Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Yun Qing stared at the stone golems and had an idea. "Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Brother, why don't you catch one of the stone golems and we'll experiment with it?"

Nothing can operate out of thin air; it either relies on spiritual power or formations. If we can find this source, then finding the stone golem's weakness will be much easier.

Pei Shubai and Jiang Mian didn't ask any more questions, and the two of them joined forces to force a stone golem into an open space.

Yun Qing instructed the two of them to attack the stone golem's body part by part, starting with its head and chest, and then its knees, sides, and other commonly thought-of weak points, but none of them had any effect on it.

On a whim, Yun Qing said to Pei Shubai, "Stab its butt!"

"Huh? This spot isn't very elegant."

Pei Shubai said this without stopping what he was doing.

Sure enough, when Pei Shubai plunged the sword into the stone golem's buttocks, a subtle fluctuation of spiritual energy appeared, and the stone golem's movements paused for a moment.

The three who discovered the problem: ...Who would have thought the stone golem's weakness would be in this place?!

No wonder the stone golems never flinched or dodged no matter how they attacked. Perhaps whoever created them thought that respectable cultivators wouldn't poke people in the buttocks.

Jiang Mian's expression was complicated. "Are you sure this is the place? Or could we be mistaken?"

Pei Shubai looked at the stone puppet, then at Jiang Mian, "Should we try again?"

Jiang Mian: "Shall we do it, or should we?"

Pei Shubai: "You can come here."

So Jiang Mian tried it again, raising the string light and striking the stone golem's buttocks with all his might.

This time, the fluctuation of spiritual energy was even more obvious. The stone golem stopped moving completely, and then its body began to crack along the joints, breaking into a pile of ordinary stones that would never reassemble.

Shen Qingchen also noticed the commotion. While parrying the stone golem's attacks, she asked, "Have you found its weakness?"

Yun Qing cleared her throat and said, "Yeah, poke its butt."

Gu Changfeng paused, his hand holding the sword still. "Why? To humiliate it?"

Si Mingche, who was standing to the side, tapped him on the head with a fan. "Why ask so many questions? Just stab him."

The one who acted the fastest was Lu Xingzhou. Ever since the Eight-Tailed Mud Chapter, he completely believed every word Yun Qing said.

Without hesitation, Lu Xingzhou plunged his sword into the rear of the nearest stone golem, and the golem indeed fell to the ground and stopped moving.

Seeing this, the others had different expressions, but when they took action, each one was more swift than the last.

Soon, dozens of stone golems were cleared away, leaving only rubble on the ground.

As Yun Qing shoveled the rubble into her storage ring, she asked Cen Ning, "Second Senior Sister, where did you go after entering the secret realm? Why can't we contact you? We've searched the outer perimeter several times but haven't seen you anywhere."

Cen Ning didn't know what her junior sister wanted these pebbles for, but she figured it was the right thing to do, so she squatted down and collected them.

"When my senior brother and I entered the secret realm, we encountered disciples of the Immortal Alliance. They hardly wasted any time on low-level demonic beasts and went straight to the inner perimeter."

"We originally planned to go find you first, but we vaguely heard them say that they were going to the inner perimeter to get some spiritual artifact to deal with the Seven Sects, and we also heard the name of our third junior brother. I was afraid that they might do something to our third junior brother, so I decided to go to the inner perimeter first to take a look."

Yun Qing frowned. "They headed straight for the inner perimeter, and their goal wasn't to hunt demonic beasts, so why did they have such a commanding lead in points from the moment they entered the secret realm?"

Gu Changfeng got excited when this was mentioned, "You might not believe it, but disciples of the Immortal Alliance actually stole the points. Whenever they saw disciples from other sects hunting monsters, they would finish them off just as the monsters were about to die."

He pointed to the valley behind them, "Pei Shubai, Junior Sister Cen Ning, and I encountered a fifth-tier demonic beast there. It took the three of us working together to subdue it. Just as we were about to kill it and split the points, those Immortal Alliance disciples rushed over and intercepted us! Can you believe it?!"

Si Mingche closed his fan, patted it in his palm, and said, "No wonder we were so calm when we passed through the passage; it turns out that one generation plants the trees so another can enjoy the shade. But how come they weren't beaten up despite being so obnoxious?"

Gu Changfeng shook his head. "There's nothing we can do. The other sects are all scattered, and only the five disciples of the Immortal Alliance are here. We can't win. Besides, the rules of the secret realm don't actually say that you can't intercept."

Yun Qing stood up and walked around the area, noticing some signs of a struggle, but different from those of the stone golem group.

"So, you fought with them?"

Pei Shubai nodded. "However, they seemed to be in a hurry to do something. After activating the mechanism of this stone golem, they went inside."

"Then let's go and meet them," Yun Qing said, patting the dust off her hands.

Pei Shubai and the others nodded and followed behind her.

Yun Qing turned to Shen Qingchen, Gu Changfeng, and the others and asked, "There might be danger inside. We have to go in for our Third Senior Brother's sake. You can go in together, or you can go elsewhere to find spiritual plants and demonic beasts."

Lu Xingzhou was the first to follow, saying, "Junior Sister Yun Qing, we'll go with you."

He tugged at Shen Qingchen's sleeve. "Right, Senior Brother?"

Shen Qingchen smiled and said, "If your Chengtian Sect isn't afraid of danger, then our Jinyu Sect will naturally go in too."

However, he left the other three disciples of the Golden Jade Sect behind. He was willing to take risks, but he couldn't risk all his close disciples.

The three disciples were clearly unwilling, but Shen Qingchen only said, "You stay outside to search for other demonic beasts and spiritual treasures. Send a message if anything happens," and then they didn't follow.

Gu Changfeng crossed his arms and said, "If Pei Shubai goes, I'm going too. At least I can have a fight before I die."

Since he can't find his own sect anyway, he might as well go in with them and see what these little thieves from the Immortal Alliance are up to.

Jiang Mian walked past him and stomped on his foot again, saying, "If you want to die, die yourself. Don't drag my senior brother down with you."

"Aww!"

Gu Changfeng bent over, clutching his feet, and recalled the fear of being controlled by Jiang Mian's illusion. He said in a voice only he could hear, "You just wait!"

Si Mingche walked over to him, fanning himself, and whispered in his ear, "What did you say? I didn't hear you."

Gu Changfeng said with a forced smile, "I said let's go in quickly."

The group chatted and laughed as they entered the ruins of the Lingxu Sect, unaware that they had unknowingly passed through a barrier.

Suddenly, Yun Qing, who was walking at the front, stopped in her tracks, causing Si Mingche and Lu Xingzhou, who were arguing behind her, to bump into Pei Shubai and the others without realizing it.

The two rubbed their foreheads and muttered in unison, "Senior Brother, why did you suddenly stop?"

Then, after taking a closer look, the two exclaimed in unison again, "Wow!"

"What a place! What a grand mountain gate! What a beautiful sect! And such plump cranes!"

Before them were no longer ruins, but a mountain gate composed of two huge blue-white stone pillars, with three large characters written on a black plaque with gold lettering: "Lingxu Sect".