There's something wrong with me

Chapter 256 Return
'This wolf demon is quite clever; it sensed something was wrong.'

Zhang Feng also sensed the wolf demon's thoughts and found that he was quite cautious.

But I walked towards his house.

If he doesn't come, I'll just bring him here myself.

After being targeted by Zhang Feng, it was no longer up to him to make decisions.

'These people seem to really be heading towards my friend's place...'

The wolf demon was unaware of Zhang Feng's thoughts, and that he genuinely possessed a strong sense of loyalty.

Even if he felt something was wrong, he still followed along.

'They're courting death...' By this time, the Crown Prince and the others could roughly tell that something was wrong.

Especially when they scanned the mansion ahead with their spiritual senses and saw the wealthy man inside discussing the robbery with his men, they realized that...

The expressions on the faces of the Crown Prince and the others were strange.

Rob them? Rob the immortals?
They had never seen anyone so suicidal.

Now, only the mindless thief remains bewildered, not understanding what the old man's roundabout way of talking is all about.
But seeing that there was no direct route to Lingcheng, his mind started to wander.

He felt he needed to find an opportunity to send a message to someone.

Then, we arrived at the front of this small mansion of a wealthy man.

The master thief was planning to find an opportunity to make contact with the people inside privately.

Of course, shouting and yelling would also work; at least it would spread the news and alert the emperor.

But the great thief wanted to live, not for the emperor.

He felt that if he dared to do that, he would surely be beaten to death.

He just hadn't figured out a way to make contact yet.

The wealthy man from the mansion came out with two guards.

After he came out, he first looked at Zhang Feng and the others, and then at the wolf demon coming from behind.

For a moment he mistakenly thought the wolf demon had succeeded, and couldn't help but laugh at Zhang Feng and the others:
"Are you here to have an exorcism performed?"

As the wealthy man spoke, he thought the wolf demon was quite quick, bringing the person over so soon.

"Brother!" The wolf demon sensed something was wrong and stopped hiding his strength. He leaped a hundred meters in one step and came to the rich man's side to protect his friend.

"But he truly values ​​righteousness even as a demon." Seeing this, Zhang Feng smiled as he stepped down from the carriage, using his divine sense to shield himself from the unrelated crowds on the street. He then looked at the wolf demon and the wealthy man.
“I consider that you two have not committed any evil before, nor have you done anything particularly wicked.”

At this point, Zhang Feng pointed into the distance and said, "I'll give you two options: one, you two go to see the authorities yourselves; two, stop this now and do charity work by distributing porridge for a month."

"What?" The wealthy man understood when he heard that Zhang Feng seemed to know their plans and ideas.

It turns out my information was leaked.

So, the wealthy man looked at the two guards beside him, wondering if these two Foundation Establishment cultivators with spiritual awareness had tipped off these rich merchants.

At the same time, the wolf demon also glared resentfully at the innocent guards, thinking they had informed the others.

Humans are indeed vicious and cunning, and cannot be trusted!

After glaring at the two of them...

The wolf demon was truly tough; amidst the stunned gazes of the prince and the others, it resolutely addressed Zhang Feng:
"What if I don't do it? What if I don't see the officials?"

You want me to go to jail?

As the wolf demon spoke, he stretched out his palm, "Let's have a match, you have to beat me first!"

If I lose, you can do whatever you want with me!

As soon as he finished speaking, he charged forward, his main goal being to be decisive.

Seeing him use both polite words and actions, Zhang Feng was surprised that this wolf demon was not only loyal but also genuine.

The next second, Zhang Feng slightly raised his sleeve.

Amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, the wolf demon was silently and suddenly shrank and fused, transforming into a bean-sized piece of flesh and blood, which Zhang Feng then tucked into his sleeve.

To deal with someone like that, you have to defeat them in one fell swoop, and you have to hurt them badly.

This compression of flesh and blood is enough to teach him a lesson.

Moreover, Zhang Feng protected his soul, preventing it from being destroyed in the compression of flesh and blood.

Only his physical body was dead.

"This……"

At the same time, faced with this bizarre situation, not only were the wealthy man and his companions stunned, but even the Crown Prince and his entourage broke out in a cold sweat.

If you kill someone, then you kill them.

But this kind of magic that shrinks and crushes people, and then shrinks them back up, seems a bit strange.

The scene of flesh and blood from mung beans, in particular, reminded them of a demonic cult's artifact called the 'Human Essence Pill'!

"This old...old senior..." The thief's teeth chattered; he simply couldn't comprehend it.

He even recalled the words of the Crown Prince and others, and felt that Zhang Feng might really be an immortal, having achieved immortality in ten years...

"The Immortal..."

At this moment, only one Golden Core expert slightly regained his senses, glanced at Zhang Feng's sleeve, and cautiously asked, "He...this wolf demon...is he dead...?"

This Golden Core cultivator had a high level of virtue, and in his moral mind, he actually felt that the wolf demon did not deserve to die, because although he appeared to be fighting, he actually had some strength left over.

But the immortal crushed the person to death.

"It's alright." Zhang Feng smiled and looked at the Golden Core cultivator for the first time when he saw him speak.

If there were more people in reality, and in data centers, who would dare to speak up for justice like this.

Zhang Feng would definitely be happy.

And in the next second.

As Zhang Feng waved his sleeve again, to everyone's astonishment, the shrunken flesh began to slowly grow larger and reassemble its shape.

From internal organs to bones, it eventually formed that wolf demon.

And it's a wolf demon that has transformed into a 'real human'!

His true form has become human!
Seeing this, the eyelids of the wealthy man and the bandits twitched repeatedly.

Seriously, this isn't some kind of supernatural power, it's some kind of magic!
Everyone felt that this supernatural power to bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bones was equivalent to reversing the yin and yang in the Five Elements theory.

Because the immortals can create people out of thin air, just like the gods in ancient myths!

Thinking about this, the bandits felt as if they were witnessing the revival of some kind of myth.

And the wealthy man who had initially tried to rob Zhang Feng was now speechless, staring blankly at Zhang Feng, then at the even more stunned wolf demon.

now.

The wolf demon, who had been crushed to death and then resurrected by Zhang Feng, was stunned for a moment before his legs went weak and he knelt down, trembling uncontrollably.

"Immortal, spare my life!"

He hurriedly kowtowed, his previous imposing demeanor completely gone.

The feeling of death he had experienced before, and the sense of helplessness of having his soul leave his body and having nothing to rely on, had been lingering in his mind ever since.

He didn't want to experience it again.

After begging for mercy, he looked again at the human body he had longed for, a body that conformed to the five elements in cultivation.

After a few words of panic, he then became very excited and incoherent:

"Thank you, Immortal Master, for bestowing upon me a human body!"

"Do more good deeds." Zhang Feng shook his head, then looked at the bandit who hurriedly looked away.

And amidst the thief's confusion and bewilderment.

Zhang Feng addressed him as an equal and said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Sun, you should stay here and go with the wolf demons to atone for your sins."

Your evil deeds are so numerous that even death cannot erase them.

In fact, according to the cause-and-effect formula, the thief has been doing good deeds and saving people all these years.

The bad value is gone.

According to the algorithm of Heaven, the great thief is already considered an 'innocent' person.

Zhang Feng was one of the few who didn't kill the person, and even let him live freely for a while, as a way of repaying the debt of karma.

It's just awkward. Killing him is fine, just make up any excuse.

Not killing them is also an option, and there are quite a few reasons for that.

This was the first time Zhang Feng had experienced such a feeling; perhaps it was the chaos between the Great Dao and human nature.

It is neither right nor wrong, nor is it either right or wrong.

It's mostly my own thoughts.

That is, a variation of the idea that "I am because I do not think".

Also known as 'Hell is other people'.

But if there were no cause and effect, there would be no feelings of hard work and dedication over the past ten years, even if there were no merits.

Zhang Feng felt he would be more likely to take action to sever this chaotic experience.

Naturally, they cannot comprehend chaos.

Thinking.

Zhang Feng also bid farewell to the thief who was 'full of relief' and headed towards Ling City with the Crown Prince and others.

……

Five days later.

royal palace.

All the civil and military officials entered the court hall.

The emperor sat on the dragon throne.

Furthermore, directly above the east side of the main hall, there is a sculpture of Zhang Feng carved from pure spirit stone.

It has a hunched back and an unremarkable appearance, but it guards the east facing the rising sun, and its eyes seem to survey the heavens and earth, watching over the civil and military officials and the emperor on the dragon throne.

"I bow in reverence to the Emperor Zhengyang!"

Before the morning court session, the imperial official beside the emperor spoke with a thunderous voice, and together with the emperor and all the civil and military officials, they paid homage to the Heavenly and Earthly Immortals.

Only then did the civil and military officials bow to the emperor as he rose.

Although the civil and military officials were also very curious, they did not know why the usually strict and wise emperor would bring out a sculpture of a person named "Emperor Zhengyang" a few days ago, also known as "Heavenly Emperor".

But you should just worship.

However, some ministers had a close relationship with the emperor and had heard the emperor say that this was a dream sent by the divine being of heaven and earth.

Regardless of whether it's true or not, since the words "Heaven and Earth" were mentioned, and it was the Emperor who spoke, the situation is different.

Then just worship as before.

Some veteran officials, especially, though deeply entrenched and unafraid of the emperor, changed their tune when they heard it was about heaven and earth.

Therefore, we must worship.

The concepts of Heaven, Earth, Ruler, Parents, and Teacher have been clearly explained.

And at this time.

After the ceremony between Heaven and Earth and the Emperor.

Before the imperial officials could even utter words like "report if you have something to say,"...

The head of the guards outside announced, "The Crown Prince has returned to court and is entering the palace!"

According to the laws and regulations of the Ling Dynasty, when the Crown Prince returns to court, if it is the morning court session, he must attend immediately upon entering the palace, without needing to wash or groom himself.

This allows one to appreciate the arduous journey of the "Crown Prince."

Besides, if it got dirty, we would have cleaned it up on the way here.

"Oh, the Crown Prince is back."

When the emperor heard that his grandson had returned, his face showed a gentle smile, unlike before when he had shown some dissatisfaction and sense of crisis.

Because he has been sent a dream by Heaven and Earth, it is the will of Heaven!

This also made the emperor's character more magnanimous, and he felt that some things were harmless.

The crown prince's ability to rally supporters is a recurring theme in the dynastic cycles that have existed for millennia.

Since his trip to the celestial realm, the emperor has become more enlightened.

When the Crown Prince entered the hall alone and uttered a single sentence with his hands clasped, the Emperor was so angry that he almost died of anger and even thought he was hallucinating.

Even the entire court was stunned.

"Your Majesty, I have returned today to ask you to abdicate."

The crown prince spoke with great sincerity and confidence.

"You...you..." The emperor was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Honestly, he thought he had a good temper, and he was even prepared to tell his grandson that he could pull anyone he wanted, however he wanted.

But the crown prince wanted to pull him down directly?
The emperor was truly stunned with anger upon hearing this. The Minister of Rites, several cabinet ministers and grand secretaries, as well as two veteran officials, were also furious, their faces turning red with rage at the Crown Prince's disrespect for loyalty and filial piety.

"How dare you, the Crown Prince, speak such words? What kind of decorum is this!"

"Damn it!"

"Look eastward into the palace. How dare you speak such words before the Heavenly Emperor?"

"Men, seize this man!"

These veteran officials of the imperial court were truly outspoken and dared to criticize without hesitation.

There was even a half-step Nascent Soul general with a face as black as iron, who directly shouted an order for the two Golden Core guards outside the door to seize the crown prince.

Furthermore, he no longer referred to the Crown Prince in his speech.

Faced with the crowd's actions and glancing at the officials around him who were preparing to rise up in anger against him, the Crown Prince turned and bowed towards the outside of the hall.
"Prince Tan Ling of the Ling Dynasty respectfully welcomes the venerable immortal to the court!"

The Crown Prince finished speaking.

Everyone was suddenly stunned by the Crown Prince's actions.

"Heaven... Heavenly Emperor..."

The emperor, facing the palace gate, first saw Zhang Feng walking in from outside the palace.

And the moment he saw Zhang Feng, he had no thoughts left.

Only the same prostration remained in the dream world, and the only words uttered were the trembling "Heavenly Emperor".

"Heaven and Earth? Heavenly Emperor?"

"It is... Zhengyang Immortal..."

At the same time, when the civil and military officials turned around or turned to the side, and saw Zhang Feng's appearance and the celestial phenomena around him, they also opened their eyes wide in an instant, as if they had really seen a world descending upon them!

And as heaven and earth descended, mountains and rivers and the earth were gradually forming.

Faced with such a celestial phenomenon, there is also a figure and appearance exactly the same as 'sculpted by heaven and earth'.

The entire government and the public were completely silent for that one second.

But with the emperor kneeling and speaking...

The ministers quickly came to their senses and bowed deeply to Zhang Feng as he entered the court.

"We pay our respects to the Heavenly Emperor..."

The shouts came from inside the court hall and echoed throughout the palace.

"What happened inside the hall?" Upon hearing the shouts, the palace maids and guards also looked up and saw a strange phenomenon unfolding in the sky above the court.

This includes all the common people, cultivators, and knights-errant within the entire Lingcheng city.

I also saw a scorching heat from the distorted air above.

at the same time.

Zhang Feng's words also spread beyond the imperial court, throughout the palace and the entire city, reaching thousands of miles, tens of thousands of miles, and even enveloping the whole world.

All cultivators and common people in the world heard a voice that resonated throughout heaven and earth.

"I, Zhang Feng, hereby establish the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion today, and invite all the true masters of the world to come to Lingcheng to calculate the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth."

Rumble—

As those words fell.

'The immortal has given instructions...'

'Lingchao? Go quickly! Go quickly!'

The five rule stones, carried by five immortals who had disappeared many years ago, headed towards Lingcheng.

They had heard Zhang Feng's instructions a few days ago and had been waiting for this moment.

The ancient tree spirit, with the help of Zhang Feng's divine sense traversing hundreds of thousands of miles, detached from its original form, established its foundation in one step, and transformed into a physical wood spirit.

His magical power is deeper than that of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

At this moment, as he followed the old sect leader to the immortal's invitation, he left behind trails of continuous wood spirit energy in the air.

An ordinary person can get rid of some ailments by just one sniff.

Simultaneously.

Their presence, and their undisguised attendance at the meeting.

This also surprised some of the monks who saw them.

Especially as the five enormous entities of the rules arrived in Lingcheng, and under Zhang Feng's great power, they gradually coalesced into a huge mountain range floating in the sky.

Those within Lingcheng, upon clearly seeing the old sect leader and the demon king and other reclusive cultivators outside the mountains, exclaimed:
"The former sect leader of the Wanyu Sect... I remember he passed away a hundred years ago..."

"It's the Demon King of the North Sea! How did he end up here too..."

"I heard a secret story from a county town a few days ago, saying that there are immortals in the world..."

"And now, to be able to casually bring five reclusive cultivators out of the world, and to possess such a miraculous technique as gathering the Five Elements Mountain, one might very well be a true immortal of the Yang God realm..."

With the evolution of the mountain range's creation techniques.

The cultivators in Lingcheng exchanged surprised messages, eager to know news about the immortals.

But their gazes remained fixed in awe on the mountains surrounding the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

……

Also three days later.

A shocking message, which reverberated throughout the Ling Dynasty and other dynasties, emerged from the imperial palace.

That is, the old sage emperor abdicated and went to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion to become the 'Outer Pavilion Master,' in charge of the trivial matters between the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and the imperial court.

The crown prince succeeded to the throne and became the new sage ruler of the Ling Dynasty.

As for the five people, including the former sect leader, who were of great concern to many cultivators, they did not return to their respective sects and mountains. Instead, they each took on the role of 'Five Elements Pavilion Masters' and were in charge of the evolution of heavenly secrets.

Mu Ling is also the head of the inner cabinet, in charge of all future outsiders, including True Immortals and cultivators.

Finally, there's Zhang Feng, the Yang God Immortal, whom everyone in the world cares about.

But after receiving the title of 'Immortal Master', he just disappeared like that?

This puzzled many people outside Lingcheng, and some even doubted whether this immortal master ever existed.

But when they were fortunate enough to visit Lingcheng, or had something to do there, and saw the Five Elements Mountain Range floating in the sky, they were certain that the Immortal Master existed.

Because this mountain range is clearly beyond human control.

Even if all the real people in the world were combined, they could not possibly build such a floating 'Five Elements Heavenly Palace'.

Especially the scenes that occasionally appear above the Heavenly Palace, with their ever-changing Daoist charms.

This also lets everyone know that it is an unfathomable 'secret of heaven'.

It is something that worldly cultivators cannot evolve.

Those who can reveal the secrets of heaven are naturally true immortals!
They believed that the true immortal was sitting in the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

But in fact.

After Zhang Feng finished building the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and sketched out the general design for it, he went straight to explore the outer world.

Leave the actual work and calculations to others.

These Nascent Soul cultivators, combined with their own ideas, actually possess considerable computing power.

And even if it's low, it's fine.

In any case, as long as there is a large model as a foundation, it will eventually evolve in reality with higher computing power.

So after all the miscellaneous tasks were assigned...

Zhang Feng then began to do something else that others in this world could not do.

That is to break out of the galaxy!
Zhang Feng wanted to see if there were any other civilizations outside the solar system of this world, or if there were any planetary ruins left by ancient cultivators.

Because based on the thief's past life, it can be proven that there are beings in this world at the level of a Nascent Soul cultivator or higher.

Having the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator means being able to traverse this universe, which is somewhat spiritual, like a long journey.

……

In a blink of an eye.

Seventy years have passed.

Zhang Feng walked around, stopping occasionally to look at some of the planets in the solar system.

Before we knew it, we had arrived at the edge of the solar system.

To be honest, I overestimated myself.

I originally thought I could quickly explore the solar system before heading out to the outside world.

But the diameter of the solar system in this world is three light-years, one light-year more than in reality.

But it is precisely within a radius of one light-year.

Zhang Feng will have to spend several times longer searching for the ruins, and he still hasn't finished.

Fortunately, there were some gains as well.

Even on some barren planets, Zhang Feng saw traces of cultivators trying to transform them into habitable Earths.

Furthermore, there are remnants of the Five Elements rule-based structure.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.

They all ultimately failed.

The remains had all decayed over the long years, leaving only traces of their existence, but nothing remained.

But it was also through this incident that...

now.

On a planet covered in volcanoes, Zhang Feng, immersed in magma of suitable temperature and drifting with the current, had some new thoughts.

Could it be that the people in the Nascent Soul World are 'immigrants'?

Is it similar to a deity wandering in the universe and then creating a body governed by the five elements?
However, the 'great thief from ten thousand years ago' succeeded, completely stabilizing a planet.

After that, they might bring people over, or there might already be quite a few 'natives' in the Nascent Soul World.

Anyway, this matter can never be verified.

Because the ancient times within the Nascent Soul World were frozen at ten thousand years ago.

Further on, it's just unfounded hype among the common people.

There are all sorts of stories about gods creating people and gods opening up the world.

Further details include information such as the remains of prehistoric animals and human ancestors.

None of these remain; they have all decomposed within the spiritual and malevolent energies.

It cannot be preserved, unlike the normal real world, and there are some archaeological discoveries.

But it could also be said that this world has no history dating back ten thousand years.

By extension, one's own assumption about immigration also holds true.

Then, the immigration hypothesis is used as the basis.

Zhang Feng suddenly had a guess, feeling that this structure was not created by the predecessor of the great thief, but most likely belonged to a pure 'cultivation civilization' product.

This universe may very well have once harbored a 'high-level civilization'!

For some unknown reason, they eventually started immigrating.

Perhaps the planet was destroyed, or something else happened, and they were ultimately unable to return.

The basis for this claim that they couldn't go back was that Zhang Feng saw that most of them died during the construction.

If they could go back, they probably wouldn't have died far from home.

If that civilization still exists, at the very least, it would allow the remains of these meritorious individuals to 'return to their roots'.

Subsequently.

Zhang Feng started thinking about the stone carving again.

A box and a person.

Today, it might also mean the desire to 'return to one's roots'.

Or perhaps he has already successfully built this planet and is ready to welcome the spacecraft of civilization?
Zhang Feng didn't know why he had such thoughts, but these thoughts seemed to make sense.

However, it is something that cannot be denied.

The master thief was indeed a genius; he single-handedly handled the immigration work for an entire planet.

Furthermore, they also grasped the concept of cause and effect.

Finally, if you can't figure it out, you stop thinking about it.

Let's take advantage of the remaining ten or so years and go back to collect our findings.

Zhang Feng's current primordial spirit speed is 100,000 miles per second, reaching one-sixth of the speed of light.

It seems fast, but in reality, this place is 1.7 light-years away from the Nascent Soul World, and it will take nearly ten years to get back.

(End of this chapter)