The vine snapped in response, but as the old one retreated, a new one surged forward.

Through their connection, Xuan Ji heard Sheng Lingyuan complain in his mind, "Why are you so heavy?"

Xuan Ji: "..."

His Majesty killed Dan Li and after breaking the seal, he probably focused on becoming a demonic tyrant. He must have let himself go and stopped exercising.

When he was young, he practiced martial arts and was always up at the crack of dawn. He spent half his life on the battlefield, but who would have thought that one day he would be sealed by demonic energy and even complain about his sword being too heavy!

It just goes to show that even a top student can fall into depravity depending on their environment.

But on the other hand, Xuan Ji felt a strange sense of comfort - it indirectly indicated that he hadn't used any other sword in these years.

The heavy sword was too much for him, and now that his heart had just returned, his lungs weren't cooperating well with his body. He had already started to pant after using brute force a few times.

Fortunately, he didn't have to move his mouth to talk to Xuan Ji now.

"I have a guess," he said, slightly stumbling with his sword movements, but his mind was calm. "About your bureau chief's wife...why was she the one who died?"

"Why?" Xuan Ji's mind quickly turned.

As a spiritual-type special ability user, Dr. Han was cultivated by Dan Lin and should be following in her footsteps. When she was tracking in the Chiyuan back then, she wanted to quickly locate the eye of the earth vein by studying the relationship between Chiyuan and the earth vein, and save manpower for the Storm forces - so she must be very familiar with Dan Lin's method of detecting the earth veins.

What did this cautious spiritual-type special ability user discover at Chiyuan on the day she was killed?

"The Chiyuan altar," Xuan Ji said, "the day I left, the Chiyuan altar temporarily opened a 'door' for a while, and the earth veins on all four sides must have reacted. As a spiritual-type researcher, she must have discovered something - by the way, how is Luo Cuicui connecting the world's plants to play the Echo Sound now?"

Most plants grow from the ground, and these flower spirits and grass demons have always been closely connected to the earth's veins.

Could it be that the people behind the True Nature Sect chose Luo Cuicui because of this?

"I want to try," Xuan Ji heard a voice from Sheng Lingyuan's sea of consciousness,

"Qingping... the Bureau's ordinary people with diluted bloodlines, can they be relied on?"

Xuan Ji already knew what he was thinking: "No, you don't want to! Wait..."

Unfortunately, the emperor always acted alone at critical moments.

Xuan Ji didn't finish his sentence before Sheng Lingyuan grabbed the sword and slashed his own wrist. His sword was sharp enough to kill, and he showed no mercy even when cutting himself.

The blood from his artery almost sprayed out.

Xuan Ji screamed in horror, "Sheng Lingyuan!"

Sheng Lingyuan replied, "Don't scream, is it necessary?"

Sheng Lingyuan wouldn't pay any attention to self-inflicted wounds, even if there were connected mentally now, Xuan Ji could only know his "feelings" - which should not be much of a feeling.

It was purely his own imagination and drama.

The blood sprayed down along the bronze cauldron's patterns, and the bronze cauldron seemed to resonate with all kinds of noises in the deep pit, emitting a faint light. The Vermilion Bird's skeleton creaked, and the flames flowed in patches, making the pitch-black cave as bright as day.

The Echo Sound poured in, and those tiny sounds that mortals couldn't hear gathered together, flooding into people's senses like a mountainous torrent.

The Heavenly Demon Sword cut off a row of vines that were falling towards Sheng Lingyuan, and at the same time, Xuan Ji was jumping up and down in Sheng Lingyuan's sea of consciousness: "Let's just get a divorce!"

"Don't be impatient," said Sheng Lingyuan as he dipped his finger in blood and marked eight points on the bronze cauldron.

These were the exact spots where he had been nailed to the cauldron years ago with eight long nails. The heavenly demon blood surged into the cauldron, instantly dyeing the massive bronze vessel black. Through the green vines, it connected with the remains of the Vermilion Bird's skeleton.

The entire mountain shook, and the mortal corpse hanging on the cauldron turned to dust in an instant.

"I haven't had the chance to offer sacrifices to the four directions or marry you yet," he said.

At this moment, it seemed as if the sky was splitting open on the Biquan Mountain. Thick clouds rolled with fiery magma-like light, rushing past and causing even the crazed vegetation to wither instantly.

It was as if two "Chiyuan" had suddenly appeared in the world, one in the cauldron and one in the heart of the Nine Provinces.

"Do you remember me?" Sheng Lingyuan caressed the bronze cauldron and thought, 'This is where I was 'born'.'

Suddenly, the earth's veins across the entire continent went into chaos.

Luo Cuicui shuddered as his body was split in half, with his left side tangled in layers of vines and stuck to the ground, while his right side seemed to be attracted by something and flew outwards.

His two halves flew in opposite directions, and he couldn't understand what was happening as he desperately looked towards his other half, creating the most distant pair of eyes in history!

The Echo Sounds that were once evenly spread throughout the land became chaotic, and the Bureau immediately detected the abnormal signal of the Echo Sounds.

"Director Xiao!" Xiao Zheng just received news that Yan Qiushan was hit by a mithril bullet.

Before he could hear the result, Ping Qianru waved her hand at him and said, "Wait, let me first..."

Ping Qianru exclaimed, "The Echo Sounds from the abnormal plants are gone!"

Xiao Zheng was stunned, "What? The Echo Sounds are gone?"

"No, it's that those plants, for some reason, suddenly became 'mute'. Currently, the source of Echo Sounds on land has changed from being 'everywhere' to a few clear points."

Dan Lin followed closely behind the researcher who brought the news and walked in with big strides.

She glanced at Chief Huang and said, "They are all at the eyes of the earth veins that Han Guo marked back then."

Chief Huang suddenly shook.

"The locations are crystal clear," said Dan Lin as she spread out a map on the whiteboard in the conference room. "The Chiyuan Grand Canyon, Yong'an West Mountain, Linyang... these are all the places that the senior just requested information on. Little Xiao, gather all the field agents from different regions. This time, we will dig deep and even if we have to break the earth veins, we must figure out what they are up to. Prepare a plane for me, I will lead the team to Chiyuan."

Xiao Zheng jumped up and coincidentally collided with Li Chen who rushed in.