Chapter 31: Night At Yao Pass
Li Weiyi wanted a quick battle and quick decision, so he went all out.
After catching up to the ape-like deformed humanoid race, he thrust out both palms together, with gusts of wind, actually intending to overpower with strength.
Only opened one spring…
He just needed to push horizontally and forcefully suppress and kill.
The ape-like deformed humanoid race didn’t dare to clash head-on with Li Weiyi, swinging out the spine bow to block.
He felt that the young man in front of him had more than three springs, possibly even opened four springs. Under the enhancement of that pair of silver thread gloves magic tool, he could probably exchange a few blows with a martial arts cultivator who had opened five springs.
With the realm of opening four springs, he could make the magic tool flicker with silver light, which was probably not a low-tier magic tool.
To possess a magic tool in the spring gushing realm?
What exactly was this young man?
The ape-like deformed humanoid race racked his brains but couldn’t figure it out. After blocking several palms, the spine bow cracked inch by inch, blood overflowed from his hands, and his organs ached as if splitting.
He decisively turned and fled.
How could Li Weiyi let him escape?
He had to silence him.
After catching up, he used his hand as a knife and executed Grand Unity Opens the Sea.
A silver palm qi blade light slashed onto the back of the ape-like deformed humanoid race, severing its spine.
The massive body then crashed to the ground in flames.
“Bang!”
He followed with one more palm, shattering its skull.
Confirming it was dead, Li Weiyi quickly returned, picked up the Yellow Dragon Sword, and wrapped it in cloth.
Zhao Zhizhuo hurriedly came forward to express thanks: “May I ask the young benefactor’s honorable name? Zhao Zhizhuo of the Cang Li Tribe will remember it forever.”
“Mister, you should hurry and get reinforcements. That is the most urgent matter.” Li Weiyi said.
Zhao Zhizhuo’s face was pale, his eyes filled with anxiety and worry, enduring the intense pain from his wound: “This old man has an unreasonable request… Young benefactor, could you help to the end? With this old man’s current physical state, if I travel alone, I’m afraid I’ll fall from the horse after just dozens of li.”
That iron arrow had too much destructive power, tearing a large area of flesh and blood and damaging the bones.
Li Weiyi really didn’t want to get involved, fearing future retaliation from Shi Jiuzhai.
But he also thought that after the people on the bronze ship came down, they would need a place to settle and live; otherwise, how could they survive? If he could use this opportunity to resolve the matter, it would be worth taking the risk.
Li Weiyi had ridden horses before, but he wasn’t skilled in horsemanship.
However, after opening two spring eyes at the soles of his feet, his body was supernatural and extraordinary, so controlling a horse was effortless.
The three rode one horse together.
Zhao Zhizhuo lay prone in front, Gao Huan hugged Li Weiyi’s waist tightly from behind.
Fortunately, the sturdy horse under them had drunk the blood of the Zou Wu exotic beast, with tough bones, solid muscles, and tiger patterns all over its body, far larger and more majestic than ordinary horses. Even carrying three people at once, it still raced like lightning, able to cover a thousand li a day.
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Yaoguan City was nearly three hundred li from Zangxian Town, with a population of over two hundred thousand. It had no city walls, city gates, or moat, more like a large market town with free entry and exit.
The entire Yaoguan City was like a big pancake, spread out on the fertile plain west of the Sui River, connecting to the west with the Mang） Mountain peaks.
It was already night.
Bone lamps along the streets lit up, emitting a glow like ghost fire.
Li Weiyi and Gao Huan stayed at the third-ranked large restaurant in the city, Yao Hua Pavilion. After taking hot baths, they not only ate noodle soup but also more than a dozen delicacies.
After entering the city in the afternoon, Zhao Zhizhuo immediately went to the city lord’s mansion to seek help.
Soon, deafening roars of a hundred beasts came from Mang Mountain. Some martial arts cultivators rode flying birds with wingspans of dozens of meters, others rode divine giant beasts resembling tigers, elephants, or rhinos, all heading to Zangxian Town.
That scene was quite grand.
Li Zhou was the territory of the Jiu Li race, peaceful for several hundred years, never having such a vicious incident.
Although there were contradictions and competition among the major Jiu Li tribes, when real danger arose, any tribe would absolutely rush to rescue.
The Jiu Li race had generations of marriage alliances; break a bone and the tendons are still connected.
Zhao Zhizhuo finally arrived at Yao Hua Pavilion, thanking Li Weiyi again, so excited he wanted to kneel, but he was steadily supported and couldn’t kneel.
He wore grayish-white cloth clothes, looked to be in his sixties or seventies, with frosted temples, but his muscles were strong, showing he must have been tall and mighty in his youth.
“If not for the young benefactor’s righteous action, my Cang Li Tribe would surely suffer heavy casualties this time. Tomorrow, the young tribe leader will definitely come personally to thank you. At that time, young benefactor, feel free to make any requests.”
Zhao Zhizhuo’s shoulder had already been cleaned and bandaged, treated with special secret medicine.
“They’ve already been saved?”
Li Weiyi was very concerned about whether the battle at Zangxian Town had ended, wanting to hurry back to the bronze ship.
Zhao Zhizhuo nodded and said, “The young tribe leader and the others haven’t arrived at Yaoguan yet, but news has come back that the Buddha Bandits have retreated.”
“Buddha Bandits?”
Li Weiyi was puzzled; weren’t the people led by Shi Jiuzhai the Earth Wolf King Army?
Zhao Zhizhuo already knew that the two in front of him were not Buddha Bandits, but refugees who had fled to Li Zhou and worn monk’s robes like the Buddha Bandits by mistake, causing the misunderstanding.
This was what Li Weiyi had told him on horseback.
With the world in chaos nowadays, refugees everywhere, countless people fleeing to Li Zhou to avoid disaster. Zhao Zhizhuo naturally fully trusted Li Weiyi, who had saved his life.
Zhao Zhizhuo’s eyes carried hatred and anger, his chest heaving violently, aggravating his old injury, speaking in a somewhat gasping voice: “Southern Barbarians, Northern Di, Eastern Yi, Western Rong. In our southern territory’s several states, the most hated and terrifying are the three great barbarian thieves: Coffin Mountain’s Xu Fudu, Night City’s Yuwen Yan, Earth Wolf King’s Shi Na’er.”
“They say Li Zhou is ruled by the Jiu Li race, so it’s been peaceful for centuries.”
“But who knows, for this peace and stability, the Jiu Li race has been swallowing their anger, sending large amounts of offerings and wealth to Coffin Mountain every year. Precisely because of this, Xu Fudu’s one hundred thousand Buddha Bandits only plunder and extort on a small scale in Li Zhou, never causing large-scale conflict.”
“The Buddha Bandits being so ruthless and bloody this time is truly abnormal; I don’t know what they intend.”
Many thoughts flashed through Li Weiyi’s mind in an instant. He asked, “What about the Earth Wolf King Army?”
Zhao Zhizhuo said, “The Earth Wolf King’s forces are not in Li Zhou and have no relation to us.”
“Has Old Zhao heard of Shi Jiuzhai?” Li Weiyi asked.
Zhao Zhizhuo’s expression tightened: “Shi Jiuzhai is no small figure; he is Shi Na’er’s sworn son, one of the Earth Wolf King Army’s ten law kings, rising to fame in the recent twenty years, but already a figure on the《 Jia Zi List》. Young benefactor, why do you ask about him?”
Li Weiyi always felt that Zhao Zhizhuo was very fearful of the three great barbarian thieves, as if even the Jiu Li race had to pay tribute to the barbarian thieves.
He didn’t dare say it!
If he said it, he would definitely be pushed to the forefront, and crucially, the Cang Li Tribe might not be able to protect him. He might even become a sacrifice in the struggle between great powers.
Low profile, low profile.
Getting involved to this extent was already very dangerous.
“I’ve long heard of his great name; it’s resounding like thunder.”
Li Weiyi quickly changed the subject, asking, “Old Zhao, could you first help this junior resolve some doubts about cultivation? I’ve always been practicing blindly and don’t understand many things.”
“Blind practice to reach opening three springs, or even four springs?”
Zhao Zhizhuo looked at the silver thread gauntlets on Li Weiyi’s hands, thought of something, and hurriedly cautioned prudently: “Young benefactor, this old man doesn’t dare ask where you got this magic tool, but never easily activate and use it in front of others. An innocent man with a jade arouses envy.”
Li Weiyi could see Zhao Zhizhuo’s sincerity, and while moved, he asked, “Are magic tools that precious?”
Zhao Zhizhuo finally believed that the young man before him had indeed been practicing blindly and might really know very little about the martial way: “To put it this way! If this old man weren’t old with my ambitions gone, seeing your magic tool, I might still feel greedy. This isn’t repaying kindness with enmity; the temptation is too great, it’s human nature.”
“In other words, if a beauty like a heavenly immortal strips naked and walks on the street without any self-protection, any danger she encounters is her own fault, and no one else can be blamed.”
“Understood!” Li Weiyi took off the silver thread gloves and hid them: “Please help keep it confidential, Old Zhao.”
Zhao Zhizhuo hurriedly guaranteed it, then said, “Young benefactor, don’t mind too much; this old man speaks bluntly. Actually, in this world, there aren’t many absolutely good people, nor many absolutely bad ones; the most are those who dare not be too good nor too bad.”
“Rest assured; even if it were in my youth, I absolutely wouldn’t do something like repaying kindness with enmity. It’s just that I’ve eaten dozens more years of rice, seen too much, and can’t help but warn a bit more.”
“Thanks!”
Afterward, Li Weiyi asked Zhao Zhizhuo some questions related to cultivation.
Suddenly, it became lively outside.
The quiet night was shattered by breaking wind sounds and the cries of a hundred beasts.
The Shou Li Tribe’s people and horses had returned!
Zhao Zhizhuo immediately took his leave to go welcome the young tribe leader. Before leaving, he asked if Li Weiyi wanted to go together. Li Weiyi naturally shook his head; tonight, the Cang Li Tribe’s big shots would be busy, not the time to meet.
Moreover, such a formal meeting would bring endless future troubles.
