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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 2: [Jiuli Insect Valley]
Chapter 102 (130): [Encountering Xuanyuan in Yingzhou]
(102nd of Volume 2)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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The vast lake stretched endlessly, its surface shrouded in crimson mist, the opposite shore invisible.
The Guardian Wife stood at the water's edge, her feet planted on the tri-colored Spiritual Soil. The jade hand at her chest, fingers forming a seal, altered its pattern.
Instantly, the crimson Blood Qi in the lake, like gauze or mist, began to converge towards her in wisps.
Li Weiyi watched her intently, his mind racing.
"This Blood Qi must possess some unfathomable power. Who could have laid such a trap here?"
If the Guardian Wife only needed Blood Qi, she would surely have appeared to collect it on many previous occasions. And wouldn't the Blood Qi at the Blood Sea's edge be even more potent?
This crescent-shaped Blood Lake and the vast Bone Sea must hold some secret.
But his cultivation was still too weak to see through it.
Li Weiyi sensed the lake's danger and dared not approach.
Instead, he released his Spiritual Qi, intending to sweep some back for his Masters to examine and study.
However, as soon as his Spiritual Qi neared the bloody water, it dissolved within, losing all connection.
Next, he retrieved a low-grade Spiritual Artifact, wrapped it in Spiritual Qi, and extended it towards the lake.
"Splash!"
A wave surged forward, crashing against the Spiritual Artifact.
The artifact instantly corroded into black, lifeless iron.
Li Weiyi's heart sank.
This bloody water was absolutely untouchable. He feared that if it touched him, his flesh would dissolve, becoming another bone among the countless skeletons scattered here.
Li Weiyi dared not act rashly.
Instead, he turned to excavating the Spiritual Soil, searching for Immortal Soil.
He had risked his life to come here; he couldn't leave empty-handed.
The entire area around the lake was covered in three-colored Spiritual Soil. Li Weiyi used his Iron Book to dig furiously, constantly filling his Blood Mud Space with it, intending to plant medicinal herbs there later.
After digging over a meter deep, a four-colored radiance began to emanate from the earth below.
Li Weiyi was overjoyed, knowing he had struck Immortal Soil. He immediately reached out to scoop it up with his hands.
But the moment his fingers touched the Immortal Soil, it seemed to awaken some forbidden taboo. A shrill storm erupted above the Blood Lake, sending waves soaring several meters high and crashing toward him.
The ground trembled, and the water roared.
Li Weiyi felt a terrifying pressure bearing down on him. He saw a crimson wave, like a liquid wall, climb onto the shore and surge toward him.
"Swish!"
A graceful red figure flashed into view.
The Guardian Wife appeared before the wave, forming a hand seal and blasting it back with a thunderous force.
Li Weiyi, who had already retreated ten meters away, was stunned to see her display such power.
He immediately turned back and, with lightning speed, dug up a large pile of Immortal Soil, repeatedly stuffing it into his Blood Mud Space.
Then, he quickly retreated to a safe distance.
After the Guardian Wife repelled the crimson wave eight times, the lake surface finally calmed.
She turned to face Li Weiyi, her expression hidden from view.
Li Weiyi met her gaze with a calm expression.
'What joke is this?'
'You insisted on coming along. Now you're there absorbing Blood Qi, and I'm risking my life for nothing?'
A moment later, the Guardian Wife returned to the lakeside, formed a finger seal, and began absorbing Blood Qi again.
More than ten miles away, beneath the skull-like mountain, Zen Hai Guanwu, also clad in red robes, sat in meditation by the lake. With each breath, she drew strands of Blood Qi from the water.
Flesh had regrown on her body, her skin as white as porcelain, but a blood mist shrouded her, obscuring her features.
Sensing movement in the distance, Zen Hai Guanwu abruptly opened her eyes. Her red lips parted, and she whispered, "They're coming!"
Li Ling, who was digging for Spiritual Soil, stopped and asked, "Who?"
"Let's go. I've temporarily forged a physical body and can continue on the path of Cultivation as I once did. There's no need to confront him now. The time isn't right!"
Zen Hai Guanwu's eyes were deep and profound. She rose to her feet, her tall figure appearing remarkably young through the mist, as if she were only eighteen or nineteen. Her long, black hair was loosely tied back with a ribbon.
Her gaze pierced through layers of blood mist, reaching the center of the Blood Lake and the colorful island.
She murmured to herself, "What kind of supreme being could have laid out such a scheme here, using an island crafted from Five-Colored Divine Mud?"
.....
Since he was only digging for Spiritual Soil and wouldn't disturb the Blood Lake, Li Weiyi didn't hesitate.
This stuff was incredibly valuable, and he knew many people would want to buy it.
After half a day, Li Weiyi had dug up countless pounds of Spiritual Soil and gradually lost interest.
Exhausted, he sat down to rest.
"This place is so extraordinary, yet I'm reduced to digging up the most ordinary dirt. Would she laugh at me?"
Li Weiyi chuckled self-deprecatingly and shook his head. He stood up, intending to explore the lake's edge.
After walking six or seven miles, he came across a large number of coffins scattered haphazardly along the shore.
Among them was a particularly massive and unique one, crafted from pure silver and radiating a silver glow from within.
It was this coffin that had drawn Li Weiyi's attention, prompting him to investigate further rather than avoid it.
"It really is the Otherworldly Coffin from Burial Immortal Town. Did the Dead Spirit town residents carry it here?"
Approaching the coffin, Li Weiyi leaped into the air and peered inside. He saw the skeletal remains of a Silver Giant, over eleven meters long. Starlight seemed to flow within the bones, their brilliance blinding.
"A heart of stars, bones of silver."
Unsure of the skeleton's true value, Li Weiyi sent a mental message to his Spirit Tablet Master: "Master, have you ever heard of the Silver-Boned Celestial Race or the Immortal Star?"
The origin of the Silver Giant's skeleton had first been mentioned by Fang Tong of the Earth Wolf King's Army.
After a few breaths, Spirit Tablet Master's cautious voice echoed: "Master Coffin says this matter is of great importance. He wants to come out and examine it himself."
Li Weiyi realized the skeleton might truly be extraordinary. He activated the Spiritual Light Divine Flame in his third eye and summoned Master Coffin and Spirit Tablet Master.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Faint, ethereal figures materialized from the coffin and the spirit tablet - a man and a woman - and slowly approached the Silver Giant's coffin. They studied it intently, whispering to each other as they examined it.
Nurtured by the Shaoyang Star, the two Masters' remnant souls had grown considerably stronger.
Li Weiyi remained vigilant, secretly observing the other coffins.
The coffins here were all quite unusual, with bizarre shapes and some already decayed and broken. He wondered if they had all been brought here by the Dead spirits of Burial Immortal Town.
A gust of cold wind swept through, causing the coffin boards to creak ominously.
At the center of this coffin graveyard, the ground had turned to sand, forming a vast expanse of white, fine sand hundreds of meters long and wide.
At the center of the desertification zone stood a solitary temple.
Its gate faced the Blood Lake, obscuring the interior from view.
Li Weiyi slowly approached, step by step. At the edge of the desertification zone, he spotted a stone tablet inscribed with text.
The scriptures looked familiar, yet he couldn't decipher a single character.
Behind him, Spirit Tablet Master's voice rang out: "Be careful! This desertified ground feels strange. The aura of death is thick, as if it forbids all living beings from existing here."
Master Coffin stared at the tablet, chanting, "Yingzhou meets Xuanyuan, buried together at the Blood Moon Spring... This is the God of the Jiu Li's scriptures, the words left behind by the old master..."
Master Coffin's voice trembled with excitement. He gazed at the solitary temple at the center of the desertification zone, then knelt and kowtowed.
Both his and Spirit Tablet Master's soul forms were incredibly faint, their features blurred beyond recognition, as if a gust of wind could scatter them.
'No wonder it felt familiar.' The scriptures on the tablet was the same as the one used for the words "Jiu Li Insect Valley."
Li Weiyi was even more agitated.
"Are these two lines the content inscribed on the tablet?"
Master Coffin nodded deeply, his voice filled with confusion as he murmured to himself, "If the God of the Jiu Li is buried here, then who is buried in the Jiu Li Divine Mountain? Or is it someone else entirely?"
He was about to rush into the sandy area when Spirit Tablet Master firmly held him back.
Li Weiyi was equally stunned and bewildered. The names "Xuanyuan" and "Yingzhou" were universally known throughout Huaxia (China).
When discussing ancient Huaxia (Chinese) mythology and history, the name "Xuanyuan" was unavoidable.
And records of "Yingzhou" were countless.
Records of the Ten Continents listed it alongside Zuzhou, Yanzhou, Fenglinzhou, Jukuzhou, Liuzhou, and others as one of the Ten Continents Beyond the Sea.
Li Weiyi absorbed his shock and tried to reassure Master Coffin, "It's just a single temple. The God of the Jiu Li probably isn't truly buried there. Perhaps it's just a clay effigy or a symbolic burial of clothing and regalia."
Master Coffin gradually calmed down, still gazing into the distance.
He shook his head.
"No, that's not a real temple. It's a stele temple. The fact that this place is turning to sand means something significant is at play here."
Li Weiyi desperately wanted to toss a copper coin into the Blood Lake to test its depths, but remembering the previous incident, he immediately abandoned the idea.
"If the God of the Jiu Li is truly buried here, they certainly wouldn't want to be disturbed. When I achieve Immortal Realm in the future, we can return to investigate further."
"Indeed, it's far too dangerous!" Master Coffin nodded, suppressing his own obsession.
He reluctantly turned away, pointing at the massive silver coffin: "Weiyi, store it in the Blood Mud Space. It will be invaluable later."
Li Weiyi had been eager to do so already. The silver coffin itself was of immense value.
Master Coffin and Spirit Tablet Master gazed at the boundless Blood Lake ahead, their eyes filled with caution. They dared not recklessly absorb the Blood Qi like the Guardian Wife had.
After sending his two masters into the Blood Mud Space, Li Weiyi approached the silver coffin.
"Rustle!"
The moment he activated the Buddha's Relic's spatial power, a chilling gust of wind swept across the distant sand-covered area.
Li Weiyi felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss, his body trembling violently.
As the spatial ripples dissipated, the silver coffin vanished from its place.
"This eerie wind is so strange!"
Li Weiyi felt as though he had glimpsed shadows just now. He scanned his surroundings, finding only coffins, and his heart chilled. He immediately fled the area, turning back the way he had come.
Seeing his Guardian Wife again brought some peace of mind. He should be safe from any unclean entities.
"Forget it. I won't investigate further for now!"
Li Weiyi sat cross-legged by the lake, took out the Golden Spring, and prepared to use this time to refine his Golden Meridian Vein and break through to the Five Seas realm.
One day later.
Li Weiyi burst out of the Bone Sea and raced down the stone steps, fleeing the mountain as fast as he could.
It wasn't because he had encountered any danger.
Rather, It was his Guardian Wife, who after seemingly absorbing enough of the blood mist, had mysteriously vanished. No matter what methods Li Weiyi tried, he couldn't summon her again.
With her gone, Li Weiyi didn't dare stay in that haunted place alone.
It had been her insistence on coming in the first place. Now that he had a chance to leave early, he didn't want to waste a single moment more.
He descended the mountain at breakneck speed, practically running.
Along the way, he only retrieved his Yongquan Spring Coins and silver coins, leaving all the copper coins scattered on the stone steps.
Entering the Giant Stone Statue Forest, Li Weiyi retraced his steps, pushing his sight, hearing, and smell to their limits. He activated the Nightwalker's Garment's stealth and speed abilities, fearing another encounter with the Giant-Headed Humanoid Monster.
Suddenly, at the edge of the Giant Stone Statue Forest, he heard familiar voices.
Sniffing intently, he recognized the scents of Zuoqiu Baiming and Zuoqiu Lanlan.
'They hadn't died at Xue Qi's hands? And they'd escaped here?'
Li Weiyi confirmed there were no Giant-Headed Humanoid Monster scents nearby before cautiously approaching.
As he drew near, a blinding sword light flashed out from behind a giant stone statue, forcing Li Weiyi to sweep it aside with his sleeve.
"It's me, Sima Qin!"
Zuoqiu Lanlan, recognizing the newcomer as Sima Qin, quickly sheathed her sword.
Her expression instantly shifted from fury to joy, then to astonishment.
"How are you still alive? How did you find us here?"
Li Weiyi turned to Zuoqiu Baiming, who was sitting on the ground. He saw that one of his legs had been severed, and his face was ashen, deathly pale.
"Where's Brother Tian?" he asked.
Zuoqiu Lanlan, both terrified and deeply anguished, trembled slightly.
Her eyes were swollen and red, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"They killed him! Di Ran tore open his throat and ate his flesh."
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END OF CHAPTER
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