Keqing, it’s just cultivating immortality, is it that difficult?

Not long after, Keqing discovered a valley appeared in front of her. It was a valley with flickering light and seemed to have nothing in it.

“Have we left the jungle?”

Keqing looked around. Rather than saying there was a dense forest, it would be more accurate to say that there was a valley hidden in the dense forest.

If it weren't for the little guy's tricky movements and Keqing following him without stopping, she might not have discovered this place.

"What did you bring me here for, little one?"

"Do you want me to see something?"

Keqing asked softly, and the little white fur ball gestured with its four short legs, then disappeared. When it reappeared, it was holding a piece of cloth!

Cloth? No, there was still blood on it, so it looked fresh. Keqing frowned.

The white fur ball scurried into the valley.

Keqing hurriedly followed and came to a deeply buried cave.

She paused and looked at the cave. The rotten smell coming from inside was nauseating. However, this smell was not through the sense of smell, but a sense similar to intuition. It was as if she had encountered something disgusting and was subconsciously disgusted.

"Squeak!"

A furry ball was pulled out from the dark cave, and its little eyes seemed to be asking why you haven't come in yet.

"I want to go in, but there's a barrier here."

Keqing had no choice but to poke the hole with her sword. Sure enough, ripples appeared in the void, and an invisible barrier separated the inside and the outside.

Although I don’t know how the little dumpling got in, and although Keqing can split this place open with one sword, the strength of the barrier is about the Jindan stage level, which is not particularly strong.

But it is obvious that this action will alarm the owner of the barrier. However, since such a strong barrier can be set up in this secret realm, it is conceivable who is the owner behind it. It is very likely that he is the culprit who pulled me here.

"squeak?"

Stretch out your short legs.

Directly passed through the barrier.

"Squeak!"

Ta-da-da, he walked out leisurely, completely ignoring the barrier as nothing.

Keqing blinked, and the little dumpling also blinked. Then, a long, furry red tail stretched out from behind the white dumpling, and reached Keqing's waist.

Shake it!

"ok, I get it."

Keqing grabbed the little ball's tail, and it was visibly that the tail turned from red to pink, as if it was shy.

Ta da~

With his head held high, he led Keqing into the barrier.

Keqing followed behind with her tail in her hands.

He stepped in decisively, and indeed passed through the barrier easily, simply ignoring it.

As soon as they entered the barrier, the little dumpling quickly retracted its tail and flew into the cave with Keqing, while Keqing followed closely with a frown.

The unpleasant smell became heavier and heavier, like sticky mud, stinking and rotten yet lingering and difficult to remove, making people feel a little suffocated.

Resisting this uncomfortable feeling, Keqing quickly followed the little dumpling into a wide venue.

In the dim cave, there was a faint green glow, and hideous tree trunks and roots were scattered all over the place like human meridians.

The rhizomes are translucent, and the thin bark is like the skin of a transparent jellyfish. You can clearly see the green liquid flowing inside. Each rhizome is rooted in the wall above and embedded in the wall. The huge exposed rhizomes alone are estimated to be large enough to be hugged by more than a dozen people, and even the smallest one is as big as two people can hug together.

The transparent skin wriggles with the juice, like fish eggs about to be laid, rising and falling back and forth, and countless densely packed tiny particles emerge.

The roots become smaller as you go down, and are almost the size of jellyfish tentacles.

However, this was nothing. When Keqing saw those tiny jellyfish roots like tentacles, inserting into the human body and constantly absorbing fluids, her face turned ugly.

So the roots of this unknown tree rely on humans for nourishment?

Everyone was lined up tightly, their eyes wide open, and those tentacles penetrated into the body from the mouth, nose, and ears, and some even penetrated directly from the navel and back. As they rose and fell, some of the tentacles belonged to humans.

The power of the body is drawn out from inside and then merged into those trunks.

Keqing quickly stepped forward and came to the front of an oppressed human. She reached out her hand to feel the breath at the tip of her nose. There was still breath, which meant he was still alive, and his chest was slightly rising and falling.

But the situation was not optimistic. This person clearly saw himself, but his mind was completely dull, as if he was stupid.

Is it because of damage to the soul?

Keqing is unknown.

She discovered that these tentacles were not completely extracting. One part of them transported nutrients through the head, while the other part absorbed nutrients through the navel. That was why these monks did not die. They were constantly squeezed and their essence, blood and vitality were extracted.

"It's like an animal waiting to be slaughtered."

What is the difference between surviving like this and dying? The body is alive, but the will has collapsed.

Looking carefully, everyone has unknown runes engraved on their bodies, and black lines are all over everyone's skin. Not only on their bodies, but even under their feet, there seems to be an unknown array pattern arranged to maintain this extraction process.

Keqing frowned and checked several people in succession. There were both men and women among them. Although they were all human beings, they had one thing in common: they were all cultivators.

A quick glance shows that there are hundreds of monks here alone, and we don’t know whether there are more in other places or how many there are.

But it was obvious where those missing monks had gone. It turned out that they were imprisoned as livestock to serve as a nutrient base for the big tree.

Who is so bold? Are those who attacked me evil cultivators?

Such a big thing, the Immortal Alliance can't be unaware of it. Is this matter related to the branch? Does Lu Xiang know about it?

With thousands of thoughts in her mind, Keqing frowned.

But at this moment, the little ball squeaked, and then the sound of talking came from not far away.

someone! ?

Keqing quickly followed Xiaotuanzi and hid in a dark corner.

As the sound was heard in the distance, a figure slowly approached.

"I heard someone broke in? It seems like he's pretty strong."

Chapter 105: The Secret Realm Opened in Advance (Part 5)

"A few days ago? How could that be? Wasn't the secret realm closed at that time? Those Immortal Dao idiots hadn't come in yet..."

Another person's hoarse voice sounded.

"Haha, you don't understand this, right? I heard that the man seemed to have been photographed by the person above himself, but because of some meanings, he seemed to have fallen into the secret realm!"

"Now he is sending people everywhere to look for him. I heard that if he is found, he will be rewarded with a longevity pill by the master."

"It's a pity that we have to check here and can't look for it, alas."

"But it doesn't matter. It's been a few days. I don't think I can find it anymore."

The person who was speaking looked very regretful, while the man who was speaking next to him didn't say anything but glanced at him.

"Don't think too much. We are just one last round of sacrifices away from the holy tree, which will bear fruit. By then, nothing will be better than getting a holy fruit. Even a golden elixir and a Nascent Soul will be within reach."

"Haha, you're right!"

The man smiled wantonly, then suddenly exclaimed!

"look!"

Looking at the two figures approaching, Keqing thought they had discovered her. She gripped the hilt of her sword tightly, ready to silence them. Although this would alert the enemy, there was nothing she could do.

Who would have thought that the man stopped in front of a rhizome, only to see the skin of the rhizome rupture and the liquid inside suddenly emptied, as if it had been sucked dry.

"Damn it! It's that thief again. Didn't we set up a formation? How did that thing sneak in again?"

That thing? Keqing looked at the small hole and suddenly remembered that the little fur ball was fiddling with something just now. Was it eating the juice?

So you brought yourself here to share your food?

Keqing is helpless

"?"

Little Coal Ball looked at Keqing strangely.

"That can't be helped. This beast comes and goes without a trace, not to mention it's a mutant. If you weren't so exhausted, how could you let it wreak havoc?"

A hoarse voice sounded.

"I don't know who brought this thing in. If it weren't for this little thing that comes to destroy it every now and then, it wouldn't have been unsuccessful until now."

The man said with a grin, which made Keqing rub the little fur ball in her arms with amusement.

It seems that this little fellow has made a great contribution. She has also heard of formation beasts. They are a kind of beast that can break formations. This is their innate magical power. The stronger they are, the stronger the formations they can destroy. Even immortal formations can be shaken.

However, according to records, the formation beast is more like a combination of a weasel and a fox. Logically, it should not look like this. Could it be that it has mutated and its appearance has also changed?

Keqing asked curiously, but the little guy's contribution was great. He actually destroyed the plans of this group of evil cultivators without realizing it, and prevented their holy fruit from maturing.

Otherwise, who knows what evil things the evil cultivator with greatly increased strength will do.

The little fur ball was enjoying Keqing's kneading comfortably, while the two people outside checked everywhere and found that there was nothing wrong. Then they set up some small formations around to protect the roots and prevent them from being damaged.

Although they knew they couldn't stop the damn beast, what if...

, what if we block them for a moment and let them catch that damn thing.

However, they didn't know that to the little dumpling, these formations were as good as non-existent. Not to mention blocking him for a moment, they were also useless.

Just when Keqing thought that this group of people were about to leave, she wanted to follow them to find out where the evil cultivators' base was and what the so-called holy tree was.

But I got some information from their conversation.

"The secret realm is about to open?"

Yes, that's right. If I heard correctly, the secret realm was indeed opened ahead of schedule, so this group of evil cultivators are preparing to plan the final sacrifice.

This sacrifice requires a large number of souls, so they plan to hunt those immortal monks who come in, and then bring them to the holy tree as the final sacrifice, using a large number of souls to ripen the holy fruit.

"In that case..."

Keqing changed her mind and decided to disguise herself as a captured monk and follow them to their base camp, so that she would still be in time to stop them then.

According to this group of evil cultivators, they do not seem to be planning to kill the cultivators from the outside world. They think that the more energetic they are, the better the effect would be if they could capture them alive.

Thinking about it this way, perhaps this method is more appropriate and will not easily alert the enemy.

"As for these people..."

Keqing looked back at this group of living dead. She originally did not intend to alert the enemy and thought that it would not be too late to rescue these people after solving the root cause.

But according to the evil cultivator, the sacrifice will begin soon and they will all gather at the sacred tree. I'm afraid they won't come here to check again.

Besides, there are also cultivators from the outside world coming in, so there is no need to alert the enemy.

Moreover, she had to go out quickly to inform those monks, telling them that there was something wrong with the secret realm and that they could not stay there for long. If they did not listen, she would use thunder-like means to deal with it. At worst, she would knock them all out and throw them into the Chen Ge Pot.

"I hope that you will not be monks in your next life, and live in peace and happiness."

Take a deep look.

A cluster of flames was born from the fingertips, flicked lightly, and fell to the ground.

In the blink of an eye, it was like a frying pan on fire, the raging flames swept over and burned everything, and soon everything was buried in the raging flames and turned into nothingness.

Keqing quickly left the place holding the little ball of fur.

Not long after, an evil cultivator suddenly arrived. He looked at the destroyed interior of the cave and was furious.

"Damn it, who is it!"

……

……

Keqing quickly left the valley and checked again, finding that there were no other caves, before leaving.

Little Dumpling was sulking because he was angry at Keqing for having burned his favorite food. He also felt a little embarrassed towards Keqing. After all, she had brought him with the intention of sharing food with him, but he ended up destroying the little guy's food source. That was indeed a bit bad.

But Keqing would naturally not keep those evil creatures that treated humans as animals.

Not knowing what to do for a moment, Keqing could only try to take out something as compensation. At first, the little dumpling ignored her, but when Keqing took out the pill, the little dumpling sniffed it and immediately ate it in one gulp, and then looked comfortable and lazy.

After that it all depended on her.