Chapter 142

Li Youyi held his arm, patted the back of his hand, and smiled: "Fourth Uncle, just accept it; I still have some left, enough for my own bone forging."

Li Songlin did not argue further and accepted the favor.

If he could use the Golden Spring to repair his tendons and bones, even without his legs, at least his cultivation and combat power would remain.

Half an hour later.

Walking out of the tent, Li Youyi felt depressed and heavy; it was a pity the gap in cultivation was too great, otherwise, he would have already drawn his sword and rushed to Burial Immortal Town.

He asked: "Li Ling, is there really no miraculous medicine in this world that can make severed legs grow back?"

Li Ling said: "There are some thousand-year-old essence medicines that can regrow severed legs, but the prerequisite is that one must first abolish their cultivation. Because a Wu Xiu's legs are different from a mortal's; they involve the two springs at the soles of the feet and the meridians of the whole body, not just a simple flesh-and-blood structure. Do you think Fourth Uncle would be willing to abolish his cultivation?"

"Is there no other way?" Li Youyi asked.

Li Ling said: "There is, the Longevity Pill! When a Dao Seed Realm Wu Xiu steps into the Longevity Realm, they can recast their physical body, which is equivalent to the start of a new life journey."

Inside the tent, Li Songlin's voice sounded: "Fourth Girl, stop spouting nonsense. Which eye of yours sees your Fourth Uncle as someone who looks like he could become a Longevity Realm existence? Not to mention the Longevity Pill, we don't even have the qualifications to smell it. Even if we could really get one, the realm is not so easy to break through."

Li Youyi looked back at the tent, knowing clearly that Li Songlin had been feigning ease and openness all along; for anyone to fall from a high-spirited Clan Leader to a cripple who could only sit in a chair, it must be a painful and unbearable thing.

"Longevity Pill!"

Li Youyi silently noted it down and asked: "Li Ling, where is your father? I want to pay a visit to the old gentleman!"

"My father? My father stayed behind in Nine Li City and is not in Yao Guan. My mother is in the camp; do you want to go pay your respects?" Li Ling said.

Li Youyi was thoughtful and asked again: "In your family, is it really your mother who calls the shots?"

"My father just doesn't like dealing with mundane matters; he is a focused person who likes to go into seclusion to study various ancient coffin classics from other worlds," Li Ling said.

Li Youyi asked: "Besides practicing thought power, does he practice martial arts?"

"He probably does, but he doesn't like practicing martial arts, so his attainments are not high," Li Ling said.

Li Youyi asked again: "Is your brother in the camp?"

"You've asked about my whole family; what exactly are you plotting?" Li Ling asked curiously.

Li Youyi didn't know how to explain, so he was silent for a moment and said in a low voice: "I'm leaving! Before I go... Qi Shanshan should be in the camp, right? I want to see her."

"It's not convenient!"

Li Ling refused directly and added: "My brother is not in the camp, but he values her extremely highly and has dispatched two Five Seas Realm experts to guard her. Even for me, seeing her is extremely difficult. I advise you not to have any crooked ideas, otherwise, my brother will fight you to the death. By the way, where are you going?"

"Aren't you able to sense things? Try sensing this time!"

After Li Youyi and Zhao Zhizhuo left the military camp, they mounted their horses.

"Rumble!"

Accompanied by the deafening sound of hooves, the two charged into the dense forest of the Long Mountain range.

Li Youyi appeared to be thinking and said: "Old Zhao, if I wanted you to return to the Suspended Tower military camp and capture a woman without anyone noticing, could you do it?"

"The Suspended Tower Army is full of experts; let alone my current cultivation, even if my cultivation were fully restored, it would be impossible," Zhao Zhizhuo smiled bitterly.

The Long Mountain range was vast, with forests of peaks and dense valleys and streams.

Under the shroud of the Immortal Mist drifting over from Burial Immortal Town, it gave one a sense of an endless sea of forests and boundless, deep, and vast wilderness, as if it would never end.

Ten miles into the mountains, there were no more wild paths.

Li Youyi dismounted and observed the surrounding terrain: "I can help you restore your cultivation, but you must help me capture the person. There is always a way for things in this world; what is as difficult as ascending to heaven for you might be a breeze for some people. The key is to find the right person."

"Who is the person the Young Master is referring to?" Zhao Zhizhuo asked.

Li Youyi said: "Cang Li and Li Ling's mother, that powerful matriarch of your Cang Li Tribe. A person as shrewd as her wouldn't fail to see through Qi Shanshan's true nature; I heard she is the one most opposed to Cang Li and Qi Shanshan being together. You go find her and say I want to take Qi Shanshan away; she will definitely help you."

For the next two days, Li Youyi and Zhao Zhizhuo found a secluded valley and focused all their energy on reopening his Qi sea.

During this process, Zhao Zhizhuo still wore a black cloth bag over his head, sealing his senses.

Although he had his suspicions, he did not point them out, because Li Youyi's favor was truly too great, equivalent to a rebirth.

The evening of the second day, the sky was dark blue.

Zhao Zhizhuo, sitting cross-legged by the water, took a deep breath.

Instantly, the airflow within a three-mile radius surged, and the Immortal Mist and Dharma energy frantically poured into his body.

It drained this entire area of heaven and earth.

His eyes erupted with divine light, ten yards of colorful mist surrounded his body, a deafening sound of wind and thunder came from his lungs, and the gray hair at his temples bloomed with a scorching luster.

"Clatter!"

With his arms raised, over a hundred giant boulders by the stream lifted off the ground, exploding into powder with a roar.

Zhao Zhizhuo looked at his arms, which were flowing with colorful light, felt his reopened Five Seas and the Dharma Qi circulating through his body, and couldn't help but shed tears of excitement, shouting: "I, Zhao Zhizhuo, have returned! After fourteen years of hardship, I have finally reached the end of my suffering."

Across the stream.

Li Youyi, who was tempering his Qi, opened his eyes and asked with a smile: "With your current cultivation, can you be a match for Yang Qingxi?"

Zhao Zhizhuo waved his hands hurriedly: "I have only just reopened my Five Seas; let alone that my physical blood and Qi are far from my peak, just filling the Five Seas with Dharma Qi will take quite some time. My current combat power is probably only slightly better than a Wu Xiu at the fourth stage of the Five Seas Realm."

"Yang Qingxi is a figure of the second tier of the younger generation in Li Province, a Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body. How can I, an Eight Springs mortal at the fourth stage, fight her?"

Li Youyi was curious: "Old Zhao, why don't you tell me what kind of levels the top experts of the younger generation in Li Province are at?"

With his cultivation restored, Zhao Zhizhuo was in high spirits and sat down to explain: "The second tier I just mentioned refers to people like Yang Qingxi and Chen Wenwu, who are fifth-stage Nine Springs Pure Immortal Bodies or Nine Springs Supreme Humans. Figures at this level are all the faces of a sect or faction, or are already cultivating the sixth or seventh sea!"

"The first tier is, of course, Cang Li. He is in a league of his own. Although he is at the fifth stage of the Five Seas Realm, he can fight even when encountering a Dao Seed Realm expert."

"The third tier has about twenty or thirty people; only the top figures of the younger generation of each tribe of the Nine Li Tribe are qualified to be listed."

"Most of them are at the fifth stage of the Five Seas Realm, and some are fourth-stage Pure Immortal Bodies or Supreme Humans."

"The fourth tier has about a hundred people. Anyone who has stepped into the third stage before the age of thirty counts, including Heavenly Fire Realm Great Thought Masters."

Li Youyi frowned in silence, then laughed dumbly: "Then wouldn't I not even be able to make it into the top one hundred?"

"Others have been practicing for twenty years; how long have you been practicing?"

Having spent so much time together, Zhao Zhizhuo was not a fool; how could he not understand Li Youyi's cultivation speed?

He said: "This information of mine is from before the anomaly in Burial Immortal Town. This anomaly has caused the cultivation and physique of many young Wu Xiu to undergo a qualitative leap."

After Zhao Zhizhuo finished speaking, he solemnly knelt on one knee to Li Youyi: "Young Master, this favor is hard to repay in a lifetime; please accept a bow from Old Zhao!"

After standing up.

He mounted his horse and whipped it away: "I will definitely bring Qi Shanshan to see you."

"Since I cannot stand out among the younger generation in Li Province, it seems I can give up the idea of seizing the Longevity Pill at the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival!"

Li Youyi shook his head and sighed, taking out a Light Flame Pill and swallowing it.

There were only three months left until the Lantern Festival; no matter how he chased, he couldn't catch up in martial arts, so his top priority was to first break through to become a Great Thought Master and go to Tang Gu Sea to help Yao Yin pick the Xihe Flower.

But only a few seconds passed.

Li Youyi's eyes erupted with vigorous fighting spirit again, and he took out the Golden Spring and gulped down a mouthful.

While swallowing light to nourish his fire, he hammered his bones.

It is said that one only needs to hammer until the golden bones are small-success to be able to challenge ordinary fifth-stage Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu with physical strength alone. It was precisely because of this terrifying power bonus that the Heartless Golden Ape had desperately searched for Golden Spring, wanting to become the number one expert of the younger generation in the Southern Border.

In the middle of the night.

The sound of hooves shattered the silence of the mountains.

Li Youyi hurried to greet them, only to see Zhao Zhizhuo returning alone.

Zhao Zhizhuo jumped off his horse, stepped forward, his expression excited: "I did not fail the mission! Just as the Young Master expected, the Matriarch hates Qi Shanshan to the bone, but due to the bond between mother and son, she dared not take action herself."

He took a white insect bag the size of a sack from his sleeve and activated it with Dharma Qi.

"Whoosh!"

The insect bag swelled rapidly.

Qi Shanshan, wearing a pale blue, gorgeous brocade outfit, fell out of the bag.

Insect bags can hold living things, but most have very small openings. The larger the opening, the more difficult it is to refine, making them extremely precious; they can hold people or even mounts.

Qi Shanshan had a martial arts cultivation of the Second Spring and quickly stood up to observe her surroundings.

Seeing Li Youyi in the darkness, the panic in her eyes instantly dissipated, and she gracefully twisted a strand of her hair, smiling: "So it's you! Youyi, long time no see. Why did you have to use this method to see Sister Shanshan? I've been missing you too; you haven't come to see me for so long."

Li Youyi observed her, surprised in his heart.

In just over half a year, there was no trace of a modern Earth person left on Qi Shanshan. In addition, because Cang Li had picked exotic dye-mist medicine for her, she had transformed into a Pure Immortal Body; her skin and appearance were impeccable, and her figure and temperament were rarely matched.

With this kind of charm, plus Qi Shanshan's superb mind and methods, it was no wonder Cang Li had fallen for her.

But was she really just Qi Shanshan?

Was the Chan Hai Temple's Mist inside her body?

Li Youyi said: "I want to see the Chan Hai Temple's Mist!"

Qi Shanshan rolled her eyes and then spread her arms: "I can't make her come out to see you; you can try it yourself! No matter what you do, Sister Shanshan won't blame you."

Li Youyi wouldn't fall for her tricks; he secretly mobilized the Dharma Qi in his body to guard against the Chan Hai Temple's Mist, which might appear at any time, and walked toward her cautiously, raising his finger to touch her forehead.

"Rustle!"

A cold night wind blew into the canyon, which was only ten yards wide between the two mountains.

The grass and trees swayed like ghost soldiers.

"If your hand dares to touch her, don't blame me for not remembering past favors and breaking your arms. Li Youyi, if a person loses their bottom line, no matter how great their achievements, they cannot cover up the dirty and filthy nature of their essence. She is your sister-in-law; this time you have touched my reverse scale!"

The voice was transmitted into the valley, word by word.

When the first word sounded, Cang Li was still three miles away.

By the time the words "reverse scale" fell, he was already standing impressively on a mountain rock ten-odd yards away, holding a ten-foot-long silver spear, his eyes like lightning, possessing an aura of deep stillness and sweeping power.