The Guardian Wife Speaks
"Boom!"
The blood-red characters on the foreheads of the townspeople of the Dead Spirit Town unleashed countless stylized lights and shadows, attacking the gigantic, humanoid, unknown being.
Li Weiyi retreated quickly, raised the Yin Banner, and continuously poured in his magical energy, hiding inside the blue Light Veil to watch the battle. He wanted to take this opportunity to escape, but his damned curiosity prevented him from taking a step.
The townspeople of Immortal Burial Town are too strange, as if they possess special consciousness. Their appearance in the Thirty-three Li Mountain is definitely extraordinary.
Most importantly...
Li Weiyi was unsure whether their awakening and the strange events in Immortal Burial Town were related to the blood he had shed that day. He wanted to find out the secret and unravel the mystery of his origins.
"Judging from their aura, they are much stronger than when they first woke up."
Li Weiyi carefully observed the various methods used by the townspeople of the Lost Souls Town and the unknown, gigantic being, accumulating experience so that he would know what to be wary of and how to deal with them in the future.
The Seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors very nervous and all burrowed into his clothes, trembling.
A moment later, unable to resist their curiosity, they poked their heads out one after another. The seven heads were stacked together, gazing at the battlefield where will-o'-the-wisps danced.
The giant, unknown creature was defeated and fled into the stone forest of Giant Stone Statues.
One by one, the townspeople, shrouded in will-o'-the-wisps, withdrew the written light and shadows, formed a neat long line, and walked into the stone forest shrouded in celestial mist.
They walked slowly, not in pursuit, but rather as if they were traveling according to some kind of will, and their encounter with Li Weiyi and the unknown giant creature was merely an accident.
The surroundings quieted down.
Li Weiyi's tense muscles relaxed, and he prepared to leave this eerie place.
A melodious female voice suddenly rang out. "Follow them!"
"Who?"
He was shocked and immediately took out the Iron Book, looking around.
"Follow them!"
"Follow them..."
The sound seemed to come from near and far.
In the distance, whether at the edge of the sky or in another time and space, it is as faint as the sound of the wind.
When close, it's like a whisper in your ear.
"Rustle!"
Blood from Li Weiyi's injured left hand turned into mist, dissipating and swirling around her.
Before them appeared a world of pale red blood mist, a gravelly field overgrown with weeds, rapidly decaying and moldy, exuding a sinister aura.
A slender figure dressed in a magnificent red wedding gown appeared out of thin air amidst the blood mist and stood there silently.
Li Weiyi, of course, knew who she was. His eyelids tightened, his heart pounded, and he observed for the first time the Guardian Wife that Zen Sea Observing Mist had spoken of.
Her wedding dress was exceptionally beautiful, with a dragon and phoenix pattern woven in gold and silver thread on the chest, lotus patterns on the cuffs, and a very large skirt that trailed behind her like long Phoenix Feather spread on the ground.
The four corners of the red silk veil were adorned with copper coins, obscuring the face but revealing a slender, jade-like neck and some strands of hair.
Only now did Li Weiyi truly believe that she was real. Filled with astonishment and doubt, he asked, "Who are you? Are you truly residing within my bloodline?"
She didn't respond, as if she couldn't hear Li Weiyi's voice.
"Follow them!"
That melodious voice came from her.
But it didn't sound like it came from the mouth; rather, it originated from the surrounding space.
Li Weiyi was very cautious and asked, "Why did you follow them? Do you know who they are?"
"Follow them!"
It was still that same emotionless voice.
"That's all you can say?"
Li Weiyi frowned, then slowly stepped forward, wanting to lift the veil from her head to see what she looked like.
But as soon as he reached out, a chilling aura rushed towards him.
His wrist was grabbed by his Guardian Wife's cold, jade-like hand, stopping him.
"Follow them."
These three words sounded as if they were spoken directly from her lips, incredibly clear and intimately close.
"Can't I watch it?"
Li Weiyi channeled his magic power into her arm, but no matter how much force he unleashed, he was completely unable to contend with her.
Her hands were exceptionally beautiful, each finger slender and delicate, neither too fat nor too thin, like they were carved from divine crystal or jade. But just by gently placing them on Li Weiyi's wrist, his arm froze in mid-air, unable to touch the red silk veil.
"If you don't want to watch... then you don't have to watch..."
Li Weiyi had no obsessions; he only wanted to know what his Guardian Wife was. He slowly withdrew his hand, and his Guardian Wife's fingers loosened as well.
Her fingers were icy cold; that was a fact.
On the chest, the Seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors all stared wide-eyed, their initial anticipation replaced by disappointment and dejection.
She kept urging him to "follow along," and Li Weiyi, also wanting to find out, quickly caught up with the townspeople of the Ghost Town who had already entered the stone forest of Giant Stone Statues, holding Green Yin Banner. He cautiously and warily observed his surroundings, worried about being attacked by the unknown creature with the giant head.
His Guardian Wife, followed behind him, the hem of her wedding dress trailing on the ground for more than ten feet.
She possessed an exceptional air of elegance, her head held high, a jade belt cinching her waist. One hand was clasped behind her back, while the other formed a hand seal in front of her chest, her entire body enveloped in a radiant glow of blood mist.
As she walked forward, the copper coins hanging at the four corners of her veil jingled and clinked.
"Spirit Tablet Master, do you see this? This is the Guardian Wife that Zen Sea Observing Mist once spoke of. Can you tell her origin?" Li Weiyi communicated with her telepathy.
Inside the Blood Mud Space, the three masters were engaged in a heated discussion, all of them shocked by the strange situation surrounding Li Weiyi; the existence of her Guardian Wife was beyond their comprehension.
Behind him, the hand of the Guardian Wife, which was making a hand seal, pointed its index finger forward slightly.
"Whoosh!"
A streak of crimson light pierced through Li Weiyi's body and struck the Buddha's Sarira on the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.
A moment later, the Spirit Tablet Master's terrified voice rang out. "Weiyi, you'd better handle this yourself. We were just warned and weren't even allowed to talk about it. We were almost scared to death."
Li Weiyi gasped and couldn't help but look back.
So domineering?
Footsteps and strange cries could be heard coming from the distant fog, but none of them came any closer.
They walked for almost half an hour.
Amidst the Giant Stone Statues and stone forest, a winding ancient stone staircase leads upwards, and the residents of Shiling Town ascend along it.
Li Weiyi keenly noticed that their gait had become completely identical, with the latter always following in the footsteps of the former. Naturally, he dared not act recklessly and followed in their footsteps as he ascended the stone steps.
With each step, he dropped a coin under his feet to mark the location of his footprints.
He carried countless money pouches, with plenty of all kinds of coins.
On both sides of the stone steps were Giant Stone Statues of all sizes, which looked quite eerie and unsettling in the thick fog.
Some of the Giant Stone Statues had broken apart, revealing a thick layer of stone shell, suggesting that something had once been inside.
"It's so quiet. This place doesn't seem scary at all."
After walking carefully for a while, Li Weiyi, in order to verify his guess, flicked a copper coin onto the ground to the right of the stone steps.
The copper coin fell to the ground.
"Whoosh!"
At the point of impact, a bright, ethereal light burst forth, and countless complex and ancient incantations, runes, and Formation Script simultaneously appeared on the ground and in mid-air, releasing destructive energies such as lightning and heavenly fire.
All the Giant Stone Statues were shaking.
In the void, palaces, floating islands, colossal stone statues, and other scenes existing between reality and illusion appear.
The townspeople of the deceased who were walking ahead immediately stopped in their tracks.
Li Weiyi could feel the terrifying power of those incantations, runes, Formation Script, lightning, and heavenly fire. If he were hit, he would surely be reduced to ashes. He stood still, holding his breath, not daring to move a single finger.
The scene in the void, which I only dared to observe by moving my eyes, felt as if it were real.
About fifteen minutes later.
The primordial radiance returned to calm, and all words, energy, and unknown phenomena dissipated into the air.
A tiny copper coin nearly caused a major disaster; clearly, only a special route can safely enter this place.
The townspeople of the deceased town continued on their way, and Li Weiyi dutifully continued placing coins and marking the route.
After walking for an unknown amount of time and climbing several miles of mountain, we finally reached the end of the steps, where a dense mass of white bones appeared before us, like a sea of bones.
Li Weiyi was shocked and could not believe his eyes. He was unsure if he was still in the Thirty-three Li Mountain.
The Sea of Bones is so vast, it's like an independent world.
The piles of bones on the ground were somewhat understandable, but the void on both sides was also filled with layers upon layers of bones, as if they could be piled up to the Starry Sky in the universe. Some of these bones belonged to unknown beings and were as huge as mountains.
Some skeletons also had multiple heads and were hundreds of meters long.
Hundreds of thousands, even millions of human skeletons lay piled on top of them, like dust, like the bones of insects and ants.
Although this place is bathed in celestial mist, it is like the entrance to hell, too terrifying. Not to mention Li Weiyi, even those powerful figures in the Dao Seed Realm and the Longevity Realm would probably be so frightened that they would turn around and flee.
Li Weiyi tried his best to remain calm and glanced back at his Guardian Wife.
"Follow them!" Her voice rang out again, steady as ever.
Following the townspeople of the Dead into the Sea of Bones, the sea grew ever more vast, with a crimson glow emanating from its deepest part.
The stone steps turn downwards, leading to a sea of bones that is both a cave and a vast plain.
Li Weiyi looked down at the pool of blood, seemingly...
A crescent-shaped lake of blood!
Dozens of miles away, a huge, grayish-white, smooth skull can be seen by the lake; it is estimated to be several thousand meters tall.
The skull had a huge mouth, full of sharp, fang-like teeth, and black mist emanated from the gaps in its bones.
Descend the stone steps and enter the Bone Sea Plain.
The townspeople of the Dead Town, no longer cautious, dispersed and went in different directions.
Li Weiyi did not follow them any further, but instead headed towards the Crescent Blood Lake in the distance. Because, in that direction, she saw a four-colored glow, much like the radiance emanating from the Immortal Soil.
That's Immortal Soil; a single ounce of it could be worth a million taels of silver. Few treasures in the world can compare.
Looking back, he saw his Guardian Wife, still following behind. She seemed very confident, exuding a fearless and powerful aura. Instantly, Li Weiyi's apprehension lessened, and he increased his speed.
"Whoosh!"
As they drew closer to Crescent Blood Lake, his Guardian Wife outpaced him, transforming into a graceful red shadow as she swept past him.
Upon arriving at the shores of Crescent Blood Lake, Li Weiyi truly felt its vastness. It was as expansive as an ocean, with rolling waves and a strong stench of blood, making one feel quite uncomfortable.