Chapter 75: Sword Slays Xue Zheng
At this moment, the killing intent and “battle intent” emanating from Shi Jiuzhai’s body was enough to scare any Spring Gushing Realm Martial Cultivator into trembling and kneeling.
Li Weiyi resisted this pressure with all his might, almost unable to breathe, gritted his teeth, and said with difficulty: “Just like now, how do you know my strength is insufficient to help you succeed? I think the Ten-Meal Law King’s eyesight is better than yours.”
Li Weiyi’s ability to resist pressure and his spirit mind made Shi Jiuzhai secretly amazed. His eyes flickered uncertainly: “In the hands of a Nine Springs Cultivator, how many moves do you think you can withstand, or escape with your life?”
Li Weiyi gathered more useful information and said: “It seems the Law King wants me to deal with a Nine Springs Cultivator? That’s quite strange. Why can’t you handle it yourselves? Could it be that this Nine Springs Cultivator is in a place you can’t reach?”
Shi Jiuzhai felt that the kid in front of him really had something in his brain, perhaps he could really succeed, so he said: “Not deal with, you’re not that strong yet, just monitor him.”
Li Weiyi was tough when he needed to be and soft when he needed to be, bowed and saluted: “The two Law Kings might as well explain clearly. My life is now in your hands. Whatever you instruct, I will definitely go all out to accomplish it.”
No matter what, preserving his life was the top priority.
Shi Jiuzhai saw him revert to that initial “little wolf cub” appearance, and his anger instantly dissipated, laughing: “That’s what I said, this is the real you. That arrogant and conceited look just now, I thought Ten-Meal had found the wrong person.”
Shi Shishi said: “Have you heard of Jiu Li Hidden Sect?”
Li Weiyi almost couldn’t hold it together…
What was going on? They actually knew about Jiu Li Hidden Sect?
“Never heard of it.” Li Weiyi pretended to be puzzled, thought for a moment, then gently shook his head.
Shi Jiuzhai said: “You don’t need to have heard of it. Go to Jiu Li Hidden Sect and do one thing for us. Once done, the old debts will be written off. Of course, you can refuse, and then I will slap you to death right here, since you know things you shouldn’t.”
Investigating Jiu Li Hidden Sect was a major matter. How could the Earth Wolf King Army completely trust that mysterious old man from Jiu Li?
So, naturally, they wanted to plant one of their own to enter Jiu Li Hidden Sect together.
The mysterious old man planned to send Li Qing, who had Nine Springs Cultivation, to the hidden sect. So the person the Earth Wolf King Army found couldn’t be too weak, or they might be eliminated by Li Qing right after entering.
Shi Jiuzhai naturally wouldn’t tell Li Weiyi too much and said: “You just need to do one thing! Survive, find the location of Jiu Li Hidden Sect, then escape and tell us. Simple enough, right?”
Li Weiyi asked: “I don’t even know how to get to Jiu Li Hidden Sect.”
“You don’t need to worry about that, we have our own arrangements.” Shi Jiuzhai laughed: “If you can complete this mission, the benefits won’t be few.”
“Haha!”
In the darkness of the forest, a low and distant laugh echoed, eerie, as if coming from all directions.
“Bang!”
A humanoid heavy object fell from mid-air, smashing a shallow crater into the ground.
It was a sack, from which came a muffled sound of pain.
Shi Shishi laughed: “Sixth Brother, why are you back so late?”
“Swoosh!”
Li Weiyi only felt a cold wind blow, and by the campfire, a dry and thin figure had appeared out of thin air.
Shi Liuyu was thin like a skeleton, with green eyes, and his inch-long hair was also green, giving a demonic and chilling feeling.
He glanced at Li Weiyi and chuckled lowly: “Ten-Meal, the person you found doesn’t seem that great. Look at the one I found. This person is known as the number one combat power under Five Seas Realm in Li Zhou, and has a Silver Pure Immortal Body.”
Li Weiyi looked at the sack on the ground that kept wriggling, feeling strange emotions.
Could it be that tonight’s unlucky ones weren’t just him?
Shi Shishi untied the sack, and inside was indeed Xue Zheng, the Silver Pure Immortal Body beaten black and blue.
Xue Zheng’s knowledge was naturally incomparable to Li Weiyi’s. He quickly recognized the identities of the three in front of him, his face turned deathly pale, and finally his gaze turned to Li Weiyi.
Shi Shishi said: “Sixth Brother, you’re back late. We’ve already talked with Tian Shu Ge. He’ll go to Jiu Li Hidden Sect to help us.”
Shi Liuyu seemed indifferent and said lightly: “Just kill him to silence him, no big deal. Do you really think he’s a match for Li Qing who has opened Nine Springs? If sending someone, send a strong one.”
Li Weiyi knew how ruthless the Southern Territory barbarian thieves were and feared Shi Liuyu might suddenly strike him down, so he quickly said: “Law King, you’re mistaken. Xue Zheng has great fame in Li Zhou. Everyone knows he’s a Sui Sect disciple. Sending him to the hidden sect, his identity would be instantly exposed.”
Xue Zheng wasn’t stupid either. He quickly saw the situation and knew that facing these barbarian thief Law Kings, he needed to have some use to survive.
He said: “Just Spring Gushing Realm, what great fame? Not to mention the older generation, even those on the《Jia Zi List》 probably don’t know who Xue Zheng is.”
Shi Liuyu nodded: “See, this cleverness is what our Earth Wolf King Army needs.”
Xue Zheng continued: “As long as you give me a chance to live, I will swear loyalty to the Earth Wolf King Army unto death. I am the most promising rising star of the younger generation in Xue Family. In the future, I can do many things for the three Law Kings in Li Zhou.”
Li Weiyi never imagined Xue Zheng usually had such an upright and unyielding appearance, but to survive, he could go so far? So without a bottom line?
Shi Liuyu laughed: “Not bad, not bad, that’s the right attitude! Ninth Brother, Tenth Brother, what do you think? If Xue Zheng can complete this mission, he might become an important pawn we’ve buried inside Sui Sect.”
Seeing Shi Jiuzhai show interest, Li Weiyi quickly said: “Xue Zheng is only Eight Springs opened, even with Pure Immortal Body, he may not be a match for a Nine Springs Cultivator. In fact, he might not even be my match!”
After metamorphosing into Pure Immortal Body, Xue Zheng naturally didn’t take Li Weiyi seriously and said: “Li Weiyi, do you want to fight me?”
“I just want to tell the three Law Kings that I am more qualified than you.” Li Weiyi said.
Shi Liuyu’s green eyes overflowed with amusement: “Suddenly it seems interesting!”
“Tian Shu Ge, you’re the one I found, you can’t lose to him.” Shi Shishi, even knowing Li Weiyi’s real name, still called him that.
Xue Zheng knew Li Weiyi had a black iron seal that could release lightning. He considered whether to reveal it, but worried that after the three Earth Wolf King Army Law Kings learned Li Weiyi might be a Lei Xiao Sect successor seed, they would kill him to silence instead.
Xue Zheng thought Li Weiyi probably wouldn’t dare expose that easily. As long as he finished him in a few moves, he wouldn’t have a chance to use the black iron seal.
To fight for a qualification, to fight for life.
The two stood by the stream, assuming stances, their gazes sharply clashing.
Undoubtedly, tonight it was either you die or I perish.
Shi Jiuzhai said: “How about we three start a gambling game? Odds one to nine, I bet on Xue Zheng.”
Shi Liuyu said: “Ninth Brother, you’re the banker. Even if betting, it should be me and Old Ten against you. Old Ten, you in?”
Shi Shishi knew how powerful an Eight Springs Pure Immortal Body was; it could absolutely contend with a Nine Springs Supreme Person. Moreover, Xue Zheng was renowned, with extraordinary battle technique. Li Weiyi’s winning chance was truly slim.
Shi Liuyu said: “How about betting how many moves the kid you found can last against Xue Zheng?”
“Swoosh! Swoosh!”
The gambling game hadn’t started, but the saber and sword wielders had already charged at each other at high speed.
Xue Zheng wanted a quick victory. His first saber strike mobilized magic energy from his Feng Fu, unleashing the strongest strike only Eight Springs Cultivators could use.
Li Weiyi didn’t dare show too strong combat power, so facing Xue Zheng’s overwhelming saber strike, he could only try every way to dodge.
But dodging Heavenly Law Integration was already as hard as ascending to heaven, let alone this strike empowered by the Feng Fu small sea of qi—even a Five Seas Realm Cultivator could only hard block it.
“Splash!”
Just as Li Weiyi was about to become a lost soul under Xue Zheng’s saber, at the moment when he was mere millimeters from the sword edge, his figure turned into a wisp of green smoke, escaping sideways from the saber momentum.
With a boom, the incredibly powerful blade light slashed by Xue Zheng shot out like a light wave five zhang away, exploding the trunk of a bowl mouth thick tree in the forest.
His combat power was indeed stronger than a month ago. Li Weiyi was secretly wary.
Shi Shishi suddenly stood up and cheered: “Good movement technique! So not only is your sword technique Heavenly Law Integration, even your movement technique is Heavenly Law Integration!”
By the Sui River, he had seen Li Weiyi use a Heavenly Law Integration sword technique.
The movement technique Li Weiyi used now was naturally Qing Xu Cicada Escape Step, cultivated to Heavenly Law Integration in Cang Wang Tomb. The reason it was so quick was because of Chan Sect Twelve Loose Hands, which he had practiced for over a decade.
Shi Jiuzhai nodded: “At his age, and in Spring Gushing Realm, cultivating two Heavenly Law Integration moves is indeed remarkable. Liu Se, how many did you cultivate back then?”
“It’s Six Desires.”
After Shi Liuyu corrected this, he snorted coldly: “Back then I only wanted to impact Feng Fu and Zu Tian, break through to Five Seas. No matter how good the moves and techniques, one higher realm crushes everything.”
Shi Jiuzhai said: “No matter what, after Xue Zheng exhausts his Feng Fu magic energy, that little wolf cub finally has a slim chance of victory. Ten-Meal, bet or not? Odds still one to nine?”
Shi Shishi hesitated a bit; the odds were too good.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
…
Xue Zheng and Li Weiyi shadows crisscrossed and shuttled, fighting from the shore into the stream, already exchanging over a dozen moves.
Li Weiyi controlled his strength, completely at a disadvantage, constantly retreating, extremely disheveled, sometimes a lock of hair cut off, sometimes a corner of his clothes slashed.
Shi Jiuzhai observed their battle and noticed that after entering the stream, Xue Zheng’s movements clearly slowed. While Li Weiyi, relying on clever movement technique, could skim over the water, attacking his strengths against weaknesses.
After Xue Zheng noticed this, he immediately wanted to pull the battlefield back to the shore.
It was fine if he didn’t think that—after all, a mere stream wouldn’t reduce his combat power much. But once he did, just as he stepped toward the shore, Li Weiyi seized the opportunity and unleashed Grand Unity Opens the Sea at Heavenly Law Integration level.
“Swoosh!”
The air was split, the sword light seeming able to cleave the entire stream.
The qi was sharp, the sword sound piercing.
Xue Zheng’s leg trying to reach the shore wasn’t hit by the sword edge, but was struck by the qi, his pant leg instantly torn, with a bang of metal collision.
If not for his Silver Pure Immortal Body with strong defense, that leg would already be injured.
Even so, he still felt pain in his leg, his balance unsteady.
Once Li Weiyi gained the upper hand, it was overwhelming. Swords fell like a rain of waterfalls, each faster than the last. At the same time, he secretly added power, making it seem like Xue Zheng lost due to misjudgment and had no chance to recover.
Shi Shishi never expected this situation and immediately said: “I bet! Sixth Brother, I bet with you, I stake one thousand Spring Coins! Ninth Brother, one to nine odds, right?”
Shi Jiuzhai stared at the two dueling in the stream and said: “No, now the odds are three to seven… four to six, five to five…”
The next instant, Shi Jiuzhai and Shi Liuyu almost simultaneously shot to their feet, eyes full of disbelief.
In the stream, Li Weiyi pressed Xue Zheng back step by step, his legs unsteady, steps increasingly chaotic, completely without form.
At first, Xue Zheng thought he had fallen into disadvantage, so Li Weiyi suppressed him with no chance to counter. But gradually he sensed something wrong, truly feeling Li Weiyi’s power strengthening.
“Not good, this kid must have broken through to Ninth Spring…”
Xue Zheng knew he probably wouldn’t survive today, so he wanted to drag Li Weiyi down with him, shouting: “He’s actually…”
“Wind Fu sword, strongest strike.”
Li Weiyi deliberately shouted this loudly, drowning Xue Zheng’s voice, and unleashed Grand Unity Opens the Sea at Heavenly Law Integration level again, slashing down from above onto Xue Zheng’s head.
The next instant, Yellow Dragon Sword appeared under Xue Zheng’s crotch.
A drop of blood slid from the sword tip, dripping into the stream, rippling a gorgeous blood flower before being swiftly washed away.
Li Weiyi sheathed his sword and walked back. Behind him, Xue Zheng’s corpse split in half, falling into the stream, organs spilling out—not entirely silver in texture.
“Ten to zero! Old Ten, I gave you the chance but you didn’t take it, no gambling spirit at all.” Shi Jiuzhai sighed.
Shi Shishi was gutted with regret, rushing to the two halves of Xue Zheng’s corpse in the stream, as if wanting to stitch him back together, repair him, and have him fight Li Weiyi again.
Li Weiyi had just reached the shore when a figure flashed before him.
Shi Liuyu’s gaunt ghost-like face pressed close, then his finger pressed toward the Zu Tian below his navel, lightly exclaiming: “Indeed, Zu Tian not opened.”
The next moment, Shi Liuyu’s palm pressed toward Li Weiyi’s chest lungs: “Sea of Qi not opened either. Strange, could cultivating moves and techniques to a certain level allow a mortal to slay a Pure Immortal Body at the same realm?”
Shi Liuyu seemed to have opened a new world, ecstatic.
After all, he was a special Deformed Humanoid Race, always wary of same-realm Pure Immortal Bodies, naturally resentful.
Li Weiyi was so nervous his heartbeat nearly gave him away, fearing Shi Liuyu would probe his Feng Fu. Fortunately, Shi Liuyu never doubted the authenticity of his Eight Springs Cultivation.
Seeing Shi Liuyu turn away, Li Weiyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly.
Without warning, Shi Liuyu spun back like lightning, a green complex rune appearing in his palm, slapping Li Weiyi’s chest. Li Weiyi flew backwards several zhang, crashing heavily to the ground.
Li Weiyi briefly suffocated, then gasped violently.
His chest not only hurt, but a numbing intolerable power drilled into his body bit by bit.
After catching his breath, he tore open his collar, but found nothing, and said coldly: “Six Desires Law King, you… what do you mean?”
Shi Liuyu crossed his arms behind his back and giggled: “First, congratulations on slaying Xue Zheng and winning the qualification to work for Earth Wolf King Army. But you should understand, we won’t trust you, and you’re not willing. So we need some means to make you willing.”
“What I implanted in you is a Six Desires Talisman.”
“Don’t think anyone can help you remove the talisman. Every Six Desires Talisman has unique strokes; only the implanter knows the correct removal method. Rest assured, when you complete the mission and return, I’ll remove it for you.”
Li Weiyi slowly stood up and said: “You might as well not have said that.”
Shi Shishi carried Xue Zheng’s magic tool war saber back and said: “I’ll guarantee! If you really complete the mission and return, not only will I have Sixth Brother remove the talisman, I’ll introduce you to join Earth Wolf King Army. Because by then, in Cang Li Tribe and Li Zhou, you’ll have no place to stay; all cultivators of Jiu Li will want to tear you to pieces.”
Shi Jiuzhai said: “If you break through to Zu Tian, I’ll introduce you to Heavenly King to be Old Eleventh.”
Shi Jiuzhai’s words were half true, half false.
False, to steady Li Weiyi and make him obediently do the task.
True, if Li Weiyi really broke through to Zu Tian and completed the mission returning, he indeed had a chance to become the eleventh Law King.
…
Not long after the four left, two Five Seas Realm old men from Cang Li Tribe tracked Li Weiyi’s footprints to the stream.
Soon, in a stream pool downstream, they found Xue Zheng’s bisected corpse.
One old man exclaimed in shock: “This… could this be his doing?”
“We tracked his footprints and aura here. It’s possible Xue Zheng was slain by his one sword.” The other old man said.
“Then there’s only one possibility: everyone was mistaken. Li Weiyi must have broken through to Zu Tian, a Nine Springs Supreme Person.”
“Hard to say. Take Xue Zheng’s corpse back first. The wound has residual aura; Leader and Young Tribe Leader should be able to tell if it was Li Weiyi’s magic tool war sword.”
“If truly a Nine Springs Supreme Person… aside from Young Tribe Leader, Cang Li Tribe hasn’t produced one in thirty years…”
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