Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

She stood there stunned for a long time, then turned around and stared at Yunping.

From those eyes, darker than the depths of the ocean, she saw a fleeting longing.

"Your Excellency..." she couldn't help but speak, wanting to ask for clarification, "Where exactly is this place...?"

"Secret Realm".

"This is... a secret realm?" Fan Luo Kui's mind went blank. "This... this doesn't seem like it..."

Logically speaking, secret realms should be located deep within caves, hidden in dark and gloomy corners, waiting for destined people to come to them.

Instead of something as enormous as the ruins before us…

Even Ye Yuchan asked, "Old rogue, is this really a secret realm? The secret realm we went to before wasn't like this."

"The secret realm we visited before was at most just a small wall, and what constituted that secret realm was the pool of black liquid we saw."

"So what's different about this one?"

"There are many differences."

Yunping turned around and found that four curious gazes were all fixed on him.

Even the twin-tailed girl who had previously seemed somewhat hostile towards him couldn't help but cast a strange glance at Yun Ping, driven by curiosity.

It seemed as if they were waiting for him to reveal the answer.

Yun Ping didn't seem to care much about their gazes. Pointing to the vast ruins before him, he said, "Every secret realm needs something to form its core. You should understand that, right?"

Fan Luo Kui nodded slightly, "That's natural. And it's usually a treasure, or the corpse of a powerful being..."

“Yes, a treasure.” Yunping pointed ahead. “This is the treasure.”

Everyone looked in the direction Yunping pointed and, unsurprisingly, saw...

Ok……

I didn't see anything.

Liang Jue looked curiously at Yun Ping, then at the strange stone gate standing on the snow, and suddenly realized what was going on.

"Oh~ you mean, this stone door that's been cut in half diagonally is the treasure?"

"What are you thinking about...?"

The young man with dead fish eyes glanced at Liang Jue as if he were an idiot.

Then, he said calmly.

"The entire ruins themselves are a treasure."

74. A swift and decisive action to cut through the mess.

"The ruins themselves... are treasures?"

Fan Luokui repeated Yunping's words, gazing at the ruins before her, trying to glean the truth from some clues.

Clearly, she failed.

The writing on it was incredibly strange; she couldn't even discern which era it belonged to. Perhaps time had worn away the traces of the writing, making it blurry.

But is the entire site itself a treasure?

Details...

"That's unlikely. I've never heard of such a... large magical artifact."

Not to mention Fan Luokui, Liang Jue and the girl with pigtails didn't believe it at first either.

Because within their knowledge, the materials needed to forge magical artifacts are extremely precious, and the manpower and resources required to forge such a huge artifact would be immeasurable.

Yunping didn't take their questions to heart at all.

Believe it or not, that has always been Lao Yun's deepest thought.

"Anyway, I've already said this place is a secret realm. If you don't believe me, you can go up and try it yourselves."

"..."

Fan Luokui and the other two exchanged glances and ultimately decided that Fan Luokui should make the first move.

She was the person with the highest cultivation level among everyone present, and she was also the captain of the trial team. Only she had the ability to face the secret realm alone.

That is, if this really is a secret realm.

"Well then, since you say this is the secret realm, then I will clear the way for you."

As they were talking, Fan Luokui had already arrived in front of the strange giant stone gate.

She didn't feel anything at first glance, but when she actually stood in front of the stone gate, the overwhelming and crushing aura made her feel breathless for a short time.

This feeling... is really hard to describe in words.

Entering the secret realm requires no ritual; one only needs to enter the space it encompasses.

Fan Luokui took a deep breath. Judging from the current situation, as long as she stepped through the stone gate in front of her and officially entered the ruins, she would be considered to have entered the secret realm.

Although the two people behind her were still staring intently at Fan Luokui, only Fan Luokui herself knew that the ruins in front of her might really be a secret realm.

Her foot slowly lifted—

"Um, if you just go in like this, there might be..."

Yunping hadn't finished speaking.

Fan Luokui's right foot had already stepped over the stone gate and entered.

She turned around blankly, her gaze towards Yunping becoming exceptionally strange, as if complaining—why didn't you say so sooner!

Understanding the meaning behind Fan Luo Kui's complicated gaze, Yun Ping helplessly tugged at the corners of his mouth, "How was I supposed to know you wouldn't even hesitate for a moment..."

--roar!

An endless roar! Like ten thousand thunderbolts rolling wildly across the sky!

The ground beneath our feet suddenly began to shake, and layers of white snow rose into the sky like towering waves.

At the same time, the fallen stone pillar began to rumble, and the purplish-blue stones slowly rotated under the guidance of a strange force. The broken stones, accompanied by eerie roars, condensed together in threes and fours.

Yunping rolled his eyes. "Alright, let's begin."

"Start what?" Ye Yuchan hid behind Yun Ping, looking ahead with trepidation.

"It's starting to transform, you know what I mean? It's the same as a robot transforming."

Ye Yuchan glanced at Yun Ping in horror and blurted out instinctively, "Optimus Prime?!"

“No.” Yunping shook his head. “It’s the Stone Golem transforming.”

Just as Yunping said, the stones that had reassembled slowly condensed into a human shape under everyone's watchful eyes!

Although they have no eyes, they can still see everything around them clearly and sense any movement in the air.

At the same time, a crack appeared to appear on the mouths of more than a dozen enormous stone figures.

"Hoohoho!!!"

Roars and howls echoed throughout the stadium.

The terrifying momentum swept across the surroundings, even the battle-hardened trio of judges were taken aback by this sudden surge.

This was the first time they had ever seen a moving stone.

What shocked Ye Yuchan, however, was something else entirely.

"Hey you old rogue, why can these stone figures shout so loudly when they clearly don't have vocal organs?"

As expected of Ye Yuchan, even her complaints are different from others.

Yunping wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead and replied casually, "Maybe it's because the Stone Golem race can speak ventriloquism?"

"But ventriloquism also requires vocal cords."

“Maybe their vocal cords are inside the stone?” Yunping explained with utmost seriousness. “Think about it, even stones can go astray, and a monkey can crawl out of one. It’s not a big deal that this stone man has vocal cords inside his body, is it?”

Ye Yuchan gasped in surprise, "What do you mean by 'Stone cheating'?"

"If the stone didn't cheat on its owner, then why did a monkey emerge instead of a small stone?"

Ye Yuchan's lips curled into a smirk: "You're saying that, and I can't even refute it?"

"Right?"

The two started chatting casually, completely ignoring Fan Luokui, who was surrounded by stone men.

In fact, they don't need to worry at all.

Because of this captain of the trial team...

Extremely powerful.

"I've never seen such a secret realm before."

After a brief moment of confusion, Fan Luokui came to her senses and glanced at the stone golem. Although the golem had an exaggerated appearance, its strength was actually quite low.

They look fierce, but upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that these stone figures are only at the Xuanmen stage.

Let alone a dozen or so, even a hundred or so wouldn't be a match for Fan Luokui.

She instantly lowered her center of gravity, slightly bent her legs, and quickly pressed her left hand on the center of the scabbard while her right hand gripped the hilt tightly. Her spiritual energy began to circulate rapidly within her body.

Fan Luokui closed her eyes slightly, and the five fingers of her right hand, which was gripping the hilt of the knife, trembled slightly.

In an instant.

"Snow Condensation Slash".

A silver light streaked swiftly through the swirling snowflakes.

Clearly visible, the snowflakes, aligned in a straight line with the silver light, suddenly froze in mid-air, as if time had been frozen, stopping precisely in the path of the silver light.

Her knife seemed never to have been drawn.

It was so fast that it couldn't be detected by the naked eye, so fast that even fluctuations in spiritual energy were fleeting.

As the stone golems that were attacking them approached, they froze in place without even being able to utter a single scream.