The Xuanbing Cold Sword she carried back then was made by Mu Zihan.
Mu Zihan is an extremely rare Core Formation stage weapon-forging master who can forge weapons used by Nascent Soul stage cultivators, which shows just how amazing Mu Zihan's weapon-forging skills are.
"Senior Brother Mu Zihan, you will definitely become a master weapon refiner in the future. When that happens, you must forge me a fine sword," Su Qing said.
Mu Zihan grinned and said, "We're all from the same sect. If I really become a master weapon refiner, getting you a sword will be a piece of cake!"
"Senior Brother Mu, it's a deal!" Su Qing said, taking out a large jar of pills from her storage space.
"This jar contains healing pills, Senior Brother Mu, please take it. From now on, we can be considered friends."
Mu Zihan was dumbfounded. Just now he was thinking that Su Qing was really generous to take out five hundred Rejuvenation Pills so casually.
Unexpectedly, Su Qing also used a jar to store these Grade 3 Spirit Returning Pills.
This jar may be a little small, but it can still hold a hundred pieces, right?
Mu Zihan looked at Su Qing. If he thought Su Qing was a straightforward person before, now he saw that Su Qing was just like him.
"Junior Sister Su Qing, you're so generous!" Mu Zihan accepted the jar of Spirit Returning Pills and then said, "Since Junior Sister Su Qing is so straightforward, I can't keep it from her either."
As he spoke, Mu Zihan tossed a small bag over, and Su Qing picked it up and saw that it was full of demon crystals.
A rough count revealed that there were over a hundred of them.
Not only were there third-tier demonic beasts inside, but there were also more than ten demonic crystals of fourth-tier demonic beasts.
"I gave these things to my junior sister," Mu Zihan said.
Su Qing looked at Mu Zihan and thought to herself, "I really didn't choose the wrong person to follow. I quite admire Mu Zihan's temperament."
"Since it's from Senior Brother Mu, I'll accept it." Su Qing didn't refuse and directly stuffed the demon crystal into her storage bag, thinking to herself, "Mu Zihan is a good person to deal with."
Su Qing followed Mu Zihan and the others in the Gobi Desert for seven or eight days. They encountered many demonic beasts, but they did not encounter a single Xuanling Sect disciple. Instead, they encountered the corpses of several Wuji Sect disciples.
In fact, they did not know that although this secret realm was within the territory of the Xuanling Sect, it was the Wuji Sect that first discovered it. After the Wuji Sect discovered it, it secretly arranged for some Qi Refining stage disciples to come in for training.
The disciples of the Wuji Sect had not emerged from the secret realm for three months, and they sensed the danger within. After discussing the matter, the sect leader and the major protectors of the Wuji Sect notified the Xuanling Sect, but did not inform them of the danger of the secret realm.
The Xuanling Sect didn't know what was inside this secret realm. They simply thought that a secret realm that Qi Refining stage disciples could enter probably didn't have anything good, and they just randomly arranged for some inner and outer disciples to come in for training.
Xuanling Sect and Wuji Sect are both among the five major sects. Although they appear to have a good relationship, they secretly sabotage each other behind the scenes.
When disciples of the two major sects meet outside, it's just a formality; behind the scenes, they often resort to underhanded tricks to kill each other, murder and plunder.
They had been in the Gobi Desert for ten days, and the more Su Qing and her companions walked, the more uneasy they felt.
“We’ve left quite a few marks along the way, but we haven’t encountered any fellow disciples. Could it be that the random teleportation sent us quite far?” Mu Zihan said.
Mu Zihan was well-liked among the outer disciples and usually took care of his fellow disciples. At this moment, he was somewhat concerned about the fellow disciples who had entered the sect with him.
"Senior Brother Mu, is it possible that this Gobi Desert is just one environment within the secret realm, and they were teleported to another environment?" Su Qing asked.
"This secret realm is too mysterious!" said an outer disciple. "How do we find the passage?"
"It's probably the water source. The Gobi Desert has a harsh environment, and water is essential for survival," Su Qing said.
"That makes some sense."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's find a water source."
"But how do we find a water source?"
When it comes to finding water sources, Su Qing is very skilled.
She lived in the Gobi Desert in her previous life, so who knows the Gobi Desert better than her?
"Finding the reed grass basically confirms that we're not far from a water source," Su Qing said, taking out a piece of paper and drawing a sketch on it with charcoal fire.
"Never seen it before." Everyone shook their heads in unison.
"Then let's find gerbils. Gerbils are the smartest, and their burrows face the water source."
But these past few days, I've encountered sand scorpions, sand worms, sand hares, and sand eagles, but I haven't encountered any gerbils.
Su Qing thought for a moment and said, "I'm afraid we've gone in the wrong direction. If we want to find a water source, we have to go to low-lying areas. We've been climbing uphill the whole way, so we're probably getting further and further away from the water source."
Mu Zihan pondered for a moment and said, "Should we turn back again?"
"No need. We can simply change direction and continue."
So, after camping for one night, the group changed direction and continued on their way.
After walking for about an hour, they saw a Wuji Sect disciple in black robes lying on the ground ahead.
Mu Zihan walked over and saw that the Wuji Sect disciple's lips were cracked and he was on the verge of death.
"Hello!"
Mu Zihan tossed a water balloon, which landed near his lips. His parched lips greedily sucked at the water inside, feeling its coolness. Finally, he slowly opened his eyes.
A cultivator who was on the verge of dying of thirst—if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have almost thought he was faking it. After all, cultivators always carry water sphere talismans with them, and the first spell a cultivator with a water-attribute spiritual root learns is the water sphere spell.
Water spheres can also be sealed in storage bags, so even in the Gobi Desert, very few cultivators will die of thirst.
"Thank you!" the monk said in a hoarse voice.
"What exactly is in this secret realm? We've already seen the corpses of several cultivators along the way," Mu Zihan asked.
The monk was pale, his eyes filled with terror.
“It’s a sand serpent! A seventh-order sand serpent,” the cultivator said. “That sand serpent has five heads, all of which spew sand. Our group of twenty from the Wuji Sect was scattered. I was lucky enough to escape, but the others are probably in grave danger.”
A seventh-tier sand serpent?
Could there really be such a powerful monster in this secret realm?
This seventh-tier sand serpent is as powerful as a Core Formation cultivator. These Qi Refining peak cultivators would probably be instantly reduced to dust the moment they meet it.
Su Qing thought to herself that she had brought a lot of good stuff with her this time. She threw out a bunch of explosive talismans, which were enough to deal with the fifth or sixth level Nine Nether Profound Pythons, but she was not sure how they would deal with the seventh level Five-Headed Sand Serpent.
The sand snake is an earth-attribute demon beast with thick skin and a long health bar. Su Qing was worried that she wouldn't be able to kill it in one go, and instead angered it, which would mean the end for them all.
If Mu Zihan and the others knew what Su Qing was thinking, they would probably be scared to death.
After all, Mu Zihan and the other outer disciples were thinking about how to avoid the sand snake; they had no desire to confront it at all.
"How many people have come from your Wuji Sect?" Mu Zihan asked.
"The first thirty of us came in, and then another fifty came in. I came in later. We were randomly teleported and gathered together with more than a dozen people. At first, things went smoothly. We hunted some demonic beasts, mostly third-tier demonic beasts, but there were also some fourth-tier demonic beasts. We got quite a few demonic crystals."
"Later, we walked and came to a huge rock where we were sheltered from the wind. We were going to camp there, but unexpectedly, a sand snake crawled out from underground and swallowed the three of us fellow disciples whole."
The man still looked panicked, and it didn't seem like he was acting.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com