Chapter 59: A Needle to the Chest Center

Hearing the magnetic voice from outside, Yang Qingxi didn't know if it was an act or genuine. A joy like a young girl's spring affection surfaced in her calm eyes as she smiled: "The old fogies all left the city last night. Young Master Long is the successor to a million-strong lineage; to dare to come to Lizhou alone to plot such a grand undertaking—how could his courage be compared to Qingxi's?"

In front of a million-strong lineage, even if Yang Qingxi was already the number one of the Yang clan's younger generation, and no matter how cold and arrogant she was, she still could only fawn and curry favor.

The man with the surname Long stood on the deck, a lantern depicting court ladies hanging under the flying eaves of the ship's tower behind him.

The light emitted by the lantern was distorted by the invisible field around him, unable to shine upon his body, making him appear as if he were always standing in the shadows.

That was the power of a mysterious and formidable aura.

His gaze was also looking out at the intense pursuit on the shore.

On the other side of the Suihe, near the Longshan Mountain range, the trees were lush and the forest dense. There were no lights, only the silhouettes of mountains reaching toward the clouds.

Shi Jiuzhai and a little fatty of fifteen or sixteen years old walked out of the dense forest, looking toward the massive warship hanging a flag with the character "Sui" in the center of the great river.

"Yang Qingxi is truly sick. Parking the ship here—does she completely disregard the Prefecture Governor's Mansion and the Jiuli clan? The Yang clan and the Sui Sect have truly started to consider themselves the masters of Lizhou these years, even more arrogant than our Earth Wolf King Army." Shi Jiuzhai couldn't help but curse.

The little fatty smiled: "Brother Jiu, Yang Qingxi is a Pure Immortal Body, and I hear she is stunningly beautiful. If she were willing to let you sleep with her for a night, I guarantee you would never curse her again."

"Cursing while sleeping—wouldn't that be even more interesting?" Shi Jiuzhai laughed.

"While fighting?"

"Haha! How old are you? Don't learn bad habits from Liu Se and the others!"

Shi Jiuzhai laughed, his eyes narrowing. From afar, he saw a small boat with a black awning coming out of the city, approaching the massive warship in the center of the river. The person rowing was a burly monk with a bristly beard, wearing a red cassock.

"They've arrived! Let's go, we should go too."

A gray cloud of magic power appeared under Shi Jiuzhai's feet. He stepped onto the river surface, covering several zhang with each step.

The little fatty followed closely behind him.

Shi Jiuzhai and the little fatty flew onto the massive warship, glanced at the noble figure standing on the bow deck, and then went straight into the main hall.

The smile on Yang Qingxi's face vanished completely. She snorted coldly: "Shi Jiuzhai, your Earth Wolf King Army can't even handle a small matter. It's one thing to fail at seizing the coffin and killing, but you actually exposed your identities. It caused our plan to incite conflict between the Buddha-Crossing thieves and the Jiuli clan to fall short of success. Do you actually still have the face to come to Lizhou?"

Yang Qingxi was naturally a participant in the plan.

When she and Yang Yun appeared at Yao Guan, they were originally waiting for news and handling the aftermath.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence to meet Li Ling?

The crime of exposing the Snow Wolf King's fangs was indeed not small, but fortunately, Shi Jiuzhai brought back news of the Immortal Law Stars, which allowed him to make up for his faults.

Shi Jiuzhai naturally wouldn't mention this embarrassing matter in front of Yang Qingxi. He smiled dismissively: "This lousy plan was problematic from the start. You don't even look at how cowardly the Jiuli clan has become now. Even if we had slaughtered all those coffin-bearers of the Cangli tribe in Burial Immortal Town a month ago, they absolutely wouldn't have dared to go to war against Xu Fudu. Unless... we wiped out the entire Cangli tribe, perhaps that could ignite their bloodthirst..."

"Is there any use saying this now? There's no way to repeat the same trick. Your Earth Wolf King Army must provide an explanation," Yang Qingxi said.

Shi Jiuzhai sat down beside Yang Qingxi, where he could look directly at the sparkling river surface and the intense slaughter on the distant shore. He said: "Of course there is an explanation. Let me introduce everyone to a new friend who wants to enter the game."

Yang Qingxi sensed something and looked toward the cabin wall opposite her. Through the gap in the window, she could see several figures who had boarded the ship at some unknown time, walking along the corridor toward the main entrance.

Her eyes turned completely cold: "How could you bring people here so casually?"

The burly monk in the red cassock had already stepped to the entrance. His deep, thick voice rang out: "Your method of inciting conflict can only be considered a low-class conspiracy. Do you really think everyone in the world is a fool? To seize the world, one must ultimately fight with real blades and guns. The world of Lizhou must also have a share for Coffin Mountain. Uncle-Master, please come in!"

"No need, I'll just stay out here to catch the breeze and get some air."

Li Youyi had fought his way to the edge of the Suihe. His clothes were already soaked through with blood—some his own, but more from his enemies.

The heaviest injury among them was a long arrow shot by Murong Xiao that grazed his shoulder blade. His bone seemed to have dislocated, and the pain was unbearable. If not for the corpse-clothing soft armor he wore underneath, it wouldn't have been as simple as a graze; he would have been pierced through.

He had just jumped, intending to throw himself into the Suihe.

"Whoosh!"

A metal whip nearly ten zhang long, like a swimming snake, flew out from a pitch-black, unlit fishing boat and coiled around his left leg. Then, it pulled him, his body uncontrollably plummeting toward the fishing boat.

Two figures holding fish spears rushed out from the fishing boat.

Naturally, they were not fishermen.

They were gang leaders who hung around the Suihe docks. Both were Seven Springs martial cultivators, having long waited here, prepared to pick up scraps.

Li Youyi exerted all his strength to control his body, slashing the metal whip wrapped around his leg with one sword strike. At the same time, his body rolled in the void, dodging the two incoming fish spears.

"Swish!"

At this life-and-death moment, he slashed down with his sword in mid-air, like a true god splitting a mountain and opening a peak.

"Taiyi Sea-Opening" entered the realm of Heavenly Dao Law Convergence, snapping the metal fish spears in the two men's hands and even severing one man's arm. This sword strike scared the two men on the boat out of their wits, leaving them frozen there.

Li Youyi fell into the shallow water area under the boat, already feeling exhausted.

Just as he stood up, a great wind rose behind him.

Yao Zhengsheng swung a thousand-jin iron rod, his body like a silver-backed giant ape leaping in mid-air.

"Boom!"

This rod smashed the bow of the fishing boat to pieces, wood chips flying and water waves rolling.

Li Youyi had just managed to dodge.

Lu Can, who was also a top-hundred martial artist but ranked higher than Yao Zhengsheng, leaped from the silver-horned elk carriage, crossing a distance of several zhang, his tiger claws, the size of palm-leaf fans, slapping toward the top of Li Youyi's head.

He was a tiger-type mutant.

There were only so many types of ancient immortal giant beasts, and the categories of mutants tended to concentrate due to geographical similarities. For example, in Lizhou, the proportion of tiger-type and ape-type mutants was very high.

Lu Can's "Demon-Subduing Tiger Claws" had already been practiced to Heavenly Dao Law Convergence. Even in his prime, Li Youyi wouldn't have been able to dodge it.

No matter how unwilling, he could only fight head-on at this moment.

"Bang!"

They collided palm to palm.

Li Youyi spat out blood and flew backward, crashing through the hull of the wooden boat behind him, his body almost embedded into it.

"Swish!"

Yang Yun, sitting in the silver-horned elk carriage, seized the opportunity. The bright three-inch small knife in his hand flew out, piercing past Li Youyi's neck and actually penetrating the entire seven-to-eight-meter-long wooden boat.

Its sharpness was truly astonishing.

This knife of his had originally been aimed at Li Youyi's throat, but it had been dodged.

Blood flowed continuously from the right side of Li Youyi's neck, but he had no time to attend to it. His gaze was fixed firmly on the three-meter-tall tiger-type body of Lu Can, who was lunging toward him; his entire field of vision seemed to be occupied.

"Whoosh!"

He tore off the ghost flag draped over his body, spinning and dancing it, and instantly, black nether mist surged upward.

Lu Can's vision was obstructed, and he felt the nether mist's chill piercing his bones, giving rise to a feeling of extreme danger. But having leaped into mid-air, he couldn't retreat, so he had to bite the bullet and press his claw down onto the ghost flag.

Beneath the ghost flag, the Huang Long sword stabbed out like lightning.

No matter how strong his tiger claw's defense was, how could it possibly block a magic tool?

The tiger claw was pierced through.

Lu Can groaned in pain, gritted his teeth, and retreated in a sorry state.

Li Youyi endured his injuries, leaped onto the wooden boat, and raised his sword, rushing toward the deep water area of the Suihe outside the group of boats.

Shi Chuanyu had long been waiting ahead, his back to the Suihe, his long beard fluttering, looking relaxed as if he had been waiting at his leisure. He smiled: "Can you survive by jumping into the river? If there is a powerful Thought Master, even if you are at the bottom of the river, they can lock onto your approximate location."

Li Youyi stopped three zhang away from Shi Chuanyu, stepping on the roof of a fishing boat, his gaze scanning quickly. He soon discovered Master Qi, the insect-controlling master, hiding in a fishing boat.

Besides that, there were several other Seven Springs martial cultivators hiding in different cabins with weapons.

The combat power Li Youyi had erupted with earlier was too fierce and sharp, killing Seven Springs martial cultivators in succession, which had scared them; they were not acting rashly now, waiting for a better opportunity.

Behind him, Yao Zhengsheng and Lu Can came from the left and right.

Murong Xiao descended from the sky, retracted her black wings, and landed on the top of a mast, with only one arrow remaining.

"The Five Seas Pill is mine."

Yao Zhengsheng strode forward, executing the Mountain-Opening Rod Technique of Heavenly Dao Law Convergence. The thousand-jin iron rod seemed to transform into a divine mountain peak, giving Li Youyi no room to dodge.

Li Youyi could only swing his sword to meet it head-on.

"Bang!"

Sword and rod collided, and a massive force arrived like a landslide and tsunami.

Li Youyi's right hand couldn't hold the Huang Long sword at all; the long sword was shaken out of his hand, and his body was sent flying several zhang by the magic power and energy contained in the thousand-jin iron rod, his mouth spitting blood again.

With a "Boom," Li Youyi fell heavily, smashing the roof of a fishing boat to pieces.

Lying on his back, the pain was as if all the bones in his body had broken.

"Good!"

"Since you won't show yourself, then I can only rely on myself..."

Li Youyi had been waiting for that so-called Guardian Wife to appear. Since she wouldn't, he would no longer hesitate.

No matter how dangerous it was, there was no other way now!

As several top-hundred martial artists rushed over, the eyes of Li Youyi, lying on the boat, became incomparably sharp. Like lightning, he took out the Spring-Breaking Needle he had prepared long ago, clamped it between two fingers, and stabbed it into his chest's chest center point.

Then, the five springs in his body erupted together, and his magic power flowed toward the sixty meridian traces, all surging toward his chest.

Master Guan's savage secret technique—Spring-Combining Wall-Breaking.

Unless it was a last resort, Li Youyi would never dare to use this move, because the chest center was the human body's life gate, and normally, rushing this sixth spring was very dangerous.

Using both the Spring-Breaking Needle and Spring-Combining Wall-Breaking was absolutely no different from courting death.

"Swish!"

"Swish!"

"Swish!"

Yao Zhengsheng, Lu Can, and Shi Chuanyu, the three top-hundred martial artists, rushed the fastest, leading everyone behind them, all lunging toward the fishing boat, wanting to snatch Li Youyi's head.

"Boom!"

The next moment, silver brilliance briefly illuminated the night sky.

The three top-hundred martial artists who had lunged over were hit by three palm prints struck by Li Youyi, who was lying on the boat, and were sent flying backward, falling like three scarecrows in three different directions.

One fell onto a boat, one fell into the water, and one crashed into a broken mast.

Yang Yun, who had just picked up the Huang Long sword, looked over with a surprised gaze.

He saw.

Li Youyi, who had already been beaten to the point of losing the ability to fight back, had now flipped up and was standing on the fishing boat, which was full of broken wood and on the verge of sinking. The two silver silk gloves worn on his left and right hands emitted brilliant silver light.

The Spring-Breaking Needle inserted into his chest center point had completely melted, and vast, surging magic power was continuously erupting from the sixth spring in his chest like a volcanic eruption.

"Why are you standing there? Come on, let's see whose blood stains the Suihe red first today!" Li Youyi stared fixedly at Yang Yun and the crowd of pursuers, his body standing straighter and straighter, all fatigue and pain replaced by the vigorous fighting intent within his body.

(End of Chapter)