[Li, recognize the ingredient.]
Over by Little Walnut, it seems Li has moved her position; she's currently nurturing an elephant.
After hearing Zhang Ze's description and looking at the appearance of the Greedy Wolf Taoist, Li recognized the thing.
[This is Yun'er Root.]
[Indeed, it's a spiritual object from the primordial times.]
[This thing grows against fate, the tree is in its infant state, growing on the edge of a cliff.]
[Every fifty years, it bears one fruit, light as fluff, rising with the wind, and ten days later falling to the ground to take root.]
[The root turns into an infant, can attract spirits to prolong life, and after another fifty years, the child shrivels into wrinkled skin, then rises with the wind, becoming a tree upon encountering a mountain.]
[I think this thing is quite difficult to eat, what's up?]
[No worries, we picked one up.]
Having listened to Li having chatted about her carefree intentions in nurturing an elephant, Zhang Ze passed the Little Walnut around for everyone to see.
"Primordial?" Elder Han asked, patting the baby Qilin in his arms, "Is it also because of the village?"
"I guess so." Zhang Ze nodded.
The strange situation with the Greedy Wolf Taoist likely also stems from the village.
Li Yueqi shook her head upon hearing this, "But earlier when I was over by Wolong Marsh, I didn't find anything unusual, and Grandpa Zhu Luo wasn't like that either."
"Could it be that you've found the wrong location?" Li Jue interjected.
"Wolong Marsh has almost become a forbidden area because of Grandpa Zhu Luo."
"If that Greedy Wolf Taoist had possessed someone and harmed them near Wolong Marsh, Grandpa Zhu Luo would have discovered it immediately."
After Li Jue finished speaking, Xia Yan immediately stood up, "I'll go see if that person is still alive, maybe he knows something."
But less than three minutes after going out, Xia Yan returned to the room, spreading her hands.
"That person is alive, but his brain is completely damaged, can't get anything out of him."
"No hope for rescue."
Xia Yan, the professional, gave a professional judgment.
At this point, the clues returned to the Greedy Wolf Taoist, everyone looked at him, then simultaneously turned to Zhang Ze.
"You are rather wicked, you interrogate him." Li Yueqi patted Zhang Ze's shoulder.
Zhang Ze sighed, he indeed had a way, but they were all righteous techniques.
"Calling it interrogation sounds harsh, it's called end-of-life care."
He brushed off Li Yueqi's hand and started rummaging through his belongings.
Not long after, Zhang Ze pulled out a small pendant from his pocket.
The pendant was crafted from gold and jade, and was quite expensive, meant to hold the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror.
Just as Fuji's understanding of taste differed from others, these magical artifacts with spirits also were peculiar.
They didn't suffer from claustrophobia, dazing out for decades or centuries was a common occurrence for them.
However, they had various quirks and small needs.
Lately, the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror had developed two hobbies.
Chatting with the Celestial Calculation Disc.
And tapping others' head with the corner of the mirror.
To please the artifact spirit, Zhang Ze asked the Taoist at Dragon Tiger Mountain to craft this special magical artifact for him.
This pendant could only shrink things through divine techniques, without isolating space, allowing the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror to be placed inside; it could chat through a custom Little Walnut with the plate and friends far at Dragon Tiger Mountain.
Online for twenty-four hours a day.
"Time to get serious." Zhang Ze patted the back of the mirror.
A line appeared on the Little Walnut.
"Today, we're not hitting anyone, we're dreaming."
After fixing the mirror dazed by online chatting on the table, Zhang Ze asked Elder Han to unlock the restriction on the water globe, driving the treasure mirror to absorb the Greedy Wolf Taoist inside, then Zhang Ze jumped in himself.
The Void Illusion Realm within the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror could simulate dreams, now given the Greedy Wolf Taoist's weak, pathetic, and helpless state, it was a perfect time for dreaming...
In dreams, anything is possible.
The Greedy Wolf Taoist slowly opened his eyes, he thought he had a great dream.
The dream was incredibly real, he dreamt of being tracked by the Beast Taming Sect's Elder Han.
The dream revealed Elder Han's lack of honor, calling on a group of people to righteously gang up on him.
Afterwards, he self-destructed, using a secret technique to escape, just as a wisp of his divine soul was about to disperse, he possessed a mountain chaser who fell off a cliff, dying.
Greedy Wolf recalled surviving with what's left of his flesh and blood evil technique, clinging on as a ghost through many years.
Occasionally snacking on insects and ants until the corpse rotted, became a dry husk, and even the ants moved away.
But just as his divine soul was about to disperse, an infant-shaped fruit crawled out of the mud in front of him.
With his last bit of consciousness, he drove the dry husk's arm to grab it...
Later on, he became muddled again.
Once slightly awake, he discovered he had become a golden infant with wood inside.
"Yes, possession, I later possessed a fat man..."
"That damned fat man, he ruined my plans. I..."
The Greedy Wolf Taoist was about to continue thinking, but a voice interrupted his thoughts.
The Greedy Wolf Taoist suddenly woke up, finding himself hiding under the dry husk's hand, and the person before him wasn't that annoying fat man, but rather a youth dressed in mountain chaser attire.
The youth clearly noticed the golden light he emitted.
The youth was handsome, and with one glance, the Greedy Wolf Taoist felt he was a top-tier quality, perfect for cultivation.
"Dream? Just now, was I dreaming?"
Under the influence of the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror, dreams and reality reversed, rekindling hope in the Greedy Wolf Taoist's heart.
But just as he prepared to act violently like in the dream, waiting for the youth to approach before attacking, he stopped.
He suddenly remembered he had failed exactly in the dream.