Chapter 45: Void Heaven Secret Realm

"The Baihua Sect sent three Nascent Soul disciples to the Xuwang Mountain Secret Realm this time, but only one returned."

Tu Qing grabbed Jiang Xun's hand, her gaze burning.

"Right now, the Baihua Sect only has one Yin Ningyu at the Spirit Transformation Mid-Stage, one Nascent Soul Great Perfection, and three other Nascent Souls."

"Our Lingerie-Sect has me at the Spirit Transformation Initial Stage, plus six Nascent Souls including you, we..."

"Wait a moment." Jiang Xun raised his hand to interrupt Tu Qing: "Me, Gu Qing, Liu Ruoyun, Xie Leng, Li Mengqiu, Yu Yan, Ming Ning—isn't that seven Nascent Souls?"

"Senior Sister Yu Yan is currently breaking through; if she succeeds, we will have one more Spirit Transformation stage expert." Tu Qing chuckled.

Jiang Xun finally understood where this little girl got the confidence to challenge Yin Ningyu; it turned out Yu Yan was also about to break through.

"Aren't you afraid that after Senior Sister Yu breaks through, she'll come looking for trouble with you?" Recalling the day Tu Qing gave Yu Yan the cold shoulder, Jiang Xun laughed.

"Senior Sister wouldn't do that. If she dared to, Master wouldn't let her off when she comes out," Tu Qing said with certainty.

There was a reason why, when choosing an acting Sect Master between Jiang Xun and Tu Qing, Yu Yan—who was at the Nascent Soul Great Perfection—was not considered.

After all, Yu Yan does not practice Dual Cultivation and to this day has not lost her virginity, spending her days staring at Li Mengqiu.

Although her strength is relatively high, her actions are not suitable for the position of Lingerie-Sect Sect Master.

Ruo Lan was also terrified that Yu Yan would turn the Lingerie-Sect into a sect for women only; wouldn't the Dual Cultivation path inherited by the Lingerie-Sect for thousands of years be completely ruined?

Thinking of this, Jiang Xun thought of Ming Ning again.

As an SSS-rank Child of Luck, with better aptitude than Tu Qing, she spends all day harvesting and supplementing to death, so why is her cultivation only at the Nascent Soul Late Stage Peak?

Why has she never broken through to the Great Perfection?

Can someone like that really be considered an SSS-rank Child of Luck?

Or is there some secret Ming Ning is hiding?

"The resources Senior Brother brought back this time have also allowed many disciples to improve; there are even a few more Golden Core disciples now."

"Once Senior Sister Yu successfully breaks through, we will go find Yin Ningyu to negotiate. If it doesn't go well, we fight!"

Tu Qing fiercely waved her little fist.

"If we really start a fight, the Ten Great Sects won't recognize us," Jiang Xun shook his head.

"But after we win, we can merge the Baihua Sect into ours. By then, it won't matter even if the Ten Great Sects don't recognize us; as long as the Heavenly Dao recognizes it, that's enough. Once the Heavenly Dao acknowledges us, we can receive the protection of the Heavenly Dao, and the disciples' cultivation will be twice as effective with half the effort."

The reason Tu Qing is so obsessed with the Ten Great Sects is also because of this so-called Heavenly Dao.

It is said that ten thousand years ago, an immortal established the Ten Great Sects.

And protected the Ten Great Sects.

As long as a sect's strength is strong enough to enter the ranks of the Ten Great Sects, it can receive the protection of the immortal.

The cultivation speed of the disciples within the sect will be increased.

Powerful sects will become stronger and stronger.

As for how the Ten Great Sects are divided, it is not determined by any one person's ranking.

When a sect enters the ranks of the Ten Great Sects, an immortal's mark will appear within the sect, and it is this mark that brings the protection.

Over the years, the sect disciples have more or less understood the rules of the ranking: it depends on the overall strength of the sect, and especially, the stronger the Sect Master, the stronger the sect will be.

Ruo Lan went into seclusion, and the Lingerie-Sect fell out of the Ten Great Sects.

But it is rumored that Tang Ying's strength is greater than Ruo Lan's; if that is true, the Lingerie-Sect might have already ceased to be one of the Ten Great Sects before Ruo Lan went into seclusion.

Yet the Lingerie-Sect is still one of the Ten Great Sects, which proves that Tang Ying might not be in the sect either.

She might have left, or perhaps she is in seclusion, or maybe she is even dead.

That is why Tu Qing thought Tang Ying was dead just now.

"When the time comes, we will surround the Baihua Sect with our disciples. I will take the two Senior Sisters, the Peak Elders, and you, Senior Brother, to go inside and negotiate with Yin Ningyu. If it doesn't go well, Senior Sister Yu and I will entangle Yin Ningyu, and you all can beat those chicks from the Baihua Sect into submission."

Tu Qing felt that her plan was simply brilliant!

"... The premise is that Tang Ying is truly not there, Yin Ningyu hasn't broken through to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage, Senior Sister Yu can successfully break through, and Yin Ningyu's Master, who is in seclusion, doesn't intervene."

Jiang Xun sighed, looking at this little girl so eager to perform a meritorious deed.

You have a Master, and Yin Ningyu has one too.

Her Master is not Tang Ying.

If it weren't for Yin Ningyu's Master being in seclusion, the Lingerie-Sect wouldn't have been able to become one of the Ten Great Sects either.

Besides, bringing people directly into the Baihua Sect is impossible; you have a Mountain Protection Array, and the Baihua Sect has one too...

This plan is simply full of holes.

It would be very easy for the entire Lingerie-Sect to fall into Yin Ningyu's hands.

"I have an inside source in the Baihua Sect. Her news is that Yin Ningyu is still at the Spirit Transformation Mid-Stage, and Tang Ying has not appeared in the sect."

"As for Yin Ningyu's Master, in seven days, the Void Heaven Secret Realm will open, and at that time, Yin Ningyu's Master will be away for seven days."

"Void Heaven Secret Realm?"

Jiang Xun was stunned.

The realms of cultivators are divided into: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Great Vehicle, and Tribulation Transcendence.

When entering the Spirit Transformation stage and breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm, there is a situation where one must compete for a Supreme Position.

Upon reaching the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, one is called a Supreme.

Although it is claimed there are three thousand Great Daos, in reality, there are only nine Great Daos that can be cultivated: Sword Dao, Body Tempering Dao, Blade Path, etc.

At the end of each Great Dao, there is only one Tribulation Transcendence Supreme.

The Supreme Position is something only the nine strongest people in these nine Great Daos in the entire world can occupy.

As long as these nine do not die, there will be no other Supremes in the world.

The Great Vehicle Realm is called a Saint; there can be nine times as many as those in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, with nine Great Vehicle Saints for each Great Dao.

Which means there can only be eighty-one Great Vehicle Saints in the entire world.

And so on by this analogy.

Seven hundred and twenty-nine Venerables of the Integration Realm.

Six thousand five hundred and sixty-one cultivators of the Void Refinement Realm.

As long as there are already 6,561 people who have become Void Refinement Realm cultivators, there will be no more spots available.

Everyone below can at most remain stuck at the Great Perfection of the Transformation God Realm.

If they want to continue breaking through, they can only wait for someone above in the Void Refinement Realm to die, or cross realms to kill a Void Refinement Realm cultivator and directly inherit their position.

The condition for the Void Heaven Secret Realm to open is for someone to die by means other than being killed.

Dying of old age, dying during Tribulation Transcendence, courting death, falling in realm, or being killed by someone who already holds a Supreme Position, etc., can all open the Void Heaven Secret Realm.

The Void Heaven Secret Realm of the Void Refinement Realm will only invite people at the Great Perfection of the Transformation God Realm to participate.

The Void Heaven Secret Realm of the Integration Realm will only invite people at the Great Perfection of the Void Refinement Realm to participate, and so on.

Ruo Lan went into seclusion this time because she received news that a Venerable of the Integration Realm was nearing the end of their lifespan, and the Supreme Position might become vacant.

Because this Integration Realm Venerable was rather afraid of death, they used methods to hide themselves when their lifespan was nearing its end, to finish out their life first.

No one could find them to kill them and seize the position.

They could only wait for them to die of old age.

Yin Ningyu's Master and Ruo Lan are also in seclusion for this reason.

It is just that Ruo Lan did not expect this Void Heaven Secret Realm to come so quickly.

The Void Heaven Secret Realm will open for seven days; the divine souls of all people at the Great Perfection of the Void Refinement Realm will enter the Void Heaven Secret Realm, and everyone will slaughter each other within the Secret Realm.

The one person who remains at the end can successfully obtain the Supreme Position and undergo Tribulation Transcendence.

This slaughter will not harm their lives; the losers will return to their own bodies and wait for the next Void Heaven Secret Realm.