Chapter 38: Immortal Law Star

"Another magic tool."

Yan Qingqing was stunned, feeling it was unbelievable; she had never encountered such a freak before.

Li Ling was almost speechless; she felt Li Youyi was deeply calculating, clearly having the strength to contend with the two people behind, yet letting her, an injured person hit by flying needles, stand in front. Furthermore, in front of her brother, he had pretended to be a three-spring martial cultivator.

"Don't let him escape; his cultivation isn't high." Xing Wanxing was not only not angry but very excited.

Because that mysterious freak's cultivation wasn't high—he should have only opened five springs; taking him down would be enough to obtain multiple magic tools.

Ahead, the sound of water roared; seeing they were about to rush out of Immortal Burial Town and reach the Dragon-Killing Waterfall.

Li Youyi suddenly stopped.

In the direction of the east exit of the town, under that thousand-year-old apricot tree, stood a tall and thin figure in monk's robes.

Fang Tong, the seventh disciple of Shi Jiuzhai, stood with his back to Li Youyi and Li Ling, who had arrived there, his gaze fixed on the giant silver bones in the silver coffin. Under the illumination of the silver light, his shadow cast on the street reached the feet of Li Youyi and Li Ling.

Disciples of Shi Jiuzhai were not ranked by age, but by cultivation level.

Fang Tong's combat power was naturally still above Yan Qingqing's.

"Stars as a heart, silver as bones—the bones of the Silver Bone Heaven Clan. Such an other-realm coffin has appeared once in history, causing a chaotic war that lasted for twenty years; I don't know how many cultivators who wanted to claim it as their own lost their lives."

"If this coffin is not opened, it is worth three hundred million. After opening it, the value is more than a billion."

Fang Tong added: "Logically speaking, with the silver bones here, the Immortal Law Star located in the heart should also be in the coffin. Which of you opened this coffin?"

His voice was very low, but everyone in the town could hear it clearly, showing profound magic power attainment.

Xing Wanxing, who had caught up, was frightened by Fang Tong's words and immediately explained: "This has nothing to do with us! It was opened by the Cangli tribe long ago; the Immortal Law Star you speak of must have been taken by them in advance."

Fang Tong turned around, revealing a long donkey face: "It had better have nothing to do with you! For a treasure like the Immortal Law Star, not to mention the Master, even the Heavenly King would spare no cost to seize it, and the entire Southern Region would be shaken. I will report this matter truthfully."

Yan Qingqing said: "Anyway, when I arrived, the coffin had already been opened."

Xing Wanxing cursed the bitch under his breath; she could have testified for him, but chose not to get involved at all. He looked at Li Youyi and Li Ling, and in a flash of inspiration, said: "These two arrived at Immortal Burial Town before me, and they have multiple magic tools on them; it's very likely they obtained them from the coffin."

Fang Tong's gaze finally fell on Li Youyi and Li Ling.

Li Ling's state was extremely poor, all light trails retracted to her glabella, and she whispered: "What other trump cards do you have? Use them quickly; this donkey-faced man is probably even harder to deal with than that dog-like malformed auntie."

She didn't hold much hope.

If this guy Xie Jin was really strong enough to deal with a seven-spring martial expert, why had he been fleeing in such a sorry state all along?

But as long as they broke through and rushed toward the Dragon-Killing Waterfall, there was a glimmer of survival. The river below the waterfall led directly to the Spirit-Passing Fog Realm and the Blood Sea Coffin Dock; these people definitely wouldn't dare to chase them in.

"Then there's only one last move left; I have to summon... a helper!"

Li Youyi cut his wrist with his sword and sprinkled blood on the ground.

He was truly at his wit's end!

Li Ling was also at the end of her rope.

If it were just Xing Wanxing and Yan Qingqing, they could still fight, but now a more powerful donkey-faced man had appeared. Perhaps only that guardian wife, who existed in such an outrageous way, could help him overcome this difficulty.

"No matter who you summon, it won't change the fact that you are destined to die today."

Yan Qingqing held a three-foot soft sword and flew over.

Li Ling snorted, a ball of light appearing at the tip of her right index finger, and she slashed through the air. Immediately, an arc of light several meters long flew out, forcing Yan Qingqing back.

On the other side, Xing Wanxing's palms glowed with magic power, closing in on Li Youyi.

Li Youyi slashed with his sword, the yellow glow brilliant.

Xing Wanxing dared not catch the magic tool with his palms and hurriedly dodged.

With the speed boost from the scripture belt, for a short time, the two were actually trading blows back and forth.

Li Youyi frowned, doubting his own strength for the first time: "Can I really cross three realms and contend with a six-spring martial cultivator? But even a pure immortal body can only suppress an opponent by crossing one realm."

Li Youyi quickly cut off this thought; as a mortal who had been practicing for less than a month, how could he dare to be arrogant?

Arrogant people never have a good ending.

Fang Tong saw that Yan Qingqing and Xing Wanxing were taking too long to take the two down and was about to do it himself.

But his pupils shrank.

He saw that the blood Li Youyi had sprinkled on the ground was spreading rapidly.

"Slap!"

A hand wrapped in ghost fire broke through the soil, followed by a head, torso, legs... A middle-aged man with disheveled hair crawled out from underground, his whole body wrapped in ghost fire, with a bloody, strange character on his forehead.

Fang Tong's expression changed drastically, feeling a power fluctuation on the middle-aged man that was no less than his own: "He really summoned a powerful, eerie thing!"

"Slap!"

"Slap!"

On the street, by the ancient well, inside the abandoned house... one hand after another broke through the soil, and one ghost-fire figure after another with strange characters on their glabella crawled out.

Old men, children, men, women—each one was very strong, as if the entire Immortal Burial Town were reviving.

The Earth Wolf King soldiers were all terrified; Yan Qingqing and Xing Wanxing were also pale, the scene before them too spectacular and too terrifying.

They had never heard of such a fierce blood-sacrifice summoning technique!

"Did you summon all of them? Didn't you say one..." Li Ling looked at Li Youyi.

"Let's run quickly!"

Li Youyi was already confused; this had nothing to do with him at all.

He suspected that Immortal Burial Town itself wasn't normal—the town's name, the location, the giant stone statues in the town... who knew if there weren't some undead things buried underground?

The two rushed out of town one after the other.

Not choosing to jump down the waterfall, they rushed down the steep slope of the Dragon-Killing forest, and just as they reached the bottom of the waterfall, they heard a whistling sound, and a gray magic power cloud covered the sky.

"It's Shi Jiuzhai." Sensing the familiar aura, Li Youyi was so terrified his scalp felt like it was going to lift off.

Without thinking, he pulled Li Ling and jumped into the turbulent Suihe, holding his breath at the bottom of the river, rushing downstream with the waves.

A moment later, Shi Jiuzhai's outstanding and arrogant figure appeared by the water pool below the waterfall.

Within his gray magic power cloud, he wrapped Fang Tong, Yan Qingqing, and Xing Wanxing. As for the other Earth Wolf King soldiers trapped in Immortal Burial Town, there was simply no time to save them.

Shi Jiuzhai scratched his head, his head aching, and scolded: "Truly, not one of you can handle things alone. Taking a coffin, and you can still make mistakes. If I hadn't arrived in time, would you have been wiped out?"

Shi Jiuzhai had originally gone to capture Cangli, but had been ambushed by three clan leaders of the Nine Li tribe and had to flee in a sorry state. Of course, he would never mention even half a word of such a shameful thing in front of his disciples.

Yan Qingqing said tremblingly: "The mysterious man traveling with Li Ling is quite powerful..."

Before she could finish, Shi Jiuzhai said: "How powerful can he be? If he were really that powerful, could you have survived until now?"

Fang Tong said: "His true cultivation is only around five springs, but he has many magic tool trump cards."

"Five springs!"

Shi Jiuzhai was so angry he laughed, then roared: "Why aren't you hurrying to find them along the water? If you can't find them, don't come back; stay here for the rest of your lives."

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Yan Qingqing and Xing Wanxing had never seen their Master so angry and immediately rushed downstream along the Suihe, hoping to intercept the two before they could escape into the Spirit-Passing Fog Realm.

Otherwise, no matter how dangerous the Spirit-Passing Fog Realm was, they would have to bite the bullet and chase in.

Fang Tong said: "Master, it's not all bad news; inside that silver coffin, there might be an Immortal Law Star born. If it's not in the hands of those two, it's in the Cangli tribe. The disciple leans toward the latter!"

"Immortal Law Star!"

Shi Jiuzhai was moved. If it really was this legendary thing, even he wasn't qualified to touch it and could only notify the Heavenly King immediately. He said: "It seems the chaos in Lizhou is a foregone conclusion. Although the Cangli tribe obtained the treasure, they also incurred the crime of genocide because of it."

"I must go back; I'll leave this to you!"

Shi Jiuzhai threw a necklace with a four-inch-long wolf tooth hanging from it to Fang Tong.

"Bring the Snow Wolf King; I want both of them alive. If you can't take them down, I won't be able to plead for you before the Heavenly King."

This was a death order!

Fang Tong's expression changed, and he whispered his compliance.

The Spirit-Passing Fog Realm was only two hundred miles wide, but it had a fierce reputation; not only were various types of spirits and evil monsters active, but it was foggy all year round, and no matter how high one's cultivation was, entering it could lead to getting lost.

The Suihe flowed along the high mountain canyons to this place, the river channel widened, the current slowed, and it gradually disappeared into the fog.

Li Youyi dragged Li Ling up to the shore, looked up, and saw only dark, gloomy yin fog.

Only the sporadic light points emitted by some strange insects in the bushes illuminated the fog realm slightly.

She had already fainted.

Li Youyi lay on the ground, channeling his three-spring magic power to his right ear; within a mile, he heard no footsteps of pursuit behind him. That gray magic power cloud just now was definitely Shi Jiuzhai in person; if they had jumped into the river even a little slower, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"Whoosh!"

He let out a long breath, releasing the tight pressure.

After resting for a while, Li Youyi looked at Li Ling lying on her back nearby.

He first checked her breathing, then examined the wound on her waist and abdomen pierced by Yan Qingqing's soft sword, confirming there was no danger to her life, before leaving her on the shore and heading straight toward the Blood Sea alone.

Anyway, the Earth Wolf King soldiers probably wouldn't dare to rush into the Spirit-Passing Fog Realm; he had already done his best.

Behind him, Li Ling suddenly sat up: "Hey, you're just leaving like this? You really don't care if I live or die?"

"Are all women so fond of acting?"

Li Youyi instantly understood that she had been pretending to faint just now, and added: "If I didn't care if you lived or died, I wouldn't have dragged you ashore. Even someone else might have ended your life in the water."

Li Ling certainly knew the reason for Li Youyi's coldness and ruthlessness: "You weren't acting, you weren't lying? You think why I followed you? The fundamental reason is that you lied in front of my brother, and you didn't fool these wise eyes of mine. Acting ghost, liar, and you talk about me—aren't you the same?"

At this moment, she finally looked a bit like a young girl.

But the contrast was too great.

Inside her body, it seemed two people lived—Li Youyi had such a feeling.

For Gao Huan, who had gone to the Nine Li Dao Academy, and so that the scientific expedition team members could have a place to live, he said: "I have no malice; I just want to find a place for my displaced companions to settle down."

Li Ling stood up, her whole body soaking wet and very form-fitting, and walked over triumphantly, smiling: "You're not good at lying, right? But I am, so I'm also good at seeing through who is lying. A Spirit Mind Master's perception is extremely subtle; you didn't say many truthful words in the Yao Guan Zao Mei Manor."

"I have no malice." Li Youyi emphasized again.

Li Ling nodded, smiling slightly: "I can believe you have no malice now, because you... your character is okay. But when we were in Yao Guan, how could you expect me, a girl, to trust you, a stranger?"

"So you were pretending to faint just now to test me?" Li Youyi said.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 39 =====