Among the waiting cultivators, the Tianhua Guan Family and the Luoyan Zeng Family took the lead.

The Lin Patriarch stepped forward to greet the Guan Patriarch and the Zeng Patriarch.

Shen Xuan scrutinized the Foundation Establishment cultivators beside the two patriarchs.

Each had two family members.

However, the other four Foundation Establishment cultivators made Shen Xuan extremely uneasy.

The four with the Guan Family were all filled with a murderous aura of blood.

Clearly, they were Tribulation Cultivators.

Once reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm, without absolute certainty, they avoided fighting easily.

Ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators, even in magical combat, seldom fought to the death.

Only Tribulation Cultivators would have so many lives under their hands.

On the other side, the four with the Zeng Family left Shen Xuan speechless.

Though they were in disguise, masking their true faces and auras,

in Shen Xuan's Insight Technique, nothing was hidden.

All four were Demon Cultivators with not low strength.

"Blood Spirit Sect, Corpse Refining Sect, White Bone Sect."

There was also one more whom Shen Xuan couldn't discern.

"Not the Netherworld Sect, nor the Yin Sha Sect, it must be the Hehuan Sect!"

Among the six major Demon Sects of Liang Country, the Hehuan Sect was the most mysterious.

Rarely did they openly fight with the Daoist Sect.

The Celestial Fragrance Pavilion was their peripheral organization, maintaining neutrality to the outside.

Looking at the other families' hired helpers,

most are not ordinary cultivators.

Their strength is mediocre.

Estimated to be recruited Loose Cultivators.

Among them, the weakest, the Qi Family, had only one slot.

Shen Xuan was secretly amazed.

The cultivator beside the Qi Patriarch dressed in black, face covered with a black scarf, even Shen Xuan couldn't see through.

"To dare enter the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm alone, this person is extraordinary."

Shen Xuan could only discern that this was a Female Cultivator.

The seven patriarchs gathered together.

After a brief discussion,

The Guan Patriarch announced loudly, "Everyone is here. We shall now open the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm."

"Rules, I presume, all of you are already aware. I will only emphasize one thing. Inside the secret realm, use your skills, life and death are not accounted for! Outside the secret realm, settle all grudges, do not act further!"

"Otherwise, us cultivators from the seven families will join forces to strike against!"

After speaking, the Guan Patriarch signaled to the other six patriarchs to jointly cast a spell to open the array.

Each of the seven chose a region to set up an Array Flag, casting a spell with hand seals.

As spiritual power was infused, the originally empty ancient battlefield plain suddenly changed colors, with a misty yellow wall emerging.

Within the walls stood an ancient city gate, which slowly opened under the infusion of spiritual power by the seven patriarchs.

"Everyone, enter in order quickly!"

The four cultivators from the Guan Family first transformed into escape lights and entered the gate, their figures disappearing instantly.

Subsequently, the cultivators from the Zeng Family and others similarly flew into the secret realm.

Shen Xuan and Scholar Qianzhu exchanged a look, simultaneously turning into escape lights and entering.

...

Upon entering the gate, Shen Xuan was met with darkness, feeling like a floating drift, indistinctly pulled by an attractive force.

After roughly the time to burn an incense stick,

his vision brightened, with clusters of vibrant spiritual light forming dense spiritual Qi, condensing into mist-like threads.

In the Insight Technique, there were no signs of other cultivators nearby, only the vibrant and lively spiritual Qi of the secret realm could be sensed.

Shen Xuan took a deep breath.

Feeling refreshed and invigorated.

"The concentration of spiritual Qi is so intense, no wonder it can nurture Heavenly and Earthly Treasures not found outside!"

Shen Xuan estimated that this secret realm's spiritual Qi is comparable to the Practice Room connected to a Tier Two Middle Grade Spirit Vein.

And this is just the periphery of the secret realm.

Shen Xuan exerted effort to control his body, gradually slowing down.

Suddenly.

A cluster of vibrant spiritual light enveloped him instantly, rendering him disoriented.

It felt like an elevator from his past life suddenly losing weight, followed swiftly by being rapidly teleported within the cluster of light.

Shen Xuan remained focused.

Quickly, the vibrant cluster of light dispersed.

Shen Xuan fell weightlessly from the void.

Fortunately, Shen Xuan was prepared, forming a hand seal, a cloud emerged under his feet, soaring through clouds and mist.

Once he steadied himself, Shen Xuan looked around, finding himself a hundred meters above the ground.

He summoned the Red-winged Snake Corpse Beast and mounted it.

Accelerating towards the ground.

Soon, he reached a grassland where Low Tier Spirit Plants were wildly growing.

Shen Xuan took out the Geography Jade Scroll of the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm, using the marked annotations to locate his position.

Though the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm is a small secret realm, its scope is not small, with a diameter spanning a thousand miles.

The Geography Jade Scroll divides it into periphery, inner, and core regions.

Essentially, a simple division.

The more central, the denser the spiritual Qi, and the higher the grade of Heavenly and Earthly Treasures and Demon Beasts.

The Ashoka Fruit is in the core region.

The Geography Jade Scroll marks some common Spiritual Objects and Demon Beasts in the secret realm.

In the periphery, most are Tier One in grade.

Though there are groups of demon birds and beasts, slightly troublesome.

Overall, they pose no great threat to Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Upon reaching the inner region, Tier Two and higher Spiritual Objects and Demon Beasts appear.

And in the core region, not only are there rare Heavenly and Earthly Treasures but also Tier Two Top Grade Demon Beasts.

Opportunities and risks coexist.

Having arrived, Shen Xuan naturally planned to explore.

Here, the small secret realm possesses unique environmental advantages, harboring numerous Tier Two Demon Beasts.

Especially the Water Attribute Demon Beast Essence Blood, which he currently needs urgently.

Within a hundred meters around, besides himself, there was no one else; Shen Xuan let out a light sigh.

In the secret realm, Shen Xuan dared not be careless, summoning the Golden Claw Divine Eagle Corpse Beast.

The eagle's eyes had a wide field of vision, used for vigilance.

Shen Xuan's mind conjured up the secret realm map.

"The location I'm in now is the very western edge of the secret realm, Taichu Slope, and I still have three hundred miles to go before reaching the core area."

Shen Xuan took out the Spirit Bamboo Jade Pendant to check the position of Scholar Qianzhu.

The opening of the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm lasts only forty-nine days.

After forty-nine days, regardless of the harvest, one must leave the secret realm.

Otherwise, they will be trapped in the secret realm for sixty years.

Almost no cultivators can live alone in the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm for sixty years.

Shen Xuan needs to seize the time to first meet with Scholar Qianzhu.

"Fortunately, the position isn't too far away; it is also in the outer region, merely a hundred miles."

For Foundation Establishment cultivators, a hundred miles is just a short half-hour journey.

However, the secret realm is fraught with danger.

The Spirit Bamboo Jade Pendant shows that Scholar Qianzhu's speed isn't quick.

Clearly, she should be vigilant as she travels.

Thinking for a moment, Shen Xuan rode the Red-winged Snake, letting the Golden Claw Divine Eagle circle in the sky, heading towards Scholar Qianzhu.

The Shadow Octopus Corpse Beast was also summoned, hiding invisibly on the Red-winged Snake, ready to act as a meat shield against attacks at any time.

Soon, a place with rolling toxic gas appeared ahead of Shen Xuan, blocking out the sky.

"Such thick poison gas!"

With great success in being [Immune to Poison], this level of poison gas naturally cannot harm Shen Xuan.

However, for safety's sake, Shen Xuan chose to descend to the ground, putting away the Golden Claw Divine Eagle and Red-winged Snake corpse beasts.

This is a well-known toxic area within the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm: Poison Bone Forest.

It stands directly in Shen Xuan's path.

Even if he wanted to detour, there's no road to be found.

Shen Xuan looked around; to meet with Scholar Qianzhu, Poison Bone Forest is a must-cross path.

The quickest shortcut is to traverse straight through here.

Shen Xuan's Divine Thought stirred slightly, and from the insect bag at his waist, a black cloud flew out, composed of thousands of Shadow-devouring Demon Insects.

Centered on Shen Xuan, they spread out in all directions.

Over the years, the Shadow-devouring Demon Insects have proliferated rapidly, increasing in number.

By rights, newly born Shadow-devouring Demon Insects need Shen Xuan's essence blood to recognize him as their master.

However, Shen Xuan is diligently cultivating, hoping to break through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment soon.

He is unwilling to waste essence blood.

Letting the newly born Shadow-devouring Demon Insects fend for themselves.

The raising of Shadow-devouring Demon Insects boils down to a cultivator's essence blood, demon beast meat, and Yin Soul Corpse Qi.

Yet, no matter how much demon beast meat and Yin Soul Corpse Qi Shen Xuan provides, some Shadow-devouring Demon Insects inevitably fail to obtain food, being edged out by their kind.

Then, a bizarre scene unfolds.

The weaker Shadow-devouring Demon Insects are devoured and divided by the stronger ones among them!

In this way, the scale of Shen Xuan's Shadow-devouring Demon Insects has always maintained five or six thousand.

Among the later spawned Shadow-devouring Demon Insects, although numerous, only a few with extraordinary talent survive.

And among these five or six thousand Shadow-devouring Demon Insects, seven have emerged to be Tier One Top Grade, each forming their own retinue.

This has made things easier for Shen Xuan.

He only needs to control these seven Shadow-devouring Demon Insect leaders to command the swarm of five or six thousand insects.

Shadow-devouring Demon Insects aren't afraid of poison gas and have high poison resistance.

After the Shadow-devouring Demon Insects spread out, Shen Xuan raised the Bishui Sword, easing into low-altitude sword flight.

Under the cover of the Shadow-devouring Demon Insects, he headed towards Poison Bone Forest.

The Poison Bone Forest spans several tens of miles in size.

After entering Poison Bone Forest, the floating poison gas became even denser, clearly hindering the Divine Sense, making Spiritual Power flow more sluggish.

"Such a place is more suited to Poison Cultivators."

Shen Xuan sighed inwardly.

The Cyan Spirit Secret Realm is not merely a place of abundant Spiritual Qi.

There are also many turbid areas.

Poison Bone Forest is just one of them.

Some regions even have dense Demonic Qi.

Spiritual Qi and Demonic Qi are parts of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, two sides of the same coin, complementing each other.

"Thus, those Demon Cultivators enter the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm not necessarily targeting cultivators."

Shen Xuan mused secretly.

The Cyan Spirit Secret Realm doesn't have opportunities for Core Formation.

But for early and middle stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, there are many Heavenly and Earthly Treasures worth scavenging.

Demons are also among them.

Along the way, various Demon Beast remains are everywhere, new and old, big and small, assorted and oddly shaped.

Beside these Demon Beast remains grow small purple-black flowers, some bearing scaly fruits, quite vibrant.

Shen Xuan glanced at them curiously.

In his mind, the introduction from the Intelligence Jade Scroll about the secret realm appeared:

"Poison Dragon Fruit, formed by absorbing demon beast poison gas, highly toxic, should not be touched."

This extremely toxic Poison Dragon Fruit is a rare cultivation spiritual object for Poison Cultivators.

But Shen Xuan had no intention of picking it.

He isn't afraid of the Poison Dragon Fruit's toxicity.

It's just that Poison Dragon Fruit is hard to preserve and requires a special Jade Box, can't be mixed.

Shen Xuan is too lazy to gather them.

Under the cover of the Shadow-devouring Demon Insects, Shen Xuan continued forward.

Just then, the warning from the Demon Insect Leader was heard.

Shen Xuan sent a trace of Divine Thought to blend with the Demon Insect Leader to observe.

Three miles ahead, two groups of cultivators were confronting each other.

Among them, one person, dressed in black with a black veil covering her face, is the female cultivator from the Qi Family.

The other group is from the Weimu County renowned Liushi Wei Family.

Both of them emanated Evil Qi, with wicked smiles, blocking the Qi Family female cultivator from front and back.

"These two are clearly Tribulation Cultivators!"

"They're not here to collect cultivation spiritual objects, but to ambush the Qi Family female cultivator, evidently planning ahead."

Shen Xuan didn't recklessly approach but had his Divine Thought blend with the Demon Insect Leader, lurking to observe the situation.

"Qi Wanqing, you have quite the nerve, daring to enter the Cyan Spirit Secret Realm alone, isn't it convenient for us brothers!"

One slim, tall cultivator, with a lecherous grin, summoned a Wolf Fang Saber, slowly advancing on Qi Wanqing.

Another stocky cultivator wielding a yellow Stone Turtle Shield, was encircling her.

Qi Wanqing was panic-stricken.

"Two Daoists, I won't take the Purple Spirit Flower anymore. For the sake of being fellow practitioners from Weimu County, may I be allowed to depart?"

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