Chapter 74

The arguing sounds from the front yard came intermittently, quite chaotic.

Those heroes and beauties of the younger generation hadn't left yet and all surrounded it like watching a show, really becoming a family shame just as Li Songgu said.

But the news that Li Songlin had picked an exotic herb stained with immortal mist also spread rapidly in Yao Guan City.

……

Li Youyi asked himself if he wanted that exotic herb, but it was far from the point of being a must-have. Whether or not he had the help of that exotic herb to impact the Nine Springs Ancestral Field, he would have to do his best to rush it.

And the reason he followed Li Songlin to Zaomei Manor was, firstly, to cherish the care of this Cangli clan leader, and secondly, because his identity had been exposed after arriving in Yao Guan City, he indeed had to rely on the strength and influence of the Cangli tribe to escape better.

Therefore, he didn't care too much about the arguing sounds coming from the front yard of the manor because of that exotic herb.

Led by an old servant, Li Youyi came to a room specifically cleaned and prepared for him, which was kept very tidy.

After thanking the old servant, he closed the door.

"Fourth Uncle was right; although this Cangli tribe has a big family and a big business, there are a lot of messy things inside. Everyone is fighting for benefits, and everyone wants to take advantage."

Li Youyi lit a bone lamp on the sandalwood table and smiled, ultimately feeling that he was not suitable to stay in this bustling Zaomei Manor, and even less did he want to fall into the interest struggles of the Li family. That would only make him physically and mentally exhausted; how could he cultivate with peace of mind?

What he pursued was the Great Dao of Longevity.

His gaze fell on the paper, pen, ink, and inkstone on the desk, and he sat down.

Even if he wanted to leave, he couldn't leave without saying goodbye; that would be too impolite.

"Fourth Uncle, Youyi has left Yao Guan City first; I have to go and find my own path. As for that exotic herb, just treat it as if I have already accepted it; I will remember this favor for a lifetime..."

……

After writing the farewell letter, he folded it and pressed it with a seal.

It was still early, the sky had just darkened, and there were many people and eyes on the street.

He had to wait a bit longer.

Li Youyi took the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors out of the Buddha's relic, put them into the insect tube one by one, and cut off a jin of Cistanche to feed them. He secretly thought about his future path; besides heading to the Hidden Sect, he also had to sell magic artifacts and other-realm coffins as soon as possible to buy high-grade precious herbs.

If the seven little guys grew to the level of the Five Seas Realm, he alone could sweep away the Zhanglin Gang.

"First sell Murong Xiao's magic artifact giant bow! The three-headed snake bracelet needs to be blood-sacrificed with one's own blood; it's too evil and harmful to the body, so it can also be sold. However, according to Senior Lingwei's analysis, this is a high-grade magic artifact worth over a hundred million... I must be cautious when selling it."

"Although there are many experts in Yao Guan, the older generation will definitely not lower their status to make a move. With Cangli in the city, the Five Seas Realm powerhouses of the younger generation will mostly not dare to act rashly."

Li Youyi calculated and calculated, and it turned out he was extremely safe in Yao Guan City; only a Gushing Spring Realm cultivator making a move wouldn't anger the Cangli tribe.

The arguing sounds outside gradually spread to the backyard.

A middle-aged woman's voice was very sharp: "Fourth, are you determined to give the opportunity to impact the Nine Springs to an outsider? Changfeng is your own nephew, and he also opened Eight Springs; why can't it be him?"

"Changfeng cannot open Nine Springs; there is no hope at all," Li Songlin's very impolite voice sounded.

"Is that outsider definitely able to? It is said that he is just a mortal and is already twenty years old. Even if you don't give it to Changfeng, why can't you leave the exotic herb to the pure immortal body in the clan?" Another quite deep and old man's voice came out.

Li Songlin said calmly and firmly: "Eldest Brother! Who I give the herb I picked to take, I don't need others to help me make a decision."

……

After finally sending the two away, Zaomei Manor welcomed more than a dozen waves of people seeking herbs, all of whom were elders of various Jiuli tribes seeking them for their talented descendants.

After a full hour of being overwhelmed, Li Songlin was truly tired of dealing with it, his face becoming colder and colder, and he looked at Li Ling: "Fourth girl, go and call Youyi over and let him take it now, so that everyone doesn't stare at it with longing eyes."

He originally intended to let Li Youyi settle in the Eight Springs Realm for a few months before taking the exotic herb to impact the Ancestral Field.

But in this situation, continuing to keep the exotic herb, not to mention he would be annoyed to death, I'm afraid Li Youyi would also bear huge psychological pressure.

A moment later, Li Ling held a letter, her legs wrapped in blue mist light traces, flying back rapidly, and said urgently and worriedly: "It's bad... Fourth Uncle, he's gone, leaving only a letter. I'm going to chase him!"

After handing the letter to Li Songlin, she rushed out the door.

"You come back!"

Li Songgu, sitting in the main seat, guided with his right index finger, and a wisp of long spiritual light gas lock flew out, imprisoning Li Ling who had already rushed out of the hall door.

Afterward, he stood up and said earnestly: "That kid left silently, even I didn't detect it, which shows his ability to hide and escape is not small. Can you find him?"

Li Ling's body was wrapped seven times by the spiritual light gas lock and couldn't break free. She really wanted to tell her father that she could find him.

But the Chan Hai Guan Wu in her body was her biggest secret. It was precisely because of this incomparable great opportunity that she was able to break through and become a great thought master at such a fast speed.

She and Chan Hai Guan Wu were now one in glory and one in loss. This secret, which was enough to shock the entire Lingxiao Life Realm, naturally could not be known by anyone.

Regarding the matter of getting close to Li Youyi, it was naturally a task of Chan Hai Guan Wu at first. But after getting along many times, she truly felt that Li Youyi was a very good person, with his own principles and bottom line, and also had a sensible side; at the very least, he was a friend worth making.

She was truly worried that something would happen to Li Youyi if he left alone like this. Thus, she looked toward Cangli and Li Songlin with pleading eyes.

Cangli went straight out the door and said: "Pass the word to all Five Seas Realm martial cultivators in the city: I am protecting Li Youyi's life! Whether it's all assassins, or martial cultivators from the Yang clan or Sui Sect, whoever doesn't listen to this sentence, I will definitely kill him, definitely!"

Above the Dao Seed Realm, he couldn't control it.

Below the Five Seas Realm, he didn't want to control it.

Li Songlin finished reading the letter, sighed long, and then looked at Li Songgu: "He asked me to help take care of those juniors practicing in the clan school, saying that without the exotic herb, he could also open the Ancestral Field, asking me not to worry. Second Brother, can you see the character of this child now?"

"I will personally send people to look for him; it's all the trouble caused by Eldest Brother and the others," Li Songgu said.

……

Li Youyi used the Ghost Flag to leave Zaomei Manor silently.

Of course, Li Songgu and Li Songlin, the two great experts who had walked very far in the fields of martial arts and thought masters, didn't detect it in advance, the most important reason being that they were tired of dealing with those seeking herbs, and their attention was not on him at all.

It was already late at night, and there were fewer pedestrians on the streets of Yao Guan.

Li Youyi walked rapidly in the shadows of the houses, preparing to leave the city overnight and go directly to the Jiuli Hidden Sect.

In the Jiuli tribe, even the clan leaders of the nine great tribes didn't know the specific location of the Hidden Sect. They were only responsible for selecting one or several teenagers with top-notch talent every year and sending them to a specific location at a specific time.

But as the former leader of the Jiuli tribe, Master Coffin naturally knew where the Jiuli Hidden Sect was.

Li Youyi's speed was very fast, like a remnant shadow in the night.

Ahead, the lights were all extinguished, and there was not a single pedestrian on the street. He had already reached the edge of Yao Guan City, and further ahead was the primitive and wild Pang Mountain range.

Suddenly.

He stopped, looked back, and always felt like he was being followed.

"What's going on, am I being suspicious?"

Li Youyi had just turned around when he saw a little fatty of fifteen or sixteen years old suddenly appear in front of him, standing three steps away and smiling foolishly at him.

This little fatty was fair and tender, with thick black eyebrows, a height of only about 1.6 meters, and a long braid tied on the top of his head, woven with colorful thin ropes.

He was wearing straw sandals on his feet, his trouser legs were wide, and most of his calves were exposed.

It was exactly the one he met at the noodle stall during the day.

In the short time it took to turn around, the other party appeared out of thin air; this was not just terrifying speed, the silent art of restraining Qi was even more frightening. Li Youyi realized deeply that he had met an incredible expert tonight.

"Brother Tianshu, what a coincidence? Where are you going? Can you take me with you?" The little fatty laughed, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth.

Li Youyi said: "How did you find me? During the day at the noodle stall, did you do something to me?"

"It's Qi! I have a wisp of magic Qi that accidentally attached to you during the day."

The little fatty opened a small, tender hand, and immediately a wisp of colorless Qi as fine as a hair flew out from Li Youyi's sleeve and returned to his palm.

While Li Youyi was shocked in his heart, he also knew the visitor was not coming with good intentions, and his hand slowly grabbed toward the Huang Long Sword on his back.

"Are you looking for this sword?"

The little fatty's other hand, which was behind his back, took out the Huang Long Sword and mobilized the magic power in his body to urge it, but the sword had no reaction at all.

His two thick black eyebrows immediately furrowed: "Strange, why can't I urge it?"

Li Youyi laughed bitterly, already realizing the huge gap in cultivation with the other party.

The other party could do so many things silently, so naturally, he could take his life silently.

Li Youyi said: "Speak, who exactly are you?"

"Didn't I say it during the day? My name is Shi Shishi."

The little fatty threw the Huang Long Sword over and returned it to Li Youyi: "Come with me! Our relationship is so good, and you even treated me to noodles, so there's no need to make a move, right?"

He took the lead, carrying his small fat hands behind his back, and walked toward the night curtain where the Pang Mountain range was located.

But at this moment, the darkness ahead was like the abyss mouth of a demon, and as long as one walked in, it seemed like they would be smashed to pieces.

Li Youyi took the Huang Long Sword and secretly thought about the possibility of releasing the giant camel to escape, or the success rate of urging the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish to pull the other party into the blood-mud space.

But the other party's speed was too fast, and he needed time to urge the magic artifact.

Once he failed and exposed these two things, I'm afraid there would really be no way to survive today!

Li Youyi said: "You're not here to kill me?"

"Why would I kill you? We have no grudges, could it be for that pitiful bounty from the Five Burials Temple? That's too degrading; if people knew, they would definitely laugh at me."

The little fatty saw Li Youyi still in place and turned to look at him: "Don't be so nervous, I'm looking for you for a good thing. Look at me, do I look like a bad person?"

Li Youyi said: "Might as well say it first, what exactly is the good thing."

The little fatty sighed: "At first, my Ninth Brother wanted to find you; you should know him, he said you met in Burial Xianzhen."

Li Youyi's heart moved, his eyes changed accordingly, no wonder the other party wasn't afraid of the Cangli tribe, and he was shocked: "You're talking about Shi Jiuzhai? You're from the Earth Wolf King Army?"

"Yeah, I'm Shi Shishi, full name Shi Shishi," the little fatty said.

Li Youyi was completely dumbfounded, and the last fantasy of survival in his heart was also crushed. Because the other party could use Stone as a surname and Ten as an order, they must be a figure among the Ten Dharma Kings of the Earth Wolf King Army.

Their cultivation was so high that it couldn't be as simple as the first or second level of the Five Seas Realm.

Where was the path of survival today?

What exactly did the other party intend to do?

Li Youyi stared at the little fatty's pure and smiling little eyes, finally accepted his fate, and followed, but left a footprint that was neither deep nor shallow on the ground.

"That's right! If you really made me capture you, and outsiders knew, they would say I, Shi Shishi, am not particular, and then no one would invite me to dinner anymore!" Shi Shishi said.

Li Youyi wanted to learn more information and strive for more survival opportunities, so he asked: "What is Dharma King Jiuzhai looking for me for?"

"A month ago, after recognizing you after the bloody battle by the Sui River, Ninth Brother wanted to find you. But today, actually, I want to find you, to find you to help us do a big thing. I feel your strength and brain are not bad, and you should be able to handle it."

Shi Shishi added: "By the way! Ninth Brother said you said you would follow him in Burial Xianzhen, but you ran away in a puff of smoke, and your words didn't count."

Walking out of Yao Guan City, everything around was a dense forest in pitch darkness.

Li Youyi suddenly stopped: "Bad, a sudden stomach ailment hit me; how about letting me solve it first?"

Shi Shishi laughed: "You don't want to escape, right? Don't look at me being fat, I'm very fast."

"I'm a Gushing Spring Realm cultivator, how could I escape from a Dharma King? I have this bit of self-knowledge," Li Youyi said.

Shi Shishi said: "Fine, don't go too far."

Li Youyi walked rapidly into the dense forest, and after walking dozens of steps, he came under a cypress tree as thick as a water bucket.

He naturally didn't really have a stomach ailment, but was preparing to put some important magic artifacts on his body into the blood-mud space. Shi Shishi didn't seem interested in magic artifacts, or perhaps he felt that the magic artifacts on him wouldn't have any high-grade goods.

But the Evil Camel Bell, Ghost Flag, and scripture belt—if these magic artifacts were touched by Shi Jiuzhai and he casually urged them with magic power, he could judge their value.

His life had to be saved, and the magic artifacts had to be saved even more.

After putting all the important magic artifacts into the blood-mud space, Li Youyi walked out from behind the tree and stretched comfortably: "Look, I didn't escape, I'm still very honest."

The two continued to walk into the depths of the dense forest.

By the stream in the valley, a bonfire was lit, and the firewood crackled and burned.

Shi Jiuzhai sat alone on a blue stone by the bonfire, his long hair slightly curled, and the yellow flames reflected on his well-defined cheeks, making him possess an extremely masculine charm like a sculpture.

He heard the footsteps, looked at Shi Shishi and Li Youyi walking from the darkness, and laughed: "The one you found is actually him."

Shi Shishi sat on the ground by the bonfire: "A month ago, didn't you also want to find him? Eh, Sixth Brother actually hasn't returned yet?"

"Him? Who knows which stunning beauty has hooked his soul again!"

Shi Jiuzhai's eyes fell on Li Youyi, cold, overflowing with a wisp of smile: "You know who I am, right? You know the price of deceiving me? Shishi, although his strength is still okay, compared to Nine Springs martial artists, there is still a not-small gap."

Li Youyi had been listening and analyzing; the Earth Wolf King Army seemed to be looking for someone to help them do something.

In other words, as long as he was useful, he could survive today.

No matter how intimidating Shi Jiuzhai looked at this moment, no matter how much he wanted to teach him a lesson, it couldn't change this point.

Li Youyi said: "The name of Dharma King Jiuzhai is like thunder in the Southern Region; how could I not know? I think, for a big figure like you, if you were deceived by a junior in the Gushing Spring Realm, that absolutely cannot be blamed on the other party; you can only blame your own poor eyes for recognizing and looking at people."

Shi Jiuzhai's eyelids pressed down, and cold wind flickered in his pupils, as if sword light and sword shadows were constantly flying out.

How could a prisoner be so arrogant to this point?

Could it be that the four words "Dharma King Jiuzhai" no longer had any deterrent power in the Southern Region?

"Ninth Brother, how come I feel what he said makes a little sense. If I were deceived by a four or five-year-old child, I would definitely slap myself twice first," Shi Shishi said.

(End of chapter)