Chapter 641: The Secret Realm of Nine Longcheng

Lu Yang felt that it was quite good for Xie An and Qiao'er to go to the Qiankun Ziyun Palace. With two more Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators in the Qiankun Ziyun Palace, other sects wouldn't be harmed by these two, a win-win situation.

Meng Jingzhou quietly retreated to Lu Yang's side. Qiao'er—no, she was Venerable Qianjiao now—the chill radiating from Venerable Qianjiao made even his bone marrow feel cold.

"Are Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators so common now? You can run into two just by going out." Lu Yang muttered in a low voice.

Meng Jingzhou thought seriously about his experiences going out with Lu Yang: "It seems like every time we go out, we run into Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators."

Lu Yang: "..."

It seemed that was indeed the case.

"Wuji, you old thing, why are you pretending to be a child! And you look so tender!" Qiao'er angrily rebuked Xie An. If she had known Xie An was Venerable Wuji, why would she have stayed here for nearly half a year?

A waste of emotions!

Xie An was not to be outdone and spat on the ground: "You have the nerve to talk about me? Back then, when you were being hunted by bandits, you cried to me, 'Please, brother, save me, my parents and servants were all killed by bandits.' You acted so convincingly!"

"Not as convincingly as you, spinning around an old beggar all day, playing chess with him. To infiltrate a Nascent Soul stage sect, you were so convoluted!"

"You are shameless!"

"You are brazen!"

The two great Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators began to bicker, fighting with their eyes. The space seemed to solidify, making Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou terrified, fearing they would start fighting.

If they started fighting, the first to suffer would be the two of them.

When Lu Yang was acting as the substitute Sect Master, he had read intelligence about these two Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators.

These two were from the same era, had known each other since childhood, and were childhood sweethearts. There were even rumors that they had been betrothed since they were children. On Venerable Wuji's side, the family fortune declined, and Venerable Qianjiao's family proposed breaking the engagement, which was why they never married.

Regardless of whether the rumor was true or false, in short, after they joined their respective sects, they competed against each other, from the Qi Refining stage all the way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage, and incidentally upgraded their respective sects to Super-grade sects.

In the era they lived in, they were the most brilliant geniuses. Their peers witnessed their talent and felt ashamed, unable to even harbor thoughts of comparison.

No matter the era, those who could cultivate to the Tribulation Transcendence stage were geniuses among geniuses.

After becoming Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators, they had the airs of elders and would not easily take action like before. Moreover, they were Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators; if they fought, it would be world-destroying, and recovering afterward would be quite troublesome.

The number of times they competed in secret was not small, such as by cultivating disciples and having them fight, or by impersonating disciples to fight.

Seeing this, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou quietly left, fearing that if they left too late, they wouldn't be able to leave at all.

"Wait, don't leave yet. There seems to be a secret realm in this temple." The Immortal Fairy called out to Lu Yang. "A secret realm? Where?"

"Right in that temple, behind the lotus pedestal." The Immortal Fairy pointed the way for Lu Yang. Driven by curiosity, Lu Yang secretly went behind the lotus pedestal of the dilapidated temple.

Behind the lotus pedestal was all dust. Lu Yang brushed away the dust, revealing the entrance to the secret realm, which was a small groove.

"Old Meng, come here quickly, there is a secret realm here." Lu Yang called out to Meng Jingzhou, who was guarding the entrance of the dilapidated temple. Hearing this, Meng Jingzhou walked over quickly.

The two Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators heard there was a secret realm here, temporarily stopped fighting, and were also very surprised when they saw the groove. They had been trying their best to pretend to be mortals and hadn't noticed the secret realm entrance nearby. "Legend has it that there is a secret realm outside Nine Longcheng; this must be it." Lu Yang pondered.

"Who would have thought there really is a secret realm?" Xie An was surprised. He had already arranged a secret realm in the nearby mountains and forests, just waiting for the day he joined the Qiankun Ziyun Palace and became the senior brother, to obtain the opportunity by chance.

The opportunity he had arranged was enough for him to cultivate to the Integration stage.

"Try dripping blood?" Meng Jingzhou suggested.

"Okay." Lu Yang dripped blood to fill the groove, but the groove had no reaction.

Xie An analyzed seriously: "This should require some kind of token to fill it. As for what token, I don't know."

"Why does this groove look so familiar?" Lu Yang was puzzled. "Right, Senior, why don't you try the token the old beggar gave you?"

Hearing this, Xie An placed the cloud-shaped token into the groove, and it filled exactly one-third of it. "Could it be that it requires the tokens of the three major sects? Do we need to go to the other two sects to ask for them?"

"No need for such trouble."

Qiao'er pressed her hand on the groove and pulled gently, tearing open a spatial crack. She pointed to the entrance of the secret realm: "Now we can go in."

Lu Yang: "..."

All four were very curious about what was in the secret realm and jumped in directly. The secret realm was not large, and the main body was a luxurious palace.

The four walked into the palace, where a statue was enshrined. Because it had not received incense for many years, the statue looked dilapidated.

Seemingly sensing that the secret realm had been opened and someone had entered, the statue trembled, and an old man with white hair and beard floated out, looking at the four with relief.

"You must be the four who gathered the three tokens according to the prophecy and opened the secret realm."

"This is a divine thought I left behind. I know you have many doubts in your hearts. Don't be anxious, listen to me slowly."

"I don't know if you have heard my name. My name is Zhang Dao. I was once the strongest person in this Nine Longcheng, with a cultivation base at the peak of Spirit Transformation. Even the City Lord had to treat me as a junior."

"Unfortunately, I lived a carefree life, but in the end, I had to fall to the word 'lifespan'."

"The strong do not have infinite lifespan. At that time, I had no hope of reaching the Void Refinement stage, and my time was running out. I had no fear of death, but I had three disciples. They were all excellent, but they developed rifts and each established their own sect, creating the three major sects. I could still suppress them while I was alive, but if I died, they would inevitably engage in internal strife."

"So, before I died, I left a prophecy: 'Three sects unite, three tokens gather, beneath the Buddhist gate lies Tribulation Transcendence.' I left behind a cultivation technique that can reach the Tribulation Transcendence stage. To obtain this technique, one must gather the three tokens. These three tokens are the tokens of the three of them."

"You were able to gather the three tokens, so they must have reconciled. I am very relieved. Knowing that the last sentence of the prophecy refers to this place, you are truly brilliant."

The old man opened a small wooden box, which contained a thread-bound cultivation technique.

"This is a technique I obtained from the Wuji Sect when I was young. Although it is incomplete and only has the first half, it can guarantee you cultivate to the Spirit Transformation stage. I relied on it to cultivate to the peak of Spirit Transformation."

"To obtain the subsequent technique, you must find a way to join the Wuji Sect." Xie An looked at the old man, stood with his hands behind his back, and asked indifferently: "Do you know who I am?" "Who are you?"

Xie An changed his appearance, his facial features and body shape changed, and he returned to his original appearance, looking coldly at the old man. "My name is Xie Jiu, you can also call me Venerable Wuji."

The old man was silent for two seconds and knelt down silently. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have stolen the technique." ===== CHAPTER 642 =====