Immortality and cultivation: Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable.

A reading feast: a vast collection of books and an unparalleled reading experience.

If Jiang Shi were to see this scene, he would surely understand why Xuan Yuan Yi, despite his strength, dared not easily provoke Zhou Yuan.

The foundation of the ten major sects is stronger than that of these top families.

Although they are both top-tier powers, there are still differences between them.

After destroying half of the centipede statue, the Thunder Roar Beast beside Zhou Yuan transformed into a bolt of lightning and snatched the Blood Moon Demon Seal from inside the statue.

The Thunder Roar Beast returned to Zhou Yuan's side, and as if to claim credit, handed the Blood Moon Demon Seal to Zhou Yuan.

After Zhou Yuan took the Blood Moon Demon Seal, he glanced at it a few times, nodded in satisfaction, and then put it into his storage bracelet.

Then Zhou Yuan took out a bone and rewarded the Thunder Roar Beast, Ayu.

Watching the Thunder Roar Beast devour flesh and bones, Zhou Yuan thought to himself:

"Once we return to the sect, we can use this Blood Moon Demon Seal to refine secret medicines for Ayu to help it grow."

Although the Thunder Roar Beast can enter the Golden Core stage upon reaching adulthood, as a spirit beast, its growth period is extremely long.

These spirit beasts are all long-lived species; some even take tens of thousands of years to reach adulthood.

Although the Thunder Roar Beast doesn't take that long, it still takes five or six hundred years to reach adulthood.

With this Blood Moon Demon Seal, one can refine secret medicines to accelerate the growth of the Thunder Roar Beast without damaging its foundation.

This is why Zhou Yuan, a disciple of the Beast Taming Mountain, one of the ten major sects, still came to explore the second-grade secret realm.

Just as Zhou Yuan was about to leave after obtaining the Blood Moon Demon Seal, the third level of the secret realm began to tremble.

The vibrations started very weakly, but then became increasingly violent.

Zhou Yuan sensed the tremor and his expression changed drastically.

As a disciple of the Beast Taming Mountain, one of the ten major sects, he hadn't experienced such emotional changes in a long time.

Even when he was defeated by his junior sister and reprimanded by his master during the sect competition, he did not act like this.

"Someone has triggered the restrictions on this secret realm!" Zhou Yuan immediately concluded.

Within the sect, there are records of various secret realms. Naturally, he learned a lot of related knowledge before coming to explore these realms.

The current situation seems to have been caused by some reckless fool who triggered the restrictions of the secret realm.

Speaking of people who are oblivious to their own mortality, Zhou Yuan thought of one person.

Wei Wushang!

Only someone like Wei Wushang, who is neither dead nor injured, would do such a thing.

"The secret realm's restrictions have been triggered, which may cause a lot of trouble," Zhou Yuan thought to himself.

"Let's go find Wei Wushang first! Let's see what happened!"

Zhou Yuan was very decisive. He took the Thunder Roar Beast Ayu and flew away in a flash of lightning.

After Zhou Yuan left, Lu Chuanxing and Ouyang Yu looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Even the disciples of Beast Taming Mountain have changed their expressions; something big must have happened," Lu Chuanxing said.

The two were unaware of the restrictions on the secret realm; they only knew that the area outside the tower was off-limits to air travel.

As for what restrictions were inside the tower, they had no idea, having never encountered anything like it before.

"Be careful first, then make plans. If all else fails, retreat to the second floor," Lu Chuanxing said.

Ouyang Yu nodded in agreement with Lu Chuanxing's words.

If there is a teleportation array leading to the next level, then there must also be a teleportation array leading to the previous level.

In the distance, Jiang Shi's eighteen fire-patterned silver rings formed the "Sparkling Wilderness Formation," and a line of fire shot out, knocking a demonic wolf away.

Then Li Huan, who was beside him, used magic to create a large number of trees, which trapped the demonic snakes on the ground.

Two more demonic birds flew overhead, circling in the air, ready to swoop down and attack at any moment.

"How come there are so many demonic puppets on this third floor? Shouldn't there only be one type of demonic puppet on each floor?" Li Huan shouted.

Jiang Shi was also very puzzled. There was only one type of demonic puppet in the first and second layers, so why did it suddenly change in the third layer?

Could it be that this secret realm has undergone some kind of change?

There was no time to think about it now, as the demonic puppet kept approaching and attacking them.

Jiang Shi kept using the "Sparkling Wilderness Formation" to deal with these demonic puppets.

At first, things were fine. With the support of the Yang Flame Qi, the power of the formation increased greatly, and it eliminated several demonic wolves.

But then, the blazing sun in the sky gradually dimmed, and the intense heat in the air began to disappear.

As the Yang Flame Qi disappeared, Jiang Shi's pressure increased, with more than a dozen demonic puppets launching attacks against them.

If one were to use only these eighteen fire-patterned silver rings for an attack, it would be extremely difficult without revealing that one had cultivated the "True Scripture of Universal Transformation of the Demonic Source".

"These people are still scheming at a time like this." Jiang Shi suddenly realized that the reason he was under so much pressure was that the three Foundation Establishment stage cultivators around him were just going through the motions without putting in any real effort.

They concealed their strength and did not go all out.

"Since that's how you are, don't blame me." Jiang Shi sneered inwardly and with a wave of his hand, he collected all eighteen fire-patterned silver rings.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, what are you doing?" Li Huan hurriedly called out.

With Jiang Shi halting his attack, Li Huan was now under the greatest pressure.

Fearing that the demonic puppets might actually break through, Li Huan could only keep using his magic to increase the defensive range of his spells.

"Fellow Daoists, the formation of my Fire Pattern Silver Rings consumes a great deal of energy. After being in the secret realm for so many days, I have exhausted all my mid-grade spirit stones and am truly unable to continue fighting."

Upon hearing Jiang Shi's words, the expressions of the other three Foundation Establishment stage cultivators turned somewhat unpleasant.

They didn't believe Jiang Shi's words at all; they acknowledged his strength but didn't fully trust him.

Although they didn't believe it, they had no choice but to compromise for the time being.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, these are just mid-grade spirit stones. Take these five and activate the formation quickly." Ma Wu took out five mid-grade spirit stones from his storage bag and handed them to Jiang Shi while hovering in the air.

After Jiang Shi accepted the mid-grade spirit stone, he did not immediately take action.

Instead, he looked at the other two.

Feeling Jiang Shi's gaze, Li Huan cursed inwardly, using extremely offensive language, but he didn't show it on his face at all.

He also took out five mid-grade spirit stones and handed them to Jiang Shi. Both of them handed over mid-grade spirit stones, and in the end, each of them had no choice but to give five.

"Thank you for the mid-grade spirit stones from the three fellow Daoists. I will make my move now." Jiang Shi took out the eighteen fire-patterned silver rings, and three drops of mana liquid exploded in his dantian, with a large amount of mana surging into the fire-patterned silver rings.

Others would need mid-grade spirit stones to use these eighteen fire-patterned silver rings, but Jiang Shi does not.

He possesses the aptitude of five spiritual roots, profound magical power, and recovers his magical power extremely quickly.

Jiang Shi doesn't need mid-grade spirit stones at all; he can use all eighteen fire-patterned silver rings on his own.

After Jiang Shi entered the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, his magical power was already comparable to that of a late-Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.

Moreover, its recovery ability far exceeds that of ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.