Chapter 205

Profound Heaven Stone Wall was a steep cliff under Taoli Mountain, flat as a mirror, the stone material like jade, reaching a hundred zhang high.

It was named after the Zuoqiu ancestor sword-writing the two characters "Profound Heaven."

This stone wall was located in the East City. Below it was built the Martial Arts Square, with seventy-two dragon-coiling stone pillars, which was the venue for important ceremonies of the Zuoqiu gate, with magnificent momentum.

The square, which could accommodate ten thousand people, was already overcrowded at this moment, and not even water could leak through.

Seven spirit lamps the size of sedan chairs floated in mid-air, illuminating the square and the surrounding streets like daylight.

Li Youyi could not squeeze in at all; on the street more than a hundred zhang away from the Profound Heaven Square, Zuoqiu Baiyuan flashed out and smiled at him: "Brother Youyi, the First Inheritor has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Led by Zuoqiu Baiyuan, the two walked toward a fifteen-story dense-eave stone tower located in the southeast corner of the Profound Heaven Square. A large number of Zuoqiu gate Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu guarded under the tower, and there were great Nian Masters protecting the array.

"Young Master Li has arrived!"

"He is Young Master Li, said to be the close friend of the First Inheritor, a supreme genius who defeated all experts of the same realm in five moves."

The Wu Xiu of the Zuoqiu gate looked over with curious and admiring eyes.

When Li Youyi looked at them, everyone smiled and bowed in salute, having great respect and reverence for this future new star of the fourth realm of the Five Seas Realm.

"Brother Youyi has truly become famous in one battle."

Zuoqiu Baiyuan brought him into the tower and walked up the stairs.

Li Youyi said: "Don't mention it; an arena for meeting friends through martial arts was turned into a joke. The money earned with great difficulty was taken away in one pot, doing wedding clothes for others in vain."

"That thief woman, don't let me find out who she is."

Zuoqiu Baiyuan's expression was ugly, and he snorted heavily.

Li Youyi had instructed, so Qi Xiao did not leak the news that the five boxes of Spring Coins might have been robbed by the Sui Sect. The lost wealth, of course, had to be taken back personally to be considered finding back face.

If the Inheritor of the Zuoqiu gate was sent out, even if the wealth was taken back, it might not belong to Li anymore.

During the process of climbing the tower, they occasionally met young Wu Xiu of the Zuoqiu gate, most of whom could call out Li Youyi's name. Among them were Zuoqiu Lanlan and Zuoqiu Baiming, but they did not know that he was Sima Tan in the Thirty-Three Mile Mountain, so they nodded and passed by.

The top floor of the stone tower was lit with four magic tool bone lamps, placed in the southeast, northwest, and four directions of the corridor.

The four-sided tower room had its doors wide open; when passing by, one could see one peerless figure after another sitting on chairs, their auras either as strong as dragons and tigers or subtle and undetectable, all of whom were top-level experts of the young generation of the Zuoqiu gate faction.

The Zuoqiu gate in the Southern Region controlled two and a half states, but its influence actually reached every aspect of the seven states, and many million-strong power clans and sects all listened to its orders.

Other major forces could not possibly dispatch all young experts under thirty to Qiuzhou City to participate in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival. They didn't have the time, didn't have the conditions, and were afraid of being wiped out.

But the Zuoqiu gate could, and didn't have those concerns.

Precisely because of this, everyone knew that the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival was the home field of the Zuoqiu gate, so the Zuoqiu gate naturally became the target of public criticism.

At this moment, half of the top experts of the Zuoqiu gate faction were gathered in the West Tower Room, which could see the grand occasion of the Profound Heaven Square.

Zuoqiu Ting, Zuoqiu Lanchen, and Zuoqiu Qingyin, the three Inheritors, were naturally sitting at the head, whispering and discussing something.

Seeing Li Youyi arrive, Qi Xiao greeted him first, magic power transmitting: "Why did you just arrive? I've been waiting for you all night! You Nine Li Clan people are one more stable than the other; Cang Li and Li Jiu Fu haven't arrived yet either."

"Came after eating New Year's Eve dinner."

Li Youyi also transmitted via magic power, not wanting to disturb the quietness here.

Qi Xiao was startled, then laughed: "You should have said so earlier; come here to eat, our dishes were just cleared. The First Inheritor was generous tonight; ten Dragon-Scale Fish caught from the Soldier Ancestor Marsh were served, each comparable to Millennium Essence Medicine, which can enhance physical strength."

"Aren't you deliberately making me crave it?" Li Youyi said.

"Young Master Li has arrived, come in!"

Zuoqiu Ting's voice sounded, his gaze looking at him with a smile through the window lattice.

In the West Tower Room, many pairs of eyes fell on Li Youyi outside the door.

There was curiosity, doubt, and surprise.

Defeating all enemies of the same realm in five moves was indeed stunning, making many top experts of the Five Seas Realm interested. But the cultivation realm was too low; why was he brought to the top floor?

Those gathered on this floor were all core figures of the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival.

Li Youyi was actually also very puzzled; why did Zuoqiu Ting want to see him?

Zuoqiu Ting's face at this moment had a new change, extremely strange, and he didn't know who it was. The Disguise Art had already reached perfection; if he wasn't sitting between Zuoqiu Lanchen and Zuoqiu Qingyin, with a folding fan in his hand, it would be very difficult to recognize him at first glance.

Unless one used the Heaven-Penetrating Eye.

Zuoqiu Ting stood up, full of smiles, not looking down on Li Youyi because of his low cultivation realm at all, but instead introducing him to the core experts in the tower room extremely solemnly.

"Lanchen, the Second Inheritor of our Zuoqiu gate, you already know. As for this one..."

When it came to Zuoqiu Qingyin, before Zuoqiu Ting could speak.

The pure immortal body woman in green shirt stepped forward, laughing like a silver bell: "Are you really Cang Li's brother-in-law? In the clan now, many elders are mentioning you to me, with the appearance of wanting to matchmake."

She spoke boldly and had a straightforward personality.

Li Youyi was stared at by Zuoqiu Qingyin's extremely aggressive eyes, having a splitting headache, and looked at Zuoqiu Ting: "You had Baiyuan pull me up, wouldn't it be for this matter?"

"The old guys in the clan gave me a task; I have to let you two meet. Whether you can talk or not is your own business!" Zuoqiu Ting laughed.

"Absolutely not; Qingyin girl is an Inheritor of the hundred-vein all-silver, and has a stunningly beautiful appearance; it is absolutely impossible for her to marry down into my Li family's humble gate. Please tell the old seniors of the Zuoqiu gate not to randomly point mandarin ducks!"

After Li Youyi said this, several eyes in the tower room became soft, and the hostility greatly reduced.

It was unknown whether these people felt he was unworthy of Zuoqiu Qingyin, or were themselves admirers of Zuoqiu Qingyin.

"Stunningly beautiful, such a description is indeed very interesting." Zuoqiu Qingyin smiled sweetly.

Seeing that Li Youyi only mentioned marrying down and didn't mention the word "marrying into the family" at all, Zuoqiu Ting felt that this matter was likely yellow, so he stopped talking and said with a solemn expression: "Brother Youyi, I regret letting you write those few cloth banners; I shouldn't have helped you get the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival invitation and brought you into danger."

Li Youyi appeared very indifferent and smiled: "Are you afraid of losing?"

Originally, he knew that wanting to participate in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival to compete for the Longevity Pill was wishful thinking and overestimating his own strength; he had thought of retreating and giving up, but in the end, the fighting spirit in his heart covered everything.

So he came to Qiuzhou City.

At that time, he knew he didn't have a chance, yet he still went forward without hesitation. After months of hard work, he finally fought for a chance; how could he give up at this time?

Zuoqiu Ting said: "Just a Dao Lotus, this young master can still afford to lose. If you are willing to withdraw from the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, I will give it to you now."

Li Youyi looked through the tower window at the Profound Heaven Stone Wall in the distance: "Whether I can get the invitation is still unknown; why does Young Master Zuoqiu have to admit defeat so quickly? By the way! I have an important matter I want to tell you."

Transporting magic power to his eyes, he could see the three rows of wooden plaques hanging on the stone wall in the distance.

On the wooden plaques were the names of young Wu Xiu.

East, South, West, North, four-border Wu Xiu, wooden plaques hung separately.

The first row had ten people from each border, forty in total, called the first rank.

The second row, also forty people in total, called the second rank.

The third row, still forty people, called the third rank.

The invitation quota for the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival was fifty people per border.

In other words, twenty more quotas per border would be announced tonight, eighty people in total. These eighty people obviously could not enter the first rank.

Li Youyi saw the head of the Southern Region's third rank, which was Yin Jiu's alias "Li Jiu Fu." The second of the Southern Region's third rank was Yin Eleven's alias "Li Jiao."

The ten people in the first rank of each border were naturally strong, but the top of the second and third ranks might not be weaker than them, and it was very likely that experts like Yin Jiu and Yin Eleven would suddenly appear and be supplemented among them.

Zuoqiu Ting politely invited everyone in the West Tower Room out: "Speak, what important matter?"

Li Youyi told the news that the imperial court might attack the Zuoqiu gate and the Nine Li Clan tonight; naturally, he would not mention Jiang Ning, but pushed the source of the news to a Hidden Person lurking in the imperial court.

After listening, Zuoqiu Ting was unusually calm: "The imperial court believes that the Zuoqiu gate is strong, has made a fortune in war for ten years, and has hoarded countless resources; once it participates in the struggle for the world, the threat will be greater than the Snow Sword Tang Ting, Zhu Men, Longmen, and Lei Xiao Sect."

"And holding the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival with the Buddha's Crossing View is even more blatantly opposing the imperial court, which can be called rebellious."

"The Zuoqiu gate will naturally be the first to be targeted by them; as long as the young generation of the Zuoqiu gate is destroyed, this Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival will become a joke. The Zuoqiu gate is a joke, and the Buddha's Crossing View is also a joke."

Li Youyi said: "It seems to be within your expectations; it was me who worried in vain. Is Ge Xiantong not afraid of both sides suffering, and the young generation of the imperial court being besieged by a pack of wolves? If I were him, I would definitely form an open fight and secret alliance with the Zuoqiu gate to clear other threats first."

Zuoqiu Ting didn't care: "You, this is typical weakling thinking."

"Oh!"

Li Youyi asked: "Then what is strong thinking?"

"The idea of the number one in the world is strong thinking. Except for the number one in the world, the way other people think about problems is weakling thinking."

"When you are not afraid of anyone, you will not be hesitant or timid."

Zuoqiu Ting continued: "Ask yourself, when you are invincible in the fourth realm of the Five Seas Realm, have you ever thought about forming an alliance with an enemy in the fourth realm of the Five Seas Realm to kill another enemy in the fourth realm of the Five Seas Realm? When you are invincible in the world, the sword in your hand is your best ally; one person and one sword are enough to kill through everything and beat all enemies."

"Do you think, in Ge Xiantong's eyes, what are I, Cang Li, and Li Jiu Fu?"

Li Youyi thought for a moment and said two words: "Prey?"

Zuoqiu Ting said: "Something like that! In the eyes of the number one in the world of the young generation, as long as the Dao Seed Realm does not intervene, all the Wu Xiu in Qiuzhou City are his prey. As long as he kills the three of us, the Zuoqiu gate and the Nine Li Clan will naturally collapse, and at that time, those who will be torn apart by the pack of wolves will be us."

"You must know that the strongest in the world masters a special kind of power. Fear!"

"Yu Yaozi masters fear, so after ten years of war, the Lingxiao Palace still stands tall."

"When powerful forces like the Zuoqiu gate and the Nine Li Clan are killed overnight by Ge Xiantong, this kind of fear is enough to make the people of the Longmen and Lei Xiao Sect tremble; how would they dare to be enemies with the imperial court?"

"Strong thinking wants a battle to settle the universe."

Li Youyi thought: "Is he not worried about Luan Sheng Lin You?"

(End of chapter)