Chapter 35: Visitor At Immortal Burial Night
The “Nine Springs Diagram” was much clearer than the “Veins Guide Map,” with detailed markings for the position and opening sequence of each spring.
The four limbs’ four springs were naturally the earliest to open and also the simplest.
It was written above:
“Those with superior aptitude must undergo ten years of hard cultivation to succeed.”
“Those with average aptitude require ten to thirty years.”
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The fifth spring was located at the back’s “Core.” The sixth spring was located at the chest’s “Danzhong.” The seventh spring was located at the top of the head’s “Baihui.”
Opening seven springs allowed the whole body to connect through, enabling an attempt to impact a higher realm.
“Those with superior aptitude, after twenty years of hard cultivation, have hope for seven springs.”
Seeing this, Li Weiyi felt even more that Golden Crow Blood was extraordinarily precious. Even those with superior aptitude needed twenty years of hard cultivation to have a chance at opening seven springs. How many years of cultivation time had he saved?
No!
The martial arts cultivators of this world perhaps began practicing martial arts and opening springs at three years old. By his age, they had already practiced for fifteen or sixteen years.
Moreover, he could drink Golden Crow Blood. Surely the noble disciples of this world had precious blood medicines?
Golden Crow Blood was only filling in the fifteen or sixteen years he had delayed, and it was still far from filling it up.
Furthermore, this was only talking about superior aptitude. Later it was written that those with exceptionally outstanding talent could attempt to impact the eighth spring at the back of the head’s “Feng Fu,” and the ninth spring below the navel’s “Zu Tian.”
Mortals who successfully impact “Feng Fu” could be called outstanding persons, able to suppress the deformed humanoid race in the same realm and catch up to the pure immortal body.
Mortals who successfully impact “Zu Tian” could be called supreme persons, a manifestation of extreme physique, with sharpness that could overshadow the pure immortal body.
Li Weiyi was very excited. It turned out there was a way to catch up on the martial way. Although he was mediocre, it was not that he had no chance to challenge the pure immortal body in the same realm. At this moment, his fighting spirit was extremely vigorous.
Mortals in the same realm were suppressed by the deformed humanoid race. Suppressed across realms by pure immortal bodies of lower realms.
Li Weiyi did not want to live so aggrieved.
Feng Fu, Zu Tian……
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But mortals could impact Feng Fu and Zu Tian, couldn’t the deformed humanoid race and pure immortal body also impact them?
At that time, wouldn’t they still be suppressed?
While feeling distressed, Li Weiyi’s ears twitched, hearing an unusual sound. He hurriedly unfolded the ghost flag wrapping the evil camel bell and covered the fire pile with it. The flames extinguished, leaving only thick smoke.
The entire room, the entire Zangxian Town, was completely enveloped in darkness.
“Da da!”
Dense footsteps entered the town.
Some figures flew across the rooftops, with light and swift steps.
Li Weiyi threw the《Nine Springs Manual》 into the evil camel bell, draped the ghost flag over himself to conceal his aura, turned into a mass of black shadow, leaped over the earthen wall, switched through several rooms continuously, and finally hid on a beam top.
“There was clearly firelight visible from afar, how did it disappear all of a sudden?”
“Search, search room by room.”
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Kicking doors and chopping at objects sounded around.
More than ten torches were lit.
The Earth Wolf King Army soldiers entering Zangxian Town numbered dozens, all carefully selected experts, at least having opened two springs.
Half of them, led by Shi Jiuzhai’s tenth disciple Xing Wanxing, swiftly headed toward the northeast corner of the market town.
There grew a thousand-year apricot tree that took seven or eight people to encircle, with dense branches and leaves, and numerous roots.
Under the apricot tree was an ancient well over three zhang in diameter, surrounded by stone railings, with dozens of giant stone statues standing. In the deep water mist, it gave a illusory and ancient feeling.
Torches surrounded the ancient well.
“Hua la!”
Amid the strenuous pulling of iron chains, water splashed, and a silver coffin, as large as a connected-beam house, was pulled up.
It was extremely heavy, and more than twenty deformed humanoid race martial arts cultivators with immense strength pulled it with great difficulty.
Yesterday, a large number of strong practitioners from the Shou Li Tribe came to rescue, forcing the Earth Wolf King Army to withdraw. But this silver coffin was too heavy and too huge to take away, so it could only be hidden in the well first.
Xing Wanxing’s eyes were excited. Yesterday he had seen that this coffin was extraordinary. Not to mention the unknown thing in the coffin, the silver coffin itself was invaluable.
Such otherworld coffins would surely interest the big figures of the ten million gateways and ten million sects.
Selling it for ten million silver coins was commonplace.
A four springs martial arts cultivator following beside Xing Wanxing whispered, “Xing boss, why not quietly open this coffin, take the thing in the coffin, and then send it back…”
“Shut up! Once an otherworld coffin is opened, it won’t be worth that much.”
How could Xing Wanxing not have greedy thoughts?
It was just that whether an otherworld coffin had been opened could be seen at a glance by experts.
Shi Jiuzhai was not easy to fool, and Xing Wanxing truly did not have the guts.
Moreover, opening a blind coffin carried great risk.
It was possible that the thing in the coffin was worthless, or even empty. It was also possible that a terrifying ferocious thing was sealed in the coffin, and opening it would kill many people.
Xing Wanxing had heard that a great clan in some giant city spent thirty million silver coins to buy a precious-material otherworld coffin, but after opening it, an incomprehensible thing was released, killing over a million people in the entire city, turning it into a forbidden dead city.
There were also legends that after opening a blind coffin, the corpse in the coffin suddenly revived, killing all the coffin openers before leaving.
Some coffins had mechanisms and hidden weapons, some had poisonous things and corpse insects…
If opening a blind coffin truly had profit without loss and no risk at all, otherworld coffins could not circulate on the market.
If scooping coffins, carrying coffins, and opening coffins were not extremely dangerous, how could the Jiu Li race always dominate the upstream of this industry chain?
Risk and benefit were always directly proportional.
“Peng!”
As soon as the silver giant coffin was pulled out of the ancient well, it was too heavy, and the hemp ropes binding the coffin suddenly snapped.
The coffin fell to the ground.
With a clang, the coffin lid was actually shaken open, sliding down more than a foot.
Everyone was scared and retreated.
Xing Wanxing was about to explode with anger: “Can you all be a little more careful… that is…”
From the gap where the coffin lid slid, silver auspicious light sprayed out, releasing a dense exotic fragrance.
The mist enveloping the surrounding houses instantly turned silver, like immortal realm cloud clusters, gorgeous and mysterious, and inside condensed numerous silver flowers.
Xing Wanxing was instantly stunned, his eyes bulging round.
This did not look like a ferocious coffin; it was absolutely a treasure coffin containing countless otherworld treasures.
“Xing boss, it has nothing to do with us. The coffin nails were pried off long ago, so the lid slid after it fell. When the Cang Li Tribe scooped it from the blood sea, they very likely opened it!” Someone checked and reported thus.
The four springs martial arts cultivator behind Xing Wanxing whispered again, “Anyway, it’s already opened a corner, why not see what exactly is inside?”
Xing Wanxing calculated inwardly. If there was truly some world-rare treasure inside, why not take it and flee far away? Anyway, with this mishap, sending the coffin back would still arouse suspicion from Shi Jiuzhai.
After Xing Wanxing gave the order, the heavy silver coffin lid was jointly lifted by several deformed humanoid race members.
The silver light emanating from the coffin became even more dazzling, illuminating half of Zangxian Town.
The silver flowers condensed in the mist increased more and more.
In the coffin quietly lay an eleven- or twelve-meter-long silver giant skeleton. Inside the bones, it was like a star river flowing, extraordinarily brilliant. But besides that, there was nothing else.
Xing Wanxing let out a long sigh, greatly disappointed.
This silver skeleton might have wonderful uses for some great cultivators, but for him, it was worthless.
“Perhaps the real treasure inside was already taken by the Cang Li Tribe.” He thought thus in his heart.
“Hua!”
Li Ling was like a wisp of clear wind under the night curtain, her feet stepping on blue mist light marks, her slender and graceful figure floating down to the roof of a three-story house not far from the ancient well.
She had originally tracked Li Weiyi to Zangxian Town, but unexpectedly had a surprise gain.
Weren’t these the Buddha Bandits from yesterday?
Cold air surged in her eyes, and her jade hand took a gold silk insect bag from her waist, tilting it outward.
“Wu wu!”
Grain-sized strange insects flew out in swarms, like densely packed firefly light spots, surrounding the more than twenty bandits by the ancient well.
Hearing the dense wing-flapping sounds, Xing Wanxing turned back, his face changing: “It’s Chi Fire Beetles, don’t let them touch you, quickly scatter.”
Too late!
The first deformed humanoid race member landed by a Chi Fire Beetle let out a hissing scream. His back was instantly burned through, then it spread, turning into a huge fireball.
After three breaths, his two-meter-plus tall massive body was burned to ashes.
The second, the third…
Earth Wolf King Army soldiers successively burned up.
Screams and wails rose and fell at the scene, in complete chaos. Some fled to the distance, some jumped into the ancient well.
Li Weiyi peered through the window crack toward the slender beautiful young woman figure on the distant rooftop, recognizing her. He could not believe she would appear here.
Sensing the gaze, Li Ling turned her head and lightly glanced toward the desolate house where Li Weiyi was hiding.
“Such strong perception ability?”
Li Weiyi hurriedly withdrew his gaze, suddenly realizing that Li Ling appearing here might be coming for him.
Why?
In this instant, many thoughts flashed through Li Weiyi’s mind.
Great kindness turning to enmity? Or the secret of carrying a magic tool exposed?
Otherwise, why would she follow secretly?
There must be something wrong somewhere.
