The Dharma King, Don't Forget the Reward You Promised

"Whoosh!"

With the blood sacrifice and the activation of the martial arts energy of the Five Seas Realm cultivator, the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul flew out from the bracelet.

When Director Yang performed the blood sacrifice, only a wisp of the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul flew out, about the thickness of a bowl and six or seven meters long, and it was extremely faint.

However, under the urging of Hidden Twenty-Four, the blood soul that flew out of the bracelet was more than ten meters long, as thick as a water bucket, with an extremely solid body and scales that looked like they were cast from metal.

The entire courtyard was filled with the smell of blood.

The Blood Soul had three heads and fought with the Ghost General wielding the Phoenix Beak Blade. In a short while, it swallowed the Ghost General whole.

"Boom!"

The Three-headed Snake Blood Soul suddenly rushed out, Thirty-three Word Departed Spirit Battle Formation on the opposite side collapsed instantly. All thirty-three blue-robed eunuchs were thrown into the air, and most of them died on the spot.

Hidden Twenty-Four mobilized even stronger magical energy to activate the Three-headed Snake Bracelet. Instantly, the blood from the corpses on the ground transformed into streams of blood energy, continuously flowing into the bracelet on her wrist.

The color of the blood jade bracelet has become even redder.

Li Weiyi's eyes were filled with astonishment.

After Hidden Twenty-Four retrieved the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul into his bracelet, he noticed Li Weiyi's gaze.

She quickly replied, "Indeed, it's only a Blood Soul comparable to the third realm of the Five Seas, but it's more than enough to deal with a group of Soul Souls at the Spring Realm forming Thirty-three Word Departed Spirit Battle Formation."

The more she explained, the less Li Weiyi believed her. "Why don't you give me back the bracelet?"

"This blood sacrifice... it really consumes blood energy and is extremely harmful to the body. I wonder how long it will take to recover..." Hidden Twenty-Four showed signs of weakness, and his face turned pale.

Li Weiyi said, "It's not like I'm completely ignorant about blood sacrifice artifacts. The stronger the enemy you face, the longer the battle lasts, the greater the consumption of blood energy. You only exchanged one blow and broke the battle formation, how could you have consumed so much blood energy?"

Caught off guard, Hidden Twenty-Four gave an embarrassed smile and hid the bracelet deeper into her sleeve, "Don't worry, leave the Light Flame Pill to me, I'll definitely raise the money. Your seven insects are quite something; five of them working together can overwhelm even Five Seas Realm expert."

She was utterly astonished!

She had seen the Seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors stealing medicinal herbs from the medicinal kitchen several times.

Before this, how could Hidden Twenty-Four have imagined that Li Weiyi, with her weak mental power, possessed such formidable combat strength among her seven ferocious insects?

When Shi Chuan Yu saw Li Weiyi and Hidden Twenty-Four looking at him, he felt utterly despondent.

"Bang!"

Hidden Twenty-Four darted away on the wind, striking him in the chest with a palm strike.

Shi Chuan Yu was sent flying, crashing through an attic and disappearing into the ruins.

"Pfft!"

Li Weiyi descended from the sky, piercing his heart with a single sword strike and pinning him to the ground.

"You... you have no idea... what kind of storm you've been caught up in... you won't have a good end..." Blood kept flowing from Shi Chuan Yu's mouth, and the corners of his mouth curled up, as if he could see the fate of Li Weiyi and Hidden Twenty-Four.

Li Weiyi's expression turned serious...

They then began looting the corpse.

The Changlin Gang is extremely wealthy; they can easily produce 100,000 Silver Coin, a feat unmatched by any other gang.

After thoroughly examining the three gang leaders, Li Weiyi kidnapped a martial arts practitioner from the Seven Springs Sect and rushed to the backyard to search for the gang's treasury.

He knew, of course, that time was of the essence and that he could not linger here, so he only did a cursory search without delving into the details.

Upon arriving at the backyard dungeon, Li Weiyi indeed saw a large number of young girls and children imprisoned there, all wearing shackles. He was immediately enraged and killed the Seven Springs martial artist who was leading the way with a single sword strike.

Looking at the pitiful eyes in the dungeon, Li Weiyi didn't know what to do. Even if he opened the dungeon and let them out, they wouldn't be able to survive on their own. They would either starve to death or fall into the hands of evil people.

Human suffering cannot be alleviated by the efforts of one person alone.

Return to the ground and head to the front yard.

The Seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors had already eliminated all the survivors to ensure the secret would not be exposed.

Meanwhile, Hidden Twenty-Four opened all thirty-two giant boxes on the eight vehicles, and purple lightning emanated from within the boxes. Dense, worm-like electric patterns appeared on the ground.

As soon as Li Weiyi approached, electric patterns flew towards him.

A tingling, numb sensation came from my skin.

He quickly took two steps back to create some distance.

Inside the box were pieces of something that looked like purple ice crystals. The ice crystals shone brightly, and countless dazzling lightning bolts could be seen intertwining within them.

Li Weiyi clearly sensed that these things contained incredibly terrifying destructive energy.

Hidden Twenty-Four retreated even further than Li Weiyi: "Thunder Law Profound Ice, how could it be this thing? What is the Sui Sect trying to do?"

"This thing feels extremely dangerous. What is it used for?" Li Weiyi had only been in this world for a few months, and there were still too many unknowns.

Hidden Twenty-Four said, "Break the formation and attack the city. The Thunder Law Profound Ice was collected from the Eight Hundred Mile Sea of Thunder, making it a nemesis of formations. Any piece in the box, if released, could destroy all the buildings in this hundred-acre mansion. Don't get close. I've broken the sealing runes on the box, and they've become extremely unstable. Even the slightest shake could activate them."

Li Weiyi quickly took a few steps back and asked, "Have those eunuchs in blue been interrogated?"

"No need for interrogation, they must be from Dragon Gate."

Hidden Twenty-Four added, "The Thunder Law Profound Ice is the Lei Xiao Sect's most precious treasure. It seems the top powers in the Eastern Territory feel the Southern Territory isn't chaotic enough and want to add fuel to the fire, hoping we'll weaken each other through internal strife. The Sui Sect is ambitious, so it's a perfect match for them."

Dragon Gate and Lei Xiao Sect, one is Myriad Gate Families in the Eastern Territory, and the other is one of the millions of sects in the Eastern Territory.

Li Weiyi finally began to understand Shi Chuan Yu's dying words: being involved in such a power struggle was indeed extremely dangerous.

Hidden Twenty-Four said, "Release all those girls and children, then activate the Thunder Law Profound Ice to erase all traces of our presence."

Li Weiyi looked towards a watchtower several tens of feet high, belonging to the City Defense Camp, three miles away. He clearly saw a figure as thin as a monkey fly directly from the ground to the top of the tower, moving as fast as a ghost.

A gaunt, monkey-like figure stood atop the tower, looking around as if searching for something.

Upon seeing his face clearly, Li Weiyi's expression changed drastically.

At the same time, the Six Desires Talisman on his chest began to flicker, emitting scalding heat.

"Let's go quickly!" Li Weiyi said.

Following his gaze, Hidden Twenty-Four saw a gaunt figure descend from the top of the observation tower, heading towards the two of them.

"It's Shi Liuyu! It must be the Six Desires Talisman. He can sense my approximate location through his connection with the Six Desires Talisman, and he'll find his way here soon."

Li Weiyi's face turned extremely grim. He quickly thought of a solution, then shoved Hidden Twenty-Four: "You go now, leave this to me."

Hidden Twenty-Four certainly knew what kind of person Shi Liuyu was.

He was a notorious lecher throughout the Southern Territory, but his cultivation level was terrifyingly high, making him the top commander of the Earth Wolf King Army.

"If we're going to leave, we'll leave together."

She pulled Li Weiyi along.

Li Weiyi said, "Don't be foolish, I can't escape at all. Besides, if we run back to the Coffin Sea Pavilion now, we'll expose a lot more! I'll hold him off, you go get reinforcements. Don't just stand there, once he arrives, you'll be my Achilles' heel."

Li Weiyi pushed her all the way to the door.

"Okay, wait for me."

Without further hesitation, Hidden Twenty-Four broke through the formation and rushed out the door.

Only then did the eight Deformed Race Martial Cultivator guarding the door realize what had happened inside the mansion. Li Weiyi stepped forward with his sword, and after several flashes of movement, he killed them all.

Sheath your sword.

Push the two bronze doors fully open.

Li Weiyi stored all the magical artifacts on his body, including the Phoenix Wing Moth Emperor and the corpses of three martial artists at the Five Seas Realm, into his Blood Mud Space. Then, he walked unhurriedly to the dungeon in the backyard, broke open the iron lock on the cell door, and released the hundreds of girls and children inside.

Shi Liuyu, dressed in a loose gray robe, like a monkey dressed in human clothes, arrived at the gate of the mansion and saw eight corpses lying on the stone steps. He knew he had finally found the right place.

He did have a sense of the Six Desires Talisman, but this sense was very subtle, and he could only determine a general direction.

The sensor will lose its ability to detect objects if the distance is too great or if there is too much obstruction.

Before even stepping inside, they saw ragged girls and children running out.

Shi Liuyu's eyes lit up. He grabbed one of the rather plump girls and squeezed her hard twice, eliciting screams and cries. Only then did he let go and leave, satisfied.

He walked into the courtyard and found Li Weiyi sitting under the eaves, holding a long sword, cutting off the shackles of a group of girls and children one by one.

Each time a hair was cut, one person quickly fled the mansion.

"The Dharma King is a top expert in sixty years, why should he bully these unfortunate people?" Li Weiyi didn't even look up at him.

Shi Liuyu wasn't in a hurry to make a move. Stepping through the blood and mud, he looked at the corpses scattered all over the garden. "You've got quite the bloodlust, kid. You didn't leave a single one alive in the entire gang."

"Killing dozens of people and saving more than a hundred, I feel like I made a profit!" Li Weiyi said.

Shi Liuyu waited until he had cut off everyone's shackles and released them all before approaching them. "You've been the good guy, now it's your turn to be the bad guy! Tell me, where are the people from the Jiu Li Hidden Gate?"

Li Weiyi said, "I don't know."

"You're still too green to try and outsmart me, the Dharma King."

Shi Liuyu's eyes instantly turned cold, and the icy aura emanating from his body condensed into a layer of frost on Li Weiyi.

Li Weiyi was completely paralyzed, his skin numb, as if he were about to freeze to death. He hurriedly said in a trembling voice, "I really didn't know. If the Jiu Li Hidden Gate were so easily exposed, how come the Sui Sect couldn't find them for a thousand years? Would a patriarch of the Jiu Li Tribe not know their true strength?"

Shi Liuyu looked suspicious, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Where is the Jiu Li Hidden Gate? What is their strength? How did you end up here?"

After regaining his freedom, Li Weiyi immediately mobilized his magical energy to refine the frost on his body and calmly said, "The Jiu Li Hidden Gate investigated me and knew about my feud with the Changlin Gang, so they arranged this trial. Fortunately, I have a good relationship with the Cangli Tribe, so they didn't suspect my identity."

Shi Liuyu had been observing Li Weiyi's eyes and expressions, and felt that this kid had extraordinary courage and temperament.

If it were any other martial artist, let alone someone at the Spring Realm, even many at the Five Seas Realm would be so frightened by his gaze that they would immediately kneel down and stammer.

Shi Liuyu was unaware of the feud between Li Weiyi and the Changlin Gang; the Changlin Gang was hardly worth his attention.

He asked, "What does 'trial' mean?"

"This year, the Nine Divisions of Nine Li selected a total of twenty-six talented youths and sent them to the Jiu Li Hidden Gate. Only five of them are qualified to survive and become disciples of the Hidden Gate. The trial is the way to select and eliminate them," Li Weiyi said.

"How cruel!"

Shi Liuyu secretly memorized this information, hoping to use it to deduce the strength of the Hidden Gate.

Blood gushed from Li Weiyi's mouth as he coughed several times. "Of course it was cruel. I almost died in this trial. The Changlin Gang was full of experts, and there was also a group of eunuchs... Dharma King, what are those things? They seem rather dangerous..."

He pointed to the eight car frames.

Shi Liuyu had already gone over to check, and angrily rebuked, "You destroyed the runes on the box?"

"Is there something wrong?"

Li Weiyi feigned ignorance.

Shi Liuyu gritted his teeth and said, "Never mind that! Stop asking about this stuff and continue answering this Dharma King's questions."

Shi Liuyu had long heard that the Lei Xiao Sect would provide several batches of Thunder Law Profound Ice to the Sui Sect to help them break the formations of the Jiu Li Dao Academy, the Governor's Mansion, and the Tribal Mansion.

But unexpectedly, the Sui Sect was so unreliable; a Spring Realm almost destroyed the Thunder Law Profound Ice.

Aren't they sending guards from the Five Seas Realm?

Li Weiyi said, "When I go to the Jiu Li Hidden Gate, I will wear a black cloth bag on my head to block my five senses. When I leave the Hidden Gate, it will be the same. By the time I take off the bag, I will already be outside the main gate of the Changlin Gang."

"This was expected!"

Shi Liuyu nodded and asked, "Approximately how long does it take to get here from the Jiu Li Hidden Gate?"

"Hmm, it's hard to say. Perception can be inaccurate when inside a black bag. I estimate it will take five to seven days... maybe, probably!" Li Weiyi said.

Shi Liuyu didn't entirely trust Li Weiyi. While gathering information, he was also judging its authenticity, and continued to ask, "Where exactly is the Jiu Li Hidden Gate?"

"I have no idea."

Seeing Shi Liuyu's piercing gaze and the light emanating from his brow, Li Weiyi quickly said, "I have planted Death Spirit Fire inside my brain. You absolutely mustn't use your mental power. Otherwise, I'll die right here, and you won't get any information. That would be a lose-lose situation!"

Haha, don't be scared, it was just a scare tactic.

Shi Liuyu flashed a gleam of white teeth, then immediately sneered, "Don't you dare lie to me! If what you say differs from even a single word of what Li Qing said, I'll throw you into a wolf's den and make you wish you were dead."

Li Weiyi pretended to be frightened, trying hard to recall and think, when suddenly he thought of something, "The Jiu Li Hidden Gate might be in the Netherworld of the Departed, on the other side of the Mang Mountain Range, because it is always dark there, the yin energy is extremely heavy, and the dead often appear there."

Shi Liuyu pondered for a moment, then his eyes suddenly lit up. "A thousand years ago, the Jiu Li Tribe occupied the land of the Nine Provinces, eight of which were swallowed up by the Netherworld of the Departed. If the Jiu Li Hidden Gate really exists and can hide from the Sui Sect's eyes and ears, it's quite possible that it's located somewhere in those eight provinces... Haha, I see, I see... What other information do you have? Tell me quickly."

Suddenly.

"Whoosh!"

A swift, blurry figure rushed in from outside the door and stopped in the center of the courtyard.

After its form stabilized, it gradually became clearer.

He was a martial artist in his early twenties with Pure Immortal Body, wearing the martial robe of a True Disciple the Sui Sect. His aura was bright and powerful, clearly that of a master of the Five Seas Realm.

Wang Daozhen one of the top three experts among the younger generation of the Sui Sect Wang Family. He looked at the corpses scattered on the ground, then sharply scanned Shi Liuyu and Li Weiyi, and said coldly, "Junior Sister, something has happened!"

Li Weiyi had already heard the sounds of a carriage, the hooves of a strange beast, and a large number of footsteps outside the door, knowing that Yang Qingxi had returned. So, he whispered in Shi Liuyu's ear, "Your Majesty, less than two months have passed. Don't forget the reward you promised."

"Swish! Swish..."

One after another, afterimages burst forth with incredible speed, entering the mansion as if by teleportation.

Among them were renowned young prodigies and elders of the older generation, each exuding a powerful aura and wielding magical artifacts, surrounding the two.

"Boom!"

A gigantic Silver Horned Deer, as large as an elephant, pulled a magnificent carriage the size of a house, driving directly into the mansion's gate.