99: Chapter 97: Retrieving Treasures from the Forbidden Land (Please Subscribe for Support) 99: Chapter 97: Retrieving Treasures from the Forbidden Land (Please Subscribe for Support) “Little Green, it’s up to you now, we can’t break through the last layer…”

“Okay, I will try my best to break it, give me ten days to half a month, that should be about right…”

At the edge of the Sect Forbidden Land, Ye Zhen was listening intently, and the surprise on his face grew stronger!

There are treasures hidden in the Sect Forbidden Land?

And are there treasures with spiritual power?

Anything associated with the word ‘spiritual power’ was bound to be extraordinary.

Spiritual power was something that only those in the Late-stage Spirit Summoning Realm or even the Spirit Transformation Realm could fully utilize, several levels above Ye Zhen’s current True Essence Realm.

Moreover, this Sect Forbidden Land was the place where Tu Fangye, Qiyun Sect’s once-in-a-century genius, had fallen.

At the time of his demise, Tu Fangye was the sect’s top true inheritor.

Could it be that the treasure mentioned by those little beasts was left behind by the fallen true inheritor Tu Fangye?

Ye Zhen’s heart immediately heated up.

There were treasures!

As for the question of whether to take them or not, there was no need to ponder.

If treasures existed, they must be taken.

But the issue now was that this was the Sect Forbidden Land, and Fairy Caiyi had mentioned before that the Sect Forbidden Land was periodically inspected by the divine sense of the elders.

Those who dared to intrude upon the Sect Forbidden Land would be killed without mercy!

This was the strictest and most incomprehensible rule in the Qiyun Sect, yet it was executed most thoroughly!

In the past decades, at least three Inner Sect Disciples who sneaked in were executed!

Treasures are important, but one’s life is even more so.

Ye Zhen did not wish to lose his life over the treasures.

However, fortune favors the bold, and glory comes to those who seek it.

Without risking, how can one reap the rewards?

By the edge of the Sect Forbidden Land, Ye Zhen was deep in thought, figuring out how to safely obtain the potential treasures inside.

The Sect Forbidden Land was a hundred meters deep and spanned dozens of miles.

The pit’s bottom was covered in grass over a person’s height, obscuring the view.

Once he charged to the bottom of the pit, his safety would greatly increase.

But the nearly ten miles before reaching the pit’s bottom was the most dangerous area.

If he were to be discovered by the patrolling elder’s divine sense and struck down, Ye Zhen would truly die unjustly.

Suddenly, Ye Zhen’s attention was captured by a Blood Teeth Pig leisurely climbing up from the bottom of the valley.

The Blood Teeth Pig was a low-grade Human-Level Demon Beast, one of the lowest among demon beasts.

It was leisurely chewing on a wild chicken and strolling around the Forbidden Land.

Up the slope, down the pit.

After wandering in the pit for a while, it climbed up from the side and leisurely slipped out of the Sect Forbidden Land, disappearing into the forest, utterly at ease.

“Demon Beast?”

Ye Zhen’s eyes suddenly brightened, as if the Qiyun Sect didn’t restrict demon beasts wandering in the Forbidden Land and nobody cared about it.

What if Ye Zhen transformed into a demon beast?

After a few breaths, an Illusion Serpent King measuring three meters in length with a blue hue emerged from the edge of the forest and leisurely moved toward the Sect Forbidden Land of the Qiyun Sect.

This suddenly appearing Illusion Serpent King was transformed by Ye Zhen using the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

Under the layer of illusion conjured by his True Yuan, Ye Zhen was extremely cautious as he made his way toward the bottom of the valley.

Ye Zhen prayed that the Sect Forbidden Land had been established for so many decades that no one would pay attention to it anymore, right?

As he was thinking this, suddenly, an inexplicable oppressive force descended from the sky, causing the Illusion Serpent King, transformed by Ye Zhen, to tremble all over.

In an instant, Ye Zhen’s heart rose to his throat!

Divine Sense!

The divine sense patrol of the Sect Elders!

Ye Zhen inwardly exclaimed as being enveloped by the elder’s divine sense felt like someone from the sky was watching him, trying to see through his five internal organs and six hollow organs, nearly causing Ye Zhen to reveal his true form out of fright.

Fortunately, the Sect Elder’s patrolling divine sense swept past the Sect Forbidden Land like routine work, not lingering on the Illusion Serpent King, transformed by Ye Zhen, even for a moment, as if it was nothing out of the ordinary.

Ye Zhen, however, broke out in a cold sweat.

The three-meter-long Illusion Serpent King was not slow in its movement, and in just over a hundred breaths, it reached the bottom of the valley.

Luckily, during that time, there were no other patrols by the Sect Elders’ divine sense.

Once at the bottom of the valley, Ye Zhen did not dare to be careless and maintained the Illusion Serpent King form, lying in the tall grass over one meter high, listening intently to the nearby sounds of insects and beasts, as he searched for the direction of the treasure.

“Little Green, do your best…”

The moment he heard the sound, Ye Zhen swiftly slithered into action.

Without seeing, one wouldn’t realize, but upon arrival, one would be startled.

Beneath the Sect Forbidden Land, it was deeper and broader than imagined!

The bottom of the pit was a narrow and long trench as if cut by a sword, with exposed rocks and large gaps everywhere.

Listening to the sounds, Ye Zhen gradually found a messy pit overgrown with weeds and visibly searched.

At the bottom of the messy pit, a green mantis the size of a watermelon was furiously waving its large scythes at a dark stone, sending rock fragments flying everywhere.

Around it, a red ant the size of a palm and a gecko measuring half a meter were anxiously waiting nearby.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zhen suddenly understood.

So Little Green was the mantis, and the treasure they mentioned?

Was it the dark stone that the mantis was furiously attacking?

After observing for a few breaths, Ye Zhen’s Illusion Serpent King quickly lunged forward, startling the unusually sized Fierce Beasts.

With shrill cries, under the gaze of the Illusion Serpent King’s gigantic triangular eyes, the mantis, red ant, and gecko, with their signature screams, fled from the area as if flying.

The next moment, the dark stone fell into Ye Zhen’s hands.

Upon sensing it, Ye Zhen’s brows furrowed.

There’s nothing!

He didn’t sense the slightest fluctuation of spiritual power.

With a bit of strength in his hands, he gently pinched the dark stone, which instantly turned into powder.

Among the powder, a very hard little object suddenly poked Ye Zhen.

A ring?

A dark green ring with complex engravings and a notch on the surface, as if it had been split by the tip of a sword, appeared in Ye Zhen’s hand.

A trace of very faint spiritual power so slight that Ye Zhen almost couldn’t feel it in his hand, was emitting from this notched ring.

“So, the treasure is this, I’ve got it!”

Situated in such a dangerous place as the Sect Forbidden Land, Ye Zhen was too curious but dared not to check what treasure it was.

After concentrating and resting for a while, maintaining the Illusion Serpent King’s illusory body, he swam out of the Sect Forbidden Land.

Leaving the place, he could simply climb out from the side of the deep pit, without having to traverse the several miles long pit bottom, shortening his journey by several times.

Instantly, just as Ye Zhen had started to climb halfway up the slope, the Sect Elders’ divine sense patrolling that had previously disappeared, swept across and abruptly stopped upon Ye Zhen’s illusory body.

The moment his illusory body was enveloped by the divine sense, Ye Zhen’s hair stood on end.

Fortunately, it only paused for a half breath, and the Sect Elders’ divine sense patrolling passed by just like the last time.

After the Sect Elders’ divine sense had swept past, Ye Zhen shook off his snake body and with the fastest speed, crawled out of the Sect Forbidden Land, plunging into the forest nearby.

Almost at the same time, at the foot of Elder Peak within the Qiyun Sect, the Seventh Elder Zhongli Chun who had just finished his divine sense patrol, showed a face full of surprise, “What a strange illusion snake!

A waist as thick as a grown man’s, yet only three meters long, such a peculiar and disproportionate creature!”

After murmuring to himself, the Seventh Elder Zhongli Chun’s expression suddenly changed, “No, snakes absolutely cannot be born with such an appearance.

Could it be that someone used an illusion technique to sneak in?”

In an instant, the Seventh Elder Zhongli Chun’s divine sense poured out like a flood towards the Sect Forbidden Land.

However, no matter how he searched, he couldn’t find that strange Illusion Serpent King anymore.

His expression changing, Seventh Elder Zhongli Chun rose into the sky from within the Qiyun Sect, flying directly to the Sect Forbidden Land, deciding to conduct an on-site inspection.

There was no way around it; the reason they could use divine sense to patrol the Sect Forbidden Land from a distance was that they had set up Divine Refining Objects to guide it there.

The heaven-defying divine power that allowed divine sense to scan madly across the world wasn’t something they could possess.

Actually, the extremely disproportionate ratio of the illusory body’s three-meter-long body and waist as thick as an adult man wasn’t a mistake made by Ye Zhen’s carelessness.

The main reason was, the larger the transformation into a demon beast, the faster the True Yuan would be consumed.

In order to maintain the transformation for a longer time, Ye Zhen could only transfigure into the smallest size possible.

Thus, when Ye Zhen left the Sect Forbidden Land, only ten percent of his True Yuan remained inside his body.

If he was delayed by over a hundred breaths, Ye Zhen would have reverted back to his original form.

“Eh, where did you go?

You’ve been gone so long; I was about to start looking for you.”

“You’re sweating profusely, what happened to make you so disheveled?”

Seeing Ye Zhen arriving, Fairy Caiyi showed a puzzled face.

Unbeknownst to herself, her relationship with Ye Zhen seemed to have grown much closer.

“I was ambushed by a demon beast.”

After a terse response, Ye Zhen asked, “How about it, did you settle the matter with Huaa Li and her family?”

“I did!

Su’er agreed!” Fairy Caiyi cheerfully said, directly snapping off the tree hollow where the Huaa Li family lived, holding it in her hands.

“Let’s go!”

Quite naturally, Fairy Caiyi took Ye Zhen’s hand, her figure soaring skywards.

Before, every time Fairy Caiyi took Ye Zhen flying, she always grabbed his wrist.

For the first time, it was even the back of Ye Zhen’s neck.

Just moments after Fairy Caiyi and Ye Zhen left, the Seventh Elder Zhongli Chun arrived at the Sect Forbidden Land, searching for the odd snake he had seen with his divine sense.

Over one hour later, Seventh Elder Zhongli Chun returned with a bewildered expression.

“How strange, it’s gone.

Could it really be…?”

“Besides, there hasn’t been any discovery in the Sect Forbidden Land for many decades.

Even if there did happen to be a master strolling around, it shouldn’t be a problem…”

Fairy Caiyi flew incredibly fast, and within half a quarter-hour, they returned to Fairy Peak.

As they descended, a streak of light suddenly zoomed to meet them.

“Caiyi, why are you out so late at night?

If there’s anything you need, just tell me, and I’ll take care of it for you…”

“Ye Zhen?”

Mid-sentence, Fan Chuyu’s expression suddenly froze, glaring at Ye Zhen being led by Fairy Caiyi as his eyes almost burst into flames.

“I went to find Su’er.

It is late, so I’ll take my leave.”

After a brief response, Fairy Caiyi landed with Ye Zhen on Fairy Peak.

As Ye Zhen was about to bid farewell, Fairy Caiyi suddenly pointed to the chirping Little Flower Weasel in her arms, “Ye Zhen, could you stay for a few days at Fairy Peak?”

“Why?”

“I don’t know how to take care of these flower weasel babies, but you must know how, right?” Fairy Caiyi blinked her large, gemstone-like eyes, staring intently at Ye Zhen.

“Uh…

I guess.”

Ye Zhen’s thought process was simple; he didn’t know, but he could understand what the flower weasels needed.

“That’s wonderful!

In that case, I’ll have a maid take you to a guest room to rest for now.

If there’s anything, I’ll call you right away!”

“Okay!”

At this point, Ye Zhen also very much wanted to find a private space to see what treasure this notched ring he had found today was.

While Ye Zhen was staying the night at Fairy Peak, Fan Chuyu waited outside, feeling conflicted.

After half a quarter-hour, Ye Zhen didn’t come out!

Fan Chuyu’s brows were knitted tightly.

An hour later, Ye Zhen still hadn’t come out!

Fan Chuyu felt his inner rage start to surge forth.

Two hours!

Ye Zhen still hadn’t appeared!

Fan Chuyu, waiting outside Fairy Peak, was starting to go crazy!

(To be continued.

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