Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 134 News, Devouring Secret Realm

However, there is hope that we can control the demonic plants before us.

After all, for a fourth-tier demon to be able to control the other party, there must be a special method involved.

The only drawback is that this demonic plant is a creature from the demon realm. The blood fruit it produces by devouring flesh and blood carries a strong demonic aura. If you want to use it, you must purify the demonic aura and the bloodthirsty killing intent on it.

It has many drawbacks, but there are always solutions.

Su You had previously crafted level-two magical artifacts, which not only required various high-level materials but were also extremely difficult to craft. A level-three blood and flesh essence pool could not be crafted in a short period of time.

Before becoming a level 5 wizard, most wizards use bloodline sorcerers in conjunction with the flesh essence pool to quickly enhance the strength of their bloodline sorcerers.

Only after reaching level five can one create their own bloodline nest, continuously generating soldiers.

The bloodline sorcerers under Su You's command now mostly rely on their own training, rapidly tapping into the potential of their bloodlines and enhancing them in life-or-death situations.

However, this only works wonders for first-tier bloodline sorcerers. Once a second-tier bloodline sorcerer becomes a second-tier sorcerer, they can no longer grow so quickly through constant blood battles.

Although most of Su You's subordinates are first-tier bloodline sorcerers, he still needs to plan ahead. Second-tier bloodline sorcerers, or even third-tier bloodline sorcerers, will be the main force in the future.

This requires a treasure that can quickly enhance the strength of your subordinates.

The Blood Fruit, a magical plant that can act as a pool of blood and flesh essence, is a treasure that can help cultivators quickly tap into their bloodline and enhance its power.

With a thought, Su You vanished from his spot and silently landed beside the fourth-tier demon.

The purple talismans of both silently activated.

Two bolts of lightning, each a hundred feet thick, formed in the void and struck the chest of the fourth-order demon in an instant.

Pfft!

This fourth-tier demon did not expect to be attacked so suddenly. It did not even have time to defend itself and could only rely on its powerful physique to withstand the attack.

Unfortunately, Su You's attack was a deadly strike. This Thunder Spirit Talisman was a mid-grade fourth-tier attack talisman, not only with superb attack power but also with great restraint against demons.

The demon before them was only at the mid-stage of the fourth rank. Even though the demon's physical body was stronger than that of a human, it was still no match for a demon of the same rank. Naturally, it was pierced through directly and even seriously injured.

A spiritual hurricane!

A torrent of violent mental energy poured out, striking the opponent's sea of ​​consciousness like a hurricane.

In its severely injured state, the demon's consciousness was powerless to resist, and it was seriously injured in the blink of an eye.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su You used the secret technique of soul enslavement to completely control it.

"Master!" The fourth-tier demon, despite its body constantly bleeding demonic blood, still managed to stand up.

"Tell me about the information within the Demon Realm," Su You asked, ignoring the other person's injuries.

The injury looks serious, but it's nothing compared to the demon's powerful regenerative abilities. He'll be fully recovered in time.

But Su You was very curious about the situation in the Demon Realm.

After asking around, he could only shake his head regretfully, because this demon didn't know much about the Demon Realm. He only knew that he and the demonic plant had been summoned to the lower realm so that he could use the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine to continuously absorb those demons.

He had been wandering in the Demon Realm, and even the blood fruits were collected by other demons at regular intervals.

"Alright, you can continue as usual, but remember to collect the demonic souls of those monsters while the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine is absorbing the essence of flesh and blood." Su You handed a Soul-Gathering Bottle to the other party.

There's no point in taking this Bloodthirsty Demon Vine out now; it's better to leave it here to continue the demon race's mission, and it can also help him collect demon souls.

He only needs to collect it periodically from now on, and the effect will not be worse than if he sent out the Bloodline Legion.

As for the Bloodline Legion, Su You planned to have them withdraw. The Demon Realm was becoming increasingly dangerous, and the efficiency was also decreasing. Besides, they would have other uses in the future.

The opening time of Hongya Secret Realm is very close.

This secret realm still holds great value for him.

However, its purpose is no longer to farm, as it was at the beginning. After all, the situation is becoming more and more complicated, and he doesn't have much time to farm anymore.

After dealing with matters here, Su You returned to Luoxia Island.

"It's time to send the twin clones back to the sect. Firstly, they can better gather information, and secondly, to enter the secret realm, we still need to use the sect's original teleportation channel." Su You thought quickly.

The twin clones have made great progress in their cultivation, already reaching the fifth level of the Golden Core stage. It will probably only take them about a hundred years to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

……

The Void Heaven Immortal Sect.

After returning via the teleportation array, Su You could clearly feel the tense atmosphere within the sect.

It was a feeling of impending storm.

Upon returning, he first went to pay his respects to his master.

After all, he is now a Nascent Soul cultivator and is considered one of the higher-ups in the sect, so he should be able to understand the current situation more clearly.

After waiting for a while at Danling Peak, Su You finally met Zhao Qing.

Zhao Qing looked extremely tired, and the aura of pills emanating from his body was incredibly dense, indicating that he had been refining a large number of pills in a short period of time.

Seeing Su You return safely and his cultivation level improved to the second level of the Golden Core stage, Zhao Qing nodded with a hint of relief.

After praising him a few times, Zhao Qingcai said seriously, "Chen'er, do you know what has happened in the sect?"

"I know a little bit about it, the Demon Realm invasion," Su You said briefly.

“Yes, the Demon Realm has invaded.” Zhao Qing said with a heavy expression. “You’ve come back at the wrong time, but now that you’re back, you need to accept the sect’s mandatory mission. It’s a good opportunity for your master to test you and see if your alchemy skills have improved over the years.”

……

After staying at Danling Peak for an hour, Su You hurriedly left.

After a detailed conversation with his master, he realized that the situation had become so dire.

Firstly, the sect had indeed sought help from sects in other states and paid a huge price to invite several Nascent Soul Venerables over.

However, he gained no advantage against the fifth-tier demons. Instead, he was ambushed and seriously injured, barely managing to escape.

Having witnessed such a large number of demonic cultivators, it was clear that no single force could offer assistance. Furthermore, demonic calamities were erupting in other areas, and the human borders were experiencing their largest-ever beast tide. No single force was able to spare any real help.

Of course, if someone really wanted to solve it, there would definitely be forces that could easily do so.

However, Qingzhou is located on the border and does not have many resources. Even if they wanted to rescue it, they could not afford the cost. Furthermore, the risk of fighting deep into the Demon Realm is too high, so the stalemate has continued.

Such free assistance requires the joint action of many forces, but currently, due to various circumstances, they are unable to spare the resources.

Moreover, from the perspective of the demonic cultivators, the expansion of the demonic realm is a good thing, and they will even condone it. In the end, all they need to do is eliminate the demons and monsters inside, and it will become a holy land for demonic cultivators.

Fortunately, the Qingzhou Demon Realm temporarily halted its expansion when it was halfway complete, which allowed the Xutian Sect to catch its breath for a while.

However, this is only a temporary situation. The Void Heaven Sect is currently actively preparing for war. If things don't go well, they will have no choice but to abandon their tens of thousands of years of foundation and retreat.

Although the Void Heaven Sect possesses a fifth-order grand formation, it is helpless against the endless demons. Even with powerful experts at the Nascent Soul stage within the sect, it is difficult to resolve this predicament.

This situation is the best for them. Once the beast tide on the border is over, the various sects will be able to free up manpower, and then they can wipe out the demonic realm here in one fell swoop.

"There must be a conspiracy behind all these demonic disasters and beast tides," Su You thought to himself.

Anyone with eyes can see this, and those at the peak of their abilities should be able to see it too.

However, these things are too far removed from Su You's life. He is currently focused on building up his own power step by step, so that he can protect himself in this chaotic situation.

After returning to the sect, there was less freedom. Now every disciple in the sect was assigned a mandatory mission, and he received one as well. Because of Zhao Qing, it wasn't a dangerous combat mission, but a pill refining mission. The difficulty wasn't high, it was just time-consuming.

He certainly wouldn't do these tasks himself; he would delegate them to his subordinates. He would simply collect the pills and hand them over periodically.

After spending a year in the sect, they found a group of people who could enter the Hongya Secret Realm, controlled one of them, and placed the interdimensional teleportation array into the other person's storage ring.

All he needs to do is bring this over, and let Hei Yuan find a suitable spiritual vein site to set it up, and then he can teleport the others over.

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Hongya Secret Realm.

On a magnificent mountain range, flashes of light kept appearing.

A large number of Foundation Establishment cultivators were sent into it, and their next task was to destructively mine the entire secret realm.

He planned to have the Dream Butterfly Mirror absorb the spatial origin of this secret realm.

Although the secret realm does not possess the origin of the world like the world itself, the origin of space is still a valuable treasure. It has some repairing effect on the Dream Butterfly Mirror and can save a lot of time.

Originally, if Su You had refined his natal magic weapon, this secret realm would have been even more useful. He could have used a secret technique and the entire secret realm to nurture the natal magic weapon and improve its grade.

Tens of thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators were sent into the Hongya Secret Realm. Based on the map that Hei Yuan had drawn over the past thirty years as he traversed the entire secret realm, anything of even a little value was looted and taken away.

It took these cultivators two whole months to emerge from the Hongya Secret Realm.

Unlike the Void Heaven Sect, because of the interdimensional teleportation array, the rules within the secret realm do not impose as many restrictions on him.

After a simple count, the resources plundered this time were worth more than 300 million spirit stones.

After all, this time it was like they were scraping the ground dry; all the spiritual minerals, spiritual plants, and spiritual herbs were completely mined out.

This income was a timely boon for Su You.

Maintaining subordinates costs money, and maintaining disciples also costs money. Now, the Dream Butterfly Sect has become extremely large.

However, there is still a significant shortcoming in terms of income, with the largest source of income being the sale of items crafted by the disciples.

Secondly, there were various odd jobs, farming, and growing medicinal herbs.

However, unlike those major sects, the Dream Butterfly Sect has not had a long history of cultivation, and its spiritual fields are even more scarce.

Therefore, Su You has always relied on the income from Luoxia Immortal City to subsidize the expenses.

However, this power now needs to be put to use, especially after obtaining so many spirit stones, the sect's reserves are finally full enough to support a major battle.

Moreover, after such a long period of adjustment, and with the management experience of the Cangling Sect, the sect is now on the right track.

"Zhao Yuan, Qi Xuan, pass on my orders: begin the conquest of Yunting Lake today. I intend to bring all human forces in Yunting Lake under my control," Su You instructed.

The sect's strength is constantly increasing. In recent years, it has not only added several hundred Golden Core cultivators, but also five Nascent Soul cultivators. Its current strength is enough to make it stand out among the human forces in the entire Yunting Lake.

Su You entrusted the Book of Souls to Qi Xuan for safekeeping. Once the battle begins, he will definitely fight while subduing those who surrender, using war to sustain his war effort.

Although this might provoke war, which strong person hasn't experienced endless bloodshed and turmoil?

Aside from this matter, Su You began entering the Hongya Secret Realm and started setting up positioning arrays there to guide the Dream Butterfly Mirror to break through the air and absorb energy.

He had already collected a large amount of spiritual liquid on Sunset Island, enough for Dream Butterfly Mirror to use such an ability once.

With the formation successfully set up, Su You left directly through the teleportation array and then returned to the Dream Butterfly Mirror through the Star Ring.

This time he brought a huge amount of spiritual liquid transformed from pure spiritual energy.

All of these spiritual liquids were poured into the Yuan Qi Pool.

This energy pool is both an energy absorption device and an energy supply device.

As a large amount of spiritual liquid was poured in, the Dream Butterfly Mirror was revived. Su You had no possession of it. He sensed and located the secret realm and then used his magic weapon to forcibly extract the essence of the secret realm.

Strands of the secret realm's essence were absorbed by the Dream Butterfly Mirror, and the absorption and transformation speed within the Spirit Tempering Pool also became faster.

The marks on the surface of the Dream Butterfly Mirror were repaired little by little.

Until the entire secret realm was drained and turned into nothingness, Su You carefully sensed that it would probably take about ten more secret realms for the Dream Butterfly Mirror to recover some of its power.

"We still need to keep searching for secret realms." Su You stroked his chin.

The effects of the secret realm are obvious.

"Oh right, I remember there was a secret realm among the demon races, and I even got a spot to enter it once." Su You suddenly remembered this.

That secret realm can accommodate third-tier demonic beasts, indicating that it is much more powerful than the Hongya Secret Realm.

(End of this chapter)