"You're wrong."
Fairy Lingyue smiled and shook her head.
"How am I wrong?"
Xu Taiping looked at her in bewilderment.
"Have you forgotten? I once told you that this Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm was personally refined by the Flame Emperor. How could that venerable elder have left such an opening for demon cultivators?"
Fairy Lingyue asked in return.
"Sister Lingyue, do you mean the second layer has restrictions that deal with demon cultivators?"
"The second layers of these nine secret realm fragments are actually cages for sealing demon cultivators. Ordinary cultivators can enter without much trouble, but any demon cultivator who enters will suffer a backlash."
Fairy Lingyue nodded.
Hearing this, Xu Taiping immediately felt reassured.
If the demon cultivators grew powerful, he would not be able to remain unscathed either.
"What are you planning to do next?"
Fairy Lingyue asked Xu Taiping.
"Of the Teleportation Array's three formation nodes, I've already activated the two at Pine Forest Valley and Emerald-Drop Cliff. That leaves only the Ice-Crystal Cave beneath the peak opposite us."
Xu Taiping turned to look toward the Ice-Crystal Cave.
Over the past day and night, his movements had gone fairly smoothly. Besides activating the two formation nodes at Pine Forest Valley and Emerald-Drop Cliff, he had also successfully obtained those Clam Pearls from Starfall Lake and gathered one set of ingredients for a Quenching Fire Pill. Now, he needed only the Spirit Marrow Liquid beneath Jade Gourd Peak and the jade bone grass beside the Blood Lake on the second layer.
"But the demon cultivators stationed guards there long ago. I need to find a way to lure them away."
He continued.
Fortunately, he had overheard those two demon cultivators talking while he was in the well that day. Otherwise, if he had rashly gone to the Ice-Crystal