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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 5: [Seeking Immortality in the Eastern Sea]
Volume 5 (Pinyin): [Dong Hai xun xian]
Chapter 38 (475): [Li Weiyi and Liu Fengshu Take Action]
(38th of Volume 5)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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On the sixth-tier warship, Tang Wanzhou's eyes gleamed with a sharp, cold light.
"This is a rare opportunity to train our troops. We must make it clear to our enemies that we are not to be trifled with and possess the strength to contend for opportunities. Otherwise, when the Ancient Immortal Dragon Remains are excavated, we'll be relegated to the back of the line."
Each excavation of an Ancient Immortal Giant Beast's remains disrupts the power balance in the surrounding region.
To fall behind is to invite defeat.
Therefore, the Lingxiao Realm must secure its share of the spoils, whether through snatching food from a tiger's jaws or overestimating its own capabilities.
It was the Mist Celestial's display of power on the Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain that earned the Lingxiao Realm this chance to participate.
Now, the younger generation must prove their worth and rise to the occasion.
"Liang Zheng requests permission to engage."
The First Commander of Liang Province bowed respectfully toward the sixth-tier warship.
"Wanyan Cangliang requests permission to engage."
An elder from the Wanyan clan of Ying Prefecture drew his heavy, bladeless sword.
Tang Wanzhou nodded: "Go. Test whether the strategies we discussed earlier are effective. Identify any flaws and refine them."
"If you wish to protect the Lingxiao Realm, you must possess the strength to do so. Liang Zheng of Liang Province, leading the nine greatest experts of Liang Province, requests instruction from Rice Palace Huoxin."
"The Rice Palace may be powerful, but it lies far beyond the horizon. Our Lingxiao Realm boasts ten times your number of martial cultivators. The true strength between us remains to be seen."
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The ten greatest experts of Liang Province formed a battle formation within the formation diagram, unleashing nine spiritual artifacts that shattered Huoxin's Dao Heart Manifestation, forcing him to retreat and fall into the sea below.
Among the ten, a Nine-Star Spiritual Master-level Formation Master maintained the formation diagram, supporting the other nine in unleashing a combined attack.
Meanwhile, Wanyan Cangliang, Tai Shi Yu, and three other top-tier experts jointly activated a Sixth-Grade Thousand-Character Artifact - an Ancient Cauldron - blasting Zhenxin off the warship.
This group included a Nine-Star Spiritual Master, a peak Ninth Heaven Dao Seed Realm cultivator, a shield-bearer, and a primary attacker.
They were employing every possible tactic, leveraging their numerical advantage to confront the enemy's elite warriors.
A desperate choice.
Their only choice.
The two forces clashed fiercely on the sea surface, Spiritual Qi surging and waves churning.
On the sixth deck of the warship, all the Immortal Realm Great Powers of the Lingxiao Realm tensed. If they couldn't overcome Huoxin and Zhenxin, how could they possibly contend with the Rice Palace's True Disciples or the Demon Race's three Young Celestial Emperors?
Would they be forced to compromise?
To seek survival through humiliation?
Mist Celestial had fought so hard to restore the Lingxiao Realm's dignity. He refused to kneel again.
"I have a feeling Tang Wanzhou planned this all along," Li Weiyi said, "She deliberately staged the Commander's Banquet to lure enemies to our doorstep. She intends to use this battle to demonstrate the Lingxiao Realm's strength and deter the wolves from circling."
Zuoqiu Hongting had also noticed this. The ability to instantly form a battle formation clearly indicated prior preparation.
"We'll make an example of whoever provokes us," she said, "At the same time, we can test the effectiveness of our Combined Attack methods."
"The Lingxiao Realm lacks top-tier experts, but we have an overwhelming numerical advantage in Martial-Mystic Cultivators," Li Weiyi pointed out, "We can easily overwhelm our enemies with sheer numbers."
"That tactic might work against the Rice Palace," Zuoqiu Hongting countered, "But who can match the Eastern Sea Monster Clan in numbers? Besides... look, the Combined Formation's weakness in speed has already been exposed. It's adequate for defense but lacks the offensive power to threaten experts like Huoxin and Zhenxin."
On the sea surface, the ten-man battle formation led by Liang Zheng moved sluggishly. The layers of Dao Heart Manifestations they unleashed utterly failed to restrain Huoxin.
Huoxin avoided direct confrontation, striking once before retreating swiftly.
The ten-man battle formation could only passively endure the attacks.
On the other side, the five elite cultivators led by Wanyan Cangliang and Tai Shi Yu moved with greater agility, using their Sixth-Grade Thousand-Character Artifacts for long-range attacks. Yet despite wielding such powerful weapons, they couldn't lock onto Zhenxin's true form.
Each strike they unleashed was devastating, forcing Zhenxin to evade them. However, the five cultivators' Spiritual Qi reserves were rapidly depleting, making sustained combat impossible.
Zuoqiu Hongting sighed, "We're being too passive! We need a single, overwhelmingly powerful individual to patrol the battle formation's perimeter. Only then can we contain figures like Huoxin and Zhenxin, allowing the formation to function at its full potential."
Li Weiyi asked, "What exactly is the Zuoqiu Sect's strategy?"
Zuoqiu Hongting understood his meaning perfectly: "The Zuoqiu Sect will never sever ties with the Lingxiao Realm! In fact, the stronger the Lingxiao Realm's power demonstrated at the Commander's Banquet, the greater the Zuoqiu Sect's influence at the Calamity Crossing Temple. We rise and fall together."
"Huoxin and Zhenxin are about to unleash their true power," Li Weiyi murmured, his gaze fixed on the sea, "I wonder if Tai Shi Yu and the others can withstand it?"
He secretly summoned the Myriad Manifestations Staff-Spear and handed it to Zuoqiu Hongting, the Fake Li Weiyi.
On the sea's surface, Huoxin and Zhenxin converged.
Huoxin, with his unrestrained nature, let out a wild laugh: "Is this the extent of the Lingxiao Realm's audacity to defy the Rice Palace? If your skills end here, you'll likely end up as meals for Demon Beasts."
Scarlet Blazing Ember Divine Flame erupted from Huoxin, while Azure Sea Bonefrost emanated from Zhenxin.
The crimson and azure energies swirled together, transforming into a violent vortex above the sea.
The vortex stretched to the heavens, flames and frost dancing wildly as they crashed into the two battle formations formed by the Lingxiao Realm's Martial-Mystic Cultivators and the distant Horizon's Edge Ship.
"Whoosh!"
The swirling vortex churned the sea, raising waves tens of meters high.
"Boom!"
The spiritual artifacts unleashed by Liang Zheng, Tai Shi Yu, and the others were instantly swallowed by the vortex. The Sixth-Grade Thousand-Character Artifact, the Ancient Cauldron, collided with the vortex but was blocked by two gourds - one crimson, one azure.
The two gourds hovered above Huoxin and Zhenxin, each as massive as a palace and covered in intricate Scripture, clearly extraordinary artifacts.
The two battle formations were repeatedly pierced by the swirling gourds and vortex of Spiritual Qi, dragging all fifteen elite cultivators into the storm.
With Huoxin and Zhenxin joining forces, their combat power surged dramatically.
"Watch over them," Li Weiyi instructed.
He knew all too well that once the battle formations collapsed, the fifteen elite cultivators would stand no chance against opponents of Huoxin and Zhenxin's caliber.
If he didn't intervene, the consequences would be catastrophic.
After sending a telepathic message to Tang Wanzhou, Li Weiyi and Zuoqiu Hongting immediately charged forward, soaring over the heads of the Martial-Mystic Cultivators and streaking toward the swirling vortex above the sea.
Chang Yujian watched Li Weiyi's retreating figure with a surprised expression, muttering to himself, "He's truly no ordinary man. How intriguing!"
Chang Yuqing's gaze, however, remained fixed on the Fake Li Weiyi.
"He's only at the Seventh Heaven realm," she mused, "yet he dares to confront Huoxin and Zhenxin?"
On the sea's surface, Tang Zhan had materialized ahead of Li Weiyi and Zuoqiu Hongting.
Warhorses whinnied, their iron hooves pounding the waves.
Tang Zhan, with twin swords strapped to his back and a ten-foot war spear in hand, rode his Fallen Soul Beast, leading fifteen other mounted warriors as they surged from the depths, shrouded in thick black clouds.
The Sixteen Divine Snow Riders, Tang Wanzhou's trump card prepared for Young Heavenly Emperor-level powerhouses, represented the strongest force beneath the Immortal Realm.
Seeing Li Weiyi and Zuoqiu Hongting launch their attack, Tang Zhan immediately held his forces in reserve.
The Sixteen Divine Snow Riders formed an imposing wall before the Horizon's Edge Ship.
Zuoqiu Hongting roared, "Huoxin, Zhenxin! In Old Yuzhou, you sought to kill me! This debt must be settled!"
With this declaration, even if she killed Huoxin today, it would be considered a personal vendetta.
Huoxin and Zhenxin exchanged surprised glances, astonished by the Jiu Li Divine Hidden One's utter foolishness.
This was too good to be true.
They knew he carried a precious treasure and had been eager to capture him back in Old Yuzhou.
A golden-scarlet flame of psychic power erupted from Zuoqiu Hongting's brow, flowing into the Myriad Manifestations Staff-Spear.
Using it like a brush, she painted a stroke through the air toward the swirling cloud of Spiritual Qi.
"It's too similar! Her psychic power attribute is virtually identical to the Golden Crow Flame Spiritual Power," Li Weiyi murmured, guessing that the broken ancient lamp must have altered her psychic power attribute.
Since she was currently disguised as Li Weiyi, Zuoqiu Hongting unleashed her full psychic power, rivaling that of a Nine-Star Spiritual Master.
With a single stroke, she tore a hundred-meter-long gash through Huoxin and Zhenxin's cloud of Spiritual Qi.
Li Weiyi summoned the Peachwood Staff and charged through the rift in the cloud ahead of her.
Three-colored branches sprouted from the Peachwood Staff, spreading across the sky like a canopy, pressing down on the blue and red gourds below.
"Liu Fengshu, you dare come seeking death again?" Huoxin roared, glaring upward.
Li Weiyi declared, "That's right. I am Sword Gentleman Liu Fengshu."
"You've been on our palace's kill list. Since you've revealed yourself, offer your head as tribute."
Huoxin and Zhenxin channeled the power of their twin gourds, shattering the tri-colored psychic peach branches that had ensnared them into wisps of luminous mist.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The two erupted into blinding speed, their figures blurring as they streaked through the air, launching simultaneous attacks on Li Weiyi from opposite directions.
Zuoqiu Hongting flashed into position, joining Li Weiyi's side.
Staff and spear met the charging pair head-on.
"Boom!"
On the sea's surface, the massive swirling cloud exploded from within, unleashing a colossal wave tens of meters high that threatened to shatter the very heavens.
The fifteen experts trapped within the cloud were hurled free, scrambling to escape the battlefield.
They were utterly bewildered: "How did Liu Fengshu get mixed up with Li Weiyi?"
Just moments ago, Liu Fengshu had been at odds with the Jiu Li Clan.
Li Weiyi channeled psychic power through his Peachwood Staff, amplifying its potency.
Spiritual Light coalesced into a peach tree, its branches laden with ripe peaches, resembling the Peach Tree of the Immortal Realm rooted in the sea.
He clashed head-on with Huoxin's attack.
"Boom!"
Spiritual Qi and Psychic Light collided like two towering walls.
Peach petals and the Scripture released by Huoxin exploded across the sea, their crimson glow painting the surface like blood, both dazzling and terrifying.
The two combatants were blasted backward simultaneously, their feet carving long, white trails of water in their wake.
Huoxin's eyes widened in shock.
"How has your strength increased so dramatically?"
He could clearly sense that Liu Fengshu's Psychic Power had ascended to a new level, placing him among the elite masters.
Each strand of his tri-colored Thought Flame now possessed the power of a fully mastered Third-Tier Great Technique.
More critically, Liu Fengshu had withstood his full-force strike without even breaking a sweat.
'Just how strong has his physical body become?'
"Having broken through to become a Nine-Star Spiritual Master, I've come to test the Inheritor of the Ninth Heaven," Li Weiyi declared.
Then, he telepathically instructed Tang Zhan, "Hold Zhenxin off for a moment."
Standing within the Sixteen Divine Snow Riders' formation, Tang Zhan's gaze flickered between "Liu Fengshu" and "Li Weiyi," his mind reeling in confusion.
He secretly wondered if the two Li Weiyi were abandoned Rice People brothers.
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END OF CHAPTER
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