The Seventh Sea, Assassination

The lowest level is the "Asura Layer," which contains many undeveloped areas teeming with ferocious insects and undead, and countless unknown dangers.

The Ku Rong Hall and the Divine Prison were built on the Asura Layer.

The Heavenly Principle Hall, the foremost of the four halls, is located at the northernmost edge of the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Mortal Layer. Built against the mountain, its buildings are layered upon each other, covering the entire mountainside.

From a distance, the layers of buildings and array formations obscured the entire view, creating a magnificent and imposing sight.

Most of the buildings here are remnants of ancient Bhakara Sect, with obvious Buddhist characteristics.

The atrium leading to the Sacred Heart Layer is located at the top of the mountain.

The Fourth Divine Son, Wang Shu, arrived at the Heavenly Principle Hall and, in the center of the spacious hall, bowed before a stone statue with a snake's head, dragon's claws, phoenix wings, dog's tail, and human body.

"Reporting to Master, my brother's remnant soul sensed his presence. The sword he wielded must be the Divine Snow Sword."

"According to the information I found, Li Weiyi entered the Underground Immortal Mansion together with Tang Wanzhou."

"This disciple went to the Divine Prison and personally interrogated the group of prisoners who traveled with Tang Wanzhou. Li Weiyi was indeed taken away by Venerable Nan. Now it is almost certain that the person who escaped into the Southern Clear Palace is the Hidden Person of the Jiu Li Hidden Gate, Li Weiyi."

"This disciple is utterly perplexed. Li Weiyi opposes the Divine Sect at every turn. At the Qianlong Lantern Festival, he killed more than twenty of the Divine Sect's Five Seas Realm prodigies. Wang Shouxin, Wang Zhi, and Zuo Shi, all at the Dao Seed Realm, died at his hands. The Divine Sect's intelligence network in Qiuzhou City has suffered a major loss."

"Such a person, not only was he not imprisoned in the Divine Prison, but he could also freely enter and leave the Southern Clear Palace. How heartbroken the dead followers must have been."

"Everyone says he's finished! But he's not finished; only by investigating can we know the truth."

The stone statue opened its eyes, and the entire hall transformed into a sea of light and rain. "You want the Seven Mysterious Insects in his hand?"

"Think!"

The Fourth Divine Son spoke frankly, adding, "I also very much want to seize that Ghost Flag he carries and offer it to my master. Of course, what I want most is to eliminate the hidden dangers for the Divine Cult and avenge the fallen members."

The stone statue laughed, "The Venerable Nan Yao Qingxuan is of the Jiu Li Tribe, so it's understandable that he would protect the Hidden Person of the Jiu Li Hidden Gate. But protecting a murderer who killed countless talented rice people is truly not something a Venerable should do. Wang Shu, you are not afraid of power and are wholeheartedly thinking about the future of the Divine Sect, so go ahead and do it boldly."

With his master's support, the Fourth Divine Son was overjoyed, his eyes calm. "But after he hid in the Southern Clear Palace, he never came out again, which is quite troublesome. This disciple dares not venture into the Southern Clear Palace."

The stone statue said, "Your brother died at his hands. From a personal perspective, the elders of the Divine Cult can understand any extreme actions you take and will definitely stand on the side of our own divine son."

"Moreover, Venerable Nan's mission went wrong this time, and it's still uncertain whether he can retain his position as Venerable. I'm afraid he can't afford to take care of Li Weiyi."

The Fourth Divine Son, being cautious by nature, did not want to offend the Venerable Nan too much. "I think it would be better to force him out of the Southern Clear Palace before taking him down. Coincidentally, the Divine Cult has quite a few hostages in its hands; imprisoning them in the Divine Prison for torture and using their blood to irrigate the rice paddies would be too lenient on them."

The stone statue said, "Since you have your own ideas, then go ahead and do as you see fit! Also, you need to speed up your cultivation. That woman from the Yang Family is said to be making a full-fledged push towards the third stage of the Dao Seed Realm, completing in one year what took you seven or eight years."

"Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun are also about to return from their training in the Netherworld of the Departed, and it is said that their cultivation has greatly improved."

"If you don't condense your Dao Lotus as soon as possible, you might find yourself in an awkward position in the rankings of the divine sons and daughters in six months or a year."

The Fourth Divine Son's eyes darkened. "As long as I obtain the larvae of the seven Marquis-level rare insects, my status in the sect will definitely rise to a level second only to the Divine Son Seat. Li Weiyi, I will definitely take him down."

Li Weiyi completely ignored the right and wrong outside and immersed himself in cultivation. Accumulating experience in the Five Seas Realm is a long process that every martial artist must go through.

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

With the help of the Time Cocoon, his actual cultivation time can be at least doubled.

Standing in the Blood Mud Space, he didn't use any moves, but casually struck out with a palm, which immediately produced a long Dragon Roar.

The force of the palm strike caused the air to explode.

The five-finger-shaped energy mark flew several dozen feet away before completely dissipating.

"The only two remaining dragon bones, one was forged into the palm bone of the left hand, and the other into the palm bone of the right hand."

Li Weiyi moved his hands and felt an unusual heaviness in his palms, as if they were weighed down by a thousand pounds of iron. It would be difficult to relieve this discomfort in a short time.

But the increase in strength is obvious.

The items that Du'e Temple offered as rewards were naturally extraordinary. It was said that even a single piece of a martial artist from the Five Seas Realm could rival Dao Seed Realm Martial Cultivator.

It has been a year since the Qianlong Lantern Festival.

Li Weiyi has never stopped cultivating his physical body.

After cultivating his Dao Body, he refined another pound of Immortal Soil and a considerable amount of Divine Stove Wood over the past year, resulting in a significant increase in both his physical strength and power.

Without breaking through to the Dao Seed realm, and without undergoing a fundamental transformation in his life force, the speed at which his physical body absorbed the Immortal Soil became increasingly slower and more difficult.

Coffin Master said that in order to cultivate the "Longevity Body" and directly confront Longevity Realm Giants with one's physical body, one needs to refine about ten catties of Immortal Soil.

Without breaking through to the Dao Seed Realm, two jin of Immortal Soil is Li Weiyi's current limit.

The Divine Stove Wood used for strengthening tendons and shaping skin faces the same dilemma: the body finds it difficult to absorb it again.

It was precisely because he was trapped in the shackles of physical cultivation that Li Weiyi was able to refine the two dragon bones and increase his strength.

What troubled him even more was...

The cultivation of the Seventh Sea has reached a stalemate due to the lack of available Spring Fluid.

Of the 50,000 drops of Spring Fluid previously purchased, 36,000 drops were used for cultivating the Wind Mansion. Now that the Seventh Sea Field has expanded to 14,000 cubic meters, the Spring Fluid is completely exhausted.

The last remaining Dao Fruit has very little internal magical energy left.

Li Weiyi thought of the market town he had visited before, "There, you might be able to buy Spring Fluid there, but without a life token, leaving Southern Clear Palace is extremely dangerous."

"Besides, where will the money come from? This is a lot of money!"

After exiting the Blood Mud Space, Li Weiyi pondered how to raise money. He then stepped out of the array's Light Veil surrounding the pagoda and headed towards the array containing the rice paddies.

After several days of seclusion, I am starving.

The food prepared in advance for entering the Underground Immortal Mansion in the dimensional bag was almost all eaten up.

Only two months had passed in the real world, but for him, it felt like four or five months had passed in the Southern Clear Palace, and he really missed a bowl of hot soup. Yao Qingxuan was Longevity Realm Expert and could go for long periods without hunger or thirst, so there was no meat available in the Southern Clear Palace.

Walking in the dimly lit garden.

It is surrounded by white courtyard walls, black artificial hills, and ancient purplish-red glowing trees.

Li Weiyi had walked this road countless times and always felt that Southern Clear Palace was very safe, so he did not always maintain a high level of vigilance.

Suddenly.

An anomaly was detected.

He suddenly stopped and looked at the shadows of the branches and leaves on the ground, feeling as if he were walking on water, with ripples appearing under his feet.

Who is it?

Like a spiderweb of Heaven and Earth Scripture, they were all released at once.

The Heavenly Eye opened between his brows, and the entire garden was as bright as day.

Li Weiyi's hair stood on end, and his back ached. He knew without a doubt that he had been hit.

The opponent lies in hiding, skilled in concealment; take advantage of his inner thoughts to strike a fatal blow.

However, Li Weiyi, wearing the Blood Handprint Demonic Armor, blocked the sneak attack.

"Bang!"

His internal organs trembled violently, and his body was thrown forward.

His physical body had been tempered to an extremely strong level, and he withstood the attack without being seriously injured, only suffering minor injuries.

He would not give his opponent a chance to press their advantage. His inner energy surged forth, activating the Blood Handprint Demonic Armor. Blood mist and crimson scriptures rapidly dissipated, filling the entire garden.

As Li Weiyi was thrown back, he forcibly twisted his body and used his Heavenly Eye to see the attacker's figure.

The opponent was extremely fast, his figure was a cloud of black mist, and he wielded a Wooden Sword covered in blood patterns, stabbing at the opponent like lightning.

Li Weiyi sensed an eerie aura from that Wooden Sword, an aura he had never seen before.

I dare not touch it.

He pinched his right fingers together and pointed out.

"Whoosh!"

The Compassionate Sail Opening Finger Technique was powerful and domineering, transforming into a beam of light that flew out and collided with the incoming Wooden Sword.

The Wooden Sword was deflected, and the black mist figure staggered backward, letting out a low, miserable roar.

Li Weiyi has now cultivated to the Seventh Sea and refined the sixth-order Qi. The Battle Intent light and shadow behind him has reached a height of six zhang. No other martial artist at the Five Seas Realm can reach this height in terms of battle Battle Intent.

How could an ordinary Dao Seed Realm Martial Cultivator withstand this finger strike?

"How dare you trespass on Venerable Nan's territory!"

After landing on the ground, Li Weiyi disregarded his injuries and unleashed a spiritual fire whip from between his brows. The whip was dozens of feet long, carrying Golden Crow Flame, its golden light dazzling, and it lashed out fiercely at the black mist figure.

"Boom!"

An air explosion occurred.

The Golden Crow Flame burned all the plants in the garden to ashes.

The figure in the black mist screamed, flew out, crashed into a rockery, and landed on the ground, motionless.

Li Weiyi drew the Yellow Dragon Sword, his figure flashed, and he pointed the sword forward.

See the figure on the ground clearly.

He was slightly taken aback.

It turned out to be a scarecrow, dressed in black, and True Person- sized.

Having just been struck by the Golden Crow Flame's flaming whip, the straw crackled and burned, quickly turning to ashes. Within the ashes, a glint of blood shone from the area around his heart.

It was a blood crystal the size of a fist, covered with numerous runes.

"Smack!"

Once the blood crystal's energy was exhausted, it shattered and turned into dust.

"No wonder it could hide without any aura; it was just a scarecrow. How could a scarecrow be as strong as Dao Seed Realm Martial Cultivator?"

Li Weiyi was still shaken.

If it had stabbed his head instead of his vest, that would have been truly terrifying.

Six Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor rushed over upon hearing the sound and flew around him.

The six of them had grown quite a bit, but they hadn't reached a foot in length yet, and they were still unable to break through that limit as they approached it.

"It's Puppet Art Scarecrow, from the Heavenly Principle Hall."

Yao Qingxuan walked out from the stone path, his beauty as if he had stepped out of a painting, his aloofness as cold as frost, his eyes extremely icy. He received the blood-patterned Wooden Sword into his hand from a distance, glanced at it, and said, "The power of the curse!"

Only then did Li Weiyi breathe a sigh of relief, his tense nerves easing slightly. He circulated his magical energy to heal his injuries. "The Heavenly Principle Hall? Senior Yao, you've finally returned. It seems the Heavenly Principle Hall doesn't take you, a Venerable One, seriously?"

"If they truly dared to disregard me, the one who would enter the Southern Clear Palace and kill you wouldn't be just a scarecrow!"

Yao Qingxuan added, "It's good that you're still alive. It wasn't for nothing that I rushed back as soon as I heard the news. To survive the assassination attempt by the Puppet Art Scarecrow, it seems your cultivation and strength have greatly increased again."

Li Weiyi was surprised. "Did you come back specifically to save me, senior?"

"Before Hall Master An left the main altar, he said that you could help the Golden Rice grow, and he instructed me to protect you at all costs."

The chill emanating from Yao Qingxuan was unyielding. With a flick of her sleeve, she threw the Wooden Sword in her hand.

"Whoosh!"

The Wooden Sword flew out of the Southern Clear Palace, traversed a hundred miles of sky, pierced through the protective Light Veil of the Heavenly Principle Hall, and embedded itself in the door of one of the halls, its entire body penetrating through it.

Several figures rushed out of the Heavenly Principle Hall, looked at the Wooden Sword, and exchanged bewildered glances.

"Yao Qingxuan is already in dire straits herself, unable to even capture Tang Wanzhou, losing all face. Yet she's still so forceful, wanting to protect that kid. How interesting. Doesn't she care about appearances?" A surprised, aged voice echoed in the Heavenly Principle Hall.

Southern Clear Palace.

Yao Qingxuan said, "This sword strike serves as a warning. Those old fogies in the Heavenly Principle Hall should know my stance. No one outside the rules will dare to attack you, and no one will dare to trespass into the Southern Clear Palace again."

Li Weiyi asked, "Why does the Heavenly Principle Hall want to kill me? What's the difference between being outside the rules and being within the rules?"

"A life for a life is the rule. You killed many experts of the Divine Cult, and their families are seeking revenge, which I cannot interfere with! Of course, if any of these enemies, especially the old ones, make a move, I can help you deal with them," Yao Qingxuan said.

Although Li Weiyi knew that Yao Qingxuan was protecting him because of Golden Rice and An Xianjing, he still felt a warmth in his heart and sincerely bowed to express his gratitude.

"Have you seen Tang Wanzhou in the past two months?" Yao Qingxuan suddenly asked, his gaze fixed on him.