Chapter 212

After entering the teleportation array, following a surge of spiritual power, Song Qingming immediately felt a familiar sense of spinning. A moment later, they appeared on a flat stone platform.

Looking around, Song Qingming discovered that this stone platform seemed to be in a mountain hollow of a small hill. Judging from the time spent on the teleportation, Song Qingming felt that the distance from the Taiyue Lake Market shouldn't be too far. However, the surroundings and the sky here were already covered by a mass of white dense fog, as if completely isolated by a mountain-protecting array; it was truly impossible to see what the scenery outside looked like.

Just after teleporting over, some people in the crowd were clearly still a bit unaccustomed. The Xiaoyao Sect cultivators guarding this end of the teleportation array, after waiting for everyone to recover on the platform, led them to the other side of the hill.

Before they even got there, Song Qingming saw a circular black hole in the mid-air of the hillside, with bursts of black spiritual light appearing from time to time around it. It seemed that that was the true entrance to the secret realm.

After arriving under the black hole, Song Qingming saw that there were still over a dozen disciples wearing Xiaoyao Sect attire standing there, and there was also a middle-aged man with unfathomable cultivation sitting to the side.

After seeing this person's face, Song Qingming revealed a hint of surprise for a moment. He hadn't expected that there would actually be a Golden Core cultivator with not-low cultivation sitting here.

The Golden Core True Person sitting here was named Lu Boyang. During the demon beast turmoil over a dozen years ago, it was he who led the Fire Cloud Mountain cultivators to counterattack the Jinshan Market. At that time, he fell into the siege of demon beasts and was injured after fighting two Golden Core Demon Kings alone, so he returned directly to the Xiaoyao Sect to recuperate. After that time, Song Qingming had never seen him again.

The fact that the Xiaoyao Sect actually sent out three Golden Core cultivators for this secret realm showed that they truly attached great importance to this matter.

After checking the tokens on Song Qingming and the others one by one and confirming there were no problems, the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators let them all pass.

After walking closer, Song Qingming saw the appearance of the black hole in the sky clearly. It was a full ten feet in diameter, like an abyss, bottomless, and bursts of fierce hurricanes blew out from it from time to time.

After arriving here, some cultivators who were more familiar with this place flew directly toward the black hole, and Song Qingming and Huang Shengxin and the others were not to be outdone, all rushing to the front of the team.

The entrance to this secret realm looked very different from the entrance to the secret realm he had entered in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range back then.

The entrance to the secret realm in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range opened by Huo Feng was very unstable and would leak the interface true fire from inside. Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator would definitely injure their physical body if they touched it.

In comparison, the black hole in the sky was much more stable, with only some hurricanes at the entrance, which would not have much impact on Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After entering the black hole in the sky, Song Qingming quickly fell into a piece of darkness. As he went deeper and deeper, Song Qingming's spiritual sense gradually could no longer sense the surrounding cultivators.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, feeling a rolling of black fog around him, Song Qingming's eyes lit up, and he fell directly from the high sky.

Fortunately, below was a sand dune with no danger. Song Qingming turned in the air and landed steadily on the ground.

The secret realm was extremely dangerous, with not only demon beasts and traps but also cultivators lurking in the dark. Song Qingming didn't dare to walk around casually in this place alone, so he hurriedly left the sand dune and found a natural stone cave to hide in first.

Taking out a small silver mirror to look, Song Qingming discovered that his position was not too far from Huang Shengxin, and he gradually felt at ease. As long as he reunited with this ninth-level Foundation Establishment cultivator, he shouldn't have to worry about his own safety for the time being.

Before entering the secret realm, Huang Shengxin had already informed them that even if they went in together, their positions after arriving inside would be automatically separated. This was similar to the situation in the secret realm in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range. Song Qingming had entered it twice back then, and the positions where he landed were also different.

In order to facilitate a quick reunion inside, the Huang family specifically took out a magic tool, the "Green Jade Mother-Child Mirror." As long as the distance between two cultivators holding the child-mother copper mirrors was within three thousand miles, they could sense the other's position.

Song Qingming held the child mirror, while the mother mirror was in Huang Shengxin's hands. Song Qingming only needed to move according to the direction shown in the mirror, and it was estimated that it would take at most a few days to find the other party. If Huang Shengxin also moved toward his location, the time for the two to reunite would be greatly shortened.

However, Huang Shengxin normally shouldn't move his position casually. After all, the mother mirror was in his hands, and the other three could only move toward his position. Once he moved his position casually and exceeded the range, it would be very difficult for the others to find him.

After determining Huang Shengxin's orientation, Song Qingming walked directly out of the stone cave and started running wildly, using the Light Body Technique.

It wasn't that one couldn't fly in the secret realm, but flying on a sword in here was too eye-catching and easily became a target for cultivators lurking in the surroundings. It was far less safe than traveling on the ground. Traveling on the ground using the Light Body Technique like this was indeed a bit slower, but Song Qingming wasn't in that much of a rush. For him, safety was naturally the most important thing.

However, not everyone who entered here was as cautious as Song Qingming. Song Qingming had only walked for less than an hour before he already saw several sword lights flying in the sky.

Song Qingming paid close attention and discovered that the cultivators who dared to appear in the sky like this were basically late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators with higher cultivation. For people with lower cultivation like him, there were still more who were cautious.

After walking for another stretch of road, Song Qingming suddenly heard a sound from the front. After getting closer, Song Qingming discovered that a second-tier low-grade crocodile on the road ahead was preying on a first-tier wild boar demon beast.

Although Song Qingming saw several mature first-tier high-grade spiritual herbs beside the two demon beasts, he didn't choose to be greedy and instead prepared to bypass this place and rush forward.

Now that everyone had just entered the secret realm, most people were like Song Qingming now, in a hurry to find their teammates. Traveling now should still be considered the safest time. As long as he wasn't entangled by demon beasts on the road, he should be able to successfully reunite with Huang Shengxin quickly.

Just as he was about to get up, suddenly a thunderbolt struck directly at the second-tier crocodile demon beast. After a crackling sound, blue smoke rose from the second-tier crocodile demon beast, and it directly abandoned the half-dead wild boar at its feet and rolled to the side.

Seeing the thunderbolt fall, Song Qingming froze on the spot, not daring to move anymore. It looked like there were other cultivators present here. It was fortunate he hadn't been greedy and appeared just now, otherwise, he feared he would have been the one others used as the fisherman.