"This old man, Chiyunzi, is a cultivator from Mount Sumeru Taiming. This time, I am traveling through the mortal world for training, and I passed by this place and saw the purple aura rising in the east, like a surging river, constantly flowing. It really surprised this old man, so I came here to take a look," the old man said, stroking his beard and smiling at Li Chang.
"It is truly destined by fate, there will surely be wealth and honor in the future."
"Cultivator?! How dare you come to my important territory of Nanqi!" Li Chang's eyes widened upon hearing the old man's words. In this era, 'cultivator' is not a good term, representing a certain kind of brutality.
"Noble, please don't be anxious, and listen to this old man explain slowly," Chiyunzi said with a smile, taking out a mirror from his sleeve, placing it on the ground, and then walking around the mirror, chanting a spell.
Li Chang did not give the order to arrest Chiyunzi, but wanted to see what the old man was going to do. This place is their Nanqi capital, and there is naturally no shortage of strong individuals in the city.
That Chiyunzi was able to sneak in past those strong individuals shows that he has some ability. But no matter how capable he is, it will be difficult for him to cause trouble here.
"Appear!" Chiyunzi pointed at the mirror and shouted, and a illusory tree slowly grew out of the mirror. The tree gradually rose, and finally blossomed and bore fruit.
Chiyunzi plucked a fruit from the tree, and then handed it to Li Chang with a smile: "Please, noble, eat this."
"Hmph, what are you trying to do? You want me to eat these things of unknown origin?" Li Chang said lightly, looking at the fruit.
"Noble may not know, this is a Fengyang Wutong tree, and the fruit that grows on the tree is also called Fengyang fruit. Legend has it that the phoenix rests on the Wutong tree, and lives together with the Wutong day and night. The Fengyang Wutong, influenced by the phoenix, can bear such a supreme yang object. As long as you eat this fruit, noble will no longer be troubled by the turbid air of the mortal world. Even in the thick fog, you will be able to see the direction clearly."
Chimingzi still handed the fruit with a smile. After Li Chang heard his words, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, but his expression remained calm. He looked at the fruit in Chimingzi's hand and snorted softly.
"How do I know if this thing is poisonous?"
"If noble does not believe me, you can ask a trusted person to taste it. It's just that this Fengyang fruit is not easy to come by. It blooms every five thousand years and bears fruit every five thousand years. Its fruit can only be stored for one year. Now it has just reached ten thousand years, so noble can be considered to have caught the right time. This thing is unique in the world, and my Taishen Palace can only obtain it occasionally. Today, I passed by this place and saw endless noble aura, so I came here to offer it to noble."
Chimingzi's words were very sincere, and his youthful face showed no sign of falsehood.
Li Changming was naturally tempted, and Jiang Wen could also see it. After all, being able to see the direction in the thick fog is a rare ability. It's just that he was suspicious in his heart and hesitated to make a decision.
He looked around, and finally his eyes fell on Jiang Wen.
Li Chang looked at the soldiers guarding in the hall, and then ordered them to retreat. After all, now that he understood Chiyunzi's intentions, there was no need to be so wary of him.
"Then, please tell me, what is the difference between you and those cultivators, and what is your purpose in coming to my Nanqi?"
"Since the founding of Taicang, the Jiang family has inherited the mandate of heaven to be the emperor, and it has been 30,000 years since then. Thinking back to the ancient times, we cultivators cultivated together with Taicang, drove out the alien races, and drove away the demons, so that our human race could exist in the world. But the Jiang family emperor wanted to pursue immortality, and sit in the mortal world as a god-emperor for ten thousand generations. But the world is balanced, and all things are interdependent. Since he is a man of destiny, leading hundreds of millions of people, how can he have endless life and be independent for ten thousand generations? We cultivators did not agree with this, so the Jiang family expelled us cultivators from the human path."
As Chiyunzi spoke, he paced back and forth in the hall for a moment, then sighed with a wave of his sleeve: "What is given by heaven is given by heaven, and what is taken by man is done by man. If what is given by heaven is not taken by man, it is a violation of the mandate of heaven. The Jiang family emperor naturally could not achieve immortality, so he opened up another path, seeking the method of demonization from the demon race, which is called demon transformation. Although this method is magical, it ultimately relies on external objects. The more times one transforms into a demon, the more difficult it becomes to return to being human. In the end, one will only repeat the same mistakes and become a demon again."
"So, you mean that all the demon transformation blood of Taicang should be from their ancestors…" Li Chang seemed to have thought of something, and even the heroic him turned pale. After all, this kind of secret was too shocking, to the point that even he, who was in a high position of power, found it difficult to accept.
Jiang Wen was also shocked when he heard this. He originally thought that Taicang's demon transformation blood came from demons, but he didn't expect it to have such a background. The ancestors of Taicang were willing to donate blood for their descendants, which was truly shocking.
"That's right," Chiyunzi said with a bitter smile. "The method of demon transformation requires pure demon blood. Although there are demons in the world, how easy is it to capture great demons now? There are many people in Taicang who transform into demons every year, so where can there be so much demon blood to use? Naturally, their ancestors, in their twilight years, tried their best to transform into demons. In the end, they transformed into demons and were raised in the Taicang royal city, for the use of their descendants to transform into demons. For ten thousand years, every generation has been like this. This old man does not know whether to feel sorry or admire the Jiang family."
"As for the demon blood they use, it was the demons that we cultivators hunted and killed in the old land when we fought together with them. I never thought that it would be taken by the Jiang family for their own use, and turned into such an external method."
"So that's how it is, no wonder I always felt that the capital of Taicang was heavily guarded, and people of non-class were not allowed to cross the line," Li Chang sighed. "I never thought that it would involve such a secret."
"So you cultivator came here, could it be that you want me to rebel against Taicang? Do you know that Taicang is now the center of the human race, sheltering many tribes above the Great Wilderness. How can I do such a thing?"
"Not so, not so," Chiyunzi shook his head. "This cultivator came here only to seek one thing, which is to hope that noble can include us cultivators in the human path of Nanqi. Do not let us be lonely and helpless, be wild ghosts in the wilderness, living by eating people."
As Chiyunzi spoke, he looked at the silent Li Chang. After all, this matter was indeed difficult for him. If the inclusion of cultivators was discovered by the people of Taicang, it would be to become enemies with Taicang. Although Nanqi is large, it is far inferior to Taicang. To be enemies with them is like hitting a stone with an egg. But if cultivators are included, the benefits are also very numerous. Regardless of the mysteries of the cultivators, their combat power can also be used by Nanqi.
Li Chang silently supported the pillar in the hall, he raised his head and looked up at the top of the hall for a long time before he spoke: "I can agree to you, but I want to know everything about the cultivators. Is that possible?"
Li Chang turned around and looked directly at Chiyunzi, his aura was pressing. His hand was on the long sword at his waist, and as long as the other party dared to say no, he would be beheaded.
Chiyunzi nodded with a smile, and bowed respectfully to him: "Possible."
