Chapter 39: The Choice of Zen Sea and Mist
"Shouldn't... we try it?"
Li Ling did not have the coldness and chill that she had when she killed the soldiers of the Earth Wolf King Army in the Burial Immortal Town. She continued, "To join the Cangli tribe, you must have a clean identity and good character. Don't be angry, okay? You have so many magic weapons on you, and I didn't touch them, right? If I had attacked you when I was pretending to faint, you wouldn't have been able to defend yourself much, right?"
"So, towards my friends who have lived and died together, my character is not bad."
"By the way, why did you save me and drag me ashore? Do you like me?"
Li Weiyi said nothing and walked away quickly.
He always felt that there was something wrong with Li Ling, and had an indescribable sense of familiarity, but her cultivation was too high, so he had no way of exploring it and just wanted to keep his distance from her.
"Don't go, you haven't answered me yet! Only those with the blood of the common people can safely pass through the Death Mist. It will be very dangerous if you go deeper into it." Li Ling said.
Li Weiyi had heard what Zhao Zhizhuo said, but he had his reasons for returning to the Blood Sea, so he had to go no matter how dangerous it was.
If he didn't go back, everyone on the bronze ship would have to wait for death.
Li Ling trotted after him and said, "I have to tell you the truth. After being hit by the flying needle of the stone monkey, he rushed into the deserted house where you were hiding. He did intend to drag you into the pirate ship. But my analysis in the Burial Town was not wrong, right? In that situation, the two of us, together, lived together, and apart, died together."
“It doesn’t matter anymore!”
Li Weiyi deliberately exposed his back to her, testing whether she was really not interested in the magic weapon.
She did not launch a sneak attack, which made Li Weiyi deeply confused. He had no idea what her purpose was in chasing him.
Li Ling followed closely on the right side of Li Weiyi with her bare feet stepping on gravel and thorns. "In Zangxian Town, you should know that anyone who falls into the same danger as me will make the same choice. What's more, I just thought you were a thief who deceived my brother and wanted to do something bad."
"It's different now. You're really a good person."
"How about we be friends? I will protect you in the Cangli tribe. If we encounter the same situation again, I will let you go first and I will stay behind to cover your retreat."
Li Weiyi stopped and stared at her.
Li Ling blinked her lively eyes, her eyelashes trembling, and said, "You dragged me to the shore, and you also saved the Cangli tribe... There is absolutely no problem with your character. With your current Wuquan cultivation, I can help you find a decent job in Jiuli City and marry you a wife with outstanding appearance. I have a cousin who will be sixteen in eight days. Come with me to meet her during the coming-of-age ceremony to see if we can be attracted to each other. It's okay for you to enter the Cangli tribe school, but Jiuli Taoist Academy is a bit difficult!"
"Miss Li, please stop following me. I already feel your kindness. I still like your cool and aloof look. How about you recover a little?"
Li Weiyi couldn't really tell how much truth and how much falsehood there was in her words, and secretly decided that after picking up his brothers, he would never go to the Cangli tribe. Thinking of the way Li Ling stared at him on the eaves, thinking of the way she chopped melons and vegetables to kill people, she gave Li Weiyi a very unreal feeling at this moment.
As for Gao Huan...
That's a pure immortal body, the Cangli tribe should not treat him unfairly.
Li Ling asked, "Are you going to the Blood Sea Coffin Dock? Are your companions there? Are all your magic weapons obtained from opening the blind coffin?"
“Swish!”
Li Weiyi mobilized his magic power and rushed out quickly.
"Are you impatient now?"
Blue mist traces flowed between Li Ling's feet as she chased after him at an even faster speed.
You chased me and I rushed out for dozens of miles.
Li Weiyi slowed down and found that something was wrong around him. Many motionless human figures appeared in the forest, standing in the fog, turning their heads to stare at him.
There was no life in them, some were located by the river, and some were standing in the bushes.
It was so creepy that Li Weiyi felt a little cold on his back.
"Don't wander off anymore. If you go any further, I may not be able to bring you back."
Li Ling reached out and grabbed him.
Li Weiyi was confused: "You went to the sea of blood to retrieve the coffin, didn't you go out along the Sui River?"
Seeing that Li Weiyi was finally willing to talk to her calmly after hitting a wall, Li Ling couldn't help but smile: "It's not that simple! Although the Death Mist Region is only two hundred miles wide, it is one of the few restricted areas in the entire Lingxiao Habitat. The space inside is very chaotic and is constantly changing."
"If you follow the Sui River, you won't reach the Sea of Blood, but will instead reach the more dangerous Land of the Dead."
"In the Jiuli tribe, only the nine priests' disciples, and no more than a hundred Dark Lamp Guides, can find the way through the Deathly Mist Region."
"You?" Li Weiyi said.
"Um!"
Li Ling nodded proudly: "Every year, many people get lost in the Death Mist and the Netherworld of the Dead. Yesterday, we encountered two lost women, one of whom was a pure immortal body."
"What do they look like?" Li Weiyi asked quickly.
Li Ling said: "The pure immortal body is of course as beautiful as a fairy, but like Gao Huan, there is no trace of cultivation. The other one is dressed in red and has a white bone wind chime around his waist."
"Where are they?" Li Weiyi asked.
Li Ling stared at Li Weiyi's expression and said with a smile, "I guessed that the two witches who bewitched my brother were the same kind of people as you. I found out after a try! You must have obtained some rare treasure, right? Otherwise, why would two people in a row undergo pure immortal body transformation?"
Li Weiyi suddenly realized and understood her purpose for catching up. He tentatively asked, "You are not a pure immortal body, right? I can feel that although your skin is flawless and you have an immortal shell, you are fundamentally different from the young clan leader and Gao Huan, but I can't tell where the difference is."
Li Ling was hurt by Li Weiyi's words. After hesitating for a while, she said bitterly, "I can only be considered a half-immortal body. I haven't completed the full transformation. The fundamental difference between a half-immortal body and a pure immortal body lies in the bones. I only have skin and flesh, but no immortal bones."
Li Weiyi felt that if she drank the Golden Crow's blood, she would most likely be able to transform into a pure immortal body.
But did she really regard herself as a friend who would live and die together? Before he saw through her, Li Weiyi couldn't treat her as a friend.
Li Ling said sincerely, "I will take you to the Blood Sea. You can't get there without my help! Have you seen these dead souls? They are just the weakest and almost non-aggressive. But if you encounter a bloody evil spirit or a demon like the Thousand-Headed Dragon Vine, your chances of survival will be slim."
"What conditions?" Li Weiyi asked.
Li Ling said: "There are no conditions, I just hope that you don't have any more resentment in your heart... Well, consider it as what I owe you in Zangxian Town."
Li Weiyi was skeptical: "Okay! If you take me to the blood sea, our grudges will be wiped out. I, Xie Jin, keep my word. Which direction are we going?"
Li Ling suddenly sat down on a moss-covered stone, covering the wound on her lower abdomen with her hand: "I'm injured too badly, I'm afraid I can't walk anymore."
…
Li Weiyi carried Li Ling on his back and walked forward in the fog.
She was slender, but unusually heavy, and...
"You weren't hit by the flying needle of the stone monkey at all!" Li Weiyi could not feel the stiffness of her body, but only felt softness and elasticity. Whether it was from her hand or her back.
Li Ling held the dark lantern in one hand and put her other hand around Li Weiyi's neck. Her voice was clear, pleasant, and lazy: "I've been poisoned! But I have a secret medicine with me. After taking it, the stone poison will be cured."
"Are you telling the truth?" Li Weiyi asked.
Li Ling said, "Master said that girls should learn to protect themselves when they are alone outside. They should only talk 70% of the time and only express 30% of their feelings when they are in love."
The Underworld Guide was indeed a man of real talent, and the route they took was very tortuous, sometimes requiring a long detour. But from beginning to end, they did not encounter any danger. When Li Weiyi was about to lose his sense of direction, he could faintly hear the sound of waves.
I quickened my pace and soon walked out of the foggy forest, and the view in front of me suddenly became wider.
Arriving at the beach, a bloody and rotten smell hit us in the face.
On the blood-red ocean, there were densely packed coffins floating, large and small, piled up like a mountain.
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The shore was littered with paper money, empty coffins, and broken bones. In the distance, there was thick fog, and the boundary between the sea and the sky could not be seen, and naturally, the bronze ships could not be seen either.
A few dozen feet to the right was an old and dilapidated ferry, with a bluestone dragon-carved archway still standing tall. A long and straight stone plank road extended from the ferry to the deep sea and disappeared in the fog.
Li Weiyi put Li Ling down, and a strong sense of joy surged in his heart, as he was about to see his senior brothers again. His senior brothers could be considered his only relatives left in this world.
But at the same time, he also had an urgent desire to become stronger. Otherwise, how would everyone survive after taking the scientific expedition team members off the ship? If he went to the Cangli tribe, he would feel passive and would be controlled by Li Ling. It was a kind of aggrieved feeling of living under someone else's roof.
If he had the strength of Qiquan now, or even broke through Fengfu and Zutian, not only would Li Ling be unable to do anything to him, even the elders of the Cangli tribe would probably recruit talents and treat him like they treated Gao Huan.
“Wow!”
Li Weiyi rushed to the ferry, climbed onto the plank road, and headed quickly towards the deep sea.
"Xie Jin, do you...want to die?"
She quickly lowered her voice, not daring to speak loudly, and stopped immediately at the ferry.
Every time they came to the sea of blood to retrieve the coffin, they would sprinkle paper money, light incense and candles, and offer tributes. Every ritual was necessary. Most importantly, they could not make loud noises, climb onto the plank road, or go deep into the sea of blood.
The elders in the clan have warned that the coffins from other worlds that can float to the Blood Sea Coffin Dock are either sinister or extraordinary, and most of them are abnormal.
If they are not careful, they will surprise something they can't afford to offend.
She had heard too many stories about the Blood Sea Coffin Dock. Seeing Li Weiyi disappear in the fog, she did not dare to chase him and asked, "Senior, should we chase him?"
“Wow!”
Li Ling's back was burning and filled with blood mist. A white skeleton that was almost as thick as jade walked out of her body.
Chanhai Guanwu's long hair fluttered in the wind, and some flesh had grown on his bones. He peeked at the gloomy and gray sea of coffins and sighed, "Forget it!"
Li Ling lost a lot of blood and energy, his face turned pale, and he looked a little weak: "I don't understand why you didn't do it when you were on his back just now, with such a good opportunity?"
"Because I hesitated!"
Chanhai Guanwu couldn't explain too much to her.
By forcibly taking Li Weiyi's blood and soul to complete the marriage ceremony, she would have the opportunity to be in a dominant position in the relationship between the two of them. It would be like Li Weiyi marrying into her family.
This is the situation she wants to see the most! But if she does this, once Li Weiyi's cultivation level exceeds hers in the future, the backlash will be terrible.
But asking her to lower herself and beg Li Weiyi to give up a large amount of blood and soul to complete the marriage ceremony with her was a hurdle she couldn't get over.
The so-called "marrying into the Yang world" is the blood energy unique to that ancient clan, which allows the deceased to live a second life and resume the path of cultivation by marrying back to the Yang world.
The price to pay is to become the wife or husband of the descendant of that ancient clan.
Before the ceremony is completed, the wishes of the deceased are the main considerations.
Therefore, Chanhai Guanwu could choose to forcibly complete the marriage ceremony, but Li Weiyi could not. In the tomb on the bronze ship, she forced herself and injected a soul into Li Weiyi's forehead, but the ceremony was only half completed before Li Weiyi broke free and escaped.
Similarly, when the descendants of the ancient clans looked for a protector wife or husband during their infancy, it could only be based on the wishes of the protector wife or husband.
But once the ceremony is completed, the descendants of the Gu clan will have a stronger say.
For example, if a descendant of the Gu clan died, the one who married Yang would die. But if the one who married Yang died, the descendant of the Gu clan would have little impact.
For example, those who marry Yang must stay within a certain range of the children of the ancient clan, and the distance they can leave can only be increased accordingly as the cultivation level of both people improves.
If you want to reverse life and death, the price you pay will naturally not be small.
Chanhai Guanwu has the ambition to reverse life and death and reach the peak of cultivation again. However, she has to be controlled by Li Weiyi, which is contrary to her inner pride and ambition.
"Perhaps you can try to make friends with him first and see if he is really trustworthy. When the time is right, you can have a heart-to-heart talk with him. Being husband and wife in name only, but close friends or allies in reality, isn't that a better way to help each other?" Chan Hai Guan Wu thought of a conciliatory solution.
So far, Li Weiyi has given her a good impression.
In Li Weiyi's eyes, she had been labeled a white-bone demon, and it was difficult for her to get along with him after that. She had to have a new identity, which was one of the reasons why she chose Li Ling as her carrier.
As for Qi Shanshan, Chanhai Guanwu left a soul thought, which opened up her language and wisdom, so there should be no loopholes.
“Da! Da! Da…”
Suddenly, there were rapid footsteps in the forest.
A moment later, three figures appeared on the edge of the sea of blood, and the one walking in front was Yan Qingqing. It was she who relied on her unparalleled sense of smell to track the path that Li Weiyi and Li Ling had taken and found this place.
Shi Jiuzhai issued a death order, and they had no choice but to enter the Death Mist Region no matter how dangerous it was.
(End of this chapter)