Chapter 2857 - 2861: Forbidden Zone: Royal Family Medicine Garden

After walking a mile away, Ling Xiao released Xiao Jin and instructed, "Xiao Jin, from now on, stay by Chen Cangmang’s side and protect him."

"I will, after all, this guy has genuinely treated me like a brother in the past, and he’s fallen to such a state for the sake of our family, so of course, I must help him."

Xiao Jin nodded.

"That’s good, let’s part ways here for now. Once the affair with the Imperial Extreme Secret Realm is over, I’ll return."

After Ling Xiao finished speaking, he left again.

Meanwhile, Xiao Jin shrunk in size, becoming as small as a mosquito, and quietly merged into Chen Cangmang’s group.

"Seventh Prince, are you really planning to hand the throne to that person?"

At this moment, a martial artist at Chen Cangmang’s side couldn’t help but ask.

"Do you think my words were just a temporary measure? Wrong, that’s exactly how I feel.

If he truly loves the people like his own children, why not let him have it?

I’d rather enjoy a carefree life."

Chen Cangmang laughed, "Besides, I always feel like that person seems very familiar."

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Ling Xiao, this person, seems reckless, but in truth, he is very cautious.

Logically, with his current strength, he shouldn’t fear anyone upon returning to Thunder City, yet he still chose to sneak in low-key.

After all, no matter how strong he is, he is still only one person.

Currently, from the assassin leader’s mouth, he learned that the Thunder Emperor has even invited experts from Tianchi Mountain to deal with him.

Tianchi Mountain is a Sect from a major nation outside of the Chen Dynasty, where even the weakest expert has a cultivation level of the First Cycle of Yin-Yang Realm Twelfth-Level Hell.

Even the Twelfth Prince and Eleventh Prince, such experts, are merely Outer Disciples of Tianchi Mountain.

The experts who came this time must be even stronger than those two.

Could it be an expert from the First Stage of Hell Realm, Thirteenth Layer of Hell?

Now, he must be even more careful and cautious.

However, no matter how careful, he must go to the Imperial Extreme Secret Realm.

Within the Forbidden Zone, there is something that can resonate with the Twelve Beast God Martial Spirits, which he must obtain.

Arriving outside the Secret Realm Academy, Ling Xiao donned a pre-prepared mask.

The silver-glowing mask exuded a sense of ferocity and horror.

That’s precisely the effect he wanted.

His current transformation will be publicly exposed in the future, so he can’t reveal it easily here.

With the mask on and a change of clothes, it’s enough.

Logically speaking, after Thunder Venerate’s death, there shouldn’t be any strong experts within the Imperial Extreme Secret Realm.

Ling Xiao wanting to enter is relatively easy.

However, since the Thunder Corps can produce seven new generals, the Secret Realm Academy is a place the Chen Royal Family values highly, so they wouldn’t leave it unattended.

There should be stronger experts present.

This time he has more important things to do, so if he can avoid alerting these experts, he prefers not to.

He performed the Magic Dragon Illusion of the Ghost Demon Dragon.

Ling Xiao, right in front of many Secret Realm Academy disciples, directly approached the entrance of the Imperial Extreme Secret Realm.

Taking advantage of the guards’ inattention, he easily sneaked in.

Anyway, this entrance is always open, merely guarded by someone, as long as he deceives this guard, there’s nothing to worry about.

The first place he appeared, of course, was the soldier-level area.

But now, the things here can no longer interest him.

He only has one target, and that is the Forbidden Zone.

Originally, due to the Yuanling Clan’s war, he took advantage of the chaos to reach the Forbidden Zone, but had to stop due to insufficient strength.

However, today, his cultivation level is countless times stronger than it was back then.

Finally, he can realize his wishes.

Maintaining the Ghost Demon Dragon form, Ling Xiao directly bypassed the Yuanling Clan’s territory and entered the Forbidden Zone.

Supposedly a Forbidden Zone, but in reality, upon reaching it, Ling Xiao distinctly felt the presence of strong experts.

"Goodness, I thought the Forbidden Zone was truly unreachable, turns out it’s just a restricted area deliberately set by the Chen Royal Family.

Only martial artists with a cultivation level of higher than First Cycle of Yin-Yang Realm Twelfth-Level Hell can enter."

Upon stepping into the Forbidden Zone, Ling Xiao immediately sensed the presence of an Array Formation guarding it.

But such a trivial Array Formation couldn’t stump him; he dismantled it with a few moves.

And he didn’t alarm anyone.

"My goodness, luckily I didn’t come in earlier, or I would’ve died without knowing how. The weakest monsters here are terrifying entities of One-star Twelfth-Level Hell strength."

The deeper Ling Xiao went, the more astonished he became.

Seems like the Chen Royal Family is more formidable than he imagined.

The Thunder Venerate, Thunder Emperor, they’re merely representations of the outside world.

The truly formidable ones are secluded here for cultivation.

Quite possibly, even the Four Elders of the Chen Dynasty dwell here all year round.

Fortunately, this time, he was cautious and didn’t force his way in, otherwise, even if he could escape easily, he’d probably have a tough battle.

Now, inside here, he doesn’t even need to hide his aura, because there are many monster beasts at this level here; perhaps the Chen Royal Family wouldn’t expect him to have infiltrated.

Shortly after stepping past five hundred meters into the Forbidden Zone, he saw a medicine garden.

The medicine garden was guarded by four powerful canine battle pets, all possessing One-star Twelfth Level Hell Late Stage combat power.

Additionally, two martial artists with cultivation levels of Twelfth Layer of Yin-Yang Realm Hell Late Stage are sipping tea and chatting in front of a hut.

Presumably, this medicine garden should belong to the Wang Clan of the Chen Royal Family.

Most of the medicinal materials inside are not yet mature, but some have already released their aroma.

"Goodness, isn’t this the Thousand-Year Ganoderma?"

Ling Xiao marveled at the Ganoderma.

It can be confirmed it has a thousand-year growth period and is nearing maturity.

This Thousand-Year Ganoderma, when used in alchemy, can produce Thousand-Year Qi-Blood Pills which are somewhat similar to Blood Spirit Pills, but dozens of times more effective.

And after consumption, it can also enhance physical body strength, making Qi-blood more formidable.

Of course, direct consumption is possible, just not as effective.

Right now, the effect of consuming Blood Spirit Pills for Ling Xiao is not as good as before, mainly because his physical body is too formidable, and his cultivation is gradually improving.

In the future, after advancing to the Life-taking Realm, Blood Spirit Pills likely become completely ineffective.

By that time, having Thousand-Year Qi-Blood Pills would surely be wonderful.

A Thousand-Year Ganoderma is truly something that has survived a thousand years, but apologies to the Chen Royal Family, I’m going to take away what you’ve guarded for a thousand years.

Unexpectedly, the Chen Royal Family painstakingly cultivated such a spiritual medicine.

It’s entirely prepared for Ling Xiao.

You must know that in the Chen Dynasty, apart from Ling Xiao, there’s probably no other Alchemist who can refine a thousand-year-old spiritual medicine.

The fools in the Chen Royal Family would surely choose to directly boil it down for consumption, which would definitely be a waste of heaven’s gifts.

Whereas he’s different; with this item in his hands, he can refine hundreds of pills that have effects equivalent to directly consuming the Ganoderma.

Among Alchemists, it’s the pill masters who earn the most, precisely for this reason.