Chapter 23 Great Sage Secret Realm
The mountains are majestic, lakes are everywhere, the grass is lush, and there are countless birds and animals flying in the woods.

After entering the Great Sage's Cave, Li Zhi seemed to have come to another world.

The place where he came in was on top of a big mountain.

There is a terrace on the mountain.

Standing on the terrace, there is a mist behind you, which seems to be the end of the world and the place where the formation's barrier is located.

In front of the terrace, there is a very large area.

It seems to be hundreds of miles long and has no end in sight.

In the distance, mountains are connected to mountains, and water is connected to water, like a beautiful landscape painting.

And you can see that on each mountain, there is a flat area, as if there is an invisible barrier covering those areas. If you look closely, you will find that they are actually medicinal gardens of different sizes.

There was almost no medicinal herb grown in those medicine gardens that Li Zhi could clearly identify.

At least in the outside world, he had never seen those kinds of plants.

Go down a path beside the terrace.

Li Zhi officially entered the area where the Great Sage's Cave was located.

What he was looking for was a place called the Hall of Longevity.

After crossing mountains and rivers, he finally saw a plant he recognized when passing by a medicinal field at the foot of a mountain.

That medicinal field was actually planted with rice.

Li Zhi also discovered that there seemed to be no weeds in the rice field, which was quite magical.

It was not until he saw the array formations covering the rice fields that he understood the reason. It seemed that the array formations had the function of automatically adjusting the balance of water and fertilizer.

Even without anyone to take care of them, the herbs in the medicine garden can still grow well.

Unfortunately, those medicinal fields all gave Li Zhi a feeling of being devoid of spirituality.

Even those barriers don't seem to be very reliable.

He tried to poke a few times with the Luoyang shovel in his hand and broke through the barrier.

After observing the medicinal herbs in the medicine field for a while, Li Zhi shook his head. They were indeed completely devoid of spirituality.

It is no different from the plants and trees outside and is not a magical medicine at all.

Moreover, he did not sense the presence of spiritual energy in the air.

There is almost no difference from the outside world.

Li Zhi couldn't help but feel a little emotional about the power of Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountain, which almost dried up an ancient star that was even larger than the Big Dipper.

Even the area covered by the formation barrier set up by the Great Sage could not escape the fate of drying up.

No wonder all those ancient cultivators had to leave the ancient star and go far away.

We climbed over one mountain after another and crossed one river after another.

Li Zhi finally saw the shadow of the Hall of Longevity on a mountain about seven or eight hundred meters high.

The palace almost merges into the top of the mountain.

The whole structure is made of unknown wood.

Just by seeing the wooden hall, Li Zhi felt the blood in his body become active.

It seems that there is still a strong spiritual energy left in the temple.

It took Li Zhi more than an hour to reach the top of the mountain and arrive in front of the Changshou Hall.

The exterior of the main hall is very plain, with neither carved beams or painted rafters nor various reliefs of mythical beasts.

The hall is made of natural wood and is no more than ten feet long and wide.

It's about ten feet high.

Moreover, the door of the hall is wide open, so the layout inside the hall can be seen at a glance.

Two rows of eight pillars, each more than one meter thick, supported the entire hall. There were no tables, chairs, benches, or other decorations in the hall.

There wasn't even a cushion for meditation.

The hall seemed quite empty.

The special thing is that the floor of the hall is different from that of ordinary palaces. It is a solid wood floor without any gaps.

The only thing that surprised Li Zhi was that the Hundred Herbs Map was floating in the center of the hall.

It was a huge scroll that was nine feet long and three feet wide, and the scrolls at both ends were carved from an unknown sacred tree.

In the painting, there is nothing miscellaneous, only a big mountain and medicinal fields distributed in a stepped manner around the mountain.

Moreover, the colors of the medicinal fields are easy to distinguish: green, yellow, red, white, and black.

Moreover, the spiritual herbs planted on it seem to be arranged according to the five elements.

On the platform at the top of the mountain, there is a fruit tree that is almost two people tall.

Under the fruit tree, there was a Taoist priest with a blurred face sitting cross-legged.

And on the fruit tree right above the Taoist's head, there was a single fruit hanging.

The fruit looks like a baby, with clear facial features and white with a hint of red, just like the legendary ginseng fruit.

Just by taking a look through the barrier and the scroll, Li Zhi felt the urge to eat him immediately.

After wandering outside the temple for a few minutes, Li Zhi did not go directly into the store, but went to other hills to check the situation.

Let’s see if there are other places where humans live in this huge secret place.

Or a place where magical herbs grow.

In the following half month, he ran almost all over the secret realm and only found a few abandoned caves.

And nothing of value has been found in the cave yet.

As for elixir, forget about it.

There are quite a few sweet fruits in the mountains.

Li Zhi picked most of the fruits in the snakeskin bag and planned to take them back for the children to taste.

This fruit is no different from the ones sold in supermarkets. It cannot increase the spiritual power in the body, nor can it improve the physical condition.

It's just ordinary fruit.

However, Li Zhi could tell from some dead old trees next to him that their ancestors should have all been spiritual fruit trees.

However, without the nourishment of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, all the fruit trees have degenerated.

Carrying half a bag of fruits of various kinds, Li Zhi came to the Changshou Hall again.

He waved the Luoyang shovel in his hand and smashed it hard on the barrier.

"Boom!"

After a loud bang, Li Zhi was flung away by the recoil force and fell heavily to the ground.

He almost rolled down the hill.

Getting up again, Li Zhi headed towards the barrier again.

This time he did not use his full strength, but increased his strength little by little. Unfortunately, his strength was too weak to break the barrier outside the temple.

Are we going to enter a mountain of treasures with nothing to show for it?
Li Zhi, feeling a little annoyed, directly stuck the Luoyang shovel into the ground.

Then he punched the barrier with his fist.

The shock made his blood boil and he almost suffered internal injuries.

He sat on the ground, took out a handful of fruit from the snakeskin bag and started eating.

After eating more than ten fruits, Li Zhi finally felt that he was no longer hungry.

At this moment, his eyes suddenly saw the Luoyang shovel stuck in the ground.

A brilliant idea immediately came to my mind.

Since we can't break the barrier, we might as well dig a tunnel into the mountain.

Li Zhi started digging a hole in the ground immediately.

Sure enough, there was no power of barrier in the rocks on the ground.

Soon he dug out a U-shaped tunnel.

Finally, they dug under the floor of the Changshou Hall.

Then he began to carve wooden floors in Luoyang City.

Although there was also a barrier power on the floor, it was much weaker than the one in front of the temple, and every time you shoveled it, a lot of sawdust would be brought out.

After that, after digging for another two days, Li Zhi finally opened a hole in the floor that was big enough for one person to enter and exit.

Then he entered the Hall of Longevity wearing a snakeskin bag.

He trotted to the center of the hall and looked at the divine picture floating in the air.

Li Zhi stared at the scroll from a close distance, his face full of fascination.

Especially when looking at the ginseng fruit, Li Zhi almost drooled.

The fruit gave him a very special feeling. His intuition told him that even an ordinary person without any cultivation could extend his life by a thousand years if he ate it.

Finally, unable to suppress the impulse in his heart, Li Zhi reached out to touch the fruit in the scroll.

But at this moment, the scroll suddenly released a huge suction force.

With a whoosh, Li Zhi was swallowed by the scroll, leaving behind a Luoyang shovel and a snakeskin bag with only about twenty fruits left.

Then, a ripple flashed across the screen.

In the area with the lowest altitude in the southeast corner of the picture, a shrunken person appears.

That villain seemed to be Li Zhi.

Moreover, he was climbing along the path in the field, laboriously towards the center of the scroll.

Unfortunately, what is visible to the naked eye is that he moves extremely slowly in the painting.

It seemed that in a whole day, the painting could not move even a centimeter.

You know, at this moment he is almost one meter and sixty meters away from the fruit tree on the top of the mountain in the picture.

This is just the straight-line distance, not counting the steps between the medicinal fields.

According to the height of Li Zhi in the painting, the height of those steps is almost over a thousand meters.

In the painting, there are nine layers of medicinal fields from bottom to top.

Only by crossing nine layers of medicinal fields can you reach the top of the mountain where fruit trees grow.

According to his current moving speed, it would probably take more than two hundred days to reach the top of the mountain.

at the same time.

In the outside world, after Mr. Xu and his two sons met with Mr. Ke who came from overseas, they quickly reached a cooperation agreement.

The purpose is to obtain the complete Book of Immortality from Li Zhi.

Prior to this, Boss Ke personally led people to search for his daughter's whereabouts near Baixiantai deep in the Qinling Mountains.

Although no trace of Miss Ke was found, the cave on the rock wall showed what happened that day.

And the bloodstains on the ground that had not been washed away by the rain showed that his daughter had been killed.

At the same time, he also confirmed that his previous partner Yao Le was dead.

Afterwards, Boss Ke turned his attention to the Xu family, who had a grudge against Yao Le's family.

After that, there was a scene where they worked together.

However, their cooperation could not be hidden from those who were interested.

This news soon reached Li Dapeng, who had been keeping an eye on the Xu family.

Li Dapeng told Zhou Mei about this.

In the company office, Zhou Mei, dressed in a small suit, looks very capable.

At this time, she was no longer the owner of a small clothing store, but the owner of a trading company, a decoration company and an investment company.

In other words, she already has three companies under her name.

After recovering, Zhou Mei had the idea of ​​starting a business.

She established those companies after consulting Li Zhi.

Because Li Zhi told him that the next ten years will be a decade of vigorous development for the real estate industry, as well as a decade of vigorous development for the mobile Internet industry.

Originally, Zhou Mei planned to directly enter the real estate business, but Li Zhi advised her not to touch real estate because it was full of transactions that were not decent enough, and it would be difficult to extricate herself if she got involved.

Therefore, Zhou Mei entered the real estate-related personal decoration industry.

Although her business has just started, she already has hundreds of employees under her.

This has given her some authority as a boss.

When Li Dapeng came to Zhou Mei's office and told her that Boss Ke and Mr. Xu's family were going to cause trouble for Li Zhi,

Zhou Mei said in a domineering tone, "A mere country rich man dares to act wildly here. Brother Dapeng, I think it's necessary to ask your comrades to help them wake up."

Li Dapeng smiled and said, "Please rest assured, Mr. Zhou, I will make them understand who they cannot mess with."

Afterwards, Li Dapeng left Zhou Mei's office.

But Zhou Mei did not give up. Instead, she called her old classmate and said, "Old classmate, do you have time? I'd like to invite you to dinner."

"It's rare for Miss Zhou to treat us, so of course I have time. We thought that after you, Miss Zhou, found a young husband, you had forgotten about us old classmates." A strong man's laughter came from the other end of the phone.

Although Li Zhi's borrowed good luck had been exhausted, his trip to Mount Tai was full of dangers.

But it does not mean that the benefits gained from previous good fortune have disappeared.

At least Zhou Mei had the wealth in her hands, which allowed her to reconnect with classmates she hadn't contacted for many years.

The old classmate she is contacting on the phone now is a young figure who has already gained real power in the officialdom.

All I can say is that if a circle of classmates wants to maintain itself, it ultimately depends on strength.

(End of this chapter)