Chapter 67

It was the sound of carriages and horses, and there were many of them.

In such a dangerous place as the Nine Li Ancestral Realm, how could there be a large number of carriages and horses?

Under the night sky, eight yin banners opened the way, and paper money flew. A long carriage team drove from far to near, passing along a paper money road about fifty steps away from Li Li Youyi.

The carriages were full of many young boys and girls.

The drivers were all wearing gray-white cloth robes.

Li Li Youyi counted carefully, and the number of carriages reached as many as eighty-three.

In the carriage at the back, a middle-aged man pulled open the curtain, revealing a tall figure and a majestic face, and shouted toward the front in a low voice: "Speed up, leave the Ancestral Realm as soon as possible."

The middle-aged man looked to be around fifty, his appearance four or five points similar to the Cangli tribe Jia Shou Li Li Songlin.

After the carriage team went far away and the sound gradually disappeared, Li Li Youyi lifted the ghost flag draped over his body and said thoughtfully: "Looking at the attire, they seem to be people from the Cangli tribe."

"Those who take this paper money yin road to enter and exit the Ancestral Realm should be people from the Cangli tribe." Senior Stone Coffin said.

Li Li Youyi frowned and said: "It's really strange, where did these children come from? Why are they being transported out from inside?"

"Continue forward, you should be able to find the answer." Senior Stone Coffin seemed to already have the answer in his heart.

Continuing toward the Nine Li Shenshan for several hours, a light blue light gauze barrier arranged by a Mind Master appeared before Li Li Youyi's eyes.

Rising from the ground and connecting to the firmament, there were mysterious scriptures floating on it.

Li Li Youyi swept over with the Nine Emperor Banner, and the light gauze became thin, revealing the scene inside.

It was a rice field shrouded in mist, each rice plant was more than ten meters tall, and the rice ears at the top were full and crystal clear, faintly visible with fetuses gestating inside.

Just looking at it, Li Li Youyi immediately retracted the Nine Emperor Banner, sat on the ground, and digested the shock in his heart.

This kind of shock came from the depths of his heart, as if a certain point of humanity had been impacted.

People can actually be planted.

Senior Stone Coffin also fell into silence, and after a long while said: "Ren Rice has existed since ancient times, and is planted as food by some taboo demon kings and passing spirits. The human world has actually always been resistant to planting. A thousand years ago, we few, including Chan Hai Guan Wu, all had this attitude. So, the Lingxiao Life Realm has never had anyone dare to plant this thing."

"If I were still in charge of the Nine Li tribe and the Cangli tribe, I would definitely ferret out the secret planters and punish them according to family law."

The voice in the stone coffin expressed anger in its calmness.

Li Li Youyi smiled bitterly: "If the entire Lingxiao Life Realm is already like this, if the Nine Li tribe doesn't plant, it will fall behind other forces. Once it starts to roll internally, the upper limit of people will get higher and higher, but the lower limit will get lower and lower."

"The large-scale appearance of rice people will inevitably severely impact the values in people's hearts; how can this world not be in chaos?"

"If I had enough powerful cultivation, I would definitely not let the chaos continue like this." Afterward, he laughed self-deprecatingly: "Haha, forget it, with my current cultivation, I can't even stand firm in this world, let alone talk about changing this world?"

Senior Stone Coffin said: "Li Youyi, I feel you are about to find what you want!"

Li Li Youyi stood up, no longer looking at the rice field on the other side of the light gauze, shouldered the stone coffin, raised the Nine Emperor Banner, and continued to walk toward the Nine Li Shenshan: "Becoming a God-Hidden Person as soon as possible and breaking through to the Five Seas is the foundation of standing firm. Otherwise, in this vast world of wind and clouds, you can only drift with the tide, being an unknown person whose life is cheaper than grass, and don't even think about participating."

Three days later.

Li Li Youyi arrived at the Cang King Tomb.

The Cang King Tomb is only ten li away from the Nine Li Shenshan, a steep mountain peak a thousand meters high, with clouds and mist covering the mountain, and stone tablets and stone carvings can be seen everywhere.

In the square in front of the tomb, all kinds of exotic coffins were placed.

After the Cangli tribe fishes for coffins, they don't sell all of them.

Coffins that are rare enough will be sent to the Cang King Tomb for storage; they don't understand them now and don't dare to open them, but the tribe will definitely give birth to peerless heroes who can understand them in later generations.

On both sides of the divine road leading to the tomb gate, there stood stone horses, stone monkeys, stone elephants, and all kinds of tomb-guarding beasts, as well as sacrificial utensils such as stone lamps and stone tripods.

Senior Stone Coffin asked: "How many more days can the food you carry last?"

"Senior Master Lingwei reminded me before, I prepared very fully, and if I calculate carefully, eating for a month is not a problem." As he said this, Li Li Youyi took out a piece of dried meat and put it into his mouth.

Senior Stone Coffin: "Very good, don't enter the tomb gate yet. I will teach you a few insect texts; with your talent, you should be able to master them very quickly."

Insect texts, like beast texts, scripture texts, curse texts, elixir texts, tool texts... are not characters in the traditional sense, but means created by peerless Mind Masters. They are not written by hand, but condensed and outlined by mind power, manipulating spiritual light flames.

Insect texts are naturally a means to subdue and drive insects.

Li Li Youyi said: "Is the thing Master Guan wants me to take some kind of fierce insect? Or is there some kind of fierce insect in the tomb, and I must practice the insect-controlling method?"

Senior Stone Coffin explained: "A thousand years ago, when I was at the peak of my cultivation, I broke into a Realm of Fallen Immortals and obtained a group of insect nests. There were seven insect eggs inside, conservatively estimated to be at the Monarch level, and they were stored in the Cang King Tomb to be nourished; now they are cheap for you, kid!"

Li Li Youyi gasped.

You must know that in the Lingxiao Life Realm, the ground is decided by human powerhouses and various demon kings, but the underground is decided by the insect tribe.

The Ao Spider mastered by Master Qi of the Zhanglin Gang was only a soldier-level fierce insect. Even so, he still had the qualification to be treated with courtesy by the gang leader.

Not every insect-controlling master is very strong; after all, it depends on what level the insect group they master is.

But the identity of the strongest Mind Master in combat power in the same realm, the insect-controlling master is absolutely the strongest and most powerful contender.

Especially in this era of war, an insect-controlling master with group attack ability has a higher status than any other Mind Master.

Especially Monarch-level insects can be included in the "Strange Insect List." Because, as long as they reach adulthood, they possess the strength of a Longevity Realm martial cultivator.

Seven of them, that is seven Longevity Realm figures.

If he could really become an insect-controlling master mastering seven Monarch-level strange insects, then if he didn't become the God-Hidden Person of the Nine Li tribe, who would be qualified to do so?

You must know that adult Monarch-level strange insects can even transform into human form, possessing the ability to summon and command the underground insect tribe. Human cultivators have to worship when they see them, respectfully calling them "Lord Monarch."

And what Senior Stone Coffin said was...

Conservatively estimated to be Monarch level.

Li Li Youyi quickly recovered his calm from the shock and said: "A thousand years have passed, the insect eggs are afraid that they have already hatched."

Senior Stone Coffin said: "Hatching eggs of this level is not that simple. At that time, I invited a very powerful insect-controlling master in the Lingxiao Life Realm to help research and analyze, and using the small heaven-law earth-spring in the Cang King Tomb to nourish them, it would take one or two thousand years to have a chance to hatch naturally."

"It was originally left for the Nine Li descendants as the tribe's foundation. But that great war a thousand years ago came too suddenly, and there was no time to inform about this matter before being guided away by the spatial power of the Lesser Yang Star."

Li Li Youyi said: "If they haven't hatched, wouldn't I have to wait another few hundred years?"

Senior Stone Coffin laughed: "Natural hatching, the time is indeed hard to estimate. But after being nourished for a thousand years, there are some non-natural means that can ripen them to break their shells. The few things I asked you to buy, did you buy them all?"

"Fire Cloud Stone, Nine-Leaf Leaf Pucao, Blood Crystal..., after buying these things, I basically became a pauper again! That mansion in the suburbs was mostly taken back by the Yang clan and the Zhanglin Gang."

Li Li Youyi took out the six items he had bought in the past few days according to Senior Master Lingwei's instructions one by one, feeling a bit depressed in his heart, secretly praying that Yang Yun wouldn't die, as that was his biggest asset. By the way, there was also Old Zhao's one hundred thousand silver coins.

The stone coffin stood up again, using the coffin as a pen, writing insect texts on the ground.

Seven in total!

Each character was very complex, with more than thirty strokes, not looking like characters at all, but more like a painting, and it was a runeless symbol painting.

Senior Stone Coffin said: "Logically speaking, your Senior Master Lingwei should teach you insect texts, as she is an extremely powerful insect-controlling master in the Lingxiao Life Realm. But these seven insect texts engraved on the insect eggs are from my own hand, so only I can teach them."

"By the way! Insect texts, logically speaking, should be condensed into character marks using spiritual light to pass on to you, but in my current state, I can only rely on writing, so you might find it much harder to comprehend. But I believe in your talent... no problem!"

Li Li Youyi smiled bitterly, knowing that he was already a cultivation genius far beyond the pure immortal body in the hearts of the three masters.

He observed and memorized the insect texts on the ground while saying: "Master Guan, if I hadn't cultivated spiritual light, wouldn't coming to the Cang King Tomb be a wasted trip?"

Senior Stone Coffin said: "No, you could also use your blood to directly outline the insect texts on the insect eggs, and after they soak in, they would naturally recognize you as their master. However, in this way, the risk would increase greatly. For example, what if they had already hatched? You cultivate the insect texts, and you have the means to subdue them, so the risk can be reduced to the minimum."

Li Li Youyi didn't say anything more, sat cross-legged, mobilized a wisp of spiritual light flame in the Yintang Spirit Realm, and used each flame light thread as a stroke to outline the insect texts.

The difficulty was indeed very great, and the spiritual light was almost exhausted without any substantial breakthrough.

He must nourish the spiritual light before trying again.

While nourishing the spiritual light, Li Li Youyi did not put down his martial arts, wanting to rush through the Seventh Spring Heavenly Spirit as soon as possible. Avoid being chased and killed by Tang Yan, Xue Zheng, and others again after going out, only able to run for his life.

The Seventh Spring represents the peak of the Gushing Spring Realm, and most Five Seas Realm martial cultivators only have seven springs.

Such a peaceful cultivation environment is truly too precious.

……

Time flew by, and twenty days passed in a flash.

Li Li Youyi mastered all seven insect texts, and the barrier of the Seventh Spring also showed signs of loosening, wanting to make a final effort to rush it open in the next two days.

"Rustle!"

A cold wind blew from the forest, and his hair and clothes fluttered with it.

Li Li Youyi suddenly opened his eyes, sniffed his nose, and smelled an extremely faint familiar fragrance in the wind: "It's Li Ling! How did she also come to the Cang King Tomb?"

His five senses were sharp, although not to the point of being able to smell some special scents from dozens of kilometers away like a bear, but they were definitely not much worse.

The voice in the stone coffin rang out: "She should really have a way to find you, perhaps it's the perception of the Bright Wisdom of the Lamp-Pointing Lantern, or perhaps it's another reason. Since it's an uncertain factor, don't let her participate. Go, enter the tomb now!"

Li Li Youyi agreed with Master Guan's point of view; everything was prepared, and he must not make any mistakes at this critical moment.

Shouldering the stone coffin, holding the Nine Emperor Banner, he rushed toward the two giant stone tomb gates more than ten zhang high at the end of the divine road.

As he got closer and closer to the tomb gate, Li Li Youyi narrowed his eyes and discovered that there were two star maps on the gate, inlaid with a large number of silver and yellow gems as stars, of various sizes, densely dotted, with a huge quantity, truly having the vast feeling of a starry sky.

He observed the "Milky Way" on the gate, compared it with the starry sky in his memory, and looked for simple and familiar night sky scenes such as Orion, the Big Dipper..., trying to find the answer he longed for in his heart.

But he couldn't see anything.

Instead, the more he looked, the more dizzy he became, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier.