374: The last reserved secret realm

Led by Mu Lan, Long Aotian left Dragon Peak, while Chu Tian Qian and the others went to the Treasure Pagoda for physical cultivation.

The Twelfth Heaven was quite vast.

The spatial scale of the Ninety-Ninth Layer of Heaven was said to be equally large, but no one knew exactly how large it was.

Even with Long Aotian's current Divine Sense coverage, he couldn't cover the entire Twelfth Heaven, nor was he clear how much of it he could cover.

This was incredibly astonishing.

One must know that Long Aotian's current Divine Sense strength was comparable to a Heavenly God Realm expert, with a coverage range of 500,000 Divine Light. This was no ordinary size; converted into Immortal li, it was 500 trillion Immortal li. Converted into li of the Lower Realm, one would have to add eight zeros after 500 trillion, an unimaginable number.

Such a terrifying Divine Sense coverage couldn't even cover a fraction of the Twelfth Heaven? This showed the vastness of the Twelfth Heaven; even an expert like Long Aotian could only glimpse an iceberg's tip.

Under Mu Lan's guidance, Long Aotian took her and executed the Tai Xu Divine Steps, arriving near the spatial Secret Realm where the Wood Spirit Clan was hiding in just a dozen breaths.

The person flew ahead, and the soul chased behind.

Mu Lan was also startled by Long Aotian's astonishing speed. At her Peak Immortal Emperor speed, flying from Dragon Peak to here would have taken at least half a day.

Long Aotian's speed had already surpassed that of an Immortal!

"Is this it?"

Seeing Mu Lan hadn't recovered for a long time and was staring at him in a daze, Long Aotian couldn't help but furrow his brow slightly and ask.

"...Yes, this is it."

Mu Lan, having recovered, couldn't help but feel her face flush. Had she lost her composure just now? Would Master think she liked him very much? How embarrassing, Master had furrowed his brow just now. Did he like her or not...

While Mu Lan was lost in wild thoughts, Long Aotian began to observe the surroundings of this place.

It bordered the Eleventh Heaven, and it was quite remote. Was the spatial Secret Realm located in this primeval forest before them?

Without Mu Lan's guidance, even someone as strong as him couldn't immediately discover the existence of the spatial Secret Realm.

"Someone?!"

"What?!"

"Hmph, there's a city of sin nearby called Vinius City. Their City Lord, Nautanda, is leading thousands of Immortal Emperor Realm experts in an ambush in this forest. The news of the Wood Spirit Clan hiding here might have been exposed."

How powerful was Long Aotian's Divine Sense?

Not only was its coverage wide, but what was particularly terrifying was that within its range, any form of information exchange could not escape his prying.

Under the prying of his Divine Sense, he discovered that there were many hidden Formations in the forest, and many people were communicating using Divine Sense condensed sound?

Through these communication messages and by pinpointing a nearby city of sin, Long Aotian quickly figured out who these guys were.

Mu Lan had entered Vinius City of Sin several times and was eventually targeted by Nautanda.

"What, Nautanda is leading people in an ambush here?"

Mu Lan was also quite shocked, followed by a wave of lingering fear. This Nautanda was a very vicious evil Cultivator. If the Wood Spirit Clan fell into his hands, the consequences would be absolutely unthinkable.

"Hmph!"

Long Aotian snorted coldly. The more he probed, the uglier his face became. This Vinius City of Sin was definitely a gathering place for evil Cultivators and a hotbed for those who killed for treasures.

The Immortal Emperor Realm experts Nautanda had gathered had all cultivated yin-replenishing yang-enhancing Cultivation Techniques. To Breakthrough to the Immortal Emperor Realm, they had harmed tens of thousands of female Cultivators.

Now that their cultivation had Broken Through to the Immortal Emperor Realm, ordinary female Cultivators were no longer of much use to them, so they all turned their attention to the Wood Spirit Clan.

The primordial yin of Wood Spirit Clan women was definitely a great tonic for them, allowing them to assault the Divine Soldier Realm.

They had only found out that Mu Lan had appeared in this primeval forest and had been ambushing here for three years.

Fortunately, Mu Lan was cautious and always felt like she was being watched, so she dared not return, which prevented a great disaster.

After discovering that these people were a group of evil Cultivators who committed all sorts of atrocities, Long Aotian stopped being polite.

Swordplay of Nothingness, Qi transforming into ten thousand swords.

His Divine Sense silently destroyed all the hidden Formations of the ambushers, and the Qi swords directly severed all their five limbs. Afterward, Long Aotian also imposed a punishment similar to Stetson's on them, but with the Reincarnation period changed to ten thousand times, and Nautanda's even increased to one hundred million times.

Screams echoed through the forest as Long Aotian's punishment descended.

Having lost their five limbs, they couldn't leave this place. Yet, they were Cultivators and not easily killed. The nearby Yao Beasts had long been either slaughtered or scared away by them, so no Yao Beasts came to eat them for a while.

How could one describe their misery?!

Not only was Nautanda subjected to Long Aotian's punishments of a hundred insects devouring the body, a thousand insects devouring the heart, ten thousand insects devouring the soul, one hundred million lifetimes of Reincarnation, and an undying curse, but the evil Cultivators who ambushed Mu Lan with him were also subjected to ten thousand lifetimes of Reincarnation and an undying curse.

Under Long Aotian's Divine Sense screening, tens of millions of evil Cultivators in the entire Vinius City of Sin were all punished with a hundred lifetimes of Reincarnation and an undying curse.

For a time, Vinius City of Sin instantly transformed into a city of wailing evil Cultivators. The feeling of being worse than dead made those evil Cultivators choose Reincarnation one after another... "Having severely punished these guys, the cultivation environment in the Twelfth Heaven will undoubtedly be much better. Moreover, if such a punishment spreads, the Twelfth Heaven might become a Forbidden Ground for evil Cultivators in the Immortal Realm!"

Long Aotian couldn't help but think to himself.

"Master, those people were punished by you?"

Hearing the wails from thousands of different places in the forest, and with the hidden Formations already broken by Long Aotian, Mu Lan naturally discovered the tragic state of some of the ambushers. Her face also changed dramatically, and her heart was filled with both shock and fear.

Master really hadn't lied to her; these evil villains were indeed ambushing her here... "Don't mind them. Their end will be even more tragic than Stetson's. Hurry and take me into the spatial Secret Realm to see how the Wood Spirit Clan is doing now. You little girl, you haven't been back for a long time, have you? Leaving them in this desolate wilderness, you truly have a big heart!"

"..."

Mu Lan's cheeks flushed slightly from being lectured. She led Long Aotian through twists and turns into a large mountain. After walking for a short while inside the mountain, they turned into a very inconspicuous cave.

What surprised Long Aotian was that this cave was unusually deep, and it also had arrangements to suppress Divine Sense. The deeper they went, the more it resembled a maze. If one wasn't familiar with the environment here, they might truly get lost.

The two walked through the maze for a long time, taking many twists and turns, until Mu Lan finally stopped at a stone tablet.

She lightly rotated the stone tablet!

A spatial Secret Realm entrance slowly appeared before Long Aotian's eyes, astonishing him greatly.

"This Secret Realm was actually the last reserved Secret Realm secretly built by our Wood Spirit Clan ancestors. Our ancestors continuously led the Wood Spirit Clan to hide in lower Planes, but in the end, they still couldn't escape the fate of the Wood Spirit Clan being massacred..."

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