"Please come with me."
The servant led Li Boyang to a room on the fourth floor.
After entering the room, the servant left. Li Boyang casually rummaged through the items in the room but found nothing suspicious.
So he simply sat cross-legged on the bed.
Since Qiu Chuji had sent him here first, he would naturally tell him the next steps, so now that he was here, he might as well make the best of it.
Time flew by, and night soon fell.
Around midnight
Li Boyang, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes.
A diamond-shaped dart shot in through the window.
Li Boyang pinched the two together, and they landed perfectly on the dart. He smiled slightly, and there was a letter on the tail of the dart.
"The Earth God Temple in the east of Dadu City."
Li Boyang saw that when he opened the letter, he found an address written on it.
With a swift movement, he leaped out of the fourth-floor window and disappeared into the darkness.
The Earth God Temple in the west of Dadu City.
This place, which was originally a gathering place for beggars, now has a different atmosphere.
A bonfire was burning brightly, illuminating everything inside the earth god temple.
When Li Boyang arrived, he saw that quite a few people had already gathered around the campfire, chatting idly. Half of them were familiar faces.
The Beggar Clan leader Bai Yujing, the Kongtong Sect leader Qixiazi, the Emei Sect leader Wuyun Shitai, the Huashan Sect leader Yue Tianling, the Shaolin Disciplinary Hall head Jueyuan Master, and even the Peach Blossom Island master Bai Langfei.
There are three people Li Boyang has never met, but judging from the helpers Qiu Chuji has found, these three people are probably not nobody.
Besides these people, there was another person whose appearance surprised Li Boyang: his apprentice, Zhang Junbao.
Zhang Junbao's appearance can be described as both unexpected and reasonable. When I received Zhang Junbao's letter last time, he said that he had survived the tribulation and broken through to the Qi Refining Realm.
Zhang Junbao had received a great deal of favor from Qiu Chuji, and since Qiu Chuji was the one who made the biggest contribution, there was no reason for Zhang Junbao not to show up.
Looking at the people gathered around the campfire, Li Boyang felt a sense of emotion. "A mountain is not high if it has no immortals, but it is sacred if there are immortals living there." This small earth god temple should represent the pinnacle of martial arts in the Central Plains. Even if there are still some that have not appeared, there shouldn't be many left.
In the Wudang world, the Qi Refining Realm often represents the suppressive power of a faction.
Only a peerless powerhouse like Qiu Chuji, who suppressed half an era, had such influence and could gather such a powerful lineup. It would be difficult for any other person to mobilize them.
Anyone gathered around the campfire was a master of the Qi Refining Realm in the Central Plains martial arts world. It could be said that if the siege of Shi Le Jizu had failed and all these people had been killed by the Mongol martial arts world, the Central Plains martial arts world would have declined for at least an era.
"Master, you've arrived."
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Chapter 142 Assigning Opponents
Inside the Earth God Temple.
Zhang Junbao recognized Li Boyang as soon as he saw the figure outside the temple.
"Who do we have here? It's you! You're so late. You're showing no respect for the martial arts practitioners here."
The speaker was Bai Langfei, the master of Peach Blossom Island. Two years ago, Li Boyang stormed Peach Blossom Island and destroyed the island's Qimen Dunjia formation. He also snatched away his daughter-in-law, Xueying, right in front of him, making him unable to hold his head high in the martial arts world for a long time. As soon as he saw Li Boyang arrive, he immediately started to mock him.
Li Boyang glanced at Bai Langfei with disdain and said indifferently, "A defeated opponent dares to boast."
Two years ago, Bai Langfei couldn't beat me. Now, two years later, I've broken through to the Qi Refining to Mist stage, so he's probably no match for me anymore.
They actually dared to put such a big label on themselves; they really don't know what's good for them.
Upon seeing Li Boyang's contemptuous expression, Bai Langfei immediately flew into a rage and retorted without hesitation, "What did you say? If you've got the guts, let's have another fight."
Two years ago, Li Boyang's strength was at most on par with his, so he naturally had no reason to be afraid of him.
After Bai Langfei finished speaking, he clenched his right hand into the shape of an orchid, first hooking his thumb onto his little finger, then flicking it out and hooking it onto his middle finger, and so on, with five stone-shaped streams of innate true energy shooting out.
This is the ultimate skill of Peach Blossom Island, the Finger Flicking Divine Skill.
"A trivial skill."
Li Boyang reacted the moment Bai Langfei made his move, and with a palm strike, he created an invisible vortex of true energy. The strong airflow almost extinguished the campfire.
The stone-shaped true energy shot out by the Finger Flicking Divine Power was not absorbed into the true energy vortex before it even got close; it was simply annihilated.
"Li Boyang, the Blood-Handed Butcher, truly lives up to his reputation."
Most of the people around the campfire looked serious after seeing Li Boyang's move. Li Boyang's move seemed simple, but they couldn't do it.
Seeing that Li Boyang had accepted his finger-flicking technique so easily, Bai Langfei's expression was somewhat uncertain. He glanced at Qiu Chuji, but his hands did not slow down, preparing to continue.
Then he saw the look Bai Langfei was giving him and instantly understood what Bai Langfei meant: he needed to quickly mediate the fight. He coughed twice and said:
"Alright, let's put aside our past grievances for now and give this old man some face."
As soon as Qiu Chuji finished speaking, Bai Langfei immediately stopped, cursing as he said, "Hmph, I'll give Master Qiu face this time. Li Boyang, we'll settle this one another day."
Li Boyang curled his lip in disdain and replied nonchalantly, "I'll gladly oblige, as long as you dare to come looking for me."