Chapter 2353: Southern Breeze Knows My Heart

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Within the entire territory of the Qi country, Shimen County is considered barren land. Although it occupies a vast area, most of the domain is Gobi Desert. Products are not abundant, and the climate is harsh.

The eastern inland regions can be considered fertile; the Gobi Desert is actually not common there. This landform was entirely formed because of war.

As a minister credited with restoring the country, the first generation Destroy City Marquis had a large selection of prosperous lands for his fief, yet he chose to guard the border for the country.

The most arduous environment in the land of Qi tempered the Destroy City Li clan into such a famous family.

They are even nominally the foremost famous family in Qi country.

The spirit tablet of the first generation Destroy City Marquis has always been enshrined in the primary shrine of the Protect Country Hall. The honor and merit of the Li clan have accumulated over generations without decline.

But compared to the environment of Ice Phoenix Island, Shimen County can be considered a blessed land.

This island is isolated and hangs in the northernmost part of the nearby archipelago, desolate and bitterly cold. Year-round north winds howl, and frost cuts at the face like a knife.

It is only due to the operations over these years that it has gradually taken shape.

The Qi country's path to maritime power was taken in several steps. Initially, it didn't directly contend with the Diao Sea Tower for maritime power. Instead, it simultaneously built Jieming Island, consolidated coastal defenses, increased investment in the Mirage World war, and undertook more responsibility for controlling the sea. At the same time, it implemented the "Aristocratic families go to sea" strategy, granting pioneering rights to aristocratic families within the border, allowing them to freely expand at sea.

Thus, accumulating day by day and month by month, an indelible influence was established in the nearby archipelago.

This is also the important reason why, when the Diao Sea Tower was once shaky later, the Qi country could immediately receive the Town Sea Alliance and smoothly control the nearby sea.

Unlike the Tian clan's "Ba Corner," "Chong Jia," the Chong Xuan clan's "No Winter," and other islands with excellent geographical positions convenient for trade, the Li clan from the beginning chose a desolate place and ventured northward on their own initiative—Li Zhengyan personally set the open sea strategy that year, saying, "Not contend with people, contend with heaven and earth."

To contend with the vast heaven and earth for space for the people.

Li Fengyao came to Ice Phoenix Island when she was very young. Li Zhengyan brought her over that year, thinking that a female child was delicate and should come here to endure a bit of hardship to test her and temper her character. Later, he discovered he had thought too much…

The national power of the Qi country is thriving day by day, and overt and covert struggles on the nearby sea are also becoming increasingly intense.

The development momentum of Ice Phoenix Island was not good. Later, Li Fengyao simply moved to this place to cultivate, and also formally represented the Shimen Li clan, taking over operations at sea.

It was precisely because of operating Ice Phoenix Island that she became famous early on, becoming a big sister-like figure among the young nobility circle in Linzi. When they lift their eyes, Li Longchuan and others tremble.

There is no spring or autumn on the island; the four seasons are only winter.

The tall Li Fengyao, wearing frost-colored armor, her long hair simply tied up and not wearing a helmet, stands with her hands behind her back on the highest ice peak of the island, like an ice tree on an ice peak. Gazing at the distant ice river, the person is even colder than the frost and snow.

She is waiting for people.

Waiting for those two people who passed by this island a few days ago, turned back multiple times, and spied on the virtual reality on the island.

Those two people thought they were undetectable by gods or ghosts and were indeed cautious in concealing themselves. Who knew their wicked thoughts had already been reflected in the ice mirror.

In the translucent heart of frost, any bit of gloom is very conspicuous.

Since she became a goddess and became enlightened, the entire Ice Phoenix Island has been within the range of her mirror reflection. All evils have no place to hide.

The East Sea is already the backyard of the Qi country. The Town Sea Alliance is held by the Qi country. On Huai Island, there is Xia Corpse. On Jieming Island, Tian Fu has even moved there. The commander of Xia Corpse, Qi Wen, the alliance master of the Town Sea Alliance, Ye Hen Shui, and Duke Cao Jie, are all here.

But she does not plan to seek aid.

There are only two temporary venerable gods; the island has the Li clan's family soldiers!

She, Li Fengyao, is a military family cultivator, relying on a large island, controlling elite soldiers, activating killing arrays, and waiting for labor with ease, controlling motion with stillness. If she still seeks aid like this, then she is truly incapable of handling affairs and would lose face for the Shimen Li clan.

How can the national system greatly prosper?

It is by military family cultivators pushing across various temples!

Exactly what military family cultivators are, she must let these petty ones know!

The waiting time is a bit longer than expected. The two evildoers should have come over earlier, but until now there is no sign of them. But she is very patient. War is sometimes hunting, most of the time it is waiting and pursuing. True engagement often ends in a very short time.

Those eager for quick success often suffer quick defeat.

After the collapse of the Middle Ancient Sky Road, she naturally also had thoughts about the situation in the nearby sea. She knows that conflict with the Jing country is probably inevitable.

And as the representative of the Shimen Li clan at sea, she is inevitably within this vortex.

But things are two-sided. This is trouble, but also opportunity. If the Jing country doesn't come, and the Mirage World is locked again, there is really no opportunity to establish merit at sea.

In the grand near sea strategy, Duke Cao is definitely the main focus. Within the small near sea pattern, what she should do most now is stabilize the foundation of Ice Phoenix Island, consolidate the position of Ice Phoenix Island, and not panic and go to the inner island to bolster momentum for someone.

Ice Phoenix Island is located in the far north, framing the boundary of the nearby archipelago. As long as this place is operated well, the people of the Jing country who want to come this way will all have to look at her face.

To put it simply, after all, the Qi country has operated at sea for so long. Even facing the direct competition of the current world's first empire, it will necessarily occupy an advantage.

Competing with the Diao Sea Tower and competing with the Jing country require different strategies.

When competing with the Diao Sea Tower, the Qi country could completely plan it slowly, step by step converting its advantage into a winning position, and could even let the Diao Sea Tower integrate the nearby archipelago. This was determined by the strength of both sides. The Qi emperor's repeated indulgence was a preparation to swallow the whole at any time. The Diao Sea Tower put all its efforts into integrating the various islands, and in the end, indeed served as a wedding dress for the Qi country.

Against the Jing country, it is different. Although currently occupying an advantage, if they do not quickly strike at the Jing country's ambition and form a long-term stalemate, the result is not good to say. After all, the foundation of the Jing country is too abundant. Once it gains a foothold in the nearby sea, the follow-up forces will necessarily be continuous.

As a general, one cannot only focus on one time and one place. True victory must be obtained from the overall picture.

Li Fengyao waited, also silently thinking.

In a certain instant, she suddenly turned her head and looked south.

Truly strange.

On Ice Phoenix Island, a south wind is rarely seen blowing.

The breeze brushed over her hair, affectionately spun around, and then reluctantly went far away.

Accustomed to seeing harshness on the northern island, this is truly a very obedient wind.

Huhu hu

Mad wind howls.

Because the flying speed is too fast, the wind in front is already like a knife.

Tian Anping is not like other cultivators who will use superhuman power to dissolve its sharpness; he uses his own body to feel.

Pain is a way of cognizing the world, and compared to other feelings, it is clearer.

Of course, he hasn't felt anything for a very long time.

The cloud sea flips and waves, and the sunlight sprinkles gold.

Suddenly, his figure stopped, stopping too abruptly. The long tail stream brought up by his rapid flight was still rushing forward with a sharp whistle, breaking through clouds several thousand zhang and not stopping. And he became a reef stone in the wind, silently standing in this piece of cloud sea.

The cloud sea itself has no waves; the sky is clear and the sea is pure with no wind or rain. But within his Dao body, green light suddenly surged out!

Silk by silk green light, like cow hair fine needles, cracked through the gaps of Dao Yuan and went. It also sought pores and drilled in, like a snake swimming in a cave.

Cursing Dao, Bi You Needle!

Qin Guang Wang, Yin Guan!

His revenge did not separate day and night. He took Tian Huanwen's immortal pupil, digested the harvest inside Wan Xian Palace, and then used Tian Huanwen's pupil water and blood marrow to launch a counterattack against Tian Anping!

He was afraid that if he was a bit slower, Tian Anping would react and make good preparations.

Throughout the entire process of struggling within the ruins of Wan Xian Palace, Yin Guan did not engage head-on but repeatedly evaded. Relying on his understanding of Wan Xian Palace, he set up one trap after another… Despite this, he was still injured by Tian Anping.

But in the process of frantically fleeing, he had also already left behind curses. It wasn't until he escaped to a safe distance, at this moment, separated by ten thousand li, that he set up an altar and performed a ritual to detonate it.

If not Yan Luo, one does not kill people. It is just not yet the third watch of the night!

In the void appeared a small person wearing official clothes and holding an iron pen. One hand held a book, the other held a pen, pointing towards Tian Anping, and said in a hoarse voice—"The time of death has arrived!"

Cursing Immortal Person · Hell Judge!

That silk by silk green light surged a million times in an instant.

Tian Anping stopped in the air, almost without time to make any action. He only saw the Bi You Needle, fine like cow hair, already densely packed and squeezed into his Dao body, as if it would stab him into a green porcupine!

Making his face unseen, his whole body without a single gap.

Compared to that venerable Qin Guang Wang who only fled in the middle of Wan Xian Palace, at this moment, Yin Guan truly displayed killing power. His killing power also surged too much!

But Tian Anping just stood there extremely hollowly, fundamentally not showing any counterattack, not even any life fluctuations.

He was like a dead tree, withered to nothing at all.

The Bi You Needle circled in his Dao body like a school of fish, continuously shuttling and continuously splitting, finally forming a huge green light woven cloud group!

Cursing power accumulated to this point is already a terror that even the ancestor master of that Cursing Dao would find difficult to control.

Where it plunders, people have to die there. If it falls into this sea, there will be no life in a ten thousand li sea domain.

However, at this moment, Tian Anping lifted his eyelids and opened his eyes.

The moment he opened his eyes, all the Bi You Needles in the sky unexpectedly made way for this pair of eyes. They became two abrupt hollows within the green cloud group.

He just looked out like this, surrounded by cursing power, and also followed the cursing power link, tracing upstream. A thought arrived in an instant. It was as if he was separated by a thousand li or ten thousand li, seeing that towering law altar in the void. Seeing the Qin Guang Wang with long hair hanging to his heels standing above the altar.

Compared to Qin Guang Wang's almost mad-like, crazy, killing intent-dense green eyes, Tian Anping's eyes were instead quite ordinary. Neither fierce nor ruthless.

His eyes hid interest. What he saw in Qin Guang Wang's body was a path vastly different from everyone else, a world truth probably unique to Yin Guan in this world. He was very willing to see more possibilities in this person's body.

And for Yin Guan, he felt his Bi You Needle had stabbed into the void!

Clearly, there was a cursing power that would not die or rest. Clearly, this power was so strong, but after piercing this Dao body, it unexpectedly lost its footing. According to reason, a single Bi You needle should enter fate; with these billions of needles going down, everything should die.

But within Tian Anping's body, there seemed to be nothing at all. This shell was unexpectedly a withered empty shell.

How could a true person in the present world be a false shell?

Tian Anping naturally has his "truth." He slowly lifted his hand. In the process of him lifting his hand, large blocks of Bi needles densely stabbed into his hand had already disappeared, like flowing sewage on ground bricks, wiped away with a rag, leaving large blank areas.

Just lifting this hand and opening this pair of eyes became the "pure land" on this Dao body that was not stained by cursing power.

He lifted his hand to a position level with the sea surface. His overly pale five fingers just spread open like this—

Countless strips and lines flew out from the sky above the cloud layer. These lines also did not know where they came from or why they were born. They directly shuttled through the cloud sky, hooking tiles and weaving walls, building a four-square city in an instant.

It is truly a city pool, and not just a model.

So huge, as if it would hold all the cloud sea within it.

The city pool fell.

This city pool seemed to produce a terrifying suction during the process of falling.

The dense Bi You Needles stabbed into Tian Anping's Dao body were pulled up one by one, empty, like ten thousand birds throwing themselves into the forest, howling and flying in a group, all entering the middle of this city.

Even the green light that had penetrated deep into Tian Anping's body, into the bone and marrow, came out strand by strand, all going towards this city pool.

Only Yin Guan could feel that it was not how much influence this city pool could have on the Bi You Needle, but that these Bi You Needles, following the cursing link, were going to curse and kill the true Tian Anping!

Is this city pool Tian Anping?

Above the city gate of that four-square city, a plaque hung, condensed from a Dao rhyme, clearly displaying the character "Ji."

"Ji City" is here.

This is Tian Anping's inner mansion!

The Bi You Needles outside the body had been pulled out completely. Tian Anping, standing in the middle of the cloud sky, again had clear features. He was still wearing thin clothes, had a broken chain in his hand, and his hair was undamaged. He looked at Yin Guan through the void, never moving his eyes.

And within his body, green light was still flying out, residual cursing power, going towards Ji City—

During the time within the ruins of Wan Xian Palace, he was still unable to detect Yin Guan's latent cursing power. Or even if he had detected it, it would have been impossible to do anything except exhaust it. At this time, he had already revealed his understanding of cursing power, leaving it with no place to hide within his body!

After the green light flew away, Tian Anping had an instant of virtualization. At this moment, it could be seen that within Tian Anping's empty shell-like Dao body, vaguely, was the void of the universe, with stars flowing like clouds.

His inner mansion is outside, a city.

His outer building is inside, the center of the universe.

The "Wan Xian Come to Court Picture" from Wan Xian Palace, the opening paragraph of text, wrote at the end—

"Man is the universe, man is eternity, man is the immortal of Wan Xian!"

Yin Guan and Tian Anping each seized a part of the inheritance, and each had a different understanding, not following the old road. They set out from different directions, one first cultivated the immortal of Wan Xian, one first refined the human body universe.

Upon this, they engaged.

Yin Guan's Bi You Needle stabbed into Tian Anping's Dao body, yet it flew in the vast universe, naturally unable to find the true body's location.

In an instant, "Ji City" was like a cage, capturing the green light birds into the middle of the cage.

A person near a food vessel about to eat, the so-called "Ji" character! Urgent!

Tian Anping drew on his index finger with his thumb, and blood flew in an instant. He pointed his finger with blood, and just like this drew a human shape in the void. With a press of his finger, this blood-drawn human shape became a draw of blood edge, inside for an empty mirror human shape paper.

His finger was still dripping blood, and he wrote again in the body of this human shape paper, writing… "Yin Guan"!

This paper burned up.

The flying ashes swept with black power, directly throwing into the void.

He probably had already researched the power of cursing techniques and had learned in his engagement with Yin Guan.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, he turned around and cursed Yin Guan!

Ka cha!

That finger of his that only drew a person and wrote a name, at this moment strangely folded backward, the white bone protruding outward!

Cursing technique is after all Yin Guan's great dao.

Tian Anping was undoubtedly counterattacked!

Even his pupils at this time shattered like glass, the cracks full of blood lines.

But he just closed his eyelids, and when he opened them again, his eyes had already recovered. He just expressionlessly bent his broken index finger back.

Yin Guan's image being gazed at in the void had disappeared, and the cursing dao power also disappeared together. This leader of Hell No Door, seeing that the matter was not possible, walked away quite straightforwardly.

Tian Anping opened his mouth and swallowed, swallowing his own Ji City.

He also did not go after Yin Guan. He couldn't catch up, and there was no need. He directly turned around and flew towards Tianya Platform.

In front of Tianya Platform… Lou Yue is there!