Chapter 134: The Hidden Lord Arrives
The body of a Pure Immortal Body is all delicate and warm, like it has been immortalized, with a luster different from ordinary people that any opposite sex finds hard to resist.
Zuo Qiu Lanlan’s clothes were disheveled, she had fainted on his lap, her charm captivating.
Li Weiyi remained calm in the face of change, trying hard to stay composed, his fingers gently pushing, and immediately Zuo Qiu Lanlan’s face slid from his shoulder to the ground.
Standing up, he straightened his slightly messy night-walking clothes and rune robe; fortunately, they were thick enough.
“Who did this?” he said.
Yin Twenty-Four’s voice came from under the Departed Spirit Human Skin: “See? I told you, ruin his good thing, and he’ll definitely get angry.”
Li Weiyi understood Zuo Qiu Lanlan; this gatehouse noblewoman had an extremely proud heart and wouldn’t demean herself for no reason. He said, “You did it? What method? Bewitchment? Talisman? Mind Power? Illusion Technique?”
A bewildered look appeared in Yin Twenty-Four’s eyes: “You don’t think I used some evil method like the Six Desires Talisman to lure her into your arms to go into heat? Hmph, I just couldn’t stand it anymore and punched her unconscious. Otherwise… it was really…”
“Too unsightly to behold.”
The bear-like Deformed Humanoid Race Yin Twenty-Three said.
Li Weiyi felt that Yin Twenty-Four indeed had no reason to cause trouble; this kind of joke couldn’t be made.
But Zuo Qiu Lanlan was such a reserved and dignified woman, and she had just lost her husband, right in the midst of grief—how could she possibly take the initiative to do something so disgraceful?
In Thirty-three Mile Mountain, there must be some incomprehensible eerie thing.
In the distance, Zuo Qiu Bai Ming had long since fainted, lying on the ground.
Li Weiyi’s gaze fell on the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors in the tree, communicating with them, asking if anything suspicious had happened earlier.
The Seven Little Ones each said their own thing, chattering away; some were vague, some claimed to have seen two terrifying white shadows, some said Zuo Qiu Lanlan was possessed, like she had become a different person, but very good to Li Weiyi…
…
There wasn’t a single unified answer.
Li Weiyi shook his head, not listening to them continue; even all seven together didn’t have brains as big as a fingertip. He walked over slowly and said, “You two knocked her out but still left her in my arms—this was deliberately to see me make a fool of myself?”
Yin Twenty-Four said, “Hidden Person, you are mistaken; if we wanted to see a joke, we wouldn’t have knocked her out.”
“Then we couldn’t see it.” Yin Twenty-Three said.
Li Weiyi was very helpless; continuing to argue would only make it dirtier, so in a threatening tone he said, “Right and Wrong ends here. After leaving Thirty-three Mile Mountain, if I hear a fourth person knows about this, once I become the Hidden Person, you two will certainly not have a good end.”
It was the first time Yin Twenty-Three had been threatened, his face changed greatly, and he silently nodded.
Yin Twenty-Four didn’t care, pointing to Zuo Qiu Lanlan on the ground, laughing: “She’s the fourth person—you kill her, or I kill her?”
“She still has use.”
Li Weiyi didn’t dwell on the matter, his expression serious as he asked, “How did you two enter Thirty-three Mile Mountain? Yin Twenty-Four, have you broken through to the Second Realm of the Five Seas Realm?”
Yin Twenty-Three said, “Hidden Lord came! Right in this Immortal Realm Space; it was he who captured a Departed Spirit, refined the rune robe and human skin, and sent us two in. Immortal Soil, Dyeing Cloud Exotic Medicine, Golden Spring—these precious cultivation resources are also highly valued by the Hidden Sect.”
“Yin Twenty-Four seized two stalks of Dyeing Cloud Exotic Medicine from the martial cultivators of the Four Great Sects before entering the mountain, opening his second Sea of Qi.”
Five Seas Realm martial cultivators had gathered en masse in the Immortal Realm Space, most coming for the Dyeing Cloud Exotic Medicine, seeking rapid breakthroughs.
Yin Twenty-Three was quite envious, but there was no way; Yin Twenty-Four had somehow obtained a high-tier blood-refined magic tool, his combat power becoming extremely astonishing, even taking down a Third Realm of the Five Seas Realm expert from the Sui Sect.
He didn’t have such a powerful treasure.
One step ahead, step by step ahead.
The gap would only widen.
This was why martial cultivators would fight head-splittingly bloody for a single treasure.
Was this a treasure?
This was changing fate!
Under the Departed Spirit Human Skin, Yin Twenty-Four had his hands behind his back, chin tilted up, faintly saying, “Second Realm of the Five Seas Realm is nothing; if I can gather another four or five stalks of the same type of Dyeing Cloud Exotic Medicine, opening a third Sea of Qi in a short time is also possible. Only reaching the Third Realm counts as preliminarily entering the ranks of Li Zhou’s top young generation experts.”
Little girl mentality, a bit of achievement and she’s showing off and floating.
Li Weiyi smiled and shook his head, asking, “How long have you been in the mountain? How many exotic medicines have you gathered?”
Yin Twenty-Three said, “We’ve only been in the mountain for a day; the Dyeing Cloud Exotic Medicines below Nine Mile Mountain have almost all been gathered by the Spring Gushing Realm martial cultivators of the major sects. So far, we’ve only found two. One can help a Pure Immortal Body metamorphose, one can help open a Sea of Qi.”
“We originally planned to go up Nine Mile Mountain, but halfway, Yin Twenty-Four discovered your footprint traces and tracked all the way here.”
Li Weiyi looked at Yin Twenty-Four in surprise: “Not simple; even details like my footprints, you silently remembered.”
“Not just footprints; the aura from Shang Zhi’s corpse was also emanating, lingering in the air.” Yin Twenty-Four said.
In Thirty-three Mile Mountain, Li Weiyi was bold due to his high skill and hadn’t deliberately covered his tracks; being tracked by her wasn’t strange.
Yin Twenty-Four asked, “What about you—how many Dyeing Cloud Exotic Medicines have you gathered?”
“I’ve only been in the mountain half a day earlier than you, and currently have no gains.” Li Weiyi shrugged with a helpless bitter smile.
Yin Twenty-Four said coldly, “I went to the Spring Gushing Realm qi barrier boundary; Yao Yin said you seized quite a few exotic medicines from the Spring Gushing Realm martial cultivators of the major powers. What she and Yin Twenty-Five seized are also with you.”
Yin Twenty-Three looked at Li Weiyi with eager eyes.
Li Weiyi changed the subject, asking, “Has the road from the Five Seas Realm Boundary to Yaoguan City been cleared?”
“Yin Nine and Cang Li took action—who under Dao Seed Realm can stand against them? The Jiu Li tribe’s Spring Gushing Realm martial cultivators should have already withdrawn by now; you don’t need to worry about that side.” Yin Twenty-Three said.
Yin Twenty-Four said, “I’ve already consumed two exotic medicines that help Pure Immortal Body metamorphose, cultivating the Half Immortal Body. But now having broken through to the Second Realm of the Five Seas Realm, I’ll probably need three more to complete the Pure Immortal Body metamorphosis.”
Li Weiyi asked Yin Twenty-Three, “I reckon outside it’s surely surging winds and clouds, earth-shaking; at this critical juncture, why did Hidden Lord instead come to the Immortal Realm Space?”
Yin Twenty-Three said, “Hidden Lord didn’t tell us, but I guess he’s definitely not just here for the opportunities and treasures; he must have some other major plan. When we go down the mountain later, let’s go pay respects!”
Yin Twenty-Four walked in front of Li Weiyi, almost whispering in his ear: “You owe me a favor; if I hadn’t acted just now, the consequences would be unthinkable—you’d probably have to marry into the Zuo Qiu Gatehouse to settle it. Three stalks of Dyeing Cloud Exotic Medicine is not excessive at all.”
Li Weiyi finally stared at her: “Exotic medicine! Exotic medicine… don’t just think of reaping without sowing. How much does one stalk of exotic medicine cost? Go ask Yin Twenty-Five; he bought some from me.”
“But right now, there’s actually an opportunity to seize exotic medicines; I originally didn’t want to share with you, I could do it alone. Since you’ve come, put in some effort, strive to net them all, none left.”
“But ugly words up front: each of you can only get three stalks of Dyeing Cloud Exotic Medicine. The rest—exotic medicines, magic tools, Golden Springs, Immortal Soil, whatever—all mine.”
The reason Li Weiyi was willing to offer such generous terms was that he suddenly realized he might have underestimated the insight and wisdom of Five Seas Realm experts.
Once Xue Qi and the others discovered San Chen Palace and Coffin Mountain annihilated, they’d definitely be extremely cautious going down the mountain.
Or take another route down.
Relying on waiting by the stump for the rabbit to intercept them—the prey probably wouldn’t be that stupid.
Immediately, Li Weiyi told the two his idea of hunting and robbing.
Yin Twenty-Three was greatly shocked, thinking he misheard: “Ambush the Four Great Sects and Tian Ya Ridge? You mean ambush all of them on the way down the mountain? I think ambushing some Spring Gushing Realm martial cultivators would be enough!”
“Be more ambitious; the opportunity is extremely rare.” Li Weiyi said.
Yin Twenty-Four said, “This is impossible! Chen Song, Di Ran, Xue Qi—these three are either Pure Immortal Body or Nine Springs Supreme Person. With my Three-headed Snake Blood Soul, dealing with one is no problem. But the other two, plus Tian Ya Ridge’s demon race experts, will surely take this chance to kill you and Yin Twenty-Three—how long can you hold out?”
“You think I want to rely on you?”
Li Weiyi took off his night-walking clothes and tossed them to her: “Put them on, go up the mountain for reconnaissance; once they come down, report back immediately. Your mission is this.”
“Right, be careful. There’s a kind of giant-headed humanoid unknown creature on the mountain; if you encounter it, run fast.”
Yin Twenty-Four stared at Li Weiyi repeatedly; she, a Second Realm of the Five Seas Realm supreme person, was being sent as a scout? She smiled and asked, “So confident—have you broken through to Five Seas?”
Li Weiyi also smiled: “Whether broken through to Five Seas or not, beating you shouldn’t be hard.”
“Hmph!”
Yin Twenty-Four put on the night-walking clothes, wrapping her whole body, lifting her slender arm of snow-white jade-like Half Immortal Body, revealing the Three-headed Snake Bracelet: “I have my snake!”
She went invisible and disappeared up the mountain.
“Though her temper is a bit big, she’s still obedient.”
Li Weiyi’s gaze fell on Zuo Qiu Lanlan, whose clothes were disheveled on the ground, and he quickly called, “Don’t go yet; help her put her clothes on properly.”
…
Li Weiyi dispatched Yin Twenty-Three to send the fainted Zuo Qiu Gatehouse pair down the mountain. Then he performed the Jade Void Breathing Technique, entering a state of serene solitude unique under heaven, internally inspecting his first Sea of Qi.
A tiny piece of lung leaf, yet opening an inner world vast as ten directions, like a slightly irregular transparent cloud cluster.
The spatial walls of the Sea of Qi were dyed with a layer of Immortal Radiance, shimmering with flowing light.
The internal magic energy was only a thin layer, less than half a fang.
This was from the moment of breakthrough, when magic power had madly erupted in, transforming.
Now, even with Ten Springs surging together, magic power continuously injecting and transforming from one hundred twenty string pulses, the increase was still quite slow.
“Cultivating three or four days should transform one fang. To impact the second Sea of Qi, the first Sea of Qi must first be cultivated to completion; otherwise, haste makes waste.”
Just like laying bricks and stacking wood—tedious, repetitive, simple, but an indispensable process for building a ten thousand zhang tall building.
What Li Weiyi didn’t know was that his Tenth Spring Divine Palace was extraordinarily special, erupting liquid magic power, enough to elevate cultivation speed to an inconceivable level.
Those Seven Springs Breaking Five Seas martial cultivators’ first Sea of Qi was only one fang in size, and completing it still took two or three months.
He needed only three or four days for one fang—tens of times faster.
“After breakthrough, the purity of the magic energy has indeed improved. But it’s still gaseous, not liquid, inferior to the Divine Palace.”
Li Weiyi released mind power, entering the Blood Mud Space to consult Jar Master on the quenching method for magic energy in the Sea of Qi.
Jar Master’s voice came: “Once breaking through to Five Seas, at the breakthrough moment, the magic energy has already completed its first metamorphosis. But to open the second Sea of Qi, one must rely on the magic
