In the secret realm, the cultivators of the Zhou family and the Ning family warmly welcod Zhou Yulong and Ning Tongtong, while the cultivators of the other three great families watched coldly.
A golden portal stood tall, with people continuously erging from it.
Those mbers of the human race who ca to the secret realm's outpost for the first ti had never experienced such dense spiritual energy or slled such an intense fragrance. For a mont, they felt as if they were in a different world.
Although their faces were full of excitent and shock, they suppressed their inner turmoil, not daring to make noise or beco restless.
The secret realm's cultivators in charge of reception led them aside one by one.
These outpost humans, upon entering the secret realm, had to go to the Indoctrination Departnt first. Regardless of their cultivation level, they would have to stay there for at least three years or even longer. The Indoctrination Departnt would then teach them many survival rules within the secret realm and instill in them the supremacy of the Five Great Families.
Only by passing certain tests from the Indoctrination Departnt could they leave that place, where they would either be selected by various family clans to beco house servants or be sent to different locations for hard labor.
Over a thousand years, the human race seed to have been divided into two parts.
The secret realm human race and the outpost human race.
To the forr, the latter mostly appeared like beasts who ate raw at and drank blood.
In such an environnt, even if the outpost humans were brought into the secret realm, they found it extrely difficult to stand out.
Reception went smoothly at first, with waves of outpost humans stepping inside.
Ying Wuji mixed in the crowd, activated his Concealnt Technique, and stepped in. The children in front of and behind him did not notice his presence at all.
Almost at the sa ti Ying Wuji stepped into the Silver Snake Valley Secret Realm, the golden light standing on the ground suddenly brightened intensely, and the golden light spread like an ocean, illuminating everything. Ying Wuji's figure beca conspicuous in the sea of light.
The people of the Zhou and Ning families who were conversing turned their heads swiftly, and the other families' cultivators on duty were equally astonished; for a mont, they couldn't react to what had happened.
Ying Wuji's reaction was extrely quick. Though he did not know what trick the portal had, revealing his presence, the mont his figure beca visible, he leaped into the air and fled to a distant location.
"Enemy attack!" a sharp cry rang out.
The cultivators on duty in the secret realm finally ca to their senses.
The main reason was that no one had ever tried to enter the secret realm without permission for many years, so encountering such an event for the first ti, they reacted a half-beat slower.
When Ying Wuji leaped into the air, several cultivators joined forces to activate the big array covering the area.
In an instant, the stars shifted, and the scenery changed. Ying Wuji, who was flying, suddenly felt the weight of a mountain pressing down on him, and he plumted straight down.
"?!" At that mont, Ying Wuji was both shocked and furious. He had relied on his excellent concealnt skills to enter the secret realm unnoticed, but who would have thought he would be exposed so quickly and fall into an array trap.
While he was falling, he saw golden ropes of spiritual artifacts coming at him from all directions.
His heart pounded wildly, knowing he must avoid being touched by these spiritual artifacts, which seed like Dragon-Binding Ropes, capable of restraining and capturing people.
He quickly activated his spirit force to forcibly twist his body.
However, several figures intercepted him, attacking him fiercely with their spirit force.
Ying Wuji was beaten into a daze, inwardly wailing.
"There's another one!" another exclamation rang out.
It was Lu Ye, who had followed closely behind Ying Wuji, also exposing his presence.
Lu Ye frowned, not understanding what went wrong, but he realized that the secret realm must have so ans to detect those trying to sneak in through concealnt techniques, or there were so special abilities of the secret realm leaving marks on the outpost humans being led in.
Those with these marks could enter the secret realm safely, while those without them could not hide.
Lu Ye faintly felt it was the latter.
Just arriving here, he couldn't figure out the situation. Moreover, his initial purpose in coming to the secret realm was to use the cultivators here to fight against the Corpse Race, so he couldn't cause too much trouble and escalate the situation.
Thus, he imdiately activated Insight Spirit Runes to enhance his eyesight and observed the nodes of the big array here.
He saw Ying Wuji being bound tightly by rope-like spiritual artifacts, falling from the sky in a sorry state.
With Ying Wuji's trouble resolved, many of the cultivators on duty turned to attack Lu Ye.
Lu Ye hesitated slightly but did not choose to rescue Ying Wuji. Instead, he turned and fled in one direction, deploying several array banners as he ran.
Those array banners shook and hovered in mid-air, and with Lu Ye's spirit force activation, the big array teared open an entrance. He dashed out of the array's coverage and flew away.
Ying Wuji, bound and immobile on the ground, felt his heart turn cold as he watched.
Inexplicably, a saying surged in his mind.
Husband and wife are birds of the sa forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly their separate ways!
This scoundrel Lu Yiye abandoned him so decisively!
However, he understood clearly that in such a situation, Lu Ye's imdiate escape was the best choice. Otherwise, if they started fighting, he might not be able to save himself, and killing people would bring them no good.
As for whether Lu Yiye would get captured here... Ying Wuji didn't even consider it.
"Catch him!" More than a dozen on-duty cultivators chased after Lu Ye, while the remaining stayed alert against any unforeseen events.
Among the Five Great Families, a Wei family cultivator shouted: "Zhou Yulong, who did you bring back?"
Zhou Yulong was dumbfounded.
Who could he have brought back? During this trip with Ning Tongtong, they only brought back young people and children from various outposts. Where did those two people co from?
He hadn't even seen these two people before.
But he understood that if this matter was not handled well, not only would all their efforts be wasted, but his future would also be impacted.
With that thought, he looked at Ying Wuji with a grim expression.
The peaceful Silver Snake Valley Secret Realm, which had been quiet for almost a thousand years, suddenly beca bustling. Patrols of cultivators road everywhere, seemingly searching for sothing.
At first, the various families within the secret realm didn't know what had happened, but secrets are hard to keep in this world.
The news of an external invasion into the secret realm spread quickly.
Though one person was captured on the spot, another was still at large. How could anyone in the secret realm feel at ease without finding him?
Yet, even though the secret realm's cultivators searched high and low, they couldn't find any trace of the person.
As a result, the captured Ying Wuji suffered much and was tortured first by the Silver Snake Valley to pry information from him about Lu Ye...
Strictly speaking, the secret realm in the Unparalleled Continent could almost be considered a miniature world, albeit not as vast as the Unparalleled Continent.
While the outside world was ravaged by the Corpse Race, leaving humans with almost no place to stand, this place remained unaffected, a scene of prosperity and peace.
The entire Silver Snake Valley Secret Realm had one large city and sixteen smaller ones.
The largest city, Five Pri City, was where the Five Great Families resided and was the central hub of the secret realm. The sixteen smaller cities were distributed around Five Pri City, arranged in a certain pattern, like stars surrounding a moon, seemingly aligning with so kind of array.
However, the current power of the Five Great Families could no longer fully activate such a large array.
That array was a thod left by the strong cultivators in the Divine Sea Realm from the ti before the Unparalleled Continent shattered.
At this mont, in an empty residence in Five Pri City, Lu Ye sat quietly on a Taishi Chair, playing with a crystal-like object in his hand, looking leisurely.
A large number of people were dispatched from the Silver Snake Valley Secret Realm, searching for his trail everywhere, yet they didn't expect him to sneak into Five Pri City, right under the Five Great Families' noses.
The thing in his hand was the Heaven's Augury Pillar, sealed by Heaven's Augury through a mysterious thod.
Upon entering the Unparalleled Continent, Lu Ye received Heaven's Augury's instructions to save this broken land.
This was undoubtedly a daunting and dangerous task. Otherwise, Heaven's Augury wouldn't have prepared such an impressive lineup.
Although he had learned much after arriving in this land, Lu Ye still had no clear idea on how to save it.
He had initially thought that uniting the strength of the three great secret realms to fight the Corpse Race would resolve the crisis here.
However, implenting this plan was extrely difficult.
For one thing, the cultivators in the Silver Snake Valley Secret Realm had beco accustod to their life here and had no intention of leaving to fight the Corpse Race in the outside world.
What could Lu Ye offer to convince them to risk their lives?
Lu Ye didn't know the situation in the other two secret realms, but he was certain that no matter what he said, it wouldn't persuade the people here in the Silver Snake Valley.
Using force was even less plausible. He was just a lone individual, even if he counted Ying Wuji, that made only two of them.
And now Ying Wuji was captured.
At this point, Lu Ye finally sensed sothing.
The matter in the Unparalleled Continent had to be resolved by the Nine Provinces cultivators. Only they had the courage and spirit to face the Corpse Race head-on!
The Heaven's Augury Pillar sealed in his hand was the answer. Heaven's Augury had already given him the solution, but he simply hadn't realized it until now.
He stood up, drew the Boulder Mountain Saber, and dug a hole in the ground before him. Then he buried the sealed Heaven's Augury Pillar in the hole, covered it with soil, and stamped it down firmly.
The saying goes, "Plant lons and you'll get lons; sow beans and you'll get beans." By planting this Heaven's Augury Pillar today, he hoped it would yield another Heaven's Augury Pillar soday.
After finishing, he took out the transmission stone to contact Ying Wuji.
Without relying on the strength of the Silver Snake Valley, his actions would face fewer restrictions.
Ying Wuji was now a companion. While he had to abandon him earlier out of necessity, it was ti to rescue him now.
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