One person: He secluded himself for eighty years and cured Tian Jinzhong.

Chapter 103 God's Fall

"Click...click..."

A tooth-grinding sound of bones grinding together, mixed with the crisp cracking of wood breaking, came from deep within the heartwood.

Zhang Chulan, along with Feng Baobao, Wang Ye, and Su Duo, used every means at their disposal.

Little by little, they cut away all the essence from the branches surrounding Elijah.

"Why would a perfectly healthy person choose to become a vegetable? I really can't appreciate your Western aesthetics."

"You...don't understand..."

Elijah was already trampled underfoot, but his mouth didn't stop; he exhaled a breath of green mist.

His eyes had turned a pure golden yellow, a sign that he had been assimilated by the will of the divine tree.

"This is... evolution!"

Why are you always going against me?!

"I am nature! I am the purest force of nature!"

Su Wuxian raised an eyebrow. Was there another trick up their sleeve?

boom!

The bronze tree trembled violently as Elijah roared.

The next second, Su Wuxian increased the pressure with his foot, crushing Elijah's chin.

"Master, have it all cleaned up!"

Just then, Zhang Chulan's voice came from inside the tree.

Su Wuxian nodded, slowly squatted down, and looked at the foreigner at his feet.

"Pfft!"

A hand mercilessly plunged into Elijah's chest.

He grasped the core of the pulsating golden withered branch directly.

Su Wuxian's palm was like a red-hot branding iron, making the surrounding tree bark sizzle.

"The power of nature?"

"What you're doing is polluting the environment."

"They think putting it in the recycling center takes up too much space and they'll have to fine us."

"Aaaaaah!!"

Elijah let out a piercing scream.

He felt an incomparably domineering force flowing through that hand, frantically devouring his life force, and even reversing it by devouring the energy of the divine tree!

"The Six Treasures of the Immortal Thief: The Great Reversal!"

This time, Su Wuxian didn't consume the energy; instead, he forcibly compressed it, and then...

Detonate.

"Here you go!!"

boom!!!!

A terrifying energy surge exploded within Elijah's body.

The golden, withered branch shattered instantly.

Immediately afterwards, Elijah's body, like a balloon filled with air, rapidly expanded and burst.

"No...No!!!"

With his final wails, Elijah exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

The tree trunks behind him were also blasted into a huge hole.

"Squeak!!!"

The bronze tree, towering over 100 meters tall, let out a mournful cry.

Having lost the support of the core Nathan Tree branches, and with the seal left by Wugensheng being reactivated by Su Wuxian.

It began to wither.

The bronze luster quickly faded, turning into a dull, lifeless gray.

The bells hanging from the branches fell one by one and turned into dust.

"It's collapsing! It's collapsing!"

Zhang Chulan shouted:

"Run! That tree is going to fall!"

The entire sacred tree began to shake violently, and its massive branches broke off and fell to the ground.

The bronze platform beneath their feet also began to crumble into pieces.

"Walk!"

Su Wuxian flashed back to the group.

He grabbed Granny Jin Feng with one hand and lifted Su Duo with the other:

"Senior brother, take the rest of you and retreat!"

"Okay!"

With a wave of his sleeve, Zhang Zhiwei unleashed a golden light that transformed into a long whip, sweeping up Wang Ye and Feng Baobao. Together with Tian Jinzhong, they leaped down into the valley below.

Rumble! ...

Just as everyone jumped away.

The bronze tree that had stood for a thousand years collapsed with a crash.

The massive tree trunk crashed into the valley, kicking up clouds of dust, and a massive earthquake erupted.

Along with the aura of the "Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley," it also completely dissipated with the destruction of the divine tree.

The "Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley" has become history.

……

Half an hour later, on the outskirts of the valley.

The group sat on the ground, covered in dust and dirt, looking at the ruins in the distance, still shaken.

"Goodness..."

Wang Ye patted his chest:

"If it runs any slower, it'll really turn into fertilizer."

"But... Master Su, that move of yours was absolutely amazing! After taking down the dragon with your bare hands, you then dismantled the divine tree with your bare hands?"

"So-so, third in the world."

Su Wuxian waved his hand, and was taking Granny Jin Feng's pulse:

"Xiao Feng, are you alright? That impact just now, even your old bones..."

Grandma Jin Feng shook her head, her eyes fixed on the ruins, tears streaming down her face.

"It's gone...it's all gone..."

"The last thing the sect leader left behind... is gone too..."

Out with the old, in with the new.

Su Wuxian took something out of his pocket and handed it to Jin Feng:

"Who said it's gone?"

"I've brought out the most important thing."

It was a rolled-up painting.

It was that painting, "Standing Tall and Firm."

In the chaos just now, Su Wuxian casually picked it off.

"This painting..." Granny Jin Feng took it with trembling hands.

"The painting itself isn't important; what matters is what's in the painting."

Su Wuxian pointed to the edge of the scroll, where there was a very fine crack:

"Just before Wugensheng's divine sense dissipated, he specifically reminded me. He said that the key to getting those 'old guys' from the Tang Clan to talk is hidden in this painting."

"Old man?"

Zhang Chulan leaned closer and scratched his head:

"Master, didn't that letter say the next stop was the Tang Clan? Why don't we just go there directly? With your and the Grand Master's influence, would the Tang Clan's current principal... oh no, sect leader dare to refuse us?"

"Reception?"

Zhang Zhiwei chuckled and straightened his somewhat damaged trench coat:

"Chu Lan, you underestimate the Tang Sect."

"Those drug addicts are petty, have more rules than hairs on a cow, and are extremely stubborn."

"If we go empty-handed to ask about what happened back then, they'll just turn us away."

"That's right."

Su Wuxian picked up where he left off, and with a flick of his finger, tore open the seal on the scroll.

"Clatter".

What fell out was a strangely shaped, pitch-black iron plate, only about half the size of a palm.

The iron plate is engraved with a ferocious ghost head, while the back is engraved with the character "Tang".

"This is……"

When Granny Jin Feng saw the sign, her pupils contracted sharply:

"The Tang Clan... Tang Tomb's token?"

"Tang Tomb?" Wang asked, puzzled. "What kind of place is that? A cemetery?"

"It's a forbidden area, and also a death row."

Su Wuxian picked up the iron plaque, tossed it in his hand, and a glint of shrewdness flashed in his eyes:

"It seems Wugensheng had foreseen this all along."

"The person we're looking for isn't in the Tang Clan's reception room, nor is he in the Tang Clan's nursing home."

"He locked himself in this pile of dead bodies for decades."

Su Wuxian looked at Zhang Chulan, his tone becoming meaningful:

"Zhang Chulan, haven't you always wanted to know what the Thirty-Six Thieves did back then? Ask him."

"He's right there."

"Xu Xin, whom the Tang Clan claims has been dead for decades."

"Not only did he not die, he's alive and well, and he even mastered the Tang Sect's deadly ultimate technique, 'Dan Shi'..."

"I'm curious about something, sir, but I'm not sure if I should say it?"

Zhang Chulan, contrary to his usual behavior, stared at Su Wuxian with wide eyes.

"What is it? Tell me."

Su Wuxian looked at Zhang Chulan and saw a deep-seated suspicion in Zhang Chulan's eyes, which piqued his interest.

"Master, you've been in seclusion for eighty years. According to the timeline, that would be 2016-80. You went into seclusion in 1935, but why does it feel like you personally experienced what happened afterward?"

Zhang Zhiwei raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

He had been curious about this for a long time. His junior brother was clearly in seclusion, but why did he seem to know everything?

He even knows things that I don't know myself.

Su Wuxian smiled, looked into the distance, his gaze deep.

Of course, I've read the original novel. (Just kidding.)

"You talk too much. You'll know why when the time comes."

Su Wuxian headbutted Zhang Chulan.

Zhang Chulan let out a "whoop," rubbed his head, and dared not ask any more questions.

That advisor was ruthless!

Su Wuxian gripped the iron plaque tightly and looked southwest:

"Alright, enough nonsense. With this plaque, we don't need to waste time talking to those juniors from the Tang Clan."

"We won't go through the main entrance."

"Not using the main gate?" Tian Jinzhong's eyes lit up, and he slung his entrenching tool over his shoulder. "Junior brother, are we going to...?"

"right."

Su Wuxian's lips curled into a wild, arrogant smile:

"Since we're looking for a 'dead man,' we'll have to use some extraordinary methods."

"Let's go to the Tang Clan..."

"Let's break into their Tang Dynasty tombs and meet that old brother Xu Xin."

"By the way, ask him what other secrets were hidden during the Jia Shen Rebellion back then, besides that so-called 'list'!"

"Yay!"

Tian Jinzhong cheered, "I love it! This sounds so much more exciting!"

Zhang Zhiwei shook his head helplessly, but he couldn't hide the smile on his lips: "At my age, I still have to be a thief... Fine, I'll just consider it as me joining you guys in your craziness."

Only Wang Ye and Zhang Chulan looked at each other, their faces filled with bitterness.

To break into the Tang Clan prison, a place full of assassins and poison?

And they even dared to trespass on someone's ancestral graves and tombs?

"Let's go!"

Su Wuxian waved his hand dismissively, his back view dashing.

"Next stop, Sichuan!"

"Our next stop..."

"Tang Sect!"

(End of Volume 4)

(Volume 4 is finally finished! Actually, in my outline, this volume was supposed to have more content, more characters, and a lot of foreshadowing, such as why Su Wuxian was forced into seclusion by the system, and how he knew so much about what would happen later even though he was in seclusion, and everyone's speculations about him, etc. But I changed all of that. It was just too tiring to write this volume. I changed a lot of the original plot. In other words, this volume is almost indistinguishable from my original work. But what's harder than creating something original is that I couldn't just make things up, otherwise it would lose its flavor. So it was really difficult! To lay the groundwork for some things, I omitted a lot of unnecessary plot. I believe you can see that this volume is fast-paced throughout. I didn't padded it at all. Every chapter is full of sincerity and plot. Aren't you going to give me a free little gift? Please urge me to update, recommend the book, and leave a good review! Thank you everyone!)

(Thank you so much for your support, dear readers! Without your support, this book wouldn't be where it is today. I'm so grateful!)