The dancing flames illuminated Shen Lian's slightly gloomy face.

He still remembered that when he was still in the early stages of building his foundation, Heiya said that he had some magic to give him.

Now, he has reached the Golden Elixir stage, and Heiya still says that he has some magic to give him.

Unexpectedly, Heiya has been using this cover up for more than two or three decades.

Damn that old idiot.

The flames illuminated the eyes of the monk possessed by Heiya, and earthy yellow buds appeared in his pupils.

I saw a look of embarrassment on his face, "I learned all this from you humans."

really.

This is very old devil.

"My friend, the most important thing is to deal with the Yunshang Sect that has come to attack us. Otherwise, you and I will be trapped in the secret realm and will be captured and killed sooner or later."

Heiya changed the subject and said that after living among humans for many years, he had gradually gotten used to thinking in the human way.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

There are no eternal friends, nor eternal enemies.

"you're right."

Shen Lian nodded.

Such a big change happened in the secret realm, a late Jindan cultivator died, and the existence of the black cliff and the spiritual herbs was known. The Yunshang Sect could no longer ignore it.

Although he said this, he didn't think so in his heart.

We must be on guard against the Yunshang Sect, the Black Cliff, and the spiritual herbs as well.

Within the secret realm, there is no species worthy of his trust.

"I wonder if you have any tricks to resist the monks from the Yunshang Sect?"

The old demon Heiya smiled calmly, "Among the cultivators coming in from Yunshang Sect, the strongest one is Master Yunlong. You and I will join forces to kill him.

As for the remaining monks of the Yunshang Sect, they are not worth mentioning and can be dealt with by spiritual herbs.

The three of us will dominate the secret realm, eliminate the monks from the Yunshang Sect, and then talk about other things after we get out of the secret realm."

"good."

In an instant, the flames between Shen Lian's fingers bounced up, and a circle of fire suddenly emerged, spreading towards the Black Cliff Demon.

Both the Black Cliff and the spiritual grass belong to the category of wood-attributed spiritual plants, and fire has a natural restraint on both.

Especially the five elements spiritual fire after being blessed by the Tianyan magical power.

"what you do!"

Seeing the spiritual fire coming, the body of the Black Cliff Demon trembled immediately. Although it belongs to the category of spiritual plants, ordinary fire spiritual power does not have much suppressing effect on it.

On the contrary, the spiritual fire controlled by Shen Lian made it feel a sense of crisis.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have come looking for Shen Lian.

A junior who had repeatedly escaped from its hands in the past, now has extraordinary means and has been promoted to the Golden Core stage, making him qualified for it to treat seriously.

Of course, it would be even better if you could find the right opportunity to possess the other person and make him your puppet.

Not only it, but the spiritual herb clearly pointed out Shen Lian's difference when communicating with it, and that he was not comparable to other cultivators with five spiritual roots.

With the mysterious power of the five elements, entering the fairy palace might be able to break open many sealed places.

This made the old demon want to take Shen Lian into his hands even more.

Looking at the incoming five-colored flames, Heiya opened his mouth and spit out a ball of khaki light.

A flash of yellow light formed a light curtain around him, protecting him firmly.

Even with the defense, the khaki light curtain under the jumping flames still made a sizzling sound and soon a hole was burned out.

"ah!"

A look of fear appeared on Heiya's face. The spiritual fire controlled by Shen Lian could actually hurt it. Its previous perception was correct.

At the moment when Heiya was resisting the flames, Shen Lian fled outside. Heiya did not dare to stay and followed closely. A yellowish-brown sprout came out of his mouth and pierced into Shen Lian's back.

The young shoots exude chaos and disorder. Once nailed down, the victim will be seriously injured if not killed.

Watching Heiya follow him to the ground, mist exploded around his figure, and earth-yellowish sprouts passed through the mist. There was no trace of Shen Lian.

"Formation, start!"

Boom! On the surface where the black cliff sprang out, thunder and fire exploded with a bang, and the power of thunder and fire filled the sky like thunder and lightning, covering an area of ​​several miles.

"You are looking for death!"

Seeing Shen Lian plotting against it, Heiya, who had always been good-tempered, became angry.

Although it wanted to plot against Shen Lian, it hasn't started yet.

Shen Lian actually took action first.

Cunning human race.

As the words fell, a circle of khaki light curtain appeared on Heiya's body again, spreading out and colliding with the thunder and fire.

"No matter how powerful you are, you are only in the early stage of Jindan."

"The ancestor gave you a chance in the hope that you would not end up with no way out."

"What a pity, you finally ended up with no way out!"

"Disperse!"

Heiya made a magical gesture with both hands, and the pores of the Yunshang Sect monk whose body was occupied by it opened up. Streams of earth-yellow air gushed out and turned into tree buds all over the sky.

These tree buds continued to grow larger as they rotated, each one becoming about five or six feet in size, and rushed towards the thunder and fire all around.

"burst!"

At this moment, a cold voice spread throughout the formation.

Boom! Thunder and fire suddenly flooded the area for miles. Countless lightning and fire drowned the flying tree buds, shattered the khaki protective light curtain from all directions, and rushed towards the black cliff.

Puff! Heiya possessed the monk of Yunshang Sect and was burned to ashes by lightning and fire on the spot.

A shriveled tree root emitting a rich ochre light, squeaked and ran around in the thunder and fire, continuously releasing ochre energy to offset the impact of the thunder and fire.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Heiya rushed towards the outside of the thunder and fire.

However, the moment it rushed out of the thunder and fire with a body covered in earthy yellow light, it discovered that red-purple light was emerging on the ground in all directions.

A layer of thunder and fire formation covered it again.

Ah! Shen Lian actually quietly set up a large formation and let it drill in.

This time, several one-horned thunder beasts emerged from the thunder and fire, and spit out lightning from their mouths, which struck Heiya's body.

"ah!"

After being struck by lightning, ochre-yellow light splashed, and pieces of shriveled bark fell off, forming a fine dust.

The dust emitted a strong smell of chaos, which actually blocked the destructive smell emitted by the thunder.

Shen Lian was not surprised to see this scene.

The old demon Black Cliff has caused so many troubles in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Stars, but he is still alive and well now. He can even control cultivators from a distance of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of miles away. This is enough to show how mysterious his methods are.

Now we know that it fell from the Five Elements Immortal Palace. If it didn't have this magical power, it would be a shame for all the trouble it has gone through.

In fact, Shen Lian had already fled far away the moment the formation appeared.

The main goal of the second thunder formation is to trap Heiya and let the monks from Yunshang Sect arrive.

Moreover, the effect was achieved as he expected.

There was a roar of a dragon in the distance, and Master Yunlong's mirage dragon arrived first.

Taking a look at the mirage dragon coming on the clouds, Shen Lian's eyes flashed with a coldness.

When Master Yunlong appeared, he realized that he could not delay any longer.

If he keeps dragging it on, and Yunshang Sect's Nascent Soul is dragged here, there will be no possibility for him to leave.

Right now, he has only one goal, which is to leave the secret realm.

The spiritual vein can be hidden for a while, but not forever. It will eventually be discovered and be besieged by a group of Jindan from the Yunshang Sect. That would not be a good scene.

He had already killed a batch of golden elixirs, and he really didn't want to kill the second batch of golden elixirs from the Yunshang Sect.

The mirage dragon came riding on the wind and clouds, and from its open mouth spewed out rain all over the sky, which poured onto the formation like a long river.

Just at this moment, Heiya also rushed out from the thunder and fire, smashing the thunder beast into pieces.

The mirage dragon's eyes lit up, and it saw a flying tree root.

That’s right.

Immediately, white mist filled the sky from the raised claws of the mirage dragon. Hundreds of mirage dragons appeared in the mist and surrounded the black cliff from all directions.

At this moment, Heiya staggered and allowed the dragon claws of hundreds of mirage dragons to fall and capture it.

"Be careful, it wants to possess you."

In the distance, a talisman figure emerged from the ground, uttered a few words, and then combusted into ashes.

"hold head high."

The dragon's roar resounded, and a binding force emerged from under the dragon's claws.

"Ah, you scumbag!"

Seeing that the opportunity had been lost, Heiya rushed left and right in the fog, but seemed to be trapped in an illusion.

After a few breaths, a ball of black magic light emerged from the roots of the tree, swallowed up a large amount of fog, and then came out again.

"Idiot, that man is trying to escape from the secret realm, why don't you stop him!"

Heiya started to curse.

Shen Lian exposed its thoughts, which made it extremely angry. It really wanted to take the opportunity to possess the mirage dragon.

But based on its understanding of Shen Lian, this guy was bound to run away.

There was no other reason, it just felt that Shen Lian had a way to escape.

"Idiot, follow me."

After he finished speaking, Heiya turned into a beam of black light and flew away. The Mirage Dragon, who had been scolded, roared angrily and spewed out wind and rain towards Heiya.

Just as Heiya thought.

Shen Lian didn't want to stay in the secret realm at all.

Even if it is a broken space, we must give it a try.

When he was setting up the formation before, he placed three formations at three locations on the edge of the secret realm as a backup means to forcefully break through the barrier of the secret realm.

Having witnessed the destruction of space in the core area, he postponed detonating the formation.

As they arrived at the formation location set up before the edge of the secret realm, Shen Lian heard Heiya's voice.

"My friend, it turns out you have set up a formation here."

"The ancestor is curious about how many formations you have set up in the secret realm."

There was doubt in Heiya's voice, but he himself was terrified.

This little monk who ran away under its nose was just slippery back then.

Now the means have become so terrible.

At the mere early stage of the Golden Core, he was able to set up so many formations. Even someone who had reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core would find it difficult to bear.

There are too many formations set up.

When Heiya's voice fell, Shen Lian also heard a dragon roar, and immediately understood Heiya's thoughts.

In a fight, there is a back and forth. He ruined Heiya's plan, and Heiya turned around and hindered him.

Without paying any attention to Heiya, Shen Lian directly activated the formation.

"Formation, explode!"

In an instant, the lightning strike array buried at the edge of the secret realm soared into the sky and turned into a purple lightning beam hundreds of feet high, blasting towards the blue mist at the edge of the secret realm.

Boom! Amid bursts of explosions, large pieces of earth and rocks were shattered by lightning, and the rolling blue mist collided with each other.

A hole was created in the rolling fog by lightning.

Behind the broken space, I saw a space barrier similar to a honeycomb, flashing with a faint blue light.

The hexagonal honeycomb structure forms a round secret realm barrier.

Even the part that was hit by the lightning only collapsed a small part, but with the help of other hexagonal independent honeycombs, it was restored to its original state in an instant.

Seeing this scene, Shen Lian's face turned ugly.

The secret realm that has been passed down from the Middle Ages to the present is truly extraordinary.

He is shallow.

It seems that the way out still lies in the Yunshang Sect’s golden elixir.

"hold head high!"

The mirage dragon came riding on the clouds and mist, but as for the black cliff, no one knew where it hid.

Obviously, this guy wants to fish in troubled waters.

From the moment he entered the secret realm to the moment he bit off a leaf of the spiritual herb, you can see how insidious this guy is.

“Boom!”

The flying mirage dragon's body suddenly stopped, and an earth-yellow mountain appeared in the sky above it.

The mountain was only a few feet high at first, but in a breath it suddenly grew to more than three hundred feet high and more than five hundred feet in size, smashing down on the mirage dragon from mid-air.

This mountain has no other magical powers, just two words: dead heavy.

Although the Mirage Dragon is a third-level monster, it excels in illusion. The falling mountain directly pressed on its dragon body, making a crackling sound.

"How dare you!"

In the distance, a black light came rapidly, and with a clasp of the big hands, a long river of black water appeared and rushed towards the falling mountain in the distance.

Under the impact of the black water, the huge mountains rolled.

But the power released by the rolling continued to hit the mirage dragon, and waves of bone-breaking sounds came from the mirage dragon.

The mirage dragon let out a mournful cry and crashed headfirst onto the ground below.

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

One after another, flying swords of lightning and fire emerged and rushed towards Master Yunlong from several directions.

"A trifle!"

Facing the oncoming flying swords, Master Yunlong sneered. He slapped them a few times casually, smashing the oncoming thunder and fire flying swords in mid-air, and dispersing the thunder and fire energy at the same time.

Shen Lian's face looked a little ugly when he saw his flying sword being shattered so easily. He knew how powerful the Golden Core Great Perfection was, but it was a little too powerful.

When Master Yunlong smashed the Thunder and Fire Flying Sword, a ball of five-colored spiritual light burst out from the ground and landed on the fallen mirage dragon.

The Mirage Dragon is in the middle stage of the third level, and its combat power is only slightly stronger than that of an ordinary golden elixir in the middle stage of the golden elixir.

He had just been hit by the giant mountain, causing the keel in his body to shift and he began wailing. In an instant, he was tied up by five-colored ropes.

However, the five-colored magic power that fell on the mirage dragon only lasted for a breath before most of it was washed away by a stream of black water falling from the sky.

Seeing that his strategy of capturing the Mirage Dragon and forcing it to tell him how to leave the secret realm was not working, Shen Lian ran away.

"It's already pretty good for a young man in the early stage of the Golden Core to be able to perform several moves in succession in front of this elder."

"Why don't you surrender quickly and tell me everything that happened in the secret realm? You still have a chance to live. Otherwise, you will have to endure the pain of having your soul searched and your spirit taken away."

Master Yunlong’s speed reached an extreme level and he landed close to the Mirage Dragon.

Its dragon mainly cooperates with him, and in the past it only suppressed some low-level Jindan cultivators.

The vast power of divine consciousness swept across in all directions like a tide, leaving everything exposed wherever it passed, but no trace of Shen Lian was found.

Shen Lian had already run far away. Compared with the spiritual power of the Golden Core Great Perfection, he had no advantage in terms of spiritual power.

Using your own disadvantages to attack other people's advantages is something only a fool would do.

Don’t the monks of Yunshang Sect fly in the sky? Then he will burrow into the ground.

If we can’t catch the Mirage Dragon, there are many Yunshang Sect monks scattered in the secret realm, so we can capture them.

…

"Don't move. The formation stone will explode if you move."

"Do you understand 'boom'? It means that my soul flew away and I saw my grandmother."

Near an embedded formation stone above a spiritual vein, seven Yunshang Sect foundation-building monks looked in front of them in horror, with the shadow of an ochre-colored tree bud vaguely emerging between their brows.

"My Lord Heiya said that if you don't tell me the way out, you will die without a burial place."

"Don't even think about threatening my Yunshang Sect. I don't believe you dare to kill us."

One of the disciples on the cloud was shouting.

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Lian grabbed the remaining six people and left the place.

Then, with a loud bang, thunder and fire rolled up from the ground.

"Look, I didn't lie to you. My Lord Heiya keeps his word. The Yunshang Sect is nothing. If one comes, I'll kill one. If two come, I'll kill a pair."

Shen Lian spread his hands towards the remaining six people, knocked them out one by one, and took them into the cave of the Five Elements Fleet.

Then, one by one, they were suppressed near different formation stones.

Then, he began to set up formations wherever there were spiritual veins in the secret realm.

The only one in the Yunshang Sect who could discover his whereabouts was Yunlong Zhenren. The other foundation-building and golden elixir cultivators did not have this ability.

As long as he could avoid Master Yunlong, it wouldn't be a problem for him to hide for the time being.

"That tree root didn't come with us?"

Picking up the little green worm sleeping on the bun, Shen Lian asked.

The little caterpillar shook his head in response.

"What about the grass?"

The little caterpillar still shook his head.

Without Heiya and Lingcao tracking him, Shen Lian also sped up the arrangement of the formation.

In the entire secret realm, besides Heiya, Lingcao and Master Yunlong, there is another person that he is worried about.

He was the monk who was wandering on the edge and used his divine sense on him.

This person is not among the monks enslaved by spiritual herbs.

Until now, this person still has not appeared.

Originally, Shen Lian thought that this person had already left, but after seeing the honeycomb-like barrier of the secret realm, he realized that this person was also hiding in the secret realm.

While setting up the formation, Shen Lian was also sorting out the causes and consequences of entering the secret realm.

Just three words: five spiritual roots.

The origin of everything, in the final analysis, is the five spiritual roots.

The spiritual grass said that he needed the assistance of the five spiritual roots to transform into a spiritual tree.

Heiya said that he needed his help to return to the Five Elements Immortal Palace.

It all originated from the Five Elements Immortal Palace that appeared in the southern continent more than a hundred years ago.

Before the Five Elements Immortal Palace began, the Immortal Palace had already been suspended in the southern continent for hundreds of years to absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth.

In other words, the black cliff, the magical grass, and the little green worm fell from the Immortal Palace between one hundred and three hundred years ago.

But this little green caterpillar that greedily devoured his five elements magic power was almost mentally retarded, and its intelligence was even lower than that of the spiritual herbs.

You can't get anything out of it by beating me with three sticks.

It cannot be said that this information is completely useless to him at the moment, but it can be said that it is useless.

The gain from this trip to the secret realm was getting to know these three guys who were closely related to the Five Elements Immortal Palace, and also collecting dozens of storage rings of Jindan cultivators.

But he is trapped in a secret realm and cannot leave for the time being.

…

"Buzz."

A formation stone was embedded in the earth and rocks. The surrounding ground shook slightly, and then all the spiritual light was restrained, as if nothing had happened.

After setting up this formation, Shen Lian crawled out from underground and sighed a few times.

"Heiya, I can't believe it."

"Spiritual herbs, can't be trusted."

"The Yunshang Sect is even more untrustworthy."

There was a flash of light in his hand, and a formation plate embedded with densely packed formation activation stones appeared in his hand.

This time, the secret realm was truly filled with his formations.

Whoosh! In the distant sky, a spirit boat flew by, then drew a large arc in the air, and fled away with a whoosh.

Seeing this scene, Shen Lian smiled lightly, then sat cross-legged in mid-air.

This time, even the Nascent Soul-level cultivators from large sects could not stop him from leaving the secret realm.

(End of this chapter)