Chapter 353 This is the power of the skin
After leaving Deyun Temple, Chu Xiangyu did not rush back to Tiannan Prefecture, but strolled along the river bank for a while.
"The scenery of Jiangnan is indeed outstanding, much better than that of our wild land." He looked around and then sighed.
"The mountains and rivers in the south are more magnificent." Chu Ci responded lightly.
"Indeed, only mountains and rivers can breed heroes." Chu Xiangyu nodded, and then smiled: "I dare not say that. The Taoist priest Li just now was born here. Among his generation, there is almost no one else who can give me such a feeling, as if... unfathomable."
"Having a high level of cultivation doesn't necessarily mean you're a true hero. You have to have high aspirations to be one." Chu Ci said, "Young Master's aspirations are extremely high, and sooner or later you'll surpass him."
“Haha, we have to count on him.” Chu Xiangyu laughed and said, “In the past, I only knew that the natural hegemony body and the Huaxu Sutra are a perfect match. Chen Fuhuang practiced this method to the pinnacle. But I didn’t know… a man would have to pay such a high price to practice the Huaxu Sutra. Fortunately, there is news from the Huaxu Secret Realm that there is a rare treasure that can allow men to practice the Huaxu Sutra. If we can get it this time, everything will be fine. If we can’t get it… things will be difficult.”
Chu Ci whispered: "But it depends on luck after all. What if we can't get the treasure?"
"Of course I have to find another way..." Chu Xiangyu showed a determined look.
Chu Ci seemed a little surprised, "Young Master, are you going to use other methods to practice the Huaxu Sutra?"
"Of course not." Chu Xiangyu's eyes turned into horror. "Of course I'm seeking to practice other techniques. Even if I have great ambitions, I can't be a eunuch."
Chu Ci chuckled, paused, and asked, "Is it really that important?"
"You don't understand." Chu Xiangyu shook his head. "This thing is just like the land immortal ancestor in the family. You don't have to show it around, you don't have to use it... but you can never be without it!"
Thanks to this filial and appropriate metaphor, Chu Ci immediately understood what Chu Xiangyu meant.
…
"A-choo!" Yan Ren sneezed, touched his nose, and muttered, "I don't know who is talking about me."
"Maybe it's some beautiful lady." Immediately, a servant flattered him in a very servile manner.
Yan Ren smiled and then asked, "Are you sure it's here?"
Not far ahead, there is a scenic hillside with a Taoist temple on it.
"It's here." The family general nodded affirmatively, "The spies we planted in the Chu family have reported back Chu Xiangyu's route. The final target is here."
"Okay!" Yan Ren strode forward, "Let's go!"
When I got closer, I saw a golden plaque hanging in front of the Taoist temple with three big characters: "Deyun Temple".
"Why does this name sound familiar?" Yan Ren muttered.
As soon as the group reached the door, Lao Du, who heard the footsteps from inside, came over and said, "How many of you..."
Halfway through his words, Lao Du paused.
Yan Ren looked at Du Lanke who came out to greet him and thought that this black-faced Taoist priest looked familiar.
Lao Du recognized him, glared at him, and immediately ran back, shouting, "Master, that kid is here to seek revenge!"
"Um?"
Upon hearing this, Li Chu in the front hall flashed out with the Chunyang Sword.
With a whooshing sound, as if a ray of light flashed by, Yan Ren saw the little Taoist priest from that day appear in front of him again... so dazzling.
Li Chu was holding the Pure Yang Sword, staring at him, and asked, "Are you here to seek revenge?"
Seeing the young Taoist priest eager to try, Yan Ren suddenly felt his anus tighten.
What's with that expectant look on your face? If I just nod, will you treat me like you did to Yan Wuxie that day?
He had seen how Li Chu killed people without blinking and cremated them without any smoke!
In an instant, Yan Ren felt a great fear that was between life and death.
All the things that happened since I was born suddenly flashed before my eyes...
no……
Yan Ren quickly put these strange images out of his mind.
I'm not dead yet, why are you letting me go? At this moment, under the fear of death, Yan Ren made the most correct response.
He suddenly shouted, "No!", then raised his hands high and handed over a gold-rimmed visiting card.
A faint golden light flashed before Li Chu's eyes, making him feel Yan Ren's friendliness, so he slowly put away his sword and took the visiting card.
Very heavy to the touch.
It seems that the other party is very sincere.
So Li Chu turned around and smiled, "Please come in."
"call……"
Yan Ren let out a long sigh, and cold sweat kept dripping down his forehead.
Good god, I almost died because of a face-to-face meeting.
Can I still enter this door? But before he could think about it, he saw Li Chu, who was leading the way, turned around and smiled at him elegantly and casually.
Yan Ren's heart trembled.
In his eyes, this smile was as terrifying as a demon. He was so scared that he quickly followed it in two or three steps. At the same time, his scalp was numb and he thought to himself, what a sin.
"Please sit down." When they arrived at the hall, Li Chu raised his hand and asked Yan Ren to sit down.
"Haha, I really don't know how many lifetimes I have accumulated to be blessed enough to meet Uncle Li here again." Yan Ren immediately showed a well-behaved and cute smile.
"Mr. Yan, isn't he here to see me?" Li Chu was puzzled.
"We heard... that there was a Taoist priest with great magical powers in the Huaxu Secret Realm. He attracted the Golden Phoenix and opened up the Huaxu projection... so we wanted to invite you..." Yan Ren said hesitantly.
"Invite me to Huaxu Secret Realm?" Li Chu blinked: "This is very unfortunate. I have already accepted the Chu family's invitation."
"That's too bad!" Yan Ren jumped up from the ground as if he had been pardoned. "Then we'll take our leave first. Uncle Li, we'll see you another day..."
"Eh?" Lao Du beside him looked at him strangely, and hurriedly waved his hand to keep him, saying with a smile: "Please be patient, since it's business, we can all talk. Anyway, my master can enter the Huaxu Secret Realm not only once."
"Yes." Li Chu nodded, "You can hear the price."
As the third grandmother of the Yan family said before, don't let one or two bad guys affect your impression of the entire family. Although Li Chu had a general impression of Yan Ren, the high price offered by the Chu family made him realize the strength of these ancient families. The wealth passed down from their ancestors may be a level that will shock the entire Heluo Dynasty. If you can get tens of thousands of taels of silver in one shot, why not? So he didn't mind talking to Yan Ren.
But……
Yan Ren minds.
It's like a tiger and a rabbit had been enemies before. The tiger can easily decide whether to forgive the tiger or eat it, but the rabbit can only tremble in fear.
Every second he stayed with Li Chu, he felt that his life was under great threat.
How dare we talk about cooperation?
Asking such an ancestor to come to the secret realm, isn't it giving him the opportunity to cremate himself? But Li Chu asked again, how could he dare not answer? After hesitating for a while, Yan Ren slowly replied: "We heard that the last time the Qi family asked you to help... you only gave 500 taels, which is ridiculous... Our Yan family is willing to spare no expense to ask Taoist Xiao Li to help, at least..."
Li Chu's pupils could not help but dilate. As one of the seven families in Tiannan, the Chu family only raised the price to 100,000 taels. He was willing to pay any price...
Then, Yan Ren gritted his teeth and said, "Five hundred and ten taels! How about it?"
Li Chu: “…”
Dulanke: “…”
…
After a while, Li Chu returned to the backyard.
Yu Qian'an asked, "Just now there was a commotion in front, saying that someone came to seek revenge? What's going on?"
"It's a misunderstanding." Li Chu said.
After a pause, he added: "He's a psychopath."
The same words also came out of Yan Ren's mouth.
After he almost fled from Deyun Temple, the family guards were surprised by his behavior and asked, "Master, who was that little Taoist priest just now? Why did you panic when you saw him?"
"He's a psychopath!" Yan Ren said angrily.
"If we can't invite him, our mission will fail..." someone said worriedly.
"Humph." Yan Ren snorted coldly, "Save your life first!"
"What's more..." He then said coldly, "Who says that if we can't hire him, we will definitely fail? If I spend more money to hire a group of top masters, won't I still be able to dominate the Huaxu Secret Realm?"
“But didn’t the master say that this little Taoist priest has special magical powers that can attract the Golden Phoenix to lead him? Without the Golden Phoenix to lead him, he can’t even enter the Second Heaven... What’s the point of asking an expert?” another family general asked.
“Who said I invited experts to help my Yan family enter the second level of the secret realm?” Yan Ren gritted his teeth and said, “I will let them sneak into the Chu family’s team and kill that little Taoist priest in the black fog of the second level of the secret realm!”
"As long as he doesn't die, I can't get rid of the hatred in my heart!"
Yan Ren's face gradually distorted.
In fact, the friction between Li Chu and him the day before was not a big conflict, at least Li Chu did not take it to heart.
But in Yan Ren's heart, the deep fear he felt every time he saw Li Chu was the real reason why he hated Li Chu.
His own humble appearance hurt him deeply, and the resulting anger could only be dissipated by eliminating the source of this fear.
…
Two days passed quickly, and Li Chu led the team to the outside of the Huaxu Secret Realm.
The Secret Realm at this time was completely different from before, and it was at least ten times more lively. Because so many cultivators gathered, it even formed a huge market.
"Haha, Taoist Priest Li!" Chu Xiangyu and the Chu family warmly welcomed Li Chu's arrival.
Looking at the people behind Li Chu, he was slightly stunned.
A tall, thin, dark-faced Taoist priest, a mediocre cultivator with a strange appearance, a cute but not very smart girl with twin ponytails...
For a genius like Li Chu, bringing these people with him when he goes out... seems to have little meaning other than serving as a supporting actor.
"This is..." he wondered.
"Professional team." Li Chu said seriously.
"Haha..." Chu Xiangyu smiled and bowed generously, "Thank you all for coming to help."
Then he turned back and waved his hand to the people behind him, "Enter the secret realm!"
The Chu family's team this time was different from the previous ones. They didn't have many people, but they were all top-notch masters under Zhansui. They were specially adjusted for Li Chu's arrival.
This time when I came back, the situation in the secret realm was very different.
Last time, there were only the Qi and Chu families, so it was quite spacious. At this time, all the teams of the seven families in Tiannan flew in, and there were so many of them that it felt like a sea of people.
Most of the seven suspended islands are now filled with cultivators, with only the Qi and Yan teams having yet to arrive.
On the Qi family’s island, the person in charge was still Qi Kexiu from that day.
He glanced at the Chu family's team from afar, frowned suddenly, and then waved his hand to call the family generals around him, saying: "While the team has not entered the secret realm yet, tell them to disperse today."
"Ah?" The family general was shocked. "Master, the family master attaches great importance to the Huaxu Secret Realm. How can this be allowed..."
"There is no hope today anyway. Let's save money for one day if we can..." Qi Kexiu sighed and shook his head.
"There is no such thing as an impenetrable wall. I guarded against it so strictly, but the Chu family still found out about the origin of that young Taoist priest..." Qi Kexiu felt a little regretful, "Why not just ask him first?"
Unlike Qi Kexiu's sudden change of heart, Yan Ren of the Yan family seemed to have been prepared long ago. He was the only one on the suspended island with a few family members, watching the teams enter the arena coldly.
Seeing Li Chu standing among the crowd of the Chu family, he subconsciously shrank his neck, as if he was afraid that Li Chu would see him.
But he immediately realized that his performance was too poor, so he sneered twice, "Haha..."
"Little Taoist priest...you are still alive this time?"
"He's dead!" The family general behind him shouted, "Young Master, don't worry. The ten top assassins we hired at great expense have already infiltrated the Chu family. They are all elites selected from the entire Tiannan underworld! We will definitely make sure that the little Taoist priest has no trace left..."
"Why are you yelling so loudly? Do you want to die?"
Yan Ren saw Li Chu's eyes glanced over, and immediately turned around and covered the mouth of the family general, fearing that he would hear anything...
Turning around, I felt a little worried.
Logically speaking, in this secret realm that can only be entered by people below the level of Zhan Sui, a person at the peak of Wan Xiang can kill people at will.
What about ten.
But looking at Li Chu's calm face, Yan Ren always felt... a little insecure in his heart...
"Isn't he able to beat ten of them?"
Yan Ren muttered silently.
…
When the first level of the secret realm was in turmoil, a ray of golden light suddenly shone from the sky.
"Here it comes!" Someone shouted.
The teams of Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin immediately burst into light and began to chop down the Huaxu Wutong trees on the island.
This is the new experience they have summed up during this period. Before the Golden Phoenix appeared, cutting through the tree clothes of Huaxu Wutong was actually of no use and was just a waste of effort.
That is, after the golden light appears, you must concentrate your strength to cut through the tree clothes in order to attract the Golden Phoenix to come.
As a loud and clear sound was heard in the secret realm, the beautiful and huge golden phoenix body reappeared.
"Master Li, let's start." Chu Xiangyu said with a smile.
Last time he was startled by Li Chu's transformation technique, but this time he was extremely happy because the tree was now on his side.
But Li Chu felt something was strange.
Even though I turned into a tree and attracted birds...I always felt that this was a bit of a betrayal.
He has never relied on his looks to make a living.
But thinking about the fact that this transformation would bring in 100,000 taels, I suddenly felt...
It seems that there is nothing wrong with it? Without saying much, he immediately made a finger gesture, a flash of light appeared, and he transformed.
call out--
An extremely handsome tree suddenly appeared on the Chu family's suspended island.
On the several suspended islands where people were busy cutting through the tree cover, strange sounds suddenly appeared.
"Fuck!"
"What are you yelling about?"
"There's a tree on that island!"
“There is a tree on every island.”
"But that tree... is so handsome."
"What nonsense are you talking about? How could it be possible... Holy shit!"
“…”
Amid the continuous sounds of "Wow!", the Golden Phoenix's eyes lit up and it flew towards the Chu family's floating island without hesitation.
Chu Xiangyu was very proud when he saw this.
this……
That’s the power of the skin.
…
boom--
The huge golden phoenix carried the suspended island into the vast darkness, leaving the tree with its jaw dropped in astonishment.
In the blink of an eye, Li Chu found himself next to a cluster of leaping flames.
Beside the fire, there were Xiao Jinli, Du Lanke, and Zhao Liangchen...
"Eh?" Lao Du also exclaimed in surprise: "Master! It turns out that the four of us are together. How lucky! Last time I didn't meet you and was lined up with a few strangers. I was so unlucky."
"Yeah, I heard before that the probability of meeting acquaintances in the second level of this secret realm is very low. I didn't expect that the four of us would happen to be together..." Zhao Liangchen also laughed.
Li Chu also felt quite lucky, but when he looked at the koi fish blinking its big eyes beside him, he suddenly figured something out.
This seemingly extremely low probability lucky event is actually just a daily occurrence for Koi...
Having her by your side will surely bring good things.
Thinking of this, Li Chu said, "Then I will take Xiaoyue out to fight the evil spirits. You guys wait here for a while."
Lao Du and Zhao Liangchen naturally agreed.
"Okay." The little koi was not afraid at all. Instead, he wanted to go out and see the world, and nodded repeatedly.
The two of them walked into the thick black fog together.
They walked for a while and encountered no evil spirits.
After walking for a while, I still didn't encounter any evil spirits.
Keep walking...
Li Chu felt something was wrong.
There was an evil spirit every ten steps in this black fog, and they would not be killed completely, so how could there not be any? After thinking for a while, he turned his gaze to the little koi beside him.
Automatic avoidance? It seems that the luck of this koi fish... is not very smart...
Helplessly, he sent the little koi back to the fire and then warned it: "Stay here and don't move..."
(End of this chapter)
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