Chapter 202

"Hidden God Person, come with us; the Hidden Lord sent us to pick you up."

Yin Fifteen and Yin Sixteen appeared on the seawall, saying through magic power transmission.

"Wait a moment."

Li Youyi put away the two cloth banners, knowing that this arena could not be set up at the current stage, and looked toward Yin Eleven and Zhu Yuzhao fighting fiercely on the sea: "Why don't we join forces and fight back?"

Yin Fifteen said: "There are still many experts under Young Master who have not appeared; this place is not suitable for a long stay, and your safety is more important than anything. Yin Jiu and Yin Eleven have their own tasks; the battle for fame must be fought, and the Nine Li Clan must use the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival to re-establish the momentum of the ten-million-strong ancient clans."

Li Youyi knew that the situation had already spiraled out of control and that it was indeed dangerous to stay here, so he boarded the seawall with Yin Fifteen and Yin Sixteen and headed toward Zhu Garden.

The injured Qi Wangshu and Brother Zuoqiu Baiyuan had already been brought back to the city by the Wu Xiu of the Brother Zuoqiu gate.

Just as he was about to enter the inner city, Li Youyi stopped and looked into the distance.

Amidst the deafening tiger roars, a huge white tiger leaped onto the city wall and landed on the peak of the three-story city tower.

At the same time, another long voice came from afar: "Brother Zuoqiu Ting, bringing eleven people from the Brother Zuoqiu gate, pays a visit to Young Master, asking for Young Master's guidance."

Yin Jiu, who had beaten back the Coffin Mountain Four Truths, carried peerless demon might, stepped on the long street, carried his axe and rushed toward the city wall, and finally, stopped instantly on the ground below the city wall, forming a pincer attack with Cang Li from heaven and earth.

Zhu Garden, located in the southeast corner of the inner city of the Nancheng, was another secret stronghold of the Nine Li Hidden Sect.

After Qin Garden was exposed, all the young Hidden People lived here.

When Li Youyi, Yin Fifteen, and Yin Sixteen returned, the Hidden Lord had already returned from Taoli Mountain and was guiding Yao Yin to control the combat intent of the Nine Li God and the power contained within the intent.

It could be said that apart from Li Youyi, Yao Yin was the treasure the Hidden Lord valued most.

"Came back alive?"

The Hidden Lord asked with a hint of banter.

Yin Fifteen and Yin Sixteen left tactfully to go and contemplate the skeleton of the Silver-Bone Heaven Clan.

Li Youyi naturally knew that the Hidden Lord would definitely use this opportunity to persuade him to leave Qiuzhou City, so he said: "Everything is within expectations, and it's still safe. Aren't you worried about them over there?"

Even if it was out of control, he could not soften his stance at this moment and led the topic elsewhere.

In Zhu Garden, one could look out at the clusters of magic power mist clouds on the city wall.

The Hidden Lord walked to his side, glanced lightly at the direction of the city wall, and withdrew his gaze: "They won't fight! The battle between Luan Sheng Lin You and Ge Xiantong resulted in both sides being injured, and I estimate they haven't recovered yet. It's only about ten days until New Year's Eve; if they start a war with the Nine Li Clan and Brother Zuoqiu gate at this time, wouldn't all the other parties be happy to death?"

"Then why did they make a move?" Li Youyi asked.

The Hidden Lord said: "You are quite capable; take a guess."

"Could it be that they want to use this opportunity to force out the trump cards of the Nine Li Clan and Brother Zuoqiu gate?"

Just after saying this, Li Youyi shook his head: "No, even if they made a move, it should be the power of the imperial court testing them. Luan Sheng Lin You, in an injured state, cannot possibly want to make wedding clothes for Ge Xiantong again."

"Could it be that they came for me?"

Li Youyi looked at the smile in the Hidden Lord's eyes and shook his head again: "This is even more impossible! Perhaps Hidden Cinder's target is me, but the targets of the others are definitely not me. Otherwise, I couldn't have walked out of the Soldier Ancestor Marsh."

Li Youyi always believed that a group of figures who were attacking the college entrance examination top scorer could not possibly treat him, a student with excellent high school entrance examination results, as a threat and opponent at this critical moment. They could be eliminated along the way, but such a large-scale conflict was too unreasonable.

The Hidden Lord said: "Do you know how many people have fallen into your arena gambling game these past few days, not only losing all their family property but also rushing to Thousand-Mile Mountain to borrow money?"

"Everything is voluntary, right? I also advised them, but I couldn't persuade them." Li Youyi said.

The Hidden Lord said: "Because they are in the game, they have lost their reason. Those who lose money are like this, and those who win money... are they not also like this?"

Li Youyi's eyes were startled, and then he was struck by lightning, his face instantly turning pale, and he woke up as if enlightened, finally understanding where the root of what happened today lay.

The gamblers who lose money are indeed driven by the gambling nature.

The gamblers who win money, constantly tasting sweetness, are they not also driven by greed and wealth?

Everyone finds it difficult to stop.

The former are indeed ruined, and the latter are also hard to escape from being beheaded. It is because this wealth comes too easily, and it is right in front of their eyes, so it will inevitably attract jealousy and cause disaster.

"They came for those Spring Coins, Blood Crystals, Millennium Essence Medicine, and magic tools."

Li Youyi whispered to himself, then smiled bitterly, reflecting on the imbalance in his mentality over the past few days.

He thought he had always been rational and had made many arrangements, but...

He truly did not realize what kind of danger huge wealth would attract, nor did he restrain himself in time, letting the wealth grow wildly, eventually causing a great disaster and almost killing Qi Wangshu and Brother Zuoqiu Baiyuan.

If it had truly been meeting friends through martial arts from the beginning, even if he had defeated all enemies in the world in five moves at the same realm, it would not have caused such a big stir.

"Contentment brings no disgrace, knowing when to stop brings no danger. These words are indeed true; not being able to control one's own greed and mastering wealth one cannot control is a very dangerous thing." Li Youyi said.

Seeing that he already knew where he was wrong and possessed the ability to self-reflect, the Hidden Lord smiled with satisfaction: "The wealth you have accumulated in these few days, let alone them, even I am a little tempted. You must know that those young experts of the Five Seas Realm are already willing to take risks for a single Millennium Essence Medicine."

"Unfortunately, it was all robbed!" Li Youyi sighed.

The Hidden Lord pointed it out directly and asked with a smile: "Was it really all robbed?"

Of course not.

Some of the precious items won in the first four days, such as Millennium Essence Medicine and strange high-grade magic tools, Li Youyi had already put into his boundary bag long ago.

But this did not mean he did not care about the five big boxes of wealth that were robbed.

Now he could only pray to gods and Buddhas, hoping that the Brother Zuoqiu gate could capture that thief woman, and at worst, pray that the thief woman would escape alive. If she was also killed halfway due to greed, Li Youyi would not even know who the creditor was if he wanted to recover it.

Seeing his low spirits, the Hidden Lord thought he was still reflecting, so he said: "Experience is not terrible; what is terrible is not going through it. Only by constantly experiencing can one find the weaknesses of human nature in the seven emotions and six desires, and constantly correct and make up for them. True knowledge comes from a hundred refinements!"

In the next few days, Li Youyi spent his time in Zhu Garden healing and cultivating Qi.

During this period, he met with Brother Qi Xiao to understand the situation of the thief woman; although she was not captured, the people from the other side did not seem to have taken her down either.

It could be considered a misfortune in misfortune.

"Help me investigate the people of the Sui Sect and keep a close eye on them." Li Youyi said.

"Is it the people of the Sui Sect who robbed our money?"

Brother Qi Xiao was furious, as if what was robbed was not money, but his wife and children.

"Don't alert the enemy; wait for my news." Li Youyi said.

"Okay, those sons of bitches from the Sui Sect actually robbed me! Don't worry, my Qi family has dense informants in the Nancheng; they can't escape." Brother Qi Xiao considered himself a person with a peaceful state of mind, but this time he lost face and money, so he was truly anxious!

As New Year's Eve drew closer, the New Year atmosphere in Qiuzhou City became stronger.

Almost everyone living in the state city was a Wu Xiu or Nian Master. Many of them did not leave because of the upcoming Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, but instead looked forward to it.

After all, the massive influx of young Wu Xiu from various states had allowed them to earn a lot of money.

On the night before New Year's Eve, Li Youyi finally completed the cultivation of the third Qi sea.

After taking the Dyeing Glow Strange Medicine, he successfully broke through to the fourth realm of the Five Seas Realm.

The fourth sea was the main sea, and the process of opening the sea was extremely long; even with the assistance of the space power of the Buddha's relic, the expansion took several hours.

Li Youyi used mental power to look inward, and it was indeed as everyone said: the fourth sea was more than ten times larger than the first three seas combined.

The first Qi sea, ten square.

The second Qi sea, sixty-three square.

The third Qi sea, about three hundred and eighty square.

And the fourth Qi sea, he roughly estimated, was about eight thousand square, so huge that he could not believe it was an inner world in a small lung lobe.

Like a great hall twenty meters long, wide, and high, the magic power it could store was simply like a lake or sea.

"No wonder everyone says the fourth realm and third realm of the Five Seas Realm are a world of difference; opening the main sea is indeed different, and one no longer needs to save magic power as much as before."

"And my magic power also seems to have reached the level of Fourth-Grade Qi."

Li Youyi had a feeling of relief and ease as if the clouds had cleared; if he could fill the fourth Qi sea and reach a perfect state, even if he did not join forces with those seven little guys, he would be fully confident in competing with the top experts who had cultivated the seventh sea of the Five Seas Realm.

After trying it out, after the realm breakthrough, using the spring eyes in the palms of his hands to absorb Dao fruits, the Qi accumulation speed increased by more than double.

If he accumulated Qi step by step like this, it would take two or three years to complete the cultivation of the fourth Qi sea.

He naturally could not wait, and thinking of what he had discussed with Master Guan before, he decided to strike the Dao fruit directly into the fourth Qi sea, so he activated the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish and entered the blood mud space in the microscopic world.

In the blood mud space, the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors had already grown to six inches, equivalent to the normal cultivation of the fifth realm of the Five Seas Realm. But their combat power, I fear, could be king in the sixth sea Wu Xiu.

As the realm got higher and higher, the more medicinal materials they needed for every inch they grew.

From five inches to six inches, they ate two of Li Youyi's Millennium Essence Medicines and three Xihe flowers.

I dare not imagine how many Millennium Essence Medicines it would take to raise them to seven inches long?

However, as the realm got higher and higher, their special abilities gradually became prominent.

One of the little guys, whom Li Youyi called "Third Phoenix," could actually release Golden Crow flames, and even his protective magic power could not resist it and would be burned through.

Li Youyi tested it with a mid-grade magic tool battle sword.

The battle sword was directly cut off by its feathers, and signs of melting appeared at the break.

Sitting next to Master Guan's coffin, Li Youyi explained his intention.

Master Guan said: "Today is the end of the year?"

"When I came in, I saw the sky was bright; it is already the last day of the old year." Li Youyi said.

Master Guan said: "Eight thousand square is barely considered large; you can take the risk of striking the Dao fruit directly into it. With the speed at which the Dao fruit naturally releases magic power, it is like a storm vortex, and it can fill the Qi sea in a few breaths. If it cannot be taken out in time, there is a possibility of bursting the Qi sea. This is the first risk!"

"Second, the magic power in the Dao fruit is not what you cultivated; once it enters your body on a large scale, there will be strong rejection. There might even be a situation where magic power is out of control during battle."

"Therefore, Wu Xiu who use this move to accumulate Qi quickly all have to spend a long time in seclusion to temper and grind."

"Now the problem is, the last batch of invitation quotas for the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, as well as the rules, will all be distributed and announced under Taoli Mountain tonight."

"First, it is uncertain whether you can get the last batch of invitations. Second, it is uncertain what the rules are and whether the battle will erupt tonight?"

"You need at least a few days of seclusion to initially temper and temporarily grind. I suggest you wait until you come back from Taoli Mountain tonight before deciding whether to strike the Dao fruit into the fourth Qi sea; that would be safer."

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