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Gu Xinyuan and Lu Da were military generals who had survived countless battles alongside Li Tiancheng. However, after spending some time in this small Buddhist hall, they felt a chill run down their spines.

"Big brother, take a look at this."

Lu Da kicked away the futon under his feet, but unexpectedly found a book hidden underneath. It must be something important. Since he couldn't read, he immediately handed it to Gu Xinyuan.

Gu Xinyuan flipped through the pages, but his expression quickly turned serious.

"Let's go into the palace."

He slammed the book shut and immediately took Lu Da to the palace to meet the emperor.

royal palace.

The retired emperor would come to the emperor almost every day to ask about Zhou Wu's whereabouts, but for more than ten days in a row, there was no news at all, and he didn't even feel like playing mahjong.

There was still no news of Zhou Wu today. Just as the Emperor Emeritus was about to leave, he encountered Gu Xinyuan and Lu Da coming from the opposite direction.

"Attend to the Emperor Emeritus."

"Is there any news about Zhou Wu?"

"By order of His Majesty, we have found some clues at Hou Zhenghao's house."

"Oh."

The retired emperor, who was preparing to leave, also decided to stay and listen for any clues.

“Your Majesty, we found a secret room in Hou Zhenghao’s residence, which was filled with some strange religious items, as well as this manual. I checked the notes and they should be written by Hou Zhenghao himself.”

Li Tiancheng took the book and saw three large characters written on the cover: Bai Yujing.

"Bai Yujing!"

Li Tiancheng was all too familiar with it. There was a time when he had also harbored some strange thoughts, wanting to pursue immortality, but after Zhou Wu discovered it, he was ruthlessly suppressed. Now, seeing the three words "Bai Yujing" again, his dead path to immortality began to loosen a little.

With a mix of trepidation and excitement, Li Tiancheng flipped through the manual, which was filled with Hou Zhenghao's notes on his experiences in achieving immortality.

"According to rumors, I made a drum out of human skin, but when I struck it under the moonlight at midnight, nothing unusual happened. It seems to be just another rumor."

"That old man did look quite dignified, so I'll trust him this time. But which part of the bone should be used for the human bone nail?"

"Damn it, why hasn't anyone succeeded? Is Baiyujing really just a legend?"

"The Jade Palace in the heavens, with twelve towers and five cities."

Immortals caress my head, knotting my hair and receiving immortality.

"Wonderful, wonderful! Zhou Wu must know Baiyujing; to compose such a poem, he must have been there."

The entire manual is more like a diary, which records Hou Zhenghao's various experiments on becoming an immortal, but none of them were successful. When it comes to Zhou Wu, there is no further information.

"Did Hou Zhenghao capture Zhou Wu in order to become an immortal?"

Everyone realized what was happening, and Li Tiancheng was so shocked that he was stunned for a long time.

"Your Majesty, I humbly request that Your Majesty order the nationwide arrest of Hou Zhenghao."

"His Majesty!"

After Gu Xinyuan finished speaking and saw that Li Tiancheng did not react, he called out again.

"What? Oh, okay, go ahead as you wish."

"promise."

Li Tiancheng and Lu Da accepted the order and left, leaving only Emperor Li Tiancheng and the Retired Emperor at the scene. Having learned the latest clues, the Retired Emperor also prepared to leave, but when he reached the entrance of the main hall, he couldn't help but turn back and remind him.

"Your Majesty, so many emperors have died tragically in their pursuit of the elusive path of immortality and becoming a god. You mustn't fall into that trap."

"Father, what are you saying? I don't believe any of this."

"It's best not to believe it."

The retired emperor gave the emperor a meaningful look, then left without turning back.

Li Tiancheng was the only one left in the main hall, but he was deep in thought, and no one knew what he was thinking.

. . . . .

It must be said that the Great Dragon Empire is quite efficient. Hou Zhenghao's wanted poster spread throughout the entire Great Dragon Empire in just two days, and was also posted in places where government offices were located and where people gathered on the grasslands.

However, by this time, Hou Zhenghao and Zhou Wu had already reached the border of the grassland.

"Even Da Long is wearing shorts, but it's so cold here."

Hou Zhenghao wrapped his sheepskin coat tighter around himself and then rubbed his hands together.

According to Zhou Wu, although they haven't seen the polar bear or the flightless black and white twin birds yet, it is definitely getting colder the further north they go.

Both of them were only wearing thin clothes, and they were so cold that Hou Zhenghao ran to a herdsman's house and stole two sheepskin coats. Otherwise, they would not have made it this far.

"Zhou Wu, whether you can save your life depends on whether you're lying to me."

"Tch, I, Zhou Wu, am a man of my word."

Zhou Wu appeared calm on the surface, but in reality he was panicking. They were about to reach the Arctic. Putting aside the possibility that Hou Zhenghao might kill him after discovering that the Arctic was nothing but ice and snow, their equipment was so poor that it was hard to say whether they could even make it to the Arctic alive.

The only carriage we had just seen was also abandoned, because the road ahead was not one that allowed us to travel by carriage at all; the road was not only rugged, but also covered in a lot of black ice.

Having ridden in a carriage for about twenty days, Zhou Wu was still somewhat unaccustomed to walking.

Unlike Zhou Wu's panic, Hou Zhenghao became increasingly excited, probably because he was close to Baiyujing. He even chatted with Zhou Wu, making it seem like the two were friends.

"Zhou Wu, what exactly is the difference between Baiyujing and this place?"

"There are many: a real vehicle that can travel a thousand miles a day (car), a magical artifact (airplane) that can carry a hundred people flying, a magical artifact (telephone) that can talk to people a thousand miles away, and a divine weapon (nuclear bomb) that can decide the outcome of a city massacre ten thousand miles away."

"Really? You're not kidding me?"

"Forget it if you don't believe it."

Zhou Wu didn't want to explain further; keeping the other party in suspense would only make them more convinced.

"You make it sound so convincing, so why did you come out in the first place?"

"It's just that you think it's good. I think the outside world is more exciting. Believe me, you won't like it."

Zhou Wu had experienced too much in his previous life: poverty, wealth, love, friendship, betrayal. It was exhausting. He felt that the world he was in now was better, at least he could be free.

“I understand. You must have been kicked out. With your weak will, you are indeed not worthy of Bai Yujing.”

Zhou Wu's words did not shake Hou Zhenghao at all; on the contrary, they made him even more determined in his own mind.

"Haha, you're right, I was kicked out, but I'm very grateful to them for kicking me out."

The further north they went, the colder it got, and the shorter the days became. In addition, they were now unable to travel far, so they had to find a place to spend the night.

"Damn it, luckily I used to love watching Bear Grylls and Ed Stafford, otherwise I would have died in this desolate place long ago."

Zhou Wu looked resentful. The journey had mostly taken him through desolate wilderness. Before, when he had a carriage, things were a bit better, as he slept in it. But without the carriage, he had no shelter and could only do his best to build simple temporary shelter.

With Hou Zhenghao's fighting prowess added to the mix, the wild beasts dared not act recklessly.