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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 2: [Jiuli Insect Valley]
Chapter 93 (121): [The Holy Truths and the Dharma King]
(93rd of Volume 2)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Two monks in monk's robes, like afterimages of Spiritual Qi, shot up the mountain with astonishing speed, instantly closing in on Zhuang Yue.
One monk, possessing a Pure Immortal Physique, wore a blue robe and appeared to be in his twenties. He had a fair complexion, skin as smooth as jade, and only a thin layer of hair on his head, giving him a handsome appearance.
The other monk, a Tiger-like Aberrant Humanoid, had shaved his tiger-head fur completely, leaving only the black "King" character on his forehead.
He tossed out a white cloth bag, which enveloped Zhuang Yue before she could react.
The bag was a powerful Spiritual Artifact.
Despite Zhuang Yue's cultivation in the third stage of the Five Seas Realm, she couldn't escape or break free.
"Damn! It's the Mie-Di and the Dao-Di, two of the Four Holy Truths of Coffin Mountain. Brother Daozhen, let's rescue her!"
Shi Shishi no longer concealed himself, channeling his Spiritual Power and charging forward at top speed.
Li Weiyi knew about the Four Holy Truths of Coffin Mountain from Yin Ershi Wu.
They were the four most talented individuals of the younger generation at Coffin Mountain, second only in fame to the Three Zen Masters, Two Bodhisattvas, and One Forbidden One.
This refers to the strongest member of each generation of Guan Shan, not the top ten most powerful individuals in Guan Shan.
The Two Bodhisattvas are Xu Fodu and An Xianjing.
In Jiu Li City, Li Weiyi had barely escaped death by inviting An Xianjing and the children she led to eat noodles.
Li Weiyi knew his own limitations.
Not only was Jiang Ning nearby and likely to arrive at any moment, but even the Holy Truth and Dharma King among these Barbarian Bandits were figures who shook the Southern Territory, their cultivation unfathomably deep.
He retreated silently, descending the mountain.
He would have to find another way to reclaim the Seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors later.
Jiang Ning, upon discovering Zhuang Yue had been captured, her eyes flashed with icy light. With a wave of her sleeve, she unleashed a torrent of Spiritual Qi white feathers that coalesced into a white river surging toward the two suddenly appearing monks.
Mie-Di, aware of her power, tossed the cloth bag in his hand down the mountain: "Take the person away first!"
Midway down the mountain, six Buddha's Salvation Bandits waiting there caught the bag and tossed it into a carriage.
Two white elephants pulled the carriage, their wheels rumbling as they raced down the mountain.
At the summit, Dao-Di clasped his hands together, his snow-white skin turning golden.
He unleashed a giant Buddha hand seal over ten meters tall, shattering the surging white feather river.
A look of shock suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"How dare Buddha's Salvation Bandits interfere? You're courting death!"
Jiang Ning shouted, following the white feather river.
She swung her sword mid-air, unleashing a brilliant sword qi streak like a celestial river.
"Nine Contemplation Zen Beads."
Dao-Di tossed out a string of prayer beads, each bead bearing a golden Buddhist character.
Each character transformed into a six- or seven-meter-tall sacred Buddha image, adopting nine profound postures: some forming mudras, others pinching fingers, some stomping legs... Nine Battle Techniques unleashed simultaneously.
"Tiger-Elephant Heaven-Born."
Mie-Di roared like a tiger, combining spiritual qi and Daoist Law intent to manifest a golden tiger shadow that enveloped his body, its claws reaching toward the sky.
"Boom!"
Withstanding Jiang Ning's sword strike, Dao-Di and Mie-Di slid back dozens of meters, carving deep furrows in the ground.
Their monk robes were torn by the sword qi.
Even united, they couldn't withstand her.
"Your opponent is me."
Long Ting placed a two-foot-long bone flute to his lips. As a mournful, wailing melody filled the air, a ray of immortal haze rose from the distant sea of clouds, transforming into a long bridge that stretched toward the mountain peak, coiling around Jiang Ning.
Li Weiyi had just descended the mountain when he heard a continuous rumbling nearby, as if the earth were shaking.
He looked over.
Two white elephants were pulling a carriage down the mountain, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Six Buddha's Salvation Bandits were riding on the elephants' backs, driving the carriage, and standing on its roof.
They all had bronze skin and muscular, imposing builds. Each clutched a string of skull-bead rosary beads, their eyes filled with murderous intent. They looked less like monks and more like butchers in monk's robes.
Li Weiyi sensed the presence of Seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors within the carriage.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The two white elephants drew closer. Li Weiyi glanced back at the mountain behind him, but neither Mie-Di nor Dao-Di was in sight. He clenched his teeth and changed his escape route, charging forward.
The two Buddha's Salvation Bandits standing on the carriage roof were the first to hear the approaching rush of wind.
"What young thief dares to approach? Can't you see we are the Buddha's Salvation Bandits of Guan Shan?" one of the thieves roared.
Though he couldn't see Li Weiyi, he knew someone was approaching.
"My Sui Sect is the number one sect in Li Prefecture! What do we fear from your Guan Shan? The person in that carriage, I, Wang Daozhen, want her!"
Li Weiyi's arrogant tone infuriated the Buddha's Salvation Bandits.
The two on the roof exchanged glances and leaped down, intercepting Li Weiyi.
Both of them were at the first stage of the Five Seas Realm. They activated the skull-bead rosaries in their hands, and in an instant, dozens of Dead Spirits materialized, surging forward like two icy, ghostly clouds.
Li Weiyi channeled his Spiritual Qi into his Corpse Garment Soft Armor. Blood mist and crimson scriptures appeared around him, colliding with the Dead Spirit ghost clouds and shattering them. He then struck each of the Buddha's Salvation Bandits in the chest with a palm strike.
"Boom! Boom!"
The two Buddha's Salvation Bandits vomited blood and were sent flying like paper dolls.
"With your pathetic strength, you dare to defy the Wang Clan?" Li Weiyi thought, secretly impressed by their formidable physical defense.
He didn't have time to finish them off. After leaving this taunt, he sprinted toward the carriage ahead.
The two severely wounded Buddha's Salvation Bandits struggled to stand up, their internal organs badly damaged. Their eyes burned with hatred as they watched the fleeting figure speeding away in the distance, silently vowing to remember the Wang Clan and Wang Daozhen.
As the distance closed, Li Weiyi unleashed Yellow Dragon Ascending to Heaven, leaping into the air and soaring toward the carriage roof.
"Roar!"
A dragon shadow materialized, poised to land on the carriage.
"I see you're not from the Sui Sect, but rather from Dragon Sect, aren't you?"
The two men who had been driving the carriage suddenly leaped onto the roof and struck out with palm strikes.
Li Weiyi was prepared. He hurled his Mid-Grade Spiritual Artifact, the Iron Book, sending thirty-five pages flying out. The pages slashed through the two Buddha's Salvation Bandits, who howled in agony as they were knocked off the carriage.
Pages of the iron book surged toward the two figures riding atop the white elephant.
These two Buddha's Salvation Bandits were at the second stage of the Five Seas Realm, their combat power far surpassing the previous four. They swung their skull prayer beads, deflecting every approaching page.
Then, one attacked from the left and the other from the right, lunging toward the carriage.
The carriage exploded with a deafening roar, leaving no trace of the man within.
The two Buddha's Salvation Bandits stood bewildered, scanning their surroundings.
Li Weiyi, carrying a tethered bag slung over his back, materialized on the plains over a dozen yards away. He used his Spiritual Qi to gather all the iron book pages, then swiftly fled.
"Stop!"
The two Buddha's Salvation Bandits, both at the second stage of the Five Seas Realm, pursued him, occasionally launching long-range Spiritual Qi attacks.
Li Weiyi, thoroughly annoyed, turned to confront them. His figure moved with incredible speed, and with a palm strike each, he warned, "If you keep chasing, Wang Daozhen will unleash a massacre. Don't blame me for abandoning our alliance."
These two Buddha's Salvation Bandits had broken through the Seven Springs to reach the Five Seas Realm.
Though at the second stage of the Five Seas Realm, their combat power paled in comparison to Wang Daozhen, who had broken through the Eighth Spring, and Yuan Sheng, whose strength was amplified by his physical prowess.
After enduring a Heaven-Turning Palm Seal each from Li Weiyi, their arms were numb and nearly useless. They dared not pursue any further.
Li Weiyi fled several miles away.
Behind him, the sound of rushing wind and footsteps rapidly closed in.
"Brother Daozhen, don't forget our agreement - we share information between our families."
Li Weiyi glanced back and saw Shi Shishi, just as he expected. Though injured by Jiang Ning and bleeding from the mouth, Shi Shishi was relentlessly pursuing Li Weiyi, moving at a significantly faster pace.
"Alright, once I've extracted the information, I'll be the first to inform the Dharma King. You seems severely wounded; you should focus on healing first!" Li Weiyi channeled both Immortal Haze and Spiritual Qi to activate his Nightwalker's Garment, unleashing even greater speed.
Shi Shishi said, "It's just a minor injury, nothing serious. Brother Daozhen, stop for a moment. We're allies. Don't overthink this; let's interrogate her together."
Li Weiyi clearly saw Shi Shishi produce a dagger as he spoke. How could he not overthink it?
This little fatty was far too untrustworthy!
Li Weiyi knew that carrying someone would severely hinder his speed, and Shi Shishi would soon catch up. With his current cultivation level, he stood no chance against him.
He stopped, setting the white cloth bag on the ground.
Zhuang Yue's strength was formidable, and with the Seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors, they could definitely put up a fight if they joined forces.
Li Weiyi had calculated everything, but he hadn't anticipated that the moment he untied the Spiritual Artifact rope on the bag, a blinding finger sword would erupt from within, aimed directly at his forehead.
There was no way to dodge it.
The Spiritual Light Flame within Li Weiyi's Third Eye Spiritual Realm erupted, transforming into a beam of light that momentarily blocked Zhuang Yue's finger sword.
Seizing this fleeting moment, Li Weiyi rolled sideways to escape, but his ear was still grazed by the fingertip, leaving a bloody scratch.
Too swift, too ruthless - he had nearly capsized on her.
Fortunately, Li Weiyi had been consuming Radiant Flame Pills for some time, greatly enhancing his Mental Power cultivation and causing the flame within his Third Eye Spiritual Realm to burn fiercely. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to block her finger sword even for a moment.
"Evil thief, die!"
Zhuang Yue drew the war sword from her back, her eyes blazing with killing intent.
In such a dengerous situation, Li Weiyi could no longer feign ignorance. He quickly threw back the hood of his Nightwalker's Garment and shouted, "Zhuang Yue, it's me, Sima Qin! Figure out who saved you and who's the real evil thief!"
A look of astonishment flashed across Zhuang Yue's beautiful eyes as she scrutinized him closely.
"You're really alive, and you've even broken through?"
Over the past few weeks, she and Jiang Ning had heard countless rumors about Sima Qin's survival.
They'd heard he was wreaking havoc on the Surging Spring Realm path, facing no equal within his cultivation level.
Li Weiyi stood up: "Return the seven... Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors to me."
A look of embarrassment crossed Zhuang Yue's face.
Half a month earlier, during the battle at the Five Seas Realm Boundary, they had intended to intervene at the enemy's most vulnerable moment, saving him and then recruiting him into the imperial service.
But events had unfolded too rapidly, and they'd failed to save him.
Finally, Zhuang Yue had killed Master Liu, who had been trying to capture the Seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors, with a single sword strike. She then used Precious Medicine to lure the insects away. Now, seeing the insects' owner again, the proud Phoenix Terrace Martial-Mystic Cultivator felt guilty and her expression was unnatural.
What's more...
It really seemed like he had saved her.
Shi Shishi arrived and froze in place: "So it wasn't Brother Daozhen, but Brother Sima. What's the situation now?"
Li Weiyi, knowing how much the imperial court hated Barbarian Bandits, introduced Zhuang Yue, "This is the Shishi Dharma King of the Earth Wolf King's Army!"
"That's right," Shi Shishi said.
"Watch my sword!"
Zhuang Yue, believing Shi Shishi had captured her, finally found an opportunity to vent her pent-up anger. Her Spiritual Qi surged, triggering her battle intent. A ten-foot-tall female phantom image materialized, overlapping with her body, and thrust her sword straight at Shi Shishi.
"Bang! Bang!"
After several exchanges, Li Weiyi realized that even though Shi Shishi was severely injured, Zhuang Yue was still no match for him.
"Zhuang Yue, give me back the insects first!"
Once he had the insects, he planned to flee.
"Bang!"
After a direct clash, Zhuang Yue was forced back, her cloud sleeves torn and blood dripping from her fingers.
Even the youngest Dharma King was this formidable.
Her face pale, she hesitated for a moment before removing the Insect Tube and tossing it to Li Weiyi.
"This bandit's cultivation is profound. I'm no match for him. You go first. Remember to tell my young mistress who killed me."
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END OF CHAPTER
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