My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1063 Secret Interrogation
When Wen Rui began to deconstruct the Jiejiao classics with scientific thinking and compiled the "Monkeys Can Cultivate Immortality by Reading" series, the prevailing belief in the cultivation world that "the older the secret manual, the more powerful it is" was completely overturned.

The core of the "Monkeys Can Cultivate Immortality Through Reading" series is that it clearly and explicitly explains the "principles of cultivation".

They no longer use obscure riddles, incomplete diagrams, or even tadpole-like ciphers that normal people cannot understand to pass on their knowledge.

It does not require archaeological or puzzle-solving cultivation, but rather fully stimulates the creativity of cultivators, encouraging them to build upon the foundations laid by their predecessors, continuously scale new heights, extract fragments of the Heavenly Dao, analyze them completely, and open up new cultivation methods that are constantly iterating and improving.

Zhao Mingcheng is a new-era cultivator who understands not only what works but also why it works. He can read the underlying code of any spell that is cast in front of him, and can even immediately optimize and restore it to cast a new spell of the same type, but with greater power and fewer flaws.

Since emerging from seclusion, Yun Zhongzi has not yet fought any cultivators of the new era. He is unaware that the advancement of cultivation concepts has exceeded his imagination. He still believes that with his Golden Immortal realm magic power, a mere Mahayana cultivator cannot cause any trouble and has no chance of breaking his meridian-locking technique.

Even when he had the chance to break free, Zhao Mingcheng did not resist. He was worried about the children sleeping in the next room and the ordinary neighbors in the apartment building.

His wife, Puna, is currently working in the ethnic autonomous region. Her term will end in six months, after which she will be transferred back to Binhai City.

There was only Zhao Mingcheng and his two children at home. These two children were not the cat children of Puna. Those two cat children had already grown up, gone to university, and started their own families.

These two children are the result of Zhao Mingcheng and Pu Na's mixed-race love. They are only in elementary school now, and if a battle breaks out, they will have no way to protect themselves.

The opponent's realm was unfathomable, but his spells and supernatural abilities were very outdated, and Zhao Mingcheng still had the power to resist.

Once freed from its restraints and an alarm is triggered, the Demon Alliance's strongest martial arts puppet will immediately descend from the sky.

However, if a war were to break out here, it would be a battle between gods and the suffering of mortals. Countless innocent people would be caught in the crossfire. The power of a battle between gods would be more than enough to destroy this neighborhood, or even worse, half the city could be reduced to ruins before the puppets arrive.

He remained silent, pretending to be subdued, leaving Zhao Mingcheng alone to bear the danger. Since that was the case, Zhao Mingcheng simply decided to observe the situation and see what this mysterious immortal who had attacked him at night was up to.

Yun Zhongzi dared not release his flying sword to fly away at high speed. He had witnessed the martial arts puppets appear like meteors falling from the sky and knew that once his whereabouts were exposed, he would not be able to escape far before being surrounded by Wen Rui's henchmen.

After carrying Zhao Mingcheng to the ground, Yun Zhongzi once again took advantage of the weakness in the Demon Alliance's city's detection of earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic that allows one to move freely between land and earth), and used the Earth-Traveling Technique to carry Zhao Mingcheng into the unpaved soil layer in the community's green belt.

His level of caution is no less than that of Wen Rui back when he was a weakling, terrified of being robbed by other underworld cultivators.

This truly exemplifies the saying "thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river," where even the renowned ancient immortals hide like rats in Wenrui's territory, afraid to face the light of day.

……

The Earth Travel Technique consumes a lot of spiritual energy, but for Yun Zhongzi, who is a Golden Immortal, this consumption is just a drop in the ocean. The only drawback is that the travel speed is too slow. It only took him a few breaths to fly to Xinbinhai City, but it took him a full half month to travel from Xinbinhai City to his Zhongnan Mountain cave.

Even after leaving the new coastal city, Yun Zhongzi still traveled underground, not daring to leave the ground and fly on his sword.

Yun Zhongzi benefited greatly from his month-long city life. Just by watching TV for half a month in his spare time, he gained a lot of knowledge. He learned that there were reconnaissance satellites and high-altitude drones of the Demon Alliance in the heavens, scanning the prehistoric land around the clock without any blind spots. Even a fly could be tracked by the Demon Alliance within three seconds.

The reason he retreated to his cave in Zhongnan Mountain was because there was a secret realm created by Yun Zhongzi within the cave. Of all the world's wonders, only by hiding in this secret realm could Yun Zhongzi believe he would not be discovered by Wen Rui.

Before sending the witness to the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain, Yun Zhongzi had to interrogate him thoroughly to extract details and reasons for Wen Rui's collusion with the Blood Sea Demon Clan before reporting to the Primordial Heavenly Lord.

Finally back in the Central South Secret Realm, Yun Zhongzi didn't even have time to drink water before putting down Zhao Mingcheng, who had been silent the whole way as if in deep meditation, and then his divine sense once again invaded Zhao Mingcheng's sea of ​​consciousness.

This time, the divine sense intrusion did not transmit any information; it was merely to awaken him.

Zhao Mingcheng slowly opened his eyes and stared at Yun Zhongzi, seemingly trying to identify him.

"The Chan Sect?"

Before Yun Zhongzi could remove the restrictions on Zhao Mingcheng, the other party spoke, uttering only one word that greatly surprised Yun Zhongzi.

"When did you break through my restrictions?" Yun Zhongzi asked in surprise. "And how do you know that I am an immortal of the Chan Sect?"

"The cultivation textbooks specify the frequency range of the immortal power fluctuations of the Chan Sect immortals, and also explain how to distinguish these fluctuation frequencies. When you used the Earth Escape Technique, although your control of immortal power was ingenious, there was still some leakage. That is enough for me to analyze."

Zhao Mingcheng did not answer the first question, but only explained how he could identify Yun Zhongzi as a disciple of the Chan Sect.

"I advise you to pull back from the brink and come with me to the nearest city to turn yourself in. Kidnapping a citizen of the Demon Alliance is a serious crime."

Zhao Mingcheng exuded an imposing aura, not at all like a prisoner. He calmly said, "No matter what your identity is, the laws of the Demon Alliance have both territorial and personal jurisdiction. If you commit a crime within the Demon Alliance's territory, even if you are a god from the Heavenly Court, you will surely be brought to justice."

Yun Zhongzi frowned, vaguely sensing that this interrogation might not be as easy as he had imagined.

The human man in front of me was still unremarkable in appearance, but he looked much younger than in the photo.

In the photo, the human man was nearly forty years old, but now he has returned to the prime of his twenty-six or twenty-seven years, as if he is aging in reverse.

However, this is not surprising. Yun Zhongzi knew how to read faces. When that photo was taken, the man in front of him was still a mortal. His cultivation level had not yet broken through to the Qi Refining stage, so he should naturally look nearly forty years old.

Now, he has reached the Mahayana stage, and with profound accumulation, solid foundation, and perfect state of mind, even if a tribulation were to descend now, the chances of successfully transcending the tribulation would be extremely high.

Rejuvenation is perfectly reasonable.

What's unreasonable is that, judging from the timeline, it took him less than thirty years to advance from a mortal to the Mahayana stage. Even in the ancient era when spiritual energy was abundant, his speed of cultivation progress was quite astonishing.

(End of this chapter)