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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 5: [Seeking Immortality in the Eastern Sea]
Volume 5 (Pinyin): [Dong Hai xun xian]
Chapter 72 (509): [Yu'er's Power]
(72nd of Volume 5)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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"The Zuoqiu Clan has a Holy Spiritual Master. Killing them won't be easy. Let's go. As long as we're alive, we can always fight again."
Meng Hualong activated his life-saving technique, the "Sage's Ink Sea," enveloping Fu Wenyan in a black, ink-scented liquid.
They transformed into a beam of black light and vanished instantly from Li Weiyi's group's sight.
The calligraphy scroll Zuoqiu Hongting had used was written by Zuoqiu Ran for her and Li Weiyi's engagement ceremony.
Li Weiyi's scroll had been consumed during the ceremony to defend against Elder Qin's assassination attempt.
Zuoqiu Hongting had kept hers until now.
She gazed at the fading black light disappearing into the depths of the underground space and sighed deeply.
"That was the Meng Clan's Sage's Ink Sea. Combined with their escape technique, it's too fast for anyone below the Great Immortal Realm to stop. What a waste - a Body Protection Talisman and a calligraphy scroll, all to kill just one Fu Bawu."
"Your protective treasures are priceless!" Liu Ye said, "I'm the one who dragged you into this. Let's split the three Immortal Petals equally - one for each of us."
Zuoqiu Hongting's mood brightened instantly, and she smiled radiantly: "You said it yourself!"
In the distance, wisps of gray mist seeped from the Ancient Immortal Dragon Remains, converging toward Fu Bawu's corpse at the bottom of the pit.
The corpse was undergoing a strange transformation.
"Their escape technique can't last forever. Trying to escape isn't so easy." Li Weiyi said, patting his Insect Pouch.
Er Feng poked its head out.
Among the Seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors, Er Feng's cultivation was a tier above the others, and it had already recovered.
"Remember their scent?" Li Weiyi asked.
Er Feng flew out of the pouch, sniffed the air, and transmitted its Intent: "Don't worry, they won't get far."
Liu Ye frowned, feeling deeply uneasy: "Do you sense anything wrong? I have a bone-chilling feeling."
Li Weiyi grew alert, scanning their surroundings.
"They fled quickly. All the Dao Seed Realm Martial-Mystic Cultivators have already left. It's too quiet! We need to move too. The Ancient Immortal Dragon Remains have been disturbed by the Ghost King of the Nether Realm of the Dead and are showing signs of corpse transformation... Hmm, wait a moment."
Li Weiyi activated his movement technique and dashed toward the massive crater a mile away, intending to retrieve Fu Bawu's Boundary Pouch and Dao Fruit.
As he approached, his heart raced, an inexplicable dread creeping into his mind, causing him to unconsciously slow his pace.
"Master... I feel... something's wrong..." Yu'er murmured, staring at the distant crater.
They discovered wisps of thin gray mist spreading across the ground and seeping into the pit.
Extremely uneasy and tense, she held the Treasure Box above her head like a stone.
"Not good!"
Li Weiyi immediately turned and fled, shouting, "Run! Corpse transformation!"
This time, it was Li Weiyi's turn to regret his actions. He should have known better than to fight and kill near the Ancient Immortal Dragon Remains.
Earlier, ominous signs had already appeared - the Immortal Spring had turned into a blood spring.
"Roar!"
A deep, guttural roar echoed from behind.
The corpse at the bottom of the pit leaped out, shaking the earth with its impact.
Fu Bawu had absorbed the gray corpse mist from the Ancient Immortal Dragon Remains, transforming into a five-to-six-meter-tall Dragon Corpse. Its body was covered in gray scales, its hands and feet twisted into razor-sharp claws, and its eyes glowed like blood-red lanterns.
Its aura was more than ten times more terrifying than when it was alive, resembling a Corpse Spirit Lord.
Zuoqiu Hongting and Liu Ye, standing a mile away, were nearly knocked off their feet by the shockwave. They sensed the Dragon Corpse's intense hostility and overwhelming malice.
"Activate the Ten Thousand Mile Divine Travel Talisman immediately!"
Zuoqiu Hongting couldn't remain calm.
She pressed her fingers to her temples, channeling all her energy to activate the Primordial Lamp's power.
The Dragon Corpse charged forward, instantly closing the distance to Li Weiyi.
Yu'er, clinging to Li Weiyi's back in a state of extreme tension, screamed as the Dragon Corpse suddenly lunged out.
Startled, she hurled the Treasure Box from her hands.
"Boom!"
The Dragon Corpse shattered into pieces, dissolving into a cloud of black Blood Mist.
The Treasure Box pierced through the corpse and slammed into the ground, carving a massive ravine over three miles long.
The ravine, more than ten meters deep, pulverized iron-hard rock, piling the debris into a small mountain at its end.
The Treasure Box lay shattered.
A luminous blue pearl was embedded beneath the small mountain at the ravine's end.
Sensing the commotion behind him, Li Weiyi froze, stiffly turning to stare in disbelief at the terrifying chasm.
"I'm sorry, Master! I didn't know the pearl was so powerful... I'll go retrieve it!"
Yu'er had overheard them mentioning a "Body Protection Talisman" earlier, secretly assuming it was the one her Master had given her.
Something so powerful couldn't be lost.
Besides, the Dragon Corpse was gone now, so she had nothing to fear.
"Hey, don't -"
Li Weiyi's warning died in his throat, stunned.
The moment Yu'er slid off his back, she vanished, reappearing miles away.
She crouched down, digging the blue pearl from its rocky embedding.
'How could she be so fast?'
'Does she even realize how quickly she's moving?'
Li Weiyi's eyelids narrowed as he watched intently.
He noticed that the golden immortal energy radiating from the Ancient Immortal Dragon Remains was rapidly flowing into the ground, converging into the blue pearl.
Li Weiyi held his breath, clenching his fists so tightly his heart seemed to stop beating. If Yu'er hadn't been there, still digging away, he would have fled immediately.
Yu'er returned, cradling the blue pearl in her hands, her face beaming with joy.
"Master, it's not freezing anymore! Not even a little bit!"
This time, her speed was normal!
Li Weiyi glanced back at the mountain-sized Ancient Immortal Dragon Remains in the distance.
The golden immortal energy on its scales had dimmed by more than half.
Forcing himself to remain calm, he rushed forward, scooped up the beaming Yu'er, and fled.
"Yu'er, how did you get over there so quickly?"
Crossing several miles in an instant was utterly bizarre!
"I just ran, Master. Didn't you see me?" Yu'er replied, completely oblivious, her voice filled with genuine confusion.
Li Weiyi didn't press further, knowing the Grand Palace Master's mental state was unstable.
As he passed Zuoqiu Hongting and Liu Ye, he called out, "Hurry up! I'll explain later."
Zuoqiu Hongting and Liu Ye were too stunned to speak.
Yu'er's bizarre state earlier had been utterly inhuman - her speed was terrifying, her strength monstrous, yet she seemed completely oblivious to it.
After a long silence...
"Boom!"
A middle-aged man, a Transcendent cultivator, descended from above, appearing beside the three-mile-long chasm.
"No spiritual power fluctuations... this was all done with physical strength?" he murmured in astonishment.
The rock formations here were different from those outside.
Achieving such destructive force in this terrain would be no easy feat.
The man stared at the fading glow of the Ancient Immortal Dragon Remains and muttered to himself, "Such formidable methods... in such a short time, most of the dragon remains' power has been drained. Which divine being is hiding among those Dao Seed Realm Martial-Mystic Cultivators?"
He dared not pursue, his heart filled with apprehension.
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Two hours later, Li Weiyi, Zuoqiu Hongting, and Liu Ye, guided by Er Feng, had pursued their quarry southward for over five hundred miles.
The terrain transformed into tri-colored Spiritual Soil dotted with rolling hills.
Meng Hualong, having exhausted much of his Spiritual Qi using his escape technique, was swiftly defeated upon engaging the trio.
"Pfft!"
Li Weiyi gave him no chance to unleash the Sage's Ink Sea again, slicing off his head with a single sword stroke.
A seven-meter-high fountain of blood erupted from the severed neck.
Fu Wenyan, showing no desire to prolong the fight, activated his escape technique and fled through the trio's encirclement.
Fifteen minutes later, Li Weiyi and his companions had closed the gap, catching up with him four hundred miles away.
Realizing that their group included a tracking expert and that escape was impossible, Fu Wenyan roared, "I am Fu Wenyan, the Young Heavenly Emperor of the Calamity Crossing Temple! I am being hunted by Li Weiyi and Zuoqiu Hongting! Are there any Immortal Realm Seniors from the Calamity Crossing Temple nearby?"
His voice carried far.
Even if no Immortal Realm Giants from the Calamity Crossing Temple were within earshot, anyone who heard his words would know who had killed him should he perish.
This might deter Li Weiyi and Zuoqiu Hongting from pressing their attack, fearing the temple's retribution.
Zuoqiu Hongting, a master of the Disguise Technique, was naturally skilled in voice alteration as well.
She didn't join the battle, knowing Li Weiyi could handle it alone.
Standing on a blue stone, she observed the surroundings before mimicking Fu Wenyan's voice and shouting, "I am Fu Wenyan, the Young Heavenly Emperor of the Calamity Crossing Temple! I am being pursued by the Changyu Jian! Are there any Immortal Realm Seniors from the Calamity Crossing Temple nearby?"
Immediately afterward, the pursuers transformed into Sheng Wulian, Si Wuyan, Princess Dengfeng, Bai Yeqing...
Fu Wenyan, his rage boiling over, summoned two pages of the Earth Book, one for offense and one for defense.
He fought with all his might against Li Weiyi's relentless, storm-like attacks, his body accumulating more and more wounds.
Every time he tried to escape, Liu Ye intercepted him.
"It really is the Earth Book," Zuoqiu Hongting murmured, drawing a Immobilization Talisman and hurling it like a throwing knife.
Fu Wenyan swiftly dodged the talisman, but he couldn't evade the Purple Heaven Thunder Seal.
With a thunderous crash, the seal struck the crown of his head, instantly shattering his skull and spine.
His body collapsed into a bloody pulp.
Li Weiyi let out a long breath, secretly admiring Fu Wenyan's skill at escaping with his life.
He gathered the corpses and spoils into his Boundary Pouch, then retrieved the Wind-Thunder Banner, summoning a hurricane to scatter their lingering traces.
Only then did he swiftly flee the scene.
The shouts of Fu Wenyan and Zuoqiu Hongting had already attracted nearby Martial-Mystic Cultivators.
After traveling hundreds of miles south at top speed, Li Weiyi, seeing no powerful pursuers, retrieved his Boundary Pouch and began dividing the spoils.
Zuoqiu Hongting, ever cautious, set up a concealment Formations around them, fearing they might be targeted by a Immortal Realm Giant.
The underground spaces beneath the East Sea were no place for Dao Seed Realm Martial-Mystic Cultivators; with bad luck, they could easily encounter a malevolent Great Immortal cultivator.
Fu Wenyan's Governor's Official Robe and Meng Hualong's Sage's Ink Sea were given to Liu Ye.
The Earth Book was split between Li Weiyi and Zuoqiu Hongting, each receiving one page.
Li Weiyi temporarily kept Fu Wenyan's eighth-grade Thousand-Inscriptions Artifact, the bronze brush.
However, he handed the Immortal Petal Liu Ye offered him to Zuoqiu Hongting as compensation.
With this, Zuoqiu Hongting had now collected all three Immortal Petals.
Li Weiyi's expression turned solemn: "The members of the Zongsheng Academy are all Heaven's Chosen. Their complete annihilation will undoubtedly cause a major upheaval. If this comes to light, they'll pin everything on me. After all, I killed Ye Baiyue and Ye Cang anyway. What's one more crime when I'm already drowning in them?"
"If you're going to talk like that, there's no point in being friends!" Liu Ye retorted, pulling on his Governor's Official Robe, "We killed them together and shared the spoils. If things go south, we'll face the consequences together."
Zuoqiu Hongting kept a close eye on Yu'er, secretly worried that she might be an ancient demon with a childlike facade, fearing Li Weiyi had long been under her control.
Yet something didn't quite add up.
Having known Yu'er for some time, Zuoqiu Hongting could sense her genuine innocence and kindness.
Yu'er sat nearby, idly playing with a blue bead.
Noticing the strange looks Zuoqiu Hongting and Liu Ye were giving her, she turned to Li Weiyi.
"Master, I have a secret I've been wanting to tell you... and so many questions I want to ask! Master, Master, look at me."
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