bookbashuk Chapter 74: The Attack
Chapter 74: The Attack
The carriage was wide.
The four of them sat inside without feeling cramped at all.
Lu Wenzheng and Huang Cheng quickly calmed down, but looked out the carriage window with a hint of trepidation.
This was, in fact, their first time traveling far from home to make a living.
Fortunately, some of my colleagues were childhood friends.
Yang Jiuli lowered his eyes and pondered, still thinking about the Foundation Establishment elder from the Li family.
"Ninth Brother, don't be sad. Life is a long journey. Some things and some people will fade with time!" Liu Yuelong saw Yang Jiuli's appearance and noticed the new storage bag on his waist. He immediately understood that the latter was sad.
That storage bag must have been the "Severing Emotions Wealth" given to me by that Foundation Establishment Fairy.
He saw that after Qin Zhixue returned from the river, the Foundation Establishment Fairy went to see Yang Jiuli again.
Upon further reflection, Liu Yuelong understood what had happened.
After all, Ice River Valley naturally didn't want its own prodigies to have too much contact with ordinary cultivators.
"Heartbroken?" Upon hearing this, Yang Jiuli snapped out of his reverie and paused slightly.
But Liu Yuelong gave him a knowing look.
Yang Jiuli didn't say much.
"Fellow Daoist Liu, weren't you going to the Azure Flame Immortal Sect? Why did you choose the Li family instead?" Yang Jiuli changed the subject.
Upon hearing this, Lu Wenzheng also became interested.
They had previously thought Liu Yuelong was going to the Azure Flame Immortal Sect.
After all, his cousin had made a special trip to Longhu Mountain for this.
"Hehe, my cousin can handle things at the Azure Flame Immortal Sect," Liu Yuelong said with a shrug. "I prefer alchemy. If I learn alchemy, I'll be set for life!"
Upon hearing this, Yang Jiuli understood.
It seems the Liu family also didn't want to put all their eggs in one basket.
The Li family is currently riding high, so seizing the opportunity to take a gamble is also a good chance.
……
In the blink of an eye, two days have passed.
On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the snow cleared up.
Three carriages drove into a canyon between two mountains.
The snow on the canyon road has melted.
Scattered snowflakes still lingered among the rocks on both sides of the mountain.
Occasionally, a vulture would fly by overhead, leaving behind a cry.
"Brother Yu, when are we going to Yunmeng Lake?" Lu Wenzheng lifted the front curtain of the carriage and asked the young man driving the spirit horse.
The young man's name was Li Feiyu. He was about twenty-three years old and had started absorbing Qi into his body at the age of nine. Now he had reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.
"Young friend, don't be in a hurry. We'll be in my Li family's territory in about eighty li!" Li Feiyu said with a smile.
"Eighty li to go!" Lu Wenzheng murmured, then lowered the curtain.
The moment he lowered the curtain, his pupils suddenly contracted.
Suddenly, a series of wind blades, like a rain of knives, fell from the sky ahead, accompanied by a series of whooshing sounds.
At the same time, the spirit horse neighed.
Li Feiyu pulled on the reins, stopping the horse from moving forward.
At the same time, he made a hand gesture, and a first-grade high-quality talisman flew out from his body, transforming into a golden light shield to protect the carriage.
The talisman had just formed a golden light shield when the wind blades struck it, producing a series of violent impacts.
The spirit horse neighed, and the carriage swayed from side to side.
"What happened?" Huang Cheng asked, his eyes wide and his face filled with panic, inside the carriage.
"There's an ambush! There's an ambush!" Lu Wenzheng said, lowering the carriage curtain with a look of horror on his face.
The wind blades that had just rained down, making the void whistle and echo in his mind, continued to reverberate.
"An ambush? How is that possible?" Liu Yuelong exclaimed in surprise. "Who would be so bold as to ambush the Li family of Yunmeng Lake?"
Yang Jiuli then released his divine sense to sense the outside world.
"Don't panic, everyone. They're just a bunch of petty thieves. My Yunmeng Li family can wipe them out with a flick of our fingers!" Li Feiyu said to the carriage after stabilizing the spirit horse.
Despite this, the people in the carriage were still quite uneasy, and they all secretly released their divine senses to sense the outside of the carriage.
But then they saw that the wind blade attack had stopped.
Between the cliffs on both sides ahead, figures flickered, and nine cultivators clad in magic robes appeared.
The leader was a one-eyed man, and his single eye was filled with malevolent energy.
After he appeared in the air, he strode out and looked down at the stopped carriage, an aura as vast as the sea pressing down upon him.
As this imposing aura pressed down, all the stable spirit horses neighed in fear.
The carriage swayed from side to side again.
Li Feiyu, who had been calm and collected, thinking they were just a bunch of petty thieves, suddenly changed his expression.
"Oh no, it's a Foundation Establishment cultivator..." Li Feiyu exclaimed in shock.
"A Foundation Establishment cultivator has actually attacked!" Yang Jiuli muttered to himself, thinking to himself, "As expected, things are not that simple."
As he whispered, Yang Jiuli continued to sense the person behind the Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Although those people had an extraordinary aura, they clearly did not possess the pressure of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
"Fortunately, the others are all Qi Refining Realm cultivators!" Yang Jiuli thought to himself.
"But these people who dare to come and rob the Li family of Yunmeng Lake must be extraordinary." He was lost in thought.
At that moment, Li Wannian flashed out of the lead carriage and stood in mid-air.
"Kuang Liming, the third brother of Xuan Yin Valley! It's actually you!" Li Wannian's gaze sharpened as he looked at the Foundation Establishment cultivator in the air.
Clearly, they knew each other.
"What is the meaning of your surprise attack on my Li family's carriages and horses?" Li Wannian said coldly.
A second-tier, low-grade Flame Talisman had already secretly appeared in his hands behind his back.
"Hmph, your ancestor Li Hongtai stole my elder brother's opportunity in Liuyun Zhenren's cave. This debt should be repaid with the blood of your Li family!" Kuang Liming snorted coldly, then strode forward. With a hand gesture, four chain-like spiritual weapons flashed behind him and continued to extend, like a rainbow, stabbing towards Li Wannian.
Two chained spears bypassed Li Wannian and pierced the carriage below him.
"Go all out to protect the Immortal Seedling! The Li family's support will arrive immediately!" Li Wannian shouted.
With a flick of his right hand, the second-tier, low-grade Flame Talisman flew out.
The moment the talisman flew out, a raging flame surged forward.
The eight late-stage Qi Refining cultivators behind Kuang Liming immediately dodged.
At the same time, Li Wannian activated a talisman with his left hand, which transformed into a golden light shield to protect himself.
With only the ninth level of Qi Refining, he was no match for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
boom!
Just then, two chained spears, carrying the force of a thunderbolt, pierced the light barrier in front of Li Wannian.
Click!
The light shield immediately developed cracks and was on the verge of bursting.
"It's a mid-grade second-tier spiritual weapon: Xuan Sha Lock Spear!" Li Wannian was shocked. He retreated rapidly and summoned a shield magic weapon to block in front of him.
Just then, in the carriage below.
A flash of light shot into the sky, knocking away the two Xuan Sha Lock Spears that were aimed at the carriage.
In addition, a talisman flew out.
Flames burned fiercely on the talisman, writhing and instantly condensing into nine suns that billowed in the air with long tails, carrying terrifying power as they attacked Kuang Liming and the eight Qi Refining cultivators behind him.