Chapter 89: Slaying The Five Seas
Li Weiyi only felt the opponent’s fist like a metal war hammer weighing ten thousand pounds, its power seemingly able to penetrate the city wall.
As soon as they collided, his entire arm ached unbearably, and his body flew backwards.
At this moment, he had only one thought in his mind: “Yin Twenty-Four has tricked me. Even the First Realm of the Five Seas Realm has extraordinary power, surpassing the Yang Shenjing of Hundred Veins All Silver by a level. This Tang Yan is not someone my current cultivation can contend with; there is no chance of victory.”
Tang Yan was much more disheveled than Li Weiyi. With thuds, his feet crushed the ground tiles, his face instantly turning pale, and the five fingers that had been clenched into a fist ached so much he could no longer grip.
What kind of divine figure had he provoked?
The opponent was undoubtedly in the Five Seas Realm.
After Yin Twenty-Four entered the Chang Lin Gang Headquarters, she leaped onto the roof of the three-story main meeting hall, standing on the lapis lazuli tiles, occupying the best vantage point, overlooking the entire mansion, searching for the location of the formation’s core.
Seeing Li Weiyi gain the upper hand in the first clash with a Five Seas Realm expert, she was secretly shocked.
Although one was a sneak attack and the other a hasty counter.
But this spanned an entire Great Realm!
She knew that the Hidden Lord’s true test for Li Weiyi was not the Chang Lin Gang, nor did she expect Li Weiyi to be able to destroy the Chang Lin Gang.
Though Tang Yan’s power was stronger than Yang Shenjing, Li Weiyi would undoubtedly lose against him. But Li Weiyi still had magic tools he could use, like the silver thread gauntlets on his hands, which, when activated, could enhance his palm force by two or three tenths.
That earlier palm strike had overwhelmed Tang Yan precisely due to the boost from the silver thread gauntlets.
With magic power circulating, the pain in his arm vanished instantly. Li Weiyi drew the Yellow Dragon Sword hidden in his invisibility cloak and, stepping with Qing Xu Cicada Escape Step, charged to attack and kill Tang Yan.
Tang Yan’s arm did not recover as quickly as Li Weiyi’s. Seeing sword light filling the sky coming at him.
Unsure of the opponent’s depth, he naturally did not dare to meet it head-on and immediately retreated to dodge.
Li Weiyi feared exactly that his battle intent would be strong and his fighting will resilient. As long as fear and cowardice lingered in his heart, even Five Seas Realm cultivation could probably only exert seven or eight tenths of its strength.
After dodging six or seven moves in a row, Tang Yan noticed that this magic tool war sword seemed familiar.
But Li Weiyi gave him no time to think, each sword faster than the last.
“Rip!”
A yellow glow flashed, and the sword tip tore a long gash in the clothes on Tang Yan’s chest.
Just a little short of wounding him.
“Such formidable cultivation and speed. My realm is still too low; even like this, I can’t injure him.” Li Weiyi’s gaze grew solemn, the pressure in his heart mounting. He was very worried that Xu Changlin would arrive the next moment.
Tang Yan looked at the rift in his chest robes, his heart trembling in fear, fleeing even more frantically: “What divine figure are you exactly? Our Chang Lin Gang has backing. The Yang Clan and Sui Sect have resounding reputations in Li Zhou. Your Excellency had best consider first if you can afford to offend them.”
“The Deputy Gang Leader’s memory is too poor. It’s only been two months, and you’ve forgotten how your Chang Lin Gang seized my mansion?”
Li Weiyi had previously gone to the mansion where he once lived and found it had changed owners, becoming one of the Chang Lin Gang’s outposts.
Tang Yan had done plenty of coercive seizures and for a moment couldn’t recall who this enemy before him was.
A slight distraction.
Li Weiyi thrust his sword into the spot below Tang Yan’s collarbone, the tip sinking in a full inch.
Sword qi and magic power invaded his body, pain spreading throughout Tang Yan.
Tang Yan cried out in agony and retreated, roaring: “Others have killed their way into the headquarters, what are you all standing around for? All of you, attack together.”
“Pinning hopes on a group of Spring Gushing Realm gang members to save you—with such mentality, how could you possibly be my opponent?”
Li Weiyi no longer held any trepidation or awe toward Five Seas Realm martial cultivators. Seizing the opportunity, he unleashed a Heavenly Law Integration level Grand Unity Opens the Sea.
One sword drew a bright yellow glow a zhang long.
Tang Yan let out a long whistle from his mouth, mobilizing the magic energy in his sea of qi with full effort, both fists striking out two waves of fist energy light.
It was a Heavenly Law Integration level fist technique.
“Boom!”
The sword qi tore through the fist energy light waves, but residual force still impacted Li Weiyi, sending his body flying backward uncontrollably.
The intensity of magic energy from a Five Seas Realm martial cultivator was absolutely incomparable to the Spring Gushing Realm.
This all-out clash shattered a small building above their heads, beams and pillars collapsing, tiles and stones falling everywhere. Its domineering momentum sent martial cultivators below Seven Springs fleeing in all directions, scared out of their wits.
With two Five Seas Realm experts fighting, the aftermath alone could suppress and kill ordinary Spring Gushing Realm martial cultivators; they dared not get involved.
Tang Yan recognized that earlier sword, his eyes fixed deadly on that semi-transparent figure, exclaiming in shock: “It’s you. You’ve broken through to the Five Seas Realm?”
Li Weiyi had just landed on the ground.
Seven Chang Lin Gang members wielding heavy crossbows shot out flying needle arrows without whistling sounds.
“Ding ding!”
Li Weiyi was no longer the same as before; how could he take such attacks seriously? He swung his long sword, thick magic energy and sword shadows forming a spherical qi shield.
All incoming crossbow bolts fell to the ground.
“Whoosh!”
His arm traced a circle, strands of magic energy surging from his sleeve, rolling up the bolts on the ground, then sending them flying back like a rain of waterfalls.
Amid screams, the seven crossbow-wielding gang members all collapsed, their bodies riddled with blood holes.
After recognizing Li Weiyi, Tang Yan’s fear vanished. Even if he had truly broken through to the Five Seas Realm, it was only initial realm achievement, while he himself had bitterly cultivated in the Five Seas Realm for over twenty years.
He took out a silver ruler magic tool, injecting magic power to activate it, instantly illuminating the entire front courtyard with dazzling silver light.
The silver ruler swung out, a beam of light torrent rushing toward Li Weiyi with earth-shattering momentum, cracking the stone slabs on the ground wherever it passed.
“Activating a magic tool with Five Seas Realm power yields such might?”
Li Weiyi immediately took out the ghost flag, using his arm as the flagpole to wave it, pouring in all his Eight Springs magic power.
Amid the ghost flag’s fluttering, massive black nether mist surged out, turning the front courtyard into a eerie, terrifying ghost domain. A armored ghostly shadow about a zhang tall emerged from the flag, wielding a war halberd, erupting with chilling cold air that turned the summer day into winter.
The ground within ten-odd zhang was all covered in frost.
Every time Li Weiyi broke through a realm, the power unleashed by activating the ghost flag differed.
This extremely faint armored ghostly shadow was being summoned for the first time, and even Li Weiyi himself was somewhat shocked.
The light beam torrent swung by Tang Yan collided with the armored ghostly shadow and sank like a stone into the sea, not even stirring a ripple. Just as he was suppressed by the ghostly shadow’s aura, Li Weiyi’s sword light arrived before him.
“Pfft!”
Tang Yan exerted all his effort but couldn’t dodge, pierced through the chest by one sword.
“Awoo… die together then!”
Tang Yan let out a miserable howl, enduring the pain in his chest and swinging the ruler to cleave at Li Weiyi’s head.
The distance was too close; no one expected that in this moment near death, Tang Yan would instead erupt with terrifying battle will. Li Weiyi had no choice but to abandon his sword and roll to the left to evade.
Before he could rise, a sharp, domineering power fluctuation accompanied Xu Changlin’s furious roar, cleaving down.
“Boom!”
It was a pitch-black, heavy magic tool war saber, cleaving a several-meter-long trench in the ground where Li Weiyi had just rolled.
Merely grazing the saber qi, the semi-transparent night-walking clothes on Li Weiyi’s body could no longer withstand it, developing several rifts.
The Chang Lin Gang Gang Leader Xu Changlin, though also at First Realm of Five Seas Realm cultivation, clearly had combat power superior to Tang Yan. The war saber in his hand was not only a magic tool but also an extremely dense heavy weapon, weighing no less than a thousand pounds.
Once it landed on the body, even diamond-hard bones would shatter to pieces.
Besides Xu Changlin, over ten Seven Springs level gang experts rushed out together, each with magic energy overflowing, vigorous spirit and energy, clearly all seasoned battle-hardened figures.
Tang Yan slumped on the ground, blood flowing nonstop from his chest, his mouth emitting rasping sounds like a broken bellows: “He… he’s Li Weiyi. He pierced my lung leaves and sea of qi, crippling my Five Seas Realm cultivation… kill him, tear him to ten thousand pieces.”
Li Weiyi charged past Xu Changlin first, grabbed the sword hilt, yanked it out, and swung another sword arc.
“Pfft!”
Tang Yan’s head left his neck, flying toward Xu Changlin, who couldn’t dodge in time and caught it casually, holding it in his hand.
The headless Tang Yan sitting on the ground had a three-chi-high blood fountain spraying from his neck.
A Five Seas Realm expert was slain just like that!
Xu Changlin’s fury blazed, killing intent evident in his eyes. He casually tossed Tang Yan’s head to the ground like a watermelon: “Li Weiyi, Shi Gang has been searching for you for days. Since you’ve come to deliver yourself to death, Xu will certainly oblige.”
Surrounded on all sides, Li Weiyi showed no panic, instead sneering coldly: “How come the Chang Lin Gang has changed its name?”
“We just did! Xu Changlin has already passed the Gang Leader position to me, Shi.”
A large wave of footsteps sounded as Shi Chuan Yu led another group of men, dressed in scholarly robes in a refined manner of forty or fifty years old, appearing behind Li Weiyi.
Li Weiyi naturally recognized him: the Chang Lin Gang’s Eight Springs Cultivation Flag Master, who had a part in the Sui River Chase.
“It seems Gang Leader Shi has actually broken through to the Five Seas Realm. A gang truly is a place where strength rules. Just breaking through one realm creates the gap between subordinate and leader, even requiring the gang’s name to change because of you.” Li Weiyi said.
“It’s all thanks to the Young Lady’s nurturing.”
Shi Chuan Yu had a very strong feminine aura and was also a eunuch, a scheming smile on his face: “Eight Springs Breaking Five Seas—even if Xu Changlin and Tang Yan cultivated in the Five Seas Realm for twenty or thirty years, they still can’t compare. And you? It doesn’t look like you’ve broken through to the Five Seas Realm; more like you’re still at the Nine Springs realm.”
Two months ago, Li Weiyi had sword-killed the Eight Springs Pure Immortal Body Xue Zheng, causing a huge stir in Yao Guan, with everyone calling him the Nine Springs Supreme Person.
Shi Chuan Yu naturally didn’t believe Li Weiyi had already broken through from Nine Springs to Five Seas; otherwise, how could killing a Tang Yan have been so taxing?
He was more inclined to believe Li Weiyi had borrowed some extraordinary magic tool battle treasure on his body.
Historically, there were no lack of examples of successor seeds nurtured by the Ten Million Gateways, at the Nine Springs Supreme Person realm, using powerful magic tools to slay Five Seas Realm experts with borrowed artifacts. Not to mention distant cases, Li Zhou’s number one person at Yang Shenjing had, in the Nine Springs realm, once severely wounded a Five Seas Realm expert, nearly killing them.
“The Xue Clan is offering five thousand spring coins for his head. If we join forces to kill him, how about splitting the bounty four-six?” Xu Changlin proposed.
Shi Chuan Yu laughed: “All the bounty from Yang Clan and Xue Clan goes to you; the magic tools on him go to me.”
Li Weiyi scanned his surroundings; all escape routes were sealed by Seven Springs martial cultivators, and the two Five Seas Realm experts had locked him down with strands of magic energy mist traces. The moment he moved, he would immediately draw the supreme attacking power from front and back.
“Is Eight Springs Breaking Five Seas that strong?” Yin Twenty-Four’s crisp voice came from the three-story lapis lazuli tiled roof.
She sat atop it, not invisible, wearing a suit of black clothes.
Li Weiyi shouted to her: “The Chang Lin Gang is gone; is my mission complete? Or, kill this Gang Leader Shi, and let Xu Changlin be Gang Leader again?”
One against two, fighting two Five Seas Realm experts?
Li Weiyi would have to be mad to fight alone.
Shi Chuan Yu’s attention was drawn to Yin Twenty-Four on the roof, laughing heartily: “Eight Springs Breaking Five Seas is, of course, very strong.”
As he spoke, Shi Chuan Yu spat out a flying sword condensed from magic energy; the flying sword was bright like a light mark, both powerful and unexpectedly victorious.
“Bang!”
Yin Twenty-Four struck out with one palm, a cloud of magic energy in her palm shattering the flying sword.
She stood up, her figure slender and tall, yet carrying an awe-inspiring presence as if vying with heaven and earth, her tone icy: “I just went to scout the back courtyard and found many girls and young boys imprisoned. From the gang members’ conversation, the girls would be sent to the various brothels in Jiu Li City, and the young boys offered to a great demon as snacks.”
“So the Chang Lin Gang or Shi Gang, they’re utterly wicked. We need show no mercy; today we join forces to exterminate them!”
Shi Chuan Yu realized the black-clothed girl was very troublesome and immediately dispatched two Seven Springs martial cultivators, sending them at top speed to Sui Sect and Yang Clan for help.
With Dragon Gate having sent dozens of boxes of important items to Shi Gang, if danger arose here, Sui Sect and Yang Clan’s Five Seas Realm experts would inevitably rush over first.
