Zhao Ruizhi thought to himself, "If I cross this gate of immortality, wouldn't I become an immortal through my son's body?"

What he wanted most was to become an immortal using his own body. Even if the other party was his own son, he didn't want to give up his chance to become an immortal. However, he immediately realized that this chance to become an immortal was fleeting and he probably couldn't wait for his own body to become an immortal.

Let's first make this body an immortal. After we leave the secret realm, we can take the peaches out and see if we can make the original body an immortal as well.

Thinking of this, he suddenly looked down at the Qi Prince's guards and wondered why these ants could become immortals with him.

Do they even deserve it?

Thinking that many others had eaten the peaches of immortality before him, he worried that they would become immortals first, and if he didn't stop them, it would be too late.

So he postponed his entry into the immortal realm and instead turned around to kill the others first.

However, when he turned around, everything in front of him changed. It was no longer a scene of falling petals and fragrant fruits. The colors around him suddenly dimmed. The Qi Prince's guards were not holding the big and beautiful peaches they had seen before, but strange fruits shaped like skulls.

Other warriors from the Qi Prince's mansion walked into the lake with eerie smiles on their faces. The beautiful sapphire-like lake was no longer what it had been before; it had turned pitch black, and a ghostly face could even be faintly seen on the surface of the water.

The strong bodies of the Qi Prince's warriors who first stepped into the lake withered away at a visible rate, but they seemed completely unaware of it, with a smug smile on their faces, making the whole atmosphere even more eerie.

"What kind of monster is this!" Zhao Ruizhi broke out in a cold sweat and immediately realized something was wrong. He turned around and looked around, but there was no immortal sect left. He had almost reached the lake shore himself.

His aura instantly reached its peak, and then an extremely powerful aura spread out, instantly shattering the surrounding illusion.

Just then, he felt something strange inside his body; it seemed as if a black hole had appeared inside, frantically absorbing his vital energy.

He frowned and hurriedly used his unparalleled cultivation to suppress the other party's frantic absorption. Then, he entered his inner vision and discovered that three ugly flowers had grown in his stomach. Each flower bud was like a skull, and they were frantically absorbing the vital energy in his body. Moreover, countless roots were spreading wildly towards his internal organs.

Each root was secreting some liquid, which was clearly what had just numbed his nerves and given him a euphoric hallucination.

"You're courting death!" Zhao Ruizhi snorted coldly, immediately unleashing his full power, with every inch of his skin radiating golden light.

The three skull-like flowers inside his body emitted sharp screams, their roots twisting wildly, and they emitted wisps of black energy to resist the attack. However, the emperor's cultivation was extraordinary, and they only lasted for a few breaths before being burned to ashes by the golden light.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Ruizhi reached out and pulled all the Qi Prince's warriors back from the lakeside, while chanting the incantation: "Wake up!"

In this eerie secret realm, these guys still have some use; at least we can let them test various mechanisms, just like before.

The warriors of the Prince of Qi's mansion shuddered, feeling as if a giant bell was ringing in their ears. The soul-shaking sensation jolted them awake.

"what happened?"

"I remember I was about to become an immortal just now."

"Oh no, why has the lake turned black?"

"Holy crap, what the hell is this thing?"

Many people noticed the skull-shaped fruits in their hands and were so frightened that they quickly threw them aside.

What could be more terrifying than holding a Skull-Skull Fruit?

That means holding half a pill...

Looking at the half skull fruit in his hand, covered with familiar teeth marks, He Li suddenly felt nauseous and hurriedly started to vomit. Unfortunately, he couldn't vomit anything at this point.

Zhao Ruizhi's voice rang out: "We were just hallucinating. The Jade Pool and the peaches we saw earlier were fake. I have woken you up, and you are all fine now."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" A group of warriors were moved to tears of gratitude, while simultaneously cursing these illusions as truly despicable.

He Li, however, had a mournful face. With his cultivation level, he had already examined his internal organs and discovered an ugly flower resembling a skull inside his body, which was temporarily suppressed by a golden light and could not continue to grow.

That golden light must have been the emperor's method just now, but he knew that such suppression was only temporary. After a while, when the effect of the golden light weakened, the skull flowers would grow wildly again.

He tried to force the strange flower out himself, but no matter what he did, he couldn't do it. The flower seemed to have become one with his flesh and blood. Unless he gave up his flesh and blood, he couldn't get rid of the flower.

He instantly understood the emperor's plan, but dared not expose it. He could only look at his excited companions with a mournful face. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

At this moment, Zhao Ruizhi arrived at the lakeside and coldly pressed down with his palm. A huge golden palm immediately appeared in the air, and the lake water immediately boiled. It was quickly evaporated by the golden palm, revealing the scene at the bottom of the lake.

All that could be seen were skeletons, some human, some of the skeletons of various ferocious beasts. Some of the skulls even had eerie smiles on their heads, showing a mixture of satisfaction and pain, much like the expressions on the faces of the warriors from the Qi Prince's mansion earlier.

Everyone who saw it felt a chill run down their spine, including Zhao Ruizhi.

If he hadn't turned around by chance, the strange flower might have already taken hold inside him by the time he realized it, making it difficult to get rid of it.

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