Chapter 322: Strange Staff

"It's just that I cannot plant the Dao, but I can collect and release magic artifacts," Li Youyi explained patiently.

Sikong Jingyuan cursed filthily, then roared: "You are looking for death!"

Li Youyi's eyes tightened, holding the Huang Long Sword above his head, the magic power in his body moving frantically, injecting into the sword body.

"Whoosh!"

On the sword body, nine Daoist texts appeared, and the tip of the sword drew in bolts of lightning.

Having reached the Dao Seed Realm, the Huang Long Sword became even more miraculous.

The Daoist texts on the sword body were not scriptures, but the Six-Jia Secret Wishes of the Dao Gate, emerging from within the sword body.

"Boom!"

Li Youyi crouched down and slashed horizontally with his sword.

Accompanied by a thunderclap, sword light and lightning shot out.

Those ghost generals traveling with Sikong Jingyuan shattered like bubbles in an instant, and the formation they formed could not stop it either.

In the distance.

Two Phoenix led the Bone-Eroding Miasma Mosquito group, covering the sky and earth, rushing into the area of Sikong Jingyuan's Dao Heart External Image, collapsing the hundred-ghost formation.

"Whoosh!"

Yin wind blew, ghost clouds surged.

The sound of battle flags rang in the wind.

The fifty-yard-tall Yin Ghost Commander ran rapidly, and Tuoba Butuo and Qi Xiao stood on its left and right shoulders respectively, one holding a sword and shield, the other bending his bow and nocking an arrow.

The battle soldiers had changed hands; it was clear that Sikong Ce and Sikong Qin were in bad shape.

Facing this dangerous situation, Sikong Jingyuan felt cold all over, woke up, immediately put away his Dao Heart External Image and ghost generals, performed an escape technique, and his body suddenly rushed into the mud swamp.

"Boom!"

Li Youyi slashed down with his sword, like opening the sea, splitting the swamp in two.

The sword mark was a yard deep.

Unfortunately, he was a step late, and he escaped.

Li Youyi immediately released his thought power nerve to probe the surroundings.

Two Phoenix tracked Sikong Jingyuan's aura and flew two or three miles in a certain direction. But the aura was interrupted here and disappeared without a trace.

Tuoba Butuo and Qi Xiao were also searching, but found nothing.

"Damn it, he escaped again! When I go back, I will also practice a powerful escape technique; life-saving methods are more important than anything else," Qi Xiao said, his chest heaving, quite angry.

Li Youyi had a good attitude and laughed: "Sikong Jingyuan's cultivation is far superior to ours; wanting to fight against the current and leave him behind would definitely cost us a heavy price. When Tuoba reaches the fourth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm, we will join forces again, block all his retreat paths, and guarantee he won't be able to escape."

Tuoba Butuo said: "For a figure like Sikong Jingyuan, at the fifth or sixth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm, capturing or killing him is not an easy task. Let alone us? Brother Youyi, what is your cultivation realm? I feel that when you fought him, you were always in the upper hand."

"It was all thanks to the battle soldiers and Daoist techniques that caught him off guard. Besides, I have the thought power attainment of a peak three-star spirit thought master; who said a thought master cannot fight against the current?"

Li Youyi looked at his left hand, which was in excruciating pain.

Even with the defense of the Blood Hand Print Demon Armor, his palm was still wounded and torn when collecting the golden ancient mirror.

However, thinking that he had seized a Grade Seven Hundred-Character Artifact, which could be sold for at least a million Spring-Gushing Coins, he felt much better.

Putting away the Huang Long Sword, Li Youyi asked: "Did those two old guys also escape?"

"One escaped, one captured."

Tuoba Butuo felt his magic power was greatly consumed and felt that Sikong Jingyuan should have really escaped far away, so he stopped activating the Ghost Flag and recalled the Yin Ghost Commander into the flag.

He opened his boundary bag and released Sikong Ce.

Sikong Ce had been burned black by the Duling Cold Fire and was seriously injured, having already been knocked unconscious. When Sikong Qin performed his escape technique, he was already injured, so naturally, he could only escape alone.

Although the Yin Ghost Commander's combat power was strong, its attack methods were single; a martial cultivator at the fourth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm wanted to escape, and it could not keep him.

Li Youyi took away all the valuable items on Sikong Ce: "Capturing one is already quite good! An expert at the fourth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm is very valuable. Tuoba, I will leave him to you first!"

"Understood."

Tuoba Butuo laughed maliciously and broke Sikong Ce's limbs one by one.

Dealing with martial arts expert captives, this was the safest method.

"We are actually able to capture a martial cultivator at the fourth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm! The head of our Qi family is only one realm higher than him," Qi Xiao laughed.

Li Youyi breathed and exhaled to quickly recover his magic power and asked: "How long have we been in the Nether Flower Black Swamp?"

"About four days!" Qi Xiao said.

Li Youyi calculated secretly and then asked: "How is the harvest?"

"Picked three Meditation Flowers; haven't found any Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone fragments yet," Qi Xiao said.

"I picked three Meditation Flowers and one thousand-year essence medicine."

Tuoba Butuo took out a palm-sized pitch-black essence medicine, like a short, fat child, emitting a strong medicinal fragrance and rich life aura. He handed this thousand-year essence medicine to Li Youyi, knowing that he raised seven strange insects and had a huge consumption of resources.

Immediately after, he took out the rusty battle spear: "I don't quite understand this thing, but it shouldn't be an ordinary object."

After Qi Xiao took it, he almost sank into the swamp; it was too heavy, weighing over thirty thousand catties.

It was indeed not an ordinary object.

He used magic power to activate it, but there was no reaction.

"Don't understand!"

He shook his head and handed it to Li Youyi.

Li Youyi was prepared; magic power condensed into a cloud beneath his feet to support his body, grabbed the rusty spear, and also mobilized magic power to inject into it. But it was like dead iron, and the magic power could not get in.

Tuoba Butuo said: "This battle spear and the thousand-year essence medicine were both found in the mud at the bottom of a place three hundred miles deep in the Nether Flower Black Swamp. That area is very strange..."

Qi Xiao said: "It should just be a battle spear forged from extremely dense metal."

"This spear is forged very carefully, exactly one yard long, not a point more, not a point less, and weighs thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three catties."

As a spirit thought master, Li Youyi was very sensitive to length and weight.

Array masters cannot have a point more or less when setting up arrays. Alchemists cannot have medicinal materials be a point heavier or lighter when refining pills.

Li Youyi looked at the spearhead, which was exactly one foot long, very sharp, with two ears like human ears.

Wiping the rust with his hand, some blurred star track patterns appeared beneath, which seemed familiar.

He looked at the tail of the spear...

The tail of the spear was empty, tubular, and uneven.

He did not know if it was designed this way on purpose, or if something else was stored in it.

Li Youyi's heart moved, and he mobilized his thought power, preparing to burn and refine the spear with Golden Crow flames to see if it could be melted.

"Sizzle sizzle!"

Golden Crow flames wrapped around the spear.

A strange thing happened; the rusty spear was rapidly absorbing Li Youyi's thought power.

Li Youyi was surprised and fully mobilized his thought power to inject into it.

Gradually, the foot-long spearhead became bright, and the star track patterns became clear. Above the heads of the three, the same star track patterns appeared, covering a large area.

"Could this be a thought master's staff?" Qi Xiao exclaimed.

The magic artifacts of martial cultivators are strange and varied, with many types.

But the objects of thought masters are very few, and each one is very precious.

Talismans and array flags cannot be considered thought master objects because martial cultivators can also activate and use them.

Li Youyi swung the spear, and the brilliance on the spearhead and the star track patterns above their heads instantly dissipated, with no power erupting.

"It should be a staff... to be precise, it is a battle soldier that is a combination of a battle spear and a staff, but it seems to be missing a section and cannot exert its power."

Li Youyi felt the extraordinary nature of this spear and asked: "Tuoba, where did you find it? If I can find the other section, I will trade the Ghost Flag with you."

Next, he had to use his identity as a spirit thought master to cover up his martial arts attainments as much as possible.

Fighting with Sikong Jingyuan, he didn't need to worry about exposing anything, as he could bluff him. But if a Longevity Realm giant were watching the battle, the huge gap in martial arts realm and combat power would definitely cause big trouble.

A handy staff would be enough to greatly increase his combat power as a spirit thought master and truly achieve fighting against the current.

Tuoba Butuo laughed: "No need to trade; Brother Youyi, just take it. If it really is a staff, I can't use it! Besides... do you think I can hold a treasure like the Ghost Flag? I think you can't hold it either, Brother Youyi."

Only after activating the Ghost Flag did he know how extraordinary it was.

The Yin Ghost Commander activated by Tuoba Butuo with the cultivation base of the third heaven of the Dao Seed Realm already had combat power that could challenge some weaker experts of the fifth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm.

Moreover, he could join forces with it to fight.

It was just that the magic power consumption was huge.

The reason Tuoba Butuo said Li Youyi couldn't hold it was because, to this day, no one knew where the upper limit of the Ghost Flag was. How could Hall Master An and Venerable Yao not have thought about using it?

Thinking of the good side, the reason they hadn't spoken up yet was first, the pride of the strong, and second, they hadn't encountered a crisis they couldn't handle.

Thinking of the bad side, there were many more possibilities.

Tuoba Butuo said: "Brother Youyi, no need to be reserved; just for the sake of saving my life, you can accept this object with peace of mind. Besides, if the other section cannot be found, it is a dead object and worthless."

"Then I won't be polite! I will compensate you elsewhere in the future."

Li Youyi put away the spear and said: "Let's go, let's go to that strange area you mentioned and look again! I want to see how strange it is."

Qi Xiao was somewhat worried: "Sikong Jingyuan escaped and will definitely return to the Withered Glory Hall to invite powerful helpers. Will it be too dangerous for us to continue lingering in the Nether Flower Black Swamp?"

Tuoba Butuo nodded: "We should return to the main altar first; that way we will be the side in the right. Let Sikong Jingyuan go back first; he will definitely reverse black and white and make a big deal out of Sikong Ce."

Li Youyi said: "Your worries are not unreasonable. But have you thought that Sikong Jingyuan must also think that we will return to the main altar immediately? He is a step ahead, and we cannot catch up. Returning to the main altar now might be even more dangerous."

Li Youyi had many life-saving methods and did not have much fear, adding: "There is another possibility! Sikong Jingyuan is a Son of God, and a Son of God with a higher cultivation base than ours."

"He shouldn't flee back so dejectedly, not only suffering a crushing defeat but also having his precious mirror seized by me; it's too shameful! If I were him, as long as I wasn't injured, I would definitely hide in the dark and make a comeback."

"His hiding methods and escape techniques are all quite remarkable."

Tuoba Butuo nodded lightly: "If it were me, I would do the same. And he and Sikong Yanlun are Rice Person brothers, having a wonderful spiritual connection; if he summons Sikong Yanlun, he will definitely be full of confidence and fight us again."

"Let's go; with our current strength, even if the brothers join forces, it's not certain how much chance of winning they have."

After fighting Sikong Jingyuan, Li Youyi was even more confident and dispelled the charm of the fourth heaven Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator.

Figures who had condensed a Dao Lotus were once out of reach, pressing down on him like a towering mountain, making him unable to breathe. Now looking at it, they were actually nothing more than this.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 323 =====