Chapter 308: Escaping With One’s Life
Qiongji Daozi stood straight on the golden eagle’s back, his green robe like clouds, gentle and handsome, his gaze sweeping over them. All three hundred patrol guards completely restrained their magic energy, jumped off their mounts, and knelt on one knee.
“Greetings, Senior Disciple Brother Chief Seat!”
Yi Zhouxue, Sikong Jingyuan, Sikong Yanlun hurriedly bowed in salute.
The Divine Son Chief Seat was not only a Divine Son, but also the leader of the Divine Cult, the leader of the young generation of disciples, with such great power and prestige that most elders had to bow their heads and obey orders.
Qiongji Daozi sighed, “The one you represent is the Heavenly Principle Hall’s patrol guards, responsible for order and rules, patrolling for spies and traitors. The one you represent is Ku Rong Hall, the enforcers of the Divine Cult. What a small matter, yet you all started fighting first?”
Yi Zhouxue, Sikong Jingyuan, Sikong Yanlun all knew that Qiongji Daozi was the second disciple of the Hall Master of Spirit Valley Hall, with an extraordinary relationship with the Southern Venerable. They all thought he had come to protect Li Weiyi, and the three felt uneasy in their hearts, not daring to speak.
Qiongji Daozi looked at the blood-drenched ground, his gaze falling on Wang Shu’s corpse: “Although this Chief Seat takes the Southern Venerable as a role model and greatly admires her talent and aptitude, I will absolutely not bend the law for personal favoritism. Wrong is wrong! Breaking the rules, anyone must pay the price.”
“The law is not beyond human feelings, reason is not beyond the human heart. You each stick to your words, yet both have reason. In the end, should that person be handed to the patrol guards or to Ku Rong Hall?”
“How about this!”
“Yi Zhouxue, your junior disciple brother was killed, so as his senior disciple brother, taking revenge is perfectly justified. Sikong Jingyuan, Sikong Yanlun, Yang Qingxi is handed to you, you must thoroughly investigate this matter to the end.”
Yi Zhouxue, Sikong Jingyuan, Sikong Yanlun were all stunned, then overjoyed in their hearts.
They secretly sighed in admiration, as expected of the Divine Son Chief Seat, with brilliant methods, easily resolving the dispute. Moreover, both sides gained something, saving face and lining.
“Senior Disciple Brother Chief Seat is wise!”
The three shouted in unison.
Li Weiyi looked with an incredulous gaze at that Divine Son Chief Seat who had repeatedly promised Yao Qingxuan to help take care of him.
When Yao Qingxuan left, she even told Li Weiyi that if he encountered unsolvable danger, he should go seek him.
Li Weiyi had never thought of going to beg Qiongji Daozi, but he never expected that this person would add insult to injury, wanting to put him to death.
Why?
Where exactly had he offended him?
Qiongji Daozi noticed Li Weiyi’s gaze and looked toward him, a surge of mind power erupting from his eyes: “Li Weiyi, do you know your crime?”
His mind power was too strong, far more terrifying than Yi Zhouxue’s Dao Heart External Manifestation, directly striking Li Weiyi’s spirit and soul spirit.
An ordinary Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator would be directly suppressed to kneel.
Li Weiyi was only at Five Seas Realm cultivation, and had not yet cultivated a soul spirit. One must reach Dao Seed Realm, build the soul bridge, infuse part of the soul spirit into the Dao Seed, complete seeding Dao, to slowly nourish and grow the soul spirit.
“Crash—”
In the Spirit Realm, three mind power stars rapidly spun, releasing layer after layer of spiritual light shields, blocking the mind power in Qiongji Daozi’s eyes.
Li Weiyi bitterly held on, his eyes always sharp and bright, not explaining, because explanation had no meaning. He said, “Three days ago, I just became the Southern Venerable’s senior disciple. Three days later, the senior disciple died—can the Southern Venerable afford to lose that face? Yi Zhouxue, do you dare kill me? If the Southern Venerable wants to kill you, will your master protect you? You’re just the next Wang Shu!”
Yi Zhouxue held his spear, battle intent and killing intent condensing on him, but Li Weiyi’s words made his heart turn ice-cold.
He felt somewhat hesitant.
“Could it be, I am also Master’s pawn?” he thought to himself.
Sikong Jingyuan giggled, “Yi Zhouxue, you fear the Southern Venerable, but we brothers do not. Breaking rules and committing wrongs is a capital offense. Without impartial law, how can the Divine Cult rule the world in the future?”
With the two hall masters of Ku Rong Hall as parents, Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun had far greater courage than Yi Zhouxue.
“You won’t think that my backing is only Master alone, right?”
Li Weiyi took out the green jade formation talisman given by An Xianjing, holding it between two fingers: “The reason I can wield the entire Southern Clear Palace’s formations is this formation talisman granted by the Hall Master. Don’t you wonder why an existence like the Hall Master values me so much? If you act rashly without figuring out the reason, are you really not afraid of death?”
The green jade formation talisman, in private, was worthless, no one would fear Li Weiyi because of it, only kill to silence.
But under the watchful eyes of everyone, it was like the Hall Master’s decree.
Elder Xu exclaimed, “No wonder you cultivated the first layer of the Six As Burning Karma Talisman to great accomplishment; it must be that the Hall Master taught it to you long ago.”
Qiongji Daozi was knowledgeable, recognizing that the green jade formation talisman was indeed his master’s item, and immediately fell into contemplation.
Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun also calmed down a lot; they had just returned from the Nether Realm of the Dead and were unclear about Li Weiyi’s background.
The Southern Venerable’s disciple, they could disregard. But someone to whom the Hall Master of Spirit Valley Hall personally granted a formation talisman required caution.
In other words, Li Weiyi’s qualification to freely enter and exit Southern Clear Palace was the Hall Master’s intent.
Was the Southern Venerable taking Li Weiyi as disciple also the Hall Master’s intent?
Most importantly, in this situation, even if all the treasures were seized, they would have to obediently return them to the Hall Master in the future, impossible to keep.
Seeing that he had deterred everyone, Li Weiyi said lowly to Yang Qingxi, “Go!”
As long as they returned to Southern Clear Palace, borrowing the formations, they could fully resist them.
If really necessary, they could still enter the formation area where the golden rice was located.
The three retreated while guarding, weaving through the patrol guards, tense as hell. If the enemies acted desperately, disregarding consequences, they would die without a burial place.
Chu Tianshu stood at the entrance of Heavenly Principle Hall, pondering deeply in his heart.
Li Weiyi’s earlier shouting had put him in a very passive position now. Logically, as master, avenging a disciple, no one could criticize.
But as master, why had he not acted to save?
He was not afraid of criticism, but of An Xianjing seizing this handle.
Now Chu Tianshu could only continue pretending to be pursuing Tang Wanzhou, not in the Mortal Layer, unaware.
“What a cunning junior, looks like he cannot be left alive. If he grows up, Yao Qingxuan would gain a tiger with wings.”
Chu Tianshu’s mind crossed dozens of miles, transmitting to Yi Zhouxue: “The law does not punish the masses; have the patrol guards act to suppress them. After killing them, Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun will surely seize a share; as long as these two are dragged into the water, the water will be muddied!”
Yi Zhouxue understood his master’s intent, so his lips moved, infusing his voice into strands of magic energy, transmitting to the three hundred patrol guards.
Li Weiyi and the other three had not yet exited the three hundred patrol guards’ battle formation. Capturing Yi Zhouxue’s transmission with mind power, their hearts sank, and he shouted, “Run!”
“Boom!”
Li Weiyi’s mind power transformed into a vast spiritual light impact wave, knocking the more than ten patrol guards ahead flying.
They must escape the battle formation at the fastest speed.
Ahead, ten spears thrust out together, forming a small formation, twisting the power of the ten patrol guards into one, turning into a huge war god phantom that punched toward Li Weiyi.
The patrol guards’ smallest battle formation was a ten-man formation.
There were also twenty-man formations, thirty-man formations, hundred-man formations…
The more people, the stronger the formation’s power.
A mere ten-man formation, Li Weiyi naturally did not fear, using a mind power light whip to shatter the war god phantom.
He did not dare linger in battle.
He used Yellow Dragon Ascends to Heaven, escaping the three hundred patrol guards’ formation area, appearing several zhangs above the edge of the formation area.
A hundred-man formation successfully formed, a hundred-zhang diameter formation disk spinning above their heads. From the formation center, a seventh rank Hundred Character Artifact level grand seal flew out, its might fully displayed.
“Boom!”
The grand seal landed, smashing a huge pit in the ground.
The soil around the huge pit showed signs of melting, vegetation within dozens of zhangs of defense turned to flying ash.
Li Weiyi used movement technique to evade first, but was shaken flying by the grand seal’s impact force, rolling several times on the ground, continuing to flee toward Southern Clear Palace.
As long as Yi Zhouxue had no guts to join the pursuit, these patrol guards had limited speed and few masters; he was confident he could escape back to Southern Clear Palace.
“Rumble!”
Large numbers of patrol guards riding departed spirit soul beasts surged toward Li Weiyi like a tide.
Qiongji Daozi stood on the back of the two-headed golden-winged eagle. From the moment Li Weiyi took out the green jade formation talisman, he had been silent. He knew he had miscalculated today; getting further involved with his master would truly be unmanageable.
He then fell into reflection: why had he made such a mistake?
…
Tianxin Temple was Fu Zhou’s number one Taoist Temple, with prosperous incense and many disciples.
It was early spring in the third month, branches hung with lush green, birds chirping pleasantly.
Yao Qingxuan wore a veil, a red mole dotting her brow, sitting on a prayer mat, both dignified and sacred, yet mysteriously beautiful, quietly listening to reports from the people she had left at the headquarters about the streams of information from Lingji Mountain.
Every quarter-hour, new information reached the ground.
“The Yang Family people have not appeared?” she asked softly.
The old man kneeling outside the door shook his head: “No.”
“They really can hold their ground! Then no need to mind the Yang Family; anyway, they were not factored in.”
Yao Qingxuan was certain Li Weiyi would definitely go to the Fourth Divine Son’s Mansion to save people, and knew Qiongji Daozi had a jealous nature—the more she cared about Li Weiyi, the more she praised Li Weiyi, the less Qiongji Daozi would protect him.
So she deliberately left the headquarters, letting the situation develop in the direction she had deduced.
Li Weiyi had a special identity, too many treasures on him, many in the Divine Cult coveting.
Some wanted him dead.
Some wanted the strange insect and ghost flag.
If not using this opportunity to resolve these issues in advance, Li Weiyi would sooner or later die unclearly.
To resolve this, it required Hall Master An to act.
Beyond her expectations, Li Weiyi actually made his move three days later, and killed Wang Zhi and Wang Shu. This strength was far stronger than she expected, and the commotion much larger.
Even more unexpected was that Qiongji Daozi not aiding was one thing, but he actually wanted to take the chance to put Li Weiyi to death.
If only he could stick to it, maintain a just and upright attitude, Yao Qingxuan would think highly of him.
But after Li Weiyi took out the green jade formation talisman, this Divine Son Chief Seat actually backed down!
Yao Qingxuan said, “Li Weiyi is too bold, daring to kill a Divine Son; he needs to suffer a bit. Tell Shan Ze, as long as there is no life threat, no need to act to save him. Also, send a copy of the information about what happened at the headquarters to Hall Master An!”
…
Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun followed behind the patrol guards, watching Li Weiyi and the other three getting closer and closer to Southern Clear Palace.
Sikong Yanlun was very unwilling: “Today we’ve already offended them to death; letting them go like this, they will surely retaliate in the future.”
Sikong Jingyuan was much calmer: “Even Yi Zhouxue doesn’t dare act rashly, and the Divine Son Chief Seat is silent, showing that the green jade formation talisman in this Li Weiyi’s hand is real. Earlier we were only acting officially as Ku Rong Hall martial cultivators, not offending to death. Acting would truly leave no room for maneuver.”
Sikong Yanlun said, “What a pity, such a good opportunity.”
“Acting openly isn’t much of a good opportunity,” Sikong Jingyuan said.
Sikong Yanlun said, “Your meaning is?”
“They can’t stay cultivating at the headquarters forever; they will surely go out on missions. Acting in secret can avoid many troubles.”
Sikong Jingyuan added, “First investigate, check what exactly this Li Weiyi is, what his relationship with Hall Master An is, why he can wield so many treasures?”
…
Charging and killing all the way, leaving a ground of patrol guards’ corpses, Li Weiyi, Yang Qingxi, and Yang Qingchan rushed into Southern Clear Palace’s formation light gauze.
Li Weiyi was gasping like an ox, his whole body blood-drenched, the Blood Handprint Demonic Armor beaten until the scriptures scattered, blood mist dissipated, several bloody holes stabbed into him by spears.
But he did not lie down to rest; instead, he mobilized mind power, fully activating Southern Clear Palace’s grand formation.
At this moment, Li Weiyi could finally laugh loudly: “Yi Zhouxue, you were bluffed by me! In this world, the most taboo is doing things halfway, then hesitating indecisively. Not only failing the goal, but instead making enemies for yourself.”
These words were also for that Divine Son Chief Seat.
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