Chapter 191 Restricted Area After adjusting his expression, Ruan Xing walked into the hall on the top of the mountain. When True Lord Qinghong saw her, some displeasure appeared in her eyes. She said calmly, "You have a golden elixir?" "Yes, Peak Master, thanks to my senior brother who protected me in the formation in Xizhou, I was able to form the golden elixir by chance." Ruan Xing replied with his head down. "You mean to say that the technique for your Jindan stage was given to you by Qin Taihe?" This question is not easy to answer. If you answer yes, although you can get through this hurdle temporarily, once Qinghong Zhenjun and Qintai He meet in the future, the lie will be exposed. Qin Taihe has a straightforward personality and most likely will not cooperate with Ruan Xing in making up this lie, and he may not be able to hide it from Qing Hong Zhen Jun who has watched him grow up. After much thought, it would be better to let a dead person take the blame. Ruan Xing said with shame on his face, "It was given to me by Elder Wen when I was in Nanzhou. At that time, Elder Wen intended to accept me as his disciple after arriving at Jintai Secret Realm. But later, something happened in Jintai Secret Realm, and Elder Wen knew that he would be punished. He didn't want to delay and implicate me any further, so the Sect Leader sent me to Zhongzhou." As for what the truth is, Elder Wen and the Sect Leader have both died in the space-time rift in Nanzhou, and no one can expose it anymore. “Junior Brother Wen…” True Lord Qinghong sighed lightly, his expression relaxing a little.
Although this person is gone, his image has become beautiful in the hearts of the living. She and Elder Wen had once been friends when they were young, and although they later severed their bond, Elder Wen did not use the favor she had promised him to embarrass her. Thinking of the little girl in front of him who had come to him with that bamboo leaf, and hearing the elder's casual instructions to her, the slight anger in True Lord Qinghong's eyes gradually faded away. She thought for a moment, "What made you come back? How is Qintai He now?" "I haven't heard about the sect's punishment of my senior brother and me in the past few years. I know that the peak master is soft-hearted and loves his disciples, so I thought about coming back to see him. As for my senior brother... he still has a few relatives in Xizhou who are still sincere to him. Now my senior brother has reached the late Jindan stage and can make a breakthrough to the Yuanying stage." "You actually still have some conscience." True Lord Qinghong snorted coldly, "Then why have you not sent any news to me for so many years, leaving Qin Taihe to grow up alone in Zhongzhou?" "It's because...his branch declined after Senior Brother's grandfather died. He had no say in the clan and couldn't make decisions, so it was delayed for so many years." Ruan Xing explained carefully. After a long silence, True Lord Qinghong continued, "Will he come back?" Ruan Xing said quickly: "Of course he will come back. Senior Brother has no elders to teach him in Xizhou. Once his cultivation is stable, he will definitely come back to meet the Peak Master." Upon hearing this, True Lord Qinghong's expression softened visibly. He didn't talk any more, but said to Ruan Xing in a friendly manner, "You haven't collected your monthly salary yet. Go collect it sometime. The Lotus Pond Secret Realm that our sect acquired three years ago has no time limit yet. There are 20 places available every month. We have never had a Jindan disciple in Yaoguang Peak. Since you are back, I will help you get a place this month." A new secret realm has three stages: the land reclamation stage, the logging stage, and the collapse stage. The Lotus Pond Secret Realm has just been developed and is rich in resources. It was first entered by cultivators with advanced cultivation to investigate the dangers, get a general idea of the various situations inside, and reduce the dangers to a controllable range. However, the Lotus Pond Secret Realm was not very dangerous, so after the secret realm was stabilized, the first batch of Jindan disciples entered. I think after these three years, the scope of the Lotus Pond Secret Realm is not very large, and the map has probably been almost drawn. After a few more batches of disciples enter, it will be sealed to allow them to recuperate and wait ten or twenty years before entering again. That was the logging season. The collapse period is like the Hanshan Secret Realm. No matter how the entire secret realm is sealed and cultivated, no powerful monsters or valuable spiritual materials will appear again. Only some low-level items can be favored by Qi training cultivators, and there is a risk of the entire secret realm collapsing at any time. This was an unexpected gain. Ruan Xing was stunned and said happily: "Thank you, Peak Master!"
She was worrying about how to enter the Lotus Pond Secret Realm to see if she could find other inheritances of Immortal Lord Guangyou. It would be great if there was a technique. But judging from the look on Lord Qinghong's face, it's unlikely that there are any martial arts techniques in the secret realm. True Lord Qinghong was unwilling to let her improve her cultivation. Although the incident with Qintai He and the mention of Elder Wen's past aroused her guilt and she wanted to compensate Ruan Xing, if there was any martial arts technique, she would not use it as compensation. But it doesn't matter. She still has the Record of Nourishing the Soul in her hand. She has only studied the basics of it. Perhaps entering the secret realm and learning more about Immortal Lord Guangyou will help her practice the Record of Nourishing the Soul. After the Nascent Soul stage, one can start to cultivate the spirit and soul, allowing the spirit consciousness and soul to become one, and perfectly integrate into the Nascent Soul, until the mind and spirit are harmonious, and then one can reach the stage of transformation. But now Ruan Xing is already in the late Nascent Soul stage, and the progress of her soul fusion is less than one-third, and the progress is slow. This made her wonder, was it because this body was not her original body, or because the cultivation gained with the help of the simulator could not allow her to quickly integrate her soul and spirit, or maybe, cultivating the soul and spirit is a slow process, and she had only been practicing for a short time, so the efficiency of the fusion of soul and spirit was too slow. The first reason can most likely be ruled out, because she reshaped her body when she broke through the Nascent Soul stage. Every hair on her body is now shaped and changed by her personally, and this is especially true for the appearance of her flesh, blood, and bones. This shouldn't be the case. As for the latter two, she couldn't judge. There has never been anyone like her from ancient times to the present. From drawing Qi into the Tao to absorbing the soul into the sea of consciousness, it took less than seven years in total! There is not even a reference from previous generations! Ruan Xing could only take things one step at a time. At least, with her current cultivation level of the late Nascent Soul stage, she can be considered a strong person in the world of immortal cultivation. There is no Guixu Immortal Lord in the entire Xianyuan Continent, and the God Transformation and Nascent Soul stages are the top combat power at the moment. She had no talent for direct confrontations, and her mind was full of thoughts about how to use dirty tricks. The two sets of sword techniques that she had upgraded to the highest level through the simulator could only bring her to a draw with cultivators of the same level. Even his most powerful move is the Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin. The power of this move is not limited by its grade, but by the person who uses it. The higher the cultivation level of the person using it, the more spiritual power it requires and the greater the power. However, the disadvantages are also obvious, which is that it is easy to drain your body. But fortunately, Ruan Xing didn't rely on these. Her strongest points were still puppetry and magical arts. At the beginning, she killed the Golden Core when she was building the foundation, and the Golden Core killed the Nascent Soul. It was all because she improved the puppet refining technique by herself and developed the self-destructive puppet. She single-handedly killed three Nascent Soul cultivators who were half a level higher than her in the Liuyang Study. It was also because she mastered the art of controlling all the puppets at the same time with magical powers, which reduced the burden on her sea of consciousness. Even the earliest puppetry techniques were not included in the simulator! It was only after she created the self-destructive puppet herself that she added the words "First Level of Puppetry" to the simulator! This was not a skill that she had improved through experience gained from the simulator, but one that she had actually researched on her own. It made her feel more secure than anything else. Now that she has a spiritual weapon with her, Ruan Xing is even less afraid. As long as she doesn't provoke some powerful people, she can walk all over the world of immortals by showing her cultivation level. Now he is disguising himself in Xuanbing Sect just for the sake of martial arts. True Lord Qinghong gave her a few more instructions and then let her leave the top of the mountain. It was not that difficult for her to ask for a quota, because if you counted carefully, this month's quota was the thirteenth batch since the opening of the Lotus Pond Secret Realm. Each batch of twenty people, those with background, ability and luck, have all gone in and been through it, and the rest are the ordinary disciples' turn. However, it still needs to be sorted out by the Sect Affairs Hall, and it will take at least three days for the list to be complete before everyone can enter the Lotus Pond Secret Realm. Ruan Xing already had an experience in a simulation, so she was not in a hurry. However, True Lord Qinghong seemed worried and arranged for a registered disciple from Tianyan Peak who was going to enter the secret realm with her to take care of her. The disciple understood very well and said that he would share the information about the secret realm that he had compiled with Ruan Xing, and they would take care of and help each other in the secret realm. This disciple from Tianyan Peak looked somewhat familiar. Ruan Xing found her in his memory. It was Zhou Miaoyu, whom he had met twice before. She is also a good friend of Senior Sister Meng Hui who unfortunately failed to pass the tribulation. Like Meng Hui, she is a registered disciple of Tianyan Peak, but she formed the golden elixir a few years earlier than Meng Hui and is now in the middle stage of the golden elixir.
She didn't know that Meng Hui's death was caused by Xu Shengping's trick under the instruction of Qingyuan Taoist Master. She just thought that Meng Hui had bad luck and couldn't withstand the heavenly calamity. Seeing Ruan Xing at this moment, she also developed a sense of closeness. She remembered that this little junior sister also came on the day Meng Hui was transcending the tribulation, but there were too many people that day, and she was too sad, so she didn't pay much attention to other people, and she didn't even know when this little junior sister left. Zhou Miaoyu took out a jade slip from the storage bag and handed it to Ruan Xing, introducing: "This records some information and maps of the Lotus Pond Secret Realm. You should prepare more water-avoiding talismans and instruments, as well as a compass. I heard from a senior sister who went in before that it is a vast ocean inside. If you don't have a good sense of direction, it is easy to get lost. Moreover, most of the opportunities and treasures are underwater. There are several restricted areas underwater. I have marked them on the map. If you encounter them, don't get close, just go around them." Ruan Xing became interested as soon as he heard it. "What is the restricted area? Is it dangerous?" "It can't be called dangerous." Zhou Miaoyu frowned, and it was hard to describe. "There are strange air currents swirling around the restricted area. If you are accidentally sucked in, you can't get out. You can only wait until the secret realm time is over and crush the jade stick to forcefully leave the secret realm. The strangest thing is that you can't take things out of the restricted area. At the beginning, a senior brother mistakenly entered the restricted area. There was a Jindan period fish monster in it. After he took great pains to kill the fish monster, he stripped the fish monster's scales and inner elixir, but they were all gone after he left the secret realm." "We all guessed that he had encountered an illusion, but he swore that it was impossible. After the Daojuns knew about this, they didn't say anything. No one was injured, so they could only consider themselves unlucky and think that the opportunity had not come. The jade slip that can enter the secret realm is not easy to come by. Ordinary disciples like us may only be able to enter the Lotus Pond Secret Realm once in our lifetime. If we are trapped in the restricted area and gain nothing, wouldn't it be a wasted trip? Therefore, we privately call such places restricted areas." "So that's how it is." Ruan Xing nodded and planned to study the restricted areas on the map after returning. She and Zhou Miaoyu had different ideas. They entered the secret realm to seek opportunities and valuable spiritual materials and treasures, while she went there to look for skills or to learn about the information about the Record of Nourishing the Soul from Immortal Lord Guangyou. Therefore, she should go to the restricted area to take a look. The Record of Nourishing the Spirit is not a practice of the Xuanbing Sect, but an opportunity found by Immortal Lord Guangyou himself, so there would not be any notes of experience regarding this practice in the Xuanbing Sect. After parting with Zhou Miaoyu, Ruan Xing returned to his residence on Yaoguang Peak. Neither her nor Qin Taihe's houses were occupied by new disciples. It seemed that to other disciples, the two of them were just traveling and would come back sooner or later. Her tree house stood on the cliff. Because no one had passed by for a long time, large patches of weeds had grown wildly in the cracks of the rock wall. Ruan Xing waved his hand gently to remove the weeds and entered the tree house. The branches and vines on the tree house were already dry and old, and swayed slightly. It seems to be quite sturdy. When Ruan Xing built the tree house, he didn't intend to live in it for too long. He didn't expect to be able to come back more than three years later. She used the dust-collecting technique to clean up the furnishings in the room, took out a quilt from her storage bag, spread it out, lay down and began to study the jade slip that Zhou Miaoyu had given her. His spiritual consciousness sank into it, skipping over the previous messy parts about the growth and distribution of various spiritual herbs, the characteristics and habits of monsters, etc., and directly scrolled to the bottom to look at the markings on the map. The map is semi-panoramic, with a towering stone peak standing in the middle of a vast ocean. If you sink deeper, the map will look like the bottom of water. The ground was uneven and there were more and more different kinds of markings. Ruan Xing was lucky in the simulation. She found what she wanted after entering the secret realm only once, so she was not familiar with other places in the secret realm. She only wanted to use the abandoned ship as a coordinate point and extend it to other places. I just looked through it and didn't see anything that resembled a boat. Could it be that the ship had completely decayed and fallen apart after three years? That shouldn't be the case. It's only been three years, and when she entered the cabin, most of the buildings and rooms were intact. Or maybe one of the disciples had a fight and destroyed the boat? You can ask Zhou Miaoyu about this tomorrow. Suddenly, an idea flashed through her mind. That ship... is in the forbidden area? She had never actually entered the secret realm. After getting the things from the secret realm, she brought them out through the simulator. She didn't know whether she could bring out the key and seed if she left the secret realm in the simulator.
Ruan Xing fell into deep thought. Her eyes couldn't help but move towards several places marked with big crosses. Thanks to Qiu Dahuaer for the monthly ticket~ Thanks to _Panda Jun_ for the monthly ticket~