Chapter 336 – The secret realm is too dangerous
Chapter 336 – The Secret Realm Is Just Too Dangerous
In the deserted palace.
Lu Xuan’s figure was like floating light as he swept by at great speed.
As early as when he was in the Pill Garden, he had detected a hint of something wrong in this secret realm.
From the information of the mutated spirit species, he had learned that the fifth grade Multi-Life Peach had been affected by the evil aura invasion for a long period of time, thus mutating into a Multi-Life Peach.
This indicated that there was an evil presence in the secret realm, and the aura was extraordinary.
After entering the jade house, the four treasures caused a lot of scrambling, Lu Xuan also sensed the inner mystery.
Instead of the four treasures being sealed by the restraints, it was more like sealing the countless black qi at the bottom.
And the four treasures, as could be seen from the external divinities, acted on the black qi in the form of absorption, suppression, and refinement respectively.
These factors in tandem meant that there was an extremely powerful evil existence hidden in the black qi at the bottom, and breaking open the prohibition and taking out the treasures naturally released the evil aura inside.
Lu Xuan didn’t give it a chance to recover its strength to catch its breath, directly opening the fifth grade Pure Yang True Flame Talisman, using the remnant soul of the Golden Crow inside to release the pure Yang flames that were the most masculine and the most rigid, and burned out the evil aura inside in one go.
As for using up the Golden Crow Remnant Soul’s precious opportunity in the secret realm like this, Lu Xuan didn’t feel much pity, anyway, he could still recharge it with the Pure Yang Flame after using it up.
Most of all, it was important to save his little life.
During the process of leaving the deserted island, Lu Xuan realized that the island already had the figures of many family cultivators and loose cultivators.
He found a remote corner and removed his Fourth Grade Thousand Devourer Guile Face, regaining his identity as an ordinary Spiritual Planter.
Without further delay, he directly passed through the broken water wall and returned to the Song Family’s treasure ship.
“Master Lu, you’ve finally come out!”
The moment Song Family Head Song Yu saw Lu Xuan’s figure, his entire body immediately relaxed.
Although he had great confidence in Lu Xuan, he had been apprehensive in his heart.
If Lu Xuan had an accident in the secret realm and was seriously injured or even fell, then he would not be able to explain to the Heavenly Sword Sect.
“Well, by a fluke, I survived.”
Lu Xuan sat down and said calmly.
“Can Senior Uncle find any chance in the secret realm?”
Song Yu probed.
“There are too many Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and there are quite a few in there whose cultivation is far stronger than mine, so it’s already considered good to be able to come out safely.
As for the chance, it’s just settling a few third-grade demonic beasts and obtaining some spirit medicines and spirit seeds.”
Lu Xuan said casually.
He described the Ice Illusion Toad and the strange stone formations in detail to the Song Clan cultivators so that they could take a less crooked path after entering.
“Fellow Daoist Song, I didn’t expect to see you again outside the Secret Realm.”
Not long after Lu Xuan returned, Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu both came jointly, and their expressions both relaxed quite a bit upon seeing Lu Xuan.
“Where did Fellow Daoist Lu go after passing through the Stone Maze? How come I haven’t seen any sign of you?”
The three of them exchanged what they had seen and heard in the secret realm with each other, and Zhou Bingyu asked curiously.
“After I went through all the trouble and walked out of that weird stone formation, I had wanted to go directly inside the palace to meet up with the two fellow Daoists and search for treasures.”
“But I didn’t expect that one of the Spirit Insects that I usually keep suddenly had an abnormal reaction.”
“I followed the spirit bug’s pointing and entered a desolate medicine garden and found some spirit species of spirit medicine.”
Lu Xuan said without changing his face.
“After searching the medicinal garden thoroughly, the timing of entering the palace was already much slower than most cultivators, and I just turned around at the bottom of the palace.”
“Behind wanted to go to the core area above to take a look, stumbled upon a passage where more than one Foundation Establishment cultivator had died, and there was a powerful aura fluctuation above the palace, and weighed the situation again and again, only had no choice but to give up, and turned to the rest of the Mysterious Realm, to hunt and kill demonic beasts, and to search for spiritual medicines.”
Lu Xuan said half-truthfully. “The two of us did stay at the top of the palace for a long time.”
Shi Zhong nodded gently.
“The two Fellow Daoists are worthy of being from a great clan, dragons and phoenixes among men, able to capture the opportunity treasures from those mid- and even late-stage cultivators with their pre-Base Establishment cultivation.”
“I don’t know what kind of chance treasures the two fellow Daoists obtained inside? Is it possible to let Mister Lu see it?”
Lu Xuan praised and inquired.
“Fellow Daoist Lu is too kind.”
A hint of extremely subtle embarrassment flashed in Shi Zhong’s eyes.
“Although the two of us entered the core of the secret realm together, our strength was among the bottom of the list among several cultivators, and although we tried our best to fight for it, in the end we couldn’t snatch up those powerful loose cultivators in the middle and late stages of Foundation Establishment.”
“Really, in that case, it’s rather unfortunate.”
Lu Xuan said in a tone of incomparable regret.
“The treasures are close at hand, yet we have lost touch with them, two fellow Daoists, alas ……”
“It’s a pity that my strength is low and I don’t have the qualifications to be able to compete for the treasures, otherwise, under the joint efforts with the two fellow Daoists, I might be able to capture one or two high-grade treasures.”
He finally sighed.
“It’s already great that fellow Daoist Lu has this intention.”
Shi Zhong said mildly.
“As for regret, although it is unavoidable, it is still acceptable, after all, the gap in strength is too great, and there are quite a lot of treasures on our bodies, and our hearts are not so urgent.”
“The main thing is to be able to save our lives.”
“Fellow Daoist Lu you don’t know how much of a crisis the situation was at that time, apart from the two of us, the rest of us were all in the middle to late stage of Foundation Establishment cultivation.”
“There was another one who was particularly detestable, on the surface, his cultivation was comparable to ours, but in actuality, he possessed a powerful sword talisman that could easily kill a mid Foundation Establishment cultivator, and he resolved a mid Foundation Establishment cultivator in a single glance!”
Shi Zhong gritted his teeth and said, extremely displeased with that last strange cultivator’s behavior of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.
“A sword talisman that can easily kill a mid Foundation Establishment cultivator? Even in the Heavenly Sword Sect, it’s a rare treasure, I didn’t expect it to appear in this secret realm.”
Lu Xuan inwardly viewed Shi Zhong’s attitude like this as envy and jealousy towards himself, and spoke in a conciliatory tone.
“I don’t know what the outcome of their fight was in the end. Who did those four treasures end up going to ……”
“Looking at the power of that pure white flame at the end, quite a few cultivators should have fallen.”
Shi Zhong sighed lightly.
“According to what Fellow Daoist Shi said, more than one mid-to-late Foundation Establishment cultivator died in the secret realm.”
Lu Xuan gently shook his head.
“The Secret Realm is simply too dangerous, and it would be more appropriate for someone like me to cultivate spirit plants and raise spirit beasts.”
A trace of lingering fear flashed across his face as he said in a self-deprecating manner, as if he was very grateful to have come back safely from the Secret Realm and picked up a life.
“The most important things in the secret realm have already been pretty much discovered, and entering again will only allow us to hunt some demonic beasts and obtain spirit medicines and materials, but nothing else is to be presumed for now.”
Shi Zhong summarized.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, both of us need to go back and recuperate, and when the storm in the Secret Realm calms down after some time, we will find you to go fishing for sea fish and sea beasts.”
“By the way, there is also the Spirit Extracting True Liquid that I promised you before, which I had already obtained on a small island before entering the Secret Realm, so it’s just right to take this opportunity to give it to you all together.”
Shi Zhong took out a bottle of Spirit-clearing Liquid from his storage bag.
(End of Chapter)