"What are you doing following me?"
After a moment of silence, Zeng Ruohai asked coldly.
"You're the one ambushing me in front, aren't you?"
Since he spoke, it meant a fight wasn't imminent. Qian Duoduo replied to him.
Sinking to this depth was already very difficult for them. The surrounding temperature was like deep winter.
"This place is not suitable for fighting. I'll spare your life for now. We'll meet in the Secret Realm."
Zeng Ruohai crouched into a hollow, his figure sinking further down, then disappearing.
Which opening did he use to enter the Secret Realm?
Qian Duoduo thought for a moment, didn't continue downwards, but turned back up, found the nearest opening, and went in.
If he went down and was ambushed by that Zeng Ruohai, it wouldn't be worth it.
The opening to the Ghost Head Secret Realm seemed to have a Formation, and as he passed through, it was as if he was checked inside and out.
With the experience of the Burial Instrument and chess instrument, Qian Duoduo wasn't afraid of it seeing through the Golden Toad's secret.
Inside the Ghost Head Secret Realm, it was a gray world, like dusk, and also like dawn.
The sky was gray, and the land was gray.
The flying Spirit Birds had no brightly colored feathers, and the crawling Spirit Beasts had no flamboyant skin.
If Qian Duoduo were to say, this Secret Realm was a huge graveyard, a graveyard larger than the Refining Spirit Sect, Ba Ling Sect, and Shengling Sect combined.
And he had to stay in this huge graveyard for three months!
Thinking about this, Qian Duoduo felt a chill run down his spine.
He circulated the Eternal Wealth and Nobility Art, releasing all his Spiritual Awareness, not daring to relax in the slightest.
After walking for about two or three incense sticks of time, suddenly, the air in the mud ahead vibrated.
The Golden Rooster Sword flashed, striking the head of a black Spirit Lizard.
That Spirit Lizard, probably at Condensing Qi Stage Level Eight, stuck out its white tongue and struggled desperately for a while, then turned into a cloud of silvery-white water vapor.
Qian Duoduo quickly took out his golden bottle to collect it.
After the silvery-white water vapor was absorbed into the golden bottle, it turned into a tiny drop of silver Spirit Liquid.
This was the Earthly Path Power formed by Sha Soul.
To fill the entire golden bottle, he would probably need about two thousand drops of Spirit Liquid of the same size.
Three months is ninety days. Even if no one disturbed him, to collect enough silver Spirit Liquid, he would have to kill at least twenty such black lizards every day.
Time was pressing!
Qian Duoduo somewhat missed the Spirit Ant Bee Queen; if she were here, sending out the Spirit Ant Bee army would definitely greatly increase the speed.
For the next day, he fully searched for Sha Souls in the Secret Realm, swiftly killing whatever they transformed into, whether Sha Beasts or Sha Birds, and absorbing the Earthly Path Power into his golden bottle.
After a day of work, there were three drops in the golden bottle.
This won't do! Qian Duoduo gritted his teeth, deciding to go further down.
The further down he went, the stronger the Sha Souls, and the more Earthly Path Power he would obtain.
As he went down, he saw Disciples from the Ba Ling Sect and Shengling Sect.
They saw Qian Duoduo from afar and avoided him.
The Secret Realm was large enough that, before any major conflict of interest, they wouldn't actively provoke Qian Duoduo.
They didn't provoke Qian Duoduo, and Qian Duoduo ignored them.
Although the Sect Leader and Palace Lord had both instructed him to kill them whenever possible.
But it was clearly not now.
After two days in the Secret Realm, Qian Duoduo felt that these Sha Souls were rather foolish.
On the surface, they had cultivation at Qi Condensation or even Foundation Establishment, but it was only Spiritual Qi fluctuations, without spiritual intelligence or cognition.
They only had combat instincts, no combat skills.
Someone like Qian Duoduo, at Qi Condensation Great Perfection, even against a Sha Soul at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, was confident of winning.
Because the Secret Realm was simply too large, most of the time was actually spent on searching for Sha Souls.
Early on the third day, Qian Duoduo realized that Sha Souls naturally preferred cold and damp environments, and no matter what they transformed into, they should gather more in cold, damp, and shady places.
He put away his tent that concealed his figure and walked down for an hour.
Following a small stream, he passed over a hillside and arrived at a valley between two mountains.
From the valley, a small river flowed down.
Where the two mountains met and the two rivers converged, the valley was cold, damp, and shrouded in Spiritual Qi mist.
Qian Duoduo thought to himself, if he were a Sha Soul, he would definitely want to stay here.
Just as he thought of this, two heads appeared from behind a large rock.
One of them shouted angrily at him: "This place has already been occupied by the Ba Ling Sect. Refining Spirit dog, scram quickly!"
Qian Duoduo couldn't help but smile.
This wasn't the first time he had been called a Refining Spirit dog. The last time was in the Chifeng Mountain Range, when he was cursed by the He Lou Clan.
The fate of the He Lou Clan was extermination.
The person who cursed Qian Duoduo was wearing a blood-colored robe embroidered with a long sword, a Disciple of the Ba Ling Sect.
He and another Disciple seemed to be setting some kind of trap behind the rock to catch Sha Souls, but Qian Duoduo stumbled upon them.
If Qian Duoduo had just hurried past, they wouldn't have shown themselves.
But Qian Duoduo looked around, saw that this was a treasure land with extremely strong Yin Qi, and showed his intention to stay here for a long time, which was why they spoke up to drive him away.
"Why don't you say the entire Secret Realm is occupied by you?"
Qian Duoduo bypassed them from a distance.
They didn't want him to see, so he insisted on seeing what they were doing.
By the small river, the two Ba Ling Sect Disciples had built a stone dam.
A small pool formed within the stone dam. The pool was blood-red, as if there were many pieces of meat.
These meat pieces were likely bait, attracting Sha Souls from the river and stream.
"Whoosh!" A sharp arrow flew towards Qian Duoduo.
"Scram!" The two Ba Ling Sect Disciples attacked.
However, this arrow was more of a warning.
Qian Duoduo easily dodged the arrow and took a few steps closer to the stone dam.
The two Ba Ling Sect Disciples moved forward to meet him, one on the left and one on the right, taking the upper hand and forming a pincer attack, pressing towards Qian Duoduo.
They didn't want to fight near the stone dam and damage the dam they had painstakingly built.
The person on the left held a shield in his left hand and a large saber in his right.
The shield continuously sprayed black smoke outwards, making the already unclear visibility in the valley even more hazy.
The person on the right slowly shot cold arrows, providing cover for the person on the left.
This kind of coordination was clearly not their first time.
When the person on the left was less than five zhang from Qian Duoduo, he suddenly roared, "Die!"
The saber light flashed, like a burst of heavy snow spraying out, covering a two-zhang area around Qian Duoduo.
At the same time, the bowstring of the person on the right suddenly twanged, releasing three arrows at once.
No matter which way Qian Duoduo dodged, he couldn't escape an arrow. The sound of the arrows was piercing, striking fear into the heart.
However, these were not the most fatal attacks.
These two people were not the main attackers.
Behind Qian Duoduo, a black shadow silently dropped from a large tree.
A long, thin spike, like a viper's fangs, stabbed towards Qian Duoduo's back.
From the moment the two Ba Ling Sect members angrily cursed Qian Duoduo, they had planned this assassination.
Driving Qian Duoduo away and ambushing him were all to create an opportunity and conceal the killing intent for this attack from behind Qian Duoduo.
Qian Duoduo's information was in the hands of every Ba Ling Sect Disciple.
In the eyes of the Ba Ling Sect Disciples, no matter how formidable this Refining Spirit Sect's number one Xiong Jun was, he couldn't be more formidable than the combined efforts of their three people.
From the moment they told him to scram, Qian Duoduo knew they had ill intentions and were using him as bait to lure him in.
"Clap," before the arrows could even reach him, Qian Duoduo had already fallen to the ground.