The Primordial Law

Chapter 205: Strong Thinking
Xuantian Stone Cliff is a steep cliff at the foot of Taoli Mountain. It is as smooth as a mirror, with jade-like stone, and is hundreds of feet high.

The sword of Zuo Qiu's ancestor got its name from the two words "Xuantian" written on it.

This stone wall is located in the east city. Below it is a martial arts square with 72 stone columns with coiled dragons. It is the grand venue for important events at Zuoqiu Gate.

The square, which could accommodate tens of thousands of people, was now already packed with people and water could not enter.

Seven spiritual lanterns as big as sedan chairs were suspended in the air, illuminating the square and the surrounding streets as if it were daytime.

Li Weiyi couldn't squeeze in at all. On the street more than a hundred feet away from Xuantian Square, Zuoqiu Baiyuan flashed out and smiled at him: "Brother Weiyi, the first inheritor has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Led by Zuoqiu Baiyuan, the two headed towards a 15-story stone tower with dense eaves located in the southeast corner of Xuantian Square. Under the tower, a large number of Zuoqiumen Five Seas Realm martial artists were guarding it, and a great mind master was protecting the formation.

"It's Master Li who has arrived!"

"He is Young Master Li. It is said that he is a close friend of the First Inheritor and a genius who defeated all the masters of the same realm in just five moves."

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The martial artists at Zuoqiu Gate looked over with curiosity and admiration.

When Li Weiyi looked at them, they all smiled and bowed in greeting, showing great respect and admiration for this future rising star of the fourth realm of the Five Seas Realm.

"Brother Weiyi really became famous in one battle."

Zuoqiu Baiyuan took him into the tower and up the stairs.

Li Weiyi said, "Don't even mention it. A fight to make friends through martial arts turned into a joke. The money I worked so hard to earn was taken away by someone else. It was all for nothing."

"That thief, don't let me find out who it is."

Zuoqiu Baiyuan's face looked grim and he snorted heavily.

Li Weiyi had reminded him, so Qi Xiao did not leak the news that the five boxes of Yongquan coins might have been stolen by Sui Zong. Of course, the lost wealth must be taken back personally to regain face.

If the inheritor of Zuoqiumen was allowed to take action, even if the wealth was taken back, he might not still be named Li.

During the process of climbing the tower, they occasionally met young martial artists from Zuoqiu Sect, most of whom could call out Li Weiyi's name. Among them were Zuoqiu Lanlan and Zuoqiu Baiming, but they didn't know that he was Sima Tan from Sanshisanli Mountain, so they nodded and passed by.

Four ritual bone lamps are lit on the top floor of the stone pagoda, and are placed in the four corridors in the southeast, northwest, and northeast.

The door of the square tower room is open. When walking past, you can see outstanding figures sitting on chairs. Their auras are either as strong as dragons and tigers, or subtle and undetectable. They are all top masters of the younger generation of the Zuoqiu sect.

The Zuoqiu Clan is located in the southern border and actually controls two and a half states, but its influence actually reaches all aspects of the seven states. Millions of powerful clans and sects obey its orders.

It is impossible for other major forces to dispatch all the young masters under the age of 30 to Qiuzhou to participate in the Qianlong Lantern Festival. They don't have the time or the conditions, and they are even more afraid of being wiped out.

But Zuoqiumenting can do it, and there are no such concerns.

That's right, everyone knows that the Qianlong Lantern Festival is the home ground of Zuoqiu Menting, so Zuoqiu Menting naturally became the target of public criticism.

At this moment, half of the top masters of the Zuoqiu Menting faction gathered in the West Tower Room where they could see the grand scene of Xuantian Square.

The three inheritors, Zuoqiu Ting, Zuoqiu Lancheng and Zuoqiu Qingyin, sat at the top and were whispering about something.

Seeing Li Weiyi coming, Qi Xiao was the first to greet him, and transmitted his voice with his magical energy: "Why are you here just now? I've been waiting for you all night! You people from the Jiuli tribe are more stable than each other. Cangli and Li Jiufu haven't arrived yet."

"I came here after the New Year's Eve dinner."

Li Weiyi also used his spiritual energy to transmit his voice, not wanting to disturb the tranquility here.

Qi Xiao was startled, then smiled and said, "You should have said so earlier. Come here to eat. We have just cleared the food. The first inheritor is very generous tonight. Bing Zuze has caught ten dragon scale fish. Each one is as good as a thousand-year-old medicine and can enhance physical strength."

"Aren't you trying to make me jealous on purpose?" Li Weiyi said.

"Mr. Li is here, come in!"

Zuoqiu Ting's voice sounded, and he looked at him through the window lattice with a smile.

Inside the West Tower, many eyes fell on Li Weiyi standing outside the door.

There is curiosity, doubt and surprise.

Defeating all enemies in five moves was indeed amazing, and attracted the interest of many top masters in the Five Seas Realm. But his cultivation level was too low, so why was he brought to the top tower?

Those gathered on this floor are all the core figures of the Qianlong Lantern Festival.

Li Weiyi was actually also very confused. Why did Zuoqiu Ting want to see him?
Zuoqiu Ting's face at this moment has changed again, and he is very unfamiliar. It is hard to tell who he is. His disguise is so perfect that if he hadn't been sitting between Zuoqiu Lancheng and Zuoqiu Qingyin, with his folding fan in his hand, it would have been difficult to recognize him at first sight.

Unless you use the Tiantong Eye.

Zuo Qiuting stood up with a smile on his face. He did not look down on Li Weiyi at all because of his low level of cultivation. Instead, he introduced him to the core masters in the tower room in a very solemn manner.

"Lan Cheng, you already know the second successor of our Zuoqiu Sect. As for this one..."

When he reached Zuoqiu Qingyin, he spoke without waiting for Zuoqiu to stop.

The pure immortal-looking woman in green stepped forward with lotus steps and said with a smile like a silver bell, "Are you Cangli's brother-in-law? Many elders in the clan have mentioned you to me, and they seem to want to bring you together."

She was bold in her words and outgoing in her personality. Li Weiyi was stared at by Zuoqiu Qingyin with an extremely aggressive gaze, and felt a headache. He looked at Zuoqiu Ting and said, "You asked Bai Yuan to pull me up here, wasn't it just for this?"

"The old guy in the tribe assigned me a task. I must let you two meet. Whether you can get along or not is your own business!" Zuoqiu Ting laughed.

"Don't do that. Miss Qingyin is the inheritor of Baimai Quanyin, and she has a beautiful face that can make fish sink to the bottom of the water and geese fall to the ground. It is impossible for her to marry into the poor Li family. Please tell the old seniors of Zuoqiu Sect not to match couples randomly!"

After Li Weiyi said this, several eyes in the tower room softened and their hostility greatly reduced.

I don’t know whether these people think that he is not worthy of Zuoqiu Qingyin, or they are admirers of Zuoqiu Qingyin.

"She is so beautiful that fish can sink to the bottom of the water and geese can fall to the ground. This description is very interesting." Zuoqiu Qingyin smiled brightly.

Seeing that Li Weiyi only mentioned marrying down and never mentioned the word marrying into the wife's family, Zuo Qiuting felt that the matter was most likely a failure. He said no more and said solemnly: "Brother Weiyi, I regret asking you to write those cloth banners! I shouldn't have helped you get the invitation to the Qianlong Lantern Festival and brought you into danger."

Li Weiyi seemed very calm and said with a smile: "Are you afraid of losing?"

I knew from the beginning that wanting to join the Qianlong Lantern Society to fight for the elixir of immortality was wishful thinking and overestimating my own abilities. I thought about retreating and giving up, but in the end, the fighting spirit in my heart overwhelmed everything.

So he came to Qiuzhou city.

At that time, he knew that he had no chance at all, but he still went ahead without hesitation. After months of hard work, he finally got a chance, so how could he give up at this moment?
Zuo Qiuting said, "It's just a Dao Lotus. I can afford to lose it. If you are willing to withdraw from the Qianlong Lantern Festival, I will give it to you now."

Li Weiyi looked through the tower window at the Xuantian stone wall in the distance: "Whether I can get the invitation is still unknown. Why did you give up so quickly, Master Zuoqiu? Oh, right! I have something important to tell you."

By directing the magic power towards his eyes, he could see three rows of wooden signs hanging on the stone wall in the distance.

On the wooden plaques were the names of the young martial artists.

The wooden signs for the four realms of martial arts practitioners in the east, south, west and north are hung separately.

The first row consists of ten people from each realm, forty in total, and is called the first class.

The second row, also with forty people, is called Class II.

The third row, still with forty people, is called the top three.

The number of invitations to the Qianlong Lantern Festival is fifty people from each realm.

In other words, twenty more places will be announced in each territory tonight, for a total of eighty people. These eighty people obviously cannot enter the first class.

Li Weiyi saw that the top three in the South Territory was Yin Jiu's alias "Li Jiufu". The second among the top three in the South Territory was Yin Shiyi's alias "Li Jiao".

The top ten people in each realm are naturally strong, but the top two and three are not necessarily weaker than them. It is very likely that masters like Yin Jiu and Yin Shiyi will appear suddenly and be added in.

Zuo Qiuting asked everyone in the West Tower to leave temporarily: "Tell me, what's the important matter?"

Li Weiyi revealed the news that the court might launch an attack on Zuoqiu Menting and the Jiuli tribe tonight. Of course, he did not mention Jiang Ning, but instead attributed the source of the news to a hidden person lurking in the court.

After hearing this, Zuoqiu Ting was unusually calm: "The court believes that the Zuoqiu clan has a strong army and has made a lot of money from wars in the past ten years. It has accumulated countless resources. Once it participates in the struggle for the world, it will pose a greater threat than the Snow Sword Tang Court, the Zhu Clan, the Long Clan, and the Lei Xiao Sect."

"Holding the Qianlong Lantern Festival with Du'e Temple is a blatant act of opposition to the imperial court, which is a heinous crime."

"Of course, Zuoqiu Menting will be the first one they target. As long as they wipe out the younger generation of Zuoqiu Menting, this Qianlong Lantern Festival will become a joke. Zuoqiu Menting is a joke, and Du'e Temple is also a joke."

Li Weiyi said, "It seems that you expected it, but I was worried for nothing. Isn't Ge Xiantong afraid that both sides will suffer losses and the young generation of the court will be besieged by a pack of wolves? If I were him, I would first fight openly and secretly with the Zuoqiu Sect and eliminate other threats first."

Zuo Qiuting didn't take it seriously: "You, this is typical weak thinking."

"Oh!"

Li Weiyi asked: "Then what is the thinking of the strong?"

"The way the world's number one thinks is the thinking of the strong. Except for the world's number one, the way everyone else thinks is the thinking of the weak."

“When you are not afraid of anyone, you won’t be afraid to look ahead or behind.”

Zuo Qiuting continued, "Let me ask you, when you were invincible in the Fourth Realm of the Five Seas, did you ever think of joining forces with the enemy of the Fourth Realm of the Five Seas to kill another Fourth Realm of the Five Seas? When you were invincible, the sword in your hand was your best ally. One person and one sword were enough to kill all enemies."

"What do you think, in Ge Xiantong's eyes, are I, Cangli, and Li Jiufu?"

Li Weiyi thought for a moment and said two words: "Prey?"

Zuoqiu Ting said, "That's about right! In the eyes of the world's number one of the younger generation, as long as the Daozhong realm doesn't interfere, all the martial artists in the entire Qiuzhou city are his prey. As long as he kills the three of us, the Zuoqiu clan and the Jiuli tribe will naturally collapse, and then we will be the ones to be torn apart by the wolves."

"You must know that the strongest person in the world holds a special power. Fear!"

"Yu Yaozi controls fear, so after ten years of fighting, Lingxiao Palace is still standing."

"When powerful forces like Zuoqiu Sect and Jiuli Clan were killed by Ge Xiantong overnight, this kind of fear is enough to scare the people of Longmen and Leixiao Sect to tremble. How dare they become enemies of the imperial court?"

"The thinking of the strong is to decide the outcome in one battle."

Li Weiyi seemed to be thinking: "Isn't he worried about the birth of a baby?"

(End of this chapter)