Chapter 135: The Hidden Lord Has Come

The skin of a Pure Immortal Body is delicate, warm, and moist, as if immortalized, with a luster different from ordinary people, which any opposite sex would find hard to resist.

Zuoqiu Lanlan's clothes were loose, and she fainted on his lap, charming and alluring.

Li Youyi remained calm, trying to maintain his composure, and pushed gently with his fingers, causing Zuoqiu Lanlan's face to slide from his shoulder to the ground.

Standing up, he tidied his slightly disheveled Night-Walking Clothes and talisman robe; fortunately, he was dressed thickly enough.

"Which one of you did this?" he said.

Hidden Twenty-Four's voice came from under the Spirit-Passing Human Skin: "See? I said, if we ruined his good thing, he would definitely be angry."

Li Youyi understood Zuoqiu Lanlan; this noble lady of the gate was extremely proud and could not have debased herself for no reason. He said: "You did it? What method? Bewitchment? Talisman? Mental power? Illusion?"

Hidden Twenty-Four's eyes showed confusion: "You don't think I used evil methods like the Six Desires Talisman to lure her into your arms to be in heat? Hmph, I just couldn't bear to watch anymore, so I punched her unconscious. Otherwise... it was truly..."

"Unbearable to look at."

Said the bear-like freak-species Hidden Twenty-Three.

Li Youyi felt that Hidden Twenty-Four indeed had no reason to cause trouble; such jokes could not be made.

But Zuoqiu Lanlan was such a reserved and dignified woman, and she had just lost her husband, so she was in the midst of grief; how could she take the initiative to do such a shameful thing?

In the Thirty-Three Mile Mountain, there must be incomprehensible and strange things.

In the distance, Zuoqiu Baiming had already fainted and was lying on the ground.

Li Youyi's gaze fell on the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors on the tree, communicating with them to ask if anything suspicious had happened earlier.

The seven little ones each spoke their own mind, babbling; some were vague, some claimed to have seen two terrifying white shadows, some said Zuoqiu Lanlan was possessed, as if she had become a different person, but she was very good to Li Youyi...

There was no unified answer at all.

Li Youyi shook his head and didn't listen to them continue; the seven of them combined didn't have a brain the size of a finger. He walked over slowly and said: "You two knocked her unconscious but left her in my arms; is this deliberately trying to see me make a fool of myself?"

Hidden Twenty-Four said: "Hidden Person, you are wrong. If we wanted to see you make a fool of yourself, we wouldn't have knocked her unconscious."

"That would be unwatchable." Hidden Twenty-Three said.

Li Youyi was very helpless; continuing to argue would only make it dirtier, so he said in a threatening tone: "Right and wrong end here. After leaving the Thirty-Three Mile Mountain, if I hear that a fourth person knows about this, when I become the Hidden Person, you two will definitely not have a good end."

Hidden Twenty-Three was threatened for the first time, his face changed greatly, and then he nodded silently.

Hidden Twenty-Four didn't care, pointed to Zuoqiu Lanlan on the ground, and smiled: "She is the fourth person. Do you kill, or do I kill?"

"She is still useful."

Li Youyi didn't dwell on this matter and asked seriously: "How did you two get into the Thirty-Three Mile Mountain? Hidden Twenty-Four, have you broken through to the second realm of the Five Seas?"

Hidden Twenty-Three said: "The Hidden Lord has come! Right in this immortal world space, he captured a Spirit-Passing, refined the talisman robe and human skin, and sent us both in. Immortal Soil, Dyeing-Cloud Strange Herbs, Gold Springs, and other rare cultivation resources are also highly valued by the Hidden Gate."

"Before entering the mountain, Hidden Twenty-Four seized two Dyeing-Cloud Strange Herbs from the Wu Xiu of the four major sects and opened the second Qi Sea."

Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu gathered in the immortal world space on a large scale, mostly for the Dyeing-Cloud Strange Herbs, seeking to break through quickly.

Hidden Twenty-Three was quite envious, but there was no way; Hidden Twenty-Four didn't know where she got a high-grade blood-refined magic artifact, and her combat power became extremely astonishing, even killing a third-realm expert of the Five Seas from the Sui Sect.

He didn't have such a powerful treasure.

One step ahead, step by step ahead.

The gap would only get wider.

This is also why Wu Xiu could fight until they were bloody for a treasure.

Is this just a treasure?

This is changing fate!

Under the Spirit-Passing Human Skin, Hidden Twenty-Four carried her hands behind her back, tilted her chin, and said faintly: "Just the second realm of the Five Seas. If I can pick four or five more Dyeing-Cloud Strange Herbs of the same type, it is possible to open the third Qi Sea in a short time. Only by reaching the third realm can one be considered to have initially entered the ranks of the top experts of the younger generation in Li Prefecture."

Little girl mentality; with a little achievement, she becomes showy and floaty.

Li Youyi smiled and shook his head, asking: "How long have you been in the mountain, and how many strange herbs have you picked?"

Hidden Twenty-Three said: "We have only been in the mountain for one day. The Dyeing-Cloud Strange Herbs under Nine Mile Mountain have almost been picked by the Wu Xiu of the major sects. Currently, we have only found two. One can help the Pure Immortal Body transform, and one can help open the Qi Sea."

"We originally intended to go up Nine Mile Mountain, but halfway, Hidden Twenty-Four discovered your footprints, and we followed them here."

Li Youyi looked at Hidden Twenty-Four in surprise: "Not simple, even remembering details like my footprints."

"Not just footprints, but the aura emitted by Shang Zhi's corpse remained in the air." Hidden Twenty-Four said.

In the Thirty-Three Mile Mountain, Li Youyi was bold and skilled, not deliberately covering his tracks, so it was not strange that he was tracked by her.

Hidden Twenty-Four asked: "What about you, how many Dyeing-Cloud Strange Herbs have you picked?"

"I only entered the mountain half a day earlier than you, and currently have no harvest." Li Youyi shrugged and smiled helplessly.

Hidden Twenty-Four said coldly: "I went to the boundary of the Spring-Gushing Realm Qi barrier. Yao Yin said that you seized quite a few strange herbs from the Wu Xiu of the major sects. The ones she and Hidden Twenty-Five seized are also with you."

Hidden Twenty-Three looked at Li Youyi with eager eyes.

Li Youyi changed the subject and asked: "Has the road from the Five Seas Realm boundary to Yao Guan City been opened?"

"With Hidden Nine and Cang Li taking action, who can be the enemy below the Dao Seed Realm? The Wu Xiu of the Nine Li Tribe should have already withdrawn by now; you don't need to worry about that side." Hidden Twenty-Three said.

Hidden Twenty-Four said: "I have already taken two strange herbs that help the Pure Immortal Body transform and have cultivated into a Semi-Immortal Body. But now that I have broken through to the second realm of the Five Seas, I am afraid I will need three more to complete the Pure Immortal Body transformation."

Li Youyi asked Hidden Twenty-Three: "I expect that the outside must be surging with wind and clouds, turning upside down. At this juncture, why did the Hidden Lord come to the immortal world space instead?"

Hidden Twenty-Three said: "The Hidden Lord didn't tell us, but I guess he definitely didn't come just for the opportunities and treasures here; he must be planning something else. Let's go pay our respects when we go down the mountain later!"

Hidden Twenty-Four walked up to Li Youyi and said almost in his ear: "You owe me a favor. If I hadn't taken action just now, the consequences would have been unimaginable; you would probably have to marry into the Zuoqiu Gate to settle the matter. I want three Dyeing-Cloud Strange Herbs; it's not excessive at all."

Li Youyi finally stared at her: "Strange herbs! Strange herbs... don't just think about getting something for nothing. How much is a strange herb worth? Go ask Hidden Twenty-Five; he bought them from me."

"However, there is an opportunity to seize strange herbs right now. I didn't want to share it with you, and I could have done it myself. Since you are here, put in some effort and try to wipe them all out, leaving none behind."

"But I'll say it first: you can only get three Dyeing-Cloud Strange Herbs each. The rest, whether they are strange herbs, magic artifacts, Gold Springs, or Immortal Soil, all belong to me."

The reason Li Youyi was willing to offer such a generous price was that he suddenly realized he might have underestimated the insight and wisdom of the Five Seas Realm experts.

Once Xue Qi and the others discovered that the Three Chen Palace and Coffin Mountain had been wiped out, they would definitely be extremely cautious when going down the mountain.

Or they would go down the mountain in another direction.

Wanting to intercept and kill them by waiting for them would likely not be as stupid as the prey.

Li Youyi then told the two about his thoughts on hunting and seizing.

Hidden Twenty-Three was shocked, thinking he had misheard: "Ambush the four major sects and Sky Cliff Ridge? You mean to ambush them all on the way down the mountain? I think it's enough to ambush some Spring-Gushing Realm Wu Xiu!"

"Have some ambition; the opportunity is very rare." Li Youyi said.

Hidden Twenty-Four said: "This is impossible! Chen Song, Earth Burn, and Xue Qi are either Pure Immortal Bodies or Nine Springs Supreme Humans. If I use the Three-Headed Snake Blood Soul, dealing with one is naturally not a problem. But the other two, plus the demon experts of Sky Cliff Ridge, will definitely take this opportunity to kill you and Hidden Twenty-Three. How long can you hold on?"

"Do you think I want to rely on you?"

Li Youyi took off his Night-Walking Clothes and threw them to her: "Wear them and go up the mountain to scout. Once they go down the mountain, report back immediately. Your task is just this."

"By the way, be careful. There is a giant-headed humanoid unknown creature on the mountain; if you encounter it, run immediately."

Hidden Twenty-Four stared at Li Youyi repeatedly. As a dignified Supreme Human of the second realm of the Five Seas, was she being sent to be a scout? She asked with a smile: "So confident, have you broken through to the Five Seas?"

Li Youyi also smiled: "Whether I have broken through to the Five Seas or not, beating you shouldn't be a difficult matter."

"Hmph!"

Hidden Twenty-Four put on the Night-Walking Clothes, wrapped her whole body, raised her snow-white, jade-like Semi-Immortal Body slender arm, and revealed the Three-Headed Snake bracelet: "I have a snake!"

She disappeared into invisibility and went up the mountain.

"Although her temper is a bit big, she is obedient."

Li Youyi's gaze fell on Zuoqiu Lanlan, who was lying on the ground with disheveled clothes, and he hurriedly called out: "Don't leave yet, dress her properly."

Li Youyi sent Hidden Twenty-Three to send the fainted two from the Zuoqiu Gate down the mountain. Then he performed the Yuxu Breathing Method, entered a state of tranquility where only he existed in the world, and introspected his first Qi Sea.

A tiny lung lobe, yet it opened an inner world of ten squares, like a slightly irregular transparent cloud.

The spatial wall of the Qi Sea was stained with a layer of immortal mist, flowing with light and color.

The internal magic power was only a thin layer, less than half a square.

This was the magic power that surged in and converted at the moment of breaking the realm.

Now, even if the ten springs surged together and magic power was continuously injected and converted from the one hundred and twenty string veins, the increase speed was quite slow.

"Cultivating for three or four days, I estimate I can convert one square. To impact the second Qi Sea, I must first cultivate the first Qi Sea to perfection; otherwise, being too eager for success will lead to failure."

Just like laying bricks and stacking wood, it is boring, simple, and repetitive, but it is an essential process for building a ten-thousand-foot-tall building.

What Li Youyi didn't know was that his tenth spring, the Shenque, was very extraordinary, surging with liquid magic power, which was enough to increase the cultivation speed to an unimaginable level.

Those Wu Xiu who broke the Five Seas with Seven Springs had a first Qi Sea of only one square, and it still took two or three months to cultivate to perfection.

He only needed three or four days to cultivate one square, which was dozens of times faster.

"After breaking the realm, the purity of the magic power has indeed improved. But it is still gaseous, not liquid, not as good as the Shenque."

Li Youyi released his mental power, entered the blood mud space, and asked Master Guan for the method of tempering magic power in the Qi Sea.

Master Guan's voice came: "Inner magic power, leaving the body to become gas."

"From opening four springs, when magic power can initially leave the body, every time a realm is raised, the grade of magic power is improving."

"Spring-Gushing gas has six grades, Five Seas gas has six grades."