Encountering Xuanyuan on Yingzhou

The water was vast, filled with a crimson haze, and the opposite bank was nowhere to be seen.

The Guardian Wife stood by the lake, on the ground covered with three-colored spiritual soil. Her jade hand, which had been forming a hand seal in front of her chest, changed the mudra.

Instantly, the crimson aura of blood in the lake, like gauze or mist, gathered towards her in wisps.

Li Weiyi stared at her, thinking to himself, "The blood energy here must possess some kind of inexplicable power. Who on earth set up such a scheme here?"

If the Guardian Wife only needed blood essence, she would have certainly appeared to collect it in the past. Moreover, isn't the blood essence even more concentrated at the edge of the Sea of Blood?

There must be a story behind this crescent-shaped blood lake and the vast sea of bones.

However, his cultivation level is not strong enough yet, so he cannot see through it.

Li Weiyi sensed that the Blood Lake was dangerous and dared not approach it. Instead, he released his magical energy, intending to use it to sweep some back and hand it over to his three masters for identification and research.

However, as soon as the magical energy approached the blood, it merged into it and lost its resonance.

Then, he took out a low-level magic artifact, wrapped it in magic energy, and extended it towards the blood lake.

"Splash!"

A wave crashed against the low-level magical artifact.

The ritual implements had decayed and turned black.

After being retrieved, it lost all its spirit and became scrap metal.

Li Weiyi felt a great sense of foreboding. He absolutely could not touch this blood; he was very worried that if he did, his flesh would dissolve and he would become one of the thousands of skeletons here.

They dared not act rashly.

They then turned to excavating spiritual soil, searching for Immortal Soil.

Having come all this way at great risk, we can't leave empty-handed.

Here, the entire area surrounding the lake is covered with tri-colored spiritual soil. Li Weiyi frantically dug with the Iron Book, constantly filling the Blood Mud Space with the intention of planting medicinal herbs inside in the future.

After digging down more than a meter, four-colored light emanated from the ground.

Li Weiyi was overjoyed, knowing he had unearthed Immortal Soil, and immediately reached out to scoop it up with his hands.

But the moment his fingers touched the Immortal Soil, it was as if he had disturbed some taboo. A piercing storm roared from the blood lake, and waves surged several meters high, rushing towards him.

The ground shook, and the water roared.

Li Weiyi felt a terrifying pressure. He saw that the blood-red waves were like a liquid wall climbing up the shore and sweeping towards him.

"Whoosh!"

A graceful red figure flew in.

The Guardian Wife appeared in front of the blood wave, cast a hand seal, and repelled it with a bang.

Li Weiyi, who had fled ten zhang away, saw that she had such abilities and immediately turned back. With lightning speed, he dug out a large pile of Immortal Soil and put it into the Blood Mud Space one after another. Then, he quickly retreated to a distance.

After the Guardian Wife repelled the blood waves eight times, the lake surface calmed down again.

She turned around to face Li Weiyi, so her expression was not visible.

Li Weiyi responded calmly, "What a joke! You insisted on coming along. Now you're there absorbing blood energy, and I've taken such a huge risk, am I just going to leave empty-handed?"

A moment later, the Guardian Wife returned to the lakeside, made a hand seal, and absorbed the blood energy.

Several miles away, beneath the massive, mountain-like skull Zen Sea Observing Mist, also dressed in red, sat cross-legged by the lake, absorbing the blood essence from the lake with each Breathing and Exhaling.

Her flesh and blood had grown back, and her skin was as white as jade porcelain, but shrouded in blood mist, her body was hazy and her face was not visible.

Sensing the commotion in the distance, Zen Sea Observing Mist suddenly opened her eyes, her red lips parted, and she whispered, "They're here!"

Li Ling, who was digging in the spirit soil, stopped and asked, "Who?"

"Let's go. I've temporarily forged a physical body and can continue along the path of cultivation I once followed. There's no need to confront him now. The timing isn't right!"

Zen Sea Observing Mist's eyes were deep. He stood up. He was quite tall and looked very young in the mist, like he was only eighteen or nineteen years old. His long black hair was loosely tied back with a hairband.

Her gaze pierced through layers of blood mist, finally landing on the five-colored island in the center of the blood lake. She murmured to herself, "An island forged from five-colored divine mud—what kind of magnificent being could have laid out such a trap here?"

Li Weiyi would not hesitate to excavate the spiritual soil without disturbing the Blood Lake.

This item is quite valuable, and many people will surely buy it.

Half a day later, Li Weiyi, having dug up countless kilograms, gradually lost interest and was so tired that he sat down to rest.

"This place is so extraordinary, yet I'm exhausted from digging in the most inconspicuous soil. Will she laugh at me?"

Li Weiyi shook his head with a self-deprecating smile, stood up, and prepared to explore the lakeside.

After walking six or seven miles, a large number of coffins appeared by the lake, all haphazardly placed and piled up.

One of them was enormous and unique, cast in silver, with a silvery sheen emanating from within.

It was because he saw it that Li Weiyi did not detour, but wanted to find out what it was all about.

"It really is that Otherworldly Coffin from Immortal Burial Town, carried here by the townspeople of the dead?"

As Li Weiyi approached, he leaped into the air and saw a Silver Giant skeleton, eleven or twelve meters long, lying in the coffin. Inside the skeleton, it seemed as if a galaxy was flowing, dazzling and blinding.

"The heart is made of stars, and the skeleton is made of silver."

Li Weiyi wasn't sure of the skeleton's true value, so he used telepathy to ask, "Spirit Tablet Master, have you ever heard of the Silver Skeleton Celestial Clan and the Immortal Law Star?"

The origin of the Silver Giant's bones was mentioned by Fang Tong of the Earth Wolf King Army.

A few breaths later.

The Spirit Tablet Master's cautious voice came out. "Your Coffin Master said that this matter is of great importance, and he wants to come out and investigate personally."

Li Weiyi realized that this skeleton might really be extraordinary, so he activated the Spiritual Light Bright Fire of his brow and brought out the Coffin Master and the Spirit Tablet Master.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

On the coffin and the Spirit Tablet, faint figures materialized one after another, a man and a woman, slowly approaching the Silver Coffin. They observed and studied it while whispering something to each other.

The remnant souls of the two masters have grown considerably stronger under the nurturing of the Lesser Yang Star.

Li Weiyi remained vigilant, secretly observing the other coffins.

The coffins placed here are quite peculiar, with bizarre shapes, some already decayed and broken. It's unclear whether they were all brought here by the people of the town of the departed.

A cold wind blew by, and some of the coffin lids creaked and groaned.

In the center of this coffin, the ground turned to sand, with a white, fine sand area stretching for hundreds of meters in length and width.

In the center of the desertified area stands a solitary temple.

The temple gate faces the Blood Lake, so its interior cannot be seen.

Li Weiyi walked slowly over step by step, and at the edge of the desertified area, he saw a stone tablet with inscriptions. The font of the characters on the tablet was familiar, but he did not recognize any of them.

Behind them, the Spirit Tablet Master's voice came. "Be careful! This sandy ground is strange; the aura of death is strong, as if it forbids all living beings from existing."

The Coffin Master gazed at the stone tablet and recited. "Met Xuanyuan in Yingzhou, buried with him at Blood Moon Spring... It is the God of Jiu Li, it is the God of Jiu Li's writing, it is the writing left by the old man..."

The Coffin Master's voice trembled with excitement as he looked at the isolated temple in the center of the desertified area in the distance, and then knelt down and kowtowed.

His and his Spirit Tablet Master's souls were very faint, so faint that their facial features were indistinguishable, as if a gust of wind could blow them away.

No wonder it looks familiar; these characters are written in the same font as the four characters "Jiu Li Insect Valley).

Li Weiyi was even more excited than him and asked, "Are these two sentences the content of the inscription on the stone tablet?"

The Coffin Master nodded deeply, his tone filled with confusion, and muttered to himself, "If the God of Jiu Li is buried here, then who is buried in the Jiu Li Divine Mountain? Or is it someone else buried here?"

He tried to rush into the desertified area, but was held back tightly by the Spirit Tablet Master.

Li Weiyi was also shocked and confused. The terms "Xuanyuan" and "Yingzhou" were absolutely well-known in China.

When discussing the myths and history of Ancient Huaxia, the name "Xuanyuan" is unavoidable.

There are countless records about "Yingzhou".

The Record of Ten Continents refers to it, along with Zuzhou, Yanzhou, Fenglinzhou, Jukuzhou, Liuzhou, and so on, as the Ten Continents of the Overseas.

Li Weiyi processed the shock in his heart and comforted the Coffin Master: "There is only a single temple. It seems that the God of Jiu Li is not really buried there. Perhaps it is just a clay body or clothing."

The Coffin Master gradually calmed down, still gazing into the distance, and shook his head. "No, that's not a real temple, but a stele temple. The fact that this place is turning to sand means it's definitely not simple."

Li Weiyi really wanted to throw in a copper coin to try, but having learned from past mistakes, he immediately dismissed the idea, saying, "If the God of Jiu Li is truly buried here, he certainly wouldn't want to be disturbed by us. In the future, when I attain immortality, we'll come back and investigate."

"That's definitely too dangerous!"

The Coffin Master nodded, suppressing his inner obsession, and reluctantly left, pointing to the Silver Coffin: "Weiyi, store it in the Blood Mud Space; it will be of great use in the future."

Li Weiyi had wanted to take it for a long time.

The enormous Silver Coffin itself was of extraordinary value.

The Coffin Master and the Spirit Tablet Master looked at the boundless blood lake ahead, their eyes filled with apprehension, not daring to absorb the blood energy as recklessly as the Guardian Wife.

He first sent his two masters into the Blood Mud Space, and then came to the Silver Coffin.

"Rustle!"

Just as the power of the Buddha's Sarira Spatial Power was activated, a cold wind blew from the distant desertified area. Li Weiyi felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his whole body trembled.

As the Spatial Ripples dissipated, the Silver Coffin vanished from its spot.

"This eerie wind is so strange!"

Li Weiyi felt as if he had just seen some shadows. Looking around, he saw only coffins. Feeling uneasy, he quickly fled the area and returned.

Seeing his Guardian Wife, made him feel a little more at ease, as she probably hadn't gotten dirty.

"Forget it, let's not go investigate for now!"

Li Weiyi sat cross-legged by the lake, took out the Golden Spring, and prepared to use this time to temper his Golden Meridian Lines and break through to the Five Seas Realm.

One day later.

Li Weiyi burst out of the sea of bones, quickly descended the mountain along the stone steps, and fled.

It wasn't that they encountered any danger.

Instead, it was that taciturn Guardian Wife seemed to have absorbed enough of the blood mist and mysteriously disappeared. No matter what method Li Weiyi used, he could not summon her again.

With her gone, how could Li Weiyi dare to stay alone in that awful place?

It was originally her who insisted on going so that she could leave as soon as possible; Li Weiyi didn't want to stay even a moment longer.

He walked down the mountain extremely fast, almost running.

They only collected the Spring Coin and Silver Coin along the way, leaving all the copper coins on the stone steps.

Upon entering the Giant Stone Statues forest, Li Weiyi retraced his steps, maximizing his sight, hearing, and smell, and activating the stealth and speed powers of his Nightwalker's Robe, fearing another encounter with the giant humanoid monster.

Suddenly.

On the edge of the stone forest, he heard familiar voices. He sniffed hard and recognized the scent of Zuoqiu Baiming and Zuoqiu Lanlan.

They didn't die at the hands of Xue Qi and his men? And they even escaped here?

Only after confirming that there was no trace of the unknown humanoid giant-headed creature nearby did Li Wei cautiously approach.

Just as he approached, a blinding sword light emerged from behind a Giant Stone Statues. Li Weiyi quickly deflected it with a flick of his sleeve and said, "It's me, Sima Tan!"

Upon recognizing the newcomer as "Sima Tan," Zuoqiu Lanlan quickly sheathed her sword. Her expression instantly shifted from resentment to joy, followed by astonishment. "How are you still alive? How did you find your way here?"

Li Weiyi looked at Zuoqiu Baiming sitting on the ground and found that one of his legs had been severed, and his face was extremely pale, ashen.

"Where is Brother Tian?" he asked.

Zuoqiu Lanlan was filled with fear and immense pain. Her delicate body trembled, her eyes were red and swollen, and tears welled up in her eyes. "They killed me! Di Ran bit through his throat and even ate his flesh."

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