Chapter 203

On the afternoon of the end of the year, the sun was just right.

Qiuzhou City was already bustling with noise and excitement, with carriages and horses endless, and the clamor never stopping. Most residents could not feel the tense atmosphere of the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival; only the participants knew that when night fell, the real challenge would come.

The Hidden People in Zhu Garden were still contemplating the skeleton of the Silver-Bone Heaven Clan, dead and silent, without the appearance that a festival should have.

People should be full of cherishing and love for life, but they had become silent monsters who only knew how to cultivate.

How could this be?

Li Youyi went to the courtyard where the silver coffin was placed for a turn, and he really couldn't bear to look at it. So, he pulled Yin Eleven, drove a carriage to a large restaurant in the South City, and bought a whole carriage of delicious food, cooked food, raw vegetables, and several jars of century-old aged wine.

Returned to Zhu Garden.

Li Youyi covered the silver coffin lid.

All the Hidden People who were contemplating and cultivating were expelled from the courtyard.

"Cultivation ends here today; tea, wine, and dishes have all been bought back. Even if you cultivate, you must have time to eat New Year's Eve dinner."

"Yin Twenty-five, go and set up a table, a bigger one, right by the lake."

"Twenty-four, go and stir-fry a few hot dishes, Seeing Yao Yin help."

"Yin Fifteen, you go and build a fire; it might snow again at night."

"Yin Sixteen, you go and buy more fireworks and firecrackers..."

After Li Youyi's arrangements and layout, the Hidden People gradually became busy, from their initial resistance and displeasure.

When everything was ready, everyone sat together at the long wooden table, looking at the table full of dishes and wine, and their emotions were actually heated up.

The Hidden People clinked glasses, told the strange stories they had encountered in the past few years, and laughter filled the air.

What made Li Youyi frown was that the dishes stir-fried by Yin Twenty-four were truly hard to swallow.

She didn't seem to be very good at it; he had entrusted the wrong person.

The sky had already darkened.

Yin Jiu and Yin Ten, dressed in night-traveling clothes, entered Zhu Garden and appeared from invisibility. Hearing the laughter coming from the lake in the distance, both were extremely surprised, thinking they had come to the wrong place.

The two came to the lakeside, gazing at the bonfire and the gathering across the lake, both having a feeling of unreality and trance.

Since entering the Hidden Sect, everyone had always been in a hurry, either discussing serious matters or cultivating and executing tasks separately, at most gathering in twos or threes to discuss cultivation; there had rarely been such a feeling of warm joy like returning home.

Yin Eleven stood up like a snake, rolled up his sleeves, talked eloquently, spit flying, and told of his dangerous battle with the Cinder Spirit expert in the Soldier Ancestor Marsh.

The Hidden Lord appeared silently behind Yin Jiu and Yin Ten and laughed: "Go, you are also Hidden People; there will definitely be common language among young people."

Li Youyi discovered the three people on the other side of the lake and immediately waved and shouted at them.

The other Hidden People also cast their eyes over together.

"Dawdling, I'll go call the three of them."

Yin Twenty-three, drunk, ran and stepped on the water, forcibly dragged the three people on the other side of the lake to the table, pressed them into their seats, and the Hidden Lord was no exception.

Drank three more rounds.

Yin Twenty-three directly put his hand on the Hidden Lord's shoulder, hugged his neck and cried, saying that he was neither a pure immortal body nor could he get the combat intent of the Nine Li God, and the pressure in his heart was great, and so on.

The other Hidden People were all dumbfounded, looking at each other.

Who dared to be so presumptuous in front of the Hidden Lord before?

Fortunately, the Hidden Lord not only did not blame Yin Twenty-three but also comforted him warmly for a while, like a brother and like a father and son.

After New Year's Eve dinner, Yin Jiu, Yin Ten, Yin Eleven, Yin Fifteen, and Yin Sixteen entered the main hall of the three-entry courtyard to discuss the many matters of the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival.

The Hidden Lord listened on the side.

Li Youyi did not participate, as if he had given up on the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, setting off fireworks and firecrackers by the lake with the young Hidden People, preparing to welcome the first New Year in this world.

Firecrackers sounded, fireworks bloomed.

Li Youyi saw that although Yin Twenty-four had a smile on her face, she was full of worries, her eyebrows full of sorrow, so he walked over with his hands behind his back: "White-eyed Twenty-four, I'll teach you a finger technique, do you want to learn?"

Yin Twenty-four was stunned, then laughed: "It wouldn't be that Cihang Aperture Opening Finger that has spread throughout Qiuzhou City?"

"Why wouldn't it be? It just happens to be this move."

Li Youyi said again: "If you can cultivate results like me, you might be able to connect your intent to divinity and condense a special deity intent."

"Do you think everyone is like you, easily connecting intent to divinity?" Yin Twenty-four knew that this guy had cultivated more than one deity intent, simply stepping them, these Nine Springs Pure Immortal Bodies, into the dust.

Li Youyi walked in front of her: "Do you want to learn or not?"

"Learn!"

Yin Twenty-four was naturally willing to learn.

To be precise, among all the young Wu Xiu in Qiuzhou City, there were not many who didn't want to learn; they all felt that this martial arts move was extremely powerful and must be broad and profound, with an extraordinary origin.

Under the fireworks all over the sky, Seeing Yao Yin glanced at the two who were teaching and learning in the distance, and a peerless smile appeared on her exquisite, beautiful, and snow-white face.

Although the two were always fighting and making trouble, there was also a sincere concern in it.

After the five most powerful Hidden People finished their discussion, Yin Ten left first.

Her identity was still the Qin Li Immortal Official of the Immortal Forest.

Yin Jiu and Yin Eleven headed to Taoli Mountain; there were less than two hours left until the announcement of the last batch of invitation quotas and the rules of the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival.

Many young Wu Xiu had already gathered under the Profound Heaven Stone Wall in the morning.

Being as unhurried as them was actually the minority.

The Hidden Lord found Li Youyi: "There are still two hours until the New Year bell rings at five quarters past midnight; it's not too late to regret now. Once the bell rings, I won't be able to protect you out of the city again."

Li Youyi smiled: "I didn't participate in their discussion because I know they represent the Nine Li Hidden Sect and the Nine Li Clan. They carry heavy responsibilities on their bodies and have to fight for the Nine Li Clan; they are inevitably forced by circumstances and are extremely dangerous."

"But I am different; I'm just going to join in the fun and won't get involved in the Hidden Dragon dispute; it shouldn't be that dangerous."

The Hidden Lord shook his head and sighed: "You... it's best if what you say is the truth; it's good to go and experience it. The young Wu Xiu of your generation can be called the Golden Generation of the past thousand years; those who can enter the top ten are definitely second to none in other eras."

"Ten years of chaotic times have tempered countless young dragons."

"Just treat it as going to see the world and see what kind of stunning figures the young experts of today's world are. In five years at the shortest, ten years at the longest, many of these people will go against the trend and become Longevity Realm giants, young dragons turning into true dragons."

"Don't be under too much pressure, and don't do risky things. Yin Jiu and Yin Eleven said they would help you seize the Dragon Seed and Longevity Pill, returning the favor of the Nine Li God combat intent, so your cultivation speed will not fall behind them."

Without the Longevity Pill, casting longevity in a sixty-year cycle is a matter as difficult as ascending to heaven.

In the past sixty years, only Zuoqiu Ling has done it.

But with the help of the Dragon Seed and Longevity Pill, the top talents have a chance to cast longevity in a few years.

What kind of temptation is this?

It was precisely because he was worried that Li Youyi could not restrain himself and would touch things he shouldn't touch at his current cultivation realm that the Hidden Lord told him this.

There are people to fight for him.

"You said it yourself, contentment brings no disgrace, knowing when to stop brings no danger." The Hidden Lord warned repeatedly.

Under the night sky.

Li Youyi, dressed in black night-traveling clothes, walked out of Zhu Garden and headed along the Qiankun Avenue, which could accommodate ten horses side by side, toward the Profound Heaven Stone Wall under Taoli Mountain in the center of the state city.

Go get the invitation!

The inner city of Qiuzhou City was divided into city domains in an Eight Trigrams formation, and the streets were also named after trigrams.

Upper Qian, Lower Kun; this street ran north-south.

The night was deep, and the pedestrians on the street were gradually disappearing; only from under the towering and mysterious ancient ancestral mountain in the center of the city came the sound of boiling clamor, which could be faintly heard even from more than ten miles away.

The young heroes of the twenty-eight states had already gathered there.

"Clatter!"

Behind him, the sound of hooves rang out on the empty and wide street, accompanied by the sound of rotating metal wheels.

Li Youyi did not pay attention at first; there were many Wu Xiu driving to the Profound Heaven Stone Wall tonight, but the sound of hooves got closer and closer, coming to the right side of the street and squeezing toward him.

Li Youyi stopped, immediately mobilized magic power, and became vigilant.

Pulling the carriage was a Silver-Horned Deer strange beast, with a huge body and silver flashing on its head, which was very common in the Lingxiao Life Realm.

The carriage frame stopped beside him.

From inside the carriage came a familiar and pleasant female voice: "Get on."

Li Youyi was greatly surprised, hesitated for a moment, boarded the carriage, and went in.

Immediately, an intoxicating fragrance came; the carriage was spacious and luxuriously decorated, forming a sharp contrast with the simplicity seen from the outside.

A magic tool bone lamp was embedded in the right side of the carriage wall, emitting dark blue radiance.

Jiang Ning wore a white veil, sitting upright in the innermost part of the carriage, her jade hands hidden in her robes.

The blindfold dragon gauze had already been removed.

A pair of stunningly beautiful eyes seemed brighter and more brilliant than the magic tool bone lamp.

Anyone who met these eyes, which were beautiful enough to be suffocating, would find it difficult to move their gaze away, only wanting to sink into them forever, to explore the secrets of the owner's heart, and to find her most essential emotions and thoughts.

Li Youyi was a person who knew how to control himself and did not want to fall into the abyss of emotions hidden in her eyes, so he quickly moved his gaze away, looked at Zhuang Yue sitting on the right side, and smiled: "What a pair of scarlet demon eyes, even more beautiful than the previous pair, it's just that they don't match your temperament."

Zhuang Yue had been sitting upright, but after being praised like this, she immediately became unnatural, and a faint blush rose on her face.

The old man driving the carriage wore a black robe and gently swung his whip.

The strange beast carriage continued to move forward, its speed very slow.

Li Youyi sat down opposite Zhuang Yue: "If I remember correctly, Fairy Yu once said that the Luan Terrace Angel cannot share a room with a man? Do we count as sharing a room now?"

Zhuang Yue corrected: "It's that we cannot share a room alone."

"When we first met, you didn't say that; I didn't even have the qualifications to see the Angel's true body." Li Youyi said.

Jiang Ning looked at him gloomily: "The way we are meeting now is actually against the rules; if someone were to report it, it would be no small trouble. But after repeated consideration, I still felt that I should see you before the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival. Li Youyi, what will it take for you to give up participating in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival? I hope you leave Qiuzhou City immediately."

Li Youyi met her immortal eyes, which were close at hand; he could clearly see the long, curved eyelashes and the complex emotions in her eyes.

Li Youyi's heart trembled slightly, and he moved his gaze to the bone lamp on the carriage wall.

Jiang Ning and the Hidden Lord's repeated advice undoubtedly indicated that the danger of this Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival far exceeded imagination; everyone smelled the blood, and in the face of the situation, there was a sense of helplessness that could only drift with the tide.

Li Youyi said: "Fairy Yu must understand one thing: I am your creditor; you owe me a lot of money that you haven't paid back, and you also owe me a favor. Even if you are ordering me to do something, it should be me ordering you, not you..."

Jiang Ning said: "I am not ordering you to do anything; I just want to know an answer, and then do my best to help you escape this danger and repay your favor. Li Youyi, why are you so stubborn?"

(End of chapter)