Chapter 190: Nine-headed Demon Dragon
“That Departed Spirit seemed to have no hostility, and Li Ling even took her as Master. Originally, we were going to Qiu Prefecture City together, but on the road, she suddenly said she had other important matters and didn’t know where she went.”
Li Weiyi and Li Ling had appeared together in Juze City before, so this matter couldn’t be hidden from Hidden Lord.
But if he told Hidden Lord now about Zen Sea Observing Mist going to Shenzao Diyuan, Hidden Lord would probably immediately go looking for her.
It wasn’t clear what state Zen Sea Observing Mist was in now, and if she wasn’t Hidden Lord’s opponent and got captured, or her soul taken and mind seized, then many of Li Weiyi’s secrets would be exposed.
He could only temporarily help conceal it for her.
“Li Ling’s mind power progress in this past half year has indeed been astonishing.”
Hidden Lord suddenly realized his impropriety and said something he shouldn’t have, quickly restraining the softness in his eyes, and asked: “In your judgment, could she really be Zen Sea Observing Mist?”
“If she really is Zen Sea Observing Mist, with my cultivation and experience, how could I judge her? The gap is too big!” Li Weiyi smiled bitterly.
Hidden Lord nodded lightly: “Mist Heavenly Child is a respectable strong practitioner! During her time, she expanded territory, Lingxiao reaching Three Hundred Prefectures, her might covering all directions. Places like Far West Ash Region and Nether Realm of the Dead didn’t dare act recklessly. The prosperity and glory of that era is beyond what cultivators of our time can imagine. Today’s Lingxiao Life Realm is like a withered and decaying wasteland, yet full of crises, filled with blood and chaos.”
“If it’s really her, for Li Ling, it might be an opportunity that changes her life. But it’s hard to say… Whether a cultivator turned Departed Spirit can retain wisdom, conscience, spirit is still unknown. If tainted by the damned Dark Qi of the Nether Realm of the Dead, it’s no different from a ferocious evil.”
“Actually, what I’m most worried about is a Departed Spirit borrowing Mist Heavenly Child’s name to deceive you and Li Ling, carrying out some nefarious plot.”
“She really wants to marry you?”
His three Masters and Hidden Lord all had high evaluations of Zen Sea Observing Mist.
Seeing her appearance and state, she didn’t seem tainted by the Dark Qi of the Nether Realm of the Dead, so he could only continue to conceal it, and also conceal his own extremely mysterious bloodline and origins.
Li Weiyi said: “She did say such a strange sentence! But for an existence like Zen Sea Observing Mist, it’s hard to guess her true intentions. Anyway, whether with me or Li Ling, it’s still just a simple relationship.”
Hidden Lord’s lips moved, but in the end he didn’t pursue it further, knowing that the gap in wisdom and methods between Li Weiyi and Zen Sea Observing Mist was too great, so he couldn’t see the most essential things.
He said solemnly: “If Li Ling reappears, notify me immediately. This Lord wants to meet that Mist Heavenly Child personally, to see if she’s real or fake, and what her purpose is.”
Li Weiyi thought to himself, if Zen Sea Observing Mist and Li Ling returned before the year-end, should he notify Hidden Lord?
It was truly a headache!
With an unprecedented cautious gaze, Hidden Lord said again: “Whether she is Mist Heavenly Child or not, this matter must be kept strictly confidential. If it leaks out, it will be a catastrophe that shakes the heavens, the shock and danger it brings is something even the Jiu Li can’t bear, let alone Lingxiao Life Realm. I’ve already warned Cang Li and Yin Nine, you must also keep your mouth sealed.”
“I know the stakes involved.” Li Weiyi said.
“Boom!”
Deep in Qin Garden, the Green Yin Banner erupted with dazzling green light, reflecting the lake surface green.
Hidden Lord and Li Weiyi hurried one after the other to the courtyard outside where the Green Yin Banner was planted.
Yin Twenty-Three, Yin Twenty-Four, and Yin Twenty-Five, who were contemplating the Jiu Li God battle intent here, were all forced to flee by the intent fluctuations inside.
“Did he succeed?”
Li Weiyi found it unbelievable, so he activated Heavenly Eye and looked toward the courtyard. He then saw Yin Eleven standing below the massive Silver Coffin in the Green Yin Banner.
Yin Eleven’s original battle intent was a figure exactly like him, human body with snake tail, five zhang tall.
At this moment, this battle intent was undergoing intense metamorphosis.
Demonic energy surged, the snake tail turned into a thicker and more divine flood dragon tail, with black scales covered in numerous blood patterns. The flood dragon scales spread upward, gradually devouring the human body of the upper half, both arms turning into sharp flood dragon claws.
The human head erupted with brilliant light, growing nine flood dragon heads each a zhang long on necks. Very similar to dragon heads but with extremely short flood dragon horns, sharp fangs, mouth wide as a basin.
Yin Eleven’s battle intent completely metamorphosed into a Nine-Headed Demonic Flood Dragon, its momentum far surpassing before by an unknown amount, containing the ancient domineering might of the Jiu Li God.
Once the battle intent is released, any martial cultivator can see its extraordinary nature.
“This is a battle intent fused with the Jiu Li God’s? How did it metamorphose into a Nine-Headed Demonic Flood Dragon?” Li Weiyi was astonished, finding it hard to understand.
Fusing battle intents wasn’t rare.
Usually, it’s a weak battle intent fused into a strong one. Could it be… that the Jiu Li God was actually a flood dragon?
But the Jiu Li God battle intent obtained by Yao Yin was clearly a human figure.
Now another Hidden Person had obtained the Jiu Li God battle intent, Hidden Lord was naturally in a great mood and laughed: “Legend has it, the supreme codex《Heavenly Demon Stone Carving》 that the Jiu Li God cultivated derived thirty-six fundamental martial arts. Each fundamental martial art can cultivate a kind of battle intent.”
“The Jiu Li preserved only the nine kinds of fundamental martial arts cultivated by the Nine Kings.”
“I personally comprehended the battle intent essence in that Silver Skeleton Heavenly Clan bone, the contained Jiu Li God battle intents should be seven paths. Plus the one taken by Yao Yin, that’s eight paths.”
“What Yin Eleven cultivates is the Crimson King’s fundamental martial art, Raging Flood Dragon Captures Dragon Claw Method, which happens to be compatible with one of them. Being able to obtain and fuse it is also his great opportunity.”
The several Hidden Persons present all understood.
To obtain the Jiu Li God battle intent, not only high talent is needed, but also cultivating compatible martial arts.
Yin Twenty-Four’s face was pale, her heart in pain.
She and Yao Yin both cultivated the Medicine King fundamental martial art “Heavenly Wind Palm Technique.”
Yao Yin took the compatible one first, what hope did she have left?
After bowing, Yin Twenty-Five asked: “May I ask, Hidden Lord, for the remaining seven paths, what fundamental martial arts are they compatible with?”
Hidden Lord said tactfully: “You don’t need to deliberately cater to them. Most of the battle intents in the bones aren’t among the Jiu Li’s nine fundamental martial arts. You are all descendants of that old man, with his bloodline, just directly contemplate them, and there is still opportunity.”
“For the Jiu Li God, those battle intents are just a few arcs of light among billions of thoughts. If not compatible, unable to comprehend, it’s very normal.”
Half a shichen later.
Yin Eleven, having finished fusing the Jiu Li God battle intent, had hands behind his back, nostrils to the sky, snake tail slithering out of the courtyard.
He looked disdainfully at Yin Twenty-Four and the other two: “You all, what’s the use of Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body? True talent isn’t something visible on the surface. My outstanding potential is only understood by the Jiu Li God. From today, this under heaven should have a place for me, Yin Eleven.”
“Little Twenty-Five, you say, that Lu Cangsheng condensed the Thunder Department Deity’s battle intent, while I inherited the Jiu Li God’s battle intent. Now, if I wrestle wrists with him, there shouldn’t be any problem, right?”
Yin Twenty-Five’s mood was very depressed and didn’t really want to pay him any attention.
Yin Twenty-Three and Yin Twenty-Four also felt a pain like salt rubbed into wounds.
Li Weiyi coughed dryly twice.
Yin Eleven looked over and immediately restrained his arrogance, hurrying forward to bow to Hidden Lord and the Hidden Person.
Hidden Lord warned: “The Thunder Department Deity’s battle intent isn’t necessarily superior to the Jiu Li God’s battle intent, but Lu Cangsheng is certainly superior to you. The Thirty-Six Thunder Strike Formation, in a thousand years of Lei Xiao Sect, only he cultivated it in Five Seas Realm. If you’re arrogant enough to wrestle wrists with him and happen to die young, how can you face the Hidden Person’s cultivation of you?”
Yin Eleven laughed haha: “I was just joking with those little guys, how could I really become arrogant and conceited, looking down on everyone all at once.”
Li Weiyi played good cop and smiled: “Even without fusing the Jiu Li God battle intent, Yin Eleven’s combat power was already outstanding. Now, he should at least be at the successor’s level!”
“It’s all thanks to the Hidden Person’s cultivation…”
Yin Eleven glanced at Hidden Lord, eyes rolling: “I feel like my whole body is now filled with power, all techniques wondrous, my understanding of martial arts has reached a higher level. Yin Nine isn’t necessarily my opponent anymore. For this Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, how about I take the lead?”
Of course he didn’t want Yin Nine and Yin Ten to have all the glory.
Having fused the Jiu Li God battle intent, he at least had to contend with the experts under heaven.
How could Hidden Lord agree? Not to mention whether he could defeat Yin Nine, even if he was a step ahead, in mind and maturity he was still far behind.
Hidden Lord changed the subject and asked: “Do you know what the Jiu Li God battle intent means to you?”
“No longer a mortal from now on?” Yin Eleven understood it that way, feeling he wouldn’t lose to Pure Immortal Body in the same realm anymore.
Hidden Lord shook his head.
“Longevity is within reach.” Yin Eleven said.
Hidden Lord shook his head again: “Inheriting a powerful battle intent allows a martial cultivator to better understand the martial way and martial arts spirit, can condense a stronger dao seed, extremely important in Five Seas Realm. It can even influence the Dao Heart External Manifestation in Dao Seed Realm.”
“But the most fundamental and key thing in all martial ways has always been the martial cultivator himself.”
“The Jiu Li God battle intent can make you much stronger than same-realm martial cultivators in Five Seas Realm and Dao Seed Realm. The speed and process of cultivation will be faster and smoother.”
“But once the Dao Fruit is forged, how far the future path goes isn’t something one battle intent can decide.”
“Obtaining the Jiu Li God battle intent doesn’t mean you will certainly become a Longevity Realm giant. Everyone is contending for passage; not contending means falling behind, not contending means ruin.”
Li Weiyi understood: the Jiu Li God battle intent has great significance for martial cultivators before forging the Dao Fruit.
If it can be condensed into the dao seed from the beginning, the significance is even greater.
Dao Seed Realm great perfection martial cultivators who have forged Dao Fruit, or Longevity Realm giants like Hidden Lord, simply can’t fuse the Jiu Li God battle intent anymore; they are already walking their own great dao path.
“The Jiu Li God battle intent will serve as Hidden Sect foundation, no need to let those Jiu Li martial cultivators get involved. This matter, Weiyi, you are fully responsible.”
Hidden Lord made the decision, planning to lend Li Weiyi a hand, letting him use the Jiu Li God battle intent to win hearts and solidly sit in the Hidden Person position.
Qin Garden exposed, Hidden Lord decided to carry the Silver Coffin and the group of Hidden Persons to another Hidden Sect Stronghold.
Li Weiyi pulled Yin Eleven aside and low-voiced instructed: “Any Hidden Person wanting to comprehend the Jiu Li God battle intent must get my approval first. Help me keep watch!”
