Five Seas Realm?

"Good timing!"

Li Weiyi's heroic spirit surged as he let out a great roar. He then unleashed the Clear Void Cicada Evasion Step, taking the lead to intercept the Seven Springs expert with the thick beard, who was already showing fear towards him.

With a single sword strike, the sea parted. The yellow light, extending over ten feet, forced him back.

Without pursuing, Li Weiyi turned and charged at the middle-aged man with the black mole on his brow. Before the man could punch open the building's main door, the tip of Li Weiyi's sword reached his back.

The black mole man was cornered and had no choice but to duck and roll to his right.

Li Weiyi had been waiting for this opportunity. Once an opponent was forced into a clumsy evasion, their vision would develop blind spots. All their fighting techniques, mental fortitude, and courage would crumble like a collapsing dam.

"Swish! Swish! Swish..."

Li Weiyi attacked like a storm, each sword strike faster than the last, his sword shadows cascading like a waterfall.

By the time the thick-bearded Seven Springs expert rushed forward to rescue him, the black mole man's arms had both been severed, his shoulders bleeding profusely, leaving him like a human stump.

He let out a hoarse scream, unable to accept his own miserable state.

The thick-bearded Seven Springs expert was utterly terrified, all will to fight extinguished. He turned and fled.

The human stump-like black mole man, driven by an even stronger will to survive, had already bolted towards the door.

"You think you can escape after crossing that threshold?"

Li Weiyi pursued him.

If a Martial Cultivator at the Seven Springs stage possessed a tenacious fighting spirit, the courage for a fight to the death, a calm and rational mind, and an indomitable spirit, then in a head-on confrontation, Li Weiyi would not find it easy to deal with any one of them.

If the two of them joined forces, they could even pose a life-or-death threat to Li Weiyi.

But once their spirit broke and they started to flee, Li Weiyi found it much easier to handle them.

"What are they doing in that courtyard? Why is the fighting so intense? It sounds like people are dying, it's quite frightening."

From afar, in the brothel diagonally opposite, many young women dressed in flamboyant attire stood by the railings, discussing and interacting with the wealthy patrons beside them, their expressions a mix of curiosity, fear, and excitement.

"Such dense black mist, could it be Departed Spirits and Malevolent Demons?"

"Don't worry, we won't be affected here. It's those Changlin Gang members who wanted to rob the newcomers, but it seems they've kicked a hornet's nest!" A Martial Arts Master, who had some inside knowledge, chuckled.

"Who exactly are these newcomers? How dare they challenge the Changlin Gang. Don't they know this district is ruled by the Changlin Gang?"

"Look, the City Guard has arrived."

"They're so late, they must be in cahoots with the Changlin Gang."

"Boom!"

A human-sized hole was blasted through the courtyard wall by the thick-bearded Seven Springs expert. He was flung over ten feet away, landing on his back in the street, as if struck by a single punch.

Debris from the wall scattered across the long street.

Screams echoed from the direction of the brothel.

"Whoosh!"

Almost instantaneously, Li Weiyi leaped over the courtyard wall and descended with a flying knee, striking the man's chest. He then followed up with a punch that disfigured the man's face, cracking the stone slabs of the street.

"Stop!"

"This is rebellion! Daring to kill someone in the streets of Jiu Li City."

A troop of over twenty City Guards, mounted on sturdy horses and clad in armor with spears in hand, began shouting a warning from a distance.

"Rumble!"

The sound of hooves grew louder as they approached, quickly surrounding Li Weiyi.

They wore white armor, and their mounts had consumed the blood of exotic beasts, causing them to mutate and become nearly twice as strong as ordinary horses.

Li Weiyi slowly stood up, his fists covered in blood. He scanned the imposing formation of City Guards, unfazed by their killing aura. He cupped his hands in a salute, "I am Xie Jin, a commoner from the Cangli Tribe. I greet you, sirs. These villains trespassed into my residence with malicious intent, and I have subdued them."

The captain of this City Guard troop was named Chen Chuan. He was a Seven Springs Deformed Race cultivator, around sixty years old, with a tiger-like head and a towering three-meter frame, exuding immense strength.

"They don't even have a breath or heartbeat. You call this subduing them?" Chen Chuan snorted coldly.

With his cultivation, he could sense the subtle condition of the person lying on the ground from dozens of feet away.

Li Weiyi replied, "Perhaps my methods were a little too heavy! But I had no choice. The villains were too powerful and too vicious; I had to fight with all my might."

Chen Chuan recognized the middle-aged man lying on the ground and knew his strength. Therefore, he was acutely aware that the young man before him had unfathomable cultivation. He hesitated, unsure whether to offend such a formidable individual for the sake of the Changlin Gang.

After all, the Changlin Gang only sent him a thousand silver coins each month.

"You say you are a commoner from the Cangli Tribe. Do you have a commoner's registry?" Chen Chuan asked.

"Yes!"

Li Weiyi took out the commoner's registry that Zhao Zhizhuo had helped him obtain in Yaoguan City from his embrace.

Over eighty percent of the population of Lizhou were born into the nine major tribes, collectively known as commoners.

The Citizen Registry can be processed in any city within Lizhou. With a word from Young Tribe Leader Cangli, many assessments are waived, making it a mere formality.

Of course, things that are easy to process are also easy to falsify.

In recent years, as the major tribes of Jiu Li have declined, coupled with years of continuous warfare in the surrounding provinces, many external forces have flooded into Lizhou, either to escape the conflict or to seize benefits and territory.

Many crooked demons and evil ways have used forged Citizen Registries to run rampant in Lizhou.

Chen Chuan, born into the Chuli Tribe, naturally saw that Li Weiyi's Citizen Registry was not simple. It even had a village fief with an accurate geographical location.

If nothing else, it at least proves that this kid's Citizen Registry is not fake.

Because forging such a Citizen Registry is easily exposed, and the consequences of being exposed are severe.

With a splash, Chen Chuan dismounted from the sturdy horse, also clad in white metal armor. He threw the Citizen Registry back to Li Weiyi, then stepped over the rubble through the large hole in the courtyard wall and entered the residence.

Upon seeing the scene inside, Chen Chuan gasped, and his gaze towards Li Weiyi immediately became more wary.

At the end of the street, two Changlin Gang members responsible for lookout fled in panic, disappearing into the darkness.

The residence of the Changlin Gang leader occupied nearly a hundred mu, with high walls and a grand courtyard. The gate was three zhang wide.

Bone lanterns hung high in front of the gate, with four Deformed Race Martial Cultivators standing on each side, all armed.

Yang Qingxi, wearing a veil, sat in the main building in the position that belonged to the gang leader "Xu Changlin," reviewing the accounts for the past three months. As a Pure Immortal Body, her hair and skin had an unusual luster, and even her five slender jade fingers possessed a heart-stopping beauty.

Her beautiful eyes, not obscured by the veil, were intelligent and focused.

Standing beside her were Xu Changlin, Deputy Gang Leader Tang Yan, and Flag Bearer Shi Chuan Yu. They were originally ruthless figures feared by everyone in this city, but now they all made efforts to control their gazes, daring not to show any disrespect.

This was because they knew that the young lady before them not only possessed the beauty of a Pure Immortal Body but also the cultivation of the Five Seas Realm and the iron-blooded resolve to kill with a single word.

After finishing her review, Yang Qingxi closed the ledger.

Her slender fingers toyed with a bamboo brush from the pen holder. Her beautiful eyes calmly swept over the three of them: "Your Changlin Gang is getting better and better at making money. This quarter's income is equivalent to half of last year's. Should I praise you, or reward you?"

Deputy Gang Leader Tang Yan said obsequiously, "Making money for the young lady is our duty... Ah..."

"Swish—"

The brush flew from Yang Qingxi's fingers like a stream of light, grazing Tang Yan's cheek and striking a rockery six or seven zhang away.

The rockery, unable to withstand the surging mana contained within the brush, collapsed with a roar.

The rubble from the collapse splashed into the pond, creating ripples.

One could imagine the fate of a person if this strike had landed on them.

A bloody gash appeared on Tang Yan's cheek. He trembled so violently that his legs shook like a sieve. In that instant, he felt as if he had surely died, his head about to explode, and he was completely unable to dodge.

Even though they were both in the Five Seas Realm, the Pure Immortal Body was far more powerful than him. Killing him would only take an ordinary brush.

Yang Qingxi looked coldly at Tang Yan, who was already kneeling on the ground in fear, and said, "Do you think the Yang Clan can be kept in the dark about what your Changlin Gang has been doing and the specific amounts of money you've earned in the past few months?"

Xu Changlin quickly explained, "Young Lady, it was Deputy Leader Tang who recruited a powerful Insect Tamer for the Changlin Gang. That Insect Tamer keeps a nest of Ao Spiders that must be fed with the mana cultivation of humans. He is the one who kills each time to feed the spiders, and we only need to clean up the aftermath. Over time, the unexpected profits have been quite substantial."

Yang Qingxi did not believe that the Changlin Gang could recruit any powerful Insect Tamer and was not interested. Her gaze became serious: "For a gang to establish itself, being ruthless in its methods is acceptable. But in at most six months, Lizhou will inevitably fall into chaos. I fear you are pursuing small gains and ruining great plans."

"In the coming days, several important friends of the Yang Clan will be arriving in Jiu Li City from out of town. Their identities are special, and it is not suitable for them to enter the city. They will be temporarily hosted by you. During this time, all of you must behave yourselves and not let their whereabouts be exposed because of you."

An old man hurried to the outside of the main building with an anxious expression.

Xu Changlin gave Shi Chuan Yu a look. Shi Chuan Yu bowed to Yang Qingxi and then quickly went out to ask the old man what had happened.

After a brief whisper, Shi Chuan Yu's expression changed drastically: "Are you sure it's the Five Seas Realm?"

The old man nodded: "Extremely powerful! The lookout brothers said that with just one person's attack, they killed over a dozen of our experts, including two Seven Springs guest elders. Even the Insect Tamer Master Qi was captured. Moreover, the opponent wields a magic tool and set up spirit tablets in the courtyard, showing great confidence. If this isn't the Five Seas Realm, what is it?"

"Even more terrifying is that the owner of that residence, that giant Deformed Race with a body six meters tall, never appeared from beginning to end, clearly being even more unfathomable."

Shi Chuan Yu's heart pounded, realizing that when he had touched the other party's hand during the day, he hadn't detected any mana, likely because the other party's cultivation was too high.

The old man added, "There's also another matter."

Shi Chuan Yu tried to calm his shock and looked towards Yang Qingxi in the building. His mind finally settled slightly. He said, "Speak!"

"Chen Chuan from the City Guard has already rushed over. The other party claims to be from the Cangli Tribe."

Immediately after, the old man beckoned in the distance.

Two strong gang members brought over Zhao Zhizhuo, who was beaten to within an inch of his life.

Zhao Zhizhuo lay on the ground, covered in bloody wounds, his face unrecognizable. His dislocated arms were swollen from bruising. His eyes, barely open, weakly said, "They are truly guests of the Young Tribe Leader of the Cangli Tribe. Your Changlin Gang... had better not have any ill intentions. The Young Tribe Leader will not let you off..."

After being captured, Zhao Zhizhuo had no other option but to invoke the name of the Young Tribe Leader, hoping to scare off the Changlin Gang.

But he was met with mockery from the gang members and even more brutal beatings. Some asked him why he didn't report the name of the Cangli Tribe Leader, while others told him that reporting Xu Fudu's name would be more effective.

Shi Chuan Yu looked at the old man with a questioning gaze.

The old man was also troubled: "Who would have thought that a guest of Cangli would rent a residence in the outskirts? Moreover, what credibility could the words of an old servant who only opened Two Springs have? If everyone reported a name, and I went to verify it, anyone could bluff us. But if the person living inside is truly in the Five Seas Realm... then it's hard to say!"

Yang Qingxi, sitting in the room, naturally heard everything the people outside were saying. She glanced at Xu Changlin and sneered, "Is this the powerful Insect Tamer you mentioned? Whoever caused the trouble, go and resolve it yourself."

"Your subordinate will handle it properly."

Tang Yan quickly got up and walked out, wanting to leave the room that was suffocating him as soon as possible.

As if thinking of something, Yang Qingxi called him back. After careful consideration, she said, "Cangli has always been generous and lavish with his spending. If it's truly a powerful figure he's befriended, it's unlikely he would arrange for them to stay in the outskirts. Unless there's another purpose... Investigate, you must find out clearly what their background is."