I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

When they arrived at the fifth aura deflection point, it was nearly afternoon in the simulated sky.

The deflection point is located in a depression surrounded by dark gray rock walls.

The layer of spiritual light covering the entrance was thicker and darker in color than the previous ones, and its operation was slower.

Lin Che stopped in front of the entrance and slowly probed his divine sense along the edge of the spiritual light layer. About five zhang inside the entrance, he touched a place that was different from all the previous spaces.

The space here is much larger than the previous storage room.

The interior is divided into different areas by several stone walls, each containing a living spirit beast preserved in a different way, or more precisely, in a dormant state.

These spirit beasts are maintained in a low-consumption survival state by some kind of extremely precise array. The spiritual energy fluctuations on the surface of their bodies are compressed to an almost imperceptible level, but their vital signs still exist. The interval between each breath is several times longer than that of normal spirit beasts, and each heartbeat continues at an extremely slow rhythm.

Lin Che and the Burning Heaven Sacred Sparrow both looked at the Ya Blade Dragon Beast.

Clearly, the environment and situation the other party was in back then were similar to those of these spirit beasts.

Lin Che's divine sense swept through that space one by one, identifying the types and ranks of those dormant spirit beasts.

Several of them were species he had only seen in the illustrations of the Beast Taming Inheritance, belonging to rare breeds cultivated during the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect era, which had long since disappeared from the outside world.

The spirit beasts sealed here are mostly of the second or third rank, with a few reaching the fourth rank. Each one is individually sealed in a compartment made of spirit jade.

"As expected of the ultimate inheritance of the Myriad Beasts Sect, their planning is truly thorough!" Lin Che withdrew his divine sense, his gaze falling on the entrance covered by a layer of spiritual light. "Inside lie dormant living spirit beasts cultivated by the Myriad Beasts Sect. Unlike spirit beast eggs, once we awaken them from their dormant state, the Lin family will gain another ready-made spirit beast army!"

Lin Xuanqing walked to the edge of the entrance and carefully observed the pattern of the spiritual light layer. He gently touched several key nodes with his fingers to feel the rhythm of the spiritual light's operation.

After a moment, she looked up and said, "The spiritual light layer is the core that maintains the dormant state. If it is shut down directly, the dormant spirit beasts may die in a short time due to the loss of spiritual power. We need to establish a new maintenance array before transferring them and move them one by one to the coverage area of ​​the new array. The whole process needs to be carried out in stages, and each spirit beast will be handled separately."

"Let's begin." Lin Che took out several pre-prepared array plates from his storage bag, placed the array plates carved from spirit jade on the stone surface at the entrance, and began to arrange them one by one according to the positions indicated by Lin Xuanqing.

The Heavenly Sacred Sparrow returned from the front and stopped at the edge of the depression to continue its guard duty.

Ya Zi was moved to the top of the hill on the outer side of the depression, where his figure almost blended into the rocks in the afternoon light.

Lin Xuanqing activated the first array plate at the entrance.

The layer of spiritual light fluctuated briefly the moment the array plate lit up, then stabilized again under her guidance.

She took the spiritual pen from her waist and drew an extremely thin spiritual path at the connection between the spiritual light layer and the array plate, adjusting the frequency of the two spiritual energy flows to the same rhythm.

The entire preparation process lasted nearly 35 minutes. After she completed the last connection, the spiritual light layer at the entrance began to operate at a new rhythm, a rhythm that established a preliminary synchronization with the dormant array inside the stone chamber.

"We can begin." She stood up and opened the first passage. The layer of spiritual light receded from the center to both sides, revealing an entrance large enough for one person to pass through.

Lin Che walked into the depression.

This space was much larger than he had sensed when he explored it with his divine sense. The stone walls divided the area into six sections, each containing a different number of dormant spirit beasts.

Following Lin Xuanqing's instructions, he began by moving the dormant spirit beasts one by one into the new array's coverage area, starting from the first room on the outermost side.

Each spirit beast remained in a completely dormant state during the transfer, its body moving at an extremely slow speed from the coverage area of ​​the old formation to the coverage area of ​​the new formation.

After the transfer was completed, the spirit beasts continued their hibernation in the new formation, and their breathing and heartbeats remained unchanged.

After the last spirit beast was successfully transferred, Lin Xuanqing connected the new maintenance formation with the mobile spirit beast box he carried in his storage bag, and put the spirit jade boxes that sealed the dormant spirit beasts into the spirit beast bag one by one.

Her movements were slower and more meticulous than ever before. Each spirit beast underwent three checks before being sealed into the teleportation box to ensure that its vital signs were not disturbed during the transfer.

The entire transfer process lasted nearly five hours.

After the last box was put into the storage bag, Lin Xuanqing resealed the empty stone chamber, restored the spiritual light layer at the entrance to its previous state, and left several marks on the connection points of the new formation to facilitate subsequent processing.

"About how many?" Lin Che asked.

"Eighty thousand." Lin Xuanqing handed him the recording jade slip. "Among them, seventy thousand have reached the second tier, nine thousand nine hundred are at the third tier, and there are one hundred spirit beasts at the fourth tier!"

Lin Che took the jade slip and scanned it with his divine sense, reviewing the general information about each spirit beast. He couldn't help but marvel once again.

With just this one trip, the Lin family's spirit beast legion will soon see a significant increase in strength.

That's 80,000 spirit beasts!

Most importantly, there are one hundred spirit beasts with the strength of the fourth tier!

This greatly exacerbates the Lin family's predicament of lacking high-end strength.

Now that the Lin family has the Shattered Star Lake Spirit Beast Legion, the Dawn Army, and the new Myriad Beasts Sect Spirit Beast Legion, the Lin family of the Southern Region truly has the strength to contend for power!

He put the jade slip into his sleeve and turned to look at the direction outside the depression.

The afternoon in the simulated sky was gradually transitioning into dusk, and that halo between orange-red and light purple reappeared at the edge of the clouds above the dome, tinging the hills and meadows below with a diluted warm halo.

How many other deflection points are there nearby?

Lin Xuanqing looked down at the spirit-testing jade slip in his hand. The pale blue halo appeared to be a deeper shade than before in the light of approaching dusk, and the angle of its deflection still steadily pointed to the southwest.

"The nearest deflection point is about sixty miles away. There are no more points beyond that. Judging from the deflection range of the jade slip, the one in the southwest should be the last one and also the largest. The angle of deflection is greater than the previous ones, and the concentration of spiritual energy is also higher."

"Then let's finish this last spot." Lin Che stepped out of the depression, his boots making a dry, crunching sound as they landed on the stones warmed by the midday sun. "Let's try to obtain more inheritances before the other two!"

It should be noted that the Lin family is not the only one exploring this secret realm at this moment; the forces under the other two Venerables are also exploring it.

Perhaps they sensed the Lin family's presence on the road, and instead of fighting over them, they chose to explore in the opposite direction, which is why they didn't encounter them.

After all, this secret realm is so vast. Rather than competing with the Lin family for it, it's definitely faster to explore it without any obstacles.

The group set off again, moving southwest in the direction indicated by the spirit-testing array.

The terrain in that area was different from the places we had passed through before. The hills were steeper, and the slopes were covered with bare rocks, mainly grayish-brown, and sparse drought-resistant vegetation.

The humidity in the air continued to drop, and the dryness made each breath feel like it carried a trace of warmth left over from the afternoon sun.

After traveling about sixty miles, a basin surrounded by dark gray rocks appeared ahead.

The basin's edge is separated from the surrounding hills by steep rock walls, with only a narrow entrance on one side.

The layer of spiritual light at the entrance was thicker and darker in color than any other place before, and its rhythm of operation was slower, with each flash of light occurring approximately every twenty breaths.

Lin Che stopped in front of the entrance.

His divine sense probed inward along the edge of the spiritual light layer, and after passing through a long corridor made of spiritual jade, he touched an internal structure that was much larger than any of the spaces before.

In one of the deepest compartments, his divine sense touched a huge base carved from a single piece of obsidian. Above the base, several chains of spiritual energy bound a crystal slightly smaller than the Myriad Beast Source Core, which shone with a ghostly blue light.

"What is this?" he whispered, as if asking himself, or perhaps asking Lin Xuanqing beside him.

Lin Xuanqing also raised the spirit-testing array plate to the edge of the entrance. As it approached the entrance, the deflection of the array plate began to increase at a much faster rate than before. Within ten breaths, the increase exceeded the peak value of any previous deflection point.

She put the array plate away and looked at Lin Che: "This should be the source of the spiritual energy in the secret realm."

"Let's go in and take a look." Lin Che placed his hand on the layer of spiritual light at the entrance. After the layer of spiritual light came into contact with the warmth of his palm, it slowly receded to the sides, revealing the long corridor inside made of spiritual jade.

The stone walls on both sides of the corridor are covered with dense inscriptions, and the calligraphy of those inscriptions belongs to the same period as the characters below the portraits of past patriarchs that he had seen on both sides of the stone steps.

At the end of the corridor was an archway made of dark gray stone, with the outline of a spirit beast similar in form to the emblem of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect carved on its surface. The spirit beast's form was somewhere between a deer and a qilin, with its four feet treading on auspicious clouds made of cloud patterns.

Lin Che pushed open the archway.

The space behind the door was much larger than he had expected.

The dome of that space was supported by several layers of progressively curved stone beams, with gaps between each layer filled with spirit stones. The light from those spirit stones shone with a diluted, ghostly blue hue in the twilight, enveloping the entire space in a cool and even brightness.

Lin Che walked along the passage between the stone walls into the depths of the space. When he reached the deepest part of the space, he stopped in front of the huge base carved from obsidian.

The dark blue crystal on the base shone with a steady, continuous light in the twilight. Several chains of spiritual energy extended from the bottom of the base upwards, fixing the crystal to the center of the base.

Standing in front of the base, I looked down at the crystal.

The patterns inside the crystal are simpler than those of the Myriad Beasts Source Core, and the direction of the lines presents a more ancient form that is different from the formation system of the Myriad Beasts Sect.

The patterns flowed at an extremely slow speed, each flow drawing the surrounding spiritual energy towards the center of the crystal, and then releasing it outwards again after reaching the core, forming a closed cycle.

As his hand approached the crystal surface, that familiar resistance reappeared, but it was weaker than the one around the Myriad Beast Source Core.

The moment his palm touched the surface of the crystal, a spiritual energy even cooler than before surged into his meridians. The texture of that spiritual energy was different from any spiritual energy he had ever encountered before, carrying an ancient temperature like that of a mineral that had been buried deep underground for tens of thousands of years and was still retained after being dug out.

His divine sense was amplified again when it came into contact with the crystal, and the range of his perception expanded from thousands of miles to even further, clearly presenting the spatial outline of the entire secret realm, the direction of the spiritual veins, and the distribution of all the sealed structures in his perception.

"The core of the spiritual vein, so that's how it is." Lin Xuanqing's voice came from the depths of the space, echoing briefly between the archway and the corridor. "This is the core node used to maintain the operation of the spiritual veins throughout the entire secret realm."

"The methods of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect are truly extraordinary! They were actually able to condense a fifth-order spiritual vein and turn it into this core." Lin Xuanqing couldn't help but sigh.

When she first entered, she was already pondering how the Myriad Beasts Sect powered this man-made secret realm.

Simulating the environment of a secret realm is not difficult; the Lin family's various spirit beast breeding bases all follow this approach. The challenge lies in how to power such a vast secret realm.

Unexpectedly, the method of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect was so direct, directly utilizing the real spiritual veins.

Lin Xuanqing's judgment matched what he had sensed when he first touched the crystal, prompting him to ask, "If we bring this back, will it upgrade the level of our Shattered Star Lake's spiritual vein? Or will it directly give us another fifth-tier spiritual vein?"

Lin Xuanqing was taken aback by the question, then nodded after a moment's thought: "Yes, based on my many years of research into the formation inheritance of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, there is a way to achieve it."

"Alright, we'll take it with us then. But if we take this, won't this secret realm immediately collapse?"

"Take it with you. The secret realm will gradually weaken after losing its energy core. However, according to my calculations, the remaining energy accumulated throughout the secret realm can still maintain its operation for a period of time, but not for too long."

"That's enough. Anyway, we probably won't be coming back here anytime soon, so whether this place exists or not doesn't mean much to our Lin family."

As he spoke, Lin Che withdrew his hand, untied the spiritual energy chains on the base piece by piece, and put the dark blue crystal into a specially made jade box.

The moment the lid closed, the eerie blue light in the entire space began to weaken slowly, and the array patterns that had been flowing on the stone walls gradually dimmed, as if an old system that had lost its core was returning to silence in a dignified manner.

"After that, we'll change direction and continue exploring until all the inheritances have been obtained." Lin Che paused, then turned his gaze to the various spirit beast species within the secret realm. "After that, we'll take away the spirit beasts that are of value."