I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

Those newly awakened souls do not harbor deep resentment and are still conscious. With proper soothing, they can be calmed down temporarily.

In this way, he would not need to fight these dead souls and could conserve his spiritual energy.

In this secret realm, spiritual energy is life itself, and every bit must be used wisely.

He continued walking forward.

Along the way, he encountered more than a dozen dead souls.

Some are at the Foundation Establishment stage, and some are at the Golden Core stage.

Some of them are docile, some are irritable, and some are full of aggression.

When he encountered docile creatures, he soothed them with the heart of all beasts, allowing them to fall back into slumber;

When he encounters someone with a bad temper, he doesn't force the issue; he simply walks around them.

When he encountered those who pounced on him the moment they met, he showed no mercy, unleashing the Phoenix Blood True Fire.

The crimson flames danced at his fingertips, as if they were alive.

Those souls encountered the Phoenix Blood True Fire as if they had met their nemesis.

The purest and most yang flames are the most effective counter to these kinds of yin and evil things.

The moment the flames touched the souls of the dead, they let out mournful screechs, as if they had been thrown into a vat of boiling oil.

The shriek was sharp and piercing, sending chills down one's spine.

But in just a moment, the sound stopped abruptly, and the soul vanished without a trace.

The deeper you go, the stronger the malevolent aura becomes.

Lin Che could clearly feel that his protective aura was being slowly eroded by the evil energy.

The erosion was silent and stealthy, like water dripping through stone or ants gnawing at bones.

At first, you don't feel it, and by the time you realize it, it's too late.

His spiritual energy was being consumed several times faster than usual, as if he were fighting several enemies at the same time.

A thought suddenly came to his mind.

What a coincidence!

Several of the secret realms I entered had this characteristic.

However, this secret realm is definitely the most corrosive to spiritual energy. Just staying inside consumes as much spiritual energy as constantly fighting.

At this rate, he can probably stay in the secret realm for about ten days, after which he will have to leave.

Otherwise, once the protective energy is broken, the malevolent energy will directly erode the physical body and soul. At that point, let alone seizing spiritual treasures, even getting out alive will be a problem.

Ten days is neither a long nor a short time.

That should be enough for him to achieve his goal.

With a slight thought, a communication jade token appeared in Lin Che's hand.

The jade plaque is about the size of a palm, with a bluish-green color throughout. Its surface is engraved with fine array patterns, which gleam slightly in the dim light.

He probed the jade tablet with his divine sense, and a faint blue light appeared on it, which eased the frown on his face.

"Looks like it works." He muttered to himself.

"How's it going, Liu Fang? Have you found the locations of those three families?"

The jade tablet remained silent for a moment, then a clear, cold female voice came from within, carrying a hint of respect and caution: "Your Excellency, we have locked onto them. I will synchronize their locations with you immediately."

That's right, not only the Lin family, but also members of the Shadow Hall infiltrated this secret realm.

After so many years, they finally received their orders.

The task was to have them place several items in specific locations within the secret realm.

Those things were all stored in jade boxes, which were locked by an array, and they had no idea what was inside.

They were only instructed to follow orders, place the items in the designated locations, and leave; they were not required to worry about anything else.

After the report was sent to the black team, it was then sent back to him for a decision.

Lin Che pondered for a moment.

What are those things?

What does the Demon Palace of Rebellion want to do?

he does not know.

But he knew that now was not the time to expose the Lin family's arrangements in the Shadow Hall.

He replied to Zhihei: Let them continue; it's too early to expose them now.

However, the arrival of the Shadow Hall members did him a favor.

These guys are masters of stealth and tracking.

Now he doesn't have to go find those guys one by one.

Several red dots appeared on the back of the jade pendant.

Each red dot represents a target, all pointing to Golden Core cultivators from the three families.

Some are in the light sleep zone, some are in the wandering zone, and a few are already close to the edge of the deep sleep zone.

Lin Che put away the jade pendant, a smile appearing on his lips.

This saved a lot of trouble.

After walking for about two hours, Lin Che entered a new area.

The skeletons here are more densely packed than those on the outskirts, some piled up into small hills, layer upon layer, making it impossible to distinguish which ones belong to which monsters;

Some are scattered across the wasteland, stretching as far as the eye can see, like walking into a forest of bones.

The malevolent aura permeating the air was almost tangible, blurring even visibility as if viewed through a layer of flowing water.

The ground beneath my feet was no longer gray-black mud, but a thick layer of bone meal, soft and spongy to the touch, like walking on snow.

Lin Che activated his protective qi to keep the evil energy out and continued forward.

Suddenly, he stopped.

Ahead, there is a huge skeleton.

The skeleton was over ten zhang long, completely black, with ribs pointing towards the sky like spears, each as thick as an adult's waist.

The spine, like a winding mountain ridge, stretches from the skull to the coccyx, casting a huge shadow in the dim light.

Even though he had been dead for countless years, the lingering oppressive aura still made people's hearts tremble, as if something was still sleeping deep within his skeleton.

Lin Che did not approach.

He activated the power of all beasts, trying to sense whether a slumbering soul lay within the skeleton.

A gentle surge of soul power spread forward, like a dragonfly skimming the water, lightly touching the skeleton.

A moment later, he withdrew his senses.

The skeleton was empty.

There were no dead souls, no resentment, nothing at all.

Only an empty skeleton remained, standing alone in this desolate wasteland for countless years.

That makes things easier.

Lin Che's gaze fell on the center of the skeleton.

There, a drop of golden-red essence lay quietly in the bone cavity, radiating a soft light.

The light was not dazzling, but it stood out in the dim environment, like a miniature sun.

That was the essence formed from the bone marrow of a Golden Core stage demon beast after it had been soaked in malevolent energy for hundreds of years.

Not all skeletons can produce essence; only demonic beasts whose cultivation reached the middle level of the third rank or above in life and whose resentment was extremely strong at the time of death can.

This item is one of the materials used in the alchemy formula Wang Qinian mentioned for refining the Golden Elixir; it is extremely precious.

Just as I was about to start collecting them, I heard a whooshing sound from not far away.

The sound was very soft, so soft that it was almost drowned out by the wind.

But Lin Che heard it.

His ears twitched slightly, his brows furrowed, and he stopped what he was doing.

He didn't turn around, but just took out his hand cards and glanced at them.

On the back of the jade pendant, several red dots closest to him are rapidly approaching.

A slight smile appeared on Lin Che's lips.

He had originally planned to finish collecting the materials before chasing after them, but unexpectedly, someone delivered themselves to his doorstep.

His hand, which was about to gather the materials, paused; now he didn't need to rush.