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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 4: [Shuangsheng Dao Sect (Twin Rice Sect)]
Chapter 169 (424): [Consecutive Kills]
(169th of Volume 4)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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The forest was charred black, the trees reduced to blackened stumps.
The Young Marquis seethed with rage and disbelief.
How could all three Elders have been slain in such a short time?
Martial-Mystic Cultivators in the Seventh Heaven of the Dao Seed Realm, even if outmatched in combat, possessed numerous life-saving measures purchased at great expense.
In most cases, they could escape even from opponents in the Eighth or Ninth Heaven if they focused solely on fleeing.
'A Heavy Artifact!'
The enemy must be wielding a Heavy Artifact of immense power.
The Young Marquis studied the lightning-scorched ground, forcing down his fury to maintain his composure.
He released his Spiritual Qi and Dao Heart Manifestation, both to prevent the enemy's escape and to signal for reinforcements to arrive and join the hunt.
The Seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors had not only claimed the three Dao Fruits but also seized two intact Boundary Pouches.
Li Weiyi collected the Dao Fruits, intending to use them to purchase Millennial Essence Herbs for the moths in the future.
A single Dao Fruit could fetch at least a million Yongquan Coins. When refined into Dao Fruit Pills, they became precious secret medicines for Martial-Mystic Cultivators who had not inherited Dragon Seed bloodlines.
Only during wartime, when slaughtering experts from the Demon Kingdom, could such actions be carried out with impunity.
In normal times, killing Dao Fruit Realm experts from other major powers would inevitably trigger investigations, and might even provoke pursuit by Immortal Realm Giants.
War, though brutal, also presents opportunities for rapid advancement, where danger and opportunity coexist.
Li Weiyi stowed away the Dao Fruit and Boundary Pouch, his Psychic Power sensing six more figures rapidly converging within a ten-mile radius, forming a fan-shaped encirclement.
Using Spiritual Qi, he levitated three Seventh-Grade Hundred-Character Artifact spears from the ground and charged forward.
If surrounded by these experts, Li Weiyi stood no chance alone.
His trump cards were dwindling with each use, and with the war just beginning and a treacherous path ahead, he needed to conserve them.
A single Seventh-Grade Hundred-Character Artifact could often fetch a million Yongquan Coins.
"Stop him!" the Young Marquis roared, giving chase.
Above the treetops, the massive Windchaser Beast swooped down.
Its body was enveloped in a thirty-foot-thick layer of protective Spiritual Qi, where raging gales could pulverize even massive boulders into dust.
Li Weiyi had no intention of confronting it head-on.
Stepping onto the luminous silhouette of a Yellow Dragon, he ascended skyward, soaring above the forest canopy.
Below, the entire forest was flattened by the Windchaser Beast's rampage.
"Boom!"
"Whoosh!"
The twang of bowstrings and the whoosh of Flying Swords slicing through the air echoed from opposite directions, signaling an attack from two powerful cultivators miles away.
Arrows blazed with crimson flames, while a white Flying Sword shimmered with scriptures, forming twin beams of red and white light.
Li Weiyi, suspended in mid-air, executed a footwork technique that left trails of azure mist in his wake, narrowly evading the strikes.
In the next instant, he dove toward the dense forest from which the white Flying Sword had emerged, moving with lightning speed to counterattack.
Surrounded by so many Demon Kingdom experts, escape was impossible.
He had to seize the opportunity before the encirclement tightened, eliminating as many enemies as possible.
The Young Marquis rushed forward, his voice ringing with concern.
"Sister Yi, be careful! He carries a Heavy Artifact!"
In the snow-covered, thorn-choked forest, Li Weiyi encountered Luo Yi, the Divine Wing Marquis's daughter.
Separated by a mile, he immediately unleashed the Ember Annihilation Finger Technique.
"Whoosh!"
A wave of crimson-gold finger energy, scorching and formidable, tore through the dense foliage.
Within a mile of its trajectory, every plant and tree burst into flames.
Sensing the overwhelming force of the attack, Luo Yi halted abruptly.
Her Ancestral Field Spiritual energy surged forth, coalescing into a swirling Blood Mist.
The Blood Handprint Armor she wore released over nine hundred scriptures, which seared themselves onto her skin.
As Luo Yi unleashed her palm strike, a blood-red handprint erupted from her armor, colliding with the finger-strike that had traveled over half a mile.
"Boom!"
The blood handprint exploded.
Luo Yi's eyes widened in surprise as she nimbly dodged to the right.
Her opponent's Dao Technique was extraordinary, unleashing a scorching heatwave with terrifying penetrating power - clearly no ordinary foe.
Li Weiyi rapidly closed the distance, the Golden Crow Flame radiating from his body growing ever brighter. His passage ignited all vegetation in his wake, melting ice and snow into mist.
Fifteen yards remained.
Li Weiyi leaped forward like a divine ape, the Myriad Manifestations Staff-Spear thrusting out through the air.
Like a blazing sun suspended in the sky, the spear tip erupted with a blinding beam of flame.
"Clang!"
Luo Yi reached into the air, summoning her Flying Sword.
With a single downward slash, hundreds of streams of sword qi surged forth.
"Boom!"
The clash sent Luo Yi staggering backward ten yards, her sword held defensively. Her Spiritual Qi had nearly been shattered.
Before she could regain her footing, a golden Flame Spiritual Tree descended from the sky. Its branches, forged from pure gold, blazed with flames comparable to a Great Technique, capable of melting metal and iron. The tree's fiery descent shattered the protective Blood Qi and scriptures of her Blood Handprint Armor.
Luo Yi's slender, curvaceous figure was sent flying through the air.
Li Weiyi understood the importance of a swift victory.
Moving with the speed of a phantom, he swung his spear through the air, using it like a staff to strike Luo Yi's abdomen.
A bone-cracking sound echoed as Luo Yi crashed heavily to the ground, blood streaming from her seven orifices.
"Stop!"
"Impudence! Lingxiao Martial-Mystic Cultivator, you're courting death!"
Urgent, furious shouts erupted from the forest as five Dao Heart Manifestations descended from different directions, attempting to restrain Li Weiyi.
"Thwack!"
Li Weiyi had no intention of taking hostages.
With a single thrust, his spear pierced Luo Yi's neck, severing her head from her body.
Before he could retrieve the Dao Fruit and Boundary Pouch or shed his Blood Handprint Armor, a storm of attacks rained down upon him.
The ancient forest, ablaze with Golden Crow Flame, filled with billowing smoke and the rustling of wings.
A Great Spiritual Master unleashed a yellow talisman rain - hundreds of talisman paper swords streaking through the air like a flowing stream.
The Spiritual Master's true form remained hidden behind a millennia-old redwood tree, riding an Exotic Beast resembling a deer, his robes woven entirely from talismans.
Three Bloodwing Clan Elders swooped down from the sky.
Amidst the crimson clouds, each Elder wielded a black Formation Flag embroidered with bloodwing patterns, forming a Battle Formation.
The Formation Plate spanned thirty zhang in diameter.
Between the Formation Plate and the ground, a rapidly rotating vortex churned, capable of hurling boulders weighing thousands of kilograms into the air.
Upon seeing Luo Yi's headless corpse, the Young Marquis roared in fury, abandoning all reason as he unleashed his Spiritual Qi and charged forward recklessly.
Li Weiyi retreated swiftly, his arm sweeping in a circular motion.
He activated the scriptures within the three Seventh-Grade Hundred-Character Artifact spears, which were enveloped in Spiritual Qi, and launched them at the Windchaser Beast and the Young Marquis, the fastest among his pursuers.
He couldn't allow himself to be surrounded.
He had to maintain the initiative, using the speed advantage granted by his talismans and the Governor's Official Robe to employ a hit-and-run strategy, eliminating his enemies one by one.
Channeling his Spiritual Qi, he activated the Governor's Official Robe.
"Whoosh!"
Strands of purple light, as fine as silk threads, erupted from the robe, enveloping his entire body.
Li Weiyi moved like a fish, using the robe's power to break free from the oppressive Dao Heart Manifestations and surge toward the distant Great Spiritual Master.
"Aooo!"
The hundred-meter-long Heavenly Emperor's Dragon Soul erupted from the dragon-shaped patch on the robe's chest, colliding with the rain of yellow talisman swords.
"Still trying to pick us off one by one? You underestimate the cultivators of the Bloodwing Clan," a thunderous voice boomed from ahead.
Before the white, mist-like Dragon Soul, the earth, rocks, and trees suddenly rose dozens of meters into the air, coalescing into a mountain-like earthen wall. Scriptures and Spiritual Qi pulsed across its surface.
The opponent unleashed a formidable Dao Technique.
Li Weiyi, standing atop the Dragon Soul, had no time to stop or activate the Spatial Power of his official robe.
His eyes narrowed sharply as he gripped his spear with both hands and charged forward.
"Boom!"
Amidst the Dragon's roar, the dozens of meters high earthen wall shattered and collapsed.
The young figure who had cast the Dao Technique was a Transcendent Disciple, a Inheritor at the peak of the Seventh Heaven in the Dao Seed Realm, whose combat prowess rivaled some Martial-Mystic Cultivators in the Eighth Heaven.
He glanced at the Mist Dragon charging toward him, momentarily stunned by the Heavenly Emperor's overwhelming aura.
Recovering quickly, he narrowed his eyes and hurled a wheel-shaped Spiritual Artifact.
"This man is definitely suspicious! His official robe is an extremely rare treasure, one that even Giants of the Immortal Realm might not possess. We must report back to the Marquis immediately - he's a major catch who escaped from Lingxiao Palace!"
Over a thousand scriptures flickered across the wheel-shaped Spiritual Artifact as it expanded to the size of a carriage wheel.
Burning with radiant flames, it unleashed a vortex of energy that sent the Mist Dragon Soul spiraling sideways, tearing away a large chunk of its body.
Li Weiyi leaped into the air first, his gaze sweeping rapidly across the battlefield. He saw the Young Marquis, the Windchaser Beast, and the three elite warriors from the Battle Formation converging on him from all directions.
Faced with such a formidable formation, even a Martial-Mystic Cultivator at the Ninth Heaven of the Dao Seed Realm would have to retreat.
Li Weiyi retrieved a talisman and affixed it to his body.
It was one of the three life-saving talismans, the "Body Protection Talisman," given to him by Tai Shi Yu before the battle at the Six Thoughts Zen Temple.
A Body Protection Talisman personally crafted by a Nine-Star Spiritual Master was naturally of exceptional quality.
"Boom!"
Li Weiyi dove downward, thrusting his spear forward to clash with the Mirror Light Shield Seal Dao Technique conjured by the Bloodwing Clan's Transcendent Disciple.
The Transcendent Disciple braced the shield seal with both hands, taking a step back.
He quickly assessed Li Weiyi's strength: "His cultivation isn't as terrifying as it seems. He's only able to display such power thanks to the Heavy Artifact he wields... Ah!"
The Transcendent Disciple screamed as a sudden, razor-sharp blade slashed across his neck, severing his carotid artery and sending a fountain of blood erupting.
It was Seventh Phoenix!
Seventh Phoenix, her body as small as a speck of dust, had stealthily approached while the Transcendent Disciple was fully focused on defending against Li Weiyi's attack, successfully launching a surprise strike.
The swiftest Five Phoenixes followed closely behind.
Her foot-long feathered wings sliced through the Transcendent Disciple's left calf.
With his defenses compromised from both above and below, the Transcendent Disciple could no longer maintain his full-strength defense against Li Weiyi.
He activated a (escape technique) and retreated rapidly into the distance.
In the blink of an eye, he was already three miles away.
Li Weiyi ignored the attacks raining down from all directions, his Body Protection Talisman's barrier remaining impenetrable to the Demon Kingdom forces.
He pursued relentlessly, employing Space Evasion, the "Forward" Secret Incantation, and every other technique at his disposal to chase down the Transcendent Disciple.
The chase led them across mountains and valleys, the two clashing in over a dozen brutal exchanges.
They leveled forests and shattered cliffs.
Blood streamed from the Transcendent Disciple's neck and calves as he roared repeatedly, driven to a frenzied, desperate state. If he could hold out for just a few more breaths, he might survive.
A bestial roar echoed through the air.
The Windchaser Beast, renowned for its speed and massive bulk, appeared behind Li Weiyi in an instant.
"Boom!"
Abandoning all caution, Li Weiyi neither evaded nor defended.
He swung his spear, smashing the Transcendent Disciple's head into a bloody pulp, like a watermelon exploding.
"Boom!"
In the next instant, the Windchaser Beast's claw struck Li Weiyi, sending him flying dozens of meters through the air, tumbling violently as he crashed to the ground.
His Body Protection Talisman, which had withstood dozens of enemy attacks, finally shattered under the strain, its barrier collapsing like a bursting bubble.
The talisman paper crumbled into dust.
"Activate the Formation!"
Li Weiyi rose to his feet and slammed his spear into the ground.
Stellar patterns intertwined across his body as a complex Formation Plate materialized around him.
Seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors, glowing like stars, circled him, their movements synchronized with the Formation Plate's rotation.
"Rumble!"
The Windchaser Beast attacked again, its massive claws, each seven or eight meters long, unleashing terrifying force as they collided with the Formation Plate.
The ground beneath the plate cracked and collapsed, and the entire mountain trembled violently.
Li Weiyi stood motionless, using the Formation to withstand the blow.
"Whoosh!"
The Purple Heaven Thunder Seal soared above his head, erupting from the Formation Plate.
Thunder roared as dozens of thick bolts of lightning surged outward in all directions.
The Windchaser Beast's massive claws shattered and disintegrated under the impact of the seal, which was several meters in diameter.
Lightning bolts as thick as bowls scorched its abdomen black, blood gushing like a waterfall from beneath its feathers.
Mortally wounded, the Windchaser Beast let out a piercing shriek, spread its wings, and fled back to the county town over two hundred kilometers away, where the Divine Wing Marquis resided.
The Young Marquis, the Deer-Riding Spirit Master, and the three Bloodwing Clan Elders wielding the Formation Flags were all formidable warriors.
Some were at the peak of their Jiazi cycle, invincible among their clan members under sixty years old.
Others had cultivated for centuries, surviving countless battles and accumulating immense power.
Yet now, they were terrified of Li Weiyi!
His ferocity was overwhelming. How could such a young killing god exist in the Lingxiao Life Realm?
"Is that a High-Grade Thousand-Character Artifact or a Myriad-Character Artifact? How can he wield such a priceless treasure?"
"Let's go! We need to stick together. We can't afford to be separated again."
The Young Marquis's eyes burned with dread as he regrouped with the others and retreated swiftly.
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