Chapter 33
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The disciples of Liuyun Sect knew they were wrong, so they didn't dare to speak out and could only whisper, "Big Brother, last time you threw the palm print to us without saying a word, and then you were captured by the Demon Lord and disappeared for several days. We watched your soul lamp light up and then go out and light up again, and there was a shadow."
When they saw the entrance to the secret realm began to fluctuate, their first reaction was that the eldest senior brother was still inside. Fortunately, there were still people who had reason and forcefully pushed out those below the Golden Core level and did not let them in.
No matter how anxious the low-level disciples are, they can only cause trouble and hinder progress if they come in.
They are different. These cultivators who have already reached the Golden Core or even the Yuan Infant stage may be able to provide some help to the eldest senior brother. Even if it is of little use, they can hand the jade talisman to the eldest senior brother, which will at least allow him to crush the jade talisman and escape from the secret realm in an emergency.
Xie Tingyun said: "So what is the difference between you coming and not coming?"
Ning Chen said, "From watching your soul light light up, go out, and light up again, to watching you live, die, and live again."
Xie Tingyun: "..."
Junior brothers and sisters: "..."
The fellow disciples stared at Ning Chen with resentment.
A peaceful and innocent smile.
The junior brothers and sisters were really anxious: "Big Brother... just leave us here. We all have the jade talismans given by our master. We can leave the secret realm at any time. Don't worry about us!"
The leaders of other sects looked at him with envy upon hearing this.
This kind of jade talisman is usually used to escape when encountering danger. It is very suitable for emergency escape when encountering danger during training in secret realms, and its guarantor function is very powerful.
The levels of teleportation jade talismans required for different secret realms must be very different. The more powerful the teleportation function, the more difficult it is to refine. If you want to refine a teleportation jade talisman that can instantly escape from a ground-level secret realm, you must be a powerful person at least above the Void Realm to be able to refine it. It is mostly a life-saving method given by clan elders to their talented young people.
However, this group of young disciples in the Jindan and Yuanying stages actually each got one. Most of the monks who had no background or family and had worked so hard to become the team leader could only envy them.
Ning Chen uttered an "ah", as if he had thought of something, and turned to look at Xie Tingyun.
The level of the Nuwa Secret Realm is obviously not as difficult as before, so will this jade talisman... still be useful?
"Even if I don't agree, you have to stay."
Junior brothers and sisters: “?”
Xie Tingyun sighed and said, "Turn around and take a look. Guess what kind of difficult secret realm this is."
The fellow disciples yelled and turned to look in confusion.
They were not far from the entrance. Standing here, they could only see a wide river gurgling in the distance, flowing from the distant sky to somewhere unknown.
The sky inside the secret realm was hazy and the grass was rustling. The first and second level spiritual herbs and medicines that should have started growing at the edge were nowhere to be seen. The surroundings were completely empty. When they extended their consciousness out, they could not sense any trace of treasure.
The expressions of the fellow students were somewhat stiff.
"No, it shouldn't be like that? There are no low-level treasures on the edge of the Earth-level Secret Realm? Then what are there?"
A group of leading monks who were huddled together in the distance reached behind themselves and showed him a carnivorous plant that was nearly half a person's height.
The flower of the carnivorous plant was an eerie dark blue, and the edges of its large flower looked like sharp saw teeth. It had just tried to secretly swallow a monk, but the monk caught it in its upper and lower jaws with his sword.
The fellow disciples and sisters looked towards the carnivorous plant and could even see drops of transparent sticky liquid dripping from its mouth, which could not close, and making a crackling sound like corrosion when they fell to the ground.
Disciples of Liuyun Sect: "..."
The third level ghost man-eating plant usually guards the Netherworld Fire, which can store and refine human souls, and is suitable for ghost cultivators to refine soul puppets.
This kind of thing will only appear at least at the third level of the Earth-level Secret Realm. It is a moderately dangerous guardian beast of the Earth-level Secret Realm.
It's placed here, but it's only on the first floor to scare people? ?
Xie Tingyun drew out the Chengfeng Sword and said, without blaming anyone, "Follow me, be careful."
Ning Chen had watched the show from the sidelines and said lazily, "Fortunately, there are still three people in the Yuanying period, so it's not bad. The remaining two Jindan are just a little bit better. Follow closely behind your eldest senior brother. If you get lost, no one will come to look for you."
After knowing that Xie Tingyun was going to lead the team into the secret realm, Taoist Master Daoling refined a jade talisman suitable for the earth-level secret realm overnight, but now it is estimated that it will not be effective.
The other righteous monks were silent for a while, looked at Ning Chen, and said nothing.
No matter how much they review the previous decision, it is useless now. Anyway, the young talents in the sect who have not yet grown up will not die here. Since it is not the worst case scenario, then the remaining old guys will see how the situation develops.
They had already encountered the Ghostly Man-Eating Plant on the first level. No matter how much they didn't believe it, the facts were already revealed.
The Nuwa Secret Realm they entered at this time could definitely not be of Earth-level difficulty.
The difficulty of the current Nuwa Secret Realm is far beyond the Earth level, and it seems that it may even approach the Heaven level. The difficulty should not be underestimated. Even the battle-hardened monks have to be on their guard.
Most of them are cultivators in the Yuanying period, and there are even Kongming period cultivators among the leaders of other sects. In the earth-level secret realm, this level of cultivation usually belongs to the first echelon for snatching precious treasures.
It is not good enough if it is just placed in a secret realm close to the heaven level.
The only Kongming-stage cultivator in the team was a middle-aged man with a stern face and bright eyes, but his hair had turned gray, showing uncontrollable signs of aging.
He had been stuck in the Kongming Stage for hundreds of years and had tried countless methods but had no way to break through. In the end, he could only hope to find an opportunity in the Nuwa Secret Realm.
He had been waiting for hundreds of years for this Nuwa Secret Realm alone. If he missed this opportunity, a cultivator in the Kongming Stage could not be sure whether he could live to see the next suitable secret realm open.
He looked behind him and saw several fellow disciples in the Yuan Infant stage who were still following him. He sighed silently and said with a smile: "Just treat it as a try of the Heaven-level Secret Realm this time. If we can get out, we can go to the Heaven-level Secret Realm by ourselves in the future."
The fellow disciple behind the Kongming period cultivator was originally a little depressed, but upon hearing this, he quietly perked up and said, "Yes."
There were more than one carnivorous plant. When Xie Tingyun approached, he found that the road ahead was almost completely covered with ghostly carnivorous plants, and he had no idea where to start.
Xie Tingyun had already started to clean up the Ghostly Man-eating Flowers. Someone looked at the scary saw teeth on the edges of the Ghostly Man-eating Flowers and said with some fear: "Since we have mistakenly entered a high-level secret realm, can we low-level monks wait for the exit of the secret realm to open at a non-dangerous position on the edge?"
Before Xie Tingyun could say anything, the Kongming cultivator said, "You wishful thinking. These heavenly secret realms like people like you who like to stay where they are and wait for death."
Ning Chen saw Xie Tingyun move, so he also went to his side to watch the show. The disciples around him had mixed feelings about Ning Chen. However, considering that he almost attacked them out of impatience but still reasonably, the righteous disciples still had some instinctive fear of him.
At this moment, as Ning Chen approached, the righteous disciples all took a big step back. Ning Chen walked from the empty space to the side of Xie Tingyun and sneered at the situation: "Are you afraid of me now? What were you doing before?"
Righteous disciples: "..."
The Liuyun Sect disciples were the only ones who did not retreat. They gathered around Xie Tingyun and helped to clear the Ghostly Man-Eating Plants while whispering to the people around them: "To be honest, when the Demon Lord was next to Senior Brother, he didn't look that scary."
"Yes... You see, he threatened with words and threw the gun, but you didn't see him actually do anything. Instead, as soon as he got close to Senior Brother, he started to play with him."
"But without Senior Brother here, the Demon Lord looks like he can really eat people."
"Got it. We can't let Senior Brother stay away from the Demon Lord."
"Yes, yes, yes."
Xie Tingyun: "..."
Ning Chen: “…”
Ning Chen stared at the mumbling junior brothers and sisters and said grimly: "What are you talking about? Are you tired of living?"
The fellow students who were still mumbling in private just now straightened their backs and worked harder to clean up the ghostly carnivorous plants, saying loudly: "Nothing was said."
Xie Tingyun scolded in a low voice: "Be serious, it's already this time, why are you still thinking about these messed up things?"
Don’t you know that the Heavenly Secret Realm is a place where you, a bunch of young rookies, are doomed to die?
The fellow students drooped their brows and drew a line on their mouths, indicating that they should shut up from now on.
The other righteous disciples walked around Ningchen and also cleared the ghostly carnivorous plants around the edge.
These carnivorous plants are not difficult to deal with, but after death they will produce a flower of netherworld fire that floats quietly in the air.
Ning Chen was free anyway, so he reached out and hooked a Netherworld Fire, rolled it up in his hand, and then ate it curiously.
Others: “…”
Others: “!!!”
Xie Tingyun was no longer surprised. When he saw Ning Chen's eyes light up after eating the Netherworld Fire, he knew that this thing would probably be on Tianxiao's recipe list from now on.
Fortunately, they killed a lot of ghost carnivorous plants while clearing the way. Now these dark blue netherworld fires were floating everywhere and no one picked them up, so Ning Chen picked them all up and ate them all.
Ning Chen sometimes really thinks that plundering natural talents is magical.
He didn't need to put it into his mouth like real food, he could just use his magic energy to roll it into his meridians.
But the amazing thing is that even without tasting it, Ning Chen could actually taste a little bit of it.
For example, these Netherworld Fires that do not harm people have a light sweet taste and a very special smell. Ning Chen has seen them in Pingjing Village and it is probably ghost energy.
Xie Tingyun could kill countless people with one sword, and each time he dropped the most Netherworld Fire, so Ning Chen simply followed behind Xie Tingyun. No matter how many he killed, he would catch as many as he wanted to eat. From time to time, he would pick up a handful of Netherworld Fire that dropped around him. It was so relaxing and enjoyable.
The Nether Fire was not full, and could not bring much transformed magic energy to Ning Chen. Dozens of Nether Fires might only be able to give Ning Chen as much magic energy as a palm, so he just caught them as snacks.
This scene stunned everyone present, thinking, this is possible, how can the Demon Lord eat everything...
How come Xie Tingyun actually fed me all the way here...
They pushed forward while clearing a path, until they had completely killed all the ghostly carnivorous plants in this area. Xie Tingyun put away his sword and turned around, shaking off the dark purple blood on the Chengfeng Sword while letting out the last few clusters of Netherworld Fire, saying, "That's all. That's all."
Ning Chen let out an "oh" and took it all in without hesitation, then started to eat it with his magic energy.
The disciples from other sects looked at the Demon Lord who was happily eating the Netherworld Fire one by one from afar, whispering to each other, "It seems... it is true."
"As long as Fellow Daoist Xie is here, the legendary Demon Lord Tianxiao, who is said to be moody and can go crazy at any time, will be much less likely to go crazy."
Although they had never seen the Demon Lord before, they had heard that Tian Xiao had been picking quarrels with Xie Tingyun every day and enjoyed it very much. At that time, they thought that the two were sworn enemies, but looking at the current situation, it was obviously not consistent with the rumors.
After all, what better enemy is one who cooks and feeds silently in front, while another one stands behind with his hand outstretched, waiting for food?
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The author has something to say:
Xiao Xie is like a cat owner taking his cat out for a stroll, cooking and feeding the cat at the same time, with Ning Miao following behind him with his tail wagging, walking around proudly and eating up any food he gets the chance to.jpg
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I wanted to post yesterday's extra chapter and update together, but I felt that I couldn't find a good break point to write later, so I posted a little bit first (run away with my head in my hands)