Chapter 720

'Want to kill Kong Haiying.'

Li Ximing felt disdain in his heart.

Truth be told, there was nothing truly irreconcilable between the Du Immortal Dao and the Li clan so far. But if Ye Huai's goal was merely Kong Haiying, Li Ximing didn't believe it for a second:

'If all your many actions were aimed at Kong Haiying, why did you put on such a stinking face toward my family earlier!'

Since Ye Huai spoke so readily, Li Ximing also began to act. He was slightly stunned on the surface and replied:

"Fellow Daoist Ye Huai, didn't Kong Haiying fall long ago? The change in the Xuanyue earth veins before Senior Changxi died was the omen of his fall!"

Ye Huai was blocked by this sudden nonsense and looked at him heavily. That person was supposed to be Fu En, but if it were truly Kong Haiying, it would be reasonable for Changxi to deliberately call him Fu En. He actually paused for a moment.

Whether Li Ximing's words were true or false, they had completely scattered his original preparations and words. Ye Huai said coldly:

"Oh? This... is it true or false... Forget it, let me see the Mingyang supernatural powers."

As this sound fell, the Grand Void resonated. The dark purple phantom radiance floating in the Grand Void emitted a solemn and heavy sound, giving rise to a damp water vapor.

The next moment, a colorful fish about the size of a calf emerged from the phantom radiance. Its scales were illusory and of varying depths, all purple. At the fish's head, it actually topped a white-bone human skull, its two eyes empty and gloomy.

This purple fish arched its back in the air, and countless of its kind surged out from the purple phantom radiance, densely gathering into a river beneath the heavenly gate and rushing straight up. Seeing that he was playing for real, Li Ximing's brow-center heavenly light surged, and the heavenly gate behind him similarly rumbled.

Only hearing the sounds of killing shaking the heavens, countless figures in golden armor and golden clothing on the heavenly gate suddenly came to life, descending from the heavenly gate, holding spears and swords, each coming to meet them. Just as they clashed, they blocked the purple river beneath the heavenly gate.

But after a rumbling sound, Ye Huai opened his mouth and spat out white gas. This white gas seemed to weigh a thousand catties, immediately sinking down. The Grand Void suddenly solidified, and Li Ximing, along with the entire "Visiting the Heavenly Gate," felt as if they had fallen into a quagmire, sinking bit by bit, actually feeling a bit of a dilemma.

'No wonder Changxi didn't dare to fight him. Just this Eastern Cui Yushan... this old guy has quite strong crowd-control ability in the Grand Void.'

Li Ximing knew this was his second supernatural power, "Eastern Cui Yushan." He rejoiced that the Mingyang lineage's fighting ability was not bad. Intending not to use spiritual tools, he took the opportunity to test his own fighting ability. He immediately opened his mouth and spat out Mingyang purple fire.

This purple fire was usually nurtured in the Giant Que Court. Now, spat out in one breath, it was endless and not an ordinary object. Seeing the light and flames resonating, the power of imperial interaction and generation fluctuated, crashing into this solidified Grand Void.

Li Ximing didn't need to do too much to counter the Grand Void suppressed by Eastern Cui Yushan. His full-bodied purple fire condensed into a single point. No matter how powerful the other party's suppression supernatural power was, under this impact of breaking the surface with a point, it easily burned out a needle-tip-sized loophole.

He only needed this point!

A point in the Grand Void can be a surface, or a gate. Li Ximing, along with the heavenly gate behind him, disappeared, easily breaking free from the entire blockade of "Southern Sorrowful Water" and "Eastern Cui Yushan," appearing in another part of the Grand Void, transforming into heavenly light and leaving.

Thus, Ye Huai, a dignified mid-Zifu stage cultivator, faced a cultivator who had just entered the Zifu stage, and within two rounds, he hadn't brought any pressure to the other party, immediately letting him escape!

'This is the Grand Void...'

Li Ximing finally understood how difficult it was for Zifu cultivators to fight each other. The Grand Void is a net full of loopholes. Every Zifu cultivator can be as large as Mount Tai or as small as a speck of dust. How can one lock others from escaping?

Ye Huai was not surprised at all. His body supernatural powers operated, and his figure had already emerged at the edge of the purple light, driving the entire purple light to move again, once again enveloping Li Ximing. Eastern Cui Yushan suppressed him again, and the pressure of falling into a quagmire reappeared.

But this time, his hands formed seals. The moment Eastern Cui Yushan appeared, the Grand Void beneath Li Ximing twisted and became hollow, causing him to step into empty air and fail to move out directly. Li Ximing, however, was not afraid, his mouth containing flames, directly spraying toward the magic sword in his hand.

This magic sword slightly resisted the firelight, but an extremely sharp aura rose from the Grand Void. Li Ximing knew it was the other party's spiritual tool. Resisting the urge to take out his own spiritual tool, his brow-center heavenly light surged, and he shouted:

"Chì!"

The flickering heavenly light immediately shone from the entire Grand Void, finally illuminating a bright golden radiance. The Upper Luminary Subduing Light surged from Li Ximing's brow-center, crashing down with a bang.

Li Ximing had actually only practiced this 【Upper Luminary Subduing Light】 for a short time. This was due to the Zifu's own supernatural power and cultivation. His own supernatural power originally had brow-center heavenly light. With the two added together, it really did block this spiritual tool.

'I can't fight you head-on, but I can still leave.'

Once bitten, twice shy. Purple flames rose before Li Ximing, and he escaped again. Ye Huai took another step, following his figure out, his magic sword stabbing straight. Li Ximing immediately drove the heavenly gate, using supernatural powers to block it, only feeling a chill in his hand as a purple light darted onto the back of his hand.

Li Ximing blocked this supernatural power without any major issues, taking the opportunity to pull away. After flying for a few breaths, the other party closed in again. Li Ximing learned his lesson this time, spraying a mouthful of purple flames toward the sword in his hand, which could also dissolve Eastern Cui Yushan, killing two birds with one stone, and escaping safely.

But this horizontal shift made him feel that the Grand Void was suddenly becoming steeper and harder to move in. His spiritual sense moved, and he indeed saw the extremely obvious Kan Water formation. Looking into the present world, he saw majestic mountains standing beneath his feet, surrounded by streams—it was precisely Xianyou Mountain.

Li Ximing had no intention of seeking help from the Xiao family. It was purely that the two had fought their way to the Grand Void of Xianyou Mountain. This place in the Grand Void was like ten thousand majestic mountains, making movement difficult. It wasn't any technique or formation effect, but a spiritual energy issue. Xianyou Mountain was the head of the spiritual energy of Li Xia Prefecture, so the Grand Void was extremely steep.

Ye Huai clearly noticed this too. He had the "Southern Sorrowful Water" body supernatural power and the spiritual crow technique beneath him, making him much faster here than Li Ximing. He immediately traveled over. Li Ximing blocked with a mouthful of purple fire, his figure disappearing, but he appeared in the present world.

'It's hard to walk in the Grand Void, can't I walk in the present world?'

He traveled out in one breath, making the other party miss. His eyes brightened, and beneath his feet were several spiritual mountains, seemingly with a small clan here. Several cultivators were fighting in the air. Li Ximing's supernatural powers circulated, and in an instant, he matched the patterns on the other party's robes.

'The Wu clan of Southern Prefecture, so I've already reached the south of Li Xia Prefecture.'

These few Wu clan cultivators seemed to be fighting with demonic cultivators, fighting quite tragically. Li Ximing stepped out, and the weather in the sky instantly transformed from a drizzling rainy day to a bright and pleasant spring day. Before the rain in mid-air could fall to the ground, the sky was already shining with heavenly light, and colorful clouds were drifting.

'Zifu...? Ah?'

A Zifu suddenly appeared overhead, and all the cultivators on the field instantly solidified in place like sculptures. The leading demonic cultivator almost blew his own head up, his blank mind only having one thought:

"Ah? Just robbing a batch of spiritual rice... was it worth it..."

The back-and-forth great battle instantly became ugly. The sword-wielder's sword flew into the sky, the spell-caster almost bit his tongue off, the demonic cultivator didn't dare to raise the shield he had half-raised, letting his head be chopped off by a sword. The Wu clan cultivators on the opposite side had even less heart to fight, almost falling from the sky.

Xiao Chuting was likely not here. Li Ximing had no intention of paying attention to them at all, not even stopping. The heavenly light beneath his feet flickered, and he disappeared from the spot, flying toward the unreachable distance.

But he only passed by at a good distance from this group of people. The demonic cultivator in front, however, was caught off guard, scorched from afar by Li Ximing's escape light. He only felt purple flames erupting, heavenly light shining, his chest feeling stuffy, his beard and hair burned clean in an instant, and his entire robe catching fire with a "zeng" sound.

It would have been better if he were an ordinary cultivator, but he happened to be a demonic cultivator. His skin and flesh burned searingly along with his robe. Everyone around watched in a daze, but didn't dare to run.

Fortunately, Li Ximing only appeared in front of him for an instant and didn't care about him, only flying out several miles away and disappearing. Yet he was still burned so badly he screamed repeatedly, his magic robe long since burned to ashes.

Before the few could rejoice, the next moment, the Grand Void broke open again. The sky, which had recovered from drizzle to clear, instantly became heavy with dark clouds, and the sound of solemn and solemn prayers emerged. Ye Huai's figure appeared before everyone. This True Person was dressed in a deep blue Daoist robe, and those eyes, which were quite spiritual, swept across the surroundings.

You must know that Ye Huai was currently operating the body supernatural power "Southern Sorrowful Water" at full strength, with nearly half of his body transformed into purple radiance, and he was also blessed with "Eastern Cui Yushan." This glance was like a bolt from the blue. Ye Huai's figure disappeared the next moment. These six people reacted, crying out in pain in unison, each falling down with purple light.

Li Ximing hadn't left the Xianyou territory yet, only entering the Grand Void as soon as the spiritual energy eased slightly. Ye Huai's purple light followed closely, shining again from the Grand Void. "Southern Sorrowful Water" was indeed fast. Li Ximing had to take another move from him, looking up to see the Xuanyue sect gate right in front.

Ye Huai, however, also arrived.

He still held the magic sword in his arms, every gloomy blue rune on the sword lighting up. Having chased all the way, Ye Huai had a cold face, pinching seals and chanting, and another bit of white gas jumped out from his lips.

This white gas flew out, and not only did Li Ximing's feet sink, but the Grand Void before his eyes also changed. The brilliance of the Xuanyue Sect's Gen-Earth formation instantly extinguished, as if covered by a layer of white radiance, and even the Grand Void beneath his feet became undulating.

'Eastern Cui Yushan has this power too?!'

Li Ximing's spiritual sense moved slightly. The Grand Void of the Xuanyue Sect was like stagnant water, and the entrance to the Zifu formation became hazy, now near, now far. He knew that the supernatural power of Eastern Cui Yushan could affect the Grand Void, but he didn't know it had such wonders.

He spat out flames, broke out of the Grand Void, and entered the present world of Xuanyue Mountain, only to see the vast Xuanyue Mountain shrouded in a layer of purple light, like smoke and mist, causing the cultivators of Shanjie Prefecture to look up one after another. And Ye Huai was sitting on top of it, riding that pitch-black crow.

"No wonder Ye Huai has the confidence to drag me for three to five years... If we keep entangling like this, I really won't be able to escape. Even if he can't kill me, spending three to five years to wear me down to a light injury is indeed no problem."

Li Ximing couldn't enter, but he didn't feel much discouragement. As long as Ye Huai wanted to entangle him, even if Li Ximing entered the Xuanyue sect gate, it would just be being trapped in another place. Now, it was nothing more than continuing to stay outside.

But he had long since thought of a retreat. Now that he had rushed to this place, how could he be blocked for nothing? He looked coldly at the other party's purple light swirling above the Xuanyue sect gate.

'It's just... how could Old True Person Qi sit still?'

He sneered, entered the Grand Void. Although he couldn't enter, chasing and fleeing back and forth, circling around, he was always circling the Xuanyue sect gate. Although he took a few supernatural powers, a full half-quarter of an hour passed, and that purple intent always shrouded the surroundings of the Xuanyue sect gate.

Li Ximing knew that Su Mian was also someone who cherished his reputation, deliberately stalemating with Ye Huai. As the surrounding cultivators became more numerous, Li Ximing entered the Grand Void again and finally saw True Person Su Mian appear not far away.

This old True Person sighed and said:

"Fellow Daoist Ye Huai... stop now! This old man... promised Fellow Daoist Changxi to protect Xuanyue, so I cannot sit idly by..."

True Person Changxi died at Su Mian's Xuanmiao Temple, and even his corpse was sent to the door of the Xuanmiao Temple. Among the cultivators of Jiangnan and Jiangbei, who doesn't know? The Saline Lake could be guarded by the Xuanmiao Temple, and the Du Immortal Dao just didn't come to fight. Now that Ye Huai had fought to the door of the sect, and Li Ximing was constantly attacking, but Su Mian's shadow was nowhere to be seen, this was something that would get him pointed at by others...

Su Mian had operated his reputation for hundreds of years, and much of it concerned his own afterlife, so he naturally couldn't abandon it. He had to be forced out. Standing in the Grand Void like this, Ye Huai stopped.

"So it is Old True Person Qi."

Ye Huai laughed and replied:

"I was just sparring with True Person Zhaojing, but I didn't expect the commotion to be so big, alarming the Old True Person. Then let it end here."

He didn't seem to have a bad relationship with Su Mian. He looked deeply at Li Ximing, smiled, turned around, and asked Su Mian:

"I wonder how long Old True Person Qi promised Changxi? I am coming to see the True Person in these few days, precisely to discuss the Xuanyue matter!"

"Turning hostility into friendship is naturally the best."

Su Mian replied. Li Ximing brushed off the enemy's magic power on his wrist, ignoring Ye Huai, and said bluntly:

"I remember the True Person said he wanted to treat the Xuanyue sect members. One of the Kong family was crippled, and three were maimed. Send them to the True Person when the time comes. I'll trouble the True Person."

Li Ximing was too lazy to be hypocritical with Ye Huai. Since Su Mian had come, it showed that this person valued his reputation and at least wasn't a promise-breaker. The Xuanyue sect members were seriously injured, so there was no need to trouble himself when he could trouble others.

Su Mian nodded upon hearing this, watching Li Ximing leave on his own, while Ye Huai flicked his sleeves to say goodbye, suddenly feeling a great headache.

'I still need to find a way to resolve this matter. The time ahead is getting shorter and shorter, and I still have to spend energy on that demonic fetus. It's not like I have time to accompany these two to toss about every moment...'

Su Mian sighed, returning to the Xuanmiao Temple on his way, secretly calculating in his heart:

'I still have to find a way to open the treasury of Xiaoshi Mountain and finish this matter quickly, so as not to have one or two people with nothing to do looking here, causing collateral damage and making me feel tied up...'