Cultivation: I have an omnipotent land

Xiao Ming stood there, watching the girl leave, and couldn't help but shake his head.

"Let's find a place to rest first."

After a fierce battle, Xiao Ming was inevitably injured, and most of his magical power was also depleted.

After releasing the spirit boat, Xiao Ming wandered around the area and finally discovered a hidden cave on a cliff halfway up a mountain.

Xiao Ming entered the cave, sealed the entrance, and began to meditate and cultivate.

Three days later, just as Xiao Ming had almost recovered, he suddenly felt the ground shaking.

Awakened, Xiao Ming felt the ground shaking more and more violently, and the cave seemed about to collapse.

He immediately rushed out, summoned his spirit boat, and flew into the air. Looking down, he realized that the tremor had turned into a major earthquake.

The distant mountains began to crumble, and the earth continued to crack, with fissures spreading in all directions.

From within the crack, one after another, eerie black stone statues emerged. These statues were male and female, old and young, and varied in appearance. Some were as tall as ten zhang (approximately 33 meters), while others were as small as infants.

After these strange and evil spirits crawled out of the ground, they attacked all living things frantically.

"What exactly happened?" Xiao Ming's expression was rather grim.

Something must have happened in this secret realm; it seems we can't stay here any longer.

Xiao Ming took out the map given to him by Yan Yuxue, identified his location, and then flew towards the nearest teleportation portal.

Fortunately, he was not far from the portal, and soon he saw a huge stone platform in front of him, with a large door sitting on it.

Xiao Ming landed on the stone platform and was about to activate the teleportation portal.

However, just as the portal was about to activate, a crack spread out, shattering the portal base. The portal flickered a few times before becoming an ordinary stone door.

From beneath the crack, several ghostly stone statues crawled out and pounced on Xiao Ming.

Lightning Summoning Technique!

Xiao Ming used his magic to summon lightning, which shattered the ghostly stone statues.

However, the next moment, even more ghostly stone statues crawled out from underground.

"Damn it, we have to get out of here."

Without hesitation, Xiao Ming launched his spirit boat, and with all his might, it sped off. Behind him followed countless ghosts and evil spirits, some of whose auras clearly surpassed even the Qi Refining stage.

On the ground, cultivators kept flying into the air, but some unlucky ones who got entangled were devoured by the ghosts in an instant.

Just then, a magical artifact shaped like a leaf flew out from a dense forest. Two people stood on the artifact: one was a chubby boy who was sweating profusely as he manipulated it, while the other held a silver spear crackling with lightning and was fighting several ghosts.

"Hey, it's those two." Xiao Ming looked over.

As the two were entangled by the ghosts, their speed slowed down, and they were about to be swallowed up by the ghost tide behind them.

Xiao Ming took out several lightning-summoning talismans and began to cast lightning-summoning spells.

A sudden bolt of lightning struck, tearing the ghost apart. The other ghosts, seeing this, were also afraid and dared not approach.

"Senior Brother Xiao!"

The chubby boy's face lit up with joy when he saw the figure on the flying boat.

"Senior Brother Wu, Junior Brother Wang, come up quickly."

Xiao Ming deliberately slowed down the speed of the flying boat so that the two could board smoothly. Then the spirit boat accelerated, leaving the ghosts behind.

"Thanks to Senior Brother Xiao, otherwise I would have perished here."

"Don't let your guard down, it's not time to escape danger yet." Xiao Ming took out the map Yan Yuxue had given him and prepared to head to the next exit.

The three had only traveled halfway when suddenly the earth shook and a mountain collapsed in front of them, from which countless ghostly creatures flew out.

Xiao Ming wanted to turn around, but found that there were also countless ghosts behind him.

"We're doomed, we're surrounded!" Wang Debao cried out in terror.

"Let's fight to the death." Wu Yun gripped the Thunderfire Spear tightly, ready to risk his life.

"Am I really going to be defeated here?" Xiao Ming said with a gloomy face, holding a stack of talismans in his hand.

However, just when the three thought they were in dire straits, a beam of fire came from afar. This beam of fire transformed into a ten-zhang-long fire python, which easily broke through the encirclement of the ghosts.

The fire python surrounded the spirit boat at its center, spewing out golden-red flames. Any ghosts that touched these terrifying flames were instantly incinerated. The fire grew ever stronger, spreading continuously towards the ghosts.

Having witnessed the terror of the flames, the ghosts all scattered and fled.

Xiao Ming looked closely and noticed that a rosy glow was rising on the distant horizon, and a large ship was breaking through the clouds.

"This is the sect's Radiant Flying Boat!" The three who had just escaped death couldn't hide the joy on their faces.

Above the flying boat, a white-haired old man dressed in black stood in mid-air. With a wave of his hand, the fire python was immediately summoned, quickly shrinking and disappearing into his arm, turning into a fire python tattoo.

"You three are lucky. Why don't you get on the boat?" Chief examiner Zong Zhengguang shouted at the three men from the bow of the boat.

"Elders, have you come to rescue us?"

Once aboard the radiant flying boat, Wang Debao almost collapsed to the ground, now certain that he was truly saved.

"Saving you? You're just lucky." Munemasa Mitsuaki chuckled to himself.

Earlier outside the secret realm, the red coffin of the Corpse Soul Sect suddenly exploded, leaving only a pool of foul-smelling black blood, with no sign of Ling Laogui.

Upon seeing this, Duanmu Yan's expression changed immediately. He realized he had been tricked. Old Ghost Ling had pulled off a clever escape. To prevent the old ghost from devouring all the treasures in the secret realm, he immediately led the Foundation Establishment deacons into the secret realm.

Of course, that is the truth, but saying it out loud is another matter.

"Of course, you are all elite disciples of the sect, and we cannot afford to lose you. Elder Duanmu brought us here to rescue you as soon as he saw through Ling Laogui's trick."

"What you just saw was Elder Duanmu's Gu Spirit Secret Technique, a secret and unique skill of our Gu Spirit Sect. If you can learn even a small part of it when you enter the sect in the future, you will definitely benefit from it for the rest of your lives."

The disciples on the ship nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, their anticipation and longing for the Gu Spirit Sect growing even stronger.

"Disciple thanks Elder Duanmu and all the deacons." The three of them also came over and bowed to the group.

"Enough talk, open the storage bag." Duanmu Yan landed in the air and said to the three of them.

Upon hearing this, the three men's expressions changed, and they looked at each other in bewilderment.

"What, did you understand Elder Duanmu's words? The fortune or misfortune of what you obtain in this secret realm is unknown. Your cultivation is still shallow and your knowledge is insufficient. If you cannot handle it, you may bring about your own death." Zong Zhengguang added with words that were half persuasion and half threat.

"Elder Duanmu's initiative in helping to discern the truth is a blessing for you all."