Chapter 294: Seventh Sea, Assassination

The bottom layer, the "Asura Layer," had many undeveloped areas, filled with fierce insects and spirits of the deceased, with countless unknown dangers.

The Withered Glory Hall and the Divine Prison were built in the Asura Layer.

The Heavenly Principle Hall was the head of the four halls, located at the northernmost end of the twenty-eight prefectures of the Mortal World Layer, built against the mountain, with buildings stacked on top of buildings, covering the entire mountain body.

Looking from afar, layers of buildings and formations blocked the entire field of vision, which was very magnificent.

Most of the buildings here were left by the ancient Po Jialuo Sect, with obvious Buddhist characteristics.

The skylight leading to the Sacred Heart Layer was located on the top of the mountain.

The Fourth God Child, Wang Shu, came to the Heavenly Principle Hall and kowtowed in the center of the empty hall to a stone statue with a snake head, dragon claws, phoenix wings, dog tail, and human body.

"Reporting to Master, my younger brother's remnant soul sensed his aura. The sword he holds must be the Divine Snow Sword."

"According to the news I found, Li Youyi entered the underground immortal mansion together with Tang Wanzhou."

"I went to the Divine Prison and personally interrogated the batch of prisoners who traveled with Tang Wanzhou. Li Youyi was indeed taken away by the Southern Venerable. Now it is almost certain that the person who escaped into the Southern Clear Palace is the God-Hidden Person of the Jiuli Hidden Gate, Li Youyi."

"I am extremely puzzled. Li Youyi acts against the Divine Sect everywhere. At the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, he killed more than twenty Five Sea realm geniuses of the Divine Sect. Wang Shouxin, Wang Zhi, and Zuo Shi of the Dao Seed realm all died at his hands. The Divine Sect's intelligence system in Qiuzhou Prefecture City suffered heavy losses."

"Such a person was not only not locked in the Divine Prison but could also enter and exit the Southern Clear Palace freely. How chilling it is for the fallen sect members."

"The world says he is already abolished! But whether he is abolished or not, only after probing will I know the truth."

The stone statue opened its eyes, and the entire hall turned into an ocean of light rain: "You want to get the seven strange insects in his hands?"

"Yes!"

The Fourth God Child was very frank and added: "I also want to seize the ghost flag on him and offer it to Master. Of course, what I want most is to eliminate the hidden danger for the Divine Sect and avenge the fallen sect members."

The stone statue laughed: "The Southern Venerable, Yao Qingxuan, is from the Jiuli Tribe, so it is reasonable for her to shield the God-Hidden Person of the Jiuli Hidden Gate. But shielding a murderer who killed countless rice people talents is really not something a Venerable should do. Wang Shu, you do not fear power and think wholeheartedly about the future of the Divine Sect; go ahead and do it with confidence."

Getting Master's support, the Fourth God Child was overjoyed, his eyes calm: "But after he hid in the Southern Clear Palace, he never came out again, which is quite tricky. I dare not break into the Southern Clear Palace."

The stone statue said: "Your brother died at his hands. From a personal emotional point of view, any extreme thing you do will be understood by the elders of the Divine Sect, and they will definitely stand on the side of our own God Child."

"Besides, the Southern Venerable made a mistake in this mission, and whether she can keep her position as Venerable is still unknown, so I'm afraid she can't take care of Li Youyi."

The Fourth God Child was cautious and didn't want to offend the Southern Venerable too much: "I think it would be better to force him out of the Southern Clear Palace and then take him down. Coincidentally, the Divine Sect has many hostages in hand, locked in the Divine Prison for torture, and using their blood to irrigate the rice fields is too cheap for them."

The stone statue said: "Since you have your own ideas, then act accordingly! In addition, you must step up your cultivation. That woman from the Yang family is said to be sprinting to the third realm of the Dao Seed realm, walking the path of your seven or eight years in one year."

"Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun are also about to return from the Ghost Realm of the Dead, and it is said that their cultivation has greatly improved."

"If you don't condense the Dao Lotus as soon as possible, in half a year or a year, you might fall into an awkward position in the ranking of God Children and God Maidens."

The Fourth God Child's eyes sank: "As long as I seize the larvae of the seven Lord-level strange insects, my status in the sect will definitely rise to the level second only to the Head of the God Children. I will definitely take Li Youyi down."

Li Youyi ignored the rights and wrongs outside and immersed himself in cultivation. Accumulation in the Five Sea realm was a long process that every Wu Xiu had to experience.

In the blink of an eye, two months passed.

With the help of the time cocoon, his real cultivation time at least doubled.

Standing in the blood mud space, he didn't perform any moves, just slapped out casually, and immediately a dragon roar sounded.

The palm force caused the air to explode.

The palm-shaped Qi seal flew out more than ten zhang before completely dissipating.

"The remaining two dragon bones, one refined into the palm bone of the left hand, and one refined into the palm bone of the right hand."

Li Youyi moved his hands, feeling his palms were abnormally heavy, like a thousand-jin iron hanging, and it was very difficult to resolve this discomfort in a short time.

But the increase in strength was very obvious.

The things taken out by Crossing Tribulation Temple as rewards were naturally extraordinary, claiming that a Five Sea realm Wu Xiu who refined one piece could challenge a Dao Seed realm Wu Xiu.

A year had passed since the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival.

Li Youyi had never stopped cultivating his physical body.

After becoming a Dao body, in the past year, he had refined another catty of Immortal Soil and quite a bit of Divine Stove Wood, and his physical strength and intensity had doubled.

He had not broken through to the Dao Seed realm, his life energy had not undergone essential transformation, and the speed at which his physical body absorbed Immortal Soil was getting slower and more difficult.

The Coffin Master had said that to cultivate a "Longevity Body" and shake a Longevity realm giant with his physical body, he needed to refine about ten catties of Immortal Soil.

Without breaking through to the Dao Seed realm, two catties of Immortal Soil was Li Youyi's current limit.

The Divine Stove Wood used for refining tendons and shaping skin faced the same predicament, and his body was difficult to absorb anymore.

It was precisely because he was stuck in the shackles of physical body cultivation that Li Youyi refined the two dragon bones to improve his strength.

What gave him an even bigger headache was.

The cultivation of the Seventh Sea was stuck in a deadlock with no spring liquid to use.

The fifty thousand drops of spring liquid purchased before were used for cultivating the Fengfu, taking thirty-six thousand drops, and now the ancestral field of the Seventh Sea had expanded to fourteen thousand square, and the spring liquid was completely exhausted.

The only remaining Dao fruit had very little magic power left inside.

Li Youyi thought of the town he had been to: "There, perhaps I can buy spring liquid, but without a life tablet, walking out of the Southern Clear Palace is extremely dangerous."

"Besides, where does the money come from? This is a huge sum of money!"

Exiting the blood mud space, Li Youyi thought about how to raise money, walked out of the formation light gauze where the Buddhist pagoda was located, and walked toward the formation where the paddy field was located.

Several days of seclusion, and he was starving.

In his boundary bag, the food prepared in advance for entering the underground immortal mansion was almost all eaten.

The real world had only passed for two months, but for him, he had stayed in the Southern Clear Palace for four or five months, and he really missed a bowl of hot soup. Yao Qingxuan was a Longevity being who could go without hunger or drink for a long time, and the Southern Clear Palace couldn't find any meat food at all.

Walking in the dimly lit garden.

All around were white courtyard walls, black rockeries, and purple-red glowing ancient trees.

Li Youyi had walked this path countless times and always felt that the Southern Clear Palace was very safe, without maintaining high-intensity vigilance.

Suddenly.

He noticed an abnormality.

He stopped abruptly, looking at the shadows of the branches and leaves on the ground, feeling as if he were walking on water, with many ripples appearing under his feet.

"Who is it?"

His Heaven and Earth Divine Nerves were released like a spider web.

The Heaven-Piercing Eye opened in the center of his eyebrows, and the entire garden was as bright as day.

Li Youyi's hair stood on end, his back hurt, and he knew without thinking that he had been hit by a blow.

The other party was lying in ambush in the dark, good at hiding, and took advantage of his internal thinking to kill with one blow.

But Li Youyi was wearing the Blood Handprint Magic Armor, which blocked the sneak attack.

"Boom!"

His internal organs shook violently, and his body was thrown forward.

His physical body had been tempered to be extremely strong, and he withstood this blow without being seriously injured, only slightly hurt.

He didn't give the other party a chance to pursue the victory, and magic power surged out of his body, activating the Blood Handprint Magic Armor. Blood mist and blood-colored scriptures quickly escaped, filling the entire garden.

In the process of being thrown away, Li Youyi forcibly twisted his body and saw the attacker's figure with his Heaven-Piercing Eyes.

The other party was extremely fast, his figure was a ball of black mist, holding a wooden sword full of blood patterns, stabbing like lightning.

On that wooden sword, Li Youyi felt a strange aura he had never seen before.

He didn't dare to touch it.

He pinched his right hand into a finger and pointed it out.

"Whoosh!"

The Cihang Aperture Opening Finger was powerful and domineering, turning into a beam of light and flying out, colliding with the stabbing wooden sword.

The wooden sword was deflected, the black mist figure retreated repeatedly, and let out a low, miserable roar.

Li Youyi was now cultivating the Seventh Sea and had refined the sixth-tier Qi, and the battle method intention light shadow behind him reached six zhang high; no Five Sea realm Wu Xiu's battle method intention could reach this height.

How could an ordinary Dao Seed realm Wu Xiu withstand this finger?

"How dare you break into the Southern Venerable's territory."

After Li Youyi landed on the ground, he didn't care about his injuries and a spiritual light fire whip flew out from the center of his eyebrows. The whip was dozens of zhang long, carrying Golden Crow flames, the golden light was dazzling, and it fiercely lashed at the black mist figure.

"Boom!"

The air exploded and burned.

The Golden Crow flames burned all the plants in the garden into ashes.

The black mist figure screamed, fell, crashed into a rockery, and lay on the ground without moving.

Li Youyi took out the Yellow Dragon Sword, his figure flew over, and he pointed the sword at it.

He saw the figure on the ground clearly.

He was slightly startled.

It was actually a straw man, wearing black clothes, the size of a real person.

Because it was just hit by the Golden Crow flame whip, the straw crackled and burned, and soon turned into ashes. In the ashes, at the position of the heart, there was a touch of blood light.

It was a blood crystal the size of a fist, with a large number of runes carved on it.

"Snap!"

The blood crystal's energy was exhausted, and it cracked directly, turning into powder.

"No wonder it could hide without any aura; it turned out to be a straw man. A straw man can actually be as strong as a Dao Seed realm Wu Xiu?"

Li Youyi had lingering fears.

If it had stabbed at his head instead of his back just now, that would have been terrifying.

The six Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors arrived at the sound and flew around him.

They had grown a lot, but they hadn't reached one chi, and were approaching that limit, always unable to break through.

"It's a puppet straw man, from the Heavenly Principle Hall."

Yao Qingxuan walked over from the stone path, as beautiful as if she had walked out of a painting, cold as frost, her eyes extremely cold. She took the blood-patterned wooden sword into her hand from the air and took a look: "The power of a curse!"

Only then did Li Youyi breathe a sigh of relief, his tense nerves slightly relaxed, and he operated his magic power to heal his injuries: "Heavenly Principle Hall? Senior Yao, you finally returned. The Heavenly Principle Hall doesn't seem to take you, this Venerable, seriously?"

"If they really didn't take me seriously, it wouldn't have been a straw man that broke into the Southern Clear Palace to kill you!"

Yao Qingxuan added: "It's good that you're still alive; it wasn't in vain that I got the news and rushed back immediately. Being able to survive the assassination of a puppet straw man, it seems your cultivation strength has increased greatly again."

Li Youyi was surprised in his heart: "Senior returned specifically to save me?"

"Before Hall Master An left the main altar, she said you could help the golden rice grow, so she asked me to protect you."

The coldness on Yao Qingxuan could not be melted, and she waved her fragrant sleeve, throwing the wooden sword in her hand.

"Whoosh!"

The wooden sword flew out of the Southern Clear Palace, crossed a hundred miles of sky, pierced through the protective formation light gauze of the Heavenly Principle Hall, and inserted itself into the door of one of the halls, the entire sword body penetrating through.

Several figures rushed out of the Heavenly Principle Hall, looked at the wooden sword, and looked at each other.

"Yao Qingxuan is already unable to protect herself, and she couldn't even catch a Tang Wanzhou, losing all face. Yet she is still so aggressive in protecting that kid; it's really interesting. Is she not avoiding suspicion?" A surprised old voice sounded in the Heavenly Principle Hall.

Southern Clear Palace.

Yao Qingxuan said: "This sword is a warning; those old fellows in the Heavenly Principle Hall should know my attitude. People outside the rules will not take action against you, and no one will dare to break into the Southern Clear Palace again."

Li Youyi said: "Why does the Heavenly Principle Hall want to kill me? What is the difference between outside the rules and inside the rules?"

"A life for a life is within the rules. You killed quite a few Divine Sect experts, and their relatives are looking for you for revenge; I can't manage that! Of course, among these enemies, if any old fellows take action, I can help you take it," Yao Qingxuan said.

Although Li Youyi knew Yao Qingxuan was protecting him because of the golden rice and An Xianjing, he still felt a warmth in his heart and sincerely bowed to thank her.

"In these two months, have you seen Tang Wanzhou?" Yao Qingxuan asked suddenly, staring into his eyes.