The most intelligent general in the world

"That useless prince is incompetent and doesn't have the courage to attack us. Recently, everyone must pay close attention to every move in Xinzheng City. Anyone who wants to take advantage of the opportunity to harm our Zhang family will be killed without mercy!" Zhang Liang ordered in a cold tone.

"Yes, sir!" everyone agreed.

Since the last assassination attempt on Zhang Kaidi, the Raincoat Man has paid more attention to the intelligence work in Xinzheng City. Now he has finally taken over the previous intelligence network completely, and there will no longer be a situation where someone secretly issues an assassination mission and he only finds out about it afterwards.

After this incident, Zhang Liang had completely broken off with the Han royal family, and the King of Han died as a result. As long as the Han royal family had the opportunity, they would definitely kill the Zhang family.

"Young Master, are you leaving?" Yan Lingji suddenly asked.

"That's right. I'm going to the Taoist Tianzong, so you must be careful while I'm away." Zhang Liang replied with a smile.

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked. After all, as long as Zhang Liang was in charge, they were not afraid of the Han royal family. However, once Zhang Liang left, their chances of winning were greatly reduced.

"I will leave you enough backup plans. As long as the royal family of the Han Kingdom does not come to cause trouble, it will be fine. If they really dare to attack, I don't mind destroying the Han Kingdom at the same time!" Zhang Liang snorted coldly with a smile in his words.

"Everything is subject to your instructions, sir!" everyone said in unison.

Zhang Liang was not too worried about this. He waved his hand and ordered them to retreat. Then he asked about the recent situation and returned to the sacred tree on the top of the mountain.

Although this tree is not top-notch, it can be considered a second-grade spiritual wood. Although it has only been promoted to the second grade for three years, it is enough to prevent masters of the grandmaster level from entering the mountain area. But in Zhang Liang's opinion, such defense is still far from enough.

"I had not originally planned to refine this spiritual wood so early, but now it seems that we can start." Zhang Liang sighed softly as he stood under the tree.

For spiritual woods, especially those that have just begun to develop some instincts, they can be refined. However, after refining, it will become more difficult for them to improve their intelligence.

Zhang Liang originally planned to find a suitable time to refine the spiritual wood and use it as the core of the Taoist temple's protective formation. However, after obtaining the spiritual wood heart from the secret treasure house of the Han royal family, Zhang Liang changed his mind.

Zhang Liang sat cross-legged on a thick fork in the trunk of the spiritual tree and probed his spiritual consciousness into the spiritual tree.

The spirit tree that was originally very close to Zhang Liang began to shake violently, as if it had encountered something horrible and was struggling to resist. However, Zhang Liang didn't care about it at all and still insisted on penetrating his spiritual consciousness into the trunk of the spirit tree.

Not long after, he found an extremely faint consciousness in the heart of the spiritual tree. This consciousness was only instinctive and extremely weak. Even Zhang Liang at this moment could easily destroy it with just a thought.

"We must be careful not to harm this consciousness." Zhang Liang thought to himself.

Afterwards, Zhang Liang carefully wrapped this consciousness with his spiritual sense, gradually invading and penetrating it, while ensuring not to destroy its integrity.

About an hour later, the emerald green consciousness had been completely contaminated by Zhang Liang's spiritual consciousness, leaving a spiritual mark at the core of his consciousness.

"The refining was successful!" Zhang Liang couldn't help but feel happy.

From then on, this spiritual tree was completely controlled by Zhang Liang. No matter how its intelligence grew, it was still restricted by Zhang Liang. It was naturally close to Zhang Liang and would never betray him.

In the world of cultivating immortals, there are endless methods of refining spiritual trees and spiritual beasts.

Some spiritual trees are gifted with extraordinary talents. After growing to a certain size, they can even rise from the ground and escape from their original place on their own. What's more, some can even travel through the void and jump to the stars.

Because of this, many cultivators, after discovering special spiritual trees and herbs, especially those that have not yet matured, are unwilling to protect their growth for a long time, and instead choose to directly refine their spiritual consciousness and take them home to slowly cultivate them to maturity.

There are also many cultivators who specialize in finding spiritual trees and herbs.

However, Zhang Liang did not have such ambitions. It was not easy to find such a spiritual tree. His only thought was to cultivate it carefully as a spiritual object to protect the Taoist temple. Of course, if it was really necessary, Zhang Liang would not rule out destroying the spiritual tree after it grew up in order to obtain materials.

"I took advantage of you, don't let me down!"

Zhang Liang took out the tree heart from the storage space with heartache, dug a hole directly on the spiritual tree, and threw the tree heart into it.

In an instant, the entire spiritual tree swayed gently and began to grow rapidly, sprouting new branches, sprouting new leaves, and the trunk gradually grew taller and thicker.

“This is the third-grade peak tree heart that is about to survive the heavenly tribulation and be promoted to an innate spiritual wood. I actually used it to cultivate you…” Zhang Liang couldn’t help but sigh.

The spiritual tree seemed to understand Zhang Liang's meaning. Its branches swayed gently, brushing past Zhang Liang's shoulders, conveying a sense of joy and closeness.

Zhang Liang was also very pleased to see this scene. In such a short period of time, the spiritual intelligence of this spiritual tree has at least doubled. After it completely absorbs the entire tree core, its spiritual intelligence will continue to grow, and it may even grow into a third-grade spiritual tree.

With this third-grade spiritual wood as the core of the formation, Zhang Liang was confident that he could set up a large formation that could resist the immortals on land. With the assistance of other formations, his Taoist temple would become the most solid barrier in the world.