Chapter 164

The Soldier Ancestor Marsh is vast and has many mysterious legends circulating.

Some say that every morning, mirage palaces rise on the sea, and ancient city ruins appear. Some have entered the mirage and arrived at a real place of ruins, bringing back countless scriptures and battle weapons.

Others say that every full moon night, from the reflection of the moon on the sea, one can enter an immortal realm space like a mirror flower and water moon, which contains countless precious medicines and where one can dig up immortal soil and spirit soil.

There are too many legends, some true and some false, and they cannot be fully believed.

But since ancient times, there have indeed been countless Longevity Realm giants sailing and traveling in the Soldier Ancestor Marsh, looking for opportunities to improve further.

On the boundless marsh sea, a crimson magic weapon giant ship was riding the wind and waves, moving rapidly forward.

The left and right attendants were still wearing Taoist robes, but the human skin on their bodies had been changed.

They were still twin rice people.

"Plop!"

"Plop!"

Two bloody corpses were kicked into the water.

They were already dead, having been painfully tortured to death while being skinned alive.

The smell of blood attracted exotic beasts in the water, and amidst the rolling waves, the two corpses disappeared from the surface.

The Night Scale Giant Beast flapped a pair of black wings more than ten meters long and dived from mid-air. When it approached the crimson magic weapon giant ship, Yuwen Tuozhen, who was standing on its back, flashed and flew down, landing lightly on the ship's deck.

The Night Scale Giant Beast flew up again, circling above the giant ship, its eyes sharp, patrolling the sea surface.

Yuwen Tuozhen had elegant purple hair, was heroic and upright, and had a crescent moon mark on his brow; his temperament was noble but his whole body was cold and gloomy.

"Tuozhen is here, come and taste the tea I brewed, Blood Dragon Robe sent by the Dragon Court."

An elegant and dashing pure immortal body figure sat at the bow of the ship, facing the bright moon on the sea, using a pottery jar to brew tea, his fingers adding firewood with elegant and meticulous movements.

He was spotless, not like a guest of the human world, full of transcendent charm.

In the jar, the water was already bubbling and boiling, and the tea fragrance filled the ship.

Facing this figure, Night City Young City Lord Yuwen Tuozhen lost his usual hawk-like and unruly air. As he walked over, he smiled and said: "Young Venerable has good taste; this Blood Dragon Robe is said to be more precious than immortal soil, producing only dozens of jin every hundred years. Brewing tea with it can increase blood energy and forge a powerful body like a dragon or phoenix."

"Sit down first, it still needs a bit more heat."

The stars on the robes of Luan Sheng Lin You twinkled, as if a sea of stars were draped over him. He sighed: "The Mirror Moon Studio was destroyed; that first successor of the Zuoqiu Sect has some ability. Look, he even forced me out to sea!"

Yuwen Tuozhen said: "Is his strength that strong?"

"Very strong, fought three moves with Hua Yuzi, evenly matched," Luan Sheng Lin You said.

Yuwen Tuozhen was moved; he knew that the four great experts "Hua, Qi, Ming, Cang" brought by the Young Venerable from the Far West Ash Region had Hua Yuzi ranked first.

Yuwen Tuozhen said: "I originally thought Cangli was the number one in the Southern Region; now it seems this Zuoqiu Ting and he are at least evenly matched. But to say he could force the Young Venerable out to sea is giving him too much credit. The Young Venerable came for Jiang Ning, right?"

"I still want to taste the Feather Fairy rated by the Immortal Forest, lest Qi Jin peels off her skin directly, making her lose all aesthetic beauty, then there would be no appetite at all! Have you found her?" Luan Sheng Lin You asked.

Yuwen Tuozhen said: "Locked onto a sea area and is narrowing the search range."

"The news has leaked; you must be prepared. The tea is ready, you taste it first."

Luan Sheng Lin You picked up the pottery jar and poured him a full cup.

The tea was bright red, like fresh blood.

The overflowing fragrance turned into strands of blood-red dragon shadows, thousands of them, circling and flying around the entire bow of the ship.

"Thank you, Young Venerable."

Yuwen Tuozhen held the cup with both hands and drank it: "What if the news leaks? The older generation of the imperial court in Qiu Province will naturally be held back by my father. Does the younger generation of the imperial court in Qiu Province have anyone who can stand on the stage? The provincial capital has many experts, but by the time they rush over, they can only collect Jiang Ning's corpse."

"As for Zuoqiu Ting, after his battle with Hua Yuzi, he should understand that he and the Young Venerable are not opponents on the same level; he would be too terrified to dare to actively oppose us, right?"

"However, the news leaking has indeed made us quite passive. Everything is put on the table, and it's not fun anymore! How could such a thing happen?"

Luan Sheng Lin You smiled faintly: "If I say it, you probably won't believe it; the one causing trouble is actually an unknown person with mediocre strength. Don't worry about it, Chen Wenwu has already gone to investigate! Whoever makes a mistake, whoever remedies it; if it can't be remedied, then they can only fill it with their own life."

It was a very calm sentence, but hearing it in Yuwen Tuozhen's ears, he almost couldn't hold the teacup in his hand, feeling it was extremely heavy.

Blood Mud Space.

Chan Hai Guan Wu recounted: "The last ancient immortal giant beast in this region around the Lingxiao Life Realm is the Yujia."

"Ten thousand years ago, Yujia gave birth to a flying dragon and a flying phoenix."

"Let's talk about the flying dragon first. The flying dragon likes to eat people and appears once every six hundred years, eating at least one province's worth of people each time. About two thousand eight hundred years ago, I beheaded it in the East Sea, extracted its dragon soul, divided it into three hundred, and cast them into three hundred provincial governor robes."

"The flying dragon gave birth to a Qilin! I searched for a long time back then, wanting to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots, but I didn't find it."

"It should be like the Dragon Gate; at that stage, it escaped to another life realm."

"As for the Far West Ash Region you asked about, it is related to the flying phoenix."

"The flying dragon gave birth to a Qilin, and the flying phoenix gave birth to a Luan bird. It is said that the five Luan birds in the Far West Ash Region were born from the flying phoenix and the ancestor of the Cinder Spirits; that was several thousand years ago!"

Li Youyi said: "So, besides Cinder Spirits, there are also Luan birds in the Far West Ash Region?"

"That was the pattern a thousand years ago! As for the current situation, who knows?" Chan Hai Guan Wu asked: "Have you encountered them?"

Li Youyi nodded.

Chan Hai Guan Wu knew the strength of the Far West Ash Region: "Can you avoid them?"

"Cannot avoid!"

Li Youyi said very firmly.

Chan Hai Guan Wu pondered for a moment: "Here, when it's a last resort, I can intervene to help you. But once you enter the Qiu Province provincial capital, I absolutely cannot intervene; there are too many old guys there, and intervening will expose me."

"Actually..."

Li Youyi took out Zhu Qinfeng's provincial governor robe and smiled: "Why don't you help me activate it first? Do you have this ability now?"

Chan Hai Guan Wu had long guessed that he had stripped the official robe from Zhu Qinfeng's skeleton: "This thing, in a situation where you are not absolutely sure you won't expose your identity, it's best not to use it."

Half an hour later, Li Youyi took the provincial governor robe reactivated by Chan Hai Guan Wu and prepared to leave, glancing at the huge silver coffin, revealing a thoughtful state.

Busy all night, naturally sleepless.

Early the next morning, just as the sky brightened.

Yin Ten brought back news: "Jiang Ning escaped into the Soldier Ancestor Marsh, and Night City and Coffin Mountain have gathered a large number of people to search on the sea; this should only be the power on the surface."

Not long after, Yin Nine returned: "I have chatted with Yin Two! The news on his side is that Yuwen Yan of Night City and Xu Fudu of Coffin Mountain have secretly arrived in Qiu Province. In addition, a transcendent from the Far West Ash Region personally went to visit the Ancestral Realm Peach Plum Mountain of the Zuoqiu Sect; the day before yesterday, Peach Plum Mountain was filled with flying clouds, and ten thousand birds came to welcome."

Yin Eleven said: "This is a good thing for the Nine Li clan, indicating that the battle situation on the Lizhou side must have already passed the initial intense stage and entered a stalemate and tug-of-war. Otherwise, why would Yuwen Yan and Xu Fudu come here?"

Yin Ten said: "A good thing? Since the high-level figures have already talked, it means that solving the Cinder Spirits can only rely on us young martial cultivators. They are targeting the Zuoqiu Sect, and the Nine Li clan is now deeply bound to the Zuoqiu Sect; we simply have no way to stay out of it."

"It's not about solving the Cinder Spirits, it's about rescuing Senior Brother Thirteen."

Li Youyi added: "Last night, I chatted with the successor of the Zuoqiu Sect; he has already fought with that batch of Cinder Spirits, and looking at his expression and state at the time, the situation is not optimistic. The enemy is far more powerful than we imagined!"

Yin Eleven exclaimed: "Amazing, you can even talk to the successor of the Zuoqiu Sect; I don't even have that qualification!"

Yin Ten had seen Zhuang Yue's tragic state and had a sense of anger in her heart: "Are you afraid? That Young Venerable dares to be the backer of the three major sects, which makes them the enemy of our Nine Li clan; the Hidden Sect fears no enemy."

Yin Nine said: "To be precise, whether it is hostile or not does not depend on us at all. We want to avoid war, but others won't allow it."

Li Youyi was afraid they wouldn't dare, saying: "Since you all have such a strong will to fight, choose a representative. Zuoqiu Ting wants to compete with them and wants to see the Divine Hidden One of the Nine Li Hidden Sect; who will go to talk to him?"

"I'll go," Yin Eleven said.

Yin Nine and Yin Ten stared at her together.

"I'll go serve tea and pour water, that should be no problem, right?" Yin Eleven whispered.

Yin Nine said: "I'd better go! On the Lizhou side, the Nine Li clan needs the support of the Zuoqiu Sect, and the strength of the Nine Li Hidden Sect cannot be too weak."

"Fine, Yin Ten and I will go talk to him," Li Youyi said.

Yin Nine said: "..."

Li Youyi said: "Yin Nine has the strongest strength and should rush to the Soldier Ancestor Marsh immediately; you shouldn't delay time here. By the way, will the Dao Seed Realm Hidden Ones intervene to rescue Senior Brother Thirteen?"

Yin Nine said: "Don't think too much; this is a confrontation below the Dao Seed Realm, and all parties have mostly reached a tacit understanding. If the magic battle escalates step by step, the storm will be much more terrifying than the current Lizhou, and no party can withstand it. The one who benefits in the end will only be the force that hasn't participated."

"Why did Zuoqiu Ting only invite the Nine Li clan? Because he knows very well that this battle is closely related to the interests of the Nine Li clan, and we cannot avoid it. As for the Eastern, Western, and Northern Regions, if he wants to invite them to deal with the Cinder Spirits together, the price the Zuoqiu Sect would have to pay would be huge!"

Li Youyi said: "The Far West Ash Region is in the west; they can have a thousand responses in the Southern Region, and multiple forces listen to their orders. Their influence in the Western Region will only be greater."

Yin Nine and Yin Eleven immediately left the city, went out to sea, and entered the Soldier Ancestor Marsh.

Zuoqiu Ting was very efficient; last night, he worked overnight to collect all the medicinal herbs Li Youyi needed, and even brought the thousand-year essence medicine and the alchemy furnace together.

At this time, the sun had just passed the eaves, and the sunlight passed through the branches and leaves, casting mottled shadows on the ground.

Li Youyi brought Zuoqiu Ting into the Immortal Pavilion and came to Yin Ten's room.

Zuoqiu Ting first looked at Zhuang Yue lying on the bed, and then looked at Yin Ten with a scrutinizing and surprised gaze: "Who in the world would have thought that Miss Qin Li of the Immortal Forest is actually the Divine Hidden One of the Nine Li Hidden Sect. Li Youyi, you aren't just finding someone random to fool me, are you?"

Before the words fell, Zuoqiu Ting disappeared from where he was, the folding fan in his hand like a sword, stabbing straight at Yin Ten's brow.

The speed was extremely fast, and the strike was without warning.

"Whoosh!"

Yin Ten stood where she was, her steps not moving, and a formation appeared with her brow as the center, like a heaven and earth compass unfolding, with countless characters floating on it.

Zuoqiu Ting's folding fan and arm immediately fell into the formation, and his whole person was pulled by the formation.

"Whoosh!"

The next instant, he had returned to his original position and smiled: "Outside, you are a master of both dance and sword, but I didn't expect you to be a Disaster Fire Realm formation master; such strength doesn't look like someone found temporarily."

Yin Ten remained dignified and beautiful, secretly surprised by Zuoqiu Ting's terrifying strength; fortunately, he was only testing her and didn't use his full strength, otherwise, she would have mostly been exposed.

"Young Master Zuoqiu, doubting this and that, could it be that you think a woman cannot become a Divine Hidden One?" Yin Ten's words were sharp, and she added: "Now, you are the one who came to our door to ask for our help; I am very disappointed with this attitude!"

Negotiating with a woman, with Zuoqiu Ting's personality, he definitely couldn't take advantage. Li Youyi felt relieved, took out a bottle of Golden Spring, took a sip, and continued to forge his golden bones on his own.

(End of chapter)