Chapter 130: Yingzhou Meets Xuanyuan

The vast expanse of water was filled with a crimson mist, and the opposite shore was out of sight.

The Guardian's Wife stood by the lake, on ground covered with tricolored spirit soil. Her jade-like hands, clasped in an incantation gesture before her chest, changed their formation.

Instantly, the crimson blood mist in the lake, like a veil of mist, began gathering towards her in wisps.

Li Weiyi watched her, musing to himself, "The blood mist here must possess some incredible power. Who could have set up such a scheme here?"

If the Guardian's Wife only needed blood mist, she would surely have appeared to collect it many times before. Furthermore, wasn't the blood mist by the Blood Sea even denser? This crescent-shaped blood lake and the vast sea of bones must have a special significance.

It was just that his cultivation was not yet strong enough, so he couldn't see through it.

Li Weiyi felt the blood lake was very dangerous and dared not approach it. Instead, he released his spiritual energy, intending to use it to gather some of the blood mist to hand over to his three masters for identification and research.

But as soon as his spiritual energy approached the blood, it merged into it, and he lost all sensation.

Afterward, he took out a low-tier magical artifact, wrapped it in spiritual energy, and extended it towards the blood lake.

"Splash!"

A wave surged forward, striking the low-tier magical artifact.

The artifact corroded and turned black.

When he retrieved it, it had lost all its spiritual essence and turned into scrap metal.

Li Weiyi felt a great sense of foreboding. He absolutely could not touch this blood; he was very worried that if he touched it, his flesh and blood would dissolve, turning him into one of the countless white bones here.

He dared not act rashly.

Instead, he began digging for spirit soil, searching for immortal earth.

Having come here at such great risk, he couldn't leave empty-handed.

Here, the entire area around the lake was covered in tricolored spirit soil. Li Weiyi furiously dug with his iron book, continuously putting the soil into his blood-mud space, intending to plant medicinal herbs there in the future.

After digging more than a meter deep, four-colored light emanated from underground.

Li Weiyi was overjoyed, knowing he had dug up immortal earth, and quickly reached out to scoop it up with his hands.

But as soon as his fingers touched the immortal earth, it was as if he had disturbed some taboo. A piercing sound of a storm came from the blood lake, and waves several meters high surged towards him.

The ground trembled, and the water roared.

Li Weiyi felt a terrifying pressure; the crimson waves, like a liquid high wall, climbed onto the shore, sweeping towards him.

"Whoosh!"

A graceful red figure flew swiftly to the spot.

The Guardian's Wife appeared in front of the blood wave, executed a hand seal, and powerfully repelled it.

Li Weiyi, who had originally fled ten zhang away, seeing that she possessed such ability, immediately turned back. With lightning speed, he dug out a large pile of immortal earth and continuously placed it into his blood-mud space. Then, he quickly retreated to a safe distance.

After the Guardian's Wife repelled the blood waves eight times, the lake surface became calm again.

She turned around to face Li Weiyi, but he couldn't discern her expression.

Li Weiyi met her gaze with a calm expression. Moments later, the Guardian's Wife returned to the lake shore, formed another hand seal, and resumed absorbing the blood mist.

Tens of li away, beneath the god-mountain-like skull, Zenhai Guanwu, also dressed in red, was meditating by the lake, inhaling wisps of blood mist from the lake with each breath. Flesh had already grown back on her body, her skin as white as jade porcelain, but a shroud of blood mist made her body hazy, obscuring her face.

Sensing the disturbance from afar, Zenhai Guanwu abruptly opened her eyes. Her red lips parted as she softly said, "They've arrived!"

Li Ling, who was digging for spirit soil, stopped and asked, "Who?"

"Let's go. I've temporarily forged a physical body and can continue on the path of cultivation as a living being. There's no need to show our hand to him now. The timing isn't right!"

Zenhai Guanwu's eyes were deep. She stood up, her figure very tall and slender. Amidst the mist, she looked incredibly young, like only eighteen or nineteen years old. Her long black hair was loosely tied with a hairband behind her back.

Her gaze penetrated through layers of blood mist. She saw the multicolored island in the center of the blood lake and murmured to herself, "An island formed from five-colored divine mud. What kind of supreme being could have set up such a scheme here?"

Since only digging for spirit soil wouldn't disturb the blood lake, Li Weiyi naturally didn't hold back.

This item was also very precious, and surely many people would want to buy it.

Half a day later, Li Weiyi, not knowing how many jin he had dug, gradually lost interest and sat down to rest, exhausted.

He wondered, "This place is so extraordinary, yet I'm tired from digging the most ordinary soil. Will she mock me?"

Li Weiyi shook his head with a self-mocking smile. He stood up, preparing to explore the lake's edge a bit.

After walking six or seven li, a large number of coffins appeared by the lake, piled up and haphazardly placed.

Among them, one was huge and unique, forged from silver and exuding a silvery radiance from within.

It was precisely because he saw it that Li Weiyi didn't detour, wanting to investigate thoroughly.

"It truly is that otherworldly coffin from Buried Immortal Town," Li Weiyi thought. "Was it carried here by those departed townspeople?"

After Li Weiyi approached, he flew up and saw an eleven to twelve-meter-long skeleton of a silver giant lying inside the coffin. Inside the bones, starlight seemed to flow, dazzling and brilliant.

"Stars as its heart, silver as its skeleton."

Li Weiyi was unsure of the skeleton's true value. So he transmitted a message with his spiritual power: "Master Spirit Tablet, have you ever heard of the Silver-Boned Celestial Clan and Immortal Star Magic?"

As for the origin of the silver giant skeleton, he had only heard Fang Tong of the Earth Wolf King Army mention it briefly back then.

A few breaths later.

Master Spirit Tablet's cautious voice replied, "Master Coffin says this matter is of great importance; he wants to come out and examine it himself."

Li Weiyi realized that this skeleton might truly be extraordinary. So, he activated the Spiritual Bright Fire between his brows and brought Master Coffin and Master Spirit Tablet out.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

From the coffin and the spirit tablet, two faint figures materialized one after another, a man and a woman, slowly approaching the giant silver coffin. They observed and studied it, whispering something to each other.

The remnant souls of his two masters, nurtured by the Shaoyang Star, had grown considerably stronger.

Li Weiyi remained vigilant of his surroundings, secretly observing the other coffins.

The coffins placed here were all quite unusual, with strange and varied shapes; some were already decayed and broken. He wondered if they were all brought here by the departed townspeople. An eerie wind blew past, making some coffin lids creak.

In the center of this area of coffins, the ground had turned to sand, with a white fine-sand area hundreds of meters long and wide.

At the center of the sandy area was a solitary temple.

Its temple gate faced the blood lake, and its interior was not visible.

Li Weiyi slowly walked step by step. At the edge of the sandy area, he saw a stone tablet inscribed with text. The script on the tablet was very familiar, but he couldn't recognize a single character.

From behind, Master Spirit Tablet's voice came: "Be careful! This sandy ground is strange. The aura of death is very strong; it seems to forbid the existence of all living beings."

Master Coffin gazed at the stone tablet and murmured, "Yingzhou met Xuanyuan, buried beside the Blood Moon Spring… It's the God of Jiuli, the writing of the God of Jiuli. It's the writing left by that venerable old man…"

Master Coffin's voice trembled with excitement. He looked at the solitary temple in the center of the distant sandy area and immediately knelt and bowed in reverence.

Both his and Master Spirit Tablet's soul forms were very faint, so faint that their features were indistinguishable, as if a gust of wind could scatter them.

No wonder they looked familiar; these characters shared the same script as the words "Jiuli Insect Valley."

Li Weiyi was even more excited than him and asked, "Are these two sentences the content of the inscription on the stone tablet?"

Master Coffin nodded deeply. His voice filled with bewilderment, he murmured to himself, "If the God of Jiuli is buried here as a companion, then who is buried in the Jiuli Divine Mountain? Or perhaps, the one buried here as a companion is someone else entirely?"

He wanted to rush into the sandy area, but Master Spirit Tablet held him back tightly.

Li Weiyi himself was also plunged into shock and confusion. The names "Xuanyuan" and "Yingzhou" were absolutely known to everyone in Huaxia.

When discussing the myths and history of ancient Huaxia, the two characters "Xuanyuan" could never be overlooked.

As for the records concerning "Yingzhou," they were countless.

"Records of the Ten Continents" listed it alongside Zuzhou, Yanzhou, Fenglinzhou, Jukuzhou, Liuzhou, and others, collectively calling them the Ten Overseas Continents.

Li Weiyi absorbed the shock in his heart and comforted Master Coffin: "There's only a solitary temple. It's likely the God of Jiuli isn't truly buried there; perhaps it's just a clay effigy, or merely his clothes and hat."

Master Coffin gradually calmed down. He still gazed into the distance and shook his head, saying, "No, that's not a real temple; it's a monument temple. The fact that this area has turned to sand means it's definitely not simple."

Li Weiyi really wanted to throw a copper coin in to test it, but given previous experiences, he immediately abandoned the idea and said, "If the God of Jiuli is truly buried here, he certainly wouldn't want us to disturb him. When I achieve immortality in the future, we can come back and investigate."

"It is indeed too dangerous!"

Master Coffin nodded, suppressing the obsession in his heart. He reluctantly left and pointed to the silver coffin: "Weiyi, put it into your blood-mud space. It will be of great use in the future."

Li Weiyi had long wanted to collect it.

Even just the huge silver coffin itself was of extraordinary value.

Master Coffin and Master Spirit Tablet looked at the boundless blood lake ahead, their eyes filled with apprehension, not daring to absorb the blood mist as recklessly as the Guardian's Wife.

After sending his two masters into the blood-mud space first, he then approached the silver coffin.

"Rustle!"

Just as he activated the power of the Buddha Relic's space, a cold, eerie wind blew from the distant sandy area, brushing his face. Li Weiyi felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his whole body shivered.

Rings of spatial ripples dissipated, and the silver coffin vanished from its spot.

"This eerie wind is too strange!"

Li Weiyi felt as if he had seen some shadows just now. He looked around; all he saw were coffins. His scalp tingled, and he quickly fled the area and headed back.

After seeing the Guardian's Wife, he felt a bit more at ease, believing he probably hadn't picked up anything unclean.

"Forget it, I won't explore any further for now!"

Li Weiyi sat cross-legged by the lake, took out his Golden Spring, and prepared to use this time to temper his golden vein marks and break through to the Five Seas Realm.

A day later.

Li Weiyi burst out of the sea of bones and quickly fled down the stone steps.

It wasn't because he encountered any danger.

Rather, the quiet Guardian's Wife seemed to have absorbed enough blood mist and had strangely vanished. No matter what method Li Weiyi used, he couldn't summon her again.

With her disappearance, how could Li Weiyi dare to stay alone in that eerie place? It was she who had insisted on going in the first place, and Li Weiyi wanted to leave as soon as possible, not wishing to stay for another moment.

Descending the mountain, he walked extremely fast, almost running.

Along the way, he only retrieved his spring coins and silver coins, leaving all the copper coins on the stone steps.

Entering the stone forest of giant humanoid statues, Li Weiyi returned by the original path, maximizing his sight, hearing, and smell. He activated the stealth and speed of his night-traveling clothes, fearing another encounter with the giant-headed humanoid monster.

Suddenly.

At the edge of the stone forest, he heard familiar voices. He sniffed hard; it was the scent of Zuoqiu Baiming and Zuoqiu Lanlan. They hadn't died at the hands of Xue Qi and the others after all, and had even escaped to this place. Li Weiyi made sure there was no aura of giant-headed humanoid unknown creatures nearby before cautiously walking over.

Just as he approached and stepped out from behind a giant stone statue, a dazzling sword light pierced towards him. Li Weiyi quickly waved his sleeve to deflect it and said, "It's me, Sima Tan!"

Zuoqiu Lanlan, seeing that the person was indeed "Sima Tan," quickly retracted her sword. Her facial expression instantly changed from resentment to joy, and then to great surprise: "How are you still alive? How did you find your way here?"

Li Weiyi looked at Zuoqiu Baiming, who was sitting on the ground. He noticed that one of his legs had been severed, and his face was extremely pale, ashen.

"Where's Brother Tian?" he asked.

Zuoqiu Lanlan was both terrified and in immense pain. Her delicate body trembled slightly, and her eyes were red and swollen, brimming with tears: "They killed him! Di Ran bit through his throat, and even ate his flesh."