Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 898 - 763 Various Parties

Chapter 898: Chapter 763 Various Parties

This was the entrance to the Seven Treasures Secret Realm that Fang Xi and Bai Yusheng had previously explored together.

Since the Secret Realm had not yet opened, Fang Xi quickly set up an Array to conceal it and then chose to leave.

Today, however, the two of them had gathered once again.

"Bai Sir, it’s up to you now."

Looking at the door hidden beneath countless vines, Fang Xi stepped back a few paces and said to Bai Yusheng.

"Rest assured, Sir."

Bai Yusheng took a step forward, with radiant light flickering over the ancient book in his hand.

Suddenly, he turned to a page with the character ’Key’!

Clang!

Amidst the flashing bronze radiance, a rusty bronze key emerged.

If Jianzi were here, he would have immediately noticed that this key bore a striking resemblance to the appearance of their combined four-in-one fragment, only without as much rust.

Bai Yusheng, seeing this, uttered the word ’soldier’.

A stream of script energy appeared, transforming into a dagger shimmering with cold light, and landed in front of his chest!

Pfft!

With a flash of blood light, something surged forth from the wound in his chest.

It was strikingly a blood-red crystal, which, under Bai Yusheng’s hand seals and chanting, merged with the rusty bronze key in mid-air.

Clang!

The bronze key let out a roar, and the rust on it fell off rapidly, enveloped by the blood light.

Then the intact bronze key turned into a stream of light and entered the door.

With a thunderous noise, the door burst open.

"So it was indeed a Secret Realm that required a bloodline to open!"

Fang Xi, witnessing this scene, nodded to himself.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, let us enter the Secret Realm together... This time, many existences in the Returning to Emptiness stage will enter the realm. Reaching the location of the Seven Treasures Gourd Vine ahead of them will indeed not be an easy task," said Bai Yusheng, his face slightly pale but the wound on his chest vanishing without a trace, coughing once as he spoke.

"Hmm!"

Fang Xi flicked his hand, and a dark green light shield appeared, with red runes flickering on it, forming chains in circles.

This was a defense congealed from the ’Taiyi Green Wood Divine Light’.

In Bai Yusheng’s eyes, however, it was a rare defensive Exotic Treasure.

"Armor!"

With a light cry, an armor appeared on his body, and he entered the door with Fang Xi.

In a flash of light, the figures of the two disappeared instantly.

...

Seven Treasures Secret Realm.

With a flash of white light, the figure of a Monster Clan woman with a charming figure, wearing only a small shell armor and with three fox tails behind her, appeared.

"Jianzi... is truly fearsome."

She murmured, a hint of seductive smile appearing on her lips, "However... the sixth-order cultivators here are acting too impressively. From what I know, that madman from the Demon Clan, along with a few from the Alien race, wouldn’t normally be so weak... yet they pretend to be intimidated by the Sword Qi, deceiving ghosts!"

The three-tailed fox woman’s smile turned into a sneer, then she looked below and saw a lush green sea.

In the sea, countless twisted lines entangled.

On closer inspection, it’s clear that they are endless water snakes.

The waves of the Jade Sea seemed to be composed entirely of snakes, each wave crest being the spine of a Sea Demon...

"Is this the Sea of Thousand Snakes?!"

Seeing this, the three-tailed fox woman’s face flashed with joy, "This place seems to be quite close to our target..."

...

Within a forest made up of pale boulders.

"Not good, it’s the Black Skull!"

A few Alien race beings of varying shapes, seeing a ferocious Demon Cultivator blocking their path, had their expressions change drastically.

"Heh heh... Knowing it is me, why not obediently hand over your life and Essence Blood as offerings for the ’Blood Fiend Banner’?"

The Black Skull sneered, a blood-colored long banner appearing in his hand.

If Fang Xi were here, he would certainly find this item somewhat familiar.

This was indeed one of the Supreme Treasures of the Demon Realm that once held the Door of Ten Thousand Worlds in place— ’Blood Fiend Banner’!

In fact, this banner was also a replica of an infamous Magic Treasure from the Earth Immortal Realm. The ’Black Skull’ held a replica in his hand as well, but its power was overwhelming and it seemed to have been Sacrificially Refined to the level of an Integration Treasure of the seventh order!

Normally, wielding an Integration Treasure with only Returning to Emptiness cultivation would lead to problems like inefficient operation.

However, Black Skull wielded it with consummate Returning to Emptiness cultivation and had applied some unknown Secret Skill to Sacrificially Refine the Blood Fiend Banner to his satisfaction. Now, blood lights appeared, immediately sealing off the surrounding space.

"Black Skull... let’s fight him."

An Alien race being, whose body looked like liquid, roared as his figure swelled instantly, transforming into a hundred zhang tall silver-armored giant.

"A mutated individual from the Water Tribe?"

Seeing this, Black Skull remained unafraid, and the Blood Fiend Banner revealed several ferocious blood-red skulls.

Roars and chanting suddenly erupted...

A few moments later, the area was left with nothing but a sea of blood.

The black-skulled individual was sitting cross-legged above the surface of the sea, watching the corpses of alien races being swallowed by the sea of blood, a look of satisfaction appearing on his face.

Suddenly, he raised his head, looking towards a certain part of the void.

In the void, a member of an alien race with silver wings and a horn on his forehead turned his head away.

"Brother Pei... do you not bear to watch?"

Beside him, a purple-dressed young girl giggled and asked with a teasing smile.

She was petite and exquisite, resembling a child, yet her figure was inconceivably mature, with numerous purple stripes on her face.

"Hmph, my Silver Wing Race is not kin to the Water Tribe, what is there to bear?"

The alien with silver wings and a horn snorted coldly, "I just didn’t expect that among the sixth-order beings who entered this time, there are quite a few ruthless characters... That blood-colored long banner must be a replica of the notorious treasure from the Demon Clan."

"This person must be a formidable enemy for us."

A cultivator spoke up, surprisingly a genuine member of the human race, his face full of frustration, "If our mission fails and the Heavenly Fragrance God Restrictions take effect, the consequences will be dire... "

"We should not stay here for long; Silver Brother, please cast the Void Escape Skills quickly and take us to our target destination."

The purple-stripe girl said with a chuckle, "The innate escape skills of the Silver Wing Race are truly rare and extraordinary; I consider myself fortunate to witness them..."

"Hmph, if my escape skills were not astonishing and my Divine Consciousness not powerful... I probably wouldn’t have caught the attention of Black Sky Pavilion," the alien of the Silver Wing Race huffed coldly, but still made some hand seals.

With a flash of silver light, the three figures disappeared from the sea of blood at an incredible speed.

"When it comes to bad luck, how can we compare to Sir Xia..."

Within the escaping light, the young girl chuckled, "It is said that Sir Xia was chosen by Fairy Peony right before the Secret Realm opened. Although he has a powerful Divine Consciousness, he is still a bit short of breaking through the Secret Realm, so he was bestowed with the ’Mystic Divine Pill’!"

Upon hearing the name ’Mystic Divine Pill,’ the cultivator surnamed Xia’s face turned extremely ugly.

This Spiritual Pill was a secret of the Alien race, greatly beneficial for enhancing Divine Consciousness, and could even stimulate the Divine Consciousness of a cultivator at the Returning to Emptiness stage to suddenly increase by as much as ten to twenty percent!

With such great benefits, the side effects were naturally terrifying.

After taking the ’Mystic Divine Pill,’ it was as if the cultivator’s future potential was compromised, not only would it be extremely difficult to improve the Divine Consciousness by even the slightest, but the difficulty of breaking through cultivation bottlenecks would also greatly increase.

The cultivator surnamed Xia managed a bitter smile, then said, "I heard that the Black Sky Pavilion originally chose a cultivator surnamed Wang, but that person was too slippery and vanished without a trace, so they had to pick me from the standby list... If it weren’t for Fairy Peony showing me some evidence and confirming that there was indeed a way to resolve the hidden dangers of the ’Mystic Divine Pill,’ I would have rather killed myself than come to this Secret Realm to take risks..."

...

In a piece of architecture far from here.

"It’s a Human Cultivator!"

"Kill him!"

Several Monster Clan cultivators at the Returning to Emptiness stage saw a lone human youth cultivator and couldn’t help but show a look of ecstasy on their faces, surrounding him with Sky Demon Qi.

Several treasures of the Returning to Emptiness level were sacrificed, and a knife, a tower, and a ring appeared in the void, with endless illusions falling down.

Hisss!

Just as the human youth cultivator at the mid-stage of Returning to Emptiness was about to encounter doom, a strange smile appeared on his face, and a talisman manifested before him.

This talisman was completely white except for a single sword shape!

A dazzling sword Qi cut through the sky, actually cleaving the knife, tower, and even the ring in two!

One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws!

"Not good..."

The Monster Clan cultivators were horrified, trying to use their Secret Skills to escape, but in the heavens above, it seemed as if only this beam of sword light existed.

A moment later, the human youth was holding the Storage Bags of those Monster Clan cultivators, a hint of joy on his face.

...

"Friend Wang..."

Bai Yusheng saw Fang Xi stopping in the midst of a forest and couldn’t help but ask curiously.

"It’s nothing, the scenery here is quite nice, couldn’t help but to linger a while..."

Fang Xi stood quietly, as if admiring the view.

In reality, he had silently left a set of spatial coordinates.

In theory, he could exit now and then send an external Incarnation to do the grunt work after the Secret Realm closed.

However, there was one complication.

"Is the ’Seven Treasures Palace’ where the Seven Treasure Gourd Vine is located always the target of many cultivators who enter the Secret Realm?" Fang Xi took out a map that seemed to be woven from gourd vine leaves and, looking at a specific location, asked aloud.

"Exactly..."

Bai Yusheng explained while progressing through the void, "In the Seven Treasures Palace, there lies ’Seven Treasures Glazed Clay’ most suitable for the growth of the Seven Treasure Gourd Vine... My ancestor fortuitously obtained a piece of gourd vine from that palace. According to his notes, there’s also a gourd ancestor vine in the palace that’s under prohibition, its roots and vines cannot be moved; one can only harvest the gourds... "

"Every time this Seven Treasures Gourd Vine bears only seven gourds, each with its own miraculous effect, it’s always been the focus of many cultivators..."

"If we’re late, we’ll probably come back empty-handed."

...

After listening to Bai Yusheng’s explanation, Fang Xi glanced back at the Treasure Map.

At the spot marked ’Seven Treasures Palace’ was depicted a colorful gourd vine not far from their current position, only a dangerous place needed to be crossed to reach it.

"Savage Elephant Mountain?"

Fang Xi muttered to himself, uttering the name of that perilous place.

"Within the Savage Elephant Mountain Range, there lives a group of Ancient Savage Elephants, beasts of the Primordial Chaos level, not easy to deal with..."

Bai Yusheng’s brows furrowed, "I’ve only prepared a few tricks, not sure how effective they will be against them..."