My Cold and Elegant CEO Wife - Chapter 1823

Chapter 1823: The Weird City Lord

Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated

 

In the City Lord’s mansion, Qngfeng Li also met some powerful self-cultivators, most of which were emperors of low tier kingdoms.

The weakest of them were half-step spirit monarch realm masters while some were first level spirit monarch realm masters ranking among the top 200 on the spirit monarch realm Masters List. They had all gathered in the City Lord’s mansion, which showed their respect for the City Lord.

However, the Sky Wolf Emperor furrowed his brows slightly and his eyes glinted. It seemed something had occurred to him.

Qingfeng Li noticed his expression and asked, “Elder, what do you have on your mind?”

The Sky Wolf Emperor said, “Qingfeng Li, have you found something strange about this wave of demonic beasts?”

Baffled, Qingfeng Li shook his head.

The Sky Wolf Emperor explained, “Qingfeng Li, in my 1,000 years of life I have experienced many things and I think this wave of demonic beasts is part of someone’s scheme.”

Qingfeng Li asked in a low voice, “Elder, do you think the City Lord has anything to do with this scheme?”

Nodding, the Sky Wolf Emperor whispered, “Qingfeng Li, just think about it. The City Lord is a third level spirit monarch realm master, more powerful than you. And there are also emperors from other kingdoms.

Each of the emperors is powerful and even the hostile vice City Lord is a second level spirit monarch realm master. But when the wave of demonic beasts came, they didn’t go down and kill them. Instead, they sent you.”

Hearing the Sky Wolf Emperor’s words, Qingfeng Li was hit by a wave of fear and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Qingfeng Li was a very intelligent man. When he was back in Earth, many of his enemies had tried to scheme against him or trap him but each time he had found them out before it was too late.

He agreed with Sky Wolf Emperor’s theory because it was true that only he had been fighting the 100,000 demonic beasts.

Other self-cultivators only attacked from the distance while the powerful City Lord and vice City Lord had remained aloof from the fight with the demonic beasts.

Qingfeng Li snorted and said, “Elder, since the City Lord wants to hold the celebration banquet, he will have to show to all the self-cultivators that it was I who defeated the demonic beasts. Don’t worry. Let’s just go in and see what his intention is.”

Striding forward, Qingfeng Li held his anger in check.

Shortly, they entered a big hall with an area of at least 10,000 square meters. In the hall were thousands of tables made with hard black rocks.

On the tables were placed all kinds of delicacies, including demonic beast meats, vegetarian dishes made with spirit fruits and herbs and some wine. One could smell the delicious aroma of meat and wine from afar.

At least a thousand self-cultivators were sitting at the tables. They were leaders of sects and major forces, and emperors, princes, and princesses from kingdoms.

Glancing around, Qingfeng Li found all the seats were taken. What did it mean that they did not reserve a seat for him?

What was the celebration banquet for? It was supposed to celebrate the victory over the wave of demon feasts. But they did not reserve a seat for Qingfeng Li, the biggest hero in the battle. Was it meant to be an insult to him?

Disregarding all this, Qingfeng Li strode forward to a middle-aged man sitting at the center position of a table in the forefront of the hall.

With slightly dark skin, coarse face, a high-bridged nose, big eyes, and bushy eyebrows, the middle-aged man emitted an overwhelming presence.

Keeping a good distance from him, no one seemed to dare to sit next to him. Even the vice City Lord sat at a lower place at the table, not daring to be too close to him.

The middle-aged man was Meng Lin, the City Lord of Emerald Lake City.

Seeing Qingfeng Li enter the hall, the surrounding people became quiet since they felt something was not right between Qingfeng Li and the City Lord.

Looking at Meng Lin before him, Qingfeng Li asked, “City Lord, what do you want with me here?”

Meng Lin lifted his head and looked at Qingfeng Li quietly with no emotion on his face. He said lightly, “It’s simple. Today you are the hero of Emerald Lake City since you contributed the most to dealing with the wave of demonic beasts. I am holding the banquet to celebrate your victory.”

With a forced smile, Qingfeng Li said, “City Lord, if you are celebrating my victory, how come there is no seat for me? Where do I sit?”

Meng Lin laughed and said, “Qingfeng Li, didn’t you see the seat next to me? It’s specially reserved for you. Since you are the hero today, you sit next to me.”

To Qingfeng Li’s surprise, he did see a stone chair next to Meng Lin.

He had thought it was reserved for the City Lord’s lady or his son instead of himself.

“Come on, Qingfeng Li, sit next to me so we can talk better.”

Turning, Meng Lin was all smiles while he beckoned for Qingfeng Li to sit next to him.

Qingfeng Li thought Meng Lin’s smile was faked and forced, an act in front of the watching self-cultivators due to his heroic feat of killing the demonic beasts.

Instead of sitting down, Qingfeng Li said to Meng Lin, “City Lord, my people also need seats, otherwise I won’t stay at this celebration banquet.”

Frowning, a chilling light flashed in Meng Lin’s eyes, but it disappeared quickly before anyone else could see it.

With a wave of his hand, Meng Lin said to the 4-5 people sitting to his left, “Get up and offer your seats to Qingfeng Li’s people.”

They were important figures in the City Lord mansion while some of them were even elders.

But at the City Lord’s order, they stood up obediently and offered their seats to the people with Qingfeng Li.

With a slight smile, Qingfeng Li said, “Elder Sky Wolf Emperor, Mengyao Xu and Ya Yun, you take seats while I talk to the City Lord.”

While everyone watched in astonishment, Qingfeng Li strode to the chair next to the City Lord and sat down without further ado.

Meng Lin yelled, “Serve the wine! Today Qingfeng Li is the star of our celebration. He killed the wave of demonic beasts and did a big favor for Emerald Lake City. Let’s toast for him to show our gratitude.”

He lifted his wineglass and the rest 1,000 self-cultivators followed suit and lifted their wineglasses to congratulate Qingfeng Li. But the smiles on their faces looked forced.

Indifferently, Qingfeng Li said, “Thank you, everyone, for giving me the chance to kill 100,000 demonic beasts alone. I will drink up this glass of wine.”

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Chapter 1824: Meteorite Dynasty

Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated

 

Hearing Qingfeng Li’s words, all the self-cultivators around them began looking embarrassed.

It was because when the wave of demonic beasts came, they just stood on the city wall blocking the attacks from the demonic beasts instead of jumping off the city wall to attack them. It had been Qingfeng Li who had killed all the demonic beasts.

They felt ashamed when Qingfeng Li mentioned it and even Meng Lin, the City Lord was a bit embarrassed.

Thinking Qingfeng Li was trying to protest against him, Meng Lin glanced at him with disapproval in his eyes. But as a man of the world, he kept his anger in check instantly.

Meng Lin said, “I knew Qingfeng Li was not an ordinary man with his super powerful combat abilities, and that’s why I gave him the opportunity to toughen himself. It was a pleasant surprise to me that he was so powerful that he actually managed to kill 100,000 demonic beasts. He is a role model for all the self-cultivators.”

Listening to Meng Lin’s compliments, Qingfeng Li remained silent because he had seen the fleeting chilling light and indifference in Meng Lin’s eyes under the fake smiles and praises.

He wondered if he had offended the City Lord somehow and made himself a target of the City Lord’s schemes.

However, Qingfeng Li was not a bit of afraid since his strength had reached the first level of spirit monarch realm. Although he was still two levels lower than Meng Lin, he didn’t think it was a bit problem.

If Meng Lin wanted to battle with him, he didn’t mind showing his muscles off.

Lifting his wineglass, Meng Lin said, “Qingfeng Li, let’s have another drink.”

Without a word, Qingfeng Li lifted his wineglass and drained it.

Meng Lin glanced at the vice City Lord and the other subordinates meaningfully. The vice City Lord stood up and walked up to Qingfeng Li, saying, “Qingfeng Li, you are a hero today, saving the whole Emerald Lake City. Here I’ll make a toast to you.”

Qingfeng Li glanced coolly at the vice City Lord whom he thought an unsavory figure. Still he drained his glass with indifference.

When the other self-cultivators began to line up to drink with him, he was surprised but then he understood their intention, they were trying to drink him under the table before dealing with him.

Unfortunately, they underestimated Qingfeng Li’s capacity for liquor. Equipped with his Devourer Bloodline, Qingfeng Li was like a bottomless hole and could turn all of the liquor into his energy.

In a short while, Qingfeng Li had drunk half of all the wine at the banquet, but he was as sober as a judge.

But some of the self-cultivators had drunk themselves senseless and several of them even fell asleep on the ground.

Meng Lin and the vice City Lord exchanged expressions when they found that they were no match for Qingfeng Li in drinking. They stopped drinking with him.

With a frown, Meng Lin said, “Qingfeng Li, today I have a proposal for you. I intend to invite you to join our dynasty.”

Qingfeng Li asked, “Which dynasty do you belong to?”

Proudly, Meng Lin said, “I’m the emperor of the Meteorite Dynasty. We came into the Sun Mystic Realm quite early and had taken possession of Emerald Lake City and this mansion, which had once been the abode of a third level spirit monarch realm master. Once you join our dynasty, I will give you a spirit monarch realm elixir for your breakthrough.”

Qingfeng Li frowned with surprise at the name of Meteorite Dynasty since he was not familiar with the kingdoms on the mainland and didn’t know what level of existence Meteorite Dynasty was.

On the side, the emperor of Lingyun explained to him, “The Meteorite Dynasty is an intermediate dynasty 100 times bigger than Lingyun. The emperors of the intermediate dynasty are usually among the first to third level of the spirit monarch realm and even one of their princes has the power to destroy the Country of Lingyun.”

Hearing the Lingyun Emperor’s explanation, Qingfeng Li frowned while he began to understand the great power of the Meteorite Dynasty.

But Qingfeng Li was indifferent to its great power since he had many spirit treasures, each of which was extraordinary. Besides, as a resident of the Country of Lingyun, he wouldn’t join the Meteorite Dynasty.

With a wave of his hand, Qingfeng Li refused the offer. “Sorry, but I won’t join the Meteorite Dynasty.”

Hearing Qingfeng Li’s refusal, Meng Lin’s face turned dark, having not expected Qingfeng Li would refuse his offer to join the Meteorite Dynasty in front of all the self-cultivators. It was basically slapping his face.

With a sneer, Meng Lin asked, “Qingfeng Li, are you certain of your decision? Have you thought about the consequences?”

Qingfeng Li sneered at Meng Lin’s threat, saying, “I’m a self-cultivator of the Country of Lingyun and won’t join any dynasty, so save your breath. Besides, I have no interest in the Meteorite Dynasty or in you as a person.”

Then he turned to the Sky Wolf Emperor, Mengyao Xu, Ya Yun, and the others, saying, “Let’s get out of here.”

Abruptly, Meng Lin stood up and said coldly, “Without my permission, you can’t leave.”

With a thought, he emitted an overwhelming presence which filled the whole hall.

The vice City Lord and other self-cultivators all stood up and encircled Qingfeng Li.

Glancing around, Qingfeng Li found that the emperors of the lower tier kingdoms also regarded Meng Lin as their leader and took his orders.

Among the many self-cultivators, only one person looked embarrassed, and this person was the Chief Commander.

The Chief Commander had belonged to another force before he was recruited by Meng Lin into his dynasty.

He had joined Meng Lin reluctantly since he had been threatened. And that was why he looked at Qingfeng Li with sympathy in his eyes and was unwilling to attack him.

Qingfeng Li glanced at the Chief Commander with appreciation but regarded everyone else as his enemies.

The atmosphere turned dangerously tense, as a battle was about to break out any second.

Deng! Deng! Deng…

Suddenly, a series of urgent footsteps sounded from outside, shaking the whole ground.

An elder in a ragged grey robe ran in from outside as he cried excitedly, “Master! I have refined the second level spirit monarch elixir. Hurry up and take a look at it!”

The elderly in a ragged robe was none other than Wuheng Di, the spirit monarch realm alchemist of the Pharmacy.

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Chapter 1825: Wuheng Di’s identity

Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated

 

Running to Qingfeng Li, Wuheng Di was extremely excited. He handed a Soul Gathering Elixir pill to Qingfeng Li.

“Master, have a look at it! Since I have made the Soul Gathering Elixir in three days, you must take me as your disciple as you promised.”

Wuheng Di looked at Qingfeng Li while his whole body shook with excitement.

Qingfeng Li was speechless. He had not been serious when he said that he would take Wuheng Di as his disciple if he could make the spirit monarch realm Soul Gathering Elixir in three days, as he did not expect he would succeed. It seemed that Wuheng Di had extremely high talent in alchemy arts.

Reaching out his hand, Qingfeng Li took the Soul Gathering Elixir from Wuheng Di and found it was indeed the second level spirit monarch realm elixir. It seemed Wuheng Di had mastered the alchemy arts he had given to him.

Looking at Wuheng Di before him, Qingfeng Li was at a loss as to what to do with him.

As the famous spirit monarch alchemist on the Crimson Fire Continent, Wuheng Di was more than 1,000 years old and Qingfeng Li was just in his twenties; he felt too embarrassed to take Wuheng Di as his disciple.

Seeing Qingfeng Li’s expression, Wuheng Di said, “Teacher, you can’t go back on your word. The Chief Commander was the witness when you made the promise.”

He glanced toward the Chief Commander, wanting him to be his witness.

The Chief Commander looked embarrassed. The City Lord, vice City Lord, and more than 1,000 self-cultivators in the hall had surrounded Qingfeng Li and a battle was about to break out any moment.

But now, they were startled when Wuheng Di ran in and insisted on being Qingfeng Li’s disciple.

Many of the 1,000 plus self-cultivators had bought elixirs from Wuheng Di and thus knew his power as the No.1 spirit monarch realm alchemist in the Sun Mystic Realm.

But now, he was actually asking their enemy to become his master.

The Chief Commander only smiled embarrassedly and remained silent since he didn’t know what to say. If he spoke for Qingfeng Li, he was sure he wouldn’t survive tonight.

Although he worked for the City Lord, the Chief Commander didn’t like what the City Lord did. Besides, he had been forced to join the dynasty.

So, the Chief Commander remained neutral, not wanting to offend either party.

Seeing the Chief Commander’s embarrassed expression and silence, Wuheng Di glanced around at the surrounding self-cultivators and saw their hostility toward Qingfeng Li.

Although he was an alchemist and dealt with spirit herbs and elixirs all year round, Wuheng Di was not ignorant about the world.

After all, he had lived more than 1,000 years and at one glance, he had seen the surrounding people’s intention to attack Qingfeng Li.

Walking to stand before Qingfeng Li, he declared in a loud voice, “He is my master. Whoever dares to attack him is my enemy and will never get anymore elixirs from me.”

Hearing Wuheng Di’s words, the expressions of the surrounding self-cultivators all changed since elixirs were the most difficult to acquire compared to vitality stones, cultivation techniques, and spiritual treasures.

Spirit monarch realm elixirs were especially difficult to make and acquire. They needed a spirit monarch realm alchemist in order to get elixir recipes, fire, spirit herbs, soul power, and many other things.

Some self-cultivators already put down their weapons and decided not to attack Qingfeng Li, since they didn’t want to offend a spirit monarch realm alchemist.

Besides, they had intended to attack Qingfeng Li only to show their respect for the City Lord. Although the City Lord could give them protection, he couldn’t help them increase power.

Meng Lin’s expression changed slightly, too. He knew Wuheng Di, the spirit monarch realm alchemist in Emerald Lake City and had even once asked to see him. But the alchemist declined his request.

He was surprised that Wuheng Di would have come to the City Lord mansion to ask Qingfneg Li to be his master. He wondered about Qingfeng Li’s power, which could get even a spirit monarch realm master to beg to be his disciple.

Wuheng Di turned to look at Meng Lin, saying, “City Lord, I hope you will do me a favor and let my master Qingfeng Li go today.”

With a frown, Meng Lin thought for a moment before saying, “Wuheng Di, you refused me last time when I asked you for a second level spirit monarch realm elixir pill. I will let Qingfeng Li go if you give me the pill.”

Without hesitation, Wuheng Di took out a second level spirit monarch realm elixir pill from his interspatial ring and threw it to Meng Lin, saying, “Here you are. Now you must let my master Qingfeng Li go.”

Wuheng Di was sincere towards and highly valued his master Qingfeng Li and he would even pay a second level spirit monarch realm elixir pill for him.

He had made two second level spirit monarch realm elixir pills in the past three days, which were the Soul Gathering Elixirs. They had taken all of his monarch-level spirit herbs and each of the pills was worth at least hundreds of thousands of monarch realm vitality stones. More importantly, they were not for sale. But Wuheng Di had given it away without hesitation for Qingfeng Li.

With a wave of his hand, Meng Lin said, “You can go now.”

Beside him, the vice City Lord’s expression changed, as he was wondering about the turn of events since he knew the City Lord had meant to keep Qingfeng Li here and even to kill him.

Meng Lin didn’t explain his act to the vice City Lord, but just waved for Qingfeng Li and his people to leave.

Casting a faint glance at the City Lord, Qingfeng Li didn’t speak. He left the City Lord mansion with Wuheng Di, the Sky Wolf Emperor, Mengyao Xu, and Ya Yun.

Looking at Qingfeng Li’s back when he departed, the vice City Lord couldn’t contain his question any more and asked Meng Lin, “Your Highness, why did you let Qingfeng Li and his people leave? We could kill him and take his ultimate treasures, such as the saint-grade Golden Flames and the Sky-Breaking Halberd which is a spiritual treasure even I can’t understand.”

Meng Lin shook his head and said, “You don’t have to say more about it. If it had been only Qingfeng Li, I would have killed him. But Wuheng Di is different since he is not only a spirit monarch realm alchemist. He has another identity.”

Shaking his head, the vice City Lord asked, “What other identity does Wuheng Di have? How come I don’t know about it?”

With a slight smile, Meng Lin said, “Wuheng Di once saved an emperor of a high tier dynasty. If we killed him, the high tier dynasty would destroy all of us because the Meteorite Dynasty, a powerful intermediate dynasty, is much inferior to a high tier one.”

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Chapter 1826: Information about the Spirit Vein

Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated

 

The vice city lord’s face changed when he heard Meng Lin’s words. He was aware of the strength of a high-tier dynasty, having come from the Meteorite Dynasty, an intermediate-tier dynasty.

If a dynasty would like to become an intermediate-tier dynasty, the emperor needed to be at least among the first to third levels of the spirit monarch realm. Meng Lin, the emperor of the Meteorite Dynasty was a master in the third step spirit monarch realm. His dynasty was the peak of all intermediate-tier dynasties.

Above the intermediate-tier dynasties were the high-tier dynasties. The emperors of the high-tier dynasties were all in the fourth step spirit monarch realm to the sixth step. They were far stronger than the Meteorite Dynasty.

No wonder Wuhen Di was the reason Meng Lin spared Qingfeng Li and the others. Wuhen Di had saved a high-tier dynasty’s emperor and was thus their benefactor. If the emperor knew that Meng Lin had attacked Wuhen Di, he would have to suffer the consequences.

The vice city lord unwillingly said, “Your Highness, are we going to let Qingfeng Li go just like that?”

Meng Lin shook his head and mildly said, “Of course not. It is only because Wuhen Di is here today. We will kill Qingfeng Li and loot his corpse when he parts from Wuhen Di.”

The vice city lord nodded and understood Meng Lin’s plan. He deeply resented Qingfeng Li and wanted to kill him as soon as possible.

Outside the city lord’s residence, Qingfeng Li was conversing with Wuhen Di.

Qingfeng Li smiled and said, “Wuhen Di, how did you know to look for me here?”

Wuhen Di smiled and answered, “After I created the second step monarch level pill, I went to look for you at the restaurant but I couldn’t find you. The manager told me that you killed a hundred thousand demonic beasts and saved Emerald Lake City, and that you were invited to the city lord’s residence by the lord himself. So, I came here directly.”

Qingfeng Li nodded and said, “Wuhen Di, thank you for resolving the situation for me today. However, I really cannot be your teacher. If you want the recipe of the monarch alchemist pill, I can give it to you unconditionally.”

Wuhen Di shook his head and said, “No, my biggest wish was to create a second step monarch pill, or even higher levels. I haven’t had any progress for centuries. Only with your help, was I able to create it. You are my teacher.”

Wuhen Di was stubborn and would do anything to have Qingfeng Li as a teacher. There was nothing Qingfeng Li could do to reject him.

At the end of the day, everything Qingfeng Li tried was futile. He finally said, “Fine, I will have you as a student for now. You can ask me any question you have about creating pills.”

Wuhen Di was extremely pleased and asked a few questions he had encountered during alchemy. Some were about fire, recipes, and even colors of pills.

These questions would be difficult to answer for other alchemists, but it was a simple task for Qingfeng Li. He gave Wuhen Di the answers that he sought instantly.

Wuhen Di had a sudden realization after listening to the answers. He would never have thought of such methods. They were completely different from what he did before. Now, he had an advantage above the other alchemists.

Qingfeng Li and the others returned to the restaurant and he spent the entire night teaching alchemy to Wuhen Di.

Qingfeng Li knew Sacred Level Alchemy Arts, an alchemy art used by immortals in the ancient era. Qingfeng Li was more knowledgeable than Wuhen Di and could point out the mistakes that he made during alchemy. Qingfeng Li was trying to perfect his alchemy arts.

During the whole night, Wuhen Di was on cloud nine. He was extremely excited and thought that asking Qingfeng Li to be his teacher was the right decision.

Wuhen Di had a gut feeling that the knowledge of every alchemist added together could not compare to Qingfeng Li’s.

Wuhen Di had questioned why his teacher had so much knowledge about alchemy arts of the ancient era. Perhaps an ancient monster lived in Qingfeng Li’s head.

Many of the alchemy arts were lost to time, like the combination of ice and fire type spirit medicine. It was a difficult question to answer but was easily solved by Qingfeng Li.

The next morning, the sun rose and spilled warm sunny rays on the ground. The entire restaurant bathed in the sun and warmed the earth.

The restaurant was bustling and noisy, as it was a hub for self cultivators.

Qingfeng Li listened carefully to the conversations around him.

“Did you hear? A spirit vein has appeared three thousand kilometers west of Emerald Lake City.”

“Of course! Apparently, the spirit vein has just been discovered and many people are already going to loot it.”

“The nearby cities as well as our city lord have gone to the spirit vein.”

“If a half step spirit monarch realm obtains it, they can break through. Let’s finish eating quickly and go there. Maybe we will have dumb luck and get some spirit stones.

Everyone on the first floor of the restaurant discussed loudly and did not care about the others.

The appearance of the spirit vein was extremely shocking and disturbed all the cities, dynasties, as well as self-cultivators within ten thousand kilometers of the Sun City.

Qingfeng Li raised his eyebrows as happiness appeared in his eyes.

He was knowledgeable about spirit veins. Within spirit veins were spirit stones, which were higher level than vitality stones. There was spirit energy within the stones.

Qingfeng Li could deeply feel that ever since he broke through to the spirit monarch realm, vital essence in air and stones could not satisfy his practice.

Qingfeng Li understood the Emperor’s Law as well as the Heavenly Dao Seal Scripts of Order, and they required the purest spirit qi. Spirit qi was only usable to self cultivators above the spirit monarch realm.

Even if self cultivators in lower realms absorbed spirit energy, they could not refine it. Spirit energy contained heavenly order seal scripts which made it the purest source of energy between the heavens and the earth. Spirit energy was present when the heaven and the earth was born.

Vital essence had come to be as spirit energy had died out. Now, a spirit vein had appeared in the Sun Mystic Realm. Qingfeng Li’s excitement was evident. He could see how important it must have been to motivate the city lord himself to go loot the vein.

Qingfeng Li said to Wuhen Di, “Let’s go three thousand kilometers west of Emerald Lake City and look for the spirit vein.”

Wuhen Di nodded. As a monarch level alchemist and a first step master in the spirit monarch realm, he knew the importance of the spirit vein.

Once a spirit vein forms, large amounts of spirit stones will appear. They were the most precious materials in the world, containing the Monarch Law and allowing masters in the spirit monarch realm to improve drastically.

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Chapter 1827: Masters Going All Out

Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated

 

As soon as Qingfeng Li and Wuheng Di exited the room, Black Puppy hastily ran to them with sweat dripping down its forehead. Clearly, it had encountered an urgent matter.

Qingfeng Li patted the head of Black Puppy and said, “What’s the hurry? If you found anything, say it slowly.”

Black Puppy excitedly said, “Qingfeng Li, I smelled the scent of Xue Lin.”

Upon hearing Black Puppy’s words, Qingfeng Li became extremely excited and held it up to ask it, “Tell me, where is she?”

Black Puppy awkwardly smiled and said, “Her scent was brief. I smelt it fifteen thousand miles west and then fifteen thousand miles east before it disappeared. You know my nose can only smell scents in a fifteen-thousand-mile radius.”

Qingfeng Li rolled his eyes, almost angered to death.

He hit Black Puppy’s head with his palm and angrily said, “I thought you found where she is! You only smelled her and don’t even have her exact location, how am I supposed to find her?”

Black Puppy laughed and said, “Don’t worry, you know that Xue Lin is in the mysterious sun realm, so we will run into each other sooner or later.”

It continued, “All that you need now is to become stronger. If you become stronger, you can protect Xue Lin when you find her.”

Qingfeng Li nodded and said, “You are right. The spiritual vein appeared three thousand kilometers west of the Emerald Lake City. Let’s get there quickly to take the spiritual vein for ourselves and become stronger. We can go find Xue Lin after that.”

Qingfeng Li was extremely strong now, and his companions were too. Wuheng Di, Sky Wolf Emperor, Mengyao Xu, Ya Yun, Black Puppy, Sky-Devouring Snake, and the Lingyun Emperor were all very strong.

Thanks to Wuheng Di’s pills, all of Qingfeng Li’s companions entered the half step spirit monarch realm.

The Sky Wolf Emperor, in particular, broke through to the first step of the spirit monarch realm. His wounds were all healed and with time, he would become even stronger. He was Qingfeng Li’s right-hand man.

Qingfeng Li waved his hand and said, “Let’s go loot the spirit vein.”

Qingfeng Li and the others left the restaurant and walked down the streets of Emerald Lake City. Many other strong self cultivators followed them. Everyone who heard about the spirit vein were swarming towards it to get their share.

After leaving Emerald Lake City, the Sky Wolf Emperor took out a flying type spiritual treasure. It became a tornado when Qingfeng Li and others sat in it, dashing to a location three thousand kilometers west of the city.

The flying type spiritual treasure was very fast and got the group to their destination within half an hour.

Qingfeng Li looked out and saw a huge mountain range. The peaks rose above the clouds and were close to five kilometers tall. The rocks on the cliff walls were all black and sturdy.

In front of the mountain were a few thousand self cultivators. Qingfeng Li saw a few familiar faces belonging to the city lord, vice city lord, and chief commander, as well as some other self cultivators.

In another direction were self cultivators that Qingfeng Li did not know. They were all surrounded by seal scripts of order and the aura of Monarch Laws. It went without saying that they were all Monarch realm masters.

Ya Yun was knowledgeable about the different powers of the Crimson Fire Continent, and her face changed when she saw the dynasty self cultivators. She felt strong auras from those self cultivators and had recognized some of them.

Qingfeng Li frowned as he quietly said, “Ya Yun, are the dynasty forces strong?”

Ya Yun nodded and explained in a quiet voice, “The Sky Array Dynasty Emperor and the Daoist Talisman Dynasty Emperor are two outstanding individuals. They occupy areas opposite of Meng Lin. One of them excels at using arrays to trap and kill self cultivators, and the other one uses Daoist talismans.”

Qingfeng Li looked in the direction of the two dynasties.

He saw that the Emperor of the Sky Array Dynasty was an elderly man who was at least a few hundred years old. He was dressed in a dragon gown and holding a cane carved with array scripts.

Qingfeng Li was shocked as he recognized that it was a powerful spiritual treasure that was at least in the third level of the monarch realm. It could easily set up monarch level arrays.

Qingfeng Li was extremely knowledgeable about array scripts and could identify it with one glance.

Qingfeng Li turned his gaze to the Emperor of the Daoist Talisman Dynasty. He was also a few hundred years old with sparse white hair and was cloaked in a green dragon gown. The gown was embroidered with countless Daoist talismans, which was also why he had no weapons in his hands.

Qingfeng Li used his clairvoyance and discovered that the talismans were also carved into the palms of his hand. No wonder he was the Emperor of the Daoist Talisman Dynasty. He was covered in talismans so that when he attacked others, he could activate them immediately.

Thousands of self cultivators stared at the foot of the mountain, as the spirit vein was located beneath the mountain. If one would like to enter, they must create a tunnel.

Meng Lin and the Emperors of the Sky Array and Daoist Talisman Dynasties all shot each other a look before waving their spiritual treasures to form Monarch Law scripts to destroy the mountain.

With a huge explosion, the mountain shattered into countless pieces. All three were in the third step of the spirit monarch realm and could easily destroy a mountain.

As the dust dispersed, a huge cave appeared where the mountain once was. It was a few hundred feet deep and seemed bottomless. White, majestic spirit energy flowed out and shot towards the sky.

The self cultivators inhaled and felt as if they’ve drank the most delicious elixir that relaxed their entire body, opened their pores and made their faces flush. Their vital essence all increased.

Meng Lin laughed and said, “What a strong gust of spirit energy! There must be a huge spirit stone mine beneath. Let’s go!”

Meng Lin was the first to charge down and was followed by the two emperors and thousands of self cultivators. They swarmed down to claim the spirit stones for themselves.

Qingfeng Li did not show any weakness. He waved and descended down the cave with the Sky Wolf Emperor and the others.

At the beginning, the mine was pitch black. It lit up as self cultivators took out their spiritual treasures to illuminate the mine.

The giant cave seemed bottomless and lead to an unknown location. Everyone charged in, hoping to be the first ones to the bottom.

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Chapter 1828: Dangers in the Mine

Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated

 

Qingfeng and the others then entered the cave tunnel. Not long after they entered, he felt a rush of depressive energy.

This rush of energy was very light, and only Qingfeng could feel it because the Chaos Millstone was still in the depths of his mind, and his own spirit energy was very powerful; he was more sensitive to danger than anyone else.

Qingfeng waved his right hand and said lightly, “Let’s move slowly, and be careful of the danger inside the tunnel.”

Mengyao Xu said, “Brother Li, I haven’t felt any danger, there are only spiritual veins, and there isn’t anything else other than spiritual stones.”

Qingfeng lightly smiled as he explained quietly, “There are spiritual veins, but don’t forget about the many demonic beasts deep underneath the ground, like demonic snakes, spiders, and centipedes. They all love to hide inside the soil, and the spiritual veins underneath the tall mountain are where they live.”

Mengyao Xu nodded when she realized. She naturally knew how poisonous these underground demonic beasts were.

If they had found where the spiritual veins were, then they would have trained at great speed.

While Qingfeng and Mengyao spoke, a scream rang out from the hole before them, as if someone had been bitten.

The sound was extremely horrible, as all the self-cultivators grew scared, their faces paling.

Qingfeng and the others hurried over to look and saw a forty-some-year-old male self-cultivator on the ground of the tunnel. His face was pale, with white foam, and a black opening bitten onto his ankles.

This black opening had black poison all over, and within a few seconds, it spread all over his body as his whole body covered with black fog. His body trembled uncontrollably, as he screamed in horror, and lost all signs of life.

All the self-cultivators around were terrified as they stepped back to get away from the dead self-cultivator, afraid to approach him.

Qingfeng closely inspected the wound of this dead middle-aged self-cultivator, and noticed a clear spider bite wound, with spider poison.

Mengyao, Ya Yun and the others’ faces all changed. They were women and feared this kind of poisonous creature the most.

Plus, they’ve already heard from Qingfeng that there were many poisonous demonic beasts underground, and they should be careful. Who knew they would immediately meet one?

Qingfeng said with a lowered voice, “Everyone be careful. Black Puppy use your dog nose to smell around, notify us as soon as you noticed danger.”

Black Puppy nodded with a concerned look. It knew that the demonic beasts that lived beside the underground spiritual vein were incredibly powerful. They would live all year round and absorb the spirituality in spiritual stones. They had incredible powers and were very skilled in hiding, far more skilled and powerful than average above ground demonic beasts.

Ahhhhh….

Suddenly, several screams sounded from before Qingfeng and the others as they rushed forward. In the tunnel before Qingfeng, four or five self-cultivators kneeled on the ground, as they screamed in pain.

Some had bite marks on their necks, hands, and ankles, all from poisonous snakes, spiders, or centipedes.

Some Qingfeng couldn’t even recognize, but they all contained intense poison, some black, some green or blue. Shortly afterward, these self-cultivators all died from the poison, without anyone persisting.

The thousand or so self-cultivators now all grew very careful inside the tunnel. They were filled with excitement when they first entered the tunnel, in hopes to find the spiritual vein and spiritual stones.

However now, they’ve met danger before they found the spiritual vein, and some self-cultivators died, which made them realize that spiritual stones weren’t so easy to find.

There must be many more underground poisonous beasts, so they had to be extremely careful. It would be very unfortunate to die here, and it was not worth the risk.

Qingfeng and the others walked in the very back; because they knew that this tunnel was complicated. The spiritual vein here seemed to have contained a special kind of strange power, which Qingfeng couldn’t even pinpoint, but he was still determined to get the spiritual stone.

Suddenly Black Puppy said, “Oh no, there’s an underground poisonous beast charging towards us, and is now beneath our feet.”

Qingfeng’s face suddenly turned cold as he said, “Where?”

Black Puppy’s face changed as it raised its dog paws and pointed towards Qingfeng’s feet and said, “Right beneath you.”

Just after Black Puppy spoke, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the ground and charged towards Qingfeng’s ankles.

Qingfeng’s eyes filled with murderous intent, he was prepared. Did this poisonous demonic beast really think it could kill Qingfeng? More like it was begging for death.

Qingfeng reached out two fingers of his right hand and pinched downwards like lightning. Suddenly it caught the black shadow between his fingers and he noticed that it was a spider.

This spider was roughly palm-sized, with three eyes, black fur thorns all over, and black poison inside its mouth, it was clear that it was a poisonous demonic beast.

Qingfeng’s eyes filled with surprise as he said, “Three-eyed poisonous spider! This demonic beast hasn’t gone extinct yet.”

After Qingfeng came to the Crimson Fire Continent, he acquired some Crimson Fire Continent elixir and demonic beast knowledge, and naturally knew of this three-eyed poisonous spider.

Legends has it that these spiders have been extinct since three thousand years ago, because its poison posed a great threat to human self-cultivators, and so humans attacked it and drove them into extinction. Who knew he would see one in the Sun Mystic Realm.

However, Qingfeng shortly realized the Sun Mystic Realm was isolated from the real world for five thousand years. It was an ancient battlefield and where the Sun Emperor had lived, so it was understandable for there to be strange mythical demonic beasts left.

The three-eyed spider screamed at Qingfeng and released white spider webs in attempts to wrap around Qingfeng.

Qingfeng coldly laughed, opened his mouth and shot out a ray of Golden Energy. The golden light was incredibly fierce as it immediately shot through the spider web.

Then Qingfeng raised his right-hand finger into the void, and with a tremble, his Monarch Law entrapped the three-eyed poisonous spider’s body.

Qingfeng’s right-handed Dragon Bone then pressed underneath, to form a ray of Godly Dragon Prestige that pressed onto the three-eyed poisonous spider. With a forward press, it squashed the three-eyed poisonous spider’s body.

The three-eyed poisonous spider screamed out in terror, which made everyone cringe, as it looked at Qingfeng with hatred and unwillingness to die.