Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Chapter 565

After Gong Shangjiao and Gong Yuanzheng led everyone out of the secret passage, they were shocked by the scene before them - they actually arrived directly at the place where they had set up camp!

Gong Shangjiao's face instantly turned ashen. He stared intently at the exit of the secret passage, which was only a hundred feet away from their camp. The anger in his heart erupted like a volcano. "I didn't expect that after all these twists and turns, we were still fooled by them!"

Gong Yuanzheng's gaze was even sharper. He scanned his surroundings, and suddenly, his eyes lit up, as if he had discovered an important clue. He quickly walked to a unique banyan tree, which stood out from the surrounding trees.

Gong Yuanzheng unhesitatingly launched a powerful kick at the banyan tree. With a thud, the tree trembled violently, like a startled beast. Even more astonishing, before everyone's eyes, the tree instantly transformed into a completely different tree!

"Okay, okay!" Gong Shangjiao roared in anger, "I had no idea there were such stupid monsters in this vast wilderness that would cooperate with such a disgusting being!"

He turned to look at Jindun behind him and shouted, "Jindun, uproot this demon tree! I want to take him to meet his ancestors in person!"

Suddenly, a figure shot out from the crowd behind Gong Yuanzheng like an arrow from a bow. Upon closer inspection, he discovered a burly guard. He was like a moving mountain, his every step causing the ground to tremble slightly.

The guard walked up to the tree and gripped the trunk tightly with his hands like a pair of iron tongs. The veins on his forehead bulged as if they were about to burst, and the muscles in his arms bulged from the excessive force, like a dragon.

With a "click" and a dull sound, the tree was pulled out of the soil by him! Roots and soil included, without reservation.

After being pulled out of the soil, the big tree actually screamed and tried to change its shape to escape the restraint of the golden shield.

But Jindun was agile and ghostly, and in just a few moves, he tied the demon tree, which was still trying to change its shape, tightly with a golden iron chain. Then, he tied the other end of the chain around his waist like a puppy.

"Your Highness, we've caught it!" Jin Dun's voice revealed a hint of excitement. "I'll take it to find Lord Li Lun right away!"

However, in stark contrast to the calmness of Jindun and the guards, the sect leaders and their followers behind Gong Yuanzheng turned pale and trembled when they saw the ever-changing demonic tree.

Some of the sect leaders screamed in terror, while some of their disciples collapsed to the ground as if all their strength had been drained away. Some even foamed at the mouth and passed out from extreme fear.

Gong Yuanzheng couldn't help but sneer when he saw those self-proclaimed important sect leaders cowering behind others like cowards. "What are you afraid of? I'm not going to eat you! Look at how cowardly you are! It really makes me angry!"

Gong Shangjiao was in no mood to care about the sect leaders at the moment. He just silently asked everyone to return to the camp.

After Gong Yuanzheng returned to the camp, he hurried straight to Li Lun's tent. Behind him followed Jindun, who was carrying a tightly bound demon tree on his shoulder. This demon tree was the one they had just captured.

Gong Yuanzheng arrived in front of Li Lun's tent, stopped, took a deep breath, then suddenly opened the tent curtain and strode in. As soon as he entered the tent, he shouted loudly: "Li Lun, we have captured a rebel from your tribe!"

Li Lun was sitting at a low table in the tent. He didn't even raise his eyelids when he heard Gong Yuanzheng's voice. He just said lightly, "Oh? Bring him in."

Gong Yuanzheng winked at Jin Dun, who understood and immediately threw the demon tree to the ground like a sack. The demon tree hit the ground heavily with a dull thud.

Li Lun then slowly raised his head, glanced at the demon tree on the ground, and then casually waved his hand. A stream of locust leaves shot out like lightning, accurately hitting the trunk of the demon tree. With a "puff", the locust leaf was deeply embedded in the trunk.

The originally extremely thick trunk shrank in an instant. In just a blink of an eye, the original big tree turned into a small sapling, lying on the ground and shivering.

Li Lun said expressionlessly, "Since it's a demon that betrayed the demon clan, I'll destroy its cultivation. I'll personally bring it back to the Great Wilderness and plant it there."

Gong Yuanzheng had no objection to Li Lun's judgment. He knew this was their own Great Wilderness matter; if he intervened, it would become a completely different matter. Furthermore, judging by Li Lun's handling of the situation, the demonic tree likely hadn't done anything particularly bad, otherwise he wouldn't have simply crippled its cultivation but killed it outright. Forcing it to cultivate again was already Li Lun's greatest punishment.

Gong Yuanzheng sat across from Li Lun, drinking the tea that Li Lun had brewed with Sophora japonica flowers. "You should add some honey, it would taste better!"

Li Lun directly reached out and handed Gong Yuanzheng a chestnut, "It's good to have something to eat, you should have picked it up!"

Gong Yuanzheng pouted, "So what? It's not like there's no honey! I still want to eat locust flower cake!"

Li Lun pulled out a clay pot from somewhere and added a small spoonful of bright orange honey to the teapot. "You're the only one who's drinking tea made from the flowers of the locust trees grown by the top demons in the Great Wilderness and making so many demands, yet you haven't been beaten! If it were anyone else, I would have turned them into fertilizer to nourish my descendants!"

Gong Yuanzheng refilled his cup of Sophora japonica tea with a smile on his face, then sipped it contentedly. He put the cup down and asked curiously, "When did Dianzhu and her men escape?"

Li Lun stayed in the camp and did not go out. Although he never stepped out of his tent, it seemed that nothing could escape his eyes.

He replied calmly, "Shortly after you and your men entered Lixi Town, Dianzhu led a group of his men to escape. The next day, the Wufeng leaders also evacuated one after another. As for where they went, it's unknown. But what is certain is that they dispersed in various directions, but not towards us."

Gong Yuanzheng curled his lips in disapproval and muttered, "They're not fools. How could they foolishly run over here knowing there are people trying to kill them? If they really come, they'll be even more stupid than fools!"

Li Lun, however, was unimpressed by Gong Yuanzheng's words. "Yuanzheng, not everyone is smart. There are some self-righteous people who think that all the capable people in this camp were taken away by Gong Shangjiao to attack that empty headquarters, leaving behind some less important people to guard the camp."

Gong Yuanzheng's face flickered with madness. "Li Lun, what you're saying is that after they came out, not only were their opinions divided, but they were also planning to cut off our supplies from the rear? They were hoping to use this method to trap us from both sides inside Wufeng's headquarters?"

Li Lun nodded and said, "Those people are not dead yet. I tied them up with vines and locked them in a tent. Let me think which tent they are in."

After Li Lun finished speaking, he lowered his head and thought for a moment, then stretched out his finger and pointed in a direction, "It should be in the second tent over there. They don't have any fatal injuries, they are just superficial wounds that can be healed with a little treatment. I know you are short of medicine people over there, but I think those people may not tell the truth. Instead of that, it would be better to use them to test the medicine. They are going to die anyway, so using them for experiments can be considered a way to recycle waste."

When Gong Yuanzheng heard Li Lun's words, his eyes lit up instantly, his interest piqued. Before Li Lun could finish his words, Gong Yuanzheng stood up impatiently, not even bothering to say hello, and rushed to the tent like a gust of wind.

Without a word, he flung open the tent curtain and shouted anxiously, "Jin Fu, quickly bring me the medicine box in the tent! I have new medicine that needs to be tested!"

Jin Fu had actually been waiting at the tent door the entire time. Upon hearing Gong Yuanzheng's order, he immediately responded and called a few guards to follow Gong Yuanzheng, just in case. He himself then rushed non-stop towards Gong Yuanzheng's tent to retrieve his medicine box.

Gong Yuanzheng excitedly came to the tent where Wu Feng was imprisoned. When he opened the curtain, he saw a familiar figure standing there. "Brother? Why are you here?"

It turned out to be Gong Shangjiao. Gong Yuanzheng looked at Gong Shangjiao curiously, as he appeared in the tent where Wufeng was imprisoned. He had just heard this news from Li Lun, so how could Gong Shangjiao have gotten the information so quickly that he was even one step ahead of him?

Gong Shangjiao slowly turned around, his gaze landing on Gong Yuanzheng. His voice was calm and steady, "I was patrolling the camp when I heard the guards say there was some unusual movement. Worried about something happening, I immediately rushed over to check it out."

Gong Yuanzheng hadn't originally paid much attention to Gong Shangjiao's appearance. After all, it wasn't impossible for them to meet in this camp. However, when he heard Gong Shangjiao's words, a hint of curiosity welled up in his heart.

Gong Shangjiao stared at Gong Yuanzheng, his lips curled up slightly, and he asked with a half-smile, "So, Yuanzheng came here, could it be that he has developed some new medicine and plans to experiment on these people?"

Gong Yuanzheng was extremely obsessed with the study of herbal medicine. Whether in Gongmen or Tiandu, people constantly provided him with various rare and precious herbs such as poisonous plants and flowers. This made his attainments in the field of herbal medicine increasingly profound.

At this moment, whenever someone mentioned his area of expertise, Gong Yuanzheng would instantly become excited, as if a flame had been ignited. His words would pour out of his mouth like a torrent of water, seemingly endlessly.

Gong Yuanzheng pulled Gong Shangjiao aside and continued to introduce the recipe he had researched this time. "Brother, let me tell you about this recipe. It suddenly came to my mind a few nights ago. Although it has been refined, we are still out here. We don't have a medicine man or a substitute puppet, so I have kept it in the medicine box since I came out."

Jin Fu walked in at the right time carrying a medicine box. This time, Jin Fu handed the medicine box to Gong Shangjiao with great tact, then walked out of the tent as promised and waited at the door of the tent to guard the door for the two young masters inside.

"I just caught a traitor from Dahuang. When I handed him over to Li Lun, he told me that after Wufeng's men came out, most of them had already left, and only this small group of fools actually thought of cutting off our supplies. They were all caught by Li Lun and tied up here." Gong Yuanzheng opened his medicine box and explained to Gong Shangjiao how he knew that the people imprisoned here were those who escaped from Wufeng.

Gong Shangjiao stood silently by, listening quietly to his younger brother Gong Yuanzheng explaining to him in detail the prescription he had written this time.

Gong Yuanzheng said calmly, "Li Lun told me that these people are going to die sooner or later anyway, so I might as well use them as medicine men. Although I know in my heart that they will definitely not reveal the truth easily, if even one of them can't withstand the erosion of the medicine, then the rest will naturally be like a flood that breaks the dam and their mouths will be easily pried open."

After that, Gong Yuanzheng slowly opened the medicine box and took out the newly developed potions one by one, neatly placing them in front of the defenseless Wufeng people. Furthermore, he patiently explained the name and unique properties of each potion to them one by one.

Gong Shangjiao seemed accustomed to Gong Yuanzheng using Wufeng people as experimental subjects. As long as Gong Yuanzheng didn't use those poisons on himself, Gong Shangjiao didn't care who used those poisons.

Soon, all the newly developed poisons by Gong Yuanzheng were tried by all the Wufeng people here. The guards passing by the tent naturally heard the screams coming from inside the tent, but after they knew who was imprisoned inside, they felt uneasy!

After Gong Yuanzheng finished his experiment, Gong Shangjiao took Gong Yuanzheng out of the tent. After leaving the tent, he instructed Jin Fu: "Clean up the people inside and notify the leaders of the other sects. We will prepare to return tomorrow."

After receiving the order, Jin Fu first directed the guards to carry out the Wufeng people who had already died one by one and bury them, and then he took the guards to notify the leaders of those sects one by one.