33: The center of the secret place! The three families meet again!

At this moment, somewhere in the Secret Realm, an interesting chase was unfolding.

A youth holding a mysterious human emperor banner was hot on the heels of two people fleeing in panic ahead.

The youth had an evil, charming smile on his face and shouted loudly:

"Fellow Daoists of the Bai Family, don't run! I am pure by nature and would never deceive you."

"You truly have a fated connection with my human emperor banner. As long as you enter my human emperor banner, Immortal Ascension and becoming an ancestor will be a simple matter in the future!"

However, the two people fleeing for their lives felt a surge of anger when they heard this.

One of them couldn't help but turn back and curse:

"Bullshit! Lin Haoran, anyone can see that your human emperor banner is nothing good! Once we are taken inside, we probably won't even be able to choose our own deaths!"

The other person gritted their teeth and said, "You bastard, how dare you claim to be pure by nature? You are absolutely shameless!"

Hearing their curses, the youth, Lin Haoran, did not show the slightest Life Qi; instead, he smiled even more wickedly.

"I am kindly helping you achieve the Dao, why are you running?"

Pah! Have some shame!

human emperor banner?

You're telling us that the weird banner spewing black Qi is called a human emperor banner?

Do you think we're blind or stupid?

This is clearly a demonic artifact!

Immortal Ascension... becoming a pile of bones is more like it!

"Lin Haoran, how dare you risk universal condemnation by using a demonic artifact! You must be a demonic cultivator!"

"We will definitely report you. If your Lin Family dares to harbor a demonic cultivator, just wait to be judged by all the major powers!"

The two shouted.

"Heh, you can't escape!" Lin Haoran thought to himself.

Immediately, his speed surged again, and the distance between him and the two from the Bai Family shrank; catching up was only a matter of time.

...

Secret Realm Center

After Lin Tianyu led the main force of the Lin Family through a difficult exploration, they finally arrived at the core area of this mysterious Secret Realm.

However, the scene before them was completely different from what they had initially imagined.

Before them, a vast, boundless lake appeared in everyone's eyes!

Its scale was astonishing.

Lin Tianyu and the others observed for a while and discovered that numerous islands of varying sizes were scattered across the lake, like bright pearls embedded within it.

In the very center of this lake region, there was an exceptionally eye-catching super-large island, its vast area occupying almost three-fifths of the entire lake surface.

On these islands, Lin Tianyu and the others could clearly see traces of past human activity...

Because some of these islands were protected by a Formation, while others contained human structures and so on.

This proved that this Secret Realm was not a natural one, but one previously controlled by some power. It was just unclear why it had become an ownerless Secret Realm.

However, during their previous exploration, Lin Tianyu and the others had also seen some traces of human activity, so they had already suspected it. It was only now, seeing a large amount of human activity traces in the center of the Secret Realm, that they confirmed their suspicions.

"Second Master, it seems this really is a Secret Realm previously controlled by some powerful force; our previous guess was correct."

A member of the Lin Family looked at the vast lake and numerous islands before them, eyes sparkling with excitement, and said to Lin Tianyu.

"Furthermore, through our preliminary observation, apart from some islands still protected by a powerful Formation, all other islands have been occupied by a large number of Yao Beasts..."

"These Yao Beasts are not weak; some have even reached the Venerable Realm or Saint Realm. On the super-large island in the very center, there are even terrifying Great Saint Realm Yao Beasts!"

Another person added, his gaze sweeping over the islands with a hint of gravity.

"The richer the resources on an island, the stronger the Yao Beasts on it. If we want to occupy these resources intact, I'm afraid we'll have to go to some trouble to deal with these Yao Beasts."

The Fifteenth Elder also spoke up.

"It is not just the Yao Beasts that we need to pay attention to..."

Lin Tianyu stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the distant Void Realm, and spoke slowly.

"You have arrived quite slowly, Bai Family, Cai Family..."

Just as Lin Tianyu finished speaking, the Void Realm he was looking at suddenly twisted, and two spatial passages slowly appeared. Immediately after, people from the two families poured out from the space.

Leading them were none other than Cai Niao and Bai Yin.

"Hmph! It is well known that the greatest Opportunity is often at the center of the Secret Realm! How could we possibly let your Lin Family monopolize it!"

Cai Niao steadied himself, gazed at Lin Tianyu from afar, and snorted coldly.

Little did he know that this Secret Realm was an exception. The greatest Opportunity in the entire Secret Realm was not at the center, and the greatest Opportunity... had already been pocketed by Lin Haoran!

"Brother Cai is right; we naturally won't let your Lin Family monopolize it... However, Brother Cai has forgotten one point: his Lin Family must have the strength to monopolize it, hahaha!"

Bai Yin corrected.

"Hahaha! It was my oversight, Brother Bai, don't mind it."

"Haha, not at all, not at all!"

The two sang in harmony, but Lin Tianyu chose to ignore them completely; he couldn't be bothered with them.

Seeing that Lin Tianyu had no reaction whatsoever, the two immediately felt like they were punching cotton.

"Hmph! This Lin Tianyu actually dares to ignore us! Brother Bai, should we solve the trouble of the Lin Family here first, and then our two families can split the islands and resources here, how about it?"

Cai Niao's anger flared upon seeing Lin Tianyu's expression, and he immediately sent a sound transmission to Bai Yin beside him.

Hearing Cai Niao's sound transmission, Bai Yin did not answer immediately, but began to ponder.

This kind of matter involving the lives of clansmen and huge benefits was not something he could decide lightly...