Chapter 241: Heroes and Good Men

Yin Eleven returned to the Bright Moon Seven Stars Pavilion to preside over the overall situation there.

Qi Xiao had not appeared since returning to Zuihuayin yesterday. Whether for his own future or for the Qi family, he could not escape at the most difficult moment for the Brother Zuoqiu Sect.

The sky gradually brightened.

A simple carriage drove out of the underground Nether Market, driven by a Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu.

Li Youyi, Shi Shishi, and Bai Shu all sat in the carriage, their thoughts different.

Bai Shu is a disaster-fire realm Great Thought Master, who has no obsession with Dragon Bones and Dragon Seeds, only wanting to escape the battlefield and avoid the killing tribulation. But as a member of the Earth Wolf King Army, she could not escape the responsibility on her body.

Shi Shishi secretly looked at Li Youyi, not knowing how his injuries had recovered, and sighed dejectedly: "The Dragon Bone ticket I hid was dug up by someone; I chased for two days but couldn't get it back."

"If hiding tickets were reliable, everyone would have hidden them!"

Li Youyi smelled the scent of blood and pushed open the carriage window.

Cold air blew in.

On the street shrouded in morning mist, Wu Xiu from various powers were collecting corpses and cleaning the streets.

Passing by a mansion, the owner was a Dao Seed Realm powerhouse, and his servants and concubines were happily lighting firecrackers to welcome the Lantern Festival. The air was filled with a pungent smell of gunpowder.

No matter how cruel the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival is, it is only a battlefield for young Wu Xiu of the Five Seas Realm.

"Clang!"

The carriage wheels rolled forward.

From time to time, one could see traces of battle, and young heroes exposed on the street, whether Pure Immortal Bodies or stunning beauties, were all like grass.

Several days of cruel competition had brought the festive atmosphere in the city to freezing point, and pedestrians were sparse.

Li Youyi asked: "Have Brother Zuoqiu Hong and the others been defeated? Are Cang Li and Li Ling still alive?"

Shi Shishi shook his head: "I don't know! These past few days, the various powers in Qiuzhouzhou city have been fighting in a mess, with true and false news flying everywhere; there are even rumors that you died at the hands of Ge Xiantong and died suddenly after escaping."

"Anyway, Brother Zuoqiu Hong and the others suffered heavy casualties. The alliance of the Brother Zuoqiu, Li, and Zhu families, and the powers under them, had dozens of strong-holding experts, and six or seven out of ten died; those still alive might only be a dozen or twenty people."

"Yesterday at dusk, Brother Zuoqiu Hong scattered all the Longevity Pill tickets, Dragon Seed tickets, and Dragon Bone tickets to the besiegers. Then, she led the remnants to retreat and hide."

"The news is spread like this; whether they escaped or not is hard to say."

"If they escaped, perhaps it was to rest for a night, heal their wounds, and nurture their Qi, advancing by retreating, to fight the decisive battle today."

Of the two hundred strong-holding Wu Xiu in the city, only the top few in a state, or the first expert of a sect or gate, had the qualifications to be listed.

Even the Dao Truth and Extinction Truth of Coffin Mountain were only second-class.

The Southern Region alone had more than ten inheritor-level figures, some of whom had long been famous throughout the world, some from Hidden Gates, or hidden experts of major powers.

Everyone had brought out their family foundations!

The other three regions had fewer inheritor-level figures than the Southern Region, but there were at least six or seven.

The alliance of the three families had six or seven out of ten strong-holding Wu Xiu killed in battle, which meant dozens of experts at the level of Dao Truth and Extinction Truth had died. The casualties of the remaining Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu and Great Thought Masters were countless.

Shi Shishi said: "Of the two hundred strong-holding Wu Xiu, at most half remain. Inheritor-level figures died fewer, and I estimate there are ten in total."

Li Youyi fell into silence, deeply experiencing the good intentions of Jiang Ning, the Hidden Lord, and Brother Zuoqiu Hongting in advising him not to participate in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival; they had long foreseen all this.

What kind of mentality did they have?

Was it knowing the danger and moving forward?

Or was it being forced by circumstances, having no choice?

"This is not a grand event!" By the fishing boat, Jiang Ning's warning sounded in Li Youyi's ears again.

This is a battlefield...

A life-and-death battlefield!

Shi Shishi said: "The Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival is much better than the real battlefield outside; at least there are rules, it's just a competition of the younger generation, one can retreat, one can hide."

"Where is Tao Yanyan?" Li Youyi asked suddenly.

Shi Shishi was silent.

Bai Shu said: "Sister Tao was killed in the Wolf Den on the tenth day and couldn't escape."

"Who did it?" Li Youyi asked.

"Don't know! There are countless powers, large and small, in Qiuzhouzhou city, and the experts have different origins. For that Dragon Bone ticket of Tao Yanyan, anyone could have done it."

Bai Shu and Shi Shishi smiled bitterly and shook their heads.

Most of the powers in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival fell before the seventh day, either being wiped out or becoming appendages of the ten-thousand-sect gate. But in the world situation, these powers were still independent individuals, all having Longevity Realm giants, and even transcendents, occupying one side like behemoths.

Don't look at the Earth Wolf King Army having only a few kittens in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival. But the Shi Heavenly King, the Great Master, and the Second Master behind them, as well as the mighty Earth Wolf Iron Cavalry, were calling the wind and rain in Shuzhou.

"My injuries have recovered seven or eight out of ten, right? You go to the Changqing Temple in the East City and wait for me; I will arrive before noon."

Li Youyi jumped out of the carriage, used the Disguise Technique, and disappeared into the crowd.

Before the decisive battle, he wanted to see the Hidden Lord, so he sneaked all the way to Zhuoyuan.

After knocking on the door, the one who opened it was Yin Twenty-Five.

Seeing Li Youyi, Yin Twenty-Five was clearly startled, hurriedly welcomed him in, and then closed the door and sealed the formation.

"Thank heaven and earth, fortunately it was all rumors; we really thought you had..."

"Why, thought you didn't have to pay back the money?"

After entering, Li Youyi looked at the corpses in the garden and the white cloth covering them, and was stunned. Then he released his intent to perceive, finding Zhuoyuan cold and clear, with no one except Yin Twenty-Five.

"What's the situation? Where are they?" Li Youyi asked in a deep voice.

Yin Twenty-Five lowered his head and whispered: "Just helping to collect corpses."

"What do you mean by just helping to collect corpses? The Li clan Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu know to do it; you are Five Seas Realm, once you get involved, you will die without a burial place," Li Youyi's voice was deafening.

A quarter of an hour later.

A knock on the door sounded.

Yin Twenty-Five stared cautiously at Li Youyi, who was sitting on a white stone by the lake.

"Go, go open the door for the heroes and good men," Li Youyi said.

The gate and formation opened, and Yin Twenty-Three, Yin Twenty-Four, and Yao Yin all appeared from invisibility wearing night clothes. Immediately, they touched their bloody boundary bags and took out the corpses inside; they were all Pure Immortal Bodies or female corpses.

Yin Twenty-Four gritted her silver teeth and clenched her fists, her chest heaving: "It's all your fault, pulling me back; I haven't killed enough yet. Too shameless, too despicable, not even sparing the corpses; simply inhuman."

"They weren't human to begin with," Yin Twenty-Three said.

"Hmm, cough, cough..."

Yin Twenty-Five kept winking at them.

The three looked into the distance, saw Li Youyi sitting there like a statue, first startled, then overjoyed, and then uneasy.

Li Youyi was expressionless, staring coldly at Yin Twenty-Four: "You are so capable, why don't you go out and kill another round?"

"Okay, shall we go together?" Yin Twenty-Four said.

"..."

Li Youyi was speechless by her, stood up: "Without my permission, who let you act without authorization? Who led the way?"

"Me!" Yao Yin said.

"Me!" Yin Twenty-Four said.

"Me!" Yin Twenty-Three said.

Yin Twenty-Five, who couldn't watch the house, also stood up and whispered: "Me!"

Li Youyi said: "Good, good, good, all heroes and good men."

Yao Yin was the youngest, her eyes still a bit red, and she softened first: "Those demon kinds, Ember Spirits, all kinds of evil thieves, wanted to force Cang Li, Yin Jiu, and Li Ling to appear, cooking the corpses of the Li clan's Pure Immortal Body Wu Xiu in cauldrons, stripping the female Wu Xiu's corpses of their clothes, and hanging them on the city gate. Such a great humiliation, how could we endure it?"

Yin Twenty-Four raised her chin: "We didn't do anything risky; we just snatched the corpses back from those low-realm Wu Xiu who were collecting them."

"It is unbearable," Yin Twenty-Three said.

Li Youyi frowned; the enemy's methods were indeed inferior, but used on Cang Li, they might have miraculous effects.

This could also be considered good news!

At least it showed they were still alive.

Li Youyi paced back and forth, staring coldly at Yin Twenty-Four: "You rely on having that blood-refining magic artifact; hand it over to me."

Yin Twenty-Four covered the three-headed snake bracelet on her wrist and sneered: "Don't you also rely on having the Blood Handprint Demon Armor and the Purple Heaven Thunder Seal?"

"You still dare to talk back?" Li Youyi said.

Yin Twenty-Four said: "We just collected some corpses; you are so capable, you dare to kill Hua Yuzi, dare to fight Ge Xiantong. Rumors are flying everywhere outside, all saying you died suddenly. Are we afraid? When collecting corpses, did we find your corpse? Are we afraid of you being exposed on the street and having your head gnawed by wild dogs? Li Youyi, you are a God-Hidden Person; I tell you, even if you are ten thousand miles away, one hundred thousand miles away, or even further... as long as we know the news of your death, we will definitely go and bring you back, ten thousand miles... I will go too!"

"You just keep cursing me!"

Yin Twenty-Five had already brought a chair and placed it behind Li Youyi, who was furious.

After Li Youyi sat down, Yao Yin took the initiative to step forward and help him rub his shoulders and beat his back. She whispered: "We were really cautious; we definitely won't act without authorization in the future."

"All swear in the name of the Li clan god that you cannot leave Zhuoyuan for half a step today. Besides, prepare supper; I will bring Yin Jiu and Yin Eleven back safely. Whoever is the most obedient will have the opportunity to get the Dragon Bone and Dragon Seed," Li Youyi closed his eyes, enjoying the rubbing of Yao Yin's soft jade hands.

Hearing this, the hidden people present looked fiery.

Yin Twenty-Four's pretty face was full of surprise: "Dragon Bone and Dragon Seed, we also have a chance to get them?"

"You? You have anti-bones all over your body; you can't refine Dragon Bones. Just anger me more in the future."

"You supervise each other, heroes supervise heroes, good men supervise good men; don't cause any more trouble."

Li Youyi stood up, forced them all to swear, and then left Zhuoyuan.

When leaving, he looked at the corpses in the garden, his eyes became heavy, and his determination became firmer.

Not seeing the Hidden Lord, he could only communicate and discuss with the three masters.

He said: "If I impact the fifth realm of the Five Seas Realm and push myself into higher waves, will it be too dangerous? Compared to me, you know this world better."

"Why are you still not giving up?"

Master Coffin strongly opposed it; three months of tempering Qi was his bottom line.

Li Youyi said: "I have a sense of martial arts matters; I have a way to temporarily stabilize magic power. After the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, I will definitely go into seclusion for a period of time and never be willful again."

"Then fight! It's just the Five Seas Realm; what is there to be timid about? If the Brother Zuoqiu Sect and the Li clan can't even handle this little thing, it's better to throw away the signs of the ten-thousand-sect gate and ten-thousand-ancient clan early."

It was the voice of Chan Hai Guan Wu.

Master Lingwei said: "Since you have a way to temporarily stabilize magic power, then I also support you in following your heart. Cultivation is like grinding a sword; hide the edge at ordinary times, and at the critical moment, you must slash out the most gorgeous sword."

"For the Longevity Pill, Dragon Seed, and Dragon Bone, this risk is worth taking. The first battle as a God-Hidden Person can show spirit," Master Coffin said.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 242 =====