Seeing that she hadn't seen the dean at all, Shu Jianyue stepped back to Chong Jiu's side and asked, "Did Dean Gu go back?"

"I don't know, but it shouldn't be yet." Chong Jiu smiled slightly and supported her slightly bent waist.

Shu Jianyue thought about it and decided that whether or not she went back was none of her business, so she didn't care.

Seeing that there was no one else behind her except her family of four, Xin Yue frowned and asked, "Just you two? Aren't the disciples who have passed the Hunyuan Immortal realm going?"

Shu Jianyue smiled and said, "They're not strong enough. Going in would just be suicide, so we won't go."

"Our family had nothing better to do, so we went in together to see what was going on."

Since Wu Yan was still young and had no cultivation, Chao Tian was asked to look after him in the other courtyard. Originally, he was supposed to put him in the space, but since he didn't know Wu Yan's character, he gave up.

Xin Yue's lips twitched. "With your cultivation level, I'm afraid you won't be able to get in."

Shu Jianyue said with a smile, "I'll go in the same way you do."

Xin Yue glanced at a certain spot and then led everyone to the entrance of the secret realm.

Shu Jianyue held Yan Xi's hand in one hand and Yu Chuan's hand in the other. After glancing at Chong Jiu, she followed at the very back of the crowd.

The entrance to the secret realm isn't far; it's just a few miles west of the main city.

Looking at the valley in front of them, it was truly remarkable that the disciples of the Xuantian Sect had found such a place.

Weeds grew rampant, and vines spread haphazardly.

Xin Yue took out a blue stone and placed it into a small crack, creating a black hole in the air above the stone wall.

He glanced at the black hole, then turned to the crowd and asked, "Everyone, does anyone want to go in first?"

The crowd looked at each other, and no one stepped forward to say they should go in first.

Xin Yue smiled and said, "Then this sect leader will go in first."

Six people from the Xuantian Sect arrived, all of them at the Golden Core stage.

As soon as Xin Yue went in, the other five members of the Xuantian Sect immediately followed.

With Xuan Tianzong taking the lead, the others rushed in.

Shu Jianyue found a rock to sit on and watched them argue. "Can you tell what kind of secret realm this is?"

Chong Jiu shook his head with a smile, "You really think I know everything?"

"Secret realms are generally unexplorable unless you are inside them."

“If it could be discovered from the outside, this secret realm would have already been claimed.”

"If you want to know anything, just go in and see for yourself."

Shu Jianyue looked at Yu Chuan and Yan Xi and said, "Be careful when you go inside. Stay close to your parents, understand?"

Yu Chuan and Yan Xi nodded.

After everyone else had gone inside, Shu Jianyue and Chong Jiu took the two children inside as well.

It felt the same as entering the sealed secret realm, but I landed normally, instead of crashing to the ground like I did.

The two children were held tightly in their arms, and the two of them were embracing each other so tightly that they did not separate.

The surroundings were quiet; there was no one around, nor any spirit beasts in sight.

Just as Shu Jianyue was about to use her spiritual power to look around, Chong Jiu said, "Yueyue, there is Chen Xin here. I can sense him."

"What? Which direction is it? Let's hurry up and get there before someone else gets there first." Shu Jianyue looked around.

Chong Jiu, holding Yu Chuan, pointed eastward, "Over there."

Shu Jianyue picked up Yan Xi and ran in that direction.

Chong Jiu smiled and immediately chased after her, "Yueyue, slow down, do you know where it is?"

"Then hurry up, stop dawdling." Shu Jianyue looked impatient.

Chongjiu quickened his pace to stay close to her, pulling her along whenever they needed to change direction.

I walked for quite a while but didn't encounter a single person.

Chongjiu stopped in front of a cave. "It's inside."

Shu Jianyue used her spiritual power to probe inside and found that it was very deep, with many twists and turns. At the deepest part, there was a pool of water, and in the center of the pool stood a pure white lotus flower.

All that can be seen are flowers, no leaves.

This phenomenon is a bit strange. It's not a hell flower, so why doesn't it have leaves?

Shu Jianyue told Chong Jiu about this phenomenon.

Chong Jiu lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "It should be the Solitary Lotus, which blooms only once in its lifetime. When the flower blooms, the leaves wither, and the flower falls, it is reborn."

"Rebirth?"

Chong Jiu nodded, "Rebirth requires a thousand years and is extremely selective about the conditions for regeneration, so a single lotus is extremely rare."

In the Upper God Realm, there is only one such plant in the Chaos Palace, and it took a long time to cultivate before it survived.

"Wow, let's go in quickly." Before Shu Jianyue could finish speaking, she went inside.

Chong Jiu looked back and then followed him inside.

As soon as he disappeared into the cave, two people emerged from behind the small rocky hill opposite him. They were Xin Yue and Fang Di.

Fang Di looked at the cave and asked, "What's inside? How did they get in?"

Xin Yue snorted coldly, "I've been here before. There's nothing here, just a flower that has no spiritual energy whatsoever."

"Is everything set up?"

Fang Di nodded, then said irritably, "You should have arranged for someone to come in and make arrangements much earlier. The fact that you're only doing this now is just wasting time."

If Fang Qianxun hadn't asked them to cooperate, giving them a chance to get their hands on the treasure Shu Jianyue possessed, he wouldn't have listened to her.

Everything was for profit, and Fang Qianxun was acting as guarantor. Otherwise, given the previous incident with the poison, who would feel comfortable cooperating with him?

"Wow, what beautiful flowers..." Even Yan Xi, who doesn't usually care about anything, said they were beautiful, which shows how truly gorgeous they are.

Shu Jianyue nodded, looking at the pure lotus in front of her, which shone with a white light in the darkness, looking incredibly sacred.

Is it the heart of dust?

Chong Jiu shook his head. "No, Chen Xin is below."

Shu Jianyue looked it over and asked, "How do we pick this?"

“Just use a container and put it all in, roots and soil included,” Chong Jiu said, taking out a large jade basin.

"I used to use this to grow orchids, so it's usable."

Shu Jianyue thought of the pond in the space, wondering if the flowers could survive there.

Although the space was filled with spiritual energy, the flower seemed to lack any spiritual energy.

"Why does this solitary lotus lack spiritual energy?"

Chong Jiu put down Yu Chuan and said, "This is its disguise. In fact, the spiritual energy in its petals and branches is very rich."

"By eating a single petal, ordinary people can achieve immortality, while cultivators can break free from their cocoons and be reborn, cleansing their meridians and marrow."

He then placed the entire flower into the jade basin, wiped the mud off the basin, and handed it to Shu Jianyue, saying, "It can't be put into a storage container. The spirit beast space is fine, but that will also have an impact."

"It's alright, I have a place to put it." Shu Jianyue took it and placed it directly by the pond in her space. She looked at it for a while and was relieved to see that it was unaffected.

We can't kill such a powerful guy.

The Spirit-Soothing Fruit can only guarantee that one can break through obstacles and improve one's spiritual veins.

However, it is comparable to the Seven-Colored Spirit-Soothing Fruit, directly cleansing the meridians and marrow.

"Go quickly and retrieve the Heart of Dust."

Chongjiu placed his palm towards the center of the pool, causing the water to churn. Slowly, a section of jade marrow, resembling a lotus root, was revealed, crystal clear and translucent.