The Mission to Seize a Secret Realm!

The Black-Yellow Sect.

Every day that followed, Chu He's screams rang out. His senior brother and junior sister beat him black and blue each day, and his cultivation rose rapidly.

Before long, Chu He ran out of pills, but his cultivation had already soared to the Seventh Layer of the Body Refining Realm. His terrifying rate of growth left Ye Chen and the others dumbstruck.

Yet even after reaching the Seventh Layer of the Body Refining Realm, Chu He still had not reached the initial stage of the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique.

Now that he had strength and was hard to kill, Chu He headed into the Western Mystic Mountain Range to fight all kinds of Demon Beasts—and powerful ones at that.

"You'll do!"

Chu He found a second-tier Great Strength Bear whose strength rivaled that of the Body Forging Realm and charged straight at it. Having mastered no other martial arts, he was beaten black and blue by the bear.

Boom!

Chu He was blasted away. He charged again and was blasted away again.

"Great Strength Bear, you missed! You should be hitting me here!"

"Come on, you're too stupid! How am I supposed to cultivate if you keep this up?"

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't go!"

Chu He caught up with the Great Strength Bear as it tried to flee and continued fighting it.

The Great Strength Bear was speechless. No matter how it tried, it couldn't kill this human. It was in despair!

After half an hour of fighting, the Great Strength Bear collapsed, exhausted. Chu He killed it and dragged its corpse straight back to the Black-Yellow Sect.

Back at the Black-Yellow Sect, Chu He turned in the mission. The sect collected the Great Strength Bear's corpse and sent it to the Devil Spring, while he exchanged the points he earned for pills before going off to fight more Demon Beasts.

He no longer needed his senior brothers and sisters to help him cultivate. They needed to cultivate themselves, and he didn't want to hold up their cultivation. Demon Beasts were undoubtedly the best sparring partners, though they were less efficient: they couldn't accurately strike the parts of his body that needed to be hit.

A few days later.

Chu He exchanged his points for a Storage Bag and rarely returned after that. He spent long stretches in the Western Mystic Mountain Range every day and ventured fairly deep into it, because the other members of the Black-Yellow Sect had killed nearly all the Demon Beasts nearby.

After practicing bitterly day and night, Chu He finally broke through. He successfully reached the initial stage of the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique and broke through to the Body Forging Realm in one go, giving his strength a terrifying boost. With the foundation of a high-grade heaven-tier Body Refining technique, he was already a match for the strongest Body Forging Realm cultivators as soon as he broke through. If he mastered a few martial arts as well, his strength would be no less than that of an ordinary True Qi Realm martial artist.

"Ding! Congratulations, Host. Your disciple Chu He has successfully reached the initial stage of the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique Foundation Chapter. You have received tenfold feedback and successfully reached the minor accomplishment stage of the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique Foundation Chapter."

Boom!!!

Lin Ye's body began to change, becoming tougher. He also gained some regenerative ability, because the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique itself allowed a person to recover very quickly. Its cultivation requirements were simply too harsh; without a physique like the Longevity Demonic Physique, it was almost impossible to reach the initial stage.

"Tenfold feedback, and I've only reached minor accomplishment. It seems the gap between the initial stage and minor accomplishment of the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique is huge. By the time Chu He reaches minor accomplishment in the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique Foundation Chapter, he might have already broken through to the True Qi Realm."

He looked forward to Chu He's growth. That way, the tenfold feedback he received would increase his own strength even more.

Unfortunately, he was still at the Grandmaster Realm First Layer. Advancing in the Grandmaster Realm required a great deal of energy, and even if these disciples all broke through another layer now, it wouldn't be enough to push him to the Grandmaster Realm Second Layer.

"They're still growing too slowly!"

Lin Ye now hoped the Supreme Devil Dao System would issue a few more missions. That way, he could earn more Devil Dao Points and buy more good things for his disciples to exchange for, allowing them to grow faster.

The Supreme Simplicity Sect.

Supreme Yin Peak.

While Dongfang Bai was cultivating that day, he received a notice from the Supreme Simplicity Sect. The sect was going to open its trial secret realm, and the slots to enter would go to the top one hundred in the sect competition.

Thus, the Supreme Simplicity Sect would hold its sect competition in a few days.

Li Xuansu came to see Dongfang Bai at once. "Dongfang Bai, you must place in the top one hundred in this sect competition. If you can enter the trial secret realm, you'll have a chance to obtain a great many resources."

"Elder, what is the trial secret realm?" Dongfang Bai asked curiously.

Li Xuansu explained, "The trial secret realm is a small third-tier secret realm, but even a small secret realm is incredibly precious. Our entire Supreme Simplicity Sect has only three secret realms. A third-tier secret realm means that when martial artists of the Body Refining, Body Forging, and True Qi Realms enter, their cultivation won't be suppressed. But if someone at the Innate Realm enters, their strength will be suppressed considerably. The higher their cultivation, the more severely it will be suppressed. That's why a small third-tier secret realm like this is used for True Qi Realm disciples to undergo trials. There are quite a few resources inside, and once they come out of the trial secret realm, their strength will rise substantially..."

With Li Xuansu's careful explanation, Dongfang Bai gradually came to understand the third-tier trial secret realm. Strictly speaking, the Supreme Simplicity Sect had not yet gained complete control of it. If it had, people could enter at any time. But because its control was incomplete, the sect could only open the secret realm's gate once a year, using a considerable number of Spirit Stones when the space between the secret realm and the Chu Kingdom was thin, and only then could it send disciples inside.

"Secret realm stone, control of a secret realm, trials..."

Dongfang Bai knew this was highly important information and that he had to report it to his master. If the Black-Yellow Sect obtained a trial secret realm like this, wouldn't it have a vast storehouse of resources? Then his senior and junior brothers, junior sisters, and the outer sect and menial disciples would all have plenty of resources to use, and the sect would be able to grow rapidly.

Unfortunately, a secret realm like this was under the Supreme Simplicity Sect's control. The Black-Yellow Sect probably had no way of taking it from the Supreme Simplicity Sect at present.

"Elder, I'll be sure to place in the top one hundred," Dongfang Bai promised.

"Mm. Your mastery of martial arts is high. Even though your cultivation is somewhat low, only at the Second Layer of the True Qi Realm, you still have a chance." After a few more words of advice, Li Xuansu left to notify her other disciples.

After Li Xuansu left, Dongfang Bai took out a Ten-Thousand-Li Communication Talisman and sent his master all the information he had gathered over the past few days, along with the information about the secret realm.

"Go!"

The Ten-Thousand-Li Communication Talisman turned into a streak of light and vanished.

The Black-Yellow Sect.

Lin Ye received Dongfang Bai's Ten-Thousand-Li Communication Talisman and obtained the information inside.

"Ding! The host's disciple Dongfang Bai has successfully sent back a third piece of information. Reward: 3,000 Devil Dao Points."

"Ding! The Heaven and Earth Devil Sect has been detected to possess no secret realm. To strengthen the Heaven and Earth Devil Sect, please seize a secret realm within one month. Successful completion of the mission will grant a substantial reward."

The intelligence mission's ongoing rewards were quite good; he had received another 3,000 Devil Dao Points. But the important thing was the newly issued mission to seize a secret realm. Success would earn him a substantial reward, which was sure to be considerable.

"The resources contained in a secret realm are staggering. To some extent, it would save me a great many Devil Dao Points. And Dongfang Bai just happened to send me information about a secret realm. If I seized the Supreme Simplicity Sect's secret realm, wouldn't they explode with rage?"

Lin Ye made up his mind to target the Supreme Simplicity Sect's secret realm. He was the master of a devil sect, after all; he had no qualms about doing this sort of thing.