Chapter 70: Insect Kills Murong Xiao
Li Weiyi placed the stone coffin and Nine Emperor Banner on the ground. For caution’s sake, he brought the Yellow Dragon Sword with him and walked step by step to below the spring eye.
Ahead, the magic energy was too thick, like a misty cloud mass, constantly dissipating smoke waterfalls.
The naked eye could not see the stone platform inside.
“Sizzle!”
A strange sound rang out.
From within the magic energy misty cloud mass came the sound of wings vibrating, like cicadas or moths, loud and piercing.
Li Weiyi’s gaze slightly condensed, and he kicked off with his foot, floating back two zhang away.
“Whoosh!”
The magic energy cloud mass was shaken apart by feathered wings, and from inside slowly crawled a huge strange insect resembling a moth, fully three chi long, its entire body emitting multicolored lapis lazuli light. Its six sharp claws were like forged from metal, with extremely sharp claw hooks.
Its eyes contained a dangerous and fierce aura as it crawled forward, spreading and vibrating its double wings.
The outside was wings of five colors and ten hues, while the inside was insect-like thin membrane wings.
Stone Coffin Senior said: “Bad! They hatched early; it should be due to the Heaven Earth Spring enlarging. Quickly use the insect script to subdue it.”
“Which insect script to use?”
Li Weiyi sensed the danger and asked while retreating.
Stone Coffin Senior said: “Back then, I engraved the seven insect scripts respectively on seven insect eggs. Even if they have already broken out of their eggs, the insect scripts would be imprinted on them. But why can’t I see the insect scripts now?”
Spirit Tablet Senior’s understanding of strange insects under heaven was evidently deeper, saying: “It’s because their level exceeds our estimate. If I’m not mistaken, this should be a Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor, not marquis level, but emperor level. The insect script you engraved back then has been hidden inside its body by it.”
“What? Emperor level?”
Jar Master’s shocked voice rang out.
Spirit Tablet Senior said: “Look at its current body size; it’s already grown to three chi, clearly no longer a larva. I estimate its combat power is no weaker than a Longevity Realm Martial Cultivator.”
Hearing this, Li Weiyi’s vision went somewhat black, and his calves began to cramp.
Was this coming to collect insects or to feed them?
Stone Coffin Senior was extremely rational and quickly analyzed: “No! There’s no food in the Cang Wang Tomb; it couldn’t have grown from larva to Longevity Realm. Moreover, if it truly had Longevity Realm strength, its wisdom would certainly be extremely high too, and it would have broken out of the tomb and escaped long ago. Weiyi, it’s bluffing!”
Li Weiyi could clearly sense the terrifying aura on the continuously approaching Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor; how could he dare bet it was bluffing?
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he said: “Perhaps there’s a good method!”
He immediately activated the Fusang Divine Tree meditation method, while mobilizing the spiritual light flame in his forehead spirit realm to urge the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish.
The two bronze fish circulated once, and spatial power erupted.
“Whoosh!”
A ring of fine spatial ripples spread out, immediately pulling the approaching Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor into the blood mud land on the Buddha’s Sarira, utterly unable to struggle free.
Moments later.
Spirit Tablet Senior’s voice came from the Buddha’s Sarira: “Indeed bluffing. It has reverted to its true form, only one cun long, a larva.”
“Whoosh sizzle!”
From the magic energy cloud mist below the Heaven Earth Spring flew out six one-cun-long Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors, only moth-sized, their bodies five colors and ten hues, extremely brilliant.
Their flight speed was extremely fast, like arrows, all attacking Li Weiyi together.
Without thinking, Li Weiyi immediately entered the microscopic world of the Buddha’s Sarira, deciding to subdue the first one first.
After intense weightlessness, Li Weiyi fell onto the blood mud ground of merely several zhang in space, looking toward the Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor perched on the blue and white ash jar. Its insect body had indeed shrunk to about one cun in length.
Li Weiyi’s mood relaxed, and he laughed: “Just a larva, yet already possessing strong wisdom; nearly scared me.”
“Whoosh!”
The first insect script condensed and flew out from his brow.
In this recent period, Li Weiyi had not neglected mind power cultivation; the spiritual light flame in his forehead spirit realm had grown twice as large, already bean-sized.
The Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor rushed upward, like an arrow off the string, directly piercing through the insect script and shooting toward Li Weiyi’s brow.
The first insect script was useless against it!
Li Weiyi horizontally swung his sword to block.
“Bang!”
A clang like iron blocks fiercely colliding rang out.
The power from this collision of its was even more terrifying than the long arrows shot by Murong Xiao, shaking Li Weiyi into continuous retreat, nearly unable to grip the Yellow Dragon Sword.
The sound of feathered wings rang out.
It erupted with speed, turned a corner, and crashed toward Li Weiyi’s heart.
Li Weiyi dared not clash hard with it and immediately sidestepped to dodge. At the same time, the second insect script at his brow was drawn complete and flew over.
The spiritual light insect script had just flown out when it resonated with the insect script inside that Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor’s body.
Text inside its body flickered, its flight speed became slow, suffering some kind of suppression.
“Whoosh!”
The next instant, struck by the insect script, it fell to the ground.
Li Weiyi looked toward the spot under his armpit torn by its wings; the bloody gash was extremely deep, nearly reaching the bone. He did not get angry but instead endured the pain and laughed: “Such a small body, yet containing such terrifying power, and this is just a larva.”
Moments later, he felt some lingering fear.
Fortunately, the second insect script worked; otherwise, there would really have been some danger today.
“Quickly use your blood to draw the second insect script; the text is the same. Only then is it truly subdued and will obey only you henceforth.” Spirit Tablet Senior reminded.
With Li Weiyi’s current mind power strength, he could only briefly stay on the Buddha’s Sarira and would soon be pulled back to the original world space.
Time was precious; he took out the insect script needle, one of the six treasures he had bought long ago, and immediately acted.
He finally made it just before the weightlessness appeared, engraving the blood insect script on the Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor’s abdomen. Then, he immediately picked up the spirit tablet and ash jar, and after the weightlessness, returned together to the underground space where the Cang Wang Tomb was located.
Li Weiyi was very clear that with his current cultivation, he was no match for six Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors.
There was only one way: first collect them all into the blood mud space in the microscopic world. Then subdue them one by one.
He had brought Spirit Tablet Senior and Jar Master along out of worry they would be attacked by the Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors.
At this moment, the six Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors were madly slamming into the stone coffin, emitting banging sounds like fists and feet pounding. Fortunately, the stone coffin’s material was special; otherwise, Coffin Senior’s remnant corpse would likely have been torn apart.
“Whoosh sizzle!”
Sensing Li Weiyi’s aura reappearing, the six Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors swarmed to attack.
Li Weiyi stood fearless and unyielding, straight in place. Only when the six Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors entered within three zhang did he pinch the finger seal, using the spiritual light flame to urge the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish.
“Whoosh!”
After a ring of spatial ripples surged, the six Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors were all caught in one net, fully collected into the Buddha’s Sarira.
After continuously activating the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish three times, Li Weiyi’s forehead went black, and the spiritual light flame nearly extinguished from unsustainable consumption.
After steadying his form, he walked step by step toward the Heaven Earth Spring, entering the one-zhang dao domain. Confirming no danger, he sat cross-legged, absorbing the light particle points surging from the spring eye above his head, breathing in and out magic energy.
Mind power and martial arts, cultivated simultaneously.
Half a day later.
His brow forehead lit up again.
Above his head rang a “pop,” and a faint straight beam of light rushed up from the crown of his head.
The light beam was finger-thick, extending nine zhang high.
Everything proceeded naturally; Li Weiyi opened the seventh spring at the crown of his head, formally stepping into Peak of the Spring Gushing Realm.
The three remnant souls in the distance closely watched the various changes on his body, shocked by the nine-zhang crown light, but no longer like before, exclaiming in surprise like they had never seen the world; they were already somewhat numb.
Jar Master said: “Old Coffin, your initial plan was Spring Gushing in two years? I see in just one year, he can enter Five Seas.”
“Faster is naturally better. But next, every step must be solid; Feng Fu and Zu Tian are not so easy to open. Even Pure Immortal Body has some stuck at Seven Springs? Talent is somewhat illusory and ethereal; the more stunning ones need double effort and self-motivation. A slight slack, and it all goes down the drain. Those with difficult starts and mediocre talent sometimes walk stronger and stronger.”
The remnant corpse in the stone coffin placed great expectations on Li Weiyi, treating him like blood kin nephew, hoping he could always advance triumphantly, yet full of anxiety. As the guide in the early cultivation of the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish owner, his pressure was immense.
…
Five days later.
The two stone gates over a dozen zhang high of the Cang Wang Tomb slowly opened, and Li Weiyi walked out, carefully checking and sensing the surroundings. Not discovering Li Ling or Cang Li Tribe martial cultivators, he finally felt a bit at ease.
Coming to the plaza before the mausoleum, he turned and deeply bowed three times to the Cang Wang Tomb.
No matter what, he had obtained an extraordinary opportunity here; the Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors were nurtured and hatched by the Heaven Earth Spring. One must have a grateful heart.
The otherworld coffins piled on the plaza before the mausoleum, he did not touch, nor could he; each was deployed with formation script.
Exiting the ancestral realm.
Outside was already May, the weather hot, yang energy blazing.
In the primitive dense forest, cicadas chirped and birds sang, crows flew and rabbits ran, unlike the death qi in the ancestral realm.
Finally seeing the sun again, plus breaking through to seven springs and subduing seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors, his body wounds fully healed. Li Weiyi’s energy, essence, and spirit were full; in great mood, he rapidly ran along the mountain paths.
Encountering a pool below a waterfall.
“Splash!”
He jumped in, washing the thick dirt accumulated on his body for a month.
The pool water was ice-cold and piercing, but his heart felt a refreshing sensation.
After coming ashore, he changed into the last clean robe stored in the Evil Camel Bell and strode toward outside the mountains. Along the way, everything felt brimming with vitality; he wanted to kiss every grass and tree, repeatedly sighing at the world’s beauty.
Until two days later, when he exited the dense forest of the Mang Mountain Range and saw a human-shaped black shadow flying in mid-air, his good mood instantly vanished like smoke.
It was Murong Xiao!
She carried a magic tool giant bow and quiver on her back.
“Already so much time has passed, yet still haunting like a ghost. Is this certain that I will eventually exit the Mang Mountain Range?”
Li Weiyi retreated into the forest and hid.
After thinking for a moment, pinching finger seals, his brow lit up, and wisps of light particle points flew out, surging into the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish hanging around his neck.
“Whoosh!”
Seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors were summoned, emitting seven fist-sized balls of multicolored radiance, flying around Li Weiyi like dancing gracefully.
Li Weiyi communicated with mind power, instructing them to deal with Murong Xiao in mid-air.
The seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors were not so obedient; their bloodlines were powerful and could resist the insect script to a certain extent. Of course, most importantly, Li Weiyi’s mind power was too weak now.
No choice, Li Weiyi took out that three-hundred-year treasure medicine Nine-Leaf Cattail Grass, plucked seven crystalline fragrant leaves, and fed them.
Each eating a cattail grass leaf, the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors became unusually joyful, chirping chirping from their mouths.
Li Weiyi hurriedly stored the remaining cattail grass and said with mind power: “No effort, don’t even think of eating more. This Nine-Leaf Cattail Grass is worth thirty thousand silver coins; what you’re eating isn’t food, it’s gold, it’s silver, it’s my blood. Hurry and go!”
“Bad, she’s leaving.”
Li Weiyi led the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors, rushing out of the dense forest in hot pursuit.
Murong Xiao flew in mid-air two hundred meters off the ground, resentment thick in her heart: “Already so long has passed, yet still making me search the nearby areas every day. Really treating me as a Chang Lin Gang person? That kid mistakenly entered the Jiu Li ancestral realm; he’s probably dead inside already. Return to Yao Guan first!”
“Murong Xiao!”
…
A familiar call vaguely came from the ground.
Murong Xiao turned to look at the ground behind; the figure standing by the Sui River waving to her, who else but Li Weiyi? Surprise first flashed in her eyes, then joy overflowed.
Truly mad!
Murong Xiao knew she could not kill Li Weiyi, so she immediately flapped her wings, preparing to fly to Yao Guan City to report.
Yao Guan City had gathered quite a few experts rubbing fists eager to take Li Weiyi’s life, including her ally, Chang Lin Gang Deputy Gang Leader Tang Yan, and Seven Springs Hall Fourth Xue Zheng.
“Whoosh sizzle!”
Dense wing vibration sounds surrounded her; her vision blurred, feeling colorful light spots everywhere.
“Puff!”
“Pfft!”
…
The seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors continuously shuttled flying over her body and beside her. Soon, this Twenty-first ranked expert of Seven Springs Hall in Spring Gushing Realm turned into a corpse, falling from mid-air.
Li Weiyi arrived at where the corpse fell, seeing the thousand holes riddled Murong Xiao, and could not help sighing: “Truly ferocious!”
The seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors flew toward him, chirping chirping demanding Nine-Leaf Cattail Grass.
Li Weiyi tossed the remaining cattail grass to them and immediately crouched to loot the corpse.
He took off the money bag; it was heavy.
Opening it, all white flower flower Spring Coins, no less than fifty or sixty. Equivalent to five or six hundred thousand copper coins.
For a Top Hundred Martial Artist, not too much.
What was truly valuable on Murong Xiao was still that three-meter-long magic tool giant bow. Li Weiyi picked it up and tried to draw it with effort; the bow body too long, very uncoordinated.
For tall bodied Deformed Humanoid Race Martial Cultivator, it would be just right.
After sinking Murong Xiao’s corpse into the river, Li Weiyi tossed the magic tool giant bow into the Evil Camel Bell, preparing to sell it for money.
Standing under the blazing sun, he followed the Sui River, gazing south. The entire horizon was shrouded in immortal radiance, especially a light pillar rising from the ground, extremely bright, as if it could rush beyond the cosmos.
Li Weiyi observed the surroundings and discovered this place he had passed before, located between Yao Guan City and Zangxian Town.
In other words, the area shrouded in immortal radiance was where Zangxian Town was.
“What exactly happened in Zangxian Town? Already a month, how has it not subsided?”
Li Weiyi was extremely curious but dared not get involved in that big commotion, preparing to go first to Yao Guan City under the Shou Li Tribe. Having eaten dry rations for a month, he had long wanted to enjoy a bowl of hot noodle soup, then find a comfortable big bed to sleep.
Set off for Jiu Li Hidden Sect tomorrow.
After the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors ate all the cattail grass, they swarmed again, flying nonstop before his face, nearly dazzling his eyes!
“Gone, gone; all the medicinal herbs bought before on my body have been fed to you!” Li Weiyi hurriedly urged the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, collecting them into the Buddha’s Sarira, finally quieting down.
Spirit Tablet Senior had told him that Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors were herbivorous strange insects, eating only various precious medicinal herbs.
To feed them to adulthood required massive treasure medicines.
“Sigh! What a sin; feels like raising seven little ancestors. Still go to Yao Guan to buy some medicinal herbs; after all, they are emperor level strange insects, don’t let them starve to death in infancy!”
Li Weiyi disguised himself, smearing dirt on his face, letting his hair scatter down, appearing extremely destitute and disheveled.
Although a month had passed and the wanted posters surely gone, caution ensures eternal safety.
Along the way, he could see giant ships on the Sui River heading toward Zangxian Town, also martial arts powerhouses riding exotic beasts speeding past him. Some even more powerful figures used hundred-meter-long giant birds as mounts, carrying gold and jade magnificent palace halls, flying across the sky dome.
Now Yao Guan City was bustling extraordinarily, sect disciples everywhere, martial arts experts in groups.
The entire Li Zhou, even the other six states of the Southern Territory, all had martial cultivators and mind masters arriving upon hearing the news.
Li Weiyi had just entered the city when he smelled a familiar fragrance.
Li Ling leaped out from the crowd, lightly patted his shoulder, then flashed in front of him, bright eyes and white teeth smiling: “Your guts are really big, daring to come to Yao Guan. Don’t you know many people want to kill you for the reward?”
Li Weiyi was stunned half a moment: “How did you…”
“Such crude disguise of yours can fool others but not me. Don’t be afraid; once in Yao Guan, it’s Jiu Li territory. With me protecting you, come with me!” Li Ling said.
Li Weiyi could finally confirm that Li Ling indeed had a way to precisely lock his position, asking: “Going where?”
“To see my dad!”
Li Ling thought and added: “And my mom, my brother, Fourth Uncle… Right, and my sixteen-year-old cousin this time; it’s real.”
Li Weiyi stopped, staring at her with a strange gaze.
…
Seeking monthly tickets!
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