Chapter 241: The Oath in the Ruins

Zheng Fa observed the growth of the spiritual plants.

Spiritual plants are different from ordinary plants - he discovered this in the nursing home.

For example, the Evergreen Talisman can stimulate the growth of ordinary plants and make them mature overnight, thus shortening the time required to cultivate crops to an extreme.

But it was useless to the spiritual plant peas grown by Zheng Fa - Zheng Fa guessed that this was because the peas contained spiritual energy and had a kind of "resistance" to spiritual talismans.

To put it more simply, the effect of the talisman was interfered with by the spiritual energy within it.

He guessed that some sects might have some secret methods that could speed up the maturity of certain spiritual plants.

But something like this golden bell, which could make the spiritual plants and spiritual beasts in an entire medicine garden grow rapidly - not to mention Zheng Fa, even Senior Sister Zhang had never heard of it.

"Time..." Senior Sister Zhang's eyes were hazy, "That Lord may be more powerful than we imagined..."

Zheng Fa's eyes flashed with silver light as he looked at the various spiritual plants in the medicine garden. He seemed to be observing something and did not hear Senior Sister Zhang's whisper.

"Brother, what are you looking at?"

Senior Sister Zhang asked curiously.

"I'm watching the growth of spiritual energy on these spiritual plants... it's very strange..."

He just had a thought in his mind and thought of Lingmu Lei.

To be more precise, he thought of his previous experience of observing the growth of pea seedlings and summarizing a kind of spiritual wood thunder.

Under the influence of the spiritual wood thunder, the peas that contained no spiritual energy changed to ones that contained spiritual energy - to put it simply, the pea seedlings underwent a mutation under the guidance of the spiritual wood thunder.

Therefore, he wanted to see whether this mutation also existed in this medicine garden.

I didn’t expect to find it!

"Strange?" Senior Sister Zhang frowned, not understanding what he meant.

"For every spiritual plant, during a rotation of the sun and the moon, a surge in spiritual energy will occur simultaneously! This surge will occur twenty-four times in one cycle!"

Senior Sister Zhang was stunned for a moment, then she used her Dongxu Spirit Eyes to look towards the medicine garden.

After a while, she nodded slowly.

"Indeed." Senior Sister Zhang affirmed, "Although the strength of the spiritual energy produced by each spiritual plant varies, their spiritual energy actually changes twenty-four times at the same time every time the sun and the moon rotate?"

"Twenty-four?"

Senior Sister Yuan at the side suddenly said, "Aren't there twenty-four statues of gods in the temple before? And there are also twenty-four chairs!"

Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang looked at each other and nodded slightly.

The number twenty-four is not ordinary, so Senior Sister Yuan’s association is very natural.

But Senior Sister Zhang looked at Zheng Fa's expression and suddenly asked, "Do you have any other ideas?"

Zheng Fa had no intention of hiding anything from the two sisters, and said, "Sisters, do you still remember what Han Zhenren from Qianhe Sect said, that the spiritual farming secrets are all related to the solar terms?"

"You mean the twenty-four solar terms?"

Zheng Fa nodded.

"So these twenty-four are the gods who govern the solar terms?"

"I don't know about that." Zheng Fa shook his head and said, "I just have a feeling now..."

"Um?"

"There may be twenty-four spiritual wood thunders..."

"Twenty-four types? That makes sense..." Senior Sister Zhang frowned slightly, obviously thinking it was a bit too much. "This... you have to study it."

Indeed, it was somewhat of a coincidence that Zheng Fa developed the first spiritual wood thunder.

If there are twenty-four questions, I really don’t know how long it will take to study them relying on luck.

Zheng Fa looked at the various spiritual plants growing rapidly in the medicine garden, and suddenly an idea came to his mind: In fact, if we measure the strength of the magnetic field when the spiritual energy suddenly changes in this medicine garden, it would be very simple to say twenty-four or two hundred and forty...

It just lacks an electromagnetic laboratory! Huh? Zheng Fa suddenly glanced at Senior Sister Zhang, his eyes thoughtful.

Since Senior Sister Zhang can serve as a talisman laboratory.

Isn’t Xiao Yuying’s metamagnetic body an excellent electromagnetic laboratory?

At least measuring the magnetic field strength should be no problem.

But this woman is rich and powerful, so it may not be easy to get her to cooperate.

Sure enough, it is difficult to trick people with good family backgrounds into working as slaves...

…

When the golden bell fell, spiritual plants sprouted from the medicine garden and landed in front of Zheng Fa - they were exactly the spiritual plants he had selected from the jade stele.

As for the other spiritual plants, they did not move at all.

This golden bell looked like it was not easy to deal with, so even Senior Sister Yuan did not dare to reach out and pick the other spiritual plants.

Zheng Fa held the silver seal in front of him, and suddenly he understood something. He said to Senior Sister Zhang and the other two standing beside him, "Shall we go somewhere else to have a look?"

The two sisters nodded, obviously interested.

His soul touched the silver seal, and the seal summoned three soft winds, dragging Zheng Fa towards the remaining "islands".

The first one is closest to the medicine garden.

"The shape of this plot of land..." Senior Sister Zhang asked before the land even landed, "It's vaguely similar to that of the medicine garden?"

Zheng Fa also looked carefully at the edge of the "island" in front of him, and recalled the shape of the medicine garden just now, and nodded.

A dozen courtyards stood before them.

There seemed to be some smell in the air. Senior Sister Zhang's face changed and she seemed to want to speak.

A brilliant light flashed from the silver seal and swept over the three people, and the smell immediately dissipated.

"Senior Sister Zhang?"

"This should be the place where the Heavenly Palace refines elixirs." Senior Sister Zhang frowned and said, "The smell just now should be the medicinal materials or elixirs that have been left for a long time and are poisonous. If it is not this silver seal, we'd better leave immediately."

The three of them walked into a courtyard with only one entrance. There was an alchemy furnace in the main house, but the furnace was empty.

There were several rows of medicine racks in the side room on the left, which should have contained some magical medicines, but now they had dried up into thin black lines.

The smell just now was probably coming from these things.

In the room on the right are dozens of jade bottles and gourds, probably where the refined pills are stored.

As expected, the jade bottle and the gourd were also empty. Even if there were occasional remains, they seemed to have been dropped accidentally. After years of ravages, they naturally could no longer be taken.

They went to other courtyards.

The appearance inside was similar, except that some of the furnaces in the courtyards had been knocked over, and some gourds and jade bottles had fallen to the ground, as if a fight had taken place.

"It's common to have the alchemy room and medicine garden in the same place."

Walking out of the yard, Senior Sister Zhang suddenly said.

"So this Heavenly Palace was originally one?" Zheng Fa understood what Senior Sister Zhang meant and said, "I'm afraid a great battle took place there."

"Yes, judging from the situation in this alchemy room, the people here seem to know that there will be danger here, and they are preparing to evacuate in advance..."

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The three of them walked around the courtyards again and found nothing else.

They headed towards other "islands".

The remaining islands were even more disappointing.

These looked like the caves of some powerful beings, but they were empty long ago and contained no treasures or secret books.

"Sure enough, these people must have evacuated in advance...that's why they didn't leave anything behind."

"But the golden bell?"

Senior Sister Yuan was puzzled.

Zheng Fa understood what she meant. The golden bell was obviously a treasure. If he really wanted to run away, wouldn't it be good to take it with him?

"I don't understand this." Senior Sister Zhang thought for a while and said, "I think it's not that the golden bell doesn't want to take it away, but that it can't take it away."

Zheng Fa nodded, thinking that this guess was very reliable.

…

After visiting several "islands" in a row, they found nothing, which made Senior Sister Yuan look a little bored.

The last island is the largest.

This is a magnificent yet dilapidated palace complex, with about a thousand palaces, but none of them are intact...

There were collapsed palace walls everywhere, and jade pillars smashed to the ground, broken into pieces of rubble.

"This is probably where the master of the Heavenly Palace lives." Senior Sister Zhang said, "It's probably also where the war took place."

The three of them walked towards the depths of the palace.

Most of the palaces are empty and nothing remains.

There are also a few magical weapons in some palaces - but after being eroded by time and without the care of their owners, most of them have become dull and have no power left.

After the tour just now, they were mentally prepared and were not disappointed at this time. They just walked straight in.

Finally, they came to a palace at the deepest part.

The palace here was originally the largest one, but it was also the most severely damaged, with only the foundation left.

Several people were walking in it, and suddenly, Senior Sister Yuan pointed to a corner of the courtyard wall and shouted, "What's that?"

Zheng Fa looked up and saw that the courtyard wall was more than one person tall, and there was something shining on it.

When they got closer, they saw two rows of green words on the wall. They didn't know what was used to write on the wall. Not only did it not fade over the years, it was also emitting a dim glow.

Zheng Fa took a look at it twice before he was sure that he didn't recognize this kind of characters.

In other words, it can only be understood vaguely.

"Senior Sister Zhang?"

"This is probably a type of font from before the last era. I've seen it in ancient books." Senior Sister Zhang frowned and said, "Let me take a look..."

She slowly chanted: "All living beings are ignorant and unworthy of reliance. The way of the gods is just a wedding dress, and the Heavenly Lord is no longer mine."

"Today, Jiuyou..."

Senior Sister Zhang paused slightly and looked at Zheng Fa.

Jiuyou...

"Now Jiuyou wants to open a great road for Xuanwei, but the gods are blocking the way, so I will kill myself."

The two columns of words made Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang fall into silence.

Even Senior Sister Yuan, who was always ignorant, asked stutteringly: "This Jiuyou, is it what the Nine Nether Demon Ancestor meant?"

"I'm afraid it is..."

It doesn’t mean that other people can’t be called Jiuyou.

But the Heavenly Lord of this world should be extremely powerful. How many people in the history of the Xuanwei World could kill his Nine Netherworld? The most likely one is the current Nine Netherworld Demon Ancestor.

"Then... the Nine Nether Demon Ancestor... opens up a great way for all living beings? Doesn't that mean we have nothing to do?"

Senior Sister Yuan's tone was filled with confusion.

Zheng Fa was also a little speechless - he knew before that the Demon Ancestor himself might not be the spokesperson of the old law as he imagined in his early years.

Now it has been confirmed here.

Even... how similar was the original intention of this Nine Nether Demon Ancestor to him and to Venerable Tianhe? But what about now?

Zheng Fa looked at the sky, thinking about one thing at this moment - these demon ancestors, are they the dragon-slaying boys who turned into evil dragons? Or are the boys dead, and the living ones are the evil dragons? Or, have the demon ancestors really taken another path?

(End of this chapter)