Chapter 121: Zuoqiu Ting

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

They were forged from supreme dense metal, paper-thin, yet weighed several jin each, forming small air-force vortices when rotating and flying.

"Boom!"

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

"Middle-grade artifact!"

Yuan Sheng's eyes surged with shock, and it turned and fled rapidly.

Martial arts practitioners at the first and second realms of the Five Seas Realm only had a very small number of middle-grade artifacts. The reason Chen Jingtang could possess one was firstly because he was a Nine Spring breaking into the Five Seas, and his talent was not bad. Secondly, the Battle of Burial Immortal Town was of great importance, and the iron book was bestowed by the elders of the Three Chen Palace.

Middle-grade artifacts like the iron book, which had great power, were priced at nearly one hundred million, and their expensiveness was second only to high-grade artifacts.

Yuan Sheng knew it absolutely couldn't defend against thirty-five pages, and, the pursuer behind it was extremely fast, probably also a figure at the second realm of the Five Seas Realm. It couldn't escape and would be caught up soon.

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

The harsh sound of breaking wind behind it was getting closer.

Suddenly.

Demon Qi sprayed from Yuan Sheng's soles, turning into a gray cloud, and its huge body weighing ten thousand jin suddenly jumped up, appearing twenty meters high, avoiding all the pages.

Lifting the hammer in the air.

Its body was strong, yet unusually agile, and it turned around and smashed toward Li Youyi below.

The war hammer and demon Qi clouds impacted all the flying iron book pages, and most of them were shattered. Only a few pages slashed toward it, but were temporarily blocked by the demon Qi covering its whole body.

"Must severely wound him within ten moves,

Yuan Sheng was not comparable to those Spring Gushing Realm Wu Xiu; he possessed a fierce fighting intent of a life-and-death struggle, and his timing for striking was perfectly judged. This hammer, moreover, fused with battle intent, locked firmly onto Li Youyi's Qi.

"This big guy has high intelligence! Life forms capable of cultivating to the second stage of the Five Seas Realm are indeed not simple."

For the first time, Li Youyi truly felt the existence of battle intent.

The most direct sensation was that it imposed a constraint on his thinking and consciousness.

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

Wu Xiu who cannot resist battle intent are likely to have their willpower disintegrate and collapse, leaving them only to wait for death. Previously, the human Wu Xiu of the first stage of the Five Seas Realm who was killed by Yuan Sheng's hammer had likely encountered the same predicament.

It was not just suppression of spirit and intent.

More tangibly, it was as if invisible walls had appeared from 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 battle intent, his feet shifted horizontally, his figure drifted like the wind, and in an instant he landed a zhang away.

"Boom!"

The war hammer smashed into the ground, forming a massive collapsed pit.

The strong demonic Qi erupting from around the pit turned into wind force, impacting Li Youyi's body.

Li Youyi was not intimidated by the opponent's ferocity; instead of retreating, he advanced, his figure leaping up, taking the opportunity to strike with the Heaven Dao Law-aligned scattered hand technique, the Heaven-Turning Palm Print.

"Not a clash of battle intent, but using mental power to escape my battle intent lock. Could it be... he is not a second-stage Five Seas Realm, but just a first-stage Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu?"

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

He must be a heaven-favored child from a major power who broke into the Five Seas Realm from the Nine Springs.

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

The Heaven Dao Law alignment manifested concretely.

"Swoosh! Swoosh!"

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

The bottom of the seal had blurred secret scripts, and the body of the seal had a coiled dragon phantom.

Yuan Sheng struck with a fist the size of a water vat to meet the enemy, startled by the brilliance of this miraculous seal, but thinking it was light and shadow erupted from a magic tool, he did not take it too much to heart.

"Boom!"

The human and the demon, whose body sizes differed by more than ten times, simultaneously blasted backward.

"This kid has such strong power! That divine seal light and shadow just now, could it be a high-grade magic tool?"

Yuan Sheng was secretly shocked, becoming more convinced that Li Youyi was a supreme genius of the first stage of the Five Seas Realm, carrying heavy treasures, so he swung his war hammer and strode forward to attack.

"So the power of the Twelve Scattered Hands of the Chan Gate is this strong; the combat power unleashed with bare hands is even stronger than using magic tools."

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

Martial arts cultivation seemed to have become even more profound and magical.

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

"Whoosh!"

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

"Rumble!"

Yuan Sheng retreated, as if smashed by a stone mountain.

His hands were shaken with pain, demonic blood flowed from the web between his thumb and index finger, and the war hammer had almost flown out of his hand during the collision with the divine seal's light.

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

He pulled his legs from the ground and rushed up, while controlling the thirty-five iron book pages, he once again unleashed the Heaven-Turning Palm Print, carefully feeling the mystery within.

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

Standing still under a giant black tree on the mountaintop, his figure tall and straight, was Wang Daozhen, one of the top three experts of the younger generation of the Wang family of the Sui Sect.

Like Yuan Sheng, he was ordered to guard this place and must capture "Sima Tan."

Wang Daozhen recognized the iron books and the night-traveling clothes, knowing that the person fighting Yuan Sheng must be "Sima Tan," and was shocked in his heart: "He has broken into the Five Seas Realm? Having just broken through, he can actually suppress Yuan Sheng in speed and power; this kid is truly a martial arts anomaly."

"He is Sima Tan!"

Wang Daozhen shouted a reminder, then rode the wind and Qi, striding toward the battlefield.

"He is Sima Tan?"

Yuan Sheng was dizzy from being hit by Li Youyi's strange palm print, and just as he was surprised by Wang Daozhen's reminder, a piece of iron book page finally broke through his demonic Qi defense and slashed into his chest.

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

Seeing Wang Daozhen appear, Li Youyi no longer held the mindset of practicing and testing his palm, but went all out to attack, seeking a quick resolution.

After Li Ling killed the lynx demon, she arrived nearby, her eyes deep and profound, having been observing the palm print 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 at the Square-Inch Sky Fire Realm. To save Yuan Sheng, one must pass her.

A melodious whistle came from far to near.

Chen Ying, a Five Seas Realm expert of the Three Chen Palace who was stationed here, used magic power clouds to wrap five young Wu Xiu of the Nine Li tribe, arriving 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 tool level iron cloth battle suit.

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

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

Li Ling glanced at the battlefield, seeing that Yuan Sheng was already bleeding profusely, so she did not intend to get involved, and looked 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 it is faster to save people or to kill people?"

Below the hill, screams came.

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

Li Youyi looked at the Nine Li tribe boy falling from the sky and Wang Daozhen arriving with the whip, secretly admiring how the people of the four major sects understood and exploited the weaknesses of human nature.

If Yuan Sheng had persisted for just one more breath, Li Youyi would surely have been trapped in a pincer attack by two second-stage Five Seas Realm experts because of saving the boy.

"Clatter!"

Li Youyi took out the Ghost Flag, his figure drifting off the ground.

Using the nether mist surging from the Ghost Flag, he wrapped the Nine Li tribe boy.

Wang Daozhen looked at Li Youyi, who was still in mid-air, a cold sneer of a successful scheme emerging in his eyes. After calculating his falling speed and position, he flew over, the Array-Splitting Whip lashing through the air.

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

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

"Awoo!"

A dragon's 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 appear on his body, stepping on the void, actually ascending to the sky step by step.

Li Youyi himself was startled by the dragon's roar.

He was only unleashing "Yellow Dragon Ascending to Heaven," so why did a dragon shadow appear?

His body walked in the void, as if stepping on the back of a rapidly flying yellow dragon, each step covering several zhang.

By the time he landed on the ground, he had already moved from the foot of the mountain to the top of the hill, appearing beside Li Ling. Only Wang Daozhen, with a face of shock and bewilderment, remained standing by the stream holding his whip.

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

"Perhaps... this is the true Heaven Dao Law alignment!"

Li Youyi had not yet figured it out either, and could only explain it this way, releasing the Nine Li tribe boy from the Ghost Flag's wrapping.

Heaven Dao Law alignment refers to cultivating moves to the point of fitting some wonderful laws between heaven and earth; the more it fits, the more profound it is, and the greater the power.

Others' Heaven Dao Law alignment only touched a trace of the laws. Li Youyi felt that he had cultivated the Twelve Scattered Hands of the Chan Gate diligently, ten years as one day, and might have touched more, so the power was stronger and the Dao essence manifested itself.

"Why do I feel that this is your battle intent taking shape?" Li Ling said.

A Wu Xiu's battle intent is almost always realized from Heaven Dao Law-aligned moves, and then integrated with one's own essence, Qi, and spirit.

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

Li Youyi's gaze fell on the middle-aged woman with ruthless methods on the opposite hill, a deep chill in his heart, and he said in a calm tone: "Are you not going to save people?"

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

"Are we to be threatened by her, or watch them die?" Li Youyi did not want to choose either, and used mental power to transmit his voice: "You are a Great Mind Master, use long-distance mental power attacks to restrain her directly and buy me time."

"It's a bit risky, but we can try, there's no other way anyway."

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

The Earth Fire Realm is like the fire of the earth, capable of illuminating dozens of zhang around.

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

"Awoo!"

The dragon's roar sounded again.

Li Youyi took this opportunity to unleash Yellow Dragon Ascending to Heaven and rushed out. The magic power and immortal mist surging in his body seemed to fit with a certain law of heaven and earth, automatically condensing into a yellow dragon that appeared and disappeared, 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, watching Li Youyi stepping on the dragon across the sky, his mind wavering, unsure if this was "Sima Tan."

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

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

"Boom!"

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

This was a manifestation of battle intent nearing shape!

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

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

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

"Can she still unleash martial arts methods while enduring the mental power attack of a Sky Fire Realm Great Mind Master?"

Li Youyi realized the opponent was no small matter and did not dare to be careless, hurriedly injecting magic power and immortal mist into his night-traveling clothes with all his might, while simultaneously striking out with the Heaven-Turning Palm Print in mid-air.

Chen Ying turned around, about to kill and flee.

But she discovered that the four young Nine Li tribe Wu Xiu behind her had disappeared silently.

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

A martial arts expert approaching the third stage of the Five Seas Realm had died instantly.

Until her death, she did not know who had killed her.

Li Youyi blocked the rain-like magic power flying needles, but found it difficult to maintain the Yellow Dragon Ascending to Heaven movement technique, falling straight toward the foot of the mountain. Terrified, he hurriedly stimulated the blood mist and blood-colored scriptures of his corpse-clothing soft armor.

The falling momentum was cushioned, and his body hit the ground without any major issues.

But his shock was hard to settle.

Once this Yellow Dragon Ascending to Heaven movement technique was disturbed by an enemy's attack, the flow of magic power in his body would not be smooth, and the momentum of ascending to heaven would be interrupted.

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

Li Youyi stood up and looked at the top of the hill where Chen Ying had been, his eyes becoming solemn. Previously in mid-air, he had clearly seen a figure appear out of thin air behind Chen Ying, extremely strange, with a speed exceeding the ability of the naked eye to distinguish.

From the mountainside, he walked to the top of the mountain.

Li Youyi saw from afar a handsome man in a green robe 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 had a pure immortal body, flawless skin, and that face was unusually beautiful, with sword-like brows and star-like eyes, his lips and nose wings as if carved by heaven, wearing a Confucian cap, a brocade belt around his waist, and his body was spotless.

The four young Nine Li tribe Wu Xiu all stood behind him.

Li Ling hurried 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 acting righteously again, otherwise these four Nine Li tribe juniors would likely have died at the hands of that old woman."

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

He originally had an aloof and noble air, but as soon as he spoke, he became polite, elegant, and humble again.

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

"Why does Brother Sima bother with him? It won't be too late to chase him after letting him run for a hundred miles."

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

"Zuoqiu Gate?"

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

Li Ling walked in the grass more than a foot high, her temperament changing back to that of a playful and cute girl, introducing him to Li Youyi: "Young Master Zuoqiu is the successor of this generation of the Zuoqiu Gate. Some time ago, when my brother was ambushed by the successor of the Dragon Gate and the Heartless Golden Ape, it was he who helped resolve the siege."

Li Youyi was shaken in his heart and looked him over again.

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

This was undoubtedly one of the top few of the younger generation in the Southern Realm!

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

Li Youyi asked: "This region is the boundary of the Qi barrier where Spring Gushing Realm Wu Xiu enter the Immortal World space. Young Master Zuoqiu, your cultivation is at the peak; why did a person like you come here?"

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

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

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

"The news of Sima Tan killing the Law-Dao Fire Ape with one blade and the six-generation grandson of the Demon King with three blades has spread among the Five Seas Realm cultivators; no one is not shocked. Do you know about the Thirty-Three Li Mountain? Only Spring Gushing Realm Wu Xiu can enter. I originally intended to come and ask for your help to enter the mountain and help dig for some immortal soil. But who would have thought you had already broken into the Five Seas Realm? Haha, I'm late!"

Zuoqiu Ting spread his hands and smiled bitterly.

Li Ling clearly trusted Zuoqiu Ting extremely, and asked: "Has Yaoyin 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 cover the two of them, said: "Has this successor of the Zuoqiu Gate really helped 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 the siege and come here."

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

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

"The Yang clan of the Sui Sect also has intermarried with your Cangli tribe for generations; aren't they also wolves with wild ambitions?" Li Youyi looked toward Zuoqiu Ting in the distance, who responded with a smile.

Li Youyi whispered cautiously: "This person clearly has a cold and arrogant face, but his temperament is elegant and gentle. He clearly wears simple green clothes, but his belt is luxurious and gorgeous. He is short and thin, with a boyish face, and everything reveals a sense of disharmony; there is definitely a problem."

Li Ling smiled and said: "When did you become so mean? Where is he short and thin, where is he disharmonious? Could it be that you are jealous that he is more handsome and dashing than you?"

Li Youyi was speechless and said with a firm tone: "I will not let Yaoyin 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, striding toward the foot of the mountain. He rummaged around Yuan Sheng's body by the stream and found the metal magic tool treasure bottle the size of a snow pear.

He mobilized his mental power spiritual light and entered the bottle.

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

This golden spring water was very similar to the kind of golden spring in the Nine Li Hidden Gate, but of higher quality, like liquid gold.

"I wonder if it can help refine the golden trace veins?"

Li Youyi frowned slightly, lacking understanding of this kind of golden spring, and did not dare to consume it easily.

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

Zuoqiu Ting's gaze fell on Li Youyi, his eyes full of wisdom, and after a slight ponder, he called out from afar: "If Brother Sima is interested in this golden spring, then you must go to the Thirty-Three Li Mountain; this is a treasure for refining the body and bones."

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 already told me about your worries, it doesn't matter, the Thirty-Three Li Mountain does have certain dangers, and immortal soil is not absolutely necessary; it is understandable that you are worried about your loved one taking risks. We cannot enter to dig it ourselves, but we can rob it! There are always Spring Gushing Wu Xiu from some forces who can dig some out, just rob them."

Li Youyi stared at Li Ling: "Stop talking nonsense, what loved one?"

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

"Not going," Li Youyi said.

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

"Zuoqiu Qingting, grow bigger!" he said.

Bright brilliance erupted from the dragonfly's abdomen, and its body quickly became huge, more than six meters long, its wings vibrating to stir up a hurricane, the sound incomparably deafening.

Zuoqiu Ting and Li Ling successively flew and landed on the dragonfly's back.

"He is actually also an insect master! 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 struggle between the Nine Li tribe and the Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu of the four major sects?"

"It's fine!"

"Just set your mind at ease, this young master will help Sister Li Ling and the others clean up the people of the four major sects."

Two voices came from afar, one after the other.

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 shouldn't have failed to see the problems with Zuoqiu Ting.

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