Chapter 160: Young Venerable

The three exotic beast carriages took a complex route with twists and turns, driving for nearly an hour, leaving the city and entering the Cloud-Covering Mountain located by the Soldier Ancestor Marsh.

On this land of Qiu Prefecture, there have been a large number of channelers and Taoist cultivators since ancient times, so many ancient Taoist temples and halls have been built.

Mirror Moon Studio in Cloud-Covering Mountain has a history of thousands of years. It was built along the mountain, with flying eaves and corners hidden among dense trees. A few green lamps floated in the night, and the entire studio was shrouded in a mysterious and wabi-sabi gloomy darkness.

The three exotic beast carriages stopped one after another outside the temple.

Two green-skinned freak-species martial cultivators carried the black metal box down.

Li Youyi saw that the man and woman who walked out of the third carriage had extremely strong cultivation, so he stopped in the distance, not daring to get too close for fear of being perceived by their perception.

"Creak!"

The wooden door of the Taoist temple opened, and two young Taoist priests who looked exactly the same walked out side by side.

The two were dressed in green Taoist robes, their faces thin and long, their skin slightly dark, their brows thick and eyes huge, each holding a silver-silk whisk in their hands. Their eyes were sharp, and their murderous aura was very heavy; they were not in the peaceful state of Taoist cultivators in the mountains.

Li Youyi looked at these two from afar, and the thought "they are Rice People" immediately arose in his heart.

Twins, of course, are not necessarily all Rice People, but they always make people associate them with Rice People.

Chen Xun was very respectful to the two young Taoist priests. After saluting, he carefully reported the incident in the Heavenly Pavilion.

One of the twin young Taoist priests was arrogant and said coldly: "Such a small matter, you Three Chen Palaces couldn't handle it well, and you still have to come to trouble Young Venerable?"

Chen Xun suppressed the anger in his heart and dared not have an opinion: "The person in the iron box, our Three Chen Palaces hoped to kill her once and for all, but it was Lady Qi who insisted on keeping her alive, saying she was still useful. Now that a large number of Nine Li clan experts have appeared in Giant Marsh City, this hot potato cannot be directly thrown to our Three Chen Palaces, right?"

Chen Xun didn't know how many Nine Li clan people had come.

Only by making the situation sound more serious would the other party take it seriously.

That Taoist priest said disdainfully: "It is only the trash of your Three Chen Palaces that takes the Nine Li clan seriously. What Cang Li, what Nine Li young experts, Young Venerable can suppress them all with one finger. We are here this time to..."

The other of the twin young Taoist priests interrupted him and said: "Since it is Lady Qi's goods, send them in!"

Li Youyi saw that the two young Taoist priests had extremely powerful cultivation, their aura was long, and their eyes were very aggressive, like knives and swords shooting out.

The Taoist temple behind them must also be a dragon's den and tiger's lair, and there must be formation runes and the like. Once the metal iron box was sent in, Li Youyi would no longer have the chance to know what was inside.

The more the enemy felt something was a hot potato, the more necessary it was to seize it.

Since he was already here!

Anyway, he had a Guardian Wife!

Li Youyi kept convincing himself to take this risk, secretly calculating the distance to the metal iron box, the time needed, and what kind of item to use to collect it...

By the time he had everything organized in his mind, the two freak-species martial cultivators had already carried the black metal box up more than thirty stone steps, only a few steps away from the Taoist temple gate.

"Rustle!"

A wisp of breeze blew up from below.

The fallen leaves on the stone steps all spun around.

Chen Xun, who was closest to the two freak-species martial cultivators, stopped immediately, sensing that something was wrong. With a "clang," he drew his half-moon fish-scale long knife.

"Boom! Boom!"

The two Third Realm Five Seas freak-species experts had just sensed danger, but before they could release their magic power, they were hit by two palms, their robust bodies thrown out.

The black metal box fell to the ground with a bang, and the chains rattled.

Without a suitable boundary bag, Li Youyi prepared to use the Evil Camel Bell to collect it.

Li Youyi landed beside the black metal box, and just as he took out the bell, the blade light of Chen Xun's horizontal slash, like a curtain of light, had already spread to his eyes.

"Reaction is so fast."

Li Youyi didn't take it head-on. He wrapped the iron box with magic power, kicked the stone steps with his soles, and his body shot out like an arrow from beneath the bright blade curtain.

But, before he landed on the ground, Sheng Qingyan, whose body speed was fast to the extreme, had already waited on the ground one step ahead.

Her waist was slender and her hips were plump, her red lips overflowing with a smile. All the leaves on the surrounding ground flew up, covered with a layer of metallic luster, like thousands of flying knives, shooting toward Li Youyi.

"Fifth Realm of the Five Seas!"

How could Li Youyi have expected that this great beauty who looked as soft as water had such terrifying cultivation?

Another top-notch figure of a prefecture.

It's over. He was a person who had cultivated for less than a year, and this was poking a nest of top-notch experts.

"Boom, boom!"

Li Youyi urged the Corpse Clothing Soft Armor, and blood mist and blood-colored scriptures sprayed out from his body, colliding with the flying leaves.

These leaves were clearly fragile. But under the cover of Sheng Qingyan's magic power, each one was like a heavy punch, constantly scattering the blood mist.

"Hehe!"

Sheng Qingyan's laughter contained chaotic soul-bewitching sounds.

Her slender jade hands waved a soft sword, and instantly, one sword became ten thousand swords. Countless bright sword shadows presented a net shape, slashing toward Li Youyi who was still hovering in mid-air.

Li Youyi formed a palm seal in mid-air, and his battle intent manifested on his back, as if he were carrying an old god in battle.

"Boom!"

The golden Heaven-Turning Divine Seal was struck out together with the palm technique, the sword net exploded, and the sword Qi annihilated.

The palm technique divine seal pressed down toward Sheng Qingyan below the stone steps.

Sheng Qingyan let out a soft "Eh," having never seen such a miraculous palm technique, extremely rigid and fierce, not like something that should exist in the human world. She knew that relying on the soft sword would definitely not be able to block it; how could there be so much softness overcoming rigidity?

"Swish!"

Relying on her extremely mysterious body technique, she took a step back and instantly flew to the top of the tree behind her. She could avoid the opponent's palm seal, peek at the overall situation, and intercept his path in time when the opponent wanted to flee.

Li Youyi didn't land, knowing that once he landed, he wouldn't be able to leave today!

The soles of his feet wearing the Wind-Riding Boots had a hurricane, stepping on the wind and controlling Qi, rushing toward the forest on the right side of Sheng Qingyan. Because the forest on the right was closest to the Soldier Ancestor Marsh, it was the easiest direction to escape.

But standing at the top of the young generation, no one was a fool. Except for Chen Xun and Sheng Qingyan, the third person had already secretly moved to that position just now.

A silver spear thrust out from the ground, the spear body and silver light rushing up tens of meters high, forcing Li Youyi back and making him land on the empty space of the stone steps outside the Taoist temple again.

"Tap, tap!"

That young figure walked out of the forest holding a silver spear: "Tianyi Sect, Huo Qiankun."

The entire process of the exchange just now did not exceed the time of one breath, and every strike of the three great experts was handled to the most precise point in time and attack angle.

Huo Qiankun believed that the martial cultivator who could retreat unscathed under these three attacks already had the qualifications to know his name.

Li Youyi dispersed his invisibility state; being invisible in front of figures of this level had no meaning.

He ignored everyone and put the black iron box into the Evil Camel Bell, saying: "I know you, the number one person of the young generation of the Tianyi Sect, Little Cang Li Huo Qiankun! Among the young experts who use spears in Li Prefecture, below Cang Li, you are one of the top two!"

The two twin Taoist priests who had already walked into the Taoist temple turned back, but from beginning to end, they had no intention of taking action.

One of the Taoist priests said coldly: "You are really trash, not even knowing you were being followed. Hurry and clean him up; you cannot let Mirror Moon Studio be exposed."

"Do you really think I came alone?"

Li Youyi didn't have the idea of fighting many with one, and immediately communicated with Chan Hai Guan Wu, preparing to let her come out to solve the current situation. If she didn't come out, as the owner of the Lesser Yang Star, he could forcibly pull her out.

The faces of everyone present tightened, and they hurriedly released their perception.

Sheng Qingyan stood on the treetop, her body as if weightless, her skirt empty, smiling: "How come it seems like bluffing!"

"May I ask whose side your Excellency is on? Do you know what is in that iron box? Some muddy water cannot be waded."

Chen Xun carried his knife and walked down the stone steps step by step, constantly approaching Li Youyi.

"There is no muddy water in this world that I dare not wade. To be honest, I am curious about which side the person in the Taoist temple behind you belongs to?"

Just as Li Youyi finished speaking.

Silver light surged on Chen Xun's body, crushing the stone steps beneath his feet. A incomparably tall battle intent grew, and he slashed toward Li Youyi with a domineering knife.

On the blade light, fish scales were dense.

Although there was only one knife, the wind of the knife came from all directions.

Li Youyi only felt the ground beneath his feet sinking, the sky collapsing, and the four directions destroying.

There was nowhere to escape and nowhere to avoid.

But he had been prepared for a long time, waving his hand to strike out the Ghost Flag, and slapped the flag surface from behind with one palm.

Nether mist permeated, and a ghost shadow holding a battle spear and wearing armor walked out from the Ghost Flag.

After reaching the Second Realm of the Five Seas, the ghost shadow in the Ghost Flag became incomparably huge, three zhang high, and the body was no longer a shadow, as if it really existed, and the armor and battle spear seemed to be cast from metal.

"Boom!"

The ghost shadow swung the battle spear, colliding with Chen Xun's full-force knife. Instantly, cracks appeared on the dozens of stone steps, and the surrounding trees turned into bare branches in the energy ripples.

The ground beneath Li Youyi's feet cracked, and the flag surface of the Ghost Flag vibrated.

Chen Xun retreated two steps, and all dozens of stone steps collapsed, exploding into rubble.

"A bit interesting!"

Li Youyi had a brand new concept of the power of the Ghost Flag. It was as if a Fifth Realm Five Seas spirit expert was loaded inside, which was much more reliable than the blood-refined magic tool sold to Yin Twenty-Four.

The two twin Taoist priests laughed in unison, and also said in unison: "It is a bit interesting. Your flag is not simple. Our Left and Right Attendants will take it!"

They didn't see them taking a step, but their bodies came left and right at a speed that exceeded Li Youyi's naked eye, and the speed was far superior to Sheng Qingyan, who was known for speed.

"Whoosh!"

Li Youyi hadn't picked up Chan Hai Guan Wu yet, when in the darkness, a folding fan spun and flew over.

The folding fan was like a small world, with a hundred characters floating on it. As it rotated, heaven and earth also rotated, and the wind force released directly rolled Chen Xun, Sheng Qingyan, and Huo Qiankun away, like scarecrows, throwing them into three different directions.

Finally, the fan leaves slapped horizontally, hitting the Left and Right Attendants so that their bodies crashed through the Taoist temple wall, retreating back into the temple.

Their body skin appeared damaged, and wisps of sparks could be seen faintly emerging, extremely eye-catching in the darkness.

"There really is a helper... who is the comer?"

The Left Attendant shouted, stepping on his feet, and the ground beneath his feet turned into a sea of scorching fire.

Li Youyi was also stunned. The cultivation of the Left and Right Attendants was already terrifying enough, but he didn't expect that the guy from the Brother Zuoqiu Sect who loved to pretend was so strong that he didn't even arrive, and just by relying on a folding fan, he could knock the two away.

He still recognized this folding fan; he had seen it in the fairy world space of Burial Immortal Town.

He came, so Li Youyi didn't summon Chan Hai Guan Wu for the time being.

"Swish!"

The characters and brilliance on the folding fan converged, and it spun back, disappearing into the darkness.

A moment later, Brother Zuoqiu Ting shook his folding fan, dashing and elegant, stepping to Li Youyi's side, glancing at him: "You go first, wait for me in Giant Marsh City, I will meet the owner of this place."

Late at night, and it was winter, yet he was still shaking a fan; too pretentious!

Li Youyi wouldn't be polite, immediately stimulating the invisibility power on the night-travel clothes, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Behind him, Brother Zuoqiu Ting's high-pitched voice containing magic power rang out: "Young Venerable came to the territory of the Brother Zuoqiu Sect, why hide your head and show your tail? Notify me, so Ting can come to pay respects earlier!"

Brother Zuoqiu Ting's figure flashed, and he had already landed in front of the Taoist temple gate.

Inside the Taoist temple: "A mere inheritor, also dare to weigh this Venerable's strength? My opponent is the elder generation of your human race. In the young generation, no one is qualified to fight me."

After escaping several li, Li Youyi looked back.

Two palm prints with different power fluctuations collided in the sky above the Taoist temple, and the residual magic power force spread to his front several li away.

The trees in the mountains swayed, and the hurricane roared.

The Taoist temple built along the mountain collapsed as a whole with a bang.

Then all the light disappeared, and the whole world turned into silence.

"Is this still a clash of the young generation?"

Li Youyi cursed after scolding, and then rushed back to Giant Marsh City at the fastest speed, just wanting to be as far away from Mirror Moon Studio as possible.

As for Brother Zuoqiu Ting's safety, he wasn't worried at all. After all, this was the territory of the Brother Zuoqiu Sect. An inheritor of the Brother Zuoqiu Sect dying in his own territory would be the biggest joke.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 161 =====