Shadow One and the others were first shocked by the sights within the Secret Realm upon entering, followed immediately by tension and vigilance.
"Alright, the Moonview Mountain Secret Realm is not considered a very dangerous secret realm, but you still cannot lower your guard. I have already told you about the Immortal Spring before coming, but you must rely on yourselves to find its specific location. The only thing I can tell you is that the Immortal Spring should be inside a valley."
After hearing Xue Fuyao's words, Shadow One said solemnly, "Your Highness, we will definitely find the Immortal Spring and not live up to your expectations of us."
"Do not celebrate too early. Wherever there is treasure, there are bound to be guardian spirit beasts, so it is best not to clash head-on."
As she spoke, Xue Fuyao produced some healing and detoxifying pills and distributed them to the group, leaving the rest to depend on themselves.
"Your Highness, what will you do if we all leave? Why don't I stay behind to protect you?" Shadow One said with some unease.
"No need. Your finding the Immortal Spring is more useful than any protection, and I also have my own matters to attend to."
After dismissing the Shadow Guards, Xue Fuyao also began searching all around.
Feeling the spiritual qi in the air, she sensed that even without actively cultivating, staying within such dense spiritual qi would soon lead to natural Qi Gathering, and this was even with her deliberately suppressing it.
She could only say it truly lived up to being an undeveloped secret realm; everything inside was in its primordial state.
Soon, under Xue Fuyao's search, she found a hidden cave. After confirming there was no danger whatsoever inside, she walked into the cave and took out the stone statue from the Space Ring.
The stone statue made a dull thud upon contact with the ground.
At that moment, a hammer appeared in Xue Fuyao's hand, and she then struck forcefully against the body of the stone statue.
After striking it continuously several times, several fine cracks appeared on the body of the stone statue, seeing which, Xue Fuyao immediately hammered even harder.
After a long time, under her efforts, the original stone statue turned into a pile of rubble.
And amidst this pile of rubble, Xue Fuyao found a seemingly unremarkable stone bead.
Strange, the emergence of the Heavenly Eye in her past life had stirred up quite a commotion, so why was it so quiet this time?
Pondering for a moment without figuring it out, she simply stopped thinking about it.
Xue Fuyao picked up that stone bead, gently wiped the dust off the surface with her hand, and then carefully placed it in the center of her palm like cradling the most precious treasure, the smile on her face simply impossible to suppress.
After her excited emotions completely calmed down, Xue Fuyao took out a gem-inlaid dagger from the Storage Bag.
Taking out a mirror, she used the dagger to carve an opening right in the center of her glabella, and blood quickly flowed out along the wound.
Seeing this, Xue Fuyao did not hesitate at all, swiftly pressing the stone bead in her hand against the wound on her forehead.
The moment the stone bead made contact with the wound, the blood from the wound was absorbed clean.
Not only that, Xue Fuyao could clearly perceive the fresh blood within her body crazily flowing toward the stone bead along the wound on her forehead.
At this time, the originally gray stone bead had transformed from its original appearance into a bright red color due to absorbing a large amount of fresh blood, with golden light interwoven within the red-this was the true appearance of the Heavenly Eye.
After an unknown length of time, the Heavenly Eye finally stopped absorbing blood, and Xue Fuyao, whose face was somewhat pale by now due to excessive blood loss, breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the next second, she felt a sharp pain wash over her forehead, as if something were about to forcibly rip her forehead apart.
"So painful!"
Xue Fuyao lay on the ground and groaned in agony, her hands clutching her forehead tightly as blood flowed out between her fingers and stained the ground.
After an unknown amount of time, the pain caused Xue Fuyao to completely lose consciousness.
Before losing consciousness, she thought with some relief that thankfully she had previously camouflaged the cave entrance, and if she had known, she would have just let Shadow One stay behind to protect her...
After an unknown length of time, when Xue Fuyao regained consciousness once more, the sky outside had grown completely dark.
Xue Fuyao did not know how long she had been unconscious, but the pain in her forehead had vanished.
She wanted to stand up, but the wave of weakness coming from her body made even moving a finger feel extremely difficult.
Lying down continuously from dark to daylight, Xue Fuyao finally managed to recover some strength, took a pill out of the Space Ring, and tremblingly shoved the pill into her mouth.
After swallowing the pill, Xue Fuyao's complexion began to grow ruddy at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At this point, she finally had the strength to examine her current condition.
After undergoing a round of checks, Xue Fuyao discovered with pleasant surprise that she had actually successfully completed Qi Gathering, and her cultivation base had directly reached the second layer of the Qi Refining stage.
One had to know that in her past life, it had taken her a full three years just to cultivate to the second layer of the Qi Refining stage.
Aside from her cultivation base, what surprised her the most was naturally the Heavenly Eye.
Xue Fuyao touched her own forehead. From the outside, there was nothing there, but she knew that the Heavenly Eye had already fused into one with her at this moment.
Furthermore, the abilities of the Heavenly Eye were even more powerful than she had known; besides seeing through delusions, being able to pierce the disguises and illusions of certain demons and ghosts, it could also see through formation arrays.
The Heavenly Eye could also perceive essence, spotting the weaknesses of cultivators, ferocious beasts, or Dharma Treasures, and could also be used for appraising treasures.
Lastly was the offensive power.
The Heavenly Eye could emit a beam of light, and wounds inflicted by being struck by this beam could not heal.
Xue Fuyao fondled her forehead affectionately over and over again-very good, self-preservation means and trump cards plus one.
Changing out of the clothes soaked in blood and sweat on her body and putting on a clean set anew, Xue Fuyao walked out of the cave.
"Who knows how much time has passed, and if Shadow One and the others have found the Immortal Spring."
Xue Fuyao looked all around her. Such a rare opportunity-such dense spiritual qi could not be wasted.
She found another location abundant in spiritual qi and began cultivating.
Anyway, there were only a few of them inside the Secret Realm right now, which was equivalent to the resources of the entire secret realm belonging solely to them.
You must know that such an opportunity was very difficult even for those disciples of aristocratic clans to possess.
After all, the first lesson for disciples of aristocratic clans was to prioritize the lineage, and upon discovering a secret realm, they would definitely report it to the lineage at the very first moment.
Then the lineage would lead a team to develop and exploit the secret realm.
Usually, after going through a set of procedures, the resources within the secret realm had already been looted seven or eight-tenths over.
The moment Xue Fuyao closed her eyes, she perceived the surrounding spiritual qi beginning to vie with each other to rush toward her, drilling continuously into her body.
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