The huge book held by the statue of Shennong emitted divine light, and Shen Qian was wrapped up and disappeared into the divine light without any resistance.
After swallowing Shen Qian, the light on the scroll fell silent and returned to its stone carving appearance. Only the cauldron on the other side was still emitting a misty brilliance.
In this high sky, only the leader of the Yan clan was left standing alone.
"Pity……"
Seeing that Shen Qian was completely swallowed by the book, the Yan clan leader's expression was complicated for a moment. He shook his head and was about to turn around and leave, but his expression suddenly changed.
As the Flame King turned his head, the fog near the huge statue suddenly broke, and a figure shrouded in darkness burst in.
King Yan was wary at first, but after sensing the coming person's aura, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"King You, why are you here?"
King Yan was a little surprised. Although the five major clans were not far apart from each other in order to help each other, and the leaders of the five major clans also communicated from time to time, King You had always been based in Fengdu. Even when the gods of the Wu clan crossed the border, the Yan clan asked the other four clans for help. He had never appeared before, and it was almost the first time that he had directly arrived in the Yan Clan's territory like this.
"Hmph, Jiang Zhi, my young daughter Ling was invited here, but she almost died in your Yan Clan's territory. I am only here now to give you face."
King You called King Yan by his name without politeness.
"There are a lot of strange things about this matter. The Witch Clan is probably behind it. Ordinary people don't have the ability to mix the poisons of the three great demons together." King Yan Jiang Zhi did not get angry, but explained calmly.
"I'm not blind." King You was not surprised when he heard this, and simply said, "Otherwise, my You clan's army would also come to the door today."
"but……"
After King You finished speaking, the face obscured by the black mist was briefly revealed due to the fluctuation of emotions, but it was a middle-aged man with a thin face. His eyes showed unwillingness and anger, but in the end it seemed to turn into some kind of helplessness.
"The messenger from the Ganwu Clan came to our door again, just half an hour ago."
King You said quietly.
Jiang Zhi was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, his face changed and he said, "What do you want to do?"
"On that day, our five tribes made an alliance. Although the royal father was wavering, after I succeeded to the throne, I moved to the You tribe, cut off the Nai River, and advanced and retreated with your four tribes. It has been a thousand years, but now... I am tired. "
King You chuckled, "Speaking of it, it was a mistake. If Xiaoling died like this, I would have a bloody feud with the Wu clan. But if she survives, I can't let go of the burden."
"But she was poisoned and dying, and it was a good thing done by the Wu clan!" Jiang Zhi said angrily.
"Yes." King You nodded, "So they will have a second, third time..."
"you!"
Jiang Zhi was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to refute.
"King You..."
"Jiang Zhi, there is no need to say more. You should be the one who knows best what Xiaoling means to me."
King You waved his hand, "I just came here to meet the alchemist who rescued Xiao Ling and cleared up some of her karma. It is said that that young man is not even a member of your Yan clan?"
Hearing that King You wanted to see Shen Qian, Jiang Zhi fell into a brief silence.
"What?" King You raised his eyebrows.
"You're a step too late." Jiang Zhi had no choice but to say.
"What's the meaning?"
Faced with King You's question, Jiang Zhi looked somewhere.
King You followed Jiang Zhi's gaze and finally fixed his gaze on the huge scroll in the Shennong statue book.
King You was startled for a moment, then thought of something and his pupils shrank slightly, "You let him enter the "Hundred Herbs Classic"? Jiang Zhi, you..."
"He asked for it himself." Jiang Zhi looked at the statue of Emperor Yan with a deep look, "This is the purpose, or the meaning, of his coming to the Yan Clan."
"This young man is very interesting. There is a lot of mystery surrounding him. Except for some entanglements that really stem from Mangshan, I can't see clearly his past."
"Then what does this have to do with you letting him enter the "Hundred Herbs Classic"?" King You frowned.
"Today in the stone palace, the moment before he rescued You Ling, when he made the request, I was furious."
Jiang Zhi said with his hands behind his back, with a hint of residual anger on his face, "Even if he is a genius like this and has entered the realm of gods at the age of less than twenty, how can I tolerate provocation with my majesty?"
"But... before I had the attack, the "Hundred Herbs Classic" that had been closed for a long time suddenly started to throb. Coupled with Gao Zhe's plea, I easily agreed to him."
"Gao Zhe knew this young man before?" King You noticed another fact, "How could you speak for him?"
"Maybe I don't know. This is the first time Gao Zhe has acted as a messenger, but he seems to have some special regard for this young man. I don't know the reason." Yan Wang Jiang Zhi shook his head.
"The Gao family... they have interfered too much..." King You narrowed his eyes, "I just don't know if that person is still there..."
When "that person" was mentioned, Jiang Zhi seemed to be a little wary and cautiously did not answer.
"Perhaps this young man means something to the Baicao Jing. That's why I brought him here to try. Unexpectedly, the Baicao Jing accepted him directly." Jiang Zhi shrugged, "Maybe It’s a good thing, we just need to wait and see.”
After being silent, King You suddenly smiled mysteriously and said, "Jiang Zhi, I'm not your Yan Clan's alchemist. It's okay for you to lie to others with these nonsense. Do you really think that I don't know the truth about the death of Emperor Yan? "
Jiang Zhi suddenly turned around, with unstoppable murderous intent in his eyes. At this moment, the sky and the earth shook, and dark clouds gathered above Yan City, causing countless Yan tribe residents to shake their heads in shock, not knowing what was going on.
However, King You, who was standing just a few feet away, was not afraid at all. He just stared at Jiang Zhi quietly, without even stepping back.
Jiang Zhi finally calmed down, and the night sky became clear again.
"What do you know?" Jiang Zhi took a deep breath and said.
"When Emperor Yan was rumored to have fallen, it was when the Nether Order was first established. You may have never thought that Emperor Yan also helped Lord Fu. In some scattered handwriting of Lord Fu, he roughly mentioned the missing half of the "Hundred Herbs Classic" reason."
King You chuckled and said, "Who would have thought that the "Hundred Herbs Classic" that Emperor Yan turned his soul into a stone statue to suppress would be unsealed by his great-grandson!"
The world became quiet.
If these words of King You were spread to the outside world, they would probably cause an uproar!
The statue of Shennong has been standing in Yancheng for who knows how many years. Everyone thought it was a great building that was built, but who could have imagined that it was actually transformed by Emperor Yan!
Compared to the fact that the Shennong statue was holding the "Hundred Herbs Classic" in its hands, this would only frighten Shen Qian even more.
"It's nonsense. The "Hundred Herbs Classic" is clearly the work of Emperor Yan himself to confer gods. Why did he suppress his own 'Tao'?"
Although there was confusion in Jiang Zhi's eyes, there was a sneer on his face.
"I also asked Mr. Fu. Although Mr. Fu didn't say anything, it's not difficult to guess the reason." King You snorted coldly, "There must be something wrong with the "Baicao Jing" itself, and this problem is very serious. It has reached the point where It’s a situation that even Emperor Yan, the great alchemist of destiny, can’t solve!”
"Even if we make a bolder assumption, maybe Emperor Yan himself destroyed the "Hundred Herbs Classic", so only half of it is sealed here..."
King You's voice was not loud, floating lightly in the night sky, but its content was enough to shock everyone.
"The story is fascinating."
Jiang Zhi clapped his palms loudly, "I didn't know King You had such literary talent. It would be a pity not to say anything."
"Don't you dare to admit it?" King You laughed, "Then do you dare to let go of all restrictions and let me check this statue?"
"King You is joking. This is the portrait of our ancestors. How can we allow others to desecrate it?" Jiang Zhi shook his head.
"Portrait of the Ancestor?" King You sneered, "How long do you want to continue to pretend that the probing skills of our You clan are just decorations?"
"Your Yan clan had more than thirty great alchemists nine hundred years ago. Now, almost a thousand years have passed. Not only has there been no accumulation or progress, but there are now less than ten great alchemists left."
King You looked directly at Jiang Zhi, "Let me ask you, where have all those alchemists who were once called geniuses gone?"
"Obviously in these thousands of years, despite the constant war, your Yan clan has never suffered a major attack. Others may not notice the subtle changes in this long time, but how can you hide it from those who are interested?"
"Your plan was too early. If it weren't for chance, I wouldn't have noticed the changes within your Yan clan. If I remember correctly, when you first came to power, the first thing you did was to promote the "Hundred Herbs Classic" within the clan. Is it lost?"
"But you have never admitted it in public, and as long as there are budding genius alchemists with no background, they have been deceived by you under various names and directly sacrificed to the "Hundred Herbs Classic"..."
"Tsk, tsk, but I don't know that Emperor Yan is here, watching my beloved great-grandson violate the oath to the throne and personally destroy the seal he built with his soul. How do you feel in your heart?"
While King You continued to narrate as if talking to himself, Jiang Zhi's face became more and more gloomy, until finally he seemed to have figured out something, became calm again, shook his head and said: "But there is one thing you said wrong. Yes, I didn’t loosen this seal.”
King You was not surprised by Jiang Zhi's disguised admission. After all, he had already guessed the truth. However, King You was still a little surprised when he heard this.
"If it's not you, it's..." King You lost his voice mid-sentence.
He had already realized that Jiang Zhi could easily shake the "Hundred Herbs Classic" that Emperor Yan suppressed with his own soul.
If there is no external intervention, then there must be something wrong with the sealed object itself.
"Now that I've said that, let me show you something else."
Jiang Zhi seemed to look away. He suddenly waved his sleeves, and the stone statue of a book that had been silent became alive again.
When the book returned to its original color, both Jiang Zhi and You Wang became a little wary, obviously extremely wary of the "Hundred Herbs Classic" which looked like a dead thing.
"What's the difference?"
King You was startled.
"Take a closer look." Jiang Zhi said meaningfully, "Half of the Baicao Jing..."
After being reminded like this by Jiang Zhi, King You suddenly made a discovery, and his expression slowly became solemn.
"This "Baicao Jing" seems to be more than half a volume thick."
"Yes." Jiang Zhi nodded and admitted, "Over the millennia, many medicine-refining geniuses have been devoured by it, and the thickness of the "Baicao Jing" is also increasing, and it... is becoming complete!"
Jiang Zhi's expression suddenly became a little excited, "If it weren't for this, do you think I would be willing to watch countless geniuses from my Yan clan perish?"
"If the "Hundred Herbs Classic" can become complete again, I can easily end the current chaos of the feudal divisions within the human race. Our Yan clan can also return to its peak, and even our human clan no longer needs to survive in the cracks. You think I Is there any reason to give up?”
King You looked at Jiang Zhi coldly and shook his head slowly, "But you have overlooked one point. Do you have the ability to control the "Hundred Herbs Classic"?"
"Can you do something that even Emperor Yan has never done?"
Faced with King You's repeated questions, Jiang Zhi remained unmoved and simply said, "I know what I am doing, and I know that I have not betrayed my ancestors. What's more, how do you know that I haven't made any preparations in these thousands of years? "
"Even if the "Baicao Jing" is a wild beast, I am confident that I can catch it again!"
"You're crazy."
Facing Jiang Zhi, who seemed to be in high spirits, King You only uttered three words.
"Everything is irreversible, King You, just wait and see." Jiang Zhi responded calmly.
King You took a deep look at Jiang Zhi. In fact, he had one more thing to say, which was that Jiang Zhi had probably been subtly influenced by the "Hundred Herbs Classic" over the past thousand years.
But he was more afraid of irritating King Yan and causing unpredictable consequences, so King You stopped the topic after a brief pause, turned around and left, "I'm going to see Xiao Ling."
Jiang Zhi didn't make any move, and kept watching King You turn into black mist and disappear into the night sky. Then he withdrew his gaze and placed it on the huge book whose light was silent again.
"Mangshan, Shen Qian... I have never seen anyone who can make the "Hundred Herbs Classic" actively react. I hope you won't disappoint me. Maybe this time, there will be an unexpected surprise."
With some crazy expectations, Jiang Zhi murmured.
…
Shen Qian didn't know what was happening in the outside world. At this time, he was standing on an infinitely lonely and extremely strange land.
The first thing that caught sight of Shen Qian was the scattered figures scattered around.
At a glance, there were actually hundreds of people.
"I must have been involved in that book...that is, the "Baicao Jing", so this is the internal world of the "Baicao Jing"?"
Shen Qian thought calmly, "Then who are these people standing here?"
Shen Qian thought for a while, came to the nearest figure, turned his head and looked, and then his pupils shrank.
There was a gold and silver overlapping medicinal herb badge hanging on the man's right shoulder. Shen Qian had seen a similar badge before when he was in the Yan Clan's royal palace.
This is the symbol of the great alchemist, also known as the alchemist!
But...why is this man so lifeless and looks like a zombie?
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