Chapter 29: Seeking Help

Li Xiangping was suddenly taken aback. Seeing Wan Yuankai's full face of smiles, his thoughts turned, and he thought secretly:

"This Wan family is too enthusiastic, but I have to be careful."

His smile remained the same, he cupped his hands toward Wan Yuankai, and shook his head repeatedly:

"Your father is too polite! This cannot be accepted!"

Wan Yuankai shook his head, took a small pine wood box from his sleeve, opened the polished small lid, and inside was a cyan-white fruit lined with cloth.

Wan Yuankai had an embarrassed look on his face and said in a low voice:

"My Wan family is in trouble, and we are in debt every year. This Songyue Fruit is somewhat helpful for shaping the Chengming Wheel. It's a small thing, not worth mentioning. Please accept it, Li brother, so that I can go back and report."

Seeing Li Xiangping examining the fruit, Wan Yuankai realized, and hurriedly explained:

"Cut the skin with a small knife and drink the juice."

Li Xiangping looked at the fruit, but his mind was constantly weighing, and he thought secretly:

"The Wan family is in trouble, why tell me? Isn't it just attracting covetousness?"

"Forget it! Whatever trick they are playing, let's see the situation first!"

"Then I will not refuse!"

Li Xiangping laughed, saw Li Yesheng step forward to take the box, held it carefully, and then changed the subject, saying seriously:

"There is one thing to trouble Brother Wan."

"Call me Yuankai, please speak!"

Wan Yuankai waved his hands repeatedly.

"My Li family has just arrived and knows nothing about the families around here. Is Brother Wan willing to solve my doubts?"

"Naturally."

Wan Yuankai nodded, saw Li Yesheng take pen and paper, rolled up his sleeves and drew a thin line on the paper, explaining:

"This is Kong Guli Road."

Then he drew a circle in the middle of Kong Guli Road and wrote a "Li" character. Li Xiangping nodded, took a pen, dipped some ink, drew a circle above and below the Li character, and wrote "Wangyue Lake" and "Mount Dali".

"My Li family relies on Mount Dali, faces Wangyue Lake, and Kong Guli Road runs through it."

Wan Yuankai nodded, drew a small circle on the right side of the Li family, and explained:

"To the east is my Wan family."

Then he picked up the pen and drew a large circle above the Wan family, and said solemnly:

"This is the Ji clan of the Tangjin Gate."

"Ji clan of the Tangjin Gate?"

Li Xiangping felt a chill in his heart and asked back.

"Exactly! This Tangjin Gate is the Immortal Sect of the Great Xu in the north. Wangyue Lake is very large. Crossing the center of the lake to the north is the Tangdao Mountain of the Tangjin Gate. The Ji clan is the force under the governance of the Tangjin Gate."

Nodded to Wan Yuankai, signaling him to continue, Li Xiangping smiled bitterly in his heart:

"I was really afraid of what would come."

"For more than ten years, the Tangjin Gate and the Qingchi Sect have had constant friction. Although the two sects have not yet started a war, the border has already seen more than ten families destroyed, and tens of thousands of mortals displaced. Both sides are just testing each other."

Wan Yuankai looked uneasy, as if he had expressed the worry that had been in his heart for a long time.

"This Ji clan has also attacked repeatedly, offending my Wan family's territory, making my Wan family miserable. The Ji clan leader, Ji Dengqi, had already achieved Qi Refining a few years ago. My father had just entered Yujing, so he was no match for him."

"Every time our spirit rice matures, the Ji clan members cover their faces with veils, pretend to be loose cultivators, and rob our village. For several years, my family has had to shrink on the mountain, letting the Ji clan rob the spirit rice."

Speaking of this, Wan Yuankai's eyes were already red, clenching his fists tightly, with a look of bitter hatred.

Li Xiangping heard this, and had already guessed Wan Yuankai's intention. His expression was a bit ugly, and he said:

"My Li family is weak and thin, I'm afraid I can't help much."

Seeing Wan Yuankai's expression of grief and indignation, Li Xiangping hurriedly asked:

"How many immortal cultivators are left in the Wan family?"

Wan Yuankai was suddenly stagnant, looked at Li Xiangping hesitantly, gritted his teeth and said:

"Father is at the peak of the Yujing Wheel, I have just achieved the Qingyuan Wheel, and there are two juniors in the family who have just achieved the Xuanjing Wheel. Besides that old thief who achieved Qi Refining, the Ji clan has two Zhou Xing Wheels and one Chengming Wheel. As for the Xuanjing Wheel, there should be several, but they have never come to rob."

Li Xiangping heard this and asked with some doubt:

"Someone in the sect once told me that if you encounter an enemy attack, you can ask the sect for help with the jade seal. A Foundation Establishment immortal cultivator sent by the sect can solve your urgent needs."

"We can't invite Foundation Establishment!"

Wan Yuankai shouted, gritting his teeth, clenching his fists, looking bitter and deep.

"If we urge the jade seal, it will take at least two hours for the Qi Refining cultivators in the city to arrive. By then, everything will be too late. Not to mention the spirit rice is gone, and asking for help again and again will offend the incoming cultivator for no reason!"

Just after saying this, seeing Li Xiangping about to speak again, Wan Yuankai hurriedly continued:

"Now my father sent me to visit you, also wanting to form an alliance, to borrow the power of your clan..."

Li Xiangping sighed secretly. Since Wan Yuankai had already spoken, he gave up the idea of digging for more information and smiled bitterly:

"It's not that I don't want to, but I can't! My Li family has few people. I only stepped into the immortal path last year. My father has four sons, the eldest brother died early, and the younger brother has already gone to the Immortal Sect to practice, although his cultivation is high. My brother and I have shallow cultivation, and we are not as good as you, so what can we use to fight against the Ji clan."

"Isn't there your father!"

Wan Yuankai looked at Li Xiangping with full hope, full of expectation.

"To tell you the truth, my father is just a mortal..."

"Impossible! How can a mortal give birth to three spiritual apertures? My father has Yujing Wheel cultivation and gave birth to seventeen children before getting me."

Wan Yuankai's face changed instantly, and he answered with some shame:

"But I was reckless! My father must have achieved the foundation of the Great Dao, but I was abrupt."

After speaking, he sat back in his seat blankly, his eyes full of worry.

Li Xiangping was also terrified here, and the cold sweat on his back was dripping down from that shout just now. He almost couldn't maintain his expression.

"So the higher the cultivation of the cultivator, the greater the probability of giving birth to spiritual apertures. I almost leaked the secret in this insignificant place!"

Looking at Wan Yuankai's gloomy expression, Li Xiangping calmed his mind and said:

"Then what is the situation at the end of this Kong Guli Road, west of my Li family, Brother Wan knows?"

"West of Kong Guli Road..."

Wan Yuankai was stunned, looked at the drawing thoughtfully, and said in a thoughtful manner:

"Mount Dali tilts to the west, and Kong Guli Road mostly enters the mountains gradually to the west. I haven't heard of any people in this section, but I heard..."

"Heard what?"

Li Xiangping asked hurriedly.

"I heard from my father that ancestors explored to the west, and there are mountain moons appearing west of Lidao."

"Shanyue?" ===== CHAPTER 30 =====

"I heard from my father that our ancestors explored westward; there are Shanyue lurking to the west of the Li Road."

"Shanyue?"