Chapter 161

How could this get any worse? Gu Wufang thought. "It wasn't your sect's promising disciples who fell in, so of course you're not worked up! Open the secret realm and let them out. You don't want to provoke that Divine Venerable into coming out of seclusion, do you?"

Tang Ji certainly didn't, but... "To be honest, I don't have the key to open the secret realm. The passage in and out will only open automatically after the individual competition ends."

"Then think of something! And which Divine Venerable designed this secret realm...?"

Tang Ji nodded gloomily. "You guessed it. Mist Mountain God Venerable—the one with whom your sect's Dragon Venerable forged such an unbreakable bond."

Gu Wufang was speechless. Of course. Refining a secret realm was extraordinarily difficult. It required not only immense spiritual power, but also a profound understanding of the Great Dao. A Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator could barely attempt it, but only a Body Integration Divine Venerable could control it to this degree.

The Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect had only five Body Integration Divine Venerables, and Mist Mountain God Venerable was the only one skilled at crafting artifacts and creating things. It wasn't hard to guess.

"Then has the venerable elder...?"

"Mist Mountain God Venerable is still in seclusion. He doesn't know your Dragon Venerable took on a fine disciple, or that this disciple came to the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect, much less that he caught the eye of Heaven-Shattering Sword Light." If he knew, he'd come out of seclusion to hunt a dragon in a heartbeat, Tang Ji thought.

Of course, given that Dragon Venerable's strength, who knew who would end up hunting whom? Being sect master really wasn't easy.

"...So?"

"But now, who knows?" Tang Ji took a deep breath. "To be honest, your Dragon Venerable used