I have traveled through time to cultivate immortality, is it unreasonable for me to cheat?

The four of them activated the Hidden Dragon Tree Talisman and walked out quietly, but did not go far.

Before going out, Ye Jiyu casually threw four wooden puppets into the room. Their simple facial features were very impressive.

The puppets got off the ground, found their own beds, jumped on them, closed their eyes and went to sleep.

After casting the invisibility spell, they stood quietly outside the door as if waiting for something. After a while, the village chief came out of the darkness with a strange-looking lamp in his hand.

I don’t know what material the lantern was made of, but it looked like it was quite old.There was a small halo of light at the wick, and it did not sway at all even when walking.

As the village chief walked, he carefully protected the lamp in his hand and muttered something, but his voice was too vague and could not be heard clearly.

When he walked to the front of the house, he seemed to close his eyes and feel it for a while, then nodded with satisfaction and walked down the slope with the lamp in hand.

The four of them followed the village chief in silence, but they saw that every time the lamp passed by a house, the residents there would close their eyes and walk out stiffly, silently following behind the village chief.

It wasn't until the village chief walked around all the houses in the village that he led the villagers, who seemed to be inhumane, to a trail in the valley.

The entrance to this trail is extremely hidden and requires a key to open.After walking in, the road is even more twists and turns. In some places, it seems that a passage has been simply dug out, and even the soil is exposed.

"This road should lead to the heart of the Holy Mountain." Xie Wuxi said softly.

"This should be the answer to why the villagers look like the living dead." Ye Sen looked at the villager in front of him who looked more like a corpse than during the day, and resisted the desire to grab him.

During the conversation, the village chief and a group of people finally arrived at their destination and stopped.

This is a cave that is not too big, and there are not many traces of human digging. It should have existed originally.

There is a small white jade tray in the center of the cave. Inside the tray is a very fragile and crumbling spiritual plant. Even more than half of the stems and leaves are withered and yellow.

"This is... such pure wood spiritual power." Ye Sen closed his eyes and felt it. He felt that although the spiritual plant was not in a very good condition, the wood spiritual power coming towards him was stronger than him. Everything you feel must be pure.

As a spiritual plant, Ye Sen believed that his spiritual power was not as pure as this spiritual plant.

Hearing Ye Sen say this, Ye Jiyu always felt that it was a little unreal: "Is it so easy to find the origin of wood..."

The village chief and the villagers carefully gathered around the spiritual plant, and then selected one of them, holding the simple lamp in the village chief's hand, and approached the jade plate.

The next scene was a bit unexpected for everyone. They saw the selected villager kneeling on the ground devoutly, holding the lamp high above his head with both hands.

Then, strands of light yellow mist slowly overflowed from the top of his head and were sucked into the lamp.

The wick, which was originally only as big as a bean, instantly glowed as if it had been poured with kerosene.

The pattern on the lamp wall became more and more clear under the light, but it was the pattern of a mighty beast guarding the spiritual plant.

If that spiritual plant is correct, it should be the one in front of you.

As these patterns gradually appeared, the selected villager actually emitted a faint green light.

The villager's face has turned pale, no different from a dead person, and the yellow mist overflowing from his head has become less and less, and finally exhausted.But for the village chief, enough was enough.

He carefully put away the lantern that had dimmed again, then opened a mechanism on the base of the lantern and took out a small jade cup.

Then he held the jade cup respectfully with both hands, bowed his body and slowly approached the jade plate, and then slowly poured the contents of the cup into the jade plate.

Ye Jiyu saw what seemed to be a small pool of amber liquid in the cup.

As the liquid was poured in, the originally withered spiritual plant seemed to regain a trace of vitality, but only a trace.

But suddenly a strange fragrance filled the air. The village chief and the villagers leaned down and allowed the strange fragrance to drown them.

When they stood up again, the faces of the villagers returned to the rosy look they had seen during the day, no different from normal people.

The village chief bowed deeply to Lingzhi, and then led the villagers back the same way.

After everyone left, the four of them slowly got closer to the jade plate.

Ye Jiyu asked Xie Wuqi softly: "What kind of ritual is this? It seems a bit evil."

Ye Sen was also a little curious: "But it doesn't seem to be a completely evil technique. The villagers seem to be able to maintain such a living condition by relying on this spiritual plant."

Xie Wuqi said uncertainly: "I don't know much about this, but I seem to have heard Master say that there is a way to change one's fate against the will of heaven and help ordinary spiritual plants survive the catastrophe of transformation."

It was the first time for Ye Sen to hear that there was such a secret method. He was very interested and said: "Logically speaking, it is difficult for a spiritual plant with average qualifications to even develop spiritual wisdom, let alone survive the catastrophe of transformation. You can practice it alone." , how do you know these weird things?"

Ye Jiyu chuckled when he heard this. He had to ask Xie Wuqi, his master who loves to collect secrets.

Xie Wuqi said: "My master has done a lot of research on these things. I just heard some superficial information from my master."

Cangling was obviously more interested in this secret method: "How to do that secret method you mentioned?"

"All things in the world, except for human beings, spiritual beasts and spiritual plants only need to survive one transformation tribulation before their cultivation can grow steadily." Xie Wuqi recalled in a slow voice: "Therefore, relatively speaking, spiritual beasts Lingzhi's Transformation Tribulation is several times more powerful than human cultivation."

Ye Jiyu suddenly realized: "So this method is to reduce the power of thunder tribulation by covering the spiritual plants with the aura of human cultivation?"

Seeing that Ye Jiyu understood what he meant so quickly, Xie Wuqi smiled and continued: "Yes, but not entirely. The lantern in the village chief's hand is probably the legendary soul-transmitting lantern."

Everyone has heard about the Soul Crossing Lantern, but they have never seen it. Now that Xie Wuxi talks about it, it feels strange.

Who would have thought that this rumored thing would appear in such a strange mountain village.

It is said that the Soul Crossing Lamp can lead to the human soul and refine the original power. It is a sacred weapon in the hearts of alchemists.

"I think that the person who set up this barrier may have the ultimate goal of making this spiritual plant transform." Xie Wuqi looked at the spiritual plant that swayed slightly at some point and seemed to be echoing him: "These Villagers, if you are not mistaken, all their fates belong to earth. And I am afraid that after death, the body was preserved in a secret method and buried in the ground. After absorbing enough of the breath of the loess, it was dug out and became what it is today."