Awakened: The Spirit King!

'The way the luminous stones are arranged on the ceiling seems to be telling a story to me.'

'Why didn't I realize it before! It's a game of array.'

One shouldn't blame Xie Yang for realizing the truth of this place so late.

He was busy fighting it and hadn't spared a single second scrutinizing this place.

It was only after killing it that he took a look around calmly.

'Someone had crafted a chessboard in the ceiling. That cultivator must be a genius.'

Xie Yang's eyes squinted as he stared at the ceiling with deep interest.

'If the rules of the game haven't changed, simply moving the stones into different spots to create a constellation will bring about unbelievable effects.'

Xie Yang had played this game in his past life many times.

That was the very reason why he realized that the ceiling setup seemed a lot like a chessboard.

The members of the black unicorn sect weren't a fan of this game, and they hadn't heard about it either, so they failed to notice anything strange about the ceiling.

"Are you not coming?"

Chen Yuan asked Xie Yang, who everyone was looking at in slight confusion.

"Help me arrange the luminous stones into the constellation of the Sagittarius with its arrow pointing at the northern wall!" Xie Yang said while feeling a bit too excited.

"Why, though?"

The one to impose this question was Tang Yongnian.

"Won't you find out after doing what he said?"

Mo Mingzhu gave him stinky eyes.

"Lovestruck silly lass."

If Tang Yongnian hadn't muttered this under his breath, his junior sister would have started a great war with him.

Bomb!

They rearranged the luminous stone, and the wall on the opposite end of the gates exploded.

It literally burst apart!

With the northern wall gone, the true secret spirit realm exposed itself to them!

Magnificent!

There was a vibrant green land in front of them, one with different flowers, each amplifying the picturesque scenery, which was a complete contrast to the dark, damp, and full of death cave they have explored so far.

"A dream in a dream. What we have experienced so far was only a small part of the secret spirit realm."

Xie Yang had plentiful of knowledge, and they realized it only now. He wasn't ignorant and strong. He was the complete opposite of that.

Mo Mingzhu worshipped him. She couldn't help herself. He was the perfect man she had met so far.

Chen Yuan recently realized that the young man he had been traveling with looked young but was more literate and knowledgeable than him even though he was in his late twenties and had seen more sunshine than Xie Yang.

Tang Yongnian's first impression of Xie Yang was that he wasn't simple.

However, now he was sure that he was a person of high status!

Mao Yue had no words.

Thanks to Xie Yang, they have managed to survive all the dangerous situations.

Thus, She felt extremely grateful to him.

"I, Xie Yang, the third to my name, lay the claim of the Xie Manor and the Black Unicorn Sect on this land."

Xie Yang said as he took out his family token and embedded it into the ground.

A light came out of the four corners of the token before a magic rune carrying the insignia of the Xie Family etched itself into the very earth.

Noble and royal families, sects, academies, and the explorer association could lay their claim to unchecked lands that no one owned, and this was the most formal way of laying claim to a secret spirit realm.

According to the rules of the empire, the ones who find a secret spirit realm get to keep it.

It meant that Xie Yang did the right thing by sharing this place with the sect.

He had another reason.

This secret spirit realm was too huge.

It was bound to have many resources but also endless dangers.

He needed the black unicorn sect to direct their manpower this way as that would make exploring this place faster and easier for him and his family too.

Now that he had laid his claim to this land, only members of the Xie Family and the people and organizations they allow could enter this place legally.

Anyone else entering this place would break the empire's rule and become a national criminal with a bounty on its head!

Everyone around him suffered a change in their expression. Only now did they realize that Xie Yang was the son of the Feudal Lord of the North and the younger brother of the Winter General who has been fending off the barbaric creatures for the Glorious Sun Empire and keeping its citizen safe from the ones who would like to harm them and feast on their flesh!

They never thought that they would be traveling with such a high personage.

They didn't know much about Xie Yang and only knew that the Northern Feudal Lord had a young son who he cherished like jade.

"It wasn't my intention to hide my identity from you. It's just that none of you asked, and I didn't feel the need to expose myself." Xie Yang explained himself.

"Okay, we get it."

They were happy that he hadn't disregarded them and taken this entire place for his family.

They had no complaints to raise.

The secret spirit realm of the golden woodlands was an extremely dangerous place.

While the cave only had level 1 to level 15 monsters, the green lust land had monsters well above that level.

Xie Yang was standing at the edge of a cliff and looking down at a forest that spanned as far as his eyes could see.

He saw many towering beasts that were bigger than the old, ancient trees.

All of them were above level 20.

His eyes wandered about and suddenly widened.

His black pupils showed excitement.

There was an eighteen-legged beast down below!

He couldn't hunt it now as it was too far above his level.

He returned to his home and told the good news to his father while Mo Mingzhu and others returned to their sect and told the same news to their elders.