Great Zhou Martial Immortal

Chapter 130 Hot Spring Bath and Petty Scoundrels (Please Subscribe)

Lishan Palace.

Yuntao Palace is located in a remote area and cannot compare to the luxurious and magnificent Chaoyuan Palace or Jiaolan Palace. However, it is still a royal palace with all the necessary facilities. The palace is built against the mountain and has hot spring water flowing into front of it. The mist is so thick that it looks like a fairyland.

The walls inside the hall are inlaid with luminous pearls, which illuminate the entire room.

Lu Chenyuan leaned against the golden lion, studying the jade slip of "Tiangong Scroll". The parts about mechanical puppets and Qi furnaces were so profound that even he had to study them carefully. The goddess sat next to him, reading a novel. She curled up in his arms and casually flipped through the book.

Lu Chenyuan glanced at her.

The goddess stiffened slightly, raised the book in her hand a little higher, her eyelashes trembled, and her glassy eyes stared unblinkingly at the pages, but she couldn't concentrate on a single word.

Lu Chenyuan suddenly smiled.

This awkward intimacy is truly endearing.

He simply raised his hand and pulled her into his arms.

The goddess trembled slightly, her face pressed against his chest, and she could hear the steady heartbeat in his chest.

"elder brother……"

She called his name softly, so softly that it was almost inaudible.

"Ah."

Lu Chenyuan casually replied, his gaze still fixed on the jade slip diagram, and he tightened his arm around her: "Are you cold? The palace is too big, and the insulation isn't good enough. If you feel uncomfortable, just ask someone to bring a charcoal brazier. Jin Ni is a bit lazy; he fell asleep and forgot about 'raising a fever'~"

"Ow!"

The golden lion flicked its tail in dissatisfaction, exhaling a wisp of warm breath, which instantly warmed the hall.

The goddess couldn't help but chuckle, her body gradually relaxing as she carefully wrapped her arms around his waist.

She felt as if she were being soaked in hot spring water, every inch of the mechanical runes was burning hot, she desperately wished time could stand still at this moment, but she knew clearly that she was just a puppet, and her brother did not belong to her.

Lu Chenyuan held her until 9 PM, then snapped out of his reverie and looked up to find the moon outside the palace dim and dark.

It's almost time for the palace guards to change shifts.

He looked down and saw the Goddess nestled in his arms, her eyes gently closed, already in a state of hibernation. The "Qi Furnace" on her chest was slowly turning, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to nourish herself.

Lu Chenyuan gently put her down, took a brocade quilt and carefully covered her before turning to leave.

Outside Yuntao Palace, the night patrol guards were changing shifts.

Lu Chenyuan lightly touched the ground with his toes, and like a ghost, he swept across the palace wall. The three-zhang-high vermilion wall was as flat as flat ground under his feet.

When it landed, it didn't even disturb a single withered leaf.

As expected, there was no one guarding the west side of Chaoyuan Hall.

The hall was dimly lit, with the faint sound of flowing water. Lu Chenyuan smiled to himself, thinking that it was quite interesting to do something that everyone knew about secretly. He silently pushed open the window and entered. Immediately, a familiar fragrance wafted to his nose—the agarwood incense that Li Lingyue was used to, mixed with the steam from the hot spring, filling the room with a misty aroma.

The lights inside the hall were dim, and the faint sound of water could be heard from behind the screen. The beaded curtain was half-rolled up, revealing a touch of romance.

"Why did you come?"

Li Lingyue's languid voice came from behind the beaded curtain, the last syllable rising slightly, carrying a hint of reproach.

Lu Chenyuan's lips curled slightly as he slowly walked around the screen.

Li Lingyue was seen leaning against the edge of the white jade pool, her black hair cascading into the water like a waterfall, her snow-white shoulders and neck glistening with water droplets, and her phoenix eyes glancing sideways with a half-smile.

“Aunt Wei specifically reminded me, so I can’t pretend I didn’t hear it.”

He casually took off his outer robe and hung it on the screen, then sat down by the pond, his fingertips playing with the flower petals on the water's surface.

"Your Highness, did you... wait for me on purpose?"

Li Lingyue's eyes glistened with tears. Suddenly, she reached out and grabbed his collar, pulling him into the pool: "Stop pretending."

The hot spring water splashed everywhere.

As midnight approached, Li Lingyue lazily nestled in Lu Chenyuan's arms, drawing circles on his chest with her fingertips: "Before you came, the Yuanwei sent intelligence that Wan'er had already led her team to Songmo and was now preparing to go to Tianchi Lake on Mount Taibai for a detailed investigation... Did she send you any messages?"

As she spoke, Li Lingyue stared intently into Lu Chenyuan's eyes.

Lu Chenyuan smiled helplessly, "Do I have to stand up and turn around for you? I don't care..."

"Screw you!"

Li Lingyue blushed slightly, gave him a sidelong glance, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Over in Songmo, the Shiwei, Mohe and other tribes have been making frequent unusual moves, and it seems that the Turks are behind them."

Li Lingyue frowned slightly: "I'm afraid the 'Dunjia Scroll' has really fallen into enemy hands... If the strange phenomenon at Mount Taibai was caused by the northeastern barbarians, Wan'er and the others are in grave danger! You'll have to work hard during this time. If she uses the Qingyi Secret Technique to question you, you must reply immediately. I'm afraid that if I'm too late..."

"rest assured."

Lu Chenyuan hummed in agreement and hugged her: "The strange sensation on Xiqing Chuanwen's skin is something I can sense even while I'm asleep, given my current level of body refinement. I'm just worried... Qimen Dunjia is complex, and in a real emergency, it might be hard to explain in a short time..."

Li Lingyue was also worried about this, but there was no other way at the moment.

Lu Chenyuan now possesses three divine arts, and he must not easily venture into dangerous places. Otherwise, if the enemy uses means to capture him and steal the divine arts, it will be even more powerful, and the Central Plains will inevitably find it more difficult to resist. As long as he can grow up, he may become the next Hidden Immortal. Even if the divine arts are not leaked, losing him alone would be a great loss to the Central Plains.

Li Lingyue sighed.

For now, all they can do is hope that the "Dunjia Scroll" hasn't fallen into the wrong hands yet, and that Shangguan Wan'er can escape danger...

Seeing the worry on her face, Lu Chenyuan suddenly rolled over and covered her with his body: "Your Highness still has the mind to think about these things at a time like this. It seems that this humble servant has not been working hard enough."

Before Li Lingyue could react, he pressed her down firmly. She instinctively reached out to touch his chest, but touched a patch of burning hot skin. Her fingertips immediately curled up as if they had been burned.

"you……"

Her voice trembled, carrying a hint of anger mixed with a hidden joy: "I'm talking about serious matters..."

Lu Chenyuan chuckled and said, "Am I not doing something proper right now?"

Li Lingyue's ears were burning, and her body had gone limp.

She clearly remembered begging for mercy just now, and her back was still aching and her legs were weak, but this person just...

Just then, the sound of a flute suddenly rose outside the hall, mournful and shrill like the wailing of ghosts.

The flute's sound, like iron scraping bone, pierced through layers of palaces, rippling through the cold night.

Lu Chenyuan's pupils shrank suddenly. He picked up Li Lingyue and leaped out of the bath. The two grabbed clothes from the rack and quickly dressed. Lu Chenyuan, with his hair disheveled and barefoot, stood on the ground. A red light shone from his fingertips as a sixth-grade [Explosive Flame Talisman] materialized out of thin air.

This is the simplest type of Heavenly Talisman, which Lu Chenyuan has already mastered.

Li Lingyue finished dressing and put on her cloak. Her phoenix eyes flashed with murderous intent, showing no trace of her previous gentle demeanor. She coldly said:

"The Miao Region's 'Bee-Controlling Incantation'!"

The next instant, a guard’s shrill scream suddenly came from outside the palace. Dark shadows spread like a tide on the window paper. In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of killer bees broke through the window screen and swarmed into the bedchamber!
These poisonous bees are as big as a thumb, with a dark blue body and a purple stinger. When they flap their wings, they make a chilling buzzing sound. Wherever they go, the curtains are instantly corroded with countless holes, and even the bronze lamps are sizzling as they are corroded by the venom.

Lu Chenyuan flicked out a Blazing Flame Talisman, which burst into flames in mid-air.

The killer bees crashed into the wall of fire, instantly exploding into clouds of poisonous mist with a crackling sound.

But behind them, a swarm of poisonous bees covered the sky.

Lu Chenyuan frowned slightly: "Wild bee colonies are rare in the Guanzhong region, and it's winter, so these poisonous bees were probably transported here in advance..."

Li Lingyue raised her hand and summoned Taihua Qingshuang. She ran her fingertips along the blade, and a chill spread, instantly turning all the poisonous bees in the hall into ice shards: "How dare they! I'll see how many heads they have to chop off!" At this moment, the palace was in complete chaos.

Wei Chenbi was meditating in a side hall not far away when she suddenly heard the sound of a flute. She opened her eyes abruptly. Her Nine Phoenixes Facing the Sun Technique was at its peak, and crimson true energy rose around her, causing her white hair to move without wind.

"As expected, someone is plotting something..."

She flashed and burst through the palace door, only to see guards frantically swatting away the poisonous bees on their bodies in the corridor.

Some people, their faces purplish-black, collapsed and convulsed; others, their eyes dissolved by the venom, howled and crashed into the pillars.

"waste!"

Wei Chenbi roared, his palms turning as red as branding irons, and slammed them onto the ground. With a "boom," flames swept out along the corridor, burning the surrounding bees to ashes.

"Everyone listen!"

Her aged voice, like muffled thunder, rolled across the palace: "The guards on duty form the Xuanwu Formation to protect the main hall, the eunuchs pour oil to burn the bees, and the imperial physicians treat the wounded—quickly!"

Inside the Chaoyuan Hall, the battle intensified.

The venomous bees seemed endless, swarming in from all directions as the flute music swayed them. Countless venomous bees frantically poured into the windows, doors, and eaves, forming a dark, overwhelming mass that blocked the view and even swallowed up the brilliance of the pearls inside the palace.

Their flapping wings roared like muffled thunder, their tails gleamed with a ghostly blue poisonous light, and wherever they passed, curtains rotted, wooden pillars were corroded, and even bronze lamps were melted into scrap metal by the poison.

Lu Chenyuan's eyes turned cold. He formed a hand seal, unleashing the "Five Elements Positioning" technique, and slammed it down onto the ground—

"The five elements revolve, and the earth's energy transforms into fire!"

In an instant, crimson flames burst forth from the cracks in the blue bricks inside the hall. Within a radius of five zhang, the earth's energy was forcibly twisted and transformed into raging flames that swept upwards.

"boom--"

Flames roared, and poisonous bees exploded in the flames, filling the air with a burnt stench.

However, the swarm was so large that the bees kept coming forward, eventually paving a path with their corpses to extinguish the flames and close in again.

Li Lingyue snorted coldly, swung her longsword horizontally, the blade as white as snow, a flash of cold light.

"break!"

With a single horizontal slash, her sword energy surged like a rainbow, instantly tearing apart the "black cloud" of the bee swarm and revealing a sliver of clarity.

Taking advantage of that brief moment of silence, her sharp gaze pierced through the night, locking onto a hillside outside the palace—

At the top of a withered tree, a figure in black robes was playing a flute, surrounded by a ghostly blue poisonous mist, directing a swarm of bees.

"Tune the tiger away from the mountain?"

Li Lingyue narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly and said in a deep voice, "Aunt Wei!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a crimson blade of light shot into the sky outside the hall.

Wei Chenbi's white hair flew wildly, and the short sword in her hand suddenly spat out a long handle of black iron, which transformed into a long sword of crimson flames. Her figure was as fast as lightning, and she dragged the sword straight down the hillside. Wherever the blade passed, flames burned the sky, and the poisonous bees were burned to ashes before they could even get close.

Upon seeing this, the man in black changed the tune of his flute, and half of the bees immediately split off, rushing towards Wei Chenbi like a black tide!

"Little tricks!"

Wei Chenbi sneered, spun his longsword, and flames surged, forcefully cleaving a path through the swarm of bees!

But just as she approached the man in black.

"boom!"

The ground suddenly exploded, and a huge mechanical spider leg burst out of the ground, piercing straight for Wei Chenbi's heart!

Wei Chenbi frowned, his sword suddenly swung back, and the crimson flame longsword collided violently with the mechanical spider legs!
"clang--"

The sound of metal clashing echoed through the night sky, and sparks flew like rain.

The immense force emanating from the spider's legs made her hands go numb, forcing her to retreat three steps.

Wei Chenbi snorted coldly, his long sword pointing diagonally at the ground, the crimson patterns on the blade flowing like lava:
"What kind of scoundrel are you, hiding your head and showing your tail?"

The ground shook again, soil and rocks crumbled, and a ferocious giant shadow burst out of the ground!

It was a spider-shaped suit of armor, as black as ink, with barbs covering its joints. Its eight mechanical spider legs were as sharp as blades, and the crimson Qi furnace embedded in its chest beat like a heart. Beneath the helmet, the face of Gongshu Pan, the patriarch of the Gongshu family of the East Sea, was hidden behind a bronze mask, with only a pair of dark blue eyes emitting a cold light.

"Old man, you've got a quick reaction."

Gongshu Pan's voice was hoarse like the scraping of metal, tinged with sarcasm: "I never imagined that even the Lishan lineage, which was once on par with Guigu, would willingly degenerate into a lackey of the imperial court!"

"..."

Wei Chenbi squinted at the peculiar armor before him, then suddenly remembered: "Gongshu of the East Sea, one of the Seven Divine Weapons, the [Heavenly Spider Armor], are you Gongshu Pan?"

The Gongshu clan of Donghai is a branch of the Gongshu clan of the pre-Qin period. They are known for "using tools to convey the Dao and forging iron as their soul." Today, they are a renowned family of tool casting in the East China Sea. Their ancestral home, Tianyan Island, has a furnace that can forge meteorite iron. They are particularly skilled in mechanical devices and casting techniques.

The first patriarch, "Duan Tianjun," left behind seven divine weapons, one of which was not a divine weapon.

——【Sky Spider Armor】.

Wei Chenbi immediately understood his purpose, and his expression became slightly more serious.

This is not armor in the ordinary sense, but a living killing machine!
Three years ago, the entire Donghai Tianlan Sword Sect, consisting of three hundred members, was nailed to death one by one in the martial arts arena by these eight spider legs!
Wei Chenbi swept his hand over the spider's legs. Each leg segment was engraved with dense runes, which were now glowing with an eerie blood-red light.

That is the "Blood Demon Pattern" nourished by the essence and blood of living people, which can absorb the essence and blood of the injured and give back to the wearer.

Nourish the organs with blood, and life will never cease!
Clearly, he came for the "Heavenly Craft Scroll" on Lu Chenyuan's body...

"Brother Gongshu, why waste your breath on her!"

From the shadows, another figure in black slowly emerged.

He was not masked, but instead revealed his aged and pale face. He was none other than Chi Ming, the high priest of Miao territory. A purple lightning sable was perched on his shoulder, with eerie blue lightning crackling through its fur. His withered fingers stroked the bronze cauldron at his waist, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Whether it's Mount Li or Ghost Valley, anyone who blocks my way will die!"

The night wind suddenly stopped, and the air seemed to freeze at that moment.

Wei Chenbi's white hair moved without wind, and the crimson flames on the long sword in his hand flickered.

Her gaze swept between Gongshu Pan and Chi Ming, a cold smile playing on her lips: "Very well, very well indeed! A scoundrel who has dragged down a century-old family in the East Sea, an old poisoner from Miao territory who raises Gu poison, plus..."

She turned to look at the black-robed figure on the distant hillside: "A cowardly rat who dares not show his face. The three of you are a perfect match."

Inside the Chaoyuan Hall.

Lu Chenyuan understood immediately. He remembered the [Sea Mountain Condensing Light] that Chenlong had given him a few days ago.

At the time, I was wondering what Chenlong meant by giving the Gongshu family a divine weapon for no apparent reason...

It's confirmed now, it's a warning... But it's okay, if the situation was a bit troublesome before we went to Hundred Flowers Valley, it's perfectly fine now!

If these people think that Li Lingyue's trip with him, without the capital's protective array, gives them a chance to get their hands on divine arts...

That's just asking for trouble!
His mind moved.

"Wow—"

A clear and melodious phoenix cry resounded through the sky!
From the direction of Yuntao Palace, a streak of crimson-gold light pierced through the sky.

It is shaped like a phoenix, and wherever it goes, all the poisonous bees are turned to dust.

—A mechanical steed!
Following the giant bird came the goddess clad in rat armor and the majestic golden lion...

(End of this chapter)