Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 119 Entering the Secret Realm

Everyone saw that magic talismans were shot out from the side of Juanshan Shou, and gathered into a spiritual light column rushing straight towards the entrance of the secret realm. The magic circle above the secret realm was instantly activated, and the red lightning appeared again, crackling towards the two of them, but was broken up by the spiritual light column, and the flying runes were also blocked by the magic spell cast by Juanshan Shou.

The two sides seemed to be in a stalemate, but the beam of light from the old man on the side of the mountain was clearly approaching the entrance. Everyone present was surprised. At this rate, the entrance would indeed be opened soon.

The scene seemed like Juanshan Shou relied on his own strength and powerful cultivation to force open the entrance, but in fact he was communicating with Qiu Ci next to him.

"The Chixiao Formation has suppressed it, and behind it is the Liyuan Formation. Just use half your strength. Too much spiritual power will destroy the entrance." Qiu Ci reminded while observing. Although she did not have the ability to break the formation, she had so much knowledge about formations in her mind. In addition, she had stuffed a lot of knowledge into the tower these days, so it was easy for her to see through these formations.

"Alright, there are only the last three layers of the formation left. We must focus on breaking the Dust Shaping Formation."

The old man from Juanshan changed his spell immediately. There were several clicking sounds coming from the front, and the last three layers of the magic circle were broken through. "Master, we have penetrated the center. Shall we open the entrance directly next?"

"Well, just hold the entrance open, and I will pull you in at the end." Qiu Ci nodded.

The magic spells in the opponent's hands changed again, and the next moment, the entrance to the secret realm, which was originally blocked by many magic arrays, slowly opened from the middle, revealing a gap. A large amount of rich spiritual energy poured out from it, and spiritual mist rose from the entrance in an instant.

"Open...it's open!" But everyone had no time to care about the spiritual energy, but instead stared at the opened gap.

"The entrance is open, come in quickly." The old man from Juanshan glanced at the people from Hehuan Academy and reminded them in a deep voice.

"Thank you." Hehuan Academy did not delay and two people immediately flew into the secret realm. Perhaps because only two people went in from Shuangxing Academy, they also went in pairs.

The magic circle had a limited time to open, so Qiu Ci didn't hesitate and directly pulled the old man from Juanshan and flew in, "Let's go!"

Seeing that the entrance was about to close, the other wandering cultivators who were surrounding it gritted their teeth, turned into streams of light and rushed into the secret realm. Although they also saw that this secret realm was very dangerous, there were always people who wanted to fight for the opportunity.

In just a blink of an eye, the scene in front of Qiu Ci changed. In front of him was a dense forest that reached the clouds. There were tall trees on both sides of him. At first glance, everything was green. Then he felt the spiritual energy that was so rich that it was a little too rich.

Qiu Ci had originally transformed her physique into one that could automatically absorb spiritual energy. At this moment, spiritual energy was continuously flowing into her body. She even had an inexplicable feeling of being overwhelmed. Even the state she had been suppressing desperately showed signs of loosening. She quickly made a hand gesture to cut off the influx of spiritual energy, so as to avoid a breakthrough on the spot.

"Master, the spiritual energy here..." The old man from Juanshan naturally noticed the abnormality of the spiritual energy here. He squatted down and placed one hand on the ground to sense it for a while, then frowned, "It's strange that there is no spiritual vein here." But where does the spiritual energy come from?

Qiu Ci also looked at the lush trees around him. "These trees around here must also be nourished by spiritual energy." They grew too densely. The two of them didn't even have a place to stand because the grass on the ground was taller than them. "Let's take a look ahead first."

There were only the two of them here; the others who had come in must have landed somewhere else. The old man from the mountain didn't object, so the two of them pushed aside the tall grass in front of them and headed forward. Less than ten minutes into their journey, they felt a faint sense of moisture ahead, and the grass around them grew even thicker.

"Hey, there's a pond ahead." The old man from Juanshan also noticed it. He took two quick steps but stopped at the edge of the pond, looking ahead in shock. "This... is actually a spiritual spring!"

Qiu Ci was also surprised. He stretched out his hand to explore and found that it was indeed spiritual spring water. However, it was more like a puddle than a pool of water. It was only about two meters wide and there was only a thin layer of spiritual spring water in it. It seemed that the spiritual energy around was too strong and it gathered into a spiritual spring.

The two of them did not put away these spiritual springs. After all, they were of no use to them. It was just that they were a little shocked to see spiritual springs in such a place. But after exploring for a distance, they were... not so shocked anymore.

Because in just half an hour of walking, they had already encountered four such spiritual springs, and they knew without even thinking that there would be more ahead.

"What a pity! It would be great if there were spiritual plants growing here." When passing the fifth spiritual spring, the old man from Juanshan couldn't help but sigh, "With this spiritual spring, all kinds of spiritual plants can grow here, but here only weeds grow."

Qiu Ci also felt a little strange. Logically, with such rich spiritual energy, there should be at least one or two hundred-year-old or thousand-year-old spiritual plants everywhere, if not everywhere. But there were no spiritual plants at all along the way, only increasingly tall weeds and towering trees.

"How about we fly up and see what this forest looks like?" Qiu Ci suggested. Although flying in the secret realm was a bit dangerous, after all, no one knew whether it would attract monsters or something, but the two of them hadn't sensed any breath of monsters here for so long, so it should be safe.

The old man from Juanshan naturally agreed, and then he flew up on his sword. After he got up, they realized how tall the trees in the forest were. The shortest ones were fourteen or fifteen meters, and the tallest ones were dozens of meters.

Qiu Ci flew into the sky and found that there were many trees like this, so many that you couldn't even see the end. All you could see was a sea of green, like a green carpet spread out in the air, stretching into the distance. But the strange thing was that the terrain here was not completely flat, but had deviations of about one or two meters. A closer look revealed that the terrain was undulating, forming a wave-like pattern.

It just... looks familiar!
Qiu Ci thought about it carefully, but couldn't remember where she had seen such terrain. She was about to let the system scan it, but suddenly something fluttered down in front of her. She subconsciously reached out to grab it, but only felt a wetness.

"Is it... raining?" She was stunned for a moment, looked up, and saw that the sky was white, without even a cloud, let alone dark clouds. But it was indeed raining, and it was getting heavier and heavier. The sound of rain was all around her ears.

The old man from Juanshan had laid a layer of protection for the two of them as soon as the rain started to fall. He also made a gesture to collect some rainwater, and after carefully examining it, he shook his head at her and said, "There's nothing unusual about this water. It's just ordinary rainwater." There wasn't even any spiritual power in it.

Qiu Ci was puzzled, but the rain stopped after only a short while. She inexplicably felt something was wrong, and the next moment she sensed a burst of energy erupting not far to the right, and bursts of fragrance filled the air.

This is……

"Master, there seems to be a rare treasure appearing over there!"