Lord Qi

"What a terrifying aura! Could it have sensed me just now?"

After Chen Wenwu left the area, Li Weiyi did not dare to underestimate his perception ability. Instead of surfacing, she remained hidden more than ten meters below the surface, letting her body sink naturally.

The existence of such a series of signals would surely enable the detection of unusual underwater movements.

Do not act rashly!

Chen Wenwu knew Huo Qiankun too well and was a top-tier cultivator. Li Weiyi had no idea that Chen Wenwu would use Disguise Art to deceive him.

Sure enough, Chen Wenwu returned shortly afterward.

"Boom!"

He raised his arm, his skin gleaming brightly, and slammed his palm into the sea.

The magical energy condensed into a giant handprint several meters long, pressing down on the sea surface and causing it to cave in like a bowl. The seawater bulged outwards in a circle, spreading wildly. At the same time, layers of palm force impacted the energy, surging towards the seabed.

Li Weiyi dared not release his magical energy and could only rely on his physical body to withstand the attack. Fortunately, he had already sunk more than 20 meters below the sea surface, so the impact was minimal.

Chen Xun and Sheng Qingyan caught up in their boat.

With a solemn expression, Chen Wenwu leaped onto the boat.

Looking at the still-churning sea, Sheng Qingyan marveled at Chen Wenwu's terrifying cultivation level and asked, "Is that guy hiding in this sea?"

Chen Wenwu shook his head slightly. "It's hard to say! This person is extremely cunning. Although I had a faint sense of him earlier, I'm not sure if he was deliberately creating a diversion to keep me here."

Chen Xun, "The five top experts from Tianyi Gate and Night City all died on the ship, and Huo Qiankun and Yuwen Chao are missing. I'm afraid they are in grave danger."

"What an arrogant fellow, daring to provoke us." Sheng Qingyan sneered.

Chen Wenwu said, "Arrogant? I think this person is exceptionally intelligent and did this on purpose. He's an interesting opponent."

"What do we do now? Stay here and waste time with him? What if it's just a ruse he set up and he's already left? That would make us look stupid," Chen Xun.

"He's just a cunning coward at the Fifth Realm of the Five Seas. He left a trace when he killed the Five Seas Realm martial artists from Tianyi Gate and Night City. Next time we meet, we'll naturally know who he is. Jiang Ning's side is the most important thing. Let's hurry over there too. If we can contribute, we can make up for our mistakes."

The ships departed, heading towards a certain location at sea.

An hour later, Li Weiyi surfaced several miles away, took the small boat out of the Evil Camel Bell, and chased after the direction where Chen Wenwu and the others had left.

"This Chen Wenwu is probably already cultivating to the Seventh Sea. His magical energy is so profound that a martial artist like Yuwen Chao, who is at the Fifth Realm of the Five Seas, is like a firefly compared to the Bright Moon in front of him."

Thinking of this, Li Weiyi took out the Golden Spring again and drank a mouthful.

While moving forward, one strengthens and forges the bones within the body.

As the sun sets, the sea is ablaze with crimson clouds.

Soon, the starry night sky appeared.

The small boat seemed to float in the Starry Sky, creating ripples.

"Such a powerful fluctuation of magical energy."

Li Weiyi stood up and looked to the left. On the horizon, beams of magical energy intertwined, and Wind Force spread, indicating that top experts from the Five Seas Realm were fighting.

On the other side of the horizon, a sword light slashed from the sea into the sky, parting the clouds.

The calm sea surface was suddenly churned into giant waves.

Li Weiyi smelled the stench of blood and saw a corpse drifting in with the waves in the distance. He released a wisp of magical energy from his fingertips, which transformed into a misty rope that wrapped around the corpse and pulled it onto the ship.

This was a young woman wearing red soft armor, which was undamaged and was a mid-level magic artifact. However, her internal body was a bloody mess, her internal organs were shattered, and more than ten bones were broken.

Li Weiyi stretched out his palm and gestured across her chest, concluding that she had died from a blow to the chest and abdomen.

"A cultivator at the Fourth Realm of the Five Seas, capable of killing with a single blow; even armor cannot protect against it. This is... the waist token of the Zuoqiu Courtyard..."

Li Weiyi tore off the waist token, clenched it tightly in his hand, and looked again at the few fluctuations of magical energy on the horizon at the sea. "Is Zuoqiu Ting really that decisive? He said he would start a war, and he actually started one?"

Not long after, another body floated by, Li Weiyi pulled it onto the boat.

The corpse, dressed in a monk's robe, had its head smashed and wore Prayer Beads on its wrist, clearly belonging to a Five Seas Realm expert from Coffin Mountain.

Li Weiyi dared not go any further, fearing that he would stumble into the battlefield of top experts and suffer the same fate as these two, being killed with a single palm strike.

As they steered their small boat away, the magical energy fluctuations emanating from the sea behind them grew increasingly faint.

The sea calmed down.

Having just escaped the battlefield, Li Weiyi had barely let out a long sigh of relief when he suddenly felt the small boat sink slightly before rising to the surface. His heart skipped a beat; he didn't even need to turn around to know that someone had boarded his boat.

The crucial point is that before the other party boarded the ship, he didn't sense any fluctuations in magical energy or air, nor did he hear any sound.

This clearly demonstrates that the other party's cultivation level far surpasses his.

Li Weiyi composed himself, turned around, and saw a scene that terrified him to the extreme.

Zhuang Yue, dressed in a long blue dress, was reclining on the bow of the boat, her hand supporting her cheek, her back against the side of the boat, her eyes closed as if resting. Her legs were almost touching, placed next to Li Weiyi's shoes.

Li Weiyi knew exactly who she was.

A chill ran straight to the top of his head. Li Weiyi gripped his silver spear tightly, desperately trying to figure out if Huo Qiankun had ever seen Qi Jin.

If he had seen them before, what would his reaction be? If he hadn't, what would his reaction be?

You're very nervous!

Zhuang Yue didn't open her eyes, and murmured something.

Li Weiyi tried to calm himself down and smiled, "A great beauty, like a fairy descending to earth, suddenly appeared on my ship. Anyone would be nervous. Huo Qiankun of Tianyi Gate greets Lord Qi!"

"Have you seen me before?" Zhuang Yue asked.

"I've met Jiang Ning and Zhuang Yue..."

Li Weiyi added, "Back in Immortal Burial Town."

"Hehe, Tianyi Gate, I vaguely remember that. You followed Chen Wenwu, right?" Zhuang Yue kept her eyes closed.

Li Weiyi's tone became serious. "I am the number one expert of the younger generation of Tianyi Gate. I do not follow anyone, and my relationship with the Three Chen Palace is merely one of cooperation. If I were to follow anyone... I would only follow strong individuals like Young Venerable and Lord Qi. Only the Ash Region the Far West are worthy of Tianyi Gate's submission."

Zhuang Yue sneered and remained silent for a moment, then said, "I've been searching for Jiang Ning for two days and I'm exhausted. Can I borrow your boat to rest for a while?"

Her breaths were extremely long and deep, constantly drawing in the magical energy between heaven and earth.

A cold glint flashed deep in Li Weiyi's eyes as he pondered the feasibility of pulling Qi Jin into the Blood Mud Space. Or perhaps, should he summon the Zen Sea Observing Mist?

However, activating the spiritual light and flames to activate the Buddha's Sarira would surely alarm her.

The two were very close; given her cultivation level, her attack would surely arrive in an instant.

Either he dies, or Qi Jin dies.

The odds of victory or defeat, life or death, are almost evenly split.

In the end Li Weiyi gave up the adventure; her own life was far more precious than hers!

Time passed, and as the night deepened, the air grew increasingly chilly.

Snowflakes drifted down from the sky, each one shaped like a piece of paper money, falling onto the sea and the small boats.

Li Weiyi reached out and caught a piece, feeling quite shocked, knowing that another powerful figure had arrived.

Zhuang Yue, who had been resting, fluttered her eyelashes, opened her eyes, and smiled, "Finally here!"

Amidst a flurry of flying paper money, a black, dark aura, tens of feet in diameter, rolled forward from the sea.

Within the dark aura, Dao Body was enveloped, with wings on its back, horns on its head, and crimson hair.

He walked to the small boat as if on flat ground, his body rapidly shrinking into a two-meter-tall human, bare-chested, his skin indistinguishable from cast brass, a special Pure Immortal Body.

Zhuang Yue said, "You're too slow. I've been waiting for almost two days."

"So many of you besieged a Luantai Angel, and she still managed to escape. We've been searching for her for two days and still haven't found her. Is she just too powerful, or are you all just too incompetent?" Ming Niansheng said bluntly.

Zhuang Yue stood up, all traces of her languid demeanor vanishing, replaced by a sharp edge. "Quickly release the Yin Soul Water Ghost, capture Jiang Ning, the skin is mine, the flesh is yours."

"I advise you to offer her to the Young Venerable first."

Ming Niansheng took out a huge black dimensional bag and activated it with his magical energy, causing the dimensional bag to swell up instantly.

The bag was opened, and with a gust of cold wind, countless Spirit Tablet flew out.

Moments later, the entire sea surface was covered with floating Spirit Tablet.

From each Spirit Tablet, a ghostly figure flew out, with long, disheveled hair and a deathly pale face. There were thousands of them, standing densely packed on the sea surface with their arms hanging down and eyes open, which was extremely eerie.

Ming Niansheng uttered a spell.

Thousands of vengeful spirits and water ghosts all flew towards the seabed.

Zhuang Yue said, "We've located her within a few dozen miles of this area, where the seawater is over forty feet deep. How long will it take to complete the search?"

"An hour should be enough to force her out."

Ming Niansheng glanced at her. "You underestimate the perception and wisdom of the Luantai Angel. She hasn't shown herself to you for so long, which means she has already seen through you. What do you still need this human skin for?"

"It's beautiful!"

Zhuang Yue, all dressed up, twirled around on the small boat and looked at Li Weiyi: "Am I pretty?"

"Lord Qi is as beautiful as a fairy, and her inner beauty surpasses even her outer beauty," Li Weiyi said.

Zhuang Yue smiled and said, "Hehe, Jiang Ning's skin is even more beautiful. Just thinking about Fairy Yu's beauty makes my heart flutter."

Ming Niansheng's eyes shone brightly, snowflakes in the shape of paper money constantly falling from above his head. He glanced at Li Weiyi and asked, "Where did you find such a guy who's always sucking up to you?"

Li Weiyi, with great poise, cupped his hands and said, "Tianyi Gate, Huo Qiankun! I am absolutely not flattering you; every word comes from the bottom of my heart."

"Boom!"

The water surface suddenly exploded.

A Magic Tool Jade Boat emerged from the water, enveloped in a hundred-character scripture and a mist of magical energy, radiating dazzling light, and rapidly soared into the sky.

"Where do you think you're going!"

Both Zhuang Yue and Ming Niansheng unleashed powerful magical energy as they chased after the Magic Tool Jade Boat.

Zhuang Yue skimmed across the water, her figure like a series of afterimages, covering a mile in an instant.

Ming Niansheng spread his wings, his body grew several times larger, and two horns and ten-foot-long red hair grew on his head. He flew behind the Magic Tool Jade Boat in pursuit.

Li Weiyi followed at full speed on his ship, while simultaneously communicating with the Zen Sea Observing Mist within the Blood Mud Space.

"I can help you, but hiding inside Li Ling's body will limit your combat power; her physical body can't withstand too much force. Besides, Li Ling's strength is too great, which will definitely attract the attention of those with ulterior motives, and the consequences are unpredictable. Think carefully first: is it worth paying such a high price to save Jiang Ning and Yin Thirteen? I always believe that one should only reveal secrets concerning one's own life and death when facing a life-or-death situation," said Zen Sea Observing Mist Wu.

Li Weiyi chased for half an hour before completely losing sight of Zhuang Yue and Ming Niansheng; only their lingering presence remained on the sea.

"No... this direction isn't towards Giant Marsh City, but rather towards the sea area where those Five Seas Realm experts were fighting."

Li Weiyi immediately turned back towards the sea area they had just left. If Jiang Ning and Yin Thirteen wanted to escape, they would definitely have separated and fled, not rushed straight towards the battlefield like this.

After thinking it over, Li Weiyi changed direction again.

He reasoned that if someone had been hiding in that area of the sea, they would certainly be gone by now, having headed towards Giant Marsh City. After all, hiding in the sea is not as good as hiding in the sea of people.