Chapter 256

The scarred old man laughed: "It seems it has truly been too long since I left; the disciples in the sect actually treat us as outsiders. The name Yin Eleven was once used by me, but that was a long, long time ago; now call me Old Qin."

The tiger-headed old man sighed: "Call me Old Zhuo! The current Yin Jun praised you all to the heavens, saying how amazing you were in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, and that if he didn't protect the Dao, you would be wiped out by hostile factions. This didn't just successfully arouse our curiosity and lead us to the center of this vortex of right and wrong. It's truly pit-digging!"

The Nine Li Hidden Gate selects sixty Hidden Ones and one Yin Jun every sixty years.

A cycle of sixty years.

The current Divine Hidden One is naturally Li Youyi. The newest Hidden One is Hidden Twenty-Six, Yao Yin.

After thirty-four years, when Hidden Sixty is selected, it will enter the next cycle. At that time, Li Youyi will change from the Divine Hidden One to the current Yin Jun.

The current Yin Jun is responsible for all matters inside and outside the Hidden Gate, can mobilize all Hidden Ones and resources, and is also responsible for selecting and cultivating the next generation of Divine Hidden Ones.

Theoretically, during special periods, even the ancient Hidden Ones are subject to the command of the current Yin Jun.

Old Qin and Old Zhuo were invited out by the current Yin Jun using the Hidden Ancestor Token to protect Li Youyi's Dao.

Learning that they were seniors of the Hidden Gate, Yin Eleven instantly became smug: "Then how did we perform?"

"So-so!"

Old Qin's gaze fell on Li Youyi, and he exchanged a glance with Old Zhuo, both bowing with cupped fists.

Although the Divine Hidden One had not yet grown up, he could sit on equal footing with them. Because the requirement of the Nine Li Hidden Gate for the Divine Hidden One is that he must cultivate leadership qualities.

Only by giving a sufficiently high status can leadership qualities be cultivated.

Li Youyi returned the salute and asked: "Where is Yin Jun?"

Old Zhuo said: "He went into the city to grab Longevity Pills, Dragon Seeds, and Dragon Bones, all for you guys. Originally, relying on the invitations and tickets you got, you could exchange for quite a few, but now only the old guys can do it themselves!"

"Stop talking nonsense! The current Yin Jun went to help the Zuoqiu Family maintain order in the city; since their injuries have stabilized, we are going to help too. The Zuoqiu Family must be short of manpower tonight, and many people are looting, so the order is too chaotic."

Old Qin pulled Old Zhuo and rushed down the mountain eagerly.

Li Youyi asked: "Li Ling, is your brother born to your parents?"

Li Ling was startled, not knowing why he asked such a question for no reason, but this... was certainly not a good word, and she snorted coldly at Li Youyi.

Li Youyi secretly admired Yin Jun, who always knew what he should do at every moment.

Although Cang Li was heavily injured and dying, Yin Jun staying behind seemed to be of no help, instead delaying the best time to seize the Longevity Pills, Dragon Seeds, and Dragon Bones.

In his mind, he recalled it.

The Dragon Palace overturned, and various treasures flew toward all parts of the city like a meteor shower.

Li Youyi slapped his thigh hard, hating the two demon powerhouses who suddenly killed their way out; he could have exchanged for quite a few treasures to lay a solid foundation for the Dao-Seed Realm.

Now it's good; after fighting to the death for half a month, he didn't get anything.

He could only hope that Yin Jun would have some gains.

After all, so many Longevity Pills were not easy to refine, and the Crossing-the-Tribulation Temple might not be able to take out twenty more immediately. Dragon Seeds and Dragon Bones were even more rare; once lost, they could never be had again.

Peach Plum Mountain was the safest place in Qiuzhou City, covered by a large number of formations and runes.

On the Third Heaven, there was a concentrated area of buildings and cultivation caves, where the genius disciples of the direct lineage of the Zuoqiu Family almost all lived.

After adjusting his breath for a while, his injuries were temporarily suppressed.

Ignoring the obstruction of Yin Twenty-Four and Yao Yin, Li Youyi walked out of the hall, walked along a stone mountain path a zhang wide, and headed south, feeling extremely interested in the duel between the transcendent ones and the long-lived ones, as if his bloodline had been awakened, fanatical and excited.

This represented his future martial arts direction, a height that must be pursued.

How strong is the strongest person in the world?

Is it really as in the myths and legends, opening heaven and earth, omnipotent?

The houses and halls on the Third Heaven were all built along the cliffs, with ancient and huge peach trees growing, and the peach blossoms on the trees were in full bloom, constantly drifting down like snowflakes.

Yin Twenty-Four and Yao Yin followed him closely on the left and right, supporting him.

Arriving at the cliff edge near the South City, Li Youyi circulated magic power to his eyes and looked into the distance, only seeing huge demon shadows flying past outside the formation light gauze, radiating powerful auras.

Below, the outer city of the South City was shattered.

The houses had all collapsed, the earth was torn, and seawater was back-flowing. In the ruins, countless residents died miserably.

But the inner city was intact, in the shape of the Eight Trigrams, as solid as gold.

"Whoosh! Whoosh..."

In the eight small Dao-realms of the eight city districts of the inner city, a light pillar rose in each, combining with the light pillar rising from Peach Plum Mountain. Instantly, formation scripts rose from the ground of the entire city, protecting Qiuzhou City into a sea of formation light.

Li Youyi said: "Did they not break into the city? I remember the city-protecting formation light gauze seemed to be torn open, and terrifying figures broke in."

Behind him came a steady and thick voice: "If Qiuzhou City were so easy to break, then any place in the entire Lingxiao Living Realm could be pushed horizontally by them!"

Li Youyi looked back, his eyes full of surprise, and hurriedly saluted: "Greetings, Family Head."

Zuoqiu Ling was not only the First of the Lingxiao Armor but also the Family Head of the Zuoqiu Family.

Of course, family heads like them, just like the current Yin Jun of the Nine Li Hidden Gate, were only responsible for human affairs.

Things above the long-lived ones were not something they could solve.

The consensus of the martial arts world is that the Dao-Seed Realm is the strongest in the human world, while the Long-Lived Realm no longer belongs to the category of mortals and are creatures competing with heaven and earth for longevity. Before the ten-year war broke out, the long-lived ones almost never participated in human affairs, only pursuing cultivation and longevity.

Zuoqiu Ling was more than two meters tall, very tall and handsome, wearing armor, ready to fight at any time.

This person, known as the "sitting like a divine mountain, lying like a dark dragon, walking chasing the sun and moon" transcendent powerhouse, was not as cold and arrogant as the legends said, his eyes quite gentle.

He added: "It's not that simple! The main city and important places of a thousand-year family, after thousands of years of arrangement, can resist even if a Martial Dao Son of Heaven arrives. If it were so easy to break through, the Second Palace Master would have long led the transcendent ones of the imperial court to destroy the mountain gates of the rebel armies one by one."

Li Youyi's nervous and worried heart was temporarily put down: "Is Zuoqiu Hong okay?"

"She is fine, but she hasn't awakened yet." Zuoqiu Ling said.

"Boom!"

In the inner city area below the mountain, a hidden, powerful Dead Ash rushed toward a Dao-realm in the South City, wanting to destroy the formation light pillar rising in the Dao-realm.

His body burned and exploded.

Sparks flew out, turning into a rain of fire covering several miles of the city area.

But it did not form an Ash Region and was dissolved by the city-protecting formation.

From that Dao-realm, countless runes rushed out, blocking all the destructive energy.

Zuoqiu Ling snorted: "I guessed that they would arrange people in the city in advance, wanting to break the formation from the inside; how could it be so easy?"

In the inner city, demon race and Ash Spirit powerhouses appeared one after another, their attack targets all being the formation eyes of the Dao-realms in the eight city districts.

There were many experts from major factions in the city, and they soon suppressed them all.

"Woof! Woof..."

From the depths of the void came the sound of barking, like thunder, echoing across a thousand miles of land.

An old dog as tall as a mountain walked over on the plains, its body thin, its teeth sharp, spitting gray mist from its mouth. It was covered in spots, its hair falling out severely, the remaining long hair dark red.

Where its paws stepped, the grass withered, and the dead aura permeated, turning into a blood pool pit.

It specifically chose areas where humans gathered to advance, and wherever it passed, it either swallowed the people of a large town into its belly with demon wind, or caused countless civilians to die just by the dead aura it emitted.

Arriving at the Soldier Ancestor Marsh battlefield, the old dog attacked a transcendent one coming toward the Northern Border.

Zuoqiu Ling recognized the origin of the old dog, his face dark: "It's the Western Border Rong thieves, the ancestor of the Dog Rong; this old fellow actually hasn't died yet."

The Four-Pole Ape King appeared on the horizon, like Heartless Golden Ape, with four arms, sharp sword teeth in its mouth, and demon clouds gathering for hundreds of miles above its head.

Its head was huge, with a five-colored mountain on top, five elements gathering, holding a burning battle-spear, hundreds of meters long, as thick as a millstone, weighing unknown tens of thousands of jin.

Walking into the Soldier Ancestor Marsh, stepping on the seabed to run, it attacked the carriage of the Second Palace Master.

One transcendent one after another from the Far West Ash Region faction arrived, the momentum unprecedentedly grand, a posture of truly wanting to destroy the Zuoqiu Family.

The older generation powerhouses of the imperial court and major rebel armies could not stay out of it, because Qilin Zang was prepared to take this opportunity to kill them all together.

Two pieces of silver light illuminated the night.

Demon creatures flew over Qiuzhou City, extremely arrogant.

Li Youyi looked up, instantly holding his breath, his heart stopping.

It was an eagle, its two wings covering the North and South Cities, its body radiating an ancient aura. Its silver wings slashed toward the city-protecting formation light gauze above Qiuzhou City, where the formation defense was relatively weak.

Silver feathers penetrated, silver light sprinkled the entire city, dragging toward the south, like a silver blade splitting heaven and earth, full of dominance.

It did not break the formation.

The city-protecting light gauze was more than one layer, and as the Heavenly Law Earth Spring continuously surged magic power, the light gauze could be repaired.

"It's the Silver-Winged Eagle King of the Eight Thousand Mile Yin Mountain in the Northern Border; two of the four demon kings of the living realm have appeared!" Zuoqiu Ling's mood sank, no longer as confident as before, very afraid that the other two demon kings would also appear.

Qilin Zang came aggressively, gathering the transcendent ones of the world; if it couldn't destroy the Zuoqiu Family, this first battle of its return would not be successful, which would be very damaging to morale.

The ancestor of the Dog Rong was not among the four demon kings.

The four demon kings considered themselves the orthodox demon race, studied human law codes, learned human culture and skills, and got along relatively well with human Wu Xiu, so they could occupy a vast territory in each of the twenty-eight states.

The ancestor of the Dog Rong belonged to the evil demons, wandering between the Realm of the Dead and the Living Realm, only able to support human Rong thieves as a faction under its banner, without a demon territory of its own.

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