In this way, He Jingjing and Yun Shang, one human and one demon, looked at the door and sighed, hoping that someone would come out of the secret realm soon.
This wait lasted for two days and two nights.
"Jingjing, how long do we have to wait before we can get in?" Yun Shang's patience was almost worn out after these two days and two nights.
"I don't know either, Sister Yunshang. How about we go back first? Let me find the jade token and come back later?" He Jingjing regretted it. The most important thing is, if they wait any longer, Yunshang will go to the "Forest of Death" to catch poisonous snakes to eat, and she will starve to death.
Alas! It seems that the secret realm is not so easy to enter. It's also her fault. She got carried away and brought Yun Shang here.
"No, I can't go back." After two days and two nights of waiting, Yun Shang finally remembered that she had come out without the Lord's consent. She couldn't even buy a single pill, so how could she face the Lord again?
"Then...what if we wait another two days and no one comes out? What should we do?" He Jingjing panicked. If Yunshang refused to leave, even if He Jingjing was beaten to death, she wouldn't dare leave alone. The venomous snakes and ferocious beasts in the "Forest of Death" were no mere decorations. Without Yunshang, He Jingjing's limited fighting power wouldn't be enough to handle them!
As it turned out, He Jingjing's luck was pretty good. Just as He Jingjing was feeling worried, the illusionary lake in front of her changed.
After a burst of ripples, a large door appeared before He Jingjing and Yun Shang. Along with the door appeared two middle-aged men in cyan clothes.
Yun Shang almost cried out in surprise. It was clearly a large lake, but in just a moment it transformed into a tall, magnificent "Jade Gate." This... this... this... could this be the work of a cultivator? No wonder when he arrived in Jiyun Mountain, none of the little demons were a match for him in a single blow.
Yun Shang's mind flashed back to the time when she first met Lin Muchen. He was wearing a wide robe with wide sleeves, and his figure was as graceful as an immortal.
He Jingjing pulled Yun Shang's body, and the two of them hid behind the big tree beside them as soon as the cultivator appeared. He Jingjing didn't know how high the cultivation level of the two cultivators who just appeared was, she just felt a strong pressure.
It was no wonder. He Jingjing was only a novice cultivator at the second level of Qi training. The cultivators who could leave the secret realm had to be at least at the fifth level of Qi training. It would be strange if He Jingjing didn't feel the pressure.
He Jingjing planned to observe the two cultivators' actions before deciding whether to ask them for help. In the world of cultivation, the strong are kings. Although He Jingjing wanted to get rich, she didn't want to lose her life.
When Yun Shang first laid eyes on the two middle-aged cultivators, she automatically compared them to her Lord. Yun Shang realized that while these two cultivators were elegant, they still fell far short of her Lord. Preoccupied with these thoughts, Yun Shang forgot to ask He Jingjing why she hadn't entered the secret realm's gate when it appeared, instead of hiding.
The middle-aged men were disciples of the Yushan Sect. One was called Ye Wuyang and the other was called Xie Hanshi.
Xie Hanshi was a direct disciple of Qingyun Peak's master, Li Yuanpei, and Ye Wuyang was an inner disciple of Qingyun Peak. During He Jingjing's two years at Yushan Sect, she hadn't even visited any of the other peaks except Xiaoyao Peak and Jinping Peak, where Wen Ziqing was stationed. Naturally, she didn't recognize Xie Hanshi or Ye Wuyang.
However, now Xie Hanshi and Ye Weiyang have nothing to do with Qingyun Peak. They were implicated by Xie Hanmei and were demoted to the outer sect by the peak master Li Yuanpei to become outer disciples.
The outer disciples of Yushan Sect are not divided into different branches, and all of them are managed by the outer elders.
If the direct disciples of Yushan Sect are the elite among the disciples, the inner disciples are ordinary cultivators, and the outer disciples exist to serve the direct disciples and inner disciples.
The treatment of the Yushan Sect's outer and inner disciples was quite different. The inner disciples of the Yushan Sect also received cultivation resources distributed by the sect every month, but the outer disciples received nothing. If they needed cultivation resources, they could only rely on their own labor to obtain them.
Ye Wuyang and Xie Hanshi left the secret realm today to pick the snakeberries in the "Forest of Death." These fruits can only grow wild and cannot be cultivated artificially. The day before yesterday, Ling Xiaotian, the head of the Yushan Sect, issued a bounty: to purchase large quantities of snakeberries. He offered a staggering price of one spirit bead per kilogram of these fruits.
When Ye Wuyang was an inner sect disciple at Qingyun Peak, he practiced diligently. He remembered seeing a jade slip in the sect's training hall that mentioned cultivating spiritual insects. It said that the "Black Flood Snake" needed to eat a large amount of snakeberries before it could advance.
Ye Wuyang knew that the "Black Flood Snake" was sexually aphrodisiac and its blood could be used to make aphrodisiac pills.
Could it be that the leader purchased a large amount of snakeberry in order to raise the "black dragon snake"?
Although Ye Wuyang had his doubts, he thought about it and put the question aside. Did the Sect Master need the snakeberries to feed the "Black Flood Serpent"? This was not a matter for an outer disciple like him to inquire about. His priority now was to earn the spirit stones and spirit beads needed for cultivation. He remembered seeing a large area of snakeberries in the "Forest of Death" two years ago.
Ye Wuyang called Xie Hanshi to go out to the secret realm early in the morning to pick snakeberries and earn spirit beads.
"Wuyang, I'm sorry for being a burden to you." Xie Hanshi had been holding these words in his heart for a long time. Ever since he and Ye Wuyang were demoted to the outer sect, Xie Hanshi felt that he owed Ye Wuyang an apology.
In the sect, Xie Hanshi was afraid of being overheard, so he didn't dare to talk to Ye Wuyang. Now that he was out of the secret realm, Xie Hanshi dared to speak out what was in his heart.
"Han Shi, do we need to say all this between you and me? Once friends, always friends!" Ye Wuyang said it firmly, but there was an unspeakable bitterness in his heart.
When Ye Wuyang and Xie Hanshi became friends, Xie Hanshi was the fifth-generation descendant of Daoyan Zhenjun. Not long after Daoyan Zhenjun's death, Xie Hanshi's status in the Yushan Sect was still very high due to Daoyan Zhenjun's influence, at least much higher than his cousin Xie Hanmei.
Ye Wuyang always picked friends who were "useful." Xie Hanshi, in his forties, was already a sixth-level Qi training disciple. Unlike him, who had practiced for twenty years longer than Xie Hanshi, his cultivation level was actually one level lower than Xie Hanshi's. Xie Hanshi had just "run into trouble," and Ye Wuyang definitely couldn't just write him off immediately. Otherwise, who in the Yushan Sect would dare to be his friend in the future?
"Wuyang, thank you no matter what!" Xie Hanshi said this, feeling a sense of desolation. When Daoyan Zhenjun was still alive, he had wanted to personally teach Xie Hanshi. It was Li Yuanpei, the head of Qingyun Peak, who volunteered, offering to relieve Daoyan Zhenjun of his burdens, allowing him more time to cultivate in seclusion within the sect's forbidden grounds. Thus, Xie Hanshi became Li Yuanpei's disciple.
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