Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Their upper bodies detached slowly and smoothly from their lower bodies, falling heavily to the ground.

"What a quick knife!"

Ye Yuchan suddenly sighed from behind.

Yunping turned around and looked at Ye Yuchan, who had suddenly shouted those words in a storyteller's voice. He raised an eyebrow and asked, "What, you can see clearly?"

Ye Yuchan shook her head seriously, "Sorry, I didn't see anything."

"Didn't you see it? Then why are you saying this in that martial arts novel tone?"

"I'm just here to lighten the mood, hehehe..."

75. Sins left over from the past

Fan Luokui, beginner in the Transformation God stage.

Among the three inner palaces of the Northern Ice Palace, he is definitely considered a genius-level disciple of a powerful figure.

This is why she was able to become the captain of the trial team at the young age of twenty-five.

She is really strong.

The speed at which the sword was drawn and sheathed was so fast that it could not be seen with the naked eye. Even cultivators of the same level, if they did not know the details, would likely find it difficult to dodge this attack.

"It's solved."

She walked steadily toward Yunping and the other person.

Unlike those cultivators who grew up in luxurious cultivation environments, her face did not have any arrogance arising from a sense of superiority; instead, it was filled with a coldness that could plunge one into icy despair and even suffocate one.

The so-called cold-faced judge is nothing more than this.

"Impressive! Even more impressive than I imagined..." Yunping didn't hold back his praise. "Your swordsmanship is excellent."

Fan Luokui nodded in surprise at Yun Ping's praise.

She has received a lot of praise since she was a child. Theoretically speaking, she would not feel shy or even have any emotional fluctuations when she hears exaggerated praise from others.

But this was the first time she had ever heard the words "good swordsmanship" used.

Everyone who knows her praises her swordsmanship highly, using every possible word to describe how profound and masterful it is.

good?

This tone, like a senior instructing a junior...

"What do you mean 'not bad'?"

While she was still in a daze, the girl with pigtails jumped out and immediately became a little fan of Fan Luo Kui.

"Our captain's swordsmanship is unparalleled!"

"Her swordsmanship is quite good, I didn't say anything wrong, I was praising her." Yun Ping casually placed his hand on the girl with pigtails' head and rubbed it with a smile. "Don't get so excited, little girl."

The girl with pigtails was startled by Yun Ping's head pat and quickly hid behind Fan Luo Kui, peeking out her head and muttering indignantly, "I, I'm not a child! Anyway, anyway... the captain's swordsmanship is really amazing!"

"Yes Yes."

Yunping waved his hand helplessly.

Is Fan Luokui's knife skill very strong?

From the perspective of a normal cultivator, he is indeed very strong, having reached a level that ordinary people cannot match.

But to say it's unparalleled in the world?

Please... she's only been practicing for a few years. If she were to become truly invincible in swordsmanship, then all the other cultivators who specialize in swordsmanship might as well just die.

"Xiaoyu," Fan Luokui gently called the name of the girl with pigtails, "Stop fooling around, we still need to go to the secret realm."

"Hmm..." Xiaoyu puffed out her cheeks like a goldfish, and glared at Yunping while Fan Luokui wasn't paying attention.

Yunping really didn't know what he had done to offend this girl; she was the one who harbored the most resentment towards him the whole way.

"Your Excellency." Fan Luokui nodded slightly to Yun Ping. Having learned from her previous experience, she specifically asked Yun Ping, "May we go in now?"

"Alright, that's all the little trinkets we have at the entrance. Let's go inside."

Having said that, he led Ye Yuchan through the stone gate on his own.

Although Xiaoyu looked unwilling, the three members of the trial team still followed behind them under Captain Fan Luokui's authority.

The moment I stepped into the secret realm—

The world spun around.

Each secret realm is a small space independent of the three great heavenly domains; this is the characteristic of the secret realms.

Although the three members of the trial team were not very old, they had experienced various secret realms and spaces, so the dizziness caused by spatial transitions was nothing new to them.

only--

"Why do I feel like it went in but didn't go in at all...?"

The first to express doubt was Liang Jue, who was squatting on the ground, stroking the damp soil.

The face beneath the helmet was probably already furrowed in confusion, bewildered by everything that was happening before it.

Because everything around them was exactly the same as the outside world, it was as if they had not been teleported to a separate space when they entered the secret realm.

Surrounded by dilapidated ruins and unintelligible, unknown script, even the distribution of these ruins was no different from what was seen from the outside world.

This made the three of them wonder if they had really traveled through space and were in a secret realm.

Fan Luokui did not respond to Liang Jue's words. Instead, she walked straight to a vertical pillar and reached out her hand.

She gently stroked the green moss above, her expression slightly serious. "No, this is the secret realm."

"How did the captain know?"

"The moss here is fake, and so is the dust on these cylinders."

She casually grabbed the top of the moss and pulled it downwards. The entire piece of moss was torn off like fur, and then it turned into a large number of star-like points of light and disappeared.

As is widely known, the Secret Realm is a small world that has existed independently of the rest of the world since its inception.

In that small world, things like moss do not appear on their own unless they were formed at the very beginning of the creation of the secret realm.

Let's assume this secret realm was created a hundred years ago, and that the ruins didn't have moss a hundred years ago...

A hundred years later, the real ruins in the outside world will be covered with moss, but the ruins in the secret realm will not be covered with moss.

—This false tactile sensation, so different from reality, is merely the secret realm deliberately mimicking the true state of the outside world.

Xiaoyu curiously went closer, and sure enough, the green moss on the stone steps felt more like a piece of sheet metal. "Why is that? What's the point of doing that?"

"I don't know." Fan Luokui shook her head, indicating that she couldn't decipher it either. "But this secret realm always feels very strange to me."

"What's strange about it?" Liang Jue asked.

"I'm not sure, it's just strange...maybe it's just my imagination."

Fan Luokui has never really trusted her intuition.

She only believes in facts and only believes in the truth.

She would cut off all other thoughts as distractions.

at this time--

The young man's voice came from afar.

"Hey, you three over there, weren't you supposed to be protecting me? What are you standing there for?"

"Tch..." The girl named Xiaoyu curled her lip, "All he does is order people around, he must be a young master from some big family!"

“I think it’s very likely.” Liang Jue echoed, “He clearly has no cultivation level, yet he knows the location of this secret realm. Maybe he’s some young master who has been training with his family.”

“Now that you mention it, it’s not surprising that he might have some kind of protective magic weapon.” Fan Luokui nodded gently. “Moreover, his demeanor is indeed very similar to many spoiled brats I’ve seen, no… he seems even more unscrupulous.”

"Right! I told you, he's definitely not a good person!" Xiaoyu snorted coldly, her head held high.

Despite her complaints, Fan Luokui had already promised to help Yunping and the other person.

She was a woman of her word, so naturally she wouldn't turn away at a time like this.

That being said, the feeling this secret place gave them was far too eerie.

Especially when they came to Yunping's side.

A chilling aura, mixed with terrifying killing intent, emanated from the steps in front of them.

The chaotic black aura seemed like the wails of the dead, and beneath their feet rose a surge of blood energy. Unidentified objects, like pillars, writhed within the giant crater beneath their feet.

Corpse?

The snow was stained with blood.

The soft red color was piled up on the inner wall of the pit to form a wall that isolated it from the outside world.

Inside the pit, countless unconscious bodies lay sprawled out in all directions.

Five circular formations were rapidly operating in five different corners.

"What...what is this?" Xiaoyu's voice trembled.

Even the trial team had never seen such a horrific scene before.

It wasn't because of the sheer number of corpses, nor because of the writhing, blood-red pillars, nor because of the incomprehensible array formations.

What horrified them was the sight of those corpses...

They were all wearing the robes of their Northern Ice Palace.

76. Is it my fault?

When were the Taoist robes for the Northern Ice Palace decided?

Five hundred years ago? Six hundred years ago? Or even more distant times?

Fan Luokui couldn't remember anymore. When she was studying this kind of history, she particularly disliked memorizing this kind of knowledge that she thought was not very meaningful. She only had a superficial understanding of most of the history of the Beibing Palace.

But she could still recognize the Taoist robe wrapped around the corpse—