Chen Fei's gaze shifted. At the roots of this Tree Demon, there were fluctuations unique to a secret realm.
This was a superior fourth-tier secret realm. The Tree Demon required considerable nourishment and needed this secret realm to sustain it, but at the same time, the Tree Demon's powerful nurturing abilities had made the environment within the secret realm increasingly suitable for cultivation.
There was also a fourth-tier secret realm near Qianyan City. Otherwise, Qianyan City could not have been established there, much less stood firm for several thousand years.
Though it was merely an inferior fourth-tier secret realm, it was already entirely sufficient for Qianyan City. If the secret realm's rank were any higher, Qianyan City's strength likely would not have been enough to defend it.
Whether in the Endless Sea or the Xianyun City of old, matters between martial artists had always been straightforward: the strong were revered.
Having something valuable in your hands was your good fortune. But if its value exceeded what you could protect, and others learned of it, the consequences would be difficult to predict.
The Yuan Chen Sword Sect now also possessed a share of Qianyan City's secret realm. It had practically taken over the entire share once held by the sects of Wu Renxu and the other man.
Some people within Qianyan City actually harbored a few reservations about this.
Your Yuan Chen Sword Sect might be strong, but directly taking nearly half of a fourth-tier secret realm—wasn't that going a little too far?
But after Demon King Nie Li arrived in Qianyan City, everyone else in the city had experienced firsthand exactly what kind of power the Yuan Chen Sword Sect possessed.
At once, no one in Qianyan City found it strange that the Yuan Chen Sword Sect held a share