Inside the great hall, frost still clung to Xiahou Cang's eyebrows.
Li Guanqi couldn't help but ask in a low voice upon seeing this.
"Is the secret realm about to open?"
Xiahou Cang glanced at Li Guanqi and nodded slightly.
"Perhaps it will open much sooner than we expected."
Li Guanqi nodded slightly, then began asking about the beast-fighting arena.
After hearing this, Xiahou Cang frowned slightly and said:
"The beast-fighting arena doesn't have much to do with Dixiu Bay. That place is practically a gathering spot for all the ferries, with extremely high personnel flow."
"Outsiders, when speaking of Dixiu Bay, generally make sure to ask whether it's the inner bay or the outer bay."
"The two sides don't interfere with each other's waters. We don't meddle in their affairs, and they won't meddle in ours."
"It's said that the true manager of the beast-fighting arena is a cultivator of extremely high True Immortal realm cultivation, and there seems to be a major power from the Fuyu Lands backing him behind the scenes."
"For so many years, everyone knows the beast-fighting arena rakes in a fortune every day, yet no one has ever been able to force their way in."
Li Guanqi could hear plenty of information from the other's words.
But what he worried about most was outsiders from the outer bay meddling in inner bay affairs, which would completely disrupt his plans.
"Seal the city."
"Let's wait until after the Cold Soul Jade Glaze matter is concluded."
Hearing this, Xiahou Cang stood up somewhat flustered.
"What do you mean, Young Master Li?"
"Are we just not going to care about East City and Donglin City?"
When he said this, Xiahou Cang's tone was somewhat anxious; it seemed he still coveted the two cities deeply.
Li Guanqi stood up and glanced at the man.
"Not that we won't care, it's just not time yet..."
"These past two days, after taking three cities in a row, Chu Yuan and Chen Ce are on high alert against us."
"Now is not the time to make a move."
After speaking, Li Guanqi left Xialin City on his own.
As for Xiahou Cang, he was merely a chess piece.
The six cities of Dixiu Bay were nothing more than his game of chess.
And this game was his first "scheme" after ascending to the Immortal Realm!
So far, everything was going smoothly.
Donning a black robe, Li Guanqi vanished completely into the night in the blink of an eye.
"Castellan, your subordinate lost track of him..."
Hearing this, Xiahou Cang's face turned gloomy as he waved his hand.
He took out two storage rings and placed them on the table. Yu Su and Xiahou Cang just stared blankly at the storage rings on the table.
"This... three Heavenly Immortal realm cultivators are dead?"
Xiahou Cang's voice carried a hint of daze and confusion.
It had only been a few days since Li Guanqi arrived in Dixiu Bay.
Yet he had turned the six cities of Dixiu Bay completely upside down, wiped out three cities, killed three True Immortals, and over ten Heavenly Immortals.
Yu Su rubbed her brow, looking somewhat worn down.
"Given his nature, he shouldn't do anything to the child."
"Things have come to this; we can only see this through to the end."
"Stop following him; it's useless."
The woman's gaze was unfocused as she turned toward the door and murmured.
"He should have gone to the outer bay."
At this moment, Yu Su felt an overwhelming urge to perform divination again, to see more clearly.
But her refined essence was damaged, and she simply didn't have enough to cast the divination.
Under the cover of night, Pengluo suddenly emerged.
Seeing Pengluo drenched in sweat, Li Guanqi couldn't help but smile.
"What's wrong?"
Pengluo started talking nonstop.
"Oh, Master, you have no idea how stinky that child's poop is, and the crying makes one so irritable..."
Li Guanqi smiled and soothed her, then brought Pengluo to the outer bay ferry.
He flew for several hours, passed over a dozen ferries, before finally seeing a huge city in the distance.
The massive city was like a fortress; from afar, one could see a towering shadow.
As they drew closer, even from far away they could see that the shadow was brightly lit with lights.
Faint shouting came on the wind, and the city was full of all kinds of people.
With the colossal beast-fighting arena, ten thousand zhang across, at the center, the pavilion-lined streets spreading in all directions like a spiderweb were fairly orderly.
Li Guanqi landed, his figure flickering as he instantly blended into the crowd.
Almost everyone in the crowd was a Broken Immortal cultivator, people coming and going, all sorts of folk.
Suddenly!
Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes, a cold glint flashing in his hand!
A palm landed with a soft thud on the ground; the other party grunted and retreated instantly!!
As for the severed hand on the ground, no one paid it any mind.
Beneath the black robe, the corners of Li Guanqi's mouth curled up slightly.
"Heh, interesting..."
Soon Li Guanqi found something interesting.
This city... no, perhaps it couldn't even be called a city.
There were practically no native residents here; almost all were itinerant vendors.
So Dixiu Bay's largest black market was the outer bay!
But Li Guanqi's purpose for this trip was not to browse the black market.
He wanted to check out the beast-fighting arena!
Large groups of cultivators headed to the beast-fighting arena; even from the front area, the earth-shaking shouts could not be concealed.
Everyone shouted madly, suddenly shouting in unison with a rhythm.
The cheers were deafening; Li Guanqi had to use his immortal primal energy to slightly block them out.
Soon, following the crowd, he arrived outside the beast-fighting arena.
The towering beast-fighting arena building was circular, built of grayish-white boulders, nine stories high, a hundred zhang tall.
Below were passages for entry and exit, with dozens of entrances and exits.
Each entrance and exit was guarded by a powerful Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator.
One could see that the beast-fighting arena's overall strength was extremely powerful!
The number of these Heavenly Immortal realm cultivators probably exceeded the total number of Heavenly Immortals in the three cities today.
Very soon, it was Li Guanqi's turn in line.
The dark-skinned man spoke without expression:
"Five hundred immortal crystals for entry, extra for good seats, place your bets with the arena personnel."
Li Guanqi threw out a storage bag containing two thousand immortal crystals.
The man lifted his eyes to glance at Li Guanqi, then took a gray jade tablet from behind the pile of wooden plaques and handed it to Li Guanqi.
"Third floor, Area Ding."
Li Guanqi took the jade tablet and saw that it was just ordinary gray jade, with not a bit of spiritual energy.
It was inscribed with the three characters "Ding Sixteen."
Just entering the long, pitch-black corridor, he could hear deafening shouting.
Many cultivators craned their necks, roaring and cursing.
Li Guanqi frowned and, following the arena attendant's guidance, came to the third floor.
But his seat was only two chi square, right next to others, except the chair was wider and more comfortable, with a small side table.
After sitting down, Li Guanqi spent a few hundred more immortal crystals to order a pot of wine and some snacks.
Looking around left and right, the place was already packed with people.
Looking up, all nine floors, built in a circle, were nearly full now.
Roughly counting the dense crowd, there were tens of thousands of people gathered here at once.
Looking down, all he saw were heads, with only a vast plaza nearly a thousand zhang across in the distance.
Right now, on the plaza, only two figures could be vaguely seen fighting wildly!!
Water-mirror light screens appeared before them, allowing everyone to see the scene on the field clearly.
The two cultivators were tall and muscular, with disheveled hair, their bodies covered in wounds. One wore brass knuckles, the other held a spiked club.
Both were at around the seventh level of Mystic Immortal realm, evenly matched.
But their weapons were uncommon; it was fist-to-flesh combat, and a single hit would leave one a mangled mess of flesh and blood.
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