Chapter 73

Afterward, Cangli introduced Li Youyi to everyone, recounting the tragic battle by the Suihe a month ago. But soon, the discussion point of the crowd changed to the peak battle between Cangli and the Dragon Gate inheritor by the Suihe.

After listening for a long time, Li Youyi only then learned that such a thing had happened after he fled that night.

After being completely marginalized, Li Songlin took Li Youyi away.

He laughed: "Don't mind it! You have to know, any elder brother looking at his sister's sweetheart will not be pleasing to the eye, always trying every possible way to find faults in you. But he was able to carry the booklet of insights on opening Nine Springs with him, which shows he still put his heart into it."

"It's just that the scene Xue Zheng made on the street earlier must have been distorted and spread blindly, so he has a lot of opinions about you."

"Young people, especially young people whose talent is as high as his, are very arrogant, so their speech is naturally a bit sharp."

"But there is one sentence I agree with very much. Fight, you must fight; if the Ancestral Field is not broken, how can you defeat Xue Zheng?"

"After Cangli appeared in the world, the Jiuli tribe now cares very much about the wins and losses of the younger generation. They want to rise again in his generation and suppress the Sui Sect, Three Chen Academy, Tianyi Sect, and Guan Hai Pavilion."

"Fourth Uncle, don't worry, I will do everything I can to impact the Ninth Spring." Li Youyi was very calm and put away the booklet Cangli gave him.

Originally, he didn't need it, after all, there were three old antique masters, but refusing Cangli on that occasion? How could this number one person of the younger generation in Lizhou get off the stage?

Li Ling chased after him: "I will explain it clearly to my brother! It's all their blind spreading; it's just a Xue Zheng, how could you possibly fear him?"

Li Youyi appeared indifferent and didn't care about their views.

He only cared about the hatred of being hunted by Xue Zheng, Tang Yan, and others.

On the stone bridge ahead, a woman in her early thirties walked over, wearing a cloud-patterned robe on the outside and a white silk undershirt on the inside, with wide sleeves and embroidered branch and leaf patterns.

"Mother!"

Li Ling, like a lively antelope, instantly turned into an immobile quail, lowered her head, and hid slightly behind Li Songlin.

"Sister-in-law." Li Songlin bowed and saluted.

Li Youyi naturally had a sense of propriety, followed with a salute, and did not look directly at the young woman opposite.

But just a hurried glance was enough to see that the other party was a pure immortal body, with not many traces of time on her face, and her eyes were very sharp.

Without any foreshadowing or pleasantries, the young woman asked: "What are your plans next?"

Among the three people present, it was clear this question could not be asked of Li Songlin and Li Ling.

Li Youyi answered truthfully: "For the time being, I just want to cultivate bitterly for a period of time and impact the Ninth Spring Ancestral Field."

"Stay at Jujube Plum Manor for the time being."

……

When Li Youyi raised his head again, Li Ling's mother, Qin Dan, had already gone far away, having only said two sentences from beginning to end. He said: "Fourth Uncle, how do I feel like I've been tricked by you; I shouldn't have come to Zaomei Manor."

Li Songlin laughed: "Feeling the pressure, right? To tell you the truth, the mistress of our Li family rarely shows up. Let alone you, I also have pressure."

The head of the direct line of the Cangli tribe is the father of Cangli and Li Ling—Li Songgu.

Of course, the head of the family is not the clan leader.

The head of the family sits in the clan mansion in Jiuli City, and the clan leader sits in the Ancestral Mountain.

"Opening an other-realm coffin, the head of the family is going to open an other-realm coffin."

"I just heard that an other-realm coffin is going to be opened tonight, so I specifically came to join in the fun."

"Is there any happy event?"

"Don't worry about it, the coffin-opening technique of Clan Leader Cangli is enough to rank in the top ten in Lizhou; there are not many of the older generation who are stronger than him. Today, we will definitely be able to open our eyes."

……

Not only those young cultivators, but some middle-aged figures who heard the news all surged toward the backyard.

Li Ling was a bit surprised: "What's wrong with my father? It should have been some time since he personally opened a coffin, right?"

Li Songlin laughed: "I guess, your father is mostly wanting to show off in front of his future son-in-law, showing his strength, so that his son-in-law doesn't mistakenly listen to rumors and feel that the Li family is really run by the mistress."

How could Li Youyi believe this?

But he was truly a bit curious about the other-realm coffin in his heart.

It is said that the most ordinary other-realm coffin is also worth ten million copper coins, enough to buy a house in Jiuli City; it is a treasure that only great cultivators can afford to play with.

The Jiuli tribe relies on salvaging other-realm coffins to become the richest in the world.

Coincidentally, he had hidden fifteen other-realm coffins carefully selected by Master Coffin in the Blood Sea Coffin Dock inside the Evil Camel Bell, and he had long planned to take them out to sell.

"You two go and see first; the other-realm coffin to be opened today is quite rare, and maybe something incredible can be opened." Li Songlin laughed meaningfully.

When Li Youyi and Li Ling rushed to the backyard, it was already overcrowded.

The area in the middle where the other-realm coffin was placed was surrounded tightly.

The two didn't squeeze into the middle but found a higher position and looked from afar.

The other-realm coffin surrounded by the crowd was the size of a normal coffin, made of black wood. As laymen, none of the cultivators present could see its rarity.

But other-realm coffins are all salvaged from the blood sea and have been soaked for I don't know how many years; if it were really ordinary wood material, how could it be preserved so well?

Li Songgu, who was standing beside the other-realm coffin, was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. He was quite thin, dressed in simple green clothes, wearing a square scarf on his head, with sideburns hanging to his shoulders; he was very energetic and had a scholarly temperament.

His gaze swept across the crowd lightly, and then he pinched his fingers to form a seal.

"Whoosh!"

The spiritual light heavenly eye between his brows opened, and a spiritual light mist like aurora erupted from his body, connecting to the sky, and a powerful aura shrouded the area of several feet around the other-realm coffin.

"Sprinkle red cinnabar, just in case." He gave a light shout.

Two elderly assistants sprinkled a kind of crimson soil toward the other-realm coffin.

After the red cinnabar fell onto the spiritual light mist supported by Li Songgu, it automatically slid off, forming a circle with a diameter of about three feet on the ground.

Li Ling whispered: "This is to prevent the existence of passing spirits in the coffin! Once a passing spirit rushes out, it will be blocked within the circle by the red cinnabar."

"Bang! Bang! Bang..."

Li Songgu pinched his fingers to form a seal and knocked in all directions of the other-realm coffin. Especially the bottom, which he knocked twelve times.

Every knock caused circles of spiritual light ripples to surge outward.

A moment later, he locked his brows and said: "According to my many years of coffin-opening experience, this is an other-realm coffin from Kunlun. This wood, or divine wood material, just the coffin itself has extraordinary medicinal value, worthy of being called a thousand-year spirit herb."

"Boom!"

All the cultivators in the courtyard were shocked.

The coffin lid is a thousand-year spirit herb?

Even an ounce of thousand-year spirit herb can be sold for a sky-high price.

How many jin must this coffin be? How much money must it be worth?

Li Youyi was naturally jealous. If he could get a jin of coffin lid to feed the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors, perhaps he could feed them to a level comparable to Five Seas Realm martial cultivators.

Of course, the premise was that this other-realm coffin was really comparable to a thousand-year spirit herb.

Li Songgu saw that everyone didn't believe it, so he took a dagger of magic artifact level from an elderly assistant and made a stroke on the top of the coffin.

The magic artifact could only make a shallow mark.

And from the mark that was cut open, a faint auspicious radiance drifted out. Those with keen perception discovered that the surrounding plants were obviously affected and became even more lush.

Bursts of exclamations came from the courtyard, and many people were jealous.

Li Songgu's face became solemn: "Sure enough, just like the legend, this other-realm coffin cannot be opened anymore!"

Putting on such a big show, knocking and beating for a while, and actually not opening it!

What's the meaning of this?

Li Songgu cupped his hands and apologized with great cultivation: "It's not that Li doesn't want to open it, but with my current thought power, I cannot control it. This divine wood coffin from Kunlun has been opened by Jiuli sages before..."

Halfway through his speech, he paused again and said: "Forget it, this matter is of great importance; it's better for you to know less. Put it away, hurry up and put it away, and transport it back to the Ancestral Mountain as soon as possible."

Let alone the crowd of cultivators present, even Li Youyi couldn't bear it and wanted to curse.

He was very interested in this other-realm coffin comparable to a thousand-year spirit herb, but he was even more interested in "Kunlun." Because this was the most mysterious place in Earth's mythological legends, the Mountain of Gods.

Why would the name be such a coincidence?

After everyone dispersed, Li Youyi took the initiative to step forward to pay his respects and performed the junior's salute.

Li Songgu had a very good personality and was very kind: "You must be Li Youyi, right? I heard Fourth Brother mention you; you're quite good, um, quite good."

Li Youyi really couldn't stand the gazes sizing him up tonight and asked impatiently: "May I ask the head of the family, how do you judge where an other-realm coffin comes from?"

Li Songgu was very talkative and explained in detail: "The world feels that the most precious things in other-realm coffins are those secret treasures and burial objects, and the remains of the deceased. But I think the most precious things in the coffin are those books and classics. You have to know, although the characters on these classics are different, they can be parsed using thought power."

"What is recorded and depicted in various books and classics in the coffin is a world that truly exists. It's just that no one knows where these worlds are."

"I really want to go out in my lifetime and look for those worlds recorded in the other-realm coffins. Unfortunately, the Nether Realm is vast, and the blood sea is boundless... Alright, the more I talk, the further I get. It's like this: as long as the experience is rich enough and the materials read are enough, judging the origin of an other-realm coffin is not a difficult matter."

Li Youyi asked: "Did the two words Kunlun appear in the classics of some other-realm coffins?"

"Kunlun should be a great world, and there are quite a few other-realm coffins. It's just that this one in front of us is too special, the wood material is extraordinary, and it cannot be moved rashly," Li Songgu said.

Li Youyi pressed: "In the other-realm coffins from Kunlun, are there any classics that record words related to the Queen Mother of the West?"

Li Songgu frowned, recalled carefully, and shook his head.

Li Youyi thought about the mythological legends related to Kunlun and asked again: "What about Tianyong City? Hanging Garden Palace?"

Li Songgu shook his head again.

Li Youyi gave up; it seems that although this world partially overlaps with Earth's mythological legends, they don't match at all.

Li Ling rushed over and said urgently: "Father, Uncle and Aunt are here; they came to demand the exotic herb stained with immortal mist that Fourth Uncle picked, and they have already started arguing. You should go and see quickly."

"Truly worrying! Fourth Brother picked the herb; what does it have to do with them? Family shame! Youyi, you stay here for now; we'll talk properly about the other-realm coffin tonight."

Li Songgu sighed and walked quickly toward the corridor.

Li Youyi glanced at the other-realm coffin that was being carried away and looked at Li Songgu's back, gradually coming to his senses. Recalling everything before, he secretly said: "This head of the family wouldn't be fishing on purpose, right? This other-realm coffin is not an ordinary bait."

Li Youyi naturally wouldn't think he was fishing for him, or testing him. A small shrimp like him didn't have the qualifications to make a head of the family calculate so carefully.

(End of chapter)