The Time Power of the Chun Cocoon

"When Luo Yinji didn't appear in the Ancient Kingdom of the Years Ruin, you suspected it was me. When she did appear, you said I had someone impersonate her. You just won't let me go." Qing Ziqin shook her head slightly, her emotions unconsciously showing.

But they were unaware of it.

Li Weiyi looked at her quietly for a long while before saying, "If Luo Yinji had participated in the Battle of Fanye Valley, at least two more people from Lesser Yang Division would have died. But she didn't show up when she should have been there most."

"She just happened to appear right after I started to suspect you! Isn't this just a cover-up?"

Before Qing Ziqin could refute, Li Weiyi took out Luo Yinji's corpse and head from the bag.

Qing Ziqin looked down and stared at her intently. "Who is she?"

"She was the substitute Chu Yutian found for you, Bai Ye Qinglian's attendant, with extremely high cultivation. Unfortunately, she's not a living person, but Corpse Spirit. How could Luo Yinji possibly be Corpse Spirit?"

This is why Li Weiyi had to capture or kill Luo Yinji alive.

We must find out whether she is a living being or a deceased one.

If it is a deceased spirit, the possibility that Qing Ziqin is the true messenger increases greatly.

Qing Ziqin said, "Jingzhen can be a member of the Taixu Race, so why can't Luo Yinji be Corpse Spirit?"

"If the Taiyin Sect couldn't even train twelve Taiyin Envoy and had to rely on spirits to make up the numbers, how could it have become a terrifying ancient sect that strikes fear into the hearts of the people?"

Li Weiyi secretly observed Qing Ziqin's expression and continued, "If I'm not mistaken, your ability to conceal the Longevity Golden Pill and Longevity Qi must be related to the Taixu Worm, right? This is Jingzhen. The reason he approached you is that he didn't know you were the Child Envoy; he only wanted to find the Taixu Worm."

"If I were Envoy Luoyinji, I would have had countless opportunities to kill you and silence you, solving the problem at its root. Why would you risk having someone impersonate me?" Qing Ziqin said.

"That's precisely why I feel I have to bring you back."

Suddenly, Li Weiyi asked, "What forbidden spell was the old sect leader practicing back then? Is he alive or dead? Did he join the Taiyin Sect? Were you dragged into it by him?"

Qing Ziqin's gaze froze, as if recalling something, and she said in a deep voice, "You don't need to say anything more!"

Li Weiyi said, "I have to speak! If I don't, no one else will! A hundred years have passed. What do the people from back then, or the hatred from back then, have to do with you? The Taiyin Sect was using you. Even if that person was the former sect leader, he was still using you. It was his fault back then, and he should bear full responsibility."

"There is no old sect leader; it's all your conjecture," Qing Ziqin said.

"Speculation? Actually, it's not hard to guess!"

Li Weiyi said, "If it weren't for a close relative telling you all this, how could you possibly believe it? If someone hadn't used kinship to manipulate you, how could you have compromised? If you didn't have a powerful backer in the Taiyin Sect, how could you have become a servant?"

"Since you're so sure, why don't you kill me? I won't fight back if I die by your hand. It'll be a great achievement, another slaying of an envoy." Qing Ziqin gritted her teeth, looking somewhat timid, tears welling in her eyes, yet she still forced herself to stand firm.

Li Weiyi didn't want things to get tense, so she jokingly said, "You said earlier that you wouldn't make things difficult for me."

"Fine, I'll give you my life."

Qing Ziqin produced a dagger from nowhere, its cold light flashing as she thrust it straight towards her heart.

Li Weiyi reacted quickly and grabbed her wrist.

She possessed immense power, far exceeding what one might expect from a martial artist at the Third Heaven Dao Seed Realm. The so-called Third Heaven the Dao Seed Realm meant that she lacked both the Dao Lotus and the Dao Fruit within her body, and was merely stuck at the level where one could conceal the Longevity Golden Pill.

Li Weiyi had one hand, yet she couldn't control herself; she was truly determined to die.

With his other hand, he immediately shot out, knocking the dagger away with a thud.

"Why are you stopping me?" Qing Ziqin shouted.

The sound carried outside.

"What exactly is going on with you guys?" Chi Haohan asked loudly.

"It's nothing, we're not finished talking yet, please wait another fifteen minutes."

Li Weiyi released a field of mental energy, enveloping the two of them, while still controlling her wrist. "During this time, I haven't hidden anything from you regarding the actions against the Taiyin Sect, or even against Chu Yutian. Do you know why?"

"I don't know." Qing Ziqin raised her head and looked at him, her eyes slightly evasive, her body curled up slightly.

Li Weiyi said, "Because I think you are more important than Chu Yutian."

Qing Ziqin felt that Li Weiyi was teasing her again. She tried to strike with her other hand, but it was caught. She almost pleaded, "Please stop playing around. I don't want to play with you. I'm not in the mood for it."

"I'm very serious! As for Chu Yutian, in three to five years, I won't even care about his life. But you are my friend. Not to mention in three to five years, even in thirty or fifty years, you will still hold great weight in my heart." Li Weiyi's eyes were very sincere.

Qing Ziqin stared at him blankly for a long time, then closed her eyes. "Fine, you win! Kill me or torture me, or send me back to Dongxu Camp to be handed over to the Sentinel, I'll accept it all! You're simply my nemesis, I can't avoid you no matter what, I've already tried my best to avoid you in Dongxu Camp."

Li Weiyi released her hands. "Don't think of it so seriously, you didn't do anything."

"How do you know I didn't do anything?" Qing Ziqin stood there silently, looking utterly dejected and devoid of any vitality.

Li Weiyi said, "You did not leak any information regarding the actions of the Taiyin Sect and Chu Yutian."

"That's because I'm going to dive deep for a bigger plan in the future. The affairs of the Ancient Kingdom of the Years Ruin are not my concern." Qing Ziqin, having given up all pretense, stopped denying and arguing.

Li Weiyi said, "To overthrow the Dongxu Camp and avenge the Immortal Mist Sect?"

"Just how much do you know?" Qing Ziqin asked incredulously.

Li Weiyi said, "I also know why Chu Yutian asked you to escort the Departed Spirit Army between the border and the Fanye Valley."

"What could be the reason?" Qing Ziqin asked.

Li Weiyi said, "This is a small matter. Anyone can do it, not even someone of the Twelve Taiyin Envoys Taiyin Envoy level. Why specifically choose someone as important as you, who needs to go deep into the world, to do it?"

"There's only one reason: you're resistant to the Taiyin Sect, and you haven't done anything for them before."

"If Chu Yutian were to directly ask you to kill me, kill Sheng Si, and kill Nangong, you definitely wouldn't agree."

"To drag someone into the abyss of darkness is a gradual process. This time, it's a trivial matter, but the next time it will be much more significant... until they fall into the abyss and there's no turning back."

"Captain, Qing Ziqin can turn back now; it's not too late."

Tang Wanzhou stepped into the Netherworld and stood in the mist a dozen feet away, asking, "Is this ever going to end? What's the big deal? Can't we talk about this when we get back to Dongxu Camp?"

"Go back to Dongxu Camp and wait patiently. We're friends, and I'll definitely help you. Wipe away your tears so no one outside will see. Give me two of those Saint Spirit King Mind Master's Psychic Power Stars."

Regardless of her consent, Li Weiyi took the two Psychic Power Stars, then withdrew her psychic field and swaggered towards Tang Wanzhou, pointing at Qing Ziqin behind her. "Taking two Psychic Power Stars from her is like taking her life, how stingy."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Tang, who was some distance away, said, "That's a bit of an exaggeration! That's the Psychic Power Stars of the Saint Spirit King Mind Master, priceless, you can't buy it even if you have money."

"Turn back... how do I turn back?"

Qing Ziqin muttered to herself, then wiped away her tears with her sleeve, her eyes vacant, and walked out of the underworld in a daze.

Everyone could tell that Li Weiyi was downplaying the seriousness of the matter, indicating that something major must have happened, but they kept quiet and pretended not to know.

They've left!

They were taken away by an elder of the Ancient Years Clan.

Li Weiyi, Mo Duanfeng, Tang Wanzhou, and Nangong arrived at a secluded valley to prevent themselves from being disturbed by the spirits or the Demon Kingdom during their upcoming seclusion.

Great Saint Mind Master from the Ancient Years Clan had already set up Concealment Formation for them, hiding them in the shadows to protect them.

Li Weiyi has four Chun Silkworm.

He took out one of them and used his icy aura to freeze the other three.

"Sizzle!"

Inside the jade dish, the Chun Silkworm begins to spin its silk.

Li Weiyi released his mental power, carefully sensing the misty silk threads. Like the Netherworld Qi, the silk threads had no substance and were a strange state.

"Silent fellow, you're saying this is a law of time, or some kind of order of time?"

"Why can my mental power and the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish also weave Time Cocoon? Is there any connection between the Time Silkworm and the Chun Silkworm? Are they descendants of the Time Silkworm?"

When Li Weiyi first discovered that the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish could weave Time Cocoon, a strange sound appeared, much like the silent Guardian Wife.

That voice had told him things like the Time Silkworm and the laws of the universe.

Same as always, not a single word.

Li Weiyi ignored her and continued to feel the power contained in the silk.

The silkworm cocoon is an oval-shaped, spherical giant net, similar in size to the one woven by the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish, and at its narrowest point, it is nearly ten feet wide.

As the silk threads become denser, the outside light completely disappears.

Li Weiyi could clearly sense that subtle changes were taking place both inside and outside the world.

After the Chun Silkworm spun its last thread, it fell into a deep sleep, lying motionless in the jade dish.

Li Weiyi took out a ball of Dragon Soul Origin Light and began refining it. The most important thing was to quickly raise his martial arts cultivation to the Second Realm Peak of the Longevity Realm with the help of the Chun Clan Cocoon.

While refining the essence, he also studied classic texts such as the "Bright Star Book" and the "Book of Earth." Through this mutual reinforcement, he thoroughly understood the Dao contained within the Dragon Soul Origin Light and transformed it into his own Dao.

New Daoist scriptures were rapidly born from the Longevity Golden Pill.

Time passed day by day.

Only when the slumbering Chun Silkworm transformed into Chun Butterfly radiating azure light and emerged from its cocoon did Li Weiyi end her first period of secluded cultivation.

Four hundred and eighty days have passed inside the cocoon, while only three days have passed outside.

"Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!"

The other three Chun Clan Cocoon in the valley broke open one after another, revealing three figures inside.

Four Chun Butterfly fluttered and danced in the valley.

The butterfly wings have intricate patterns, with a predominantly blue base color.

An elder from the Ancient Years Clan came to collect it, intending to take it back to the Years Realm to re-cultivate and lay eggs.

Li Weiyi guessed that the ability to cultivate Chun Silkworm was mostly related to the Great Spring, and that it might have preserved something. But this was the highest secret of the Ancient Years Clan, and naturally, it was impossible for them to be told.

The four of them gathered together and started talking.

"Did it break free of the White Tiger Lock?"

Li Weiyi was the first to inquire about Mo Duanfeng.

"It's not that easy. But with another three years, I'm sure I can break free. I still have two Chun Silkworm left. I'll go into seclusion now!"

Mo Duanfeng went ahead to weave the second Chun Clan Cocoon.

"I'm also going to attempt to break through the White Tiger Lock!" Nangong also entered the next stage of seclusion.

Tang Wanzhou looked at Li Weiyi: "And you, how's your progress?"

(One more chapter to go!)