Chapter 88: Something Happened in the Secret Realm
Li Jing’s face was dark. “I was careless.”
Even so, the roars of the monster beasts around them showed no sign of ceasing. Following the tremors in the ground, more and more beasts began darting about wildly, attacking anyone they saw.
Lin Qingyue and the others relied on the array formation and Invisibility Talismans to hide in a concealed spot, watching the herds of beasts pass by.
Fortunately, they had found a hiding place early on. If they had been any later, with monster beasts everywhere, their safety would have been far from guaranteed.
However, the situation was not optimistic. With the beast tide in full swing, they had to make their way to the exit, or they would be in serious trouble later.
Yu Qianqian asked, “What do we do now?”
Lin Qingyue replied, “Wait a moment.”
Li Jing’s expression remained ugly, but he said, “If something has happened here, the outside world should know. The Elders will come to save us.”
As he spoke, he thought of something and looked at Lin Qingyue. “Didn’t your Eldest Senior Brother give you a magic artifact? Try using it; it might be useful.”
Lin Qingyue looked at the chaos and the increasing number of monster beasts. If they continued to wait, there was no telling how long it would take.
“I’ll try.”
They were inside a secret realm; whether the bell could be heard by his Eldest Senior Brother was unknown.
Lin Qingyue took out the jade bell and shook it.
Li Jing felt something was missing. “Aren’t you going to shout something?”
Lin Qingyue: ?????
“Shout what?”
“If you don’t shout, how will your Eldest Senior Brother know you’re in trouble?”
Lin Qingyue was speechless; he really didn’t want to converse with an idiot.
“We are in a secret realm. How could my voice possibly transmit out?”
Li Jing urged, “Just shout once quickly, maybe it works.”
“If it’s so useful, you shout. Maybe that will work.”
“I’m serious.”
Lin Qingyue didn’t want to look at him. Hugging the little guy in his arms, he gripped the bell and shook it once more.
“Let’s wait a bit first, then play it by ear and head toward the secret realm exit.”
Outside, Ye Jingxian, who was meditating, sensed something and opened his eyes.
A moment later, he sensed it again—faintly. Lin Qingyue must have rung the artifact he gave him.
He stood up, sword in hand, and walked to the entrance of the secret realm.
The crowd watched, confused about what he was doing, until the very next moment he raised his sword, preparing to force his way in.
“Fellow Daoist Ye, what are you doing?”
“You aren’t thinking of going in, are you? You can’t just enter this secret realm casually.”
“That’s right, the disciples of the various sects are still inside, and it’s not time for the realm to close yet. Why do you suddenly want to go in?”
Cultivators with cultivation bases higher than the secret realm’s limit could not enter; if they did, they had to suppress their cultivation.
Moreover, this secret realm was publicly recognized as a training ground for Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment disciples. It was a convention that no one above Foundation Establishment could enter.
“Something has happened inside,” Ye Jingxian stated.
“Impossible, we haven’t sensed anything.”
Some didn’t believe him, while others thought perhaps something had happened specifically to his junior brother. “But what happened to your junior brother?”
Ye Jingxian nodded. “Mn.”
“Why don’t you wait a moment? Perhaps it’s just a small matter,” an Elder from the Ten Thousand Sword Sect suggested.
They possessed the Soul Lamps of all their disciples, which allowed them to see their current status.
Elder Song checked the disciples’ Soul Lamps and found that Lin Qingyue’s lamp was burning brightly without any issues.
“Jingxian, your junior brother’s Soul Lamp is fine. Just wait. The secret realm is almost due to close anyway.”
Ye Jingxian frowned slightly and said to Elder Song, “Little Junior Brother wouldn’t call for help without reason.” Unless it was a major event.
He wanted to go in. If they insisted on stopping him, it would only waste his time. Ye Jingxian looked at the Elder, his expression solemn and earnest as he reiterated.
“It is very likely that something has gone wrong inside.”
Elder Song had heard of Lin Qingyue’s reputation, so he hesitated. Ye Jingxian didn’t look at them again and headed toward the entrance.
Seeing this, people from other sects shouted, “Isn’t this disrupting the disciples’ trial?”
Ye Jingxian didn’t care what they said; he went in without hesitation.
Elder Song and the others looked at each other, pondering the probability of his words being true.
Chu Yanran of the San Qing Sect understood what kind of person Ye Jingxian was. She looked at her Elders. “Our San Qing Sect should send someone in as well. If something really has happened, we can protect our junior brothers and sisters.”
With people from both the San Qing Sect and the Ten Thousand Sword Sect entering, the Ling Xiao Sect quickly followed suit. Seeing this, the others hesitated for a while but eventually felt they should go check.
Within moments, someone discovered that a disciple’s Soul Lamp had gone out.
It wasn’t uncommon for disciples to have accidents with their Soul Lamps; people always died in secret realms. But for accidents to happen suddenly at this specific juncture—and apparently to more than one disciple—caused a panic. The crowd immediately sent people into the secret realm to save lives.
Inside the secret realm, the beast tide was surging violently. The disciples here were all in the Foundation Establishment or Qi Refining stages and had no way to deal with so many monster beasts. In the process of fleeing, some were injured, and others lost their lives.
Yu Qianqian, Li Jing, and the others looked at the unstoppable beast tide and immediately knew that something was truly wrong.
“Lin Qingyue, you were right,” Li Jing said.
Fortunately, the highest cultivation level among these monster beasts was early Golden Core. With magic treasures in hand, they still had a chance to escape.
However, they couldn’t withstand the sheer number of frenzied beasts.
Yu Qianqian asked, “Do we wait, or do we find a chance to get to the exit?”
They only had two paths now. Either wait for people from the sect to arrive—but whether the sect knew they were in trouble was one thing, and whether they would still be safe by the time help arrived was another. If their luck was bad, they might be trapped here.
Or, they could find an opportunity to head for the exit and leave the realm. But doing so meant a high probability of being heavily injured by monster beasts halfway there. Whether they could make it was uncertain.
Li Jing looked at Lin Qingyue. “How confident are you that your Eldest Senior Brother knows we are here?”
Lin Qingyue: “I don’t know.”
Li Jing thought for a moment, pursed his lips, and said, “I am the Young Sect Master. Before I came, my father and Little Junior Uncle gave me many magic treasures. Getting to the exit shouldn’t be a problem.”
“Also, my father placed a protective spiritual power on me. If I get injured, the Elders will know, and they will come in to save us.”
Hearing this, Yu Qianqian asked, “So what do you plan to do?”
Li Jing replied, “I can’t bring myself to injure myself on purpose. Besides, between getting injured for no reason and getting out, getting out is definitely better. Whether I get injured or not is uncertain.”
He was inclined to head to the exit immediately.
Yu Qianqian looked at Lin Qingyue. “Senior Brother Lin, should we go over, or wait for Senior Brother Ye?”
Like Li Jing said, why suffer an injury for nothing? It was better to go straight to the exit.
Lin Qingyue looked at the monster beasts that pounced and bit at anything in sight, pointing at them. “Have you considered a possibility? That we try to leave, but succumb before we even reach the exit?”
Li Jing: “Is our luck that bad?”
As soon as these words came out, Yu Qianqian fell silent, and Lin Qingyue gave him a meaningful look.
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