"Rustle!"
Yu Jing bounded rapidly between the highest branches.
Fang He, dressed in a long green dress and wearing round-framed glasses, sat on Yu Jing's shoulder, responsible for sensing the conditions in the forest within a one-kilometer radius... Due to the secret realm's self-awareness and the interference of certain life forms, her perception would grow faint once it exceeded one kilometer, while also causing Fang He's mental energy to drain at an alarming rate.
"There's a strong thermal reaction at three o'clock, approximately nine hundred meters away. At the same time, I've detected a Perfected Form ghost."
"At ten o'clock, five hundred meters away, I've detected three disciples."
"At five o'clock, there's a faint abnormal plant response. It's not of much use to me."
With the castle as the center, the farther they traveled from it, the wider the ring-shaped area they needed to search became, and the lower the odds of finding Green Marsh Lake.
The deeper he ventured into the secret realm, the more uneasy Yu Jing became. He always felt that something extraordinary was hiding within this boundless secret realm.
"Let's find the three disciples."
Yu Jing filtered through the important information Fang He had provided and rapidly approached the disciples, who were advancing cautiously.
"Who's there!"
A disciple with particularly strong perception sensed someone approaching. The entire group armed themselves and prepared for battle.
Unexpectedly, a young man wearing a hat walked out from between the trees, with a plain and pure-looking girl in glasses sitting on his shoulder.
"Yu Jing..."
All three disciples were from the Dihua Ability Institute, and one of them had been Yu Jing's classmate.
Because Yu Jing, Bai Xiao, and Ye Feng were too dazzling—even ranking among the top five in the Department Ranking—the others had been completely overshadowed by their