I am a full-level celestial master, you let me enter the strange talk of rules?

Hearing Zhang Yangqing say this, the beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes didn't complain. Instead, she felt that this was her elder brother's approval.

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes didn't continue the topic. As her follower, he squatted down and began to collect his spoils.

The bald man and the one-eyed man have quite a few good items. Although the bald man's bone knife is not as good as the holy sword, it is still a decent weapon. The runes on the knife contain some kind of ancient beastly power.

The one-eyed man's two short daggers were coated with a potent poison, and the daggers were made of a rare metal.

In addition, the two had some medicinal herbs for cultivation, a few good-quality spiritual herbs, a small bottle of pills, and a few spirit stones.

Most importantly, following Zhang Yangqing's instructions, the beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes took out two badges from the one-eyed man and the bald man.

The badge was made of bone, about the size of a palm, and had a blurry human figure engraved on it.

The humanoid figure was bent over with its hands outstretched, as if it were carrying something.

The back of the badge is engraved with two words: Burial of Corpses.

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes handed over the badge. Zhang Yangqing examined the badge from all angles, then put one in his pocket and left the other with the woman.

He recalled that when he last came to the Undying Mountain with the chairman, they received badges for laborers.

With this badge, they can disguise themselves as burial men and move freely in the Sancai Mountain area without worrying about being questioned by the indigenous people.

Moreover, the profession of mortician is very special. When they handle corpses, they can "naturally" take away the deceased's belongings.

This means that if Zhang Yangqing and the beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes were discovered while tomb raiding, they could claim that they were burial workers who handled corpses.

If those people ask: Why are you digging up graves to dispose of corpses?
Zhang Yangqing had already thought of his reply: "Is it any of your business?"

That's what they say, but the most important thing now is to find the key item mentioned by the one-eyed man: the Four-Colored Resurrection Flower.

Without this flower, they wouldn't even be able to enter the gates of the Xinggu Tian clan, let alone dig up corpses or search for spatial power.

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes was also pondering. She squatted on the ground and used a twig to draw the outline of the Three-Colored Mountain on the soil, her brows furrowing slightly: "Brother, do you think this Four-Colored Resurrection Flower has any connection with the Three-Colored Mountain?"

She tapped the main peak of the Three-Colored Mountain with her branch: "Look, the peak of the Three-Colored Mountain has three colors: blue, white, and gold. According to the one-eyed man's information, the petals of the Four-Colored Resurrection Flower have four colors: blue, white, gold, and black. The colors here match most of them, but one color is missing, which is black."

The beautiful woman with almond-shaped eyes wasn't stupid; she quickly discovered the blind spot.

The Three-Colored Mountain has only three colors of light, but the Four-Colored Resurrection Flower has four colors. Where does the extra black color come from?
Zhang Yangqing looked at her, but instead of giving a direct answer, he encouraged her, "Continue to analyze and make bold assumptions."

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes nodded, tracing the twig in her hand back and forth on the ground as if she were deducing something: "In my opinion, there must be some special resurrection flowers near Sancai Mountain, growing in rather ingenious locations."

“These locations can absorb the nourishment of these three energies at the same time. We just need to find this flower, then find out what energy ‘black’ is, and then look for places that can absorb this energy to see if there are also Resurrection Flowers growing there. If there are, and all four colors are present, then that is the Four-Colored Resurrection Flower we are looking for.”

Her idea was simple: first find a Soul-Returning Flower that could absorb all three types of energy from the Three-Colored Mountain, then find an environment that could absorb "black energy," and then combine the two.

The Sancai Mountain area is so vast, there must be some ingenious places there.

You can also look for it on a map, but that would take a lot of effort, maybe ten days to half a month, or even a year and a half. Zhang Yangqing nodded after listening: "That method is correct, but there is a better way."

The beautiful woman with almond-shaped eyes looked up, her eyes sparkling, waiting for him to continue.

"According to the information from the one-eyed man, what Xing Gu Tian Shi needs is not a specific four-colored resurrection flower, but the 'four-colored resurrection flower' itself."

Zhang Yangqing squatted down, took the branch from the beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes, and drew a simple diagram on the ground.

"In other words, we don't need to look for the kind of naturally growing Resurrection Flower that absorbs all four types of energy at the same time. That kind is too rare. It might not grow even once every few hundred years, and even if it does grow, it will have already been picked by someone."

He drew four circles on the diagram: "We just need to find a resurrection flower that can absorb energy, take it to four different places, and let it absorb these four kinds of energy respectively, turning it into a four-colored resurrection flower. This is much easier than finding a natural one."

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes looked at the diagram on the ground and nodded thoughtfully.

But she quickly frowned again: "Big brother, what do you mean by black energy? The Three-Colored Mountain only has three colors of light, where does the black energy come from?"

Zhang Yangqing smiled, raised one hand, palm facing up.

A black, cold, and chilling energy surged from his palm.

That was a strange energy, a pure, chaotic, and bizarre power that did not belong to any known system in this world.

The energy condensed in his palm, burning silently like a black flame.

"Look, isn't this black?"

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes stared at the strange black energy for a moment, then paused, "The color is right, but how do you know it's this, brother? Could the 'black' the one-eyed man was talking about be something else?"

Zhang Yangqing put away the ball of black energy in his palm and began to explain: "You need to understand first what the function of this Four-Colored Resurrection Flower is."

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes answered without hesitation: "That one-eyed man said it was about bringing the dead back to life!"

Zhang Yangqing nodded, his gaze becoming profound: "What is meant by 'resurrection'? In our world, when a person dies, they are simply dead. Their soul dissipates and their body decays. However, if the corpse is contaminated by strange energy, it will become a special, strange creature with the power it possessed before it was alive, but with a different consciousness."

He drew a line on the ground, with "life" written on the left and "death" on the right, and an arrow in the middle: "So, what is true resurrection? It is to restore the consciousness of the deceased, to let the soul return to its place, and to let the body regain its vitality."

He pointed to the three energies labeled "blue, white, and gold" on the internet: "The three colors of light from the Sancai Mountain represent three different energies. Perhaps they can purify strange energies, revive souls, and so on. What they lack is pollution."

He pointed to the spot on his palm where the black energy had just been released: "Although the strange energy will contaminate the corpse, it has a special function: it can activate the 'marks' left in the corpse. These are not the soul, but the marks, memories, habits, and instinctive reactions. These things do not completely disappear with death; they remain in the flesh and bones. The strange energy can 'awaken' them. Combined with the other three types of energy, it can theoretically bring the dead back to life."

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes had her mouth wide open and her eyes wide open.

How could you analyze that? Based on the limited information given by the one-eyed man, how could you possibly deduce the working principle of the Four-Colored Resurrection Flower?

However, based on the information gathered, it seems that's indeed the case. (End of Chapter)