Chapter 262

Li Youyi didn't have to worry about the preparations for the engagement banquet at all.

He knew very well that he just needed to go through the motions.

Therefore, he returned to the cave to practice in seclusion, and also to avoid unnecessary trouble.

In the cave, after adding a set of formation flags, Li Youyi entered the Blood Mud Space.

That set of formation flags was won in the arena competition the year before.

Li Youyi sat cross-legged on the blood mud ground, using his intent to peel away layers of blood mist; the Tang Gu Sea and the Fusang Divine Tree appeared on the other side of the space barrier, casting brilliant light.

Immediately after, he took out a Light Flame Pill and swallowed it.

His body then became as bright as a light bulb.

Closing his eyes, he performed the Fusang Divine Tree meditation method, absorbing the power of light and flame from both inside and outside to strengthen the Earth Fire in his Yintang Spirit Realm. (The Yintang Spirit Realm starts here, referred to as the Spirit Realm.)

To reach the Heaven Fire Realm from the Earth Fire Realm, one only needs to accumulate one-third of the spiritual light.

One-third of a square foot.

And to reach the Disaster Fire Realm, one needs to fill the entire Spirit Realm, which is twice as difficult.

Since reaching the Great Mind Master realm, several months had passed, and Li Youyi had been busy improving his martial arts, so the spiritual light in the Spirit Realm was less than one-tenth.

This was already considered very fast; even Great Mind Masters who only cultivated mental power did not have such an accumulation speed.

One Light Flame Pill was worth a thousand Gushing Spring coins.

Sixty pills would be sixty thousand Gushing Spring coins.

Very expensive!

But there was no other way; Li Youyi could not cultivate slowly and had to break through to the Heaven Fire Realm as soon as possible to head to the Tang Gu Sea.

After reaching the Great Mind Master level, the speed of absorbing Light Flame Pills increased several times, and it was digested in just two hours. In the Spirit Realm, the spiritual light increased visibly to the naked eye.

Just like the accumulation of Qi in martial arts cultivation, it was another long process of accumulation.

The news of the engagement spread, immediately causing a sensation in the whole city.

The secret that Zuoqiu Ting and Zuoqiu Hong were the same person was naturally announced to the public.

Everyone knew very well that this was not only the engagement banquet of two young emperors, but also a marriage alliance between the Zuoqiu Sect and the Jiuli clan, which had extraordinary significance.

In the government office under the night curtain, lanterns were lit one by one.

"Greetings, Lord Zhuang!"

"Lord Zhuang!"

In the corridor, the officials of the Attendant Hall retreated to the side one after another, bowing and saluting.

Zhuang Yue held the invitation, walking quickly, her teeth almost biting through, her eyes so cold that it seemed she would draw her sword and kill at any time.

Arriving at the top of the tower where Jiang Ning practiced, she tried hard to calm her emotions, not knowing how to speak, and just as she was about to turn and leave, a pleasant inquiry came from inside: "What's wrong? Is there a result from the transcendent duel?"

"Creak!"

The wooden door and the formation opened automatically at the same time.

Zhuang Yue stood at the door, unable to step in, tears swirling in her eyes, not knowing how to speak.

Jiang Ning had already changed out of the ru skirt from the daytime, taken off her hair accessories, and was dressed in the official robes of a state governor, simple and plain, sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed, accumulating and tempering Qi, cultivating the Seventh Sea that had not yet been perfected.

In the past few days, news of young generation talents breaking through to the Dao Seed Realm had been spreading wildly in Qiuzhouzhou City.

She also felt a sense of urgency in her heart and did not want to fall behind others.

"Has another transcendent of the imperial court fallen?" Jiang Ning's tone was much heavier.

Four days ago, news of a transcendent of the imperial court falling had just been sent back.

If another one fell, the impact would be too great.

She was even more afraid that the one who fell would be a transcendent of the Jiang family.

Zhuang Yue shook her head vigorously, and finally summoned the courage to say with hatred and grievance: "He still became a heartless man... He... he is going to be engaged to Zuoqiu Hongting..."

Jiang Ning opened her eyes: "Let me see!"

She took the invitation handed to her by Zhuang Yue.

After looking at it for a long time, Jiang Ning closed the invitation and handed it back: "I won't go; in three days, you prepare a gift for me to send."

"Miss! Are you just going to endure this?" Zhuang Yue said.

Jiang Ning pondered for a moment, stood up, pushed the window to look at the lanterns all over the city outside, and let the cold night wind blow on her face. She said: "The Zuoqiu Sect must get the Hidden Dragon; only if the two of them are married is it the most secure."

Zhuang Yue said: "You can't hurt people like this, right? During the day, he didn't even give a heads-up. To help him, to save him, Miss risked huge dangers to meet him several times. To help him keep his secret, she resisted the inquiry of the Second Palace Master, causing the master and disciple to drift apart. It's impossible for him not to feel your affection!"

Only Zhuang Yue knew that Jiang Ning treated Li Youyi differently from anyone else.

"If I hear these words again after tonight, I will drive you out of the Luan Terrace and out of the Jiang family." Jiang Ning said in the calmest tone.

Zhuang Yue bit her lips and nodded with tears.

Jiang Ning sighed: "If it were before, for the sake of the imperial court, I would definitely find a way to destroy this matter and not let the Zuoqiu Sect succeed. But at present, the demon race is coming aggressively, and the human race must unite to resist; we cannot continue to consume ourselves internally."

"Actually, it is a good thing that the Zuoqiu Sect is preparing for the marriage alliance so actively. It shows that the human transcendent has withstood the demon race's attack, and the duel may be coming to an end!"

"You can't hide your thoughts; don't go to the engagement banquet, I will arrange for someone else to go."

Jiang Ning's eyes lifted slightly, looking at the towering mountain with twinkling stars in the night: "Who knows what he is thinking? How can there be so many mutual affections in the world? Regret and incompleteness are the norm; it's good to have the clouds break at the vast and distant moment, so that thunder and rain won't collide."

Qi Xiao sent someone to look for Yang Qingxi's tracks at noon, and soon had a clue, so he immediately rushed to confirm.

Just as he left the house, he met a servant of the Zuoqiu Sect sending an invitation to the Qi residence.

Qi Xiao was curious, so he naturally blocked him, and after asking, he was both surprised and happy: "Are you kidding me... this is so outrageous... hurry up and let me see, did my brother Youyi really practice a secret manual for eating soft rice?"

After reading the invitation, Qi Xiao laughed out loud, already thinking about how to drink the wedding wine three days later.

"Brother Youyi has ascended to the heavens in one step; his future achievements will at least be the man of the Zuoqiu Sect head. It is also possible to be the man of the master of the Lingxiao Life Realm."

Qi Xiao returned the invitation to the servant, deciding to handle Yang Qingxi's matter more cautiously, and must not cause peach blossom trouble for brother Youyi at this juncture.

He did not take a carriage, but wore night clothes and moved quickly in stealth.

Arriving at the mansion found by the Qi family's eyes and ears, Qi Xiao memorized the location and the surrounding environment. Just at this time, the back door opened, and Yang Qingxi wore a wide black robe, with a hood covering her head, and sat on a carriage mysteriously.

Driving the carriage was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, in short hemp clothes, with nothing special about him.

The only unusual thing was this coachman...

Too young!

"Interesting! It's so late, and Miss Yang is dressed like this; it seems she is hiding an incredible secret."

After breaking through to the Dao Seed Realm, Qi Xiao was bold and naturally wouldn't take Yang Qingxi seriously, so he followed silently.

What Qi Xiao didn't expect was that the carriage drove all the way out of the city. Finally, it stopped at a remote town two hundred miles away from Qiuzhouzhou City.

After a night of traveling, the sky had already brightened.

With Yang Qingxi's status, how could she come to such a place?

Qi Xiao was even more surprised in his heart, and seeing early pedestrians in the town, he followed the carriage tracks while observing.

"One grain of rice, two sprouts, three leaves crawling in the wind."

"Four crescent moons shaking, five golden rice grains laughing."

Ahead, barefoot children came in groups, singing nursery rhymes.

Qi Xiao, in a stealth state, hurriedly retreated to the side, watching them leave with a smile.

In his mind, he recalled carefully.

He discovered that those children were almost all twins.

"It seems that they should be a group of rice children; I don't know which big family raised them as slaves, or are they seedlings of dead soldiers?"

Qi Xiao suddenly thought that the Sui Sect seemed to be engaged in the business of buying and selling rice people, and guessed that perhaps this was one of their cargo transfer strongholds.

Soon, he arrived at the end of the town.

A Daoist temple half-hidden among the sparse trees appeared before his eyes. Outside the temple, a large number of carriages had already stopped, coming from all directions.

There was not a single coachman on the carriages.

Suddenly, the whole world became abnormally quiet, and the town that had pedestrians and nursery rhymes just now instantly became dead silent.

Qi Xiao had already sensed that something was wrong, frowned, and prepared to retreat.

"Since Young Master Qi has come to the Rice Ancestor Temple, why not come in and sit for a while?" An ethereal voice of an old man came from the Daoist temple in the distance.

Not good!

Qi Xiao's eyes changed suddenly, and he turned to leave.

Just as he turned, the sky suddenly darkened.

It was as if the whole world had changed, turning back into night.

In the town he had just walked through, lanterns were lit in every house on both sides of the street, and coffins were placed at the doors. Outside every house, there were two identical figures.

Some were two old men, sitting on the ground sharpening sickles, looking at him from time to time, making strange cackling laughter.

Some were two teenagers, in short hemp clothes, carrying long swords.

Some were two stunning beauties, one sitting on the eaves, dressed sexily and exposed, with a large area of snow-white skin exposed, giggling. One sitting under the eaves, quiet and elegant, plucking the zither with her fingers.

Qi Xiao saw Yang Qingxi.

She stood alone in the center of the street, wearing a black robe, revealing only half of her face.

Qi Xiao was terrified to the point of no return, looking around at the dark sky, unable to tell if he had reached the morning, unable to tell if he had followed for a night, and said tremblingly: "Impermanence Illusion... Which senior Saint Spirit Mind Master is playing such a joke on the junior?"

"A joke?"

The woman sitting on the eaves, with two snow-white beautiful legs hanging and swinging, smiled charmingly: "First!"

"He is already in the Dao Seed Realm," Yang Qingxi said lightly.

"That's fine, I'll solve it for you. You owe me a favor!"

The sexy woman's figure moved, her beautiful body was magnificent, her whole body's jewelry jingled, emitting dazzling light.

Qi Xiao performed his movement technique and turned to escape.

But behind him was the even more strange Daoist temple, which made people fearful, so he wanted to bypass from the right. But a group of barefoot children walked over from the right, blocking his way.

The nursery rhyme sounded again, but in Qi Xiao's ears, it had completely changed its taste, and his heart was full of terrifying emotions.

"One grain of rice, two sprouts, kill the master's family at the third watch."

"Four splashes of blood, dyeing the white gauze, crows flying all over the sky at the fifth watch."

"Six-foot grave, seven-step evil."

"Eight lines of incantations hanging in the sky."

"Nine heads hanging on the ears, ten generations of extinction, I sprout."

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(End of chapter)