Yan Ye's momentary shame flashed by, and he immediately said, "I was indeed poisoned. Someone didn't want Ji Yue to marry into the Yan family and attacked me. The person I killed was secretly following me in..."

Mo Wuji stepped forward, raised his hand and grabbed Yan Ye's hand. As soon as the Detoxification Meridian circulated, he immediately knew that this guy wasn't lying this time. As the Detoxification Meridian turned, it was about to draw all of Yan Ye's poison away, but Mo Wuji decisively stopped it.

It wasn't that he didn't want to save Yan Ye, but the poison was too terrifying. If he were poisoned, he could easily remove it himself. Yan Ye had been poisoned for too long, and the poison had actually become intertwined with his primordial spirit. His Detoxification Meridian had no way to separate the primordial spirit from the poison, at least not with his current cultivation level.

Once the Detoxification Meridian absorbed the poison, Yan Ye's primordial spirit would immediately turn into the purest immortal spiritual energy, just like the poison, and be absorbed by Mo Wuji.

Seeing Mo Wuji release his hand, Yan Ye earnestly said, "Ji Yue is very pitiful, please help me this time. As long as she marries into the Yan family, she will no longer be in any danger. Moreover, the Immemorial Secret Realm is about to end, and once they know I'm alive and out, they definitely won't dare to attack again."

Mo Wuji's face was a bit unsightly. He was sure that this Ji Yue wasn't a good woman. Knowing that Yan Ye liked her, she still had Yan Ye use his father's clan-wide favor to the Ji family to save her. That was already bad enough, but she also placed Yan Ye in the most dangerous situation. Like now, Yan Ye was at most an incense stick's worth of time away from death.

Mo Wuji didn't believe that the Ji family had no reason for Ji Yue not to escape. No matter what the reason, this kind of troublemaker shouldn't be brought onto Yan Ye.

Looking at the about-to-die Yan Ye, Mo Wuji was somewhat speechless. He could only say that pitiful people must have their hateful aspects. This guy was being used, even giving up his life, and still thinking about that woman. As for Yan Ye saying that once Ji Yue married into the Yan family, no one would dare to attack him again, Mo Wuji absolutely didn't believe it. Even if it were true, he wouldn't take it seriously.

"Fellow Daoist Yan Ye, I can't help you. I do need to borrow your identity token. As for Ji Yue, if possible, I'll give her a message and let her marry anyone she wants. Anyway, I won't marry her, nor will I take the blame." Mo Wuji said without hesitation.

Yan Ye saw Mo Wuji's expression, sighed, and remained silent for a while before trembling as he picked up the ring with his hand, "The cultivation resources in this ring, please help me give them to my younger sister, Yan Yi..."

Mo Wuji sneered, "You have a younger sister, yet you're still going crazy to help an unrelated woman. I'm really impressed. I agree to this condition of yours."

"My younger sister is already married, and someone is taking care of her..." Yan Ye, in disappointment, didn't finish the sentence and collapsed to the ground. If Mo Wuji didn't agree to his request, he couldn't hold on any longer. The poison qi erupted, and his primordial spirit instantly dissipated.

Mo Wuji put away the image crystal ball. He had to be careful about this kind of thing. In case he was discovered, he wouldn't be able to produce evidence, and he wouldn't be able to explain it clearly.

Mo Wuji quickly opened Yan Ye's ring. Besides some immortal crystals, there were also some immortal spiritual herbs. Although the few immortal artifacts were not bad, Mo Wuji wouldn't care about them. He took out one of the jade tokens. Seeing the words engraved on it, he knew it was Yan Ye's token for entering the Immemorial Secret Realm.

He put the jade token into his ring and put away Yan Ye's ring.

Even though Yan Ye didn't answer many of his questions, Mo Wuji had roughly figured out that this was indeed a secret realm. The name of this secret realm was the Immemorial Secret Realm.

Mo Wuji blasted open the stone door, sensed the direction from which the rich immortal spiritual energy was coming, and was about to escape over to continue exploring when he heard bursts of violent rumbling sounds from the depths.

Mo Wuji detected a sense of space collapse. Before he could check what it was, he saw several figures rapidly escaping outwards.

Something was happening inside the tomb. Without thinking, Mo Wuji turned around and rushed out of the tomb towards the tombstone.

He was late. Someone had taken some treasure from inside, resulting in a space collapse. He hadn't gotten anything, and yet he was caught in this kind of danger. Thinking about it, he felt depressed.

Fortunately, he was on the outermost layer. Although he was the last one to enter, he was the first one to come out.

As soon as he rushed out of the tomb entrance, Mo Wuji quickly left. This tomb was not a good place. Mo Wuji was proficient in array techniques and naturally knew that this kind of space collapse was definitely not a simple protective array. It was a real killing weapon. Once caught in this space collapse, even if his strength was a hundred times stronger than it was now, he probably wouldn't be able to escape.

He didn't know how many people had entered the tomb. One thing Mo Wuji could be sure of was that being able to get out two or three out of ten would be considered lucky.

Mo Wuji continued to escape rapidly for several hours before he stopped.

There were quite a few people who had entered this secret realm. At least so far, the places Mo Wuji had passed were all places with fresh traces of immortal spiritual herbs being dug out. Occasionally, he would see one or two immortal spiritual herbs, but they were the lowest level and were of almost no use to Mo Wuji.

It was clear that most of the immortal spiritual herbs here had been dug up.

Mo Wuji didn't continue to look for immortal spiritual herbs. Since this was the Immemorial Dao Sect's secret realm, the treasures inside had probably been taken away long ago. As for immortal spiritual herbs, he had some level four immortal spiritual herbs on him that he could try to refine into level four immortal pills. Once he could refine level four immortal pills, it would mean that he had advanced to the Immortal Realm Pill King Realm.

Hanging the identity jade token around his waist, Mo Wuji randomly found a slightly concealed place and dug a cave. He was going to try to become a level four pill king and leave when the secret realm's time was up.

...

The Immemorial River, once one of the most famous rivers in the Immortal Realm, was now like a tattered rag, lying messily between several mountain ranges.

There wasn't a single drop of water in the Immemorial River, and there were traces of destruction everywhere. The wide and boundless Immemorial River was now flattened into a huge temporary square.

The temporary square was surrounded by the strongholds of various sects, families, and immortal cities. In addition, there were also temporary strongholds for numerous chambers of commerce.

A series of violent spatial fluctuations appeared not far from the temporary square at the bottom of the Immemorial River.

Many cultivators in the temporary square stared at the location of the spatial fluctuations, and some even whispered, "It seems that the Immemorial Dao Sect's secret realm is about to close."

"What Immemorial Dao Sect? This sect no longer exists. This secret realm now belongs to everyone, not just the Immemorial Dao Sect." A cultivator immediately retorted.

"No matter what, this secret realm originally belonged to the Immemorial Dao Sect. Although the Immemorial River has dried up, the place where we're standing is still the Immemorial River, right?" The retorted cultivator said somewhat unhappily.

"Immemorial River? Hehe, this place is now considered a no-man's land. I heard that there's still a section of the Immemorial River in the Eternal Prosperity Corner. As for the Immemorial Dao Sect, if this place hadn't become a land of immortal collapse, it would have been occupied by other sects long ago."

In the midst of the argument between the two cultivators, weak rays of light appeared in the violently fluctuating space, followed by several cultivators being brought out by the light.

As soon as these cultivators came out, many people immediately surrounded them.

...

Mo Wuji had used up most of his immortal spiritual herbs and had just barely refined a furnace of level four immortal pills, when he felt his identity jade token begin to tremble.

It seemed that the time to leave the secret realm had arrived. Mo Wuji quickly put away the pill furnace and opened the restriction.

Just a few breaths later, the identity jade token wrapped around a ray of light and whisked Mo Wuji away.

"Bang!" Mo Wuji's feet landed on the ground, and his spiritual will immediately caught the surrounding environment. This seemed to be in a dried-up riverbed, which had been temporarily flattened into a square. There were numerous sects and families in the square, as well as some chambers of commerce.

Mo Wuji had quickly figured out the surrounding environment. This place should be the entrance and exit of the secret realm. These sects and families were stationed here not only to welcome their disciples, but also to purchase immortal spiritual herbs.

Just as Mo Wuji's spiritual will was about to continue scanning to see where the Yan family was, he heard a cold voice, "Mo Xinghe, I didn't expect you to have such a long life. You're still alive."

It was this guy again. Mo Wuji cursed inwardly. So many people died in that tomb, why didn't this guy die? Thinking of the power of the space collapse in the tomb, Mo Wuji could only sigh in admiration at Gou Xinghao's luck.

"Say, where did Hong Qi go?" Gou Xinghao walked up to Mo Wuji, his tone icy.

Mo Wuji said indifferently, "Do I know if Hong Qi is a dog or a cat? Where he went is none of my business."

"Yan Ye, what happened to your face..." A surprised voice came, followed by a young man walking over.

"Yan Ye? You're not Mo Xinghe? You're from the Yan family?" Gou Xinghao, who had originally wanted to lose his temper, forcibly suppressed his anger. He didn't care about a rogue cultivator from Knife Scar Peak. But if Mo Wuji was from the Yan family, that would be a bit troublesome. The Xie family's strength was not weaker than Knife Scar Peak's, and they also had an Immortal King.

Mo Wuji deliberately made his face very gloomy and said, "I encountered a lightning pool inside, and I was injured by the lightning pool while looking for spiritual herbs."

He was very anxious in his heart. He was guessing who this young man who called his name was and what relationship he had with him. He didn't know who this person was at all.

"Ji Yi greets Young Master Yan Ye, Young Master Yan Tianyu!" A clear voice rescued Mo Wuji from his awkward situation. Following this voice, a fair-looking girl wearing a light green floral dress walked up to Mo Wuji and slightly bowed.

So this young man was called Yan Tianyu. He should be of the same generation as him; otherwise, this girl called Ji Yi wouldn't call him Young Master as well. The key question was, who was this girl called Ji Yi? She seemed only slightly surprised when she saw the lightning scars on his face and didn't react further. It looked as though their relationship was not very deep.

Fortunately, after she called out her greetings, this girl immediately gave Mo Wuji an answer: "Young Master Yan Ye, my young mistress would like to invite you to visit."

(Today's update ends here, and the 2016 update is officially over. Old Five can't rest, he continues to write so that he can update a chapter near dawn, and ask for your 2017 monthly tickets!)