The Primordial Law

Chapter 322 Great Gains, Great Crisis

The salvage operation is in full swing, but the missing section of the spear has yet to be found.

As the two phoenixes flew in mid-air to survey the area, they smelled a strong, exotic fragrance. Their eyes darted around, and they saw a glowing river on the blood-red marshland in the distance.

Moreover, the river channel is moving rapidly.

It suddenly swooped down and reported to Li Weiyi.

Li Wei looked in the direction Er Feng had indicated; that area was deeper within the swamp, where unknown dangers lurked. He then called Tuoba Butuo and Qi Xiao back to the ship and explained the situation.

“My only brother, you make the decision! Fortune favors the bold, and I wholeheartedly support you,” Tuoba Butuo said.

Qi Xiao nodded.

“In that case, let’s go and see what’s going on with that river. But almost a day has passed, and Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun could find us at any time. The enemy is in the dark, while we are in the light, so we need to make some preparations in advance.”

Li Weiyi whispered to the two of them.

The jade boat sped through the area covered by the huge hole in the sky and entered the deeper part of the swamp.

The world became dark.

There was indeed a glowing body of water several miles long at the bottom of the river, and it could move like a flowing river.

On the surface of the glowing water, there bloomed flowers of meditation, some white and some blue.

Tuoba Butuo and Qi Xiao were both excited and shocked. They immediately used their movement techniques to catch up with Guanghe and carefully picked the fruit.

Six giant phoenix moths were also spotted, and they eagerly and excitedly plunged into the water with a splash, like six cormorants diving to catch fish.

Li Weiyi keenly sensed the danger, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he felt like he was being watched.

"As expected, someone was hiding in the shadows. It must have been that the person hiding them suddenly saw so many meditation flowers and their mind wavered, which is why I was able to sense them."

The cold wind grew even more biting.

Li Weiyi really wanted to open his Heavenly Eye to peer into the darkness and find out what was going on. But he held back, because he also heard unusual fluctuations coming from the bottom of the water. So, he slowly sat on the boat and deliberately pretended to be relaxed and vigilant.

The moment he sat down, there was a "whoosh" sound beside him.

A figure leaped out of the water.

Sikong Yanlun formed claw marks with both hands, and his magical energy surged out from his ancestral field, transforming into a purplish-black energy lock that bound Li Weiyi on the ship.

Caught off guard, Li Weiyi was subdued, and a look of panic appeared on her face.

"Ha ha!"

Sikong Yanlun boarded the jade boat and reached for Li Weiyi's neck with his claws.

However, in his eyes, the one he was capturing was not Li Weiyi, but Qi Xiao. After all, Li Weiyi was a Spiritualist with keen senses, making it difficult for him to get close and launch a sneak attack.

Capturing Qi Xiao and Tuoba Butuo would be much safer.

With the hostage in hand, it's not too late to rescue Sikong Ce and then join forces to deal with Li Weiyi.

"You...you're not Qi Xiao..."

Sikong Yanlun screamed as one of his arms was severed by Qi Xiao, blood splattering everywhere. As if he had seen a ghost, he fled at top speed.

On the ship, "Qi Xiao" had transformed into Li Weiyi.

Li Weiyi's disguise technique was so powerful that deceiving Sikong Yanlun and Sikong Jingyuan was a piece of cake.

Qi Xiao was wearing Li Weiyi's clothes on the outside, but underneath he was wearing an invisibility cloak that could conceal his aura. Even though his disguise technique was a bit crude, he could still paralyze his opponent from a distance.

Instead of pursuing Sikong Yanlun, Li Weiyi steered the jade boat towards Tuoba Butuo and Qi Xiao.

At almost the same time, Sikong Jingyuan burst out of the water and severely injured Tuoba Butuo with a single palm strike.

In this situation, Tuoba Butuo would be unable to activate the Ghost Banner and would likely be killed in a few moves.

"Brother Jingyuan, do you recognize this item?"

Li Weiyi enveloped Sikong Yanlun's severed arm with his magical energy and used it as a hidden weapon, throwing it at Sikong Jingyuan.

As Sikong Jingyuan unleashed his second palm strike, several sounds of bones breaking echoed within Tuoba Butuo's body. Just as Sikong Jingyuan was about to deliver his third palm strike to kill him completely and prevent him from activating the Ghost Flag and getting in the way, Sikong Jingyuan struck.

A sharp whooshing sound came from behind.

Sikong Jingyuan's expression changed drastically. He turned around abruptly and unleashed his full power with his Frost Palm. With a "bang," he shattered Sikong Yanlun's arm into ice crystals.

In the distance, Sikong Yanlun's heart-wrenching roar echoed: "Boss, that's my arm... It's over... It's all over..."

Sikong Jingyuan was stunned. He looked at Li Weiyi, who was rushing towards him, and immediately understood what had happened.

The opponent actually replaced their inferior horse with a superior one.

The moment they clashed, their four arms were reduced to three, a significant loss of combat power.

"Wow!"

Li Weiyi leaped into the air and swung his sword down.

The sword energy instantly landed on Sikong Jingyuan's head.

Sikong Jingyuan snorted and shattered the sword energy with his bare hands. He then turned to capture the heavily injured Tuoba Butuo, only to find that Tuoba Butuo had already disappeared into the water.

Qi Xiao stood on the back of the giant scaled lion beast's shadow, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, and rushed towards it.

Sikong Jingyuan's palm collided with the claw marks swung by the Scaled Lion's light and shadow. Waves surged beneath his feet, and the sound of swords rang out behind him. Li Weiyi had already arrived nearby.

Sikong Jingyuan was extremely unwilling, but he could only admit that the sneak attack had failed. He used his movement technique, stepping on ice lotuses and traversing the void to escape and dodge, putting a great distance between himself and Li Weiyi.

"Wow!"

A large amount of black mist surged from the bottom of the water, and a fifty-foot-tall Yin Ghost Commander appeared in the mist, wearing armor and holding a spear, with a ferocious ram's head.

Tuoba Butuo returned to the surface, bleeding from his mouth and nose, but he gritted his teeth and persevered.

Li Weiyi and Qi Xiao took him to the boat and inquired about his injuries.

“It’s alright for now, I can hold on… cough cough…” Blood gushed from Tuoba Butuo’s mouth, and he immediately sat down, unable to stand.

Li Weiyi asked Qi Xiao to look after and protect him, then turned to look at Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun, who had reunited.

At this moment, the jade boat floated perfectly on the luminous water. The flowers of meditation were in full bloom, their petals crystalline and their fragrance lingering.

Sikong Yanlun was quite skilled; in a very short time, he refined the sword energy of the Yellow Dragon Sword and stopped the bleeding at the severed arm. Then, he quickly summoned a silver wheel of the seventh-grade hundred-character weapon level and activated it together with Sikong Jingyuan.

The silver wheel was also a replica. Above the two of them, it transformed into a huge ring with a diameter of about ten feet, containing more than seven hundred scriptures. It enveloped their bodies, and its powerful aura stirred up huge waves on the water.

Li Weiyi activated the Bleeding Handprint Demon Armor and asked loudly, "Shall we continue fighting? If we fight any longer, I'm afraid we won't be able to save our other arm either."

Upon hearing this, Sikong Yanlun turned purple with rage and his whole body convulsed.

Sikong Jingyuan looked at the pale-faced Tuoba Butuo and sneered, "Brother Tuoba probably won't last long. Once he falls, without the Yin Ghost Commander, do you have any chance of winning?"

Li Weiyi didn't want to fight; she only wanted to pick the flower of meditation.

If a luminous river drifts away, it may never be found again.

But if they don't fight, Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun have suffered heavy losses one after another, so how could they possibly retreat?
"Wow!"

Li Weiyi steered the jade boat and sped past.

Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun joined forces to unleash the silver wheel. Instantly, the silver light intensified, the wind was as sharp as knives, and the scriptures rained down on the jade boat.

The light on the jade boat suddenly surged, forming a light shield, within which scriptures floated.

The silver wheel crashed onto the light shield.

"Boom!"

The jade boat and the water around it sank rapidly, then rose again quickly, sending the silver wheel flying.

This was a governor's jade boat; not only was it fast, but its defenses were also formidable, making it impossible for them to break through. Li Weiyi dared to linger in the Dark Flower Swamp only because of it.

As for other escape treasures, they naturally cannot be used.

Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun never expected that the jade boat that Li Weiyi casually took out was a treasure. They immediately used their movement techniques to dodge and avoid colliding with the jade boat.

The Yin Ghost Commander, following behind the Jade Boat, swung his battle spear and slashed at Sikong Yanlun.

Sikong Yanlun, fighting with only one arm, was knocked away and immediately realized the power of the Yin Ghost Commander, so he dared not confront him head-on again.

The two brothers, having retrieved their silver wheels, exchanged a glance, then opened their ancestral fields, releasing a hundred ghosts and the external manifestation of their Daoist heart, transforming the entire water surface into a chilling, ghostly realm.

Knowing that a quick victory was unlikely, Li Weiyi steered the jade boat toward the glowing river.

Erfeng's excited telepathic voice chattered continuously into his ears.

"Wow!"

It spread its wings and broke through the water, its six claws tightly embracing a cluster of luminous crystals.

The light was so dazzling that it illuminated the entire surface of the water, like a star.

It turned out to be a piece of Lingtai Yanxing Stone the size of a walnut.

Li Weiyi's eyes widened, his scalp tingling with shock. Such a large piece could definitely be divided into many slices; it was priceless.

"Wow!"

A figure clad in invisibility cloak, lurking in the shadows, skimmed across the water at incredible speed, hurtling towards Erfeng.

"not good!"

Li Weiyi's pupils narrowed, transforming into a wisp of green smoke, his body becoming ethereal as he charged forward.

"Bang bang!"

He countered three moves in a row.

Li Weiyi went all out, directly mobilizing liquid magic power and mental power, successively using the Annihilation Finger Technique and the Karma Grinding Wheel. Then, he activated the Six Jia Secret Blessing on the Yellow Dragon Sword, unleashing the Taiyi Opening the Sea.

The two retreated abruptly, creating a distance of several dozen feet between them.

Between the two, the water boiled and churned.

Li Weiyi's hand holding the sword trembled incessantly, his fingers aching as if they were about to split open. He struggled to remain calm, staring intently at the figure opposite him: "Qianwei Commander, Yizhu Xue!"

Wearing armor, Yizhuo stood facing Li Weiyi across the luminous river. Electric patterns flowed across the armor, and a tingling sensation spread across her skin.

Li Weiyi's sword strike just now summoned lightning; the sword's power was considerable. If it weren't for his armor, he might have been injured.

Yi Zhouxue's eyes were as sharp as a hawk's as he observed Li Weiyi's expression. He had just struck Li Weiyi with a palm strike, but the recoil from the Blood Handprint Demon Armor had left his palm painful, and he was unsure whether he had seriously injured Li Weiyi.

Nine months have passed, and this boy's combat strength has improved so much that he can now withstand three blows from him.

As Li Weiyi circulated his internal energy, the pain in his hand gradually subsided. However, the blow he had taken to his chest and abdomen still caused him excruciating pain. He barely managed to hold back from spitting out blood, not daring to reveal his weakened and severely injured state.

Otherwise, Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun, who are waiting for an opportunity, will pounce on them like mad dogs.

On the contrary, the two were stunned. They never expected that Li Weiyi's true strength had reached a level that could rival Yi Zhouxue.
Fortunately, thanks to the interception earlier, Erfeng had already taken the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone and flown back to the jade boat.

To make matters worse, five phoenix-winged moth queens flew out from the bottom of the water, carrying together a human-shaped black essence.

It's a thousand-year-old earth spirit!

Much larger than the previous one, the Earth Spirit's humanoid body was more detailed, with hands, feet, and a head. Its hands and feet were struggling, and its abdomen was glowing, as if it contained something.

The glowing river below, however, dimmed.

"We've got it! We've got it! It was the one that was causing trouble underwater, running incredibly fast."

"I caught him!"

"It was clearly me who pinned it down with one claw, but it still tried to fight back. I used lightning to hit it."

"I'll grab it first, then you grab it."

"I feel like someone is chanting sutras inside its belly, just like that Lord An, and it's giving me a headache."

……

The various mental voices of the five Phoenix-Winged Moth Queens kept ringing in Li Weiyi's ears, arguing fiercely, completely unaware of the dangerous situation they were in.

Li Weiyi secretly groaned, his nerves on edge, his attention completely focused on Yi Zhouxue, Sikong Jingyuan, and Sikong Yanlun.

(End of this chapter)