Chapter 327: Trouble With Tang Wanzhou
“My affairs, mind your own business. It’s best not to tell anyone that I’m still alive, otherwise there will be great disaster. You call me Master, so I’m reminding you like this.” Yao Qingxuan said coldly.
She brought Li Weiyi back to the first layer of the Asura Layer.
She said, “Give me the Ghost Flag.”
Li Weiyi knew this day would come, so he didn’t hesitate at all, presenting the Ghost Flag with both hands, and asked with concern, “Master, are you still going back to intercept? That revived Monk’s Remains has terrifying combat power, it’s too dangerous!”
Yao Qingxuan took the Ghost Flag, released her mind to probe and study it, a flash of shock in her pupils that quickly passed, then she looked at Li Weiyi, who was quite a bit taller than her.
Perhaps because Li Weiyi decisively took out the Ghost Flag, or perhaps because of Li Weiyi’s concern.
She, who usually didn’t like to explain much, said softly, “Sikong Yanlun, Sikong Jingyuan, and Yi Zhouxue described the Ghost Flag in exaggerated terms, attributing all their failures to it. This made some Longevity Realm giants of the Divine Cult, including Hall Master level figures, quite tempted.”
“If you keep holding it, as soon as you leave the headquarters, there will be immeasurable danger. You don’t want to be trapped in Southern Clear Palace forever, do you? You have to go out eventually. Young people should have the sharpness of youth, advancing alongside sunlight and lightning.”
“The Blood Handprint Demonic Armor is just a ninth-grade Hundred Character Artifact. I believe with your current strength, you can guard it, and you deserve to possess such a battle treasure.”
“If those strange insect larvae are really taken by some old guy, they can’t be hidden at all. Hall Master An, your Master, even including the Jiu Li Hidden Sect, will come after him. So, for you right now, the Ghost Flag poses the greatest threat.”
Li Weiyi asked, “What exactly did Sikong Yanlun and the others blabber about?”
“What they fabricated isn’t important. What doesn’t an old generation figure know? What haven’t they experienced? They know very well in their hearts! You escaped alive, wounded them, and seized the war weapon. This really gives your Master face. Hall Master An laughed heartily, saying as long as you don’t betray, she will protect you until Saint Spirit Mind Master.”
Yao Qingxuan held the Ghost Flag and disappeared on the suspension bridge, returning to Truth Zen Forest.
She had made it very clear; she wasn’t going to join the battle. Instead, she was using this to tell those in the Divine Cult with thoughts of seizing it that the Ghost Flag was indeed a supreme treasure, but now it was in her hands.
If they wanted to seize it, come to her.
The fluctuations of the battle never stopped.
Li Weiyi looked toward the other end of the suspension bridge, able to feel Yao Qingxuan’s sincerity, but the doubts in his heart remained unresolved. Not long after, he thought of Zen Sea Observing Mist and the three Masters, very worried, but also very clear that he couldn’t help at all right now.
The four of them had lived for over a thousand years; what great storms hadn’t they experienced? Perhaps they already had a way to escape.
In this way, amid thousands of thoughts, Li Weiyi waited in the first layer of the Asura Layer for more than an hour before Tuo Ba Bu Tuo, Qi Xiao, Yang Qingxi, and Yang Qingchan returned. The four were naturally surprised, not expecting Li Weiyi to be faster than them. Without asking more, everyone returned to the Mortal Layer together.
The rumbling and shaking of the Underground Immortal Mansion continued endlessly, heart-shaking and chilling.
The headquarters had layers of formations to block, greatly dissipating the impact waves, so the influence wasn’t great.
Yang Yun and the group of martial cultivators following Yang Qingxi came to welcome them.
Yang Yun said excitedly, “Thank heavens, sis, finally you’re back! I took people to the south side several times looking for you, no trace of you or second sis, I was worried sick. Only when I learned you were with Weiyi bro did I relax a bit.”
Ye Nanfeng laughed, “Fourth Divine Son and Sixth Divine Maiden, Your Highnesses, your methods are extraordinary, truly satisfying! That Sikong Yanlun lost an arm, Sikong Jingyuan lost a seventh-grade war weapon, and even ran to Ku Rong Hall to complain, saying you ambushed them. Anyone with eyes knows they had ill intentions but lost an arm and the artifact instead.”
Ye Beifeng flattered, “To be enemies with the two peerless heavenly prodigies, Divine Son and Divine Daughter, they deserve to lose face.”
Li Weiyi looked at Yang Qingxi, “Sikong Qin is in your hands, you handle the follow-up issues?”
“Good! With a witness in hand, I want to see how Sikong Yanlun and Sikong Jingyuan can get off the stage.” Yang Qingxi was very interested, feeling she could get some compensation this way.
At another time, Li Weiyi would definitely make a big fuss over Sikong Qin, properly extorting Sikong Yanlun and Sikong Jingyuan.
But this time the gains were huge, not short on Spring Coins for now, so naturally he didn’t want to waste time on this, only wanting to hurry back to Southern Clear Palace for quiet cultivation.
Sikong Ce had originally been broken in all four limbs by Tuo Ba Bu Tuo and stuffed in a boundary bag, also an important witness.
But during the battle, the boundary bag accidentally shattered, and this Dao Seed Realm Fourth Heaven master was instantly torn apart by spatial power.
The only witness left was Sikong Qin.
Yang Yun said, “Those two obviously know you’re back and will expose their lies, so they’ve taken a mission and gone to the ground.”
…
Li Weiyi, Tuo Ba Bu Tuo, and Qi Xiao first went to Spirit Valley Hall, exchanging all the picked Flower of Meditation and the rusted armor remnants salvaged from under the swamp for cultivation resources.
The rusted armor remnants were numerous, worth over a million Spring Coins.
Besides thousand year elixirs, Li Weiyi also exchanged for fourteen kinds of auxiliary medicines for refining Star Day Pills.
He wasn’t short on Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone right now; to cultivate to the peak of four-star Spirit Mind Master as fast as possible and gain the qualification to impact five-star Spirit Mind Master, refining Star Day Pills was the only way.
As for those Flowers of Meditation, all white and blue, not high enough grade, they couldn’t help him at all, so he exchanged them all out.
As for martial cultivation, it relied more on comprehension, on codexes, ancient texts, on guidance from famous teachers. The demand for cultivation resources was mainly on body cultivation.
For martial cultivators on the Dragon Seed Dao Cultivation path, even Dao Lotus Pills and Dao Fruit Pills could be skipped.
Li Weiyi went to the Art Pavilion again, borrowing codexes related to the Daoist Sect. For the next period, he would focus on martial cultivation, especially the cultivation of the Twelve Character Dao Seed.
Mind power cultivation and cultivating Feng Fu Dragon Seed were just to cover ears and eyes.
The Twelve Character Dao Seed in the Divine Threshold was the foundation for whether he could climb to the peak of the martial way in the future.
“I feel like it won’t be long before I break through to Dao Seed Realm Third Heaven, catching up to Tuoba. As long as body cultivation keeps up, there won’t be any weaknesses.” Qi Xiao exchanged for several precious medicines for body cultivation, and with four jin of immortal soil in hand, he was in great mood.
Tuo Ba Bu Tuo said proudly, “Within two months, I will definitely condense a Dao Lotus. Then, I can compete with one of those Fifth Divine Sons.”
“Those two Divine Sons, one missing an arm, one lost a seventh-grade war apparatus, their combat power greatly discounted, not necessarily your opponents.”
On the way back to Southern Clear Palace, the three chatted and laughed.
Though this trip had shocks and dangers, the gains were huge, with a promising future.
“Look, that should be the hole broken open by the Monk’s Remains.” Qi Xiao pointed at the sky.
Li Weiyi looked up.
The hole was very small; from the ground, it was about the size of the sun and moon.
“This position…”
Li Weiyi discovered that the hole in the sky dome was diagonally above Southern Clear Palace, his heart skipping a beat as he thought of something. Then, he used his movement technique, hurrying back at full speed.
Tuo Ba Bu Tuo and Qi Xiao didn’t understand, exchanged a glance, and followed closely.
Back to Southern Clear Palace.
Li Weiyi headed straight to the formation area where the black Buddhist Pagoda was, took out the Green Jade Formation Talisman, opened the formation light gauze, and went in.
On the first layer of the pagoda, inside the open tower door, the withered bone bound by chains had disappeared.
Like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky striking him, Li Weiyi froze, scalp numb.
“It really was it that awakened!”
Li Weiyi thought that the Monk’s Remains awakened a month ago, and couldn’t help but feel afraid. Luckily he had gone outside the headquarters then, otherwise wouldn’t he have run right into it?
He didn’t know that this Monk’s Remains awakened because of the anomaly of the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish.
Li Weiyi immediately hurried to the formation area where the golden rice was, saw it unharmed, and only then relaxed.
“Bad! After this battle, the origins of the Monk’s Remains will sooner or later be investigated. Then, won’t the space teleportation array be exposed along with it?”
Li Weiyi felt a massive headache, hurriedly going to the formation area where Tang Wanzhou had hidden before, preparing to remove the blood crystal embedded in the space teleportation array and restore it to original.
As for Tang Wanzhou, if she was coming back, she would have already.
Most likely she had already fallen on the other side of the teleportation array…
“Tang Wanzhou!”
Li Weiyi entered the formation light gauze and saw Tang Wanzhou lying in the center of the teleportation array, both shocked and delighted, immediately going forward to check.
Her life fluctuations were strong, no injuries on her body, vitality abundant, but unconscious, state strange.
“She must have just teleported back not long ago! It must be because the great battle in the Sacred Heart Layer erupted that she could escape. What exactly did she go through?”
Lost for two months, yet no traces on her body of being imprisoned or suppressed, simply bizarre.
Li Weiyi called her for a while, not daring to wait longer, as An Xianjing and Yao Qingxuan might return anytime. So, he released mind power, wanting to enter her sea of consciousness, communicate with her, and forcibly wake her.
But as soon as the mind power entered her body, a tyrannically powerful mind power surged back like a tide.
Li Weiyi’s face changed drastically; who would have thought that even in this state, Tang Wanzhou’s battle intent self-defense power was so terrifying?
He immediately retreated to block.
“Boom!”
Struck back by Tang Wanzhou’s mind power, Li Weiyi’s whole body trembled, mind power lost control, and in his mind, countless illusions that seemed real and fake appeared, like someone forcibly creating a segment of memory, stuffing in countless experiences not belonging to him.
These memories and experiences dramatized the seven emotions and six desires intensely, trying to forcibly twist and change his mental state, making him unable to distinguish reality from illusion.
The reason Li Weiyi could distinguish was that the two fish eyes of the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish in his chest lit up, condensing a Tai Chi Diagram seal that wrapped him, making his mind clear and intelligent.
“Why does she have such a bizarre mind power on her?”
Li Weiyi fell to the ground, performing the Jade Void Breathing Technique to sort through the memories and experiences in his mind. The more he sorted, the more shocked he was, seriously suspecting that Tang Wanzhou had either gone qi deviation or encountered something terrifyingly strange in the Sacred Heart Layer.
Every segment of experience was too bizarre, vastly different from the real situation, but truly spine-chilling.
For example, Tang Wanzhou entering the Mortal Layer, getting seriously injured, hiding in Southern Clear Palace, finding Li Weiyi, all her own actions.
But in the earlier mind power backlash, the forcibly stuffed memory into Li Weiyi’s mind was that after she was seriously injured, Li Weiyi secretly brought her into Southern Clear Palace, hiding her in this formation area. The whole process was very intimate, conversations and actions like an adulterous affair.
Another example, clearly she entered the space teleportation array herself.
In the chaotic memory just now, it became Li Weiyi making her enter the space teleportation array.
…
Li Weiyi didn’t know why this happened, very worried in his heart, only hoping it was because his cultivation wasn’t high enough and he was wounded in spirit by the opponent’s longevity mind, not that something was wrong on her side.
As time passed, the pain in Li Weiyi’s head disappeared, his thoughts gradually clearing.
In the center of the space teleportation array, the tall and slender Tang Wanzhou awoke.
She slowly sat up, head splitting with pain, in her mind, various negative emotions surged madly: sadness, grief and indignation, pain, resentment, feeling very wronged, wanting very much to cry, and very much to kill.
Tang Wanzhou’s gaze fell on Li Weiyi outside the formation, who had stood up.
Gradually, that blurry figure in her mind that made her infatuated yet resentful became clear and certain.
Filled with hatred, Tang Wanzhou gritted her teeth, resentfully cold: “Li Weiyi, why did you use me?”
Li Weiyi rubbed his temples, just standing up, hearing this, his face changed, inwardly shouting “It’s over, as expected something’s wrong”, before he could explain, Tang Wanzhou grabbed him from afar, clutching his throat.
Her eyes cold as sharp swords, yet full of tears, she slammed Li Weiyi to the ground with a thud, painfully sobbing: “I trusted you so much… gave all my emotions without reservation… why did you deceive me? Why?”
