Qi Zhiheng, Yang Yitian, Yan Yinyue, Ning Xiu, Chu Huaifeng, and others stood together, waiting for the secret realm to open.
The entrance to this secret realm is located on the Dragon Slaying Battlefield.
"Dragon-slaying battlefield? Was it really a place where dragons were slain?" Yang Yitian glanced at the surrounding environment. It was a large open space, but some traces of battle could still be seen. The rubble and deep pits were probably originally mountains and plains, but after powerful cultivators fought, this mess was left behind.
Judging from the fact that plants and moss have already regrown around the area, the battle has been going on for some time.
Chu Huaifeng was the oldest and most senior among them, and he was also the most knowledgeable about these matters. He explained to the others, "Saying it was a bit of an exaggeration. In the cultivation world, things are usually exaggerated. You understand."
Yang Yitian: "So no dragons have ever been slain here? Then why is it called the Dragon Slaying Battlefield?"
Chu Huaifeng stroked his beard: "Didn't I say I exaggerated a bit? Any wild bird outside could be claimed to be a descendant of a phoenix. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call this place a dragon-slaying battlefield. A half-immortal beast was killed here; it was a black dragon."
"A half-immortal beast? Does that mean it can take human form?" Qi Zhiheng was also curious about the origin of this place. Others might not be able to sense it, but he could definitely feel it. There was an extremely powerful resentment and yin energy here. Because he possessed the Light Spirit Root, he was very sensitive to these things.
Chu Huaifeng shook his head: "It's impossible for him to take human form. Most of his mind has been sealed, and he's been placed under a restriction to guard the Immortal Palace Secret Realm for life. Unless his original master can come back and help him break the restriction, he simply cannot take human form."
Yang Yitian: "And then? Did his master come back?"
Chu Huaifeng looked bewildered: "What's the 'then' part? Weren't we slaughtered?"
Yang Yitian: "..." He thought there was some earth-shattering story behind this, but it's just a matter of being slaughtered?
Chu Huaifeng recounted the whole story.
More than 8,000 years ago, a wandering immortal in Zhongzhou discovered a black dragon here. This black dragon was also a half-immortal beast, so the wandering immortal naturally felt that it was very suitable to be his mount. He immediately wanted to subdue the black dragon, but little did he know that the black dragon's mind had long been sealed and it was also restricted, so it was impossible to subdue it.
It feels like you've found a stray dog you like and want to take it home to raise, only to discover that the stray dog already has an owner, who has even put a dog tag on it to indicate that the dog is owned. You want to adopt it, but you get bitten.
The original owner had disappeared without a trace, leaving the dog to guard the house, making it look like a stray.
How can anyone not be angry?
After his first failure, this wandering immortal went back and gathered his forces to slay the dragon!
The semi-divine beast was a treasure trove from head to toe, attracting a steady stream of cultivators. It took eight rogue immortals to finally slay the black dragon. After its death, the rogue immortals discovered a large array here. Deciphering the array revealed the entrance to a secret realm. Judging from all indications, the black dragon was likely the guardian beast of this secret realm.
After the black dragon was killed, its scales, flesh, demon core, and skeleton were all divided up. The scales and skeleton were excellent materials for refining weapons, while the flesh and demon core could be used to refine pills. In a sense, the black dragon could be considered to have died without a complete corpse.
Speaking of this, Chu Huaifeng said with some emotion, "Back then, I was just a Golden Core cultivator. I only heard about that battle from others, and it was truly a scene of utter chaos. I could feel the tremors beneath my feet even from so far away. Although I didn't witness the battle firsthand, I saw the battlefield afterward. The traces left by the high-level cultivators were enough for me to study for a long time. I took advantage of that opportunity to study and directly formed my Nascent Soul."
When Yang Yitian and Qi Zhiheng heard Chu Huaifeng say these words, they realized that Chu Huaifeng was already over eight thousand years old.
Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian sighed somewhat, realizing that they had actually become beings with relatively short periods of time in the Mahayana stage. By "relatively short," he meant a thousand years within the spatial realm.
After all, there can be a time difference, but bone age cannot remain unchanged.
After the battle, this place became known as the Dragon-Slaying Battlefield, and the secret realm that appeared here was also controlled by several rogue immortals.
After the rogue immortals searched through all the more valuable items inside, they relinquished control, leaving it to the Mahayana and Tribulation Transcending stage cultivators of Central Continent.
To ensure that the resources within the secret realm have enough time to mature, the secret realm will only open once every thousand years.
Just after they finished discussing the origins of the secret realm and the dragon-slaying battlefield, several Mahayana cultivators approached them.
Qi Zhiheng knew all these cultivators. Their main purpose was to buy some pills from Qi Zhiheng. It was well known that Qi Zhiheng's pills were of good quality. Some cultivators who were familiar with Yan Yinyue knew this. They had already made transactions with Qi Zhiheng before he became the city lord.
Qi Zhiheng naturally welcomed these cultivators to support his pill business, and this time he asked for spirit stones as payment. The cultivators readily agreed to the transaction. Entering a secret realm inevitably involves some danger, so it's always good to have some life-saving pills on hand.
The transaction went smoothly for both parties, and after a while, they even decided to enter the secret realm together.
Of course, it only means entering the secret realm together. Whether they will act together inside is another matter. After all, everyone's strength is different, and allocating resources will be a troublesome matter. It's better to explore for spiritual objects on your own.
Qi Zhiheng didn't object when these people said they wanted to enter the secret realm together. He figured they would eventually part ways with him, so he wasn't afraid they would be detrimental to him.
They waited for two days on the battlefield before all the cultivators in charge of starting the battle had gathered.
The nine cultivators who possessed the tokens to open the secret realm were all at the Tribulation Transcending stage, and each of them held a token.
People like Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian were only allowed to wait on the periphery, waiting for cultivators from first- and second-class cities to enter the secret realm before they could line up to go in.
It sounds a bit embarrassing, but what can they do when they're from a third-rate city?
After the tokens were gathered together, a phantom of a divine dragon spiraled into the air and, after circling a few times, a circular entrance appeared in mid-air.
Those who were in the Transcending Tribulation stage and were the first to open the passage flew in.
The entrance passage has been opened, and the gods behind it entered the secret realm one by one according to their status.
It wasn't until half an hour later that Qi Zhiheng and the others were allowed to enter the secret realm.
Looking at the few remaining cultivators behind him, Qi Zhiheng said with a wry smile, "So we were all low-level cultivators after all?"
A city lord from a friendly city said, "There's nothing we can do about it; the Central Continent is full of talented people."
Qi Zhiheng and the others stopped talking and said, "Let's go in too."
A group of people entered the secret realm, and in the blink of an eye, the environment changed.
The surrounding area was filled with fiery red rocks, and the temperature was extremely high. The spiritual energy in the air was dense, and there seemed to be something extra. After everyone absorbed all of this spiritual energy, they discovered that half of the spiritual energy in this dense space could not be absorbed.
"Why can't we absorb this spiritual energy?" The youngest cultivator among them, besides Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian, raised his question.
“This is celestial spiritual energy!” Yang Yitian said with great certainty.
The cultivator who asked the question said, "So this is immortal spiritual energy. It's a pity that we can't absorb it."
Yang Yitian: "Actually, there's nothing to regret. It's not difficult to switch from absorbing spiritual energy to absorbing immortal spiritual energy, but it's not easy to switch from absorbing immortal spiritual energy to absorbing spiritual energy."
Qi Zhiheng murmured, "No wonder those rogue immortals were willing to give up this secret realm. There is so much immortal spiritual energy here. As rogue immortals, they would probably subconsciously absorb all of this immortal spiritual energy, and only after they leave would they realize the inappropriateness of absorbing immortal spiritual energy."
It's likely that those rogue immortals who absorbed the immortal energy, while experiencing a significant boost in strength in the short term, will feel extremely uncomfortable upon returning to places with normal spiritual energy. No wonder they were willing to relinquish ownership of this secret realm.
The other cultivators in their group were also hearing about immortal spiritual energy for the first time, and they were inevitably curious, but no one asked too many questions.
Once inside the secret realm, they had to split up.
The monks who had come in with them, well, they left in twos and threes.
Even Yan Yinyue and Ning Xiu were about to separate from Qi Zhiheng, Yang Yitian, and Chu Huaifeng.
Chu Huaifeng remained with Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian. In his eyes, Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian were only at the early stage of the Mahayana realm, practically the weakest in this secret realm. One was an alchemist, and the other a talisman master; they were among the weakest of their kind. He was still waiting for Qi Zhiheng to help his son refine medicine, so how could he let Qi Zhiheng die here?
Qi Zhiheng was speechless at Chu Huaifeng's statement. Let alone be able to beat him, Chu Huaifeng probably couldn't even beat Yang Yitian.
However, they wouldn't be so arrogant as to boast about their abilities. Whether someone is a mule or a horse, you have to take them out for a spin to judge. Even if he and Yang Yitian praised themselves to the skies, they would only earn a laugh from others.
Getting back to the main point, the other cultivators, seeing that the area was covered in red stones, figured there was probably nothing of value there and hurriedly left.
Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian are different.
Qi Zhiheng discovered that these stones had some use; they could actually provide the Firewood with fire power, which greatly helped improve the quality of the Firewood Fruit.
Under Chu Huaifeng's astonished gaze, Qi Zhiheng kept throwing high-quality red stones into his spatial storage, even trying to see if there were any mineral veins.
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