"Is this the world where the Universal Secret Realm has appeared?"
A giant black hole suddenly split open on the desolate Mount Qunyu, and a male cultivator with a head full of colorful feathers emerged, covering his nose and mouth with a look of disdain. Soon after, four more people followed.
"This place is too poor and rubbish! Why would the Universal Secret Realm choose such a location?"
The male cultivator with colorful feathers said with utter disdain, pointing his fingertips at Mount Qunyu, complaining about the thin spiritual energy, then about the low-grade flora, stating that living was a waste of spiritual energy.
"Cai Zhi, be quiet," someone in the group finally couldn't help but say.
Cai Zhi abruptly turned his head and said unpleasantly, "Qiao Yi, don't forget, I am leading this expedition."
The cultivator named Qiao Yi said nothing, while the other three cultivators exchanged wary glances. Then, one stood behind Qiao Yi, and the other two stood behind Cai Zhi.
"Cai Zhi, Qiao Yi was just reminding you. After all, we didn't come to Shenqi to find fault with everything. If you're truly unhappy, why not go back to the Cai Que tribe and be your young master?" the cultivator behind Qiao Yi said.
However, this cultivator's words had poked a hornet's nest with Cai Zhi.
"You impudent scoundrel! I am from the Cai Que tribe! The Cai Que tribe! Not some Cai Ji tribe! Hou Changming, if you say that one more time, I'll kill you first as an offering to the secret realm!"
Cai Zhi furiously retorted, no longer caring about the environment, and said coldly, "I am the leader of this expedition. Regardless of how unconvinced you two are, you must listen to me. Now, I order you to immediately find the entrance to the secret realm! I'll go find a place to rest first."
With that, he took the other two and swaggered away, clearly intending to shirk his duties and be lazy.
"You!"
Hou Changming was so angry he was about to charge forward, but Qiao Yi stopped him.
"Qiao Yi, what are you doing?" Hou Changming turned and glared at Qiao Yi, indignantly saying, "You clearly know this wild chicken is doing it on purpose!"
"If it weren't for him colluding with the Lingxi tribe and the Mo family to cheat us back then, how would it be our turn to lead this time, us a mere wild chicken family!"
"Still Cai Que? Does a mountain chicken think it becomes a phoenix just by growing a few more feathers? Bah! I'm ashamed to even speak of it for our Purple Yellow Middle World!"
Qiao Yi hadn't said a word before Hou Changming bombarded him with a long tirade. If not for knowing this fellow's character, he might have slapped him.
"Can you at least let me finish speaking?" Qiao Yi sighed helplessly.
"Go on," Hou Changming said, still furious.
Qiao Yi calmly stated, "Due to the star domain storm, the spatial channel is unstable. Only the five of us from Purple Yellow came this time, and we are on someone else's territory. If we start fighting, won't we be benefiting others?"
Hou Changming gritted his teeth, "But Cai Zhi is simply useless!"
It was unclear what the Cai Ji tribe was thinking, but among this group, Cai Zhi had the weakest cultivation.
Qiao Yi said, "No matter how useless, he's still at the Kongming realm, which is enough in a small world."
Hou Changming was about to retort when Qiao Yi added, "Didn't you notice that our cultivation has been suppressed below the Kongming realm?"
The Purple Yellow Middle World had desperately sent five cultivators to the Shenqi Small World. It was impossible that they were only at the Kongming realm.
The four of them, excluding Cai Zhi, were all at the peak of the Puxu realm. However, Qiao Yi had just discovered that their cultivation had been suppressed.
"How is that possible? Didn't they say the immortal ladders in the Shenqi world were broken? If the heavenly law consciousness is incomplete, how can it suppress us so severely?"
"No, their immortal ladders have recovered," Qiao Yi said, looking into the distance with a solemn expression.
This trip, it seemed, would not be as smooth as they had imagined.
As Qiao Yi had expected, the first step was already problematic.
"You couldn't find the entrance?" Cai Zhi incredulously raised his voice. "Are you kidding me, young master? The whereabouts were personally divined by the Grand Priest. Even if our spatial channel had deviated, it wouldn't be more than a kilometer. Did you not search thoroughly?"
Qiao Yi stopped the exploding Hou Changming and said, "This is the reality. If you don't believe me, look around. Does this place look like a secret realm has appeared?"
Indeed, the place was desolate and bleak, filled with a dead atmosphere, as if it had experienced many battles. If a secret realm appeared, the space would inevitably be unstable, and there would be extraordinary phenomena.
"There must have been some mishap," Qiao Yi said helplessly. "Cai Zhi, just pick a direction, and we'll have to search everywhere."
Actually, Hou Changming was not entirely correct. Although Cai Zhi was weak in strength, his luck was famously strong in the Purple Yellow Middle World.
After all, he was the one who had astonished the cultivators of the Purple Yellow Middle World with the anecdote of him stumbling on flat ground and discovering three spirit stone mines.
Cai Zhi snorted coldly and pointed his hand to the west, saying, "Then let's go this way!"
With that, he unleashed his divine sense first!
Qiao Yi wanted to stop him but couldn't.
A Kongming realm cultivator's divine sense could not encompass an entire world, but it could completely cover the area of a country. However, at the same time, such absolute pressure would alert other high-level cultivators.
In the far west, Qing Lan's eyes opened, his indifferent face slightly sinking. He stood up from mid-air.
"Outsiders have arrived."
"Let them come. Quite a few have arrived recently..." Lin Qingyu thought of something and his words abruptly stopped. "Are they from the other two middle worlds?"
If they were from the Chong Yuan Middle World, Qing Lan would not have treated it with such seriousness.
"Yes, one is at the peak of the Puxu realm, and the other is at the middle stage of the Kongming realm."
"Hiss..." Lin Qingyu, Yue Bufan, Xuan You, and others gasped. "Which middle world values us Shenqi so much? With this configuration, they could probably destroy Shenqi!"
"Not necessarily," Qing Lan shook his head. "But destroying more than half of it is still possible."
Lin Qingyu was silent for a moment.
"I'll go take a look," he said. "You all must guard here. I'm worried Liu Tianyun will cause trouble at this time."
"I'll go."
Seeing everyone look at him, Qing Lan said, "It's unwise to fight with them. It's best to let them enter the secret realm directly without affecting Shenqi."
"But now, we can only control the descent speed of the Universal Secret Realm, and we can't move it out of our Shenqi. It's impossible not to affect Shenqi," Xuan You said helplessly.
Above them, Master Ku Le and many Mahayana cultivators formed a massive formation. Continuous spiritual energy gathered in the center of the formation, twisting into a surging and powerful force, forming a giant palm lifting the entire Universal Secret Realm above the Path of Despair.
Almost all the Mahayana cultivators of Shenqi had come, and even many at the peak of the Huashen realm had arrived.
At this moment, which concerned the survival of the entire Shenqi, not a single conscientious cultivator would act as a deserter.