Chapter 158: Cease War Sword, Chen Wenwu
“Are you trying to scare me?”
Li Weiyi showed no fear at all.
Chen Lian said, “I am warning you. When you deliberately provoke someone, you need to know your own limits. Do you think that by befriending a few dandies from Zhizhou and being in Heaven Pavilion, you are safe?”
Li Weiyi scanned the group of young heavenly prodigies from Zhizhou at the table, and sure enough, each one looked displeased.
In a place like Heaven Pavilion, almost all the surrounding pavilions housed prominent figures from the Southern Territory. Who knew how many people were watching the drama in secret? If they couldn’t regain their face, the humiliation would be massive!
Qi Wangshu was unusually calm and advised, “This Chen Lian is a Fourth Realm of the Five Seas Realm master, not simple at all. Brother Chi, endure it and things will naturally calm down. In Heaven Pavilion, battles and slaughter happen frequently. Losing a battle here not only brings shame but could also cost your life.”
Qi Wangshu could tell that Li Weiyi’s cultivation wasn’t high, at most Third Realm of the Five Seas Realm, and the intensity of the magic energy he intentionally or unintentionally emitted confirmed it.
If he acted impulsively and got killed by Chen Lian in Heaven Pavilion, as his companion, should Qi Wangshu intervene?
Even just one Chen Lian was extremely difficult to deal with. Who knew if there were other San Chen Palace masters in that pavilion?
Losing face now would just mean being labeled a dandy, which Qi Wangshu never denied anyway.
“Brother Qi, what are you saying? Is it just my face at stake now? Everyone here, who hasn’t been mocked and humiliated by him?”
With a bang, Li Weiyi slammed the table hard and looked at Li Ling beside him: “You go teach him a lesson!”
The Zhizhou talents present were all stunned, thinking his passionate speech meant he would take action himself. Who would have thought he would ask his female companion to stand up for him?
Could she do it?
Some tried to dissuade him, but Li Weiyi brushed them off confidently: “A mere Chen Lian is nothing. Ling’er can handle him easily. Don’t stop, keep playing the music, keep dancing.”
Li Weiyi’s serious voice transmission rang in Li Ling’s ear: “Chen Lian appearing in Juze City is no simple matter. Strike ruthlessly, see how many of them there are and what they intend to do.”
Li Ling had already stood up. As a Jiu Li tribe member, her hatred and hostility toward San Chen Palace far surpassed Li Weiyi’s.
Now, with guidance from Zen Sea Observing Mist, her strength had greatly advanced, and she was eager to test her skills.
“Splash! Splash…”
She removed the mask from her face, blue light radiating from her legs, stepping on the water surface as if it were flat ground: “Chen Lian, you’re right. Jiu Li and San Chen Palace are already in a life-and-death struggle, no end until one is destroyed. Today in this Heaven Pavilion, do you dare accept my challenge? To decide who is superior and settle life or death.”
Ripples spread in circles under her feet as Li Ling quickly ascended the circular jade platform in the center of the lake.
The Pure Immortal Body dancer from Immortal Forest seemed accustomed to it, casually saluting Li Ling before soaring away gracefully, displaying profound martial way cultivation attainment.
“Ling’er, it’s you.”
After recognizing Li Ling, the frost on Chen Lian’s face melted, revealing a bright sunny smile. From the six-story-high pavilion, he stepped onto a magic energy cloud mist long bridge and flew toward the jade platform in the lake’s center.
“You don’t get to call me Ling’er.”
Li Ling’s jade-like smooth arm swung out fiercely. The nine silver bracelets on her wrist collided intensely, transforming under the spiritual light surging from her brow into nine clusters of silver mist that flew out.
Within the silver mist were densely packed circular light shadows, countless in number.
“Swish! Swish!”
Chen Lian knew Li Ling was a Heavenly Fire Realm great mind master but didn’t take it seriously. He casually drew a circle with his finger, effortlessly forming a magic energy vortex that swept up all the silver bracelets and then drew them into his palm.
“Splash!”
A layer of formation light gauze rose from the lake surface, enveloping all the pavilions around the lake.
An elder master from Heaven Pavilion appeared but didn’t intervene, merely rasping: “The cost of activating the formation and any losses from the battle will be charged to today’s expenses of the two of you.”
“Put it all on my tab.”
Chen Lian landed gracefully and dashingly on the carved dragon railing at the edge of the jade platform, the nine silver bracelets hovering in his palm: “Ling’er, you’re no match for me! From Zangxian Town to Juze City, I’ve killed five or six young martial cultivators of the Jiu Li generation, but I could never bear to hurt you no matter what. You should understand my feelings.”
“Chen Lian, you’re too arrogant. Do you really think Jiu Li martial cultivators are yours to slaughter?”
As soon as Li Ling finished speaking, brilliant light erupted from her brow. Her foot lightly stomped, and the entire jade platform ignited, turning into a terrifying sea of fire enveloping a ten-zhang radius.
The lake water boiled, heat waves surging toward the pavilions by the water.
After collecting the nine silver bracelets, Chen Lian still underestimated the girl before him as before, but at this moment, a bone-chilling sense of danger arose. Releasing battle intent or taking a magic tool weapon from his boundary bag was clearly too late.
Shocked in his heart, he instinctively channeled magic energy into his wind riding boots, trying to escape with his movement technique speed.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Li Ling shouted delicately. A rune shot from her brow like a meteor, exploding above Chen Lian’s head and transforming into a ten-meter-long golden giant sword.
Mind power and sword qi locked onto Chen Lian, making it impossible to dodge.
“You…”
Chen Lian’s eyes widened in full terror, letting out a long whistle from his mouth.
Magic energy from his four seas of qi desperately surged out, condensing into a cloud-shaped shield seal.
“Boom!”
The golden giant sword split through the magic energy cloud like cleaving bamboo. Amidst a burst of blood light, Chen Lian’s figure flew backwards like a broken kite, a deep bloody gash running from his shoulder to his belly.
The wound was very deep.
He mobilized his abundant internal magic energy to seal the wound; otherwise, blood would be gushing out, exposing his innards.
The power of the golden sword talisman was actually equivalent to a full-force strike from a Fourth Realm of the Five Seas Realm martial cultivator. If Chen Lian hadn’t underestimated her, he absolutely wouldn’t have been severely injured by one sword.
Li Ling used spiritual light mind power to retrieve the nine silver bracelets, then struck them out again.
“Clang clang!”
Chen Lian gritted his teeth, his organs damaged, blood constantly flowing from his mouth. He hurriedly took out his magic tool weapon, the seven-toothed halberd, spinning and swinging it to block. But with most of his magic energy used to seal the wound, he could only exert fifty percent of his full combat power.
The defeat was sealed.
Without rescue, he would surely die at Li Ling’s hands today.
The Zhizhou talents in Cloud Palace were shocked by Li Ling’s cultivation and strength, their eyeballs nearly falling out.
“Brother Chi… this Ling’er young lady is actually a Heavenly Fire Realm great mind master, and she’s only how old?” Among the Zhizhou talents, the only woman, Song Nanying, said.
Li Weiyi said, “Sixteen, almost seventeen!”
Song Nanying was secretly astounded.
Someone said, “Ling’er young lady is indeed worthy of the Pure Immortal Body; her cultivation speed leaves us in the dust.”
Qi Wangshu’s eyes shimmered with admiration: “Ling’er young lady’s rune magic attainment is extraordinary. Among Heavenly Fire Realm great mind masters, I’ve never seen such powerful runes.”
“It’s average! Among all her master’s disciples, she’s the weakest one.” Li Weiyi said indifferently.
Qi Wangshu confirmed again: “Brother Chi, what exactly is your relationship with Ling’er?”
No wonder he doubted; the others present also had faces full of suspicion.
They could tell Li Weiyi’s cultivation was definitely not high, at least not a match for Ling’er young lady. Yet he had just called her “Ling’er,” clearly indicating an unusual relationship.
“Our relationship is exactly what everyone imagines.” Li Weiyi didn’t explain further, searching for the mysterious hidden person lurking in the shadows while keeping a close eye on the sixth-floor pavilion nearby.
Everyone present felt deep respect.
Chi Yongsheng, with a mortal’s body and inferior cultivation and strength, had captured the heart of a Pure Immortal Body heavenly proud daughter, making her utterly devoted and obedient.
This method…
Not simple!
Immediately, some Zhizhou talents politely asked for advice, very interested in this art of eating soft rice hard.
Li Weiyi suddenly stood up and shouted, “Are you ganging up on us?”
Only to see.
Two figures stepped on magic energy and flew out from the window from which Chen Lian had leaped earlier, speeding toward the battlefield in the lake’s center.
One male, one female, both at Third Realm of the Five Seas Realm cultivation.
They were going to rescue Chen Lian.
“Pfft!”
“Pfft!”
Two golden sword talismans flew from Li Ling’s brow, cleaving the two young masters in half. Their corpses were mangled, staining the green lake with blood.
Many onlookers in the shadows were shocked.
Li Weiyi held the Sky Flame Saber and rushed to the lake shore but stopped.
Because Li Ling had used the nine enlarged silver bracelets to bind the severely injured Chen Lian into a human stick.
The human stick flew toward Cloud Palace and crashed heavily at Li Weiyi’s feet, rolling on the ground.
Chen Lian no longer had his previous elegance and arrogance. Blood kept seeping from the wound on his abdomen, his face extremely pale.
Li Ling held the seven-toothed halberd and stepped back across the water. The group of Zhizhou talents went forward to greet her, words of flattery coming one after another.
Mastering a rune with power comparable to a full-force strike from a Fourth Realm of the Five Seas Realm martial cultivator wasn’t anything remarkable, because in battle, others wouldn’t give you the chance to draw a second rune.
But the rune Li Ling mastered was clearly one that could be stored.
That was completely different!
Who knew how many such runes she had stored in her forehead spirit realm?
Even a Fifth Realm of the Five Seas Realm master would feel uncertain facing her.
Li Weiyi returned from the lake surface, each hand dragging a mutilated corpse. He rummaged through their treasures, collecting everything into his boundary bag. Then, he prepared to interrogate Chen Lian. A large group of San Chen Palace masters appearing in Juze City was definitely no simple matter.
“Hoo!”
A cold wind suddenly rose.
Waves piled up on the lake surface, growing increasingly rapid.
A powerful aura that chilled everyone in Cloud Palace to the bone erupted from the sixth-floor high pavilion nearby.
Li Weiyi’s entire body tensed uncontrollably, his spirit solemn, hairs standing on end.
“Zheng!”
A piercing sword cry erupted from some unknown space, resounding through all twenty-eight pavilions of Heaven Pavilion. Many martial cultivators’ swords trembled in response.
“Worthy of being Cang Li’s sister. I underestimated you before!”
A majestic young voice echoed endlessly around the lake surface, full of momentum.
Lanterns swayed, doors and windows shook.
“Boom!”
The lake surface exploded out of nowhere, forming a three-zhang-high wave that surged rapidly toward Li Weiyi and Li Ling in Cloud Palace by the lake shore.
The wave was as high as a city wall, quickly condensing into white during its rush, turning into countless ice swords. These ice swords seemed to know how to walk, advancing onto the shore.
“It’s Chen Wenwu!” Li Ling exclaimed in shock.
How could she not be shocked? This was the number one expert of San Chen Palace’s younger generation, wielder of the Zhige Sword, who had already slain over a dozen elder masters. Her brother Cang Li held Chen Wenwu in extremely high regard, saying that among Li Zhou’s younger generation, only he could steadily defeat Chen Wenwu.
This was a contender for second place in Li Zhou, and of course, there were several such figures.
Li Weiyi was already alert and immediately took out the high-tier defensive magic tool, the green yin banner, thrusting it fiercely into the ground.
“Boom!”
Green formation light and armored departed spirit soldiers rushed out, colliding with the advancing water wave ice swords.
They couldn’t block them at all.
Li Weiyi and Li Ling kept retreating, about to be caught by the ice swords.
Suddenly, a powerful magic energy long dragon surged from underground, activating the green yin banner stuck in the ground to grow taller and larger. The armored departed spirits rushing out numbered in the thousands, like an army of yin soldiers filling Heaven Pavilion.
“Crack crack!”
The ice sword waves surging from the lake shattered completely.
In Heaven Pavilion, spies from Zuo Qiu Gatehouse immediately reported the appearance of the green yin banner.
This was a treasure of Zuo Qiu Gatehouse; they had been notified long ago to report immediately if it appeared.
Chen Wenwu’s handsome and steady figure stepped to the window side of the sixth-floor high pavilion, hands clasped behind his back: “I wonder which hero is intervening in today’s matter? Could you give face to Chen Wenwu of San Chen Palace?”
