"Plop, plop."

The heartbeat sound appeared again, and Zhong Li came back to his senses and looked into the depths of the silk screen. It was tightly wrapped by the black Yin Source body, and only the approximate position could be seen through the fluctuating waves.

"Are you dead or alive?"

Zhong Li frowned slightly, she had no idea that he had a chance of survival.

Ge Xunzi was silent for a moment, and the long voice appeared in her heart again.

"He died a long time ago."

He spoke calmly, as if he was talking about someone else's life or death.

"I am just a wisp of remnant thought now. I have sensed the spiritual energy of your essence and blood, and only then have I awakened a trace of spiritual consciousness."

Zhong Li lowered his eyes, looked in his direction and asked, "Is it related to the Ghost Cave Formation Diagram?"

"Yes, not entirely."

After Ge Xunzi finished speaking, the ghost den position moved.

His heartbeat grew a little louder until the Ghost Cave Formation Diagram fell into a deep sleep and stopped absorbing the spiritual energy around Zhong Li. Then he continued, "Before I fought you that year, I was ambushed. Later, my foundation was damaged, and then I forced my way through, which led to failure and death."

He paused here, his voice tinged with regret, "When I first found the Baopu Ding, my master warned me that it was an ancient artifact. It possessed both good and evil, and only a great sage could control it."

"Are you not the true owner of the Baopu Ding?"

Zhong Li was stunned. She had never thought that this Baopu Ding was not made by him.

After all, it was with this tripod that Ge Xunzi proved his truth and transformed himself from a minor cultivator into a powerful spiritual practitioner sought after by all the major sects overnight.

Because he refined this cauldron, the immortal sect even allocated him a sacred mountain as a separate place, and gave him all their support to establish his own sect.

Ge Xunzi smiled sadly, "Everyone thinks I forged this tripod, but in fact, I picked it up from the Fallen Immortal Tomb."

"That's impossible. The Fallen Immortal Tomb is the site of an ancient battlefield. With your skills back then, you couldn't possibly enter."

Zhong Li looked solemn. If the Baopu Ding was really obtained from that forbidden area, it might be possible to reverse yin and yang, and make it impossible to distinguish between gods and demons.

"I've always been blessed by heaven in my life. I was just looking for opportunities near the Fallen Immortal Tomb, but I accidentally triggered the formation and was sucked into the tomb itself."

"Later, I used the power of the Baopu Ding to sweep away the geniuses of my generation. It was not until I used this Ding to improve my cultivation to a certain level that I vaguely realized that I seemed to be being cultivated as a Ding furnace."

When he said this, Zhong Li finally understood why she had felt the emptiness inside him when they had last fought.

"When I first fought you, I saw a crack in your spiritual essence. At the time, I just thought it was my own eyesight, but I didn't expect you to be truly injured."

"I don't blame you. At first, I also thought that this tripod had no owner. After dozens of my master's disciples refined it to the point of ninety-nine, they gave it to me to smelt the essence."

"Who knew this cauldron already possessed spiritual consciousness, concealing the secrets of heaven and dormant within it. After tricking me into letting my spiritual consciousness penetrate deeper, it then devoured my spiritual essence while I was in seclusion."

Zhong Li was shocked by his words again. A great master, a person with great spiritual power, was swallowed up without anyone noticing.

No wonder he was in seclusion for thousands of years, so long that he never appeared again even when the sect was destroyed.

There was another silence between the two.

However, there was a huge uproar in the Xuanling Realm.

Wanling Mountain is where many spiritual sects in China gather. This mountain is maintained by all the mysterious spiritual practitioners and is the place where the highest orders are enforced.

Three days ago, the incident of a demon cultivator crossing the sea had alarmed the Xuanling Realm.

Coupled with the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, everyone now believed that the appearance of Zhong Li was the biggest variable that would disrupt the spiritual practice school.

Even with a Qinglian Shangqingtian and Zhang Mosheng and other disciples defending her, it was still difficult to convince the various factions in the Xuanling world to be hostile to her.

Even the Xuanling Sect, which had previously rushed to acknowledge her as its ancestor, distanced itself from her in the shortest possible time.

Just as everyone was discussing how to deal with the Zhong Li incident, bad news kept coming from City Z.

First, Zhong Nan's faction broke through the boundary of the formation diagram sealed by Jiang Yunsheng, and then there were three secret orders from the National Bureau of Supernatural Powers, requiring the masters of the Xuanling Realm to come out and go to Z University to solve the remaining problems of the ghost formation diagram.

Many of the younger generation in the sect were unaware of the matter of the Ghostly Formation Diagram, but the older guys all knew the seriousness of the matter.

This place has long been a forbidden area among the major Xuanling sects. Since the powerful people gathered together this morning, they have kept their mouths shut to their disciples.

Just when everyone was panicking, news came out that several of the last remaining Xuanling masters and Tongtian cultivators in the world had calculated a piece of advice using their own spiritual sources.

"The immortal object appears, and the road to heaven continues."

When this divine secret was revealed, a celestial cultivator was reduced to ashes on the spot. Several other powerful people who wanted to use magical instruments to spy on the matter were directly crushed to death by the divine secret.

Only a few remaining masters of great power managed to escape the disaster by chance.

"Heaven has given a warning. This friend Zhong Li is the key to opening the road to heaven."

Several Tongtian cultivators had solemn expressions on their faces. Only the leader said this to everyone, then was supported by the sect disciples and returned to his room to meditate.

Everyone was silent on the spot, each with their own ulterior motives.

The powerful man's words were obviously hinting that Zhong Li was the key to connecting that dimensional world. If she was captured, would there be any worry that the sect could not ascend to the divine road to heaven?

"My fellow Taoists, this is a great opportunity for our Xuanling lineage. I hope you will work together to capture the traitor Zhong Li." Taoist Zhihai snorted coldly and publicly labeled Zhong Li a traitor of the Xuanling sect.

Zhang Mosheng frowned and said, "Master, what you said is inappropriate. Zhong Li has no sect or school, and is not bound by the laws of my Xuanling cultivators. It is inappropriate to call her a traitor."

"Hmph! Ever since the exodus of cultivators in the pre-Qin era, the remaining laws of the world have all been influenced by Xuanling cultivators. Zhong Li, a Xuanling cultivator, has neither kowtowed at the sect's gate nor made any contribution to the Xuanling sect. Now, she seems to have secretly devoured the Ghost Cave Formation Diagram. What else could she be but a traitor?"

"Well, Daoist Master Zhihai is right. This woman possesses remarkable spiritual powers and must be a closed disciple of a hidden Xuanling sect. If she truly attacks the demon cultivator Silver-spotted Octopus, she will have already broken the hundred-year agreement between the demon cultivator and the Xuanling world."

"Now that you have set your sights on the Ghost Cave Formation Diagram, you have already disregarded the Xuanling Sect's rules and regulations. You should be charged with treason."

The person who spoke to him was Man Xuanzi, a powerful spiritual practitioner from the Qilian Mountains.

He was the offspring of a demon spirit and a human cultivator, and maintained a good relationship with the demon world. Now over twenty years old, he had sparse white hair and a faint look of fatigue on his face.

After hearing the words from this superior, all the elders of Xuanling Sect fell silent.

The spiritual source of this world is exhausted. If spiritual practitioners want to achieve immortality, they must embark on the road to heaven.

But this path is truly difficult. Throughout history, countless spiritual geniuses have fallen along the way. In tens of thousands of years, only two or three people have crossed the Tongtian Road, and it's unknown whether they are dead or alive.

If Zhong Li is really the only chance to reach Tongtian as Tongtian said, then even if she is really an innocent person, for the future of Xuanling Realm, he can only use her for his own benefit.

"Since the Ghostly Formation Diagram has once again wreaked havoc on the world, our Xuanling sect cannot sit idly by. All major sects must obey the orders of the senior."

In the inner room, the spiritual lamp lit up, and it was the great master Tongtian who gave the instructions.

The leaders and elders of all the major sects stood up and bowed towards the inner room, waiting.

"Pass on the order of Xuanling Tianzun, any Chinese Xuanling cultivator who sees Zhong Li must do everything in his power to capture him."

A magic token wrapped in dazzling golden light appeared between heaven and earth, causing the sky and earth to change color. The originally clear sky was suddenly turned into a sea of ​​clouds.

The image of the token shone from the sky. Ordinary mortals only felt the glare of the sunlight, but the Xuan cultivators all looked up at the sky. Until the image of the Xuanling Tianzun token disappeared, everyone put down what they were doing and hurried towards the sect.

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