Chapter 130: Encountering the Departed Townspeople of Immortal Burial Town Again

"You really don't listen to advice."

Li Youyi did not even turn around. Blood mist and blood-colored scriptures erupted from his body. The moment the three demons’ massive bodies closed in, he spun and flew upward, a vortex of blood mist manifesting with him at its center.

The three demons’ attacks instantly lost their direction.

Their centers of gravity became unstable, and with no power to resist, they were flung away by the blood mist vortex, crashing down in a scattered mess.

Li Youyi could not be bothered to waste time killing them. After landing, he rushed toward the valley entrance at top speed, worried only that the three top experts of the second stage of the Five Seas Realm from Tianya Ridge, Sui Sect, and Coffin Mountain might have finished off Zuoqiu Baiming and were catching up.

Those three were all first-rate figures of that realm and wielded powerful magic treasures; facing any one of them would be a headache.

The valley entrance was in sight, drawing closer and closer.

Suddenly, he heard someone shout: "Someone is escaping! Fire arrows!"

A shrill and dense sound of wind being torn apart arrived.

"Swish! Swish!"

Arrows fell like rain, a dense mass of black dots.

There were even hidden bolts fired from heavy crossbows, which were extremely dangerous.

Such a formation was practically like being on a battlefield.

Outside the valley, six Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu from the Sui Sect and the Three Chen Palaces stood in the forest, watching Li Youyi, who had charged out of the valley, constantly swinging his blade to knock away arrows aimed at his face.

As for the rain of arrows aimed at his body, he ignored them entirely.

Strangely, these arrows really could not harm him.

"What a powerful defensive magic battle suit, I want it!"

"Haha, let’s rely on our own abilities. Whoever kills him gets that magic battle suit."

"I want that cyan shadow banner."

Immediately, the three most aggressive Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu rushed out; all were carefully selected top experts of the first stage. The weakest among them was a freak-species who had broken into the Five Seas from Eight Springs.

The other three followed slowly, not underestimating their opponent.

Today’s battle required silencing everyone; there could be no slip-ups.

"Stronger than those three demon cultivators."

Li Youyi looked at the three who were attacking with coordinated tactics. Without slowing down, he channeled the cyan shadow banner in his hand, using it like a great spear, and thrust it fiercely toward the Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu in the lead who was holding a shield magic treasure.

The shadow banner erupted with brilliant cyan light, the departed spirits inside shrieking.

That Three Chen Palace Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu was coming head-on; feeling the terrifying pressure from Li Youyi, his expression changed in shock. He stepped into a bow stance and spat out a large amount of magic power to fuel his shield.

A circular light seal with a diameter of one zhang appeared on the surface of the shield.

"Bang!"

The light seal and the shield magic treasure shattered upon contact.

That Three Chen Palace Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu had his body pierced through by the shadow banner, his flesh exploding into pieces.

It was too overwhelming; a Wu Xiu of the same realm had died on the spot in a single exchange.

The freak-species Wu Xiu who had broken into the Five Seas from Eight Springs swung a heavy bronze mace magic treasure.

The mace weighed six thousand catties, crashing down toward Li Youyi’s skull.

Another stronger Five Seas Realm female Wu Xiu, with a slender figure, turned into a phantom, circling to the lower right of Li Youyi, her sword fast as a beam of light, stabbing toward his waist and abdomen.

Li Youyi swung his blade with his left hand, colliding with the heavy mace; sparks flew, and magic energy rippled outward.

The freak-species Wu Xiu spat blood, flipped over by the immense force transmitted from the blade.

"Such strong power."

Li Youyi looked at the damaged magic battle blade in his hand, sighed in admiration, and then threw it away.

His waist and abdomen throbbed with slight pain. He looked down at the female Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu who had attacked with her sword: "Your speed is okay, but your power is too weak; you can't break my defense."

The female Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu was terrified, her face turning pale; she had never encountered such a strange thing.

Her sword strike was not weak; even if he were wearing a defensive magic battle suit, the penetrating force of the sword tip should have at least broken his ribs and injured his internal organs.

"Bang!"

Li Youyi swung the shadow banner, hitting her so she spun and flew away like a scarecrow, more than a dozen bones in her body shattered, bloodied and limp, landing on the ground unable to crawl up again.

The three Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu following behind had not yet had time to intervene when the first three were already crushed.

Some dead, some injured.

They were shocked and terrified, caught in a dilemma of whether to advance or retreat.

Was this really a Wu Xiu of the first stage of the Five Seas Realm?

Even Five Seas Realm second-stage Wu Xiu weren't this terrifying.

"Boom!"

Chen Song stepped on a cloud of magic power, rushed out of the dense forest, and descended from mid-air, the wind force under his feet scattering in all directions.

He was wrapped in the skin of a departed spirit, looking like a slightly chubby old man with messy long hair, his gaze extremely sharp, locking onto Li Youyi with his combat intent.

Just by meeting his eyes, Li Youyi instantly had a rough judgment of his strength: far superior to Yuan Sheng, and even a large margin stronger than Chen Ying.

Without a second thought, Li Youyi immediately activated his night-traveling suit, pushing his speed to the limit.

He fled into the dense forest on the right.

"Want to leave?"

The wind-riding boots under Chen Song’s feet were a pure speed-type intermediate magic treasure; his figure became blurred as he rode the wind off the ground to pursue.

At the same time, a jade bracelet on his wrist spun and flew out.

The spiritual light energy erupting from the jade bracelet tore through the air, chasing behind Li Youyi.

Li Youyi dared not take it head-on, turning to strike with the cyan shadow banner.

"Boom!"

The spinning jade bracelet, after colliding with the shadow banner, instantly changed direction and smashed toward Li Youyi’s head.

Li Youyi broke into a cold sweat, using his bare hands to perform the "Spirit Treasure Snatch," as if transforming into a Thousand-Hand Tathagata, grabbing the jade bracelet. But he couldn't hold it steady; it was spinning rapidly, so he had to throw it away immediately.

"Boom!"

The jade bracelet smashed into the ground several zhang away, mud splashing, forming a deep crater.

Chen Song, who had caught up, was secretly shocked: he could actually break an intermediate magic treasure’s attack like that?

He immediately raised his vigilance to the maximum against this person, combat intent and magic mist surging behind him as he threw a punch into the air. The fist’s light shadow was as large as a millstone, the magic power surging like a tidal wave, one layer overlapping another.

"Boom!"

Li Youyi used the shadow banner to clash head-on with Chen Song, his body retreating violently, and then pushed his speed to the limit to escape. Encountering any Spring-Gushing Realm Wu Xiu blocking his path in the forest, he did not linger, simply knocking them away with his body.

Chen Song landed back on the ground, his eyes solemn; he had never seen such a strong Five Seas Realm first-stage Wu Xiu.

The four Five Seas Realm first-stage Wu Xiu quickly caught up.

The heavily injured freak-species Wu Xiu said with great apprehension: "What kind of person is he? Is he really a Five Seas Realm first-stage?"

"He isn't wearing the skin of a departed spirit, so he is definitely a Five Seas Realm first-stage. But his strength... to be this strong, he must be a seed of inheritance from the Zuoqiu lineage." Chen Song released a wisp of magic power to roll the jade bracelet back, putting it on his wrist again.

The four Five Seas Realm first-stage Wu Xiu all changed color.

A seed of inheritance held a higher status in the Zuoqiu lineage than even Zuoqiu Baiming. If he were allowed to escape the mountain, would that be acceptable?

"Go, let's chase him together! We must cut the weeds and eliminate the roots; if we do it, we must do it thoroughly." Chen Song said.

"What a formidable Chen Song, worthy of being a Nine Springs Supreme who opened his ancestral fields by his own strength."

Li Youyi looked at his bloodied left hand, secretly pondering what means to use to deal with him.

In the end, the shadow banner was only a defensive high-grade magic treasure, and its offensive power was not particularly strong. But the black iron seal and the evil camel bell were different; they would definitely be enough to make him suffer.

In this mysterious and unknown ghost place of the Thirty-Three Li Mountain, Li Youyi did not want to start a massacre, otherwise, he would have released the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors long ago. Who knew if the commotion of a great battle would startle some departed spirit monsters?

Getting far away from that valley was the top priority.

After fleeing for half an hour, Li Youyi suddenly stopped, feeling that something was wrong.

The landscape within the immortal mist had changed drastically; the trees had become sparse, and before him was a flat area of gravel, the weeds between the stones dense, with clumps of glowing plants growing among them.

It was...

Dyed-Mist Exotic Medicine!

There were many of them; just in his field of vision, there were more than ten.

Li Youyi’s heart was not entirely filled with joy; he always felt this place was very wrong. Exotic medicines gathered here, yet they hadn't been picked, which was enough to explain many things.

He released the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors, letting them go pick the Dyed-Mist Exotic Medicine. He himself remained nervously vigilant of his surroundings, while also guarding against Chen Song, who might catch up at any time.

The seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors were quite happy, flapping their wings and flying into the gravel area.

But what left Li Youyi speechless was that they each picked one and started eating on their own, with no intention of helping him pick the medicine.

"Relying on you is truly unreliable. Don't just focus on eating; the enemy might catch up at any time."

In the end, Li Youyi had no choice but to be vigilant while picking the Dyed-Mist Exotic Medicine himself.

After picking twenty-four of them, he had unknowingly entered the depths of the gravel area. After picking the twenty-fifth, he sensed something, slowly raised his head, and looked into the depths of the mist, his scalp suddenly tingling.

He saw.

In the mist dozens of zhang away stood a dense mass of giant-headed human figures, all motionless, as if watching him.

Li Youyi channeled the shadow banner to bolster his courage, and wrapped in wisps of cyan light gauze, he slowly walked over. Only when he got closer did he realize that it was a field of giant stone statues.

"Phew!"

Breathing a long sigh of relief, he continued to pick the remaining Dyed-Mist Exotic Medicine.

But every time he turned his back to that field of giant stone statues, he always felt a chill down his spine, as if pairs of eyes were spying on him. The positions of some of the giant stone statues seemed to have shifted, as if they were walking forward.

"Hallucinations, just scaring myself."

Li Youyi had just said this when, from the stone forest of giant statues, more than a dozen black giant-headed human figures suddenly rushed out.

Some were only 1.2 or 1.3 meters tall, standing on top of the giant stone statues, opening mouths the size of bowls to reveal jagged, saw-like teeth, emitting harsh, shrill laughter.

Others were two or three meters tall, their heads as large as water vats, their mouths occupying a third of their faces, their eyes without whites, pitch black, constantly emitting black smoke.

Where had Li Youyi ever seen such terrifying unknown creatures?

He turned and fled, but he had only run dozens of zhang when he saw the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors flying over in terror.

Li Youyi looked ahead.

In the direction he had come from, more than a dozen figures also appeared in the mist. These figures had the proportions of normal humans, but their bodies were burning with ghost fire; they were definitely not Chen Song and his group, and there was not a single trace of living human aura on them.

Caught in a pincer attack, Li Youyi was on the verge of tears; it was greed that caused this again. If he had known, he shouldn't have lingered in this gravel area just to pick Dyed-Mist Exotic Medicine.

How he wished it were the group from the Sui Sect and the Three Chen Palaces, or even the people from Tianya Ridge and Coffin Mountain.

Li Youyi’s brow lit up, mobilizing the Spirit Light Fire, ready at any moment to activate the Buddha Relic and escape into the blood-mud space to avoid the disaster.

As the departed spirits with normal human proportions gradually approached, Li Youyi saw their attire and features clearly: pale faces, men, women, old, and young, all with a bloody, strange character on their foreheads.

"These are... the people from Immortal Burial Town..."

Li Youyi recognized them.

Back then in Immortal Burial Town, he had cut his own wrist and sprinkled his blood on the street, intending to summon his Guardian Wife. As a result, he had awakened countless departed spirits beneath the town, causing them to break through the soil.

The departed spirits that looked like small-town residents were just like this.

Ghost fire all over their bodies, bloody characters on their foreheads.

How did they come to the Thirty-Three Li Mountain?

They... seemed to have no hostility!

Just as Li Youyi was suspicious and uncertain, more than a dozen departed spirit townspeople had already stepped on ghost fire, passing by him and engaging in battle with the giant-headed humanoid monsters.

They could inhale the immortal mist, their eyes had no pupils, only blinding white light, and with a wave of their hands, they could cast ghost fire; regardless of age or gender, they were all powerful.

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