Yang Hong wanted to continue robbing cultivators, but all cultivators avoided him.
They calculated Yang Hong's route in advance and all took detours.
After three days, Yang Hong had only robbed a little over 6,000 cultivators.
Seeing that there were few cultivators left to rob, Yang Hong became annoyed.
"You idiots behind me, come out!"
Xie Miaohua had been following him all along, Yang Hong had discovered this long ago.
He just hadn't paid attention to them, but now that there were no more cultivators to rob, he might as well rob them again.
"Senior brother, we've been following you for so many days, and we still don't know your name."
Upon hearing Yang Hong's call, Xie Miaohua boldly stepped forward.
"I go by my name, and I have no surname. I am Wu Dalang."
Yang Hong lied through his teeth, unwilling to reveal his true identity.
"Greetings, Senior Brother Wu. I am Xie Miaohua, the senior disciple sister of the inner sect of the Qianyuan Sword Sect."
"These are my two incompetent junior sisters, She Wanting and Gui Ruolin."
Xie Miaohua introduced herself generously.
Yang Hong glanced indifferently at the three women and immediately said.
"This is the second time. The usual rules apply: hand over your jade slips, spirit stones, pills, and magic artifacts."
"You~ You~ You scoundrel!"
Gui Ruolin angrily pointed at Yang Hong and cursed.
"Whoosh!"
"Clang~"
Seeing someone pointing at him, even if it was a beauty, Yang Hong drew his sword without hesitation.
Xie Miaohua hastily drew her sword to block, but she was directly sent flying.
As she was sent flying, she also dragged Gui Ruolin behind her.
"Pfft~"
Gui Ruolin spat out a mouthful of blood, dyeing Xie Miaohua's back red.
"Senior brother, please forgive us~"
Seeing this, She Wanting quickly stepped in front of Xie Miaohua to shield her and apologized to Yang Hong.
"Senior brother, please calm your anger. My junior sister has a problem with her head and speaks without thinking. Please do not take it to heart."
She Wanting's legs trembled. She was very worried that Yang Hong would split her with a single sword.
She was certain that she could not withstand Yang Hong's sword strike.
"You can deal with your idiot junior sister yourself. I only want jade slips, spirit stones, magic artifacts, and pills.
You know the rules, start now."
Yang Hong slowly retracted his long sword, looking impatiently at the three female cultivators.
These three were fools. They had followed him for three days and still didn't know his rules?
As for them being beauties?
Who cares if they are beautiful or not?
No matter how beautiful, they are still enemies that can be killed with a single sword.
"Cough cough~ Senior Brother Wu, please calm your anger. Junior sister wishes to make a trade with Senior Brother."
"No need. Hand over whatever good things you have as compensation for not killing you."
Before Xie Miaohua could finish, Yang Hong interrupted.
"Cough cough. Senior Brother Wu, I wish to trade information with Senior Brother, not physical items."
"Information? That's interesting. Tell me what kind of information it is. If it's valuable, I won't rob you."
To Yang Hong, information was more important than other treasures,
especially information about the Hongdong Secret Realm.
"Senior brother, this is the information I want to exchange. Senior brother can take a look first."
Xie Miaohua rubbed her chest, looking pained, but still endured the pain and took out a jade slip, tossing it to Yang Hong.
"Heh heh~ You are quite clever."
Seeing her so forthright, Yang Hong praised her,
which was met with Xie Miaohua's helpless wry smile.
If she hadn't been so forthright, she might have died.
"Hmm~ Is that so?"
Yang Hong quickly finished reading the jade slip and was somewhat surprised by its contents.
It turned out that 3,600 years ago, the Hongdong Secret Realm experienced an anomaly, and its spiritual energy concentration rapidly increased.
The demonic beasts in the secret realm not only reproduced rapidly but also their cultivation bases continuously improved.
3,600 years ago, the strongest demonic beasts in the Hongdong Secret Realm were only at the third-order Fusion Realm, but their numbers were very small, only two or three.
By 1,200 years ago, the first fourth-order Golden Core Realm demonic beast appeared in the Hongdong Secret Realm.
That time, the human cultivators who entered suffered heavy casualties.
1,080 years ago, human cultivators began to send Golden Core cultivators into the realm.
Their targets were very clear: to kill those fourth-order Golden Core demonic beasts and late-stage third-order Fusion Realm demonic beasts.
After several attempts, humans gained some experience, and the Hongdong Secret Realm remained firmly in human hands.
However, there were still some restrictions on Golden Core cultivators entering,
for example, they could only stay for 28 days, after which they would be directly teleported out.
There were also many other secrets that Yang Hong did not know.
"This information is quite valuable. You may leave now."
Yang Hong put away the jade slip and was about to leave. He planned to go to the location recorded in the jade slip to reap some rewards.
As for going to kill fourth-order demonic beasts and collect their cores?
Yang Hong had no such intention. The Golden Core cultivators from the Lieyan Sect, as well as the senior disciple sister from Qianyuan Sect, were all here.
He knew that the Golden Core demonic beasts in the secret realm must have been wiped out.
Since that was the case, he might as well go to harvest other demonic beast lairs.
These lairs had one thing in common:
they all collected human corpses.
This meant that Yang Hong could obtain a large amount of resources from these lairs, especially cultivation technique jade slips.
"Senior brother, junior sister has a request. Please listen."
Seeing Yang Hong about to leave again, Xie Miaohua quickly called out.
"Speak~"
Yang Hong was in a good mood now, so he didn't mind listening.
"Thank you, senior brother. My two junior sisters have some issues with their minds. If I hadn't looked after them, they might have died long ago."
At this point, Xie Miaohua looked at her two indignant junior sisters with helplessness.
Yang Hong nodded in agreement. Although he hadn't seen their faces, judging by their figures and demeanor, those two female cultivators were definitely beauties.
But they were flowers in a greenhouse. In such a dangerous secret realm, they were still so arrogant.
Wasn't that courting death?
"Therefore, I hope that after I leave, senior brother can take care of them."
"I refuse."
As soon as Xie Miaohua finished speaking, Yang Hong immediately refused.
Taking care of these two girls would be inviting trouble, wouldn't it?
"I know senior brother doesn't think highly of my two junior sisters, and I don't dare to ask senior brother to keep them with him all the time. I only beg senior brother not to drive them away,
and to lend a hand when they are in danger and senior brother has the spare capacity."
Xie Miaohua was not surprised at all by Yang Hong's refusal and quickly added.
"Heh heh, I don't have the time."
Yang Hong had many secrets, and he didn't want to be burdened by two pairs of watchful eyes.
After speaking, Yang Hong turned and left without a word.
"Senior brother, wait."
Xie Miaohua quickly chased after him with her two junior sisters.
"Heh, they've really set their sights on me, haven't they?"
Yang Hong thought to himself, then quickened his pace.
Although he wasn't flying with magic, his speed wasn't slow.
However, Xie Miaohua had to drag two junior sisters along, so her speed naturally slowed down.
In just a quarter of an hour, Xie Miaohua and the other two could no longer see Yang Hong's figure.
"Senior sister, since he doesn't think highly of us, let's not go out of our way to embarrass ourselves."
She Wanting tugged at Xie Miaohua and gently advised.
"Sigh~ the two of you."
Xie Miaohua looked at her two good junior sisters and shook her head.
These two still hadn't realized Yang Hong's strength.
"Let's go to Wasteland City. After you enter the city, do not come out until the secret realm closes."
"Senior sister, we want to..."
Hearing that they couldn't leave Wasteland City, Gui Ruolin became unhappy.
But just as she was about to act spoiled, Xie Miaohua stopped her.
"Silence! This is an order. You are not allowed to leave Wasteland City."
Xie Miaohua had no interest in talking nicely anymore and her face turned grim.