Seeking immortality begins with daily intelligence reports.

We carefully made our way to the second map node.

Li Shen spent a full seven days.

Not only was the fog, sometimes thick and sometimes thin, confusing him and forcing him to frequently stop and confirm his route based on the terrain and ancient silk map.

After leaving that village, he kept encountering zombie cultivators and spirit beasts in a similar state to zombies.

This feeling made Li Shen very unhappy.

It felt like being constantly watched, with an invisible hand secretly setting up obstacles.

Unfortunately, the intelligence gathered in these seven days did not answer this question.

Fortunately, the information updated at midnight today mentioned something related to the road ahead.

[Ten miles ahead lies a garden of spiritual herbs. Inside the gardener's house, on a shelf, hangs a wooden box containing a seed of a supremely yang spiritual vine. It still retains some vitality and needs to be watered with spiritual spring water to grow. If this vine is used to forge artifacts, it will have a natural effect in suppressing evil spirits and demons.]

As Li Shen recalled the contents of the intelligence, the Yin Soul Banner in his hand stopped swaying as the spiritual light of the Suppressing Evil Pearl receded.

"Alright, Xiao Qi, let go."

He gave the command in a soft voice.

The seven-colored python flicked its tongue and thrashed about, twisting its body to coil around Li Shen.

The snake's head moved closer on its own.

Li Shen smiled slightly, raised his hand and touched it, and the living corpse cultivator, who had been squeezed and deformed by the Seven-Colored Python's brute force, fell down like soft mud.

This person was the owner of the medicine garden mentioned in the previous intelligence report, and he had the cultivation level of the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage.

If he were alive, Li Shen would still be somewhat wary.

However, given his experience fighting zombies along the way, Li Shen easily resolved the situation.

After putting away the Yin Soul Banner and the Seven-Colored Python, Li Shen walked to the motionless corpse of the herb garden owner and searched it, but found no storage bag or other valuables.

Li Shen shook his head, took away the longsword spirit weapon used by the other party, and refocused his attention on the spirit herb garden.

He didn't go in directly, but first used his divine sense to probe.

This probing led Li Shen to discover the clues.

As soon as his divine sense spread out, it was as if he had sunk into a quagmire, making it difficult to move forward.

"There's a second level? It seems obtaining this Supreme Yang Spirit Vine won't be so easy."

Li Shen raised an eyebrow slightly, his eyes still gleaming with a blue light. He had just collected a considerable amount of spiritual spring water in his hand, and he was determined to obtain this spiritual object.

As for the array restrictions that prevent divine sense from penetrating, Li Shen considered the scarcity of spiritual energy in this place, and the fact that it had been there for a long time. Even if there were cores that could provide spiritual power, they could only barely hold on.

Li Shen focused his divine sense on one point and carefully probed along the barrier.

In less than a quarter of an hour, he easily found the weak point in the formation.

It is the north wall of the herb garden.

Li Shen summoned the Seven-Colored Python to the left, while the four Soul Slaves lined up to the right in order of their strength.

Immediately, a slight light flickered at his fingertips, and he took out ten high-grade fireball talismans.

"Break it!"

Li Shen gave a low shout and unleashed all his power at the same time, as the Seven-Colored Python and the Soul Slave exerted their strength together.

boom!

A loud explosion rang out, sending up billowing dust.

Before the dust had settled, Li Shen strolled inside.

There were no obstacles in front of him, and his divine sense filled the entire herb garden.

The situation inside the hospital was as he had expected.

Most of the medicinal herbs had long since withered, leaving only dry branches and vines.

Not a single plant was usable.

Li Shen's gaze swept across the garden and settled on the main house made of blue bricks in the center.

Li Shen probed in first with his divine sense, and the result was quite unexpected.

Surprisingly, there were no obstacles around the main house.

"Perhaps it was set up, but after so many years, it has become ineffective."

Li Shen casually thought for a moment, then summoned a turtle-crocodile soul slave and smashed open the old wooden door.

The dust kicked up hit him in the face, and Li Shen subconsciously raised his hand to brush it away.

The turtle-crocodile soul slave was the first to step into the house. Its heavy body slid onto the creaking wooden floor. After scanning around to make sure there was no danger, it slowly retreated to the side to wait for orders.

Li Shencai slowly walked in, his eyes quickly scanning the entire room. The furnishings inside were extremely simple. Apart from a dilapidated wooden table and a chair with a missing leg, there was only a dusty shelf in the corner, on which were four or five wooden boxes and two bottles.

He didn't rush forward. He first had the Soul Slave probe the area to make sure there were no hidden mechanisms nearby before he took a step closer.

The two bottles shattered the moment Li Sheng touched them.

I picked up a few fragments and examined them; it turned out that both bottles were just ordinary bottles.

Beneath those fragments lay two jet-black pills.

Li Shen's gaze narrowed slightly. After examining the item, he was quite disappointed.

Both of these are useless pills.

Moreover, it seems to have been so since the moment it was created.

"Why put the waste pills in the bottle?"

Li Shen couldn't help but feel suspicious, but he didn't think too much about it. He picked up the first dark wooden box with an ancient pattern. It had no restrictions or locks and could be opened with a gentle lift.

A seed, entirely crimson and exuding a faint warmth, lay quietly on the velvet in the box, still faintly radiating vitality even after the long years.

Li Shen was overjoyed and put the wooden box away for the time being, then turned his attention to the remaining boxes.

The result was still disappointing.

All four wooden boxes were empty.

With a flick of his sleeve, he put away the four wooden boxes.

The box itself still has some value.

Li Shen did not rush to leave, but continued walking to the wooden table.

Several yellowed sheets of paper were piled on the table.

Although the handwriting above was crooked and messy, Li Shen could still understand the content.

After browsing through a few pictures, Li Shen realized that the owner of this herb garden was not a local either.

He was an outer disciple of the Peach Blossom Sect, named Mo Shouyi.

This hidden mountain realm is completely different from the present one; it is a place rich in spiritual energy.

"A peak Foundation Establishment stage cultivator is only an outer disciple? Just how powerful is the Peach Blossom Sect?"

Li Shen was somewhat shocked.

I read it carefully again, word by word.

Finally, the look of astonishment on his face deepened.

After entering through the stone gate, Mo Shouyi discovered that the place was rich in spiritual energy and had very few demonic beasts. He decided to settle here permanently, build a medicinal garden to cultivate spiritual plants, and use the spiritual energy of the place to improve his cultivation.

But just a month after he moved in, an accident occurred.

The sky suddenly turned pitch black, followed by an unbelievable suction force that uprooted the place.

When he awoke again, the sun and moon were no longer visible in the sky; instead, it remained hazy and a thick fog gradually appeared, obstructing his senses.

Most importantly, the spiritual energy was being depleted at an extremely rapid pace.

Within three months, the spiritual energy here became insufficient to cultivate spiritual plants, and after a year, it was even insufficient to meet the needs of cultivation.

His cultivation remained at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage until his death.

"Although we still don't know where the Peach Blossom Sect is, just how powerful must they be to be able to uproot an entire mountain range?"

Li Shen found it hard to imagine, but he believed that it must have been deliberately done by some being.

It is probably for the sake of the rich spiritual energy that this place originally possessed.

Li Shen sighed softly, setting aside the thought that had just crossed his mind. He put away the manuscripts, which contained some information related to the Supreme Yang Spirit Vine, which he could refer to when cultivating it in the future.

Immediately afterwards, Li Shen carefully checked the entire room again, and after confirming that nothing had been missed, he slowly walked out.

He looked up at the sky, which remained unchanged, but Li Shen's mindset had shifted.