Chapter 1003: Two Instruments

The silver light, like gauze, floated down. Wu Fan's gaze lowered as if scalded, his inner fear expanding rapidly. He kowtowed thumping, fearing:

"Reporting... reporting, my lord... the Senior Chang Xiao mountain gate has twenty-seven peaks of Daoist scriptures, already held by the immortal clan's heavenly soldiers. I dare not make the decision. The rest... the rest have seven treasuries and six storehouses, controlled by the True Person, located at the bottom of the formation."

"The remaining twelve spiritual storehouses, the spiritual keys were originally held by the immortal peaks together... but... but..."

Wu Fan raised his eyebrows, seemingly not knowing whether to say it or not, only showing a look of fear and difficulty. Li Li Zhouwei before him had already stepped in, arriving at the immortal hall at the highest point of this mountain gate.

On both sides were placed a white jade treasure bottle, six large pillars lined up, dotted with screens, all with gold characters. At the very top was a mysterious Daoist painting, with silver patterns as the base, and in the center was a man in golden clothing without a face, gently holding a treasure bottle in his hands.

'Although it is not a spiritual treasure or magic tool, the material used is very superior. After hanging for a long time, it also has some mystery... It's just a pity that the person was painted by Senior Chang Xiao himself, not passed down from ancient times, so it's of little use.'

Above this painting, four large characters were written on a golden plaque:

【Upper Instrument Heaven Sky】

Li Li Zhouwei was very familiar with these four characters. Back then, in 【Wanling Heaven】, he had been to a place called 【Clear Instrument Peak】, and those four large characters were clearly on that peak!

Seeing the 【West Instrument Senior Chang Xiao】 below, he had already suspected whether it was the same lineage. Now it was confirmed without a doubt. The four large characters at the bottom of the mountain should be the name of the Daoist lineage established by Senior Chang Xiao himself, originating from 【Upper Instrument Heaven Sky】.

Seeing Li Li Zhouwei stop here, Wu Fan hurriedly stepped forward, but was blocked by Li Li Minggong. The woman bowed slightly, stepped forward, took the painting down from under the beam, and put it into a jade box.

The moment this Daoist painting was put into the jade box, the entire immortal hall lost its color. The flowing, colorful profound pillars and treasure bottles all dimmed. The hall, which had been spontaneously bright, was left with only the color of the lamps.

Outside the hall, there was faint sobbing. Wu Fan had no reaction, saying lowly:

"Lady Lady Guiqin often handled sect affairs, liked to ask about matters in the storehouse, and borrowed keys for safekeeping. Bai Bai Binzi, to please the True Person and protect his position, pretended not to know... matters of the spiritual storehouse all passed through the Lady's peak... We... really don't know!"

He had hastily seized the sect from Bai Bai Binzi. Even though he had some ability, he waited until the Li family attacked the peak. The affairs in the sect could no longer be decided by him. What was even more fatal was... this Lady Lady Guiqin, he really didn't dare to move.

Cheng Yan in the sky seemed to be failing, but who knew what means the True Person had to escape? Would there really be life-and-death consequences between True Persons? If Cheng Yan suddenly appeared after a while, surrendered to the lake, and touched the True Person's forbidden object, would there be any life left?

"Lady Lady Guiqin..."

His words caused a commotion among the crowd. Obviously, they all had some hatred, but they dared to be angry but not speak on weekdays. Li Li Zhouwei swept a glance at him and looked at Li Li Minggong. The woman nodded and whispered:

"This woman has already been locked by us on the side peak." Li Li Zhouwei then looked at Wu Fan and said: "Follow."

This man stood up straight, let out a long sigh of relief, and his confidence was sufficient. He walked forward sideways. Only after taking one step, the three of them had already appeared on the palace of the side peak. Wu Fan lowered his eyebrows and answered:

"Reporting, my lord, Lady Lady Guiqin's surname is Ma. She is the biological sister of True Person Cheng Yan. She has one son and one daughter. She has many adopted children, but her biological son died in the East Sea. The others are all engaged in the sect. The remaining daughter serves before the Lady... they are all in one place..."

The palace gate opened with a creak, and he saw the hall hung with large and small, colorful silks, floating slowly with the wind. It was originally an extremely beautiful place, but it happened to emit mournful crying.

Amidst the floating silks, two women were hugging and crying before the hall. One woman had a round face and moth eyebrows, draped in white gauze, with snow-white skin, born to be pitiful. She happened to practice cold energy, adding a bit of awe-inspiring and inviolable nobility. Her expression was mournful, and her tears were flashing.

She held a girl in her arms, petite and cute, with a pink face and golden clothes. Her light red lips were tightly pursed, and her gaze was lowered, staring at the steps. Because of the noise before the hall, she turned her head slightly, but didn't dare to raise it.

Wu Fan felt great joy in his heart. On weekdays, this mother and daughter stepped on his face and he didn't dare to resist. Today, they had fallen to this point. He just followed Li Li Minggong up and shouted:

"Where are the spiritual keys!"

Lady Lady Guiqin raised her head with hatred, staring at him with tear-filled eyes, saying nothing, but she had a cold and clear temperament. Li Li Minggong was originally a top-tier beauty, but she couldn't learn the appearance of the mother and daughter frowning and being coquettish, and for a moment, she lost her color.

Wu Fan was actively fawning, not caring about her pity for the fragrance and cherishing the jade. He kicked the woman on the shoulder, causing her to groan. Lady Lady Guiqin still didn't open her mouth. Wu Fan immediately drew his sword, and for a time, there was cursing and beating, and the crying was continuous.

Li Li Minggong really couldn't watch anymore, swept this person aside, and stood sideways. Li Li Zhouwei stepped forward, bent down slightly, pinched the woman's chin, and made her raise her head to look at him squarely.

Lady Lady Guiqin met those golden eyes and was suddenly stunned. The hatred in her eyes melted like ice and snow, and in an instant, it turned into a joy of floating and not knowing what to do. She hurriedly turned over, spread her legs, revealed her throat, and made a sweet laugh in her throat, saying:

"My lord... my lord... the spiritual keys are in the secret formation under the main seat... my lord..."

This scene filled Wu Fan with sudden terror, and fear surged in his heart. Suppressing the urge for his legs to give way, he could not fathom what this lord was thinking. He knelt beside the woman, wanting to help her up.

But the moment the woman's words fell, the hand locked on her chin suddenly left. Lady Lady Guiqin's head actually detached from her neck, flew up weightlessly, without bringing up any blood, and just fell into his hand like that.

Those sweet red lips were still opening and closing, her gaze was charming, and the cross-section of her neck was smooth and flat, as if cut by some extremely sharp magic tool. The man held the head blankly. The petite woman facing him had already fallen backward at the same time, her head rolling down and falling beside his knees.

The man was speechless for a moment, kneeling on the ground foolishly. The fear in his heart reached its peak suddenly. He suddenly realized that a smiling man in a green shirt was standing beside him at some point, gently patting his shoulder:

"Get up."

Wu Fan stood up trembling. The man in the green shirt smiled and looked at Li Li Zhouwei, as if explaining:

"After all, she is a Early Zifu blood descendant, leave her some decency." Wu Fan realized it belatedly:

'This True Person has always been here, we are flesh and blood, we just can't see it.'

Li Li Zhouwei didn't care. If he wasn't afraid of exposing the Immortal Appraisal, he wouldn't have needed to ask about any Lady Lady Guiqin... Seeing Si Si Yuanli wanted to use this Wu Fan, and it was both deterrence and words, he was too lazy to toss:

'How to deal with the Senior Chang Xiao mountain gate and the remnants is Si Si Yuanli's business later. He has no one under his command, and Wu Fan is obviously easy to use.'

He flipped his hand to take out the spiritual keys under the main seat, threw them into Li Li Minggong's hand, nodded to Si Si Yuanli, and the two figures disappeared together, leaving only Li Li Minggong standing in place.

"This lord..."

Wu Fan hurriedly turned around and asked respectfully. Li Li Minggong shook his head, and immediately several cultivators walked in quickly from outside the hall. A golden-eyed youth with a tall stature and a long knife at his waist took the lead, stopped in the hall, and greeted Li Li Minggong.

The woman swept her gaze over: "It's up to you."

Wu Fan knew it was extraordinary and noble just by looking at his golden pupils, and walked up quickly, fawning:

"Greetings, Your Highness!"

In the cave dwelling deep in the mountain, the light flickered and extinguished, and silver-white formation patterns were dense. The two True Persons stepped in and stopped before the formation. Si Si Yuanli raised his head, took out a talisman from his sleeve, and with his other hand, pinched out a touch of silver light.

It was precisely the 【Thunder-Striking Formation-Breaking Wedge】. He smiled casually and said:

"Since the 【Hundred-Ridge Profound Stone Umbrella】 is given to you, Fellow Daoist, I will take the 【Wu-Xiao Pearl】... It just so happens that a senior needs it."

Si Si Yuanli obviously had some means. Logically speaking, the two True Persons hadn't returned, and people in the sect could only open the outer formation. While he spoke, he had already slowly unlocked this inner formation.

Senior Chang Xiao was not a cultivator of the Sun lineage and didn't have the habit of setting up palaces in the inner formation. The formation wasn't large, and the seven storehouses and six treasuries were stored separately, separated everywhere, appearing extremely regular.

Si Si Yuanli laughed:

"Senior Chang Xiao is cunning and crafty, he won't leave anything good for you and me. Let's look at Cheng Yan's storehouse."

Li Li Zhouwei nodded, beckoned gently, and a golden flowing light had already shuttled back from the void, falling into his palm. It was a scroll tied with a storage bag.

He patted it casually, and the things in this storage bag spilled all over the ground, covering the cave dwelling with layers of spiritual objects in an instant, shining brightly, actually not seeing a few spirit stones.

Li Li Zhouwei swept a glance, beckoned gently, and seven streaks of flowing light detached from it, lined up on the table. The remaining dense jade slips were arranged at his feet—this would have to be handed over to the Senior Chang Xiao Sect cultivators to open.

Then, using his palm as a knife, he slid left and right, seemingly casually separating the remaining two piles of spiritual objects.

Among these seven streaks of flowing light, three were jade bottles containing spiritual elixirs. Li Li Zhouwei himself didn't lack these things, so he looked at the remaining four. As soon as the jade box was opened, what came into view was a pale white round stone with profound patterns.

Si Si Yuanli took a look and laughed:

"It's something from 【Anhuai Heaven】. This guy had a lot of gains back then. This is the spiritual resource for 'True Qi', 【Crane-Holding Stone】. Its best use is to let low-level cultivators cultivate in the Qi Sea, assisting cultivation, and it can also greatly improve the speed of riding the wind, enough to make cultivators with ordinary talent stand out among their peers. Taking it is of no use to us... but it can be used to decorate spiritual boots."

The remaining three were a scroll and two spiritual resources. One spiritual resource was 'True Qi', 【Three-Branch Qiu-Heart Leaf】, a good treasure for healing, ink-green all over, and the leaves were densely covered with stone patterns. It had already grown in this jade box, breathing silently. It's just a pity that one branch had already been plucked by someone, and the remaining two branches were still faintly losing medicinal power.

Si Si Yuanli felt heartache and cursed:

"Truly a beast, he doesn't know how to refine elixirs, and doesn't know how to find someone to refine them. What's the benefit of eating them raw... at least he knew how to use a jade box to hold them, otherwise they would have dissipated long ago."

Li Li Zhouwei looked carefully and found some Bright Yang Qi on it. He estimated that he had taken it under his own divine ability, so he stopped. However, the remaining spiritual resource was 'Xi Qi', half gold and half white like water. Si Si Yuanli immediately noticed it and laughed:

"'Bright Yang' is noble as Yin and Yang, controlling Li Fire, and doesn't like 'Xi Qi', but 'Proper Wood' is useful... Why not give this item to me, the 【Crane-Holding Stone】 to you, Fellow Daoist, and the 【Three-Branch Qiu-Heart Leaf】 to Fellow Daoist Can Zhaojing to refine elixirs."

"Good."

When Si Si Yuanli was invited, the things on Cheng Yan were mentioned to be split equally. This matter was easily settled. Li Li Zhouwei held up the scroll to look, but found it was locked by a secret storage technique, difficult to open, quite novel, and couldn't help but look at it a few more times. Si Si Yuanli also raised his eyebrows:

"It's an ancient thing, using a secret storage method, even more troublesome than the sealing of jade slips. This thing can't be opened... otherwise it will turn into a blank scroll."

"Oh? Secret storage method? Since you can break the formation, Fellow Daoist, do you have a way to open it?" Li Li Zhouwei paid slight attention, hearing Si Si Yuanli sigh:

"I'm not afraid to say more, my ancestors had some means, practiced the 'More Wood' path, and left some means to break formations. But this thing is a lock-holding sign, needing to find a 'Storehouse Gold' cultivator. Where are there such figures now?"

Li Li Zhouwei naturally knew 'Storehouse Gold' cultivators, but raised his eyebrows, deliberately wanting to test his background, and asked:

"This lineage... I don't know how powerful it is?" Si Si Yuanli didn't think too much, sighed:

"I only know one thing, the Yu Xie family has a treasure, called 【Search-Track Look-River Stone】, which is the 'Storehouse Gold' path. Among them is an extremely rare gold nature, which is the 'Suspended Storehouse Non-Vessel Dao Storehouse Nature', which is the 'Storehouse Gold' gold nature. Not to mention it's unique in the world, it's also very rare in the hands of the lords."

Li Li Zhouwei was thoughtful and was about to speak when he suddenly raised his head: "Crack..."

Following a crisp sound, one of the seven storehouses and six treasuries of the Senior Chang Xiao Sect had been revealed before his eyes. Rolling white Qi surged out, and in the center was placed a treasure bottle, clearly with the phantom color of a treasure. Si Si Yuanli then asked:

"'Upper Instrument' lineage... is Your Highness interested?" Li Li Zhouwei replied:

"Fellow Daoist, take a look."

Si Si Yuanli smiled harmoniously, swept a glance at the jade bottle, and replied: "It should be a spiritual object of 'Upper Instrument', used for gathering Qi."

"'Upper Instrument' belongs to the Twelve Qi. Among the Twelve Qi, it is called 【Late Rise Early Hide, Suspended and Not Group】. A descendant of the Emperor who was in charge of the Great Zhou gained gold through this, so it was more prosperous. Later, this lord's whereabouts were hidden, and the 'Upper Instrument' path also became less, and this path... is actually difficult because of the spiritual objects."

"My lineage mentioned that nearly 90% of the spiritual Qi in 'Upper Instrument' needs to be gathered by special spiritual objects, which is commonly known as the 【Surrounding Spirit Method】. Often, locking onto this set of special spiritual objects can achieve a lineage, waiting for the changes of heaven and earth, or losing the spiritual objects, and the lineage will not flourish."

Li Li Zhouwei immediately had an epiphany. Back then in 【Wanling Heaven】, he had obtained the 【Extract Heart Profound Origin Technique】, which used the spiritual object 【Profound Feast Hong-Qiong】 to gather Qi.

And he himself had an 'Upper Instrument' 'Reach-Search-Bright', which his uncle had obtained from the hands of True Person Yuanbian. The gathering of Qi used True Person Yuanbian's spiritual object 【Light Sky Copy Cloud】. This spiritual object naturally wouldn't be given to his own family, and Liu Changdie hadn't specifically gathered it, it was sent by his own people after gathering it in Qunyi.

He was thoughtful, but Si Si Yuanli sighed:

"There are actually quite a few such lineages, it's just that they are not as demanding as his 'Upper Instrument' path... like that 'True Fire', often also needing a spiritual fire to gather Qi, but this path is difficult in 【Suspended and Not Group】, left and right not connecting, no particularly close lineage. You want to allocate his spiritual objects... without some special means, that is difficult upon difficult. What's more, there is the nature of Heaven Sky floating, spiritual objects are not easy to preserve, which is why it has fallen to this point."

He said seriously:

"Actually, there is a corresponding path, my lineage is also not very clear, just according to the correspondence, calling it 'Lower Instrument'. I heard it was controlled by the Yin Division early on, then it's not just less, it's only better than 'Exile Qi'!"

He intended to sell a favor, which made Li Li Zhouwei quite satisfied, and he nodded. 'The Twelve Qi are considered complete.'

Li Li Zhouwei's mind was agile, and he pondered secretly:

'Que Wan's 【Wait God Special】 once mentioned that it could allocate the Qi of the Two Instruments. Is the Two Instruments referred to the upper and lower instruments among the Twelve Qi? If so, the relationship between 【Full Elixir】 and Dou Brother Xuan is also not shallow!'

The Yin Division is clearly a Dou Brother Xuan lineage, so the upper and lower instruments are both positions of Dou Brother Xuan, but the Yin Division, which is clearly a Dou Brother Xuan lineage... why did it push the fall of Wanling Heaven and not care at all?

This was full of meaning, making Li Li Zhouwei pay secret attention. Si Si Yuanli had already taken out the jade bottle and asked:

"The Upper Instrument lineage must still be on Senior Chang Xiao. I think he was afraid of alarming Cheng Yan, so he deliberately left one or two spiritual resources here to gather Qi... This thing... do you know its use, Fellow Daoist?" ===== CHAPTER 1004 =====