Chapter 99: Yanzhou Mu
"Are there... golden veins on his body?" Yao Yin asked.
The light in Hidden Twenty-Four's pupils converged, and he said coldly: "I'm afraid so, otherwise how could he defeat the Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body with a hundred meridians and full silver with his Eight Springs cultivation?"
Yao Yin said: "But, I heard that being able to forge one or two golden veins is a very remarkable achievement. He has one, two... I can't even count them..."
Li Weiyi suddenly laughed: "I understand! We were attracted by the purple Cistanche deserticola and accidentally entered this ash area. But why can we see it in the spider cave? If I'm not mistaken, we must use it to go back."
“It is the root and source of everything!”
Under the illumination of the golden veins on his body, the illusion in the ash region could not deceive Li Weiyi's clairvoyance.
He found the correct location of the purple Cistanche deserticola, not in front of him, but behind him, next to a sand dune in the distance. It was probably several miles away, but he could see the purple light it emitted from afar.
Like a purple magic lamp, shining in the depths of darkness.
"Go, follow me closely, don't fall behind, and don't be affected by other thoughts or illusions."
Li Weiyi maintained the golden veins and golden sky-link eyes on his body, stared at Yin Twenty-four and Yao Yin, his expression froze, and he immediately retracted his gaze, not daring to look at them a second time.
With one hand making finger gestures and the other holding the Huanglong Sword, he walked in front and quickly walked towards the sand dune where Cistanche was.
After the three of them walked a few hundred meters, the wind suddenly started to blow.
"rustle!"
The wind blew up the black sand, and many sparks flew out from under the sand, emitting a blazing glow, like an unburned fire. When the wind blew, the ash-like sand began to burn.
It doesn't appear in just one place, but in large areas.
Yao Yin said nervously: "I remember! Grandpa once said that in the Ash Region, the ashes are just the surface, the most terrifying thing is the ashes."
"What Jhin?"
Li Weiyi didn't dare to turn around.
The telepathy that Master Lingwei taught was too tricky and difficult to control. The telepathic eyes of other great telepathic masters were not so evil at all, so how could they be able to penetrate the gauze?
Yao Yin stopped walking, pointed in horror at a burning sand dune ahead, and said in a trembling voice: "Cinder Spirit... Humanoid Cinder Spirit..."
Li Weiyi had already seen six human figures appearing on the sand dunes a mile away.
They were of different heights, some were three or four meters tall, and some were as short as children. Their bodies were made of burning ash, shining brightly in the wind, and sparks flew out continuously.
Too weird, they don't look like living things at all.
"Here it comes...Run!"
Li Weiyi sucked in a breath of cold air and immediately performed the Qingxu Chuchan Step, rushing towards the direction of Cistanche at the fastest speed.
Behind him, Yin Ershishi grabbed Yao Yin and burst out with a speed that only a martial artist at the Five Seas Realm could achieve, leaping several feet in one step.
The six ember spirits were extremely fast, and as they rushed over, sparks filled the sky, like a rain of fire under the night sky. They let out roars that were definitely not human, and the entire ash area was filled with sand and howling winds.
Yin Ershisi was extremely regretful. She shouldn't have agreed to let Li Weiyi bring Yao Yin here. The six ember spirits were simply beyond her current ability to fight. If she encountered them, how would she fight? "Dangdang!"
A deep and dull bell sound was heard.
A huge camel about three or four meters tall appeared out of thin air on the ground, half real and half virtual, with its head held high and its fur bright.
Li Weiyi sat on it with his upper body naked and extended a hand to her.
Yin Ershisi reached over, borrowed the force, and landed on the camel's back with Yao Yin. She naturally had questions in her mind, but now was definitely not the time to satisfy her curiosity.
The most urgent thing is to escape from this place.
A whistling sound was heard in my ears. The camel's speed was even faster than some exotic beasts.
I think it would only take a few breaths to reach the bottom of the sand dune where the Cistanche deserticola is.
“Ouch!”
The largest cinder spirit let out a long roar, and a long dragon formed by sparks spit out from its mouth. The dragon flew in the air and quickly caught up with the camel in front.
Yin Twenty-four turned around and stood up, mobilizing the magical energy in his body and continuously injecting it into a mirror-shaped magical weapon.
On the mirror, a bright beam of light rushed out and collided with the fire dragon.
"boom!"
The fire dragon exploded, transforming into a brilliant and dangerous rain of fire.
Li Weiyi raised the ghost flag and released the dark mist to block all the falling fire rain.
As he got closer and closer to the Cistanche deserticola plant, Li Weiyi's eyelids shrank. He then realized that in front of him was a dry ancient river channel that was more than 100 meters wide, with a drop of 7 to 8 meters between the river bank and the riverbed.
Cistanche deserticola grew on a large yellow mud boat stranded on the riverbed, with its roots rooted on the top of a skeleton.
The camel stopped on the shore and Li Weiyi didn't dare to move forward.
The scene before him was too horrifying, and no matter how he looked at it, it seemed wrong. He thought he might have been deliberately led here. In the spider cave, he was set up.
Yin Twenty-four's eyes were focused: "A dry river in the Ashes Region, that big yellow mud boat... they don't look normal no matter how you look at it. Are you sure we want to go?"
Li Weiyi frowned and looked back.
The six ember spirits roared continuously and quickly caught up.
"I... I'll give it a try. Grandpa said that I'm destined to have some kind of intersection with the Ashes..."
Yao Yin suddenly spoke.
She stood up on the camel's back, facing backwards, and then stimulated her special blood. A chill that froze Li Weiyi and Yin Ershisi's skin was released from her body.
“Pah!”
Yao Yin's jade-white skin was cracking with dense icy sounds, spreading from her fingertips and feet upwards, passing her slender neck, and the cracks spread to her flawless face.
The end of the crack was her pair of lapis lazuli-like eyes.
“Wow——”
The green light in her pupils illuminated the darkness, a loud cry was heard faintly, and cold air rushed towards the six cinder spirits.
The six Cinder Spirits that caught up with them sensed the breath of their nemesis, stopped at once, and then slowly retreated.
After only a short moment, Yao Yin's eyes bled and he sat back on the camel's back, falling into Yin Twenty-four's arms.
Li Weiyi clearly felt the extraordinary demonic energy erupting from her just now. He was a little surprised and looked at Yin Twenty-Four.
"Don't look at me! I just found out today that she has such a trick up her sleeve." Yin Twenty-four touched the ice cracks on Yao Yin's body and saw that her eyes were closed tightly and her breath was weak. He felt extremely distressed.
Li Weiyi said: "You don't even know this. Aren't you her sister?"
"cousin!"
Yin Twenty-four corrected, his eyes then fell on the yellow mud boat stranded on the riverbed: "She is in a very bad condition, she may not survive. Last time in the spider cave, her icy cold energy exploded, and you fed her a mouthful of Cistanche deserticola so that she survived. I think we may have no other choice..."
"No need to say more, I understand. Let's go!"
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Li Weiyi is not an inhuman person.
What's more, if they want to leave this area of ash, they must go to that big yellow mud ship to investigate.
The camel leaped up and landed on the dry riverbed.
The riverbed was full of pebbles and there was only a thin layer of black sand. I finally felt a sense of security with my feet on solid ground.
The yellow mud ship was about 30 meters long, with only a rough hull structure left, looking extremely simple. Perhaps it had been stranded here for too long, and the complex structure had decayed into mud.
Coming under the boat, Li Weiyi put the camel into the evil camel bell, looked back, and found that the six ember spirits were standing on the opposite bank of the river, staring at them hungrily, but they did not dare to enter the riverbed.
"I should have known better than to be greedy. This world is stranger and more dangerous than I thought."
Li Weiyi sighed and looked at Yin Twenty-four who was holding Yao Yin: "You wait down there, I'll go check it out first."
"Will it work? If you can't escape, you'll die anyway."
Yin Ershisi pointed his toes, leaped into the air, and landed on the large yellow mud boat first.
Putting Yao Yin on the ground, holding the mirror-shaped magic weapon, she walked carefully towards the skeleton on the bow. To be able to stand out and become a hidden person, Yin Twenty-Four was naturally very brave, but at this moment, his back was getting colder and colder, and his head and soles were icy.
Because, the skeleton that had been sitting here for who knows how many years, the purple official robe on its body was spotless, as if it had just been put on.
Under the illumination of the purple glow of the Cistanche deserticola plant above his head, the official robe was glittering, and the cloud dragon pattern on the chest patch was lifelike, with the dragon shape agile and flying in the clouds.
There was only a skeleton left inside the official robe, and it was unknown how many years the person had been dead.
Li Weiyi took the last step and leaped onto the boat. He looked towards the bow and discovered that Yin Twenty-four was searching the skeleton without any taboos. Li Weiyi couldn't help but admire him.
"What did you find?"
Li Weiyi walked over only after making sure there was no danger.
Yin Ershisi took out a golden imperial edict from the skeleton's official robe and opened it. French words appeared one by one. After reading it carefully, she said, "It is indeed a governor. The pattern on the official robe matches... This is the imperial edict of his appointment... Governor of Yanzhou..."
"Yanzhou was one of the nine states governed by the Jiuli tribe a thousand years ago. It has long been swallowed up by the netherworld of the dead. Could it be that he has been dead for a thousand years? Why did he come here by boat and die here?"
Li Weiyi looked at the winding and wide river and asked, "Could this ancient river lead to Yanzhou from underground?"
“It’s a possibility.”
Yin Twenty-four found the key information on the imperial edict: "It is indeed a figure from a thousand years ago. The name of the person who was canonized is Chanhai Guanwu, and it is also stamped with her imperial seal."
The four words "Zen Hai Guan Wu" made Li Weiyi's heart move, and he hurried forward: "Let me see."
After Yin Ershisi handed the imperial edict to Li Weiyi, she continued to search and found a square treasure box under the right hand of the skeleton. Suddenly, she showed excitement on her face: "This... this can't be the legendary governor's seal?"
"Why are you so excited? Can you use it to get the office?" Li Weiyi closed the imperial edict and laughed.
Since there is no danger, I naturally feel much better.
Yin Twenty-four said: "You really don't understand anything! The two most important treasures for a governor to suppress a state are the official robe and the seal, both of which are extremely precious magic tools."
"Official robes represent defense and speed. Look at the cloud dragon on the patch. Legend has it that there is a real dragon soul sealed inside, which is the governor's mount. You should know that Chanhai Guanwu once killed a dragon and divided the dragon soul into three hundred pieces, which were then refined into three hundred sets of official robes for the governor."
"The governor's seal is for attacking and conquering, and it can move mountains and hills."
"These three hundred sets of combat weapons made the rule of Lingxiao Palace as stable as a rock a thousand years ago. All those demon kings and thousands of sects were suppressed and dormant. Unlike the governors nowadays, each of them is like a clay figure, and no one takes them seriously."
Li Weiyi stopped looking down on him and quickly stepped forward, saying seriously, "Before we entered the spider cave, you said that everything inside would belong to me."
"I just said that the Cistanche deserticola is yours. I don't want any of the precious medicine."
Yin Ershisi opened the treasure box containing the official seal and took out the seal. His joy suddenly disappeared and he sighed, "It's yours, but the money I owe you is now settled!"
"good!"
Of course Li Weiyi knew that this was a huge profit, so he agreed immediately.
Hidden Twenty-Four's evil plan succeeded, and he smiled and said, "I forgot to tell you that the official robe and seal of the governor on his body have fallen into silence."
"You should know that before each governor takes office, he needs Chanhai Guanwu to personally activate the two treasures, so that he can have the power to fight. Once the term of office is up, the two treasures will automatically become silent and must be returned to the court."
"Thousands of years ago, the reason why the Lingxiao habitat broke out into chaos and almost all of the three hundred states fell was largely because of the disappearance of Chanhai Guanwu. The terms of office of the governors ended one after another, and the official robes and official seals lost their power."
"If the governors still had the power of official robes and official seals, it shouldn't be a problem to keep one or two hundred states. Instead of only having 28 states left like now."
"Don't regret it! Anyway, my account of several hundred million copper coins has been wiped out!"
Li Weiyi's mind was full of thoughts. He thought of many things at once. Finally, he nodded and stared at the Cistanche deserticola growing on top of the skeleton. He wanted to know why it could be projected into the spider cave?
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