System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

Preserve consciousness, replace with a new body to achieve immortality.

Upon hearing the one-armed young man glean the secret to immortality from the She people, Zhang Hao instantly realized that the She people were indeed connected to a god who possessed other people's bodies.

Otherwise, they wouldn't know about this method of achieving immortality.

Wang Canghai's pursuit of immortality stemmed from his discovery that possessing another's body could grant him eternal life, prompting him to conduct continuous experiments.

He did indeed succeed, dividing his consciousness into many parts and occupying different people's bodies.

Each of these people believes they are the real Wang Canghai, and they all want to kill each other. In the end, only the strongest one survives.

The people of She Kingdom did not know where they discovered this information; only by continuing their exploration could they learn more about it.

"Hey, look! The bronze coffin has disappeared too!"

"That's so strange. If everyone hadn't seen it at a glance, I would have even doubted whether I was seeing things."

"It's probably a reaction caused by a change in the magnetic field."

Hearing the fat man's exclamation, Zhang Hao quickly looked towards the location of the bronze coffin and found it was empty.

A bronze coffin weighing several tons simply vanished without a trace.

At this moment, Zhang Hao suddenly realized why he always felt something was off when he saw the one-armed guy and the bronze coffin.

Even if a bronze coffin exists for a very long time, it won't disappear without leaving any trace.

Then there's only one possibility: it doesn't exist at all.

Don't forget where Zhang Hao and his group are right now.

On the altar in the middle of the bronze tree.

The greatest ability of the Bronze Tree is materialization.

Zhang Hao speculated that both the one-armed guy and the bronze coffin were actually materialized forms of the divine tree.

After learning that the general and the prince had been gone for a thousand years, the one-armed man lost the will to live, which led to his death and disappearance.

It is precisely because they were materialized that they disappeared so completely, leaving no trace.

Zhang Hao suddenly remembered that the one-armed guy only realized that the fat man wasn't the leader of the Ku Kingdom after seeing the bracelet on the wrist of the mummified corpse on the throne.

He went up to the mummified corpse and took the bracelet off.

This is a black bracelet, crafted from the shape of a small black snake.

If you look closely, you'll find that the scales on a snake's body look very much like individual hairs.

Black-haired snake!

The black-haired snake is a special species of snake whose venom can store human memories.

Since the people of She Kingdom used snake bracelets shaped like black-haired snakes as tokens of their leaders, there must have been a connection between them.

"Brother Zhang Hao, what do you think we should do next? Climb up or go down?"

Just as Zhang Hao was working on the snake bracelet, he heard the fat man's question.

Without hesitation, he replied, "Of course, down!"

Zhang Hao had already used sound waves to locate and explore the area. There was nothing noticeable above, but below, the depths were unfathomable, seemingly hiding endless secrets.

"Alright, let's go down now."

Zhang Hao and his group arrived at the edge of the altar and climbed up the branches of the sacred tree to descend.

"What is this thing? It's sticky and has a fishy, ​​foul smell?"

The fat man put his hand under his nose, sniffed it, and looked disgusted.

The bronze sacred tree below the altar is different from the one above.

The sacred tree below has dense grooves, like a spider web, on both its trunk and branches.

These grooves connect all parts of the bronze tree.

The groove was covered on three sides by a layer of black, sticky, unidentified glue.

The fat guy got those things on his fingers because he accidentally touched the grooves while climbing.

"It's a mixture of corpse oil and blood. The people of Ku Kingdom would hang people on tree branches on the altar as sacrifices, and the blood would flow along these grooves to the tree trunk and then into the ground."

"Ugh, that's disgusting."

The fat man rubbed his hands vigorously against the tree a few times and said, "Brother, how do you know everything? You seem to know this place very well?"

Zhang Qilin shook his head and said nothing more.

Zhang Hao and his companions climbed the Bronze Tree, descending for more than two hours before reaching the bottom.

Based on the time and speed calculations, the distance from the altar to the ground is at least four or five hundred meters.

Fortunately, it was pitch black all around, and the flashlight beam had a limited range; otherwise, the fat man with a fear of heights wouldn't have been able to come down.

At the bottom, the roots of the bronze tree occupy the entire space.

These tree roots are so thick that it takes several people to hug them, while the thinnest ones are only as thick as an arm. They are intertwined and extend deep into the ground.

The bronze tree is identical to a real tree in every way, from its branches and trunk to its roots.

If you didn't know that this tree was cast in bronze by the She people, you would think it was a real plant.

The space beneath the divine tree is much larger than the space above it, with crisscrossing tree roots covering the entire underground space.

Zhang Hao tried using sound waves to locate underground conditions, but he found that the area he could detect was very limited.

The sound waves emitted did not reflect back once they touched the roots of the sacred tree.

"Everyone, split into pairs and search the vicinity to see if you find anything."

"Ok!"

Zhang Hao and Zhang Qilin each formed a separate group, while Wu Tianzhen, Fatty, Yi Sa, and Ding Yudie, a total of six people, searched in four directions.

Wu Tianzhen and the fat man headed north towards the underground space to search.

The two people climbed up and down among the tree roots of various sizes.

"boom!"

Suddenly, a gunshot rang in Wu Tianzhen's ears.

The sudden gunshot startled him.

I was stunned for a long time before I came to my senses.

"Tianzhen, are you alright?"

"It's alright, Fatty, you need to be careful too, there are other forces here."

The fat man nodded and took out a bundle of explosives from his backpack.

He yelled in the direction the bullets were coming from, "Whoever you are, get out here right now, or I'll make you wish you were dead!"

"Look what my bullet hit!"

Before the fat man could finish speaking, a woman's voice came from the darkness.

He immediately recognized the voice: "Naive, it's that woman Aning! She actually came to the Qinling Mountains too!"

"Ok!"

Wu Tianzhen responded and turned to look at where the bullet had hit.

On the ground lay a small black snake, about a foot long and as thick as a finger, its head blown off by a bullet.

"It was a black-haired snake. Ah Ning saved me."

"Really? That woman would be so kind as to save you?"

The fat man spoke as he backed away, and only put away the explosives when he saw the snake carcass on the ground.

At this moment, Aning also emerged from the darkness.

"Ah Ning, is it really you? Why are you here?"

“We followed the clues that led us here, so we came here. Be careful, there are black-haired snakes everywhere.”

"Thank you for reminding."

"Tianzhen, why are you thanking her? We've saved her so many times, it's only right that she saves you."