Chapter 58: Jin Dan's Might

"Secret realm? What is a secret realm?"

Fang Xing became interested, knowing that this was the result of his previous "not afraid of big things" behavior.

"Secret realm? Fellow Daoist doesn't know about the secret realm?" Ding Hongxiu looked at Fang Xing curiously.

"Eh... this Fellow Daoist obviously focuses on martial arts and never cares about external affairs, which is why he has such achievements today. It's normal for him not to know about the secret realm... but what is the secret realm? This secret realm is a legend for low-grade cultivators like us, it's normal for Fellow Daoist not to know..."

Ding Bushan put away his wine gourd, looked at Fang Xing searching the corpses one by one, but said with a straight face.

"Please teach me, Fellow Daoist."

Fang Xing stood up and asked sincerely.

"The so-called secret realm is a small world opened up by high-grade cultivators... usually hidden in the void, even if you walk through it a thousand times, you may not find it, and it only appears at specific times or under specific tokens and secret arts..."

Ding Bushan sighed: "It is said that some secret realms only have a few rooms, while some secret realms are vast and boundless, and may even have demonic beasts living in them... For low-grade cultivators like us, the secret realm is a great opportunity. If you can obtain powerful cultivation techniques, treasures, or even pills from predecessors, it is not unusual for your cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds..."

"So that's it, then how did this secret realm appear?" Fang Xing asked curiously.

"About two months ago, rumors spread in the market that a mid-stage Qi Condensation old cultivator and the Black Hei Hei Hu Bang had a conflict over a secret realm in the Tianxing Tianxing Wuxie Valley... There is a great opportunity in that secret realm, and that old cultivator even broke through the bottleneck and promoted to the late Qi Condensation perfection..."

Ding Bushan said this, and his wine-red nose seemed to be even redder with envy.

'Qi Condensation perfection? This is obviously made up... well, a normal phenomenon in the process of rumor transmission...'

Fang Xing rolled his eyes secretly: "And then?"

"This kind of rumor appears a few times every month in the market. We didn't take it seriously originally, but didn't expect the Foundation Establishment elder of the Qingxuan Sect to send out flying boats immediately. Only then did the old man know that this time it might be true... The market was in chaos, and many cultivators rushed to the Tianxing Tianxing Wuxie Valley frantically. It is said that many chaotic battles broke out, many masters died, it was miserable..."

Ding Bushan shook his head and said: "In the end, naturally, the Qingxuan Sect occupied the Tianxing Tianxing Wuxie Valley and drove all the loose cultivators out, wanting to monopolize the secret realm... but there were no few who encountered trouble when opening the entrance to the secret realm, causing heavy casualties to the Qingxuan Sect, and even two flying boats were destroyed..."

"It was actually so miserable?" Fang Xing continued to act.

"Yeah..." Ding Bushan revealed a look of schadenfreude: "Because of this, it is said that the Black Hei Hei Hu Bang concealed some key tricks to open the secret realm... How could the Qingxuan Sect eat this loss? That Foundation Establishment elder came to find the Black Hei Hei Hu Bang as soon as he returned, preparing to destroy the Black Hei Hei Hu Bang... but at this time, the gang leader suddenly killed out. It turned out that this gang leader was lurking in the dark and had already silently built a foundation. Our Green Forest Market has one more Foundation Establishment cultivator, forming a three-legged stance..."

"Although this is the case, the Qingxuan Sect is a Jin Dan sect after all, still suppressing the Black Hei Hei Hu Bang and the Zheng family... and even notified the sect, transporting many core disciples of the sect to explore the secret realm. It is said that the harvest is rich, with Foundation Establishment opportunities, powerful cultivation techniques, and incomplete magic treasures..."

Ding Bushan said: "Just recently, the upper sect announced for some reason that the secret realm is open to loose cultivators like us, so many cultivators are preparing to fight for it... The old man was blinded by lard and wanted to take his granddaughter to try his luck, but ended up running into the Black Absolute Three Tigers..."

"Open to loose cultivators?"

Fang Xing touched his chin: "If there are benefits, why open it to us? This is obviously looking for cannon fodder and scapegoats! It seems that the secret realm is very dangerous!"

"Yeah..."

Ding Bushan had actually thought of this point long ago, but first, the benefits moved people's hearts, and second, loose cultivators, aren't they just playing with their lives when they catch an opportunity?

Therefore, this danger can be considered his own seeking.

Fang Xing began to count the spoils, whether it was the second tiger's copper hammer magic tool or the third tiger's fan, all were collected.

"The third tiger's 'Clear Wind Fan' is a low-grade magic tool, not worth many spirit stones, but the second tiger's pair of copper hammers is a set of mid-grade magic tools, and it is a boutique among mid-grade magic tools..."

Ding Hongxiu opened her mouth softly and identified it for Fang Xing: "The most valuable thing is the fist gloves on the big tiger's hands, which are definitely high-grade magic tools, but unfortunately they are only suitable for body cultivators... As for that white bone flag, it is a demonic tool. Although the power is great, it is best not to show it in normal times..."

"Unfortunately, there is no big tiger's body-refining technique..."

Fang Xing sighed.

Storage bags are rare, and cultivators cannot carry too many things when they go out.

Fortunately, these three are robbers, always living in no fixed place, and their money bags are still rich.

Besides magic tools, they actually contributed hundreds of low-grade spirit stones to him in one breath.

As for the cultivation technique?

Naturally, it is impossible to carry it on the body.

"Even if it is a body-refining technique, if there is no spiritual root, it cannot be entered..."

Ding Hongxiu said weakly.

"Hongxiu!" Ding Bushan glared at his granddaughter fiercely, and his old face was smiling: "Hongxiu is still young and ignorant, Fellow Daoist, don't blame her!"

"It doesn't matter."

Fang Xing waved his hand, a bit hesitant to speak.

Indeed! He is not a cultivator, has no mana and divine sense, and cannot do many things.

But the grandfather and granddaughter in front of him are!

Fang Xing can completely hand over his most valuable spoils—the storage bag to them, and let them take out the treasures inside!

Unfortunately, this matter has many difficulties, the first of which is concealing private possession!

However, it is possible to let multiple low-grade cultivators check to prevent concealment and other things.

More importantly... the storage bag is too precious, already enough to be a reason for killing people to silence them!

Fang Xing felt that even if he were honest, Ding Bushan would not believe a word, and would only try his best to survive!

Plus, he finally had no divine sense and couldn't see what was in the storage bag at all.

If there were any high-grade talismans or powerful treasures in Chen Yi's storage bag, and then they were taken out by Ding Bushan to deal with himself, that would be a big joke!

This is not impossible!

After all, Chen Yi was one of the first discoverers of that secret realm and might have gained great benefits, so he must have stored some life-saving things!

Thinking of this, it was really a bit melancholy.

'Forget it, even if there are treasures in the storage bag, they are likely for cultivators to use, and even if I get them, I can't use them...'

Fang Xing waved his hand: "Since this is the case, let's part ways here, see you later..."

As soon as the words fell, the person had already drifted away like a white cloud.

"Sigh, this is the real expert."

Ding Bushan felt this when he saw this scene.

"Grandpa, you said others before..."

Ding Hongxiu wanted to say something, but was directly covered by Ding Bushan, and then the grandfather and granddaughter went on their way without a word, returning to the Green Forest Market.

Until entering the shanty town, Ding Bushan breathed a sigh of relief: "People don't know how far they have gone yet, girl, you talk nonsense, do you want to harm your grandfather to death?!"

"It was you who looked down on others back then, and always compared him with others!" Ding Hongxiu hummed.

For this grandfather who was a bit snobbish, she had long wanted to say two sentences.

"Cough cough... that's all in the past, your grandfather didn't know he was so powerful." Ding Bushan sighed long: "The world is chaotic now, compared to that handsome young master who often comes to buy spirit rice, this kind of strong person is more suitable for you..."

Ding Hongxiu rolled her eyes directly.

The grandfather and granddaughter quarreled and walked into the market area.

This place is still as lively as usual, and even people come and go, not showing depression because of the opening of the secret realm, but instead having more new faces.

Many loose cultivators died in the secret realm, while more outside loose cultivators brought their own dry food and paid high boat tickets to try their luck here!

Even among many loose cultivators, occasionally one or two young men and women in green dharma clothes walked by.

They wore sky-blue dharma robes with the mark of the Qingxuan Sect, and each of them had a deep cultivation realm, obviously all disciples of the Qingxuan Sect.

'This broken place, still can't stay...'

Old man Ding Bushan looked at these scenes, and his teeth hurt.

Just at this moment, the array above the sky suddenly opened, and a stream of light rushed into the market at an astonishing speed.

Accompanied by the stream of light, there was also a terrifying majesty!

In the market, one after another Qi Condensation cultivators had weak legs and almost collapsed to the ground.

"This... what happened?"

Ding Hongxiu grabbed her grandfather's arm, a bit wanting to cry.

If she had known the market was so dangerous, she wouldn't have come back.

"It's Jin Dan... Jin Dan Zhenren!"

Ding Bushan's voice was sour, looking at an old woman with white hair in mid-air.

This Jin Dan Zhenren of the Qingxuan Sect was a woman, with silver hair, a face like a peach blossom, and deep spiritual power, like the sea.

"See the Supreme Elder!"

Many Qingxuan Sect disciples saluted one after another, and from the top of Green Forest Mountain and the location of the Zheng family's ancestral house, several streams of light flew out, turning into Foundation Establishment cultivators with high spirits, saluting in mid-air.

"The Black Hei Hei Hu Bang committed a great taboo against me, and their leader has been executed... you all take care of yourselves!"

The silver-haired old woman with a peach blossom face had a hoarse voice, took a corpse from the storage bag, and hung it on the archway of the market; it was the leader of the Black Hei Hei Hu Bang who had already built a foundation!

His eyes were wide open, and he died very unwillingly...

"Is it really the leader of the Black Hei Hei Hu Bang?"

"Hiss... this is a Foundation Establishment master!"

"What about a Foundation Establishment master? Jin Dan's anger, corpses a million, blood flowing a thousand miles..."

"Sigh... it's a pity that Jiang Heihu just built a foundation and was high-spirited, but ended up in such a fate..."

"The ability of Jin Dan Zhenren is truly heaven-reaching and earth-shattering. I heard that this Black Hei Hei Hu Bang leader ran away early... but was caught back hard..."

Many Qi Condensation cultivators saw this scene and were terrified!

The Supreme Elder of the Qingxuan Sect took action personally to destroy the Black Hei Hei Hu Bang, which was undoubtedly a warning to everyone present!

This is not killing a chicken to warn a monkey, but killing a monkey to warn a chicken!

After that Jin Dan Zhenren left, the atmosphere in the market became strangely hot again.

"Broken!"

Old man Ding Bushan's face was a bit pale: "What kind of opportunity is in that secret realm? Even Jin Dan Zhenren came here to lower his status... This water is too deep, our grandfather and granddaughter can't grasp it..."

Thinking that he still wanted to sign up for exploration before, Ding Bushan simply wished he could slap himself hard... ===== CHAPTER 59 =====