116: Chapter 116 Secret Realm Spots, the Enemy's Misfortune

Su Yu's cultivation naturally stabilized at the Early Stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

He did not consume a single Medicinal Pill, nor did he suffer a shred of hardship.

Since that day, the Tianshu Old Ancestor had hardly spoken to Su Yu for half a month.

As a Soul Transformation powerhouse who had lived for over ten thousand years, it was clear that he needed some time to recover from his shattered common sense regarding cultivation.

Time flowed on, and another year passed.

Eleven-year-old Su Yu had grown taller, and dressed in a plain green robe without any intricate patterns, he sat quietly in the stone pavilion on the edge of the main Peak's cliff.

He did not intentionally meditate.

Yet, with every gentle breath, the Creation Melting Furnace Art within his body continuously inhaled and exhaled the Spiritual Qi on the main Peak, which was so dense it was nearly mist.

Peak of the Early Stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

This was his progress over the past year.

Suddenly, a steady sound of air being pierced stopped before the Restriction outside the main Peak.

It was the current Sect Master of the Celestial Pivot Sect.

He stood respectfully outside the Restriction, and only after the Tianshu Old Ancestor sent out a Divine Thought did he cautiously step onto the jade terrace.

"Grand Elder."

The Sect Master bowed deeply toward the quiet room where Tianshu was in seclusion, then got straight to the point.

"Reporting to the Grand Elder, the 'Vast Array Secret Realm' in the far west of the Southern Wilderness will open in half a month."

"This Secret Realm appears once every five hundred years. It contains many Spirit Medicine and Legacy ruins left behind by ancient Sects, but the entrance is restricted by ancient Law, allowing only Cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage and below to enter."

"As the leader of the Southern Wilderness, our Sect holds ten quotas."

"According to past rules, these ten quotas are all selected through the inner Sect competition."

At this point, the Sect Master's tone paused slightly, appearing extremely cautious.

"I wonder what the current cultivation level of Saint Su is? If it is suitable, this Disciple will set aside a quota, allowing the Saint to also go into the Secret Realm for experience."

The Sect Master kept his head lowered, though he had already made his calculations.

In his view, although Su Yu had an Earthly Spiritual Root, he was only eleven years old after all.

Even if the Grand Elder poured the entire foundation of the Sect to nurture him, at most, he would only be at the Qi Refining 7th or 8th Layer.

Such cultivation would naturally be a bit of a stretch for the Secret Realm.

However, his inquiry was merely to offer flowers belonging to another to Buddha, treating this extremely precious Secret Realm quota as a gesture of filial piety.

For those Loose Cultivators and ordinary Disciples with no background, this kind of ancient Secret Realm that appears once every five hundred years...

...is a meat grinder that requires their lives to fill, and it is also the only straw they have in this life to cross social strata and achieve a Heaven-Defying change of fate.

But for a second-generation immortal with absolute backing, what kind of life-or-death desperate situation is this?

It is nothing more than a backyard garden arranged by Elders, where one goes to be gilded and incidentally strolls around.

At worst, one could just send a few True Disciples at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Stage to protect him closely.

If they encounter an Opportunity, the Saint takes it first.

If they really encounter a dead end, even if they have to use the lives of these True Disciples to fill it, to trade it, they must send this precious Fifth Saint out safe and sound.

The quiet room was silent for a moment.

Then, the Tianshu Old Ancestor's aged voice, carrying a hint of nonchalance, came out.

"Yu'er went for a walk a few days ago, had a sudden realization, and has already achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment."

"It would be good for him to go to this Secret Realm for a trip."

Upon hearing this, the Sect Master was secretly shocked.

Eleven years old! Foundation Establishment Stage?!

And it is Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment?!

He had even felt just a moment ago that the Late Stage of the Qi Refining Stage was already highly overestimating this Saint!

One must know, among those top-tier Saints and Saintesses in the Sect, which one hadn't been stuck at the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage for several years before barely touching the threshold of Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment?

The Sect Master suppressed the shock in his heart and continued speaking.

"Grand Elder, the Saint is immensely talented, truly the Fortune of our Sect for all eternity."

"It is just that this Vast Array Secret Realm has been left behind since ancient times and is extremely dangerous inside, not only with incomplete killing Formations but also with desperate criminals from all sides."

"Although the Saint has already achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, he is still young after all and lacks the experience of life-and-death combat."

"To ensure nothing goes wrong, I intend to select two True Disciples with the most outstanding combat power at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Stage to protect the Saint closely in the Secret Realm. I wonder what the Grand Elder thinks?"

"No need."

The Tianshu Old Ancestor interrupted him directly.

His voice exuded an absolute self-confidence.

"Keep one quota for him, and handle the rest according to the rules. For this trip to the Secret Realm, he can go alone."

"As for protection? Heh... in that Secret Realm, it is not certain who is protecting whom."

After hearing these words, the Sect Master could not help but be stunned for a moment.

However, he did not try to persuade him any further.

As a person in a high position, knowing when to advance or retreat and understanding how to weigh pros and cons is the greatest wisdom.

"This Disciple accepts the teaching and will immediately arrange the Secret Realm quota and all related matters according to the Grand Elder's decree."

The Sect Master waved his large sleeves, bowed deeply, and then retreated from the main Peak with a calm expression.

After the Sect Master left, the news soon spread across the True Disciple Peak of the Celestial Pivot Sect.

The quotas for the Vast Array Secret Realm had always been an unparalleled Opportunity that True Disciples would break their heads fighting for.

It occurs once every five hundred years, and many Cultivators never encounter it once in their entire lives.

Now, it is even worse; before the competition has even begun, one has already been reserved.

If it had been taken by the other veteran Saints and Saintesses, everyone would have accepted it, as their strength and Physique are there after all.

But as it happens, the one who took the quota is that "Fifth Saint" who never steps out and is kept on the main Peak by the Grand Elder.

A half-grown child who is only eleven years old.

Inside an Immortal Cave on the True Disciple Peak, three Prodigies whose cultivation had reached the Late Stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage gathered together.

The youth leading them was named Lin Feng, a Sword Cultivator, and he was extremely arrogant.

"A little brat of eleven years old, even if he started eating Heaven And Earth Treasure from his mother's womb, at most he would only be at the Qi Refining 7th Layer."

Lin Feng looked at the other two with a gloomy expression.

"The Vast Array Secret Realm is extremely dangerous, with not only ancient broken Formations but also desperate criminals from other Sects."

"Letting him go, isn't this just wasting our Sect's quota for nothing?"

Zhao Yan, a Body Cultivator sitting on the left, snorted coldly.

"The Sect Master is biased, and the Grand Elder is protective; can we go and snatch it?"

"Who said we can't snatch it?"

A sharp glint flashed in Lin Feng's eyes.

"According to the Sect's iron Laws, True Disciples can initiate 'Sword Inquiry Sparring' with each other."

"We won't take his life; we will just go to the foot of the main Peak and submit a challenge note. As long as we force him to admit defeat in public on the arena, or accidentally cause him to suffer minor injuries..."

"...how could a Cultivator at the Qi Refining Stage who is injured and has lost face in front of the entire Sect still have the nerve to occupy a quota for the Foundation Establishment Stage Secret Realm?"

After listening, the two looked at each other and both felt this plan was excellent.

It is only natural for Cultivators to fight for resources and protect their own future.

As long as they act within the rules, even the Grand Elder would find it difficult to punish them for normal sparring between Disciples.

To ensure nothing goes wrong and not give the other party any room to breathe...

...Lin Feng brought out his trump card.

"The three of us will form the 'Three Talents Sword Trapping Formation' to ask for advice."

"This Formation only traps and does not kill; it is the best for humiliating people. Tomorrow morning, we will go to the foot of the main Peak to submit the note."

...

The next morning.

Lin Feng and the other two left their Immortal Cave early.

With full True Essence and full of confidence, they summoned their respective life-bound Flying Swords, ready to fly to the main Peak.

However, just as the three of them had risen into the air and were preparing to try running the 'Three Talents Sword Trapping Formation' in mid-air as a warm-up...

...an absurd thing happened.

Lin Feng, as the leader of the Sword Formation, had just injected True Essence into his life-bound Flying Sword.

The airspace where he was located happened to be directly above the Spirit Medicine garden behind the Sect.

Just the night before, a low-level Earth Spirit Mouse, raised by the Sect for loosening the soil, had quite accidentally bitten through an abandoned Spiritual Vein conduit buried for over a hundred years underground.

A surge of extremely pure and violent Earth Vein Spiritual Qi remaining in this conduit followed the soil crevices and, at this exact moment, gushed out and shot straight into the sky.

This Spiritual Qi was originally harmless to Cultivators.

But as it happened, the time and place it rushed out struck exactly at the tip of the sword where Lin Feng was constructing the eye of the Sword Formation.

"Hum!"

The violent Earth Vein Spiritual Qi instantly rushed into the circuit of the Sword Formation.

Lin Feng only felt an uncontrollable external force slam hard against his True Essence.

His life-bound Flying Sword, which he had bitterly cultivated for decades, actually let out an extremely unpleasant wail.

How terrifying was the backlash force of the Sword Formation.

"Puff!"

Lin Feng spat out a large mouthful of blood on the spot, his Meridians instantly snapped seven or eight times under this recoil force, and he lost consciousness completely, falling from mid-air.

This was not the end.

The aftermath of the Sword Formation's collapse, following the traction of Qi, slammed hard toward the other two.

Zhao Yan, the Body Cultivator, originally had a powerful Physical Body, and this aftermath would have at most caused him minor injuries.

But last night, in order to adjust his state, he had swallowed an extremely rare "Blood-Activating Pill."

At this moment, his Qi and blood were at their most active, and upon being struck by the aftermath of the Sword Formation's collapse, the Qi and blood in his body reversed immediately.

Only hearing a few muffled "crack" sounds, the leg bones of Zhao Yan's legs were directly snapped by the reversed violent Qi and blood, and he fell down while screaming.

As for the last True Disciple named Zhou Quan, it was even harder to describe.

Seeing that the situation was bad, he originally wanted to fly away on his sword.

But a few days ago, in order to maintain his Flying Sword, he had extravagantly used a Spirit Medicine liquid called "Deep Sea Shark Oil" to wipe the sword body.

This kind of Spirit Medicine liquid could usually greatly reduce air resistance when flying on a sword.

But at the moment the Sword Formation collapsed and the Earth Vein Spiritual Qi violently backflowed, that layer of Spirit Medicine liquid actually had an extremely rare repellent reaction with the Earth Vein Qi, instantly disintegrating the True Essence he used to adhere to the sword body under his feet!

Zhou Quan slipped, and he was forcibly thrown off his life-bound Flying Sword.

If it were just falling, it would be fine; with the Protective Aura of a Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage, this height would leave him unscathed.

But that recoiling Earth Vein Spiritual Qi, as if it had grown eyes, drilled extremely accurately into his Qi Sea, instantly shattering the Protective True Essence he had just condensed!

In the one-breath gap when his Protective True Essence completely dissipated.

Zhou Quan fell headfirst, carrying the terrifying gravity of the fall, and slammed solidly onto the sharp corner of a piece of "Ten Thousand Year Geng Metal Profound Stone" used on the True Disciple Peak below to test the sharpness of Flying Swords!

No matter how strong the Physical Body of a Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage is, in a situation where they lose the protection of magic power, the outcome of slamming into this kind of top-level Artifact Refining spirit ore, which can even snap top-grade Magical Artifacts, is imaginable.

He fell into a severe coma on the spot, and even his arm was broken.

In less than ten breaths of time.

Three Prodigies at the Late Stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage who could call the wind and summon the rain in the inner Sect.

They didn't even touch the edge of the main Peak, and they didn't even see Su Yu's face.

They were forcibly crippled of all their combat power by a series of extremely unbelievable, yet seamlessly connected "accidents," and they lay neatly in the grass behind the True Disciple Peak, their life or death unknown.

Under the absolute crushing of a destiny with as high as five thousand points of Fortune, even the Laws of Heaven and Earth were plotting against them!

Half an hour later.

The deacon patrolling the mountain discovered these three True Disciples in miserable states and was so scared that he hurriedly sent them to the Sect's medical hall.

After emergency rescue by the medical hall Elder, their lives were saved.

But one had damaged Meridians, one had broken legs, and one had a fractured skull.

Let alone going to the Vast Array Secret Realm to snatch an Opportunity, if they can lie on the bed for half a year without leaving any sequelae, it would be considered that the Sect's foundation is deep.

Celestial Pivot Sect, inner Sect medical hall.

Several powerful Elders at the Golden Core Stage gathered around the sickbed, looking at the three True Disciples wrapped up like mortal mummies, their expressions becoming uglier one by one.

The medical hall Elder responsible for the treatment wiped the sweat from his forehead and reported the investigated causes one by one.

The Earth Spirit Mouse bit through the abandoned conduit.

The Earth Vein Spiritual Qi happened to erupt at the node of the Formation.

The spirit-fusing glue and the Earth Vein Qi had a rare repellent reaction.

Finally, they lost their Protective True Essence and slammed extremely accurately onto the sharp corner of the Ten Thousand Year Geng Metal Profound Stone.

After listening to this report, the entire medical hall was deathly silent.

"Coincidence?"

An Elder who was a Sword Cultivator with a fiery temper suppressed the sense of absurdity in his voice.

"So many fatal things happened simultaneously, squeezing together seamlessly in less than ten breaths of time."

"How could there be such a coincidence in this world! Even if a pig were flying on a sword with its eyes closed, it wouldn't fall with such a bizarre method of death!"

Several Elders looked at each other.

At their Realm, they already had a certain perception of the Laws of Heaven and Earth and the destiny in the dark.

Where is this any accident?

This is clearly an invisible big hand that extremely roughly kneaded all the bad Luck together and then pressed it firmly onto the heads of these three people!

When this matter reached the Sect Master's ears, the Sect Master only felt a chill rush straight to his crown.

Is this the gold content of a Child of Luck?

No wonder the Grand Elder said there was no need for protection.

Malice just arose, and natural disasters arrived.

This does not even require Su Yu to make a move; the Laws of Heaven and Earth have already spontaneously cleared the field.