The Core Area

"Big brother, big brother, I was wrong. Let's talk this out, don't resort to knives and swords." The black Pixiu was almost in tears. Why was this guy so stubborn?

Without wasting words, Shen Ge tossed out a scroll and said, "Sign it."

"What is this?" the black Pixiu asked cautiously.

"Master-Servant Scroll"

"Brother, can we not sign?"

"So it seems you want to see what's behind you."

"No, no, no, I'll sign it, okay?"

The black Pixiu, barely alive, spat out a mouthful of Essence Blood onto the scroll, which immediately emitted a faint light, which then entered Shen Ge's body.

Shen Ge closed his eyes and sensed for a moment. Once he was sure he could control the other party's life and death, he threw the little thing away.

"Now, lead the way."

After learning a little about the situation inside, Shen Ge decided to go in and take a look. Besides, now that he had taken this first step, the rest wouldn't be a problem.

After spinning a few times in the air, the black Pixiu landed steadily on the ground. Then it stood up and touched the wounds on its body that had healed.

"Let's go, brother, I'll take you there."

About half an incense stick later, a person and a beast passed through the white mist and entered another area. The spiritual energy here was much more abundant than outside, more than twice as strong.

"This concentration of Spiritual Qi should be enough to sustain me until I break through to the Spirit Severing Realm," Shen Ge exclaimed in admiration.

"That's right, don't you know whose territory this is? My mother is Peak Body Integration Realm expert, just one step away from reaching the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. How could the secret realm she created be anything less than excellent?" the Black Pixiu said arrogantly.

"Black Coal Ball, can he open such a large secret realm at the Body Integration Realm? That can't be right, this secret realm is almost half the size of the Luo Heaven Sea."

Faced with Shen Ge's question, the black Pixiu stood up and shook its head, explaining, "Ordinary Body Integration Realm experts naturally couldn't open up such a large secret realm, but don't forget, we are the Pixiu Clan, only taking in and not giving out, with a world of our own within our bodies."

"So, this world was transformed from your mother after she died?"

It's quite strange that a Pixiu at the Peak Body Integration Realm would die in such a remote place. I wonder if it reached the end of its lifespan or was killed.

"Don't put it so harshly, my mother has passed away."

"Although our Pixiu Clan has a powerful bloodline, we are not true divine Pixiu. Whether we can cultivate to become immortals depends on fortuitous opportunity and luck."

"However, our clan is relatively fortunate, unlike the Suanni Clan, which is on the verge of extinction."

"Wait, a Suanni?" Shen Ge frowned and said, "If I remember correctly, this thing is a dragon's son, right?"

"He's nothing but a dragon's son, just someone with dragon blood. He's a dragon race, though the first Suanni was a dragon's son."

"Generally speaking, there are no complete divine beast bloodlines in this lower realm, but there is a Qilin that is close to pure blood, and it is now the ruler of the Demon Domain."

"But those are my mother's memories. Fifty or sixty thousand years have passed. I don't know if she ascended to immortality."

"You inherited your mother's memories?" Shen Ge asked, slowing his pace as he secretly began to gather his strength.

"Not really. I only inherited a tiny bit of common-sense knowledge. After all, my bloodline is there, and I can't refuse this kind of bloodline inheritance."

Suddenly, the Pixiu turned to look at Shen Ge, grinned, and said in a condescending tone, "Young man, why are you so slow? Are you afraid I'll eat you?"

Shen Ge felt a chill run down his spine and immediately grabbed the vital point that the Master-Servant Scroll had previously created.

"No, no, no, big brother, how can you not take a joke?"

"There won't be a next time." Shen Ge coldly snorted, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

"Yes, yes, I won't do it again. There will definitely be no next time."

"Now, lead the way to that medicinal herb garden you mentioned."

"Okay, brother, this way please, it's just a short distance ahead."

After about three incense sticks' time, the man and the beast stopped in front of a small mound. Shen Ge stared at the fourth-grade spirit medicine in the area for a long time without saying a word.

As for that little black Pixiu, it was drooling all over the place.

"Big brother, how is it? Can we get in?"

Shen Ge didn't speak, but his expression was slightly annoyed. This formation was not his forte to begin with, and now, seeing so many fourth-tier spirit medicine inside and not being able to get them, it was enough to make one regret it to the point of vomiting blood.

"You can't open it either, can you?" The little Pixiu wiped away its drool, looking utterly defeated, and spat, "This is a real disaster. Not only did I not get the spirit medicine, but I also gave myself away."

"Shut up!" Shen Ge snapped impatiently. She'd been chattering in his ear the whole time; it was so annoying.

"Fine, I'll shut up. I'm going to go take a nap." The little Pixiu turned around, jumped onto a large rock, and lay down to sleep.

Shen Ge circled the formation, looking at it from here and there, seemingly trying to find a clue.

On the other side, Gu Ye and his companions sat wounded and healing in a cave, surrounded by five or six layers of arrays to isolate their auras.

To understand why they were so badly injured, we have to mention those dozen or so Wood King Fruit.

That's right, they fought with the group of Red Bristle Monkey. Although they were badly injured, they managed to get ten Wood King Fruit without any deaths, so it was worth it.

Heavenly South, a small island in the South Sea.

Mo Qingyu stood on a reef, with wave after wave crashing against the shore behind her. Although the crashing sound was loud and water droplets splashed everywhere, not a single drop of water could get within a foot of her.

In the middle of the island is a base with a missing corner.

After a long silence, Mo Qingyu sighed softly, then took out the corner of the array base that had been severed earlier and said, "Let's find someone to repair it."

"Yes, Master."

In the air not far away, Su Liuyue pulled the corner array base, then turned around and went to find someone with it.

"Shen Ge, Shen Ge, why did you come to the Spirit Moon Sect in the first place?"

Mo Qingyu sighed and turned to leave. Sometimes she really didn't want to deal with this troublesome disciple, but she couldn't ignore him; after all, she had taken him in in the first place.

Soon, under Su Liuyue's guidance, a group of formation masters arrived at the South Sea island to begin repairing the formation.

However, this array is, after all, a large-scale teleportation array with an ultra-long distance. Although the patterns are still there, it will still take some time to fully repair it.

After lingering around this formation for almost half a year, Shen Ge finally managed to sort out some of his thoughts. He waved his hand, and three flying swords stepped forward and gently touched three nodes. Then, the formation shook, and soon a gap the size of a person appeared.

Shen Ge looked at the opening and couldn't help but feel a sense of joy. It had been worth the half a year of thinking about it; he had finally succeeded.

At that moment, a black light flashed, and the little Pixiu, which had been fast asleep for more than half a year, scurried straight into the hole.

Before Shen Ge could react, that guy had swallowed more than twenty spirit medicine. Seeing this, Shen Ge was furious. He had worked so hard to study how to break the formation, but before he could even move, that lazy dog had taken advantage of him.

"Shut up!" Shen Ge shouted, pinching the vital point.

The little Pixiu, who was happily swallowing the spirit medicine, froze. He glanced longingly at the surrounding spirit medicine, and finally could only walk out dejectedly.

"Brother, there's so much here, I've only swallowed less than a third of it, it's unnecessary."

Shen Ge's forehead veins throbbed. He stepped forward, grabbed the little Pixiu, and kicked it away. "You idiot who only knows how to sleep! You think you can get a third? You must be dreaming!"

After landing, it rolled several times until it crashed into a large rock and stopped. Looking at Shen Ge entering the herb garden, it pouted and simply lay down to sleep.

All the spirit medicine inside were harvested, a total of seventy plants, most of which were fourth-tier spirit medicine, and the rest were third-tier. It was quite a fruitful harvest.

"Hey, Black Coal Ball, what other good stuff is here?"

"You can turn around slowly by yourself, I'm going to sleep for a while."

Shaking his head, Shen Ge ignored the pig and started wandering around. Soon, he came to a dilapidated palace complex. After searching it over, he found nothing of value, as if the entire core area consisted only of that medicinal garden.

"That's true. With that black Pixiu here, it would be strange if there were any good things left."

After walking around again and finding nothing particularly special, they turned back to the location of the herb garden.

But as soon as he returned, he saw that Black Coal Ball plowing the land, its huge mouth having already gnawed away three layers of soil from the entire medicinal herb garden.

Is it necessary?

"Brother, you don't understand. This herb garden has grown countless generations of spirit medicine. No one has picked spirit medicine, so they've all rotted in the soil. Over time, this soil has become comparable to a level five spirit medicine."

"Then take your time eating it, and let me know when you're done."

Half an hour later, the little Pixiu patted its belly contentedly and walked over. "Big brother, let's go, there's nothing good left here."

"Your mother really didn't leave you anything good?" Shen Ge looked at the little Pixiu in front of him with suspicion. He really couldn't believe that there was only a medicinal herb garden in this place.

"There really isn't any left. Even if there were, I would have eaten them all. Besides, this entire secret realm is mine. How could you think my mother is stingy?"

"Fine, just take me out of here."

After rolling around a few times, the little Pixiu got up and waddled ahead to lead the way, saying as it went, "Big brother, look how many spirit medicine you've harvested this time. Can you let me go now? I know I stole a lot of your spirit medicine before, but I'm returning them to you now, aren't I?"

"Give it back to me?" Shen Ge sneered angrily, "You've been sleeping like a pig for half a year, what does the formation I painstakingly broke have to do with you?"

"Besides, you bastardly stole a dozen or twenty of my spirit medicine. I'm already being merciful by not chopping you down."

"No, brother, how can you say that? If it weren't for me, would you have gotten this good deal? You can't, right? Look, now you've gotten it for free, so shouldn't you thank me? Is my request excessive? I just want my freedom back, is that too much to ask?"

"Not excessive." Shen Ge glanced at him coldly and said, "But I don't want to let go."

"Why?" the little Pixiu asked anxiously, "Why won't you let me go?"

"For no reason other than I don't want to release it. A living little Pixiu must be worth a fortune in Spirit Stone."

"No, I can't go out, so what are you selling?"

Shen Ge stopped and looked at the little Pixiu in front of her, asking without any expression of joy or sorrow, "You can't get out?"

"Yes, I couldn't leave this secret realm before I refined it. And by the time I finish refining this entire secret realm, perhaps several thousand years will have passed."

Shen Ge nodded without saying anything more, and simply followed slowly.

Several hours later, the man and the beast passed through the mist and returned to the cliff.

"Big brother, look, you're back now, so can you let me go? You can't take me out of here anyway, I'm useless to you."

"Moreover, it won't be long before my mother's remnant spirit awakens. If she sees me being enslaved by you, elder brother, she will surely kill you."

"Does your mother still have a lingering spirit?"

"And what do you think? The reason why Nascent Soul Realm can't enter or Nascent Soul this secret realm is because my mother's remnant spirit is guarding it. Only in this way does this secret realm belong to me."

After a moment's thought, Shen Ge took out the Master-Servant Scroll. With a flick of his finger, a burst of Sword Qi erupted from his palm, tearing the scroll to shreds.

"Alright, you can get lost now."

Although he wasn't sure if it was true or false, Shen Ge didn't want to gamble. Besides, to be honest, the two of them didn't have any deep-seated hatred, and he didn't need to enslave this little Pixiu.

Moreover, Pixiu can be considered a member of the divine beast clan, and there might even be top-tier experts in the lower realm. It's really not worth offending them.

"Big brother is generous! Big brother is magnanimous!" After the restrictions were lifted, the little Pixiu jumped for joy and leaped into the mist in the blink of an eye.

"It ran away already?" Shaking his head, Shen Ge ignored it and disappeared into the forest.

On the other side, Gu Ye and his group were cautiously lying in ambush. In front of them was a Azure Sky White Crane with the strength of Peak Third Tier. It was very strong.

Fortunately, there was only one of them. Killing it wouldn't be a problem for Gu Ye and his team, but they would have to surround it first, otherwise, given its speed, none of them could catch up with it.

A moment later, a signal came from the woods opposite. Gu Ye waved and said, "Move!"

Everyone rushed out. The Azure Sky White Crane, startled, was about to take flight when suddenly hundreds of vines flew out from the forest behind it, and huge rocks crashed down from above.

"Make it quick and decisive, and try not to damage its tail feathers."

"Don't worry, young master. I can't guarantee anything else, but we're experts at killing Demon Beast. We won't harm anything useful," Elder Wang chuckled, though his voice sounded a little eerie.

Ah~

With a mournful cry, the Azure Sky White Crane was unwillingly decapitated. Soon, the three people rushed forward to process the corpse, cutting out and storing anything useful, even the flesh and blood.

Miaoyin stepped forward and plucked two tail feathers, her eyes crinkling with a smile. "Now I have all the tail feathers for making the Five Fowl Fan."