With the illusion array dispelled, Lu Li and his companions, along with the numb, unlucky guy standing to the side, came into view.
At first, the people from the Blue Pine Gate and the Four Directions Hall were somewhat stunned.
After a long pause, Lan Yu seemed to confirm something. Her pupils dilated suddenly, and her voice trembled as she asked incredulously, "Who...who are you?"
Shushu smiled broadly: "Guess!"
Those three simple words instantly broke Lan Yu's defenses, her expression changed drastically, and she tried to back away, only to find that she could no longer move.
The people from the Four Directions Hall around him were already like this. They originally wanted to rush forward with their weapons, but they couldn't muster any strength at all, just like the symptoms of being poisoned by the Spirit-Sealing Powder.
Looking at the small jade bottle that Shushu was playing with in his hand, what else could they not understand?
Mei Renyao then realized that the silencing spell had been lifted. He first cursed Lan Yu as an "idiot" before turning his gaze to the four of them, his eyes scrutinizing them with a hint of probing.
"Who are you, and why have you captured us?" The group of people, including Shushu, were still disguised, so he didn't recognize them and found the four people in front of him to be very unfamiliar.
Shushu hadn't answered Lan Yu's question, and Mei Renyao, naturally, also had no intention of revealing his identity. He replied with the same three words: "Guess," and then ignored them.
Instead, Long Yi stepped forward and kicked Mei Renyao several times, making him groan in pain before stopping.
Then, Lu Li separated them all and interrogated them again, checking their memories to confirm that they were not lying, before locking them up again.
The reason they weren't killed immediately was simply because they didn't want to alert the enemy.
Soon, as dawn broke and the fog dissipated, the Nexu Rift Valley returned to normal. The four of them left the space and, based on the information they had gathered from the people there, went one by one to explore.
Sure enough, they found all sorts of traps, as well as quite a few other sentries.
After silently noting down the situation and distribution of these people and sending out the message, the group once again chose to hide behind them, keeping a close watch on their movements.
To avoid suspicion arising from the disappearance of Mei Renyao and Lan Yu, Shushu also had Tianchen, who was skilled in illusion and simulation, take over their communication jade tablets to exchange information with those people.
And so, without the other side's knowledge, Shushu and his friends successfully infiltrated the group and obtained firsthand information.
Meanwhile, as time passed, the main force that obtained the Golden Dragon Blood gradually arrived at the entrance of the secret realm.
The idea was that saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda, and it was also to thwart the plans of those behind the scenes and make things difficult for them.
Shushu and his companions also intentionally or unintentionally lured the forces from various continents toward the places where Lansongmen and Sifangdian were hiding.
Among them were many formidable figures, and naturally, they also discovered the people from the Blue Pine Gate and the Four Directions Hall.
Although no substantial information has been obtained yet, it is enough to make these people wary.
What Shushu and Luli wanted was to make them wary, so that once their goal was achieved, they would stop trying to do more, lest they go too far.
After the Liuyue Sect and the Dragon Clan arrived, Shushu and Luli handed over all the matters to them.
He also instructed them to protect the treasure-hunting rat clan when they arrived, and to inform the friendly beast clans such as the Phoenix Clan, Qilin Clan, and Xuanwu Clan.
The two then quietly left the group, disguised themselves as independent cultivators, and mingled with the group of independent cultivators, intending to sneak into the secret realm and fish in troubled waters.
This is because although the Qi Yuan Secret Realm is a conspiracy, it is indeed a secret realm, the remains of the ancient great power Qi Yuan after his fall.
The Blue Pine Clan had actually discovered this ruined mansion long ago and had already thoroughly explored it.
It's unclear whether the inheritance was hidden too deeply or they weren't the destined ones, but after searching for a long time, the Blue Pine Sect and the Four Directions Hall still couldn't find the inheritance left by the master of the secret realm.
Of course, the Blue Pine Sect didn't come away empty-handed; at least they now have a general understanding of the secret realm's layout.
In addition, because the millet and yam had been cut off repeatedly, Huaiyu had absorbed the fortune of several worlds in the lower realm, and Huaiyu was visited by the Phoenix Feather Palace repeatedly, causing her old injuries to relapse.
Even her top general, Hu Ling, suffered heavy losses.
With no other option, the two of them were in dire need of nourishment. After some deliberation, they decided to take a risk and contacted her lackey in Dawei, Lan Qian, asking her to find a way to help them replenish their energy.
After much deliberation, Lan Qian decided that the emergence of a new secret realm was the most eye-catching thing. So she took the opportunity to reveal the Qi Yuan Secret Realm to attract various forces in the Great Void Realm to come and take risks.
At the same time, she set up numerous traps in the secret realm, intending to absorb the luck of these people and give it to her master, while their flesh and blood would be fed to Hu Ling. Both their souls and flesh would be used, and nothing would be wasted.
As for the need to use Golden Dragon Blood to enter, that was purely because the Dragon Clan happened to run into a trap. After all, the Four Directions Palace was actually one of her dogs, so it was just a matter of letting the dog vent its anger.
The reason why Shushu took the risk to come in was that she had received reliable information that Lan Qian had deliberately placed a lot of precious natural treasures in the secret realm in order to lure people in.
Secondly, Shushu planned to put Lan Qian into the secret realm and then take away that pseudo-immortal artifact that could absorb and store fortune.
It's unclear whether everything was predetermined, but the semi-divine artifact that Shushu obtained from her other master, Immortal Venerable Luofeng, was capable of suppressing that pseudo-divine artifact.
All the coincidences came together, and knowing he couldn't get away, Shushu chose to face the challenge head-on, because someone always had to solve the problem.
Thinking this way, the tension in Shushu's heart completely dissipated, replaced by determination.
Just as her thoughts were drifting, the forces ahead had finished their discussions. The Myriad Swords Sect was the first to enter the secret realm, followed by the five major forces of the Western Continent.
After all the forces from the Western Continent had entered, the Eastern Continent, Southern Continent, and a few scattered beastmen from the Northern Continent arrived. Only after all these entered did the rogue cultivators get their turn.
Shushu and Luli were currently squeezed in the middle of the group of independent cultivators, neither in front nor behind.
The two were not in a hurry and let the flow of people push them forward.
About half an hour later, it was their turn.
Fearing they would be separated once inside, the senior and junior disciples held hands tightly after dripping the prepared golden dragon blood into each other's mouths.
As the familiar feeling of weightlessness came, a white light flashed before their eyes. When the light faded, the two had arrived in the secret realm.
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