The first thing that entered Su Bai's eyes was a forest.
She stared blankly ahead.
Tianling Fruit, all Tianling Fruit!
The Foundation Establishment Spirit Medicine, which was rarely seen outside, was here in patches!
However, only a portion seemed to be available for picking, the rest were all under Restriction.
"Is this the method of a Great Sect…?"
Su Bai looked closely; all the Tianling Fruits that could not be picked, those under Restriction, were not old enough.
And those that could be picked were fruits that were already old enough.
This Restriction would require at least the mastery of a Third-rank Formation Master.
These Tianling Fruits were also as Su Bai had guessed, not destroyed.
They quietly remained on the trees, waiting to be picked.
As for the Guardian Yao Beast, Su Bai also found it.
A Golden Haired Lion, now lifeless, lay in a pit.
Black blood flowed beneath its body, emitting a strange foul odor.
It seemed it wasn't killed by normal means.
Poison must have been used.
At this time, the Demonic Path Cultivators had already finished clearing out the Sect Disciples.
They all began to meditate and recover.
They had been fighting for a long time, constantly using various Secret Arts to overdraw their bodies, and were already close to exhaustion.
Now they were just holding on by a thread, not letting themselves collapse.
After Su Bai discovered this, she acted even more cautiously.
To prevent a desperate counterattack.
If she were to be discovered, these crazy people, one by one, would rush up and self-detonate, and she wouldn't be able to withstand it.
She decided to bide her time.
Fearing discovery, Su Bai patiently endured and lay in wait.
Imagining herself as a rock…
On the Demonic Path Cultivators' side.
A person who seemed to be the leader spoke.
"Who among you can still endure the Blood Burning Spell more than twice?"
"…"
No one answered.
They had already cast it twice.
All the Qi and Blood Pills they brought had been consumed.
As it was, their Realm was already unstable and beginning to drop.
No one could guarantee if they could truly hold on.
Seeing no one respond, the leader seemed to have expected it.
"In that case, after we repel another wave of those damned Zhang Country Cultivators, you shall sacrifice yourselves."
"…"
"Yes, Sir."
These people already knew they were here to die.
Upon hearing that they were to sacrifice themselves, they did not hesitate.
But Su Bai, lying far away, knew something was amiss when she heard this news.
Everyone knew the Demonic Path Cultivators' methods were cruel.
But they also knew that the Secret Arts in the Demonic Path Cultivators' hands were the fastest way to increase combat power.
If the remaining fifteen Qi Refining Stage - Late Phase Cultivators were sacrificed, who knew what kind of monster would be created in the end.
However, Su Bai remained motionless.
Quietly waiting.
This stalemate lasted for three days.
Finally, another group of Cultivators arrived outside Juyuan Valley.
There were more than a hundred of these Cultivators.
Nearly a hundred people from Qingzhu Sword Sect and its affiliated Families entered the Secret Realm.
At least six hundred Cultivators from the Six Major Sects entered.
Not counting the Sect Disciples killed by the Demonic Path Cultivators.
The Cultivators who arrived this time accounted for more than twenty percent of those who entered the Secret Realm.
With such a large force outside, these Demonic Path Cultivators also knew that this was probably their last battle.
But they showed no fear.
The Demonic Path Cultivator leader stood up and said coldly:
"Everyone, sacrifice yourselves directly."
"Yes, Sir!"
With a unanimous response.
These Demonic Path Cultivators spread out, seemingly forming some kind of Formation.
Then the Demonic Path Cultivator leader actually opened his palm again and used the Object Control Spell to remotely draw the Guardian Yao Beast, the Golden Haired Lion, to his side.
He stretched out a hand.
That hand quickly turned dark and shiny, and a claw plunged into the Golden Haired Lion's flesh.
The Yao Beast's powerful flesh met the dark and shiny claw like fresh snow meeting the sun, rapidly melting.
In just a moment, he pulled a pitted Yao Core from the Golden Haired Lion's flesh.
Judging by the quality of its Yao Core, this Golden Haired Lion had clearly reached the Peak of a First-rank Yao Beast.
If it weren't in this Secret Realm, it would definitely become a Second-rank Yao Beast in the outside world.
"Sacrifice!"
With an angry roar from the Demonic Path Cultivator leader.
All the surrounding Demonic Path Cultivators let out agonizing screams.
Their bodies were twisted and melted.
Becoming withered.
Then they transformed into streams of pure Devilish Qi, which the Demonic Path Cultivator leader injected into the Yao Core.
Finally, the Demonic Path Cultivator leader swallowed the Yao Core in one gulp.
His entire aura was continuously rising.
The originally unstable Realm first stabilized.
An aura belonging to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator began to spread from his body.
Upon realizing this, a drop of cold sweat appeared on Su Bai's forehead.
She had been careless.
She hadn't expected these people's Secret Arts to be so terrifying.
They could even play like this.
If he advanced to Foundation Establishment, then with his Foundation Establishment Divine Sense, he would definitely discover her.
Just as Su Bai was thinking this.
The Demonic Path Cultivator indeed noticed something.
"Hmm?"
As soon as he reached Foundation Establishment, his Divine Sense swept out.
"Is it a hallucination?"
Just now, he clearly detected a Cultivator's aura in his Divine Sense, but how did it disappear?
"Perhaps the continuous battles and the use of Secret Arts to just reach Foundation Establishment have made me disoriented."
He used the Demonic Path Secret Art of Core Fusion.
He fused the essence, Qi, and spirit of several Qi Refining Stage - Late Phase Cultivators into one, catalyzing a First-rank Yao Beast's Yao Core into a Second-rank one.
Then, he used the Second-rank Yao Core to become Foundation Establishment.
Doing this naturally severed his future, but he never intended to leave alive anyway.
The revenge for his country's destruction, this was just the first step.
Waiting for the Zhang Country Cultivators' retaliation, there would be many more to come.
"This is the first step to cover for our Demonic Path Saint, to make the Zhang Country Cultivators think we have gone mad and are retaliating recklessly."
"Our Demonic Path's hidden moves are beyond your imagination!"
He muttered to himself.
His eyes were completely bloodshot and red.
At this moment, as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, Qi Refining Cultivators were all ants!
As long as he didn't want to fight to the death, all the Qi Refining Cultivators in this Secret Realm would henceforth only live under his shadow!
"You little thieves! Die!"
As his voice fell.
He ascended into the air, flying with the wind, without the aid of any Magical Artifact!
This was a true Foundation Establishment method!
A massacre was about to begin.
Meanwhile, Su Bai had a look of relief after escaping danger, as she lay in her own Medicine Garden in the Da Wu World.
Breathing the thin Spiritual Qi around her.
Su Bai felt a bit emotional.
This thin Spiritual Qi gave her a strong sense of security.
"Good thing I reacted quickly!"
"If I had been just a little slower, I would have been caught…"
Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Su Bai felt a pang of emotion.
That was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, not someone a Qi Refining Cultivator could defeat.
"But constantly hiding isn't a solution either."
"If I don't go back, when the Secret Realm entrance reopens, I'll encounter him again when leaving."
After careful thought.
There seemed to be no way to avoid that Foundation Establishment Demonic Path Cultivator in this Secret Realm.
Unless all the Qi Refining Cultivators in the Secret Realm joined forces, then there would naturally be no need to worry.
The only thing to worry about was that the Demonic Path Cultivator acted too quickly, killing them before the Sect Disciples could react and join forces.
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