Outside the Secret Realm.
“Divine calculations, is there any way for me to see what’s happening inside the Secret Realm?”
[Divine calculations in progress… Due to the self-contained system of the Heavenly Dao within the Secret Realm, players cannot see what’s happening inside!]
[If you really want to see what’s happening, with your current balance and luck loss, you won’t be able to withstand it!]
“Alright.” Chen Huai’an helplessly spread his hands. He was really bored.
How nice would it be if he could see what was happening inside the Secret Realm? It would be like watching a movie.
He was so relaxed because he noticed that the survival rate of Qingran Baby under the main quest had reached 100%, and finally, a big stone in his heart had fallen. Even if the survival rate was 99.999%, he still felt uneasy before.
“Maybe I should just log out and take a break?”
Chen Huai’an looked around and felt there was no need to keep watching anymore.
His avatar was burning money every moment he was present.
Even with a billion, he couldn’t afford such extravagance.
Just as he was about to withdraw his avatar, a deafening roar suddenly came from the depths of the Ten Thousand Mountains.
This roar startled almost all the cultivators outside the Secret Realm.
Chen Huai’an squinted his eyes towards the direction of the sound and faintly sensed some demonic aura.
What the hell?
There were only righteous cultivators here, and someone dared to cause trouble?
But then, Chen Huai’an understood.
Now, the core disciples and geniuses of the sects had entered the Small Secret Realm.
The strongest forces of the sects—the sect leaders and elders—had mostly entered the Large Secret Realm.
Those left outside, apart from the three great sacred lands with deep roots, weren’t they just the old, weak, and sick?
Of course, he had to exclude himself.
If demonic cultivators caused trouble at this time, they could indeed catch the major sects off guard.
But would the three great sacred lands just sit idly by?
Chen Huai’an looked toward the arenas of the three great sacred lands. Just as he was pondering, something happened over there.
Three cultivators flew out from each of the three great sacred lands, all at the Integration Realm level.
“There’s demonic aura surging in the Ten Thousand Mountains!” said the Integration Realm expert from the True Martial Sacred Land.
He glared at the direction of the Ten Thousand Mountains, his white robe fluttering, and his killing intent boiling. He transmitted his voice to all the cultivators present: “During the opening period of the small and large secret realms, the defenses of the major sects are weak. I fear there might be demonic activities. Please, cultivators above the Soul Formation stage from the sects present, follow me to investigate and bear witness! The rest of the cultivators continue to stay and protect our disciples! Our three great sacred lands have countless strong cultivators who will ensure everyone’s safety!”
Most of the major sects had left only one or two Soul Formation cultivators behind to watch over the newbie disciples.
After hearing the elder’s transmission, several Soul Formation cultivators immediately responded to the call.
However, not all the sects were fools. Only one Soul Formation cultivator remained where they were.
Chen Huai’an left Sheng Xuan behind and soared into the sky on his sword.
Since all the Sword Pavilion disciples had entered the Secret Realm, there was no need for him to stay behind. He decided to join the commotion.
On the Bluecloud Sect side, Qingxuan Daoist was about to soar up when he was slapped down by the Bluecloud Ancestor like swatting a fly.
“What are you, a late-stage Soul Formation cultivator, doing here causing trouble? Guard the sect disciples, I’ll go!”
With that, the Bluecloud Ancestor’s figure flickered and flew towards Chen Huai’an’s direction.
Qingxuan Daoist lay in the pit he had created, staring blankly at the Bluecloud Ancestor’s moth-to-a-flame-like back, tears welling up in his eyes.
The True Martial Sacred Land elder waited for less than a breath of time,
barely gathering thirty people, and led them off towards the direction of the surging demonic aura.
“Up ahead, is that Daoist Chen?”
Chen Huai’an was leisurely flying when a delicate female voice suddenly rang out from behind, making him shiver.
In his memory, only those female streamers in reality would speak with such a voice.
This was the first time he heard such a suffocating voice in the Cangyun Realm.
Without thinking, he turned his head back, even more puzzled.
That was a female cultivator he hadn’t seen before. Her clothes and the token at her waist clearly showed she was from the Bluecloud Sect.
A female cultivator from the Bluecloud Sect, and she was at the Integration Realm level.
Shouldn’t it be like that…
Why did he have no impression of her at all?
Didn’t he remember that only the Bluecloud Ancestor was at the Integration Realm in the Bluecloud Sect?
Let’s see what’s going on.
As his gaze focused, basic information about the delicate-looking female cultivator appeared above her head.
[Bluecloud Ancestor — Rong Qingyun]
[Level: Mid-Integration Realm (with hidden injuries)]
[Age: 1273 years]
No way, right?
Chen Huai’an was stunned.
This lady?
Is this really that old woman, the Bluecloud Ancestor?
In front of him was clearly a tall, fair-skinned, beautiful young cultivator!
Seeing Chen Huai’an staring at her, Rong Qingyun couldn’t help blushing, feeling very pleased.
She secretly thought the Youth Preservation Pill was effective and also took pride in her youthful beauty in the past.
“Daoist Chen, do you remember who this old… cough, this young lady is?”
Chen Huai’an, looking at the young cultivator flying beside him, twitched his lips and stiffly said, “You, Bluecloud Ancestor?”
“Oh! Don’t call me Bluecloud Ancestor~ I am Rong Qingyun,” the Bluecloud Ancestor bowed to Chen Huai’an and sweetly smiled, “That day at the Bluecloud Sect, I reluctantly appeared as an old woman because I needed to maintain my stern image in front of the disciples~ Daoist Chen’s age should be close to mine, so you should understand the reasoning~”
“Haha, maybe I understand…” Chen Huai’an felt absurd and quickly accelerated to get away.
But the Bluecloud Ancestor stuck to him like glue, pulling random topics to chat.
Chen Huai’an didn’t believe a word the Bluecloud Ancestor said.
An over a thousand-year-old monster pretending to be young?
Even if the Bluecloud Ancestor had appeared as an elderly woman back then, he wouldn’t have any thoughts.
His Qingran Baby was a genuine, fresh-out-of-the-water young girl.
How could he compare a watered-down old woman with youth-preserving pills to that?
Moreover, the Bluecloud Ancestor’s behavior was clearly out of character.
She was a respected senior, yet she acted like a young maiden, which felt very out of place.
It was like a fifty-year-old woman on a live streaming platform trying to pass as a young girl through makeup and filters, while posting cringe videos.
Fortunately, Integration Realm cultivators flew very fast.
Everyone soon arrived above the mountain range where the demonic aura was coming from.
In the forest, the demonic aura was thick and oppressive, the miasma even eroded through the rock layers, exposing the lava-like traces on the mountain surface.
Amidst the demonic aura, hundreds of bronze pillars were driven into the cracks in the earth’s veins, with blood mist spewing from the cracks condensing into inverted blood clouds in mid-air.
Around the blood clouds, countless ravens were frolicking, and the noon sun distorted into rust-colored light as it fell into them…
“Who has set up such a powerful demonic array around the Secret Realm?!”
The expressions of the surrounding cultivators were grim.
Such a massive amount of demonic aura indicated that the array wasn’t set up for good purposes.
Could the target be to exterminate all the cultivators outside the Secret Realm?
The expression of the Integration Realm elder from the True Martial Sacred Land was even darker, his hand trembling violently under his robe, clearly enraged.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the situation is urgent! Regardless of the purpose of this array, let us work together to destroy it!”
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