Chapter 168 Chiyang Country

In the blink of an eye, Li Zhi walked out of the domain gate and set foot on the land of Zhongzhou.

The place where he appeared was a primeval forest with no human habitation around.

In fact, it is easy to understand. Compared with the vast universe, the number of human beings is still too small.

Although the places a cultivator can visit are much wider than those of ordinary people, the place where he lives on a daily basis is not necessarily larger than the homes of ordinary people.

Li Zhi was not in a hurry to leave this primeval forest. He did not sense any powerful creatures when scanning with his divine sense. This place should not be the kind of place where no cultivators had set foot for thousands or millions of years.

Although there were no strong men in the mountains, Li Zhi found many wild beasts that had not yet transformed into human form. The aura of some of these wild beasts was already equivalent to that of human cultivators in the secret realm of dragon transformation.

Climbing up a nearby mountain and standing on the top, Li Zhi looked around and found that the natural environment was much better than that in the central area of ​​Eastern Wasteland. There was vital energy surging between heaven and earth and dragon veins running under the earth. In this unknown place, there were actually dozens of small dragon veins. If it was placed in the northern area of ​​Eastern Wasteland, they would be enough for an ordinary sect to establish a religion.

No wonder the number of masters in Zhongzhou can overwhelm others. The overall environment of heaven and earth is more suitable for cultivation than that in Donghuang.

After seeing the superficial differences, Li Zhi sat cross-legged on the top of the mountain and began to comprehend the deeper differences.

His mind and the heaven and earth became one, and soon Li Zhi captured the pulse of the heaven and earth in Zhongzhou. He felt that the energy of thousands of dragons was entrenched under the earth, nourishing the entire land.

Two days later, Li Zhi opened his eyes and thought to himself, "I was right. The land of Zhongzhou is earth, so it can breed such a large number of dragon veins. The land of Donghuang is wood, and wood represents longevity, so the seven life forbidden areas are located in Donghuang."

It seems that the Feng Shui secret technique that Li Zhi discovered can be put to good use in a place like Zhongzhou where there are dragon veins all over the underground.

Taking out the mini dragon's nest, Li Zhi's eyes showed a hint of confidence. He believed that in terms of finding dragons and locating their locations, no other magical tool could compare to the mini dragon's nest in his hand.

Moreover, the entire mini dragon nest has been thoroughly cleansed by the extreme power of the Western Emperor Tower, so there is no need to worry about the breath of the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor remaining in the dragon energy.

When the dragon's nest was placed on the ground, it soon merged with the earth. Then the dragon energy began to rise, and soon formed a yellowish-brown cloud three feet above the ground.

Li Zhi took a step forward, stood on the dragon energy cloud and began to move forward.

As if shrinking the earth into an inch, Li Zhi's figure jumped quickly on the ground.

And beneath the earth, the Mi Ni Dragon's Nest exudes a mysterious power of movement, which can move directly from one dragon vein to another, and use the power of the dragon veins under the earth to fly at a very fast speed.

It is much faster than Li Zhi’s own flying speed in the sky.

It can also sense the direction of the dragon veins of the earth and help Li Zhi find the dragon marrow.

After walking eight thousand miles, Li Zhi suddenly stopped.

Then he directly drove the mini dragon nest into the underground dragon vein. After walking three hundred miles in the dragon vein, Li Zhi came to a dragon cave.

Three drops of crystal liquid emitting a refreshing fragrance appeared in front of Li Zhi.

The surface of the droplet flickered with five-colored divine light, emitting a fragrance similar to that of elixir of immortality, and there were also mysterious fragments of laws flowing in the droplet.

Dragon marrow.

I really didn't expect to encounter three drops of mature dragon marrow as soon as I arrived in Zhongzhou.

He raised his head and looked around the dragon's lair, and discovered that there was a large man-made hole above the dragon's lair. The hole was blocked from the outside by a stone, and the stone emitted fluctuations of Taoist patterns.

It seems that the dragon marrow in this cave is not ownerless.

Li Zhi didn't care about that and just opened his mouth and swallowed the three drops of dragon marrow into his stomach.

Then he refined the dragon marrow directly in the dragon cave. After refining the dragon energy in the dragon marrow, he infused it all into the body of the sleeping little dragon.

He also comprehended the fragments of laws within the dragon marrow one by one.

In just half an hour, he had completely digested the three drops of dragon marrow.

“It’s just the lowest level of dragon marrow. It seems that if we want to make the golden dragon in the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm grow again, we need high-quality dragon marrow.” Li Zhi thought to himself.

If he wanted to awaken his golden dragon, he would need at least a hundred drops of this lowest level dragon marrow.

If one wants the Golden Dragon to grow into a nine-meter-long dragon again, tens of thousands of drops of ordinary dragon marrow may not be enough.

This place is guarded by a formation set up by someone. It should be the place where a powerful force breeds dragon marrow.

There are many dragon veins in Zhongzhou, and dragon marrow is the essence of the dragon veins. Any dragon vein that can produce dragon marrow can be reused as long as it is not the kind of divine vein that can walk freely underground.

After collecting the dragon marrow, the dragon cave will be sealed again. After hundreds or thousands of years, the dragon marrow will be produced again.

The higher the quality of the dragon vein, the higher the quality of the dragon marrow it produces.

The major forces in Zhongzhou control many dragon veins, which can provide them with dragon marrow in an endless supply.

They often build cities where dragon veins converge in order to store the essence of heaven and earth, nourish the spirit, evolve the great way of heaven and earth, and in turn nourish the dragon veins of the earth and improve the quality of dragon marrow.

At the same time, it can also evolve into a pure land for cultivation, which can increase the cultivation speed of the cultivators.

A good pure land can even increase a monk's practice speed exponentially.

Li Zhi did not stay in the dragon's lair for too long.

He directly controlled the mini dragon's nest, left the dragon's cave unhindered along the dragon vein, and soon appeared on the earth.

Before he left the forest, he saw a group of monks rushing towards him.

But soon, Li Zhi discovered something was wrong. Those monks did not seem to be coming for him.

Instead, it rushed towards a magical little beast that was only about one foot tall and had a yellowish-brown body.

The little beast seems to have the innate ability to burrow into the ground. After running a certain distance on the ground, it will burrow into the ground and run for a certain distance.

However, its bloodline power seemed insufficient, and it could only escape underground for a distance of no more than thirty miles before coming out to catch its breath.

Whenever it disappears underground, its aura disappears completely.

Make those monks who are chasing it lose their trace.

But Li Zhi was a little curious as to why the little beast ran east and west but always came towards him.

Soon, the little beast started to burrow underground again about twenty miles away from Li Zhi, and then Li Zhi felt it ran into his mini dragon nest all of a sudden.

Then he hid in a corner of the dragon's nest and shivered.

Li Zhi was curiously looking at the one-foot-tall little beast with his divine sense. It looked like a unicorn, but the blood inside was rather strange. Li Zhi sensed a trace of the blood of the Holy Spirit from it. The whole body of the little beast was covered with a layer of earthy yellow scales, and there were two newly emerged unicorn horns on its head. It looked cute and not fierce at all, as if it had just been born.

However, his cultivation has already reached the level of the other side of human beings.

Just as Li Zhi was observing the little Qilin, the monks who were chasing the little beast also came to Li Zhi. The leader shouted at Li Zhi very rudely: "Little Taoist, did you see a Qilin beast passing by you just now?"

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "I just passed by here, but I didn't see the Qilin beast."

Then, Li Zhi asked again: "May I ask, brothers, where is this place?"

Looking at the monks in front of him, they were filled with iron-blooded murderous aura. They didn't seem to be ordinary monks, but rather like soldiers in the army.

"Aren't you a cultivator from my Chiyang Country?" asked the leading cultivator with some surprise.

"I have just come from the Eastern Wilderness and plan to go to the Qi Shi Mansion to study. I wonder how far this place is from the Qi Shi Mansion?" Li Zhi asked.

"Are you the genius of the Eastern Wilderness?" the leading cultivator asked in surprise.

"I am not a genius, just an ordinary little Taoist priest. I heard that the Qi Shi Mansion has reopened after ten thousand years, so I went there to try my luck." Li Zhi said.

"We are all monks under the command of General Tiexue of the Divine Guards of the Chiyang Kingdom. We are here under orders to hunt down a Qilin beast and find a mount for His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince. We are sorry for disturbing you just now. I hope you can forgive us. Since you didn't see the Qilin beast, we won't disturb you anymore."

After the leading monk finished speaking, he immediately waved his hand and left with the others.

Seeing their backs leaving, Li Zhi said to himself, "He is a man with good vision."

After being five hundred miles away from Li Zhi, one of the monks said, "Captain, the Qilin must have been captured by that little Taoist priest. Why don't we ask him to hand it over?"

"Lu Xin, you tell Song Ming why I want to take everyone away." The leading monk said to the deputy captain Lu Xin beside him.

Lu Xin said to Song Ming: "The captain treated the little Taoist priest so politely so that we wouldn't die in vain."

"He's just a little Taoist priest of fifteen or sixteen years old. How powerful can his cultivation be? The captain is a master of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, and we are all cultivators of the Four Extremes Secret Realm. Are we still afraid of a little Taoist priest like him?" Lu Xin said with some doubt.

The captain said, "Because when I faced that little Taoist priest just now, the tracking mouse was so scared that it didn't dare to make any noise and became stiff."

After saying that, he took out a small cage from his sleeve, which contained a little white mouse with three colorful stripes on its back.

At this moment, the little white mouse seemed to be frozen, standing there stiffly and motionless.

Lu Xin said, "The boss's tracking rat has never shown such fear even when facing a half-step great power. That little Taoist priest looks ordinary and harmless, but his cultivation is absolutely unfathomable. It is estimated that if he wants to kill us, it will only take a slap. It is not something that ordinary cultivators can do to dare to come to Zhongzhou alone to participate in the assessment of the Qishi Mansion. Our Seventh Prince was able to enter the Qishi Mansion because he occupied the quota of our Chiyang Kingdom. I heard that among the princes of the capital who accompanied the Seventh Prince to the Qishi Mansion to participate in the assessment, only Prince Tuoba successfully entered the Qishi Mansion. All others were rejected."

Song Ming said, "Isn't that little Taoist priest a little late? Calculating the time, the assessment of the Qishi Mansion will end tomorrow. Can he make it in time?"

Lu Xin said, "Whether we can catch up or not is none of our business. The Qilin has been captured by that little Taoist priest, and we should go back and report to the general."

The captain said, "I heard that recently, dragon energy has been rising in Chunqiu City of Anping State. It is speculated that a top-grade dragon marrow may have been born. The general has received an order and will set out soon to fight for the dragon marrow. If His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince wants to gain a foothold in the Qishi Mansion, he cannot practice without the assistance of top-grade dragon marrow."

Soon, those people returned to the city where they were stationed.

Little did they know that Li Zhi had been following them secretly and heard their discussion.

What a coincidence! Just when I was thinking about where to look for dragon marrow, I came across a place where there was dragon marrow.

Li Zhi directly put away the mini dragon nest, then took out the Xuanyutai and started heading towards Chunqiu City, which is located on the border between Chiyang Kingdom and Anping Kingdom.

After arriving at Chunqiu City, Li Zhi immediately saw purple air rising into the sky in the city, forming a dense mist that turned into the shape of a dragon. It was obviously a strange phenomenon caused by the leakage of dragon vein energy.

Moreover, Chunqiu City is under martial law at this moment, and foreign monks are prohibited from entering the city.

Outside the city, Li Zhi met many monks.

It seems that they were all attracted here by the strange phenomenon of dragon energy leaking from this place.

Li Zhi looked again and again in the crowd, and finally locked onto an old monk who was wearing gray cloth clothes and exuding a special yin aura.

Li Zhi was familiar with that gloomy aura, which was the kind of aura that only people who walked underground for a long time would be infected with.

The other party is most likely a tomb robber or a dragon seeker.

"Old man, can I ask you something? What happened in Chunqiu City? Why are the city gates closed?" Li Zhi asked with a puzzled look on his face, like a young monk who had just started his studies.

The old man looked Li Zhi up and down, then said, "Little Taoist priest, you are not a local?"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "I just came from another place and planned to go to Chunqiu City to use the Domain Gate to go to the capital of Anping State. Why is Chunqiu City closed? I have never heard of such a situation."

The old man seemed to be touched by what the “simple” Li Zhi said, and said: “Little Taoist priest, you are also a Taoist, didn’t your master teach you some Feng Shui techniques?”

Li Zhi said, "You think too highly of me. I am so young. My master said that now is the time for me to improve my cultivation. He is not going to teach me the magic of Feng Shui yet."

The old man said, "I can tell at a glance that you are a man of great importance. It's okay for me to tell you about the things in Spring and Autumn City."

Li Zhi said: "Please give me some advice, old man."

The old man said, "This place may have the best dragon marrow, and every drop of it can extend the life of a powerful person by a hundred years. That's why Anping State has sealed off this city. It's estimated that the powerful people from the capital of Anping State will arrive soon."

"Hehe," the old man suddenly laughed when he said this, and then said, "I just don't know if they have the ability to take the dragon marrow away safely. I heard that the army of Chiyang Country has already set out, and maybe in a few days, they will come to attack Chunqiu City. When the war breaks out, Chunqiu City will definitely reveal its flaws. You and I can take this opportunity to sneak into the city and maybe even get some dragon marrow."

"Are you always looking for Master Long?" Li Zhi pretended to be surprised.

"Little Taoist, do you want to follow me and do something big? I guarantee that you can enter the secret realm of Dragon Transformation within ten years." The old man suddenly said to Li Zhi.

"How should I do it? Please tell me, senior." Li Zhi said eagerly, thinking, "How can this person have such a bad character? Before I even started to trick him, he took the initiative to invite me to go and seize the dragon marrow together? Could he think I'm just some rookie cannon fodder?"

"Interesting, really interesting. It seems that I am not the only one who wants to fish in troubled waters. I just wonder if this Master Xunlong, whose cultivation level is only the sixth level of Dragon Transformation, has the ability to sneak into the dragon's lair and seize the dragon's marrow."

After only two days outside the city, Li Zhi saw a girl with bright eyes, white teeth and black hair like clouds, coming to Chunqiu City with a group of monks.

When the young monks outside the city saw the girl, many of them looked stupid.

However, the girl's appearance was indeed stunningly beautiful. Her smile was enough to captivate the whole city. She was so beautiful that it was like a dream. Her clothes fluttered in the wind, and she looked like a banished fairy, which made people's hearts beat faster at first sight.

Seeing that Li Zhi only took a glance and stopped observing the fairy, the old man said, "Little Taoist priest, that is Princess Yudie, who is known as the third most beautiful woman in Zhongzhou. Don't you have any ideas?"

Li Zhi said, "I am a monk, how can I have such worldly thoughts. You are not old but your heart is young, are you trying to attract the attention of the princess?"

The old man chuckled and said, "If I can have a kiss with you, I won't refuse. Also, I'm not old at all. I'm only 123 years old this year."

(End of this chapter)