These three brothers and sisters were disciples of a medium-sized sect called Wuji Sect. Their sect had been assigned over thirty Divine Transformation cultivators to participate in the Void God Realm Competition. [First published online]
Of course, a mid-level sect like theirs didn't dare dream of winning a place in the competition, so those sent to participate in the competition were all unlucky people who were not welcomed in the sect.
Even among the unlucky ones, there are more than thirty of them. If they are more careful, their chances of survival will be much greater than those poor independent cultivators.
However, they were targeted by the people from Tianxiang Sect and were not allowed to go.
In the end, only three people were left out of the more than thirty people, and with the two wandering cultivators who joined in halfway, there were five people left in total.
If these three knew that the reason they were being targeted by the Tianxiang Sect was actually because of these two independent cultivators, I wonder how they would feel. They would probably want to eat them alive.
It is precisely because of this that Cao Fugui and Luo Xinghun appear to obey the three men on the surface. With these three people, at least there is someone who can betray them when danger comes.
Unable to take out the things in the storage ring and unable to release their spiritual sense, they just took turns to cast the fireball spell to provide light.
Half a month later, the Tianxiang Sect's members emerged from the mountains surrounding the lake in a state of rage. All of them were at or above the seventh level of the Spiritualization Realm, with two cultivators at the twelfth level alone. Their equipment was already comparable to that of the Myriad Demon Realm.
"Where on earth did these people go? I don't believe they could just disappear in an instant."
"Sister, don't worry. We have also sent people to look for it over there. Let's just wait for their news."
"They're not idiots. Why would they flee towards the lake? There's no shelter there, and it's a ruin. They'd be courting death wherever they go!"
"Exactly. If there was any news, they should have sent out signal flares in such a clear place. How come there is no news until now?"
"Yes, Senior Sister, let's send a signal to summon our fellow disciples back. It's better to look for them somewhere else than to waste time here. Besides, even if Cao Fugui has the ability to hide for ninety years, in the last ten years, the Five Heavenly Sovereigns will announce the location of the survivors every day. By then, he won't be able to hide even if he wants to!"
Xiao Fang looked at the fellow apprentice who was speaking expressionlessly and said coldly, "Fool! What if he can't hold on until then? Where will we find the Exquisite Pagoda?"
The scolded male cultivator blushed instantly and said hastily, "Senior Sister, you are wise! I was not thoughtful enough!"
The female cultivator glanced towards the lake and ordered, "Send a signal and have them withdraw!"
"Yes! Senior Sister!"
A female cultivator responded and immediately raised her hand and pointed at the void, and a ball of dazzling red light exploded instantly.
Half an hour later, ten Jindan cultivators came from the direction of the lake.
After the monks landed, a male cultivator immediately stepped forward, clasped his fists, and bowed to the leading female cultivator. He said, "Senior Sister! There's no one on the other side of the lake. However, we found some bloodstains somewhere in the lake... Later, we searched carefully, but didn't find any other signs."
Someone immediately stood up and questioned: "This place is completely deserted, there's not even a bird, how could there be blood?"
The female cultivator raised her hand to stop talking and said coldly, "Let's go and take a look!"
Following the order from the leading female monk, the monks who followed immediately took them to the place he had discovered.
After the thirty or so people landed at their destination, they saw a few drops of dark red blood on the dry ground.
The leading female cultivator was named Yu Qilan, an elite inner disciple of the Tianxiang Sect and one of the most promising inner disciples of the Tianxiang Sect's Sect Master.
This woman has already reached the twelfth level of the Spirit Transformation Realm. Once she reaches the Void Refinement Realm, the leader of the Tianxiang Sect will accept her as a disciple.
"Junior Sister Zhu, come and take a look!" Yu Qilan frowned. As an excellent Divine Transformation cultivator, it was not difficult for her to tell that these bloodstains belonged to human cultivators.
However, there was nothing here except bloodstains. Did those people escape or hide?
Zhu Mingxiu, an elite inner sect disciple of the Tianxiang Sect, has an amazing talent in formation.
Upon hearing this, Zhu Mingxiu immediately took out an ink-colored jade plate and threw it into the air. The jade plate immediately began to spin.
A light mist like ink emanated from the jade plate, covering an area of ten feet in radius.
Under the cover of the inky mist, some ripple-like marks gradually appeared where the bloodstains were.
Among these ripples, there is a person-sized area that is slightly different from the surrounding ripples.
"Senior Sister, there's a fifth-order formation here. If I rely solely on my abilities, I probably wouldn't be able to break it even if I spent a year."
Yu Qilan frowned, "A year? Does it take that long?"
Zhu Mingxiu nodded and said, "This formation is very exquisite, but it seems to have been broken in the middle. This piece should be a patch after it was broken."
Everyone looked in the direction Zhu Mingxiu's finger was pointing, and sure enough, there was a person-sized spot in the center of the ripples that did not connect smoothly with the surrounding ripples.
"They must be hiding here! I remember that girl had a formation-breaking armor in her hand."
"But could it be that these people are deliberately setting up a trap? For a Divine Transformation cultivator, it would be very easy to clean up the bloodstains, so why would they leave bloodstains here?"
Yu Qilan nodded and said, "That's indeed possible. If they are deliberately creating confusion to confuse us, they can indeed delay us."
Everyone was talking about it, and they all felt that this place was a trick set up by the other party to divert their attention.
But Zhu Mingxiu disagreed. "Sister, they were able to escape only because of the array-breaking armor in that girl's hand. But the technique used to set up this array is so exquisite that even I can't match it. How could a little girl from a second-rate sect set it up like that?"
To put it bluntly, if there were such a genius in formations among them, they could have set up a few formations somewhere to lure us in. I'm afraid very few of us would have made it out unscathed! How could we have killed them all and left only five of them?
I'm sure this formation was not set up by them. They only relied on the formation-breaking armor to break through and hide in.
And Sister, think about it, whose camp was this originally?"
"Wanmotian?"
"That's right! I believe you all still remember the heavenly punishment that was later unleashed here, Myriad Demons camped here!
Now that I see the formation here, I have an idea...
Why did Wanmotian set up camp here in the first place?
Why did this place later attract divine punishment?"
After hearing Zhu Mingxiu's analysis, everyone suddenly understood, and some impatient people even exclaimed: "Could there be a secret realm here?"
"Is there a treasure?"
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