Chapter 31: Staying overnight at Yao Guan

Li Youyi wanted to end the battle quickly, so he went all out.

After catching up to the ape-like deformed human species, he pushed out both palms, the wind blowing, actually wanting to suppress people with strength.

Only opened one spring...

Pushing horizontally, just suppress and kill strongly.

The ape-like deformed human species didn't dare to clash head-on with Li Youyi, swinging the spinal cord bow to block.

He felt that this kid in front of him had opened more than three springs, and might have opened four. With the blessing of that pair of silver-silk glove magic tools, he was likely able to clash with a dharma-martial cultivator who opened five springs.

The realm of opening four springs could drive the magic tool to flash with silver light, mostly not a low-grade magic tool.

Possessing a magic tool in the Gushing Spring Realm?

Who exactly is this kid?

The ape-like deformed human species couldn't figure it out no matter how he thought, and after carrying several palms, the spinal cord bow broke inch by inch, his hands overflowed with blood, and his internal organs were painfully splitting.

He decisively turned and fled.

How could Li Youyi let him escape?

Must silence him.

After catching up, using his hand as a blade, he performed Taiyi Sea-Opening.

A silver palm-qi blade light slashed on the back of the ape-like deformed human species, cutting his spine.

The huge body fell to the ground with a roar.

"Bang!"

He added a palm, shattering his skull.

Determining that he was dead, Li Youyi walked back quickly, picked up the Yellow Dragon Sword, and wrapped it with cloth.

Zhao Zhizhuo hurriedly stepped forward to thank him: "May I ask the little benefactor's surname and given name? Zhao Zhizhuo of the Cangli tribe will definitely remember it forever."

"Old gentleman, you'd better hurry up and move reinforcements, that is the top priority," Li Youyi said.

Zhao Zhizhuo's face was pale, his eyes full of anxiety and worry, enduring the severe pain of the wound: "Old man has a presumptuous request... can the little benefactor help people to the end? With my current physical state, traveling alone, I'm afraid I'll fall off the horse after walking a few dozen li."

That iron arrow had too much destructive power, tearing a large piece of flesh and damaging the bones.

Li Youyi really didn't want to get involved in this matter, fearing that he would be liquidated by Shi Jiuzhai in the future.

But he thought that after the people on the bronze warship came down, they always needed a place to settle down, otherwise how could they survive? If he could take this opportunity to resolve this matter, it would be worth taking some risks.

Li Youyi had ridden a horse, but he couldn't talk about horsemanship.

However, after opening two spring eyes at the soles of his feet, his body was extraordinary, and it was easy to control a horse.

The three of them rode one horse together.

Zhao Zhizhuo lay prone in front, and Gao Huan hugged Li Youyi's waist and abdomen tightly from behind.

Fortunately, the strong horse under them had drunk the blood of the Zouwu strange beast, its bones were tough, its muscles were strong, and its body was covered with tiger patterns, far taller and more powerful than ordinary horses. Even carrying three people at the same time, it was still as fast as lightning, able to travel three hundred miles a day.

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Yao Guan City, nearly three hundred li away from Burial Xianzhen, had a population of over two hundred thousand, with no city walls, city gates, or moats, more like a large market town that could be entered and exited freely.

The entire Yao Guan City was like a big pancake, spread out on the fertile plain on the west bank of the Sui River, connected to the peaks of the Mang Mountain in the west.

It was already night.

The bone lamps on both sides of the street lit up, emitting ghost-fire-like brilliance.

Li Youyi and Gao Huan stayed in the third-largest large restaurant in the city, Yao Hua Ting. They took a hot bath, ate not only noodle soup but also more than a dozen delicious dishes.

After entering the city in the afternoon, Zhao Zhizhuo immediately went to the City Lord's Mansion to ask for help.

Not long after, the roar of a hundred beasts came from the Mang Mountain. Some dharma-martial cultivators rode giant birds with wings spanning more than ten meters, some rode strange giant beasts like tigers, elephants, and rhinoceroses, all rushing to Burial Xianzhen.

That scene was very magnificent.

Lizhou was the territory of the Nine Li tribe and had been peaceful for hundreds of years, and such a vicious incident had never happened.

Although there were contradictions and competition among the various Nine Li tribes, if a real danger occurred, any tribe would definitely go to rescue.

The Nine Li tribe had been intermarrying for generations, and their bones were broken and their tendons were connected.

Zhao Zhizhuo finally came to Yao Hua Ting, thanking Li Youyi again, so excited that he wanted to kneel, but was firmly supported and couldn't kneel down.

He wore gray-white cloth clothes, looking like he was sixty or seventy years old, his temples were frosted, but his muscles were strong, and it could be seen that he must have been tall and majestic when he was young.

"If it weren't for the little benefactor's righteous action, my Cangli tribe would definitely have suffered heavy casualties this time. Tomorrow, the young patriarch will definitely come to thank you in person. At that time, if the little benefactor has any needs, just speak up."

Zhao Zhizhuo's shoulder had been cleaned and bandaged, and treated with special secret medicine.

"Has it been saved?"

Li Youyi was very concerned about whether the battle in Burial Xianzhen had ended, wanting to return to the bronze warship as soon as possible.

Zhao Zhizhuo nodded and said: "The young patriarch and the others haven't arrived at Yao Guan yet, but news has come back that the Buddha-thief has retreated."

"Buddha-thief?"

Li Youyi was confused, weren't those people led by Shi Jiuzhai the Earth Wolf King Army?

Zhao Zhizhuo had long known that the two in front of him were not Buddha-thieves, but refugees who had fled to Lizhou and had caused a misunderstanding by wearing the same monk's robes as the Buddha-thieves.

This was what Li Youyi told him on the horse's back.

Nowadays, the world is in chaos, refugees are rising everywhere, and there are countless refugees fleeing to Lizhou to avoid disaster. Zhao Zhizhuo naturally believed Li Youyi, who had saved his life, deeply.

Zhao Zhizhuo's eyes had hatred and anger, his chest heaving violently, affecting his old illness, and he said with a somewhat wheezing voice: "Southern Barbarians, Northern Di, Eastern Yi, Western Rong. In our Southern Region, the most hateful and terrifying are the three major barbarian thieves, Coffin Mountain 'Xu Fudu', Night City 'Yuwen Yan', Earth Wolf King 'Shi Naer'."

"They all say that Lizhou is decided by the Nine Li tribe, so it has been peaceful for hundreds of years."

"But who knows that to maintain this peace and stability, the Nine Li tribe has been swallowing their anger, and every year they have to send a large amount of tribute and wealth to Coffin Mountain. Precisely because of this, the ten thousand Buddha-thieves under Xu Fudu only loot and blackmail in a small range in Lizhou, and have never had large-scale conflicts."

"The Buddha-thieves were so fierce and bloody this time, it was really abnormal, I don't know what they intend to do."

Li Youyi thought of many things in an instant and asked: "What about the Earth Wolf King Army?"

Zhao Zhizhuo said: "The Earth Wolf King's power is not in Lizhou, it has nothing to do with us."

"Has Zhao Lao heard of Shi Jiuzhai?" Li Youyi asked.

Zhao Zhizhuo's expression froze: "Shi Jiuzhai is extraordinary, he is the adopted son of Shi Naer, one of the ten dharma kings of the Earth Wolf King Army, and has only become famous in the last twenty years, but he is already a figure on the 'Sixty-Year Book'. Little benefactor, why do you ask about him?"

Li Youyi always felt that Zhao Zhizhuo was very afraid of the three major barbarian thieves, and it seemed that even the Nine Li tribe had to pay tribute to the barbarian thieves.

He didn't dare to speak out!

If he spoke out, he would definitely be pushed to the forefront, and the Cangli tribe might not be able to protect him. Even, he might eventually become a victim of the struggle between big forces.

Low-key, low-key.

Getting involved to this step is already very dangerous.

"I've heard his name for a long time, it's like thunder."

Li Youyi hurriedly changed the subject and asked: "Zhao Lao, please help the junior answer some doubts about cultivation, I have always been practicing blindly, and I don't understand many things."

"Practicing blindly can practice to open three springs, or even open four springs?"

Zhao Zhizhuo looked at the silver-silk gloves on Li Youyi's hands, thought of something, and hurriedly reminded solemnly: "Little benefactor, the old man doesn't dare to ask where you got this magic tool, but don't easily drive and use it in front of others. An innocent man is innocent, but his treasure makes him a criminal."

Li Youyi could see Zhao Zhizhuo's true feelings, and while moved, asked: "Are magic tools so precious?"

Zhao Zhizhuo finally believed that the young man in front of him had been practicing blindly and really knew very little about the martial arts realm: "Let's put it this way! If I weren't old and had no spirit, seeing this magic tool of yours, I would likely be jealous and moved. This is not returning kindness with enmity, but the temptation is too great, it's human nature."

"In other words, if a peerless beauty takes off her clothes and walks on the street, and has no power to protect herself, then any danger she encounters is her own fault, and she can't blame anyone."

"Understood!" Li Youyi took off the silver-silk gloves and hid them: "Please keep it secret for me, Zhao Lao."

Zhao Zhizhuo hurriedly promised, and said again: "Don't take it too much to heart, little benefactor, the old man just speaks so directly. In fact, in this world, there are not many absolutely good people, and not many absolutely bad people; the most are those who dare not be too good and dare not be too bad."

"You can rest assured, even if I really met you when I was young, I would never be able to do anything to return kindness with enmity. It's just that I've eaten a few more decades of rice and seen too much, so I couldn't help but want to give a few more warnings."

"Thank you!"

Afterward, Li Youyi asked Zhao Zhizhuo for advice on some questions related to cultivation.

It suddenly became lively outside.

The quiet night was shattered by the sound of breaking wind and the roar of a hundred beasts.

The Beast Li tribe's people and horses were back!

Zhao Zhizhuo hurriedly said goodbye, wanting to go to welcome the young patriarch, and when he left, he asked Li Youyi if he wanted to go together. Li Youyi naturally shook his head; the big figures of the Cangli tribe were afraid they would be busy tonight, and it was not the time to meet.

And this form of meeting would have endless troubles.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 32 =====