Chapter 152: Great Nian Shi, Xihe Flower
Medicinal herbs planted in immortal soil can grow at a hundred times the speed, with even more vigorous medicinal properties.
With the assistance of these ten stalks of dyeing cloud exotic medicine, in the Five Seas Realm, Li Weiyi felt he should be able to progress very quickly and smoothly.
As for that three-colored spirit soil, although it could make the growth speed of medicinal herbs reach ten times, even if planted for ten years, it would only increase to a century in age. After ten years, a century precious medicine, Li Weiyi believed he definitely wouldn’t look at it.
Therefore, he decided to sell the spirit soil and directly exchange it for the most needed pills and precious medicines. Those million-strong clans and ten million gateways all had century- or millennium-long development plans and would definitely buy it at a high price.
After doing all this, Li Weiyi used mind power to peel away layer after layer of blood mist at the edge of the blood mud space. Immediately, the vast and majestic Tanggu Sea sea area appeared before his eyes, with the Fusang Divine Tree growing at the end of the sea area, emitting dazzling light.
The scene before his eyes was like a grand natural painting.
Zen Sea Observing Mist had long walked out from Li Ling’s body and gone to the bow of the magic tool jade boat to sit in meditation.
Li Ling stood behind Li Weiyi. She had already seen the divine and magnificent scene before them, yet she still felt her mind surging with excitement and awe.
She sat together with Li Weiyi on the blood mud ground and entered a meditation state.
Both were absorbing the radiance of the Fusang Divine Tree to strengthen their own spiritual light flames.
The inch-sized forehead spirit realm at Li Weiyi’s brow was filled with bright fire and had long reached realm completion. At this moment, he continued to absorb light particles, causing the bright fire to further condense as it sought the final critical point.
For two consecutive days, they passed in meditation without leaving the blood mud space, and naturally, they hadn’t left the cabin either.
Yin Shisan came to the stern several times to find them, but the room door was always tightly closed, so he could only sigh and leave without knocking to disturb them.
On this day, the sea area boiled as a Golden Crow rushed out from the seabed, its light instantly becoming a hundred or thousand times brighter.
Li Weiyi’s brow throbbed, growing increasingly swollen and painful, with signs of activity in the barrier of his forehead spirit realm.
He did not stop meditating and continued absorbing light particles.
This feeling was very familiar to him, just like when he first opened his forehead spirit realm.
It was the omen of an impending breakthrough.
Half a day later, the swelling pain at his brow reached its peak, the speed of absorbing light particles grew faster and faster, and finally, the light particles turned into a river of light converging toward his brow.
“Boom!”
The originally inch-sized forehead spirit realm rapidly expanded, ten times, twenty times…
Becoming larger and larger.
The river of light surging toward his brow grew brighter and brighter, igniting his entire body and turning him into a humanoid torch.
Gradually.
The forehead spirit realm expanded a thousand times, from inch-sized to square foot-sized.
The spiritual light flame was like a pile of burning firewood at the bottom of the spirit realm, its temperature several times higher than the bright fire of the mind master realm.
This was the realm of square foot earth fire!
“Great Mind Master achieved!”
Li Weiyi stopped meditating, his heart pounding with excitement, his eyes like two golden stars emitting several feet of light. He stood up, ignoring the flames burning on his body, and immediately rushed toward the layer of transparent, invisible space barrier between the blood mud space and Tanggu Sea.
Zen Sea Observing Mist and Li Ling stopped cultivating, and the soul spirits of the three masters condensed.
They had all been waiting for this moment.
If Li Weiyi could break through the space barrier and arrive at Tanggu Sea from Shaoyang Star, the significance would be extraordinary—this was crossing a vast distance in space, and in the future, he might even cross to other places.
“Splash!”
Li Weiyi’s palm, burning with spiritual light flame, pressed against the nearly completely transparent space barrier. Unlike before when it was fully blocked, his fingers gradually penetrated through bit by bit.
Around his wrist, a bowl-sized space hole appeared.
The hot, rolling wind force exclusive to Tanggu Sea blew in from the space hole, carrying a sense of dampness.
The sound of waves became even clearer.
Li Weiyi was overjoyed, his mouth curling up as spiritual light continuously emanated from his brow, acting on the edge of the space hole to tear it larger and larger.
The space hole reached basin-sized but did not expand further.
In just a few breaths, Li Weiyi’s spiritual light was greatly consumed, his figure retreated, and the space hole instantly closed.
Li Ling asked, “Can you only open a space channel this big?”
Li Weiyi’s face was full of excitement as he observed the now much broader blood mud space and laughed heartily, “With my current mind power cultivation, I can indeed only achieve this much, but it’s enough! In a bit, I’ll open the space channel again. You use spiritual light chains to penetrate through at the fastest speed and see if you can pick one or two Xihe Flowers.”
An hour later.
After three attempts, Li Ling successfully used a rope over ten zhang long condensed from spiritual light to wrap around a fist-sized Xihe Flower and quickly pull it into the blood mud space before the space channel closed.
“It actually worked—we could cross vast space to retrieve an item.”
Even though she had personally participated, Li Ling’s mind was still shaken; it was truly too unbelievable.
The Xihe Flower before her eyes had golden petals, crystal clear and translucent, with a thick fragrance.
It had no leaves, only long white roots.
This Xihe Flower was considered very small in Tanggu Sea. Those with flower diameters over ten meters couldn’t pass through the narrow space channel Li Weiyi opened.
The seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors had long gathered around; they had heard Zen Sea Observing Mist say that eating Xihe Flowers would make them grow bigger.
Xihe Flowers constantly absorbed Golden Crow flames, reaching a terrifyingly high temperature. Li Weiyi had prepared a silver tray. But as soon as the flower landed on it, the tray hissed and began to melt.
Li Weiyi immediately wrapped it with magic energy and threw it onto the magic tool jade boat.
“Is this a flower? I feel like its temperature is even higher than a red-hot iron block. Can this thing be eaten?”
Zen Sea Observing Mist glanced at the Xihe Flower that had fallen beside her and said, “It’s not something for humans to eat directly; it’s a demon race sacred medicine. For humans to consume it, it must first be refined into pills to remove the fire toxin, then swallowed to strengthen the physical body and soul spirit.”
The seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors flew onto the magic tool jade boat, circling the Xihe Flower in flight. They wanted to eat but didn’t dare, pushing each other, all wanting another moth to taste first.
Finally, the smallest but boldest little one dove down and fiercely bit a petal of the Xihe Flower.
“Crack!”
A crisp cracking sound rang out as it bit off a piece the size of half a fingernail.
“What’s the rush? Let it cool down a bit…”
Li Weiyi wanted to stop it but was too late.
“Hiss!”
The little one’s entire body ignited, emitting golden flames and turning into a fireball. It let out strange cries from its mouth, rushed out of the magic tool jade boat, and plunged headfirst into the blood mud, rolling wildly inside in an attempt to extinguish the flames on its body.
But the golden flames burned from the inside out—how could they be extinguished?
Fortunately, though it kept crying out strangely, it rolled nonstop with full vitality, showing no sign of being burned to death.
The physique of emperor-level strange insects was extraordinary even in infancy.
Zen Sea Observing Mist said, “Xihe Flowers won’t naturally cool down! Of course, if it really cooled, it would mean it had lost its most precious medicinal value.”
Li Weiyi humbly asked for advice, “Does the Xihe Flower count as an utmost yang flower? Can it treat someone with the jade shattered ice soul body? Right, she’s not purely human; she has half demon blood in her body.”
Zen Sea Observing Mist asked, “Who are you trying to treat?”
“The one he’s talking about should be Yao Yin,” Li Ling said coldly.
Li Weiyi knew what she was thinking and felt awkward, pondering how to describe his relationship with Yao Yin.
“I can only answer your earlier question after I’ve seen her and understood her exact condition clearly,” Zen Sea Observing Mist said, not taking it too seriously.
Li Weiyi said sincerely, “Thank you!”
Everyone, including the other six Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors, stared intently at the little one covered in golden flames.
When the golden flames on its body gradually extinguished, its body visibly grew longer.
Originally the smallest, it suddenly became the largest.
And this was just from eating one bite—the growth speed was too terrifying.
“Splash!”
The seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors scrambled forward, flying to the magic tool jade boat and each pecking off a small piece of petal to swallow.
Immediately, the miserable cries of the Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors echoed endlessly in the blood mud space from all directions as the seven little ones rolled in death throes in the blood mud.
After digesting the Xihe Flower in their bodies and greatly increasing in size and power, they let out joyful cries and went to eat the remaining petals.
Then they wailed in agony again.
This cycle repeated until they devoured the entire Xihe Flower. The seven little ones’ body lengths had grown to three inches.
This meant their cultivation had reached a level comparable to Second Realm of the Five Seas Realm martial cultivators.
Of course, with their combat power, they could already contend with ordinary Third Realm of the Five Seas Realm martial cultivators.
They seemed temporarily unable to eat more and told Li Weiyi that flames were burning inside their bodies, causing unbearable scorching pain. They needed to first digest this fire toxin, so he should wait a bit before picking more Xihe Flowers.
“Someone’s pounding fiercely on the cabin door. I’ll go out first; Li Ling, come with me.”
After thinking, Li Weiyi also brought the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors along, while Zen Sea Observing Mist stayed in the blood mud space.
Returning to the cabin, Li Weiyi quickly stored the ghost flag and yin banner. Immediately, knocking sounds, gong beats, running footsteps, cries of alarm… flooded his ears like a tide. The entire multi-story ship was in chaos, shaking and clamoring from top to bottom, with infants and children crying.
He opened the door.
Yin Shisan outside was extremely anxious. Glancing at the two who were still decently dressed, he said, “Enemy attack… it’s Night City cavalry…”
“I’ve already seen them!”
Li Weiyi looked into the night sky behind Yin Shisan and saw countless fire crow cavalry flying over the river surface and in mid-air.
The fire crows were huge, with double wings spanning four or five meters when spread, feathers flowing with cyan flames. They had mount positions installed on their backs and armor on vital areas like the abdomen.
Each fire crow carried a black-armored soldier, all holding spears, looking heroic and majestic.
“Night City cavalry come and go like the wind, often looting merchants. I didn’t expect us to run into this bad luck! But don’t worry, you two stick close to me. If the ship’s protective formation is broken later, we’ll three escape together. Ignore the people on the ship—preserving our own lives is most important.”
Yin Shisan added in a low voice, “Senior Disciple Brother, I have a magic tool jade boat; I can escape very quickly.”
