Chapter 217

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

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

Those who dared to swagger and fly on swords in the secret realm these past few days were basically those large sect cultivators. When they ran into them, cultivators from rogue cultivator backgrounds like them truly didn't dare to provoke them and had to take the initiative to hide their tracks, so as not to be targeted by them.

The one with the highest cultivation among the three was an old man in a green shirt, with the sixth level of Foundation Establishment cultivation. Among the other two, one was wearing a yellow Daoist robe and was only at the third level of Foundation Establishment, and the other had slightly higher cultivation, a short middle-aged man at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.

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

After crossing this small mountain, the old man in the green shirt walking at the very front looked at the front for a while, then suddenly shouted excitedly.

"Two Fellow Daoists, look quickly! There is spiritual energy overflowing in the mountain valley ahead; there must be good things inside!"

The two behind heard the old man's voice and hurriedly walked up to look carefully. Sure enough, a mountain valley with spiritual energy overflowing truly appeared before their eyes, over ten miles away.

In order to come into this secret realm to find some useful spiritual items, these three had already spent quite a few spirit stones. Excluding the several hundred spirit stones handed over to the Xiaoyao Sect, just the spiritual items prepared for use in the secret realm had already nearly spent all the savings on the few.

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

One place ran into two powerful second-tier demon beasts, and they didn't dare to make a move. The other place happened to have been gotten there first by someone else. They searched around and only took a few low-level spiritual herbs that were of low value and that others didn't look at.

Not long ago, the three who were exploring everywhere in the secret realm were also entangled by a powerful second-tier demon beast. After being busy for half a day and consuming two second-tier spiritual talismans, the three, although they killed this second-tier demon beast, watched with their own eyes as the demon beast's corpse rotted away quickly when they wanted to collect the demon beast materials, which made the few stomp their feet in anger on the spot.

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

The distance of over ten miles, for Foundation Establishment cultivators, even without flying 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 had already walked into the valley with smiles on their faces. The old man in the green shirt who was the leader, after walking into the mountain valley, looked at the silent vegetation all around and suddenly stopped his steps to look around.

"Brother Jiang, what's 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, his face a bit puzzled, and asked.

The old man in the green shirt shook his head and said slowly, "It's nothing, just feeling that it's too quiet here, a bit not quite right. I fear there will be powerful demon beasts hiding inside."

"I didn't think of this point. It's still you, old brother, who is more careful. How about this, why don't I release my spirit beast to explore ahead first, and then we'll 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-furred 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 toward the front. After the red-furred fox received the instruction, its movements were like a gust of 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."

"What Fellow Daoist Feng said is right! Brother Li's red-faced fox is so clever. Although it is only a first-tier spirit beast, this kind of spirit beast has extremely fast escape speed. Even when facing ordinary second-tier demon beasts, it can get away safely. It can truly be considered a good helper."

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

Hearing the flattery of the two, the yellow-clothed man just waved his hand slightly and didn't 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 at all inferior to the other two.

The few were temporarily walking together. No matter what spiritual items they could get, the more important one performed, the more things they would naturally be divided.

The yellow-clothed man was calculating, and the other two were not unaware. It was just that they didn't have spirit beasts as clever as the red-faced fox on them, 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 for a while, waiting for the red-faced fox to return to see the situation inside.

The area of this mountain valley was not small. The red-faced fox ran fast for a full stick of incense before arriving at the depths of the mountain valley. Along the way, it was very smooth, and it didn't even encounter a low-level demon beast.

In the depths of the mountain valley, there was a stone platform on the hillside above. The red-faced fox sniffed below and felt that there was a very huge spiritual power on the platform above attracting it.

This red-faced fox stopped on the spot for a while, hesitated slightly, but still couldn't 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 the situation was not good and hurriedly turned around, wanting to jump off the platform by changing direction, but unexpectedly bumped into a hard steel plate, was instantly bounced back to the spot, and fell into the golden net.

A young woman dressed in white looked at the red-faced fox, which was still a bit confused 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 surely be very surprised. The Star Gate disciples who had entered the secret realm were all here, not one missing.

"Senior Brother Liu, what I caught this time doesn't 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 mountain valley." The white-clothed woman holding the golden net said slowly to a young man sitting in the middle of the platform, while carefully watching his reaction.

"Several 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. In a while, we will start acting." The young man gave an instruction calmly, and five white-clothed cultivators soon walked out from the side of him and jumped off the platform directly, going toward the bottom of the mountain valley.