Reborn as a lotus, she initially refuses to hand it over to the state.

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo was also surprised, never expecting that this being from the Azure Lotus Forbidden Zone would have such a scheme.

For a fleeting moment, a bizarre thought even crossed his mind: Could the Lord of the Azure Lotus be human?

Underground, the strange rock couldn't help but speak again upon hearing this: "Lotus Demon, you're quite the schemer, but let me warn you, the being in that Blood Nest is not something you can covet right now. Be careful of the backlash."

Upon hearing this, Chu Zhou immediately smiled: "Little Shishi, are you worried about me?"

The strange rock was speechless. It sneered and said, "Lotus Demon, don't flatter yourself. I don't care about ants."

Chu Zhou laughed: "You're really stubborn. I know it all. You're all bark and no bite, a two-faced guy. You're not a woman, are you?"

Chu Zhou immediately became interested.

I've never asked whether the strange rock is male or female. As soon as it hears this, it explodes: "You're the woman! Your whole family are women! I am a great and forbidden being! Don't you dare insult me!"

The stone surface shimmered with a scarlet light, and the chains on the bishi suddenly burst forth with a dazzling golden light.

Chu Zhou's expression shifted; now was the time. He directly manipulated the roots to tightly bind the strange rock.

"Ding, Evolution Points +50000"

"Ding, Evolution Points +100000"

...

Evolution Points: 3500000/10000000

Good heavens, it actually gave me almost a million evolution points! Chu Zhou was overjoyed.

A surge of energy rushed directly into his body.

boom!

At that moment, the towering divine lotus suddenly trembled, emitting a dazzling emerald green light, and the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth turned into a vortex and converged here.

Chu Zhou's aura changed; he was at the peak of the early stage of the sixth rank, still some distance from breaking through to the middle stage.

"Master has become stronger again."

Chu Zhou's aura spread, covering an area of ​​three hundred kilometers. Under the intimidation of this aura, the originally irritable beasts actually knelt on the ground, especially those beasts near the Black Dragon Mountain area.

They all knelt on the ground.

Chen Mo and Xuan Ku were dumbfounded. Their legs went weak, and they knelt on the ground, not daring to look Chu Zhou in the eye. His aura was simply too terrifying.

"Master, has your cultivation improved again?" Outside Black Dragon Mountain, Little Golden Treasure, who was leading the birds to patrol the territory high in the sky, sensed the change in Chu Zhou's aura and cried out excitedly.

In the Ape Valley of the Southwest Road, Shan Kui and a group of red-eyed apes were also very excited. The Black Tiger King had just led the strange beasts to wipe out several snake dens on the outskirts of Black Dragon Mountain.

It also noticed Chu Zhou's change. Its tiger eyes looked towards the direction of Black Dragon Mountain in the distance, where a dazzling blue light appeared in the sky. It lowered its proud head, its heart filled with awe.

"Damn it, Lotus Demon, you're shameless! You've launched another sneak attack!" In the underground ancient city of Black Dragon Lake, the strange stone was furious. "You can't be this disgusting!"

Just now, I wasn't careful and my emotions got the better of me, and this lotus demon attacked me with a ferocious beast. It's so mean.

"Hey Xiao Shi, I'm only at the sixth level, not some powerful being. Compared to you, I'm definitely no match. Is it really necessary for you to reveal a little bit of your essence?" Chu Zhou retorted.

The strange rock was stunned. Just as it was about to get angry, it thought about it carefully and realized that it really made sense. It snorted and said, "It's good that you know your place. Your current sixth-level strength is indeed not enough in front of me. You should know that in my day, I was an existence that could suppress the nine heavens and ten earths. Just a wisp of my aura was enough to suppress you into dust."

Chu Zhou chuckled and said with a smile, "So powerful? Then how did you end up sealed here?"

The strange rock fell silent for a moment, then irritably cursed, "None of your business! Mind your own business!"

After saying that, it pretended to be dead, and no matter how Chu Zhou called to it, it did not respond.

Chu Zhou had no choice but to give up. Now that the guy had behaved himself, he also needed to rest. After all, even the strange rocks couldn't withstand being pulled for too long.

……

Meanwhile, in the skies above Lingnan, a special plane was breaking through the clouds and rapidly approaching Nanjiang City.

Inside the cabin, Zhou Zhenshan sat by the window.

Zhang Xuanling sat opposite him, holding the old wooden box in his hands, his expression even more solemn than when he arrived.

Through the porthole, you can see that the Lingnan Mountains below have long since become unfamiliar.

After the second spiritual energy tide, the mountain range seemed to have been forcibly raised by some great force.

What were once hills have now become a series of steep peaks.

Vast forests have expanded outwards, swallowing up roads, villages, and traces of past human activity.

Some highways have broken off at the edge of the valley.

Vehicle wreckage remains at the break point.

The river changed course, and the muddy water destroyed several bridges.

From a distance, the entire land seemed to have returned to a primitive and barbaric era.

Zhang Xuanling said, "I previously thought that the expansion of the Nine Provinces due to the second spiritual energy tide might be a localized issue. Now it seems that the reality is more serious than I imagined. The area of ​​the entire country has likely expanded."

Zhou Zhenshan looked towards Nanjiang City, where black smoke billowed into the sky, and in the southeast corner of the city, flames were still burning, leaving the shattered streets in a state of utter devastation.

Looking down from the air, some streets were completely blocked, some residential walls were smashed, and further away, several groups of snakes were dragging corpses into the mountains.

They resembled black lines, slowly creeping between ruins and forests.

The communications officer's voice came through the cabin: "Director Zhou, we're about to reach Nanjiang City. The temporary airport will be there in three minutes."

Zhou Zhenshan's eyes turned cold as he looked at the swarm of corpse-dragging snakes below. He said, "No need to land."

The communications officer was taken aback and asked, puzzled, "Director Zhou, what are your instructions?"

Zhou Zhenshan stood up and walked towards the cabin door.

He said, "Open the hatch, I want to get out."

The crew informed him, "Director Zhou, we are still at an altitude of 1,200 meters!"

However, he still opened the hatch according to Zhou Zhenshan's order. As soon as he opened the hatch, a gust of wind blew in.

The crew member was about to say something.

Zhou Zhenshan took a step out and instantly disappeared into the cabin. The cabin door closed again, and everyone looked up.

That scene will never be forgotten. Suddenly, a figure appeared high in the sky and took several steps into the air.

The person traversed horizontally for dozens of meters high in the air.

Moments later, it plummeted to the ground at an extremely fast speed.

Falling from a height of over a thousand meters, an ordinary person would definitely not be able to withstand such a high-speed gale.

However, when a fifth-tier expert unleashed his true energy, a gale swept across his entire body, and that gale had absolutely no effect on Zhou Zhenshan.

"Physical attainment of sainthood, a single thought between immortality and mortality—this is the fifth rank."

Inside the helicopter, Zhang Xuanling watched this scene with equal excitement. The revival of spiritual energy proved once again that the Taoist cultivation system was not a fabrication.

Does this mean that at the end of cultivation, one can become an immortal?