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Chapter 521 - 26: Duke Chen’s Secret Realm, Many Helpers for the Enlightened_2

Chapter 521: Chapter 26: Duke Chen’s Secret Realm, Many Helpers for the Enlightened_2

Among them, the primary focus was on "Qi Cultivation" and "Blood Nourishing".

Such medicinal herbs were warm, soft, and gentle, and their potency did not exceed the limit that an ordinary person could withstand.

Those special medicinal herbs that were several hundred years old possessed intense medicinal properties, which were like violent poison to ordinary people. Only martial artists above the Second Layer Heaven, who had tempered their internal organs, could swallow these medicines without dying, using the medicinal properties to refine their entire body.

Just as Li Guanyi was picking the herbs, he suddenly heard a roar.

Looking up, he saw an immensely large black bear, inexplicably heavy, seemingly weighing thousands of pounds. It opened its mouth to roar, its voice thunderous, charging straight towards Shaking Light. Li Guanyi grabbed Shaking Light and, with a sway of his body, avoided the black bear’s attack.

With just one glance, Li Guanyi knew what was happening and frowned slightly:

"This black bear seems to have mistaken the two of us for meat."

The black bear stood on its hind legs, towering over ten feet tall, over three meters. Li Guanyi shook his body, set Shaking Light down, and with his right hand, he summoned the Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd and charged forward. With just one Mountain Shattering thrust, he violently pierced through the bear. Although the bear was strong, it seemed it had never seen a human martial artist like Li Guanyi before.

After only a few exchanges, Li Guanyi found an opening and thrust his halberd.

The black bear ran a few steps outside, blood spilled all over, and fell to the ground, dead. Li Guanyi exhaled deeply, heart stirring slightly as he swept his gaze deeper into the area, his expression changing subtly. From a distance, he could faintly see numerous exotic beasts roaring incessantly.

There were leopards, fierce tigers, bears, flying eagles, and ferocious beasts.

Li Guanyi seemed pensive.

"It’s the rich medicinal strength of these spiritual medicines that has attracted these exotic beasts. Although they don’t understand alchemy, they instinctively feel the benefits of these spiritual medicines to themselves and all wish to occupy the areas where superior spiritual medicine grows."

"Because of this, they fight each other ferociously."

"So, five hundred years after Duke Chen planted these medicinal herbs, have these exotic beasts, based on the strength of the medicine’s properties, formed a new ecological structure?"

Li Guanyi leapt down from the tree.

Looking at the black bear, its strength was immense but it was slow, and it lacked abilities like the Qilin. A martial artist of the third layer, armed and cautious, could kill it without harm, and it would be a challenge for more than ten martial artists of the second layer to hunt.

Yet, such exotic beasts were driven to the outermost circles.

They could only guard the regions where Duke Baxian first planted the herbs, where the plants, with lesser years of growth, flourished.

Li Guanyi thought of Duke Chen’s martial arts prowess; after seizing the Qilin egg for the first time, he immediately turned tail and ran, chased out by the Qiongqi. Only after leaving this secret realm did he find an opportunity to boldly slay the Qiongqi. The dangers of this secret realm were definitely not low.

Li Guanyi said to Shaking Light, "We need to be careful, just collecting the herbs on the periphery will do."

The girl nodded, deployed a formation to mask the bloody scent of the dead bear, and set off to quickly gather herbs with Li Guanyi, while the Qilin, somewhat bewildered, perched on Li Guanyi’s shoulder, looking into the distance and saying, "I feel like I’m very familiar with this place."

Li Guanyi replied, "Of course, you were taken away from here."

He recounted the events involving Chen Baxian, and the Qilin grew a bit wistful.

It swished its tail and said, "I feel like there’s something inside calling to me, but what it is, I don’t know."

"But I feel like we can’t get into the deepest part right now."

It became even more melancholic.

As a divine beast, its senses were very sharp.

Inside were many powerful exotic beasts. Although these creatures ranked below the Qilin, they had lived far too long, with nearly all being adult or elderly exotic beasts. As a juvenile Qilin, it certainly couldn’t defeat them.

Li Guanyi pondered for a bit and said, "When we are stronger, we will come back here."

He patted the Qilin on the head to comfort it, then fashioned a rope from grass and bound the several thousand-pound black bear. This was an exotic beast, full of strong vigor, and combined with the herbs that were several decades to a hundred years old, was enough to stimulate the body to produce inner Qi.

"That should be enough, it’s time to go."

The Qilin reverted to its true form, and Li Guanyi leaped up, with the black bear carried on the halberd. The Qilin tread through the air, and as Li Guanyi and the Qilin took off, Li Guanyi suddenly felt the silver-haired girl beside him stiffen.

For the first time, a strong tremor and fear appeared on the girl.

Li Guanyi and the Qilin felt that aura in the next moment.

The young man abruptly looked up.

The sky of the secret realm suddenly turned a reddish-gold color. The vast clouds swirled and spiraled, spreading across the sky. In an instant, a profound sense of vastness weighed heavily on Li Guanyi’s heart. The Qilin, carrying Li Guanyi and Shaking Light, flew through the massive change in the clouds, experiencing a sense of insignificance.

The Qilin was also puzzled, saying, "What is this..."

Boom!!!

The clouds seemed to have been brushed by something moving at high speed, bursting into a spark of fire, accompanied by a sound of tearing through the air. Li Guanyi’s pupils contracted slightly, his right hand extended, and the Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd appeared. But it seemed that the appearance of this weapon had angered the entity within the boundless sea of clouds.

The clouds turned completely golden-red, immensely vast and expansive.

Li Guanyi saw a being darting through a gap in the sea of clouds, covered in golden-red Scale Armor.