"Senior Brother Helian, the Dan Ding Sect has always been knowledgeable about spiritual plants. Do you think there might be a problem with the soil?"

...

A group of disciples surrounded the people from the Dan Ding Sect, chattering amongst themselves.

Tianning spotted Wenren Yang in the crowd, and he also spotted her from afar, along with Long Han.

"Sixth Sister... Long Han, didn't you say you had business to attend to in the secret realm? Why are you with Sixth Sister and the others?" Wenren Yang walked over and asked.

work?

He wanted to take the opportunity to kill someone!

Feeling guilty, Long Han didn't answer the question directly: "Xiao Yang, see if you can get out of the secret realm by crushing your jade token."

Why did you crush the jade pendant?

Wenren Yang was puzzled. It was only the second day, and there were so many rare and precious treasures in the secret realm. How could they leave so early? Besides, he hadn't even found the beauty-enhancing flower that his sister wanted yet.

Tianning went straight to the center of the crowd and found Helian Boda.

She was only fifteen years old and not very tall, especially among a group of male cultivators. However, no one expected her to be so strong. She easily pushed aside the people gathered in front of Helian Boda and said succinctly, "Senior Brother Helian, there is danger in the secret realm. My senior sister and I crushed the jade token but cannot teleport out!"

The disciples, who were originally arguing about having spiritual plants right in front of them but not being able to harvest them, which was like having spirit stones right in front of them but not being able to take them, immediately stopped arguing after hearing her words.

Is this really true?

Helian Boda, who had just managed to catch his breath after all the people around him disappeared, was shocked to hear Tian Ning's words! How could there be a problem with the teleportation jade tablet?

"Junior sister, don't scare people. How could the teleportation jade token malfunction?"

"The elders of each sect will be guarding outside. If there is any problem with the secret realm, the elders will definitely notice!"

"Yes, you need evidence to back up your claims. If you're so capable, take out your jade pendant and crush it to prove it!"

Several disciples did not believe Tianning's words and spoke up to refute them.

Shi Qinxin stood protectively in front of Tianning: "My junior sister and I must have crushed our own jade tokens to find we couldn't leave. How are we supposed to prove it now that the jade tokens are gone?!"

Tianning didn't care whether they believed her or not; she was waiting for Helian Boda to make a decision.

Among all the disciples who came to the secret realm, Helian Boda was the most prestigious. He was also a responsible person and would surely realize the seriousness of the matter!

As expected, Helian Boda immediately found a disciple to test him.

He made it clear that regardless of whether it was true or false, he would give his disciple sufficient compensation afterward. The disciple didn't say anything more and crushed the jade pendant in front of everyone.

Everyone's attention was focused on the disciple, but they waited for a long time and nothing happened.

Someone couldn't sit still any longer and immediately took out their jade pendant and crushed it. As a result, they were still standing in the same spot... They really couldn't get out!

"How is this possible!"

"Why? Why can't we get out?!"

More and more disciples were gripped by panic, but no matter how many jade tablets they crushed, the cruel reality was still staring them in the face.

"Don't panic, everyone! The elders outside will definitely find a way!" Faced with the disciples' bewildered and out-of-control situation, Helian Boda spoke up in time to stabilize everyone's emotions.

Knowing the situation well, Tianning had to pour cold water on him: "Senior Brother Helian, someone has deceived the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion's calculations, and the elders probably haven't noticed anything amiss yet. We only have one chance now. Everyone must do their utmost to find and destroy the array's core within the secret realm. Otherwise, if the Bloodthirsty Array is activated, the secret realm will be ravaged, and all living beings will perish here!"

"What nonsense are you talking about..." Qiu Xiu, standing to the side, couldn't believe it at all.

"What kind of bloodthirsty formation?"

Tianning pointed to the large area of ​​red lines on the ground, "This is the Bloodlust Array. You can see it when you fly high on your swords. These red lines are writing the word 'bloodlust'. They are spread throughout the entire secret realm."

Tian Ning paused, then spoke again with an unprecedented seriousness: "This is an elaborate deception, designed to lure us, the sacrifices, here. When the time comes, we will all become nourishment for the sacrificial array's core!"

Who wants to kill so many of their sect disciples?

What exactly are those people offering sacrifices to...?

Tian Ning's words were too shocking. No one expected that they would encounter such a thing when they came to a completely safe spiritual plant secret realm!

"How would you know anything about the Bloodthirsty Array? I remember you were clearly a disciple of the Myriad Swords Sect!" The speaker clearly didn't believe him.

Everything was fine until someone told you that everyone was about to die. Of course, they wouldn't believe it easily, thinking that Tian Ning, a sword cultivator, shouldn't know anything about formations.

But no one paid any attention to him. The disciples of the Fuxian Sect who knew formations had already taken out their magical artifacts and gone up to the sky to take a look. Some of the other disciples also went to take a look, while others stayed in place nervously, waiting for the result.

Due to the gradual decline of the array formation lineage, the six major sects do not even have a dedicated array formation sect. Therefore, array formations are extremely rare in the Eastern Continent. However, most disciples of the Fuxian Sect know how to learn array formations, and everyone is waiting for a disciple of the Fuxian Sect to speak.

“From above, it does indeed resemble the character ‘嗜’ (shì), and it is indeed an array… but I am not an expert in arrays and have never heard of the Bloodlust Array,” said the first disciple of the Fuxian Sect to descend.

The other disciples of the Fuxian Sect gave the same answer.

To be able to set up such a large-scale formation within the secret realm, and to sacrifice so many disciples' lives, this far surpasses even a high-level formation. Only an elder would likely understand.

"Could it be that the junior sister from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect just misread it..." a disciple said timidly.

Everyone hopes this is a false alarm, because it concerns everyone's lives and is no small matter!

"It's definitely a bloodthirsty formation."

A male voice shattered everyone's hopes.

Can we trust what you say?

Before anyone else could voice their doubts, the people from the Fuxian Sect stepped forward to defend the man who had spoken up.

"This is our senior brother, Uncle Bo!"

"Haven't you heard of Bo Yong'an? Senior Brother Bo was a newly emerged genius in both talisman and array cultivation in the last Six Sects Grand Competition!"

The disciples of the Fuxian Sect spoke with such conviction that they silenced the doubters.

As one of only two people who knew about the Bloodthirsty Array, Bo Yong'an told him everything he knew: "I saw this Bloodthirsty Array when I was reading books in the sect's library... It is an ancient array created by demonic cultivators a thousand years ago, which caused the deaths of countless predecessors, but it should have been lost long ago. Even the Fuxian Sect's library only has a few very simple records of it."