"Something has happened! It's the Thousand Cloud Secret Realm!"
On the main peak of the Divine启 Academy, Wen Jiuyin's expression changed, and he suddenly stood up from his seat, striding outwards.
"Mu Xing, has Ling Yue returned?" Wen Jiuyin anxiously contacted Mu Xing, who was still elsewhere, using his spiritual power.
Mu Xing was also rushing towards Wen Jiuyin's location, his face extremely grim. "No, and according to the date Elder Ling gave earlier, the Thousand Cloud Secret Realm is not due to close for another three days."
Wen Jiuyin's footsteps halted. "There must have been a problem inside. There are still students inside..."
"You Yue is also inside!" Yun Kai walked over from not far away, his face sullen, interrupting Wen Jiuyin. "What does the academy plan to do?"
"Wen Jiuyin, you should say something. Is the academy just going to stand by and do nothing? What was the academy's initial assessment? Weren't you saying that besides the Flowing Light Cloud and Deep Marsh Crocodile, there were no other dangers in the secret realm?"
Yun Kai, thinking of his precious daughter currently in the Thousand Cloud Secret Realm, with her life or death unknown, couldn't help but blame the academy for everything. If it weren't for the academy's issues, how could a perfectly fine secret realm suddenly erupt?
"Senior Brother Yun Kai, please calm down."
"I can't calm down..."
"Hmph! If you can't calm down, then get out. What are you throwing a tantrum for on the main peak? Are all of you from the Artifact Refining Peak so shameless?"
In just this short time, Qian Ying and Mu Xing also arrived.
Qian Ying cast a cold glance at Yun Kai, then said to Wen Jiuyin, "The people from above will arrive tomorrow. The Vice Dean and Dean are both absent. Senior Brother Wen, you and Mu Xing will stay to manage the situation. I will go to the secret realm to check the conditions."
After speaking, she ignored Yun Kai's ashen face and quickly departed on her sword.
At the same time, deep within the Cloud Marsh, a giant Mystical Eyed Tiger let out a roar.
"Damn it all! Which brat messed up the heavens again! Don't they know it's not time to break the barrier yet? If you're so damn powerful, why don't you go..."
"Chui Ming."
A light but deep voice sounded. The Mystical Eyed Tiger immediately shut its mouth in embarrassment.
Beside the Mystical Eyed Tiger, another White-Browed Mystical Eyed Tiger nuzzled its head, comforting it. "Little Yu'er is still here."
Chui Ming said agitatedly, "I can't help it! We're busy mending these broken barrier gaps, but these people..."
The White-Browed Mystical Eyed Tiger licked her fur consolingly.
Qin Si stood not far away, his hand placed within a cracked fissure.
Spiritual light continuously flowed from his palm, and the violent spatial fluctuations tore his flesh, causing it to bleed. He acted as if he were accustomed to it. After a moment, the fissure was restored to its original state.
He withdrew his hand and said in a deep voice, "I'll go take a look. You two continue guarding. If anyone else tries to come through the fissures, follow the old rules."
"Alright, I know. Hurry up and go."
The closer Qin Si got to the scene of the incident, the faster his heart beat.
His gaze fell upon the greenish light in the distance, and he suddenly had a bad premonition.
This scene, he seemed to have seen it in the Nether Valley.
The thought of it possibly being related to Bai Shengyi made Qin Si tear through space and rush over.
"Sizzle—"
The clouds that had lingered for a thousand years all dissipated at this moment, revealing a sky pierced through with a black hole.
Amidst the swirling dust, countless heavenly lightning bolts struck down one after another from the black hole, ruthlessly hitting the formless barrier in the yellow sand.
If Bai Shengyi were still conscious, she would have noticed that the lightning bolts had two different colors.
The purplish-black lightning specifically struck towards Bai Shengyi, while the deep purple lightning fell immediately after the purplish-black lightning.
"I feel like this lightning is strange, Boss," Qing Meng Teng said cautiously. The force of this lightning on the Boss's protective barrier was much weaker than when it was in the sky.
The Samsara Brush, which had withstood both Golden Core and heavenly lightning, was now disoriented. It let out an "Oh" and fell into a slumber.
Qing Meng Teng still wanted to speak, but then it saw a figure emerge from the black hole amidst the dim yellow, flickering lightning. It immediately closed its mouth and lowered its aura to the minimum.
"As expected of a slave born in a low-level continent. The innate uselessness cannot be changed. This Sect Master gave so many treasures, yet it still failed. I even have to come in person to handle it. Useless!" said the clone.
Although it was a clone, it carried the pressure of the late Golden Core stage. It threw the unconscious Qing Buli into the black hole and then walked towards Bai Shengyi.
"Hmm? Ten Directions Netherflame? And a barrier that even heavenly lightning cannot break... This, this is at least a Heaven-tier artifact, right?"
Even though the clone had followed its master and witnessed countless grand scenes, seeing this, its eyes couldn't help but turn red with jealousy, followed by a deep sense of apprehension.
"To think that such a good seed has emerged from these slaves. Won't their strength be even greater in next year's Divine启 Grand Assembly? No..."
As he spoke, a Heaven-tier saber appeared in his hand, and he was about to attack the barrier.
"Sect Master Li, what are you doing?"
Frost spread, instantly freezing the clone into a human popsicle.
Qin Si glanced at Bai Shengyi, who was about to be buried by the yellow sand. His pupils contracted, but his expression remained impassive as he looked at the newcomer.
"I assumed that as the Sect Master of the Supreme Sect, Sect Master Li would be the last to forget the inter-realm agreement."
Qin Si's expression was icy, with ice crystals and frost swirling around him.
"Crack..."
Sect Master Li's clone emerged from the cracking frost, his murderous intent gone, replaced by a cordial smile.
He said, "Junior Qin, please do not misunderstand. This Sect Master merely saw that the spatial fluctuations here were very strong and came to investigate. Since Junior Qin has already arrived, this Sect Master will take his leave."
Before he finished speaking, he had already vanished into the black hole.
Qin Si, that malevolent god, had finally been peaceful these past few years. He didn't want to provoke him alone.
Qin Si confirmed that the person had left, then landed on the ground and quickly checked Bai Shengyi's condition. To his surprise, he froze.
"A'yi?"
In the yellow sand and lightning, where was Bai Shengyi's trace?
"Master, wake up quickly! If you don't wake up, Little Vine Leaf won't be able to manage, boohoo..." Qing Meng Teng looked back at the silver-white long dragon chasing it and its entire vine was about to go berserk!
Just a moment ago, the barrier on its master's body had shattered. It was still thinking about how to resist the heavenly lightning when suddenly its vision went black, and it entered an unknown world with its master.
Then, before it could even recover, it saw the silver-white spiritual essence from the Starfall Imperial Realm suddenly emerge from nowhere and chase after its master. It hurriedly took its master away.
But after all, spiritual essence was a divine object. How could it outrun it? It could only watch helplessly as the cultivated vines were annihilated into nothingness by the spiritual essence, piece by piece.
"Boohoo... stop chasing, stop chasing! Little Vine Leaf's vines are yours, isn't that okay?" Qing Meng Teng cried, cultivating more vines to try and block the spiritual essence, preventing it from approaching Bai Shengyi.
However, it had no effect.
Seeing that the spiritual essence was about to touch Bai Shengyi's body, at the critical moment, Bai Shengyi's long eyelashes fluttered.