When Lin Yun led Lin Ying by the hand to the cultivation room, they saw a scene where everyone was holding a cultivation method manual, sitting on straw mats, and studying earnestly.
A perfectly good cultivation room had seemingly turned into a reading corner.
Lin Xiao looked up and saw Lin Yun and Lin Ying at the door. He walked over, led Lin Ying outside, and said,
"Xiao Yingzi, come with me for a moment. Let's go through the procedure."
Then he turned to Lin Yun and said,
"Big Brother, go inside first and take a look at our sect's new cultivation method with them!"
Lin Yun nodded and walked inside.
Meanwhile, Lin Xiao pulled Lin Ying to the grass outside and asked her,
"Lin Ying, are you willing to join my Lingxian Sect, become a member of the sect, and devote yourself to cultivation?"
Lin Ying's eyes sparkled as she looked at Lin Xiao and nodded, saying,
"I am willing!"
Ding—Congratulations. The number of sect members has reached ten. You have successfully completed the task Recruit Sect Members (2). The task rewards have been distributed to your private vault. Host, please check them.
Lin Xiao brought Lin Ying back to the cultivation room. After letting her go inside to find Lin Yun and the others, he squatted outside alone and opened his private vault to check the rewards.
In the private vault, besides an additional 50 spirit stones, there was also a Green Wilderness Secret Realm Entrance Connection Point.
From a previous task, he had also obtained a reward called Green Wilderness Secret Realm Key. Just looking at the names of these two items, it was obvious they were meant to be used together.
Lin Xiao first took out the Green Wilderness Secret Realm Entrance Connection Point.
It was a large stone covered in moss.
The entire stone was about as wide as two people embracing it, and the words 'Green Wilderness' could faintly be seen beneath the moss.
Lin Xiao looked around and placed it on an empty patch of ground not far from the cultivation room.
As soon as the stone touched the ground, the moss on it spread outward, stopping only after covering a radius of about two meters.
Looking at it again, it seemed as if the stone had always grown there.
Lin Xiao then took out the Green Wilderness Secret Realm Key.
It was a piece of moist, green jade.
The words 'Green Wilderness' were also carved on it.
So he searched the stone and saw an irregular groove right below the words 'Green Wilderness'. Judging by its size, it should perfectly fit the green jade.
Lin Xiao stroked his smooth chin.
He was familiar with secret realms. Generally, if one wanted to strike it rich and amass a fortune, they had to rely on these.
He figured that the way to use this secret realm key and connection point was probably to press the green jade into the groove on the stone, and then the entrance would open.
He kind of wanted to see what exactly was going on with this secret realm, but he was also a bit worried. What if pressing the key into it teleported him away immediately?
Thus, he decided to quickly place the secret realm key on it and then immediately retreat a hundred meters away at full speed. This way, it should be impossible for him to be suddenly teleported away.
One couldn't blame Lin Xiao for being so cautious. After all, he was only at the seventh level of Qi Refining right now. He didn't want to lose his little life over something so inexplicable.
However, as a matter of fact, he was overthinking it.
When Lin Xiao placed the green jade into the groove on the connection stone, the system's voice rang out in his mind the very next moment.
Ding—Given that this is the host's first time opening the Green Wilderness Secret Realm, you are hereby informed: This secret realm is a low-tier secret realm governed by laws that only allow those in the Qi Refining stage to enter. It can be accessed every year after the Awakening of Insects and before the Beginning of Summer. The entrance opened by the secret realm key is limited to five hundred people per entry.
Friendly reminder: Currently, there are two major sects that forcibly open the entrance every year using Soul Formation power to let their disciples enter this secret realm. The forcibly opened entrance is limited to a quota of only one hundred people per entry.
Seeing this message, the first thing Lin Xiao focused on was nothing else but the phrase 'forcibly open the entrance using Soul Formation power'.
Soul Formation had appeared!
Although it only appeared in the introduction, Lin Xiao still felt a bit excited.
So far, the person with the highest cultivation base he had seen was the middle-aged man operating the spirit ship on the last day of the Shangyang Sect's recruitment.
However, he didn't know exactly how high that middle-aged man's cultivation base was, but he believed it definitely wasn't at the Soul Formation stage.
Soul Formation!
This was definitely an existence that, upon appearing, could make everyone's heart palpitate and shock them to the core!
After calming his excited emotions, Lin Xiao settled down to think about this secret realm.
The laws were restricted to Qi Refining. This meant that only those in the Qi Refining stage could enter; anyone beyond that stage couldn't.
The opening time of the secret realm was from the Awakening of Insects to the Beginning of Summer.
And now, the Spring Equinox had already passed, and the Qingming Festival was fast approaching.
In other words, he only had about a month left to enter.
Given his current cultivation speed, unless he directly turned off his idle cultivation feature and completely stopped cultivating himself, he definitely wouldn't be in the Qi Refining stage by next year.
He certainly had this much confidence.
That being said, if he missed it this year, he would never have the chance to enter this secret realm again.
Could he let such a regrettable thing happen to him?
Absolutely not!
So Lin Xiao thought about it and decided to set off as soon as possible.
But he didn't plan on going alone.
Because just a moment ago, the system's notification sound had rung out again.
Ding—Congratulations, sect member Sun Yigao has advanced to the third level of Qi Refining.
Thinking of Sun Yigao's serious look while flipping through the Origin Heart Sutra earlier, Lin Xiao smiled silently.
In just this short amount of time, he had actually advanced directly.
From this, it was clear that he was highly suited to cultivating this method.
Presumably, with Sun Yigao's extremely rare aptitude, it was definitely possible for him to seize the time and raise his cultivation level a bit more in the next few days.
Lin Xiao wasn't sure about the others, but he felt that Sun Yigao's situation was similar to his own.
If they missed the opportunity to enter this year, Sun Yigao's cultivation level next year definitely wouldn't allow him to enter this secret realm either.
Entering the secret realm—setting aside whether the secret realm itself held any dangers or trials.
Just for the sake of those two sects that possessed Soul Formation stage existences, Lin Xiao felt it was highly necessary to go in and take a look.
This was an important opening to come into contact with this world's cultivation circles.
Right now, they were just burying their heads in cultivation on the mountain. They were very unclear about the specific cultivation laws and systems of this world. Over time, this would be no different from building a cart behind closed doors.
With this in mind, Lin Xiao decided that he should start assisting Sun Yigao more with his cultivation recently, allowing him to raise his cultivation level as quickly as possible.
Of course, his decision to do this wasn't just because he was confident in his own current cultivation level, but because he felt that while assisting Sun Yigao, perhaps the two of them could achieve mutual success?
After all, they were the only 'dragons and phoenixes among men' and 'rare talents' of the entire sect.
He pondered for a moment and decided to set the time for raising their cultivation levels and preparing to enter the secret realm to ten days.
Ten days was the limit. This way, after entering the secret realm, they would only have twenty days left.
But Lin Xiao didn't plan on telling Sun Yigao about this in advance, fearing it would add to his psychological burden and affect his cultivation.
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pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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?!
