Li Guanqi looked at Ryota Aoyagi in front of him and said calmly: "As for the new channels, the Lord of Takano City is already re-establishing them, but as you said before, there will definitely be collusion between the Lord of Takano City and the new foreign merchants, just like he and Mi before.
The water gang used to be like that, and what you need to do is to use your identity as a Qingliu family member to do something from it.
For example, to forcibly protect the common people's interests.
For example, let’s prevent the next ‘Mishui Gang’ from forming a monopoly.
Another example... there are many, many, and you need to find an expert in this field. In fact, I am just a layman, so I can't give you any more advice.
The only thing I can tell you is that the strong are respected!"
Li Guanqi pointed at the green samurai sword behind Ryota Aoyagi, "Practice hard, continue to become stronger, and then use the... uh, ahem, sword in your hand to forcibly protect the interests of the people of Honey City with force, because something has happened, this
It's irreparable. If you really feel sorry for it, then all you can do is compensate Micheng in the days to come."
"..."
Aoyagi Ryota lowered his head with a thoughtful look on his face.
"I understand!"
After a while, the young man suddenly stood up from the grass, his eyes were firm, and he bent deeply towards Li Guanqi, cupping his fists and saluting, "Thank you, Brother Jincheng, for your teaching!"
This "big brother" is truly a heartfelt statement.
"Ryota."
Li Guanqi also stood up, looked at him and said seriously: "Actually, I still want to tell you, please don't question your chivalrous heart because of this accident.
Your original intention is good, this is right
You just think too little and understand too little. You can learn more about it when you are doing chivalry in the future, but please don’t let the incident in Honey City stop you from doing chivalry again."
"I understand!"
Aoyagi Ryota nodded solemnly, "I will not give up. I will continue to walk my career in the world and be the kind of knight-errant in my mother's mind. I will always remember this incident and learn from history."
"That's good."
Li Guanqi smiled, but soon the smile on his face gradually faded.
He turned to look at the forest in the distance and sighed softly, "Go back and tell the tofu shop proprietress about the death of her husband and daughter. The tone... be as tactful as possible."
"...I'm still late after all."
Aoyagi Ryota's eyes were filled with sadness, "If I had been a little earlier, I might have been able to save them."
"There are so many ifs in the world."
Li Guanqi turned his head, looked at the bright moon in the night sky, and said calmly: "Liang Tai, Daluo knights are not sentimental. When encountering injustice on the road, it is natural to draw your sword to help.
But if it’s already too late to ‘see injustice’, there’s nothing to say. There are too many helpless things in the world, and knights are not saints. They can’t save every suffering in the world, so just look at it.”
"I understand."
Aoyagi Ryota nodded, "I will go and take the bodies of the father and daughter back. At least they must be buried in my hometown..."
As he said that, the young warrior looked at Li Guanqi and asked curiously: "Brother Jincheng, where are you going next? Maybe we can drop by?"
"On your way?"
Li Guanqi looked back at him, "Where are you going?"
"Lu Jiang."
Ryota Aoyagi said.
"...I mean what are you going to do?"
Li Guanqi was a little speechless, and then smiled helplessly: "If you are going to find a powerful swordsman of the same level to spar, then we are on your way."
"That's right?"
Ryota Aoyagi scratched his head, "I am indeed going to find a powerful swordsman of the same level, but not to compete with him, but to help him steal his bride."
"Um?"
Li Guanqi was stunned, "Having such a good time? This is not what a knight would do."
"No, it's not the robbery of newlyweds as you imagined."
Ryota Aoyagi waved his hand quickly, "We are the side of justice!"
"oh?"
Li Guanqi crossed his arms and looked at him with interest.
"This matter is complicated."
Ryota Aoyagi said.
"Then let's make a long story short."
Li Guanqi looked at the surrounding woods, "Or should I tell you slowly from the beginning? Although I don't have enough time, at least I still have time to listen to the complete story."
"Then let me start from the beginning."
Aoyagi Ryota pondered for a moment, as if he was organizing his words, and then spoke after a long while: "I know a friend, his name is Matsuzaki Daigo. He is not from the Aoyagi family, but his father is a retainer of the Aoyagi family, so he has been since he was a child.
I grew up in the Qingliu family.
After I was brought back to the Aoyagi family by Shinya Aoyagi, everyone in the Aoyagi family looked down on me because I was an illegitimate child.
There is only enlightenment.
Dawu treats me as a friend.
He and I have experienced so many things that I can't even finish them in a short while, so I won't talk about them at all.
In short, Brother Jincheng, Dawu is my best best friend in this world.
And now he is in trouble.
Dawu likes a girl, but that girl is attracted by a young master of the Mizutani family and wants to forcefully marry her.
The girl didn't want to marry, but she had no choice. She was threatened by the Mizutani family. If she didn't marry, the whole family would die.
Dawu wrote to me a while ago, saying that he wanted to save the girl from the Mizutani family.
And the best time to take action is on your way to see your bride!
So Dawu asked me for help.
He is my best friend, I must go."
Speaking of this, Aoyagi Ryota's eyes were extremely firm.
"Mizutani family?"
Li Guanqi was a little surprised, "Forgive me for being ignorant, I have never heard of this family. What is its background? What is its strength?"
"A family that is neither big nor small."
Aoyagi Ryota replied: "The head of the Mizutani family is a peak Five Elements warrior. In addition, there are several Five Elements warriors in the family.
But on the way to see the bride off, there should be at most four elephant-level warriors escorting her.
Based on the situation of the Shuigu family, it is impossible for them to invite a five-element-level clan elder just to send a bride to the younger generation.
And Dawu is also very strong, he is a warrior in the late stage of Four Symbols."
As he spoke, Aoyagi Ryota raised his right hand, clenched his fist tightly, and said confidently: "If it is Dawu, he and I will definitely succeed in snatching the bride and rescuing that girl from the clutches of the Mizutani family!"
"Forehead……"
Li Guanqi looked uninterested and just said casually: "It's fine to act chivalrously and righteously, but I hope the Honey City incident will be the last one in your life."
"certainly!"
Aoyagi Ryota nodded quickly, "When Dawu and I rescue people, we will take the girl's family away together. We will not just save the girl and let her family be retaliated by the Mizutani family."
"Did the Matsuzaki Daigo you mentioned understand the meaning of the sword?"
Li Guanqi asked curiously.
"No."
Aoyagi Ryota shook his head.
...Sure enough, even if the secret of "power" has been leaked to the Sakura Shogunate, the sword intention is not a piece of shit.
Ryota Aoyagi is from the Aoyagi family, one of the Nine Sakura Warriors.
As for Matsuzaki Daigo's father, he was just a retainer of the Aoyagi family. With such an origin and condition, it would be difficult for him to understand the meaning of the sword.
"You go ahead."
Li Guanqi looked at Ryota Aoyagi, chuckled and said, "I wish you immediate success."
"Thank you, Brother Jincheng, for your blessing!"
Seeing that he didn't want to go with him, Ryota Aoyagi didn't react at all, and the smile on his face remained.
Although this young samurai from the Aoyagi family was not very popular, the Mizutani family would never have the guts to kill him.
Take ten thousand steps back.
Even if the bride-kidnapping fails and Matsuzaki Daigo dies, Aoyagi Ryota will not die.
Aoyagi family.
The influence of these three characters in the Sakura Shogunate is on the same level as the sixteen major surnames of the Daluo Dynasty.
"That's it."
Li Guanqi turned around and walked towards the forest under the night. He waved his hand with his back to Aoyagi Ryota, "The world is so big, we are destined to... uh, wait a minute."
Halfway through his words, he turned around and looked at the young warrior curiously, "Do you know where there are particularly dangerous but not so dangerous areas where cursed spirits are found? That's the kind of fourth-level cursed spirit.
Running all over the place, but in a place where fifth-level curse spirits are rare?"
"certainly."
Aoyagi Ryota nodded, "There are a lot of fourth-level curse spirits, but there are very few fifth-level curse spirits in places. I know of seven or eight. The problem is..."
He looked at Li Guanqi with surprise on his face, "Brother Jincheng, are you going? Why? These places are too dangerous!"
"Danger?"
Li Guanqi grinned.
"It's not dangerous."
"The fourth-level cursed spirits are everywhere, but the fifth-level cursed spirits are very rare. If there really is such a place...ha, that would be my home."
…
…
Seven days later.
Sakura Shogunate, Mochizuki Mountains.
"roar!"
"roar!!"
"roar!!!"
The moon is dark and the wind is high.
In this lush mountain range, all kinds of strange roars come and go, and countless lights emerge in the depths of the forest. They are... a large number of curse spirits gathered together!
And they are all fourth-level curse spirits!
The densely packed curse spirits were crowded together, and a rough count would indicate that there were at least a hundred.
In the center of these curse spirits, there are actually two huge curse spirits that look like rhinoceroses, pulling a sedan and following the team of curse spirits as they move forward.
As for the white-haired man sitting leisurely on the sedan chair?
Of course it was Li Guanqi.
"Well...it's been two days, and I have gathered 129 fourth-level curse spirits. During this period, I encountered one fifth-level curse spirit, and ran away when I saw the army of curse spirits. Ha, the curse spirits are also afraid of the crowd."
Li Guanqi was lying on the sedan chair with a comfortable expression on his face. He took a few red fruits from the hand of a beautiful ghost-like charm next to him, put them into his mouth, and chewed them carefully.
As he bit into the fruit and the sweet juice filled his taste buds, Li Guanqi's mood became better and better.
He has the talent of [Connecting to the Netherworld] and has reached the fourth elephant level in spell cultivation. He is as comfortable as a fish in water in this place, as if he were back home... Although these spell spirits who have never read a book do not speak very well.
.
As his strength increases, the level of curse spirits that Li Guanqi can control with his talent for Tongyou becomes higher.
Although the upper limit is still 1,000 within a radius of one kilometer, it is enough.
Moreover, there are probably not that many fourth-level curse spirits in the entire Moon Moon Mountain Range.
Li Guanqi relied on his talent for accessing the secluded world and was able to sweep through this forest, plunder the blood to strengthen himself, and use the constant plundering of the blood to open up the next large section of the divine vein in his right arm.
"It's a pity that fifth-level souls are not that easy to improve."
Li Guanqi lay on the sedan chair, feeling a little regretful, "Otherwise, when killing the cursed spirits, I would be able to improve my soul along the way."
His soul has now reached the peak of the fourth-level virtual realm. If he wants to go further, he can only change from virtual to real and step into the fifth-level soul.
But this is difficult, very difficult.
The soul is very simple, and there are only two things to cultivate.
1. Spend time slowly.
2. Throw money at it.
But based on Li Guanqi's current situation, it is almost impossible to buy all the resources to advance to the fifth-level soul with money.
First of all, this is a fifth-level soul, not a fourth-level soul. The 30 million gold coins in his pocket are enough to buy a set of resources to upgrade to a fourth-level soul, but it is far from enough to buy a fifth-level soul.
Secondly, many materials cannot be bought in the market with money, and you need to have connections and connections.
Rather than relying on buying, Li Guanqi hopes to find some kind of mission that can give a reward for a fifth-level soul breakthrough mission.
After all, this is the pattern of the weird world now.
Explore the world freely and trigger various mission rewards.
"Forget it, let's take it one step at a time."
Li Guanqi shook his head and stopped thinking about these things.
Do the things in front of you first.
In the following time, I will madly devour the fourth-level alien blood, open up all the divine veins in the three right arms, and increase the physical strength to level 50.
With eight divine veins in his body and a physical talent that is twice that of a normal human being, he is fully capable of possessing physical strength comparable to that of a five-element-level alien-blooded human at the Four-Elephant-level martial arts realm!
It is not even necessary to open all eight meridians.
Once the divine meridians in the six arms of the Three Heads and Six Arms are opened, it is probably enough.
"king!"
Suddenly, a black shadow curse spirit appeared in front of Li Guanqi, "I found traces of a fourth-level curse spirit!"
"Walk!"
Li Guanqi lay on the sedan chair and waved his right arm, "Let's go! Kill it!"
"roar!!!"
The roars of hundreds of fourth-level curse spirits resounded throughout the entire Wangyue Mountains!
…
…
Sakura Shogunate, an unknown seaside.
The bright moon is bright and clear.
"Crackling..."
The bonfire on the beach emits a bright yellow flame, and the "crackling" sound of wood exploding comes one after another.
Wang Yanqing, dressed in red, sat on the beach, holding her knees with both hands, looking at the bonfire in front of her quietly, holding her chin with her right hand from time to time, looking confused.
A few days ago, after a teleportation error occurred, when she woke up again, she found that she was holding a bloody severed arm of Li Guanqi in her hand. She was frightened at that time.
But after careful reasoning, she felt that with such a teleportation error, the junior brother should not die.
"So...junior brother, where have you been?"
"Also, when will you remember that I still have a location bronze ring with you?"
Wang Yanqing looked helpless.
When she returned to Beijing to deal with the evacuation of the Red Blood Army, she gave Li Guanqi a locating ring, which she later relied on to find him in southern Xinjiang.
The reason why the bronze ring can be positioned depends on the locking space, but the storage space will confuse this positioning and lead to failure.
Later, after the two met, Li Guanqi did not throw away the ring, but just put it away.
But Li Guanqi has obviously forgotten this now.
A strong soul can have a photographic memory, but only if it consciously and actively recalls.
If you don't remember this at all, then photographic memory is useless...
"Junior brother, junior brother, when will you think of this ring?"
…
…
"Dedicate your source of power, and then leave."
18 days later.
Moon Mountains.
Li Guanqi stood in a clearing in the woods, looking at the more than 60 fourth-level curse spirits around him. He used the talent of [Connecting to the Netherworld] and calmly issued orders.
More than half a month.
He summoned hundreds of fourth-level curse spirits to form an army, and rampaged through the mountains, killing like crazy. He continued to kill the curse spirits to plunder and devour them, and gradually opened up the divine veins of his right arm.
And as of today, his two right arm divine veins have been completely connected.
The third divine vein in the right arm has just begun.
The strength of the physical body has also reached lv.49, which is only 1 level away from being able to compete with the body of a five-element-level alien-blooded human.
but……
Gone.
After being massacred by Li Guanqi for half a month, the cursed spirits in this mountain range were completely exhausted.
There are very few demon species in this mountain range, and they were all killed by him.
Therefore, Li Guanqi could only start attacking these armies of cursed spirits controlled by him.
But... although it is said that people who are not from my race must have different minds, and although the curse spirits and humans are two hostile races, these curse spirits have been fighting with him for half a month, from the original hundreds to the current ones.
There are only a few 60 left, which is a combination of credit and hard work.
So Li Guanqi didn't want to kill them.
But the "origin of power" still has to be handed over.
The source of the power of the curse spirit is actually the official term for the so-called curse spirit's heartache. The so-called "heartache" is just a common saying and slang.
The source of power for physical curse spirits generally exists in the form of blood, and is concentrated in the heart.
Among the cursed spirits, the number of cursed spirits with physical bodies accounts for 90%, so the saying "blood in the heart" is widely spread.
But in fact, the ghost-like and skeletal-like curse spirit also has the source of power.
But now, Li Guanqi wants the curse spirits around him to hand over all the sources of their power.
"Pfft!"
"king!"
A fourth-level cursed spirit that looked like an upright tiger and leopard came to Li Guanqi first, dug out his bloody heart, knelt on one knee, and presented the heart with both hands.
"king!"
Immediately afterwards, a curse spirit that looked like the ghost of a beautiful woman floated over and took out a ball of light emitting colorful fluorescence from between her eyebrows - this was the source of its power.
"king!"
"king!"
One after another, a total of 67 fourth-level curse spirits were kneeling around Li Guanqi in a circle, offering the source of their power with both hands.
Without exception, after the source of power was given, the aura of these fourth-level curse spirits plummeted, and they turned into inferior curse spirits in the blink of an eye.
"Let's go."
Li Guanqi waved his right hand and activated the "plunder" technique to swallow up all the sources of power, whether it was the heart or the light group.
"yes!"
67 fourth-level, er, it should be said to be 67 lower-level curse spirits now, scattered away and disappeared into the woods in the dark night.
Li Guanqi stood there and gently closed his eyes.
"call--"
After the black mist hovered above his head for a while, it poured straight into his body.
"boom!"
In just an instant, a majestic pressure burst out from Li Guanqi's body, blowing the surrounding trees away and uprooting them upside down.
A body with three heads and six arms appears, with white hair flying and dancing!
"Teng!"
All six arms burned with blazing white flames, except for the third one on the right arm. The white flames only burned to the wrist level... But, the white flames were climbing up and up!
Wang Yanqing taught him the "Four Pillars to Heaven", and sooner or later he would learn the "Eight Pillars to Heaven" for him.
Time passes.
Li Guanqi's momentum and pressure became more and more powerful.
The white arrogance on the third right arm gradually climbed to the top, and finally... the whole arm began to burn with white arrogance!
The third right arm divine vein is completely connected!
Six arms and six meridians, fully open!
"boom!"
The coercion in Li Guanqi's body once again exploded, spreading over a kilometer in radius, crushing all the trees in this forest to pieces. Grass, blades, and sawdust were flying in the sky, and smoke and dust filled the sky, lingering for a long time!
[Physical body: lv.50! (50.3)] (Middle stage of the four-image level pulse opening realm)
The realm of martial arts at the level of four elephants.