Peerless Taoist

According to Zhong Dabao, these ranches were scattered all around Dragon City, and they were located in a remote and desolate place, which was extremely desolate.    

For such a place, the people of the Lu family were unwilling to take charge of it. Only the experts of the Gan family, the Zhong family, and the other clans would be sent to this desolate place to take charge.    

As for Lu Yu's instructions, Zhong Dabao also patted his chest and guaranteed that even though he was not in Dragon City, the Zhong family still had some spies in this area, and they could find Bai Suqing's whereabouts for Lu Yu.    

After Zhong Dabao left with his men, only Lu Yu and the experts of the Great Zhou remained.    

Everyone looked at each other in dismay. They had thousands of words in their hearts, but after knowing Lu Yu's identity, they did not dare to speak.    

After a while, Shen Fei Hu, the Marquis of Sheng Tian, cupped his hands and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty."    

With him as the start, the others all came forward to greet him.    

Even Yin Zhi Lan, who had protected Lu Yu previously, had a pair of beautiful eyes that were filled with light as she bowed slightly to Lu Yu.    

Lu Yu waved his hand and said, "This time, I obtained Saint Jiang's recognition as a person and entered the Kunlun Secret Realm. Everyone, just treat me as a fellow Daoist. There is no need to be so polite."    

Everyone instantly heaved a sigh of relief.    

They had even teased Lu Yu before, but they did not expect that Lu Yu would be so magnanimous, to actually not care about it at all. Immediately, the few of them had a higher opinion of Lu Yu in their hearts.    

"Your Majesty, if my guess is correct, you came to Kunlun's secret realm to look for someone, right?"    

Lu Yu said, "That's right, I came to find Princess Bai Suqing."    

A thought suddenly flashed through everyone's minds.    

Bai Suqing was famous in Kunlun a long time ago, and could be said to be the number one beauty. In addition, with her noble background, she had attracted the care of countless young talents.    

Now that Lu Yu had travelled thousands of miles to Kunlun to look for Bai Suqing, his intentions were obvious.    

Shen Feihu said, "Princess Bai should be with the other young talents. Before they set off, they had agreed that once there was a situation where they were unable to return, they would gather together with spirit talismans. We are going to look for these young talents, so Your Majesty should also go with us."    

After all, Kunlun's secret realm was still a barren land that had yet to be developed. Not only were there ferocious Demonic Beasts living within it, there were also many powerful natives, and every step was filled with killing intent.    

In the past, the teleportation channel was unable to send too many cultivators, so they could only let these young people come to experience it first. However, these young talents were all the blood of the Great Zhou Empire, so they could not afford to lose them. Thus, the Great Zhou Empire had long since set up a complete strategy.    

"Alright, I'll go with you." Lu Yu nodded.    

Shen Feihu did not hesitate any longer. He took out a jade artifact from his waist. The shape of the artifact was like a wolf's head. He poured his mana into it, and the surface of the wolf head jade artifact immediately emitted a weak white light.    

"This jade artifact contains the true blood of a wolf king, and the tokens of the young geniuses contain the true blood of the wolf demon. The wolf king has the ability to gather the pack of wolves. With this artifact, we will be able to find the location of those young geniuses."    

As Shen Feihu spoke, he raised his hand and formed a few seals on the jade artifact.    

Immediately, many spots of light appeared on the jade artifact, flashing and flickering, like a group of stars.    

If one looked carefully, one would discover that these spots of light were all gathered together, and they were all in the same direction.    

"It seems that most of them are fine, and they have already gathered together. Let's move out." Shen Feihu let out a long sigh of relief.    

The Great Zhou Empire had spent a lot of resources to send them here. Just the spirit stone they had spent on sending a stone house over was already an astronomical figure.    

The worst case scenario did not happen. Those geniuses were still here, and they had gathered together, which gave them great convenience.    

Everyone did not stay any longer. They flew towards the direction of the jade artifact where the young geniuses were.    

The majestic mountains and vast land.    

As they sped along, they felt the scenery around them. All they could see were desolate mountains and forests, with dense trees and Demonic Beasts in groups.    

Unlike many stars in the Heaven Realm, this place seemed to be in a barbaric and undeveloped era. Human settlements were quite few, and most of them were in the vast wilderness.    

During this time, they were also attacked by some Demonic Beasts. However, with Lu Yu around, those Demonic Beasts were shaken into a bloody mist before they could even get close.    

After flying for an hour, a human settlement finally appeared in the mountains in front of them.    

It was a stronghold. There were a few scattered houses, and smoke rose from the chimneys.    

Although the stronghold was not big, it was surrounded by a high wall made of stones. There were all kinds of traps on top of it, as if they were used to guard against the Demonic Beasts.    

Just as Shen Feihu approached, he did not expect the stronghold's door to open. Immediately, forty to fifty young people rushed out from inside, their faces filled with excitement.    

"Holy Marquis, Marquis Yu Quan, and all the Great Generals... You guys are finally here!"    

When the young geniuses saw the people who had come, they all burst into tears and could not help but exclaim in excitement.    

Someone even said nervously, "Are you guys going to take us away? Let's go!"    

Shen Feihu, the Holy Marquis, glanced around and suddenly frowned. "Are you the only ones left?"    

Initially, there were five to six hundred young geniuses who had entered, but now, only ten percent of them were still alive.    

A hint of sadness flashed across the faces of many geniuses.    

"They are all dead. Not only were we attacked by the Demonic Beasts, we were also chased by the local natives. Many of us ran away and were nowhere to be found. There were even some who died in the wilderness, and their corpses were nowhere to be found." Someone shook his head, and a hint of fear still flashed across his eyes.    

No one knew what they had experienced before, but what they were sure of was that these experiences were extremely impactful to them, and they still could not forget it even now.    

"What?" Shen Feihu was shocked.    

These five or six hundred people were all the disciples of the wealthy and noble families in the Great Zhou Empire, and there was no lack of world-shocking geniuses among them.    

Now, these geniuses had actually suffered heavy casualties here. This was undoubtedly an extremely serious loss.    

In the mountain village, many villagers pushed open the door and looked in this direction.    

Most of them were mortals, and when they saw Shen Feihu and the others, they stood in the air with extraordinary auras. For a moment, they felt fear in their hearts and did not dare to approach.    

A young man explained, "We were fleeing in the forest and discovered that this mountain village was attacked by Demonic Beasts, so we helped them and beat away that group of Demonic Beasts, so we settled down in the mountain village."    

"There are orders to arrest us in the various cities. We are unable to move around in the large cities, so we can only hide in this mountain village for a while."