“What happened?” Bai Shengyi and Qin Si asked urgently.
The Mahayana cultivator stammered, “The Vast Universe Secret Realm… the Vast Universe Secret Realm is devouring our Divine Revelation Minor World!”
Bai Shengyi and Qin Si gasped, “How is that possible!”
Not to mention that the Vast Universe Secret Realm was just a secret realm, but before they entered the secret realm that day, they had used a formation to curb the downward trend of the Vast Universe Secret Realm, and countless Mahayana cultivators were guarding the formation outside the secret realm.
“Two Immortal Lords, I am not lying to you! Everything I say is true, I can swear a Dao oath!” The Mahayana cultivator swore a Dao oath, saying with immense grief and indignation, “Also, due to the backlash of the Vast Universe Secret Realm, the Dao Lords of Ten Thousand Cliffs, Song Dao Lord, and others who were guarding the formation have also perished!”
Bai Shengyi’s heart sank heavily.
After the Mahayana cultivator finished speaking, he fainted. Qin Si stepped forward to give him a healing elixir and frowned, “Ayi, take a look.”
Bai Shengyi examined him and found that the Mahayana cultivator’s vitality was rapidly draining.
This was not her imagination!
“Shengyi, your and Qin Xiaosi’s vitality is also disappearing.” The Reincarnation Brush suddenly said.
The Reincarnation Brush had been outside, controlling the great divine fires to burn the resentment in this area. Although resentment would constantly regenerate as long as the formation was not removed, a lot had been reduced.
As an inanimate object, the Reincarnation Brush was most sensitive to vitality, so it was the first to detect the abnormality in Bai Shengyi. It had not spoken earlier because it had initially thought it was due to Bai Shengyi’s repeated actions after advancing without enough time to recover her strength.
“Could it be… it made the move?” Qin Si’s gaze fell upon the ground.
Bai Shengyi sneered, “Most likely. Of course, it’s also possible that Yun Youyue made the move.”
“What do we do now?” The Reincarnation Brush flew to Bai Shengyi, “Only your Starfall Imperial Vastness power can break this formation. Brush brush suggests you break these formations first, and then find a way to deal with it.”
“There’s no time,” Bai Shengyi said.
Before the Reincarnation Brush could understand what Bai Shengyi meant, it heard a constant hum in the sky and earth. Stone doors appeared in the north, east, and west, corresponding to each other and slowly opening.
“You can’t open it!”
Qiao Yi suddenly jumped out from the east, holding the Thousand Miles River Banner and fanning it. A ray of spiritual light struck the stone door, preventing it from opening.
After not seeing him for many days, Qiao Yi looked very haggard. At this moment, his face contorted with exertion, “Quickly stop these doors from opening! If they open, none of us in the secret realm can get out!”
He used a great divine ability to broadcast his voice far and wide, so that almost everyone in the secret realm could hear him.
As many people watched, hesitating, another person jumped out and confronted the western stone door. It was Long Zining and others from the Moon Star Middle World.
“Qiao Yi is right! These doors are the way the Vast Universe Secret Realm devours the life force of all living beings. Once the doors are opened, the life force will be completely out of control, and then all of us will be devoured by the secret realm!”
Clearly, Long Zining and the others had also discovered the abnormality of the Vast Universe Secret Realm.
“This secret realm has already developed its own sentience!”
As the words fell, all the cultivators still in the secret realm were in an uproar!
“Impossible! What kind of joke are you telling? How can the Vast Universe Secret Realm, a secret realm, develop sentience? Even if you’re making up stories to fool us, at least make it a plausible one!”
“Exactly! Who knows if you’ve colluded beforehand to wear down our spiritual power so you can seize the opportunities within the secret realm?”
Not only Long Zining, Qiao Yi, and the others could enter the Vast Universe Secret Realm. Long before Bai Shengyi and the others entered, they had instructed the cultivators guarding the secret realm outside to let any cultivator who wished to enter do so as long as they did not harm Divine Revelation and could enter through their own abilities, minimizing the impact on Divine Revelation.
This meant that besides the major powers of the Purple Yellow, Moon Star, and Chong Yuan Middle Worlds, there were also people from other small and medium-sized worlds who had rushed over.
However, because the people from the three great middle worlds had been making so much noise earlier, the rest of them had no presence.
But at this moment, Long Zining and Qiao Yi’s words had immediately captured everyone’s attention.
“Brothers, such an anomaly clearly indicates that a rare treasure is about to appear. Don’t listen to them and waste your spiritual power.”
Someone in the dark shouted, drawing widespread agreement.
The black-clothed cultivator who had shouted quietly retreated and ran all the way to the center of the entire secret realm.
“Lord Tang Qiao, everything has been done according to your instructions. I believe that it won’t be long before Qiao Yi and Long Zining can no longer hold on,” the black-clothed cultivator said with cupped fists. “However, our people still haven’t found Lord Jiang Liuchen, nor have we contacted Fairy Yun Youyue.”
Tang Qiao’s face was grim.
“Don’t worry about Jiang Liuchen. That person is unreliable and greedy for life, afraid of death. He’s probably hiding in some corner right now. As for Yun Youyue…” Tang Qiao paused, “Send a message to the Prefect. Yun Youyue has likely betrayed our Ying Wu Prefecture.”
The center of the Vast Universe Secret Realm was a majestic peak that towered into the clouds. Tang Qiao was standing at the summit of the peak, clearly seeing Yun Youyue and Dao Lord Qing Lan clashing in the distance. The four great formations had already been activated, and the remaining task was to consolidate the luck of the entire Vast Universe Secret Realm. Yet, at this moment, Yun Youyue was not obeying orders at all.
Tang Qiao had always known that Yun Youyue was not to be trusted.
“Have you found the location of Bai Shengyi and the others?”
“They are in the south.”
Tang Qiao said coldly, “Since that is the case, let’s use Bai Shengyi’s blood to consecrate our great formation first!”
She pinched her fingers and then cut her palm. Azure blue blood flowed out, forming a thin line that drifted south.
“Crack—”
Amidst all sorts of anomalies, this sound was completely insignificant, yet Bai Shengyi detected it immediately.
“A Si, let’s go!”
Bai Shengyi pulled Qin Si and retreated three hundred miles in an instant. And in that very moment, the stone door above their heads opened unexpectedly, and a world-destroying dark light burst out from it!
Obscure and deep darkness, wherever it reached, everything was submerged into nothingness!
“Such dense resentment!” Bai Shengyi frowned tightly and turned to ask Qin Si, “A Si, what is this door?”
Bai Shengyi had asked Qin Si this question before, but at that time, they were both busy with their tribulation, and Qin Si had not answered. As more things piled up, Bai Shengyi forgot about it.
But now, Bai Shengyi couldn’t help but recall it again.
The Reincarnation Brush waved in mid-air, “Spring arrives, all things grow!”
The vast life force resisted the surging resentment and malice, yet Bai Shengyi still frowned tightly.
“If my guess is correct, this door should be called the Gate of Reincarnation. The Gate of the Underworld River we saw earlier was just one of its doors,” Qin Si said in a low voice. “It is rumored that after the gods fell, the Vast Universe hid, the Heavenly Dao appeared, and Reincarnation retreated, and humanity was born with three souls and seven spirits yet only one life. Cultivators who cultivated the spiritual energy of heaven and earth also lost their souls and scattered at the slightest provocation, all because Reincarnation no longer existed.”