Chapter 92: Thirty Li Of Snow, Twenty Li Of Sword
The magnificent carriage that drove in had a compartment about ten feet long and wide, spacious enough to fit a bed inside, with spirit lanterns of jade material hanging from the four corners of the canopy. The outermost layer of the carriage curtain was embroidered with patterns of six or seven ancient immortal giant beasts, decorated in extravagant splendor.
The silver horned deer pulling the carriage had two horns emitting silver radiance, not only majestic in appearance, but its eyes also revealed a sharpness unique to martial way strong practitioners.
Sui Sect’s Five Seas Realm experts, like gods and Buddhas filling the sky, occupied advantageous positions throughout the courtyard, activating their magic tools, beams of destructive radiance shining so brightly that Li Weiyi’s eyes could barely stay open.
Their auras were extremely powerful, every action and gesture affecting the surrounding environment.
And the martial cultivators who could come to this mansion with Yang Qingxi were all deep participants in the event, rubbing their fists in anticipation for the upcoming turmoil in Li Zhou, eagerly awaiting it, allowing no accidents.
Shi Liuyu’s face showed a cold smile, sizing up the outstanding figures from all directions. Particularly the two Sui Sect young generation female true disciples with outstanding appearances, his gaze lingered on them for a long time, staring until they revealed killing intent.
Yang Qingxi did not get out of the carriage, her cold yet pleasant voice transmitting from inside: “Faced with this bloody scene, shouldn’t the Law King provide an explanation?”
Li Weiyi had previously probed with Thunder Law Profound Ice and saw that Shi Liuyu was not surprised at all, realizing that Sui Sect likely had some subtle connection with the Earth Wolf King Army.
These two groups very likely had prior contact.
To survive today, he must seize the character flaws of these barbarian thieves like Shi Liuyu, incite contradictions between the two sides, and seek survival in the cracks.
Shi Liuyu was not a deep schemer who could stay composed; instead, he had the common flaw of barbarian thief leaders—extremely bold and reckless, extremely fond of face, unable to change the thieves’ habit of disliking conspiracies and calculations, only liking plunder and killing.
Li Weiyi deliberately whispered near Shi Liuyu’s ear: “So arrogant.”
Shi Liuyu instantly reacted, his eyes sharpening.
Indeed, Yang Qingxi, a junior, seeing him, a dignified Law King, not getting out of the carriage, was already disdainful enough. Yet she was aggressively demanding accountability; if he were suppressed by a little girl today, wouldn’t he lose all face?
Thinking of being mocked by Shi Jiuzhai and Shi Qiqing in the future, and reprimanded by the Heavenly King, Shi Liuyu’s head ached.
Shi Liuyu displayed the majesty of a Law King, saying gravely: “For such a major incident, you only sent a bunch of trash to guard? I think they deserved to die, just right to give you a lesson.”
“Killing my entire gang, blood flowing like rivers, yet the Law King speaks of it so lightly. If the Earth Wolf King Army does not give an explanation satisfactory to Sui Sect, this matter won’t end.” Yang Qingxi’s voice was faint, yet contained firm strength.
In the end, to become the leader of Sui Sect’s young generation, she also needed majesty and face.
Otherwise, she couldn’t command the crowd.
Although Shi Liuyu cared about face, he did not want a minor misunderstanding to create serious rifts between the two major forces. Thus, his gaze turned to Li Weiyi, intending for him to step forward and explain the full story.
Li Weiyi understood, nodded, endured the pressure of battle intent from the numerous Five Seas Realm strong practitioners, stepped forward several paces, and said with great pride: “Yang Qingxi, who do you think you are? Our Law King dominates the Southern Territory, what kind of figure is he, needing to explain to you, a fledgling girl? So arrogant, I’m afraid you won’t have a good end in the future.”
Shi Liuyu’s eyes instantly widened.
“Insolent!”
These words naturally enraged the Sui Sect experts.
“Seeking death!”
Wang Daozhen respected and admired Yang Qingxi the most, reacting fiercely, his figure turning into five phantoms. One palm strike like toppling mountains and seas went out, intending to palm Li Weiyi to death.
The Wang family was one of Sui Sect’s seven clans, and he ranked in the top three of the young generation, his cultivation far surpassing the likes of Xu Changlin and Tang Yan.
With this palm, Li Weiyi had nowhere to dodge, only feeling a divine wall impossibly high pressing from ahead, about to shatter him to pieces.
Even more deadly, Shi Liuyu actually stood by and watched; Li Weiyi knew he had played it wrong. At this life and death moment, ignoring everything else, he retreated one step, legs like a drawn bow, channeling all his magic energy into his arms, both palms boldly striking out.
The palm force he struck out with full effort was like a swaying leaf in a gale, having no effect against it.
“Boom!”
Li Weiyi flew backwards like a cannonball four or five zhang, his body heavily crashing into the stone platform under the eaves, embedding into it, surrounding stones all cracking.
Both arms ached as if broken, unable to lift anymore.
His five viscera and six bowels all damaged, blood flowing straight from his mouth.
Shi Liuyu did not act; although Li Weiyi’s earlier scolding secretly pleased him, he also saw Li Weiyi’s lack of honesty, knowing this kid had ulterior motives.
Of course, even so, he wouldn’t watch Li Weiyi get beaten to death.
The more important reason for not acting was that the palm force Li Weiyi had just erupted with shocked him greatly, far exceeding his expectations, absolutely able to withstand Wang Daozhen’s one palm.
This kid was really Spring Gushing Realm?
Wang Daozhen saw that a mere Spring Gushing Realm martial cultivator withstood his palm without dying, inexplicably furious with shame, suddenly charging out to deliver a follow-up palm.
“Good, good, good, daring to kill someone by this Law King’s side, do you have even half a bit of regard for this Law King?”
Shi Liuyu angrily palmed Wang Daozhen spinning away, his body booming as it smashed through the courtyard wall and the hundred-pattern formation, falling onto the street outside.
“Roar!”
Then, Shi Liuyu roared, his voice like dragon and tiger exploding the void, the magic energy from his mouth locking onto all present Five Seas Realm experts.
He must display strength to win respect; otherwise, future cooperation would suffer losses everywhere.
“Sizzle!”
His five fingers clawed, scalding hot power erupting, the air temperature in the mansion sharply rising, as if placed in boiling water. Dragon-like green flames spread from his fingertips, colliding with the magic tools in the hands of the nine Five Seas Realm experts present.
In the next instant, green flames wrapped around the nine Five Seas Realm experts, scaring them out of their wits. They wanted to flee but found themselves unable to move; in a few breaths, they would probably be burned to ashes by the green flames.
Only at this moment did the Sui Sect crowd realize Shi Liuyu’s terror—this fiend could easily kill them.
Li Weiyi struggled to circulate magic energy to heal his injuries, guessing that Shi Liuyu absolutely wouldn’t watch him die at Sui Sect’s hands, because he still had value. At the same time, he realized Shi Liuyu wasn’t so easy to fool; today he had been too clever by half, the traces too obvious, thus backfiring.
“It’s snowing?”
A crystal-clear snowflake drifted onto Li Weiyi’s hand, bringing a bone-piercing chill.
The second piece, the third…
Heavy snow fell profusely, drifting over the entire hundred mu mansion, instantly turning the midsummer July into midwinter. The entire heaven and earth’s weather changed, extremely strange.
The green flames released by Shi Liuyu gradually extinguished in the flying snow.
His pair of green eyes warily stared at the nearby carriage, chanting: “Thirty Li Snow, Twenty Li Sword, gentleman Yao Qian. No wonder Yang Qingxi doesn’t take this Law King seriously; so you were in the carriage too.”
Yao Qian’s name truly dominated the Southern Territory, called “Li Zhou’s Prefecture Leader.”
With one person’s power, he suppressed the Jiu Li tribe’s entire generation.
Legend has it that when he fully circulated magic energy, he could make snow flurry within thirty li, wrapping mountains in white, freezing rivers in ice. His gentleman sword could kill from twenty li away.
In other words, within thirty li, changing heaven and earth; within twenty li, sword finger at all beings.
How could Shi Liuyu not be wary of such a figure with countless legends?
Yao Qian’s warm and jade-like voice transmitted from the carriage: “It was I who had Qingxi stay in the carriage to warm wine for me; Law King, no need to take such a small matter to heart. Just a Chang Lin Gang; no need for explanation, hand the person over to me.”
Shi Liuyu glanced at Li Weiyi crawling out from the stone cracks and standing up again, surprised in his heart, saying: “Just a Spring Gushing Realm kid; with Your Excellency’s cultivation, no need to stoop to his level.”
Of course Shi Liuyu had to protect Li Weiyi; this involved the Jiu Li Hidden Sect.
Although their four factions were in a cooperative relationship, whoever grasped more information obviously had more advantage in benefit distribution. Li Weiyi had evidently become an extremely important card for the Earth Wolf King Army.
“Law King Liuyu too underestimates the Spring Gushing Realm kid by your side!”
Yang Qingxi’s pleasant voice like trickling spring water rang from the carriage; just hearing it made one fantasize, and even more envy Yao Qian in the carriage, having such a peerlessly elegant woman warm wine for him.
She continued: “Able to withstand Wang Daozhen’s one palm, and quickly stand up again—his strength probably doesn’t lose to Hundred Meridians Pure Silver Immortal Body.”
Shi Liuyu of course knew what Hundred Meridians Pure Silver Immortal Body meant: representing the strongest combat power in the same realm, successor-level aptitude among ten million gateways.
Equivalent to a major power’s signboard.
The Jiu Li tribe had been beaten down fourteen years ago, no longer considered a ten-million-year ancient clan. But because of one Hundred Meridians Pure Silver Immortal Body, all sides now believed the Jiu Li tribe had regained vitality, possibly restoring ten-million-year ancient clan glory in the future.
This was the influence of Hundred Meridians Pure Silver Immortal Body!
Such a Heaven’s Chosen, the entire Earth Wolf King Army from top to bottom didn’t have a single one.
Shi Liuyu looked at Li Weiyi in surprise; this kid’s talent reached this level? No wonder the Jiu Li Hidden Sect valued him so much, sending him to Jiu Li City for trial—this was absolutely not treating him as an ordinary disciple.
“With a mortal body, combat power comparable to Hundred Meridians Pure Silver Immortal Body, this is just a small part of the secrets on his body.”
Yao Qian clearly hadn’t gotten out of the carriage, yet it was as if his eyes were everywhere, able to reconstruct the entire battlefield, continuing: “The Thirty-Three Character Departed Spirit Battle Formation was broken by a high-grade magic tool, its aura not fully dispersed. Among the corpses on the ground, many were killed by fierce insects. Shi Chuan Yu, Xu Changlin, and Tang Yan’s corpses were cleared, but their vitality remains on the ground. If this place was truly his doing alone, the secrets on him are probably beyond imagination.”
Li Weiyi felt utterly chilled, his whole body icy cold, gazing at that luxurious carriage, feeling that the one sitting inside was no human, but a god, a devil.
Only a god or devil could see through all worldly illusions, finding accurate answers from the minutest details.
This terror wasn’t from the opponent’s unparalleled cultivation, but the insight and wisdom that could destroy all his disguises.
Yang Qingxi’s voice followed closely: “His companions cultivating at Jiu Li Dao Academy and Cang Li Tribe School—three have already completed Pure Immortal Body metamorphosis. This group definitely hides some unknown secret. And the endpoint of all secrets, I believe, is on Li Weiyi. Hand him over to us, and everything that happened here has an explanation.”
Li Weiyi’s face grew even uglier, realizing that Senior Disciple Brother, Senior Student Cai, Gao Huan, and the others had always been within reach of the enemy’s forces.
Shi Liuyu’s eyes darkened as he looked at Li Weiyi, chill intensifying.
This kid had hidden too much from him; how many truthful words were in his mouth?
From outside the door, a deep, smiling voice came: “Since he has so many amazing secrets, why should we hand him over to your Sui Sect? The Earth Wolf King Army is also very interested in unraveling the secrets on him.”
Shi Jiuzhai walked in first.
Shi Shishi followed closely.
Shi Liuyu felt Shi Jiuzhai’s words made sense: “Able to make several people undergo Pure Immortal Body metamorphosis—Heavenly King will surely be very interested. Ninth Brother, Tenth Brother, you take him away first; I’ll cover the rear.”
