Chapter 220

"Hehe! What you said is truly reasonable, old brother. Let's listen to you!" Hu Longhai nodded in sudden realization after hearing Huang Shengxin's words.

The remaining Huang Shengyue and Song Qingming also nodded and didn't oppose. They basically listened to Huang Shengxin's arrangements after entering the secret realm and hadn't put forward any other opinions.

When the few were sitting under the tree resting for a moment, Song Qingming touched the colorful feather placed on his body and couldn't help but think secretly in his heart.

"It's already the fifth day since entering the secret realm, and Huo Feng still hasn't contacted me. I don't know if she has truly managed to sneak in."

Since entering the secret realm, Song Qingming had been waiting for Huo Feng to give him a signal. Following Huang Shengxin and them was just to have a few more points of self-preservation ability. As for which direction to go, he didn't care; anyway, where he ultimately had to go, he would have to wait for Huo Feng to tell him before he knew.

Fortunately, the entire Taiyue Secret Realm was only this large. No matter where Huo Feng wanted him to go, traveling with all his might should take at most a few days.

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At the very north of the entire Taiyue Secret Realm, there was a huge mountain canyon spanning half the secret realm, named Mutian Canyon. The canyon was filled with sky-covering white fog, bottomless, and from time to time, bursts of sounds like thunder and lightning would emerge from the white fog, which sounded very terrifying inside.

Within a hundred-mile radius around Mutian Canyon, it was completely silent, also covered in white, wrapped in slightly lighter white fog. Generally, cultivators who arrived here and took a look would basically leave immediately and didn't dare to walk into this unknown fog. Even if the bold ones rushed in rashly, they basically wouldn't find any spiritual items inside.

After the secret realm opened, although quite a few cultivators had passed through here, not one had dared to enter it. Until three days later, a young woman dressed in red came here.

The red-clothed woman looked at the dense white fog ahead and didn't reveal any look of surprise, directly lifting her legs and walking into this dangerous fog without hesitation, as if she had been here before.

After walking for dozens of miles, the red-clothed woman finally appeared by the canyon. Looking at the white fog surging from the deep valley, she took a copper mirror from her body with a calm expression and placed it on the mountain wall on one side of the canyon.

Following the surge of spiritual power in the woman's hand, the copper mirror stuck to the cliff wall emitted a burst of dazzling red light before slowly sinking into the cliff wall and merging with the surrounding mountain stones.

After finishing all this, the red-clothed woman nodded with satisfaction, turned her head to leave the canyon, and walked out from the original path.

After walking out of the fog, the red-clothed woman continued to walk toward a high mountain not far away. After walking for not long, a rustling sound suddenly came from the grass on one side ahead. The woman hurriedly stopped her steps and looked sideways. Only then did she see a triangular head already emerging from the grass; it was a second-tier giant lizard demon beast that had been circling nearby for a long time.

What was a bit strange was that this second-tier giant lizard demon beast, after seeing the red-clothed woman not far ahead, didn't choose to attack her immediately. It just stared at her blankly for two glances. After a while, its huge head slowly retracted, and it soon disappeared directly into the grass.

Not until that giant lizard demon beast slowly left here did the red-clothed woman turn around and continue to walk forward. After seeing that demon beast, she didn't bother with it and left here on her own.

If this shocking scene just now had been seen by other cultivators who entered the secret realm, they would surely have been greatly shocked. Cultivators who arrived here basically felt that the native demon beasts in the secret realm had extremely strong aggressiveness and basically would take the initiative to attack as long as they saw living people. I don't know what special ability this red-clothed woman had to directly startle a second-tier giant lizard away.

After the red-clothed woman left here, the vicinity of Mutian Canyon soon fell into silence again, until a few days later, suddenly another group of people arrived here.

This group of people was uniformly dressed in white attire, and each looked very young. They were the Star Gate cultivators from the Wu State.

These Star Gate cultivators, just like the red-clothed woman a few days ago, rushed directly into the white fog and arrived by the canyon.

Liu Zongping, standing above the canyon, frowned and looked at the white fog in the canyon before taking out several talisman papers with somewhat special appearances from his storage bag.

After Liu Zongping injected spiritual power, these talisman papers in his hand slowly flew into the air, transformed into several fluttering little paper cranes, and flew directly toward the bottom of the canyon.

This spell was a special secret technique unique to the Star Gate, the "Thousand-Object Transformation Spirit Technique."

After mastering this technique, one could instantly transform some ordinary dead objects refined in advance into living objects with spirit. This was a very easy-to-use secret technique for exploring the road and was not something everyone in the Star Gate was qualified to cultivate.

Several little paper cranes slowly went down until they reached a position about a hundred feet below the canyon, when suddenly bursts of thunder and lightning sounds came, and the several paper cranes below instantly transformed into a burst of firelight and disappeared into the canyon.

At the same time, Liu Zongping, who was sitting on the ground above the canyon controlling the paper cranes, suddenly had a mass of black smoke rise in his hand, which slowly disappeared into the air.

Liu Zongping slowly stood up and said calmly: "At present, the barrier below hasn't loosened in the slightest; it is not yet time to go down. Next, I will trouble everyone to take turns performing the secret technique, exploring once every hour, striving for us to be the first to enter the inner valley.

Everyone, don't care about the herbs in the outer valley. What is outside is also inside. And when we came, the Elder had already expressed his attitude. This time, as long as we can successfully obtain that spiritual item inside, everyone will receive a substantial reward after returning to the sect."

The Star Gate disciples nodded after hearing Liu Zongping's words and guarded this piece of canyon tightly.

The bottom of this Mutian Canyon was actually the entrance to the inner valley of the Taiyue Secret Realm. The reason Liu Zongping and they still didn't dare to go down was because there was a very powerful barrier at the bottom of the canyon, separating this place from the inner valley. Going down rashly would basically result in being struck into fly ash by the thunder and lightning above the barrier like those paper cranes just now. One had to wait for the power of this barrier to weaken before being able to rely on external force to break through.

And the weakening of the barrier's power generally occurred about ten days after the secret realm opened. At this time until a month later when the secret realm closed, as long as one brought several magic tools to counter thunder and lightning, basically everyone could successfully pass through the barrier. This was also the experience summarized by the senior cultivators of several sects after exploring for thousands of years and paying countless sacrifices.

After the Star Gate disciples arrived here, not long after, on the other side of Mutian Canyon, the Lingyin Sect cultivators had also arrived. After exploring the barrier in the canyon, they also chose to stay by the canyon.