Chapter 515

Chapter 515: The Figure in Your Eyes

Yang Jiuzhen had been cultivating for half a day but could not figure out Li Hui’s intentions. She took out a plum blossom branch to assist her divination, and before long, her eyes widened in surprise.

"What’s wrong?" Li Hui asked curiously about the omen.

"Nothing much. It seems you can help me," Yang Jiuzhen tried to conceal her excitement, as she had seen an unbelievable omen that was beyond description. Her fate looked as if it had flipped upside down like the heavens and the earth, and she couldn’t help but mutter softly, "No wonder Master said I would encounter opportunities on this trip; perhaps I can break free from a certain predicament."

"What are you mumbling about? Even though I am kindly helping you, it won’t come free. To activate the boundary Dao body, you need to prepare many rare treasures, and since most of them are hard to find, you can only use the Qian Kun Corrected Blood Talisman as a substitute," Li Hui stated. He wasn’t being stingy; rather, he wanted to alleviate the girl’s suspicions. He cleared his throat and added, "It’s only right to return what you owe. For every bit I invest, you must repay me accordingly. There’s also a saying that a drop of kindness deserves a fountain of gratitude, so it’s best to repay tenfold for any favor."

"You…" Yang Jiuzhen blinked in surprise, thinking, "This little brat has revealed his true colors, even trying to treat me like a business deal!"

"Hehe, no need for ‘you’ and ‘I’; hurry and turn the soil! Know that opportunities are hard to come by, and what are you waiting for?" Li Hui commanded, showing no embarrassment in asking a beautiful girl to work.

"Ah, so you are this kind of person," Yang Jiuzhen rolled up her sleeves and said, "You pretended to be gentle and refined to deceive my Senior Sister and persuaded me to do hard labor. Things are different now!"

"Are you going to work or not?" Li Hui asked nonchalantly.

"I will!" Yang Jiuzhen turned away but then said suddenly, "I’ll do the work, but you must provide food. I can eat quite a lot, so you better make up for the losses."

"I was hoping you would cook for me!" Li Hui found it strange. Wasn’t Yang Jiuzhen supposed to love preparing rare delicacies to reward Old Li?

"Hehe, dare you eat the food I cook?" Yang Jiuzhen was ready, waving her hands in the air, at times striking out toward the distance and stomping her feet to create ripples, looking quite imposing!

"No wonder Ren Jiufeng kicked you far away; you are lazy and proud of your lack of skills, adding to that your poor sense of direction and tendency to be a burden. What good qualities do you have?"

"Hey, you big-headed ghost!" Yang Jiuzhen burst out, and from a distance, the sound of flowing water could be heard. Many river channels were blocked, and in many mountain springs, torrents surged forth.

"Why are you bringing so much water just to turn the soil?" Li Hui was puzzled.

"Mixing mud!"

Yang Jiuzhen took to the air and manipulated the water flow to spin wildly, creating giant mud whirlpools in the mountains. She was indeed mixing mud, and the swirling mud brought up ancient artifacts from underground.

Li Hui flew up as well, shaking his head. "The battlefield is vast; you need to increase your area of effect. I’ll use the Small Reincarnation Talisman and Qian Kun Corrected Blood Talisman on you to speed up your true energy recovery and forcibly enhance your cultivation."

With a flurry of movements, twenty-some talismans stuck onto her, and Yang Jiuzhen instantly felt different, as if she had endless energy surging through her. She began to widen her search area.

From deep night to morning, then through to noon, the lovely beauty like a lotus flower grew exhausted, her altitude dropping repeatedly, until she simply could not float in the air any longer and had to stand in the muddy soup to cast spells.

She wanted to stop, but the talismans refused to allow it. Whenever she paused, she felt an extreme excitement, compelling her to push harder. At first, her inner fire grew hotter, but after venting her frustrations a few times, she had no energy left to be angry!

As Li Hui floated over, he added a few more reincarnation talismans and smiled apologetically to encourage her, "Keep going! The Dao body experiences rapid improvement at the beginning, but the pace slows significantly when reaching mid-stage Bosa. Every increase requires breaking bodily constraints to align body, law, and Dao!"

The two exchanged glances for a moment. Yang Jiuzhen shook off the mud from her hair and suddenly burst into tears, then threw her head back and laughed wildly. After that, she became calm, staring blankly as she said, "I see a hint of sadness in your eyes, transforming into an elderly figure in the blink of an eye. I don’t know why I want to cry and laugh at the same time. Do you think I’ve gone mad?"

"Crying is sadness, and laughing is joy; between great sorrow and great joy, there must be gains. Congratulations, Junior Sister, on breaking through a barrier within yourself!" Li Hui didn’t reveal the truth and thought to himself, "So that’s how it is! Old Li didn’t come back to the present for my sake, but for her! Has he been resisting the demonic heart for two thousand years just to fulfill that vow of growing old together? Yet, I am not Old Li; without experience, I lack that kind of heart!"

"Have I broken through?" Yang Jiuzhen looked up at the sky, pulling the heavens and earth to rumble, and soon a torrential downpour formed, flooding everything everywhere.

What followed was a bizarre scene; the rainwater, upon hitting the ground, seamlessly penetrated underground, and in just the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, the earth erupted with countless mud springs, bringing all items from below to the surface.

This heavy rain did not form swamps; all the rainwater seeped into underground rivers, leaving only a layer of moist soil, while a fresh breeze came by, carrying the fragrance of the earth.

Yang Jiuzhen collapsed into Li Hui’s arms, now unconscious!

Suddenly, the winds and clouds converged into claws, reaching out in all directions, and all fragments of treasures and fragments of spirit treasures dissolved, having reached their anticipated outcome ahead of time.

"Immortal cultivators and the foreign race have battled here for hundreds of years, with national strength continuously inclined toward the battlefield. They have leveled so many mountains, showing just how fierce the conflict was back then." At this moment, the back of the silver snake bracelet appeared with thirty-three black patterns that shifted to gold, then black, and finally turned a deep purple before becoming red.

The talisman power accumulated five times, reaching a level that had never been achieved before! There was no place in the Wutu Continent that could obtain such a substantial accumulation.

How to utilize this enormous talisman power needed careful contemplation. Li Hui slowly constructed his thoughts: "There are three places in the Wutu Continent that must be secured quickly. In this narrow time window, who knows how many eyes are watching, waiting for the moment when the heavenly secrets are thrown into chaos to strike! First, the Flying Peak, built with all effort by the Skywatching Gate, though it stands only fifty zhang high with only a collapsed temple on it, it secretly conceals one hundred and eight ancient heavenly vessels. The Skywatching Gate wanted to use this Flying Peak to reach the Heavenly Realm, but they failed, suffering unimaginable losses. Everyone in the sect perished, and those who later obtained the vessels will always have the fastest reactions, fleeing quicker than others and reaping numerous benefits."

"Secondly, the origin of the Dragon Vein of Daxia lies in Longyuan Mountain. Nine hundred and ninety li away from Longyuan Mountain is a nameless peak that closely resembles it, and it should not be within the monitoring range of the Daxia army. This nameless peak is formidable; it is the origin of a hidden dragon vein. Among them are thirteen pieces of Xuanhuang Certainty Stones that are extremely precious, a great fortune for the Wutu Continent that must not be missed!"

"Thirdly, on the edge of the Barbarian Nation is a small tribe that survives in the crevices; they have guarded a temple for generations. As long as we obtain the scepter from the lower level of the temple, this small tribe will wholeheartedly follow us! Right now, it’s hard to see the benefits of this small tribe, but once disaster strikes, it will be different. Each member of the tribe is a fierce god."