Chapter 320: The Mysterious Staff
“It’s just that I can’t cultivate Dao, but I can put away and release magic tools,” Li Weiyi patiently explained.
Sikong Jingyuan cursed vulgarly and then roared, “You’re seeking death!”
Li Weiyi’s eyes sharpened, he raised the Yellow Dragon Sword above his head, and his internal magic energy surged, injecting it into the sword body.
“Swish!”
Nine Dao Scripts appeared on the sword body, and the sword tip drew lightning.
Upon reaching the Dao Seed Realm, the Yellow Dragon Sword became even more mystical.
The Dao Scripts on the sword body were not scriptures, but the Daoist Sect’s Six Jia Secret Incantation, which emerged from within the sword body.
“Rumble!”
Li Weiyi squatted down and slashed horizontally with his sword.
Accompanied by a thunderclap, sword light and lightning shot out.
The Ghost Generals accompanying Sikong Jingyuan exploded like bubbles, seven or eight instantly, and even their formation could not withstand it.
In the distance.
Er Feng led the Insect Swarm of Bone-corroding Miasma Mosquitoes, covering the sky, charging into Sikong Jingyuan’s Dao Heart External Manifestation area and crushing the formation of a hundred ghosts.
“Whoosh!”
Yin wind blew, and ghost clouds surged.
The sound of war banners echoed in the wind.
A Yin Ghost Commander, fifty feet tall, ran at extreme speed. Tuoba Bituo and Qi Xiao stood on its left and right shoulders respectively, one holding a saber and shield, the other with a bow and arrow.
The War Weapon had changed owners, it was clear that Sikong Ce and Sikong Qin had met a grim fate.
Facing this dangerous predicament, Sikong Jingyuan felt a chill all over his body. He sobered up, immediately retracted his Dao Heart External Manifestation and Ghost Generals, used an Escape Technique, and his body plunged into the mud swamp.
“Boom!”
Li Weiyi slashed down with his sword, parting the swamp like the sea.
The sword mark was a foot deep.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and he escaped.
Li Weiyi immediately released his Mind Power Earth Nerve to probe the surroundings.
Er Feng pursued Sikong Jingyuan’s aura and flew out two or three miles in a certain direction. However, the aura disappeared at this point, vanishing without a trace.
Tuoba Bituo and Qi Xiao were also searching, but found nothing.
“Damn it, he escaped again! I’ll have to cultivate a powerful Evasion Technique myself to protect my life, which is more important than anything,” Qi Xiao’s chest heaved, greatly angered.
Li Weiyi maintained a good mentality and said with a smile, “Sikong Jingyuan’s cultivation is far superior to ours. If we want to defy the strong and keep him here, we will pay a heavy price. When Tuoba reaches the Dao Seed Realm Fourth Heaven, we will join forces and block all his escape routes, ensuring he cannot get away.”
Tuoba Bituo said, “For someone like Sikong Jingyuan, at the Fifth Heaven or Sixth Heaven of the Dao Seed Realm, capturing or killing him is not easy. Let alone us? Brother Weiyi, what is your cultivation realm? I feel you were always at an advantage when fighting him.”
“It was all thanks to the War Weapon and Daoist Arts catching him off guard. Besides, my Mind Power Attainment is at the peak of a Three-star Spirit Mind Master. Who says Mind Masters can’t defy the strong?”
Li Weiyi looked at his left hand, which was throbbing with pain.
Even with the defense of the Blood Handprint Demonic Armor, his palm was still injured, flesh and skin torn open, when he retrieved the Golden Ancient Mirror.
However, thinking that he had obtained a Seventh Rank Hundred Character Artifact, which could be sold for at least a million Spring Coins, his mood immediately improved.
Putting away the Yellow Dragon Sword, Li Weiyi asked, “Did those two old guys also escape?”
“One escaped, one was captured.”
Tuoba Bituo, whose magic energy was heavily consumed, felt that Sikong Jingyuan must have truly escaped far and stopped activating the Ghost Flag, recalling the Yin Ghost Commander into the flag.
He opened the Boundary Bag and released Sikong Ce.
Sikong Ce was burned black by the Du Ling Cold Fire, severely injured, and had already been knocked unconscious. Sikong Qin was injured when he used his Escape Technique, so he could only flee alone.
Although the Yin Ghost Commander’s combat power was strong, its attack methods were simple. A martial cultivator at the Dao Seed Realm Fourth Heaven who wanted to escape could not be held back.
Li Weiyi took all the valuables from Sikong Ce: “It’s already great that we captured one person! A master at the Dao Seed Realm Fourth Heaven is very valuable. Tuoba, he’s yours for now!”
“Understood.”
Tuoba Bituo gave a sinister smile and broke all four of Sikong Ce’s limbs one by one.
This was the most secure method for dealing with a captured martial arts master.
“We can actually capture a martial cultivator at the Dao Seed Realm Fourth Heaven now! The Leader of our Qi Family is only one realm higher than him,” Qi Xiao said with a smile.
Li Weiyi’s breathing and exhaling rapidly restored his magic energy, and he asked, “How long have we been in the Nether Flower Black Swamp?”
“About four days!” Qi Xiao replied.
Li Weiyi calculated in his mind and then asked, “How was the harvest?”
“We gathered three Flowers of Meditation, and haven’t found any Ling Tai Yan Xing Stone Fragments yet,” Qi Xiao said.
“I gathered three Flowers of Meditation and one Thousand Year Elixir.”
Tuoba Bituo took out a palm-sized, dark black elixir that resembled a short, fat child, emitting a strong medicinal fragrance and a robust life aura. He handed this Thousand Year Elixir to Li Weiyi, knowing that he consumed a great deal of resources to raise his seven strange insects.
He then took out the rust-covered spear: “I don’t quite understand this item, but it should be extraordinary.”
After Qi Xiao took it, he almost sank into the swamp; it was too heavy, weighing over thirty thousand jin.
It’s indeed not an ordinary thing.
It was activated with magic energy, but there was no reaction.
54 “I don’t understand!”
He shook his head and handed it to Li Weiyi.
Li Weiyi was prepared. Magic energy solidified into clouds beneath his feet, lifting and supporting his body. He grabbed the rusted spear and channeled magic energy into it. However, it was like dead iron; the magic energy could not enter.
Tuo Ba Bu Tuo said, “This spear and the thousand-year elixir were found underground three hundred miles deep into the Nether Flower Black Swamp. That area is very strange…”
Qi Xiao said, “It should just be a spear cast from dense metal.”
“This spear has been meticulously forged. Its length is precisely ten feet, not an inch more or less, and it weighs thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three catties.”
As a Spirit Mind Master, Li Weiyi was very sensitive to length and weight.
When a formation master is setting up a formation, they cannot add even a fraction more or less. When an alchemist refines pills, the medicinal herbs cannot be a fraction heavier or lighter.
Li Weiyi looked at the spearhead, which was exactly one foot long and very sharp, with two ear-like protrusions resembling human ears.
He wiped away the rust, revealing some blurry star track lines underneath, which seemed familiar.
He looked again at the tail of the spear…
The butt of the spear was empty and tubular, uneven.
It’s unknown if it was intentionally designed this way or if something else was stored inside.
Li Weiyi’s heart stirred. He mobilized his mind power, using the Golden Crow Flame, preparing to refine the spear to see if it could be melted.
“Sizzle!”
The Golden Crow flame enveloped the spear.
A strange thing happened; the rusty spear was rapidly absorbing Li Weiyi’s mind power.
Li Weiyi was astonished and poured his mind power into it with all his might.
Gradually, the meter-long spearhead began to brighten, and the star track lines became clear. The same star track lines appeared above the heads of the three, covering a large area.
73 “This wouldn’t be a Mind Master’s staff, would it?” Qi Xiao exclaimed.
The magic tools of martial cultivators are strange and varied, with numerous types.
However, artifacts for Mind Masters are very few, and each one is very precious.
Talismans and formation flags are not considered Spirit Mind Master artifacts, as martial cultivators can also activate and use them.
Li Weiyi swung his spear, and the radiance on the spearhead and the star track lines above his head instantly dissipated, with no power exploding forth.
“It should be a staff… to be exact, it’s a combined war weapon of a war spear and a staff, but it seems to be missing a section, making it unable to exert its power.”
Li Weiyi felt the extraordinary nature of this spear and asked, “Tuoba, where did you find it? If you can find the other section, I’ll trade you a Ghost Flag for it.”
He must now, as a Spirit Mind Master, conceal his Martial Way attainments as much as possible.
Fighting with Sikong Jingyuan, there’s no need to worry about exposing anything, as he can be bluffed. But if a Longevity Realm Giant were watching, the huge gap in martial cultivation and combat power would certainly cause considerable trouble.
A suitable staff could greatly increase his strength as a Spirit Mind Master, truly allowing him to defy the strong.
Tuo Ba Bu Tuo chuckled, “No need for an exchange. Brother Weiyi, feel free to take it. If it’s truly a staff, I wouldn’t be able to use it anyway! Besides… do you think I can hold onto a treasure like the Ghost Flag? I don’t think you can hold onto it either, Brother Weiyi.”
After activating the Ghost Flag, I realized how extraordinary it was.
With his cultivation at the Dao Seed Realm Third Heaven, Tuo Ba Bu Tuo’s Yin Ghost Commander could challenge weaker practitioners at the Dao Seed Realm Fifth Heaven.
Moreover, he could also join forces with it to fight.
However, the magic energy consumption was enormous.
Tuo Ba Bu Tuo said Li Weiyi couldn’t hold on because no one knew the upper limit of the Ghost Flag yet. How could Hall Master An and Venerable Yao not have considered using it?
To think on the bright side, the reasons they haven’t spoken yet are: firstly, the arrogance of the strong; secondly, they haven’t encountered a crisis they can’t handle.
Thinking about the worst-case scenario, there are even more possibilities.
Tuo Ba Bu Tuo said, “Brother Weiyi, there’s no need to be modest. Because of the life-saving favor, you can accept this item with peace of mind. Besides, if the other segment cannot be found, it will be a lifeless object, worthless.”
“Then I won’t be polite! I’ll compensate you elsewhere in the future.”
Li Weiyi put away his spear and said, “Let’s go, we’ll go to that strange area you mentioned and search again! I want to see just how strange it is.”
Qi Xiao was somewhat worried, “If Sikong Jingyuan escapes, he’ll definitely return to Ku Rong Hall to ask for powerful helpers. Will it be too dangerous for us to continue lingering in the Nether Flower Black Swamp?”
Tuo Ba Bu Tuo nodded. “We’ll return to headquarters first; the side that’s in the right. Let Sikong Jingyuan go back first; he will surely twist facts and make a big fuss about Sikong Ce.”
Li Weiyi said, “Your worries are not without reason. But have you considered that Sikong Jingyuan must also think we will return to Headquarters immediately? If he takes the lead, we won’t be able to catch up. Rushing back to Headquarters now might be even more dangerous.”
Li Weiyi had many life-saving techniques, so he wasn’t too afraid. He added, “There’s another possibility! Sikong Jingyuan is a Divine Son, and moreover, a Divine Son with higher cultivation than us.”
“He probably wouldn’t run back so dejectedly, not only utterly defeated but also having his treasured mirror snatched by me. It would be too humiliating! If I were him, I would definitely hide in the dark and make a comeback while unharmed.”
“His hiding methods and escape techniques are both quite formidable.”
Tuo Ba Bu Tuo nodded lightly: “If it were me, I would do the same. Moreover, he and Sikong Yanlun are Rice Person Brothers, with a wonderful spiritual connection. If Sikong Yanlun is summoned, he will surely be full of confidence and fight us again.”
“Let’s go. With our current strength, even if the brothers join forces, we may not have much chance of winning.”
After fighting Li Weiyi, Sikong Jingyuan’s confidence grew, dispelling the mystique of Fourth Heaven Martial Cultivators in the Dao Seed Realm.
Those who condensed the Dao Lotus were once beyond reach, like a towering mountain that made him breathless. Now, it seems, they are nothing special.
