Within the Heaven Mending Secret Realm, the Profound Heaven Sect members were still cautiously dismantling the formations. Despite having found some solutions, they could not avoid heavy losses.
"Hao Yu, two steps forward, three steps left!" an elder instructed.
The young cultivator whose name had been called stepped into the Magic Array. The first two steps posed no problem, but as he raised his foot again, disaster struck. A flash of sword light slashed down and hit him.
Fortunately, his protective jade talisman blocked the blow, shattering as it teleported him out. He had survived.
"This..." The others jumped in fright, a chill creeping down their backs. Without a jade talisman to save his life, their fellow disciple would have been cleaved in two.
At that moment, many realized that opportunities did not come easily. Lives had to be thrown into the breach.
"Continue. There's only a short stretch left. Fortune lies right before us!" the Profound Heaven Sect elder ordered.
This was the fruit of the efforts of predecessors who had entered the secret realm over successive generations, dismantling many of its Magic Arrays.
Yet some disciples hesitated. Everyone had only one life, and not everyone possessed a bone talisman. Only the sect's finest Heavenly Talents were entitled to carry one.
"Elder... why don't we catch a few small fry outside and make them scout the way?" a disciple suggested, truly frightened.
The Profound Heaven Sect elder pondered this. He had originally wanted to avoid such a measure, though not out of pity for unaffiliated cultivators.
Quite the opposite. To a great sect, the lives of outsiders merited no sympathy. If they died, they died.
What concerned them was word leaking out and attracting attention. It would be troublesome if someone discovered the secret here.
But with the restrictions