Chapter 343: Three brothers explore the secret realm!
The moment Lu Pingan and Lu Quanzhen entered the portal, they felt a dizzying spin.
All directions turned into nothingness, a vast darkness where no magic could be used.
“It is said that entering the Violet Abyss Secret Realm is similar to the experience of the long-lost teleportation arrays. So this is how it feels…”
Lu Quanzhen murmured in his heart, trying to see the surroundings clearly.
But all around was pitch black, boundless and endless, without a trace of color.
If he hadn’t known in advance, such a situation would have been chilling and terrifying.
After a while, he felt sore all over and opened his eyes groggily.
“So this is the Violet Abyss Secret Realm.”
Lu Quanzhen rubbed his forehead and between his eyebrows, observing the surroundings.
It was a mountain forest, with extremely rich spiritual energy, forming a misty haze.
The most striking feature was the violet sky above.
After confirming that he was in a safe area, he gently patted his storage bag, set up a simple array, and adjusted his condition.
Although the teleportation hadn’t had a major impact, entering the secret realm meant he had to maintain his best state at all times.
After all, with so many cultivators entering the Violet Abyss Secret Realm, there would inevitably be fighting and competition.
And five-tenths of the harvest from the secret realm had to be handed over to the Four Great Immortal Sects.
This harvest referred to spiritual herbs, medicines, and natural spiritual materials within the Violet Abyss Secret Realm that were imbued with the aura of the secret realm.
Money, magical tools, and spiritual objects seized from other cultivators were not included.
Therefore, most people in the Violet Abyss Secret Realm did not die at the hands of the secret realm’s demonic beasts, but at the hands of other cultivators.
“Hmm?”
At this moment, Lu Quanzhen felt something and took out his family token from his storage bag.
It showed that someone was within the token’s sensing range.
He immediately knew it was his elder brother, Lu Pingan.
After all, it was unlikely that his younger brother, Lu Qingshan, would find him to join up so quickly after entering the secret realm.
The two had also said that after entering the secret realm, they would see what the situation was like in the central area before joining up, and treat the outer area as a trial zone.
Lu Quanzhen injected spiritual power into the token, responding to Lu Pingan.
This elder brother had a calm personality and was not competitive, so he wouldn’t affect him.
Moreover, he was a second-level body refiner, trustworthy, wouldn’t be a burden, and would provide some security.
As spiritual power was injected, the two identity tokens gradually formed an invisible connection, sensing each other from afar.
The two could know each other’s approximate location through the tokens.
After adjusting his condition for a long time, Lu Quanzhen fully recovered. He immediately raised his hand, put away the array flags, and began to explore this secret realm.
He did not fly with a magical artifact or rush quickly.
Instead, he cautiously walked towards Lu Pingan’s direction.
After all, the secret realm was dangerous, and flying in the air was just making himself a target.
Moreover, the secret realm was full of opportunities, so he naturally had to explore it slowly.
“Hmm?”
After walking for several miles, Lu Quanzhen saw more than a dozen light cyan, thumb-sized fruits growing on a distant rock.
“Stone Azure Fruits.”
Lu Quanzhen immediately recognized what they were.
However, judging from the color, these spiritual herbs were not yet fully ripe.
But since he had encountered them, who cared whether they were completely ripe or not?
Moreover, he had prepared a spiritual plant bag in advance, which could keep the spiritual plants active to a certain extent, so he could transplant them back home later.
He patted his storage bag, and a low-grade puppet appeared.
Then he controlled the puppet to go forward and pluck all thirteen Stone Azure Fruits clean.
After doing that, he continued to move forward cautiously.
“Hmm, there’s killing so soon.”
After walking for a long time, Lu Quanzhen suddenly smelled a bloody scent, abruptly stopped, and cast a concealment spell.
He carefully looked in the direction of the scent and immediately saw two corpses lying beside a black pool in front.
One was separated from its head.
One had a sharp cone piercing its heart.
They seemed to have perished together, lying on the ground, filled with a strong bloody smell.
In the center of the calm black pool, there was also a palm-sized lotus, pure white with a shimmering blue luster.
“Died together? Water Cloud Lotus.”
Lu Quanzhen’s eyes narrowed, filled with vigilance.
After observing for a moment and seeing no movement, he tentatively sent out a low-grade puppet to the side of the two corpses.
However, just as the puppet came to the side of the corpses, about to retrieve the storage bags,
‘Swish, swish, swish!’
A series of silver needles shot towards Lu Quanzhen from the black pool.
“Clang, clang, clang!”
Lu Quanzhen was prepared, forming five-colored vortexes around his body, and a black shield appeared, blocking all the silver needles.
Then he slapped his palm suddenly, and a five-colored torrent blasted towards the black pool.
“Boom!”
The black pool exploded with a loud noise, and countless amounts of water were blasted into the air.
Immediately, a fair-faced girl in a light yellow dress appeared from the black pool, looking at Lu Quanzhen and coldly saying, “You have some skill. Leave!”
She was fishing here. The Lu Quanzhen in front of her was strong and very cautious. She didn’t want to waste time and spiritual power.
“Falling Cloud Sect disciple.”
Lu Quanzhen’s eyes narrowed, without the slightest intention of retreating.
He had always wanted to know the difference between himself and a disciple of the Immortal Sect.
His previous fight with Lu Qingshan was just a simple exchange, and he couldn’t know the specifics.
Now that he had encountered a Falling Cloud Sect disciple, he naturally wouldn’t miss it, and prepared to use her as a test.
“Courting death!”
Seeing that Lu Quanzhen had no intention of retreating and was actually looking at her as if she were prey, the girl’s face turned furious, and she slapped her fair palm.
“Swish, swish, swish!”
In an instant, countless silver needles shot towards Lu Quanzhen, densely packed and unavoidable.
The sharp cone in the chest of the corpse on the ground also buzzed, like a frantically rotating sharp drill, killing towards Lu Quanzhen.
“Five Elements Kunpeng Art!”
Lu Quanzhen formed hand seals, and a five-colored little fish suddenly appeared in the black pool, killing towards the yellow-skirted girl.
“Not good!”
The girl didn’t expect that Lu Quanzhen’s attack would have a hidden move, and she immediately formed a protective aura around her body.
But in an instant, the five-colored little fish shattered the protective aura, and the girl was so frightened that she quickly gave up her attack and fully activated her protective magical weapon.
“Clang, clang, clang!!!”
Lu Quanzhen had a purple shield circling around his body, forming a purple shield that wrapped around his entire body. He formed hand seals and blasted out a five-colored torrent, vast and mighty.
“Boom!”
The girl was blasted away by this attack, but as a disciple of the Falling Cloud Sect, she was obviously strong and was not defeated so easily, but her face was a little embarrassed and ugly.
“Who are you? How can a mere rogue cultivator have such strength?”
The girl said with coldness in her eyes.
Although rogue cultivators occasionally produced some powerful figures, such as Qingluan Zhenren, the number one rogue cultivator in Jiang Country!
But such cases were rare, and only one Qingluan Zhenren had appeared in nearly a thousand years!
Ninety-nine percent of rogue cultivators were several levels weaker than Immortal Sect disciples in terms of strength and combat power.
Seeing that Lu Quanzhen did not speak, she conjured a yellow mirror.
The mirror shone a golden light on Lu Quanzhen, and the previous silver needles and sharp cones continued to kill towards Lu Quanzhen.
But in an instant,
“Puchi!”
A five-colored, gorgeous little fish directly broke through the girl’s protective aura and pierced through her heart with lightning speed.
“Uh, uh, uh—”
The girl’s body shook violently, her eyes filled with disbelief as she looked at her chest.
She only felt a surging force crushing her internal organs, and blood gurgled out.
“How can this be…”
The girl stared at Lu Quanzhen with her eyes fixed, but before she could finish her words, she fell to the ground with a bang.
Bright red blood formed a pool of blood, and her beautiful eyes widened, appearing unwilling to die.
“So this is an Immortal Sect disciple…”
Lu Quanzhen looked at the dead girl, his expression calm and indifferent.
If Immortal Sect disciples were only this much, then it would be too uninteresting.
After confirming that the other party was dead, Lu Quanzhen stepped forward and burned all three corpses to ashes, and then simply processed the storage bags.
For example, the tokens and robes in the three people’s storage bags were all thrown into the black pool.
Although everyone knew that entering the secret realm meant being responsible for their own life and death,
But everyone knew that they should try not to get involved with Immortal Sect disciples or large clan disciples, so as not to cause trouble.
After doing that, he plucked the Water Cloud Lotus from the black pool, put it into the spiritual plant bag, and continued to walk towards Lu Pingan’s location.
In a dense forest.
“As expected of the Violet Abyss Secret Realm, spiritual herbs can be picked up everywhere.”
Lu Pingan pulled up a spiritual flower by the roots, put it into his storage bag, and his face was full of joy.
Although he had never been poor,
But he knew the difficulty of the bottom layer of the cultivation world, and spiritual stones were difficult to earn.
His family could maintain a balanced budget entirely by relying on his father.
So when he came in and saw so many spiritual herbs, he harvested spiritual herbs worth hundreds of spiritual stones in a short period of time, and he was very happy.
He felt that if he continued like this, he would be able to harvest tens of thousands of spiritual stones on this trip to the Violet Abyss Secret Realm!
Although he would eventually have to hand over five-tenths to the Four Great Immortal Sects,
He would be satisfied if he could keep half of it.
Lu Pingan continued to move towards Lu Quanzhen’s direction.
Although he wanted to join up with his younger brother as soon as possible, he knew that such secret realms were full of danger, and he could not be too rash and impatient.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed.
Lu Pingan thought that he was lucky before, and he found spiritual herbs as he walked.
But now, after so long, he had not gained anything, and he was quite depressed.
Just then, suddenly, a roar of demonic beasts came from the side.
This sound immediately attracted Lu Pingan’s attention.
“Is someone fighting, or…”
Lu Pingan knew that there were not many demonic beasts in this Violet Abyss Secret Realm.
But as long as there were demonic beasts, there would basically be rare spiritual herbs and medicines.
Thinking of this, Lu Pingan immediately walked towards the direction from which the sound came.
After a while, he saw a golden giant bear chasing after an old man and a young man.
The two did not confront the giant bear head-on, but fought in a very coordinated manner, consuming the giant bear.
When the old man saw Lu Pingan, his slightly turbid eyes immediately showed vigilance.
But when he saw Lu Pingan’s seventh level of Qi refining strength, he immediately shouted, “Fellow Daoist, there are several Seven Star Grasses in this Vajra Bear’s cave. If you join us to solve it, we will divide the spiritual herbs equally!”
Although the cultivators in the Secret Realm couldn’t be trusted, many still banded together for mutual benefit.
Besides, the grandfather and grandson were at the ninth and eighth levels of Qi Refining, respectively, while Lu Ping’an was only at the seventh level.
Under such circumstances, they naturally had nothing to fear from Lu Ping’an.
They even thought that if Lu Ping’an was wealthy, they might be able to take everything from him.
“Seven Star Grass!?”
Upon hearing this, Lu Ping’an’s eyes lit up immediately.
This Seven Star Grass was the main spiritual herb for the Longevity Pill, and its value was extremely high.
He immediately responded loudly, “Okay, it’s a deal!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he shot out like a cannonball towards the Vajra Bear.
“Fellow cultivator!?”
The old man and the young man were stunned by Lu Ping’an’s actions, looking completely bewildered.
What was going on?
This was a demon beast, yet you charged directly in front of it?
Could it be that he intended to engage in close combat with the demon beast?
However, as soon as they spoke, they saw Lu Ping’an arrive in front of the Vajra Bear, clenching his fists with five fingers, leaping up, his right arm glowing with golden light like a divine demon drumming, shattering layers of air, and smashing solidly onto the Vajra Bear’s head.
“Bang!!!!”
Under Lu Ping’an’s punch, the Vajra Bear’s skull burst, and its mouth full of sharp teeth shattered and flew out.
Its massive body, fully five meters tall, spun like a top and flew backwards, landing with a crash, creating a huge pit.
“What’s wrong?”
Only then did Lu Ping’an turn his head to look at the bewildered and dazed grandfather and grandson.
“No, nothing’s wrong.”
The old man looked completely stunned, swallowed hard, and said awkwardly.
He had just thought that with Lu Ping’an at the seventh level of Qi Refining, the two of them could easily handle him.
But this punch directly dumbfounded him.
Having traveled north and south for decades, he had never seen such a ruthless person.
At the seventh level of Qi Refining, he sent a demon beast flying with one punch, and judging by the looks of it, it was almost crippled.
“Grandpa, isn’t the Vajra Bear supposed to be incredibly strong and have an extremely tough body?”
The young man next to him swallowed hard, his face turning pale as he asked his grandfather.
Generally, the combat power of demon beasts is stronger than that of cultivators of the same level.
They were willing to fight this Vajra Bear entirely because they had their eyes on the Seven Star Grass it was guarding.
But they never expected that the Vajra Bear, which the two of them could only slowly wear down and entangle with, would be sent flying with one punch, its life unknown, making them somewhat doubt their lives.
“This should be a disciple from some family coming here to train; be polite later.”
The old man looked at the scene before him and whispered to his grandson.
“Bang, bang, bang—”
They saw Lu Ping’an arrive in front of the pit, his fists like a meteor shower, bombarding the Vajra Bear.
His fists were like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami, making the ground unable to withstand it, constantly trembling, forming a pit, with dust flying and swirling.
After a moment, Lu Ping’an pulled the already dead Vajra Bear out of the pit.
“How do you want to divide this Vajra Bear?”
Lu Ping’an looked at the old man and the young man and asked.
Although he had killed this demon beast himself, it was, after all, their prey, and they had expended a lot of effort, so he didn’t choose to take it all for himself.
“Uh, we don’t need any.”
The old man immediately shook his head and said.
In this situation, how would they dare to share the spoils with him?
If they annoyed him and he gave the two of them a punch, their grandfather and grandson could end their trip to the Secret Realm.
“Alright.”
Hearing this, Lu Ping’an nodded, not being polite, and took out his magic weapon, the flying sword, to cut up the Vajra Bear.
He put the more valuable materials such as the bear paws, bear gall, and bear blood into his storage bag.
After all, he couldn’t fit the entire body into his storage bag.
Moreover, if the body of a dead demon beast wasn’t processed as soon as possible, it couldn’t be eaten later.
“Fellow cultivator, where is the Seven Star Grass?”
After Lu Ping’an finished processing the bear, he looked at the two of them and said.
“It’s just ahead.”
The old man and the young man very politely led Lu Ping’an to a cave filled with a foul odor.
They saw five spiritual herbs glowing with starlight growing in the cave.
“It really is Seven Star Grass, and there are actually five of them!”
A look of joy appeared on Lu Ping’an’s face.
But looking at the five Star Grasses, he didn’t know how to divide them for a moment.
Just as he was about to speak, the old man next to him took the initiative to say, “Fellow cultivator, since you killed the Vajra Bear, how about you take three of these five Seven Star Grasses, and we take two?”
“Hmm, you two only want two?”
Lu Ping’an frowned slightly.
After all, they discovered the Seven Star Grass, and he only killed a Vajra Bear; it was really embarrassing to take the majority of the loot.
“It’s nothing, nothing; if it weren’t for you, fellow cultivator, we grandfather and grandson wouldn’t have been able to obtain this Seven Star Grass so easily.”
The old man, wearing a Taoist robe, looked kind and amiable with his aged face.
“I won’t take advantage of you; I’ll just take two.”
Lu Ping’an wasn’t stupid and could see that the other party was afraid of him, which was why they were acting this way.
But in his own opinion, he had already obtained some materials from the Vajra Bear, so taking two Seven Star Grasses now was enough.
“Thank you, fellow cultivator; you’re all alone. If it’s convenient, would you like to team up with us?”
The old man was surprised and thought that he had met a good person today.
He immediately guessed that Lu Ping’an should be a disciple of some large family who had come here to train.
Only disciples of such large families could be so generous.
Because ordinary rogue cultivators, if they were kind and good-natured, would find it difficult to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining.
He continued, “This old Taoist is not talented but knows some surveying techniques and is good at finding spiritual herbs and medicines.”
“Hmm.”
Lu Ping’an glanced at the old man and the young man, pondered for a moment, and nodded, “Alright.”
“My surname is Kong; you can call me Old Taoist Kong. This is my grandson, Little Kong.”
The old man revealed a look of joy and immediately said.
“An Ping.”
Lu Ping’an gave his alias.
“An?”
Old Taoist Kong thought for a moment and didn’t hear of any large An family in the Jiang Kingdom.
However, he didn’t care; how many people in the Secret Realm would give their real names?
Moreover, apart from disciples of large families, he might be a hidden heir.
Immediately, the three of them divided the Seven Star Grass and traveled together.
Old Taoist Kong and his grandson didn’t have a specific destination; their main goal was to find more spiritual herbs and medicines on the periphery.
So they slowly moved forward in the direction Lu Ping’an pointed.
Beside a cliff.
“Boom, boom, boom—”
Four men and women were hunting a massive tiger with black flames burning all over its body.
“Roar, roar, roar!”
At this time, the black tiger was constantly roaring under the combined offensive of the four, covered in wounds.
However, the black flames burning all over its body were billowing and spreading, its power was terrifying, making the four of them completely dare not approach, and could only suppress it with magical artifacts.
Just then.
“Puchi!”
A sword light slashed down from the sky, directly decapitating the black tiger, and blood splattered.
“I want this Spirit Gathering Fruit.”
Lu Qingshan, wearing a white-gold brocade robe and holding a magic sword, stood in the air, looking at the four people who were completely stunned and caught off guard, and said.
The four people looked at Lu Qingshan, wanting to say something but not daring to say anything.
At that time, outside the Secret Realm, Lu Qingshan and the Core Formation expert had come, and they had all seen Lu Qingshan, knowing that he was not simple.
Moreover, the strength that Lu Qingshan had just revealed with his sword made everyone feel terrified, knowing that they were not his opponents.
After Lu Qingshan finished speaking, without waiting for them to agree, he stepped forward and took it with a wave of his hand.
A fruit with a flowing spiritual glow immediately fell into his hand from the cliff.
After putting the fruit into the spirit plant bag, Lu Qingshan didn’t even look at the four of them and left on his sword.
“Hmph, that’s too domineering.”
A woman curled her lips, her face full of resentment.
However, she only dared to mutter softly, not daring to shout loudly.
After all, the sharp and vigorous soaring sword energy of the other party made her couldn’t help but feel palpitations.
After seeing Lu Qingshan completely disappear, a middle-aged man next to him said with a wry smile, “The cultivation world is just like this, the strong prey on the weak. It’s already good that this person didn’t attack us.”
“Although this Netherflame Tiger was suppressed by us, its strength is already comparable to the second level, and its body is extremely tough, but it was broken open by this person with one sword.”
“No wonder he was sent to the Secret Realm by the Core Formation expert.”
The other two looked at the Netherflame Tiger on the ground, their eyes full of fear and apprehension.
Then they began to discuss how to divide this Netherflame Tiger.
“This Violet Nether Secret Realm is really boring; I have to go to the central area as soon as possible to gain something.”
Lu Qingshan stood on the flying sword, looked at the violet-colored sky, and headed towards the core area of the Secret Realm.
He knew that the Secret Realm was divided into the outer and central areas.
The spiritual herbs and medicines in the outer area mostly grew irregularly and were of limited age.
The central area was different.
The spiritual herbs and medicines inside were all precious and rare, and there were several dangerous places where rare spiritual medicines and fruits were almost always fixed.
And the Heavenly Spirit Fruits produced in the Violet Nether Secret Realm were basically in the central area.
Although Lu Qingshan said he was going home to take a look and came to the Violet Nether Secret Realm to hone himself.
But in fact, he wanted to get a few Heavenly Spirit Fruits to take back.
After all, his younger sister, Lu Qingzhu, only had a seventh-grade spiritual root.
Although he had prepared two Foundation Establishment Pills.
But in his opinion, it was still too few.
He had to have seven or eight pills so that his sister could establish her foundation without any burden or psychological pressure.
Moreover, there was also a younger brother, Lu Qingsong, at home.
Although it shouldn’t be difficult for his old man to get a few Foundation Establishment Pills with his abilities.
But with so many brothers and concubines in the family, he felt that his father would have difficulty taking care of everyone.
So he would take care of it himself if he could.
Moreover, this time when he went home, seeing his maternal grandfather and the situation of Green Bamboo Mountain, he also wanted to help as much as he could.