The day the Yuncang Sword Sect organized its outer disciples to go on a training expedition was a cloudy day.
The sky was overcast, and the heavy clouds looked like they could fall down at any moment.
Ge Gen himself is a rather likable kid, and he gets along well with most people.
But there are bound to be those who don't get along with him, such as disciples who have been struggling in the outer sect for many years.
Since high-level cultivators were not allowed to enter this secret realm, the disciple in charge of leading the team was a senior disciple selected from the outer sect.
Shi Rusi has been a member of the sect for many years, but his cultivation level has been stuck at the late stage of Qi Refining, and he has never been able to break through that final barrier.
However, it cannot be said that he was not diligent enough, because he managed to master the Yuncang Sword Technique to the fifth level while still in the Qi Refining stage, making him more proficient than many inner disciples.
But his spiritual energy reserves are limited, so no matter how good his swordsmanship is, he still can't win.
Therefore, he disliked talented disciples the most throughout his life.
There was only one exception: his twin brother.
As luck would have it, that person was none other than Shi Junxing, who had bullied Ge Gen before, but was caught in the act by Ji Mofan and used as a scapegoat, being thrown into laps around the mountain.
It's no surprise that with him as the team leader, Ge Gen's training trip was unlikely to go smoothly.
As for where Jimo Fan is right now?
......
He was fishing.
The Shallow Sea Secret Realm is open year-round, so villages of all sizes have sprung up near the entrance, providing places for cultivators to rest or trade what they have gained from the secret realm.
Among them, you can buy magical artifacts that can deceive the secret realm teleportation array.
Magical artifacts that defy the laws of nature are generally not cheap, because each use actually forces the creator to bear the karmic consequences. But Ji Mo Fan has no choice now; even if he's reluctant to spend the money, he has to obediently buy them.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to handle if something unexpected happened to the kudzu root.
The leaders of each training expedition are chosen by the elders, so it's hard to believe that Shen Yun's selection of Shi Rusi was a coincidence. Memories of his past life made Ji Mofan feel extremely uneasy; he had to go in and find out.
The only problem is that once he truly enters the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm, Ji Mofan's spiritual power level will indeed be suppressed to the late stage of Qi Refining by the laws of the Secret Realm.
Moreover, the training teams from the Yuncang Sword Sect arrived very slowly.
Shen Yun has always been laissez-faire with his disciples, let alone this group of outer disciples.
If it weren't for the fact that the people he chose were a bunch of little kids who didn't even know how to fly on swords, he probably wouldn't have prepared any flying artifacts and would have just had them fly there on swords all the way by himself.
It was already an extraordinary achievement that they didn't have to use their light-footed skills to run all the way there.
So much so that Ji Mo Fan, who had bypassed them and arrived on his sword earlier, got bored while waiting. He casually chopped a tree branch into a fishing rod and sat by the water, playing the game of "willing to be caught".
After plucking all the earthworms from the surrounding area and feeding them to the small fish in the water, he finally saw the flying magic artifact, decorated with the unique cloud and water patterns of the Yuncang Sword Sect, slowly land.
The first person to jump was Shi Rusi.
He easily found the array at the entrance to the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm, activated it by inputting spiritual power, and then turned around to direct the others.
"After entering through the formation, you will be randomly teleported to any location within the secret realm. Please remember my previous instructions and head towards the isolated island in the center of the secret realm, where we will meet."
Although Ji Mofan was far away, he heard every word clearly.
He frowned when he heard Shi Rusi say the first sentence, and his gaze darkened even more when he heard the second sentence.
Every sentence sounds off.
The formation of the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm has been modified by a powerful being. Ji Mo Fan noticed this when he came here to train a few years ago and even asked Shen Yun about it, receiving a positive answer.
To reiterate, Shen Yun's personality and talent are completely unrelated. His selfish, greedy, and ambitious nature does not affect the fact that he is a genuine Nascent Soul cultivator.
This formation is no longer a low-level thing that can only randomly teleport people. When you enter, you can hold a map in your hand and think about it in your mind, and you can directly drop to the place you want.
Another point is that... the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm only has an endless beach around its perimeter. As for its center, there has never been any isolated island. So the so-called meeting point is completely fictitious.
Shi Rusi had been trapped in the Qi Refining stage for many years, and this was definitely not his first time in this place. He should know the truth.
So what was his purpose in lying...?
However, putting aside his suspicious aspects for the moment, finding Kudzu's location when the method of entering the secret realm was random teleportation was practically impossible for Ji Mofan.
Although the resources inside the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm are of very low quality, the space is vast. Under extreme conditions, it is not impossible for it to accommodate more than half of the cultivators in the entire cultivation world at the same time.
The person behind the scenes probably followed him out of concern, which is already a reasonable assumption.
However, he overlooked one point.
Ji Mofan pressed down the straw hat on his head.
He was some distance from the entrance, observing with his divine sense. Moreover, the cultivators here were a mixed bag, so he wouldn't be able to detect anything amiss.
Watching the disciples enter the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm one by one through the teleportation array at the entrance, even the last figure of Shi Rusi disappeared without a trace, Ji Mofan slowly took out a glass lamp from his bosom.
It is the soul lamp of Ge Gen's disciple.
Thinking that he might need it this time, he made a special trip to Li Zongqian and secretly took it down.
Generally, once the soul lamp is hung up, it will not be taken down unless the identity of the disciple of the Yun Cang Sword Sect changes.
Being thrown into the Execution Platform is less common than being expelled from the sect, because it is rarely used. Therefore, outside of the apprenticeship ceremony, many people do not pay much attention to the sect's Peach and Plum Hall. Apart from the daily chores disciples who are responsible for cleaning and sweeping, almost no one visits it.
This gave Jimo Fan a loophole to exploit.
As the master, he was qualified to remove the soul lamp of Ge Gen's disciple, but he was too lazy to find an excuse, so he used a sneaky method.
Ji Mofan remembered that when he was very young, there weren't so many soul lamps on the peach and plum trees. The old sect leader seemed to have held him under the tree and counted the number of soul lamps.
But after the Yun Cang Sword Sect had so many disciples and so many soul lamps on the branches, no one had done such a boring thing for a long time.
There's no need to worry about anyone noticing that one of the lights is missing.
He turned his palm over and placed it over the Soul Lamp. The fire inside glowed faintly in Ji Mofan's hand, resonating with a wisp of his spiritual power. He vaguely sensed a connection between them.
Taking out the map he had just acquired from a village near the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm, Ji Mofan scanned it and confirmed the location of Ge Gen after he fell into the secret realm.
A figure wearing a straw raincoat flashed across the top of the reef, leaving only a fishing rod without a hook. The small fish that had gathered there slowly dispersed with the waves.
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