Chapter 147 The Glamour Fades Away
After leaving Doctor Wang’s thatched cottage, Li Zhi did not gain his freedom, let alone the opportunity to “feel free as the sea is wide for fish to leap and free as the sky is high for birds to fly.”

Those powerful spiritual consciousnesses had been locking onto him, monitoring his every move.

The powerful spiritual sense can cover an area of ​​thousands of miles, so they are not afraid that Li Zhi, the herbalist incarnation, will disappear from their sight.

After realizing that he was being locked onto by someone's spiritual sense, Li Zhi did not return along the same route, but flew directly towards the depths of the ruins of the Tianxuan Holy Land.

Previously, in order to attract massive amounts of dragon energy, he set up a formation for Ten Thousand Dragons to Return Home within the ruins of the Tianxuan Holy Land, and had a very deep understanding of the ruins.

Li Zhiyi knew very well that there was a special place there that could cut off the detection of spiritual consciousness.

Therefore, he was not worried about being locked by the spiritual consciousness of these powerful beings.

Unless these powerful men possess the world's fastest speed and can appear beside him in an instant, it would be easy for Li Zhi to escape.

Even if he couldn't escape, his guards would be able to kill all those powerful men.

Unless one of them possesses the combat power of a king, but judging from their appearance, they should not be that kind of supreme saint.

Because when they faced Divine Doctor Wang, they did not have the same confidence as the Holy Lord of the Wind Clan.

As for the cultivators below the Immortal Stage, there is no need for the guardian generals to take action, Li Zhi can deal with them on his own.

Along the way, Li Zhi kept thinking about why he suddenly felt that the whole world was his enemy.

It seemed that all the major forces in the Central Region were starting to cause trouble for him.

Was it that his luck suddenly turned bad, or was someone secretly plotting against him? For a moment, Li Zhi had mixed thoughts in his mind.

After flying thousands of miles and arriving deep into the Tianxuan Holy Land, Li Zhi saw the remains of an underground palace that could isolate spiritual consciousness.

He now wants to be alone and quiet, and think carefully about his situation.

“I examine myself three times a day.” Although this is a principle recorded in Confucian texts, it is also applicable to the spiritual world.

Arriving above the underground palace where dragon veins crisscrossed, Li Zhi dived down directly.

He dived into the underground palace and activated the remaining Taoist patterns inside the palace, directly severing the spiritual consciousness of those powerful beings that were locking onto him.

In front of Doctor Wang's thatched cottage, the faces of those powerful men all changed the moment they lost sight of Li Zhi, and they quickly turned into streams of light and chased after him.

Unfortunately, when they arrived at the underground palace, Li Zhi had disappeared without a trace.

Standing outside the underground palace, looking at the empty underground palace, a powerful man said: "That boy is indeed not an ordinary herbalist."

"I'm afraid he is the young Taoist priest we have been looking for. There is no other possibility that he could have asked Divine Doctor Wang to cover for him, except that he is a close friend of Divine Doctor Wang." Another powerful man said with certainty.

Afterwards, a powerful person gave an order: "Notify all the disciples guarding the periphery to set up a Dao pattern barrier and immediately seal off the entire Tianxuan Ruins. Don't let him escape from here."

After the order was issued, the cultivators who were originally guarding the primitive wilderness where the ruins of the Tianxuan Holy Land were located immediately began to act, and soon a large formation covering an area of ​​thousands of miles was formed.

Seeing the remains of Tianxuan Holy Land sealed by the formation, some people worriedly said, "Isn't it inappropriate for us to do this? There is a saint in Tianxuan Holy Land. If we block the sacred land of Tianxuan Holy Land with such a big fanfare, will that saint be unhappy?"

"Brother Dao, you worry too much. The Saint of Tianxuan has made it clear that he will not rebuild the Holy Land of Tianxuan, so this sacred land is ownerless. The Saint does not necessarily live in the ruins, and the formation is only to capture people, not to destroy this sacred land. The Saint is such a great being, how could he take action over such a small matter? As long as we act quickly enough, we can catch that little Taoist priest soon. When the time comes, the formation will be withdrawn and no one will be affected."

Just when those powerful men were setting up their formations, planning to catch Li Zhi in a trap.

Li Zhi has been driving the Coffin of Life for thousands of miles under the earth, and finally arrived at the edge of the Yuanshen Forest where the Tianxuan ruins are located.

But he encountered a barrier.

Although the barrier was not very strong, his guardian warriors could break it with one blow.

However, this barrier instantly caused a nameless anger to rise in Li Zhi's heart.

Li Zhi soon calmed down and recalled every detail of his previous trip to the miracle doctor's thatched cottage.

In an instant, he understood that even though he had changed his form, those powerful beings had already doubted his true identity.

Li Zhi walked along the edge of the barrier for a distance and found that there were no loopholes at all.

It seemed as if all directions were blocked by barriers.

Although these restrictions could not block his way, Li Zhi still felt extremely unhappy being hunted by those people like a wild beast.

But even though he was unhappy, he did not act rashly.

Returning to the central area of ​​the Tianxuan Holy Land, Li Zhi entered a secret cave located within the dragon vein of the earth.

Because of the dragon energy all around, it is a natural place that can be isolated from the detection of powerful spiritual senses.

Unless someone enters the cave to look for him, it will take some time for him to be found.

Sitting in the cave, Li Zhi kept reviewing in his mind what he had done during this period of time.

"What went wrong that led me to the current situation?" Li Zhi kept asking himself in his heart.

However, after reviewing the situation three times in a row, Li Zhi did not find any problems with his behavior.

"No problem?" Li Zhi said to himself while sitting on a big cold rock.

"Is it okay? Is it really okay? If it was okay, how could we be in this situation now?" Li Zhi repeatedly questioned himself, but as he spoke, his eyes suddenly became sharp and he shouted loudly: "No, there is a big problem."

In an instant, a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on Li Zhi's forehead.

With Li Zhi's current level of cultivation, he wouldn't break out a drop of sweat even if he was in the middle of a raging fire. But now, just realizing the problem, he broke out in a cold sweat.

You can imagine how serious the problem is.

As the foundation of Daoyi Holy Land, the Tianzun Ancient Monument invited him to comprehend so easily without even doing any background check on his origins. This was very unreasonable. Looking back now, the decision of Daoyi Holy Land was very hasty.

Continuing to recall the past, through the Void Formation Plate left by the Void Emperor, he directly appeared in the most important Void Ancient Palace of the Ji Family. However, he was able to make Ji Zi trust him with just a few words, and no other people in the Ji Family had any objections to this afterwards.

Ji Zi and the elder of the Ji family never even suspected that Li Zhi was acting with the people of the Immortal Mountain, and that he was actually a spy sent by the Immortal Mountain to infiltrate the Ji family.

Looking back now, the reactions of Ji Zi and the Ji family elders were extremely incredible.

He doesn't seem like a cunning elder from an ancient family and doesn't seem to have a keen sense of danger.

After leaving the Ji family, he came here to ask Divine Doctor Wang to refine a magic pill, and met the Holy Lord of the Wind Clan who came to visit Divine Doctor Wang. He obviously saw that he was extraordinary, but only sent Feng Huang to compete with him.

Feng Huang, the pearl of the Wind Clan, who was known for her arrogance and did not even take the Holy Body seriously, came to compete with a nobody like him without knowing his own background.

This is not the style of Feng Clan Mingzhu at all, and it does not match the information Li Zhi had collected before.

Also, in front of the Immortal Mountain, the elders of the Wind Clan, as well as the talented disciples of the Wind Clan, the Crane Clan, the Purple Mansion Holy Land, and the Dayan Holy Land were killed. However, afterwards, there was no news that they sent anyone to investigate the matter, as if those things had never happened.

This is not reasonable.

Be it Feng Yun of the Wind Clan, He Ziqing of the Crane Clan, or Xiang Yiba of the Dayan Holy Land, none of them are ordinary disciples.

Almost all of them are promising talents within their respective forces who will have the potential to become great in the future.

Within each major force, the geniuses who will be able to become powerful in the future are all like immortal seedlings, and are disciples carefully cultivated by each major force.

Although Li Zhi killed them, reduced them to ashes, and even liberated their souls, he did not sever the cause and effect relationship between them and the major forces.

All the major forces must be aware of their deaths and will definitely investigate the causes of their deaths.

They would never let their talented disciples die in vain.

After all, the thing Li Zhi used to kill them was not a magical weapon that could kill people without any consequences.

Now thinking back on every little detail after arriving in the Central Region, it seemed that apart from his relationship with Divine Doctor Wang, which was due to his medical skills, everything else he experienced was weird.

It seemed that the people he met were all given an aura of reduced intelligence, and things that were originally unreasonable happened in a seemingly reasonable way.

After examining various past performances from a third-party perspective, Li Zhi suddenly felt that this situation seemed familiar.

It seems like I've seen it somewhere more than once.

"Snapped!"

Suddenly, Li Zhi slapped his forehead, making a crisp sound.

Isn't this kind of incident that comes with an aura of lowering intelligence something that only the protagonists of online novels will encounter?

All villains will be enveloped by the powerful aura of luck of the protagonist, and then make stupid decisions, allowing the protagonist to benefit in the end.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi remembered what happened on Earth that year.

When he had used up his borrowed luck in the Great Sage's Secret Realm, he immediately encountered fatal danger.

Now, in the central area of ​​Eastern Wilderness, it seemed that overnight, he went from being a respected genius to a hunted thief.

This change was too sudden.

It was as if the good fortune borrowed from heaven and earth had been exhausted, and the cause and effect accumulated in the past had completely exploded at this moment.

Thinking back on the adventures and good fortune he had had over the years, Li Zhi felt that it was only natural that his borrowed luck had run out so quickly.

No matter how miraculous little Nannan's tears were, the borrowed good fortune would eventually be exhausted. It was just that this day came so suddenly, so suddenly that he was caught off guard.

Fortunately, his self-examination at this moment worked, making him realize this.

At the same time, Li Zhi remembered Duan De's warning to him that it was best not to borrow luck from heaven and earth, otherwise he would encounter insurmountable disasters due to the entanglement of cause and effect.

Just like those holy spirits.

Having been blessed by heaven and earth for millions of years, once born, he will be invincible.

However, the vast majority of Holy Spirits have become stepping stones for ancient emperors and great kings to demonstrate their strength.

The Henren Emperor had killed the Imperial Fire Spirit, the Wushi Emperor had killed a fully-accomplished Nine-Aperture Stone Man, and even the Qing Emperor, who lived only ten thousand years ago, had killed more than one fully-accomplished Holy Spirit.

The love and favor that the Holy Spirit has received from God is almost unmatched in the world.

But in the end, they could not escape the fate of being liquidated and killed.

It seems that being blessed with good fortune and being favored by heaven is not necessarily a good thing.

Everything that is happening outside now seems to be Li Zhi’s “big reckoning” coming.

Does he also have to go through the experience of "I have a heart of immortal, but it has been locked up by worldly affairs for a long time. When will the dust be gone and light be born, illuminating the mountains and rivers"?
This crisis seems to be seen as a test for him.

Whether it is real gold that is not afraid of fire, or a paper castle, the true nature will be revealed after this "liquidation".

It is time to use the sentient beings in this world to test whether the path he has created and the road he has taken is a dead end.

After getting a clear answer, Li Zhi no longer had any troubles in his heart.

Li Zhi stood up from the cold bluestone, looked in the direction of the cave entrance, and murmured in a low voice: "I have been blessed by heaven and blessed by good fortune for a long time. When will the vanity fade away and the true destiny shine?"

There was a hint of terrifying fighting spirit in Li Zhi's eyes.

Different from the fighting spirit that was condensed in his spiritual world in front of the ancient monument of Tianzun, the fighting spirit he revealed at this moment was full of wildness and bloodthirstiness.

It seemed that the wildness locked in his heart was released today.

But before that, Li Zhi still needs to make some arrangements. He does not have the strength to fight the powerful head-on now, and needs external assistance.

Afterwards, Li Zhi directly drove the Coffin of Life, passed through the numerous earth veins, and came to the place where he broke through the secret realm of dragon transformation.

Then he silently carved the Void Dao Pattern in the nine nearby dragon veins.

In the end, the void patterns within the nine dragon veins were interconnected, forming a giant void array disk that could cover an area of ​​dozens of miles in radius.

This is the way of the void that Li Zhi realized from the void chessboard left by the Void Emperor in the Immortal Mountain.

At that time, not only the big black dog was studying the void array plate, Li Zhi was also carefully memorizing the void array plate.

Later, after half a year of sparring with Ji Zi at the Ji family, he realized the Void Way of the Void Emperor and had a deeper understanding of the formation plate.

You can now arrange the void teleportation array independently.

At this moment, Li Zhi used the nine dragon veins as the energy source of the void Dao pattern. I am afraid that even the powerful ones cannot penetrate the void channel he constructed.

Just as Li Zhi was making detailed preparations to meet the challenge.

Outside, those who are looking for his whereabouts are constantly narrowing the scope of their search.

They have almost narrowed the coverage of the formation to a thousand miles.

At the same time, disciples from various forces who were outside searching for Li Zhi's whereabouts were also rushing towards the Tianxuan ruins.

Although only one Saint Son-level genius, Daoyi Saint Son Li Donglai, came, there were many Saint Son-level geniuses who were candidates from various major forces.

It seems that they all want to get the magical treasure from Li Zhi.

As for the powerful figures, eight of them came. They were from the Feng Clan, Daoyi Holy Land, Ji Clan, Yaoguang Holy Land, Zifu Holy Land, Dayan Holy Land, Wanchu Holy Land, and there was also a powerful person from the Central Domain Demon Clan.

There were no less than thirty supreme elders from all the major forces who were at the level of half-step great power.

There are hundreds of elders in the Hualong Secret Realm, and the number of disciples whose cultivation is below that of the Hualong Secret Realm has reached tens of thousands.

These are just the monks from the major forces.

On the outskirts of the Tianxuan ruins, the number of cultivators and independent practitioners from small forces is not less than the total number of those large forces.

The momentum was as if all the major forces had come again to search for the Tianxuan Divine Treasure after six thousand years.

Among the independent cultivators, there are some with great powers who know the inside story of the actions of the major forces, and begin to educate others about the real purpose of the major forces.

"Is it true that all the major forces have mobilized so many forces just to capture a small Taoist priest?" someone in the crowd asked after listening to the popular science.

"Fellow Taoist, please don't underestimate that little Taoist priest. He is no ordinary little Taoist priest. He carries with him a stunning divine treasure. It is said that after obtaining it, one can become a saint. It would be strange if the major forces are not crazy." Someone explained to him.

"Senior, where did that little Taoist priest come from? Why haven't we heard of his deeds before?" Someone asked the Taoist friend next to him.

"That young Taoist priest is a peerless genius cultivated by an old antique who has lived in seclusion. Now he has shown amazing talent. The major forces will not allow him to continue to grow, so they have joined forces to hunt him down." Some of the older generation of monks said solemnly.

“It is said that the young Taoist priest once bathed in the blood of the Holy Spirit, ate the elixir of immortality, drank the water of the holy spring, and also experienced an extremely terrifying heavenly calamity. If he is allowed to grow up smoothly, all the major holy places and families in the Eastern Wilderness will be trampled under his feet.” Someone also seemed to have seen Li Zhi’s practice with his own eyes and said to others.

"My fellow Taoist, a little-known Taoist priest, is he really as powerful as you say?" someone raised the question.

"You'll know whether he's powerful or not after just a look. To be promoted as a Little Heavenly Venerable by Daoyi Holy Land, he must have some extraordinary qualities."

"I heard that the young Taoist priest stole the real treasure of Daoyi Holy Land, which angered Daoyi Holy Land and they started to hunt him down in a big way."

"I haven't heard of anyone meeting that little Taoist priest before. How can we be sure that he is in the Tianxuan Ruins?"

"Somehow, that little Taoist priest changed his appearance and went to visit Divine Doctor Wang, but was eventually discovered by those powerful people. That's why he was blocked by all the major forces in the Tianxuan Ruins."

"He's too calm. He knew someone was looking for him, but he still walked into the trap. If I were him, I would have hidden myself long ago. I'm sure those powerful people wouldn't be able to find me."

"So you are not him. To me, the fact that so many people are chasing and blocking him, and still cannot determine where the little Taoist priest's true body is, is enough to show his ability. If he can escape and ascend to heaven, I am sure that in the future he will be an almighty being that will shake the entire Eastern Wasteland with just one stomp of his feet. In the future, he may be even more terrifying than the Invincible God King of the Jiang Family."

"Being surrounded and blocked by so many powerful forces, is there no one standing up for that little Taoist priest?" Some people felt that Li Zhi was a bit pitiful and wanted to find a backer for him.

"It's already this time, who would dare to risk the wrath of the world?" Others felt that Li Zhi brought this upon himself and that his death was not a pity.

"I'm afraid that the little Taoist priest is in great danger this time. I just don't know how many magical treasures he has on him. I don't know if we will have a chance to get a piece of the pie." Some people also coveted the magical treasures on Li Zhi.

The discussions among the casual cultivators outside continued, and the encirclement within the ruins gradually narrowed.

Li Zhi had already finished his work. He returned to the big pit he had dug before and carved a huge sarcophagus out of rocks and sat in it.

Wait for those people to arrive.

At the same time, in Doctor Wang's thatched cottage, the Holy Lord of the Wind Clan and the Holy Lord of Daoyi came together and invited Doctor Wang to treat Feng Huang and the little Taoist nun Yuchen.

Doctor Wang knew that the treatment was fake, and that he was holding him back from standing up for Li Zhi, so he said, "You two Daoists are both big figures in the Eastern Wasteland. Is it necessary to make such a big fuss for a junior?"

Doctor Wang has a wide network of contacts. If they invite some living fossils of high seniority to come out and support Li Zhi, they will probably fail.

Moreover, they already knew that Li Zhi had once entered the depths of the Immortal Mountain and walked out alive, so he must have an amazing fortune.

The Wind Tribe Saint Lord said, "Fellow Daoist Wang, please forgive me. It's not that my Wind Tribe wants to embarrass him, but he is directly related to the death of an elder and a genius of my tribe, so we need to confront him in person."

The Holy Lord of Daoyi Holy Land also said: "Divine Doctor, you have lived in the wilderness for a long time, and you may not be able to control people's hearts. That Li Changshou deceived the ancestor of my Daoyi Holy Land and took away the fundamental Dharma of my Daoyi Holy Land. If we don't suppress him and let the ancestor deal with him, how can my Daoyi Holy Land gain a foothold in the Eastern Wilderness?"

Seeing the solemn vows of the Wind Tribe Saint Lord and Daoyi Saint Lord, Divine Doctor Wang felt helpless and said to himself, "My dear Changshou, I really can't do anything. Whether you can survive this disaster depends on your luck."

Afterwards, he stood up and said to the Wind Tribe Saint Master and Daoyi Saint Master: "My two Taoist friends, please do as you please. I have something in my heart, so I need to go into seclusion."

After saying this, Doctor Wang went straight into a cave covered with Taoist patterns and completely sealed the cave door, as if he was going to stay in seclusion inside.

Seeing this, the Wind Tribe Saint Lord said to Daoyi Saint Lord: "It seems that Daoist Fellow Wang is really angry this time."

Saint Daoyi said: "Since Daoyou Wang has gone into seclusion, why don't you and I borrow Daoyou Wang's precious place to drink tea and discuss Taoism here."

Neither of them seemed to have any intention of leaving.

The Wind Tribe Saint Lord did not agree, but asked: "Daoyou, was the ancient scripture in your holy land really stolen by that little Taoist priest?"

Daoyi Saint Lord's expression suddenly turned ugly, and he said, "Fellow Daoist Feng, what do you mean by this?"

The Wind Tribe Saint said with a smile: "I just find it incredible, there is no other meaning."

After Li Zhi gained insights from the Wuliang Tianzun Stele, the three ancestors of Daoyi Holy Land found that it was extremely difficult to gain insights into Taoism from the four big characters "Wulian Tianzun".

It seemed that the four characters "Emperor" had lost their former charm and turned into four ordinary characters, just like when the inheritance marks are understood by people, the Tao rhyme within the marks will dissipate.

This is the real reason why Daoyi Holy Land is pursuing Li Zhi in a big way.

The so-called seizure of the divine treasure from Li Zhi was nothing more than a cover-up.

The Holy Lord of the Wind Clan seemed to realize this as well, and he was very curious about the true inheritance of the Daoyi Holy Land.

It can be said that not only he was curious, but all the holy places in the Eastern Wilderness were curious.

What kind of ancient artifact did Daoyi Holy Land obtain that allowed them to become one of the holy places in Donghuang? Is it true as the rumors say that Daoyi Holy Land possesses the ancient scripture of Tianzun left by Wuliang Tianzun?

(End of this chapter)