Chapter 88: Eunuch Delivers Goods
Yin Twenty-Four said: “The greatest value of this blood-refined high-grade magic tool lies in the strength of the blood soul inside it. If the internal blood soul’s combat power is only at the Fifth Sea Third Realm, then the price would be at most just over ten thousand spring coins.”
“You have ten thousand spring coins?”
Li Weiyi looked her up and down, not believing that a hidden person who had just broken through to the Fifth Sea not long ago could be so wealthy.
Ten thousand spring coins was equivalent to one million silver coins, or one hundred million copper coins.
She was only sixteen years old. Could she have such a thick family foundation?
Yin Twenty-Four’s face was slightly embarrassed. She hesitated and said: “Of course I don’t have that much money at the moment. But aren’t we going to gather precious medicine from the spider cave? Its value is not low. At that time, I won’t take even a single tael.”
“That still wouldn’t be nearly enough.”
Li Weiyi waved his hand: “Don’t make trouble! I really need money, I really need radiant flame pills.”
Radiant flame pill was condensed from high-quality spiritual light flame and could only be refined by spirit mind masters. It was a supreme treasure that helped mind masters rapidly increase cultivation.
Any single pill was a rare and precious item.
Successful pill formation, in the field of medicine, was equivalent to a supernatural-level metamorphosis.
“Noodles are ready!”
Two bowls of steaming hot noodle soup were served.
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Selling it—that was absolutely impossible.
Yin Twenty-Four suspected that Li Weiyi didn’t understand the value of this battle treasure at all. She asked: “Blood-refined magic tools mostly come from the nether realm of the dead, demon race, demon country. Such a treasure logically shouldn’t end up in the hands of a spring gushing realm cultivator like you. Where did you get it from?”
The three-headed snake bracelet was naturally obtained from the bronze ship.
The reason for taking it out to sell was that it had to be activated by blood sacrifice using one’s own blood.
Just like Director Yang back then, who, in order to activate the three-headed snake bracelet and release the three-headed snake blood soul inside, directly exhausted the blood in his body and became like a dried corpse.
For such a treasure that damaged one’s own body, no matter how powerful, Li Weiyi had no interest.
Li Weiyi smiled and said: “Didn’t you say that in the eyes of the hidden sect, I am transparent?”
He wasn’t afraid of exposing some magic tools, after all, he had the imperial sword in his pocket. At that time, he could just push everything onto the jar master.
Yin Twenty-Four knew that Li Weiyi had already entered the eyes of the hidden lord and the elders, and she couldn’t do anything to him. But she still first put the three-headed snake bracelet on her wrist, then tasted the noodle soup.
It was indeed tastier than medicinal cuisine.
“Your spring coins won’t be short! For radiant flame pills, no matter how many you want, I do have a way to get some for you.” She said seriously.
Li Weiyi’s expression became serious as he reminded her: “This thing must be activated by blood sacrifice using your own blood. I once personally saw someone die from exhaustion of blood in their body because of activating it. It was extremely miserable.”
Yin Twenty-Four clearly understood the dangers of blood sacrifice magic tools and said: “That just means his cultivation was too low and the quality of his vitality was insufficient. You have to know that for this kind of blood-refined magic tool, the higher the cultivation, the less blood is consumed. Besides, I’m not treating it as a battle treasure to use at any time. I would only use it when my life hangs in the balance. It might just be my second life.”
Seeing her insistence, and thinking that in the short term, he seemed to only need radiant flame pills, Li Weiyi asked: “How many radiant flame pills can you get?”
“Three or five shouldn’t be a problem.” Yin Twenty-Four said.
Li Weiyi immediately looked at her in a new light: “You wouldn’t be the illegitimate daughter of some priest from the Jiu Li Divine Palace, would you?”
In Li Zhou, when it came to powerful mind masters who could refine pills, one absolutely couldn’t bypass the nine priests of the Jiu Li Divine Palace. Those nine were definitely characters who had gone extremely far in spirit god cultivation.
How precious was the radiant flame pill? Any single one had a price of ten million copper coins. Even someone of Li Ling’s status probably hadn’t consumed one from childhood to adulthood.
Eating one was equivalent to eating an entire mansion in Jiu Li City.
Yin Twenty-Four said indifferently: “Don’t underestimate me. I’m a sixteen-year-old Nine Springs Fifth Sea Realm cultivator, and I’m also among the top in the entire Li Zhou. You’re twenty years old, right?”
“Eat your noodles.”
After a while, Li Weiyi raised his head and said again: “When we return to the hidden sect, have an elder appraise the combat power strength of the three-headed snake blood soul. I feel it’s not as simple as just the Fifth Sea Third Realm. The money must be calculated clearly.”
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The two left the city and entered the southern suburbs.
Li Weiyi first returned to the courtyard where he had lived before and circled around it before heading to the Chang Lin Gang with Yin Twenty-Four.
The Chang Lin Gang Headquarters was a mansion covering a hundred mu of land, with walls over two zhang high. Inside, buildings were densely packed, with artificial mountains, waterside pavilions, and dozens of flourishing century-old ancient trees growing.
Such a luxurious mansion, if in the city area, only top great clans would have the qualification to enjoy.
The two opened a room in an inn not far from the Chang Lin Gang and quickly changed into low-grade magic tool night-walking clothes.
Li Weiyi channeled magic energy into the night-walking clothes, and his body gradually faded into invisibility.
The grade was too low; it couldn’t achieve complete shadowlessness and formlessness.
If it was at night, plus sufficient speed, it could deceive to a certain extent. But to use it to approach a martial way strong practitioner for assassination would be a fool’s dream.
Yin Twenty-Four stood by the window side, her pair of beautiful eyes not blinking at all, observing the movements of various personnel around the Chang Lin Gang Headquarters: “The size of this headquarters mansion far exceeds the scale that an ordinary suburban gang should have. Even the eight deformed humanoid race martial cultivators guarding the gate should have cultivations of five springs or six springs.”
Li Weiyi came to the window side. His figure was tall and straight, his five features are three-dimensional and handsome. The night-walking clothes woman beside him was a head shorter than him.
After carefully observing, he felt that the large area of mansion in front of him had an unusually deep and profound sense.
“As the headquarters of a gang, isn’t it too quiet?” Li Weiyi said.
“It’s a formation! This headquarters is covered by a hundred-pattern formation. What we see is not the true interior.” Yin Twenty-Four noticed something and cast her gaze toward the end of the wide street below.
A team of green-robed convoy slowly approached.
Her small hand quickly grabbed Li Weiyi’s arm and rapidly retreated two steps, leaving the window side.
“What’s wrong?” Li Weiyi said.
Yin Twenty-Four’s face was grave: “That convoy has a powerful Fifth Sea Realm martial cultivator inside. Just now, he was observing the surroundings with extremely sharp eyes. When he was observing, the strong practitioner’s aura on him unconsciously leaked, otherwise I wouldn’t have sensed it in advance.”
Li Weiyi had always felt his perception was very sharp, but compared to a Fifth Sea Realm martial cultivator, there still seemed to be a gap. He asked: “Your perception is so keen; have you already cultivated battle intent?”
“Is that strange? I’m also a genius, okay? Not counting the hidden sect, in the entire Jiu Li tribe over the past ten years, there have only been six Nine Springs supreme persons.” Yin Twenty-Four raised her chin and said proudly.
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The green-robed convoy below consisted of eight carriages, each carrying four giant wooden boxes, and they all stopped neatly in front of the three-zhang-wide grand bronze door of the Chang Lin Gang Headquarters.
The thirty or forty martial cultivators escorting the goods, although all dressed low-key and disguised as ordinary people, couldn’t fool Li Weiyi and Yin Twenty-Four. It could be seen that their cultivations were strong, with many at the seven springs realm.
However, though they were all men, they had a yin-soft aura on them.
The Chang Lin Gang deputy gang leader Tang Yan personally came out to greet them.
Tang Yan was very cautious. After carefully observing the surroundings, he smiled obsequiously and saluted the Fifth Sea strong practitioner leading the convoy: “Lord Min, you must be tired from the long journey. Hurry and enter the mansion. Our gang has already prepared fine wine and delicacies to welcome you all and wash away the dust of travel.”
Min Jun was the leader of the convoy. Despite his extremely high cultivation, he was very low-key, riding only a sturdy horse. He looked to be in his thirties, with a white face and no beard, his voice sharp and yin-soft: “Where is Yang Qingxi? For such an important matter, the Sui Sect just left it to you?”
Tang Yan naturally felt the arrogance and strong practitioner’s aura from the other party and didn’t dare show any displeasure: “After all, Jiu Li City is still dominated by the Jiu Li tribe’s power. There are many eyes in the city, easy to be noticed. But it’s different here. The entire urban area is controlled by the Chang Lin Gang, full of our gang’s informants. Absolutely no one will know about this.”
“Additionally, the young lady attaches great importance to this matter and will rush back to Jiu Li City a bit later today.”
“Fine then. I’ll temporarily leave the things with you. I have other matters and need to enter the city. I’ll come back here tonight to meet with Yang Qingxi.”
Min Jun took four close attendants and spurred their horses toward the city gate.
Tang Yan stared at the five departing figures, a mocking glint in his eyes as he muttered to himself: “Another showy eunuch. No matter how strong the cultivation, what’s the point? Heh heh!”
“Transport all the things into the headquarters and guard them properly. There must be no mishaps.”
Tang Yan clasped his hands behind his back and walked into the headquarters gate first.
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In the distant inn, Li Weiyi looked toward the direction of the Chang Lin Gang Headquarters gate: “How come there are so many eunuchs?”
“Of course they’re from outside, all remnants left by the small field edict.” Yin Twenty-Four said.
Li Weiyi had heard “small field edict” more than once. It was said that the chaos under heaven in the Lingxiao Life Realm was because of the edict issued by Lingxiao Palace. Out of curiosity, he asked: “What exactly is the content of the small field edict?”
“Just the literal content.”
Yin Twenty-Four was too lazy to explain further. Anyway, that was old news from over ten years ago.
She said: “For Yang Qingxi to personally rush back from Zangxian Town, this batch of goods is definitely not simple.”
“Then before nightfall, take down the Chang Lin Gang and give Yang Qingxi a big gift.” Li Weiyi said.
“Swish! Swish!”
The two channeled magic power, activating the invisibility power of the night-walking clothes. They jumped out of the inn window, restrained their auras, and rushed toward the gate of the Chang Lin Gang Headquarters, closely following behind the last transport carriage, entering the mansion.
Tang Yan’s ears twitched; he vaguely sensed something and immediately looked toward the convoy behind.
“Whoosh—”
Li Weiyi was decisive. His feet stepped on top of one carriage after another. Wrapped in the night-walking clothes, his body was like a high-speed moving semi-transparent shadow.
Arriving one zhang above Tang Yan, he spread his five fingers, and magic power surged madly from his body.
Magic energy condensed in front of his palm into a three-chi-square divine seal light image.
He had to solve Tang Yan with the fastest speed in an unexpected manner. Otherwise, once the Chang Lin Gang gang leader Xu Changlin and a large number of spring gushing realm masters surrounded him, let alone killing, he might have to rely on Yin Twenty-Four’s power to escape, which would be too embarrassing.
Tang Yan had reached the Fifth Sea Realm for over twenty years, and his martial arts attainment could be called peak. Facing Li Weiyi’s sudden palm strike, he instantly reacted and smashed out with a fist.
On the fist, magic energy shone brightly like stars, smashing the air into a depression.
“Boom!”
Fist and palm collided, the sound like thunder.
The entire garden was filled with magic energy wind force.
Whether the eunuchs escorting the goods or the Chang Lin Gang members in the front courtyard, all were forced to retreat repeatedly by this surging clashing force.
A clash at the Fifth Sea Realm level was earth-shattering; even the ground was shaking.
