Chapter 89: The Eunuch Delivers Goods

Yin Twenty-Four said, "The greatest value of this high-grade blood-refined artifact lies in the strength of the blood soul within. If the combat power of the internal blood soul is only at the Third Realm of the Five Seas, then the price is at most just over ten thousand Spring-Surge Coins."

"You have ten thousand Spring-Surge Coins?"

Li Youyi looked her up and down, not believing that an Yin agent who had only recently broken through to the Five Seas could be wealthy to such an extent.

Ten thousand Spring-Surge Coins was equivalent to one million silver coins, or one hundred million copper coins.

She was only sixteen years old; could she have such a deep family fortune?

Yin Twenty-Four's expression was slightly awkward as she said hesitantly, "At this stage, of course, I don't have that much money. But aren't we going to the Spider-Picking Cave for precious medicinal herbs? Their value is not low; I'll just forgo my share of one jin when the time comes."

"That is still far from enough."

Li Youyi waved his hand: "Stop causing trouble! I really need money, and I really need Light-Flame Pills."

Light-Flame Pills were condensed from high-quality spiritual light flames and could only be refined by Spirit-Mind Masters; they were supreme treasures that helped Mind Masters rapidly increase their cultivation base.

Any single pill was a rare and precious object.

In the field of medicine, forming a pill was equivalent to a transcendent-like transformation.

"The noodles are ready!"

Two bowls of steaming hot noodle soup were served.

……

Sell it? That was absolutely impossible.

Yin Twenty-Four suspected that Li Youyi had no idea of the value of this war treasure and asked, "Most blood-refined artifacts come from the Ghost Realm of the Dead, the Demon Clan, or the Demon Kingdom. By rights, such a treasure should never have fallen into the hands of someone at the Spring-Surge Realm like you. Where did you get it?"

The Three-Headed Snake bracelet was naturally obtained from the bronze warship.

The reason he brought it out to sell was that it had to be activated using one's own blood as a blood sacrifice.

Just like Director Yang back then, who, in order to activate the Three-Headed Snake bracelet and release the three-headed snake blood soul inside, had directly exhausted the blood in his body, becoming like a dried corpse.

Li Youyi had no interest in such self-damaging treasures, no matter how powerful they were.

Li Youyi smiled: "Didn't you say that in the eyes of the Yin Gate, I am transparent?"

He was not afraid of exposing some artifacts; after all, he had the Imperial Sword tucked in his bosom. When the time came, he would just push everything onto Master Coffin.

Yin Twenty-Four knew that Li Youyi had already caught the eye of the Yin Lord and the Elders, and she could do nothing to him. But she still put the Three-Headed Snake bracelet on her wrist first, then tasted the noodle soup.

It was indeed tastier than medicinal meals.

"You won't be short of Spring-Surge Coins! As for Light-Flame Pills, I have a way to help you get some," she said seriously.

Li Youyi's expression became solemn, and he warned: "This thing must be activated using one's own blood as a sacrifice. I once saw with my own eyes someone die of blood exhaustion because of activating it; it was extremely miserable."

Yin Twenty-Four clearly understood the dangers of blood-sacrifice artifacts and said, "That just means his cultivation was too low and his blood-Qi quality was insufficient. You must know that the higher a person's cultivation, the less blood this kind of blood-refined artifact consumes. Besides, I'm not using it as a war treasure to be used at any time; I will only use it in life-or-death situations. It might just be my second life."

Seeing her insistence, and thinking that he seemed to only need Light-Flame Pills in the short term, Li Youyi asked, "How many Light-Flame Pills can you get?"

"Three or five should not be a problem," Yin Twenty-Four said.

Li Youyi immediately looked at her with new eyes: "You wouldn't happen to be the illegitimate daughter of some priest in the Nine Li Divine Temple, would you?"

In Lizhou, when it came to powerful Mind Masters who could refine pills, one absolutely could not bypass the nine priests of the Nine Li Divine Temple. Those nine were definitely figures who had gone very far in the practice of Spirit-God cultivation.

Light-Flame Pills were so precious that the price of any single one was ten million copper coins. Even someone with Li Ling's status had probably never taken one from childhood to adulthood.

Eating one was equivalent to eating a mansion in Nine Li City.

Yin Twenty-Four said indifferently: "Don't look down on people; I am Ten, after all!"

"Eat your noodles."

After a while, Li Youyi looked up and added, "Return to the Yin Gate and have an Elder appraise the strength of the Three-Headed Snake blood soul. I feel it's not as simple as just the Third Realm of the Five Seas. The money must be calculated clearly."

……

The two left the city and entered the southern district of the suburbs.

Li Youyi first returned to the mansion where he had previously lived to take a look around before heading to the Long Lin Gang with Yin Twenty-Four.

The Long Lin Gang's headquarters was a mansion covering a hundred mu, with walls over two zhang high. Inside, buildings were dense, with rockeries and ponds, and dozens of century-old trees with lush branches and leaves.

Such a luxurious mansion, if it were within the city, would only be qualified to be enjoyed by top-tier great clans.

The two opened a room in an inn not far from the Long Lin Gang and quickly changed into low-grade artifact night-traveling clothes.

Li Youyi channeled magic power into the night-traveling clothes, and his body gradually faded away.

The grade was too low to achieve complete invisibility.

If it were in the dead of night, combined with sufficient speed, he could deceive people to a certain extent. But wanting to use this to get close to martial arts experts and carry out assassinations was nothing but a pipe dream.

Yin Twenty-Four stood by the window, her beautiful eyes unblinking, observing the comings and goings of various people around the Long Lin Gang headquarters: "The size of this headquarters mansion far exceeds the scale that a normal suburban gang should have. Even the eight deformed martial arts practitioners guarding the gate should have the cultivation of the Fifth or Sixth Spring."

Li Youyi came to the window, his figure heroic and upright, his features three-dimensional and handsome; the woman in the night-traveling clothes beside him was a head shorter than him.

After observing carefully, he felt that this large area of mansions had an unusual sense of depth.

"As a gang headquarters, isn't it too quiet?" Li Youyi said.

"It's a formation! This headquarters is covered by a set of Hundred-Pattern Formations; what we see is not the true interior scene." Yin Twenty-Four noticed something and cast her gaze toward the end of the wide street below.

A green-clothed motorcade slowly approached.

Her small hand quickly grabbed Li Youyi's arm, and she retreated two steps, leaving the window.

"What's wrong?" Li Youyi said.

Yin Twenty-Four's expression was grave: "There is a powerful Five Seas Realm martial arts practitioner in that motorcade. Just now, he was observing the surroundings, and his eyes were extremely sharp. When he was observing, the aura of a powerhouse on his body leaked out unconsciously, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to sense it in advance."

Li Youyi had always felt that his perception was very keen, but compared to a Five Seas Realm martial arts practitioner, there seemed to be a gap. He asked: "Your perception is so remarkable; have you already cultivated combat intent?"

"Is it very strange? I am also a genius, okay? Not counting the Yin Gate, in the entire Nine Li tribe over the past ten years, there have only been six Nine-Spring Supremes." Yin Twenty-Four raised her chin and said proudly.

……

The green-clothed motorcade below consisted of eight carriages, each carrying four giant wooden crates, all stopping outside the magnificent three-zhang-wide copper gate of the Long Lin Gang headquarters.

The thirty or forty martial arts practitioners escorting the goods, although they tried their best to dress low-key and disguise themselves as ordinary people, could not hide from Li Youyi and Yin Twenty-Four; they could see that their cultivation was strong, and many of them were at the Seventh Spring Realm.

However, clearly they were all men, yet there was a feminine aura about them.

Long Lin Gang Deputy Leader Tang Yan personally came out to greet them.

Tang Yan was very cautious; after carefully observing the surroundings, he smiled obsequiously and bowed to the Five Seas powerhouse leading the motorcade: "Lord Min, you have had a tiring journey. You have worked hard all the way. Please enter the mansion quickly; my gang has already prepared fine wine and delicacies to welcome you."

Lord Min was the leader of the motorcade. Although his cultivation was superb, he was very low-key, riding only a sturdy horse. He looked to be in his thirties, with a fair face and no beard, and his voice was shrill and feminine: "Where is Yang Qingxi? For such an important matter, the Sui Sect just handed it over to you people?"

Tang Yan naturally felt the arrogance and powerhouse aura on the other party and dared not show any displeasure: "After all, the Nine Li tribe's influence is still greater in Nine Li City, and there are many eyes and ears in the city, making it easy to be detected. But it is different here; the entire city district is controlled by the Long Lin Gang, and our gang's eyes and ears are everywhere, so absolutely no one will know about this."

"In addition, the Young Lady attaches great importance to this matter and will rush back to Nine Li City later today."

"Fine then, hand the things over to you for now. I still have things to do and must go into the city; I will come here tonight to meet with Yang Qingxi."

Lord Min took four followers and rode toward the city gate.

Tang Yan stared at the five departing backs, a sneer flashing in his eyes, and he muttered to himself: "Another eunuch showing off his power. What's the point of having strong cultivation? Heh heh!"

"Transport all the goods into the headquarters and guard them properly; there must be no mistakes."

Tang Yan carried his hands behind his back and walked into the headquarters gate first.

……

In the inn in the distance, Li Youyi looked toward the gate of the Long Lin Gang headquarters: "Why are there so many eunuchs?"

"Of course they came from outside; they are all the lingering poison left by the Little Field Decree," Yin Twenty-Four said.

Li Youyi had heard of the "Little Field Decree" more than once. It was said that the reason the Lingxiao Life Realm was in chaos was because of this decree issued by the Lingxiao Palace. He was curious and asked: "What exactly is the content of the Little Field Decree?"

"It's exactly what it says literally."

Yin Twenty-Four was too lazy to explain further; anyway, those were old stories from more than ten years ago.

She said: "To be able to make Yang Qingxi rush back from the Burial Immortal Town, this batch of goods is definitely not simple."

"Then before dark, we will take down the Long Lin Gang and give Yang Qingxi a big gift," Li Youyi said.

"Swish! Swish!"

The two channeled magic power, activated the invisibility power of the night-traveling clothes, jumped out of the inn window, restrained their aura, and rushed toward the gate of the Long Lin Gang headquarters, following closely behind the last transport carriage, and entered the mansion.

Tang Yan's ears twitched; he sensed something and immediately looked toward the motorcade behind him.

"Whoosh—"

Li Youyi was extremely decisive, stepping on the tops of the carriages, and under the cover of the night-traveling clothes, his body was like a semi-transparent shadow moving at extreme speed.

Arriving above Tang Yan, one zhang away, he spread his five fingers, and the magic power in his body surged wildly.

In front of his palm, the magic Qi condensed into a three-foot-square divine seal light shadow.

He had to solve Tang Yan as quickly as possible by surprise. Otherwise, once the Long Lin Gang leader Xu Changlin and a large number of Spring-Surge Realm experts surrounded him, let alone killing people, he would probably have to rely on Yin Twenty-Four's power to escape.

That would be too shameful.

Tang Yan had reached the Five Seas Realm for more than twenty years, and his martial arts attainments could be said to have reached the pinnacle. Facing this sudden palm from Li Youyi, he reacted instantly and threw a punch.

On his fist, the magic Qi was as bright as the stars, smashing the air into a concave arch.

"Boom!"

Fist and palm collided, the sound like thunder.

The whole garden was filled with magic Qi wind.

Whether it was the eunuchs escorting the goods or the Long Lin Gang members in the front yard, they were all forced to retreat repeatedly by this surging counter-force.

The clash at the Five Seas Realm level was earth-shattering, and the ground was shaking.