Chapter 123 Return to Qingyunmen

Nanwang opened his eyes and found himself lying flat on the lake.

He took a deep breath and hurriedly got up, only to find that his hands were icy cold.

This is not water, this is a frozen lake.

Fortunately, he had his cultivation to protect him, otherwise he would have been frozen.

Nan Wang quickly walked to the shore, found a good place to stand, and after he stood still, he turned around and looked at the lake.

The lake was unfamiliar, but the mountains in the distance were very familiar.

...Qingyun Sect, Jianfeng Snow Mountain.

Nan Wang was stunned when he realized that he was at the edge of the sword.

Wasn't he in the secret realm? Why did he return to Qingyun Sect?

No, this this this...how did he come back?

Was it the senior sister who brought him back?

No way, after bringing him back, at least find him a bed. It would be too much to just leave him on the lake to fend for himself, right?

Nan thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out.

Finally, he walked back onto the frozen lake.

He leaned over to touch the surface of the lake, continuously injecting spiritual energy into it.

After exploring for a long time, I found nothing abnormal, but strange memories kept coming back.

He seemed to have just had a dream.

A very long dream.

The person in the dream was also lying on a lake like this.

Nan Wang stood up in a daze and covered his eyes with his hands.

The details in the dream were so real that he even suspected that it was not a dream but something that happened in real life.

Nan Wangang couldn't understand why he had dreamed of such a thing out of nowhere. It lingered so clearly in his mind that he felt like he was watching a TV drama without a beginning or an end. He was scratching his head and wondering what the story would be.

The people in the story seem to be from another world, not even humans, but... dragons?

If it had happened before, Nan Wang would not have thought too much about it and just thought it was an insignificant dream. But now, he knew that Zhong Wangsheng was a dragon, so he became extremely alert to this special race.

And now he wondered if it was possible that his dreams represented something that had happened in the past...

"Fourth Junior Brother!"

Hearing Du Xueling's voice, Nan Wang looked up, but before his eyes could focus, Du Xueling was already in front of him.

"You scared me to death! How dare you wander around in a place like that? You just barged in when you saw an exit. If it weren't for..."

Du Xueling kept chattering about her concern, and it was obvious that she was very dissatisfied with Nan Wang for taking the initiative and running around this time.

However, Nan Wang only asked one question and made Du Xueling speechless.

"Master sister, how did you know I was here?"

“…”

Nanwang then asked again:

"I remember I wasn't here when I was sent out. I don't know how I came back. Senior Sister, do you know how I came back?"

Du Xueling thought about it again and again, and finally gave up the idea of ​​hiding it from Nan Wang, and said frankly:

"It should be your third senior brother who sent you back."

"What, Third Brother?"

Nanwang suddenly became nervous:

"Third Brother is still alive. Where is he? Is he okay now?"

Du Xueling avoided Nanwang's question and talked about other things:

"This time, the secret realm... The reason why your eldest senior brother and I are going is because there is a nine-story building that happens to be located in the Central Plains Secret Realm. The two secret realms affect each other and will become more dangerous. The nine-story secret realm is secondary, but the situation in the Central Plains Secret Realm is very complicated. If one thing is affected, the whole body will be affected."

"The teleportation exit you took just happened to lead you to the entrance of the Central Plains Secret Realm. The crack appeared because of a problem with the seal."

Nan Wang understood and said, "I understand. What Senior Sister meant was that I accidentally fell into the Central Plains Secret Realm and was sent out by Senior Brother Three who was reinforcing the seal?"

"Yeah, you're lucky." Du Xueling teased, "Thank God, as long as the seal is still there, the secret realm will not be opened. That's how you got your life back..."

Nanwang immediately noticed something was wrong:

"Wait, Senior Sister, didn't you tell me this before? Since the secret realm won't open as long as the seal is there, why can't Third Senior Brother come back? He can come back by himself without me having to save him. He can even send me back, so isn't it easy for him to come back by himself?"

“…”

Du Xueling slowly exhaled a breath of foul air and looked at Nan Wang with a hesitant and harsh gaze.

She realized her gaffe, but it was too late.

Nan Wang's brain was never stupid. He immediately understood the truth that Du Xueling would rather deceive him than tell him:

"Third Brother, have you been waiting for the seal to break?"

If the seal can really be reinforced, then there would be no need for anyone to sacrifice, all it would need to be reinforced is continuous.

The truth is, the seal cannot be strengthened at all.

All Qingyun Sect could do was watch the seal break, and then promptly replace it with the next seal - a seal bought at the cost of the third true disciple's life.

Nan Wang waited for a long time but received no response from Du Xueling, so he knew he had guessed right.

This is not even a death sentence, but a combination of life imprisonment and death sentence.

When you die depends on the mood of the secret realm.

"On what basis..."

Nanwang uttered these four words with gritted teeth.

Du Xueling's expression dimmed silently, and her good mood, which was due to her joy over Nan Wang's safe return, disappeared in an instant.

"Feel sorry……"

"No, it's not Senior Sister's fault."

Nan Wang stopped Du Xueling from apologizing.

Before he discovered the truth, everything was taken care of by the senior sister.

She had no choice but to bear the fate of countless helpless people. What was wrong with her?

What was wrong was the secret realm, the divine weapon, and this cruel and bizarre world of immortal cultivation...

"What exactly is the secret realm?"

As if guided by fate, Nan Wang finally asked this question.

This was a question he had never thought about when he was reading the original novel, but now he had to think hard about it.

What exactly is the secret realm?

What are these disasters that keep appearing like locusts with no end in sight? What are these strange phenomena that keep robbing the land of its vitality and seem like divine punishment?

Du Xueling closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, there was an unprecedented determination in her eyes:

"I have heard many people ask this question, and I have asked many people myself, but to this day, I still don't know what the secret realm is."

"The beginning of next month will be the Asking the Immortal Ceremony, which will be hosted by your eldest senior brother. Perhaps... you will get your own answer at the Asking the Immortal Ceremony."

…

After so many years, returning to Qingyun Sect again should have been a happy thing, but Nanwang was in a very bad mood.

How could he be happy? His second brother had fallen, his third brother was about to die, and his fifth sister...had betrayed him.

He had just heard about the news about his fifth junior sister not long ago. Not long after he left Qingyun Sect, the fifth junior sister left a farewell letter and defected to the Demon Sect.

In the past, he would have cried and shouted to persuade his "misguided" fifth sister to come back.

But now, he even thought that betrayal might be a good thing.

No matter where you go, it's better than staying in Qingyun Sect as a consumable. Like Wu Ge... isn't he living a good life too?

It’s ridiculous that everyone in the Demon Sect is jealous of Qingyun Sect for owning the divine weapon. If they really want this heaven-shattering blessing, Qingyun Sect is not unable to give it to them.

It was just the right time to give them this experience of waiting to die in life imprisonment.

Feeling extremely depressed, Nanwang began to dream again.

This time the dream was not as complete as before, but fragmented into pieces.

Each paragraph is about a person who does evil.