Secret Realm

"Senior Brother, I've read plenty of books. Don't try to fool me." Little Fatty stared at Qin Yang with a look of horror...

No one knew how deep the abyss below was. It looked to be only a little over a hundred zhang across, perfectly rounded throughout, yet the river rushing down it had surged day and night without cease. Who knew how many years it had been flowing, and still it had not filled the abyss...

Even an idiot knew there had to be another world below, perhaps connected to underground water veins.

Moreover, they could hear only the flow of the river, not the thunderous roar of it striking the bottom. There was no telling what lay below...

Qin Yang shot Little Fatty a disdainful sidelong glance, then leaped forward with his arms spread wide and plunged into the abyss...

"For real?!" Little Fatty's eyelids twitched as he cried out. Gritting his teeth, he jumped down after Qin Yang.

The two of them kept falling, surrounded by pitch-black darkness. All they could see were smooth stone walls and the river rushing downward beside them.

Before long, the light overhead vanished. Qin Yang slowly adjusted his posture and dropped into the rushing river. Then he reached into his Storage Bag and pulled out a hardwood door panel, gripping it tightly with one hand as he sprawled gracelessly across it...

"Senior Brother..." The moment Little Fatty opened his mouth, the gale at his ears blew his saliva everywhere...

Qin Yang said nothing, merely signaling with his eyes for him to grab the door panel.

This time, Little Fatty did not doubt him. He obediently grabbed hold of the panel as well.

After continuing to fall for a while, Little Fatty noticed something was wrong...

Their descent seemed to be slowing, and despite having fallen for so long, the river had not scattered apart. It remained gathered together as it surged endlessly downward. The door panel seemed to truly be floating on the river's surface, pressed tightly against it as it carried them down.

Not long afterward, a faint speck of light appeared below. After several breaths, that speck grew larger and larger, eventually turning into a ball of light.

Clinging to the door panel, the two plummeted at high speed. The instant they passed through the ball of light, the radiance before them abruptly flared, dazzling them until they could not open their eyes.

Bang...

The two only felt their bodies jolt violently as they crashed into water...

They burst out from beneath the water and opened their eyes to look around. Both of them were somewhat dumbfounded.

Below them was a small pool, only a dozen or so zhang wide. Behind it was a small waterfall no more than several zhang high. Looking upstream along the flowing water, they could even see mountains and forests rising behind it, lush and verdant. Where was this pitch-black abyss?

"I knew it! I knew it!" Little Fatty swam shakily to the shore, muttering to himself without stop.

"What did you know?"

"This is a secret realm! That's right, the rumors from before were actually true!"

"If you've got something to say, say it. If you've got a fart, let it out." Qin Yang frowned...

Little Fatty gestured wildly, so excited that the fat all over his body quivered. His mouth had nearly split all the way to his ears...

"A secret realm! You don't even know what a secret realm is? I'm not familiar with the Purple Firmament Dao Lord. I only heard that he was a powerful expert who came from a very distant place, a Dao Lord with a title, one of the very strongest. As long as a powerhouse like that was not reduced to ashes on the spot, even if his divine soul collapsed, he would still have some time to settle his final affairs! This is it—a secret realm! This is where the Purple Firmament Dao Lord buried himself! After he underwent seated transcendence, his power dissipated and propped open the void, creating heaven and earth within it, bringing something out of nothing and evolving a secret realm, just like a real world, only not quite as perfect.

We entered through the entrance, crossing the void from our own world into the secret realm left behind by the Purple Firmament Dao Lord. I originally thought the news was just empty boasting, that at most it would be some residence left behind by a senior expert...

Who would have thought it was actually a secret realm? Even if this is not the Purple Firmament Dao Lord's Seated Transcendence Land, it must have been left behind by some other top-tier Titled Dao Lord. We're definitely rich this time! For a Titled Dao Lord, even a plucked leg hair would be thicker than our waists. If we get our hands on anything at all, we'll strike it rich!"

Little Fatty was practically drooling as he laughed loudly and charged out...

Qin Yang turned back for a look and finally understood. There truly was no cave entrance behind them. When they had fallen just now, their speed had clearly not been very fast, nor had the drop been very high. Otherwise, the two of them would have been smashed to death on the water's surface.

But they could enter through this abyss simply by jumping down and following the river. After all these years, could the Dole Ghost King really not know?

The entrance was right behind Ghost City, yet not the slightest word of it had spread over all these years. What exactly was going on? If there really were good things inside, the Dole Ghost King would not still be merely a Ghost King now. After all, according to the legends of Green Forest City, the Nether Acacia Ghost Tomb had existed for at least a thousand years, and that was only a conservative estimate...

Qin Yang suppressed the doubts in his mind and began calling upon the map in his head to confirm his location.

Little Fatty had vanished into the dense forest, but Qin Yang did not pay it any mind. He climbed ashore by himself, determined the direction, and headed downstream along the riverbank.

However...

Before he had gone far, an earth-shaking tiger roar came from the dense forest ahead of the pool...

In the silent dense forest, a violent gale suddenly rose. Demon Qi soared into the heavens as countless towering trees dozens of zhang high were swept up into the sky...

While those massive trees were still in midair, they seemed to have been sliced apart a thousand times, turning into fragments that scattered through the air along with branches and leaves.

At the edge of the dense forest, the vegetation shook violently. Little Fatty, pale-faced and stumbling over his own feet, burst out from within.

"Run! Fuck, who knows where this Demon General came from? It's completely insane! There are actually demons in the secret realm where the Purple Firmament Dao Lord underwent seated transcendence!"

Qin Yang's face darkened as he lowered his head and sprinted.

This was truly escaping the wolf's jaws only to enter the tiger's mouth!

Had he known, he would have been better off fighting that crazy woman. No matter how strong she was, she was only a ghost soldier. There was an even fiercer Demon General waiting below...

After sprinting for a while, they saw a black tiger burst out of the dense forest.

The black tiger was jet-black all over, its fur sleek and gleaming. It stood three zhang tall and nearly ten zhang long. Demon Qi surged around it, and it rode upon a demon wind. As it ran, its paws never touched the ground, and it was even three parts faster than a cultivator using Sword Flight...

Clouds followed the dragon; wind followed the tiger...

At this speed, it would catch them in no more than thirty breaths.

Qin Yang glared at Little Fatty and continued running with his head lowered. Before long, he suddenly changed direction and charged into the dense forest.

Little Fatty stamped his foot in anger. They could not escape even on open ground, yet Qin Yang dared to enter the dense forest? Did he not know that once inside, this black tiger would be far more familiar with the terrain than they were? Who could outrun this Demon Tiger in the forest?

Little Fatty ignored Qin Yang and kept sprinting on his own. Yet after only two breaths, he saw that the black tiger had not paid Qin Yang any attention at all and was chasing only him...

"Senior brother, wait for me!" Little Fatty's face darkened. He decisively changed direction and rushed into the dense forest after him...

Within the dense forest, Qin Yang ran while tossing out Burning Talismans, continuously setting the trees ablaze as though he intended to burn down the entire forest.

The flames blazed fiercely. The forest was dense, its grass and trees flourishing, and under the ignition of the Burning Talismans, it quickly caught fire. Before long, the dense forest had turned into a sea of flames.

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