Chapter 323: The One Named Li

The swamp filled with moisture was eternally dim, giving people a lonely and oppressive feeling of stuffiness.

They continued to go deeper.

The rotten mud and water grass gradually disappeared, turning into a turbid water kingdom.

The Prefect's Jade Boat sailed on the water swamp only three feet deep.

Li Youyi sat at the bow of the boat, the wound on his palm completely healed, and the severely consumed magic power in his body recovered. In the end, he was only at the first heaven of the Dao Seed Realm, and continuously performing Great Art level attacks consumed a huge amount of magic power, making it impossible to fight for a long time unless he used liquid magic power.

Not a dragon species planting the Dao, martial cultivators at the first heaven often need several years of hard cultivation to accumulate, comprehend, and experience.

He took out the pitch-black thousand-year essence medicine from his boundary bag.

According to what Tuoba Butuo said, it grew deep underground, moved extremely fast, and almost couldn't be caught.

"It should be a thousand-year Earth Spirit Boy."

Li Youyi had a fairly detailed understanding of various precious medicines and essence medicines in the world.

Walking the path of a thought master requires extensive knowledge and memory.

The Earth Spirit Boy grows underground, born from absorbing Yin Qi. After a thousand years, it takes human form and develops intelligence.

The Heaven Spirit Boy grows in the clouds, born from absorbing Yang Qi.

In addition, there are Water Spirit Boys, Fire Spirit Sons, Wind Spirit Boys...

If they can grow for ten thousand years and turn into Imperial Medicines, they can break away from the plant body, develop a flesh-and-blood body, and although their combat power cannot compare to a martial arts Son of Heaven, they are fully capable of contending with the transcendent and mastering the ability to protect themselves.

Two Phoenix leaned over, moving stealthily along Li Youyi's arm toward the Earth Spirit Boy.

"Do you want to eat alone?" Li Youyi said.

Two Phoenix nodded fiercely.

Li Youyi said: "The First Phoenix already has different intentions; you should encourage yourself. Take it, and grow to the third heaven of the Dao Seed Realm as soon as possible to take on the heavy responsibility."

Ever since following Tang Wanzhou, the First Phoenix often mentioned her in front of Li Youyi, telling Li Youyi not to fear danger and to use the teleportation array to find her, or to teleport it over alone.

Its body was still with Li Youyi, but psychologically it had clearly derailed.

Two Phoenix revealed a loyal look of "Don't worry, I'm here," then bit the thousand-year Earth Spirit Boy and ate it alone.

Qi Xiao sat at the stern of the boat, studying Sikong Ce's circular shield.

This shield was an extraordinary treasure, and the Lin Lion giant ghost battle soul sealed inside had combat power comparable to an expert of the fourth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm, which was of extraordinary value.

But it was only the fourth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm, far less precious than the Ghost Flag.

In this regard, magic artifacts have a clear disadvantage compared to Daoist techniques.

As the cultivation realm of a martial cultivator improves, they must change to magic artifacts of higher grades and then adapt to the magic artifacts. Like Sikong Qin, Sikong Ce, and Sikong Jingyuan, whose magic artifacts were lost, their losses were heavy, and their combat power slid down a large section.

Li Youyi summoned the golden ancient mirror from his Ancestral Field, studied it for a while, handed it to Tuoba Butuo, and exhorted: "In the main altar, never use this artifact, otherwise, it will lead to death."

Tuoba Butuo was not pretentious and accepted it directly: "I understand, after all, it is related to that Hall Master of the Withered Glory Hall. Brother Youyi, the opposite bank of the Nether Flower Black Swamp connects to the entrance of the underground immortal mansion we came in from; in the world, I don't know how many experts are exploring and searching there. It has been almost a year; do you think anyone will break into the underground immortal mansion to search for our corpses because of us?"

Missing for a year and losing contact with the outside world, anyone would think they were dead.

Li Youyi could feel Tuoba Butuo's sadness and longing emotions, and Qi Xiao at the stern of the boat also looked thoughtful.

The first figure to appear in Li Youyi's mind was actually the moving figure of Jiang Ning. But soon, a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face; not to mention that the two only had a brief intersection, just the fact that he was engaged to Zuoqiu Hongting was enough to make any faint good feelings vanish into smoke.

Later, the ruin of his Ancestral Field, suicide, decadence, and other dramas were enough to make any noble lady disdain and be disappointed.

Not to mention a noble lady like her.

The ten of them went to the Du'e Temple nearly two years ago; they should have returned by now.

Compared to Jiang Ning, Li Youyi felt that Zuoqiu Hongting and Yao Yin were more likely to come to the underground immortal mansion to find him; the former was engaged in name, and they had brotherly feelings. The latter was more emotional.

Putting away all kinds of miscellaneous thoughts in his mind, Li Youyi said: "The moment we joined the Twin Rice Sect, our fate had already headed in another direction. Wanting to break free from the shackles on our bodies and return to the past is by no means an easy task. With our current cultivation, all we can do is stick to our original intentions and take it one step at a time. Only by living can we possibly break free from the shackles."

Qi Xiao nodded in agreement: "The Twin Rice Sect has at least three transcendents, two Rice Ancestors, and the living spirit in the Coffin Mountain. The hall masters and deputy hall masters of the four halls, the five great venerables, the leaders of the God-Slaying Servants... are all Longevity Realm giants, and their strength is still above ten million gates. If we betray them, we will definitely die, and it might even implicate our families and friends."

"This is only a corner of what we know," Li Youyi said.

They had only been to two of the seven layers of the main altar.

In the distance, the roaring sound of water gradually became clear.

Tuoba Butuo stood up and looked over: "We're here!"

Li Youyi and Qi Xiao were shocked and breathless by the scene before them.

Above the Nether Flower Black Swamp, it was thousands of meters high, covered by miasma black gas, forming a fake sky.

Arriving here, a terrifying big hole appeared in the sky, as if it had been punched through in ancient times, with a diameter of dozens of miles. Above, he did not know where it led.

A blood waterfall poured down from the "sky" thousands of meters high.

The blood waterfall had abundant water and a roaring sound, but it hung on the edge of the big hole, and looking from afar, it was like a line of blood.

The swamp turned into a blood-red ocean here, boundless.

Qi Xiao said: "No wonder they say that after going three hundred miles deep, you can't go any further. Arriving here, I feel uneasy, as if I have broken into hell, and my mood is inexplicably irritable."

Tuoba Butuo said: "It's not hell, but it's close! A world-shaking battle once broke out here, and beneath the mud of the blood swamp, it is all bones, countless, like a sea of corpses. The thousand-year essence medicine and the spear were fished out from beneath this sea of corpses. How about it, two brothers, dare you go down with me to explore again?"

Li Youyi said: "Other places have been explored by Rice Sect disciples for many years, and the possibility of finding good things is very small. Here, on the contrary, is a treasure land."

"That's exactly the point! The armor and battle soldiers on the corpses below have not completely rotted and can be sold for a good price. As long as there is money, are you afraid of not being able to buy cultivation resources?" Tuoba Butuo said.

"Sikong Jingyuan doesn't know when he will arrive; someone must stay above, otherwise there is a possibility of being ambushed by them. I will stay!"

Li Youyi released the five Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors except for the First Phoenix, letting them explore the bottom of the water together to find thousand-year essence medicines.

These five fellows had actually summoned a large swarm of fierce insects to act as their soldiers, not only searching for thousand-year-old refined herbs but also working alongside Tuoba Butuo and Qi Xiao to salvage suit after suit of armored skeletons and decayed war gear, working with great fervor.

Tens of thousands of years later, most of the magic artifacts of the past had rotted into scrap metal.

"This armor is okay, forged from extremely dense metal, can be re-refined, and can be sold for several thousand Spring-Gushing Coins."

"A pill furnace is a pity; it should have been a thousand-character artifact back then, can refine pills, can be a battle soldier. The scriptures inside have dissipated, and it has been punched through. The material of the artifact still has a small part that has not rusted, and it is worth tens of thousands of Spring-Gushing Coins."

Li Youyi sat on the boat, identifying them one by one, and collected some of the artifacts with residual value into his boundary bag.

He exhorted the six little ones to search for items with materials similar to the spear, and the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone.

So many experts of the Po Jialuo Sect had died here; how could they not have carried Spirit Platform Flame Star Stones? There would definitely be a harvest.

"Whoosh!"

A gust of Yin wind blew over, very cold.

Li Youyi hurriedly raised his head, looked at the scarlet and vast swamp sea, and then looked behind him, feeling slightly nervous and worried that the commotion here was too big and would provoke terrifying things.

This place did not look like a good place.

……

Yang Qingxi stood in a cave dwelling that looked like a karst cave, which was extremely vast, tens of meters high, with bronze beams, steps, stone pillars, stone beasts... some were naturally formed, and some were artificially carved.

This place was the treasure vault discovered by Wang Shu.

The treasure vault was divided into an outer layer and an inner layer.

Climbing the steps on the cliff in the distance, one could enter the inner layer.

But on the steps, there were arrays left over from the ancient Po Jialuo Sect period, and only at the end of each month would the power of the arrays weaken.

Yang Qingxi felt that this place should be the cave dwelling of some big figure of the ancient Po Jialuo Sect, and there must be supreme treasures in the inner layer, but she had tried many times and could not pass the stone steps.

Behind her, a fragrant wind blew.

Yang Qingchan, in a green shirt, floated down to a stone pillar several yards away.

The ghost within her body was extremely vain; as her physical body strengthened and her strength improved, she paid attention to her external image, drawing her brows and painting her lips, applying powder to her snowy cheeks, even more gorgeous and exquisite than Yang Qingxi, who did not wear makeup, and her whole body exuded an unusual luster.

Yang Qingchan said: "Sikong Yanlun has retreated!"

"Oh, he doesn't look like a person who gives up easily," Yang Qingxi was somewhat surprised.

Because she was worried about the treasure vault being exposed, Yang Qingxi had been hiding in the cave for the past few days, while Sikong Yanlun wandered in the nearby area searching.

Yang Qingchan said: "He was summoned away by Sikong Jingyuan."

"Did Sikong Jingyuan find the one named Li?" Yang Qingxi's heart moved.

Previously, Yang Qingxi had already encountered Sikong Yanlun and Sikong Jingyuan once and ended in a crushing defeat. Fortunately, Yang Qingchan's physical body was already very strong and could erupt with tyrannical combat power, so they were able to escape back to the treasure vault.

But because of this, the secret of the treasure vault in the nearby area was exposed.

The reason Yang Qingxi knew Li Youyi had also come to the south was that Sikong Yanlun had once made a wild statement: "Kill Li Youyi in front of her, and make her willingly submit beneath him." It was as if the reason she did not submit was because of some man, which really made Yang Qingxi angry and ashamed.

She was just waiting to break through to the fourth heaven, first beat his stinking mouth to a pulp, and then smash his corpse into ten thousand pieces to avenge the siege of this period.

Yang Qingchan said: "You might not believe it if I tell you. Sikong Jingyuan actually lost to the one named Li you mentioned, which is why he came to find Sikong Yanlun to kill his way back."

A strange look appeared in Yang Qingxi's eyes: "This is impossible! Li Youyi's martial arts have already reached the end. Thought power cultivation is a slow process; where did he get so many Star Day Pills?"

It was no longer a secret that Li Youyi possessed Star Day Pills.

Yang Qingchan said: "Sikong Jingyuan sent Sikong Qin back to the Withered Glory Hall to invite the Great True Disciple Chang Yuyan, but I intercepted him halfway and forced him to reveal many things. That Li fellow's thought power might have reached the level of a four-star spirit thought master, and he has successfully planted the Dao in the Wind Mansion."

"Where is he?" Yang Qingxi asked.

Yang Qingchan poured Sikong Qin out of her boundary bag: "He was seriously injured in the battle, wounded by the Yin Ghost Commander, so what he said should not be false. That Ghost Flag is an extraordinary treasure; you should find a way to seize it, and sacrificing some beauty is also worth it."

"Beauty? Who do you think Li Youyi is? You'd better not act on your own there, lest you be too clever by half," Yang Qingxi looked at the old man on the ground.

Sikong Qin's limbs were all broken, very miserable, bleeding from seven orifices, his face dark purple.

"What happened to him?"

"Used some secret techniques on him! How could it be so easy to obtain information?"

Yang Qingxi asked: "Does he know where Li Youyi is now?"

"It seems he hasn't left the Nether Flower Black Swamp, but instead went to the depths of the swamp; his courage is not ordinary," Yang Qingchan said.

"The Meditation Flower and the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone are both treasures for thought master cultivation; he should be for these two things."

An idea arose in Yang Qingxi's heart, and her eyes lit up: "Why don't we go join the fun?"

"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind," Yang Qingchan laughed like silver bells, her red lips shining.

Yang Qingxi said: "Whether we are the oriole or not, let's not mention it for now. If the Li fellow loses to those two brothers, and those two brothers get the Ghost Flag, Demon Armor, and seven strange insects, where will we have a chance to turn things around? Submit to them? I don't even look up to Yao Qian, let alone them?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 324 =====