Chapter 254: Transcendents Converge
The scarred old man laughed heartily: “Looks like we’ve really been away too long. The sect disciples actually treated us as outsiders. The title Yin Eleven was once used by me, but that was a very, very long time ago. Just call me Qin Lao now.”
The tiger-headed old man sighed deeply: “Call me Zhuo Lao! The current Hidden Lord praised you to the skies, saying how stunningly you performed at the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, and that without protection, you’d be wiped out by hostile forces. Sure enough, it successfully piqued our curiosity and drew us to the center of this vortex of trouble and disaster. What a trap!”
Jiu Li Hidden Sect selects sixty Hidden Persons and one Hidden Lord every Jia Zi.
One Jia Zi after another in rotation.
The current Hidden Person is naturally Li Weiyi. The latest Hidden Person is Yin Twenty-Six, Yao Yin.
Thirty-four years later, when Yin Sixty is selected, it enters the next Jia Zi. At that time, Li Weiyi will change from Hidden Person to the current Hidden Lord.
The current Hidden Lord is responsible for all matters inside and outside the Hidden Sect, can mobilize all Hidden Persons and resources, and is also responsible for selecting and cultivating the next generation Hidden Person.
Theoretically, in special periods, even Ancient Hidden Persons must obey the current Hidden Lord’s commands.
Qin Lao and Zhuo Lao are the two Ancient Hidden Persons whom the current Hidden Lord summoned using the Hidden Ancestor Token to protect Li Weiyi.
Upon learning they were Hidden Sect seniors, Yin Eleven instantly became smug: “So how did we perform?”
“So-so!”
Qin Lao’s gaze fell on Li Weiyi, exchanging a glance with Zhuo Lao before cupping their fists together.
Though the Hidden Person has not yet fully grown, he can stand on equal footing with them. Because Jiu Li Hidden Sect’s requirement for the Hidden Person is that he must cultivate a leadership aura.
Only by granting sufficiently high status can a leadership aura be fostered.
After Li Weiyi returned the gesture, he asked: “Where is the Hidden Lord?”
Zhuo Lao said: “Gone to the city to snatch Longevity Pills, Dragon Seeds, and Dragon Bones—all snatched for you lot. Originally, with the invitations and tickets you obtained, you could have exchanged for quite a few, but now the old guys have to do it personally!”
“Don’t spout nonsense! The current Hidden Lord went to help Zuo Qiu Gatehouse maintain order in the city. Since their injuries have stabilized, let’s go help too. Zuo Qiu Gatehouse will definitely be short on manpower tonight, with so many people scrambling—order is too chaotic.”
Qin Lao pulled Zhuo Lao along and hurried down the mountain.
Li Weiyi asked: “Li Ling, is your brother really your parents’ biological son?”
Li Ling was stunned, not knowing why he suddenly asked such a thing, but this… was truly not a nice thing to say, so she snorted coldly at Li Weiyi.
Li Weiyi secretly admired the Hidden Lord, who always knew exactly what to do at every moment.
Although Cang Li was gravely injured and on the brink of death, the Hidden Lord’s presence seemed to offer no real help and instead delayed the best time to seize Longevity Pills, Dragon Seeds, and Dragon Bones.
In his mind, he recalled it.
The Dragon Palace flipped over, with various treasures raining down like meteors, flying toward various places in the city.
Li Weiyi slapped his thigh hard, extremely hating the two Demon Race experts who suddenly appeared and killed. He could have originally exchanged for quite a few treasures, laying a solid foundation for Dao Seed Realm.
Now it’s good—after fighting desperately for half a month, he got nothing.
He could only pin his hopes on the Hidden Lord achieving something.
After all, with so many Longevity Pills, refining them is not easy, and Du’e Temple might not be able to produce another twenty immediately. Dragon Seeds and Dragon Bones are even absolute top-grade items; once lost, they can’t be obtained again.
Taoli Mountain is the safest place in Qiu Prefecture City, enveloped by massive formations and runes.
On the Third Heaven, there is a concentrated area of buildings and cultivation cave mansions where the direct line geniuses of Zuo Qiu Gatehouse almost all reside.
After adjusting his breathing for a moment, his injuries were temporarily suppressed.
Ignoring the obstruction from Yin Twenty-Four and Yao Yin, Li Weiyi walked out of the palace hall, proceeding south along a ten-foot-wide stone steps mountain path, extremely interested in the clash between Transcendents and Longevity Seekers, as if his bloodline had been awakened, filled with fervor and excitement.
This represented his future martial dao direction, a height he must pursue.
Just how strong are the strongest practitioners in the world?
Are they truly like in mythological legends, opening heaven and earth, omnipotent?
The buildings and palace halls on the Third Heaven are all built along the cliff, with ancient massive peach trees growing, their peach blossoms in full bloom, drifting down like snowflakes.
Yin Twenty-Four and Yao Yin flanked him left and right, closely following and supporting him.
Arriving at the cliff edge near Southern City, Li Weiyi circulated magic power to his eyes, gazing far into the distance, only able to see outside the formation light gauze where massive demon shadows occasionally flew past, emanating powerful auras.
Below, Southern City’s outer city was shattered and fragmented.
Houses completely collapsed, the earth torn apart, seawater pouring in. In the ruins, countless residents had died miserably.
But the inner city remained intact, in Eight Trigrams form, solid as a fortress.
“Crash! Crash…”
In the eight small Dao Domains of the inner city’s Eight City Districts, eight light pillars rose, combining with the light pillar rising from Taoli Mountain. Instantly, the city’s underground continuously had formation scripts rising, protecting Qiu Prefecture City into a sea of formation script light.
Li Weiyi said: “They didn’t breach the city? I remember the city protection formation light gauze seemed torn open, with terrifying figures breaking in.”
Behind him came a steady, deep voice: “If Qiu Prefecture City were so easily breached, then anywhere in Lingxiao Life Realm, they could rampage unchecked!”
Li Weiyi turned back, his eyes full of surprise, and hurriedly saluted: “Greetings, Family Head.”
Zuo Qiu Ling was both Lingxiao Leader and the Family Head of Zuo Qiu Gatehouse.
Of course, Family Heads like them, just like Jiu Li Hidden Sect’s current Hidden Lord, only handled mortal world matters.
Matters above Longevity Seekers were beyond their ability to resolve.
The consensus in the martial dao world was that Dao Seed Realm is the strongest in the mortal world, while Longevity Realm no longer belongs to the mortal category, beings contending with heaven and earth for lifespan. Before the ten-year warfare erupted, Longevity Realm almost never intervened in mortal affairs, only pursuing cultivation and lifespan.
Zuo Qiu Ling was over two meters tall, extremely tall and handsome, clad in armor, ready to join the battle at any time.
This peerless strong practitioner, hailed as “sitting like a divine mountain, lying like a nether dragon, moving chasing sun and moon,” was not as aloof as in legends, his gaze quite gentle.
He continued: “It’s not that simple! The main city strongholds of ten million gateways, after thousands of years of deployment, could even block the Martial Dao Son of Heaven for a time. If it were so easy to penetrate, Second Palace Master would have long led the Imperial Court’s Transcendents to destroy the Righteous Armies’ sect gates one by one.”
Li Weiyi’s tense and worried heart temporarily eased: “Is Zuo Qiu Hong alright?”
“She is fine now, but not yet awake,” Zuo Qiu Ling said.
“Boom!”
In the inner city area below the mountain, a hidden powerful cultivation Death Ash charged toward a Dao Domain in Southern City, intending to destroy the formation light pillar rising from the Dao Domain.
Its body burned and exploded apart.
Sparks flew out, turning into a fire rain covering several li of city district.
But it did not form an Ash Region, resolved by the city protection formation.
From that Dao Domain, massive runes surged out, blocking all the destruction energy.
Zuo Qiu Ling snorted coldly: “We long guessed they would preposition manpower in the city to break the formation from within—how could it be that easy?”
In the inner city, Demon Race and Ash Spirit strong practitioners appeared one after another, their attack targets all the Dao Domain formation nodes of the Eight City Districts.
The city was full of experts from major powers, who quickly suppressed and killed them all.
“Woof! Woof…”
From the depths of the void came barks like thunder, resounding across a thousand li of land.
An old dog as tall as a mountain trod across the plain, its body skinny and emaciated, teeth sharp, spewing grey mist. Its body was mottled and patchy, fur severely fallen out, the remaining long fur dark red.
Wherever its paws stepped, vegetation withered, death qi spreading to form blood pools and pits.
It specifically headed for areas dense with humans, either swallowing an entire large town’s populace into its belly with demon wind, or simply killing countless civilians with the death qi emanating from its body.
Upon reaching the Bing Zu Marsh battlefield, the old dog attacked a Transcendent coming from Northern Territory.
Zuo Qiu Ling recognized the old dog’s origins, his expression darkening: “It’s the Western Territory Rong thief, Quan Rong’s Old Ancestor—this old bastard is still alive.”
Four Extremes Ape King appeared on the horizon, like the Heartless Golden Ape with four arms, sword-like fangs in its mouth, hundreds of li of demon cloud gathered atop its head.
Its head was enormous, with a five-colored mountain on top, five elements power converged, holding a flame-burning war spear hundreds of meters long, grinding mill thick, weighing unknown millions of jin.
Entering Bing Zu Marsh, it ran across the seabed, attacking Second Palace Master’s imperial carriage.
One after another Transcendent from Far West Ash Region Faction arrived, with unprecedented momentum, truly intent on annihilating Zuo Qiu Gatehouse.
The Imperial Court and major Righteous Armies’ elder strong practitioners could not stay out of it, because Qilin Zhuang was preparing to take this chance to kill them all together.
…
Two patches of silver radiance illuminated the night sky.
A Demon Race living being flew over Qiu Prefecture City, extremely arrogant.
Li Weiyi looked up and immediately held his breath, his heart stopping.
It was an eagle whose wings covered Southern and Northern Cities, emanating a primordial aura. Its silver wings slashed toward the formation light gauze over Qiu Prefecture City, the relatively weaker defense spot.
Silver feathers penetrated in, silver light sprinkling across the entire city, dragging south like a heaven-splitting silver blade, domineering.
It did not break the formation.
The protection light gauze had multiple layers, and with magic energy continuously erupting from Heaven Earth Spring, the light gauze could repair.
“It’s that Silver Feather Eagle King from the eight thousand li Yin Mountain in Northern Territory—one of the four Great Demon Kings in the Life Realm, two have now appeared!” Zuo Qiu Ling’s mood grew heavy, no longer as confident as before, very afraid the other two Demon Kings would also show up.
Qilin Zhuang came aggressively, rallying transcendents under heaven. If unable to annihilate Zuo Qiu Gatehouse, this first battle upon return would not resound, badly hurting morale.
Quan Rong’s Old Ancestor was not among the four Great Demon Kings.
The four Great Demon Kings considered themselves orthodox Demon Race, cultivating the Human Cultivation Codex, learning human culture and arts, getting along fairly well with human martial cultivators, thus occupying vast territories each in the Twenty-eight Prefectures.
Quan Rong Old Ancestor belonged to Fiend Demons, roaming between Nether Realm and Life Realm, only able to prop up human Rong thieves as subordinate forces, without its own Demon Race territory.
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