Chapter 160: Young Venerable
Three exotic beast carriages followed a complex, winding route and traveled for nearly an hour, leaving the city and entering Cloud Shrouding Mountain beside the Soldier Ancestor Marsh.
On this land of Qiu Prefecture, there have been large numbers of believers in the Dao and cultivators since ancient times, so many ancient Taoist temples and vegetarian halls have been built.
Jing Yue Zhai of Cloud Shrouding Mountain has a history of several thousand years. Built along the mountain contours, its flying eaves and upturned corners are concealed among dense forest, with several green lamps floating in the night, the entire temple courtyard shrouded in a mysterious and desolate gloom.
The three exotic beast carriages stopped one after another outside the temple.
Two green-skinned Deformed Humanoid Race Martial Cultivators lifted down the black metal box.
Li Weiyi saw that a man and a woman who stepped out from the third carriage had extremely strong cultivation, so he stayed far away, not daring to get too close, afraid of being detected by their perception.
“Squeak!”
The wooden gate of the Taoist temple opened, and two young Daoists who looked exactly identical walked out side by side.
The two wore green Daoist robes, with thin and long faces, slightly dark skin, thick brows and large eyes, each holding a silver thread whisk in hand. Their eyes were sharp, with heavy baleful aura, lacking the serene state of mountain cultivators.
Li Weiyi gazed at the two from afar, immediately thinking in his heart, “They are Rice Persons.”
Twins, of course, not necessarily both Rice Persons, but it would always make people associate with Rice Persons.
Chen Xun was very respectful to the two young Daoists, saluted, then carefully reported what happened in Heaven Pavilion.
One of the twin young Daoists said arrogantly and coldly: “Such a trivial matter, and your San Chen Palace can’t even handle it, yet you come to trouble Young Esteemed One?”
Chen Xun suppressed the anger in his heart, not daring to retort: “The person in the iron box, our San Chen Palace hoped to kill directly and be done with it, but it was Lord Qi who insisted on sparing their life, saying there was still use. Now a large number of Jiu Li Clan masters have appeared in Juze City. This hot potato, you can’t just dump it directly on our San Chen Palace, right?”
Chen Xun did not know how many people from Jiu Li Clan had come.
Only by making the situation sound more serious would the other side take it seriously.
The Daoist sneered disdainfully: “Only trash from your San Chen Palace would treat Jiu Li Clan as a big deal. What Cang Li, what Jiu Li Clan young masters, Young Esteemed One can suppress them all with one finger. Our trip is to…”
The other of the twin young Daoists interrupted him, saying: “Since it’s Lord Qi’s goods, just send it in!”
Li Weiyi saw that the two twin Daoists had very powerful cultivation, with long and enduring aura, eyes full of aggressive attack, like sword after sword shooting outward.
The Taoist temple behind them was absolutely a dragon’s lair and tiger’s den, surely with formations, runes, and such. Once the metal iron box was sent inside, Li Weiyi would have no chance to know what was really inside.
The more the enemy thought it was hot to handle, the more necessary it was to seize it.
He had come all this way!
Anyway, he had Guardian Wife!
Li Weiyi kept convincing himself to take this risk, secretly calculating the distance to the metal iron box, the time needed, which item to use to collect it…
By the time he had everything sorted in his mind, the two Deformed Humanoid Race Martial Cultivators had already lifted the metal iron box up more than thirty stone steps, only a few steps from the temple gate.
“Rustle!”
A wisp of clear wind blew up from below.
The fallen leaves on the stone steps all spun around dizzily.
Chen Xun, closest to the two Deformed Humanoid Race Martial Cultivators, immediately stopped, sensing something wrong. With a clang, he drew his half-moon fish scale long saber.
“Boom! Boom!”
The two Third Realm of the Five Seas Realm Deformed Humanoid Race masters had just sensed the danger and had no time to release magic energy before they were struck by two palms, their sturdy bodies thrown flying out.
The black metal box crashed to the ground, iron chains clattering loudly.
Without a suitable boundary bag, Li Weiyi prepared to use Evil Camel Bell to collect it.
Li Weiyi landed beside the black metal box, had just taken out the bell when Chen Xun’s horizontally slashed saber light, like a light screen, had already spread to his face.
“Such fast reaction.”
Li Weiyi did not meet it head-on, wrapped the iron box with magic energy, kicked off the stone step with his foot, and his figure shot out like an arrow from below the bright saber screen.
But before he could land on the ground, Sheng Qingyan, whose movement technique was fast to the extreme, was already waiting on the ground one step ahead.
She had a slender waist and full hips, red lips smiling, all the leaves on the surrounding ground flew up, covered with a layer of metallic sheen, like thousands of flying daggers shooting toward Li Weiyi.
“Fifth Realm of the Five Seas Realm!”
How could Li Weiyi have imagined that this beauty who looked soft and charming like water had such terrifying cultivation?
Another young peak expert of a prefecture.
Done for, he, who had cultivated less than a year, had poked the nest of peak masters.
“Boom boom!”
Li Weiyi activated Corpse Clothes Soft Armor, blood mist and blood-colored scriptures erupting from his body, colliding with the incoming leaves.
These leaves were clearly fragile. But under the cover of Sheng Qingyan’s magic energy, each one was like a heavy punch, constantly dispersing the blood mist.
“Hehe!”
Sheng Qingyan’s laughter contained chaotic soul-bewitching sound.
Her slender jade hand swung a soft sword, instantly one sword became ten thousand swords. Countless bright sword shadows formed a net, slashing toward Li Weiyi still suspended in mid-air.
Li Weiyi formed palm seals in the air, battle intent manifesting on his back, like carrying an old immortal in battle.
“Boom!”
The golden Sky-Flipping Divine Seal struck out along with the palm technique, the sword net exploded and shattered, sword qi annihilated.
The palm technique divine seal pressed down toward Sheng Qingyan below the stone steps.
Sheng Qingyan let out a light eh, having never seen such a wondrous palm technique, supremely hard and fierce, not like something from the mortal world. She knew that with her soft sword she definitely could not block it; there was no such thing as overcoming hardness with softness in such quantity.
“Swoosh!”
With an extremely profound movement technique, she retreated one step, instantly flying to the top of a tree behind. She could evade the opponent’s palm seal, survey the overall situation, and intercept if the opponent tried to flee.
Li Weiyi did not land, knowing that if he did, he wouldn’t leave today!
A gale appeared under the soles of his Wind Riding Boots feet, treading wind and riding qi, rushing toward the forest to the right of Sheng Qingyan. Because the forest to the right was closest to Soldier Ancestor Marsh, the easiest direction to escape.
But standing at the pinnacle of the younger generation, no one was stupid. Apart from Chen Xun and Sheng Qingyan, the third person had already quietly shifted to that position earlier.
A silver spear stabbed out from the ground, spear body and silver light surging dozens of meters high, forcing Li Weiyi back, landing again on the empty ground of the stone steps outside the temple.
“Da da!”
That young figure walked out from the forest holding the silver spear: “Tian Yi Sect, Huo Qiankun.”
The entire exchange just now had not exceeded one breath’s time, each strike from the three masters precisely controlling time and attack angle.
A martial cultivator who could retreat unscathed from these three attacks, Huo Qiankun believed, had the qualification to know his name.
Li Weiyi dispelled his invisibility state; in front of characters of their level, invisibility had no meaning.
As if no one else was there, he collected the black iron box into Evil Camel Bell, saying: “I know you, Tian Yi Sect’s Number One Person of the younger generation, little Cang Li Huo Qiankun! Li Zhou’s young spear expert, under Cang Li, you rank number one or two!”
The two twin Daoists who had already entered the temple turned back, but from start to finish had no intention of making a move.
One of the Daoists said coldly: “You really are trash, followed without knowing. Hurry and clean him up, can’t let Jing Yue Zhai be exposed.”
“You really think I came alone?”
Li Weiyi had no intention of fighting many, immediately communicated with Zen Sea Observing Mist, preparing to have her come out to resolve the situation. If she didn’t come, as master of Shaoyang Star, he could forcibly pull her out.
The people present’s faces tightened, hurriedly releasing their perception.
Sheng Qingyan stood on the treetop, her body like it had no weight, skirt empty inside, smilingly said: “How does it seem like bluffing!”
“Dare I ask Your Excellency from which side? Do you know what is in that iron box? Some muddy waters cannot be waded.”
Chen Xun held his saber, walking step by step down the stone steps, constantly closing in on Li Weiyi.
“There is no muddy water under heaven that I dare not wade. To be honest, I’m rather curious who is the person in the Taoist temple behind you?”
As soon as Li Weiyi finished speaking.
Silver light exploded on Chen Xun’s body, shattering the stone steps underfoot, an incomparably tall battle intent growing up, a domineering and peerless saber strike chopping toward Li Weiyi.
The saber light was densely covered with fish scales.
Though only one saber, the saber wind came from all four directions.
Li Weiyi only felt the ground underfoot caving in, sky collapsing, all four sides in destruction.
No escape, nowhere to evade.
But he was prepared early, waved out Ghost Flag, one palm striking the flag face from behind.
Nether mist spread, a ghostly shadow holding a war halberd, wearing armor, walked out from Ghost Flag.
After reaching Second Realm of the Five Seas Realm, the ghostly shadow in Ghost Flag became incomparably huge, three zhang tall, body no longer a shadow but like real existence, armor and war halberd like cast from metal.
“Boom!”
The ghostly shadow swung out the war halberd, colliding with Chen Xun’s all-out saber strike. Instantly, dozens of stone steps cracked, surrounding trees turned to bare branches in the energy ripples.
The ground under Li Weiyi’s feet split open, Ghost Flag’s flag face shook.
Chen Xun retreated two steps backward, dozens of stone steps completely collapsed, exploding into gravel.
“A bit interesting!”
Li Weiyi gained a whole new concept of Ghost Flag’s might; inside it was like containing a Fifth Realm of the Five Seas Realm departed spirit master, far more reliable than that blood refined magic tool sold to Yin Twenty-Four.
The two twin Daoists laughed in unison, then said together: “A bit interesting, this flag of yours is not simple, our Left Attendant and Right Attendant will take it!”
Without seeing them step forward, their bodies came from left and right at speeds beyond Li Weiyi’s eyes discernment, movement technique speed terrifying, far surpassing the speed-specialist Sheng Qingyan.
“Clatter!”
Li Weiyi had not yet summoned Zen Sea Observing Mist when from the darkness, a folding fan spun flying over.
The folding fan was like a miniature heaven and earth, with a hundred characters floating and sinking on it, spinning between which heaven and earth also spun, the released wind force directly rolling up Chen Xun, Sheng Qingyan, Huo Qiankun the three, like scarecrows, flinging them to three different directions.
Finally, the fan blade horizontally smacked, striking Left Attendant and Right Attendant so their bodies crashed through the temple wall, exploding back inside.
The two’s body skin was damaged, faintly visible sparks popping out, extremely conspicuous in the darkness.
“There really is help… Who is the comer?”
Left Attendant shouted loudly, stomping his foot, turning the ground underfoot into a sea of blazing fire.
Li Weiyi was also stunned; Left Attendant and Right Attendant’s cultivation was already terrifying enough, but he hadn’t expected that pretentious guy from Zuo Qiu Gatehouse to be strong to such a degree, person not arrived, just with folding fan able to send the two flying.
He recognized this folding fan, had seen it in Zangxian Town’s Immortal Realm Space.
He had come, so Li Weiyi temporarily did not summon Zen Sea Observing Mist.
“Swoosh!”
The characters and glow on the folding fan receded, spinning back, vanishing into darkness.
Moments later, Zuo Qiu Ting shook the folding fan, strolling over gracefully, stepping beside Li Weiyi, glancing at him: “You go first, wait for me in Juze City, I’ll meet the master here.”
Late at night, and winter too, still shaking a fan, too pretentious!
Li Weiyi was not polite, immediately activating the invisibility power on Night-walking Clothes, quickly vanishing into darkness.
Behind him rang Zuo Qiu Ting’s high voice containing magic energy: “Young Esteemed One came to Zuo Qiu Gatehouse territory, why hide head and show tail, notify in advance, Ting could come to pay respects early!”
Zuo Qiu Ting’s figure flashed, already landing before the temple gate.
From inside the temple: “A mere successor dares to test this venerable’s strength? My opponents are your human race’s older generation figures, the younger generation long has no one qualified to exchange moves with me.”
After escaping several li, Li Weiyi looked back.
Two great hand seals with different power fluctuations collided together above the temple, magic energy aftershocks spreading all the way to before him several li away.
Mountain trees swayed, gales howled.
The temple built along the mountain collapsed entirely with a boom.
Then all light vanished, the entire world turning silent.
“This is still a clash of the younger generation?”
Li Weiyi cursed inwardly, then hurried back to Juze City at fastest speed, only wanting to get as far from Jing Yue Zhai as possible.
As for Zuo Qiu Ting’s safety, he was not worried at all; after all, this was Zuo Qiu Gatehouse territory. If Zuo Qiu Gatehouse’s successor died on his own turf, that would be the biggest joke.
