It seemed that the unmanaged secret realms outside, which allowed people to enter and exit freely, must be ownerless, or rather, their Realm Keys had never been taken!
Yes, he had made up his mind. After entering a secret realm, he absolutely wouldn't dawdle or look at anything else; he would focus solely on finding the Realm Key!
Resources were common, but Realm Keys were rare.
Because he had found the Realm Key, the problem of rescuing people suddenly became much simpler.
The only thing Lin Xiao needed to pay attention to was how to quietly open the exit for everyone without exposing himself, while also ensuring that everyone knew an exit was available.
Since he also planned to rush to other recently opened secret realms to see if he could find a few more Realm Keys, Lin Xiao didn't intend to stay long in this Ice Field Secret Realm. He began to travel at top speed, striving to release the people in the gray dot areas as soon as possible so he could quickly leave for the next secret realm.
When he returned near the entrance of the ice cave where he had previously followed the Soul-Chasing Bird, he found that the owner of the nearby tent had returned.
Fortunately, the person seemed to be meditating and wasn't looking in his direction. Coupled with his own concealment spell, he remained undetected.
Afraid of being discovered by that person, Lin Xiao didn't dare to be careless. He stealthily approached the entrance and then quietly stepped inside.
Practice makes perfect. Entering for the second time, he was obviously much more skilled. As soon as he entered the ice cave, he used the Void-Treading Art to steady his body, avoiding the freefall he experienced during his first visit.
Looking down at the entire ice cave from high above, Lin Xiao could faintly see some moving little black dots, which were clearly the cultivators trapped here searching for a way out.
He pretended to be a cultivator searching for an exit up high, leisurely strolling through the air using the Void-Treading Art, while secretly observing the general distribution of the crowd below.
On his way back, he had thought of several methods to ensure he wouldn't be exposed while guaranteeing the rescue of everyone in the ice cave, but he eventually rejected them all because they were too troublesome to implement.
After much thought, he decided to use the most simple and brutal method.
He would knock all these people out, open the exit, and then just throw them all out.
This way, he wouldn't need to put on an act or deal with the hassle of beating around the bush.
So right now, the first thing he had to do was knock all these cultivators out.
And then...
It wasn't that he didn't want to just open an exit, hide, and wait for everyone to leave.
It was because using the Realm Key to open an exit, while not causing a massive commotion, wasn't exactly quiet either. It would definitely be noticed by this group of cultivators whose nerves were already stretched taut, desperately looking for any anomaly that might be an exit.
Moreover, after the Realm Key opened the entrance and exit, he would still need to retrieve it once everyone was gone. Just in case, to eliminate any variables, drugging them all was the most convenient option.
While pondering, Lin Xiao landed right in the middle of the ice cave.
He ran to an unnoticed corner and took out the knockout drug he had previously bought from the Shop.
According to the Shop's precise recommendation, this knockout drug called Foundation Establishment Fall could perfectly knock out anyone at or below the Foundation Establishment realm. It was a smoke-type drug; burning a handful could knock down a whole crowd. Furthermore, a single breath was enough to take effect, and inhaling more or less made no difference.
Most importantly, the smoke was colorless and odorless, making it the absolute best choice for a knockout drug!
Fortunately, this drug was exclusively produced by the Shop, otherwise, Lin Xiao felt it would be far too dangerous.
However, the amount of smoke it produced wasn't very large. Based on the dosage, one handful could only knock out about a dozen people.
And it was a bit expensive. For just a small handful, the Shop actually charged him two hundred spirit stones!
Since there had to be several dozen people in this ice cave, one handful wouldn't be enough. Gritting his teeth, he bought five handfuls, spending a total of one thousand spirit stones!
Lin Xiao hugged his pile of over fifty thousand spirit stones, his heart aching over the loss of another thousand.
He definitely had to charge those cultivators a fee later.
But regardless, this was still much cheaper than using a teleportation array to send them out four by four.
First, he started a fire on the ground, then wrapped the Foundation Establishment Fall in spiritual energy and placed it into the fire.
This way, he could wait until everyone gathered before letting it burn.
After doing this, he immediately ran to a corner to hide himself. Then, he disguised his voice and yelled at the top of his lungs, even using spiritual energy to amplify the sound to ensure everyone in the ice cave could hear it.
Ah! I think I found something here! Everyone, come quickly!
Instantly, everyone in the entire ice cave heard this shout.
The crowd was a bit suspicious, but mostly, after being trapped for days and gradually consumed by despair, they were overwhelmed by the sudden good news and felt a joy that left no room for hesitation!
Thus, without time to think, everyone rushed toward the source of the voice at their fastest speeds.
Taking advantage of this moment, Lin Xiao also blended into the crowd, pretending he had also rushed over after hearing the shout.
Before long, all the cultivators in the ice cave had gathered there.
In the crowd, Lin Xiao even spotted the only three people he knew: Hu Guanyu, Jiang Cheng, and Yuan Zhiyun.
Seeing nothing here, not even the person who had just shouted, and only a fire burning in the middle, the arriving crowd felt a bit strange and nervous as they gathered around and looked in all directions.
After all, this might be their only hope of getting out.
Meanwhile, Lin Xiao, who was mingling in the crowd, swept his divine sense around to confirm there was no one else rushing over within a few hundred meters. He first took the antidote himself, and then immediately withdrew the spiritual energy wrapping the Foundation Establishment Fall in the fire.
The herbs instantly began to burn in the flames.
However, because the fire had been there from the start, everyone just assumed it was a fire started by some fellow Daoist earlier and paid no attention to it whatsoever.
So, in just a short while, the cultivators gathered there were knocked out in droves.
Lin Xiao was just about to pretend to faint along with everyone else when he suddenly noticed a figure standing perfectly straight amidst the pile of fallen people!
Everyone, be careful! There is poison here! Seeing the surrounding fellow Daoists suddenly close their eyes and collapse, Yuan Zhiyun instantly realized there might be poison. She immediately covered her nose and mouth and tried to retreat.
Fortunately, she had a top-tier poison-resisting magical artifact given to her by her father, which spared her.
However, she didn't expect that the direction she was retreating in was exactly where Lin Xiao was standing.
Seeing her rapidly approaching him with her back turned, Lin Xiao didn't even think twice before raising his hand and delivering a heavy blow to the back of her neck.
Yuan Zhiyun, who was in the middle of retreating, rolled her eyes back and fell to the ground unconscious, just like the rest of the drugged crowd.
Looking at the fallen Yuan Zhiyun, Lin Xiao shook his hand, dispersed the spiritual energy concentrated on it, and let out a long breath.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
