"Is this Zhongxuan Heaven?"
Yun Ze felt the spiritual energy around him and was instantly surprised!
Ever since they entered Zhongxuan Heaven, their first impression was the extremely dense spiritual energy concentration, followed by cultivators everywhere!
Just entering Zhongxuan Heaven, the spiritual energy concentration at the edge alone was comparable to five hundred meters above Lone Peak.
If it were in a more core area, or some secret realm, the spiritual energy concentration would likely increase by many more levels.
No wonder there were so many cultivators in Zhongxuan Heaven.
Upon entering Zhongxuan Heaven, all Yun Ze could see were flying swords, at least tens of thousands of them, constantly shuttling between the clouds.
This was just the edge of Zhongxuan Heaven, and there were so many cultivators. He wondered what it would be like beyond the secret realm.
Yun Ze closed his eyes again and resumed his cultivation.
He hadn't been sightseeing these past few days. Besides memorizing everything on the piece of deerskin, he had been continuously absorbing spiritual energy to cultivate on the road.
If not for the change in the surrounding spiritual energy concentration just now, he might not have woken up.
Another day passed, and Mu Si Yue's voice sounded calmly.
"We're almost there."
Yun Ze raised his eyelids and was stunned by the sight before him.
It was... the sea!
He had lived in mountainous regions his whole life and had never seen the sea. He had only heard storytellers talk about this terrain called 'the sea'.
The boundless waters filled his vision, inspiring awe.
For some reason, the spiritual energy concentration here was extremely low, not even comparable to the outer areas of Zhongxuan Heaven, and even slightly inferior to Tangshan Dynasty.
It was hard to imagine that the Zhutian Secret Realm was located in such a place.
"Remember, no matter who asks you any questions later, you don't need to speak. I will handle everything. Understand?"
"Okay."
Although Yun Ze nodded in agreement, he couldn't find anyone around.
Could it be another formation?
Mu Si Yue raised her hand and formed a hand seal, and a portal instantly opened before them!
A faint sound of conversation immediately arose, and there were clearly many people inside.
As the two stepped through the portal on their flying swords, the previous seascape instantly vanished, replaced by a stone hall. The sound of conversation gradually ceased...
Over a hundred people were already standing in front of the stone hall, mostly in the configuration of a senior accompanying a junior.
Yun Ze, standing on his flying sword, felt dozens of powerful auras lock onto him. He looked down and felt a sense of dread!
Why was everyone looking at them? Although his senior sister had beaten up many people in the past, it shouldn't be that so many people had been beaten by her, right?
"Yun..."
A familiar, joyful voice rang out, but it stopped abruptly after half a sentence.
Yun Ze turned his head in the direction of the voice and immediately saw Xiao Shu, and... Wei Huang, who was covering her mouth behind her.
The corner of his mouth twitched.
Was he that afraid of being associated with Senior Sister Mu, to the point of not even saying hello?
Yun Ze glanced at Mu Si Yue's profile and found that she remained expressionless, as if nothing concerned her.
"You go down first," Mu Si Yue's voice rang out.
"Got it!"
Yun Ze replied and leaped down on his Zhu Ying!
The distance to the ground was only about ten meters. Yun Ze landed safely in the crowd. Before he could even steady himself, he heard Mu Si Yue's voice from the air.
"It's been many years since we last met, old friends. Aren't you going to come up and chat?"
"Benefactor Mu speaks wisely."
An old man's voice sounded. Yun Ze saw a flash of golden light in the crowd, and a monk in a kasaya, standing on a five-colored auspicious cloud, slowly ascended and went straight to Mu Si Yue.
He clasped his hands together in front of him and bowed to Mu Si Yue: "Benefactor Mu, it has been many years. You are still as graceful as ever. Now, five hundred years have passed..."
"You want to take back that broken bone?" Mu Si Yue, too impatient to listen to his nonsense, interrupted him directly.
"That is a third-grade Lapis Lazuli Sarira."
The old monk's lips remained curved in a smile: "If Benefactor is willing to return the sarira, my Great Enlightenment Temple will surely..."
"Fight? Or the old rules."
The old monk was speechless but could only squeeze out two words from between his teeth: "...No fighting!"
"Then why did you come up? Get down!"
Mu Si Yue rolled her eyes and scanned down again: "Tongtian Academy, are you fighting or not!"
Everyone turned to look at a man in a green robe.
But he seemed not to hear, only staring at the scroll in his hand, as if he wasn't the one being called.
"What about Mi Tian Sea?"
"Me?"
A man sitting on a throne asked back, with a wry smile: "Senior Sister Mu, please don't joke. How would I dare?"
Mu Si Yue did not reply, but turned to another direction and pointed to three people: "Wujian Prison, Naihe Hall, Wanhun Tower, what about you?"
The three people gathered together exchanged glances, frantically signaling to the people beside them to go up, but they themselves dared not move.
"Heh."
Mu Si Yue sneered, still suspended in mid-air, looking down at everyone: "More than ten people from back then are here. I won't ask one by one.
If any of you want to take your things back from me, then it's the old rules.
"Come and fight!"
"If you win, you take the item. If you lose, you leave another one behind.
I'll wait for you for the time it takes an incense stick to burn. Whoever has made up their mind can come up.
Of course, if anyone else wants to try, they can also come up, but..."
"You must consider the price first."
As soon as the words fell, the old monk who had just flown up quickly landed, not daring to fly at all!
The juniors around were all dumbfounded!
You must know that the elders who brought them here were all prodigies who had survived the Zhutian Secret Realm back then!
Each of them had appeared on the Foundation Establishment Ranking, the Core Formation Ranking, and even the Golden Core Ranking! Some had even appeared on the Nascent Soul Ranking!
What kind of existence could suppress them to the point of speechlessness!
Yun Ze was also dumbfounded.
He knew his senior sister was powerful, but he didn't know she was so domineering!
If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion, he really wanted to shout... Senior Sister is awesome!!
Time slowly passed, and the time it took for an incense stick to burn was almost over.
Mu Si Yue's single sentence had silenced the entire Zhutian Secret Realm for the duration of an incense stick.
Not a single person dared to move, nor did anyone dare to speak.
Even when a few more people entered later, they only glanced at Mu Si Yue suspended in mid-air before leading their disciples away in embarrassment, waiting silently.
"I don't believe it! Can the number one Golden Core of the Nine Heavens truly be invincible against Nascent Soul!"
A person in a black robe soared into the air, stepping on a large bone saber, as if made from the spine of some spiritual beast: "Ji Dao Lou, Cang Luo requests battle!"
Spiritual energy surged, and Yun Ze felt a wave of pressure!
But in the next instant...
*Crack~*
A crisp sound rang out, and the pressure vanished.
The black-robed person disappeared, and Mu Si Yue now held a bone saber in her hand, the very one the black-robed person had been stepping on.
Mu Si Yue's expression was blank. She casually put the bone saber into her storage ring and then asked.
"Anything else?"
This... it was over just like that?
Yun Ze hadn't even seen how the black-robed person disappeared, and Senior Sister had already won?
It seemed that her previous fight with Wei Huang was truly just a spar. If they had fought seriously, Yun Ze, at his current cultivation level, wouldn't have been able to discern any moves.
Speaking of which, Cang Luo's name sounded familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
Right!
Yun Ze took out the Heavenly Ranking white jade tablet, opened it, and indeed, he saw this name on the Nascent Soul Ranking!
[Sixty-four: Cang Luo, Mid-stage Nascent Soul, Five-Colored Nascent Soul.]
This... this was actually someone on the Nascent Soul Ranking!
Silence fell upon the surroundings once more.
After a few more dozen breaths, the time for an incense stick to burn ended.
Mu Si Yue scanned the surroundings and spoke again: "If not, then I will talk about the second matter."
Instantly, Yun Ze felt the gazes of those powerful figures fall upon him again!
He felt a little uneasy, and the cultivators around him felt even more so.
Almost in the next instant, the area several meters around him was cleared, leaving him standing alone, not knowing what to do.
"This time, I brought someone."
Mu Si Yue's voice rang out again, and she pointed at Yun Ze: "It's this kid. You've all seen him."
Yun Ze's heart trembled. The moment he dreaded had arrived!
He tightly gripped the Mountain Ape hanging at his waist, trying his best to remain calm while mentally chanting to himself.
Stay calm!
Yun Ze! You must stay calm! She is establishing your prestige. You absolutely cannot lose face for Senior Sister!
"His name is Yun Ze."
The man in the green robe who had been holding the scroll suddenly looked up, his gaze shifting from the scroll to Yun Ze. His eyes narrowed slightly, and a smile played on his lips.
Yun?
This surname was not very common. Could he have some connection with that person?
"No matter what you do or what happens in the Zhutian Secret Realm, I only ask for one thing."
Mu Si Yue paused for a few breaths, then finally uttered four words: "He cannot die."
"Don't worry, I won't attack juniors. However... if anyone lets him die, only one of you will return."
Many people around frowned, and many stared directly at Yun Ze, with some already harboring resentment towards him!
Why!
"I say, Senior..."
A voice came from the portal.
"Isn't this a bit too overbearing?"
Everyone turned their gaze to the portal, and saw a group of people in purple robes walking slowly. The leader was a young man, and the one who had just spoken stood behind him, looking about ninety percent similar to the former.
The young man frowned: "Xiu Yun!"
"Brother, don't worry!"
Xiu Yun smiled sinisterly, his gaze falling on Yun Ze, the corner of his mouth curling up: "I think this kid is quite easy to kill. I'll be fine.
As for that woman... I don't believe a mere Golden Core can kill you!"
Xiu Yun!
The person he called brother, wouldn't that be the eldest son of the Demon Cave Master, Xiu Hao!
This person's name was always at the top of the Nascent Soul Heavenly Ranking. According to the Heavenly Ranking, he was at the peak of the Nine-Colored Nascent Soul realm!
This was going to be interesting, the number one Golden Core versus the number one Nascent Soul!
Mu Si Yue said nothing, only looked at Xiu Hao indifferently.
"Yue'er, I..."
Xiu Hao had only uttered three words when another voice came.
"Kid, you're wrong about that!"
Another portal opened, and a group of people in white robes with gold trim entered the outer perimeter of the secret realm.
The leader was a woman.
As soon as she entered, she rushed to Mu Si Yue's side and intimately linked her arm with hers: "If there's someone my Sister Yue'er can't kill, then I'll help her kill them! Even your brother, it's the same!
Don't believe me? Then let your brother try!"
"Alright!"
Before Xiu Hao could answer, Xiu Yun cupped his hands towards the two.
"If the two of you can truly kill my brother, then when I take charge of the Demon Cave, you will be my left and right guardians! And we will live forever with my Demon Cave!"