[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-green-immortal-sovereign":3,"chapter-eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-chapter-130":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Eternal Green Immortal Sovereign",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2270138,4432,"Chapter 130","eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-chapter-130",130,"\u003Cp>“Wei brother, you’re back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Ming had just entered the camp when he ran into Li Rui, who greeted him first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old Brother Li.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Ming nodded, his face clearly weary—he’d been roused by Ning Zhongtian the night before, chased a suspect all the way from camp to Paozi Ridge, traversing mountains and rivers without sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you catch that thief?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s no such thing as coincidence in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the only path Wei Ming took home; Li Rui had been waiting here early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At my age, I’ve grown timid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He always felt something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A master who could trade blows with Ning Zhongtian wouldn’t be so foolish as to storm the camp directly—something’s wrong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Ming shook his head: “No, he slipped away.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Slipped away?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui hadn’t expected that Ning Zhongtian, leading an entire company, would still let the target escape. He pressed: “Do you know who he was?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of cold light passed through Wei Ming’s eyes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not a man—a demon. Precisely, a ghost demon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui’s heart jolted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ghost demon breaking into the camp? This was no small matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Ming lowered his voice—only Li Rui, no one else would ever hear such a secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The monster’s strength is only at Willow Vein level, but its bones are terrifyingly hard, it feels no pain, took several cuts from Head Ning and still didn’t die—finally escaped by using the terrain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old Brother Li, Jiang and General Cao are away on official business—I still need to write up last night’s incident into a military report. I can’t stay long.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Wei Ming hurried off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t even bother telling Li Rui to keep quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already knew Li Rui’s steady nature—he was a trustworthy man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui narrowed his eyes slightly: “He picked a good time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Lin and Cao Wei had both gone to Yunzhou for their official reports.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And a ghost demon appeared precisely now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Forget it—I’ll just stay put at home like an old man.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gales howled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep in the mountain ridge, beneath a few crooked trees, a creature with black-blue skin licked its wounds like a wolf pup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s him—it’s really him!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao, though covered in wounds, could not hide his excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last night’s Shitan  had confirmed the range of the spirit guide—he’d nearly succeeded, had Ning Zhongtian not spotted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Cheng’s voice echoed in his mind: “Act quickly—find that man!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao cowered like a puppy; though Qi Cheng couldn’t hear him, he still answered instinctively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He feared Qi Cheng with his very soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already informed Qi Cheng of last night’s events through coded signals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The perception bond he’d established with Qi Cheng was one-way—originally it could’ve been bidirectional, but Qi Cheng had severed the link to prevent Zhang Hao from sensing his emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Zhang Hao could only passively receive Qi Cheng’s orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jiang Lin and Cao Wei will return soon—must act quickly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Last night I struck, and Ning Zhongtian thought I was badly wounded. Tonight I strike again—he’ll be caught completely off guard.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao analyzed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the terror of a ghost demon: its body was monstrously resilient; unless crushed by vastly superior force, it was nearly immortal, with extraordinary regenerative power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just one day, he’d recovered seven or eight tenths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it possessed far greater intelligence than any beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the Qi imperial clan had once been obsessed with breeding demons, even turning themselves into ghost demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That technique had another name—Evil God Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Old Mother of Ten Thousand Ghosts had forcibly transformed herself into a monstrous, neither-human-nor-ghost being through the Evil God Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kill!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao skillfully masked his true intentions with a frenzy of murderous intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted revenge!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just against Jiang Lin, Cao Wei, or the one who stole the spirit guide—but also Qi Cheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he grew stronger, if he devoured his master Qi Cheng,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would gain freedom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Achieving the Supreme Evil God Art, he would become like the Old Mother of Ten Thousand Ghosts—no longer under anyone’s control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kill, kill, kill!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next evening, snowflakes drifted from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The New Year had just passed, yet light snow had begun to fall again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Yong had placed a brazier in every room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui sat beside the brazier, half his body glowing red, warm and cozy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s a phrase: warmth returns, yet cold lingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s exactly this situation—in late winter, early spring, an unexpected snowfall still comes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having lived in Qinghe for decades,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he was used to it—even the braziers were his idea, arranged by Yang Yong in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the sound of the night watchman came from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dry weather, watch your candles!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because of the cold, his voice trembled slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the camp,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>light snow fell, yet patrols were far more numerous than usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Torches lit up most of the camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The patrolling soldiers grumbled, but they still did their duty—having finally secured a position in the Peace Guard, they couldn’t afford to lose their livelihood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the shadows untouched by firelight,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a figure barely three feet tall darted nimbly between buildings and walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swift as a streak of black lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Almost there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao’s eyes gleamed with cold light—he was unrecognizable from his earlier demeanor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was one of the ghost demon’s abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could alter its original form to conceal itself; if he revealed his true size—over two zhang tall—it would be far too conspicuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now was perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao moved swiftly, soon slipping past the patrols and reaching the camp’s core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart leapt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No one noticed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last night’s discovery by Ning Zhongtian was pure bad luck—who’d have thought Ning Zhongtian had slipped out to visit a brothel, only returning at the fourth watch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man can’t be unlucky two days in a row—neither can a demon, Zhang Hao thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he reached a courtyard,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao sensed the familiar spirit guide’s aura—his eyes lit up—it was here!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leapt lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slipped past the patrols, scaled the wall into the courtyard—almost no sound. “There it is!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao’s grotesque face twisted with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze locked onto a room bathed in crimson firelight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao did not strike immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he had become a ghost demon, his intelligence remained—he knew the person inside was still awake. Acting now would alarm them; if the commotion drew a Garrison Commander-level force, he might not escape the Peace Guard alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind and snow intensified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moon vanished behind clouds; the camp was swallowed by deep darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faintly, the night watchman’s voice drifted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All is well!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The time has come.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>=9+ Shu _ Ba\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao, buried beneath the snow and merged with the drifts, endured three hours of freezing cold without feeling a single chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The snow covering his body rustled and slid off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfectly masked by the howling wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kill!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao’s eyes turned blood-red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As seconds ticked by, Zhang Hao gradually lost patience; the beast’s killing instinct began to dominate, yet he still held onto the last shred of human calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The firelight inside the room had long gone out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people within had fallen into deep sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers had grown sharp claws, which slipped through the window crack and silently unlatched the wooden bolt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the wind and snow outside failed to enter the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao leapt forward in one swift motion, entering the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He became a streak of black light, striking straight for the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as he reached the bedside—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A withered voice suddenly echoed behind him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boy, you’re attached to form.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of mechanical gears turning rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao hadn’t even turned his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stone tiles beneath his feet vanished; at the same instant, a powerful gust struck his head, slamming him into a hidden passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Trap!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao rolled helplessly under the weight of his attacker in the passage, cursing inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, I was tricked!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thud echoed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both men landed in darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao struggled to rise, when suddenly a gale swept in—a long blade cleaved straight into his right shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast could see in total darkness; he recognized the attacker’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Li Rui!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao had met Li Rui once before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had even entertained thoughts of killing him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he never imagined the one who possessed the Immortal Treasure, the Spirit Guide, was Li Rui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An old man, nearly seventy, on the verge of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more shocking was the power behind Li Rui’s earlier slash—it clearly surpassed the Willow Vein realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This old man has hidden himself well!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao’s grotesque face twisted into a monstrous snarl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He roared, charging forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as his clawed fingers were about to tear the old man apart—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui’s expression remained calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xuan Qing Qi surged through his entire body in an instant—the full force of a Seventh-Rank slash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao’s pupils shrank violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faintly, he seemed to hear the mingling cry of dragon and phoenix, as if standing within a celestial court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qi Condensation into Form!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at Li Rui in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In life, he himself had been a master of the Willow Vein realm—he knew perfectly well that Qi Condensation into Form was achievable only by those at mid-Willow Vein.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, how the hell can this old man summon a dragon shape?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dragon shape—this was the exclusive domain of prodigies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even in Qinghe County, let alone the entire Anning Prefecture, could more than one or two people achieve it—and the dragon shape seemed to conceal something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dual Forms!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao recalled the Spirit Guide’s function: it enabled the opening of Dual Forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could such an unnatural being exist—and worse, it was this decrepit old man, Li Rui!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, damn, damn!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao had no time to be stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blade, carrying the dragon’s roar, was only half an inch from his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blade glowed with a pale blue light, slicing through Zhang Hao’s body from crown to crotch as cleanly as a knife through lake water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui gazed coldly at the corpse on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked to the cave wall and lit a candle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Xuan Qing Qi allowed him to sense others in darkness, he still needed firelight to see faces clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flame flared up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before him lay a subterranean chamber roughly one zhang square.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had prepared this hidden room the moment he moved into Anning Guard, just in case—never expecting it to be used so soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster had been split cleanly in two by his blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The combined power of the Immortal Dragon Dual Forms proved even more brutal than he’d anticipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ghost Demon?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui frowned, recalling the monster’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had come straight for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared long at the monster’s grotesque face, then suddenly raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhang Hao!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the monster’s face was twisted beyond recognition, its features still faintly resembled Zhang Hao’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhang Hao was turned into a Ghost Demon?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui drew a sharp breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, the mastermind behind the night’s beast chaos was the Ghost Ming  Cult’s beast-tamer who had transformed Zhang Hao into a Ghost Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What on me could attract the Ghost Ming  Cult?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart sank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Immortal Treasure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1903,"2026-06-19T22:01:09.077Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","71444e09ef755191c5a377de5ee09f2200e1a219db21429d6a715f57825533dd","eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-chapter-131","eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-chapter-129",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-green-immortal-sovereign-cover.jpg"]