Chapter 429: Canglin Immortal City

After correcting the map, Sun Lingtong discovered that they had used void traversal to escape and had already left the range of the Thousand Peaks Forest and arrived in the Two-Injection Kingdom.

Checking the situation, the reserve of fire essence had reached the warning line, and the remaining amount could only open one void traversal. Moreover, the traversal time was very short, and they could not go far.

If the fire essence reserve was like this, if they returned to the previous state, they might still be within the range of the Thousand Peaks Forest and be sensed by the Cave Master of the Blood Shadow, thereby launching a pursuit.

The tracking method of the Cave Master of the Blood Shadow must be removed. The Ten Thousand Mile Swimming Dragon itself was attacked by the Cave Master of the Demon Heart and also needed maintenance.

More important than that was Sun Lingtong's current injury.

Sun Lingtong's previous strategy was correct; to heal, one must at least know the specific details and need a clearer understanding of Old Monster Shi Zhong.

It was just that their infiltration into the main mountain gate of the Six-Cave Sect this time, although they accidentally learned important intelligence about the mechanical carriage, did not gain more intelligence about Old Monster Shi Zhong.

As for why the Cave Master of the Demon Heart discovered him, Ning Zhuo guessed afterward that it was likely because he had planted Life Hanging by a Thread on the hooded black-robed cultivators!

Ning Zhuo had indeed relied on this divine ability to establish many advantages in various aspects. These advantages easily gave people the illusion that the divine ability was invincible.

Now, after the affairs of Linghu Jiu and the Cave Master of the Demon Heart, Ning Zhuo had gradually learned the specific strength of the Life Hanging by a Thread divine ability.

"Although this divine ability comes from the Three Sects Superior, if it were really invincible, the territory of the Southern Bean Kingdom would be much larger than it is now."

According to the target provided by Ning Zhuo, the Ten Thousand Mile Swimming Dragon set off again.

Although it did not use the power of void traversal, the flight speed of the Ten Thousand Mile Swimming Dragon itself was still considerable.

After about half a day, the two approached their destination—Canglin Immortal City.

Human traces gradually increased, and about thirty miles away from the immortal city, Ning Zhuo flew out of the mechanical swimming dragon first.

Sun Lingtong remained in the dragon head cabin; he needed to mobilize his magic power at all times and try other methods to slow down the speed of petrification erosion.

Ning Zhuo still tied the Ten Thousand Mile Swimming Dragon around his waist as a belt.

He walked forward, crossing mountains and rivers, his movements light.

Halfway through, the number of cultivators he encountered increased rapidly.

Not only humans, but also many demon cultivators with bare chests and savage tribes with rough styles.

Demon cultivators basically didn't have much clothing; when they were demon beasts, they had always lived naked in nature. Even after becoming demon cultivators and possessing wisdom, this habit was mostly retained.

Demon cultivators preferred loose, elegant clothing, such as robes and long skirts, and many demon cultivators especially liked cloaks and capes.

Their clothes often had rich, colorful decorations, with animal fur, gems, flowers, and plants, etc., reflecting their closeness to nature.

The clothing of the savage tribes was mostly animal skin, iron armor, or grass vines with rough weaving techniques, or even just scales.

Savage tribes preferred deep red, earthy yellow, emerald green, and black-gray.

They generally believed that red represented blood, earthy yellow symbolized the earth, emerald green was the mountain forest, and black-gray was the form of all things burned to ashes.

From this, it can be seen that they advocated fighting, bloodiness, bravery, and the connection between individuals and nature.

Their clothing was much tighter than that of demon cultivators, which was convenient for fighting. The trouser legs were restrained by leather belts, and the clothing of female savage tribes was more concise and tight, with a very primitive beauty.

Ning Zhuo noticed that they often held axes and hammers, and carried spears and bows and arrows on their backs. The stronger their strength and the higher their status, the more decorations they had on their bodies. These decorations were mostly animal teeth, bones, fur, etc.

The necklaces, wrist guards, etc., they wore were huge in shape, as if the bigger they were, the more they could show their own glory and strength.

These cultivators, like Ning Zhuo, were all heading to Canglin Immortal City. Some walked in a hurry, head down, while others walked together, talking and laughing.

Ning Zhuo looked at Canglin Immortal City from afar as if seeing a river with ups and downs.

The terrain of Canglin Immortal City was not flat; it was built between hills, and the distribution of buildings was adapted to local conditions, scattered and orderly.

Ning Zhuo looked from afar and could find the winding streets and tortuous building complexes in the immortal city.

Beside the immortal city, several military camps had also been built.

One on the east side, heavily guarded, red flags flying, rolling with fierce energy, clearly practicing fire-element magic techniques. The camp gate on the west side was wide open, people were flowing, demon cultivators and savage tribes were mixed, and the noisy sound waves came in waves.

Vaguely, one could see several other military camps in the distance.

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When they were ten miles away from the immortal city, a ban took effect, not allowing cultivators to fly. If they wanted to enter the city, they could only walk on the ground.

In normal times, it was naturally not like this. But now it was a special period, the Two-Injection Kingdom army was constantly gathering, and the vanguard army had already stationed at the foot of the Thousand Peaks Forest. Behind it were several important towns, and then Canglin Immortal City.

As the first immortal city closest to the Thousand Peaks Forest battlefield, it would bear the important responsibility of the rear.

Therefore, under military control, the air here had already begun to be banned, strictly preventing peeping and sneak attacks from high altitude.

Ning Zhuo followed the crowd to the city gate.

The city guard army guarded the city gate, requiring each person to pay fifty low-grade spirit stones to enter the city.

"If you want to join the army, you don't have to enter the city. Several military camps outside the city are recruiting talent! Among them, the White Jade Camp has the highest reward, twice as high as the lowest Red Flower Camp."

The city guard army shouted loudly from time to time.

Among the cultivators entering the city, quite a few heard the reminder of the city guard army and left the team directly, turning to go to the military camp.

Ning Zhuo paid the entry fee and officially stepped in, walking into Canglin Immortal City.

Vegetation in Canglin Immortal City was lush, and there were colorful flowers, plants, and strange plants everywhere.

The houses in the city spread in curves, scattered and uneven, although not neat, but with a unique flavor.

Ning Zhuo couldn't help but take a deep breath. What he swallowed between his mouth and nose was moist, warm air, mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants. Clearly, the climate here was very pleasant.

Gradually moving away from the city gate, Ning Zhuo did not go to the city center, but drilled into the curved and narrow small streets.

On both sides of the street were ancient wooden buildings, shaded by green trees. Various shops, teahouses, and restaurants, these buildings were almost all wood, and bamboo was more common. On the roof or the walls of the houses, there were grass weaves or vines covering them.

Ning Zhuo soon found the location where intelligence was sold.

A moment later, he left the dark alley with a few jade slips, came to a restaurant, and looked at the purchased intelligence while filling his stomach.

The intelligence was roughly divided into three parts.

One part was about the Thousand Peaks Forest, one part was about the expedition army of the Two-Injection Kingdom, and the last part was about Canglin Immortal City.

In the intelligence of the Thousand Peaks Forest, the first one Ning Zhuo saw was the Ginseng Beard Dragon King. This was the most powerful god in the Thousand Peaks Forest, and its main body was a dragon-bearded ginseng. In the Thousand Peaks Forest, it possessed Nascent Soul-level combat power. It was the most powerful enemy that the dynasty's expedition army had to face on the surface.

Besides that, there were the Six-Cave Sect, the Pale Savage Elephant Group, the Cangyue Tribe, the Ancient Vine Tribe, the Hundred Poison Tribe... these powerful forces and organizations.

In the expedition army, Ning Zhuo saw the data of the vanguard army, the intelligence of the marshal of the entire army, and the four generals currently stationed near Canglin Immortal City.

They were Lu Chi, Xu Dali, Shuang Jing, and Mu Lan.

Among them, Lu Chi commanded the Fire Cloud Army, which was the one Ning Zhuo saw when he entered the city, with fire clouds burning in the military camp, practicing fire-element magic techniques.

Xu Dali was a mixed-blood of savage and demon, in charge of the Savage Demon Army. This army lived up to its name, composed of savage tribes and demon cultivators.

Shuang Jing commanded the White Jade Army, currently stationed on the west side of Canglin Immortal City. Ning Zhuo entered from the east gate and did not see it.

But he heard the shouting of the city guard army, encouraging outside cultivators to join the White Jade Army, because this army paid the most.

And the one used for comparison was the Red Flower Army commanded by General Mu Lan. According to the intelligence, this army was the smallest in scale and had the least reward.

There was also another general, named Sun Gan, who was leading the elite Golden Halberd Army, setting off from the capital, and would arrive here in a few days.

The Golden Halberd Army was one of the imperial guards, and Sun Gan was one of the commanders of the imperial guards. Although the number of this army was small, its combat power was particularly strong.

The monarch of the Two-Injection Kingdom dispatched this army, revealing his determination to conquer the Thousand Peaks Forest!

The intelligence about Canglin Immortal City allowed Ning Zhuo to quickly understand this immortal city.

The tallest building in Canglin Immortal City was the Thousand Cang Building Block Tower, a treasure that integrated thousands of kinds of wood.

There were two temples, namely the Tree God Temple and the Beast King Temple.

These two gods received the support of the Two-Injection Kingdom more than a hundred years ago. They were once small gods, but now their faith had spread throughout the Thousand Peaks Forest.

The monarch of the Two-Injection Kingdom launched a war against the Thousand Peaks Forest, and these two great gods were the help.

From this, it can be seen that the monarch of the Two-Injection Kingdom had begun to lay out more than a hundred years ago, and this attack on the Thousand Peaks Forest was definitely not a temporary idea, but had been planned for a long time.

"Found it! In the intelligence about Old Monster Shi Zhong, it is rumored that he entered the path of cultivation from the identity of a ten-thousand-year-old earth essence, obtained a strange encounter, and integrated a fragment of the Treasure-Dividing Rock. Therefore, he mastered a divine ability, named Stone Casting Earth Treasure."

"This divine ability can turn all things in the world into stone materials, and then use time to refine them, making the stone materials gradually turn into precious treasures. Most of these treasures are metals, jade, spirit mines, etc."

Up to this point, Ning Zhuo had achieved his goal.

Since the Two-Injection Kingdom was going to launch a major crusade against the Thousand Peaks Forest, it must have had a lot of research on the Thousand Peaks Forest and mastered a lot of intelligence.

Now, the two of Sun and Ning could not approach the Thousand Peaks Forest for the time being, so they started from the enemy side of the latter to search for intelligence about Old Monster Shi Zhong.

Sun Lingtong frowned: "Stone Casting Earth Treasure? So it is a divine ability, no wonder I couldn't resolve it, and it became more and more difficult to resist, because even magic power could be petrified."

"Divine ability is above magic technique, but isn't Old Monster Shi Zhong dead? Why can the divine ability still play a role?"

Ning Zhuo shook his head: "Old Monster Shi Zhong is probably dead. Whether it is the Six-Cave Sect or the intelligence on the side of Canglin Immortal City, they all say that this Old Monster Shi Zhong is at the Nascent Soul level."

"It probably was in seclusion, impacting the Nascent Soul level, but failed and died."

"Its mastered divine ability, for some reason, has always been playing a role. But I think the divine ability is not actively effective, so the power is not great."

"Otherwise, with our small bodies, it would be impossible to carry it until now."

Sun Lingtong nodded repeatedly: "Xiao Zhuo, you are right!"

Sun Lingtong was troubled: "Then, now that I know this is the work of a divine ability, how can I solve it?"

Ning Zhuo sighed: "This is indeed beyond our ability limit, we can only seek help from others. The intelligence says that there is a doctor in Canglin Immortal City who is extremely brilliant, named Iron Crutch Imperial Physician, who was once the imperial physician of the monarch of the Two-Injection Kingdom. Why don't we go to him for a consultation and see."

"Sigh..." Sun Lingtong had no good way, so he had to say, "Being able to be an imperial physician is indeed powerful. Then let's go and see him."

Ning Zhuo ate a quick meal and packed a portion to take away.

He sent the food into the Ten Thousand Mile Swimming Dragon for Sun Lingtong to eat.

Ning Zhuo walked through the alleys, according to the intelligence, crossed most of Canglin Immortal City, and finally arrived at the Tieyi Medical Hall.

The facade of the medical hall was not large, and the door was deserted, completely unlike the scene of a famous doctor.

Ning Zhuo was a little skeptical and walked to the door of the medical hall.

A little boy sat on a small stool inside the gate, and when he saw Ning Zhuo, he waved his hand: "You are an outsider here for medical treatment, right?"

"Yes." Ning Zhuo nodded.

"Can't see it anymore, my master has decided to join the army. The medical hall closed yesterday, and only I am here to guard it, telling you people." The little boy told a bad news.

Ning Zhuo then asked: "May I ask, where is Master Zhang currently?"

"Oh, he is in the military camp outside the city. However, it is impossible for you to find him for medical treatment. You must have heard of my master's personality, he is very stubborn."

"Quite a few people have tried to go to the military camp to find him, but none have succeeded."

"If I were you, if you want medical treatment, you might as well go to other doctors."

Ning Zhuo nodded, thanked the little boy, and grabbed a handful of spirit stones and stuffed them into his hand before leaving.

"A bit difficult to handle." Sun Lingtong said.

He also read the intelligence.

In Canglin Immortal City, the strongest doctor is definitely Zhang Zhongyi. Besides him, others are ordinary, and the possibility of treating the divine ability is very small.

"Let's go to the military camp to find him." Ning Zhuo still didn't give up.

He went out of Canglin Immortal City from the west gate and saw two military camps, almost standing side by side.

The White Jade Military Camp was beautiful and magnificent, and the camp tents were surrounded by white jade stone walls. The rejection horses were tall, and they were not ordinary wooden piles, but carved from white jade, with many talismans on the surface, and the aura was as stable as a mountain.

The watchtower was tall, even in the daytime, it emitted strong light, scanning the surroundings.

On the golden pillar flagpole, the White Jade Army flag fluttered. The army flag was based on bright white jade, embroidered with dragon patterns inlaid with silver thread, and the dragon eyes flickered as if they could spread their wings and fly at any time.

The camp gate was even more exaggerated, composed of two thick white jade door panels, each inlaid with a large number of high-grade spirit stones.

A group of cavalry galloped in the camp. Their movements were neat and uniform, and every warhorse was equipped with an exquisite white jade saddle, inlaid with gems as bright as stars, giving people a sense of nobility.