Chapter 329: Luan Sheng And Lin You Arrive At Headquarters
Time came to a month later.
After Tang Wanzhou entered Li Weiyi’s Zu Tian, she sat in meditation in mid-air, falling into a deathly silence state, unable to wake no matter how she was called.
Li Weiyi tried to mobilize magic energy to drive her out of Zu Tian, but she was steady as a rock, immovable, as if she had grown inside it.
Considering her Longevity Realm cultivation and the previous terrifying mind power backlash, Li Weiyi did not dare to use the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, fearing it would stimulate her and cause an immeasurable power storm, truly destroying his Zu Tian.
He could only let her “live” inside.
For some time recently, Li Weiyi had been pondering why Tang Wanzhou had undergone such a change.
He strongly suspected that it was perhaps not qi deviation, but rather an encounter with something on the other side of the space teleportation array.
Until Tang Wanzhou had been silent in his Zu Tian for a long time, it made a extremely terrifying thought emerge in his mind, associating it with that Great Palace Mistress of Lingxiao Palace who had not left the palace for many years.
Tang Wanzhou’s state was exactly the same as that legendary Great Palace Mistress.
Both had once been brilliant and wise, sagacious and intelligent, their charisma overshadowing all men under heaven. Suddenly, their temperament changed drastically, like qi deviation, becoming paranoid and extreme.
After the Great Palace Mistress changed, she encouraged planting Benevolent Rice, issued the Small Field Edict, causing chaos under heaven and boiling resentment among the people.
At that time, the Imperial Court and the major ten million gateways had traced the Rice Sect Main Altar to Fu Zhou. Due to the outbreak of warfare, the human race major powers were conquering the Imperial Court and had no energy left to deal with the Rice Cult.
When Li Weiyi and Tang Wanzhou had chatted to this point back then, he had speculated whether this warfare lasting over a dozen years was related to the Rice Cult, to divert all parties’ attention, make the human race slaughter each other, and thus fish in troubled waters to complete the final harvest.
Tang Wanzhou, however, believed that the Rice Cult was not powerful enough to manipulate Yu Yaozi.
Now it seemed there might well be a connection; perhaps everyone under heaven had underestimated the power of the Twin Rice Cult.
Li Weiyi’s mood was complex. If this warfare that killed countless people was truly orchestrated single-handedly by the Rice Cult over a dozen years ago, intending to annihilate the humans of Lingxiao Life Realm, then what did it mean for him to now join the Rice Cult?
The “Yin Corpse Seed Dao” that Tang Wanzhou had risked death to investigate at the Rice Sect Main Altar—if the coming storm and slaughter were real, they would only be even more brutal.
A woman could risk her life for the people under heaven.
Yet he, for the sake of stealing a life and living on cowardly, had become a member of the Rice Cult.
Every time he thought of this, Li Weiyi felt extremely distressed, becoming confused about the road ahead. For the first time, he felt that the boundaries of right and wrong, good and evil, were so blurred.
Right contains wrong, wrong contains right.
Good contains evil, evil contains good.
All things under heaven seemed like a Tai Chi Diagram, with no absolute black, nor absolute white.
Unfortunately, the space teleportation array was already destroyed, with no way to go to the other side to investigate and verify his guesses.
Perhaps he could only wait for Tang Wanzhou to truly awaken before knowing the truth. Li Weiyi actually admired her greatly, having an extraordinary trust in her abilities and strength, believing she could definitely break free from the illusion and find herself again.
Because even just after waking from the teleportation array, she could quickly recover reason, not completely controlled by madness and negative emotions.
On the wide road about three or four li from Southern Clear Palace, a team of gorgeous and magnificent carriages headed toward Heavenly Principle Hall.
There were seven carriages in total, some pulled by exotic beasts, some by departed spirit soul beasts. A large group of demon race martial cultivators with beast heads and human bodies followed behind the carriages, releasing rolling magic energy demon clouds.
“How could demon race martial cultivators appear at the Divine Sect Headquarters?” Qi Xiao gazed from afar, extremely surprised.
Tuoba Butuo said: “The carriage at the very front has such a terrifying aura; the one who came must be a big figure from the demon race.”
Li Weiyi said: “Tuoba, go inquire about it.”
“Okay!”
Tuoba Butuo had already broken through to Dao Seed Realm Fourth Heaven, and with their previous heavy wounding of Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun, their strength intimidated the entire Divine Cult. Now he and Qi Xiao could freely walk in the headquarters, with no one daring to easily provoke them.
On the contrary, every day there were inner disciples, core disciples, true disciples coming to pledge allegiance, wanting to follow the Fourth Divine Son.
Li Weiyi had no intention of developing forces in the Twin Rice Cult, and with his heart in extreme contradiction, he naturally refused them all at the door.
In short, although the battle at Nether Flower Black Swamp was fought arduously, it won the respect and awe of the Divine Cult’s young generation disciples, thoroughly establishing their footing at the headquarters.
Over an hour later, Tuoba Butuo returned with a grim face: “You wouldn’t dream of who I saw.”
Qi Xiao said: “There shouldn’t be many demon race cultivators we all know. It couldn’t be someone from the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, right?”
Tuoba Butuo looked at Li Weiyi: “Luan Sheng Lin You is currently touring the Divine Sect Headquarters, and at this moment, accompanied by Second Divine Son Huang Xu, they went to the Divine Prison. Young Lord Long Ting and other young strong practitioners now famous under heaven, like Chen Wenwu, follow at their sides.”
Second Divine Son “Huang Xu” and “Kong Xu” were rumored to be transcendent inheritors, cultivating void engraving, with cultivation second only to the Divine Son Chief Seat.
The Third Divine Maiden, named Li Niang, was extremely mysterious with very little information about her.
Qi Xiao was stunned: “It really is him. Has the demon race and Divine Cult resolved their contradictions?”
The contradictions between the two major powers naturally referred to Qilin Zhuang blasting open the Underground Immortal Mansion, dragging the hidden Twin Rice Cult into the open, thereby tying down a large number of human race masters in the Underground Immortal Mansion and Fu Zhou. Only then could the demon race hold their own in the conquests by the human race major powers.
“Something big is about to happen! The ones who came absolutely won’t be just Luan Sheng Lin You; there must be demon race supreme powerhouses accompanying them.”
Li Weiyi keenly smelled the aura of impending storm and said again: “Tuoba, continue inquiring. I want to know what Luan Sheng Lin You’s purpose is in going to the Divine Prison.”
Tuoba Butuo said: “I’ve already had people from the Sixth Divine Maiden Mansion go probe! I’m afraid… if I meet them, I won’t be able to hold back from striking.”
At the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, Snow Sword Tang Court was almost completely annihilated by the cultivators led by Luan Sheng Lin You; the Tuoba Clan had only him surviving.
Tuoba Butuo had always remembered this blood feud.
Qi Xiao chuckled: “What do you say, two years passed, what cultivation realm is Luan Sheng Lin You at now?”
Tuoba Butuo said: “At the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, before Brother Weiyi appeared, I once thought that Luan Sheng Lin You could be mentioned in the same breath as the Young Lord from over a dozen years ago, an unsurpassable Young Son of Heaven. Even without a dragon seed, such a figure’s cultivation speed would be extremely terrifying.”
“With a dragon seed blessing, and being the Flying Dragon Direct Grandson, his understanding and compatibility with dragon seed surpasses everyone. I dare not imagine how strong Luan Sheng Lin You has become now.”
Li Weiyi nodded lightly: “One year ago, I fought Long Ting. His cultivation realm was ahead of Tuoba and Yang Qingxi; Luan Sheng Lin You can only be stronger. So, Tuoba, you must control your hatred. There’s no need to dead-end with him—know that the old guys of the human race major powers probably all want his life; his days aren’t as glamorous as they seem on the surface.”
Not long after, news came from the Sixth Divine Maiden Mansion: “Luan Sheng Lin You took thirty people from the Divine Prison, all Dao Seed Realm experts under the Imperial Court banner.”
Over the past two years, countless martial cultivators had entered the Underground Immortal Mansion seeking opportunities.
The Underground Immortal Mansion held the greatest attraction for Inferior Root Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators, all believing they could find the secret to inferior root breaking into longevity.
These martial cultivators from all over had been ambushed and captured alive by the Twin Rice Cult, all imprisoned in the Divine Prison.
Yao Qingxuan returned to Southern Clear Palace, her state clearly different from her previous calm wisdom; even Li Weiyi could see the emotions on her, her eyes filled with solemnity, struggle, distress, and contemplation.
Li Weiyi did not ask, quietly standing by waiting.
After a long while, Yao Qingxuan finally restrained all fluctuations, recovering her cold clarity: “The Golden Rice fluctuations are growing stronger; it should grain birth in the next two days. What are your plans next?”
“From Master’s tone, you don’t want me to continue staying in Southern Clear Palace.” Li Weiyi said.
Yao Qingxuan looked at him, as if she had seen through him long ago: “If not for the Golden Rice tie, you would have wanted to leave Southern Clear Palace long ago, right? Staying here with me, don’t you feel restricted?”
Li Weiyi drew in a cold breath inwardly, wondering if the secrets on him had long been seen through by her.
Staying in Southern Clear Palace, entering Blood Mud Space or using Time Cocoon for cultivation, he indeed had to be extremely cautious, unable to let loose at all. Tang Wanzhou in Zu Tian was even more like a timed bomb.
If he could leave, it would naturally be for the best.
Yao Qingxuan quickly shifted her gaze from his face: “Today the demon race transcendent came to the headquarters; do you know what for?”
Li Weiyi said: “With a demon race transcendent entering the headquarters, the Divine Cult absolutely cannot conceal his senses. From now on, the entrance position of the Divine Sect Headquarters will no longer be a secret.”
“In other words, the Divine Cult is about to formally emerge under heaven!”
“The moment of emergence will surely bring earth-shattering events, thereby sweeping away threats in one stroke and changing the pattern of Lingxiao Life Realm.”
“I heard that the demon race young generation’s leader Luan Sheng Lin You took thirty Dao Seed Realm prisoners under the Imperial Court banner from the Divine Prison. This disciple boldly guesses that the Rice Cult and demon race are about to attack Lingxiao City, annihilate the Imperial Court, and make the human race thoroughly scatter like loose sand.”
“That way, even if the headquarters is exposed, no one can threaten us.”
A flash of shock passed through Yao Qingxuan’s eyes; she hadn’t expected Li Weiyi to analyze the general direction of coming events with such limited information.
She said: “I’ve seen Luan Sheng Lin You—a heaven-defying genius, with talent and mind both at the peak; no one in the Divine Cult’s young generation is his opponent. You, if your Zu Tian hadn’t been half-crippled, should be able to compete with him. Have you reached Dao Seed Realm Second Heaven?”
Li Weiyi smiled bitterly: “Master, it’s only been two months since I started Feng Fu Seed Dao.”
Yao Qingxuan said: “After Luan Sheng Lin You seeded dao, he palpitated in two months, stepping into Second Heaven. Then half a year later dao birth, entering Third Heaven.”
“He is the Flying Dragon Direct Grandson, with unmatched understanding of dragon seed in the world. Don’t speak of me, a half-crippled person; even those ten who went to Du’e Temple to cultivate might not catch up to him.”
