Chapter 402

Chapter 402: Refining Spiritual Liquid, Spreading the News

After consuming all the spiritual liquid, Lu Qing retracted the Five Elements Gourd into his body.

He then activated the gourd with his mind, refining the spiritual liquid within.

A spiritual liquid capable of nurturing a supreme elixir like the Five Elements Treasure Lotus was truly extraordinary.

As the gourd circulated, vast quantities of Five Elements essence were continuously extracted.

Lu Qing’s Dantian Qi Sea suddenly felt as if it were expanding.

Not wanting to delay, he immediately activated the Five Elements Body Refining Technique and began practicing.

As the vast quantities of Five Elements essence were refined, Lu Qing’s cultivation began to rise steadily, rapidly increasing.

…

While Lu Qing was in seclusion, a clash of innate realm masters within the secret realm deep within the Shiwan Mountains finally erupted after a period of exploration.

“Brother Wang, I discovered this spiritual herb first. Isn’t it against the rules for you to forcibly seize it?”

In a valley, a large man said with a grim expression to a lean middle-aged man before him.

The lean middle-aged man clutched a fiery red spiritual herb.

“Rules? What rules?” Hearing this, the thin middle-aged man smiled faintly. “Brother Qiu, I think you’re confused.

This is a secret realm, and the things within are ownerless.

Since they’re ownerless, all the treasures naturally belong to whoever gets them first.

Blame it on you, Brother Qiu, for neglecting your cultivation and your slow movements.”

If Lu Qing were here, he would have recognized them as two of the Xiantian Realm cultivators he had seen in the dense forest not long ago.

“Good, very good!”

The burly man surnamed Qiu, seeing that the lean middle-aged man had not only stolen his spiritual herb but also made sarcastic remarks, his face suddenly darkened.

“Wang Yuanshan, you’re just relying on your Xiantian-level movements to increase your speed.

Since you’re so arrogant, I’ll show you my Mountain-Moving Sword Technique!”

With that, the man surnamed Qiu drew his sword from his back, and a powerful aura emanated from him.

The thin middle-aged man’s face changed when he saw this, and a long sword also appeared in his hand.

The next moment, the wind blew up, and the sword energy flew everywhere. A battle of the innate level broke out in the valley.

The two people who were brothers before suddenly fought in a group.

“Wang Shouzi and Qiu Fei are fighting?”

Not far away, a middle-aged beautiful woman felt the murderous intent and was surprised.

However, although she noticed the movement, she did not mean to go over to take a look.

“Wang Yuanshan and Qiu Fei are both not easy to mess with. If I go over, they will team up to deal with me first, which will be troublesome. It’s better to stay away.”

The middle-aged beautiful woman looked at the surrounding environment with joy in her eyes.

“I didn’t expect this place to be so rich in spiritual energy and the power of the Five Elements. It’s truly a legendary secret realm.

Perhaps I can seize this opportunity to successfully cultivate my secret technique.

Once I master it, I’ll be able to fight even those who reach the highest level of the Xiantian realm!

Then, it’ll be much safer to seek opportunities.”

Just as the middle-aged woman was plotting a secluded place to cultivate her secret technique,

she suddenly felt a chill in her heart, a strong sense of danger rising within her.

Without a second thought, disregarding her image, she suddenly rolled to the side.

Just as she rolled away, a black needle pierced the spot where she had been standing.

Not only did it leave a bottomless hole in the ground, but even the surrounding flowers and plants withered a small area.

“Poison needle!”

The middle-aged woman’s eyes suddenly widened, her face filled with shock and anger.

Angry that someone had dared to attack her, and shocked that the poison needle was so powerful that even a Xiantian body would have been unable to withstand it if she hadn’t dodged it.

“Who!”

The middle-aged beautiful woman looked in the direction where the poison needle came from, and at the same time increased her mental perception to the extreme.

Even with her full power of sensing, she still couldn’t detect the attacker.

She felt a pang of bitterness within her heart.

Ever since the transformations of heaven and earth and the resurgence of spiritual energy, the once-unparalleled sensing abilities of these Xiantian Realm warriors had been repeatedly suppressed. This was

especially true after the fifth resounding of the Dao Sound, as the laws of heaven and earth evolved and became more stable, their spiritual sensing abilities were further weakened.

Xiantian warriors used to be able to sense each other’s Xiantian aura from miles away.

But now, if the opponent deliberately concealed their aura, even a few dozen meters away might not be detected.

For a Xiantian Realm expert, a distance of dozens of meters could be crossed in the blink of an eye.

However, despite being unable to detect the attacker’s trace, the beautiful middle-aged woman felt a constant sense of murderous intent hovering over her, lingering.

It felt like a lump in her throat, pricking her heart with a slight ache.

After a moment’s stalemate, the beautiful middle-aged woman knew this was not the way to go.

After a flurry of thoughts, she suddenly smiled charmingly and whispered,

“Excuse me, which hero are you, playing such a joke on me? If you want to make friends with me, just tell me. I love making friends with heroes.

Why bother trying to scare me like this? I’m just a weak woman, and I can’t stand being frightened by a hero like this.”

As her voice softened, a charming aura emanated from the middle-aged woman. She

looked truly pitiful.

Seeing her gesture, the man hiding in the shadows finally couldn’t help but speak out.

But his words were filled with hatred.

“You vicious woman, stop pretending! I never thought I’d run into you here. God is truly merciful!

Today, I will kill you and avenge my fallen brother and the entire Zhao family!”

As the words fell, a figure emerged from the woods.

“It’s you!”

Upon seeing the figure clearly, the middle-aged woman’s face was filled with shock.

“How is that possible? I strangled you to death with my own hands!”

“Heaven has eyes. I wasn’t completely dead back then, and I crawled out of the coffin again.

Vicious woman, I’ve been searching for you all these years, but I didn’t expect you to hide in this remote Cangzhou.

If it weren’t for the opening of this secret realm, which aroused your greed, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have been able to touch you.

This is heaven’s will. It’s God’s mercy on our Zhao family. He must make sure you die by my own hands!”

The figure that walked out of the woods was a young man. He was staring at the beautiful middle-aged woman with hatred on his face, as if he wanted to pull out her tendons and skin her, drink her blood and eat her flesh. The beautiful middle-aged

woman also stared at the young man. After confirming that it was indeed the same person from back then, her expression relaxed.

“So it really is you. No wonder I’ve been feeling uneasy these past few years, as if someone was secretly watching me.

I had to leave another state and live in seclusion here in remote Cangzhou.

It turns out that there was still a bastard like you who wasn’t killed back then!

It’s just right that today we’ll put an end to it. I want to make sure your Zhao family is completely extinct!”

At this point, the charming face of the middle-aged woman became distorted.

Suddenly, a short sword appeared in her hand, and she attacked the young man.

Suddenly, a brutal battle broke out in the woods.

The secret realm of the Hundred Thousand Mountains had opened, attracting powerful figures from several surrounding states.

These powerful figures might have had existing grudges, or they might be fighting for spiritual objects. In short, within a few days of the secret realm’s opening, several innate-level battles had already taken place, resulting in numerous casualties.

And this was just the beginning.

As time went on, the news of the secret realm appearing in Cangzhou began to spread further and further.

Finally, it reached Zhongzhou.

(End of this chapter)