Chapter 271

The purpose of planting Death Spirit Fire is to prevent powerful mind-intent cultivators from soul-searching and probing, leaking secrets.

Young hidden people of the Nine Li Hidden Sect also have to have Death Spirit Fire planted when they go out to execute missions.

With the power and mystery of the Twin Rice Sect, the Death Spirit Fire planted in the bodies of Dao Seed Realm members is absolutely no small matter, and they will not allow core secrets to leak out. Even if a Holy Spirit Mind Master takes action, wanting to soul-search and probe, it is highly probable that it will be in vain.

And this red-clad woman in front of them actually managed to investigate things under the condition of the Death Spirit Fire burning the body. Shi Jiuzhai stood against the wall, watching the man and woman in the distance, and no longer dared to have the slightest contempt for Li Youyi in his heart.

Although this God-Hidden Person's martial path has been crippled, the invisible power he commands is still terrifying.

Perhaps in the near future, he will be able to amaze the world again as a powerful mind-intent cultivator and legendary insect-tamer.

It's just that I don't know if he can catch up with the ten people who went to the Due Temple for cultivation?

This is destined to be a difficult path of catching up!

By the lake.

Chan Hai Guan Wu's skin glowed white in the night, her beautiful hair had an unusual luster, rosy light surrounded her entire body, mysterious and hazy, and she spoke in a pleasant tone: "Rice People are grown from Benevolent Rice."

"The history of Benevolent Rice is incomparably long; in the ancient records of various life realms, it first appeared about six hundred thousand years ago."

"It is said that it originally came from the depths of the Nether Realm of the Dead, and was the ration of the supreme existence of the world of the dead, later gradually flowing into the life realms and being widely planted."

"Therefore, the time of Benevolent Rice's existence should far exceed six hundred thousand years; it's just that the years are too long, the ancient times have become blurred, and the books have turned into dust."

"Because the Lingxiao Life Realm is close to the Blood Sea, the underground is full of flowing blood rivers, which is the best fertile field for the growth of Rice People."

"Therefore, the Rice People have always wanted to take this vast and fertile land and reclaim the entire life realm into a rice field for cultivating their offspring."

"Precisely because of this, for thousands of years, the Lingxiao Life Realm has forbidden the planting of Benevolent Rice, aside from concerns about humanity and ethics. What they fear most is the terrifying reproductive ability of the Rice People, and their ambition for this land, which has not faded from ancient times to the present."

"But even a thousand years ago, the forces secretly planting Benevolent Rice in the Lingxiao Life Realm were countless, and it was simply impossible to ban it. It's just that with the control of the imperial court, the Rice People could not grow strong, nor could they appear in the open, and the lid of the Pandora's box of disaster has always been pressed down tightly."

Speaking of this, Chan Hai Guan Wu sighed softly, her eyes looking toward the north.

That is the direction of Lingxiao City!

Li Youyi had heard Zhao Zhizhuo mention it, and he himself had also gone to understand that the major forces in the world had long since begun to plant Benevolent Rice on a large scale.

First, to select gifted cultivation talents from among them, used to cultivate dead soldiers, soldiers, and retainers.

Second, used for population replenishment. After all, the war of martial path powerhouses has a very high mortality rate, fields need people to farm, and mines need people to mine.

Third, those without cultivation talent are sold as resources and commodities, as slaves and servants, as cattle and horses, or as playthings on the beds of martial path powerhouses. This is because there are not many disputes over the buying and selling of Rice People.

Even some brutal righteous armies use Rice People to feed exotic beast mounts.

When one kind of person treats another kind of person as food or objectifies them, the problems of human ethics and humanity will be infinitely magnified. Contradictions and hatred, distortion and extremism, will then breed in the shadows that no one notices.

Chan Hai Guan Wu said: "Your friend indeed followed Wang Zhi and Yang Qingxi and left the Qiuzhouzhoucheng. In Wang Zhi's memory, they should have arrived at a place called Qingyi Town, located north of Qiuzhouzhoucheng, about two hundred miles away."

"Qingyi Town."

Li Youyi remembered this place.

"Do you need me to make a trip?" Shi Jiuzhai asked.

Li Youyi shook his head and said: "Too dangerous, I have a better candidate."

"Then I will have more contact with people of the evil path in the coming period to collect more information about the Twin Rice Sect."

Shi Jiuzhai sniffed hard, his body leaped up, landed on the top of the courtyard wall, and looked at the night outside, somewhat nervous: "It's the scent of white roses emitted by that slut Shi Qiqing's body; I'm afraid the whole street will be full of spring tonight. She must have done something to me and has already found her way nearby!"

Li Youyi laughed: "Brother Nine seems to be a bit afraid of her."

"This is a woman who even makes Shi Liuyu smell the scent and flee... I'll go and hold her back. Although the Nine Li clan and the Earth Wolf King Army are currently in a cooperative relationship, if she finds out that the two of us are meeting in private, it's inevitable that she will be suspicious." Shi Jiuzhai said.

"Go, I'll handle these two corpses. For the Twin Rice Sect matter, let Hidden Two inform the Hidden Lord."

After Shi Jiuzhai left, Li Youyi sniffed hard.

In the air, there was indeed a sweet fragrance.

After smelling it, many seductive scenes appeared in his mind, his heartbeat accelerated, and looking at Chan Hai Guan Wu beside him, he felt much less wariness and respect, and an impulse to take her into his arms arose.

On the rockery in the distance, Li Ling, who was keeping watch, was also breathing rapidly at this moment, and her jade cheeks were a bit flushed.

"What a powerful scent of white roses!"

Li Youyi hurriedly performed the Jade Void Breathing Method, and his brain instantly became clear and wise, suppressing the distracting thoughts.

Early the next morning, the sky was just beginning to brighten.

The Qingyun Carriage Firm was filled with people in black, all silent, the atmosphere murderous.

The Fourth Divine Son of the Twin Rice Sect, Wang Shu, wearing a golden mask that only covered the upper half of his face, stood beside the two charred corpses, his calm gaze looking toward the shattered small building nearby.

"Swish!"

A flash of his figure.

He appeared in the building like a teleportation, his pupils turning blood-colored.

Instantly, the entire world was revealed in minute detail, and even the dust on the ground could be counted grain by grain.

The footprints where Shi Jiuzhai stood last night, the way Wang Zhi smashed through the wall, were all restored one by one in his mind.

The next moment, the Fourth Divine Son appeared on the street where Wang Zhi and Li Youyi fought; the deep grooves on the ground were still there, and various traces connected into pictures in his consciousness.

Returning to the Qingyun Carriage Firm, he checked the two corpses again, and he already had a count in his heart.

An old man in a black robe used the Golden Escape Dao Art, and with a flash of golden light, appeared beside the Fourth Divine Son, the skin on his body quickly recovering from a metallic state to a flesh-and-blood state.

His head and face were completely covered by a hood, and he asked in a hoarse voice: "Have you found out the result, who did it? The Qingyun Carriage Firm is our important intelligence stronghold."

The Fourth Divine Son's tone was cold: "You are responsible for the affairs of Qiuzhouzhoucheng; I just entered the city."

The old man in the black robe squatted down to check.

"No need to check, it was done by that God-Hidden Person of the Nine Li Hidden Sect; it must be that the Sui Sect and Yang Qingxi leaked flaws, and someone found their way here." The Fourth Divine Son said.

The old man in the black robe said: "Is that God-Hidden Person preparing to regroup, having already walked out of the shadow of decadence?"

"Anyone who possesses seven monarch-level exotic insects can rebuild their confidence; this should be his last trump card. It's also ridiculous to think that the Divine Sect wanted to capture him, but was instead killed by him, losing two Dao Seed Realm powerhouses; you go and explain this to the Southern Venerable yourself!" The Fourth Divine Son said.

The old man in the black robe said: "The Death Spirit Fire in their bodies has already been activated, which shows that the Nine Li Hidden Sect did not ask for anything, and the loss is controllable."

"Loss is controllable? My brother died here, and you tell me this is called controllable loss?"

The Fourth Divine Son took off his mask, revealing a youth's face identical to Wang Zhi's, and said again: "I will definitely settle this account with Yang Qingxi. The matter of capturing Li Youyi must be acted upon as soon as possible; don't say anymore that Taoli Mountain is a forbidden area, he cannot stay on the mountain forever. If the Nine Li Hidden Sect dares to be an enemy of the Divine Sect, then let them pay some price as well, and kill a few of their hidden people."

The old man in the black robe was not afraid of this Fourth Divine Son; the Divine Son only had high talent and high status, but his cultivation was not as good as his.

Heaven-proud figures of the successor level within sixty years can be listed as Divine Sons and Divine Daughters.

The higher the cultivation, the higher the ranking.

The reason why this Fourth Divine Son in front of him targeted Yang Qingxi.

It is because Yang Qingxi, as the Sixth Divine Daughter of the Dragon Seed Dao, has had an extremely terrifying cultivation speed in the past half year, already reaching the second layer of the Dao Seed Realm, and is step by step threatening the status of other Divine Sons and Divine Daughters.

Suffering heavy losses last night, the old man in the black robe was at a disadvantage, so he could only respond carefully. He said: "This is very difficult to handle! The Nine Li Hidden Sect is different from other hidden sects; it seems that the number of people is extremely scarce, the selection method is strange, only hearing their names, not seeing their people. The Divine Sect has thought of many ways, but has never been able to penetrate their interior."

"Difficult to handle, then don't handle it... Anyway, the sect is currently lacking Dao Seed Realm rice fertilizer."

The Fourth Divine Son checked Wang Zhi's corpse again; the flesh and blood were severely burned, but the bones, Qi Sea, Wind Mansion, and Ancestral Field were not destroyed, and the inner world had not yet perished.

Therefore, he took out a porcelain bottle.

He poured out golden liquid from inside.

The golden liquid turned into light rain and sprinkled onto Wang Zhi's charred corpse, actually causing the shriveled corpse to gradually swell up.

This golden liquid was refined from the life spring liquid inside the Benevolent Rice plant that nurtured him and Wang Zhi; at a critical moment, it could save their lives.

Of course, Wang Zhi now is already dead through and through.

It is certainly impossible to save him.

"One body, two lives, ten thousand rice, same root."

The Fourth Divine Son muttered, pressed one hand on Wang Zhi's Ancestral Field, and injected magic power, the magic power circulating through the entire body along the trace meridians.

At the same time, he ordered people to cut his own wrists and continuously dripped the blood in his body into the corpse.

With a large amount of blood entering, Wang Zhi, shrouded in golden light, grew new flesh and skin on his charred corpse.

"Snap!"

The charred outer shell fell off, revealing a perfectly intact corpse.

The Fourth Divine Son's blood consumption was severe, losing about one-third, and he immediately took a blood pill to replenish.

Subsequently, he took out a soul jar sealed by runes from his boundary bag and performed a sacrificial rite that could only be performed between twins.

The old man in the black robe saw that the Fourth Divine Son was going to refine Wang Zhi's corpse into a deceased soul servant and puppet substitute to enhance his own combat power.

This is a treatment that only Divine Sons, Divine Daughters, and those above the Elder level can enjoy.

What was contained in the soul jar was a powerful deceased soul suppressed by the Heavenly Principle Hall, the head of the four halls in the sect, who went to the Nether Realm of the Dead. These powerful deceased souls were refined into soul seeds.

At this moment, the Fourth Divine Son was planting the soul seed and a soul of his own intent into Wang Zhi's Ancestral Field together.

Using Wang Zhi's corpse as a medium to control that powerful deceased soul.

"Whoosh!"

Blood-colored brilliance flowed back and forth within the bodies of the Fourth Divine Son and Wang Zhi's corpse.

When the sacrificial rite ended, Wang Zhi on the ground let out a low whistle from his mouth, actually standing up eerily, erupting with an aura that even made the old man in the black robe wary.

Wang Zhi wanted to attack the Fourth Divine Son, but was pressed to his knees by an intent of the latter.

"Leave the affairs here to you! That kid from the Dragon Court has an appointment to meet me, and I still have to make a trip."

The Fourth Divine Son took Wang Zhi, sank into the ground, and used the Earth Escape Dao Art to leave.

(End of chapter)