In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 161 This script is all wrong! (Seeking monthly votes!)

"The Crimson Face and White Bones Temple? It seems you do know something about it."

Ye Muyu nodded slightly, and without asking where Su Yuan had learned the news, directly said:
"Then you'll come with me for a while. We'll scout out the area first, so there's nothing dangerous about it."

"And Chen Nuoyi, if you want to come, you can come along too. Maybe you'll have a chance to practice."

Hearing Ye Muyu's quick agreement, Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi exchanged a glance and nodded in unison.

Su Yuan and his group didn't have to wait long. Just after 3 a.m., members of the rescue team arrived one after another.

Two high school students sitting in the pavilion curiously observed this scene.

After observing for a while, Su Yuan found that the members of this rescue team were quite elite.

Apart from a few clerical staff who carried cameras and laptops, the rest of the members were all Foundation Establishment level experts.

Their equipment was also very sophisticated, with various combat suits, tactical goggles, military equipment, and so on.

With the support of modern cultivation technology, even though their average cultivation level is only in the early to mid-stages of Foundation Establishment, their actual combat strength is estimated to be comparable to that of a peak Foundation Establishment ancestor from the ancient cultivation world.

During the gathering of the rescue team, Ye Muyu made a phone call, and soon after, staff members delivered two boxes to her.

She pointed to the box placed in front of the two of them and said:

"This is the equipment for civilian staff in the Qi Refining stage. You'll have to make do with it."

The two opened the box, which contained a complete set of equipment, including a close-fitting protective suit, goggles, and an oxygen and spiritual energy filtration system.

Without further ado, the two immediately found a changing room, took off their school uniforms, and put on their gear.

When they came out of the locker room, the two of them no longer looked like students.

They followed behind Ye Muyu like two interns.

At 4:50 a.m., the rescue team of 25 people lined up in front of the pavilion.

At the front of the group stood a burly man nearly two meters tall, fully equipped with armor.

His fierce eyes and early-stage Golden Core cultivation gave off an immense sense of pressure.

"Captain Wang, let's set off now that everyone's here."

Ye Muyu slowly stood up from the pavilion and spoke calmly.

As the captain of the rescue team, this Golden Core Doctor from Guantian Pavilion was still dressed in casual clothes, looking like he was on vacation compared to the others who were fully armed.

But no one objected to this; at most, they just glanced at the two "clerks" behind Ye Muyu with surprise.

"Yes!"

The deputy captain, surnamed Wang, immediately responded and, with a command, the rescue team officially set off.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi followed the main group into the cold, dark cave.

Both of them were somewhat excited as they entered the ancient secret realm for the first time.

According to current cutting-edge archaeological theories in the cultivation world, the formation of ancient secret realms may be strongly related to the Dharma-ending Age in ancient times.

At a certain time, powerful sects scattered throughout the cultivation world unanimously used a kind of spatial folding supernatural power to avoid a certain calamity.

They folded the space of their ancestral homeland and some important resource-producing areas, isolating them from the main world.

Based on this large-scale spatial folding, the current area of ​​Earth may be two-thirds smaller than it was in ancient times!
Perhaps the ancient cultivation sects wanted to use such methods to survive the Dharma-ending Age and wait for a new round of spiritual energy revival.

But this wait lasted for a full 100,000 years, during which time mortal civilization had developed through several cycles.

Until three hundred years ago, spiritual energy finally revived, and these folded spaces, after being catalyzed by spiritual energy, gradually revealed their entrances.

However, most of the cultivation sects within the folded space have long since disappeared.

However, continuous archaeological discoveries have revealed that many cultivation sects did not perish due to resource depletion. Instead, it seems they had only recently entered a folded space when they collectively perished due to some great calamity. The archaeological community has repeatedly discovered the remains of ancient cultivators in secret realms, still eating, cultivating, or even engaging in dual cultivation.

They remained in the act of eating or cultivating when they suddenly perished on the spot, which was extremely strange.

But whatever the reason for this strange occurrence, they have all vanished by now.

Because the ancient cultivators died too quickly and too suddenly in the folded space, many of the secret realms are of great archaeological value.

Many spiritual plants, fruits, and even beasts, cultivation manuals, alchemy and weapon-making techniques were transplanted from various secret realms.

However, not all ancient creatures perished.

In a very small number of these secret realms, ancient living beings may appear.

The reason they are able to survive is not because they have survived from ancient times to the present, but because some secret realms form their own small world, providing a place for living beings to develop and reproduce.

The most resilient of these are naturally the fierce and powerful monsters and beasts.

Their cultivation level varies from Qi Refining stage to Nascent Soul stage, and even Deity Transformation stage, depending on the upper limit that the secret realm can withstand.

They were the source of the enormous threat to human civilization in the early stages of the spiritual energy revival, and also the source of the bloodline of advanced demonic beasts after the spiritual energy revival.

The secret realms where ancient creatures still exist are also known in the archaeological community as "living secret realms".

Are there any ancient cultivators who have survived to this day, or are there any secret realm humans who multiplied in the secret realm?
Maybe, maybe not.

Because this is not something Su Yuan can access.

Returning to the present, the fact that the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm could trap Tai Baiji, a powerful cultivator at the peak of the Golden Core stage, clearly indicates that the secret realm is quite dangerous.

It's possible that it's a living secret realm.

After passing through a cave so dark that it could only be illuminated by a miner's lamp, Su Yuan followed the main group around a bend, and suddenly the view opened up before him.

A vast space appeared before them.

However, this space is not located inside the Jinhua Mountain, but is a folded space independent of the real space.

This is the hidden realm of Jinhua Mountain.

Or, more precisely, the ruins of the Zhuyan Baigu Temple.

The sky in this secret realm is as real as the sun, with a light source that is always bright.

Therefore, the scenery inside is also fully visible.

The first thing that caught Su Yuan's eye was a grayish-blue stone mountain in front of him, with a continuous cluster of buildings stretching from the foot of the mountain to its summit.

At the foot of the mountain directly in front, there is a magnificent gate tower that looks like it was carved from white jade. On it are five cold and solemn characters written in ancient script.

A world of crimson beauty and white bones!
The moment Su Yuan saw the mountain gate, his feet itched, and he couldn't resist kicking it over.

But before he could put his idea into practice, the fierce-looking Captain Wang shouted at the top of his lungs:

"Remember this, everyone: we're here for archaeology and to rescue people, not to steal from a secret realm!"

"Everything you see in front of you is a cultural relic with important research value. Anyone who dares to damage it will be in big trouble!"

All the rescue teams agreed.

Su Yuan slowly lowered his raised foot and fell silent.

This...this isn't right!
Wasn't I given a script that required a Great Ascension Stage Reversal System?

Shouldn't we just easily bully the dead and complete the system tasks?
How come the difficulty of the system tasks has actually increased now?

(End of this chapter)