Chapter 89

Li Youyi only felt that the opponent's fist was like a metal war hammer weighing ten thousand jin, its power as if it could pierce through a city wall.

Upon the first collision, his entire arm was in extreme pain, and his body flew backward.

At this moment, he had only one thought in his mind: "I've been set up by Yin Twenty-four; the Five Seas Realm, even if it's only the first realm, has power that is not to be underestimated, a notch higher than the Yang Divine Realm with all hundred veins silvered. This Tang Yan is not something my current cultivation can defeat; there is no chance of winning."

Tang Yan was much more disheveled than Li Youyi; *bang bang bang*, he crushed the bricks and stones under his feet, his face instantly turned pale, and his five fingers, which had been clenched into a fist, were in so much pain he couldn't hold them together.

Who on earth had he provoked?

The opponent was definitely in the Five Seas Realm, without a doubt.

After Yin Twenty-four entered the Zhanglin Gang's main altar, she leaped to the roof of the three-story main hall, stepped on the glazed tiles, occupied the best vantage point, and overlooked the entire mansion, searching for the hub of the array.

Seeing Li Youyi's first clash with a Five Seas Realm expert, he actually held the upper hand, and she couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

Although one was a sneak attack and the other was caught off guard.

But this was crossing a major realm!

She knew that the Hidden Lord's true trial for Li Youyi was not the Zhanglin Gang at all, nor had he ever thought Li Youyi could wipe out the Zhanglin Gang.

Although Tang Yan's power was stronger than the Yang Divine Realm's, Li Youyi would definitely lose if he faced him head-on. But Li Youyi still had magical artifacts he could use, such as the silver-thread gloves he wore on his hands; once activated, they could increase his palm power by two or three tenths.

The palm strike just now was thanks to the enhancement of the silver-thread gloves that he was able to suppress Tang Yan.

With his magic power circulating, the pain in his arm vanished instantly. Li Youyi drew the Yellow Dragon Sword hidden inside his stealth outfit, stepped on the Clear Void Cicada-Chasing Steps, and attacked Tang Yan.

Tang Yan's arm hadn't recovered as quickly as Li Youyi's, and seeing the sky full of sword light attacking, he was startled.

Not knowing the depth of his opponent, he naturally didn't dare to take it head-on and immediately retreated to dodge.

Li Youyi was only afraid that he would have high fighting spirit and a resilient will to fight. As long as he had fear and cowardice in his heart, then his Five Seas Realm cultivation would likely only be able to exert seven or eight tenths of its power.

After dodging six or seven moves, Tang Yan noticed that this magical artifact war sword looked somewhat familiar.

But Li Youyi didn't give him any time to think, each sword strike faster than the last.

"Rip!"

A yellow light flashed, and the sword tip tore a long gash in the clothes on Tang Yan's chest.

It was only a hair's breadth away from wounding him.

"Such powerful cultivation and speed; it seems my realm is still too low, as even this can't wound him." Li Youyi's expression was grave, and the pressure in his heart grew greater and greater; he was very worried that Xu Zhanglin would arrive at any moment.

Tang Yan looked at the tear in his robe on his chest, terrified to the point of trembling, and fled even more frantically: "Who on earth are you? Our Zhanglin Gang has a backer; the Yang clan and the Sui Sect are famous in Lizhou. You had better weigh whether you can afford to offend them!"

"The deputy leader's memory is too poor; it's only been two months, and you've forgotten the ugly act of your Zhanglin Gang seizing my mansion?"

Li Youyi had previously gone to the mansion where he used to live and found that it had changed owners and become a stronghold for the Zhanglin Gang.

Tang Yan had done many things involving seizing by force, and for a moment, he couldn't remember who this opponent before him was.

A slight distraction.

Li Youyi stabbed him below the collarbone, the sword tip sinking in a full inch deep.

The sword Qi and magic power invaded his body, and the pain spread throughout Tang Yan's entire body.

Tang Yan screamed and retreated, roaring: "The others have broken into the main altar, what are you all standing there for? All together now!"

"Pinning your hopes on a group of Gushing Spring Realm gang members to save you—with such a temperament, how could you possibly be my opponent?"

Li Youyi no longer had any fear or awe for Five Seas Realm martial artist in his heart; seizing the opportunity, he unleashed the Heavenly Dao Law Convergence level "Taiyi Sea Opening."

A single sword strike drew a bright yellow light a zhang long.

Tang Yan let out a long whistle, mobilized the magic Qi in his Qi Sea with all his might, and threw both fists, unleashing two waves of fist Qi.

It was a fist technique at the Heavenly Dao Law Convergence level.

"Boom!"

The sword Qi tore through the fist Qi waves, but there was still residual force that struck Li Youyi, and his body flew backward uncontrollably.

The magic Qi intensity of a Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu is by no means comparable to that of the Gushing Spring Realm.

This all-out collision shattered a small building above their heads, beams and pillars collapsed, and tiles and bricks fell all over the ground. The momentum was so domineering that Wu Xiu below the Seventh Spring fled far away, scared out of their wits.

Two Five Seas Realm experts fighting, the aftermath alone could kill ordinary Gushing Spring Realm Wu Xiu; they dared not get involved.

Tang Yan recognized the sword strike just now, stared fixedly at the semi-transparent figure, and exclaimed: "It's you, you've broken through to the Five Seas?"

Li Youyi had just landed on the ground.

Seven Zhanglin Gang members holding heavy crossbows fired fine flying needle arrows that made no sound as they cut through the air.

"Ding ding!"

Li Youyi was not what he used to be; how could he still take this level of attack seriously? He waved his long sword, and the thick magic Qi and sword shadows formed a spherical air shield.

All the incoming crossbow arrows fell to the ground.

"Whoosh!"

He drew a circle with his arm, and the wisps of magic Qi surging from his sleeves swept up the crossbow arrows on the ground, which then flew out like a rainstorm.

Amidst screams, all seven crossbow-wielding members fell to the ground, their bodies riddled with blood holes.

After Tang Yan recognized Li Youyi, all fear in his heart vanished; even if he had really broken through to the Five Seas Realm, it was only the initial stage of the realm, while he had been cultivating hard in the Five Seas Realm for over twenty years.

He took out a silver ruler magical artifact, injected magic power to activate it, and instantly, a dazzling silver light illuminated the entire front courtyard.

As the silver ruler was swung, a waterfall of light beams rushed toward Li Youyi with the force of a landslide, and wherever it passed, the stone slabs on the ground cracked inch by inch.

"Using a magical artifact with Five Seas Realm power, it actually has such might?"

Li Youyi immediately took out the Ghost Flag, used his arm as a flagpole to wave it, and injected his Eight Springs magic power with all his might.

Amidst the fluttering sound of the Ghost Flag, a large amount of black Nether Mist surged out, turning the front courtyard into a gloomy and terrifying ghost domain. A zhang-tall armored ghost shadow walked out from the flag, holding a war halberd, and erupted with a terrifying cold air that could turn a summer day into winter.

The ground within a dozen zhang was covered in frost.

Every time Li Youyi broke through a realm, the power erupted when activating the Ghost Flag was different.

This very faint armored ghost shadow was being activated for the first time, and even Li Youyi himself was somewhat surprised.

After the light beam waterfall swung by Tang Yan collided with the armored ghost shadow, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, not even stirring up a ripple. Just as he was stunned by the momentum of the ghost shadow, Li Youyi's sword light arrived before him.

"Pfft!"

Tang Yan tried his best but couldn't dodge it, and his chest was pierced by the sword.

"Awooo... if I'm going to die, we'll die together!"

Tang Yan screamed, actually enduring the pain in his chest, and swung the ruler toward Li Youyi's head.

The distance was too close; no one expected that at this moment of death, Tang Yan would instead erupt with a terrifying fighting will. Li Youyi had no choice but to abandon his sword and roll to the left to dodge.

Before he could get up, a sharp and domineering power fluctuation, accompanied by Xu Zhanglin's roar, slashed over.

"Boom!"

It was a mysterious black, deep-set magical artifact war saber, which slashed the ground where Li Youyi had just rolled, creating a trench several meters long.

Just by being touched by the saber Qi, the semi-transparent night-traveler outfit on Li Youyi couldn't withstand it and developed several cracks.

The Zhanglin Gang leader Xu Zhanglin, although also in the first realm of the Five Seas, clearly had combat power above Tang Yan's. The war saber in his hand was not only a magical artifact but also a dense, heavy weapon, weighing more than a thousand jin.

Once it landed on a body, even iron bones would be smashed to pieces.

Besides Xu Zhanglin, more than a dozen gang experts at the Seventh Spring level rushed out together, each with magic Qi overflowing, their essence and spirit vigorous; they were clearly powerful figures who had been through many battles.

Tang Yan sat slumped on the ground, blood continuously flowing from his chest, his mouth making a sound like a broken bellows: "He... he is Li Youyi, he pierced my lung Qi Sea and crippled my Five Seas Realm cultivation... kill him, tear him into ten thousand pieces."

Li Youyi rushed over a step ahead of Xu Zhanglin, grabbed the sword hilt, pulled it out, and then swung another sword arc.

"Pfft!"

Tang Yan's head left his neck and flew toward Xu Zhanglin, who couldn't dodge in time and caught it in his hand.

Tang Yan, sitting on the ground, had a three-zhang-high fountain of blood spraying from his neck.

A Five Seas Realm expert had actually been beheaded just like that!

Xu Zhanglin was furious, murderous intent bared in his eyes, and he casually threw Tang Yan's head on the ground like a watermelon: "Li Youyi, the Stone Gang has been looking for you for many days; since you came to die on your own, Xu will certainly fulfill your wish."

Surrounded on all sides, Li Youyi was not panicked at all, but instead sneered: "Why did the Zhanglin Gang change its name?"

"It changed just now! Xu Zhanglin has already passed the position of gang leader to Stone."

A large sound of footsteps arose, and Shi Chuanyu, dressed as a scholar, looking elegant at forty or fifty years old, appeared behind Li Youyi with another team of men.

Li Youyi naturally recognized him, the flag leader of the Zhanglin Gang with Eight Springs cultivation; he was one of those who had pursued him along the Sui River.

"It seems that Gang Leader Shi has actually broken through to the Five Seas; the gang is truly a place where strength is king. Just breaking through one realm is the difference between a subordinate and a gang leader, even the gang's name has to change because of you," Li Youyi said.

"It's all the Young Lady's cultivation."

Shi Chuanyu had a strong effeminate aura and was also a eunuch, with a smile of someone who had everything under control on his face: "Eight Springs breaking into the Five Seas—even if Xu Zhanglin and Tang Yan had cultivated in the Five Seas Realm for twenty or thirty years, they still couldn't compare. What about you? You don't look like you've broken through to the Five Seas, but rather like you're still in the Nine Springs Realm."

Two months ago, Li Youyi beheaded the Eight Springs Pure Immortal Body Xue Zheng, causing a great stir in Yao Guan, and everyone called him a Nine Springs Supreme Person.

Shi Chuanyu naturally didn't believe Li Youyi had already reached Nine Springs breaking into the Five Seas, otherwise, how could he have been so strained killing a Tang Yan?

He believed more that Li Youyi had borrowed an incredible magical artifact war treasure.

In history, there were many examples of successor seeds cultivated by million-year-old sects who, at the Nine Springs Supreme Person realm, borrowed powerful magical artifacts to behead Five Seas Realm experts. Not to mention the distant past, the number one person in Lizhou, Yang Shenjing, had severely wounded a Five Seas Realm expert while in the Nine Springs Realm, nearly killing him.

"The Xue clan has a bounty of five thousand Gushing Spring coins for his head; how about we join forces to behead him and split the bounty four-six?" Xu Zhanglin proposed.

Shi Chuanyu smiled: "The bounties from the Yang and Xue clans all go to you, the magical artifacts on him go to me."

Li Youyi looked around; all escape routes were sealed by Seventh Spring Wu Xiu, and the two Five Seas Realm experts had locked onto him with wisps of magic Qi mist. As long as he moved, he would immediately attract the strong offensive power from both the front and back.

"Is Eight Springs breaking into the Five Seas very strong?" Yin Twenty-four's crisp voice came from the three-story glazed tile roof.

She sat on it, not invisible, wearing a black outfit.

Li Youyi shouted to her: "The Zhanglin Gang is already gone; is my mission over? Or will you behead this Gang Leader Shi and let Xu Zhanglin be the gang leader again?"

Fighting two with one, against two Five Seas Realm experts?

Li Youyi would have to be crazy to fight them head-on alone.

Shi Chuanyu's attention was drawn by Yin Twenty-four on the roof, and he laughed heartily: "Eight Springs breaking into the Five Seas is, of course, very strong."

As he spoke, Shi Chuanyu spat out a flying sword condensed from magic Qi; the flying sword was as bright as a trace of light, both powerful and capable of winning by surprise.

"Bang!"

Yin Twenty-four slapped out, a cloud of magic Qi in her palm, and smashed the flying sword to pieces.

She stood up, her figure slender and tall, yet she had an intimidating aura that stood as high as the heavens, her tone icy: "Just now I went to the backyard to investigate and found many young girls and boys imprisoned. Listening to the conversations of those gang members, the girls will be sent to various brothels in Nine Li City, while the boys will be sent to be offered to a Great Demon, becoming the Great Demon's snacks."

"So, whether it's the Zhanglin Gang or the Stone Gang, they are simply unforgivable. We don't need to be soft-hearted; let's join forces today and wipe them out!"

Shi Chuanyu realized that the black-clad girl was not to be trifled with and immediately dispatched two Seventh Spring Wu Xiu, telling them to rush to the Sui Sect and the Yang clan to seek help as quickly as possible.

The Dragon Gate had sent dozens of chests of important items to the Stone Gang, and with danger appearing here, the Five Seas Realm experts of the Sui Sect and the Yang clan would inevitably arrive at the first opportunity.

(End of chapter)