Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 301: There is a Cave at the Bottom of Wuya Lake

Xu Yuanchang showed a dilemma on his face. Since he couldn't refuse, then it wouldn't be too much to extort a little benefit, right?
He would not feel the slightest bit guilty about finding an opportunity to blackmail Lao Li.

How many people in the world can cheat the notorious cheating beast?

Li Dan saw through the other party's blatant trick at a glance, and said with a chuckle: "Okay, this is the way to do business. In the beginning, the money and goods are exchanged and the transaction is settled. We don't owe each other anything. In the end, I'll ask you to run errands for me and I'll give you a wild fifth-level fire. It's full of sincerity, right?"

Xu Yuanchang quickly suppressed the weak smile on his lips.

Lao Li is worthy of being at the peak of the seventh level. He is open and generous in doing things, but of course he will not blink an eye when it comes to cheating others.

There is no fifth-order fire produced in the lower world anymore. The conditions for the natural environment to produce fifth-order fire are too harsh, and there has been no record of it in any books for at least two thousand years.

He secretly asked Gu Yunzhu what she thought. Gu Yunzhu suggested that he help the other party. Besides, he couldn't beat them, so why make things uncomfortable?

Xi Yuelou, who was standing by, was secretly impressed by what he heard. Senior Li's move was truly extraordinary.

Fifth-level fire is extremely rare in the world, and the task to be done is probably not easy.

He didn't dare to warn Xu Yuanchang through voice transmission, for fear that the powerful Senior Li would notice and bring him into trouble.

"Lao Li, let's make it clear first. I won't do anything that puts me in a desperate situation. Don't ask me to do anything that is particularly difficult. The most I can do is run errands for you."

Xu Yuanchang would not take it lightly because of the benefits. He first put forward his conditions, then looked at Gu Yunzhu who was smiling and saying nothing, and invited: "Yunzhu, why don't you go out to see your old friend off?"

Li Dan said first, "No need to trouble Xin Zi to see you off. Xu boy, don't worry, I'm not asking you to help fight, and you don't have to risk your life. With your little cultivation, you'd be in the way if you just stand aside and watch the fight... Haha, I'm always very straightforward, don't blame me."

A beautiful woman in black appeared behind him. She was the female ghost Xiao Yi whom he had subdued. She had already reached the fifth level of cultivation.

There was not a trace of ghostly aura emanating from the female ghost. Her eyes were lively. She knelt down to salute, then stood silently with her head lowered.

Lao Li’s meaning was very clear. Even if they had to fight to the death, it would not be his turn. The female ghosts were enough.

His words were still as harsh as ever, but Xu Yuanchang was relieved. Lao Li treated him as a mobile inn. Lao Li probably wouldn't look down on the various mineral materials he currently piled up in the ring space.

He is purely a tool to run errands and provide chatting service.

Gu Yunzhu smiled and said, "I will guard Fucai Ridge."

Everyone has a secret. Fellow Daoist Li is on guard against her, so there is no need for her to join in the fun.

Xi Yuelou took advantage of the opportunity to say goodbye and leave with his three closed disciples. He didn't want to hear any secrets that he shouldn't hear.

Besides, for such a big thing, he had to send a message to inform the old Sword Saint that Senior Li would go to Dingzhou and would definitely take the passage from Gem City, so as the host, he could not miss any etiquette.

Xu Yuanchang invited Lao Li to sit in the tree pavilion. He was not in a hurry to leave, so he asked his nephew to make tea and serve water.

Liu Xianfeng took the opportunity to invite Grandma Jiao Teng to accompany her. In fact, he wanted Grandma Jiao Teng to sit in and listen to the advice of an expert, which might bring unexpected gains.

Grandma Jiao Teng was a spirit with an unusually keen sense of danger. When she was glanced at by that carelessly speaking old man, her hair stood on end and she almost couldn't walk.

"Xianfeng..."

Grandma Jiao Teng let out a trembling voice, "Little guy, don't hurt her."

Liu Xianfeng comforted her by voice transmission: "Don't be afraid, Grandma. Elder Li is a friend of the Young Master and is also familiar with Miss Yunzhu. He is a generous person and gave me and Shengtian rare gifts as soon as we met."

Grandma Jiao Teng calmed herself down, bowed outside the pavilion, and after receiving an invitation from Xu Yuanchang, she walked into the pavilion and sat down on an empty chair at the bottom. Seeing that the old man ignored her, the sense of danger of being targeted as food disappeared like an illusion.

"Xianfeng, what level of cultivation is this Senior Li at?"

Grandma Jiao Teng sat silently, looking at her nose and her heart, and asked curiously through voice transmission.

Liu Xianfeng didn't feel scared when the young master called her "Old Li". She thought Old Li was funny and interesting, not a conservative person. She casually transmitted, "I heard he was level seven. In the second battle of the Dark Realm, thanks to the help of Senior Li, who disrupted the Black Spirit Army, the Gem City was able to win easily."

Grandma Jiao Teng already knew who the mysterious old man who was talking so loudly in front of her was, and she quietly sat up straight.

A seventh-level master, a very terrifying existence.

She was full of admiration for Xu Yuanchang, who only had the fourth-level cultivation. He kept calling her "Old Li" left and right, which made her tremble with fear. His self-righteous calmness was something that not everyone could do.

"You boy, perform an illusion first. Let me see if you are lazy or not. Which direction you have comprehended?"

"Please give me some advice. I'm sorry for the embarrassment."

Xu Yuanchang stood up and walked ten feet out of the tree pavilion. In a flash, twelve figures appeared in the air and flew away in several directions. Their movements were different, and their figures were fainter and lighter. Even their auras changed so much that it was hard to tell the truth from the false.

"Not bad, not bad. You have mastered my signature skill, the Phantom Escape, to such an extent. You have put in a lot of effort. However, you should not have superfluously transformed your real body into a roadside tree. It is not advisable to put yourself in danger. You should escape with the phantom. This is called 'using the real to borrow the fake'. It would be best if you could swap your real body with other phantoms, so that you can 'change shape and position' with the phantoms and avoid danger at any time."

Li Dan made some casual comments and also transmitted a few tips via voice transmission.

If Xu can understand a certain direction, he can give some pointers.

After chatting for about half an hour, Xu Yuanchang asked about the "inverted illusion" and "secret method of phantom soul" etc.

Over the years, he had learned the basics of several illusion techniques from the jade slips, but the one he had mastered the most was the escape technique "Invisible Phantom Escape", which had some similarities to the "Illusion Technique" he had learned before.

"Let's go. We'll have plenty of time to chat on the way. I'll take you to see a fun place."

Li Dan stood up and walked out of the pavilion. The female ghost with a very low presence in the corner immediately followed him.

Everyone stood up to see him off, and Liu Xianfeng called out "Young Master".

Xu Yuanchang smiled and refused: "You should practice well in the dark world. The place where Lao Li is going must not be suitable for you, otherwise Lao Li would ask you to go with him."

Even though Lao Li acted mysterious, he probably guessed where he was going.

Li Dan laughed and said, "Xu is smart. That place is really not suitable for a little girl. You will suffer if you go there. Don't worry, you will not miss out on any benefits you get."

He bowed to Gu Yunzhu and flew gracefully into the air.

After watching the three figures disappear into the distance, Gu Yunzhu comforted the depressed Liu Xianfeng and said, "It will be fine. Although Brother Li's behavior is a little unreliable, it is related to breaking through the realm and ascending to heaven. He must be very cautious. The danger is not great."

"Does that mean there's still danger?"

"Of course. Or, considering his previous unscrupulous nature, would he be willing to spend a fifth-level fire to ask Master Xu to run errands?"

Gu Yunzhu said with a smile, "As expected, everyone will change. Fellow Daoist Li's personality has changed so much that she almost couldn't recognize him. A faint voice came from the air: "Xin Zi, it's not your character to talk about others behind their backs."

"Yeah, I'm talking to your face."

"..."

Li Dan, who had already gone far away, rolled his eyes in dismay and complained to Xu Yuan who was beside him: "Only girls and villains are hard to raise. Such a good girl, after being with you for a few years, has become a gossiper. Birds of a feather flock together."

Xu Yuanchang knew that Gu Yunzhu was saying this to ease his mind, so he laughed, "Yunzhu only speaks to people in a way that is human, and speaks to ghosts in a way that is not human... Please don't mind, I always speak very directly, don't blame me, and I didn't mean to offend Daoist Xiao Yi."

"Get lost, you are just repeating what others say. Now you are birds of a feather."

The two chatted and laughed during the nearly ten thousand mile journey, and arrived at the Gem City just as it was getting dark.

The old sword master, Xi Yuelou and other masters came out of the city to welcome the three of them into the city.

Li Dan refused the invitation to go to the Jewel Hall for tea. The fact that he and Xu Xiaozi could chat and laugh together was a complex relationship of "birds of a feather flock together" that had been honed over a long period of time, and had little to do with old man Yanshan.

Before entering the passage, he dodged and was pulled into the Fantasy Fairy Ring space by Xu Yuanchang, which he was unwilling to enter again.

He voluntarily allows himself to be controlled by others because he already has means to counterattack.

The female ghost Xiao Yi suddenly spoke in the voice of an old man: "Let's go, don't dawdle."

With his sleeves fluttering, he took the lead and stepped forward into the spiral node passage.

Xu Yuanchang bowed to the old sword master and others who had come to see him off, expressed his gratitude, and followed them in to Dingzhou in another world. He felt the magnificent beauty of the setting sun over the sea and the breeze blowing across it, and felt relaxed and happy, enjoying it very much.

The monks guarding outside the passage had already received instructions and bowed respectfully to see them off.

The two men bypassed Gucheng, crossed the Xiyuan Desert, passed through thousands of mountains and hills, and arrived at the Wuya Lake west of the Wuqiu Mountains before dawn.

"We have arrived at the great lake you have been so obsessed with. Now, can you tell me what treasure you are looking for?"

Xu Yuanchang followed the female ghost and flew to the center of the lake. Not long after he met Lao Li, Lao Li tried every means to tempt and persuade him to go down to the lake to search for treasure. The two fought wits and courage for this, and later made a deal, agreeing to come back in 20 years.

There are only more than ten years left, and Lao Li can't wait any longer.

He was curious about what kind of good things were under the lake that made Lao Li so worried?

"Alas, I once owed someone a favor, but I didn't care about it back then... Eight thousand years later, I must fulfill that old promise. Maybe he is no longer around, so I'll just fulfill my wish."

Lao Li sounded depressed through the ghost girl's mouth.

He and other masters like Taoist Yanshan and Gao Jianren are not on the same page, so they will make trouble whenever they get the chance. The root of the trouble actually lies in the Wuya Sect, and he has completely offended the immortal forces for this.

When the sinister old guys realized they couldn't catch him, they set a trap at Wuya Lake, and he ended up being caught and suppressed.

Xu Yuanchang understood that the old pervert must have owed the woman a favor, otherwise he wouldn't have taken it so seriously.

The female ghost flew about three hundred miles away, and after calculating for a while, she circled around to search. She went into the water from the east side of a small island hundreds of feet high, and dived down along the almost straight island wall. The water below was deep and dark.

Xu Yuanchang followed closely behind. He took out a glowing stone and illuminated an area of ​​water several meters in size.

With his current level of cultivation, he was not afraid of the pressure of ordinary lake water. He casually performed a water-avoiding technique, and his robe fluttered without being stained by water. His speed was slightly slower than that in the air.

The bright light attracted many underwater fish to chase after it, but after two hundred feet, the fish were almost extinct.

A dark shadow of water flow approached. It was a rare crab-like water monster, the size of a water tank. It approached about fifty feet away. Suddenly, it spit out bubbles and fled madly, crawling very fast on its eight claws.

A man and a ghost fell to the bottom of the lake. Thousands of years have passed, where are the remains?

Apart from the unknown depth of silt, there was not even a single aquatic plant to be seen.

The female ghost circled around the three-hundred-foot-tall island pillar below, used magic to remove the silt and attachments on the surface, and found a huge rune mark that had long been blurred by the erosion of the lake water.

After reciting a strange and difficult-to-pronounce spell, the female ghost made a hand gesture and a palm print about a meter in size was placed in the middle of the talisman.

A gray-white light burst out from the mark of the rune, the bottom of the lake vibrated, and the water swirled around the island pillar to form a huge whirlpool, swallowing up the man and the ghost in the blink of an eye, leaving only the turbid muddy water that was stirred up, and slowly sank as the whirlpool disappeared.

Xu Yuanchang looked at the broken mountains and the ruins all over the ground in the darkness.

"Is this the Wuya Sect that was suppressed by Feng Chen?"

"Yes, what is buried at the bottom of the lake is just the outer courtyard of Wuya Sect, which is hidden from the public. Old man Yanshan and his gang have done all kinds of immoral and harmful things for the sake of so-called 'orthodoxy'."

Li Dan's voice came from the ring space. No matter how much he let go, he was still full of contempt for the original immortal way. He said: "The lake water is the energy source of the barrier restriction. This place is isolated from most of the outside world. You let me out, and I will borrow the body of a female ghost. It will not attract the attention of the heavenly tribulation."

Xu Yuanchang would not listen to and believe Lao Li's one-sided words.

When Taoist Master Yanshan and his men destroyed the Wuya Sect and sealed up the ruins, he must have had his reasons for doing so.

He used his spiritual sense to pull Lao Li out of the space, and watched a shadow enter the female ghost's body. He said, "I'll wait here for you to finish your business. We can reunite and then go out."

He heard that Lao Li could use the female ghost body he created to temporarily avoid the trouble of heavenly calamity.

The female ghost transformed into Lao Li's appearance, grinned and said, "I said I would get you a fifth-level wildfire. Let's go. I sense that the 'Water Rippling Ice Fire' is still there. I will collect the flame that can nourish the soul first. I will go to the 'Boundless Valley' to do some work, so it will take me some time."

Xu Yuanchang once heard Lao Li mention that there was "water and fire" under Wuya Lake, and he said suspiciously: "Why do I think you are smiling a little cunningly? Lao Li, please don't trick me. It was Yunzhu who suggested that I help him."

Li Dan's smile froze, and he cursed, "When will you change your suspicious habit? A grown man is too cautious, and people look down on him. If I want to punish you, do I need to pick a place? Forget it, just wait here. I gave you Watery Ice and Fire before, but you didn't need it anymore."

Xu Yuanchang hurriedly caught up with him. Old Li was really a dog. He changed his attitude faster than turning the pages of a book.

He didn't know how to get out, so he looked for a topic to talk about: "Lao Li, you are very familiar with this place."

Li Dan curled his lips. Those guys instructed a former friend of his to lie to him and told him the method to open the sealed ruins of Wuya Sect. Then they waited for him to carefully sneak in after several attempts and then closed the door and attacked him.

Bah, it’s a closed door catching man.

How could he not be familiar with it?
The little guy has to bring up something that is not relevant to the topic. Let's put it aside for ten years first.

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(End of this chapter)