called the Nine Li Clan Head, his expression grave to the extreme: "He is stronger! Perhaps he can truly be as the rumors outside say, entering Longevity at the age of sixty."

Half an hour later, the carriage of the Sui Sect Clan Head Yao Qian traveled slowly amidst the wind and snow.

The road and the trees on both sides were all covered with a layer of snow.

Silver-horned deer pulled the carriage, no one driving, the carriage curtain tightly closed. Where the wheels rolled, two black tracks formed, stopping nine zhang away from the nine Clan Heads.

Meaning, respect one zhang for one person, courtesy first, then force.

Yao Xingyue had already stood up from his meditation: "Even you have come personally; it seems the Four Great Sects' actions this time will be more fierce than we estimated."

Inside the carriage, Yao Qian's voice came out: "This battle will come sooner or later; don't we all know it clearly in our hearts?"

"But you cooperating with the Earth Wolf King Army is inviting a wolf into the house. You know the style of the barbarian thieves burning, killing, and looting," Yao Xingyue said.

Fourteen years ago, before the Four Great Sects showed their fangs, the relationship between the two sides was harmonious. Yao Xingyue and Yao Qian were even close friends; at least Yao Xingyue regarded the other as his best friend at the time.

Yao Qian said indifferently, "The Nine Li clan pays tribute to the Fomen thieves every year; such cowardly support of thieves, is it really worth it? Xingyue, decay and obsolescence should be toppled. What a chaotic world needs is progress, not cowering for temporary peace. The process of success is not important; whether borrowing the strength of the barbarian thieves or the power of the demon clan, any price is worth paying. On the day I succeed, there will naturally be Su Sect disciples to write books and biographies for me, praising my achievements and singing my praises for a thousand autumns."

Li Songlin snorted coldly: "Yao Qian, you truly have a talent for sophistry! You want to build a thousand-year achievement, but I fear your strength cannot support your ambition, and in the end, you will become a pawn for others to build their thousand-year achievement. Everyone wants to become a dragon; who is the true dragon?"

The Vessel Li Clan Head was a Pure Immortal Body man, summoning seven swords to fly around him: "Why argue right and wrong with him? Something must have happened at Burial Xianzhen; strike together and slay him today. We must mobilize the army as soon as possible; any later, I fear it will be too late!"

"Slay me? How could I have come alone?" Yao Qian said.

Rolling demon clouds surged from the wide Suihe.

The demon race Clan Head of Tianya Ridge came walking on the river with a mountain-like huge body, his momentum majestic, water waves surging to the sky, laughing: "It has been so many days, and you only reacted now; could it be that it is already too late?"

The Clan Heads of the Three Chen Gong, Tianyi Sect, and Coffin Sea Pavilion appeared one after another.

The Three Chen Gong Clan Head was a Pure Immortal Body palace-dressed woman, using an unimaginable method to stand in mid-air, as if merged with space. She laughed: "Now, it is your turn to consider whether you will be slain here by us!"

The nine Clan Heads of the Li clan all felt their hearts sink to the bottom. It was not that they were worried that the Clan Heads of the Four Great Sects and Tianya Ridge really dared to act here. After all, they also had backhands; if they really fought for their lives, no one would want to end up well.

They were worried about Burial Xianzhen.

It had been almost six days; what should have happened, perhaps had already happened.

Li Songlin was very worried about Cang Li, Li Ling, Li Youyi, and the others, his eyes icy: "They want to keep us here, nowhere to go. Fight; Yao Qian is right about one thing: the chaotic world needs progress, not ease."

Suddenly.

The sound of chaotic hooves rang out.

A team carrying corpses came from the direction of Burial Xianzhen.

Wang Daozhen, alone, covered in injuries, weak and exhausted, rode on the back of the healthy horse at the very front, arriving before the various Clan Heads.

"Bang!"

He fell sideways from the horse's back, supporting his severely injured body, kneeling and weeping as he reported to Yao Qian: "Clan Head... the sixth-generation descendant is dead, Yang Yun is dead, Chen Jingtang is dead, Master Liu is dead... We encountered the attack of two mysterious women; their cultivation was unfathomable... cough, cough, I also jumped into the boiling Suihe to luckily save my life."

On the way back, Wang Daozhen had already killed the few Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu who had seen him to silence them.

Wang Daozhen described the two mysterious women: "They fought fiercely, their hands ruthless; they must be people from the Li clan Hidden Sect."

"The sixth-generation descendant was cleaved to death by Brother Sima Tan with three blades; his strength is far stronger than everyone imagined. Killing a Nine Springs Supreme doesn't even take a second blade. The Gushing Spring Realm experts of the more than ten forces we united were killed until they were routed. It is only hateful that I could not cross the boundary of the Five Seas Realm, otherwise I would surely have slain him with my own hands."

The news Wang Daozhen brought back exceeded the expectations of all the Clan Heads present.

That demon race Clan Head laughed in extreme anger: "First killed the Law-Dao Fire Ape, then killed the successor seed of my Tianya Ridge's Hundred Veins All-Silver; even if he has a great demon from the extreme west Ash Region supporting him, this seat will also send him ten ways to die."

The Three Chen Gong Clan Head could no longer laugh, not because she cared about the deaths of Chen Jingtang and the others, but because she felt she had lost face.

Yao Qian did not get out of the carriage, but heard several flaws in Wang Daozhen's words, and his perception also discovered some clues on those corpses.

But at this time, how could he kill Wang Daozhen in anger and let the nine Clan Heads of the Li clan, who were already secretly happy, watch a joke?

He was silent for a moment, then praised: "Good, very good, the Li clan Hidden Sect has finally appeared; our plan can be considered a success! The Gushing Spring Realm battlefield has no meaning; the Five Seas Realm side is the key. How are your injuries?"

Wang Daozhen didn't expect that the usually wise Clan Head would be deceived by him today, and hurriedly said: "No matter... I... cough, cough... I can still fight for the sect..."

Yao Qian truly didn't want to look at him for even one more glance: "Since that is the case, hurry to the road of the Five Seas Realm cultivators and inform Qingxi and the others of the information about the two women of the Li clan Hidden Sect."

Some things, Wang Daozhen couldn't make up.

Yao Qian believed that there were indeed two mysterious and powerful women who appeared.

Whether they were people from the Li clan Hidden Sect or not, they were worth acting against and capturing.

After Wang Daozhen returned to Burial Xianzhen, the Beast Li Clan Head looked at the long horse team and the corpses on the horses, finally unable to hold back his loud laughter: "I thought your calculations were deep and your preparations were sufficient; I was worried for nothing. It seems your Gushing Spring Realm disciples died very miserably!"

Yao Qian said calmly: "If half of the Li clan's Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu can return alive, you can laugh again."

Li Youyi's injuries were healed, looking at the various items piled on the ground—dyed-mist exotic medicine, artifacts, blood crystals, pills, money bags... everything was there.

And in the distance, the corpses were also piled into a small mountain, all having killed each other to borrow money.

These people all wanted to borrow money and not pay it back, deserving to die.

For two hours, no fugitives had come; clearly, this way of making money by waiting for rabbits was not sustainable, unlike leeks, which could be cut batch after batch.

Li Youyi said: "You've worked hard! Pick whatever you like first."

Yao Yin had contributed a lot, and Li Youyi would not be stingy and not give her her share.

He was never a stingy person, just knowing how to be frugal and cherish.

Yao Yin shook her head gently, raising her palm: "Can I have these silver-thread gloves?"

"You truly know how to pick; their value is likely more expensive than this whole pile on the ground," Li Youyi knew that many artifacts required Five Seas Realm cultivation to exert their true power.

Artifacts themselves were used by Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu.

Yao Yin pouted her red lips, rarely showing a little girl's posture, coquettishly: "I practice palm techniques, so these gloves are too suitable for me; I don't want to have my palms pierced again in the future. If it really doesn't work, I'll buy them."

"Forget it! I still owe you a large amount of blood crystals, so consider it debt repayment!"

Li Youyi put all the treasures and money on the ground into the Evil Camel Bell, brought the Yang Yun with broken four limbs, and rode back to the Li clan Wu Xiu's camp with Yao Yin.

From the Li clan Wu Xiu's camp, one could see Burial Xianzhen shrouded in Immortal Mist from afar, earth walls and green tiles, houses like a forest.

About five or six li away.

In the town, a thick and bright pillar of light shot straight into the sky, illuminating all directions, which the mist could not cover. Those Immortal Mists seemed to be dissipating from the pillar of light, and also seemed to be overflowing from the town.

Yao Yin saw Li Youyi walking toward Burial Xianzhen and hurriedly chased after him: "You can't reach Burial Xianzhen! Looking from here, we seem to be only a few li away, but if you walk forward for a while, you will enter a vast, fairyland-like different space. It is as if the space here has been violently stretched; that is an ancient town that can no longer be reached."

Li Youyi had already seen the area of abnormal Immortal Mist ahead, a layer of chaotic-power air barrier separating him from Burial Xianzhen.

"Walk through this layer of air barrier, and you will enter the so-called Immortal Realm space?" Li Youyi asked curiously.

Yao Yin nodded: "But once you go in, you are likely to encounter Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu, or even Dao Seed Realm old monsters. The Immortal Realm space is chaotic, and Wu Xiu of all realms are picking medicine inside. Dao Seed Realm and Longevity Realm also have roads to enter the Immortal Realm space, in different directions from Gushing Spring Realm and Five Seas Realm."

Li Youyi immediately gave up the idea, temporarily suppressing the curiosity in his heart.

Anyway, the Li clan had plenty of Wu Xiu who dared to take risks to pick medicine; they didn't lack him.

"The Long Mountain Great Sacrifice is nine days; when the time is up, tell everyone not to rush back. The road back to Yao Guan City is likely very unsafe."

Having said this, Li Youyi found a place closest to Burial Xianzhen, took out the Spring-Breaking Needle, and immediately absorbed Immortal Mist, continuing to impact the Tenth Spring.

He didn't care about being known that he could absorb Immortal Mist; there might not be only him who could absorb Immortal Mist.

After all, so many medicinal herbs could absorb it.

Half a month flew by.

Li Youyi sat in meditation with his upper body exposed, Immortal Mist dissipating from the pores of every inch of his skin, heroic and handsome, not like a Pure Immortal Body, but more like a true immortal cultivating in the mortal world.

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