After returning home, Li Dalong met Ke Xialing, who had just returned from handling sect affairs on her mother's behalf. He prepared a medicinal meal with the Earth Baleful Golden Carp, and the three of them thoroughly enjoyed it.
Then they entered the Creation Cultivation Tower to refine and absorb it. All three had advanced recently, so this was a good opportunity to continue secluded cultivation and raise their cultivation levels.
They agreed to enter seclusion together. Whoever emerged first could attend to their own affairs, go sightseeing, or venture out for experience.
After all, everyone's talent and cultivation efficiency differed. At this stage, their main priority was still to improve their cultivation, especially since the two women were only at the early-stage Golden Immortal level and counted as low-level cultivators in the Immortal Realm.
All three entered secluded cultivation, and more than a year passed in the Immortal Realm.
Nothing major happened during that time, but in the second year, the Netherworld Secret Realm was turned upside down.
It even caused upheaval in the Immortal Realm.
While hunting demon beasts in the Netherworld Secret Realm, a cultivator from a small sect accidentally discovered some ancient ruins. After a brief investigation, he found that they were the grounds of an ancient sect, and an enormous one at that.
They had originally been hidden by a formation. Perhaps unable to withstand the erosion of time, the ancient sect's great array had exhausted its energy, and its concealment formation had become unstable. That was what allowed him to discover the ruins by chance and enter them.
Although the defensive formation outside this ancient sect was about to fail, the formations inside had barely weakened. His cultivation was only at the early-stage Golden Immortal level, so there were very few formations he could