My version of Heavenly Dao is too old, so it's full of bugs.

Chapter 390 The value of the Blood Mold Aura is still increasing!
Why isn't that guy from the dark web back yet?

Just as Li Wei was wondering, a shadow suddenly appeared, and its first words were:

"Kid, stop investigating!"

Li Wei frowned, puzzled, and asked, "Is this your idea?"

The Dark Web said gravely, "[No! This is advice from the Great Sage Equaling Heaven! His exact words were—if your investigation into talent trading is related to the Wuzhuang Temple, then it's definitely being used to feed ginseng fruits!]"

However, the Ginseng Fruit Tree is a spiritual root of heaven and earth, born from the pure energy of creation. It does not require any nourishment from blood sacrifices. Therefore, using too many human materials would actually harm the Ginseng Fruit Tree, polluting its pure and spiritual essence!

When the great calamity of the Journey to the West came, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven not only saw the mother root of the ginseng fruit, but also overturned the ginseng fruit tree and saw the ginseng fruit roots and stems!
Therefore, He understands the characteristics of the Ginseng Fruit Tree better than anyone else!
Therefore, if Zhen Yuanzi chose this method to nourish his spiritual root, there are only three possibilities!!

[Either He is nearing the end of His life and needs the ginseng fruit to prolong it! Or He has been locked in by a great calamity and is about to face death, needing the ginseng fruit to overcome it! Or the ginseng fruit itself is about to die!]

[But when the great calamity of the Journey to the West came, Zhen Yuanzi had already devised a scheme. By deliberately sending the ginseng fruit to face the calamity, he successfully outmaneuvered the Heavenly Court and Buddhism at their peak, and even those who would settle the great calamity!]

When the Monkey King and his three disciples first arrived at Mount Ling, they were supposed to overcome eighty-one tribulations, but they only faced eighty.

Why?

It's all because of that guy Zhen Yuanzi, who secretly slipped himself inside!!
So it's not that it's less difficult, it's that it's much more difficult!
On that journey to the West, an unexpected danger arose.

[When Zhen Yuanzi sneaked into the Great Calamity of Journey to the West, he managed to obtain a massive amount of legacy from the Buddhist sect, the Heavenly Court, and the Calamity Purifiers, and this legacy has not yet dissipated!]

Therefore, the ginseng fruit tree should also be safe from this calamity.

Li Wei suddenly seemed to understand something: "So, it's most likely that Zhen Yuanzi himself has a problem?"

【Um! 】

The dark web even published the children's birth dates and times:
I've also calculated the birth dates of these people. They all have an excess of metal, fire, water, wood, or earth—in short, an imbalance of the five elements, with one particular attribute being particularly disharmonious.

This also indirectly confirms that Zhen Yuanzi's large-scale purchase of these people with imbalanced five elements was not to feed the ginseng fruit, but to accelerate the growth of the ginseng fruit tree!

This is a counterintuitive point about Taoist immortality.

Like the ginseng fruit tree, a spiritual root of heaven and earth possessing all five elements, it has always maintained its own unique balance. From ancient times to the present, it has taken three thousand years to bloom, three thousand years to bear fruit, and three thousand years to mature, without any exceptions.

Therefore, to accelerate the ripening of spiritual fruits, one must disrupt the internal balance of the fruit tree and re-harmonize the five elements to allow it to bear fruit ahead of time.

Disrupting the balance of the spiritual root can certainly rebalance the five elements and accelerate the ripening of the spiritual fruit! However, this will also cause irreparable damage to the ginseng fruit, and may even directly destroy the spiritual root.

Therefore, regardless of what exactly happened to that ancestor of earth immortals, he must have been driven to desperation to resort to this method.

But He is indeed cautious!

[For the past thousand years, He has frequently entered and exited the caves of various powerful beings in the Nine Heavens, and none of them have discovered any problems with Him! Even when secretly purchasing talent, He chose the Kong family, who were the least likely to cause trouble.]

Aside from lunatics like Li Wei, who in the Thunder Department would bother investigating the family of the "Master of the World"?
So Zhen Yuanzi was also unlucky.

If He hadn't met Li Wei, His disguise would have been flawless, and probably no one would have discovered that this usually glamorous ancestor of earth immortals was actually at his wit's end.

Thinking of this,

The dark web couldn't help but marvel once again at the power of the "fake immortal" attribute on Li Wei.

This blood-curdling aura is absolutely outrageous!

Fate is intricately woven; Li Wei's aura of bad luck is so powerful that it can even overshadow a great power like Zhen Yuanzi. It's truly terrifying.

To prevent him from willingly committing suicide, the dark web offered a final reminder: "Considering the timeline, with the nourishment of tens of millions of people over the past millennium, the ginseng fruit should be nearing maturity!"

[This time, Zhen Yuanzi bought 100,000 boys and girls at once, presumably to force them to mature completely within the next few years!]

At this time, anyone who dares to interfere with His great undertaking of harvesting the fruit trees will be His mortal enemy! Therefore, neither the Great Sage Equaling Heaven nor I recommend that you provoke Him at this time!

Li Wei suddenly realized: "No wonder this guy reacted so strongly after I captured the Kong family members. He was worried that I would hinder His efforts to save lives and prolong life!"

The Ancestor of Earthly Immortals!

This is really scary.

But that guy shouldn't have, absolutely shouldn't have, provoked Li Wei!!
"Ha! Is it because my reputation for greed and lust isn't big enough, or because my title as the Iron-Blooded Divine Officer isn't prestigious enough? This guy hasn't even given Inspector Li Wei a single bribe yet, and he thinks he can subdue me with just two Heavenly Memes?"

Li Wei hated being threatened, especially by these "high and mighty gods and immortals".

Does Zhen Yuanzi think that because he is the ancestor of earth immortals, Li Wei is powerless against him?
Keep dreaming!
The Dark Web knew Li Wei all too well. Looking at him intently, it said, "Li Wei, is it really because Zhen Yuanzi didn't give you face that you want to oppose Him? Is this truly what you truly think?"

Li Wei fell silent. After a long, long time, he sighed, a hint of bitterness in his voice, and said, "Those are one hundred thousand children!"

The dark web also fell silent.

His gaze toward Li Wei became incredibly complex, containing surprise, relief, and a smile.

He never expected that Li Wei, with his current identity, experience, and status, would still have such thoughts.

[Just to save a group of children who have nothing to do with you, you're willing to offend the Ancestor of Earthly Immortals? And offend the network of relationships woven from ginseng fruits behind Him?]

Li Wei's face lacked its usual arrogance, displaying only the bitterness of being a mortal, yet his words remained resolute: "At least we must save the children!!"

The dark web is just so much fun!

It was because He had witnessed everything Li Wei had done that He knew how difficult it was for Li Wei to make this decision.

[Li Wei, are you really sure about this?! That's a terrifying existence that spans the entire history of immortal cultivation and the history of human cultivation; you can't possibly fight against it right now!]

"Indeed, I can't harm a single hair on Zhen Yuanzi's head right now, but what about someone else?"

【What's the meaning? 】

Li Wei's expression immediately turned sinister: "Great Sage, have you forgotten that my Emperor is currently searching the world for sacrifices for the Calamity? What would happen if He discovered a gigantic creature on the verge of death?"

The dark web immediately laughed.

【He would probably be very excited!!】

If we simply view the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth as the universe's memory being full, then a Great Calamity is needed to clear the data.

So what should be cleaned up first?

mortal?

Ordinary deities?
No, no!
What truly needs to be eliminated are those beings like the Great Luo, Mahayana, and Buddhas!
For a simple example, if your phone's memory is full, you'll usually go straight to the video section first and delete the small movies that take up a lot of memory before considering deleting photos and files that take up less memory.

The same applies to the great calamity of heaven and earth.

Killing one god during a great calamity is more effective than killing one hundred million mortals, and killing a being at the level of a Great Luo or Great Vehicle might be more effective than killing one hundred gods!
Do you think Shanghao didn't want to use the Three Pure Ones, Four Emperors, and Nine Saints to perform the calamity sacrifice?
He was going crazy with longing!

However, the Three Pure Ones and the Four Emperors are the foundation of the Heavenly Court, and the Nine Saints are highly united and advance and retreat together.

Therefore, Shanghao couldn't touch these beings at all, so he could only take advantage of the conflict between the Heavenly Court and the Nine Saints Heretics to profit from the chaos by targeting mortals and lower-level gods.

In Li Wei's previous life, wasn't a certain king of a certain country unable to implement internal reforms because he couldn't control the big capitalists, so he could only target the middle class?
The principle is the same!

But Zhen Yuanzi is different!

Although He was a "big capitalist", He did not belong to the Heavenly Court faction, nor to the Nine Saints Heretical Path faction. And yet, He had a major problem. For the Supreme Emperor of Heaven, He was simply the perfect prey!
Li Wei thought it over and over and found it increasingly feasible: "Besides, our Emperor has a very strong desire for power! So what He hates most are those uncontrollable people!"

From the perspective of the Supreme Heavenly Emperor, you, Zhen Yuanzi, are arrogant and self-important. Not only do you not hold a position in the Heavenly Court, but you have never even nominally pledged allegiance to me, the Heavenly Emperor. You hide in the mountains every day to steal children, and you even use ginseng fruit to win over the gods under my command!
He even addressed the Three Pure Ones as brothers and my Four Emperors as friends, discussing past events?

If this situation were in Li Wei's previous life, it would be roughly equivalent to a Taoist priest leading an army of 100,000, not being loyal to the emperor, and instead associating with court officials every day, even becoming sworn brothers with the three highest officials and the four great generals of the court.

If you were the emperor, could you tolerate the existence of such a person?

How can I allow others to sleep soundly beside my bed?!
Therefore, even if it weren't for the sacrificial calamity, the Supreme Emperor Haotian would definitely deal with this being that is outside the Heavenly Court system and has a strong influence on the Heavenly Court and the Three Realms!

The dark web couldn't help but lick its lips.

Fun!

This is absolutely hilarious!!
The ancestor of the Heavenly Court and Earthly Immortals?
This is a scene I wouldn't even dare to dream of!
[Li Wei! Now that you've made up your mind, go for it with confidence! We, the Nine Saints Heretic Path, will provide you with everything we can, except for our own support!]

Li Wei rolled his eyes in exasperation.

The dark web chuckled upon seeing this: "However, there's still one problem!"

[If I hadn't intervened, you would never have been able to trace it back to Wuzhuang Temple. So how are you going to inform the Supreme Emperor of this without arousing his suspicion?]

Li Wei said with a serious expression, "Of course, we should find a highly respected senior who is closely related to this matter and has the ability to investigate the case to take the blame!"

Then,

Who will be this lucky winner?
(End of this chapter)