Chapter 256: The Contract of the Dao-Seeking Wood

Zhou Lu was obviously stunned when he heard Ye Qingyu's words.

The current master of Qiudao Mu is Yuan Gensheng, a highly respected old man.

In his early years, he was also a powerful beast master.

Even without Qiudao Mu, he is already one of the strongest beast masters in the world.

He personally cultivated a divine beast and two quasi-gods.

However, heroes always have their twilight years.

The talent of the beast master did not bring him much life span.

As the foundation of modern human beast-controlling civilization, the Qiudao tree's ownership is actually the top priority.

The last time I asked Daomu to choose a beast master again, it almost caused the entire human world to split.

The consequences of that fight still have an impact to this day.

The reason why the Xinzhou local government went against the official wishes was because the beastmaster they sent out to run for election was hacked.

If Yuan Gensheng hadn't arrived in an invincible state and swept away all the beast masters who participated in the election, I'm afraid that the originally unified human world would have become torn apart by then.

"What do you think of Qiudao Mu?" Zhou Lu asked.

As a divine beast, Qiudao Mu also possesses a very special skill, making it almost impossible for anyone to choose it.

Therefore, in the final analysis, this kind of thing still depends on Qiudaomu's own wishes.

Ye Qingyu shook her head: "The most troublesome thing now is this. Qiu Daomu has not clearly stated his position on this, nor has he said that he will choose a new master, so the higher ups are very panicked."

Qiudaomu's attitude is so ambiguous. Officials are really worried that the tree will suddenly see through the world of mortals and choose to return to the countryside.

Although they have been crazy about supporting beast-controlling technology in recent years and gradually using technology to replace the role of Qiudao Wood in the beast-controlling system, this still requires a long process.

"However, the superiors still feel that preparations need to be made in advance. For example, first select a beast master who can take over immediately when Mr. Yuan is unable to perform his duties." Ye Qingyu looked at Zhou Lu, "Are you interested in this?"

"Me?" Zhou Lu was stunned, "There are many people better than me in the world..."

"The point is actually not to be strong." Ye Qingyu said, "The point is to be young."

After all, if the chosen beastmaster is not too young, then he would have to choose a beastmaster again in a few years, which would be detrimental to the internal stability of the world and would also continue to hurt Qiudaomu's psychology.

Zhou Lu heard Ye Qingyu's words and took a sip of the coffee in his cup: "I understand."

He did not immediately comment.

Because he actually doesn't have enough reputation to take on this job now.

If by then he really becomes Qiudaomu's beast master, and not many people in the world know him, it will actually be an overdraft of trust.

People would naturally think that Zhou Lu had some background that pushed him to this position.

"Speaking of which, you did a good job." Ye Qingyu knew that he couldn't force Zhou Lu too much at this time, so he changed the subject with a smile, "I found a big case as soon as I came here, and I have already put your name Report it."

"Ah?" Zhou Lu was slightly startled when he heard Ye Qingyu's words.

"What? Don't you want to receive your credit yourself?"

"I didn't think so much at all..." Only then did Zhou Lu realize that he was acting as a disaster investigator.

"If you don't want to be too ostentatious, I can also withdraw the application." Ye Qingyu looked at Zhou Lu and said, "Then the official will send a group text message to commend you, and it will also cause you some trouble."

"Sending text messages in groups... Isn't this too ostentatious?" Zhou Lu's mouth twitched slightly, feeling very social.

Logically speaking, there should be a sense of honor, but mainly he came to trouble the immortal for his own selfish desires. Finding out the culprit of the disaster was just a derivative result of this purpose.

"There is no way. The disaster problem in Xinzhou has always been used as a weapon to attack the official government. Now that the truth has been found out, it must be widely publicized." Ye Qingyu said, "Information in this era moves too fast. If you don’t, people will soon only remember the bad side of what you did.”

Zhou Lu hesitated for a moment, but finally asked Ye Qingyu to report his achievements.

This is what he deserves, and his current strength can bear it.

The most important thing is that he has to start preparing for Hanabi to be promoted to a true god.

When the time comes when you encounter some hard-to-obtain materials, you can also use today's credit to ask the officials to help you.

After getting Zhou Lu's approval, Ye Qingyu sent the email he had prepared.

"You plan to go directly to Yangui's headquarters next?" Ye Qingyu asked while operating the email, "Do you need me to lend you the little yuan?"

"It's better to stay with you and protect you. Your current situation is much more dangerous than mine." Zhou Lu refused with a smile.

After many days of sifting through the nightmares of death, Ye Qingyu had already targeted several groups from beast-controlling families.

Each of them is inextricably linked to Yangui, and some of them are simply members of Yangui.

Ye Qingyu is currently preparing to arrest these family members.

"By the way, why is Hua Huo still glowing from sitting down to now?" Ye Qingyu said, looking at the still flickering Hua Huo aside.

Ye Qingyu's big-leaved iris has always loved Hua Huo the most.

Seeing Xiao Caocao's appearance, I thought it was sick and was hugging Hanabi with a distressed look on its face.

However, as the fireworks flickered, Iris also gradually felt something was wrong.

Why did it feel like the fireworks in her arms were getting stronger over time?

Iris looked at the fireworks carefully with doubt.

The fireworks obviously had not yet put their identities in order, and they hugged Iris and rubbed against each other.

They were both quasi-gods, but in Iris's arms, Xiaocaocao still looked like a child.

Iris's maternal instinct was overflowing, and she raised her hand to touch the hat of the fireworks.

Although the interaction between the two plant pets was warm, it was always short-lived.

Ye Qingyu finished her coffee and had to go back to work.

And Zhou Lu was about to start his journey to Phoenix Island.

Phoenix Island is located in the southeast of New South Wales and is an island isolated overseas.

Geographically speaking, this place is actually very unsuitable as the base camp of a secret organization.

Because as long as the official reacts, they can directly surround this place and finally form a complete annihilation.

Zhou Lu didn't quite understand why Yan Gui put the headquarters on an island.

Could it be that he was confident in himself and felt that he would never be exposed?

Zhou Lu came to Phoenix Island with such doubts.

He stood on the crescent moon and looked down at the island below.

What really made him decide to come here to find out was not the information from Tian Zhi and Lin Keqi.

But the location of the kid from the Li family in Xinyue.

On the plane to Xinzhou, Zhou Lu met Li Dongjiang and his nephew who was suspected to be an immortal.

At that time, Zhou Lu placed the branches of Hua Huo on both of them out of caution.

Li Dongjiang did come to send someone off, and left Xinzhou soon after.

But the boy named Li Ganxian stayed in the Beast Taming Academy in Xinzhou for a while, and then turned around and came to Phoenix Island.

Could he also be one of the immortals behind Yan Gui?

With such doubts, Zhou Lu said to Hua Huo beside him: "Sprinkle all your branches."

Hua Huo sat next to Zhou Lu.

In fact, even after evolution, it always wanted to become small as before, so that it could continue to stick to its owner.

But the big-leaf iris told it that it was already a quasi-god and should show some quasi-god aura.

At least it should not be like a child all day, always thinking about sticking to its master.

"You can do this kind of thing at night, but you still have to take care of the master's face during the day and put on the dignity of a quasi-god!" Big-leaf iris said confidently.

Its human words were barely enough. It was obviously to take care of the master, but it was said with a sense of sarcasm.

But Hua Huo also agreed with this.

As the master's most beloved spiritual pet, you must work hard to raise the master's status outside!

Hearing Zhou Lu's words, Hua Huo lifted his hat with two leaves.

In an instant, countless mosquito-sized branches flew out of Hua Huo's hat.

In order to make it more realistic, Hua Huo even designed a buzzing sound for these branches.

Zhou Lu felt itchy all over his body when he heard the sound of these branches.

After releasing the branches, Zhou Lu did not rush down, but waited for the information sent back by these branches.

He carefully activated the [Empathy] skill, and then fixed his perspective on one of the branches at the moment the skill was activated.

All this must be done quickly, and it is also something that must be done.

If it is a little slower, the massive amount of information transmitted by empathy can instantly make Zhou Lu's brain crash.

With the success of the switch, his perspective also entered the perception of the branch.

After evolving to a quasi-god, Hua Huo finally used the knowledge he learned to allow Zhou Lu to see the scene through his branch.

The area of ​​Phoenix Island is not very large.

For a long time in the past, this was actually the place where Xinzhou imprisoned prisoners.

As long as the prisoners are locked up here, no matter what means they use, it is difficult to escape.

It is said that until the closure, Phoenix Island Prison still maintained a 100% successful imprisonment record, known as an insurmountable cage.

After the closure of Phoenix Island Prison, it was bought by a beast family as a place to cultivate spirit pets.

While Zhou Lu reviewed the information related to Phoenix Island in his mind, he followed the perspective of the branch into the sky above Phoenix Island.

It was very quiet here. Even though it was broad daylight, it still looked peaceful and tranquil.

The branch flew for most of the circle, but no one was seen.

Could it be that his information was wrong?

Just when Zhou Lu was confused, he was pulled by Hua Huo.

Under Hua Huo's guidance, Zhou Lu switched to the empathy branch.

It found something over there.

After the trance of empathy switching, Zhou Lu suddenly heard a human voice.

"Why are you still here! The time for the Taoist to preach is coming! Hurry up!"

Taoist?

Zhou Lu's eyes lit up immediately.

I finally caught him!

Zhou Lu saw two people running in a hurry in one direction.

In order to speed up their journey, they also summoned their own spirit pets.

It seems that the identities of these two people should be beastmasters.

Zhou Lu made a prompt decision and dropped his empathy branch on the shoulder of one of them.

They walked through the house and came to the old site of the prison, and then climbed down the stairs.

After a while, they entered the underground.

At this time, this place has been transformed into a hall.

The chandelier on the top emits a gentle light, illuminating the place as if it were daytime.

When the two came here, the place was already crowded.

Soon after they sat down, they saw an old Taoist in a Taoist robe come out and start to give a speech to the people below the stage.

As soon as the old Taoist opened his mouth, Zhou Lu was confused.

What immortals are the most powerful ability in the world.

In order to prevent themselves from being overthrown, the official maliciously deprived everyone of the ability to become immortals.

As a beastmaster, you are born with original sin and need to pay it back through service.

As long as you do enough things, your descendants can become immortals who are superior to others.

So on and so forth, a legendary atmosphere came to the face.

Zhou Lu was stunned.

The old Taoist's words were very inflammatory, and some people in the crowd were booing. If Zhou Lu didn't know the true face of the immortal, he would probably really think that the immortal was a kind person who saved the suffering.

It seems like I'm going to tear the mouth of this guy who's lying with his eyes open.

Zhou Lu complained in his heart, and then controlled the branch to carefully attach to the old Taoist.

The old Taoist's speech soon ended, and he turned and walked towards the tunnel behind him.

Zhou Lu's perspective also kept switching with the old Taoist's actions.

He carefully hid himself.

After the quasi-god, the secretiveness of the branch was greatly enhanced.

But Zhou Lu was still not sure whether those immortals had the means to detect the existence of the branch.

Walking deep into the passage, the old Taoist's figure gradually became more agile, and there was no longer the old and frail look just now.

"It's really getting harder and harder." Soon, Zhou Lu heard the old Taoist talking to someone.

"Those people asked us to stay out of the limelight first."

"Hide out of the limelight? They said it was nice. They said that as long as we stay in Xinzhou, no one will find us?" The old Taoist said coldly.

"I didn't expect the authorities to send the Nightmare of Death. The Nightmare of Death is a divine beast."

"Divine beast! Divine beast! If those guys help me get the fourth-level grass pill, will I still be afraid of the divine beast?" The old Taoist cursed.

"Their people are already here."

"What are they doing?"

"There are new people, and they need to be consecrated."

"Which family is it this time?"

"The Xinyue Li family."

"Hehe, it seems that the influence of the fairy country is getting bigger and bigger, but I don't know if they can leave us a bite." The old Taoist waved his hand impatiently, "Take Xiao Liu over."

"...Is this really okay? His father gave his life for the organization."

"He's just a beast slave. Isn't it right for him to die for us?" The old Taoist laughed, "And didn't we fulfill his wish and let his son become a fairy?"

"This child had a good meal in the forest fire, and now it's time to repay the organization."