Entering the Lesser Secret Realm

Entering the Lesser Secret Realm

"This old man still hopes you'll go out and see the world. But your strength is low. Whether you go or not is up to you."

"Really? Thank you, Master Wen. I'll go!"

A lesser secret realm was not something one encountered easily. Moreover, her constitution required a vast amount of heavenly treasures and earthly herbs. Perhaps she might gain something within the secret realm.

She had a faint feeling that she would reap a fine harvest this time.

Her sixth sense had been accurate back on Blue Star, and now its accuracy seemed to have doubled!

The next day...

Jiang Lu followed the others to the outside of the secret realm. Before the dense forest lay a vast ring of light, glowing white, with intense fluctuations of aura rippling across it.

She found an inconspicuous corner closer to the secret realm's entrance and crouched down.

She said to Chi Li and Cangchen in the cloth pouch at her waist, "You two bear with it a little longer. Once we're inside the secret realm, you can move around!"

She secretly sighed. The past few months had been hard on the two spirit beasts. Although they could move about in the courtyard, they were still far too small.

There was another reason she had come: to see whether there might be an opportunity to conceal her cultivation. Legend had it that there was a spiritual plant called Silvermoon Grass. Consuming it could hide one's cultivation, though people had only ever seen it within secret realms.

During the test that day, He Xiao had only been twenty and was merely at Qi Refinement, Fourth Level. Even so, she was already considered one of the stronger disciples here.

Senior Sister Moonshadow was thirty and at Qi Refinement, Sixth Level.

Master Wen was sixty and at Qi Refinement, Seventh Level.

At their ages, they were only at the middle stages of Qi Refinement. Yet in just a few months, she had gone from sensing Qi and entering the body straight to Qi Refinement, Second Level. If someone with ulterior motives discovered this, she did not dare imagine what a storm it would stir up.

This only made her more certain that her constitution was extraordinary.

Watching the forces continually approach the secret realm's entrance, she saw quite a few Foundation Establishment Lineages send people over. Several groups even belonged to the City Lord's Manor. Other than that, there were also many Rogue Cultivators.

Quite a few disciples of Medicine King Pavilion had chosen to enter alone, just like her. After all, if they acted together, they could only keep a small portion of the resources they obtained, while most had to be handed over to the pavilion.

By evening, the afterglow of the setting sun turned the white light above the secret realm's entrance into a dazzling rainbow. A burst of startled cries rang out, and the crowd surged around them.

Jiang Lu looked up and saw the white light flicker. A white door gradually emerged, slowly opening as a crisp cry sounded.

The people before the secret realm's entrance immediately rushed inside, fighting to be first.

Jiang Lu instantly rose from the ground and squeezed in from her corner.

"Hold on! Hold on!"

Chi Li cried out with reddened eyes, clutching the cloth pouch tightly together with Cangchen. Their tiny bodies were squeezed into a ball.

Then Jiang Lu felt a powerful suction force and vanished from where she stood.

When Jiang Lu opened her eyes, she discovered she was rapidly falling through the air. She let out a startled cry.

"Wait! No!"

Bang—

She crashed into a tree, as if she could hear her bones collide with the trunk and shatter.

She had said no!

Even falling into water would have been better!

She continued tumbling down along the branches before finally getting caught on a thick limb. The two little ones in the cloth pouch fell out. After hopping a few times, they landed steadily on the ground.

They stared up at Jiang Lu with two pairs of wide eyes. Her expression stiffened awkwardly. Spiritual energy flashed in her hand, severing the branch, and with a few light taps of her toes, she landed firmly below.

There were no cultivators in sight. It seemed the secret realm had scattered them randomly across different locations. Once it ended, it would send them all out together.

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This way, they could avoid having their resources snatched by cultivators at the secret realm's entrance. If they were robbed after leaving, then they could only count themselves unlucky.

"Master, let's go that way."

Cangchen said to Jiang Lu. As a dragon, he possessed an innate sense for treasures.

Seeing Cangchen beat her to it, Chi Li gave a light snort and fluttered her wings onto Jiang Lu's shoulder.

As Jiang Lu walked, she observed her surroundings. Suddenly, she noticed droppings on the ground. There were likely demon beasts nearby.

Her footsteps softened. The farther forward she went, the more droppings she saw. The demon beasts were likely ahead.

Parting the two leaves before her, Jiang Lu saw several demon beasts not far away. They were Smallfoot Beasts.

Smallfoot Beasts were first-grade demon beasts, named for their small feet and swift speed. Their meat was delicious, making them the preferred spirit beast meat among cultivators. One could sell for one hundred to two hundred low-grade spirit stones.

"You two go left and right. I'll stay behind. The three of us will surround it!"

"Yes, Master!"

Chi Li and Cangchen nodded. With a leap, they reached both sides. Hmph, such a tiny demon beast would not even have caught their eye in the past!

Once they regained their true forms, merely releasing a burst of pressure would make these creatures kneel and beg for mercy.

But now—

Best not to mention it.

Jiang Lu sent a streak of green spiritual energy toward the Smallfoot Beast, and Chi Li and Cangchen swiftly followed.

Chi Li opened her mouth and spat a blaze before the Smallfoot Beast. Its ears twitched. Sensing danger, it tried to flee backward.

After running a few steps, it came face-to-face with Jiang Lu.

The spiritual energy in Jiang Lu's hand continuously lashed toward it. It dodged left and right, trying to break out, only to be blocked by a pillar of water before it.

Then Jiang Lu sent another blast of spiritual energy at it, knocking it to the ground. She immediately slew it. The Smallfoot Beast's legs twitched a few times before it finally died.

Jiang Lu was about to store the Smallfoot Beast in her space when she suddenly saw Cangchen and Chi Li. What if they discovered the space? If her strength grew powerful in the future, she might not necessarily keep the contracts. They could not be allowed to know her secret.

But she would have to use the space eventually. They spent every day together, and there would always be moments when she slipped up. Her brows drew tightly together.

Just as she was hesitating, a voice suddenly appeared in her mind.

"Master, bring them in. It'll be fine!"

Jiang Lu looked utterly bewildered. What was speaking?

Bring them in?

Could it be the space?

After hesitating for a moment, she moved her thoughts and brought the three of them into the space.

The instant they entered, Cangchen and Chi Li immediately fainted onto the ground.

"Who are you?"

Jiang Lu could not sense any other presence. She called out in every direction, then saw a small ball of light fly out from the spiritual plant she had seen before. It drifted lightly over and circled Jiang Lu twice.

"Master~"

The voice was soft, carrying a trace of childishness.

"Are you the spirit of this space?"

Jiang Lu suddenly realized that besides the two spirit beasts, she had only contracted the space. The only thing in the space she had yet to discover was the space spirit, whose aura blended into that of the space itself.

"Mhm, mhm, mhm!"

A cheerful voice rang out. Master recognized it—how embarrassing~

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