Chapter 535: Slave-Eyed Lianmin

Ning Ning Heyuan stood to one side in response. In the distance, the golden light slowly dimmed, and cold black rain scattered through the air. The group of demonic cultivators remained silent, slowly retreating back into the clouds. As the hazy golden light on the horizon faded, Ning Ning Heyuan made a quick estimation; the situation on the Jin Yu Sect's side was likely over, and he felt relieved. Looking ahead, the black mist continued to recede, and the several battles in the sky all ended with the demonic cultivators retreating in defeat.

All the demonic flames and golden lights retreated and left. The others also withdrew their magic light, feeling a sense of relief. Li Li Xuanfeng sheathed his golden bow and stood in the air until the demonic clouds had all departed on the wind.

"Return to Mount Bianyan Mountain."

Li Li Xuanfeng gave the order. The others hurriedly responded, riding the wind back together. As they glanced at each other, they were both shocked and fearful.

These people were different from the Foundation Establishment cultivators conscripted from below. The passes Li Li Qinghong guarded were manned by Foundation Establishment cultivators conscripted from families, the East Sea, and the Southern Border. These people, however, were all Daoists of the Mount Qingchi Sect, and some were even at the level of Peak Masters. At this moment, they all wore grave expressions: "I heard early on that the True Person Element had a golden bow in the hands of Li Li Xuanfeng, who only followed the True Person's orders. Even Ning Ning Heyuan could not command him; he only carried out those acts of slaughter..."

"At first, I thought it was just the True Person's favor and that his strength must be extraordinary... but seeing him like this now... he is truly a star of slaughter..."

The various Daoists had originally been giving the Ning family face, politely listening to his orders and going out of the pass to resist the enemy. In truth, some had been unconvinced, but now they all remained silent. As they flew to the outside of the pass, Li Li Xuanfeng finally looked back. He was still holding the cold, gleaming armor in his hand and said in a deep voice:

"Thank you all for accompanying me out of the mountain. Please return to your respective passes to stand guard!"

The group responded in unison. Some traveled in pairs, others left alone, descending to various parts of the mountain range. Li Li Xuanfeng brought the Ning family members back down and stopped at the mountain's grand formation.

Only then did he descend. Fei Fei Yihe had already hurried up to meet him. Li Li Xuanfeng removed his armor; his palms were still covered in cracked flesh and blood. He had fought too fiercely; even with his post-ordination physique, he could barely hold on.

Li Li Xuanfeng stared at his palms with gray eyes. While using his spiritual power to protect the wounds and force the blood back into his hands, he said softly:

"How is it at the pass?"

Fei Fei Yihe naturally knew what he was asking and replied in a low voice:

"The demonic cultivators attacked from the south, but their main force was intercepted. The east side did not suffer serious damage; Bai Xiang Valley is safe and calm. Yanguan Pass was attacked, but in turn, Li Qinghong killed one of them... She has already arrived outside the pass."

"Not bad."

A smile finally appeared on Li Li Xuanfeng's face. He took out his longbow, and Ning Ning Heyuan gently took it, along with Li Li Xuanfeng's helmet and armor. He whispered, "I will ask someone to repair them for my brother-in-law."

He took the Ning family members and withdrew. Only then did Li Li Xuanfeng say softly:

"Tell Li Qinghong to wait in the mountain; I will go see her later."

He let Fei Fei Yihe withdraw as well. His internal organs still felt like they were burning. He took a few elixirs and adjusted his breathing slightly. A cooling sensation gradually emerged, and after coughing up a few mouthfuls of black blood, he felt much more comfortable.

Li Li Xuanfeng adjusted his breathing quietly, thinking:

"Killing a direct descendant of the Lord Murong family this time has caused a major shift in the situation. Things will definitely not be resolved so easily... There will certainly be follow-up waves; I must wait."

When Fei Fei Yihe went down, his heart became agitated. With Li Li Xuanfeng's order, he boldly sought out the Ning family members and said calmly: "Please ask Fellow Daoist Li Qinghong to wait for orders at General Peak."

Although Fei Fei Yihe's seniority was higher than Li Li Qinghong's, he had no background and low cultivation. He had no qualifications to discuss seniority here. If he weren't delivering a message, he would usually have to call a Foundation Establishment cultivator 'Senior', let alone a rising star of the late Foundation Establishment stage like Li Li Qinghong.

Although the Ning family members in front looked down on him, they still had to give Li Li Xuanfeng face and nodded in agreement. The old man hurried to the peak, thinking secretly:

"Li Li Qinghong is intelligent and gentle, the kindest among the Li family. Since she came to the mountain and knows I am by the General's side, she will most likely bring Fei Tongyu with her..."

He waited for a moment before Li Li Qinghong entered, her face slightly pale. She wore a plain white robe and looked a bit exhausted.

Just as Fei Fei Yihe expected, she was bringing Fei Fei Tongyu, who had come with her from Wangyue Lake. The eldest son no longer had the peaceful, noble, and romantic appearance he had when he left home; he was a picture of wretched, elderly misery! Fei Fei Tongyu seemed to have been injured as well; his neck was blue and pale, his eyes were deeply sunken, and his cheeks were gaunt. The fan he often held in his hand was gone, replaced by a short spear, his hands gripped so tightly they were white.

If the old man's spiritual sense hadn't been familiar with him, he wouldn't have recognized him. He stood blankly in the hall and only asked:

"Fei Tongyu?"

Fei Fei Tongyu raised his head as if electrocuted, recognized him for a moment, and asked:

"Who are you...?"

Li Li Qinghong had anticipated this scene. She said, "You two talk first," and stepped out of the hall.

The evening wind brought a thin mist, biting and cold. From the hall came the sound of father and son weeping in each other's arms, their voices suppressed to the limit. Li Li Qinghong stood in the wind with her arms crossed, her white robe fluttering.

Her black hair drifted gently. She stood for dozens of breaths when a man approached. He wore a seal at his waist and looked at her with slight surprise, smiling:

"I've always seen Li Qinghong in armor; this is the first time I've seen you in a dress."

This person was Ning Ning Heyuan. He was also at the late Foundation Establishment stage. Li Li Qinghong just smiled and shook her head, replying: "Li Qinghong does not value such things."

Li Li Qinghong had always been of this temperament; she had never taken any elixirs for youth, nor had she taken any precious medicines. Ning Ning Heyuan nodded, but then golden lights appeared in the sky, dragging tail flames as they stopped in the air, flickering uncertainly.

"People from the Jin Yu Sect have arrived!"

Ning Ning Heyuan frowned. He saw a golden light wait in front of the formation, pierce into it, fly around twice, and land in front of the two, transforming into a woman in golden clothes.

She lowered her brows, covering half her face with a golden veil. Her expression was very dignified, and she said warmly: "Fellow Daoist Ning Heyuan, I hope to see Li Li Xuanfeng."

"Fairy Zhang Duanyan..."

Ning Ning Heyuan recognized the person in front of him; she was a junior serving beside a Early Zifu cultivator of the Jin Yu Sect. He nodded hurriedly and, not daring to delay, entered the cave dwelling, bringing Li Li Xuanfeng forward shortly after.

Li Li Xuanfeng had been adjusting his breathing for a long time and had recovered slightly. Hearing that someone from the Jin Yu Sect had come to ask, he immediately thought:

"They really came!"

He calmly put on his armor and went out. His eyes were calm, and he was naturally imposing without anger. Facing the woman in golden clothes, he nodded slightly and bowed:

"Greetings, Fairy."

Zhang Zhang Duanyan's immortal foundation for cultivation was the 【Golden Aperture Heart】, and her perception was keen. Seeing him, her heart tightened, and she felt a fierce aura rushing toward her. She thought:

"The number of Foundation Establishment cultivators this senior has killed must be countless..."

She separated a piece of the golden light from under her feet and said very politely: "Senior has made a great contribution. My True Person wishes to see you. Please come with me."

Hearing this, Li Li Xuanfeng knew there was no room for refusal. He just nodded, stepped onto the light, and flew up together. Zhang Zhang Duanyan said politely:

"Senior! My grandfather is named Zhang Yun, and he was an old friend of your family's senior..."

She spoke a few sentences with great tact, not letting the journey be silent. As they flew to the clouds, Li Li Xuanfeng asked in a deep voice: "I wonder which True Person is summoning me?"

The number of True Persons Li Li Xuanfeng had seen was astonishing; if one were to count them, it would probably be more than what the Chi family had seen. When he asked, Zhang Zhang Duanyan just smiled:

"The True Person is right in front of you."

Brilliant golden light indeed emerged from the clouds. A cloud of rosy mist floated in the air, and sitting in the cloud was a woman in yellow clothes, wearing a veil hat. White gauze hung down, and one could only see two golden rings twisted together in her clean white hands.

"Greetings, True Person Zhang Qiushui!"

Li Li Xuanfeng immediately recognized the True Person in front of him; it was True Person Zhang Qiushui of the Jin Yu Sect, who had come forward to mediate when Element fell.

It was said that she was now at the late Early Zifu stage. She sat gently on the clouds and slowly removed her veil hat. Zhang Zhang Qiushui's face looked no more than sixteen or seventeen, her chin was round, and her eyes were large, bright, and gentle.

She said softly:

"I heard the news and thought it must be you. Under Mount Qingchi's rule, there are only two or three as fierce as you."

Also an old friend of Element, True Person Zhang Qiushui was clearly much easier to talk to than True Person Senior Zipei and appeared gentler. Li Li Xuanfeng responded in a deep voice. She smiled: "After all, you are a direct descendant of the Wei Li. Whether it is Li Li Chijing or Li Li Tongya, and your immortal bow and temperament, all clearly indicate... you are undoubtedly a direct descendant."

Li Li Xuanfeng could not respond to her, and Zhang Zhang Qiushui did not give him a chance to answer. She suddenly looked to one side, where a mature-looking cultivator in green clothes appeared with a straight face. She said:

"Fellow Daoist Li Yuanxiu has arrived."

True Person Li Yuanxiu just nodded and waited silently. Zhang Zhang Qiushui looked back at him and said:

"You don't have to be afraid. It's just a conflict with the Release cultivators... Before Wei, there was Zhou, and after, there were Qi, Liang, and the Tuoba family, all of whom are famous to this day. I haven't seen Zhao Guo do any harm..."

Speaking of this, she laughed out loud herself. Li Yuanxiu inserted with a straight face: "The Son of Heaven of the Father-Qi family can't even protect his own soul; how could he harm anyone?"

Zhang Zhang Qiushui stopped smiling and finally said:

"Has Lord Murong Wu's storage bag been moved? Give that thing to me."

Li Li Xuanfeng had long kept it with him and offered it with both hands. Zhang Zhang Qiushui saw that the storage bag had not been moved and nodded in appreciation:

"Xu Guo doesn't count. You made a few Compassions suffer a small loss, and I have some chips now, so of course, I must reward you."

She looked at True Person Li Yuanxiu. This True Person paused for a breath and finally took a jade bottle from his sleeve, saying in a deep voice: "It should be rewarded. This 【Geng Metal Three Qi Pill】 was given to me by True Person Zhang Qiushui. You take it and consume it."

"Elixir..."

Li Li Xuanfeng bowed in thanks and took it gently. The two True Persons gradually stopped speaking. Zhang Zhang Duanyan, the woman in golden clothes, recognized the look and said softly:

"I will send Senior down."

Li Li Xuanfeng bowed to take his leave and stepped onto the clouds with this dignified woman. As they traveled through the clouds, Li Li Xuanfeng pondered uncertainly, thinking coldly about the two True Persons' unusually good attitude: "Is it good or bad? What is the effect of this elixir? Is it to help me reach a higher level, so that the two True Persons can gain an advantage in the Taixu game? Or is there another motive, using the elixir to hold my life hostage?"

Just as he was pondering, Zhang Zhang Duanyan beside him suddenly smiled and said softly:

"Senior... my grandfather admires Senior Li Tongya very much... he has mentioned him to me many times. Now that he is in seclusion to break through to the Early Zifu, when he comes out, he will likely visit your family."

Li Li Xuanfeng paused, lost in thought. Zhang Zhang Duanyan sent him to the peak quietly, drove the golden light, and quickly disappeared into the horizon in the wind.

In the clouds.

Li Li Xuanfeng had been gone for a long time. Zhang Zhang Qiushui stood quietly. She was clearly much colder toward True Person Li Yuanxiu. Although she was still accustomed to smiling and speaking, she was less gentle and more guarded.

The two had not yet made a move when the Taixu in front of them suddenly broke open, and a huge golden figure drilled out.

This golden body had four hands and four feet, with two faces on its neck—one baring its teeth and claws, the other weeping in sorrow—both painted with beautiful and attractive patterns. The four arms held sticks, rods, knives, or swords, all emitting a glowing luster.

Beside this Release cultivator followed a golden-bodied Luo Han, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, draped in golden armor, with a dignified face and four eyes under his eyebrows, looking sharply, holding a long stick in his hand.

Zhang Zhang Qiushui's expression turned cold, and she said softly:

"So it is Maha Nuzi Eyed Lianmin... coming out of Taixu specifically to find us... I wonder what important matter you have?"

Maha Nuzi Eyed Lianmin's four eyes turned, and two mouths opened simultaneously, their voices of sorrow and pain overlapping: "Thinking that the True Person must see my fated person, I came specifically. I didn't expect the timing to be wrong; it seems I just missed it."

This time, it wasn't just Zhang Zhang Qiushui whose expression was cold; Li Yuanxiu's stiff face also showed undisguised disgust, and he said coldly:

"What? Eyed Lianmin has one Vajra with natural divine power, and you still want an Luo Han with infinite strength? What a greedy heart you have cultivated!"

Maha Nuzi Eyed Lianmin was completely unaware, feeling the overlapping voices, and laughed:

"This is caused by fate; the two of you are attached... This person is fated with my Dao..."

Li Yuanxiu seemed to loathe this Eyed Lianmin to the extreme. His two thick eyebrows stood up, and he scolded: "Left-path evil cultivator! What a shameless face! Why didn't you have the guts to peek when Element was still here! Now that he has fallen, you have the guts to come and be greedy!"

Maha Nuzi Eyed Lianmin closed his four eyes and replied:

"Anger is the source of life-harm; True Person, take care... First, there was no fate... Now it is fate, how can they be mentioned in the same breath."

After saying this, seeing that the two True Persons seemed to have anger on their faces, he smiled slightly, but broke through the Taixu without hesitation and drilled inside without a word.

Li Yuanxiu's expression was gloomy, and he only shouted:

"Maha Nuzi! If you dare to come and bewitch the people of my sect, I will let you taste the 【Yellow Dao Profound Talisman】! Then I will seal your magic body and make you go to reincarnation!"

Zhang Zhang Qiushui said nothing, just watched coldly, her round eyes looking at the Taixu, until Maha Nuzi Eyed Lianmin left, then she said softly:

"I thought Ning Tiaoxiao had hurt him... I didn't expect that it hasn't been long, and he is already restless."

"Release cultivators are just like this."

That pitch-black storage bag floated slowly beside her. True Person Li Yuanxiu nodded, raised his hand, and pushed gently in front of him. Everything in front of them turned from light to dark, and all colors faded rapidly, turning into infinite darkness, suddenly arriving in the Taixu.

In front of them was rolling demonic energy, surrounded by golden light, permeating and entangling in the Taixu. The three-headed, six-armed body appeared and disappeared in the black energy and golden light, with runes and lotus magic weapons floating, revealing countless eyes underneath.

On the other side was clear energy, with the colorful light of divine powers intertwined in the air. Several figures stood quietly, confronting the Eyed Lianmin and the demon on the other side. The two stepped into the air, and colorful light appeared on their bodies as well. ===== CHAPTER 536 =====