Chapter 258: News from the Prefecture

A Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator with inferior roots refers to one who opened eight springs in the Gushing Spring Realm, opened six seas in the Five Seas Realm, and cultivated the Dao Seed Realm by planting the Dao in the Wind Mansion.

Their foundation belongs to the inferior grade.

Such Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators can never break through to the Longevity Realm and can only serve as house retainers or expendable materials. Their status and combat power at the same realm are both a significant cut below others.

As for martial cultivators who opened seven springs in the Gushing Spring Realm and five seas in the Five Seas Realm, they cannot reach the Dao Seed Realm at all and are eliminated a step earlier.

Therefore, many hidden people of the Nine Li Hidden Sect died while attempting to break through to the ninth spring.

The three of them boarded the carriage together and drove toward the city.

Zuoqiu Ting sat in the main seat inside the carriage: "It is not that you must feign an illusion of everyone being equal, but rather, there is no need to cause unnecessary conflict and opposition because of words."

Qi Xiao nodded with a wry smile: "I will certainly keep that in mind!"

Li Youyi said: "Brother Qi, did you break through to the Dao Seed Realm by borrowing a Dragon Seed?"

Qi Xiao knew what he wanted to ask and said in a low voice: "It was the night of the Lantern Festival. The Qi clan's ancestor was lucky enough to seize a fallen Dragon Seed and had me refine it immediately, fearing that a long delay would lead to trouble. In the last few days, because of Longevity Pills, Dragon Seeds, and dragon bones, battles have been breaking out every day both inside and outside the city."

Li Youyi looked at Zuoqiu Ting: "I made quite a splash at the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, so there must be people who want to capture or kill me. Traveling with you, the First Successor, should be safe, right?"

Zuoqiu Ting laughed: "Although the city is in an uproar right now, this is the Qiuzhou Prefecture City. If you die, can I survive? If the two of us were killed in the city, this joke would spread throughout the world."

Qi Xiao said: "Isn't there a Dao Seed Realm expert traveling with you?"

Zuoqiu Ting asked: "May I ask what Brother Qi's plans are next? Will you go directly to the military camp for tempering, or go to the Fourth Heaven for advanced studies?"

Qi Xiao said: "I plan to go to the Fourth Heaven first to consolidate my realm and select Dao arts. Once my Dao arts are initially formed, I will enter the Secret Realm Bureau."

Zuoqiu Ting was somewhat surprised: "The Secret Realm Bureau? That is a very dangerous place!"

"The Zuoqiu Gate Court provides a salary of five million silver coins to Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators every year, which is indeed generous, but if one wants to pursue longevity, it is far from enough! Exploring secret realms, although dangerous, has extremely high returns, and one might even encounter heaven-defying opportunities," Qi Xiao said.

Zuoqiu Ting said: "There is going to be a war! The Zuoqiu Gate Court will certainly conquer forces like Tianya Ridge, Coffin Mountain, the Three Chen Palaces, and Night City. As long as the war starts, it will be very easy for you Dao Seed Realm cultivators to earn money."

Qi Xiao said: "It is the same everywhere; risk and return are directly proportional. Beneath every longevity seeker lie the accumulated bones of their peers."

"Those who dare not risk their lives cannot attain longevity."

"To win money, one must bet money; to fight for life, one must first gamble with life."

The carriage drove out of the outer city gate of the East City.

In the wilderness outside, it was already overcrowded with countless young martial cultivators who had come to "pay their respects" to the transcendent's demeanor.

Li Youyi, despite having mental preparation, was still shocked.

The corpse of the Silver Feather Eagle King was simply as huge as a mountain. Even though it had fallen seven days ago, its blood energy remained vigorous, its aura was soul-stirring, and its heat was astonishing.

Those refugees felt their hearts pounding even from several miles away and dared not approach at all.

Only the courage of martial cultivators could withstand that aura.

"With so much flesh and blood, you, the dignified First Successor of the Zuoqiu Gate Court, can only get a few jin?" Li Youyi said.

Zuoqiu Ting said: "Do you think killing a transcendent of the demon race is something that happens every year? How many are there in the entire Lingxiao Life Realm?"

"Only a portion will be divided today! The rest will be sealed using secret methods to prevent the loss of blood energy and transcendent magic power, serving as the foundation and resources for the next hundred years to be supplied to the disciples of the entire gate court."

"The reason for selling it with such fanfare at the city gate is to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, telling those transcendents who are enemies of the Zuoqiu Gate Court that death is not the worst outcome."

Zuoqiu Ting naturally did not need to buy it; he simply used his status as the First Successor to go find the old guys of the Zuoqiu Gate Court and snatch some.

Li Youyi and Qi Xiao were happy to wait on the side to get free demon king flesh.

Li Youyi used magic power transmission: "Brother Qi, do me a favor and help me check where the people from the Sui Sect are."

"Those five boxes of Gushing Spring coins?" Qi Xiao said.

"Uh..."

Li Youyi said: "Just help me find Yang Qingxi!"

The Six Desires Talisman must be resolved as soon as possible.

Qi Xiao immediately patted his chest to guarantee it, saying this matter was on him, but his eyes were strange, secretly thinking that Li Youyi definitely dared not let the Nine Li clan know about this, so he could only use him, an outsider, to find Yang Qingxi.

There really is an affair!

Zuoqiu Ting returned and handed the realm bag to Li Youyi: "You two, take two hundred jin each! Leave the rest to me."

"Many thanks, Young Master, you are generous. I heard that fresh transcendent flesh does not sell cheaply."

Qi Xiao summoned his magic weapon battle saber from his ancestral field and divided the meat with Li Youyi.

With his Dao Seed Realm cultivation, he also had to use all his strength to barely cut the meat open.

"Transcendent meat probably needs to be stewed in a magic weapon cauldron with exotic flames to become tender," he laughed.

An old man of the Five Seas Realm, covered in blood, rushed into the city gate at high speed, bringing back news that shook the entire Qiuzhou Prefecture City.

Half an hour later.

Strong experts in the city left the city one after another, heading north, and their numbers were increasing.

Zuoqiu Ting's carriage was carrying the three of them toward an elixir shop opened by the Zuoqiu Gate Court. Hearing the commotion coming from the street, Qi Xiao jumped off the carriage and grabbed an acquaintance, a Five Seas Realm martial cultivator, to ask.

"What?"

After listening, Qi Xiao was greatly shocked, and then ecstatic.

After returning to the carriage, his heart was still pounding, and he said excitedly: "Let's hurry to the north; there is a big situation there."

"Calm down first! You are already a Dao Seed Realm expert, yet you are still so impatient?" Zuoqiu Ting said.

Qi Xiao said: "I can't calm down! It is said that because of a transcendent battle at the border between Qiuzhou and Fuzhou, a ground fissure over a hundred miles long was created."

"A group of bold Five Seas Realm martial cultivators followed the transcendent's battle route, looking for opportunities like transcendent blood left behind by the transcendents."

"As a result, they discovered the entrance to a legendary underground immortal mansion at the bottom of that terrifying fissure. The entrance is said to be over ten miles long, built like a palace, and is truly spectacular."

Zuoqiu Ting was moved and could not remain calm either.

He immediately released Zuoqiu Qingting to inquire for more accurate news.

Li Youyi's curiosity was piqued: "What does underground immortal mansion mean?"

Qi Xiao's blood was boiling, and he organized his words: "Legend has it that the reason Fuzhou is called Fuzhou is because there is an ancient immortal's Wind Mansion underground, also jokingly called the Underworld. Its size... well, it is as big as a prefecture. Over the years, everyone has indeed found traces of this underground immortal mansion underground, stretching for thousands of miles, with rock and metal structures, as well as spatial reactions."

"But that is an ancient immortal's Wind Mansion, and it cannot be forcibly broken open at all."

"For thousands of years, generation after generation of Dao Seed Realm powerhouses have searched the entire underground of Fuzhou, yet they have never been able to find the entrance."

"Who would have thought that a transcendent battle would actually blast the underground entrance out."

Li Youyi said: "Is the Wind Mansion Brother Qi mentioned the inner world we open when we cultivate the eighth spring?"

"Exactly."

Qi Xiao added: "The Wind Mansion is a living inner world. When it is just opened in the Gushing Spring Realm, it is generally very small. But by the Five Seas Realm, the Wind Mansion is our sixth sea, which can expand to over ten thousand cubic units."

"Those martial cultivators who have not cultivated a seventh sea ancestral field are planting the Dao in the Wind Mansion."

"By the Dao Seed Realm, the Wind Mansion and the ancestral field can continue to expand."

"A creature capable of cultivating the Wind Mansion to the size of a prefecture—if it is not an ancient immortal, what else could it be?"

"More importantly, that ancient immortal seems to have planted the Dao in the Wind Mansion. Many years ago, transcendents discovered Dao marks underground in Fuzhou."

Li Youyi said: "Planting the Dao in the Wind Mansion means no hope for longevity. But there were sages who walked this path and attained the Dao to become immortals. If this is true, it will indeed drive many people crazy."

Zuoqiu Ting said: "What is the rush? Opportunities are not so easy to take. Wait, let them go and investigate first. These ancient immortal secret realms are quite dangerous in the early stages."

Qi Xiao nodded, having already calmed down.

Because he realized that even if the entrance to the underground immortal mansion really appeared, he had to consolidate his realm first and could not go in the short term.

Zuoqiu Qingting flew back and informed him via telepathy of the intelligence information currently mastered by the Zuoqiu Gate Court.

"Is the news accurate?" Li Youyi asked.

"Eight or nine out of ten."

Zuoqiu Ting's eyes rolled, and he asked with a smile: "You don't want to go look for opportunities too, do you?"

Li Youyi shook his head, leaning back against the carriage, and said lazily: "The Hidden Lord said I walked too aggressively in the Five Seas Realm. I will probably be in closed-door cultivation for the next year or two, needing to slowly accumulate and settle. How would I have time to explore such a dangerous place? The magic power concentration of Peach Plum Mountain is extremely high, and it is safe enough. You shouldn't expel me if I cultivate here, right?"

Qi Xiao looked at Zuoqiu Ting, and the two burst into laughter.

"Exactly, we are going into closed-door cultivation too."

Li Youyi spent a fortune to buy sixty Light Flame Pills and also bought an Immobilization Talisman capable of freezing a Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator.

It cost a total of ninety thousand Gushing Spring coins!

On the way back to the mountain, Zuoqiu Ting asked suspiciously: "Why did you spend such a high price to buy an Immobilization Talisman? Even if a Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator is only slightly prepared, you wouldn't have a chance to freeze him."

Li Youyi said: "No choice, you are all figures about to break through to the Dao Seed Realm, while I still have to continue to dawdle in the Five Seas Realm. Of course, I have to find ways to get more life-saving means."

Ascending to the Third Heaven, the two parted ways.

Li Youyi went to the residence of the Nine Li Hidden Sect martial cultivators and threw dozens of jin of transcendent flesh to Hidden Twenty-Four, telling her to cook it immediately.

Although her cooking skills were nothing to brag about, Li Youyi believed that as long as she practiced more, she would definitely improve.

The Hidden Sect needed a master of culinary arts.

"An elder of the Zuoqiu Gate Court told me that he heard your conversation with Zuoqiu Ting, and you seem to have developed feelings for Zuoqiu Hongting?" The Hidden Lord suddenly appeared.

Li Youyi was stunned: "Which elder of the Zuoqiu Gate Court is so shameless as to eavesdrop on the conversation of two juniors?"

"Shall we talk?"

The Hidden Lord's eyes were extremely serious.

Li Youyi nodded; he also happened to have something he wanted to discuss with the Hidden Lord.

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