By the time Lingzhao and I were standing before the Sealing Demon Secret Realm, Lingzhao was still wearing a thoroughly bewildered expression. She had no idea how she had ended up here. Seeing a group of grand elders and Lingnu and his wife already waiting there with beaming smiles, she said to me, "Brother Tian, this is so awkward. We're only copying the spirit-beast meridian patterns of the Sealing Demon Secret Realm, yet so many people are watching."
"Wouldn't everyone feel uneasy otherwise? Besides, isn't everyone being very friendly right now?" I replied. Moyu and his father were smiling happily at us, while the head of the Dao family and Daoyu gestured for us to hurry into the Sealing Demon Secret Realm.
"How could they not be friendly? They've even filled us up with spirit paste, let alone providing protection. Not even a single bug can get in now." Lingzhao giggled, then took the lead and went to copy the Spirit Vein.
Lingzhao's aptitude was excellent to begin with, so copying the Spirit Vein went very smoothly. Her meridian network extended much more steadily than Xianli's had before. This was probably because the cultivation method she practiced had been developed specifically in response to the profound thunder beast's Spirit Vein. Thus, when she copied the spirit beast's meridians, they naturally extended outward. Once she had a reference, everything fell into place.
This place was already the secret realm in the rear mountain. Dark clouds churned across the sky, thunder raged, and from time to time, scattered bolts of lightning slammed into the surrounding area,
Perhaps because of their origins, everyone had grown accustomed to the strange weather here. If someone from outside were disturbed while cultivating in a secret-realm world, even if they were not struck by lightning, inner demons