Chapter 260: Startling News in the Prefecture

A Wu Xiu of the inferior-root Dao Seed realm refers to one who has opened eight springs in the Spring Surge realm, six seas in the Five Seas realm, and planted the Dao in the Wind Mansion.

Their foundation is of an inferior grade.

Such Dao Seed realm Wu Xiu can never break through to longevity; they can only serve as house retainers or expendable resources. Both their status and their combat power at the same realm are a large cut below others.

As for Wu Xiu who only opened seven springs in the Spring Surge 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 ones of the Nine Li Hidden Sect died while attempting to breach 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 I insist you feign an illusion of equality for everyone, but there is no need to create unnecessary conflict and opposition through words."

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

Li Youyi asked: "Brother Qi, did you use a Dragon Seed to break through to the Dao Seed realm?"

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

Li Youyi looked at Zuoqiu Ting: "I made quite a splash at the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, so surely someone wants 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, this is the Qiuzhou Prefecture City. If you die, can I survive? If the two of us were killed in the city, the joke would spread across 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? Will you go directly to the military camp to hone your skills, or go to the Fourth Heaven for further study?"

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

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

"The Zuoqiu Gate gives Dao Seed realm Wu Xiu an annual salary of five million silver coins, which is indeed generous, but it is far from enough to pursue longevity! Exploring secret realms is dangerous, but the returns are extremely high; who knows, there might even be heaven-defying opportunities," Qi Xiao said.

Zuoqiu Ting said: "War is coming! The Zuoqiu Gate will certainly conquer forces like the Tianya Ridge, Coffin Mountain, the Three Chen Palaces, and Night City. Once the war starts, it will be very easy for you Dao Seed realm experts to make money."

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

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

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

The carriage drove out of the East City's outer gate.

The wilderness outside was already packed with people; countless young Wu Xiu had come to "admire" the transcendent's presence.

Li Youyi, despite having prepared himself mentally, was still shocked.

The corpse of the Silver Feather Eagle King was 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 tremble even from several miles away and dared not approach at all.

Only the courage of a Wu Xiu could withstand that aura.

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

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 techniques to prevent the blood energy and transcendent magic power from dissipating, serving as a foundation and resource for the next hundred years to supply the entire gate's disciples."

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

Zuoqiu Ting naturally did not need to buy any; she simply used her status as the First Successor to go find the old fogies of the Zuoqiu Gate and snatch some.

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

Li Youyi transmitted via magic power: "Brother Qi, do me a favor and help me find out where the people from the Sui Sect are."

"Those five boxes of Spring Surge coins?" Qi Xiao asked.

"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 in assurance, saying the matter was on him, but his eyes were strange as he secretly thought that Li Youyi definitely didn't dare let the Nine Li tribe know about this, so he could only rely on him, an outsider, to find Yang Qingxi.

So there really was an affair!

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

"Many thanks, Young Master, you are generous. I heard that fresh transcendent flesh is not cheap."

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 had to use all his strength to barely cut the meat open.

"I'm afraid one would need a magic weapon cauldron and exotic flames to stew transcendent meat until it's 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 one after another, heading north, and their numbers grew larger and larger.

Zuoqiu Ting's carriage was carrying the three of them toward an elixir shop opened by the Zuoqiu Gate. Hearing the commotion on the street, Qi Xiao jumped off the carriage and grabbed an acquaintance of the Five Seas realm to ask.

"What?"

After listening, Qi Xiao was shocked, then ecstatic.

Returning to the carriage, his heart was still pounding, and he said excitedly: "We must hurry north; there is a major situation there."

"Calm down! You are already a Dao Seed realm expert, how can you be so impatient?" Zuoqiu Ting said.

Qi Xiao said: "I can't calm down! It is said that at the border between Qiuzhou and the Prefecture, a crack in the earth over a hundred miles long was created due to a battle between transcendents."

"A group of bold Five Seas realm Wu Xiu followed the transcendents' battle route, looking for opportunities like transcendent blood left behind."

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

Zuoqiu Ting was moved and could not remain calm either.

She immediately released Zuoqiu Qingting to scout for more accurate information.

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

Qi Xiao's blood was boiling, and he organized his words: "Legend has it that the reason the Prefecture is called the Prefecture is because there is an ancient immortal's Wind Mansion underground, also jokingly called the Underworld. Its size... well, it's 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, and even spatial reactions."

"But that is an ancient immortal's Wind Mansion; it is impossible to force it open."

"For thousands of years, generation after generation of Dao Seed realm experts have searched the entire underground of the Prefecture and never found the entrance."

"Who would have thought that a battle between transcendents would actually blast the underground entrance open."

Li Youyi said: "Is the Wind Mansion Brother Qi speaks of the same 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 first opened in the Spring Surge 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 square units."

"Those Wu Xiu who have not cultivated the seventh sea ancestral field plant their 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 a Wind Mansion as huge as a prefecture—if not an ancient immortal, what else could it be?"

"More importantly, that ancient immortal seems to have planted their Dao in the Wind Mansion. Years ago, transcendents discovered Dao marks underground in the Prefecture."

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

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

Qi Xiao nodded, having calmed down.

Because he realized that even if the entrance to the underground immortal mansion really appeared, he would have to consolidate his realm first and would be unable to go in the short term.

Zuoqiu Qingting flew back and informed her via thought power about the intelligence information currently held by the Zuoqiu Gate.

"Is the news true?" Li Youyi asked.

"Eight or nine out of ten."

Zuoqiu Ting's eyes rolled, and she 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 could I have time to explore such a dangerous place? The magic power concentration at Taoli Mountain is extremely high, and it is safe enough. You won't expel me if I cultivate here, right?"

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

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

Li Youyi spent a fortune, buying sixty Light Flame Pills and a Body-Fixing Talisman capable of pinning down a Dao Seed realm Wu Xiu.

It cost a total of ninety thousand Spring Surge coins!

On the way back to the mountain, Zuoqiu Ting asked suspiciously: "Why did you spend such a high price to buy a Body-Fixing Talisman? Even if a Dao Seed realm Wu Xiu is only slightly on guard, you wouldn't have a chance to pin them down."

Li Youyi said: "No choice, you are all people about to break through to the Dao Seed realm, while I still have to waste time 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 Wu Xiu and threw dozens of catties of transcendent flesh to Hidden Twenty-Four, telling her to cook it immediately.

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

The Hidden Sect needed a master chef.

"A clan elder of the Zuoqiu Gate told me he heard your conversation with Zuoqiu Ting; you seem to have developed feelings for Zuoqiu Hongting?" The Hidden Lord suddenly appeared.

Li Youyi was stunned: "Which clan elder of the Zuoqiu Gate 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 happened to have something he wanted to discuss with the Hidden Lord as well.

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