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Chapter 180 Sweeping Away the Hell Path Stronghold (Part 2)
White light above the gray earth.

Even with Li Ye and Wei Qingye using almost all their divine sense and perception, they were unable to detect its appearance immediately.

It wasn't until the pure white light burst forth that Li Ye noticed something was wrong, but by then the light had already touched his rice robe.

"Shh!"

The instant they made contact.

The corner of the Radiant Rice Robe, which had grown from his "Dao" and fragments of the Heavenly Vein, immediately lost all its color, as if it had been wiped away by a giant hand.

"Ok?"

Li Ye immediately sensed that something was wrong.

Mental strength!

Such terrifying mental strength?

Without saying a word, he pulled Wei Qingye backward.

The two retreated a hundred feet and could see more pure white light emanating from the unclosed door of the courtyard, gradually eroding everything around them.

The stone slabs on the ground, the surrounding decorations, and even the bodies of the evil spirits that Li Ye and Wei Qingye killed but had not yet dissipated were all frozen in a pure white color.

Large swaths of white light slowly but steadily expanded outwards.

"Hehehe..."

A chilling laugh echoed from the courtyard: "No matter what... you can't save... them."

"Just like your... senior brother..."

Senior brother?
For a moment he suspected that this guy was trying to influence him, but he was indeed very concerned, as his trip to the Eastern Yanghai had brought him a lot of gains.

What if it’s true?

In that split second, Li Ye thought through all the treasures he possessed, and even heard He Zhenren's voice:

"leave."

“I will cut this place off and freeze it with the power of the bronze tree, and then invite your master to come. I am powerless to do that.”

Accompanying the voice of the real person was a sword light that descended from the sky like water. These seemingly gentle sword lights, however, were like the most exquisite tools, beginning to cut through the surrounding space.

And the luster of bronze is slowly surging.

The real people are helping them resolve what's happening here in the gentlest way possible.

"No!"

"senior."

Li Ye suddenly exclaimed, "I have an idea, let me give it a try."

"it is good."

The sword light retreated without the slightest hesitation, but it did not completely disappear; the true person's consciousness was still watching this place.

Sweat beaded on Wei Qingye's forehead. He gripped his longsword tightly, feeling powerless against this strange mental force for the first time. The all-consuming power was truly terrifying.

He was a little nervous: "Brother Li, are you really alright? Why don't we run away? As long as we're alive, we can always fight again!"

"Do not worry."

“There are real people watching this place, I want to give it a try.”

All the panic on Li Ye's face had faded, leaving only determination. Now that he had made his decision, he would not look back.

He even took a step forward and opened his palms.

The Bagua (Eight Trigrams) celestial disc on the Sun and Moon Ring spun rapidly, and a pure white seed the size of a broad bean fell into his hand.

These are the seeds of the heart grass!
After obtaining and planting the Heart Grass seed, Li Ye didn't pay much attention to it because he was going out, since this thing takes at least a hundred years to grow.

But the seeds of the heartwort have one unique characteristic: they can absorb heart energy to grow.

As long as Li Ye's power can guide mental energy into the seed, it can transform the chaotic mental energy into the power it needs to grow.

And the method of guidance...

It's definitely a love song!
He immediately sat cross-legged on the ground, holding the seeds of the Heart Grass in one hand and taking out the Melody of Understanding in the other to begin playing.

The soft light accompanied the willow branches as they stretched forward, carefully touching the mental energy that was eroding them. In that instant, the surface of the willow branches was covered with a layer of white.

Fortunately, the power of the Tongqing Melody was extremely special, and since the mental energy was originally created by the Four Seasons Sect, and Li Ye used the power of the Jianmu tree to stabilize the space, he managed to guide the mental energy over with great difficulty.

The white light was injected into the seed.

But just then, a resentful voice rang out from the courtyard: "What?"

"You shameless thief!"

Jet-black hair extended from the white areas covered by mental energy, like thousands of sharp thorns, attacking Li Ye.

Li Ye didn't even look at it, focusing intently on guiding his mental energy.

Surprisingly, it wasn't Wei Qingye who made the move, or rather, before he could even make a move, a figure as tall as an iron tower leaped from afar and punched those strands of hair.

"boom!"

The hair instantly shattered into countless pieces, then a secondary explosion occurred, filling the air with the acrid smell of burning.

"Fellow Daoist Li, don't panic, I'm here to help you!"

The towering figure turned around, gave a hearty laugh, and revealed his pearly white teeth.

"...Spirit Forging Sect?"

Wei Qingye had no liking for these simple-minded guys who only knew how to fight under the guise of magical combat. He took a step forward, and his sword swept across, knocking back even more strands of hair.

"And us!"

Several more shouts came from the sky.

After dealing with the hair on their respective sides, the people from Qiongguan Mountain, Kulu Academy, and Yaoxiang Demon Sect arrived one after another, and with a tacit understanding yet still quite unwilling to accept defeat, they protected Li Ye.

Among them, the woman from the Yaoxiang Demon Sect was accompanied by many puppets of different genders, all of whom were extremely beautiful. The puppets also had hair extending from their bodies, as if they wanted to invade the courtyard from the opposite direction.

This is the cultivation method of the Yaoxiang Demon Sect. They can imitate appearance, magical power, and spiritual aura. They especially like to linger around cultivators with outstanding appearances, regardless of gender, as they are their targets.

After getting close to and sensing the other person's aura, they would carve a puppet that looked exactly like the other person and carry it with them. Imagine how you would feel if you saw a puppet that looked exactly like you serving another person.
At least the others unconsciously distanced themselves from the female cultivator.

Fighting with magic is fine, but this situation is genuinely disgusting to them. If they didn't have important business to attend to, they would be thinking about how to deal with her first.

The female cultivator didn't seem to mind and continued casting her spell.

Because the situation was really bad at the moment, the garrison commander was obviously fighting desperately, and every attack of his hair was close to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

In addition, Li Ye's spiritual power was currently somewhat overwhelmed, and the cultivators whose average cultivation level was only at the Foundation Establishment stage were struggling. If it weren't for their profound foundation, they probably wouldn't have been able to withstand it long ago.

Seeing the combined protection of so many people, Li Ye was able to concentrate on channeling his energy into the seed, and the tiny seed began to swell at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The price is that more and more of Li Ye's Melody of Understanding is covered by flawless white. If it is completely covered, it means that the Melody of Understanding will become ineffective.

Li Ye was anxious. He could feel the seed was trying hard to sprout, but it still needed a catalyst.

This opportunity requires special spiritual stimulation or spiritual infusion.

"Looks like we'll have to use this."

He gritted his teeth and took out the five-colored stones preserved in the radiance of the panel from the Jianmu wood. It was a small handful left over after he had used it to paste his own soul. He skillfully kneaded the five-colored stones with one hand a few times and shaped them into the rough form of a clay doll. Then he pressed the heart grass seed onto the clay doll's forehead.

The properties of the five-colored stone instantly began to envelop the Heart Grass seed, gradually transforming it into the Heart Grass's spiritual power, in addition to the spiritual essence from the Heavenly Dao that it contained...

It only took a short while.

The clay doll actually started moving on its own. The seed between its eyebrows sprouted and grew into a small blade of grass, swaying on the top of the clay doll's head like the few strands of hair a newborn child has.

It glanced at Li Ye, then suddenly jumped up, hugged Li Ye's arm, rubbed against it, and then jumped down.

Then, with a joyful, or rather, extremely uncoordinated, hopping and skipping gait, he ran towards the area covered by the white courtyard not far away.

It absorbs all the energy that erodes the surrounding environment wherever it goes, and the grass on its head grows even more lush.

"Follow up quickly!"

Li Ye disregarded the discomfort caused by the excessive loss of magical power and hurriedly followed the mud doll. Although that guy could absorb mental energy, he was essentially just a mud doll made of five-colored stones.

He was quite worried that it would break.

These are seeds of five-colored stones and heart grass!

If it escapes, even Nascent Soul cultivators will fight over it.

But before he could get up and follow, he saw a pure white beam of light shoot out from the seed of the heart grass between the mud doll's eyebrows, instantly turning the hair that was attacking it white and causing it to fall to the ground and shatter into pieces.

"..."

Hesitating for a moment, the mud doll rushed into the courtyard.

Then, an extremely terrifying white light burst forth from within, radiating in all directions, even shooting towards the sky and in all directions, accompanied by painful howls.

Everything happened in a flash of lightning.

"what?"

"Go and have a look!"

"Let's go!"

The cultivators rushed into the courtyard and immediately saw that white light was shooting out from between the eyebrows of the clay doll. It was jumping and hopping around, and its facial features, which were extremely lifelike despite being casually sculpted by Li Ye, were tightly furrowed.

It could be said that the garrison commander, who had already been riddled with holes by Li Ye and Wei Qingye's magic and sword energy, was gradually turned into a white statue.

The once-aggressive garrison commander was powerless to resist, barely managing to keep his hair upright before helplessly watching himself being completely "solidified" by mental energy.

Everyone was stunned.

"So strong."

"Why is it so strong?"

"Could this guy's body be made of five-colored stones?"

It was only then that they noticed the five-colored shimmering light beneath the white skin of the mud doll's body.

Five-colored stones!
They didn't actually know how many Five-Colored Stones Li Ye had obtained, since Li Ye was running around everywhere at the time, and by the time they gathered together, they were already facing the Heavenly Tribulation.

However, they were all well aware of the preciousness of the Five-Colored Stone, because it was only found in the Heavenly Veins of the Southern Region, where one or two stones would be mixed in. It was a top-tier treasure in the entire cultivation world.

This clay doll, barely an inch tall, would probably be the grand finale at a Nascent Soul auction, and would be highly sought after.

Moreover, such treasures are invaluable to some cultivators, such as the female cultivator of the Yaoxiang Demon Sect and the Zhu surname cultivator from Qiongguan Mountain—the former desperately needs such treasures to make puppets, while the latter wants to sense traces through the Five-Colored Stone.

Could I buy some five-colored stones from Li Ye? I wonder if he has any left. These five-colored stones are really beautiful...

Perhaps it was because their gazes were too intense, the mud doll that was fiercely reprimanding the town garrison commander suddenly turned its head to look at them, the heart grass seed on its forehead glowing white.

It was as if a completely emotionless eye was staring at the two of them.

They instantly felt their hair stand on end; that was an absolutely terrifying force capable of killing them!
"Don't!"

Li Ye, who finally arrived just now, was panting heavily. He had exhausted too much of his spiritual energy. He quickly grabbed the mud doll, which wiggled a few times as he grabbed its short legs, and then obediently stopped moving.

"You have quite a bad temper."

Li Ye certainly wouldn't scold it; after casually saying this, he patted its head.

Then he glanced at the two people not far away, and cupped his hands in greeting:
"Please don't take offense, fellow Daoists. After all, its intelligence is only equivalent to that of a newborn child."

"To be honest, it was our own greed that got the better of us, so we can't blame it."

"Alas, it is we who should apologize to it."

Instead, the two men solemnly bowed to the clay doll. They knew that their gazes had been too intense, and that these creatures, with their keen senses, had frightened them.

Li Ye's words were a way of giving them a way out.

"It doesn't matter."

Li Ye nodded, not paying any attention. He still had the power of the Sensitive Melody to sense that they mainly wanted the Five-Colored Stone.

However, it's definitely more important to appease your own mud doll.

He squinted and turned to look at the garrison commander, whose mind had been completely solidified. The latter was also looking at him, his eyes, which had no whites, filled with resentment.

"Kill me if you can!"

"thief!"

"Your Four Seasons Sect stole our spiritual power, your eldest brother..."

While she was ranting and raving, the others had already retreated outside the courtyard. This was not something they could listen to. They might enjoy hearing the secrets of other sects, but they would also "enjoy" the trouble that followed.

Li Ye just watched her like that, and only slowly walked in after she completely stopped, his eyes reflecting the figure of the garrison commander.

"I won't let you die."

“You are my trophy, and I will keep you planted here forever. Your spiritual power will be the nourishment for a bountiful harvest.”

He took out a wooden box, gently opened it, and took out a dark red seed—this seed was one of the most common methods used by the Four Seasons Sect to deal with evil people.

Seeds of the Demon-Suppressing Tree.

This kind of demon-suppressing tree is much more painful than the earth vein spirit willow used by Master Su Huan to suppress the soul.

But the garrison commander was not afraid at all.

"Hehehe..."

"Why don't you give it a try!"

What a joke! She is the guardian of the Hell Path. How could they, who are always at odds with the Four Seasons Sect, not have a way to resist the Demon-Suppressing Tree?

However, her smile quickly faded as Li Ye stroked her soft hair with one hand, and the five-colored light flowing from his fair palm wrapped around her body with an almost domineering force.

The seed of the Demon-Suppressing Tree fell from her other palm and actually pierced through her body, as if it had been forcibly merged with her by a terrifying force.

Then roots grew out of her body, dark red branches trapping all the spiritual power within her and extending outwards.

A dark red tree grew up in an instant, trapping the garrison commander's body and consciousness in the trunk.

Before her consciousness was completely suppressed by the Demon-Suppressing Tree, a cold voice echoed in her ears—

"You belong to me now."

(End of this chapter)