"How do you know?"
Li Po first asked, then reacted, her brow furrowed. "Wait! Could it be that you have drunk Deng Xian!?"
"Mmm, I have indeed drunk it..."
"How could you, a rogue cultivator entering the sect, have drunk Deng Xian!"
Yun Ze said no more, picking up the wine pot and taking a mouthful.
His throat rolled, the wine liquid entered his belly, but there was no surge of spiritual energy.
"Now do you believe me, senior?"
Li Po's face instantly sank.
There were many spiritual items in this world, but few could allow a Qi Refining stage cultivator to reach Qi Refining ninth level!
To have abundant spiritual energy, and to ensure that this spiritual energy would not collapse the weak Qi Sea of the Qi Refining stage, there was only Deng Xian wine that could achieve this.
Even Deng Xian was refined from many spiritual fruits, which gave it the effect of balancing both.
Since Yun Ze had drunk Deng Xian, the path to help him break through quickly was gone!
It was better to find a way to extract the Destiny Blood.
Even if this young man's life was not long, the Destiny Blood could ensure the young lady's hundred years of peace.
Li Po turned to look at Wei Lanshu. Wei Lanshu knew what she was thinking, but she just frowned and shook her head.
"It's getting late."
Yun Ze looked outside the cave and found that the sky was darkening, and the time agreed with Sister Shang was approaching.
He got up and walked towards the outside of the cave. "Yun Ze thanks senior for your kindness, I will take my leave. Xiao Shu, why don't you see me off?"
He needed to descend the mountain quickly, but he could also take the opportunity to ask Wei Lanshu about the blood.
"Okay."
Wei Lanshu responded indifferently and led Yun Ze out of the cave, leaving Li Po alone inside.
After the backs of the two disappeared, Li Po seemed to have made a decision, a murderous intent flashed in her eyes, and she took out the sound transmission jade slip again, sending a message to the family head who was thousands of miles away.
The message was short, only two sentences.
[Yun clan's son has already taken Deng Xian, cannot help him build foundation.
This servant requests to restrain this person and the young lady, regardless of life or death, to heal the young lady first. After the young lady is healed, this servant is willing to accept death to atone. Please, family head, grant this request!]
...
Wei Lanshu led Yun Ze down the solitary peak.
Almost no one was on the solitary peak, which was about a thousand meters high. Inner disciples were unwilling to come down, and outer disciples other than the special grade did not dare to come up, for fear of being seen by special grade disciples and thinking they were trampling on their rights.
Seeing that there was no one around, Yun Ze asked, "Xiao Shu, that drop of blood..."
"Let's not talk about this for now."
Wei Lanshu seemed unwilling to mention this matter and directly changed the subject. "Big brother, if you absorb all the sword energy around me within a year, can you reach Qi Refining ninth level?"
"This... to be honest, it's very difficult."
Wei Lanshu had saved his life, and he didn't want to hide it. "Xiao Shu, actually, the matter of sword energy increasing cultivation was something I made up.
It was just an excuse I thought of because Li Po wanted to give me a discount and then subsidize me."
Wei Lanshu was stunned at first, but quickly shook her head. "All of that is unimportant. The important thing is that you must improve your cultivation as much as possible!
Even if you don't build a foundation, you must increase your strength as much as possible! Otherwise... you probably won't survive in that secret realm."
"Secret realm?"
Yun Ze was stunned.
He had only heard about disappearance from Luo Shang, but had never heard of any secret realm.
"Hmm? Don't you know?"
"I only know that people on the Qi Refining Heavenly Ranking will disappear, but I don't know about any secret realm."
"Indeed, then I'll tell you..."
Wei Lanshu talked all the way, and only finished telling the whole story when they were almost at the small courtyard.
The people on the Qi Refining Heavenly Ranking did disappear, but it was not a true disappearance. They were brought to a secret realm.
It is said that this secret realm was the place where Di Sha fell. When he fell, his Qi Sea detached from his body and stretched for thousands of miles.
The powerful figures of the Di clan took action and sealed it as a secret realm called the Heaven Building Secret Realm, for the Di clan's disciples to enter and train, and to seek the method of Heavenly Dao foundation building.
Since it was formed from the Qi Sea of the Foundation Building stage, only Qi Refining stage cultivators could enter.
Later, the Di clan was destroyed, and the Immortal Mansion and Demonic Cave were established. The two forces jointly controlled the secret realm and agreed that the secret realm would open once every hundred years, and only those who ascended the Qi Refining Heavenly Ranking would be eligible to enter.
In the beginning, many people improved their Qi Sea realm just to occupy a place on the Heavenly Ranking and enter the secret realm to seek the method of Heavenly Dao foundation building.
But after ten thousand years, no Heavenly Dao foundation builder had emerged from the secret realm, and many prodigies had died instead.
This was partly due to the slaughter of various forces, and partly due to the secret realm itself.
But what exactly it was, Xiao Shu said she didn't know.
In short, the Immortal Mansion and Demonic Cave gradually sealed the existence of this secret realm. Only the immortal sects and families that had inherited from that era knew its whereabouts. Even some small immortal sects did not know about this secret realm, let alone some rogue cultivators.
However, where there was danger, there was also opportunity.
There was a spiritual energy called 'Yuan Qi' in the secret realm. As long as it was absorbed into the body, one could build a foundation without a Foundation Building Pill.
Those who emerged from the secret realm and then ascended the Foundation Building Ranking were all built this way. It is said that this method is comparable to an ordinary Earthly Dao foundation building!
Now that the hundred-year deadline has arrived, the secret realm will open in at most one month.
Originally, many prodigies planned to go all out and jump directly from the Qi Refining Ranking to the Foundation Building Ranking, but now an anomaly has occurred!
Xiu Yun has broken through to the Qi Sea ninth level!
The้้ป was not the realm, but the person himself!
This person was the second son of the master of the Demonic Cave!
It is said that on the day of his birth, there were celestial phenomena, and within a thousand miles, demonic energy surged, obscuring the sun and moon, lasting for three days!
According to legend, he was bloodthirsty, and if he didn't kill a hundred people a day, he would feel restless. He was a complete killer!
If he entered the secret realm, all cultivators of the immortal path would be slaughtered!
Therefore, a large number of Qi Refining ninth level cultivators simply gave up on the secret realm and chose Earthly Dao foundation building. Anyway, for them, it was only losing the opportunity to attempt Heavenly Dao foundation building and paying a sum of spirit stones to buy materials for Earthly Dao foundation building.
This Yuan Qi foundation building and Earthly Dao foundation building only had a slight difference.
However, some people still did not choose to build a foundation.
Setting aside those from the demonic path, there were also the true prodigies of the immortal path who did not retreat.
They knew that if they retreated now, their generation of immortal cultivators would be completely suppressed by the demonic path!
After listening to Wei Lanshu's description, Yun Ze finally understood why Li Po was so anxious.
If he went to the secret realm, he would most likely be cannon fodder.
If he did not resolve Wei Lanshu's ailment before he died, she would be buried with him...
Yun Ze bid farewell to Wei Lanshu a hundred meters outside the small courtyard and walked towards the courtyard alone, his mind constantly pondering what she had just said.
He wanted to go to the secret realm!
He was not going to compete with those prodigies, nor for the so-called Heavenly Dao foundation building, but simply to obtain a strand of Yuan Qi for foundation building!
Yu Xian had promised him Earthly Dao foundation building, but as Bu Bu said, Yu Xian's intentions were unclear.
If possible, it would be best not to interact with him too much. If he truly helped him achieve Earthly Dao foundation building, it would be difficult to repay this favor.
If he could just obtain a strand of Yuan Qi, and he was careful, there should be no problem.
There were still about three months left.
If possible, it would be best to resolve the sword energy within Wei Lanshu's body first, at least resolve the sword energy in her Qi Sea.
He just didn't know if there was still enough time...
He would resolve as much as he could. This would also be an improvement to his own strength.
Yun Ze slowly arrived outside the small courtyard. He did not find any trace of Luo Shang along the way.
Could it be that Sister Shang had already left when she saw he wasn't there?
Forget it, it's not a big deal to wait one more day. He would go to the task hall to find her tomorrow.
Speaking of which, it was strange. At this time, Su Ling'er should be eating dinner in the courtyard, so why wasn't she in the courtyard?
As Yun Ze pushed open the door with doubt, a surge of spiritual energy brushed against his face, and he immediately felt his hair stand on end!
This feeling was... a formation!?
Why would there be such a thing in the courtyard!
Yun Ze instinctively retreated, wanting to leave the small courtyard, but as his gaze swept over, he saw the two women lying unconscious on the ground!
One was Su Ling'er, and the other was Luo Shang!
*Slap!*
A hand suddenly landed on his shoulder!
Yun Ze was startled and instinctively drew the Mountain Ape from his waist and slashed behind him!