Chapter 238

The pedestrians on the street, including the noodle shop owner, were all scared away by the cold murderous aura just released by Ge Xiantong.

The bridgehead was empty, and the sound disappeared.

In this eerie silence, only the sound of chopsticks and bowls from the two people in the shop remained.

Li Youyi said: "Actually, I am scared to death. Knowing that I will face the jealous killing of the number one expert of the younger generation at dawn, I even wanted to hide at the bottom of the sea outside the South City, hiding until the night after tomorrow before coming out."

Ge Xiantong said: "Wouldn't it be better to flee the city?"

"I'm afraid that fleeing the city is also a dead end." Li Youyi said.

"Wait..."

Ge Xiantong's expression was strange, and he smiled and asked: "What is jealous killing?"

Li Youyi said: "Everyone in Qiuzhou City knows that I defeat all enemies under heaven in five moves in the same realm. When I cultivate to the Seventh Sea, I can also defeat you within five moves. Do you dare to say that you don't have a trace of jealousy and crisis in your heart? Coming to kill me, is it really just for the public?"

Ge Xiantong said solemnly: "If you, Li Youyi, can serve the imperial court, become a loyal and righteous person, support the country, and save the people from fire and water, I would admire you too late, why would I want to kill you?"

"I originally thought that when talent reaches our level, we should benefit the world with a righteous heart, focus on transcendence to cultivate the martial path, and dream of the vast world to chase the sages. But seeing you today, I am very disappointed. Your heart and vision are too narrow, actually still stuck in the jealous competition between two teenagers."

Li Youyi secretly admired Ge Xiantong's sharp words, wanting to use a "jealousy" word to shake his heart, but he put the "jealousy" word into narrowness and hit it back.

And didn't fall into the trap of defeating him in five moves in the same realm.

Li Youyi said: "When poor, cultivate oneself; when successful, benefit the world. With our cultivation in the Five Seas Realm, we can't even cultivate ourselves, needing the protection of forces behind us. Is it too overestimating ourselves to shout the slogan of benefiting the world? We are actually just drifting with the tide, benefiting the world, focusing on transcendence, and chasing dreams of sages. If you can't do any of these, then it is aiming too high. If these three sentences were said by your master Yu Yaozi, there would be some credibility."

Ge Xiantong said: "The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand. Are you not aiming too high? Your heart is bigger than the sky, Li Youyi. If you are allowed to grow up, you will inevitably be a great threat to the imperial court."

Li Youyi said: "So your benefiting the world is just benefiting the imperial court, isn't it narrow?"

Outside, goose-feather snow began to fall.

In the stove, the firewood was burning fiercely.

Ge Xiantong was the first to finish the noodles, wiped his lips: "You have some special relationship with Jiang Ning, even she can't recruit you, so I won't talk nonsense. Don't dawdle, eat quickly, and send you on your way after eating."

"By chance, I helped her once, and she really wanted to help me escape today's killing robbery and return my favor. Unfortunately, our positions are different, and we can only part ways and break up last night."

Li Youyi sighed, then asked seriously: "Ge Xiantong, how long do you think this world will be in chaos?"

Ge Xiantong was amazed at Li Youyi's calm heart, sitting opposite him, calling his name directly, without any fear or cowardice, a dragon among men, nothing more than this.

Soon, his thoughts drifted back to the closed palace gate deep in the Lingxiao Palace, his expression complex, unable to answer Li Youyi's question.

Li Youyi said: "The imperial court has the Far West Ash Territory outside, and countless great enemies inside, such as Snow Sword Tang Ting, Leixiao Sect, Zhu Men, Dragon Gate... without a few years, when the Far West Ash Territory leads the army west, this year the Lingxiao City might be captured. And I, this so-called future great threat, am just a small pawn."

"Killing me, for the imperial court, has no meaning."

Ge Xiantong collected his mind and said: "I heard that you are extremely good at sophistry, but it is useless to me. You know, why must the imperial court crush the Zuoqiu family at the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival? Even kill Zuoqiu Hongting?"

"Why?" Li Youyi said.

Ge Xiantong said: "Know about the Longevity Pill? Those who get the Longevity Pill get the world."

"But only the Duer Temple can refine the Longevity Pill, sending ten pills to the Lingxiao Realm every sixty years. In the past thousand years, these Longevity Pills have been sent to the Lingxiao Palace, and the imperial court decides who to reward."

Li Youyi knew the Longevity Pill was precious, but didn't expect it to be precious to this extent: "Ten pills every sixty years, I'm afraid the imperial court digests them all internally!"

Ge Xiantong nodded: "Without the Longevity Pill, even the Lingxiao First Armor like Zuoqiu Ling needs to endure until fifty years old to break through to longevity. This achievement of breaking through to longevity in sixty years makes countless Dao-Seed Realm Wu Xiu admire him to the ground, unable to chase, and shocked as a god."

"But the people of the world don't know that with the help of the Longevity Pill, many Wu Xiu of the imperial court whose talent is inferior to Zuoqiu Ling have already stepped into the longevity realm in their thirties or forties."

Li Youyi said: "The successors of the ten-million-member sects don't have the qualifications to take the ten Longevity Pills every sixty years?"

"Don't even have the qualifications to hear about it."

Ge Xiantong said: "The three Palace Masters who hold the core power of the imperial court, and the eight transcendents, each behind them is a force. Their disciples and descendants among the geniuses are all waiting for these ten Longevity Pills, not enough to divide at all."

Li Youyi said: "The imperial court acts like this, and having the end of being an enemy of the world today is truly self-inflicted."

Ge Xiantong did not deny this: "If you sit in that position, you won't be much better. If you don't give it to your own disciples and descendants, when your longevity is exhausted in a thousand years, who will support the family, who will guard your tomb? Giving resources to outsiders, outsiders will raid your home and dig your tomb."

Li Youyi said: "So, competing for the support of the Duer Temple is essentially competing for the distribution power of the Longevity Pill. Even if you beat the Zuoqiu family and killed Zuoqiu Hongting, the Duer Temple will turn to support other righteous armies. They are obviously disappointed with the imperial court and have already abandoned you."

"We are not fighting for the Duer Temple, but for the Zuoqiu family. It's hard to understand, right?" Ge Xiantong said: "Didn't you say earlier that the Far West Ash Territory coming west is known to everyone. If it really comes west, which place will be affected first?"

"Western Territory and Southern Territory." Li Youyi said.

The Far West Ash Territory is obviously already laying out, otherwise there wouldn't be so many forces in the Western and Southern Territories throwing themselves under the Luan and Lin twins' banner.

Ge Xiantong said: "If the Zuoqiu family loses the support of the Duer Temple, facing the Far West Ash Territory. The only two paths left for them are to submit to the Far West Ash Territory or surrender to the imperial court. Zhu Men is the same."

Li Youyi finally realized that standing from the perspective of the imperial court, it was thinking about problems like this.

If the Far West Ash Territory really sweeps across the world...

"Facing the disaster of extermination, facing the life and death of the people in several prefectures, the high-level officials of the Zuoqiu family and Zhu Men don't compromise, they have to compromise. And Zuoqiu Hongting, a junior who died in a fair fight, is like a stone thrown into the river in the face of the world's situation, just some waves." Ge Xiantong said.

"Survival and power are both the art of compromise."

Li Youyi nodded gently, and asked again: "Are you so sure they will watch a young emperor be killed by you?"

Ge Xiantong smiled: "In the eyes of the Duer Temple, the martial arts foundation of a young emperor can be cultivated. As long as they are willing, the Dragon Palace can be promoted, Lu Cang sheng and Tang Wanqiu can also be. Their rules and majesty are ten or a hundred times more important than the life of a young emperor."

"The Duer Temple has not made a final decision, the Zuoqiu family just has the greatest chance. So Snow Sword Tang Ting, Dragon Gate, Zhu Men, Leixiao Sect... everyone has come, all are competing."

"The Nine Li tribe can only choose the Zuoqiu family, and the Zuoqiu family is just two more paths than the Nine Li tribe."

"In troubled times, everyone is standing on the edge of a cliff, no one can be at ease, all are very helpless."

Ge Xiantong's murderous aura permeated again, his eyes no longer soft: "Zuoqiu Hongting deserves to die! And you, this young emperor who popped out unexpectedly, isn't it a capital crime?"

Li Youyi calculated the time, almost three quarters, and didn't know if Li Ling, Zuoqiu Hongting, and Cang Li could understand his meaning. Helping them lure Ge Xiantong away was already the limit of what Li Youyi could do.

Just the invisible murderous aura made Li Youyi feel uncomfortable as if he were trapped in a muddy swamp, as if things were squeezing him from all directions.

"After fighting all night, your magic Qi consumption should be very serious, right? Are you still in your peak state?" Li Youyi adjusted his breathing, letting himself enter the state of wise and clear mind, to deal with the most difficult life-and-death battle next.

Ge Xiantong said: "To kill you, I shouldn't need my peak state! I am in the Seventh Sea, breathing and exhaling can absorb heaven and earth magic Qi, recovering very quickly."

Li Youyi felt Ge Xiantong's combat art intent pressing over, his body instantly ten thousand jin heavy, murderous intent infinite.

The white mist was vast, the scene lost, infinitely vast.

His five senses were lost by the opponent's combat art intent.

"Wow!"

Opposite, deep in the void behind Ge Xiantong, a sun and a moon rose, like the two eyes of a cosmic giant, looking down on all living beings on the earth.

Qi Xiao and Shi Shi, who had been hiding all night, were looking for Li Youyi in this city area.

Previously, hiding in the dark, they naturally heard the three long roars from the city tower, knowing Li Youyi was nearby.

The two stopped abruptly, looking across the big river at the noodle shop next to the bridgehead.

It was eerie there, all the snowflakes briefly stopped in the void, forming a unique field. They could see Li Youyi sitting facing them, and another white back, not knowing who it was.

"Brother Youyi..." Shi Shi shouted.

"Boom!"

From the direction of the State Governor's Mansion, a deafening roar came, and the earth shook.

The Zuoqiu family's Great Mind Master team struck out runes all over the sky.

Three more high-grade hundred-character scripture magic artifacts rose from the State Governor's Mansion, releasing brilliant light, smashing toward the position where the imperial court camp was located. The array was pierced layer by layer, the war drums beat, tigers roared and apes cried, and a life-and-death battle that determined the victory of the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival broke out.

And at this moment, the core leader of the imperial court Wu Xiu was not in the center of the battlefield.

Ge Xiantong released his combat art intent, and the battle at the State Governor's Mansion started almost at the same time.

Li Youyi secretly called "Heaven helps me", already feeling the loosening of Ge Xiantong's combat art intent, feeling his current suspicion, so he added fire, deliberately provoking him: "Ge Xiantong, you fell into a trap! Three long roars represent breaking out from the imperial court direction after three quarters. Without you sitting in town, who is the opponent of Zuoqiu Hongting, Cang Li, and Zhu Yibai? This bowl of noodles is very expensive."

At the same time, the hand holding the bowl erupted with magic Qi light.

"Bang!"

While shattering the noodle bowl with magic Qi, he also triggered the Earth Spirit Ash Spring hidden at the bottom of the bowl.

The Ash Spring exploded instantly, turning into gray mist that filled the entire shop.