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Chapter 542 Secret Realm
Song Tanxi pulled Song Yunting aside and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that he was alright. The siblings did not reminisce, and Song Tanxi continued to tell Qing Sang about what happened after they separated.

"Fortunately, they were very confident in their Gu, and they didn't set up any other binding formations here. But after the stone door closed, we couldn't open it no matter what we did. It wasn't until the formation on this big pillar activated that it started drawing blood from these people and sending it upwards. Qingluo suggested that we try attacking the pillar directly. As soon as we started attacking, a lot of men in black suddenly appeared and started attacking us. We quickly fought back."

“These men in black are probably half-puppets they trained from their disciples. They have a certain level of consciousness and can obey certain commands, but they don’t feel pain. They’re like they can’t be killed. They keep coming one after another, which is very troublesome,” Qingluo chimed in from the side.

“Yes, they are indeed very difficult to deal with. Their minds are out of control, and Xiao Tan can't help much.” Xiao Tan was the name Song Tanxi gave to Meng Tanhua. “We were fighting when suddenly we noticed the top of the stone chamber light up, and the stone pillars stopped sucking blood. Then the entire top of the stone chamber turned red. Qingluo sensed that it was a barrier, so he set up an illusion to lure those men in black and us to attack the barrier at the top. Unexpectedly, the barrier shattered quickly. The moment he realized something was wrong, Qingluo pushed me away, and he quickly dodged as well. Then, as you saw, those men in black were the first to be hit and blasted to pieces by the energy generated by the collision. The blood packs below that couldn't move were also affected by the energy ripples... that's why it looks so tragic.” Song Tanxi looked around and gave a helpless bitter smile.

"The leaves you gave me also helped," Qingluo said somewhat awkwardly. "I don't know how this guy survived the shockwave, so he must have something to protect himself."

"Judging from this, this stone chamber and the one above should be one entity, separated only by an array. I broke the blood-generating array above, and the isolation barrier in between became apparent." Qing Sang thought for a moment, then asked Song Tanxi, "You said earlier that those men in black appeared suddenly, right?"

Song Tanxi nodded: "Yes, we were looking for the mechanism at the door when those men in black suddenly appeared out of thin air. It felt like they were using a teleportation array. Later, more and more men in black kept teleporting in, all appearing out of thin air. That's why we gave up looking for the door and instead assumed the exit was above after the barrier appeared."

Recalling how the man in black had simply opened the door to the stone chamber where the selection process would take place when leaving the room, and how quickly he had left the selection chamber to reach the upper level, it was clear that teleportation arrays had been used. She had been leaning against the man in black, yet she hadn't sensed any spiritual energy fluctuations from them. This indicated that the teleportation arrays weren't activated by the men in black; they were merely permitted to move freely by the array's owner.

Qing Sang briefly recounted what she had seen and heard after being separated from them and taken into the tower, and speculated, "I suspect that the space we are in now is not a real space, but a secret realm. We probably entered this secret realm when we left the main hall of Shuoyue Palace and were blindfolded. As for the entrance ceremony, as well as the temple and tower, they were probably just for show to deceive everyone's senses. Moreover, Lan Suyu is missing. She must have realized it when she entered the room with her number plate, so she must have escaped by some means. After all, she was once the Holy Maiden of the Gu Clan, so she must have found quite a few."

"So what do we do now?" Song Tanxi frowned. If it was a secret realm, then finding a way to break it would not be easy for them.

Qinglu sneered: "What can we do? Of course we'll fight our way out. If we beat him until he's scared, he'll let us out."

Song Tanxi looked at him in surprise. She had never experienced the Ghost Ruins and was unaware of Qingluo's domineering nature. She just didn't expect Qing Sang to nod in agreement: "Indeed, they let us out after they scared us."

This just goes to show how well they're siblings!