Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 196: Secret Realm

The island where the remnants of the Northern Dipper Seven Star Sect are located.

When Su Ping came here before, it seemed like an ordinary mountain gate relic, with only the secret realm at the mountaintop being eerie and dangerous.

At this moment, the entire island has been covered by black mist.

It is unknown whether it was the Old Ancestor of the Instrument Heart Sect who destroyed some seals within the secret realm, causing this catastrophe.

They left in a hurry with a large army, not even bothering to wipe their butts.

Su Ping strongly suspects that the Old Ancestor of the Instrument Heart Sect suffered a great loss at the hands of the terrifying being in the tomb.

But what does this have to do with him?

He just wants to try and see if he can obtain some Northern Dipper-related cultivation techniques from inside.

Even if there is nothing valuable left in the secret realm as the Old Ancestor said, it would still help him resolve a personal issue.

Su Ping controls the high-altitude reconnaissance balloon and fixes it in the sky as soon as he can see the Northern Dipper Seven Star Island from a distance.

This distance is even farther than the distance between those ships on the sea and the island.

Considering the terrifying existence resembling an evil god in the secret realm, Su Ping summons the illusion of his partner, Elvin the Fire Knight, who has an indomitable will.

After not hesitating to hand over a storage bag filled with various supplies to this partner, Elvin the Fire Knight, under Su Ping's personal control, jumps directly from the high altitude.

When the altitude drops from 20,000 meters to 5,000 meters, he activates his magic power and transforms into a fireball, adjusting his direction towards the Northern Dipper Seven Star Island.

"Look at the sky!"

"That... that's a Foundation Establishment cultivator flying in mid-air!"

"Which sect or faction's Foundation Establishment cultivator is that? Don't they know that the island ahead has become a forbidden area?"

On the deck of the ship, those who were sent here are all low-level cultivators who are not valued by the sect.

The person leading these ships is only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment and is still in a state of exile.

Seeing a Foundation Establishment cultivator crossing the sea, no one intends to stop or dare to stop them, except for feeling jealous and envious.

They only record it with magical items and report it according to the procedure.

After completing all of this, they watch the fire disappear into the black mist of the island.

A jealous cultivator can't help but mutter under their breath, "That cultivator is doomed!"

Inside the black mist of the island.

The Fire Knight transforms into a fireball and, after breaking through the black mist, immediately explodes, creating a clearing.

After the flames push the black mist aside, it quickly fills the empty space again.

Evil energy similar to the secret realm continuously attacks the Fire Knight.

But before they can touch him, they are annihilated by the blessings of the Bixie Guardian Stone Lions.

Following his memories from his previous visits, the Fire Knight finds the mountain gate that has left no traces and begins to climb up the mountain.

At the mountainside, the original square and the sprawling buildings have disappeared without a trace.

Only the hundred-meter-tall giant wolf stone sculpture still stands on the mountainside.

It has become the only remaining relic of the original Northern Dipper Seven Star Sect on this mountain road.

It seems to have sensed something.

The lifelike giant wolf's eyes emit a dazzling blue light even under the black mist, and it looks towards the Fire Knight.

Su Ping also feels something different from before.

He immediately activates his Divine Sense.

As a memory illusion controlled by Su Ping, even though the intensity of his Divine Sense is only half, he successfully summons an illusory wolf formed by his Greedy Wolf Divine Sense.

Buzz!

The Greedy Wolf Divine Sense appears.

The blue light emitted from the eyes of the giant wolf stone sculpture became even brighter!

So much so that the cultivators on the distant ships exclaimed in surprise, speculating about the blue light phenomenon in the island's black mist.

"Inheritance... opportunity... lost..."

"Immortal Physique... came too late..."

The stone sculpture of the giant wolf emitted a fragmented and desolate sound.

Immediately, Su Ping saw the eyes of the giant wolf shatter with a crack.

Then, from the open eye sockets, two ice-blue gems rolled out.

Su Ping had the Fire Knight collect these two gems in his palm, feeling their icy coldness.

At the same time, the emitted ice-blue light seemed to have a certain restraining ability on the surrounding black mist and evil energy.

Perhaps this giant wolf stone sculpture was able to hold on until now because of this!

Su Ping thought this way as he looked at the stone sculpture, and it turned out to be true.

After releasing the gems, the hundred-meter-high greedy wolf stone sculpture was suddenly covered in countless cracks.

And the number of these cracks was rapidly increasing.

Until the greedy wolf stone sculpture had almost no intact body left.

With a loud bang, it collapsed to the ground and turned into billions of lime, gradually seeping into the earth.

"Immortal Physique came too late?"

"That's right, the cultivation difficulty of the Northern Dipper Divine Art is indeed too high. If one doesn't encounter a relevant Spirit Body, wouldn't the inheritance easily be lost?"

"It's a pity that these two gems are not inheritance items. They seem more like keys to open certain objects and Bixie-related items."

Su Ping put away the gems and placed them in his storage bag.

The Fire Knight walked towards the mountaintop.

The main hall on the mountaintop had also disappeared.

However, the bronze door that stored the secret realm was still quietly placed on the bare mountaintop.

But several strange figures resembling evil spirits appeared around the bronze door, reciting scriptures full of madness.

Some of these strange figures had tiger heads and human bodies, while others had pig heads and human bodies.

They were dressed in tattered Taoist robes or monk robes.

Su Ping scanned these clothes and compared them one by one with his memory.

The style of the Taoist robes seemed to belong to the Qixin Sect.

And those monk robes were related to certain Buddhist sects in the Southern Wilderness.

These strange figures seemed to fluctuate between the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

They didn't pay any attention to the Fire Knight's approach and just continued reciting scriptures towards the bronze door.

"Are these Foundation Establishment cultivators who followed the Qixin Sect Patriarch to guard the secret realm?"

"They have actually turned into such strange and ghostly appearances."

"Even these elite disciples couldn't be saved. The Patriarch must have suffered even more miserably when he escaped from the secret realm."

While Su Ping was thinking this, he instructed the Fire Knight to be highly vigilant.

He gripped the large sword in his hands and the exorcism flames burst out from his body.

As he stepped into the original main hall area.

A white light suddenly appeared above the bronze door.

In the white light, a kind and gentle translucent face appeared and began reciting scriptures to the Fire Knight.

The sound of these scriptures twisted like a solid entity and rushed towards the Fire Knight with black light.

But it kept disappearing in a series of crackling sounds.

Causing the kind and gentle face in the white light to distort for a moment and then scream:

"Why do you refuse to listen to the teachings of God?"

"Blasphemy, this is blasphemy!"

"Give up everything and join us. All your desires will be fulfilled here!"

The face in the white light became increasingly blurry, and the voice became more and more piercing.

Normally, it would absorb the most desired thing from the person in front of it and simulate it to break through their mental defenses.

As long as there is a slight gap, it is enough for this white light to penetrate and turn it into his puppet.

Unfortunately, the person in front of him is an exception.

Even with its strengthened Supernatural Power, it is still ineffective!

Frustrated, it no longer appears kind-hearted, but instead transforms into a glowing jellyfish shape over ten meters tall.

At the same time, this jellyfish has many small luminous tentacles, connecting to the praying tiger-headed people and pig-headed people.

As the Supernatural Power fails to take effect, these strange people stand up and charge towards the Fire Knight.

However, Su Ping is well-prepared for this.

The Fire Knight unleashes a powerful attack with the charged-up Flame Phoenix Ignition.

In an instant, the mountaintop turns into a sea of fire, and a fire phoenix with wings spanning over a hundred meters soars into the sky to face the white light jellyfish.

At the same time, the Fire Knight bites open a capsule in his mouth and consumes a life potion and a Magic power potion.

Furthermore, five purple light foxes are summoned, but they are not given the chance to release their thunder auxiliary attacks.

Under the flames that restrain the evil spirits, these tiger-headed and pig-headed monsters, who only possess a Foundation Establishment Cultivation Base, are nothing more than puppets. They are burned to ashes since they are not body cultivators!

As for the clearly behind-the-scenes mini-boss, the white light jellyfish has been reduced in size by more than half under the flames brought by the fire phoenix. It emits a cry for help.

This voice is mixed with dozens of different male and female voices.

Su Ping hears it and vaguely recognizes several of the voices. They should be Foundation Establishment cultivators from the exchange meeting whom he has met before.

However, he did not expect that on their second meeting, he would discover that they have been turned into evil spirits, even their souls.

"Ah, I can't help much."

"But I will do my best to help you break free from the control of the evil spirits!"

"It can be considered as accumulating some merit, hoping to have the opportunity to meet you and your storage bags."

Su Ping sighs.

In the next moment, the soaring fire phoenix turns its head and spews out a tongue of fire.

Directly sending away the white light jellyfish.

Only then does the fire phoenix let out a cry and slowly dissipates in the sky.

As a result, an area without black mist appears in the sky above the island's mountaintop.

This astonishes the cultivators on the decks of the ships on the sea.

"Where did this genius come from!"

"Did that fire phoenix summon a Spiritual Weapon bestowed with Gold Core Power?"

"The power is so great, but why do I feel that this flame is extremely effective against the black mist? Look, the black mist on the mountaintop is recovering so slowly!"

"Quick, immediately, report this record! Use the fastest method!"

"A cultivator of such talent coming to this place must have a purpose!"

"Perhaps this secret realm is not completely worthless?"

The Foundation Establishment cultivator on the bow of the ship thinks of this and his expression changes slightly. He silently reminds himself not to say anything wrong.

Can a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator like him question the words of his Sect's ancestor?

He suppresses a certain desire in his heart, hoping that this abnormality can allow him to make a contribution and return to the land smoothly.

In this area where birds don't lay eggs and Spiritual Qi is so scarce that it is almost nonexistent, he has already had enough in just ten days!

However!

As Su Ping controls the Fire Knight to scan the surroundings with his Divine Sense, he does not find any storage bags, which is somewhat regrettable, and steps into the bronze door of the secret realm.

Suddenly, the secret realm inside the bronze door emits a faint white light.

In an instant, cultivators on the ships within a hundred miles, and even the fish in the ocean, feel an unbearable thirst surging from the depths of their souls.

Accompanying this thirst is a series of desires for the depths of the secret realm.

It is as if they instinctively know that as long as they go to the island and enter that secret realm...

They will find great opportunities, change their ordinary lives, and satisfy the thirst deep within their souls.

"Go...go to the island!"

"Yeah, there must be treasures on that island, good things!"

"We can't let others get ahead!"

The sailors on the ship couldn't help but start sailing first.

The cultivators wanted to stop them, but they quickly succumbed and began to think that maybe it wouldn't be bad to be a little more careful and take a look?

"No! This is not good!"

The Foundation Establishment cultivator at the bow of the ship immediately felt that something was wrong.

He even quickly retreated from the ship and dived into the sea, moving further away.

However, after just a few breaths, this Foundation Establishment cultivator emerged from the sea with an even more frantic expression.

With a speed faster than the fully swimming ships, he rushed towards the mountaintop.

He became the second cultivator to enter the bronze gate today.

At the same time, Su Ping, who saw this scene from the high-altitude balloon, exclaimed, summoned the Demon Hunter Yun Kong as a backup, and piloted the balloon in the opposite direction.

Whether there was something or not, it was better to get away from this area first!

Boom!

Inside the secret realm.

Su Ping found that the scenery along the way seemed to have not changed.

The black swamp was filled with small hills covered in stone tablets.

During this period, there should have been no cultivators falling in this secret realm. Su Ping swept his Divine Sense and found no trace of storage bags.

He suddenly felt a bit nostalgic for the old days.

Su Ping suddenly noticed some movement in the swamp.

It was a Foundation Establishment cultivator who appeared there, then piloted a green wooden flying boat and flew out.

After just glancing at the Fire Knight, he rushed to the hillside and found the stone tablet on the mountaintop.

This Foundation Establishment cultivator took the Magical Item and knelt on the stone tablet, continuously kowtowing.

His spiritual energy entered the stone tablet.

Causing the golden chains that trapped the stone tablet to vibrate at an almost imperceptible frequency.

Su Ping appeared in front of this Foundation Establishment cultivator with the Thunder Light Fox, directly swinging his sword to block some kind of strange ritual performed by this Foundation Establishment cultivator.

"Redemption... redemption..."

The Foundation Establishment cultivator's eyes were dull, without resistance, just staring blankly at the stone tablet.

Su Ping knew that this guy was beyond saving.

At the same time, he realized that this person should be one of the Foundation Establishment cultivators on the ship. Su Ping secretly felt a chill. Could the great terror in this secret realm already affect the sea outside the island?

Su Ping skillfully searched the storage bag that this cultivator no longer needed and put it on himself.

Then he applied the Purifying Flame to prevent this poor cultivator's soul from being used by evil spirits after death.

After doing all this, Su Ping looked towards the distant tomb.

Black gas emanated from the tomb as if it had a physical presence, constantly rising from its location and lingering in the air.

After thinking for a moment, Su Ping curiously let the Fire Knight walk over.

The tomb must be full of dangers.

But there was also great terror and great opportunities.

As an immortal, was he still afraid of death?

A few dozen seconds later.

The Fire Knight pushed open the door of the tomb's building on the ground with both hands.

Here, Su Ping did not find a coffin, but instead, it looked like a large altar.

Many colorful stone statues were carved on the four walls.

It seemed to be telling a story.

Thousands of years ago, a black giant egg fell from the sky and was discovered by the ancestors of the Northern Dipper Seven Star Sect. They brought it back to the sect's secret realm.

(End of this chapter)