"Listen up, everyone! If these good-for-nothings dare to approach us, hurry up and notify me. Anyone who dares to approach will be killed!"

"yes!"

Bai Minglian and Luo Tianhe exchanged a glance.

Both of them had the intention of showing off in front of Lin Jinglong.

Only the Qian family members, along with Ge Ling'er and Situ Zhentian, followed Lin Jinglong into the secret treasure.

On the periphery, the group of martial artists were extremely unwilling.

"Even if the Tantai family were in charge, they probably wouldn't be so heartless to us, not even giving us a chance."

"This Lin Jinglong is too much."

"But he just killed a Celestial Martial Emperor while at the Vajra Realm. So what?"

The crowd was buzzing with discussion.

The middle-aged man, whose real name was Zhou Yi, shook his head and said, "We wanted to cooperate with him with good intentions, but he was so ruthless. We have no choice but to accept it."

"Emperor Wu of Zhou, what do you intend to do?"

Everyone else looked at him curiously.

Zhou Yi waved his hand.

"It's not that I want to do anything, but the Hidden World Alliance won't let this go. However, they probably don't know what happened here yet."

“Another team of members of the Hidden World Alliance is on Yingzhou Immortal Island. Why don’t we send the message there? They will surely send someone over.”

"Tantai Ning was defeated because he was restrained by Lin Jinglong. If another Celestial Martial Emperor were to appear, and there was no restraint between them, then Lin Jinglong would definitely not be a match for him."

Zhou Yi said with a sinister look on his face.

The others nodded subconsciously as well.

Someone sighed.

"Lin Jinglong looks down on us, but have the Hidden World Alliance ever looked up to us? But at this point, we can only hope that they will both be severely injured, and perhaps we can gain some advantage."

So everyone followed Zhou Yi's advice and contacted the forces on Yingzhou Island, asking them to spread the news, which would soon attract the attention of the Hidden World Alliance.

Their judgment was certainly correct.

Outside a secret treasure on Yingzhou Immortal Island, Zhuge Qingye, a celestial being from the Zhuge family who had not yet opened the treasure, frowned.

"Something happened at Fangzhang Mountain?"

"That piece of trash, Tantai Ning!"

"He was always arrogant and thought that because he had the bloodline of the Immovable King, he could look down on everyone. I never expected that he would die at the hands of a Vajra Realm expert!"

Zhuge Qingmu looked around.

He said in a deep voice, "You stay here and continue to break the restrictions. I'm going to kill Lin Jinglong to prevent the ascension platform from falling into his hands."

"I hope the restrictions will be lifted when I return!"

The rest of the Zhuge family couldn't help but smile wryly.

Even if the Duobao clan came, it would take them a lot of time. Although the Zhuge family is skilled in formations, they are not that efficient.

But since the patriarch's order had already been given, they dared not disobey and could only speed up their work.

Just as Zhuge Qingmu arrived.

Lin Jinglong was led by the Qian family.

We have entered the depths of the secret treasure.

It was inside an underground palace.

Lin Jinglong saw the legendary Ascension Platform.

It was a huge platform that could hold hundreds of people, and it was gleaming with gold, making people instinctively want to get closer.

Above the golden light, a purple aura swirled.

Qian Rushan's eyes widened, his breathing became rapid, and he exclaimed to Lin Jinglong in surprise, "Master Lin, that thing seems to be the legendary immortal energy!"

It is even purer than the spiritual energy within the sacred realm.

That was a wisp of fortune descended from the celestial realm to the mortal world.

Anyone who devours and refines this fortune will receive a wisp of the immortal's pure power, which can transform them completely.

Even Ge Ling'er's eyes were bloodshot.

"I never even tasted this stuff back then, this celestial energy is mine!"

Ge Ling'er couldn't control her greed and ambition.

Lin Jinglong reached out and grabbed her by the collar.

What do you want to do?

Faced with Lin Jinglong's questioning.

Ge Ling'er suddenly chuckled awkwardly.

"Fine, I respect the elderly and cherish the young, so I won't fight you for it. But if you can't finish it, you can leave some for me."

Ge Ling'er's eyes were filled with greed.

But Lin Jinglong shook his head and said, "That's not what I meant. I meant, didn't you see that ascension platform was crowded with countless souls?"

"oh?"

Ge Ling'er stared intently at it.

Situ Zhentian, standing to the side, looked somewhat horrified.

He said in a trembling voice, "I saw it a long time ago. The ascension platform was crowded with tens of thousands of remnant souls, all of them the souls of ancient cultivators. Before they died, they were all in a state of fear and unease."

"Lin Jinglong!"

A jade slip emerged from the sleeve.

An ancient cultivator who called himself Nie Yidao appeared before Lin Jinglong in a gray robe.

His tone was deep, and his eyes were filled with fear.

"Don't come any closer, and don't let these people out. Before they died, they saw the greatest terror in the world!"

"You saw it too?"

Lin Jinglong looked at Nie Yidao with curiosity.

But he silently shook his head.

“I didn’t see what they saw, but I saw them die in this horrific way on this ascension platform.”

Lin Jinglong's lips twitched.

"Given your previous crazy behavior, I thought you really couldn't remember anything. Why don't you tell me clearly, what exactly is going on with this Sacred Realm Grotto and the three Immortal Islands?"

After seeing the Ascension Platform, he became even more interested in the events that occurred more than five thousand years ago when the connection between heaven and earth was severed.

Nie Yidao sighed.

He shook his head and said, "I can't remember too many details. I can only remember some scattered things. It seems that some force has erased the memories of us ancient cultivators."

"What I remember is that this sacred realm was originally prepared as a place to bury immortals. When the 'severing of the connection between heaven and earth' occurred, the world collapsed, and almost all the cultivators' physical bodies could not withstand the drastic changes brought about by the depletion of spiritual energy."

"Therefore, they must preserve their souls within these three immortal mountains, maintaining them with abundant and pure spiritual energy."

"Waiting for the day when I can return to the world."

Upon hearing this, Lin Jinglong recalled some legends from this period, in which many people encountered the souls of ancient cultivators after opening the secret treasure.

A powerful figure like Nie Yidao.

It can easily possess the bodies of martial artists with weak souls.

He glanced back at the outside of the secret realm. Among the thousands of cultivators outside, he wondered how many had already been possessed.

What happened next?

Lin Jinglong continued to press for answers.

Nie Yidao frowned, lost in memories, and then continued in a low voice, "I remember some things. Originally, I was just like them, planning to store my soul here and wait for the day when I could be reborn."

"However, when the great calamity of heaven and earth descended, three ascension platforms suddenly appeared on the immortal island, triggering a frenzy among cultivators."

"Many people thought this was an opportunity to become immortals, but in the end they were all sealed inside this Ascension Platform. What sealed them was this wisp of immortal aura!"

"Who did this?"

Lin Jinglong asked a crucial question.