Chapter 325: Killing is just a nod
"Have you heard that the Suzaku tribe is preparing to open the Yuantian Secret Realm?"

"Yuantian Secret Realm? What is that? When did a secret realm appear in the Yuantian Ancient Vein? How come I didn't know about it?"

"You spend all day flirting with those vixens, so naturally you don't know this information. The so-called Yuantian Secret Realm is actually the place where the immortal medicine took root. After being enclosed by the Suzaku Clan, it gradually evolved into a secret realm rich in spiritual medicine. I also heard that there was a holy spring there that was comparable to the Divine Spring, but later on, the world changed, making the holy water from that holy spring less effective."

"Is this true? Why have I never heard of such important news?"

"That's right, you haven't heard of it. I also got the news from a secret channel. The heaven and earth began to recover, allowing the secret realm to breed divine medicine again. I heard that the Suzaku tribe once planted a Nirvana fruit tree there. Now the fruit tree may have grown and even produced Nirvana divine fruit at the semi-divine medicine level."

"Semi-divine medicine? Haha, you believe that. If the Yuantian Secret Realm is really that magical, how could it be used as the venue for the Spiritual Medicine Conference? I think it is probably fake news spread by someone."

"Why don't you believe it? The goddess of the Suzaku tribe has stayed in the Yuantian Ancient Vein for more than half a year."

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Walking on the streets of Huangcheng, one of the ten famous cities in Nanling, Li Zhi heard many cultivators discussing the news about the Yuantian ancient vein.

Although there are many kinds of information, the core is only one, that is, the Suzaku clan controls a magical medicine garden there.

"Bad trick."

Li Zhi was not attracted by what those people were talking about at all, and even had an urge to laugh.

Then he continued to travel around the ten ancient cities in Nanling. The ancient cities built by the demon race were naturally quite different from those built by humans, and the customs and habits were also quite different from those in the Eastern Wasteland.

However, every time you arrive at an ancient city, you can almost always hear local cultivators discussing the news about the root location of the Yuantian Ancient Vein Immortal Medicine.

Li Zhi's intuition told him that someone had said this specifically for him.

"It just so happens that we have already visited the ten ancient cities of Nanling. We can go and see what the Suzaku tribe is planning."

Half a year later, after Li Zhi finished traveling to the last ancient city in Nanling, he planned to return to Yuantian Ancient Vein to see what happened there.

Deep in the ancient Yuantian vein, the Suzaku clan built a temporary residence with a complete set of temples.

And here, Zhu Zhu, who had been waiting for half a year without finding any clues about Li Zhi, was already getting annoyed.

"Zhu'er, you are upset. You should go back to your tribe and rest for a while." A semi-saint beside her said with concern.

"Seventh uncle, I believe in the prediction of our ancestor. That person will definitely return to the Yuantian ancient vein again. And the news we released has already taken effect. In the past six months, many cultivators have come to pay attention to this precious land." Zhu Zhu said with red lips and jade-like skin, and divine fire dancing in her eyes.

"Those people are nothing but spies from various powers. They come here just to confirm whether our Suzaku clan has cultivated semi-divine medicine with the help of the treasure land." The seventh uncle said seriously.

"If the semi-divine medicine cultivated by our clan can be successful, we don't need to pin our hopes on that scholar in white." A trace of regret flashed in Zhu Zhu's eyes.

It has been more than 100,000 years since their Suzaku clan occupied that precious land.

The seal will be opened every once in a while to harvest the elixir inside.

Nearly thirty thousand years have passed since the last time the seal was opened to harvest the elixir.

Although there had been no interference for 30,000 years, allowing a group of small medicine kings to be born in that treasure land, as well as three real ancient medicine kings, the semi-god medicine that the Suzaku clan had high hopes for, the Nirvana Holy Tree, had still not been promoted to the level of a semi-god tree.

Although the Holy Tree of Nirvana has been growing there for 100,000 years, the time for its promotion seems to be a long time away.

In order to promote the sacred tree to a semi-god tree, the Suzaku clan even used Taoist patterns to stop it from bearing fruit, just to prevent it from wasting any of its medicinal power on other places. However, the reality is so cruel.

If it weren't for the Dao pattern that prevented it from bearing fruit, countless holy fruits would have been produced during this period.

The Holy Fruit of Nirvana is a holy medicine that assists monks in their transformation. It has a high probability of allowing monks to complete a transformation like a rebirth.

However, this transformation is only useful for cultivators below the Xiantai Secret Realm.

Moreover, using a holy fruit to transform can almost enhance the potential of an ordinary cultivator by 30%.

Of course, the stronger the potential of the monk, the weaker the effect of the holy fruit.

However, in order to cultivate the semi-divine medicine, the Suzaku clan simply gave up the output of this sacred tree.

However, after more than 100,000 years of cultivation, the results still disappointed the Suzaku people who had originally been full of expectations.

“Zhu’er, except for the sacred land of Yao Chi, no other force in this world has cultivated a demigod tree. You’d better not have too high expectations.” The Seventh Uncle was afraid that Zhu Zhu would go to extremes, so he advised.

"Uncle, Zhu'er understands the reason. Half a year is nothing. I can wait even for ten years." A gleam of determination flashed in Zhu Zhu's eyes.

"I'm afraid we don't have that much time." said the Seventh Uncle.

In order to lure out Li Zhi, they released a mixture of true and false news. If the news attracted the ancestor king of the ancient tribe or the sages from outside the domain, things would probably be out of their control.

As the landscape of major forces in Beidou is about to be reshuffled, any major move will carry great risks.

In troubled times, expansion has never been the first choice of major forces. Only by contracting can they better protect themselves.

The commotion caused by the Suzaku clan in the Yuantian Ancient Vein had been noticed by all the major forces in Nanling after half a year of fermentation.

Some people were waiting to see the Suzaku tribe make a fool of themselves, others were waiting for an opportunity to fish in troubled waters, and still others were interested in the Suzaku tribe's real purpose.

As time passed, more and more cultivators were active near the Yuantian Ancient Vein.

There are even signs that the Spiritual Medicine Conference will be held again.

When Li Zhi returned to the Yuantian Ancient Vein, he encountered a group of human cultivators wandering nearby.

"Seniors, may I ask what happened in the Yuantian Ancient Vein? Why are everyone in such a hurry? It seems that it is not yet time for the annual Spiritual Medicine Conference." Li Zhi transformed himself into a young Taoist priest and asked those people with curiosity.

"Little Taoist, you are not a monk from Nanling, are you?" asked a big man with a beard.

"I'm from Zhongzhou, and I'm short of some medicinal materials for alchemy, so I plan to try my luck at the Spiritual Medicine Conference." The cultivation level that Li Zhi showed to the outside world was at the early stage of the second level of the Immortal Realm, not much different from those human cultivators.

"Little Taoist, do you want to join our demon hunter organization?" another cultivator seemed to feel that Li Zhi was of extraordinary origin and asked.

"The Monster Hunter Organization is hunting monsters in the monster clan's lair?" Li Zhi said with a little surprise.

"You can't get a tiger cub without risking it. Little Taoist, Nanling is no longer the same as it used to be. If you go out alone, you will easily be captured by the monsters." said the bearded man.

"Dear seniors, excuse me for disturbing you. I have no intention of making an enemy of the demon clan." Li Zhi seemed to be very afraid of them.

"Do you think you can still leave? Now that you know our identity, you have no choice but to join or die." The bearded man showed a sinister smile.

"Why?" Li Zhi frowned.

"You are a delicate and tender boy, just suitable for luring out the princess of the Suzaku clan. Don't worry, little Taoist priest. After the task is accomplished, we will give you enough benefits." said another demon hunter.

"So you want to kidnap that Vermillion Bird Goddess Zhu Zhu?" Li Zhi was a little surprised.

"You are quite smart boy. You must have come to Nanling not just now." asked the bearded man.

"Dear seniors, I'm sorry that I cannot accept this." Li Zhi shook his head.

"If you want to leave, it's not your turn." A demon hunter wearing half an iron mask directly offered a mind-controlling talisman, intending to directly control Li Zhi's mind.

But as soon as the talisman was attached to Li Zhi's body, it suddenly caught fire.

"How could it be?" The iron-faced demon hunter was shocked to see that the divine control talisman that could control the Great Master destroyed itself the moment it touched Li Zhi. "You are not almighty."

Then he reacted and shouted at Li Zhi in horror.

"I am indeed not a powerful person, I am a saint." Li Zhi said with a smile. At the same time, he used the aura of saintliness to imprison the monster hunters in front of him.

Then the souls of those demon hunters were searched.

After reading the memories of those demon hunters, Li Zhi snorted coldly, and those demon hunters turned into powder on the spot.

Li Zhi thought that the so-called demon hunters were a secret organization of the human race.

But I didn't expect that they were just a group of robbers who were good at kidnapping, extortion and other evil things.

The so-called "monster hunting" is nothing more than selling some young men and women of the monster tribe with special bloodlines and beautiful looks to various monks with abnormal psychology.

They came to Yuantian Ancient Vein this time because they were commissioned by an old wolf king. They planned to take advantage of the chaos to kidnap Zhu Zhu and sell her to the old wolf king who wanted to regain his youth.

The Vermillion Bird blood in Zhuzhu's body has long been regarded as a supreme delicacy by many demon kings.

Then, a light and shadow incarnation that was almost lifelike appeared in front of Li Zhi.

Then the light and shadow transformed into the appearance of the white-clothed scholar who had appeared at the Spiritual Medicine Conference, and walked towards the Yuantian Ancient Vein.

Not long after entering the ancient vein, Li Zhi felt that he was being locked onto by dozens of divine thoughts.

Most of them are divine thoughts sent by kings, and there are also several divine thoughts from semi-saints.

"Chirp!"

Then, a loud and long cry of Vermilion Bird appeared in the sky.

Zhu Zhu, riding the brilliant rainbow light, appeared in front of Li Zhi, accompanied by two semi-saints.

"Friend Bai, you finally show up. I have been waiting for you here for more than half a year." Zhu Zhu said to Li Zhi in a charming manner.

"Fellow Daoist Zhu, I wonder what important matter you and I may have?" Li Zhi said, pretending to know nothing.

"This is not the place to talk. Fellow Daoist Bai, why don't we move over and have a chat?" Zhu Zhu seemed to know that there were many cultivators hiding in secret.

Afterwards, Li Zhi followed them to the Suzaku clan’s temporary residence in the Yuantian Ancient Vein.

"Friend Bai, if you have something to say, just say it. I want to exchange the fruit of the immortal elixir in your hand." Zhu Zhu said simply and clearly.

"Friend Zhu, I'm afraid you've found the wrong person. I don't have the fruit of the elixir of immortality." Li Zhi hurriedly shook his head.

Zhu Zhu glanced at the people in the hall, and then said to his great uncle beside him: "Uncle, can you give me and Fellow Daoist Bai some space to communicate alone?"

The semi-saint immediately took everyone in the temple away.

Li Zhi and Zhu Zhu were the only ones left in the hall.

"Friend Bai, I know the rule of not showing off one's wealth. We can conduct the transaction privately. You can propose any conditions." Zhu Zhu seemed to be using her beauty to seduce Li Zhi, and she exuded an aura that made people's blood boil.

However, Li Zhi was not affected. Instead, he looked at the evil woman in front of him speechlessly.

Then Li Zhi uttered the word "ding", and Zhu Zhu was frozen on the spot.

Afterwards, Li Zhi's powerful holy divine consciousness directly invaded her sea of ​​consciousness and observed the information in her memory about the location of the elixir of immortality.

After getting what he wanted, Li Zhi released the immobilization spell.

Then he smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhu, I'm sorry for offending you just now."

After saying this, Li Zhi’s light and shadow incarnation immediately dissipated.

Zhu Zhu looked at the empty hall with a confused look on her face.

This was completely different from the scene she had expected.

Some even go beyond the scope.

Li Zhi actually searched her soul directly, which was something she had never expected.

Moreover, the anti-peeping restriction set up by the Semi-Saint in her sea of ​​consciousness was completely useless.

Almost all the secrets she knew were seen by Li Zhi.

For a moment, Zhu Zhu felt a deep sense of frustration deep in her heart.

After planning the game for so long and preparing so many things, everything was shattered the moment I met my opponent.

The other party got what he wanted easily.

And she was like a fool, unable to make any effective response.

This blow was more painful than killing her.

Killing is not the right thing to do, but now, she and the Suzaku clan are like clowns in front of Li Zhi.

After such a long period of careful planning, in the end, the other party only needed to sweep it with his mind to get everything.

For a moment, Zhu Zhu's heart of Taoism was clouded, and his belief in being on par with the Demon King was completely shattered.

It was a long time before the seventh uncle outside realized that something was wrong.

After entering the hall, I saw Zhu Zhu sitting on the ground in a daze, as if she had lost her soul.

"Zhu'er, what's wrong with you?" Seventh Uncle asked hurriedly.

"Uncle, notify everyone and go home." Zhu Zhu's eyes finally showed a ripple, and he said woodenly.

"Zhu'er, where is Mr. Bai?" the seventh uncle asked hurriedly.

"He is a saint, and he already knows all our plans, and even many secrets of our Suzaku clan." Zhu Zhu responded like a robot.

"Saint?" The Seventh Great Uncle was also stunned.

Then I understood why Zhu Zhu became like this.

Afterwards, all the cultivators of the Suzaku clan evacuated the Yuantian Ancient Vein, and even moved the medicine garden that was transformed from the spiritual land where the elixir of immortality once took root back to the clan.

A huge deep pit was left in its place.

It made the ancient Yuantian vein look like a piece of it had been bitten off.

When everyone saw this, they felt puzzled and started to guess what the Suzaku clan was doing.

(End of this chapter)