My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 256: The Contract of the Dao-Seeking Wood
Hearing Ye Qingyu's words, Zhou Lu was obviously stunned.

The current master of Qiudao Mu is Yuan Gensheng, an old man of high moral character and high respect.

In his early years, he was also a powerful beast tamer.

Even without Qiu Dao Mu, he was already one of the strongest beast tamers in the world.

He personally trained a divine beast and two quasi-gods.

However, heroes always grow old.

The talent of a beastmaster did not bring him much benefit in terms of longevity.

As the foundation of modern human beast-taming civilization, the ownership of the Qiudao Wood is of paramount importance.

The last time Qiu Dao Mu re-selected a beastmaster, it almost caused the entire human world to split.

The consequences of that fight still have an impact today.

The reason why the New South Wales local government went against the official wishes was because the beastmaster they sent out to run for election was hacked.

If Yuan Gensheng had not arrived in an invincible manner and swept away all the beastmasters participating in the election, the originally unified human world would probably have been torn apart at that time.

"What does Qiu Daomu think?" Zhou Lu asked.

As a divine beast, the Qiudaomu possesses a very special skill that makes it almost impossible for anyone to use it.

Therefore, this matter ultimately depends on Qiu Daomu's own wishes.

Ye Qingyu shook her head: "This is the most troublesome thing now. Qiu Daomu has not made a clear statement on this, nor has he said that he will choose a new master, so the higher-ups are very panicked."

The attitude of the Tree of Seeking the Truth is so ambiguous that the authorities are really worried that the tree will suddenly become disillusioned with the world and choose to return to the countryside.

Although in recent years they have been frantically supporting beast taming technology and gradually using technology to replace the role of the Tao Wood in the beast taming system, this still requires a very long process.

"However, the higher-ups still feel that we need to make preparations in advance. For example, we need to select a beastmaster who can immediately take over when Mr. Yuan is unable to perform his duties." Ye Qingyu looked at Zhou Lu, "Are you interested in this?"

"Me?" Zhou Lu was stunned. "There are many people in the world who are stronger than me..."

"The point is not strength." Ye Qingyu said, "The point is youth."

After all, if the beastmaster chosen to take over is quite old, then after a few years, another beastmaster will have to be selected again. This is not good for the stability of the world and will continue to hurt Qiu Dao Mu's psychology.

Zhou Lu heard Ye Qingyu's words and took a sip of the coffee in the cup: "I understand."

He did not comment immediately.

Because he doesn't actually have enough fame to take on this job now.

If I really become Qiudao Mu's beastmaster by then, and few people in the world know me, it would actually be an overdraft of trust.

People would naturally think that Zhou Lu must have some background to be pushed to this position.

"Speaking of which, you did a good job." Ye Qingyu knew that she couldn't force Zhou Lu too much at this time, so she smiled and changed the subject, "You found a big case as soon as you arrived. I've already reported your name."

"Ah?" Zhou Lu was slightly stunned when he heard Ye Qingyu's words.

"What? Don't you want to claim the credit for your work?"

"I haven't thought about it so much..." Zhou Lu then realized that he was a disaster investigator.

"If you don't want to be too conspicuous, I can withdraw the application." Ye Qingyu looked at Zhou Lu and said, "Then the official will send a group text message to commend you, which will also cause you some trouble."

"Sending text messages to a group... isn't this too ostentatious?" Zhou Lu's mouth twitched slightly, and he felt socially frustrated.

Logically speaking, he should have a sense of honor, but he mainly went to trouble the immortal for his own selfish desires, and finding out the culprit of the disaster was just a derivative result of this purpose.

"We can't help it. The disaster in New South Wales has always been used as a weapon to attack the government. Now that the truth has been revealed, we have to make it public." Ye Qingyu said, "Information moves too fast in this era. If we don't do this, people will soon only remember the bad things you did."

Zhou Lu hesitated for a moment, but finally asked Ye Qingyu to report his contribution.

This is what he deserves, and he has the strength to handle it now.

The most important thing is that he has to start preparing for Hanabi's promotion to a true god.

If you encounter some difficult-to-obtain materials at that time, you can also use today’s achievements to ask the official for help.

After getting Zhou Lu's approval, Ye Qingyu sent out the email that she had prepared long ago.

"Are you planning to go directly to the headquarters of Yangui next?" Ye Qingyu asked while operating the email, "Do you need me to lend Xiaoyuan to you?"

"I'd better stay by your side and protect you. Your current situation is much more dangerous than mine." Zhou Lu refused with a smile.

After screening through Death Nightmare for several days, Ye Qingyu has already locked onto a group of people from several beast taming families.

Each of them has a close connection with Yangui, and some are even members of Yangui.

Ye Qingyu is currently preparing to arrest these family members.

"By the way, why is it that Fireworks is still glowing from the time we sat down until now?" Ye Qingyu said, looking at the Fireworks that was still flickering on the side.

Ye Qingyu's big-leaf iris has always loved Hua Huo the most.

Seeing the look of Little Grass, I thought it was sick and was holding Hua Huo with a distressed look on its face.

However, as the fireworks flickered, the large-leaf iris gradually sensed something was wrong.

Why do I feel like the fireworks in my arms are getting stronger as time goes by?
The big-leaf iris looked at the fireworks carefully and suspiciously.

Apparently, Huahuo had not yet figured out her true identity, and she rubbed against the large-leaf iris.

They are both quasi-gods, but in the arms of Big Leaf Iris, Little Grass still looks like a child.

Iris was also overwhelmed with maternal love and raised her hand to stroke Hanabi's hat.

Although the interaction between the two plant pets is heartwarming, it is always short-lived.

Ye Qingyu finished her coffee and went back to work.

And Zhou Lu is about to start his journey to Phoenix Island.

Phoenix Island is located in the southeast of New South Wales and is an isolated island overseas.

Geographically speaking, this place is actually not suitable as the base camp of a secret organization.

Because as long as the authorities react, they can directly surround this place and finally wipe out the whole army.

Zhou Lu didn't quite understand why Yangui wanted to place its headquarters on an island.

Could it be that he is so confident in himself that he feels he will never be exposed?
Zhou Lu came to Phoenix Island with such doubts.

He stood on the crescent and looked down at the island below.

What really made him decide to come here and find out the truth was not the information from Tian Zhi and Lin Keqi.

But it is the positioning of the kid from the Xin Yue Li family.

On the plane coming to Xinzhou, Zhou Lu met Li Dongjiang and his nephew who was suspected to be an immortal.

At that time, out of caution, Zhou Lu placed branches of fireworks on the bodies of both of the opponents.

Li Dongjiang did come to see someone off, and left Xinzhou shortly afterwards.

The young man named Li Ganxian stayed in the Beast Taming Academy in Xinzhou for a while and then came to Phoenix Island.

Could it be that he is also one of the immortals behind Yan Gui?
Zhou Lu looked at Hua Huo with such doubts, and said, "Spread all your branches down."

Hua Huo was sitting next to Zhou Lu.

In fact, even after evolution, it always wants to return to its previous small size, so that it can continue to stick to its owner.

But the big-leaf iris told it that it was already a quasi-god and should show some of the aura of a quasi-god.

At least he couldn't act like a child all day, always thinking about sticking to his master. "You can do this kind of thing at night, but during the day you still have to take care of your master's face and put on a quasi-god-like majesty!" Big Leaf Iris said confidently.

Its human language was just barely adequate, and although it was clearly meant to take care of its master, it sounded tinged with sarcasm.

But Huahuo also deeply agrees with this.

As the master's most beloved pet, it must work hard to enhance the master's status outside!

Hearing Zhou Lu's words, Hua Huo lifted her hat with two leaves.

In an instant, countless mosquito-sized branches flew out of Hanabi's hat.

To make it more realistic, Hanabi even designed a buzzing sound for the branches.

As soon as Zhou Lu heard the sound made by these branches, he felt itchy all over.

After releasing the branches, Zhou Lu was not in a hurry, but waited for the information conveyed back by these branches.

He carefully activated the [Empathy] skill, and then fixed his perspective on one of the branches the moment the skill was activated.

This has to happen quickly and it has to be done.

If he was a little slower, the massive amount of information transmitted by empathy would instantly cause Zhou Lu's brain to crash.

With the success of the switch, his perspective also entered the perception of the ramet.

After evolving to a quasi-god, Hanabi finally used the knowledge she had learned to allow Zhou Lu to see the scene through her branches.

The area of ​​Phoenix Island is not very large.

For a long time in the past, this was actually where New South Wales held prisoners.

Once the prisoners are locked up here, it will be difficult for them to escape no matter what means they use.

It is said that until its closure, Phoenix Island Prison still maintained a 100% success rate in detention, and was known as an insurmountable cage.

After the Phoenix Island Prison was closed, it was bought by a family of beast tamers and used as a place specifically for breeding spiritual pets.

While Zhou Lu was reviewing the information related to Phoenix Island in his mind, he followed Fenzhi's perspective and entered the sky above Phoenix Island.

It is very quiet here. Even though it is broad daylight, it still looks peaceful and tranquil.

The ramet flew for most of the way but didn't see any human habitation.

Could it be that my information was wrong?

Just when Zhou Lu was confused, he was pulled by Hua Huo.

Under the guidance of Hua Huo, Zhou Lu switched the ramet of empathy.

It discovered the situation over there.

After passing the trance of empathy switching, Zhou Lu suddenly heard a human voice.

"Why are you still here? It's almost time for the Taoist Master to give a lecture! Hurry up!"

Taojun?

Zhou Lu's eyes suddenly lit up.

I finally caught him!
Zhou Lu saw two people running hurriedly in one direction.

In order to speed up their journey, they also summoned their own spiritual pets.

It seems that the identities of these two people should be beastmasters.

Zhou Lu made a prompt decision and placed his branch of empathy on the shoulder of one of them.

They walked through the house to the site of the former prison and then went down the stairs.

After a while, they went underground.

At this time, it has been transformed into a hall.

The chandelier on the ceiling emits a gentle light, making the place as bright as day.

When the two arrived here, the place was already crowded.

Soon after they sat down, they saw an old Taoist priest in Taoist robes walk out and begin to give a speech to the people in the audience.

As soon as the old Taoist opened his mouth, Zhou Lu was confused.

What kind of immortality is the most powerful ability in the world.

In order to prevent themselves from being overthrown, the authorities maliciously deprived everyone of the ability to become immortals.

As beastmasters, you are born with original sin, which you must atone for through service.

As long as you do enough things, your descendants can become immortals who are superior to others.

All this and more, a legendary aura is overwhelming.

Zhou Lu was stunned when he heard this.

The old Taoist's words were very inspiring, and some people in the crowd started to make a fuss. If Zhou Lu didn't know the true face of the immortal, they would probably really think that the immortal was some kind-hearted man who saved people from suffering.

It seems like I want to tear the mouth of this guy who is telling lies with open eyes.

Zhou Lu complained in his heart, then controlled the branch and carefully attached it to the old Taoist's body.

The Taoist priest quickly concluded his speech and turned to walk towards the tunnel behind him.

Zhou Lu's perspective kept switching along with the old Taoist's actions.

He carefully concealed himself.

After becoming a quasi-god, the secrecy of the branches of Fireworks was greatly enhanced.

But Zhou Lu was still not sure whether those immortals had the means to detect the existence of the branches.

As they walked deeper into the passage, the old Taoist's figure gradually became more agile, no longer looking old and frail as before.

"It's really getting more and more difficult." Soon, Zhou Lu heard the old Taoist talking to someone.

"Those people asked us to stay out of the spotlight for now."

"Keep out of the spotlight? What they said sounds good. They said that as long as we stay in New South Wales, no one will find us." The old Taoist said coldly.

"Didn't I expect the authorities would actually send Death Nightmare here? Death Nightmare is a divine beast."

"Divine beast! Divine beast! If those guys help me get the fourth-level grass pill, would I still be afraid of the divine beast?" The old Taoist cursed.

"Their people are already here."

"What are you doing again?"

"There's a new person, and we need to consecrate him."

"Which one this time?"

"Xin Yue Li family."

"Hehe, it seems that the influence of the Immortal Kingdom is getting bigger and bigger. I just don't know if they can leave us a bite when the time comes." The old Taoist waved his hand impatiently, "Take Xiao Liu over."

"…Is this really okay? His father gave his life for the organization."

"He's just a beast slave. Isn't it right for him to die for us?" The old Taoist laughed. "And didn't we fulfill his wish and make his son an immortal?"

"This child had a good meal during the wildfire, and now it's time to give back to the organization."

(End of this chapter)