Chapter 225

After waiting in place for a moment and seeing that Song Qingming, who had taken the pill, had finally gradually adapted to his current physical condition, Fire Phoenix nodded with satisfaction and led him to continue forward in a swaggering manner.

The two of them coming out like this without hiding their tracks quickly attracted the attention of the monsters in front of the valley. However, what Song Qingming found a bit strange was that those monsters had clearly discovered the two of them, but they never came up to attack, only watching them closely the whole time.

Song Qingming had been in the secret realm for so many days and knew that the monsters here were basically relentless once they saw humans. The reason it was like this now was mostly because of Fire Phoenix.

Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the few second-rank monsters ahead, although he had already taken the elixir Fire Phoenix gave him, Song Qingming still felt a bit uneasy. One hand was pressed tightly against his storage bag, ready to deal with any sudden situation at any time.

What Song Qingming didn't expect was that when the two of them walked to within a dozen zhang of the monsters, those monsters had already started to slowly retreat, voluntarily clearing the path in the middle.

Even after the two of them had passed through, Song Qingming still couldn't believe what had just happened; they had dismissed those monsters just like that.

Sure enough, no matter where the monsters were, they would be suppressed by innate bloodline. This point had never changed. Facing a powerful monster race member like Fire Phoenix, these second-rank monsters didn't even have the courage to come up and test them.

After successfully passing through this place, the two walked along the valley for two miles and soon entered a relatively flat mountain hollow.

As soon as he walked in, Song Qingming quickly discovered a mature second-rank Silver Leaf Grass not far ahead and hurriedly stepped forward to pick it and put it into his storage bag.

Not long after putting away the spiritual herb and walking forward, Song Qingming saw another second-rank spiritual herb, and next to it was a red fruit tree with seven or eight spiritual fruits. Having just entered the Inner Valley, he had already gained so much so quickly. Song Qingming's face immediately beamed with joy; he hadn't expected there to be so many spiritual items here, and what's more, these things had come so easily to him.

Thinking back to when he was in the Outer Valley a few days ago, fighting to the death with monsters to protect a few second-rank spiritual herbs with Huang Shengxin and the others, while also having to worry about being targeted by others in the secret realm, Song Qingming couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Seeing Song Qingming sweeping up all kinds of spiritual items in the mountain hollow like a swarm of locusts, Fire Phoenix couldn't help but frown and said to him sternly, "The place we are going to has even more good things. Don't waste your time here."

"Senior, a great person like you naturally doesn't lack the spiritual items needed for cultivation. My cultivation base is low, and I don't have many opportunities to obtain spiritual items, so life is naturally a bit tight. I hope you can forgive me."

Hearing that Fire Phoenix's tone was a bit displeased, Song Qingming hurriedly nodded with a grin and stepped forward to catch up with her.

Fire Phoenix rolled her eyes at him and said, "If I didn't lack spiritual items, why would I run here? Do you really think I'm bored and don't know how dangerous it is in here!"

"Then Senior, what exactly did you come here for that is worth you taking such a big risk?"

"For something very important to me. But don't ask about what's below anymore. What you should know, I will naturally tell you." Fire Phoenix looked at Song Qingming with an icy gaze, dispelling his desire to speak again.

Seeing her icy gaze, Song Qingming immediately felt a chill run through his body and couldn't help but pause and slow down by two steps.

Just like that, the two kept walking toward the depths of the Inner Valley. During this time, they encountered seven or eight waves of monsters, but none of them dared to attack them upon seeing Fire Phoenix, allowing the two of them to walk into the depths of the Inner Valley with ease.

Just when Song Qingming thought they would be able to reach their destination safely, a fierce roar suddenly came from in front of them, and then the ground began to vibrate violently.

Hearing this sound, Song Qingming immediately felt that the situation was not good. Fire Phoenix, who was walking in front, also stopped and frowned.

"We've run into trouble. Be careful yourself and don't run around." Fire Phoenix turned her head and instructed Song Qingming with a serious face, preparing to face the enemy alone.

"Senior, we don't know what is coming yet. Should we avoid it first?" Song Qingming carefully reminded her.

"Those people earlier have already entered the Inner Valley a step ahead of us. We cannot waste any more time here." Fire Phoenix shook her head calmly and floated up from the ground into mid-air.

Seeing that she had already made her decision, Song Qingming didn't dare to persuade her anymore and hurriedly retreated several hundred steps, finding a large tree to hide behind.

Looking at Fire Phoenix's somewhat slender figure in the sky not far away, a bad premonition suddenly arose in Song Qingming's heart.

Along the way, no matter what they encountered, Fire Phoenix had always maintained a confident look and never took those dangers to heart. This was the first time Song Qingming had seen her show such a cautious look.

Although she had extraordinary strength outside, now that she had entered this secret realm, her cultivation base was definitely suppressed. Otherwise, with her strength, why would she need to deliberately avoid those large sect cultivators to enter the Inner Valley?

The rumbling sound was getting closer and closer, and Song Qingming could already see the sky-filling dust being kicked up in the distance.

When it got closer, Song Qingming finally saw clearly that the one causing such a big commotion was actually a giant golden bull over three zhang tall.

Looking at this huge figure, even though Song Qingming was hiding in the distance, he could clearly feel a huge pressure coming from it.

That's right, the appearance of this monster and the powerful aura it emitted should be a third-rank monster king at the Golden Core stage.

Seeing this golden bull monster king, Song Qingming was so shocked that he immediately opened his mouth and pressed himself tightly behind the large tree. He really didn't expect that there would be a monster king above the third rank in the Inner Valley of this secret realm. If he had known there would be such a powerful monster king, he shouldn't have come in.

Although the monsters in the secret realm would be three-tenths weaker than those of the same rank outside, this monster could be considered a third-rank monster king regardless. No wonder it wasn't suppressed by Fire Phoenix's innate bloodline like the other second-rank monsters they had encountered earlier, and it had charged directly at the two of them.

After seeing this golden bull monster king, which was hundreds of times larger than her, Fire Phoenix did not show a trace of fear on her face. She flew calmly in front of it and shouted loudly at it.

"Get out of my way!"