The Void Venerate was both shocked and furious, "You little brat Jiang Pingan, you really are shameless, aren’t you? Even after becoming an immortal, you have the nerve to challenge me to a duel?"

"Duel my ass!"

Yun Zhi had only sat on the imperial chair for a short while when she saw the Void Realm shatter and the Void Venerate being beaten black and blue by Jiang Pingan, looking less than human.

Abilities like regenerating from severed limbs or resurrecting from a drop of blood all failed at this moment; the injuries of the Void Venerate visibly worsened at an alarming rate, failing to heal.

Thump.

The Void Venerate was thrown onto the ground, and Jiang Pingan let out a long breath, wiping the non-existent sweat from his forehead as if he had just been through a fierce battle.

"Void, this time I didn’t use any tricks. It was a fair one-on-one duel, solely relying on real skills. You should be thoroughly convinced by your loss this time, right?"

After becoming an immortal, Jiang Pingan never had the chance to show off to someone he knew. He had waited for this opportunity for a hundred thousand years, only to realize it today.

Satisfying.

If not for the fact that the Void Venerate was in too much pain to even stand, he would have pounced on Jiang Pingan and bitten his neck off.

"This chair isn’t bad at all, who made it?" Jiang Pingan took notice of the imperial chair Yun Zhi was sitting on. If not for his recent advocacy of a simple life, he would have wanted to make such a majestic chair for himself.

"It’s a specialty of the Demon Territory, a gift from my junior brother."

"I remember your junior brother’s name is Lu Yang?" Jiang Pingan rarely paid attention to the outside world, only recalling the name from casual conversations with Yun Zhi.

"That’s right, I have high hopes for him. He’s already brought me quite a few surprises. For instance, he played a part in capturing the Void Venerate this time. In the future struggles of the Great Era, he will surely have a place."

Jiang Pingan laughed, "I’ve never heard you speak so highly of anyone before."

Hearing that Lu Yang had helped capture the Void Venerate, Jiang Pingan took a liking to this cultivator he had never met.

"Actually, there is another person whose destiny is also extraordinary."

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"Who?"

"A junior brother sent by the Meng Family."

Jiang Pingan clicked his tongue in wonder and envy, "Why can’t our Jiang Family produce such talent."

Apart from himself, the ancient ancestor, the most talented in the current Jiang Family was Prince Jiang Qun, who achieved a Cultivation Level of the Body Integration Realm before a thousand years old, but still far from Yun Zhi’s description of "extraordinary."

The Void Venerate, listening to their conversation, suddenly remembered the descendant of the Meng Family he saw in Chunjiang City.

Is it him?

What luck does Meng Gentleman have, to have such an outstanding descendant despite not being the best in character.

At that time, he only noticed that Meng Jingzhou was a descendant of the Meng Family and didn’t pay attention to more details. With Yun Zhi’s evaluation, one could tell that this descendant of the Meng Family must be a cultivation genius, at the very least, a Semi-Immortal like himself.

"What do you plan to do with the Void Venerate?"

"His heart is not in the right place, releasing him would be like releasing a tiger back to the mountain, a source of endless trouble. I plan to strip his physical body and suppress his soul at Captive Peak."

Unlike Semi-Immortals who were Immortal Eternity without a prior record and who had repentance in their hearts, the Void Venerate had only temporarily submitted to strength and couldn’t be let go.

Jiang Pingan nodded; he had no objections to Yun Zhi’s handling method. If it were him, he would make the same decision.

The Void Venerate was adamantly opposed to his rule, and letting him loose in the outside world could easily stir up trouble, unsettling the State Destiny and giving other forces an opportunity to exploit.

"There’s another matter I’d like to hear your opinion on,"

"What is it?" Jiang Pingan was somewhat surprised; he noticed a faint frown on Yun Zhi’s face as she spoke, an expression he had never seen before.

"I have a friend named Yun Mengmeng who recently discovered that she is not the birth child of her parents, but was born from a magic artifact created by an Immortal with the power to nurture life. Yun Mengmeng’s mother gave birth to her through this magic artifact. How should she address this Immortal?"

Jiang Pingan hissed, he had lived for a hundred thousand years and had never heard of such a thing.

"I don’t know." Jiang Pingan thought for a long time but couldn’t figure out what the proper address should be.

Having achieved her purpose in coming to the Imperial Palace, Yun Zhi didn’t stay any longer. Carrying the Void Venerate back to Captive Peak of Seek Dao Sect, she still had to interrogate the two Semi-Immortals.

Especially the Nightmare Supreme, a Semi-Immortal from the end of the Great Qian, certainly knew many secrets not known to others. Not to speak of distant matters, the situation of Twin River alone was previously unknown to Yun Zhi.

Jiang Pingan waved goodbye: "Take care, no need to send me off, I’ll come to visit the prison when I get a chance!"

...

The atmosphere among the prisoners tensed up again upon seeing Yun Zhi return to Captive Peak.

Without a word, Yun Zhi pressed her hands on the foreheads of Nightmare Supreme and Void Venerate, and with a gentle pull, both felt their bodies lighten as their souls and bodies separated.

The child-like grandmaster dragged away the empty husks with a smile. They were good materials for refining magic artifacts.

Yun Zhi coldly looked at the two: "Now you have two choices, either tell me the intelligence you know truthfully, or don’t even think about keeping your souls, which are just perfect for refining magic artifacts. Using the souls of Semi-Immortals as materials in magic artifact refining will also be a contribution to the Refining community."

Being experienced in reading people, both could tell at a glance that Yun Zhi wasn’t bluffing.

"We’ll tell everything."

Yun Zhi nodded her head, satisfied with their attitude, and locked them each in a segregated hut for individual interrogation.

She began with the interrogation of Nightmare Supreme.

"Where did you learn the information about Twin River?"

"I saw it in an ancient book, which not only recorded Twin River but also Mother-child River, though I only learned the location of Twin River, and don’t know where Mother-child River is."

"Where did you get this ancient book?"

"After I led my army and broke through the imperial palace of Great Yu, I found it in the Imperial Library there."

The history books record that Nightmare Supreme broke into the imperial palace of Great Yu, self-declared as emperor, and the world, under the pretense of eradicating a rebel, fought for supremacy, ending up defeated by the rising Emperor Yu.

Great Yu was the dynasty closest to ancient times; the ancient books in its Imperial Library were probably more than all of the ancient books in the world combined.

"Where are the ancient books now?"

"They were burned after I memorized them," said Nightmare Supreme, quite nervous.

"Hmm?" As expected, Yun Zhi was not too satisfied with this answer.

Nightmare Supreme quickly explained, "It’s true, my subordinates can testify. My thinking at the time was that even if I failed to conquer the world, with the knowledge in my head, my opponents would want to keep me alive for this intelligence."

Indeed, Emperor Yu and the Imperial Teacher considered this when they fought against Nightmare Supreme, refraining from delivering a fatal blow and giving him a chance to flee.

"What was the cultivation level of the first Emperor Yu and the first Imperial Teacher?"

"When they fought against me, they were definitely Semi-Immortals, but whether they became Immortals after that, I do not know."

"What do you mean?"

"After surviving the great battle, I didn’t go into deep sleep right away but hid in the shadows to see how Wu Yao ascended the throne step by step."

Wu Yao, the first Emperor of Great Yu.

"Wu Yao presided over the founding ceremony, and during the event, there were changes in the winds and clouds, various natural phenomena emerged, and the sounds of thunder echoed continuously. The whole sky and earth were illuminated by Thunder Tribulation.

Although the historians wrote that this was a sign that Wu Yao’s establishment of the Great Yu Dynasty aligned with the will of heaven and earth due to his brilliant and heroic qualities, I suspect it was the Celestial Tribulation of ascension to Immortality mentioned in the ancient books!"