Chapter 211

Song Qingming turned and looked at the position pointed out by the person who had just spoken, discovering that several more shining sword lights had appeared in the sky in the distance, and he vaguely saw a few white figures among the sword-flying people.

After getting closer, he discovered that there was a pile of figures floating behind these sword lights, followed by quite a few people flying on swords, but because they were blocked by the people in front, everyone hadn't been able to see them at first.

The speed of the flying swords traveling in the high sky was very fast. After just a moment, twenty or thirty sword lights landed in the square one after another.

These cultivators who came flying on swords were all dressed in white, both men and women, each looking beautiful and elegant, like immortals who didn't eat the food of mortals.

Seeing their attire, which was so obviously different from everyone else's, some cultivators at the scene who had seen them before quickly called out the name "Star Gate." This Star Gate was a Nascent Soul sect of the Wu State, and now there were two Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect, with strength three parts stronger than the Xiaoyao Sect; it could be considered the strongest sect around the Wei State.

The Golden Core cultivator leading the Star Gate was a very young man, his face like jade and his lips like painted fat. This person didn't seem to like such a noisy scene, and after greeting the several Golden Core cultivators at the scene, he sat to the side on his own and began to close his eyes and rest.

The several Golden Core cultivators at the scene didn't seem to find this person's behavior strange and didn't go up to speak politely.

Most of the Star Gate disciples looked very young, but their cultivation was not at all inferior to the Lingyin Sect disciples who had just appeared. As soon as these people appeared, they immediately caused a stir among the many cultivators at the scene.

Even the Lingyin Sect disciples, who had been a bit arrogant just now, had their expressions change a lot after seeing the Star Gate disciples appear. Including them, the many cultivators at the scene clearly had a hint of wariness in their eyes when they saw the Star Gate disciples. It was obvious that everyone knew these Star Gate people were not to be trifled with; once you provoked them after entering the secret realm, you could only leave it to fate.

Next, several more waves of cultivators led by Golden Core True Persons came to the square, but these people's style was not as grand as the ones just now. They were sent by Golden Core sects from nearby small countries, and their numbers were also smaller than the cultivators of the several large Nascent Soul sects that had arrived earlier.

Waiting until noon, there was no empty space left in the square. With the sound of a bell ringing on the square platform in the middle of the square, the elderly Golden Core cultivator of the Xiaoyao Sect suddenly stood up.

The old man swept over the entire square again, said a word softly to the two Foundation Establishment cultivators waiting on the side, and then floated directly into the air above the square. Immediately afterward, a loud voice resounded throughout the entire square.

"Fellow Daoists, sixty years have passed in the blink of an eye. This is also the third time this old man has come to open the Taiyue Lake Secret Realm. Thanks to the support of all Fellow Daoists, there haven't been too many mistakes in these two hundred years.

I won't say much about the rules. Everyone, come forward in turn, hand over one hundred spirit stones each, and after exchanging them for the special identity tokens of this sect, you can teleport directly into the secret realm from here. Our Xiaoyao Sect only manages to send everyone into the secret realm; as for what happens inside, it has nothing to do with us. This matter is entirely voluntary. If there is anyone who is unwilling, you can leave immediately now."

As soon as the old man's voice fell, under the operation of several Xiaoyao Sect disciples, a burst of white spiritual light quickly lit up on the square platform in the middle of the square.

The array on top of this stone platform didn't look much different from the teleportation array Song Qingming had used to go to the Heavenly Elixir Alliance auction back then, but this teleportation array was clearly much larger, and it was estimated that it could teleport quite a few more people.

The first to enter were the Xiaoyao Sect's own disciples who had been waiting for a long time. Song Qingming counted from afar and saw there were about thirty people. It seemed that the number of disciples sent by the several large Nascent Soul sects was about the same; he didn't know if this was something they had agreed upon.

Among the disciples selected and sent by the Xiaoyao Sect, Song Qingming not only saw Xu Ziyan, whom he had met a few days ago, but also saw her master, Liu Xingfeng. Song Qingming hadn't seen her for decades, and Liu Xingfeng's demeanor now was a bit more haggard than it had been back then.

When she fought Yang Wuqi in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range back then, Liu Xingfeng's cultivation was already at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment. He hadn't expected that nearly forty years had passed, and her cultivation had only improved to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment.

Compared to Xu Ziyan, who had broken through to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment in just over thirty years, the cultivation prospects of Liu Xingfeng, as a master, looked far less bright than her disciple's.

Liu Xingfeng had been at the Foundation Establishment stage for nearly a hundred years and could now be considered an old-school Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Xiaoyao Sect. If she didn't make a breakthrough in her cultivation, she feared she wouldn't necessarily have a chance to form a Golden Core by the time her lifespan was exhausted in this lifetime.

The many Xiaoyao Sect cultivators, before entering the teleportation array, handed over a medium-grade spirit stone in front of the many cultivators at the scene to the cultivators guarding the teleportation array, before walking into the teleportation array and disappearing from the spot in a flash of white light.

Song Qingming hadn't expected that the Xiaoyao Sect's own cultivators also needed to hand over spirit stones to use this teleportation array to enter the secret realm. He didn't know if they were doing this to put on a show for the cultivators from around who had come to visit the secret realm, or if they were truly paying out of their own pockets.

After the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators teleported, one after another, cultivators from major sects like the Star Gate and the Lingyin Sect entered the teleportation array. Finally, it was the turn of the cultivators from all walks of life, including Song Qingming and the others, who had rushed here early in the morning.

By the time more than half of the cultivators in the square had left, it was finally the turn of Song Qingming and the others. He stepped forward and generously took out one hundred low-grade spirit stones, handed them to the Xiaoyao Sect cultivator guarding the teleportation array, and soon he also received a blue jade token proving his identity, and walked into the teleportation array together with Huang Shengxin and the others.

When they came, the Huang family had already agreed with them that the spirit stones used for the teleportation to enter the secret realm this time would be paid by their Huang family, but of course, they would also have to take a larger share of the treasures obtained inside.

Song Qingming naturally had no opinion on this. Anyway, he had already thought it through: after he went in, he would first act together with the several Huang family members, and once he received news from Huo Feng, he would have to find an opportunity to leave them. As for what treasures the several Huang family members would obtain in the secret realm, he had no great interest.

Although Huang Shengyue had painted a glowing picture of the Taiyue Lake Secret Realm when she invited him to come, Song Qingming also knew a little bit in his heart that what she said must have been exaggerated. Furthermore, with so many people entering the secret realm today, it would be very difficult for them to get their turn even if there were truly good things.