Chapter 42

It seemed that Zhengye Aitong was very dissatisfied with Zhan Yi's answer, pouting her lips: "Then can you tell me what you tied me with, and why I couldn't break free?"

"Hehe, I knew you would be curious, but since we are such good friends, I'll tell you. This red silk is called the Demon-Binding Silk, a cultivation treasure. You can't break it at all," Zhan Yi did not hide anything. Although he still didn't know how to handle his relationship with Zhengye Aitong, he was absolutely certain that he couldn't kill her as he used to, and he even secretly hoped that something would happen between them in the future.

"Then... will you still oppose us, the Yin-Yang Group, in the future?" Zhengye Aitong looked at Zhan Yi and asked a question that even she found amusing. She didn't know why she asked, but deep down, she hoped that Zhan Yi would no longer be her enemy.

But Zhan Yi's answer was very straightforward and very disappointing to her: "Of course, your Yin-Yang Group didn't come to our country with good intentions. If I don't oppose you, who else would I oppose?"

"You... So you will still be my enemy in the future." Although Zhengye Aitong knew Zhan Yi would answer this way, she still felt a shock after hearing it.

"I and you are two different things, Aitong. Actually, I want to tell you, if possible, you should leave the Yin-Yang Group. Because if you continue like this, there will definitely be no good outcome." Zhan Yi also knew that their relationship would be difficult to handle in the future, but he still tried to persuade her.

"Don't talk anymore. If you want to kill me, just do it. If you don't kill me, I will still be your enemy in the future, and I will even try to find a way to kill you." Zhengye Aitong also gave a very straightforward refusal to Zhan Yi.

"Alright, I'm leaving. You should quickly put on your clothes. By the way, I want to tell you, it was really comfortable just now. If you kill me in the future, make sure to take a bath first, then you can directly get into bed, hehe..." Zhan Yi laughed mischievously, then casually put away the Demon-Binding Silk and walked towards the door.

Zhengye Aitong was left behind, shouting at his back: "You're a jerk." After shouting, tears streamed down her face.

Zhan Yi did not turn back, knowing that this was already the biggest concession he could make to Zhengye Aitong.

In the following days, the Yin-Yang Group did not take any action against Zhan Yi. Instead, the incident involving Hu Dawang became bigger in the county. It was said that the higher-ups had already started an investigation into his case, and he had been suspended from his position. This greatly relieved the anger of the people in Labu County, and they began to expose the crimes of Hu Dawang and his son.

Zhan Yi felt a bit more at ease when he heard this news. Now that the Yin-Yang Group in Moer Town had lost Hu Dawang's support, the situation would be more passive. Moreover, the Five-Element Grass had already been consumed by him, so the Yin-Yang Group was destined to end up with nothing.

However, the pressure from Moer Clan Chief Mo Bei on Zhan Yi increased. He had not been able to contact Mo's soul again, and the seal was already beginning to vibrate, as if it could not hold much longer.

With no other choice, Zhan Yi could only join the Moer Clan in preparing to deal with the Nu Lin and study some of the ancient texts of the Moer Clan. However, the records about the Nu Lin in these texts were very limited, which greatly disappointed Zhan Yi.

However, through conversations with Mo Bei, Zhan Yi learned that the location of the Spirit Sealing Array that sealed the Nu Lin was the Moer Town Square, and Mo's soul was located inside the large Moer statue in the center of the square. Moreover, the area within a thousand meters of the square was the range of the Spirit Sealing Array, with a large number of demons and monsters sealed underground.

This finally made Zhan Yi understand why he felt the square was very special the first time he saw it. It was because the array gathered powerful spiritual energy.

Additionally, by reading these ancient texts, Zhan Yi learned about the state of the strong on Earth in ancient times. He originally thought that the current cultivators were already very powerful, but after reading the records, he realized that the current cultivators could not compare to the strong of ancient times.

At that time, the spiritual energy on Earth was very abundant, and most of the strong had energy comparable to gods and demons. However, many of the beasts on Earth in ancient times also had very powerful energy, leading to wars between cultivators and beasts.

After many years of conflict, the cultivation environment on Earth was severely damaged, and those cultivators and powerful beasts left Earth to find new cultivation places in the universe.

Understanding this, Zhan Yi had a very strange thought: whether the place where the ancient strong were now cultivating was the so-called Immortal Realm. When he asked Mo Bei, Mo Bei also thought it was possible and encouraged Zhan Yi to cultivate well in the future, so he could also visit the Immortal Realm.

Time quickly passed to July 15th. The sky was very dark during the day, with no sunlight, but the clouds disappeared at night, and the pale moonlight shone over the entire earth, which made the people of Moer Town feel very strange. However, Mo Bei became even more worried because of this phenomenon, telling Zhan Yi that it indicated that the yin and evil energy in the world on this day would be nearly ten times stronger than usual.

At midnight, Mo Bei used the Clan Chief's order to summon the eight major contributors and four elders of the Moer Clan, then accompanied Zhan Yi to the Moer Town Square. At this time, the square appeared quiet and empty, but the cultivation experts present could already feel the powerful energy fluctuations underground, especially the huge energy collisions inside the Moer statue.

"Father-in-law, how should we proceed? I feel that the soul energy of the statue is gradually weakening and may break at any moment. If we don't act quickly, the Nu Lin will break through the seal before dawn," Zhan Yi said anxiously after sensing for a while. Due to his soul absorption ability and the Five-Element perception ability from the Five-Element Grass, he was more sensitive to energy fluctuations than anyone else present.

"This... Gentlemen, what do you think we should do?" Mo Bei was also at a loss. Although he was the chief of the Moer Clan, his cultivation methods were far inferior to those of the contributors.

After hearing Mo Bei's words, the contributors looked around, and finally, the oldest one stood up, his face serious: "According to our research over the years, since our ancestors used their souls as the array spirits to activate this Spirit Sealing Array, the array core should be the statue where the ancestor's soul resides. And because of this statue, the entire array can connect with the eight surrounding pillars to absorb the energy of heaven and earth, producing the sealing effect."

"But now the array's effect is gradually weakening, and the ancestor's soul energy, which has supported it for so many years, has clearly become thin, leading to a weakening of the array's ability to absorb the energy of heaven and earth. If Mr. Zhan can strengthen the ancestor's soul energy, I believe the entire array will become powerful again, and the demons and monsters will naturally be unable to break through the seal."