Imperial Treasure

Chapter 492 - 726: Kitchen, Zhi!

Sui Yi would not resort to such methods, but this individual did, making it appear effortless, with no psychological burden at all.

Sui Yi glanced at his hand, and under the Magnetic Sensation, the adversary was not using Inner Strength, but another system of power. However, all methods stem from the same origin, so Sui Yi didn’t pay much attention—only glanced at the robe in front of him and then picked it up.

Although she didn’t see anything wrong with wearing it, if it affected others, there was no harm in putting it on, since it was also a matter of gentlemanly decorum.

"Ugh, my head hurts."

"What happened?"

As these individuals woke up, before they could scream at the hellish scene before their eyes, Wu Xie’s sword was plunged into the ground with a clang, silencing everyone in fear.

Clearly, they mistook this man with a sharp, cold demeanor as the mastermind behind the scenes...

"This is a trap; he saved you... but it’s still uncertain how many people are involved. This place also has mechanisms, do not speak loudly to avoid drawing attention from people outside, shut down the mechanism."

Compared to this man’s silent yet stark coldness, even though he had saved them, they could not feel close to him, fearing that he might kill them in a fit of rage, and then this voice...

It was like a melody from heaven, clear and gently tender, very considerate and meticulous, making these people, who had just escaped death and still headachy, felt a bit relieved and looked in the direction of the voice.

Upon seeing the person, well, a completely healing peerless beauty, is it a man or a woman?

That robe was loose, and it was hard to tell the gender, only that they were extremely beautiful, the kind you could tell was good just by looking (an era of face-judging both ancient and modern, truly painful).

But this good person was great, just... she seemed very interested in that pot of human flesh soup.

Right now, Sui Yi was indeed looking at this pot of soup heated to a boil.

The soup had become quite thick, resembling a pot of mucus, giving off a slightly burnt yet intensely rich smell.

Sui Yi glanced at the array of large jars of exotic seasonings, seemingly materials of creatures and plants from the Western Regions.

And it appeared that this pot was also a bit...

Sui Yi observed the dark red runes carved along the pot’s rim, frowning tightly.

"Someone is nurturing Zhi,"

The word ’Zhi’ caused a slight change in Sui Yi’s expression.

She knew what this term entailed.

Zhi, apart from witches, was among those special beings unknown and unacceptable to common people in this world. Legend has it that Zhi is a creature that grows in the land of extreme Yin and Sha, resembling a snake in its juvenile phase, later growing a baby’s head, evolving snake-like limbs, and then resembling a Snake Dragon. Unlike the robust creatures like Snake Dragons, Zhi is a creature of extreme Yin and evil, adept at consuming human flesh and essence to cultivate its own spiritual essence... According to historical records of witches, there have been three Zhi in this world, two of which appeared in the ancient mythological wars, already mature and terrifying beings at their peaks, belonging to the same group as demon spirits, capable of swallowing a million Divine Weapons in one bite... Those were more elusive legends, the later Zhi appeared more realistic, during the period after the anti-Japanese war... In that famous wartime zone, a site of slaughter and mass burials, a juvenile Zhi emerged. In the modern environment of that era, the Zhi would not have survived, but precisely because of the chaotic times, the dead numbered not just in the hundreds or thousands but tens to hundreds of thousands. In less than a year, a vast amount of Corpse Qi and grievance nurtured a near-mature Zhi, which had already developed intelligent spirituality, increasingly unsatisfied with rotten flesh and began attacking living humans... During that chaotic period, a considerable portion of the living population in that area was devoured by it. Later, as the situation stabilized slightly, central organizations dedicated manpower and numerous strategies to destroy it... The reason why not many people know of this incident today is that it was scarcely mentioned even in unofficial historical records, as few from that region survived, coupled with a strong censorship by the central authorities, and people’s mental state back then was far less inquisitive than those of modern times, thus with the passage of time, it faded into obscurity.

Sui Yi knew of this incident because she had handled the data of Elder Ye from the central authority, that time when the Jiang family had requested Sui Yi’s assistance...

At the time, Sui Yi had taken an extra look due to recalling the historical records of witches, never expecting to actually encounter it in another era.