Chapter 120

The pages of the iron book were as thin as razor blades and had extremely high hardness.

They were cast from extremely dense metal; although they were like paper, they weighed several jin, and when they rotated and flew, they would form vortices of energy.

"Bang!"

A giant rock by the stream was hit, and like cutting tofu, it was instantly pierced through.

"A mid-grade magic item!"

Ape Sheng's eyes surged with shock, and it turned to flee rapidly.

Only a very small number of first and second-realm Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu possess mid-grade magic items. The reason Chen Jingtang could possess one was, first, because he was a Nine Springs breaking into the Five Seas, and his talent was not bad. Second, the battle of Burial Immortal Town was of great importance, and the iron book was bestowed by the elders of the Three Chen Gong.

Mid-grade magic items with such great power as the iron book cost nearly a hundred million, and their expensiveness is comparable to high-grade magic items.

Ape Sheng knew that it absolutely could not defend against the thirty-five pages, and the pursuer behind was also moving extremely fast; it was likely a second-realm Five Seas Realm figure. If it couldn't escape, it would soon be caught up.

There was only one way: rely on its strong physical body to resist, rush over, and fight with its life.

The harsh wind-breaking sound behind was getting closer.

Suddenly.

Demon energy sprayed out from the soles of Ape Sheng's feet, turning into a gray cloud, and its huge body weighing ten thousand jin suddenly jumped up, appearing more than twenty meters high, avoiding all the pages.

It raised its hammer in mid-air.

Although its body was sturdy, it was abnormally nimble. It turned and smashed toward Li Youyi below.

The battle hammer and the demon energy clouds caused most of the flying iron book pages to collapse. Only a few pages slashed toward it, but they were temporarily blocked by the demon energy shrouding its whole body.

"Must severely injure him within ten moves, otherwise it will be hard to escape death today."

Ape Sheng was not comparable to those Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu; it possessed a fierce combat intent to fight to the death, and the timing of its strike was just right. This hammer strike even fused combat intent, locking onto Li Youyi's energy.

"This big guy has high intelligence! Life forms that can cultivate to the second realm of the Five Seas Realm are indeed not simple."

Li Youyi felt the existence of combat intent for the first time.

The most intuitive feeling was that it caused a constraint on his thinking and consciousness level.

It was as if a voice kept telling him: "You cannot dodge, you cannot dodge, you will be killed by this hammer, you are dead!"

Wu Xiu who cannot resist combat intent are likely to have their will disintegrate and collapse, and can only wait for death. The first-realm Five Seas Realm human Wu Xiu who was killed by Ape Sheng's hammer earlier likely encountered the same predicament.

It was not just suppression of spirit and intent.

More realistically, it was as if invisible walls appeared in all directions, pressing down on Li Youyi, locking, pulling, and suppressing his physical body.

A spiritual light flame appeared between Li Youyi's brows, using mental power to resist this combat intent. His footsteps shifted, his figure drifted like the wind, and he landed a zhang away in an instant.

"Boom!"

The battle hammer smashed into the ground, forming a giant collapsed pit.

The strong demon energy that erupted around the giant pit turned into wind energy, impacting Li Youyi's body.

Li Youyi was not scared by the opponent's ferocity; instead of retreating, he advanced, his figure leaping, taking the opportunity to strike with the Heavenly Dao Law Convergence loose hand technique, the Heaven-Turning Palm Seal.

"It's not a clash of combat intent, but escaping my combat intent lock with mental power. Could it be... he is not a second-realm Five Seas Realm, but just a first-realm Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu?"

The pressure in Ape Sheng's heart was greatly reduced, and it secretly guessed that the invisibility cloak on the opponent was likely also a mid-grade magic item, or even a high-grade one. The opponent relied on the power of the magic item to surpass it in speed.

It thought he must be a heaven-gifted prodigy cultivated by a major force, a Nine Springs breaking into the Five Seas.

After opening the tenth spring, the grade of magic power improved, and the Heaven-Turning Palm Seal that Li Youyi unleashed showed miraculous changes.

The Heavenly Dao Law Convergence manifested concretely.

"Sizzle, sizzle!"

Wisps of bright magic power surged from his palms, weaving into a square Heaven-Turning Divine Seal the size of a millstone.

There were blurred secret texts on the bottom of the seal, and a phantom of a coiled dragon on the body of the seal.

Ape Sheng struck with a fist the size of a water vat to meet the enemy, surprised by the light of this miraculous seal, but thinking it was a light shadow erupted from a magic item, it didn't take it too seriously.

"Boom!"

The human and the demon, whose body sizes differed by more than ten times, exploded backward at the same time.

"This kid has such strong power! That divine seal light shadow just now, wouldn't it be a high-grade magic item?"

Ape Sheng was secretly shocked, more convinced that Li Youyi was a supreme prodigy of the first realm of the Five Seas Realm, carrying heavy weapons, so it waved its battle hammer and attacked with big strides.

"So the power of the Chan Sect's Twelve Loose Hands is so powerful. The combat power erupted with bare hands is even stronger than using magic items."

Li Youyi looked at his palms, shocked by his own strength for a moment.

Martial arts cultivation seems to have become more mysterious and magical.

Seeing Ape Sheng rushing over with a hammer like a mountain, with a vigorous momentum, he decided to test the power of the Heaven-Turning Palm Seal again. This time, he not only mobilized magic power but also mobilized the Immortal Mist in the Divine Palace.

"Whoosh!"

Stepping into a bow stance, he struck with one palm. Under the flow and interweaving of wisps of magic power and Immortal Mist, the millstone-sized Heaven-Turning Ancient Seal was condensed again, brighter than before, containing Immortal light and Dao essence.

"Boom!"

Ape Sheng retreated, as if it had been smashed by a stone mountain.

Its hands were shaken with pain, demon blood flowed from the web between its thumb and forefinger, and the battle hammer almost flew out of its hand when it collided with the divine seal light shadow just now.

Li Youyi stood in place, his feet sunk into the mud by the explosive force transmitted from the battle hammer. His heart was excited, his fighting spirit was high, and he shouted: "Come again!"

His legs rose from the ground, rushing up. While controlling the thirty-five iron book pages, he once again unleashed the Heaven-Turning Palm Seal, carefully feeling the mystery within.

Several miles away, a figure wrapped in magic power was rushing on the grassland.

Standing still under a giant black tree on the top of the hill, with an upright figure, it was Wang Daozhen, a top-three powerhouse of the younger generation of the Su Sect Wang family.

Like Ape Sheng, he was ordered to guard here, must capture "Sima Tan."

Wang Daozhen recognized the iron book and the Night-Walking Cloak, knowing that the person fighting Ape Sheng must be "Sima Tan," and was shocked in his heart: "This is breaking into the Five Seas Realm? Just broken through, and he can actually suppress Ape Sheng in speed and power. This kid is really a martial arts anomaly."

"He is Sima Tan!"

Wang Daozhen shouted a reminder, then rode the wind and controlled the energy, rushing toward the battlefield with big strides.

"He is Sima Tan?"

Ape Sheng was dizzy from Li Youyi's strange palm seal. Hearing Wang Daozhen's reminder, just as it was surprised, a piece of iron book page finally broke its demon energy defense and slashed into its chest.

The chest muscles were cut open, blood flowed, and the pain was unbearable.

Seeing Wang Daozhen appear, Li Youyi no longer held the mentality of practicing and testing palms, but went all out to attack, seeking a quick victory.

After Li Ling killed the Lynx Demon, she arrived nearby, her eyes deep and dark, observing the palm seal Li Youyi had just unleashed.

Wang Daozhen appeared on the hill opposite her, a look of wariness appearing in his eyes, knowing that this sixteen-year-old genius girl was already in the Square-Inch Sky Fire Realm. To save Ape Sheng, he must pass her.

A melodious whistling sound came from far to near.

The Three Chen Gong Five Seas Realm powerhouse guarding this place, Chen Ying, wrapped five young Nine Li clan Wu Xiu with magic power clouds, walking from afar, forming a triangular confrontation with Wang Daozhen and Li Ling.

She looked to be about fifty years old, her eyes sharp, wearing a low-grade magic item level iron cloth battle suit.

After arriving, Chen Ying directly grabbed the arm of a thirteen or fourteen-year-old Gushing Spring Realm boy, and like throwing a stone, threw him toward Li Youyi and Ape Sheng, who were clashing dozens of zhang away.

At the same time, Wang Daozhen rushed down the hill rapidly, took out the Array-Splitting Whip, and killed toward Li Youyi.

Li Ling glanced at the battlefield, seeing that Ape Sheng was already bleeding profusely, so she didn't intend to get involved, looking at Chen Ying: "Are there only the three of you guarding here?"

"Are three not enough?"

Chen Ying was calm and composed, saying: "I know you are very strong, but I have four hostages here. Do you think saving people is faster, or killing people is faster?"

Below the hill, screams came.

Ape Sheng's face was hit by a palm, its skull cracked, and its body fell heavily.

Li Youyi looked at the Nine Li clan boy falling from the sky, and Wang Daozhen arriving with the whip, secretly admiring the four major sects' understanding and utilization of human weaknesses.

If Ape Sheng had persisted for one more breath, Li Youyi would have been trapped in the pincer attack of two second-realm Five Seas Realm powerhouses because of saving people.

"Clatter!"

Li Youyi took out the ghost flag, his figure flying off the ground gracefully.

Using the Nether Mist surging from the ghost flag, he wrapped the Nine Li clan boy.

Wang Daozhen looked at Li Youyi, who was still in mid-air, a cold smile of success in his eyes. After calculating his falling speed and position, he flew away, the Array-Splitting Whip waving and slashing in mid-air.

Without the suppression of that mysterious heaven and earth energy, he could finally go all out, and his combat power increased greatly.

The long whip's flames were blinding, causing the space to explode.

"Awoo!"

A dragon roar resounded through the mountains.

Only to see, Li Youyi, who should have fallen back to the ground, had a yellow dragon phantom more than ten zhang long on his body, stepping on the void, actually ascending to the sky step by step.

Li Youyi himself was startled by the dragon roar.

He was just unleashing "Huang Long Ascending to Heaven," so why did a dragon shadow appear?

His body stepped in the void, as if stepping on the back of a rapidly flying yellow dragon, every step being several zhang away.

When he landed on the ground, he had already gone from the foot of the mountain to the top of the hill, appearing beside Li Ling. Only Wang Daozhen, with a shocked and bewildered face, remained standing by the stream with his whip.

Li Ling's big eyes blinked, quite surprised: "What kind of method is this?"

"Perhaps... this is the true Heavenly Dao Law Convergence!"

Li Youyi hadn't figured it out yet, so he could only explain it this way, releasing the Nine Li clan boy from the ghost flag's wrapping.

Heavenly Dao Law Convergence refers to practicing moves to the point of fitting some wonderful laws between heaven and earth. The more it fits, the more mysterious it is, and the greater the power.

Other people's Heavenly Dao Law Convergence only touches a little bit of law traces. Li Youyi felt that he had practiced the Chan Sect's Twelve Loose Hands diligently for ten years, as one day, so he might have touched more, so the power was stronger, and the Dao essence manifested itself.

"Why do I feel that this is combat intent taking form?" Li Ling said.

A Wu Xiu's combat intent is almost all realized from the moves of Heavenly Dao Law Convergence, and then integrated with one's own essence, Qi, and spirit.

"Not quite like it, I haven't felt combat intent yet."

Li Youyi's gaze fell on the ruthless middle-aged woman on the opposite hill, the chill in his heart very strong, with a calm tone: "Are you still not saving people?"

Li Ling said: "It's not easy to save! Her killing is much faster than our saving."

"Do you want to be threatened by her, or see death and not save?" Li Youyi didn't want to choose either, using mental power transmission: "You are a Great Mental Master, directly use long-distance mental power attacks to restrain her and buy me time."

"A bit risky, but we can try, anyway there is no other way."

Li Ling pinched a finger seal, and a pillar of light connecting to the clouds in the sky rushed out from the top of her head. The spiritual light flame like mist erupted and expanded, instantly arriving at the opposite hill.

Earth Fire Realm, like the flames of the earth, can illuminate dozens of zhang around.

Sky Fire Realm, like a fire cloud in the sky, spiritual light can reach several miles away.

"Awoo!"

The dragon roar sounded again.

Li Youyi took this opportunity to unleash Huang Long Ascending to Heaven and rushed out. The magic power and Immortal Mist surging in his body were like fitting some kind of law in heaven and earth, automatically condensing into a yellow dragon that appeared and disappeared from time to time, heading straight for the top of the opposite hill dozens of zhang away.

Wang Daozhen stood by the stream at the foot of the mountain, looking at Li Youyi stepping on the dragon across the sky, his mind wavering, not sure if this was "Sima Tan."

How could a first-realm Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu be so heaven-defying?

Chen Ying had rich combat experience. The moment Li Ling launched the mental power attack, she immediately activated her combat intent to resist.

"Boom!"

Combat intent and magic power rushed out of her body together, forming a cloud that was almost human-shaped.

This is a manifestation of combat intent approaching form!

It is enough to see that Chen Ying's martial arts cultivation was far deeper than Ape Sheng and Wang Daozhen, already approaching the third realm of the Five Seas Realm.

Chen Ying knew she was definitely not Li Ling's opponent, and a great defeat was a foregone conclusion, so she prepared to retreat. But before retreating, she decided to kill all four Nine Li clan Wu Xiu behind her; she must make the enemy pay a price.

Glancing at Li Youyi, who was stepping on the air and riding the dragon, Chen Ying spread her arms, and countless magic power flying needles condensed between her hands, striking out like rain.

"While enduring the mental power attack of a Sky Fire Realm Great Mental Master, she can still unleash martial arts means?"

Li Youyi realized that the opponent was not simple, so he didn't dare to be careless, hurriedly injecting magic power and Immortal Mist into the Night-Walking Cloak with all his might, while simultaneously unleashing the Heaven-Turning Palm Seal in mid-air.

Chen Ying turned around, about to kill and escape.

But she discovered that the four young Nine Li clan Wu Xiu behind her had disappeared without a sound.

This...

Even though Chen Ying's state of mind was steady, she was scared pale at this moment, the surroundings became incomparably quiet, and she could only hear her own heartbeat.

"Swish!"

A white folding fan flew from nowhere.

The folding fan rotated and flew in a circle, and a blood line immediately appeared on Chen Ying's neck, her eyes bulged, and she fell straight down.

A martial arts powerhouse approaching the third realm of the Five Seas Realm actually died instantly.

Until she died, she didn't know who killed her.

Li Youyi blocked the rain-like magic power flying needles, but it was difficult to maintain the Huang Long Ascending to Heaven movement technique, falling straight toward the foot of the mountain. His heart was terrified, and he hurriedly activated the blood mist and blood-colored scriptures of the Corpse Cloak soft armor.

The falling momentum was cushioned, and his body smashed into the ground without any major problems.

But his shock was hard to settle.

This Huang Long Ascending to Heaven movement technique, once disturbed by the enemy's attack, the magic power in the body does not run smoothly, and the momentum of ascending to heaven will be interrupted.

"Still need to practice more! Or break through to the Five Seas Realm, the magic power will be more profound, and it should be much better."

Li Youyi stood up and looked at the top of the hill where Chen Ying was, his eyes becoming grave. Earlier in mid-air, he clearly saw a figure appear out of thin air behind Chen Ying, extremely strange, and the speed was faster than the naked eye could distinguish.

From the mountainside, walking to the top of the mountain.

Li Youyi saw from afar that a handsome man in green robes was holding a folding fan, standing gracefully beside Chen Ying's corpse.

His body was not tall, only a little over 1.7 meters, but he was a pure Immortal body, his skin was flawless, his face was beautiful beyond measure, his sword brows and star eyes, his lips and nose were like carvings by heaven, wearing a Confucian cap, waist tied with a brocade belt, and his body was spotless.

The four young Nine Li clan Wu Xiu were all standing behind him.

Li Ling rushed over, appearing opposite the handsome man in the Confucian cap, bowing gracefully, and smiling with red lips and white teeth: "Many thanks to Young Master Zuoqiu for taking action again, otherwise these four Nine Li clan juniors would have died at the hands of that old woman."

"It's nothing, just a small effort."

He originally had a noble aura that stood out from the crowd, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he became polite, elegant, and modest again.

Li Youyi always felt that this Young Master Zuoqiu had a kind of uncoordinated strangeness, so he had no intention of getting to know him, looking at Wang Daozhen, who was fleeing rapidly, and said: "I'll go chase him first!"

"Why should Brother Sima bother with him? Let him escape for a hundred miles, it won't be too late to chase him then."

A breeze blew, and the handsome man wearing a Confucian cap appeared in front of Li Youyi. He cupped his fists and smiled: "I am Zuoqiu Ting, from Qiu Prefecture."

"Zuoqiu Sect?"

Li Youyi was forced to return the salute, otherwise it would seem too impolite.

Li Ling walked in the grass over a foot high, her temperament changing back to that of a playful and cute young girl, introducing to Li Youyi: "Young Master Zuoqiu is the successor of this generation of the Zuoqiu Sect. Some time ago, when my brother was attacked by the Dragon Gate successor and the Wuxin Golden Ape, it was he who took action to help resolve the siege."

Li Youyi's heart was shaken, and he looked over again.

He knew the other party's cultivation was very high, but he didn't expect it to be a successor-level figure.

This is undoubtedly one of the top figures of the younger generation in the Southern Region!

Zuoqiu Ting closed his fan, waved his hand, and laughed heartily: "A small matter, not worth mentioning. The Zuoqiu Sect and the Nine Li clan have been on good terms for generations. If the Nine Li clan is in trouble, how can I stand by and watch?"

Li Youyi asked: "This area is the boundary of the energy barrier for Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu to enter the Immortal Realm space. Young Master Zuoqiu's cultivation is peak, what is a person like you doing here?"

Li Ling heard Li Youyi's suspicion and was afraid he would offend the person, so she was about to speak.

Zuoqiu Ting said first: "I am here specifically to find you."

Li Youyi was surprised and smiled: "What does this mean?"

"The news of Sima Tan slashing the Law-Path Fire Ape with one blade and killing the demon king's sixth-generation grandson with three blades has already spread among the Five Seas Realm cultivators; no one is not shocked. Do you know about Thirty-Three Mile Mountain? Only Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu can enter. I originally intended to come and ask you to help me enter the mountain to dig some Immortal Soil. But I didn't expect you to have already broken into the Five Seas? Haha, I'm late!"

Zuoqiu Ting spread his hands and smiled bitterly.

Li Ling obviously trusted Zuoqiu Ting extremely, asking: "Has Yao Yin broken into the Nine Springs?"

"Young Master Zuoqiu, please wait a moment."

Li Youyi pulled Li Ling's sleeve, went to the side alone, and after releasing magic power to shroud the two, said: "Is this successor of the Zuoqiu Sect really helping you?"

Li Ling said: "Young Master Zuoqiu is a chivalrous hero who has already helped us three times. If it weren't for him, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to break through to here."

"Why would he help you?" Li Youyi said.

Li Ling said: "The Nine Li clan and the Zuoqiu Sect have been on good terms for generations and have supported each other for thousands of years."

"The Su Sect's Yang clan also has generations of intermarriage with your Cang Li tribe, isn't it the same wolf-hearted ambition?" Li Youyi looked toward Zuoqiu Ting in the distance, and the other party responded with a smile.

Li Youyi whispered cautiously: "This person clearly has a cold and arrogant face, but his temperament is elegant and gentle. Clearly wearing simple green clothes, but the belt is luxurious and gorgeous. His body is short and thin, with a boy's face and a girl's appearance, everywhere revealing a kind of disharmony; there is definitely a problem."

Li Ling smiled and said: "When did you become so mean when you speak? Where is others' body short and thin, where is it disharmonious? You wouldn't be jealous that he is more handsome and dashing than you, right?"

Li Youyi was speechless, saying with a firm tone: "I will not let Yao Yin take risks."

Li Ling put away her smile: "Do you like her?"

"I can't say another word to you."

Li Youyi believed his intuition and was very wary of Zuoqiu Ting, walking toward the foot of the mountain with big strides. He rummaged through Ape Sheng's body by the stream for a while and found the snow-pear-sized metal magic treasure bottle.

Mobilizing mental power spiritual light, he entered the bottle.

Inside the bottle, there was indeed a cubic foot of space, but the golden spring water was only a thin layer.

This golden spring water was very similar to the Golden Spring of the Nine Li Hidden Sect, but of higher quality, like liquid gold.

"I don't know if it can help temper the golden trace veins?"

Li Youyi's brows were slightly furrowed; he lacked understanding of this kind of Golden Spring and didn't dare to take it lightly.

After Zuoqiu Ting and Li Ling sent the five young Wu Xiu into the energy barrier boundary, they walked down the mountain side by side. One was handsome and elegant, the other was lively and bright, like the legendary golden boy and jade girl, talking and laughing, not knowing what they were discussing.

Zuoqiu Ting's gaze fell on Li Youyi, his eyes full of wisdom, slightly pondering, and then he called out from afar: "If Brother Sima is interested in this Golden Spring, then you must go to Thirty-Three Mile Mountain. This is a treasure for body refining and bone tempering."

Li Ling followed up: "That's right! It is said that if you are lucky, you have a chance to find Golden Spring at the foot of the mountain, without entering the mountain."

Zuoqiu Ting said: "Just now Li Ling told me about your worries, it doesn't matter. Thirty-Three Mile Mountain does have certain dangers, and Immortal Soil is not a must-have. It is understandable that you are worried about your loved one taking risks. We can't go in and dig ourselves, but we can rob! There are always some forces' Gushing Spring Wu Xiu who can dig out a little, rob them."

Li Youyi stared at Li Ling: "Don't talk nonsense, what loved one?"

Li Ling said: "Just tell me if you are going to Thirty-Three Mile Mountain? If you don't go, we are leaving!"

"Not going," Li Youyi said.

Zuoqiu Ting took off the insect bag from his waist and opened it. A palm-sized cyan dragonfly flew out from inside, flapping its wings.

"Zuoqiu Qingting, become big!" he said.

Bright light erupted from the dragonfly's abdomen, and its body rapidly became huge, over six meters long. The vibration of its wings set off a hurricane, and the sound was deafening.

Zuoqiu Ting and Li Ling flew and landed on the dragonfly's back one after another.

"He is actually an insect controller! This dragonfly is probably a strange insect."

Seeing the giant dragonfly about to fly away, Li Youyi thought of something and asked: "What is the current situation of the battle between the Nine Li clan and the four major sects' Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu?"

"It's alright!"

"You can rest assured, this young master will help Sister Li Ling and the others clean up the people of the four major sects."

Two voices, one after another, came from afar.

The giant dragonfly flew extremely fast, and in a moment, it disappeared from view.

"Strange, why would Li Ling trust him so much?"

In Li Youyi's heart, Li Ling had always been extremely shrewd and should not have failed to see the problems with Zuoqiu Ting.

I won't split the chapters today, 6200 words.

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