Perfect Double Agent

Suddenly, the old tortoise's excited voice came from ahead.

From afar, one can see shimmering light emanating from deep within the mountains, constantly shifting and moving among the peaks.

"Why are you running... We're all brothers here!"

"Bah! You actually dared to join its sect! You've completely disgraced our Heavenly Brothers..."

"Boss, help me!"

It was a fiery red celestial tree. Despite possessing celestial-level magical power, it was running incredibly fast using its two main roots, and it was even calling out to people!

Not only was Bai Ye stunned, but even the severely damaged Celestial Tree, the old turtle's little brother, cried out in alarm.

"The sect leader saved my life, so it's understandable that I acknowledge him. But you've gone and directly acknowledged him as your boss!"

"Who's that scoundrel who dares to bully your Tree Master's disciple!"

As a wave of divine thought rang out, an incomparably fragrant aroma spread out.

It was an ancient tree, only a little over a meter tall, its whole body surging with five-colored divine light, with sacred immortal mist hanging down in torrents. It had two main roots that were like thighs, with two tender branches behind it, and a bunch of leaves on its head. With each step it swayed, majestic and awe-inspiring.

But it has no main trunk. Several tender branches shoot up into the sky, intertwining to form a colorful canopy that covers the mark that looks like it has been cut off. Strangely, all the leaves on its branches are different in shape and color. Some are weapons, some are living creatures, and some are bells and tripods.

“This tree…” Bai Ye pondered.

"It's this... the other half of the Enlightenment Tea Tree... This is a good thing. Take it back and merge it with the tea tree, and the medicinal effects will be restored..." the old demon said, greatly surprised.

Even the two immortals were salivating. Back then, legend had it that even the Immortal King could gain great insights from the tea tree, but unfortunately, half of it was lost for some unknown reason.

"Brother Dao, you look terrible. Were you chopped up and made into a coffin?" The old tortoise, accompanied by two underlings, remained calm, but its claws on its back were signaling to Bai Ye to take a shortcut.

Bai Ye had already concealed himself in the space, the immortal bell in his hand shrinking as he activated the God-Slaying Stone Technique, aiming for a single, decisive strike.

Now he remembered that this tree should be the one Shi Hao encountered. It seemed to have escaped from the depths of the burial ground. It had been on the outskirts for the past few years, so it was not surprising that it could have run here.

What he valued most was that the old tree knew where the rotten wooden box was, which was located in the restricted area of ​​the burial site.

Both the tortoise and the tree were unscrupulous, notorious freaks among immortal herbs, each more deceptive than the last. They stood far apart, exchanging barbs like two leaders clashing, with the two celestial trees occasionally chiming in. If other cultivators were to witness this scene, their eyes would surely pop out of their sockets.

Just then, a small bell, enveloped in fragments of time, suddenly appeared from that space, instantly freezing the heavens and earth, and struck the back of the immortal tree with perfect accuracy and lightning speed. If he hadn't been so gentle, the entire tree would probably have exploded.

Even so, it still startled the fiery red Celestial Tree.

Before the old tortoise and the others could rush forward, the immortal tree was taken away by the immortal bell.

"Dead?" Bai Ye appeared, shaking the tree root with one hand. This immortal tree was extremely cunning and highly vigilant in the original story, and he suspected that this thing was pretending to be dead.

"I'll chop you up and use you as a coffin board!"

Suddenly a loud roar made the old tree tremble, and its entire trunk was awakened as if by a conditioned reflex.

"Boy, I'm giving you some advice. Ambushing Tree Master is nothing compared to capturing me. You've incurred a huge karmic debt. When that supreme being comes knocking, you won't even be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation..." The old tree was very calm and not worried about its situation. It had run away, but it had an owner.

Chapter 407 The Appearance of the Gu Clan

Bai Ye didn't take the old tree's threat to heart and reached out with one hand to search for its consciousness.

Knowing that he still dared to seize this immortal tree, he was naturally fearless. What did it matter if he had someone behind him? He already had someone in his belly.

A moment later, Bai Ye put away the Immortal Tree and threw it, along with the old tortoise and other medicines, into the Immortal Palace. Even the red Heavenly God Tree was captured and brought back.

He sorted through the information briefly and said strangely, "There seems to be something on the edge of the ancient burial area ahead. I think it's worth a trip. We can investigate the situation here again on the way back."

"Is there anything...? Let's go take a look." The old demon trusted Bai Ye a lot. This little guy's intuition has always been amazing. He doesn't care much about immortal medicine, and he doesn't show his emotions. If this little guy thinks a place is worth going to, then it is definitely worth going to.

As for these two places that forced the foreign lands to retreat back then, they most likely had two kings, something they had guessed when they arrived.

Not long after Bai Ye left, an old man appeared in the area. He had blond hair and golden eyes, and was thin, like a little old man from next door. He held two blood-dripping heads in his hands and stood in the air, his figure blurry.

He looked up into the distance, one eye filled with the surging light of time, while in the other eye, countless large stars appeared out of thin air, only to collapse in an instant, transforming into destructive power that spread out and then recreated the world. This cycle of birth and death repeated endlessly within one eye, as if enacting the Great Dao of the Void.

"The child from back then has grown up... Are you still the little guy I knew?" the old man murmured.

He appeared here not for any other reason than because he had also come to the battlefield. The imperial clan couldn't get him to come, but someone found him and hoped that his clan would go to the battlefield, so he came.

But none of that matters. What matters is that he arrived too late and didn't get to see the little guy. The other person's situation isn't good right now. Someone is constantly sending messages into the other realm, revealing the laws they possess, who their friends are, and even offering to cooperate in luring them out.

This made him very sad. How innocent the child was back then, never crying or making a fuss, staying alone with his grandfather. Apart from his playmates who were much older than him, he had never seen anyone else.

At the age of six, he was personally given to an immortal to fill a quota. Many people died, but only this little guy successfully went to this world.

People say that the higher one's cultivation level, the colder one's heart becomes, but sometimes he can't help but wonder if the little guy will be bullied, if he will resent him, and if he still misses the wife he used to nag about when he was a child.

The old man lingered there for a long time, his figure gradually disappearing as if he had never been there at all.

……

"The foreign powers are here again, challenging us... Could they have really brought out the imperial family?"

In the desert, yellow sand swirls everywhere. At the far end, there are only a few people, about a hundred, most of whom are very young.

At the very front, atop an ancient beast, stood a young man with a handsome face and long, shimmering golden hair. In his hand, a Void Immortal Golden Halberd pointed diagonally towards the sky, and he seemed to have merged with the entire world.

"So that's the imperial family...?"

Many people were looking up. The young man's cultivation level was not high, only at the Void Dao, close to perfection. His aura was very restrained, and he resembled a little old man, a Supreme Being, behind him, as if they came from the same race.

"Which clan? Wushang, Anlan, or Yutuo?"

"Who dares to fight!" the young man said, his face cold.

"Let me test the so-called imperial level!" A young man from the Nine Heavens side set out, riding a five-colored celestial horse. There was no shortage of heroes in the Imperial Pass, and there were quite a few people of Jin Zhifei's age.

This man was radiant, with pride and seriousness between his brows. He came from the Ning family, a very low-key family of immortals. He was not yet thirty years old, but he had already halfway into the realm of the Immortal Cutter, and could take that step at any time. In the previous era, he was enough to rank among the top three in the Nine Heavens, which was quite remarkable.

"boom!"

The young man arrived, and the ancient beast gradually increased in speed, like a beam of light rushing across the desert. In the end, it was surrounded by fragments of time and space, like rolling waves of time and space, blotting out the sky and creating an astonishing spectacle.

"This... is the Little Immortal King's brother?"

Someone spoke up, only to be glared at fiercely by the great knight in front; the joke wasn't funny at all.

However, the opponent was also terrifying. Before the two even met, the halberd was raised high and swung violently, as if the void had been cleaved open, cleaving the Ning family's prodigy and his celestial horse in two from a distance.

It happened too fast, leaving no room for anyone to react.

"Is this realm still so weak... just like back then!" the golden youth said, a rare emotional fluctuation appearing on his cold face. It wasn't killing intent, but hatred, a boundless hatred that flashed in his eyes.

"He...could he be..."

"There's no mistake... that legendary clan..."

Many elders in the Nine Heavens were shaken, and even at the very front appeared a supreme being, "the Gu Clan among the Ten Fiends..."

"The Gu Clan? The race that betrayed our realm at a crucial moment back then?!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, but then they became furious and started cursing loudly. They said that these were traitors. If it weren't for a group of traitors suddenly turning against them, how could Xian Gu have been defeated so quickly?

"According to the records, it seems that one of the Ten Fiends was interfered with at a crucial moment, and his breakthrough to the Immortal King level failed. He then defected to another realm, was corrupted, became a member of the Divine Clan, and became even more powerful, holding a very high position in that realm." The Supreme Being's expression was very unpleasant as he revealed some secrets.

"Traitor, I will kill you!" Another young man accepted the challenge.

However, no one was optimistic. The Divine Clan controlled both space and time, possessing two great laws, making them exceptionally gifted. Just look at the Little Immortal King; with his Great Space-Time Descent, he could even temporarily suppress the Great Dao, making him the absolute nemesis of ancient cultivation methods.

Although that young man did not reach the level of a Little Immortal King, his use of his innate abilities was absolutely terrifying.

But is the Little Immortal King's talent for spacetime truly innate? Why does he possess the Gu Clan's treasured techniques? The Little Immortal King shouldn't have any connection to the Gu Clan, right?

……

Whether it's the Heavenly Beast Forest, the Divine Medicine Mountain Range, or the Ancient Burial Area, they are all absolute forbidden zones, and even supreme beings dare not enter them easily.

In the center of these three places, there exists an even more special forbidden area.

It was vast, the entire ground was black, but from the sky, it appeared as wide black lines that intertwined to form a giant black skull that occupied the entire forbidden area, eerie and ominous.

But in this very area, a pure white skeleton was moving swiftly forward. It carried a celestial bell on its head and stopped at the deepest point, which, from the sky, appeared to be the area between the eyebrows of a black skull.

The atmosphere here is very cold and gloomy; even with the protection of the Immortal Bell, one can clearly feel it.

"It seems this place was calculated back then..." The old demon appeared, leaning on a bronze staff, with a piece of broken plate floating on each of his shoulders.

Zi Cang was carrying a long immortal spear, which he had recently reforged by integrating several broken immortal artifacts. Meanwhile, the red-haired patriarch held Jun Ying, remaining motionless.

"The reason why our army attacked the Divine Medicine Mountain Range and the Heavenly Beast Forest back then was probably for this place." Zi Cang looked at the black fog area in front of him with a solemn expression.

“That’s difficult… Little White Night, lend me the Immortal Bell for a moment, you should step back… step back a bit.” Jun Ying added.

"Should we launch a full-scale attack?" Bai Ye thought to himself, his figure quickly retreating. An Lan and Yu Tuo had prepared for countless years, and had even used many secret artifacts forged from immortal gold to break through this place. If the old demon and the others failed to break through the formation and instead awakened the Burial King of the Burial Ground branch, that would be a real disaster.

Chapter 408 The Birth of the Rotten Wooden Box

Several days have passed.

Outside the forbidden area marked by the black skull, Bai Ye had returned to human form. He looked at the tiny white light between his fingers, which resembled an imperceptible seed, gradually drifting away and finally disappearing.

That was the mark left by the ancestor of crickets, usually so silent that it could not be found, but today, it broke away from the white night and returned to the foreign land.

In fact, it's more like a mark that carries some memories. When it awakens, it witnesses some things. Without its return, the Gu Ancestor, separated by a world, would not know what happened in this world.

Just like the spear deep in his mind, it will one day return to that immortal being, so that the immortal being can understand the scene he saw when the mark was revived.

This is not about stealing Bai Ye's memories, but rather about relying on Bai Ye's primordial spirit to preserve what he saw when he woke up.

Otherwise, he would have had the Gu Zu branded away long ago.

"Can it succeed?"

Bai Ye looked up and saw waves of energy, one after another. They weren't particularly intense, but they were like the creation of the world, compressing the destruction they contained into a certain range.

"boom!"

Suddenly, a deep, resounding sound rang out, shaking the entire forbidden zone, while at the same time, a black wave surged forth.

It was an ocean of energy, spreading out from the sky and sweeping in all directions, terrifying beyond belief. Accompanied by screams, two figures were scrambling to escape.

It was faintly visible that Zi Cang's five-colored immortal golden crown had become dull and lifeless, and even the tip of his immortal spear was gone. It was unknown what he had been doing these past few days.

The Red-Haired Ancestor was more like a conscript, used as a laborer, and overworked.

"Little Baiye, don't move!" Zi Cang hadn't forgotten Baiye. As he spoke, he grabbed him in his hand.

However, the black energy wave did not spread to this area. Instead, in the central area, faint golden light rose, which was very peaceful and instantly attracted everyone's attention.