Layered Processing of Messages

As a former senior employee of Wanwantong, he knew far more about the cultivators in the mortal world than most people did.

A beast park like this was exceedingly rare even among the larger sects in the cultivation world!

It was not that many major sects lacked the means to build one. But the cultivation world was vast. Simply fencing off a large area, setting up a barrier, and raising demonic beasts there for slaughter cost far less than constructing a beast park like this.

As a result, few sects were willing to spend so lavishly on something unnecessary.

Much less in the mortal world, where the cultivation environment was vastly inferior to that of the cultivation world!

How had he never heard of a sect in the mortal world with such immense wealth?

At that thought, Liang Zhonghuai let out a silent chuckle.

It seemed that even Wanwantong had times when its information was unreliable…

Those Spirit Venerables were not as omniscient as he had imagined, either.

He was so certain that Wanwantong knew nothing about the Lingxian Sect because he knew that Wanwantong had always kept an eye on the mortal world.

Whenever a sect in the mortal world began to stand out, or a cultivator displayed extraordinary talent, Wanwantong would intervene.

They would suppress sects and forcibly recruit talented cultivators.

None of this was a secret within Wanwantong.

He simply could not understand why Wanwantong had failed to notice such an extravagantly wealthy sect in the mortal world as the Lingxian Sect…

The Lingxian Sect must have been very capable to conceal its wealth for so many years without being discovered by Wanwantong.

Since he had not been in the mortal world for long, Liang Zhonghuai assumed that the Lingxian Sect was an old-established sect in the mortal world.

He did not yet know that the sect had been founded only a little over three years ago.

It had not hidden itself from Wanwantong for years. Rather, based on the limited strength the Lingxian Sect had displayed over the past few years, it was not yet significant enough for Wanwantong to take seriously.

According to the reports submitted by Wanwantong’s representatives stationed in the mortal world, the Lingxian Sect was merely a minor sect that, with the combined strength of the entire sect and the assistance of the Pusi royal ancestor, had barely managed to kill a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Normally, it did not seem to do anything worthwhile. It merely showed its face in front of mortals from time to time.

It had not even sent anyone to join the punitive army formed by the various sect alliances.

Later, it had apparently sent someone over just to make an appearance, as though trying to make up for its absence.

Reports like these were the lowest-level intelligence within Wanwantong. They would never be passed upward and were instead discarded as useless.

What no one realized was that most of this information had been processed layer by layer.

After all, being stationed in the mortal world was hardly a desirable assignment. The mortal world had been so weak and uneventful for thousands of years that Wanwantong’s stationed personnel only wanted to serve out their terms as quickly as possible and return home so someone else could take over.

In any case, if the mortal world produced an exceptionally talented young cultivator, they would not need to investigate much. Those provincial little sects, having seen so little of the world, would reveal themselves on their own.

After all, seedlings who had only just begun cultivating did not count as promising talents. Only someone who could reach the peak of the Nascent Soul realm in the mortal world and showed great promise of breaking through to the Deity Transformation realm could be considered a true prodigy.

There was a saying in the cultivation world: A genius who has achieved nothing through cultivation is not a genius, but an excellent candidate for possession.

The Wanwantong personnel stationed in the mortal world had probably never imagined that the Pusi royal ancestor would help conceal the truth for a minor sect.

After deciding to establish friendly ties with the Lingxian Sect, Li Zhanying had sent word back to the royal family, instructing them to control the information about the Lingxian Sect’s destruction of Wei Hai.

A tree that grew too tall attracted the wind.

Li Zhanying knew that for a young seedling like the Lingxian Sect, which had only just begun to grow, it was best not to reveal too much.

Nor would those employees have imagined that, during the battle at the Jishi Mine Cave in the Huanyou Kingdom, the several cultivators who had entered the mine had, for various reasons, tacitly agreed to say nothing about Lin Xiao’s actions there. They merely summarized the matter by saying that everyone had worked together.

If Liang Zhonghuai ever figured out all the twists and turns involved, he would probably have to marvel at how the Lingxian Sect’s development had benefited from the right time, place, and people.

Apart from Liang Zhonghuai, who had come from the cultivation world, there were also a few Qi Refining cultivators who came from the Shangyang Sect, the Lingxian Sect’s longtime neighbor.

At this moment, they too were stunned by the existence of the beast park.

At least Liang Zhonghuai had heard of and seen such things in the cultivation world. These Qi Refining cultivators from the Shangyang Sect had never even seen anything like it!

Their sect merely raised chickens, ducks, fish, and the like. Once the animals developed a little spiritual energy, they were ready to be eaten.

How could they possibly compare with a beast park like this?

The same thought arose in all their minds:

It really had been the right decision to abandon all their possessions and leave the Shangyang Sect to join the Lingxian Sect!

Little Luan had originally been extremely unwilling to show its beast park to these “new arrivals.”

Not even Liu Yunan’s persuasion could change its mind.

But Liu Yunan had told it that if it entertained these “new arrivals” properly and made them interested in its beast park, they would come work for it in the future!

Then it would have lots of people to order around!

That stupid disciple of Da Tao was genuinely infuriating to command. He was far too dumb!

His reactions were slow, and he was utterly unmotivated when it came to work.

Every day, Little Luan had to follow behind him and give him a kick before he would move!

Liu Yunan had said that these new arrivals would definitely be enthusiastic about working and would certainly be very diligent!

For that reason, Little Luan patiently showed the new disciples around, taking them from one area to the next and introducing every kind of demonic beast in detail.

When Little Luan saw the newcomers staring in amazement and showing great interest in the beast park, it smugly clicked its beak and thought, It’s a sure thing now.

After they had toured the beast park, Liu Yunan led them to the small garden in the secret realm. By then, the new disciples were much calmer.

They were merely dazzled by the scenery in the small garden of the secret realm. They were no longer truly shocked.

The small garden of the secret realm no longer contained only the two secret-realm entrances it had possessed three years ago.

Whenever Lin Xiao traveled to the cultivation world, he not only brought back various items and demonic beasts along the way, but also visited all kinds of secret realms that happened to be open at the time.

As long as he could enter, he would carefully investigate whether the secret realm was ownerless.

If it was, he would enter without a second thought!

Over the course of three years, he had found and brought back two more ownerless secret realms.

Both secret realms had an entry limit of the Golden Core realm.

He did not dare enter secret realms with a higher cultivation limit. He valued his life too much.

Senior Liao had said that, given his cultivation, the grade of his cultivation method, the grade of the spells and techniques he practiced, and his earth-grade teleportation formation, Lin Xiao was already strong enough to dominate among cultivators of the same level.

Therefore, Lin Xiao only dared choose secret realms whose maximum permitted cultivation level was roughly equal to his own.

However, although the four secret realms housed in the small garden were there, Liu Yunan did not rush to introduce them to the new disciples.

It was not for any particular reason. He was simply a little tired from talking all the way there.

Besides, the secret realms were not open yet. Even if they were, the new disciples lacked the cultivation required to enter them. There was no need to explain anything about the secret realms for now. They could wait until the disciples had been assigned to them.