"What!" Li Dongyang was shocked for a moment, then burst into laughter, "Nonsense! What evidence did you find? I heard that before the Li family was destroyed, your whereabouts were unknown."
"That's right. But now you want to escape, it's not so easy. As long as you tell me who the mastermind behind it all is, I'll let you go!"
"Go to hell, I won't say anything!"
Li Dongyang remained defiant despite being captured.
Zhou Xuan gave a command, and the five people around him moved. All six of them attacked Li Dongyang, instantly subduing him to the ground, then pinning him down and tightly binding his hands and feet.
Li Dongyang struggled and shouted as he was held down, "Let me go, let me go!"
Zhou Xuan grabbed Li Dongyang's hair and pulled him up, "Speak! Did you participate in this matter or not?"
"Yes, but I didn't kill anyone!" Li Dongyang shouted.
Zhou Xuan narrowed his eyes, clenched his fingers, and snapped Li Dongyang's neck.
"Hmph! Still stubborn!" Zhou Xuan snorted coldly, "Drag him out and feed him to the dogs!"
Before being dragged away, Li Dongyang's gaze fell in a certain direction where a girl stood. Seeing her, Li Dongyang roared, "Fairy! Save me quickly!"
Zhou Xuan followed his gaze and saw an incredibly beautiful yet strangely familiar face. He was stunned, "Xiao Xue? Are you......"
Seeing this, Xiao Xue quickly bowed to Zhou Xuan, "I'm sorry, I can't save him."
With that, she turned and walked away, leaving Zhou Xuan looking bewildered, and Li Dongyang already dead.
Fairy?
Could this be the culprit from that mysterious organization who caused Sun Zhibiao and Sun Tianyou to be bedridden for years?
Were Miss Jiang and Li Xue products of their organization?
This woman looked very much like Li Xue.
Zhou Xuan had seen the portrait Sun Tianyou had given him.
It was the same as the self-portrait of the criminal he had drawn at the police station.
Could the gourd artifact also be here?
Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan became very excited.
Now that Li Xuan had given him the Qiankun Mirror, Ling'er had the Golden Alms Bowl, he had the ring, and there was also Zhuge family's Qingluan.
Of the four great artifacts, only the gourd was missing, along with the other half of his ring.
But seeing this woman, he suspected that the Dragon Ridge ruins held even more surprises for him.
Li Dongyang's death did not move the woman.
But upon seeing Zhou Xuan, she said nothing and gestured for him and his group to follow.
"Why aren't you moving?"
"I don't even know if you're human or ghost, why should we follow you?"
Lu Ling'er and the others were speechless.
She also felt wary and annoyed by this woman who had suddenly appeared.
But the woman not only didn't get angry.
She even smiled.
"I know you have some misunderstandings about me. But you can't catch a tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair."
"You must know this saying, right?"
"So what?"
"We won't follow you into this strange place."
"Heh heh, then whether you come or not is up to you. In short, I'll say this: without me, you won't be able to get out of here."
After a moment of thought, Zhou Xuan and Lu Ling'er followed.
The woman led Zhou Xuan, Lu Ling'er, and the others through a maze of turns, finally arriving at a location.
Looking at the giant bushes before them, Zhou Xuan and the others were all speechless.
Every tree here had a small door on its trunk.
Each tree was like a house.
Upon entering through the small door, they found a large space inside.
This place was completely different from the ice plains before.
It was as if they had traveled from Antarctica to a place filled with the aura of spring.
All the furniture and decorations inside the tree trunks were made of wood.
The beautiful woman looked at Zhou Xuan and the others, her smile enchanting.
"Please, sit down. I will explain."
"Please!"
Zhou Xuan had no choice but to have everyone sit and listen.
"Actually, this place does not belong to the Blue Planet."
The woman pointed around and said, "This is from the Age of Mythology."
"Mythology?"
"Yes, in our world, there are many races."
"For example, we are humans here, and everyone here can cultivate to become immortals."
"But in the Age of Mythology, humans suffered a devastating catastrophe."
"In the last tens of thousands of years, this place has been destroyed, leaving only this solitary palace."
Zhou Xuan asked, "Are you saying that this Dragon Ridge ruin was once a palace?"
"This is the legendary realm of gods and demons, the domain of gods. There are no living beings here."
"But the people who live here can all cultivate."
The woman looked at them and continued, "Before you, I have seen cultivators enter other places. I know that in that place, you will gain even greater rewards."
"That is why I brought you here, because here, you may obtain inheritances and opportunities."
After speaking, the woman stepped aside.
Zhou Xuan and the others remained silent, looking ahead.
The buildings here were ancient and made of wood.
But the things inside were made of solid gold.
At the very back of the wooden buildings, there was a very, very tall tower.
The tower looked incredibly tall.
It was almost impossibly high.
Zhou Xuan and the others almost felt as if they were no longer inside the wooden house.
One could imagine that this was the place where the power of spatial layering was utilized most perfectly.
While it seemed to be within small doors and houses, in reality, the entire tree was integrated into the palace.
Could it be that his ring...
Zhou Xuan had a guess, but seeing the people around him, he could only keep it to himself.
He needed to confirm it again.
So he asked the beautiful woman, "May I know your name, Fairy?"
"My name is Xianxian. I was once a maid to a great power."
"A maid?"
Seeing the subtle pressure emanating from her,
Everyone was extremely surprised.
If she was so powerful as just a maid,
Then how powerful must her master have been?
Zhou Xuan thought of his own grandmaster.
Even a wisp of his grandmaster's remnant soul was so powerful.
It seemed that these ascended gods were indeed unattainable.
This fairy before them was likely not human either.
Perhaps she was just a wisp of divine consciousness.
But she appeared quite real.
"Miss Xianxian, to be frank, we juniors are here today to search for the Ji Ling grass, and to retrieve two items left behind by our ancestors."
Zhou Xuan hesitated for a long time before finally speaking.
He thought Xianxian would be displeased.
But she sighed and said, "You're talking about this, aren't you?"
"If you mean this gourd, then I do indeed have it here."
She conjured a gourd into her hand.
It was exactly the treasure of the Sun family that Sun Tianyou had described.
One of the four great artifacts that was later stolen through a scheme.
Zhou Xuan was overjoyed upon seeing the gourd.
He quickly took the gourd and then spat into the mouth of the gourd several times.
White smoke emerged from the mouth of the gourd, and it slowly opened, revealing what was inside.
A bead that shone with golden light, like the sun, floated within.