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Faced with the invincible Lord of the Sacred Land, Zhang Xuezhou meekly begged for mercy.

When this lord of the Sacred Land got into trouble, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but strike hard.

His forceful pulling and tugging caused the lord of the Sacred Land to turn pale.

A moment later, the jade ruyi in the other person's hand also became difficult to hold and fell from his palm.

"So cold!"

Zhang Xuezhou had previously touched the jade ruyi unintentionally, and his fingers went numb from the cold after the rapid touch.

He touched it directly with his fingers, without any warning.

After the jade ruyi landed, Zhang Xuezhou made sure to take full precautions when he reached out, his Law Power constantly surging and washing over the object.

When Zhang Xuezhou finally grasped the jade ruyi in his hand, he not only felt it weighed over a hundred pounds, but the icy coldness of the jade ruyi made him shiver, and all his thoughts vanished.

This effect is somewhat similar to the Purity Bamboo obtained from the Buddha Son Shigong Gong, which can eliminate distracting thoughts and enter a state of mental tranquility in a very short time.

However, the effect of the jade ruyi far surpasses that of the Purity Bamboo. This is not only because it calms the mind faster, but also because when Zhang Xuezhou held the jade ruyi, he felt that the jade ruyi, in its icy and tranquil state, also had a slight effect of making the Divine Ability.

Simply put, it has a similar effect on the mind as the Mental Strengthening Chapter" in terms of condensing the mind.

Holding a jade ruyi is not only useful for spiritual practice, but it will also give you an edge in suppressing and intimidating others.

It can also enhance the holder's ability to resist intimidation and hallucinogenic effects.

"Unfortunately, it already belongs to someone!"

The owner of the treasure sat before him, writhing in pain, but Zhang Xuezhou had no intention of seizing it for himself.

Regardless of how long the opponent resisted the bewitching purple light of the array, or the possibility of regaining consciousness after the struggle, even if the opponent died as a result, their treasures were not something that ordinary people could touch.

Whether they are enemies or friends, anyone associated with the master of this Sacred Land who sees the jade ruyi will likely meet a bad end.

If he were to use it secretly, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't stand the constant freezing temperature.

He thought about his past sneaky activities in hiding the spirit jade that was buried with Emperor Jing, and finally decided that he had to be a clean person.

"I'll borrow your jade ruyi for a bit. We'll return it to you once we've retrieved the treasures from the Mohists's Mechanical City and left!"

Holding the jade ruyi, Zhang Xuezhou felt the dazed feeling he had experienced while secretly glancing at the purple light vanish completely, confirming part of his guess that holding the jade ruyi could indeed avoid some of the influence of this secret realm.

This made him feel more at ease getting up and walking without having to hide or grope his way as before.

"It's a precious pearl radiating purple light. With such a treasure suppressing this secret place, it's no wonder this place is called Zixiao Palace!"

The simplest way to understand the name Zixiao Palace is that it means purple qi reaching into the sky. This precious pearl's radiance covers the entire secret realm and the Mohists's mechanical city, not only covering a vast area but also possessing the ability to continuously emit purple light.

This array formation, a treasure of immense value, left Zhang Xuezhou in awe.

But he also knew that this was not something he could have his hands on.

"If there's any miraculous medicine that can be ingested, that's no problem!"

After much thought, Zhang Xuezhou realized that this was the only way he could take advantage of the situation in the secret place, since there was no way to prove what he had eaten.

This made him look around, trying to see if there was anything he could eat.

He even glanced into the pocket of the Sacred Land's Lord.

After searching unsuccessfully, Zhang Xuezhou then used his jade ruyi to search the rooms of the palace.

"This is the poorest secret place I've ever seen!"

Zhang Xuezhou circled the palace but found no Rare Flowers and Exotic Herbs.

Just like the Mohists's Mechanized City, this secret place was also completely desolate, with not even a single blade of grass to be found.

There's no way you could find any great medicinal herbs in such a place, and without medicinal herbs, there's no way you could have any elixirs.

He was greatly disappointed and had no choice but to take the jade ruyi and begin searching the room.

He pushed the wooden door open, and what came into Zhang Xuezhou's view was a snake skeleton with two heads.

The snake bones were entirely white and appeared extremely fragile, clearly indicating that it had been dead for countless years.

After glancing over, Zhang Xuezhou closed the door.

When he opened the door to another palace room, he saw a skeleton with a human upper body and a dense array of long tail ribs on its lower body. Zhang Xuezhou couldn't immediately identify what kind of special monster it was.

The third room Zhang Xuezhou opened contained a pile of black ash, and nothing else.

This might be some remnant from the fire, but it left nothing for Zhang Xuezhou.

The fourth room contained a piece of wood that had been smeared with smoke and was extremely fragile.

In the fifth room was a tortoise shell with sharp spikes, its color already whitish.

The sixth room...

There were twelve rooms in total, and each room contained some remains, more or less.

This made Zhang Xuezhou's search tedious and uninteresting. He felt that this place did not meet the standards of a secret place at all, nor did it show any signs of the normal life of the master of the secret place.

"Could it be that you are not the owner of this secret place, but merely happened to come here by chance and were unlucky enough to encounter the Mohists's mechanical city's collision with the secret place?"

Zhang Xuezhou glanced at the pale-faced owner of the jade ruyi not far away, thought about the Mohists's mechanical city described by Li Shaojun, and then looked at the severely damaged mechanical city in the distance.

He couldn't help but think about the giant Kun that had brought them here, and found it difficult to sort out the timeline.

But Zhang Xuezhou quickly put the matter aside, after all, figuring out that this kind of thing had nothing to do with his successful departure from here.

After searching the twelve side rooms, only the main hall behind the owner of the Jade Ruyi remained.

The doors of the main hall were opened, revealing an empty inner chamber, with only the jewel radiating purple light floating within.

I was disappointed after seeing it from the outside, but I wouldn't be satisfied without going in to take another look.

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the final search area of this palace region and, holding the jade ruyi, stepped inside.

"You three have followed me for so many years, and I never expected that none of you would amount to anything. You truly disappoint me!"

As Zhang Xuezhou stepped across the threshold of the main hall, he heard a distant, melodious voice drift into his ears.

After the complaints, the voice continued to offer admonitions.

"Don't let the long-lived control everything. This world needs the long-lived to protect it, but we can't let them keep hoarding resources, otherwise it will never be possible to produce seeds that satisfy people!"

"You are guardians and defenders of the Way; you must be mindful of maintaining this balance and not become overly tainted by power!"

"Those strange demons who step into this world shall be suppressed forever, never to be allowed to escape or be reborn, until time turns them to ashes!"

"The strange demon that has entered the Three Realms this time is called 'Black.' Find him, suppress him, and sever that being's ambition to control the Three Realms!"

The distant voice offered repeated instructions before gradually fading away.

This made Zhang Xuezhou look at the jade ruyi, and then at its owner.

Clearly, his identity was misjudged because he was holding the jade ruyi.

The one who should truly listen to the voice conveying the information is the owner of the jade ruyi.

These words also helped Zhang Xuezhou understand why the owner of the Jade Ruyi had come to this secret place, and that the one who transmitted the voice was the true owner of this Zixiao Palace secret place.