Chapter 724: Bait

This thought only flashed through Li Ximing's mind, and he became suspicious in his heart:

"If this is the case... the kinship between the two sects and four gates is probably closer than previously thought. What exactly does the Jiangnan lineage represent?"

"I broke through to Zifu, and there were congratulations, and the rules of visiting the three families... Are these things a kind of Jiangnan rules and constraints... or a kind of... power unique to Jiangnan forces!"

Li Ximing thought briefly for a moment, nodded to indicate, and the core territory of Shanjie County was cut off to the east in this instant. Kong Guxi even only had the effort to rejoice that Li Ximing nodded.

Although Cheng Jinzhu was suspicious in his heart, it was good that the things arranged in the sect were finished. He didn't dare to say too much in front of the True Person, answering:

"The former Sect Master Kong Tingyun accompanied the True Person to borrow it. Now that the Sect Master doesn't know, perhaps there is something that hasn't been explained."

Li Zhouwei keenly captured the name Kong Tingyun. He raised his eyebrows and said:

"I don't know what kind of divine power this spiritual artifact has?"

Cheng Jinzhu thought for a moment and said:

"I haven't seen the true body of this spiritual artifact. I only heard that in the Douxuan Cave... the body of this spiritual artifact was placed under a mountain to decorate it. When it manifests its original form, it is as big as a mountain, snow-white and translucent, and can open wisdom and calm the mind."

Li Zhouwei kept it in his heart, looked at Li Cheng, and abandoned this topic, asking:

"I once chatted with True Person Senior Ling Mei about the array, I don't know if the True Person has any news."

Li Ximing had visited several Zifu and mentioned this matter. Cheng Jinzhu was prepared and answered:

"The True Person has already sent a letter to an old friend in the sea, but the reply said that the old friend is in seclusion, and there is no opportunity in recent years."

He paused slightly. Li Zhouwei waved away Kong Guxi, and only then did he say:

"There is also True Person Tinglan of Ziyan. The Ziyan path is good at arrays. Although it is not enough to set up the array personally, it can adapt to local conditions, move and change, and change the position of the already set Zifu array... The power has changed, but it is also at the Zifu level."

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately understood his meaning.

'This is referring to Xuan Yue mountain gate!'

Li Ximing indicated that he understood. Cheng Jinzhu said goodbye. After he left the hall, Li Ximing said:

"Minghuang, Wanyu's matter doesn't look like a lie. I have seen Li Mei. Although his ideas are contrary to the elders in Wanyu, he has the idea of reform, and he doesn't look like a person who uses such means."

Li Zhouwei responded:

"This matter has little to do with my family, but it should be investigated as soon as possible. No matter whether this matter is true or false, the Sword Sect will not blame my family in the end."

After all, the Li family couldn't take out a spiritual artifact to compensate him. Li Ximing sighed:

"Chang Xi, this old guy, didn't finish his words until he died. I'll go to Xuan Yue mountain gate. This spiritual artifact sounds like Earth-attribute. It's not impossible that it's assisting Kong Tingyun in breaking through."

Li Zhouwei remembered the Kong Tingyun he asked about earlier, which pointed to this possibility. Li Ximing heard it, nodded, and sent him off, watching Li Ximing step on the heavenly light, break the Great Void, and leave.

Zhijing Mountain.

The pill furnace in front of Li Ximing shook slightly, Clear Qi floated up, the furnace mouth moved slightly, and six dark yellow pills sprayed out.

He reached out to catch them. These 【Xuan Que Heart Sutra Medicine】 were like dragon eyes, without any obvious patterns. A fragrance came to his nose. Li Ximing took out a jade bottle and put them in.

The flower rain on Zhijing Mountain fell with the wind, rolling all over the ground. He appreciated it for two eyes, and his figure appeared in the south.

In the concave place of Zhijing Mountain, the original small pond had turned into a ground evil spring. Black-red ground evil sprayed out, purple fire rippled, and was imprisoned by the white array patterns by the pond, gathering in this pond like water.

Li Ximing waved his hand lightly.

"Clatter!"

The pool moved, the water surface of the ground evil purple fire condensed and fluctuated sharply, and a bottle the size of a palm flew out from it.

This bottle was purple-red, with fire-burned glazed patterns emerging one by one. It fell into Li Ximing's hand, and he immediately had a sense.

"This bottle is refined by Mingyang purple fire and gathers Li fire, close to saturation."

This pool was the ground evil fire vein born with Li Ximing's Dao proof. Although it was powerful, it was too heavy to refine pills, and the Xuanwen bottle could absorb the Mingyang fire and Li fire in the fire vein and refine them. Every half a year, Li Ximing would take it out to refine.

He didn't care how much fire was in the bottle, just operated 【Valley Wind Fire Drawing】 and Mingyang divine power. In a short time, the fire inside was refined cleanly. Looking carefully, the power was already considerable in Foundation Establishment.

"What a strange magic treasure."

Li Ximing still couldn't see which path this thing belonged to, and his own refining of Mingyang and Li fire was far from the limit. Obviously, there were still many places that could be refined.

"I don't know if it can be refined into a spiritual embryo. It would be a pity if it were wasted. Let's refine it first and replace it with something else."

Li Zhouwei and others were stationed in the wilderness, and Wangyue Lake was not idle either. Li Jiangqian had mobilized the manpower of the six gates of the lake to build a high platform next to 【Chengqing Gate】.

This high platform was not for no reason, but the refining platform in "Observation of the Divine Power Fire Refining". Li Ximing just looked at it, and it was already 50-60% complete.

"The matter is settled, go to Xuan Yue first, then go to Chengyun Sect... After all, they are close neighbors, and it has been delayed for so long. You can try to ask about Xiaoshi Mountain."

He threw the Xuanwen bottle back into the pool, entered the Great Void, and traveled away without lingering, appearing in the wilderness. Li Zhouwei was not in the hall. Instead, Li Cheng and Kong Guxi were discussing something. Li Ximing threw the pill into Li Cheng's hand and grabbed Kong Guxi's collar and left.

Kong Guxi was scared, but he was also brought into the Great Void by Chang Xi, so he stood firm in the heavenly light, arched his hands:

"True Person..."

His words just fell, and the rest of the words were pressed back into his throat by Li Ximing's nod. Not long after, he landed back in the present world and arrived at the Xuan Yue mountain gate in Shanjie County.

The night was thick, and the white halo of the Xuan Yue mountain gate was still flashing in the sky, and the appearance of the mountain could be vaguely seen. But unlike the bustling appearance of the past, looking at it, it was like a dead mountain, without any light rising and falling.

Kong Guxi felt bitter in his mouth, listening to Li Ximing say:

"Open the array."

"Yes!"

He took off the token at his waist, shone it at the array, pinched the seal in his hand, and released brown-yellow brilliance. The array in front of him delayed for a moment, and finally broke open a mouth, vaguely seeing the jade mountain gate and bright yellow lanterns inside.

This gate-like mouth just emerged, Kong Guxi only felt his feet light, the dark mountains beneath were staggered, ups and downs, brilliance flashing, dotted among them, and two or three figures could be seen shuttling, the light like a meteor.

He had seen this scenery countless times. He had arrived above his own mountain gate. Li Ximing's back was in front of him. This newly promoted True Person stared intently at the immortal pavilion at his feet, making Kong Guxi feel a kind of creepy fear.

He shrank his neck, and his hands also put into his sleeves, following Li Ximing to fly around in the gate, hearing the True Person's praise:

"Your sect has deep accumulation, and is good at moving mountains and changing boundaries. This place is full of spiritual energy, and there are many special spiritual mountains... Five of the twelve Qi are complete, eight of the five virtues, and three of them are Earth-attribute. Rare... truly rare!"

Xuan Yue Sect might not be as good as other immortal sects in other places, but these spiritual mountains would not necessarily lose. Chang Xi worked diligently for hundreds of years, moving mountains to Xuan Yue like a mole moving in winter. This mountain gate was truly tempting!

"No wonder when mentioning the mountain gate, Ye Huai coveted it. The Bai Ye Duxian Dao was just founded. If he got this mountain gate, he could save hundreds of years of effort!"

Li Ximing strolled around. There were very few disciples. Only in the main hall were there some figures. His own junior Li Jianglong was reading the jade slips, and the pile of books beside him was higher than a person.

Li Ximing nodded slightly, not intending to see him. After this circle, he saw many secret realms, but didn't see even a spiritual artifact or anything that could touch 【Listening Wind Bai Shi Mountain】.

He stopped at the Xuan Yue treasure house, paused slightly, put his hands behind his back, turned his head and said:

"Sect Master... is there really no 【Listening Wind Bai Shi Mountain】 inside?"

Kong Guxi already understood his intention, just knelt down and said:

"Guxi has never known any 【Listening Wind Bai Shi Mountain】! If there is any concealment, let the little one die immediately!"

Li Ximing didn't think Chang Xi would put this spiritual artifact in the treasure house, so there was no need to hide it from him. He opened his mouth:

"Take me to the place of seclusion."

Kong Guxi's face turned white visibly, and he respectfully responded, saying in a low voice:

"I don't know... who does the True Person want to see?"

Li Ximing said casually:

"Kong Tingyun."

Kong Guxi just nodded, led him through the mountains, showed the token to open the maze, turned left and right, drilled into the ground from under a spiritual mountain, broke another maze, and then saw the cave.

Kong Guxi arrived at the stone platform in the cave and used the token to open the array. Only then did a tightly closed stone door emerge on the stone wall of the cave. Kong Guxi didn't say a word, knelt down, and curled up into a ball.

Li Ximing naturally understood his meaning. If he insisted on finding any 【Listening Wind Bai Shi Mountain】, he had to open the confinement. Once the stone door opened, Kong Tingyun would be dead nine times out of ten...

He didn't enter, but thought with some doubt:

"Cheng's meaning is that 【Listening Wind Bai Shi Mountain】 manifests as big as a mountain once used, and it is mostly impossible to hide in this small secret room... Even if it can, it is very convenient for me to detect..."

He paced out, and Kong Guxi behind him kept kowtowing. He walked all the way out of this place, and Li Ximing was still puzzled.

Obviously, 【Listening Wind Bai Shi Mountain】 could not be found in Xuan Yue mountain gate. Chang Xi didn't know what means he used to make this spiritual artifact a backup. Since he didn't tell him Li Ximing, it was difficult to find it now.

"He promised the Sword Sect the south bank of Salt Lake and the east of Shanjie County. This is obviously not obvious. It is Chang Xi's handwriting for his own death. Since this is the case, the related 【Listening Wind Bai Shi Mountain】 is left in which place, the old guy has calculations..."

Li Ximing could only regret going out, and kept in mind:

"And Senior Ling Mei specifically explained that this matter is obviously not urgent. Chang Xi, this old guy, has lived for more than four hundred years, and it is impossible to pin all his hopes on me. Wait for changes later."

Li Ximing had the secret of the magic fetus obtained by Su Mian in his hand. These things still need to be inquired about slowly, and they cannot be used rashly, for fear of being counterproductive.

"Su Mian is an old Zifu no matter how good a person he is. If he is forced, the threat brought is no less than Ye Huai."

He went out of the mountain, Kong Guxi was scared, followed behind him dazed and didn't know what he was thinking. Li Ximing put him down at the edge of the wilderness and said:

"Send a few people back to find it. If you can't find this spiritual artifact, you can't explain it to Wanyu."

Kong Guxi only had the part of yes. Appearance comes from the heart. In this short month or more, his beard and hair turned gray quickly. He didn't have the appearance of a young man, and now he was completely middle-aged, even a bit old.

Li Ximing looked at him more, and suddenly felt that he was surprisingly like the appearance of Li Xuanxuan when his inner demons were born. They were two people with completely different appearances, but because of their expressions, they looked somewhat the same.

"Each family has its own affairs... No one is lighter than anyone when it is bitter."

He withdrew his gaze, shuttled into the Great Void, went north, and entered the territory of Chengshui Ze. The entire Great Void was obviously rugged. Li Ximing praised:

"Truly good luck... The most essence of Jiangbei is Chengshui Ze, and he swallowed it alone."

Li Ximing broke back into the present world and saw a vast expanse of water from afar. Looking down from the air, countless dark water cedars stood in it, the breeze came, rustling.

"Chengshui Ze..."

Li Ximing's gaze was slightly complex. This place was also a famous big swamp. I don't know how many corpses of North and South cultivators were buried under it. He swept his spiritual sense:

'Chengshui Ze was a place where water merged in those years, but the wood energy here is prosperous. Even if it was flooded by the water, it grew so many water cedars. Compared to Wangyue Lake... it is closer to a swamp. Perhaps in another hundred years, it will be a treasure land of water.'

Everything in the world changes from time to time, and there is no reason to stick to it. The water level of Wangyue Lake is deeper, and the main body of the whole big lake belongs to Kan water, which is already very stable. Otherwise, the remnants of the Lingyu Sect would not have chosen this place.

The four banks around Wangyue Lake are closer to the swamp, and the spiritual energy is naturally far inferior. Li Ximing drove the light and broke through the air, appearing in the bustling market on Chengshui Ze.

The Li family also had a stronghold in Chengshui Ze. In those years, the junior Li Quewan needed to refine Qi, and the spiritual energy of material change required was collected from Chengshui Ze, using a shop in the market as a cover. The family still has people here today.

'It seems that the He family is responsible for this place.'

Li Ximing pinched the seal. The array of this Lingshang market in Chengshui Ze was like nothing to him. He passed through the array through the Great Void and fell into the market.

After all, not to mention Chengyun Sect, even Jin Yu Sect was not extravagant enough to use a Zifu array to protect the market. Nine out of ten markets in Jiangnan were undefended against Zifu. Li Ximing just looked at the bustling crowd at his feet, which seemed extremely lively.

He swept his spiritual sense and heard the noisy news from all sides clearly.

'Minghui Lianmin of Lotus Temple led the Lotus Temple cultivators... to Chengshui Ze to discuss the Dao with True Person Chengyun?'

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