ninety thousand miles

Chapter 582 Cracks
"You seem to think it is some kind of living creature?" Wen Guying asked.

"Yes." Patriarch Xun admitted. He said, "I don't know how you monks view it. For half-demons, every time it appears, it is a disaster."

"I've read some records." Wen Guying said slowly, "The earliest record is that 18,000 years ago, a cultivator from a small sect entered a cave while traveling in the Cangwu wilderness. He speculated that it was the lair of an ancient beast. After walking in the cave for a long time, he suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood, so he walked towards it carefully and entered the secret realm. He obtained the 'treasure' in the secret realm, and his strength increased greatly. That small sect also became prominent because of this."

"The news that there is a secret realm in the Cangwu Wilderness spread among the Xuanmen from then on. Since then, more cultivators have entered the Cangwu Wilderness, and the conflicts between cultivators and half-demon tribes have increased."

Patriarch Xun snorted heavily and said, "What conflict? Isn't it that the cultivators feel that even if they can't find the secret realm, they still have to kill a few half-demons to go back and refine weapons and pills?"

"Chonghe Jun of the Four Gods Palace took action to stop this behavior. After that, although there have been conflicts between the Xuanmen and the half-demons, there has been basically no large-scale hunting of half-demons. If there is, it is the hands of evil cultivators." Wen Guying's tone was a little oppressive. He looked directly at the Xun clan leader and said, "Xun clan leader, do you agree with this?"

Patriarch Xun and Wen Gu looked at each other for a moment, and finally he looked away and said, "Half-demons cannot defeat Xuanmen, so I admit it."

So Wen Guying continued, "News about cultivators encountering adventures in the Cangwu wilderness and greatly increasing their strength would be reported every ten years or so. There were also disciples from the Four Gods Palace who entered the legendary secret realm, so there were more detailed records."

"That disciple also found the entrance to the secret realm from the cave. He said that everything in the secret realm was magnificent, just like a fairyland. He saw many natural treasures recorded in ancient books. He passed the third test, got the Holy Core Grass, and was then teleported out. Later, he tried to go to the secret realm again, but couldn't find it no matter what he did."

"The other rumors are similar. Some people get treasures after entering the secret realm, while others get nothing. They are pretty much the same. However, judging from the descriptions in the records, the secret realm they entered may not be the same, but there may be more than three secret realms. Some predecessors have tried to research the origin of the secret realm, but none of them seem to have a clear direction."

"There are countless secret realms and treasures in this world. The secret realm in the Cangwu wilderness produces almost all natural treasures, but no magic weapons or techniques have been leaked, so Xuanmen does not attach much importance to it."

After saying that, Wen Guying looked at Patriarch Xun again and asked, "So Patriarch Xun, has any half-demon ever entered the secret realm?"

"No." Patriarch Xun flatly denied.

"Why?" Wen Guying asked, "According to what you said before, you know where it is and can feel when it will be born. Half-demons cannot practice, but many of the natural treasures in the secret realm can also be used by half-demons to prolong their lifespan or increase their strength."

"We are not allowed to enter." The Xun clan leader answered. He said, "We half-demons believe that it is the treasure of the ancient beast. The ancient beast hates half-demons, so he doesn't let us in. But we are his offspring after all, so he won't bite us. And the monks..." He paused and said, "When I was young, before I awakened my bloodline, I and a few companions were captured by a few monks. You may say they are evil cultivators, but to me, they are all monks. They asked us the location of the secret realm. One of our companions overheard what the adults said and knew the approximate location of the secret realm, so he begged for mercy from the monks and told them the location of the secret realm. The monks took us there, and we waited there for more than a month, but there was no movement. They suspected that we had deceived him, so they wanted to kill us."

"There were five of us in total, and three of us were killed. At that time, the ground began to move. They were very excited and said that a secret realm was about to be revealed. Then... then a huge crack appeared in the ground, and the dozen or so monks were swallowed up in an instant. A small hillside nearby, a herd of cattle and sheep, and houses... were all swallowed up. By the time I reacted, the crack had already closed. Apart from me, another companion, and the bodies of three companions, there was nothing else."

There was fear in the eyes of Chief Xun. He said, "They were punished by the ancient beast."

"But all the monks entered from the underground cave, so they are not from the same secret realm, right?" Li Chuan asked the question in his mind. He said, "Or did you happen to encounter an earthquake that day?"

"I took a look at the crack and saw the wonders described by your monks." Clan leader Xun said, "The caves you went to are all the nests of ancient beasts. There may be some entrances there. We half-demons don't go in except for sacrifices." Li Chuan felt that Clan leader Xun was lying, but he didn't expose him. Instead, he asked, "What if you tell us the approximate location of the secret realm, and we look for it from the cave, can we deduce the entrance?"

"I don't know, you can try." Patriarch Xun replied, and then he told Li Chuan and others the location of the secret realm. He said: "The secret realm appears in a different place every time, but this time, I feel that it will appear at the junction of Fanlin and Qiongshan."

"We will go." Wen Guying said.

"What about the strange dreams of the Xun tribe members?" Li Chuan asked.

Chief Xun looked at him for a while and said, "The white night will eventually pass."

The atmosphere was not very good after the meal, but at least there was no conflict. When the meal was over, the Xun clan leader said, "I would like you to stay in Songdu for one night and go back tomorrow."

Li Chuan wanted to refuse, but Wen Gu agreed and said, "Then I'll trouble Patriarch Xun."

Then Chief Xun arranged rooms for them and left behind several Xun guards.

Li Chuan originally lived alone, but Lao Xiaokai said he wanted to make medicine for him, so he moved in with him.

Li Chuan walked around the room. It was clean and had everything it needed. He opened the window and looked out. The sky was getting darker, but the rain hadn't fallen yet.

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"I don't know what it's like when it rains at night." Li Chuan said, turning around and watching Lao Xiaokai placing various medicinal herbs on the table.

Lao Xiaokai said: "What do you think, the reason why Chief Xun let us stay here for one night is because he has some conspiracy to kill us..." He made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"So you have to squeeze in with me?" Li Chuan asked.

"I think it's possible. You mentioned Songdu. Xuanmen didn't know about it before, so some tricks must have been used. And then there was Bai Ye..." Lao Xiaokai became more and more certain of what he was thinking, "There must be a conspiracy."

"And the spiritualist from the Ruiling tribe, she didn't say a word during the meal, she just kept looking at us."

(End of this chapter)