"Of course it's the things you need to prepare to enter the secret realm." Gu Nian looked at Xue Fuyao with some exasperation, while inwardly gaining a new appreciation for her martial uncle's unreliability.
"Weapons, pills for healing and recovering spiritual power, talismans, and a flying magical treasure-have you prepared all of these?"
Because only cultivators in the Golden Core Stage could fly on swords, cultivators in the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages who wanted to fly either had to rely on their own two feet or use a flying magical treasure.
After hearing this, Xue Fuyao understood what Gu Nian was asking, and hastily said, "I've prepared them all."
She had taken a look inside the storage bag her master gave her earlier when she arrived; inside was a soft sword that was entirely silver-white and radiated a chilling light, a flying magical treasure, and plenty of pills and talismans. These were enough to last her a long time.
Besides these, her master had also prepared a jade pendant for her to carry on her person. The pendant could withstand a full-strength strike from a Spirit Transformation cultivator, and at the same time, it contained three strands of his sword Qi.
With these things, Xue Fuyao could walk sideways without obstruction inside the Qingfeng Secret Realm.
Hearing her say this, Gu Nian's expression improved quite a bit.
Fortunately, her martial uncle wasn't truly that unreliable.
After absorbing a good deal of experience from Gu Nian, Xue Fuyao left in satisfaction.
Upon returning to her cave abode, Xue Fuyao felt the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet on her wrist tremble.
Immediately she raised her wrist, looked at the black hollowed-out bracelet on her wrist, and said in a soothing tone, "I know you're hungry, but I don't have anything here to feed you right now. When we enter the Qingfeng Secret Realm, there are bound to be plenty of Monster Beasts in there. At that time I will definitely let you eat your fill, all right?"
Seeing the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet finally quiet down, Xue Fuyao breathed a sigh of relief.
When she first brought the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet back, completed blood-recognition, and refined it, she discovered a problem that was neither big nor small.
That was, the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet seemed to be injured.
No wonder the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet returned to her hands after being inspected by so many high-cultivation cultivators; probably not only because they failed to see through the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet, but also because the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet at this time was in a battle-damaged state, and repairing it was extremely difficult.
Fortunately, after binding it through a contract, Xue Fuyao observed with her Heavenly Eye that this Demon-Suppressing Bracelet had existed for a long time. Although it had not given birth to a spirit, it had birthed a trace of faint spiritual intelligence.
However, this spiritual intelligence was extremely faint, possessing only the most basic instinctual behaviors, and could not yet communicate.
Even so, that was enough. Magical treasures that had birthed spiritual intelligence were able to repair their damaged bodies autonomously, and did not even require their master to constantly make attempts; they knew for themselves what they needed.
What the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet needed was Monster Beast Inner Cores and flesh and blood, and in large quantities-the higher the level, the better. But Xue Fuyao had been inside the Yuanji Sect all this time and usually could not come into contact with Monster Beasts at all. The chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits she usually ate could only be considered minor spirit beasts.
Therefore, the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet had simply had to go hungry all along.
Early the next morning.
Xue Fuyao followed Gu Nian and other disciples to head toward the location of the Qingfeng Secret Realm.
Upon boarding the spirit boat, Xue Fuyao caught sight at a glance of Ye Qinxuan and Ye Qinfei, who were staying far apart from each other.
Ye Qinfei also noticed Xue Fuyao. A flash of chilliness swiftly flitted across her pair of phoenix eyes, and then she quickly returned to normal, unconcernedly looking around as if nothing had happened just moments before.
Unfortunately, that trace of killing intent was still captured by Xue Fuyao.
Because she had been hunted down continuously in her previous life, she was extremely sensitive to things like killing intent.
Xue Fuyao, who had long known Ye Qinfei's true face, did not show much surprise at the fact that the other person harbored murderous intent toward her.
As one of the people who also participated in hunting her down in the previous life, she had never intended to let the other person off from the very beginning.
After all, if one wanted to walk smoothly all the way on the path of cultivation, the most important thing was not to generate any bad karma; and for Xue Fuyao, the greatest karma was undoubtedly her past life.
In order for her cultivation path to proceed unimpeded, these pieces of karma were ones she had to settle.
Aside from Ye Qinfei, Ye Qinxuan also discovered her. Yet the gaze with which she looked at her was extremely strange-pity, guilt, wariness... Wait, why was there guilt?
Along the way, Ye Qinxuan kept wanting to strike up a conversation with Xue Fuyao, except that she kept close to Gu Nian, giving her no opportunity to approach at all.
Three days later, the spirit boat finally reached its destination. At this time, the people from the Kunlun Sect had already arrived ahead of them.
From afar, upon seeing those three identical faces among the Kunlun Sect, Xue Fuyao could not help widening her eyes.
Zhang Yizhi, Zhang Hongzhi, and Zhang Qizhi were triplets who were extremely rare even in the Cultivation Realm. The three of them looked completely identical, and ever since childhood they had been inseparable, doing everything together.
Furthermore, these three possessed a special ability-telepathy. Without relying on any magical treasures, they could communicate with the other two across a distance of ten thousand miles, and they could also transmit their memories to one another. When one of them encountered danger, the other two would also sense it.
In her previous life, Xue Fuyao had suffered terribly at the hands of these three; she had not expected to meet them here in this life.
However, how was it she remembered that these three were not disciples of the Kunlun Sect in her previous life?
Just as doubt arose in Xue Fuyao's heart, a nearby disciple provided the answer.
"It's like this again this time. The Kunlun Sect is after all a major sect capable of rivaling our Yuanji Sect, yet they're so short of money that they even sold off the slots to enter the secret realm-and this person sold so many at once."
"Keep your voice down, don't let the disciples of the Kunlun Sect hear you."
"So what if they hear? If they dare to do it, do they not even let people talk about it!"
Hearing the conversation between these two, Xue Fuyao finally understood the reason why those three people appeared here even though they were not Kunlun Sect disciples.
She glanced at the three of them, then quickly lowered her gaze. She originally had not planned to make a move against the Zhang family so quickly, but the opportunity was too rare.
She knew all too well how formidable these three Zhang brothers were. At that time their cultivation had already reached the late Foundation Establishment stage, and they were about to enter the Golden Core Stage.
Looking at their cultivation now, they had only just entered the Foundation Establishment stage; it was precisely a good time to deal with them.
Yet due to the special nature of these three, she had to root them out completely all at once.
As the leader for the Yuanji Sect this time, Gu Nian brought Xue Fuyao and walked toward one of the Kunlun Sect disciples.
"Senior Brother Yan, long time no see."
"Junior Sister Gu, long time no see. You've gotten even prettier. Is this little beauty by your side your master's newly accepted disciple?" Yan Changxi inspected Xue Fuyao with a pair of fox eyes.
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