Chapter 273 The shared love between master and disciple
As a major sect in the realm of cultivation, Guiyi Sect naturally obtained a key fragment after the key fragment appeared based on its rich experience, and selected the candidates before the Baiyuan Secret Realm began.
As well-known new forces of Guiyi Sect, Lin Zhi and Yuan Zhi were geniuses who had progressed from Qi training to Golden Elixir in just one year, with a training speed a hundred times faster than others. Naturally, they were in the team to explore the Baiyuan secret realm this time.
The Baiyuan Secret Realm is rich in resources, but also rife with dangers. Guiyi Sect will naturally not send all of its middle-level forces out. Before the opening of the mission, the sect's head elders earnestly instructed the leading disciple to pay special attention to the safety of the sect's disciples.
Before Lin Zhi entered the secret realm, he was given careful instructions by his masters and there were many more things in his storage ring. The eldest sister also told him what she had seen and heard in the Baiyuan secret realm and asked him to pay more attention to his own safety.
Compared to before, the elder sister's complexion has improved a lot. Although she is still unable to practice for the time being, she is much better than her original lifeless appearance.
Lin Zhi looked at her quiet face, nodded, and left.
The leader of the team this time is the eldest senior brother from Qi Peak. In addition to Lin Zhi and Yuan Zhi, there are three senior brothers and sisters from Jian Peak and one from Dan Peak.
Although Yuan Zhi and Lin Zhi are the youngest among them, no one will look down on them. Instead, no one will value them more. As a medicine cultivator, Lin Zhi is suggested by the senior brothers and sisters to be protected in the center.
Before entering the Baiyuan Secret Realm, Lin Zhi saw Ting Yan, whom he had not seen for a long time.
The Sword Master was wearing a crow-feather cloak, which made his sick face look even paler.
He seemed to be in very poor health. His light-colored eyes were a little gloomy, making him look even sicker. He coughed lightly a few times, and although his face became a little rosy, he looked even more lifeless.
However, even though he looked so sickly, no one from the sects present dared to look down on him.
Ting Yan held the spirit key in his hand and his eyes quickly swept across Lin Zhi.
Lin Zhi felt it and looked back with clear eyes and a smile.
His eyes were calm, without any unnecessary emotions, which was different from his gentle attitude when he lowered his head and talked and laughed with Yuan Zhi.
The change was not abrupt or drastic, but it was precisely because it was so ordinary that no one noticed it that it was even more unbearable.
Ting Yan opened his lips and said, "Let's get started."
The four sects holding the keys this time are Guiyi Sect, Yushou Sect, Guanqing Sect and Hehuan Sect. Because of some exchange of interests, disciples of the Blood Jade Sect of Luoyu Gate also entered the secret realm.
The camps of evil cultivators and Taoist cultivators are clearly divided, and their suspicion and vigilance against each other are undisguised.
Even though he had some connection with the Hehuan Sect, Lin Zhi did not pay too much attention to them.
He and Yuan Zhi stood in the same place, but the secret realm teleportation was random, so it depended on luck whether they could be together.
Lin Zhi and Yuan Zhi agreed that if they were unfortunately separated after entering, they would contact each other immediately using the communication beads.
The four pieces of the spirit key fragments floated in the air under the spiritual power of the great men of each sect. At the moment of fusion, a huge light burst out. Lin Zhi subconsciously closed his eyes, and saw a blurry light gate before closing his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, the world in front of him had changed.
In front of him was a deep blue sea. Lin Zhi looked around and found that he was on an isolated island.
As expected, the people around him had changed. Fortunately, there were still two senior brothers and sisters from Guiyi Sect, and Yuan Zhi was not around.
Lin Zhi had impressions of the other two people, one was a disciple of Luoyu Sect, and the other was a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect.
"With such a vast sea, how can we break through this situation?"
Since they were all Taoist disciples, they were not too shy. Several people were together. The disciple of the Beast Taming Sect who introduced himself as Ni Ling was the first to respond after hearing the question.
"I have a cloud roc that is big enough to take us there."
As Ni Ling raised his hand, a cloud roc beast large enough to accommodate five or six people appeared in the sky. Its long feathers appeared as soft and fluffy as clouds under the light.
"I'm afraid it won't be that simple."
The senior sister beside Lin Zhi looked at the calm and peaceful sea with a thoughtful look in her eyes.
They were not short of magical weapons that could fly, and she was a sword cultivator who could fly with her sword, but would the Baiyuan Secret Realm be that simple?
Ni Ling: “Let’s try it first.”
She jumped onto Yunpeng's back, patted her companion's body, and flew towards the sea.
Lin Zhi watched the Peng bird flying high, but it was flying closer and closer to the sea, as if it was about to sink.
Everyone on land was preparing to give a reminder, but a cultivator in the Golden Core Stage was not a naive cultivator. The moment Yun Peng was about to enter the water, Ni Ling stepped on Yun Peng's back to gain leverage, quickly brought Yun Peng back, and rushed back to the isolated island.
Ni Ling: "It's really strange. I was confused. I thought I was flying normally, but I didn't know I was getting closer and closer to the sea. I didn't wake up until I sensed the danger."
Everyone looked more serious, thinking about how to leave here and what secret treasures were in this area.
While everyone was scattered and observing, Lin Zhi contacted Yuan Zhi using the communicator.
As he expected, the spiritual energy that was transmitted fell into oblivion without any response.
As expected, the communicator would be ineffective in this place. According to Yuan Zhi's personality, he would contact him the moment he arrived at the secret realm, but he did not receive any message.
Lin Zhi looked at the endless sea and thought to himself that the secret realm would not imprison people until old age for no reason, but as far as his spiritual sense could reach, he could only see the vast sea surface and could not sink to the bottom of the sea. In addition, if he left the isolated island, he would be led to the bottom of the sea, which meant that the answer was under the sea.
The Thousand Heart Flower took root and continued to spread. Lin Zhi closed his eyes and empathized with it, controlling it to go to the bottom of the sea.
The water resistance was great, and it was pitch black and quiet all around, without even a school of fish.
Lin Zhi tried it for a while and found that this method was not very effective, so he took back the Thousand Heart Flower.
He looked around and saw everyone was trying.
Jianfeng's senior brothers and sisters tried to split the sea surface, but no matter how sharp the sword energy was, it became soft when it fell on the sea surface.
The monk from Luoyumen folded a paper boat and the moment he threw it out, the small boat turned into a big boat, but it sank not long after it sailed out.
Ni Ling said with deep regret: "It would be great if my senior sister was here. She has a contracted beast that is a giant whale."
Jianfeng's senior brother suggested: "It's not a good idea to just wait like this, how about we go down into the water and find out what's going on?"
If they were facing the threat of monsters head-on, they would not be so helpless. Everyone who entered the secret realm for training was not the kind of person who wanted to live a life of mediocrity. The purpose of this trip was to obtain treasures.
"Junior brother, you and Junior sister wait upstairs first, I'll go down and take a look at the situation."
He was also the first to implement the proposal made by Jianfeng's senior brother.
He stepped into the sea holding the water-repellent bead in his mouth, and his figure was quickly swallowed up.
The disciples of Luoyumen, wearing water-repellent clothes, followed in.
Senior Sister Jianfeng stared at the sea surface worriedly. Lin Zhi was also watching, sinking the wood spiritual energy into the sea and feeling the scent of the algae.
Not long after, huge waves arose on the sea, and the paper crane carried the two people out, but was quickly swept back to the bottom of the sea by the waves.
"Junior brothers and sisters, right below, there is a..."
Before the senior brother could finish his words, he disappeared in the huge waves.
Seeing this, Lin Zhi and the others each took their magic weapons and headed towards the bottom of the water.
As he sank, Lin Zhi quickly understood what his senior brother had not finished saying.
It was a sea snake more than ten feet long that was about to turn into a dragon. The two bulges on its head had the faint shape of dragon horns. In the cave where it was coiled, there was a bright glow, which was particularly conspicuous in the dim seabed and could not be blocked even by coral rocks.
Several people looked at each other, and it was obvious that this was the greatest treasure here.
But the seabed is always not as good as the land. They wanted to lure the sea snakes to the surface, but they had difficulty in confusing people and attracting them into the illusion array on the seabed.
In this situation, although everyone is not from the same sect, they have chosen to work together.
Jianfeng's senior brothers and sisters attacked the sea snake from two directions respectively, and Luoyumen's cultivators harassed it with various magical instruments. Although Ni Ling did not have a seabed beast, he could control the sea snake with the beast taming technique to slow down its movements.
As for Lin Zhi, everyone unanimously asked him to stand farther away to avoid being attacked, and he would go over to treat anyone who was seriously injured.
Lin Zhi readily agreed, but the wood spirit energy was hidden in the blue-black sea water and kept dispersing.
If it were on land, the snake would not be too difficult to deal with, but it happened to be on the seabed, its home turf. Several monks gradually became exhausted, but the sea snake was also in trouble. The blood from hundreds of wounds on its body had turned the sea water turbid. It became even more furious when it saw that the enemies were not seriously injured.
Jianfeng's senior sister took the medicine from Lin Zhi and drank it all. She felt that the injuries she had just received from the sea snake were recovering, and she couldn't help but smile. This was the benefit of following a medicine cultivator. When the pills were finished, they would accumulate in the body, but the spiritual liquid extracted by the medicine cultivator did not have this burden.
The sea snake was gradually losing its strength, and Ni Ling and his men kept shrinking the encirclement, intending to kill the sea snake as soon as possible.
The huge snake rolled over in pain, waves piled up, and people were scattered everywhere. Its body sank, and it swallowed the coral stone containing the Treasure Island into its mouth in one gulp, trying to escape from here.
Everyone rushed to chase it, and it was at this moment that they suddenly discovered that the grass of various shapes on the seabed seemed to be growing too densely.
The soft tentacles of the seaweed seemed to come alive in a very short time, and all kinds of algae floating in the sea grew wildly, instantly binding the sea snake tightly.
Those beautiful and strange sea plants that seemed like living creatures made people's scalps tingle. The soft and dense algae swayed, gradually bringing the tightly wrapped sea snake to Lin Zhi's side.
The senior brothers and sisters who just realized what happened looked at Lin Zhi in shock, only to see their amiable junior brother showing his usual harmless and soft smile.
Even Ni Ling was a little stunned. She was a member of the Beast Taming Sect and naturally knew that all beasts could be controlled. However, controlling plants was still more secretive and more frightening than controlling living things.
Not to mention sea snakes, even they might not be able to escape the pursuit of plants under such circumstances.
Lin Zhi noticed the fear in their eyes, but didn't take it to heart. He smiled and asked his senior brothers and sisters to cut off the snake's head and open its belly.
In addition to the illusory true lotus in the snake's belly, there were also scattered magical instruments and materials in these places. After a reasonable division of interests, they activated the true lotus and left this sea area.
Lin Zhi looked at the map in his mind and intentionally moved closer to the direction where Yuan Zhi was.
The cultivator from Luoyumen parted ways with them, but Ni Ling followed him all the way, constantly refreshing his understanding of medicine cultivators.
"Are all the medicine practitioners in your Guiyi Sect so powerful?"
Ni Ling thought about it and finally found the words.
Jianfeng's senior brothers and sisters shook their heads repeatedly. This was different from the medicine cultivator they remembered.
Senior Sister Jianfeng stroked her chin and said, "Maybe it's because Junior Brother is a genius."
After all, he is a medicine cultivator with an extraordinary cultivation speed, so it is reasonable for him to use plants to kill people and monsters, right?
Yes, killing people. Along the way, they also encountered evil cultivators who wanted to plot against them, but they were swallowed by the Thousand Heart Flower of the junior brother.
When he was about to meet Yuan Zhi, Lin Zhi put on a smile on his face, but before he could go find Yuan Zhi, the young man seemed to sense his breath first and appeared in front of them quickly.
"Brother, are you okay?"
Yuan Zhi checked Lin Zhi up and down, and was relieved to see that he was not injured and was intact.
Lin Zhi shook her head: "My senior brothers and sisters took care of me along the way, nothing happened, and I gained a lot."
Yuan Zhi thanked him earnestly: "Brother, he is concentrating on studying spiritual plants and rarely bleeds. It's all thanks to you."
The senior brothers and sisters waved their hands again and again: "It is Junior Brother Lin who should take care of us."
Ni Ling was deep in thought. The Thousand Heart Flower had planted itself into the flesh and blood of the evil cultivator. In a blink of an eye, the man was entangled by the vines of the plant and soon turned into flower mud. It seemed that no blood was seen in this process, so the words of the sword cultivator did not seem to be wrong.
With Yuan Zhi, the team's strength has been improved. While searching for treasure, they asked the monks they met about the whereabouts of other members of Guiyi Sect, trying to reunite and act together as soon as possible.
Ni Ling noticed that this black-clothed swordsman should be very close to Lin Zhi. The intimate atmosphere between the two was particularly different. Moreover, since this swordsman came, Lin Zhi never took action again because he didn't need to.
The swordsman always protected him and even helped him when he was digging for spiritual herbs.
Despite living in this crisis-ridden environment, Lin Zhi was living a leisurely life.
But what he was protecting was not some delicate flower, but a carnivorous plant.
Ni Ling felt that since he was out for training, there was no need to protect him like this. Lin Zhi's strength was not weak and was even very strong. There was no need to underestimate him.
So along the way, Ni Ling and Yuan Zhi praised Lin Zhi's abilities, focusing on his ability to bind sea snakes and kill evil cultivators.
When Ni Ling talked about the latter scene, she couldn't help shuddering. She felt fortunate that Lin Zhi was a Taoist cultivator. When Lin Zhi looked at that evil cultivator, there was no difference from how he looked at the flowers and plants on the roadside. Or perhaps he looked at the flowers and plants with a little more humanity.
"My senior brother is so amazing. He will be the most outstanding medicine cultivator."
Yuan Zhi was happier when he heard someone praising Lin Zhi than when he heard someone praising himself.
Ni Ling was stunned for a moment when she heard his sigh from the bottom of his heart. Is the focus here on medicine cultivation?
Yuan Zhi answered with his eyes, why not?
If you kill the enemy before anyone gets hurt, wouldn't it be possible to avoid any danger to your companions? How could you not be the most powerful medicine practitioner and solve the problem directly from the root?
Ni Ling was silent for a moment, thinking seriously that this sword cultivator might not be normal.
This might be the influence of Guiyi Sect, and it was she, the Beast Taming Sect, who was being presumptuous.
In between conversations, they rested on the spot.
They had just stepped into a somewhat strange area, the sky was lavender and the ground was deep red.
All I can see is a vast expanse of red land, and I don’t know where it ends.
Lin Zhi lowered his head to observe the ground, reached out and touched the slightly uneven texture, and frowned slightly.
Although the soil was slightly hot, it did not look like scorched earth, nor was there any magma underground. He has already planted the Thousand Heart Flowers, and the roots have spread a lot downwards, just like the surface, so he doesn't know where the heat comes from.
Yuan Zhi recounted his observations: "Brother, we didn't find any monsters or spiritual creatures around. It's very strange."
"There is no life here, not even a weed, and the soil has no nutrients. It is the same for dozens of feet down."
Lin Zhi took back the wood spiritual energy and the Thousand Heart Flower.
The senior brothers and sisters who were scattered to observe the situation also came back and found the same thing as Yuan Zhi.
They thought that perhaps it was some treasure that caused the large area of soil to remain warm, but since they couldn't see the end, they didn't dare to search too far and so they returned.
Ni Ling: "I looked up from the cloud roc, and apart from the lavender mist that changed from time to time, I couldn't see anything. There wasn't even an ant around."
Several people discussed and decided to move forward together, perhaps this was another illusion.
During the negotiation, the ground began to shake.
The violent shaking made people feel dizzy. Yuan Zhi held Lin Zhi's hand and flew into the air with his sword. Although the ground was shaking violently, there was no collapse.
Suddenly, the sky seemed to darken.
Blackness also appeared at the end of the plain, like a huge dark hole.
They were clearly in the same place, but they seemed to be getting closer.
They immediately turned around and flew out, but the way suddenly disappeared.
Senior Sister: "Damn it, where's the road?"
Lin Zhi's eyes flashed with thought: "I'm afraid there is no way."
Senior Brother: “What?”
Lin Zhi shook her head slightly: "What we are stepping on is probably not soil, but its tongue."
Several people's faces changed slightly, and Ni Ling exclaimed: "Nightmare Beast."
As if in response to their words, there was a shake and everyone fell down suddenly.
Someone held Lin Zhi's hand the whole time during the weightlessness. He heard Yuan Zhi say, "Don't be afraid, brother. I will always be by your side."
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At night, the whole town fell into a dream of worldly affairs.
The sound of the night watchman's beating was heard outside the door and quickly faded away.
The young man on the bed suddenly opened his eyes, the sharpness in his eyes was instantly replaced by confusion, and his expression was a little blank.
He pressed his forehead, his memory told him that this was his home, but he felt extremely unfamiliar with it, even a little wary.
It was too dark in front of me, not even black, but a little grey.
It wasn't because the night was too dark, he suddenly remembered that he had accidentally fallen down while repairing the roof tiles a few days ago, causing blood clots in his head, so that he temporarily lost his sight.
What's his name?
His name is...
【Host! Wake up! How are you doing? Your body is still here, but your consciousness has fallen here in an instant. Fortunately, I have bound your soul, so I won't lose it. 】
A hurried voice sounded in his head, chattering about what had happened.
Lin Zhi's eyes suddenly became clear. He pressed his forehead and remembered everything.
The nightmare beast has no real form and is constantly moving. Those who are lucky will be swallowed by it into their dreams, but those who successfully survive the catastrophe will have their spiritual faith greatly consolidated.
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