"He agreed to exchange it for a Key Fragment of the Yin-Yang Creation Secret Realm."
Gu Changsheng spoke slowly.
"The Yin-Yang Creation Secret Realm?"
Lu Ren was surprised.
Gu Hanxiao, beside him, was even more shocked. "Eighteenth Ancestor, did the Thousand-Lifetime Devil Ancestor truly agree?"
"If he hadn't, would I have let the matter rest?"
Gu Changsheng smiled faintly.
"What exactly is the Yin-Yang Creation Secret Realm?"
Lu Ren pressed curiously.
Gu Hanxiao immediately explained, "Legend says it's a mysterious realm formed by the creation of heaven and earth. Those who enter can gain a great fortune. Back then, the Ancestor of Myriad Immortals, Li Wangsheng, entered it with his Dao Companion, Luo Nianci. When they emerged, both had reached the Perfected Dao Fruit!"
"What?"
Lu Ren started.
"According to them, it holds a truly great fortune. They spent only a hundred years inside before successfully reaching the Perfected Dao Fruit," Gu Hanxiao added.
A hundred years!
Lu Ren's heart shook.
He had been in the Late-Stage Nine-Step Supreme Realm for over a hundred years. During that time, he had fought several experts with Perfected Dao Fruit, yet he still had no idea how to reach that level himself.
He needed to cultivate his Chaos Dao Fruit to perfection, comprehend the Immortal Path Origin through his own Chaos Minor Dao, and master its power completely.
The Late-Stage Nine-Step Supreme Realm seemed just one step from that point, but that single step had trapped countless cultivators.
As far as Lu Ren knew, even someone as powerful as Gu Changsheng had taken over ten thousand years to advance from the Late-Stage Nine-Step Supreme Realm to the Perfected Dao Fruit.
Yet the Yin-Yang Creation Secret Realm could let a cultivator reach it in a mere hundred years!
"After Li Wangsheng and his Dao