Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Because Xia Yan had been frequently talking about these matters over the past few days, Zhang Ze had come to have some understanding of the ancient plants growing around Spirit Deer Valley.

This spirit plant is called Wind-Sensing.

It's said to grow only in places without wind, extremely sensitive to Qi, living and dying with Qi.

According to ancient texts, people in the past used this grass to concoct Qi Introduction Pills to help mortals sense Qi and open their spiritual awareness.

This grass indeed looks peculiar; although it was stepped on by an elephant, the plant wasn't broken, it only turned a withered yellowish-white.

Thinking about this thing's characteristic of living and dying with Qi, he glanced at the big foot of the white elephant...

It's unlikely that foot fungus is also Qi, but, by the way, does a Spirit Elephant have foot fungus?

Just as Zhang Ze's thoughts started to drift again, the little Qilin that had run off suddenly emerged from the bushes behind him.

The little creature glanced at Zhang Ze and then ignored him, instead running over to Li's side, circling around and occasionally nodding its head against Li's body.

Seeming very happy.

And just as Li, the utterly dignified Ancient Divine Dragon, and the little Qilin gathered together, the surrounding Qi changed again, and the Wind-Sensing Grass that had withered came back to life.

"!"

Everyone was stunned at this sight.

Zhang Ze glanced at Li, and Li instantly understood, leading the little Qilin away into the distance. As Li moved away, the Wind-Sensing Grass began to wilt again.

Li and Zhang Ze tried several times, until the girl from Medicine King Valley couldn't stand watching any longer and lightly coughed, then they stopped.

"Can this grass be dug out?" Zhang Ze pondered for a moment, staring at the sit-up-like Wind-Sensing Grass, then asked.

"Yes, the roots of Wind-Sensing Grass aren't deep... sigh."

Zhang Ze acted quickly; upon getting the response from the Medicine King Valley girl, he reached down to scoop out the Wind-Sensing Grass along with the soil.

Holding the Wind-Sensing Grass, Zhang Ze headed toward Spirit Deer Valley, and with his steps, the Wind-Sensing Grass came back to life again.

"Oh no, it's broken." Zhang Ze muttered to himself.

After noticing this situation, Zhang Ze asked the idly bored Demon Race members to investigate the outskirts of Spirit Deer Valley, and also informed Xia Yan and the others about it.

Wolf Demon Hui Xue, holding a small walnut, tilted her head and looked down at the grass beneath her feet.

In front of her, the grass displayed two different colors, the lush green near Spirit Deer Valley, while outside it appeared somewhat withered yellow.

Like a dividing line, Hui Xue squatted and stared motionlessly.

Wolves are always full of patience, and after observing for a long time, Hui Xue confirmed that the dividing line was slowly retreating toward Spirit Deer Valley.

With the new discovery, Hui Xue jumped up and ran westward, planning to find a Sword Sect cultivator responsible for that side to verify it.

But when she found him, she saw that the senior brother was sitting on a green rock with his back to the valley, meditating and adjusting his breath, not working at all.

Behind the senior brother's ears, noticing Hui Xue arriving, he got up and said, "Miss Hui Xue, any discoveries?"

After Hui Xue shared her discovery with the senior brother, the Sword Sect senior brother instead asked, "Why are you staring?"

Hui Xue was taken aback by the question, "What else should I do if not stare?"

"Just draw a line, isn't that enough?" The senior brother bowed his head, indicating Hui Xue to look at the ground.

To the right beneath them, a faint sword mark etched the ground, and the border that should have aligned with the sword mark had slightly retreated toward Spirit Deer Valley.

Not just at this location, but elsewhere too.

After expanding, the unusual border of Spirit Deer Valley is now slowly retreating.

...

On the Immortal Ship.

Zhang Ze shared his findings with the returning Li Wenzhou, Elder Han, and others.

"I don't know what to call that kind of Qi, so for now, I will refer to it as Dragon Qi.

The terrain of Spirit Deer Valley here is special; Earth Veins do not grow, the mountain slopes are low and shallow, it was originally a place of dissipating Qi, where Spiritual Qi was scarce.

After the Village dispersed, this area turned into a blank space where most of the Village's power, or 'Dragon Qi', gathered."

After Zhang Ze finished speaking, Li Wenzhou pondered for a moment and said, "You mean Spirit Deer Valley is like a leaky basin, and after some time, the Dragon Qi here will disperse into the world like elsewhere?"

"Correct, Old Man Li, you are quite smart, aren't you?"

"Those Spirit Beasts that have undergone Ancestral Reversion might not be affected, but several generations later, they could become extinct once more, just like those ancient plants."

Tang intervened through a small walnut during the meeting.

Li Wenzhou pretended he hadn't heard and asked Zhang Ze, "Is there a way?"

"We should ask the Taoist, I have a wide range of knowledge, but just superficial know-how."

After speaking, Zhang Ze shrugged and looked at the little walnut placed on the table.

"Taoist, I do have a way." Tang, far from the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, responded arrogantly.

"What way?" Li Wenzhou asked.

"Move mountains."

Tang said easily, and when he uttered the words 'move mountains', he did so as if he were just sipping soup.