Profound Dharma of Bodhi, Just in a Dream

Mao Hour.

Dawn slowly broke, and the sky grew faintly bright.

The Old Devils of Five Cities and Twelve Mountains stirred restlessly.

A profound, obscure spatial fluctuation spread outward. Behind the invisible void, something seemed to overlap with the real world.

The Secret Realm had appeared in the world.

Here, "appearing in the world" did not mean the Secret Realm had unfastened its belt and allowed anyone to come and go freely. Only those holding the Gravekeeper's Ink Character Token could open the gate.

Lu Bei possessed the Artistic Conception of Unity of Heaven and Man. His perception was powerful, allowing him to see many things ordinary cultivators could not.

For instance, the hazy gate before him. The Secret Realm was still sealed, and its true form could not be seen clearly. It had not truly merged into Heaven and Earth. Since it did not exist within them, it could not be sealed by them either.

With his less-than-abundant common knowledge of the Immortality Cultivation World, Lu Bei suspected that the reason the Secret Realm was isolated from the outside world was that the Secret Realm itself had been sealed.

The gate's leakage, the seal's failure, and changes in the mandate of Heaven were closely connected. Following some sort of pattern, it was slowly merging into Heaven and Earth and gradually revealing its true form to the world.

One-Meter-Two stood beside Lu Bei, with Shi Wuchang and Daoist Zhunti behind him.

Behind them, a row of ten masked assassins knelt on one knee—six men and four women. They came in every shape and size, with two especially tiny figures who were even a head shorter than Tu Yuan, One-Meter-Two.

The Heavenly Camp's Seven Kill Blood Guards.

All ten were proficient in secret arts of concealing their aura and changing their