Chapter 309: Spatial Teleportation Array
Patrol Guards retreated like a tide.
Yi Zhouxue didn’t even dare to personally make a move against Li Weiyi, so how could he dare to attack Southern Clear Palace?
In the end, Wang Shu’s death had planted a thorn in his heart, making it impossible for him to ever sell his life for Chu Tianshu again.
Under Heaven lost a senior disciple brother who valued loyalty and righteousness, and gained an evil cult master who was outwardly obedient but inwardly rebellious, who sought clarity to protect himself, and was selfish.
The superiors set the example, and inheritance passes from one generation to the next.
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Outside Southern Clear Palace, it was empty, with only a few scattered Rice Cult disciples peeking from afar in the distance, wanting to watch the excitement but arriving a step too late.
Having heard of what happened earlier.
These young disciples looked toward Southern Clear Palace with even more awe in their eyes.
In an evil cult, only the strong are respected and feared.
Slaying the Fourth Divine Son, and yet escaping from the Divine Son Chief Seat, Patrol Guards, Fifth Divine Son, and many other masters—it was simply like a tale from heaven, draping a mysterious and powerful outer garment over Southern Venerable’s senior disciple.
Exhausted in both body and mind, Li Weiyi returned to the main palace great hall of Southern Clear Palace, let out a long breath, threw the Yellow Dragon Sword onto the ground, and directly sat leaning against the wall. The pain and weakness throughout his body came crashing in madly.
Losing the pressure of life and death and the tension, his vision went dark before his eyes; he only wanted to collapse and sleep.
Yang Qingxi was injured even more heavily than him, her green robe dyed into a blood robe, her veil long gone, with wounds everywhere on her body. Her energy, essence, and spirit were also completely exhausted; she directly sat beside Li Weiyi, closed her eyes, leaned against the wall, and took deep breaths.
After a long while, the two of them chuckled softly at the same time.
No matter how brutal, dangerous, and full of twists the process had been, at least they had survived once again, and with a great victory.
The person they wanted to save, they saved!
The person they wanted to kill, they killed!
Yang Qingxi opened her eyes and turned her face to look straight at Li Weiyi beside her.
Li Weiyi noticed her gaze, bit the tip of his tongue to keep himself from passing out, and said vigilantly, “Young Lady Yang wouldn’t be thinking of taking this opportunity to eliminate me, then announce to the outside that I succumbed to my heavy injuries, would she?”
Yang Qingxi continued staring at him and sighed, “Two years ago, in my eyes, you were just a fledgling Spring Gushing Realm kid who popped up from some backwater village, with neither the extraordinary appearance of a Pure Immortal Body nor a strong and powerful family background.”
“At that time, I was already the leader of Sui Sect’s younger generation. Compared to me, you were like an ant in a mud swamp versus a phoenix soaring in the skies.”
“In just a short two years, everything has changed; you and I can actually sit side by side against this wall. No matter how proud I am in my heart, I can no longer look down on you now.”
Li Weiyi recalled all sorts of things from his initial arrival in this world and asked, “To be honest, those few times we met in Li Zhou, I really couldn’t tell when I was seeing you and when I was seeing Yang Qingchan.”
“Why bother distinguishing so clearly? Haven’t the grudges between us already been settled?” Yang Qingxi said.
This campaign against Wang Shu had somewhat changed Li Weiyi’s view of Yang Qingxi.
From beginning to end, her attitude had been very firm; she hadn’t wavered back and forth because Wang Shu had broken through and put them at a disadvantage.
Anyone else probably would have flown off separately when great disaster struck.
Li Weiyi felt a weight on his shoulder as Yang Qingxi’s head leaned against it.
He said, “What are you doing?”
“Don’t move, let me lean for a bit.”
After a long while, with her eyes still closed, Yang Qingxi said again, “Actually, the two of us are more compatible. Why not just go with the flow? Your Zu Tian is already crippled, and when Zuo Qiu Hong Ting returns from Du’e Temple, her horizons will surely have broadened greatly. With her Young Son of Heaven’s talent and aptitude, how could she still look at you? Zuo Qiu Cang Wu killing you might very well be the Zuo Qiu Gatehouse’s big shot wanting to clear obstacles for the Young Son of Heaven.”
“You’re sowing discord; be careful that when my fiancée returns and hears the rumors between you and me, she beats you up first.”
Li Weiyi knew full well that Yang Qingxi was not just ruthless but also shrewd in calculations with extraordinary mind, so he couldn’t judge how much truth there was in her earlier words.
Thus, he said again, “Young Lady Yang, why exactly did you want to kill Wang Shu?”
Yang Qingxi’s tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open.
Clearly, Li Weiyi’s question had caught her off guard.
“Young Lady Yang came to the headquarters only a year ago, and she’s in secluded cultivation most of the time year-round, so how could you know that Wang Shu had once opened a secret treasure vault in an underground immortal mansion? Such a secret, Wang Shu shouldn’t have let outsiders know about it.”
“Sui Sect has seven great families, with the Yang Family ranked first, Sheng Family second, followed by the Wang Family, Xue Family, and five other families.”
“Sheng Family Old Ancestor is a Saint Spirit Mind Master, the head of Rice Cult’s seven great elders in the Southern Territory.”
“Your Yang Family has two Longevity Realm experts: Li Zhou’s number one strong practitioner, which is your Yang Family’s old ancestor Yang Shenjing, and your grandfather Yang Yin.”
“Sui Sect’s seven great families’ old ancestors were originally retainers and servants of the Jiu Li Clan. Over a thousand years, they rapidly grew strong, surpassing even the ten-million-year ancient clan’s main house. How did they do it?”
“This timeline of development and growth seems to perfectly align with the Divine Cult.”
“If I’m not mistaken, Sui Sect’s seven great families have long been subjugated by the Divine Cult. The Divine Cult wants to borrow Sui Sect’s transportation advantage on the waterways, using the banner of the declining ten-million-year ancient Jiu Li Clan to quietly insert forces into various prefectures under heaven.”
“At the same time, under the guise of population selling, they can transport Rice People planted in various prefectures without anyone knowing.”
“Sui Sect is clearly a sect, with Yang Shenjing’s cultivation suppressing everyone, yet there’s still talk of seven great families within the sect. Most family heads are even just Dao Seed Realm—on what basis?”
“The seven great families all have backing, right?”
“The Wang Family’s backing is that vice hall master of Heavenly Principle Hall.”
“You targeting Wang Shu is essentially the Yang Family wanting to clean up the Wang Family, one link in fully controlling Sui Sect. After all, if Wang Shu grows up, he’ll surely take over the Wang Family in Sui Sect in the future, checking your Yang Family.”
“With someone to check them, your Yang Family can’t do as it pleases, and wealth and resources can’t easily be pocketed.”
“The Yang Family shows no fear at all toward a big shot like Heavenly Principle Hall’s vice hall master, which shows Yang Shenjing also holds a high position—at least vice hall master of Under Heaven Hall, or possibly even the hall master.”
“Young Lady Yang, in your eyes, I’m just a greenhorn you can use, right?”
Yang Qingxi still pillowed on Li Weiyi’s shoulder, her bright eyes not knowing what she was pondering, and said, “I’ve told you everything—even I only learned a year ago that I’m a Rice Person. The things you’re speculating about, you should go ask your master Southern Venerable, or that Hall Master of Spirit Valley Hall who thinks so highly of you.”
Yang Qingchan walked in and glanced at the two of them: “Yang Family people have arrived; go see them yourself!”
Yang Qingxi arduously propped up her delicate body and walked outward.
Li Weiyi had naturally already recalled the Ghost Flag and curiously followed to the doorway to look far into the distance.
The ones from the Yang Family were two white-haired old men, followed by Ye Nanfeng, Ye Beifeng, Zuo Sheng, Yang Yun, and the Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators and core disciples who had previously followed Wang Shu.
A vast group of people.
Without a doubt, the Yang Family people had taken this opportunity to absorb Wang Shu’s followers under their banner.
Seeing them about to leave, Li Weiyi shouted, “Yang Qingxi hasn’t divided the spoils yet!”
Yang Qingxi instructed the two old men about something, then returned to Southern Clear Palace, took out Wang Shu’s boundary bag, and split the loot with Li Weiyi on a three-seven basis.
Li Weiyi’s main goal this time was to save people, and with him heavily injured now, he didn’t haggle much over the spoils.
All of Wang Shu’s wealth, including six Bodhi Seeds, added up to nearly two million Spring Coins in value.
Li Weiyi only took one thousand-year elixir, as well as a large amount of Spring Coins and blood crystals.
Li Weiyi said, “Two million Spring Coins is indeed wealth that only a Seventh Heaven Dao Seed Realm or above strong practitioner could possess. But aside from the six Bodhi Seeds, the rest doesn’t seem like it came from a secret treasure vault.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll find clues to the secret treasure vault! Once found, we’ll go get it together; I won’t take it all for myself,” Yang Qingxi smiled faintly.
Li Weiyi would be a fool to believe her: “Then, shouldn’t you pay back the five hundred thousand Spring Coins you owe me?”
Yang Qingxi quickly retreated far, fleeing Southern Clear Palace: “We’re both so badly injured; let’s not fight again! Once we find that secret treasure vault, the wealth inside might exceed five million Spring Coins.”
Li Weiyi, weak in body, said, “Once my injuries heal, we’ll have a proper reckoning. You won’t get away with owing me that money so easily.”
Yang Qingxi didn’t take Li Weiyi’s threat to heart, thinking the worst case was just a beating or being planted with a Six Desires Talisman.
Facing Li Weiyi, these two things didn’t seem scary at all.
She had secretly thought about it: if it were another man who beat her or planted a Six Desires Talisman on her, what would the result be?
She felt she would exhaust every means to tear him to shreds, grind his bones to dust, and scatter his ashes.
Why had Li Weiyi done both these things, yet she felt no hatred in her heart?
“Think about my earlier proposal again. If my cultivation rises rapidly while you stay in place, my standards might rise accordingly, and you’ll have no chance!” Yang Qingxi said.
Li Weiyi shook his head lightly and returned to Southern Clear Palace’s main palace great hall.
“Yang Qingxi spoke realistically, but it’s also fact. A woman like Zuo Qiu Hong Ting—even I wouldn’t dare say I could win her at the same realm. With the help of Dragon Seed and Longevity Pill, she’ll soon become a Longevity Realm giant; what will you do then?”
Tang Wanzhou sat above in the great hall, her hair in a ponytail, already restored to her heroic and vibrant strong practitioner state.
Li Weiyi felt a massive headache: “Young Lord, why did you come out? Didn’t we agree not to leave that formation? How many eyes are on Southern Clear Palace right now?”
“Found something; want to go see?” Tang Wanzhou asked.
Li Weiyi and Tang Wanzhou entered the formation light gauze and arrived in that Buddha hall ruins.
The entire formation area spanned dozens of acres, thick with blood mist and barren without a blade of grass.
A blood pool over two meters long and wide sat in one corner of the ruins, the blood inside neither dried nor coagulated.
Tang Wanzhou circled around the blood pool and led Li Weiyi into the Buddha hall that only had two remaining broken walls.
On the ground were many fine groove patterns filled with red, viscous liquid.
Li Weiyi squatted down, touched it with his finger, and the fingertip turned bright red with a bloody smell: “Such powerful blood; after so many years, it hasn’t dried up.”
This reminded him of the Golden Crow’s blood on that bronze ship.
“It’s corpse blood from an ancient immortal giant beast; naturally, the energy isn’t weak,” Tang Wanzhou said.
In Yingzhou’s history, there had once been a prosperous and glorious era where countless ancient immortal giant beasts coexisted, ruling this endless vast territory together with ancient immortal giants.
But later, the Nether Realm enveloped all of Yingzhou, and the ancient immortals departed, gradually going extinct.
However, in some Immortal Fall Realms, there was a chance to find corpse remains of ancient immortal giant beasts from ancient times. Such corpses were naturally supreme treasures; even a small amount of corpse blood could help the human deformed humanoid race metamorphose and gain powerful power.
Of course, the corpse blood had long lost immortal power and couldn’t compare to true immortal blood.
The Buddha hall had been cleared by Tang Wanzhou, revealing the full view of these groove patterns.
Li Weiyi quickly saw the clues: “This is… a formation?”
“It’s a space teleportation array!”
Tang Wanzhou had studied the Path of Space for over ten years and detected abnormal spatial fluctuations in this formation.
Space teleportation arrays were extremely rare, harder to deploy than any formation; even Saint Spirit Mind Masters couldn’t fully comprehend them.
With Tang Wanzhou’s experience, this was her first time seeing one.
Li Weiyi said, “What’s Young Lord’s purpose in bringing me here?”
“You’re a Spirit Mind Master.”
Tang Wanzhou walked toward the center of the formation.
Li Weiyi said, “I am a Spirit Mind Master, but my understanding of formations probably doesn’t match yours, Young Lord.”
“Your mind power can activate the formation,” Tang Wanzhou said.
Li Weiyi said, “We don’t even know where this formation leads? There’s too much uncertainty and danger.”
Tang Wanzhou said, “This teleportation array built in a Buddha hall was very likely an important transit hub from the Ancient Bhakara Sect period. It couldn’t connect to the outside, as the underground immortal mansion’s barrier is hard even for spatial power to penetrate.”
“It’s extremely likely an internal teleportation array between two locations in the underground immortal mansion. Look at this broken jade stele!”
At the center of the formation was a jade remnant stele only half intact, engraved with two strange characters.
“These are characters from the Ancient Bhakara Sect period, named Sacred Heart.”
She said, “I speculate this is the teleportation array leading to the Sacred Heart Layer.”
“Young Lord wouldn’t be thinking of activating the formation to go to the Sacred Heart Layer, would she?” Li Weiyi thought she must be crazy and reminded her, “The two Rice Ancestors are in the Sacred Heart Layer.”
Tang Wanzhou said, “Are you so sure the Rice Ancestors are still in the Sacred Heart Layer? Instead of being drawn to the ground by the transcendent presence of Zuo Qiu Gatehouse and Snow Sword Tang Court?”
