Chapter 34 Nine Netherworld Secret Realm

Make money!

Selling Formations can no longer cover expenses; I must open up a Secret Realm!

At the Zizai Pavilion, Chen Li was researching the [Boundless Forest Nine Nether Secret Realm].

This Secret Realm is three thousand kilometers from the edge of the Boundless Forest, and Fifth-level Demonic Beasts might appear along the way.

The information description for this [Nine Poisons Qi] is: [Formed by a mixture of nine types of poisonous miasma; colorless, odorless, and formless; those below the Nascent Soul level who suffer this poison gas will have their Meridians sealed, the Spiritual Qi in their bodies will be eroded, and their Physical Body will rot away until death.]

[Countermeasure One: A Nascent Soul only needs to condense an energy shield to prevent the intrusion of this gas.]

[Countermeasure Two: Add a poisonous gas called the poison gas of the dùè flower. It can cause a portion of the Nine Poisons Qi to solidify into color and shape, and the poison gas will no longer flow. After the dùè flower has finished reacting, the Nine Poisons Qi will recover.]

The dùè flower is recorded in the 'Encyclopedia of Herbal Identification' as a flower that grows in ancient graveyards.

Chen Li remembered that there was a graveyard of ancient Yao Beasts in the Boundless Forest.

Chen Li divided the plan to neutralize the Nine Poisons Qi into two steps.

First: Use a Formation to stimulate the dùè flower gas into the area of the Nine Poisons Qi.

Second: After the Nine Poisons Qi solidifies, use a Gale Formation to blow the solidified Nine Poisons Qi away, creating a safe path.

This operation would have to be repeated for the return trip.

After confirming his goal, Chen Li began his preparations.

On the first day, he went seven hundred kilometers deep into the Boundless Forest and found that Yao Beast graveyard.

This place was bone-chillingly cold. The dùè flower can only be used to make some poison gas, and such gas is generally useless against Late Stage Qi Refining Cultivators, so few people came to harvest them.

Thus, the graveyard was now overgrown with dùè flowers everywhere.

Chen Li took out a Storage Pouch specifically to store the dùè flowers covering the mountains. Using a Harvesting Spell, after a while, he had collected several tons of dùè flowers, stripping several mountains bare.

On the second day, Chen Li produced a batch of first-grade Stimulation Formations and first-grade Gale Formations, then prepared swift travel talismans and invisibility talismans.

On the third day, after explaining some matters to Zhu Lingyue, he prepared to set out on a long journey.

...

Ten days later, Chen Li claimed to the public that he was going out to purchase supplies, but instead fled towards the Boundless Forest from the direction of the Beast Hunting Sect.

With Map Mode activated, perhaps due to Red Gold's unification, Third-level Demon Beasts and above were rarely seen in the outer regions.

It wasn't until he reached the one-thousand-kilometer mark that he encountered a few scattered Yao Beasts. However, Chen Li did not kill them; after reaching the Late Stage Qi Refining, the commotion he caused was something Third-level Demon Beasts simply couldn't detect.

Under the combined effects of the swift travel talisman and invisibility talisman, unless it was a Fifth-level Demonic Beast, they would surely think it was just a gust of wind passing by.

At the two-thousand-kilometer mark, Chen Li had safely crossed another thousand kilometers. Third-level Demon Beasts were much more numerous, but it was hard for them to detect him. Fourth-level Demonic Beasts seemed to have vanished, as he didn't see any—Red Gold's unification was truly beneficial!

He heard that Red Gold was ten thousand li away, which is five thousand kilometers. Chen Li wanted to go see that Red Gold Kingdom, but he would definitely wait until the Nascent Soul Stage to go there.

For the final thousand kilometers of the journey, he had to rely on Map Mode; otherwise, in such a vast forest, the trees, peaks, and ponds everywhere looked identical.

If the map hadn't shown him getting closer and closer to his target, he would have suspected he was lost and had returned to his starting point.

After traveling for another three days and nights, he had reached the limit of his Eighth Level of Qi Refining cultivation; the distance to the landmark was less than a hundred kilometers.

When he reached the fifty-kilometer mark, some scattered Fourth-level Demonic Beasts appeared, but Chen Li did not attract their attention and bypassed them all.

Another hour passed, and the distance was less than one li. Chen Li was highly tense. On the map, there was Nine Poisons Qi over a pond, and after crossing this pond, one would enter a cave.

The Secret Realm was inside the cave!

At this moment, Chen Li was at the edge of the pond. Looking at it, it seemed like any other pond, nothing special. It was hard to imagine there was Nine Poisons Qi above it.

Without a word, Chen Li pulled a Brother Chicken out of his spirit beast pouch.

"Brother Chicken, go!"

As soon as Brother Chicken reached the pond, in less than a second, he turned into a puddle of blood and flesh, merging into the water.

"A moment of silence for Brother Chicken!"

Good heavens, how many Yao Beasts or Cultivators have dissolved in this water?

No wonder it's so quiet around here. There should be quite a few Storage Pouches in the water; he'd wait until the Nascent Soul Stage to come down and fish them out.

Chen Li began to set up the Formation, laying out a fan-shaped row of Formations around the pond.

There were thirty sets in total, each with two thousand jin of dùè flowers. He laid out about three tons, leaving the remaining three tons as a backup for the return trip.

Afterward, he set up Gale Formations on one side of the pond. Once the Nine Poisons Qi solidified, he would activate the Formations to blow it to one side and then fly across on his sword from there.

Once everything was set up, Chen Li took out a Formation Plate. This was for the parallel operation of the thirty sets of Stimulation Formations, allowing them to be started together.

Chen Li performed a hand seal and began to inject Spiritual Qi into the Formation Plate. After a while, the thirty sets of Stimulation Formations operated in unison, beginning to stimulate the dùè flower gas and channel it into the pond.

Chen Li sat cross-legged to rest. Half a day later, seeing the dùè flower gas overflowing, Chen Li operated the Formation Plate to stop the stimulation. At this moment, Chen Li witnessed a spectacular scene.

The sky above the pond was filled with colors, as if someone had just set off colored smoke. Ten meters above the pond, it covered the cave entrance tightly; the thick, colorful Nine Poisons Qi enveloped the cave's surroundings without a single gap.

At this point, the Nine Poisons Qi had solidified, motionless.

My god, who set this up? So impressive!

It definitely wasn't natural!

Chen Li started the large fans. The gale stimulated by the dozen or so sets of Gale Formations blew the thick Nine Poisons Qi from the side.

Chen Li sat cross-legged for a while. After an hour, seeing that there was no trace of the colorful Nine Poisons Qi on the right side, Chen Li sent a Brother Chicken ahead.

After confirming there was no problem, Chen Li took out the [frost condensing sword]. After packing up the thirty sets of Stimulation Formations and the dozen or so Gale Formations, he quickly flew towards the cave on his sword from the right side.

At the cave, there was a five-meter-long corridor. In the corridor, traces of a Formation could be seen, which kept the Nine Poisons Qi out.

This Formation must be at the Nascent Soul level!

Chen Li waited in the cave corridor for the medicinal power of the Nine Poisons Qi to dissipate. An hour later, the colors faded, the Nine Poisons Qi began to flow again, and after it became colorless, odorless, and formless, Chen Li felt safe enough to continue forward.

Looking at this Formation, Chen Li thought to himself that this was indeed man-made!

Could this Secret Realm have been left behind ten thousand years ago? But was the only danger on the periphery of this Opportunity site just this [Nine Poisons Qi]?

There was no mention of man-made dangers.

Regardless, since he was already here, he walked through the corridor. Upon reaching a corner, he saw a Spiritual Qi vortex. Floating in front of the vortex were ten tokens, with [Nine Nether Token] written on them.

Ten tokens. The information about the Opportunity site in his Sea of Consciousness happened to specify ten people as well. This was too Heaven-Defying!

Chen Li picked up a token. Suddenly, the Spiritual Qi vortex shone brilliantly, enveloping Chen Li within it. In a moment, Chen Li vanished from the spot.