239: Blooms once every two thousand years

"Boom!"

In an instant, unprecedented fear, slaughter, ferocity, frenzy, greed, resentment, and other surging negative emotions erupted and swept over him. Lu Chen's wisp of consciousness felt like it was going mad, and then it exploded with a bang!

But in the instant before 'Lu Chen's' consciousness dissipated, he clearly saw that the blood flowing from the intensely battling peak Yang God Great Cultivators, Grand Demons, and the other Yin God and Yang God cultivators fighting for treasures, surprisingly, all flowed and converged underground along certain special channels within the mountains, rivers, and peaks, finally submerging entirely into that bloody giant eyeball!

The next moment, his consciousness subsided, and everything he had just seen vanished completely, as if it were an illusion!

"Everything I just saw..." Lu Chen's breathing became heavy, like someone who had been drowning suddenly reaching shore.

"It wasn't an illusion!"

It was everything in this Secret Realm!

Although a wisp of his consciousness had exploded after being seen by that bloody giant eyeball, he himself hadn't been affected. Not even when that wisp of consciousness 'dissipated' did he experience any soul-tearing pain.

"So, my consciousness wasn't erased!"

It was that Female Immortal's severed hand that shared the vision with him, allowing him to feel and see everything!

Lu Chen's chaotic thoughts were sorted out, and then once again occupied by a flood of doubts!

"Why did that Female Immortal's severed hand want to show me all this?"

"This severed hand, it still has consciousness? Then will it truly 'come back to life'?"

But how could consciousness exist within a severed hand?

Even if it were truly an Immortal, their Nascent Soul and consciousness shouldn't exist within a severed hand, unless everything else of this Immortal, besides this severed hand, has already been annihilated!

Taking a step back, even if this Immortal only had this severed hand left, they should have recovered long ago!

After all, for such an existence, let alone leaving a hand behind, even if only a drop of blood or a wisp of consciousness remained, they could be reborn and return. There's no reason they couldn't recover while still having a severed hand!

Or perhaps, the former Realm of this severed hand's owner was too high, so high that it reached a level Lu Chen couldn't comprehend?

But, his Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin clearly cannot contain living beings!

If this severed hand was still 'alive', it shouldn't have been able to be taken into his Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin, right?!

For a moment, Lu Chen had the impulse to discard this severed hand!

But soon, he dismissed this idea. Without this severed hand, he wouldn't have been able to see that terrifying bloody eyeball in the deepest part of the Secret Realm.

"So, why did this hand show me the Blood Eye in the deepest part of the Secret Realm?"

Lu Chen's thoughts quickly branched out.

Why did this severed hand 'lead' him to see that Blood Eye?

Could there be some connection between the two?!

If there had to be a connection, it would be that both are incomplete body parts. One is so incomplete that only an eyeball remains, while the other is slightly better, a complete severed hand!

At this thought, Lu Chen's heart suddenly trembled: "Could this Blood Eye and the severed hand have originally been one entity?"

No, that shouldn't be!

That giant Blood Eye was problematic. When the severed hand 'led' him to see it, he clearly felt the 'malice' from the Blood Eye, and it even 'erased' a wisp of his consciousness!

If the severed hand and the Blood Eye were originally one entity, the Blood Eye shouldn't have reacted like that upon discovering the severed hand!

Or perhaps...

"Did the former owner of the severed hand know the former owner of the Blood Eye?"

Uncertain if they were enemies or friends, or merely acquainted?

Or perhaps, the severed hand and the Blood Eye were once existences of the same level, hence the mutual sensing?

At this moment, Lu Chen thought of many things, but the severed hand fell silent again, without the slightest reaction.

"That Blood Eye devouring the blood of all cultivators and the Demon Clan in the depths of the Secret Realm is likely not a good thing!"

This Secret Realm is very dangerous, and also very strange!

Lu Chen suddenly understood why, when he had previously asked Shaman Feng Jie to look at this Secret Realm, Feng Jie's eyes had bled, he had suffered a backlash, and had been too scared to say more!

This Shen Gun most likely also saw that 'Blood Eye', and might even have been 'warned' by the Blood Eye!

But then again, why did this Shen Gun, who likely had already 'seen' that Blood Eye and knew the dangers and strangeness here, still enter this Secret Realm?

While thinking about this question, Lu Chen inexplicably recalled the general layout of the Secret Realm that the severed hand had 'led' him to glimpse earlier. During that glimpse, he had seen a 'netherworld spirit flower'. This flower blooms only once every two thousand years, takes another thousand years to mature, and then withers after three hundred and thirty-three years. One who obtains this flower, if their comprehension of true meaning doesn't lag, can immediately achieve Yin God, or even touch upon Yang God. It is extremely rare and considered a top-tier heavenly material and earthly treasure.

"Could it be that Feng Jie, this Shen Gun, saw some heavenly material and earthly treasure, and that's why he's still taking this trip, knowing the dangers in this Secret Realm?!" Lu Chen speculated in his heart, believing it was very likely the case, probably nine times out of ten.

Then he had another thought: "This guy couldn't have also seen the netherworld spirit flower, right?"

But that shouldn't be!

For cultivators below the Yang Spirit Realm, the netherworld spirit flower can be a top-tier heavenly material and earthly treasure, but for Yang Gods, or even cultivators above the Yang God Realm, its effect is limited, not enough to make Feng Jie take this risk!

"Brother Feng, let's be frank, you've already achieved the Yang God Realm, haven't you?" Lu Chen suddenly looked at Feng Jie and asked.

This guy only showed the Yin Spirit Realm in front of others, but Lu Chen's Body Refinement cultivation had already reached the Three Calamities Yang God Realm, no lower than Feng Jie's. After a careful look, he could always spot some trickery!

Especially this guy's accompanying Spirit Treasure, which was that Divine Hall, was also extremely special. Feng Jie could use it to see this Secret Realm, and even the 'Blood Eye' in the depths of the Secret Realm. His own strength was naturally not weak, definitely not something the Yin Spirit Realm could achieve.

Feng Jie didn't seem surprised: "Brother Lu, good eyes..." Before he finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly think of something, and a hint of worry flashed in his eyes: "Brother Lu, you didn't... see something, did you?"

Lu Chen's heart, which had just settled, suddenly lifted again. As expected, this guy had set his sights on a certain treasure in this Secret Realm. It better not be my 'netherworld spirit flower', or else when we start fighting later, don't blame this brother for my Dao Soldiers bullying the few with many!

After a moment of silence, Lu Chen suddenly stepped back half a body length: "Brother Feng, whatever you've taken a fancy to, feel free to go and get it."

Just wait for you to take a couple of steps and see. If you're not heading towards the netherworld spirit flower, I'll just watch, but if you go towards my netherworld spirit flower, I'm sorry, I'll knock you down with a brick!

Feng Jie was indeed a Shen Gun. He already had some understanding of Lu Chen's habits. At that moment, he also stepped back half a step, his eyes full of vigilance: "Brother Lu, let's talk this out!"

He didn't seem to be up to anything good; I need to be wary.

But seeing Lu Chen's smiling appearance, he felt a chill in his heart!