Chapter 289

The Nanqing Palace occupied hundreds of acres, with more than fifty buildings of various types, including pavilions, terraces, towers, and halls, some of which Li Youyi could not enter.

Those areas were covered by formations, and the buildings inside were ancient and hazy, revealing a mysterious aura.

Li Youyi was curious and used his Heavenly Eye to peek into the inside of one of the large formations.

Inside, there was a black Buddha pagoda, more than twenty stories high, the courtyard was desolate, with broken walls and ruins, and not a blade of grass grew. Through the pagoda gate on the first floor, he saw a skeleton sitting cross-legged inside, restrained by chains.

That skeleton had clearly been dead for endless years, but it made Li Youyi's heart jump and gave birth to fear.

With his current cultivation and knowledge, seeing ordinary skeletons, he could already be calm. The feeling of his heart jumping must be a real perception of danger.

After a few days of cleaning up, Li Youyi finally understood completely.

The jade palace with a hip-and-gable roof on the opposite bank of the blood lake, and several areas covered by formations, were likely the legacy of the ancient Pogaluo Sect.

Some places were sacred and beautiful, with every brick and tile carved and cast from precious materials.

Some places were strange and dangerous, using formations to restrain.

Other buildings should have been built by the Twin Rice Sect later, but they also had a history of hundreds of years.

After cleaning up, Li Youyi came to the place where Yao Qingxuan was meditating and practicing.

He stood outside the curtain, not daring to break in rashly; inside was a Longevity Realm giant, who could set off stormy waves in a state with a stomp of her foot.

"Senior Yao, the things you ordered have been completed! From now on, just leave the cleaning of the Nanqing Palace to the junior."

Yao Qingxuan faced the stream, back to the curtain, her tone faint: "Looking at your style of doing things at the Qianlong Lantern Festival, I know you are a person who is both soft and hard, with an absolutely strong side in doing things, fighting for what should be fought for. At the same time, you can let go, know how to retreat, and know how to hide your clumsiness. Coming to the God Sect main altar, if you can put away your inner strength and compromise more, you will have a chance to live."

"I'm just afraid I can't kneel down."

Li Youyi stood straight, his expression solemn, and said again: "That Hall Master of the Spirit Valley Hall wants to subdue me?"

"A person has value, and this value can be used by others, so you have a way to live. If not used, you will be removed," Yao Qingxuan continued: "Currently, Hall Master An is just interested in you. Whether to remove you or use you depends on your own grasp!"

Li Youyi thought deeply: "Whether to use or not, I'm afraid it's not just about value, right? Trust or not is the most important thing. That Hall Master of the Spirit Valley Hall cannot trust me."

"Trust has the way of trust, and distrust has the way of distrust. The embodiment of value is not just cultivation talent. Think about it yourself!" Yao Qingxuan said.

Li Youyi said: "This is a matter of life; can Senior Yao explain it more clearly?"

"Swish!"

A wind force containing a faint fragrance surged through the curtain, Li Youyi only felt his body light, the world spinning, and his vision became blurred.

The next moment.

With a bang, he fell and rolled on the ground by the blood lake.

From the place where Yao Qingxuan was meditating and practicing, he was already separated by heavy buildings and courtyard gates.

Li Youyi turned over and sat up, moving his arms, with no complaints in his heart.

Yao Qingxuan seemed heartless and cold as an iceberg, but the words just now were very sincere and were seriously pointing the way for him.

"This mother of Yao Yin is ruthless to other Wu Xiu, killing a bunch of people at once. To me, she seems quite tolerant."

"It seems that doing more good deeds and accumulating virtue is right; this is the root of changing fate and luck. If I hadn't saved Yao Yin and helped her a lot, my situation today would definitely be very different."

Li Youyi recalled taking the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone fragment from the lampshade earlier.

Such a treasure, Yao Qingxuan did not pursue it deeply.

If she didn't look at Yao Yin's face, how could she let it go easily?

Thinking of this...

"Forget it, since I have the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone in hand, let's impact the cultivation realm of mental power again. With one more point of strength, I have one more point of capital."

Li Youyi took out the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone fragment, closed his eyes to meditate, adjusted his state, and then pressed it to his eyebrows.

"Swish!"

Spatial ripples surged.

The Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone fragment appeared in the center of the Spirit Realm.

In the past few days, Li Youyi had not only been cleaning the Nanqing Palace but also refining Star Day Pills to strengthen his mental power stars.

The mental power star in the Spirit Realm had already grown to the limit and had the qualifications to impact the two-star Spirit Reader realm.

"Swish!"

Mental power spiritual light drifted from Li Youyi's body, condensing into the light shadows of two divine mulberry trees, rising on the shore of the blood lake.

They bloomed with bright radiance, crystal clear, constantly absorbing the light in the entire Nanqing Palace.

Except for the area covered by the two divine mulberry trees, other places turned into darkness, unable to see one's fingers.

Even the light gauze condensed by the formations had its energy absorbed, fading rapidly.

Logically speaking, entering the Blood Mud Realm and going to the bottom of the real Fusang Divine Tree would have a much higher success rate for breaking through. But living under the same roof as Yao Qingxuan, with her terrifying cultivation, Li Youyi really didn't dare to take the risk.

The Fusang Divine Tree light shadow was like a living thing, following Li Youyi's breathing, and its ability to swallow light became stronger and stronger.

Gradually.

The darkness spread outside the Nanqing Palace, absorbing the light of a wider area.

Four days later.

Yao Qingxuan and a woman wearing white lay Buddhist clothes stood in the green-tiled jade palace on the opposite bank of the blood lake. The two women looked through the window at the two divine mulberry tree light shadows on the lakeside, and with their cultivation, ripples could not help but appear in their hearts.

At this moment, the two mulberry trees had grown to more than ten zhang high, supporting each other, supporting a bright area of light rain.

In the light rain area, the flame lotuses in the lake clearly grew better than those in the dark area, the petals were like glaze, the life energy was magnificent, as if they had grown for several more years.

Li Youyi was meditating under the two divine mulberry tree light shadows; although he was a mortal, he had an ethereal temperament that even pure immortal bodies did not possess, ethereal and mysterious, like a mortal immortal, hiding the universe inside.

Yao Qingxuan leaned by the window, her jade skin and Dao bones beautiful like a scroll-like immortal concubine.

The white-clothed lay Buddhist was a mortal appearance, her face ordinary, without Yao Qingxuan's jade skin and peerless beauty, but the whole person had a quiet and comfortable temperament, compatible with everything in the world, and would not bring people dignity and pressure.

She was the Hall Master of the Spirit Valley Hall, An Xianjing.

She was also one of the two Bodhisattvas of the Coffin Mountain, a Longevity Realm giant who had lived for three hundred and sixty years, and was a top-tier powerhouse under the transcendents.

An Xianjing's slender fingers played with the red prayer beads, smiling softly: "Two mulberries supporting each other, the life energy is vigorous, and the mental power around the body is gradually condensing into golden crow flames; it seems that his spiritual god light shadow is indeed the legendary Fusang Divine Tree. It's really not simple; martial arts is already amazing enough, and mental power can actually bring people surprises. Walking the path of alchemy and artifact refining, there must be great achievements."

Yao Qingxuan's eyes were indifferent, and her features had no fluctuations like ice sculptures: "Li Songgu doesn't know where he dug up this seedling; the luck is really good."

An Xianjing took back her gaze and suddenly said: "Tang Wanzhou may have already come to the main altar, or found her way near the main altar."

"She didn't go out?" Yao Qingxuan said.

"No."

The white-clothed lay Buddhist shook her head gently: "Now it seems that at the Star Fire Altar, she was just feigning defeat. Leading a large group of experts to break in was just to lure us into taking action, and her true purpose was to find the way to enter the main altar; she is truly a brilliant person. The courage is big enough, and the mentality is high enough."

"If she dares to break into the main altar, she will definitely not return," Yao Qingxuan said.

"Leave this matter to the Heavenly Principle Hall to handle! If Tang Wanzhou really sneaked in, it's also because they didn't guard the skylight well."

The white-clothed lay Buddhist looked at the figure sitting under the two Fusang Divine Tree light shadows on the opposite bank of the blood lake: "He broke through! You go to the Heavenly Principle Hall for a trip, and I will chat with him alone; this person's extraordinariness is truly rare. It would be a pity to kill him directly."

"If Tang Wanzhou really found her way to the main altar, that is my negligence. The Heavenly Principle Hall and the Ku Rong Hall will definitely take advantage of the situation to seize the power of the Southern Region; this matter can be big or small, I will go to investigate personally."

Yao Qingxuan turned into a wisp of white mist and disappeared by the window.

With the help of the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone fragment, Li Youyi condensed a second mental power star.

Two mental power stars, in the center of the Spirit Realm, rotated with each other, forming a mental power vortex with light mist.

The size of the mental power stars was no longer just the size of a mung bean, but had grown several times.

Brighter, like two golden pills.

Li Youyi was excited in his heart; with his current mental power cultivation, the Cocoon of Time formed by activating the light cyan fish eye of the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish could definitely be maintained for longer, enough to support long-term martial arts cultivation.

The seventh sea was just around the corner.

"With the cultivation realm of a two-star Spirit Reader, the combat power should not be inferior to an ordinary Dao Seed Realm second-layer Wu Xiu, right?"

Li Youyi thought about it and shook his head: "I haven't cultivated attack methods like talismans, formations, mental arts, etc., and I don't tame insects; I'm afraid I can't compete with Dao Seed Realm second-layer Wu Xiu with mental power alone."

A crisp and pleasant voice sounded a few zhang away: "Not necessarily! Powerful Spirit Readers are like inheritors in martial arts; their combat power at the same realm is by no means comparable to mediocre people. Your mental power can condense into golden crow flames... hmm, although it is only the thinnest and lowest-level golden crow flame, its attack power is enough to be comparable to the first layer of fire dharma Daoist arts."

"With mental power alone, you can already rank in the middle of the Dao Seed Realm second layer."

Li Youyi never imagined that there would be strangers breaking into the Nanqing Palace?

Moreover, approaching silently, the cultivation was clearly not simple.

The key was this voice...

He looked at the white-clothed lay Buddhist standing not far away, stood up hurriedly, and said uncertainly: "It's you... no, it's not you..."

Li Youyi shook his head, then his vision fell on the red prayer beads in the white-clothed lay Buddhist's hand, and observed her tall figure again.

The white-clothed lay Buddhist he met outside Jiu Li City more than a year ago, who brought a large group of Rice person children, had left a deep impression on Li Youyi. Among them, her moving voice had always been imprinted in Li Youyi's heart; it was a unique infectious power that was hard to forget.

At this moment, the white-clothed lay Buddhist standing before him, her attire, figure, and voice were all very similar to that one back then.

But her face was completely different.

An Xianjing placed her right hand in front of her chest and saluted: "Amitabha! The benefactor said more than a year ago that next time he would treat me to noodles, and as much as I wanted."

"Is it really you?"

Li Youyi was surprised, sized her up, stunned to the extreme, and laughed: "So you are also a person of the Rice Sect... no wonder... it seems your cultivation is not low; this Nanqing Palace is not somewhere anyone can enter."

(End of chapter)