Chapter 217: Mysterious Valley

On a small hillside in the southeast corner of the secret realm, three Foundation Establishment loose cultivators dressed in ordinary clothes were walking while carefully observing their surroundings.

The cultivation of these few people who united together was not high, and they truly did not dare to fly on swords in this secret realm, so they could only walk inside like Song Qingming and the others.

Those who dared to fly on swords swaggeringly in the sky in the secret realm these few days were basically those large sect cultivators. If they ran into them, cultivators with loose cultivator backgrounds like them truly did not dare to provoke them and had to take the initiative to hide their tracks, lest they be targeted by them.

The one with the highest cultivation among the three was an old man in a green shirt, who had sixth-layer Foundation Establishment cultivation. Another person wore a yellow Daoist robe and was only at the third layer of Foundation Establishment. There was also one whose cultivation was slightly higher, a short middle-aged man at the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment.

Before entering the secret realm, these few people also specifically prepared a spirit talisman that could be temporarily positioned. Plus, their luck was relatively good, and the places where they landed were not far apart, so the three soon gathered together in the secret realm.

After crossing this small mountain, the old man in the green shirt who was walking at the very front looked at the front and suddenly shouted excitedly.

"Two Fellow Daoists, look quickly. The valley ahead is overflowing with spiritual energy. There must be good things inside!"

The two behind heard the old man's voice and hurriedly walked forward to look carefully. A valley with spiritual energy overflowing truly appeared before their eyes, more than ten miles away.

In order to come into this secret realm to find some useful spirit items, these three had already spent quite a few spirit stones. Excluding the hundreds of spirit stones handed over to the Xiaoyao Sect, just the spirit items prepared for use in the secret realm were almost enough to spend all the savings of the few people.

As a result, after they came in, although they gathered together instantly, their luck had always been somewhat poor. They searched in this secret realm for several days and only found two places with spirit items.

One place ran into two powerful second-tier demon beasts, and they did not dare to make a move. Another place happened to be taken by others first. They searched around and only took a few low-tier spirit herbs with low value that others did not look at.

Not long ago, the three who were exploring everywhere in the secret realm were entangled by a powerful second-tier demon beast. After busy work for half a day and consuming two second-tier spirit talismans, although the three killed this second-tier demon beast, they watched the demon beast's corpse rot quickly, which made the few people stomp their feet in anger on the spot.

Looking at the valley with very abundant spiritual energy ahead, these three all revealed long-lost smiles. With such a dense place of spiritual energy, without looking, the few people all knew that there must be high-tier spirit items inside. Having wasted several days in the secret realm, this time they had finally turned their luck around.

The distance of more than ten miles, for Foundation Establishment cultivators, even if they did not fly on swords, relying on the most basic light-body technique, could be reached in the time it takes to eat a meal.

A moment later, the three walked into the valley laughing and talking. The old man in the green shirt who was leading stopped his steps after walking into the valley and looked at the silent vegetation around him, suddenly stopping his steps and looking around.

"Brother Jiang, what is wrong with you? Is there anything wrong?" The yellow-clothed man who was younger on the side looked at the old man in the green shirt's cautious appearance and asked with some confusion.

The old man in the green shirt shook his head and said slowly: "It's nothing, just feeling that it is too quiet here, which is a bit wrong. I fear there will be powerful demon beasts hiding inside."

"I didn't think of this point. You are still the more careful one, old brother. How about this, why don't I release my spirit beast to explore ahead first, and then we will see if we want to go in." After the yellow-clothed man finished speaking, he patted the spirit beast bag at his waist, and a red-haired fox about two feet long jumped out from inside.

After affectionately touching his spirit beast's head, the yellow-clothed man took out two golden pills from his storage bag and threw them into its mouth, then pointed to the front. After the red-haired fox received the instruction, its movements were like a fast wind, and it soon disappeared before the eyes of the three.

"Having Brother Li's spirit beast help explore the road truly saved us quite a bit of trouble."

"Fellow Daoist Feng is right! Brother Li's Red-Faced Fox is so clever. Although it is only a first-tier demon beast, the escape speed of this kind of spirit beast is extremely fast. Even facing ordinary second-tier demon beasts, it can escape safely. It is truly a good helper."

The old man in the green shirt and the other short middle-aged man on the side saw that the yellow-clothed man's spirit beast had already successfully set off and praised it one after another.

Hearing the flattery of the two, the yellow-clothed man just waved his hand slightly and did not appear too modest, and there was even a bit more confident smile on his face.

Among this three-person team, although he was the youngest and his own cultivation was not as good as the other two, since entering the secret realm, his role here was not a bit worse than the other two.

The few people were all temporarily walking together. No matter what spirit items they could get, whoever performed more importantly would naturally be divided more things.

The yellow-clothed man was calculating, and the other two were not unaware, but they did not have clever spirit beasts like the Red-Faced Fox on their bodies, so they truly had to rely on him for exploring the road.

After the Red-Faced Fox left, the three rested in place on a clean open space at the valley entrance, waiting for the Red-Faced Fox to return to see the situation inside.

The area of this valley was not small. The Red-Faced Fox ran rapidly for a full incense stick of time before arriving at the depths of the valley. The journey was very smooth, and it did not even encounter any low-tier demon beasts.

In the depths of the valley, there was a stone platform on the mountainside above. The Red-Faced Fox sniffed below and felt a very huge spiritual power attracting it from the platform above.

This Red-Faced Fox stopped in place for a while, hesitated slightly, but still could not resist the temptation and ran directly along the mountain path toward the platform.

Just as it jumped onto the platform, before the Red-Faced Fox could make any move, a golden net covered it directly from the head.

The Red-Faced Fox saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly turned around, wanting to jump off the platform in another direction, but unexpectedly, it bumped into a hard steel plate and was instantly bounced back to its original place, falling into the golden net.

A young woman dressed in white looked at the Red-Faced Fox, which was still a bit dazed after being trapped inside, and lifted the golden net, walking toward the center of the platform.

Besides her, there were nearly thirty cultivators dressed in white standing on the platform. If anyone saw them here, they would certainly be very surprised. The Xingchen Sect disciples who entered the secret realm were all here, not one missing.

"Senior Brother Liu, the one I caught this time does not seem to be a native demon beast of the secret realm. It should be a spirit beast that has already been recognized as a master. It looks like someone has already entered the valley." The white-clothed woman holding the Red-Faced Fox said slowly to a young man sitting in the middle of the platform, while carefully watching his reaction.

"A few Junior Brothers, you go down and take a look. If someone has truly come in, solve them on the spot. Remember, it is best not to leave the valley. We will start acting in a while." The young man ordered calmly, and five white-clothed cultivators soon walked out from one side beside him, jumping off the platform directly and heading toward the bottom of the valley.

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