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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 5: [Seeking Immortality in the Eastern Sea]
Volume 5 (Pinyin): [Dong Hai xun xian]
Chapter 15 (452): [Earth Book]
(15th of Volume 5)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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After a brief moment of numbness, excruciating pain surged through Li Weiyi's body like a tidal wave.
His chest and internal organs felt as if they were on fire, the injuries severe.
Fortunately, he had refined seventy percent of the Immortal Soil, strengthening his muscles and organs to seventy percent of the Immortal Body's resilience. Otherwise, his organs would have been shattered by the Bronze Brush's explosive force, rather than merely cracked.
Li Weiyi felt as if his body had been pierced through. His vision darkened, and his Spiritual Qi churned into chaos, yet he refused to yield.
The instant he crashed to the ground, he used his indomitable willpower to maintain his mental connection with the Immortal Corpse.
Dozens of meters away, the Immortal Corpse erupted in four-colored radiance, launching itself at Fu Wenyan like an arrow loosed from its bow, denying the enemy any chance to press their advantage.
It was a desperate bid for precious seconds of life.
With his Spiritual Qi in disarray and his limbs nearly drained of strength, Li Weiyi immediately channeled liquid mana and Clear Radiance Immortal Haze from his Divine Gate, forcing them to surge along the twelve Meridian Veins.
These Meridian Veins, extending from the Divine Gate, connected to his five viscera and six bowels, as well as the Hundred Wisdoms point at the crown of his head.
At this critical moment, they proved invaluable.
They shielded his damaged organs, stabilizing the cracks like an inner layer of armor.
In the first breath after the ambush, Li Weiyi, with extraordinary willpower and lightning-fast reflexes, managed to stabilize his injuries, roll to his feet, and prepare to counterattack.
The Spirit Realm between his eyebrows and his Psychic Power remained unaffected by the chest wound.
He formed a hand seal, activating the "Movement" secret incantation.
Blinding flames erupted around him as he flickered away, creating distance between himself and Fu Wenyan.
He then affixed a Divine Speed Talisman to his body and fled at breakneck speed.
Behind him, Fu Wenyan simultaneously battled the Immortal Corpse and used his Willpower to control a hundred-meter-long white mist Dragon Soul, restraining the Gray Corpse Ape and preventing its escape.
He knew the Gray Corpse Ape likely carried a wealth of resources.
'He wanted it all.'
The Gray Corpse Ape possessed formidable combat strength and extreme speed, rivaling experts at the peak of the Ninth Heaven of the Dao Seed Realm. Only Inheritors of the Ninth Heaven could truly surpass it.
Dividing his attention between two opponents, Fu Wenyan still managed to track Li Weiyi's rapid escape.
He called out, "Brother Li, you're the most intriguing person I've encountered in the Lingxiao Realm. Why are you in such a hurry?"
His official robe remained spotless, his hair neatly arranged, and his jade-like face radiated vitality.
A calm, refined elegance permeated his demeanor.
The Bronze Brush in his hand manifested over nine thousand Scripture characters.
Powerful energy ripples spread outward in concentric circles.
"Whoosh!"
The writing brush transformed into a seven-foot-long staff.
With a graceful, sweeping motion, Fu Wenyan sent the Immortal Corpse - a Martial-Mystic Cultivator with the combat prowess of the Ninth Heaven of the Dao Seed Realm - flying backward, severing its psychic connection with Li Weiyi.
The Immortal Corpse crashed to the ground, its Qi completely dissipated.
Though the strike appeared effortless, it was executed with full force, imbued with the profound mysteries of Dao Techniques.
Fu Wenyan never underestimated his opponents.
Li Weiyi had already fled two miles away.
Fu Wenyan glanced at the Gray Corpse Ape in the opposite direction but remained rooted to the spot, choosing not to pursue Li Weiyi.
Instead, he unleashed his Dao Heart Manifestation.
Instantly, the Spiritual Qi and the Scripture within his Dao Fruit surged past Li Weiyi, enveloping him within Fu Wenyan's domain.
As Li Weiyi fled, he rapidly circulated his Spiritual Qi, desperate to restore his Martial-Mystic Dao combat power. Psychic Power alone would never allow him to escape Fu Wenyan's grasp.
Yu'er, ever sensible, understood the dire situation.
Tears welled in her eyes, but she clamped her mouth shut, refusing to cry for fear of distracting her Master.
"What a formidable Dao Heart Manifestation! Though Fu Wenyan is only at the Eighth Heaven, his combat power rivals even the strongest beneath the Lingxiao and Immortal Realms."
"A Young Celestial Emperor who has cultivated to this level is virtually unmatched below the Immortal Realm. No wonder even an Immortal Realm Great Power like Yao Qian couldn't subdue him."
Ten zhang ahead of Li Weiyi, the flowing Spiritual Qi condensed into a massive Scripture.
The gaseous Scripture, hundreds of zhang tall, rose like a towering wall. Each azure character danced across its pages, resembling a vast, azure sky pressing down upon him, unleashing a cataclysmic surge of Spiritual Qi.
With no escape, Li Weiyi plunged the Myriad Manifestations Staff-Spear into the ground, drawing forth tendrils of Yin Qi from the earth to coil around his body.
In the Nether Realm of the Dead, the Yin Qi was particularly dense.
"Boom!"
The gaseous Scripture's pages flipped down like a book, sending earth and shattered stones flying.
Fu Wenyan watched from afar, observing Li Weiyi being blasted backward by the Scripture's Dao Technique.
Only then did he finally feel the reassuring certainty that "everything was under control."
The attack had clearly dealt Li Weiyi a severe blow.
With his Spiritual Qi now needed to protect his injuries, Li Weiyi's chances of escaping Fu Wenyan's grasp using only his Psychic Power as a Six-Star Spiritual Master were as delusional as chasing a mirage.
"Truly extraordinary," Fu Wenyan mused inwardly, "To withstand such a strike and not only survive but also quickly mobilize his Spiritual Qi to protect his injuries and attempt an escape."
Fu Wenyan secretly admired Li Weiyi's resilience, but this only strengthened his resolve to eliminate him today.
"Brother Li, why are you in such a sorry state? Come back! Are you abandoning your seven rare insects to flee alone? Escape? How could you possibly escape?"
Fu Wenyan waved his Ninth-Rank Thousand-Character Artifact, the Bronze Brush, through the air. Its white bristles transformed into a long, eastward-flowing river, stretching hundreds of meters to engulf Li Weiyi.
These bristles were forged from the hair of Transcendents, as fine as spider silk yet as sharp as blades. Boundless and endless, they sealed off every escape route for Li Weiyi.
The countless bristles converged inward, like a thousand cuts and ten thousand slices, threatening to tear him to shreds.
"Whoosh!"
The Governor's Robe on Li Weiyi's body erupted with a purple radiance.
Spatial ripples emanated outward, and his figure vanished into a swirling cloud of violet mist.
Fu Wenyan let out a soft hmm, surprised that Li Weiyi could still mobilize such a vast amount of Spiritual Qi to activate the Governor's Robe under these circumstances.
Even more unexpected was what followed.
Though seemingly drained of combat power, Li Weiyi didn't use the Governor's Robe to flee far away.
After breaking free from the Bronze Brush's deadly encirclement, he landed a hundred meters away, his gaze sharpening as he stared back.
A pair of blood-soaked hands pressed against the yellow-brown ground.
From the center of Li Weiyi's forehead, ripples of light emanated, and the luminous silhouette of the Fusang Divine Tree rose behind him. With a thunderous roar, he chanted, "Lin!"
The blood that had splattered from his mouth and nose onto the ground transformed into a crimson mist, wisps rising and merging with his Psychic Radiance.
The surrounding several miles turned a ghastly scarlet, tinged with an eerie illusion.
"Whoosh!"
Rotting skeletal arms erupted from the earth.
A dense swarm of corpses crawled out of the ground.
Even the Immortal Corpse rose again, charging toward Fu Wenyan.
Li Weiyi's Spiritual Qi had resumed its circulation. Liquid Qi from his Divine Gate flowed through his twelve Meridian Veins, protecting his injuries.
Meanwhile, the Wind Mansion's Spiritual Qi coursed through his one hundred and eight Meridian Veins, sustaining his Martial-Mystic Dao combat prowess.
Even if he had to flee, he couldn't abandon the Seven Little Ones.
As for the cloak imbued with the Dragon-Headed Camel's strike, Li Weiyi had no intention of wasting it on Fu Wenyan.
That was his final trump card, reserved for situations where escape was impossible.
Fu Wenyan wasn't yet strong enough to trap him completely.
Li Weiyi activated the Cicada Chase Step, his body blurring into a wisp of green smoke as he darted across the battlefield, swiftly gathering the weakened Seven Little Ones into his Insect Pouch.
Despite their Fifth Heaven Dao Seed Realm cultivation, the Seven Little Ones had taken a direct hit from the Gray Corpse Ape. Even with their formidable defenses, they had sustained injuries.
"Boom! Boom!"
Fu Wenyan swung his Bronze Brush, sending the relentless corpses flying. He then unleashed the Prefectural Governor's Official Seal.
"Whoosh!"
The Official Seal transformed into a massive, square white seal, radiating overwhelming power.
The air seemed to thicken, crushing all the corpses into dust.
The seal then coalesced into a thick, white beam of light, carrying a frigid wind, and shot toward Li Weiyi, who had just collected the Seven Little Ones.
Sensing the imminent danger, Li Weiyi had no time to evade.
He immediately summoned the Purple Heaven Thunder Seal, which he had already activated.
The Thunder and Lightning seal, several meters in diameter, materialized before him like a shield, colliding violently with the Prefectural Governor's Official Seal.
"Sizzle! Crack!"
The impact sounded like two colossal metal mountains colliding, instantly shattering eardrums.
Li Weiyi retreated over sixty meters, using the Purple Heaven Thunder Seal as a shield.
The movement aggravated his injuries, causing blood to spill from his mouth.
Having rescued the Seven Little Ones, he could now withdraw.
Fu Wenyan was incredulous.
He couldn't fathom how Li Weiyi had stabilized his injuries and regained his peak combat strength.
In that moment of distraction, a tall, dark figure erupted from the ground behind him.
"Whoosh!"
A woman clad entirely in black, with slender arms and an elegant figure, appeared above Fu Wenyan's head, wielding a longsword.
She swung the blade down in a sweeping arc.
The sword's light cascaded like a white waterfall connecting heaven and earth.
Fu Wenyan froze instantly, his hair standing on end as a chill shot through his skull.
Given his cultivation level, he couldn't imagine how anyone could have approached him so silently and undetected.
He had believed himself to be the oriole hunting the mantis.
But behind the oriole lurked a sharp sword.
Just as Li Weiyi had been unable to evade the earlier surprise attack, Fu Wenyan had no chance to dodge this sudden strike.
"Boom!"
The Spiritual Artifact Battle Sword crashed down upon Fu Wenyan's head.
The strike wasn't as straightforward as he'd imagined, splitting his body in two.
Fu Wenyan's Hundred Wisdoms surged forth from his crown, erupting through the waterfall of characters alongside a column of Azure Cloud mist that soared to the heavens, blocking the fatal sword strike.
"Whoosh!"
The characters trembled, and the Azure Cloud billowed.
The black-clad woman retreated ten yards, landing silently as a weightless leaf.
She murmured, "So your fortune lies in the Earth Tome (Earth Book)."
Though Fu Wenyan survived, he was far from unscathed.
Blood streamed from his seven orifices, a gash split his crown, and his consciousness teetered on the brink of dissolution.
The assassin's cultivation was formidable; the characters and Azure Cloud Qi unleashed by the Earth Tome couldn't fully protect him.
Fu Wenyan dared not linger.
He activated the Governor's Robe he wore.
Ripples of spatial distortion spread outward, gradually coalescing into a swirling vortex of violet mist.
"Possessing Space Evasion Battle Armor doesn't guarantee safety," the black-clad woman's voice rumbled, deep and androgynous.
She struck first, unleashing a crescent-shaped sword wave that slashed across Fu Wenyan's abdomen before he could vanish into the spatial rift.
"Boom!"
Protected by the Governor's Robe, he wasn't bisected.
Fu Wenyan groaned, his internal organs severely damaged, and his body was flung sideways.
Fu Wenyan was exceptionally skilled, his combat experience and tactical acumen unmatched - otherwise, he wouldn't have survived an encounter with a Great Power of the Immortal Realm.
Before he even landed, he immediately released two pages of the Earth Tome from his Ancestral Field.
One page shielded his body, while the other surged toward the black-clad woman, preventing her from launching a second fatal strike.
Each page of the Earth Tome transformed into a radiant ocean of text, coexisting with azure cloud Qi, brimming with boundless Divine Essence and the profound truths of the Great Dao.
The Earth Tome was one of the most formidable entities to emerge from Yingzhou in the past hundred thousand years, compiled by the Sect Saint "Azure Cloud," its mysteries unfathomable.
Fu Wenyan had risen above countless Martial-Mystic Cultivators, forging a foundation akin to that of the Young Celestial Emperors and cultivating combat prowess far surpassing his peers, all thanks to the four pages of the Earth Tome he possessed.
The ocean of text and azure cloud Qi from the Earth Tome momentarily stalled the black-robed woman.
"Whoosh!"
Fu Wenyan activated the Governor's Robe once more, his body vanishing into a swirling vortex of purple mist as he fled through space.
Even losing a page of the Earth Tome was a price worth paying to preserve his life.
Survival trumped all else.
In the next instant, Fu Wenyan materialized three miles away, emerging from the purple mist vortex and barely managing to steady himself.
Above him, another vortex of purple mist materialized.
Li Weiyi had yet to fully emerge from the spatial rift, but the Myriad Manifestations Staff-Spear had already pierced through, its crimson-gold tip blazing with scorching flames aimed directly at Fu Wenyan's head.
Fu Wenyan dared not engage Li Weiyi in combat.
He sensed the black-robed woman had already retrieved the lost page of the Earth Tome and was rapidly closing in using an Escape Technique.
If Li Weiyi managed to restrain him for even a few exchanges, Fu Wenyan knew he would surely die here today.
Instead of blocking the descending Myriad Manifestations Staff-Spear, Fu Wenyan channeled all his energy into activating the Governor's Robe.
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