Cultivating immortality relies on spatial abilities; defying fate to become the protagonist.

Chapter 56 Rescue
Gu Shihan pulled Wang Dan aside, rummaged through her storage bracelet, and took out dozens of pill bottles. "Sister Dan, take these and distribute them to everyone. Give each person a bottle of healing pills and a bottle of spirit milk. This spirit milk is ten thousand years old; one drop is enough for each use!"

"Shi Han, your behavior is inappropriate. Most people won't covet your things, but there's no guarantee that some people with bad intentions won't have malicious thoughts!"

"Sister Dan, I understand, but this is a critical moment, and we must conserve our strength. If we worry too much, it might be difficult to even get out alive! We should handle special circumstances specially! Don't worry, I won't be careless. Sister Dan, please go and distribute them to everyone. There are many people I don't know well, so it's inconvenient for me!"

"Okay! I understand!" Wang Dan distributed the items. She was a meticulous person and had a pretty good grasp of everyone's thoughts. Fortunately, no one had any objections so far.

Gu Shihan approached several guarding cultivators and handed each of them over a hundred talismans, just in case.

He scanned the remaining talismans with his divine sense; there were over 20,000, and there were 38 people here.

Gu Shihan distributed five hundred talismans to each person and said, "Everyone, take a good rest. We'll break out in two hours!"

"Good! With these, we feel much more confident. Thank you, Fellow Daoist Gu. I have a thousand spirit crystals here; please accept them!" Lu Cheng said earnestly.

"This... no..." Before Gu Shihan could finish speaking, Wang Dan interjected, "Shihan, please accept it. A thousand spirit crystals isn't much; it'll put everyone at ease."

A single drop of ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk is worth 100,000 spirit stones on the market. As for the value of spirit crystals, we don't know yet. Even if they are more expensive, they are still not as precious as ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk in this Lost Valley.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! No matter how good the spirit crystals are, they can't be used in the Lost Valley. Fellow Daoist Gu, please accept them!"

Everyone took out their spirit crystals, and Xingbai placed the jade box on the ground with her little paws, quickly collecting over 100,000 spirit crystals.

Gu Shihan took over Xu Kai's duty, and the other five people who came with him also automatically took over the duty, letting them go to recover their spiritual power.

Two hours have passed, and they have repelled several attacks from the energy beings.

With healing pills and the millennium-old spiritual milk, everyone recovered quickly and finally became energetic again.

Gu Shihan was shrewd and not naive. Seeing that everyone had recovered, she said, "Now that you've all recovered, let's fight our way out. The secret realm shouldn't be closing for long, so protecting your own lives is the most important thing."

Now everyone knows that I possess ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk..."

“Shi Han, you don’t need to say anything. You shouldn’t have the heart to harm others, but you can’t be without the heart to guard against others! We were all saved by you, so shouldn’t we all swear an oath to our souls not to have any greed and not to reveal the matter of the ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk to others?” Wang Dan, quick-witted, interrupted Gu Shi Han and took the initiative to speak.

"no problem!"

"It should!"

After all thirty-eight people made their vows, Gu Shihan felt a little more at ease.

"Sister Dan, I wonder how many people are still alive in the secret realm?" Gu Shihan asked, looking around.

"I'm not quite sure. If we can all get out, there will be several times more people than recorded. Your Wuhua Sect is quite good, with eleven people still here. Our Qingmu Sect has less than five people here. Sigh!" Wang Dan frowned.

"It's getting late, let's break out! If the energy beings gather again, we'll really have a hard time escaping!" Lu Cheng said worriedly.

"Alright, let's break through. We, the thirty-nine of us, will split into several teams, front, back, left, and right, and break through together."
"Support each other, fight our way out! Charge!" Xu Kai shouted.

Thirty-nine people charged into the energy surge, talismans, spells, and sword energy crisscrossing the area. They did not linger in battle; with the support of ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk, they finally broke out after five hours, employing wide-ranging and powerful attacks.

They quickly split up and fled, preventing the energy beings from having another chance to surround them.

"Finally out!" Xingbai's hands were sore from collecting spirit crystals. The others only collected a little bit here and there, and most of the rest went into Xingbai's pocket.

It's not that they don't want it, it's that they simply can't accept it. Compared to their lives, what are spirit crystals?
"Xingbai, you've worked hard! Let's find a place to rest!" Gu Shihan looked around, found a large rock, dug a hole at the bottom, and led Xingbai inside.

Gu Shihan was exhausted, and Xingbai was exhausted too. The two of them slept for three days and three nights before waking up.

"Xingbai, let's go out!" Gu Shihan hugged Xingbai as they left the cave. A jolt shook the cave, and she was overjoyed. With a wave of her hand, she sent Xingbai into her spatial dimension.

Suddenly, she felt dizzy and landed on a wasteland. When she opened her eyes, the wasteland was filled with other people!
A quick glance revealed over a hundred people; out of a thousand who entered, only a hundred or so emerged—a considerable loss indeed.

The stands were packed with people from various sects, families, and independent cultivators; there must have been tens of thousands of people gathered there.

A dozen or so Nascent Soul cultivators and several Deity Transformation cultivators were among them. They were happy to see more than a hundred people being teleported out.

When they learned that something had gone wrong in the secret realm, records show that fewer than ten people returned, including two whose foundations had been damaged.

"Xiao Han, welcome back!" Mo Yu quickly came to Gu Shi Han's side, took her hand, and led her to the front of Venerable Dan Hua.

"Master, I'm back!"

"It's good that you're back! It's good that you're back!" Venerable Danhua said with a smile.

At this moment, Liu Jiu surrounded Gu Yufei with more than a dozen people and said loudly, "We demand an explanation from the Gu family. Gu Yufei used bewitching techniques to seduce cultivators and used them to shield her from disaster, resulting in the deaths of no less than fifty cultivators."

"It's pitiful that they didn't die at the hands of the energy-wielding people, but became Gu Yufei's scapegoats. We...we were almost fed to the contracted white snake by her too. We demand an explanation from the Gu family and the Tianyi Sect!"

"Liu Jiu, you're also a member of the Tianyi Sect, how dare you be so insolent!" Gu Yufei's senior brother shouted.

“Uncle Yun, are you perhaps also bewitched by her? Can’t the people of Tianyi Sect seek justice?” Wen Zhi asked.

"Ninth Brother, how could you say that to Yufei? They... their deaths also saddened Yufei. I didn't mean it, Senior Brother, you have to believe me!" Gu Yufei's tears streamed down her face, and her pitiful appearance made many cultivators feel sorry for her.

"Gu Zhong, your daughter is quite the charmer!" Venerable Danhua sneered.

The distracted cultivators were brought back to their senses by Venerable Danhua's cold snort. They were all terrified, realizing that if they were caught up in this situation, they would be able to commit suicide with ease.

Gu Zhong laughed awkwardly, "Just a trivial skill! Just a trivial skill!"

"A mere trick?! Such a person shouldn't exist! A heretical cultivator! A heretical cultivator! She's a heretical cultivator!"

Someone shouted, "Heretical cultivator!" The word exploded in everyone's hearts, and unease spread.

(End of this chapter)