Chapter 281

Li Youyi's Jade Void Breathing Method was extremely remarkable; his magic Qi recovery speed was several times that of other Wu Xiu. Even when facing the magic Qi stripping of experts like the Bone Bird King "Shang Lie," he could still absorb the magic Qi of heaven and earth.

He quickly recovered the severely depleted magic Qi in his Five Seas and Wind Mansion.

At the same time, the magic power of the Ten Springs surged, continuously converting into "Qi."

The jade boat's scriptures flickered, fast as a stream of light, flying a few zhang above the ground, searching for low hills to dodge the attacks from the sky.

This treasure was no small matter; Li Youyi seriously suspected it might be close to a Ten-Thousand-Character Tool.

"Caw!"

A large, loud sound of crows rose up from the front right.

Dark red demon Qi soared from a fissure several miles long, condensing into a cloud.

Inside the demon cloud were countless crow shadows.

They didn't have the massive bodies and intimidating aura of Ying Ji and Shang Lie, but they were numerous. Each was the size of a winnowing basket, with beaks and claws that had been metallicized, and eyes like two fireballs the size of eggs.

At this moment, it was Li Youyi's turn to drive the jade boat again.

Qin Qian was exhausted and was breathing and exhaling desperately.

Li Youyi looked at the Candle Shadow Demon Crows coming in a sky-covering swarm, his heart sinking suddenly. He changed the jade boat's flight direction to dodge. At the same time, he prepared to activate his Prefect's official robes to escape underground again.

"Has the old man followed us yet?"

Li Youyi increasingly suspected that the old man had lost them, and his heartstrings tightened; the sense of crisis was stronger than ever before. Just then, his internal injuries worsened, and a sharp pain flared.

"This is Qiuzhou territory; how can the demon race be so unscrupulous?" he said.

The Longevity Martial Prohibition Order only restricted internal fighting among major human factions; it did not restrict human Longevity realm tycoons from dealing with the demon race.

Qin Qian, sitting in meditation, was pale. She looked from time to time at Ying Ji and Shang Lie, who were chasing closer and closer, and then at the demon cloud formed by the Candle Shadow Demon Crows, saying: "After the underground strangeness erupted, the demon race, Ash Spirits, Departed Spirits, and evil cults became active in this region. The reasons behind this are not for us juniors to fathom."

"Boom!"

A zigzagging electric arc tore through the sky, blindingly bright, splitting a small hill and causing it to sink as earth and stone flew.

The jade boat, which was flying around the side of the hill, was hit by countless rocks, causing it to ripple with a large number of light patterns.

Li Youyi was under even greater pressure, feeling a hair-raising sense of crisis, and shouted: "Come here, hold onto me."

Qin Qian had long guessed that Li Youyi had some kind of incredible trump card, and that knocking her out earlier was definitely because he didn't want her to know. She walked over quickly, hugged Li Youyi's arm tightly from behind, and whispered: "Tell me in advance before you knock me out."

"..." Li Youyi said.

A dozen miles away from the jade boat, two men and one woman, three figures, rushed out from underground. Their movement speed was extremely fast; they appeared on a low hill and looked out into the distance.

They were the three Dharma Kings of the Earth Wolf King Army.

Shi Liuyu had a skinny body, green eyes, a green crew cut, and wide robes. He giggled in a sinister and evil way: "Good kid, he plays even wilder than me. Every time he brings a different woman, and the key is that the quality is damn high; they're top-tier even among pure immortal bodies."

As he spoke, he swallowed his saliva wildly.

The other two were Shi Jiuzhai and Shi Qiqing.

Shi Jiuzhai smiled: "This kid and I have quite a connection; why don't we save him?"

Shi Qiqing stood on the other side of Shi Liuyu. Her pink hair was nearly two meters long, floating in the air, and her fragrance could spread for several miles. She wore a chest-wrapping colorful garment, and the large expanse of skin above her breasts, as well as her flat, snow-white abdomen, were completely exposed, extremely graceful and sexy.

Slender silver chains were wrapped around her waist.

Tiny rose flower ornaments were strung on the chains, which wound all the way down to her long, jade-like legs, making a tinkling sound in the wind.

Several strange insects were perched on her, all of commander level.

She laughed like silver bells: "What a powerful jade boat magic tool; it must be top-tier even in the imperial court, right? If I had one like that, I would have a certain degree of confidence in saving my life when encountering Longevity realm tycoons."

"After all, he is a God-Hidden person of the Nine Li Hidden Gate; the treasures he holds are indeed not something we can compare to," Shi Jiuzhai said.

Shi Qiqing said solemnly: "Ying Ji and Shang Lie are not ordinary characters; both have cultivated Dao fruits and are not easy to provoke. Sixth Brother, you are the leader of the Earth Wolf King Army; what do you say? Little sister will listen to you!"

Shi Lao Jiu?"

Shi Jiuzhai said: "If we're going to save him, then stop talking nonsense and do it; don't be so wishy-washy."

"I'll deal with Ying Ji. Old Nine, you go and contain Shang Lie. Seventh Sister, that demon cloud is left to you! After we're done, we'll find that kid to treat us... haha..."

Shi Liuyu's body was like a spring; after crouching down, he jumped up several dozen zhang high. A large amount of green flame surged from his body, and he paused briefly in mid-air. Two magic tools flew out from his Ancestral Field.

One was a disc-shaped flying magic tool, and the other was a green-tasseled long spear.

"Boom!"

He held the spear with both hands, his speed increased sharply, and he flew toward the black cloud area where Ying Ji was.

One must know that Ying Ji's wingspan was over sixty meters, and thunder and lightning were intertwined on its body; its momentum was extremely vigorous. There were definitely not many Wu Xiu below the Longevity realm who dared to charge at it so savagely.

Li Youyi heard Shi Liuyu's strange laughter and turned to look, his expression both surprised and happy: "Dharma King Liuyu is reliable; although his character is at the bottom of the Southern Territory, he really steps up when there's trouble."

Shi Jiuzhai took out a hundred-character scripture magic tool bow and arrow; the sound of the bowstring being pulled could reach ten miles away.

The magic Qi ripples erupted from his thick arms and spread to the surroundings of the hill.

"Boom!"

An arrow was shot out.

The power of the bowstring's vibration alone caused sand and stones to fly and withered grass to shatter on the top of the hill.

The arrow broke through the air and shot toward the Bone Bird King Shang Lie, but it was knocked away by its long tail bone.

Shi Jiuzhai knew that the opponent's cultivation was terrifying—an existence above the seventh heaven of the Dao Seed realm—so after shooting one arrow, he immediately fled far away, shooting a second and third arrow while fleeing...

A dozen head-on energy ripples erupted in the sky.

Following that, there was a deafening thunderous roar. Shi Liuyu fell from the sky and smashed heavily into the ground, forming a large pit with dust flying.

Li Youyi drove the jade boat past this place: "Sixth Brother, if we can't beat them, let's run. Will you come and drive this jade boat magic tool?"

Shi, leave this to us."

"Sixth Brother misunderstood; this is Lu Cang-sheng's woman."

Li Youyi hurriedly explained; these Dharma Kings were uninhibited, and anything would be twisted once it reached their mouths.

Shi Liuyu had already rushed out, but hearing this, he stopped and looked at Li Youyi in surprise: "You really have guts! As someone who has been there, Sixth Brother must remind you, don't just focus on the stimulation; the Thunder Firmament Sect is not easy to provoke."

"Don't talk nonsense, it's not what you think..." Li Youyi was speechless.

"Even your clothes are worn on her body; what else is there to explain?"

Shi Liuyu laughed out loud, raised his spear, and flew into the sky.

Li Youyi's internal magic Qi was severely depleted, so he had Qin Qian control the jade boat and turned to walk to the stern to observe the battle in the sky.

Ying Ji, Shang Lie, and the demon cloud in the distance were all contained; clearly, at least three great experts of the Earth Wolf King Army had come. But just by judging the intensity of the magic Qi, one could tell that these demon beasts were not simple, and the three Dharma Kings were no match for them.

The entire sky was intertwined with various magic Qi energies, and the roaring sounds were incessant.

Shang Lie's cry suddenly came, containing a mental attack that crossed ten miles of void and fell upon Li Youyi and Qin Qian.

The cry rang out as if in his mind, and Li Youyi's head felt like it was splitting.

Qin Qian fainted directly, and the jade boat tilted and fell heavily to the ground, plowing a trench over a dozen zhang long on the plain.

"This demon beast... what realm is it?"

Li Youyi's brow spirit world emerged with light, and he resisted with mental energy, gradually recovering, and stood up shakily from the ground.

"Clatter!"

Dozens of Candle Shadow Demon Crows flew down from the sky.

Each one's combat power was comparable to a Five Seas realm Wu Xiu, and their eyes were burning with fire.

"Clang!"

Li Youyi drew the Yellow Dragon Sword and strode forward to meet them, wielding the Ruyi Qiankun Sword, cutting down the demon crows one by one, blood splashing on the wasteland.

On the plain, the wind became increasingly urgent.

Yellow and red leaves flew all over the sky.

A long, lingering sword hum came from the north.

The sound was very faint but extremely clear, like a vibrating zither string, causing the air between heaven and earth to vibrate rhythmically.

All the cultivators present felt an extraordinary aura.

"Clatter!"

Autumn leaves in the forest flew up in large areas.

The second sword hum came, from north to south, the sound clear and loud, already very close.

The third sword hum rang out!

A sword carrying terrifying icy cold energy flew past Li Youyi, carrying monstrous sword intent, drawing a light trail like a meteor, straight toward Ying Ji in the sky.

Where the sword passed, snowflakes flew.

The demon crows besieging Li Youyi were all turned into ice crystal blood mist, their bones turned into powder.

"Divine Snow Sword!"

Li Youyi narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction from which the sword came.

The Divine Snow Sword broke through the air, bright and brilliant, smashing through the black cloud layer, and with the momentum of a hot knife through butter, pierced through Ying Ji's massive demon body, leaving a huge blood hole.

Ying Ji's mournful cry resounded through the sky, and its corpse fell to the ground.

While still falling in mid-air, the blood hole began to freeze, and a large number of ice crystals appeared.

The Bone Bird King Shang Lie knew who had come, and a look of fear appeared in its eyes. When the sword hum sounded, it flapped its bone wings, wanting to escape.

"Shang Lie!"

Tang Wanzhou called out softly, like the sound of a death sentence.

She came from the north; every step she took, the ground beneath her feet turned into a hundred zhang of ice and snow. Arriving on the high-ground wilderness where Li Youyi was, she pinched the sword formula.

After the Divine Snow Sword pierced through Ying Ji, it drew an arc and killed Shang Lie with one strike.

The demon body was turned into two halves, and blood stained the dim twilight red.

Adding more terror to this land full of tombstones and grave mounds.

"Clang!"

The Divine Snow Sword flew back and fell into Tang Wanzhou's hand.

Her blue hair tie, tied in a ponytail, swayed in the wind; she was heroic and upright, and she swung a sword toward the void.

"Whoosh—"

A bright sword Qi flew out, connecting from east to west, clearing the demon clouds in the sky, and all the Candle Shadow Demon Crows turned into flesh and flying feathers.

The whole world became quiet as a result.

Only the wind was urgent, and the sound of leaves was noisy.