Chapter 75: The Secret Realm that Swallowed Liuyun Sect Reappears
“I’m fine.” Lou Yunxiao waved his arms, and the demonic Qi around him moved with his actions.
Like black flames, it followed him like a shadow.
“No.” Zhuang Yusheng approached him and touched his clothes.
“Sizzle.”
A small patch of skin on his finger was instantly corroded by the demonic Qi.
He then recoiled a large step.
He didn’t forget to pull Ning Xiaoxiao back with him to a safe distance far away from Lou Yunxiao.
Seeing this, the others also backed away.
“? What’s wrong with you all?”
Lou Yunxiao took a step forward.
They took a step back.
Their faces were written with expressions saying “Don’t come over here!”
Wu Gou asked, “Benefactor Lou, can you not retract your demonic Qi?”
“It seems so.” This time, Lou Yunxiao waved both arms together, and the black demonic Qi danced up and down.
Liu Li: “Fellow Daoist Lou, you look like a big crow.”
“Hahaha.” Ning Ke couldn’t help but laugh.
“Ming Xin, you laughed.” Lou Yunxiao still remembered Ning Ke’s instruction and didn’t call him A-Ke.
He walked up to Ning Ke and waved his arms like a peacock spreading its tail, even spinning in a circle. “You quite like me like this, don’t you? Come, I’ll dance for you.”
Seeing this scene, Zhuang Yusheng, who had known Lou Yunxiao since childhood, pinched his own philtrum frantically. “I think I might still be dreaming.”
Ning Xiaoxiao also twitched her lips, voicing everyone’s thoughts: “Has my senior brother absorbed too much demonic Qi?”
Liu Li: “He must have absorbed too much demonic Qi.”
Wu Gou: “Absolutely too much demonic Qi.”
In the end, except for Ning Ke, who knew the truth, everyone else reached this consensus.
After their moods relaxed, Ning Xiaoxiao’s gaze fell on Ning Ke, recalling what this Fellow Daoist Ming Xin had said.
At the time, when the demoness rushed over, everyone was tense and far from her, so except for her, no one noticed the different words overlapping with Lou Yunxiao’s question.
Her senior brother had called her “Junior Sister,” while that Fellow Daoist Ming Xin… had called her “Sister.”
She stepped forward, wanting to ask.
But she suddenly heard several sounds of breaking through the air coming from a distance.
They stopped in front of them.
They were Integration stage disciples from the four great sects, one from each sect.
It was a demon-slaying team one level higher than Lou Yunxiao and the others.
At this moment, seeing the destroyed residences and the messy battlefield.
And the stone tablet rising from the ground in the center of the city, their faces were filled with shock.
“The six of you killed the demon?”
The young man in the lead was a disciple the Sword Sect had recalled to slay demons.
His name was Cui Xuecheng.
He was also the captain of this team.
“Yes, Senior Brother Cui.” Ning Xiaoxiao had to temporarily abandon her thought of questioning Ning Ke and said to Cui Xuecheng, “We worked together and killed the demon.”
“According to the information you reported, that demon was at least at the Integration stage…” Cui Xuecheng thought of the Youhun Grass outside the city. No matter which direction they attacked from, they couldn’t get past the grass and were always kept outside. Just now, the grass had withered completely.
Clearly, it was caused by these few disciples in the city defeating the Great Demon.
“How exactly did you do it?”
After Ning Xiaoxiao gave them an account.
The shock on the four people’s faces grew even more intense.
As for the cultivator from the Buddhist Sect, his gaze fell on Wu Gou, filled with greed.
He asked Wu Gou: “Junior Brother Wu Gou, can you take out your staff and let your senior brother have a look?”
He had been in the Buddhist Sect for a long time, and he had never seen this taciturn junior brother use a staff.
But even if Wu Gou didn’t use a staff, his talent left them miles behind, and he was always praised by Abbot Wu Jue.
It made his teeth itch with jealousy.
Now, hearing that the Youhun Grass was dispersed by Wu Gou using a staff.
He made this request.
If the staff was really that powerful, he wouldn’t mind snatching it from Wu Gou’s hands…
Who would have thought that Wu Gou would give him no face at all? He directly shook his head and said.
“No.”
“Junior Brother, we are from the same sect; there’s no need to be so stingy, right? I’m just taking a look, not stealing it.”
Cui Xuecheng frowned, glanced over, and said, “Fellow Daoist Yong Jie, that staff is Fellow Daoist Wu Gou’s property. Whether he takes it out or not is up to him. For you, as a senior brother, to continue asking for it is somewhat lacking in dignity.”
Yong Jie clicked his tongue in his mind.
This guy named Cui really loved to meddle in other people’s business.
He waved his hand: “Fine, fine, I won’t look. Just keep it in your Qiankun bag to hatch eggs.”
Even so, he was still determined. As long as he caught an opportunity, he would surely seize that staff for his own use.
“Little Brother Lou, although that demonic Qi doesn’t affect your handsome appearance, if you keep it released like this, it might be a bit bad when the citizens enter the city later.” The woman beside Cui Xuecheng wore the uniform red gauze dress of the Music Sect. She landed gracefully and poked Lou Yunxiao with her finger, her eyes full of smiles. “Can you retract it?”
“Senior Sister Shen!” Liu Li lunged and hugged Shen Yan’er’s waist, rubbing against the beauty.
“You little brat.” Shen Yan’er pinched Liu Li’s chin and looked her over. “Mhm, you did well. Although you were injured, you protected your face.”
“Not becoming ugly is the greatest victory.”
Ning Ke, listening from the side: “…”
As expected, the entire Music Sect was full of face-connoisseurs.
“I can’t retract it.” Lou Yunxiao was very honest and said directly, “I ate all the demonic Qi of an Integration stage Great Demon, so now the demonic Qi is released and won’t be under my control.”
His words made the four people’s expressions change.
He swallowed the demonic Qi of an Integration stage Great Demon all by himself and didn’t lose his sanity?
This Lou Yunxiao… was truly terrifying.
In the end, Shen Yan’er cast an illusion on Lou Yunxiao so that he finally wouldn’t be exposed in front of the citizens.
The mother and daughter from the Liu Mansion came out of the room and thanked Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao repeatedly. But thinking of the deceased family members of the Liu Mansion, they couldn’t help but weep.
She thought that if her Master had stayed with her to look for Junjun back then, he wouldn’t have met such an end…
With the Great Demon dealt with, the citizens were able to return to the city, yet they were still somewhat shaken.
They were afraid that a demon might pop up somewhere else.
Cui Xuecheng heard that Ning Xiaoxiao had killed the demon using a Demon-Sealing Talisman.
So he took her to the center of the city to check the stone tablet sealing the Great Demon.
He let her check if there were any loopholes in the seal. If there were, he would help her reinforce the inscriptions.
Liu Li walked next to Shen Yan’er, and the others followed them back to the inn.
“Senior Sister Shen, while I was away, did the Sect Master miss me?”
“You little clingy thing.” Shen Yan’er laughed and poked Liu Li’s forehead. “A few days ago, the Wuji Space, which only Integration stage cultivators can enter, opened. Our Sect Master and the Sect Masters of the Buddhist Sect and Dan Sect all entered to find treasures. I’m afraid she has no time to miss you.”
“Huh?” Liu Li asked, “Did the Sword Sect Master not go?”
“Speaking of that…” Shen Yan’er glanced back at Lou Yunxiao before continuing. “The secret realm that swallowed the Liuyun Sect back then appeared at the same time as the Wuji Space. The Sword Sect Master chose to go to the Liuyun Sect ruins.”
These words shocked Lou Yunxiao.
“Where is the secret realm that swallowed the Liuyun Sect?” He looked at Shen Yan’er, clearly agitated.
Their conversation also made Ning Ke suddenly realize that the plot had already progressed to this point.
Back when time regressed, because he was in a hurry to save Lou Yunxiao, he hadn’t paid attention to the aftermath of the Liuyun Sect.
But in the plot, it was written that after the Liuyun Sect was destroyed by Ning Ke, it was swallowed by an extraterrestrial space.
Afterward, that space appeared for a period when Lou Yunxiao was at the Soul Transformation stage. Gao Ze entered that space during this period but couldn’t come out until Lou Yunxiao became the Sword Sect Master.
“It’s at the old site of the Liuyun Sect,” Shen Yan’er said, frowning.
“Little Brother Lou, the information I have isn’t much. I only know that the secret realm requires a cultivator to reach at least the Soul Transformation stage to enter. Moreover, no one knows the conditions for leaving the realm. Now that your Sect Master has gone in, you’d better wait quietly for news. Don’t try to force your way into that realm. Otherwise, if you can’t come out and lose your life there, it will be a tragedy.”
Secret realms were all extraterrestrial spaces.
They had their own rules.
Like the secret realm Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao had entered before—only cultivators above the Golden Core stage could enter, and they would be automatically kicked out after one year of cultivation.
And secret realms like this one, where no one knew how to get out, were the most dangerous.
It was very likely to be trapped inside for a lifetime.
But Lou Yunxiao still said, “No matter what, I must go.”
Translator’s Note:
Face-connoisseurs (颜狗 – Yán gǒu): Literal translation is “face dog.” It’s slang for people who are obsessed with good-looking people. The Music Sect members are basically the aesthetic police of this world.
Wuji Space (无极空间): Wuji means “infinite” or “limitless.” It’s a classic name for high-level dimensions in Xianxia novels.
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