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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 4: [Shuangsheng Dao Sect (Twin Rice Sect)]
Chapter 14 (269): [The Secrets of the Shuangsheng Dao Sect (Twin Rice Sect)]
(14th of Volume 4)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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The Qingyun Carriage Company was located in the Outer City of West City.
Under the night sky, the vast, garden-like carriage yard held hundreds of carriages of all sizes, arranged in rows like centipede formations.
In the lamplight, one could hear the sounds of horses, exotic beasts, and the bustling activity of coachmen, craftsmen, and horsemen.
Unlike the Inner City, which was constantly protected by the City-Protecting Formation, the Outer City was vast, chaotic, and saw frequent movement of people.
This was one reason Wang Zhi had dared to return!
At this moment, Wang Zhi and Wang Shouxin, the owner of the Qingyun Carriage Company, sat in a room on the second floor of the West Shed. They didn't resemble a foster son and foster father; instead, they sat as equals.
Wang Zhi, who appeared to be fifteen or sixteen years old, was the young man who had driven Yang Qingxi's carriage that day.
Dressed in a Spiritual Artifact Nightwalker's Garment, Wang Zhi's eyes held a deep, unsettling gaze.
"That Li Weiyi is too cunning! Even though we received a report that he had descended Taoli (Peach and Plum) Mountain, he vanished almost immediately, leaving no trace."
Wang Shouxin replied, "Even though he's been crippled, he's still a Divine Hidden One of the Jiu Li Hidden Sect. Who knows what forces he might still command? We must not act rashly until the Fourth Divine Son arrives."
Wang Zhi smiled faintly: "He's the person Venerable Nan specifically requested. Capturing him would be a great achievement."
"What's really going on beneath Fu Prefecture?" Wang Shouxin asked.
"Only those above the Elders know the full truth. I overheard Venerable Nan and Elder Qiu discussing it once. They said, 'A great event is about to unfold!'"
Wang Zhi's eyes flashed coldly: "The biggest problem now is that the Imperial Court and the various righteous armies have temporarily united against the Demon Clan, putting an end to their internal conflicts."
Wang Shouxin's heart sank.
He sensed something was amiss.
All sounds outside the door vanished in an instant, leaving an eerie silence.
"May I ask who has graced us with their presence?"
Wang Shouxin's eyelids snapped open, his pupils radiating icy light. Spiritual Qi surged through his body like a raging river as he slammed his palm against the closed door.
With his cultivation, he could shatter not just a wooden door but even a steel city gate with a single strike.
But something strange happened.
His overwhelmingly powerful palm strike was deflected by an invisible force. Ripples spread through the air around the door.
"Whoosh!"
Shi Jiuzhai's massive frame materialized out of thin air, standing in the room before the door.
He smiled: "Continue. This Dharma King would love to hear more. Tonight's unexpected harvest has been truly remarkable."
"Shi Jiuzhai!"
Wang Shouxin was utterly terrified, recognizing the fearsome Barbarian Bandit whose name echoed throughout the Southern Territory.
As he uttered those three words, he exhaled a mouthful of Spiritual Qi. Within the Spiritual Qi, a two-foot-long flying sword, a Hundred-Character Scripture Artifact, was enveloped.
Under the impetus of the Spiritual Qi, the flying sword burst forth with blinding brilliance.
Dense scriptures materialized on its surface.
"Boom!"
The flying sword froze a foot from Shi Jiuzhai's chest. Ripples emanated from its tip, preventing it from advancing a single inch further.
"Bang!"
Wang Zhi crashed through the wall, leaping onto the street west of the Qingyun Carriage Company.
Shi Jiuzhai glanced at the hole in the wall.
Spreading his right hand, he pressed lightly toward the ground.
Instantly, the entire Qingyun Carriage Company and the surrounding blocks were enveloped in a dense, white mist.
This was his "Dao Heart Manifestation," a technique that could extend up to three miles, transforming the area into his personal domain.
Of course, his control weakened with distance.
"Bang!"
Wang Zhi had barely landed when he looked up, only to find the world around him completely obscured by the endless white mist.
"How formidable Shi Jiuzhai is."
His Ancestral Field trembled, and concentric ripples of spatial energy emerged from his navel.
At the center of the spatial ripples, a First-Grade Hundred-Character Artifact, a golden whip, shot out. Like a golden Dragon, it coiled around Wang Zhi's body, stretching several dozen feet long.
Over a hundred profound scriptures enveloped his entire form.
"Da-da!"
Footsteps echoed as Li Weiyi emerged from the Mist.
"Truly, one cannot judge a person by their appearance! Who would have guessed that a young man hiding among the Qingyun Carriage Company workers was actually a Dao Seed Realm cultivator?"
Wang Zhi looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, but the appearance of Martial-Mystic Cultivators was often highly deceptive.
Wang Zhi gripped the golden whip, his eyes widening in disbelief: "It's you! Weren't you crippled?"
Li Weiyi replied calmly, "Only my Ancestral Field was crippled! With my Sixth Sea cultivation, I believe I can handle you without issue. I've made great progress in the past six months."
Wang Zhi sneered: "You're probably still underestimating the combat prowess of a Dao Seed Realm Martial-Mystic Cultivator."
"You've cultivated an Ancestral Field, so you're naturally no weakling. You're not comparable to those Inferior Root Dao Seed cultivators. Where's Qingxi? I miss her," Li Weiyi said.
Wang Zhi frowned deeply.
Even he couldn't grasp the true nature of Li Weiyi and Yang Qingxi's relationship.
Li Weiyi continued, "Let me ask another question: Where's Qi Xiao?"
"Whoosh!"
Wang Zhi's expression changed. Spiritual Qi surged through his arm like a coiling dragon, and his golden whip transformed into a golden bolt of lightning, shooting forward with incredible speed.
A piercing tearing sound echoed through the air.
Li Weiyi calmly countered the Intent force emanating from his opponent. He raised a hand, and countless hand seals materialized before him. Behind him, a five-zhang-tall Battle Technique Intent Projection rose into the air.
One of the Twelve Dispersed Hands, the Spiritual Treasure Seizing Hand.
The golden whip's power was formidable, tearing through a mist-covered area hundreds of meters long, leaving a half-meter-deep groove in the ground.
One strike could carve a riverbed across flat land!
Yet this incredibly powerful Hundred-Character Artifact was firmly grasped in Li Weiyi's hand. Ignoring the shock etched on Wang Zhi's face, he channeled Spiritual Qi through all one hundred and twenty of his Golden Meridians. With a flick of his wrist, a domineering pulling force erupted.
"How is this possible..."
Wang Zhi couldn't believe that a Five Seas Realm Martial-Mystic Cultivator could surpass him in strength.
Suppressing his shock, he abandoned his direct confrontation with Li Weiyi and charged forward instead.
Spiritual Qi energy spilled from his body as he spun his fingers in the air to form a palm strike. Within a ten-zhang radius, the mist twisted and distorted, and a miniature sun appeared in his palm, radiating intense light and heat.
He struck out with his palm!
The force of his palm strike felt like a mountain crashing down.
Li Weiyi took a deep breath, and ten battle intents simultaneously manifested behind him. With a flying kick, the Jade Cauldron's shadow appeared, colliding head-on with Wang Zhi's palm print.
"Pfft!"
Wang Zhi vomited blood, his body spinning backward through the air.
'How monstrous! How could he have ten battle intents?'
The moment he landed, Wang Zhi sprang to his feet, ignoring the golden whip Li Weiyi had seized. He turned and fled.
Moments later.
Wang Zhi stood stiffly, retreating step by step. Before him stood six Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors.
The seventh Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperor perched on his left shoulder, their membrane wings, sharper than a spiritual artifact battle sword, pressed against his neck. The wings sliced through his skin, and blood flowed freely.
"A First-Grade Hundred-Character Artifact, worth tens of thousands of Yongquan Coins."
Li Weiyi stashed the golden whip into his Boundary Pouch, the speed at which he was making money putting him in a good mood.
However, the most valuable items for Dao Seed Realm Martial-Mystic Cultivators were spiritual artifact battle weapons.
Li Weiyi turned to Wang Zhi, who was pinned down by the Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors: "Who is Venerable Nan? What grand scheme are you all plotting?"
Wang Zhi clenched his teeth, his eyes burning with fanaticism. He burst into laughter at Li Weiyi, but remained silent.
"They must be from the Twin Rice Sect. Rumor has it the sect has five Venerables, each responsible for affairs in the Four Realms - Southeast, Northwest, and Lingxiao City. They also have twenty-eight Elders overseeing the twenty-eight prefectures of the world."
"In the Demonic Path, the Twin Rice Sect is the undisputed leader," Shi Jiuzhai said, emerging from the Mist with the unconscious Wang Shouxin in his grasp.
As the Dharma King of the Earth Wolf King's Army, Shi Jiuzhai was also half a member of the Demonic Path, and thus possessed deep knowledge of its ways.
Wang Zhi, realizing his identity had been exposed, roared, "Shi Jiuzhai! Since you know we're from the Twin Rice Sect, you should show us reverence! The Earth Wolf King's Army can't afford to offend us!"
Shi Jiuzhai ignored him, telepathically communicating with Li Weiyi: "Before we acted, I wanted to warn you - these hidden pawns are likely implanted with Death Spirit Fire. Now we're in serious trouble. The Twin Rice Sect's followers are far more fanatical than the Sui Sect's secret agents. They fear neither death nor torture. Getting any information out of them will be like trying to catch a star."
"The moment they see even a glimmer of hopelessness, they'll willingly release the Death Spirit Fire within them."
"You mean we've alerted the enemy?" Li Weiyi asked.
Shi Jiuzhai replied, "Since we've already done this, let's seize the opportunity to set a trap and lure out the big fish."
"I'll be the bait!"
Li Weiyi was worried about Shi Jiuzhai getting into another dangerous situation. But he himself had more than one Guardian backing him... As this thought crossed his mind, a figure appeared in his mind's eye, smiling.
"Even if they've been implanted with Death Spirit Fire, it doesn't mean we can't get answers from them."
"Swish!"
Li Weiyi's figure flickered, and with a single palm strike, he knocked Wang Zhi unconscious.
Wang Zhi and Wang Shouxin lay unconscious by the lake in Diligent Garden.
Zen Hai Guanwu, clad in a crimson robe and veiled, revealed her true form.
Her figure was as beautiful as a painting, her aura noble and mysterious. Ten snow-white, jade-like fingers hovered above their heads, emitting countless strands of Spiritual Light that burrowed into their skulls.
Li Weiyi had witnessed Zen Hai Guanwu's Soul Retrieval technique before. Even with the Death Spirit Fire planted within them, she could still extract fragments of their memories.
Now, with her cultivation far surpassing her previous level, her Soul Retrieval would be even more assured.
Shi Jiuzhai stared at Zen Hai Guanwu in the distance, lost in thought. He had always believed he could remain calm and composed even when facing Heavenly King Shi Naru. Yet, the moment this woman appeared, his heart had raced, his soul had felt detached from his body, and his mind had been utterly unsettled.
It wasn't because of her overwhelming cultivation aura...
It was like an innate fear!
He sent a mental message: "Who is this Great Practitioner?"
"Her? It's best to keep everything about her buried deep within you. Don't mention her to anyone, or you'll become entangled in immense karmic consequences," Li Weiyi replied.
Shi Jiuzhai didn't take Li Weiyi's words lightly.
He nodded solemnly.
"Hiss!"
"Crack!"
Once Soul Retrieval began, the Death Spirit Fire within both bodies was passively activated.
It had already ignited.
Within a few breaths, the two figures were reduced to charred husks.
The Spiritual Light threads dissipated, and Zen Hai Guanwu stood silently by the lake, her gaze lost in thought. Her wise, unfathomably deep eyes were fixed in contemplation.
Li Weiyi approached her and asked, "Miss Zen Mist, what's wrong?"
Shi Jiuzhai hesitated, not daring to approach. He was deeply wary of Zen Hai Guanwu.
Zen Hai Guanwu turned to Li Weiyi, her red lips parting slightly beneath her veil: "I didn't retrieve all the memories! But what I've learned so far is already astonishing... In just a thousand years, the Ren Dao of the Lingxiao Realm have grown to this extent. I must journey to the depths of Fu Prefecture."
(The origins and legends of the Ren Dao were detailed in Chapter 56, "The Benevolent Rice.")
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