A Wealth of Information

Zhangjiajie, located in the heart of the Wuling Mountain Area, is known as a fairyland on earth.

As early as the early 1980s, this place was already the highest-level forest park in China.

After the cataclysm, several Spirit Realm landforms were also embedded in the Wuling Mountain Area.

Fortunately, in the years that followed, there were no major problems, and over the course of more than twenty years, it managed to grow into a large city.

However, in recent years, the special patrol team "Harvest Brigade" in Zhangjiajie has repeatedly traveled to other small and medium-sized settlements.

Several small settlements were discovered, and all the residents were wiped out under some sudden and abnormal circumstances.

Although traces of the rampage of the Spirit Realm and monsters were found in those settlements, it seems that all the residents were first negatively affected before the spirits had the opportunity to take advantage of them, and none of them escaped.

The Harvest Brigade suspected that there might be a Ghost God Dharma Aspect nearby, and that it might have mature Precursor Creature.

After they returned to the city to report, for some reason, it seemed that it did not attract enough attention from the various forces in the city.

Captain Hong of the Harvest Brigade is actually not very old. He is still in an age full of energy and fighting spirit. In his early years, he was a wandering swordsman. The entire team was built by him and his six brothers and sisters.

Having noticed the strange occurrences in the city, he was prepared to face some ominous events and try to fight against them to survive, however...

"Zhou Bancheng is dead?"

Upon hearing the message from his third sister, Captain Hong, dressed only in a white shirt, grabbed his ancient sword with a red lacquered square sheath and rushed out.

Soon, more than a dozen trucks and a large number of people drove out of the entire Harvest Brigade's camp and headed to the southern district.

However, at this time, the number of people gathered in the square in front of the Zhou Family Manor was several times greater than the number of people in the harvesting team.

Captain Hong saw several prominent figures in the city, their Shangdu filled with shock, passing around something.

Upon seeing him arrive, the group greeted him and handed him the documents they were holding.

"This is... the Southern Heaven Organization's... human experimentation..."

Captain Hong was deeply shocked after reading it.

He had considered that the Zhou family might have problems, but these problems were too big and too numerous.

How was this evidence exposed?

The expressions on the faces of the people nearby were somewhat subtle.

"Someone used Zhou Bancheng's phone to make this call to us."

An old man said with a wry smile, "Luckily, those two were reasonable enough not to kill us all just because we were in the Zhou family's phone contacts. Otherwise, Xiao Hong, you wouldn't be seeing us now..."

Captain Hong was young and often traveled around, so he had only ever dealt with Zhou Bancheng's son.

The son of the Zhou family alone is already on par with Captain Hong in terms of strength.

Zhou Bancheng himself did not have the contact information for the Harvest Brigade.

Captain Hong had no time to listen to the old men's sentiments, as he carefully reviewed more materials.

These paper documents alone are not enough to prove the Zhou family's crimes, but the problem is that the several forces that received the report all found the experimental base at the corresponding locations, and also discovered similar buildings underground in the Zhou family manor.

These irrefutable pieces of evidence leave no room for the remaining forces of the Zhou family to shirk responsibility.

"The underground base of the manor was the last to be built, completed three years ago. That makes sense, because three years ago, Zhou Bancheng's position was finally solidified, making him the undisputed number one in the city."

Captain Hong's eyes gleamed with admiration. "Only two people managed to break through such a dangerous place in one fell swoop. What about the other two?"

The old man who had spoken to me earlier was gazing at the distant mountains.

"They went to find the Precursor Creature. There really are Ghost God Dharma Aspect and Precursor Creature around here. The Zhou family clearly said before..."

The old man, somewhat ashamed, said, "We really misunderstood the harvesting team's intentions before."

Captain Hong had already guessed this, but he didn't take it seriously. He was only thinking: with thousands of mountains and countless wild beasts, how were the two of them going to find the Precursor Creature?

"Too easy!"

Chu Tianshu was strolling through a sea of flowers, a wisp of smoke the size of a billiard ball floating in his left palm.

It is very convenient to track and identify the original body by relying on a wisp of the soul of the Precursor Creature.

In the meantime, Chu Tianshu and Zhang Tao have fought in three different locations, successively killing three Precursor Creature.

And a number of humans who don't want to be human.

Zhangjiajie was their fourth stop.

"The fourth Precursor Creature was a butterfly."

Chu Tianshu stopped among the flowers halfway up the mountain and looked down at the foot of the mountain.

Among the wildflowers and grass at the foot of the mountain, lay many snake carcasses.

A giant butterfly, resembling an eagle, with vibrant colors and wings like steel plates, was feeding on the snake carcasses, sucking the venomous snakes dry.

"Um."

Chu Tianshu stood there, savoring the moment.

"This Ghost God Dharma Aspect seems to cause blood sugar levels to spike significantly..."

Zhang Tao walked up behind him, snorted, and raised his iron whip.

A bolt of lightning struck the butterfly, startling it, and it fluttered away.

Zhang Tao immediately caught up, but didn't rush to kill it. He simply drove the butterfly to a more distant, desolate place.

There's a limit to what constitutes "more desolate."

Humans are surrounded by wilderness. In other words, in any direction from the wilderness, as long as you go further, you will always encounter humans.

Lead the Ghost God Dharma Aspect to the most desolate place, ideally to let it occupy the central area of a large wilderness.

As Zhang Tao chased the butterfly, many monsters in this Spirit Realm stirred up, wanting to protect the Forerunner of Ghosts and Gods.

However, Chu Tianshu was also in charge of taking care of these guys.

He unleashed his own aura Martial Stove God, radiating it indiscriminately in all directions, greatly reducing the number of monsters that dared to follow.

A few monsters were able to withstand his oppressive aura and still force their way through.

Chu Tianshu then waved his right hand, grabbing pieces of something and throwing them over.

A piece of bark was embedded in the skull of a red-eyed bison, and a broken branch was stuck in the throat of a bear that was more than four meters long.

Even a single petal struck down a crow that was swooping down from the sky at subsonic speed.

The skill level of the Wolf Head Swordsman left a deep impression on Chu Tianshu.

Although everyone practices different techniques, the level of skill in swordsmanship is universal.

Just like martial arts practitioners, regardless of their school or style, they often need to learn to generate power throughout their entire body and channel it to the tips of their hair—this is the level of martial arts mastery.

The Heavenly Heart Sorrowful Demon Slash follows the path of internal and external influence, but the more nuanced and profound one's understanding of the external environment, the smoother and easier the process of internal and external influence becomes.

Wolf Head's Overbearing Saber, on the other hand, follows the path of gathering the vast and the intangible into one, aiming to bring both the tangible and the intangible under one's control, while also grasping the subtle changes of many external factors.

Even Zhao Qinglang's divine finger strike has a subtle similarity.

Chu Tianshu kept recalling his two opponents, and lately he would often use leaves and flowers to kill them.

Use external objects, both tangible and intangible, as a weapon.

Zhang Tao was in front, focused only on shooing the butterflies away, and they quickly escaped this Spirit Realm landscape.

Chu Tianshu followed behind for more than two hours when his phone suddenly rang.

This is a specially made cell phone that South Wind gave him. As long as it is not damaged by excessively intense power fluctuations or located deep within the Spirit Realm, it can be used for communication.

Since the butterfly had been found, there was no need for that wisp of soul anymore. He stubbed out his cigarette in his left hand, took out his phone, and saw that it was another video call request.

After the call was confirmed to be connected, Yu Nanfeng's face appeared on the video screen.

"After communicating with the authorities in Beijing, they found the materials you requested and sent them over."

Yu Nanfeng picked up a document from the side and said, "I've also reorganized the data on modifying the battle armor. When are you coming back to pick it up?"

Chu Tianshu hesitated for a moment. "Isn't there an electronic version?"

"Yes, I do. So, you're not planning to go back to Jinling?"

Yu Nanfeng's eyes flickered slightly, a hint of expected regret in them. "Wanzhuo often complains that he can't understand the secret manual you left him at all."

"Then I'll ask you and Xia Ningning to help him. Otherwise, asking Brother Yannian should also be helpful."

Chu Tianshu chuckled lightly, "I definitely won't be returning to Jinling anytime soon, but as for the future, who knows?"

"Alright, that manual is extraordinary. It seems I've benefited from it too. I should call you Master/Father now."

Yu Nanfeng made a joke, put down the document in her hand, and although there was an electronic version, she still briefly recited it over the video call.

In the capital, research into the potential disaster has never been abandoned.

They discovered that the post-apocalyptic zombies possessed plant-like characteristics.

The appetite of the undead is mainly directed towards living people, and much less towards other animals. Some undead can survive for two or three years without seeing any living people, without eating or drinking.

In that state, the zombies are more like plants in winter.

Based on this, the authorities in Beijing have made the most probable hypothesis regarding the cause of the disaster.

This is believed to be a disaster orchestrated in unison by all the Ghost God Dharma Aspect in the Spirit Realm that are associated with plants.

Plants may not have intelligence, but they do have their own survival instincts.

The fusion of the Spirit Realm and reality, which is clearly different from their respective survival instincts, triggered this massive backlash.

Therefore, the locations where the catastrophe first broke out back then were not determined by other indicators.

The first thing to do is to see how many traces of the Divine Sect there are in the area.

Once this breakthrough is achieved, the remaining weak points in the barrier between the Spirit Realm and reality will be affected and broken through, all erupting in a short period of time.

"Upon investigation, it was found that the earliest location in East Asia to experience the catastrophe was..."

Busan!

(End of this chapter)