Chapter 130: The Dao-protecting Wife Speaks
“Rumble!”
The blood-colored characters on the foreheads of the Departed Spirit Townspeople of Zangxian Town flew out with countless character light shadows, attacking the giant-headed humanoid unknown creature.
Li Weiyi quickly retreated far away, raising the yin banner, continuously injecting magic energy, hiding in the green light veil to observe the battle. He really wanted to take this opportunity to escape, but damn curiosity was at work, and his legs just wouldn’t move.
These Departed Spirit Townspeople of Zangxian Town were too strange, like they possessed special consciousness; appearing in Thirty-three Mile Mountain was absolutely no ordinary matter.
The most crucial thing was.
Li Weiyi was unsure if their awakening, and the changes in Zangxian Town, were related to the blood he had spilled that day. He wanted to figure out the secrets involved and unravel the mysteries of his origins.
“From their auras, they are much stronger than when they had just awakened.”
Li Weiyi carefully observed the various techniques of the Departed Spirit Townspeople and the giant-headed unknown creature, accumulating experience so that if he encountered them again in the future, he would know what to guard against and how to respond.
The seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors were very nervous, all burrowing into his collar, trembling in fear.
Moments later, they couldn’t help but give in to curiosity, successively poking out a head. Seven heads stacked together, looking toward that battlefield where ghost fire danced.
The giant-headed unknown creature was repelled, fleeing into the Giant Stone Statue Forest.
One by one, the Departed Spirit Townspeople wrapped in ghost fire withdrew their character light shadows, forming neat long lines, walking toward the stone forest shrouded in immortal mist.
They walked very slowly, not pursuing. It was more like they were traveling according to some kind of consciousness, and encountering Li Weiyi and the giant-headed unknown creature was just an accident.
The surroundings quieted down.
Li Weiyi’s tense muscles and nerves relaxed, and he was just preparing to leave this strange place.
A pleasant female voice suddenly rang out: “Follow them!”
“Who?”
He was greatly startled, immediately taking out the iron book, scanning the surroundings.
“Follow them!”
“Follow them…”
…
The voice was now far, now near.
When far, it was as if at the edge of the sky, or in another spacetime, faint like the sound of wind.
When near, it was like murmuring whispers right by his ear.
“Rustle!”
Li Weiyi’s injured left hand turned into blood mist, dissipating and swirling around his body.
Before his eyes appeared a shallow red blood mist heaven and earth, a gravel wilderness overgrown with weeds, rapidly corrupting and decaying, filled with eerie yin energy.
A graceful figure clad in solemn red wedding dress materialized out of thin air in the blood mist, standing there quietly.
Li Weiyi naturally knew who she was; his eyelids tightened, his heart pounding wildly. For the first time, he seriously observed this Guardian Wife that Zen Sea Observing Mist had spoken of.
Her wedding dress was extraordinarily gorgeous, with a dragon and phoenix auspicious pattern embroidered on her chest with gold and silver threads, lotus patterns on the cuffs, a very large skirt hem dragging behind her like long phoenix wings spread on the ground.
The four corners of the red silk head covering were adorned with copper coins, concealing her face, but her slender jade-like neck and some strands of hair were visible.
Only at this moment did Li Weiyi truly believe she existed for real; his heart filled with shock and doubt as he asked, “Who exactly are you? Are you really residing in my bloodline?”
She did not respond, as if she couldn’t hear Li Weiyi’s voice.
“Follow them!”
That pleasant voice came from her body.
But it didn’t seem to come from her mouth; rather, it originated from the surrounding space.
Li Weiyi was very cautious and asked, “Why follow them? Do you know what they are?”
“Follow them!”
Still that voice devoid of any emotion.
“You only know how to say this one sentence?”
Li Weiyi frowned tightly, then slowly stepped forward, wanting to lift the head covering on her head to see what she really looked like.
But as his hand just reached out, a chill breath came rushing at him.
His wrist was grabbed by the Guardian Wife’s icy jade hand, stopping him.
“Follow them.”
These three words seemed to come from her mouth, incomparably clear, right at hand.
“Can’t look?”
Li Weiyi mobilized magic power to his arm, but no matter how he exploded with power, he couldn’t contend with her at all.
Her hand was extremely beautiful, every finger slender and tender, neither fat nor thin, like carved from immortal crystal divine jade. But just lightly resting on Li Weiyi’s wrist, it froze his arm in mid-air, unable to touch the red silk head covering.
“Won’t look… then won’t look…”
Li Weiyi had no obsession in his heart; he merely wanted to know what kind of existence the Guardian Wife was. He slowly withdrew his hand, and her fingers also loosened.
Her fingers were icy cold; she truly existed.
At his chest, the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors all widened their eyes, originally full of expectation, now naturally disappointed and dejected.
She kept urging “Follow them,” and Li Weiyi also wanted to investigate, so holding the green yin banner, he quickly followed the Departed Spirit Townspeople who had already entered the Giant Stone Statue Forest. He stayed vigilant of his surroundings, wary of attacks from the giant-headed unknown creature.
The Guardian Wife followed behind him, the trailing hem of her wedding dress dragging on the ground, over a zhang long.
She had an extremely elegant bearing, head held high, a jade belt around her waist, one hand behind her back, the other pinching a finger seal at her chest, her whole body enveloped in blood mist radiance.
As she stepped forward, the copper coins hanging at the four corners of the head covering made tinkling collision sounds.
“Spirit Tablet Master, did you see? This is the Guardian Wife that Zen Sea Observing Mist once spoke of. Can you discern her origins?” Li Weiyi communicated with mind power.
In the blood mud space, the three Masters were in intense discussion, all shocked by the strange situation on Li Weiyi; the existence of the Guardian Wife exceeded their knowledge.
Behind him, the hand of the Guardian Wife pinching the finger seal pointed forward with her index finger.
“Splash!”
A strand of blood-colored radiance penetrated Li Weiyi’s body, striking the Buddha’s Sarira on the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish.
Moments later, the Spirit Tablet Master’s terrified voice came through: “Weiyi, you’d better handle this yourself. We just received a warning; we’re not even allowed to discuss it, nearly scattering our souls.”
Li Weiyi drew in a sharp breath of cold air, unable to resist looking back.
So domineering?
In the distant mist, there were always sounds of footsteps and strange cries coming from it, but none approached.
They walked for nearly half a shichen.
In the Giant Stone Statue Forest appeared a winding upward stone steps ancient path; the Departed Spirit Townspeople went upward along the stone steps.
Li Weiyi keenly noticed that their footwork had become completely uniform, each stepping in the footprint of the one ahead. Naturally, he didn’t dare to act rashly and also stepped in their footprints up the stone steps.
With every step, he tossed a coin underfoot to mark the footprint position.
He had countless money bags on him, with plenty of various coins.
On both sides of the stone steps were giant stone statues of all sizes, quite eerie and chilling in the thick fog.
Some of the giant stone statues were cracked, actually a thick layer of stone shell, with something once contained inside.
“So quiet; this place doesn’t seem so scary.”
After carefully walking a stretch to verify his guess, Li Weiyi flicked a copper coin toward the ground to the right of the stone steps.
The copper coin fell to the ground.
“Splash!”
At the landing spot, brilliant mysterious yellow radiance exploded out; countless complex and ancient incantations, runes, and formation scripts simultaneously appeared on the ground and in mid-air, releasing destructive energies like lightning and heavenly fire.
All the giant stone statues shook unceasingly.
In the void, palace halls, floating islands, giant stone statues… and other scenes between reality and illusion presented themselves.
The Departed Spirit Townspeople ahead hurriedly stopped.
Li Weiyi could feel the terror of those incantations, runes, formation scripts, lightning, and heavenly fire; once struck, he would surely annihilate. He stood in place, holding his breath, not even daring to move a finger.
He only dared to observe the scenes in the void by turning his eyeballs, feeling as if they truly existed.
About a quarter of an hour later.
The mysterious yellow radiance calmed, all characters, energies, and unknown scenes dissipating into the air.
A tiny copper coin had nearly caused disaster; clearly, one could only safely enter this place via a special route.
The Departed Spirit Townspeople ahead continued onward, and Li Weiyi obediently kept placing coins to mark the route.
After walking an unknown time, ascending who knows how many li of mountain, they finally reached the end of the steps; before his eyes appeared densely packed white bones, like a sea of bones.
Li Weiyi was shocked in his heart, unable to believe his eyes, unsure if he was still in Thirty-three Mile Mountain.
The sea of bones was too vast, like an independent world.
White bones piled on the ground could still be understood, but on both sides in the void were also layer upon layer of white bones, as if piled up to the cosmic starry sky. Some white bones belonged to unknown living beings, huge like mountain ridges.
There were also some skeletal remains with multiple heads, stretching hundreds of meters.
Hundreds of thousands, millions of human skeletons piled on top of them, like dust, like insect and ant bones.
Though immortal radiance swept through this place, it was like the entrance to hell, too terrifying. Not to mention Li Weiyi; even Dao Seed Realm or Longevity Realm strong practitioners would probably be scared into fleeing.
Li Weiyi tried hard to stay calm, looking back at the Guardian Wife.
“Follow them!” She was very steady, her voice ringing out again.
Following the Departed Spirit Townspeople into the sea of bones, inside it grew ever more vast, with blood-red radiance coming from the depths.
The stone steps turned downward; below, the sea of bones was a cave, also a vast plain.
Li Weiyi looked down from above toward that blood light, which seemed to be…
A crescent-shaped blood lake!
Dozens of li away, he could see at the lake’s edge a massive skull, grayish-white and smooth, roughly estimated to be thousands of meters high.
The skull’s mouth was huge, full of fang-like spikes, with black mist pervading the bone seams.
Descending along the stone steps, entering the sea of bones plain.
The Departed Spirit Townspeople no longer proceeded cautiously, dispersing in different directions.
Li Weiyi no longer followed them, instead heading toward the distant Crescent Blood Lake. Because in that direction, he saw four-colored radiant light, very much like the radiance emitted from immortal soil.
That was immortal soil; one tael worth a million silver, few treasures in the world could compare.
Looking back, the Guardian Wife always followed behind; she seemed very confident, exuding an intrepid and dauntless aura. Immediately, Li Weiyi’s wariness greatly diminished, his speed increasing.
“Splash!”
Getting closer to the Crescent Blood Lake, the Guardian Wife’s speed surpassed his, turning into a graceful red shadow that brushed past him.
Arriving at the Crescent Blood Lake shore, Li Weiyi truly felt its vastness. Vast as an ocean, with rolling waves, thick bloody stench, making one very uncomfortable.
