The Sect Leader’s Daughter Awakened - Chapter 16

On the Polar Icefield, the spiritual energy vortex reversed. Before anyone could step forward, an enormous suction force pulled everyone in. Fortunately, this time there was no spatial turbulence stirring around. Everyone only felt the world spin around them, and when they came back to their senses, they had already entered another world.

Yun Sheng’s luck was not very good. The place where she landed happened to be a demonic beast’s nest. The moment her foot touched the ground, she heard a crisp crack beneath her. Immediately after, her foot sank downward, stepping into a mass of sticky liquid. The slimy feeling made her instinctively recoil in disgust. When she lowered her head and looked, she discovered that there were several demonic beast eggs beside her feet. Unfortunately, she had just stepped on and broken one of them, and now yellow-white egg fluid had spilled all over the ground.

With a hiss, Yun Sheng sucked in a cold breath, and her heart could not help crying out that this was bad.

Yun Sheng had not gone out training many times, but she had heard plenty of stories. Although she did not recognize the origin of the eggs at her feet, she knew she was unlucky. Aside from the fact that her fellow disciples were nowhere to be seen, she had now run into one of the trickiest situations possible upon entering a secret realm.

This was what people called an unfavorable start. The egg she had stepped on and broken was no different from a grudge of killing one’s child. It was enough for her to be chased by a demonic beast all the way.

Thinking of this, Yun Sheng did not dare delay at all. She pulled her foot out of the egg fluid, hurriedly cast a cleansing spell, and ran outside. At the same time, she muttered silently in her heart, only hoping that the demonic beast was not nearby and that she could take the chance to escape a little farther.

Yun Sheng tossed her hand, and a small sword the length of a palm rose into the air. Then it expanded with the wind, and in the blink of an eye, it was large enough for her to stand on. Usually, she would have made the flying sword even larger, big enough for her to sit or lie down on, utterly carefree and comfortable. But now she had no time to care about that. As soon as the flying sword was large enough to stand on, she hurriedly leapt onto it, her urgency plain to see.

But in the instant before the flying sword took off, Yun Sheng, who was preparing to flee for her life, suddenly let out a soft “Huh.” From the corner of her eye, she had inadvertently caught sight of an unusual color. She instinctively looked back and saw that not far from the demonic beast’s lair, there was a fiery-red exotic flower.

Compared to her limited knowledge of demonic beasts, rare flowers, unusual grasses, and alchemy were clearly right in an alchemist’s field. Yun Sheng recognized with one glance that the fiery-red exotic flower was a fifth-grade spiritual herb. The pills refined from it were just right for cultivators at the Soul Departure stage to use. For her, who was only at the Golden Core stage, it definitely counted as precious.

Although, with her family background, she did not lack fifth-grade spiritual herbs at all. But something gained through her own training was naturally different from something her dear father had given her.

In an instant, Yun Sheng was tempted. At the same time, she also guessed the level of the owner of this nest.

Around high-grade spiritual herbs, there were naturally demonic beasts guarding them. The guardian beast of a fifth-grade spiritual herb was usually a fourth-grade demonic beast. In other words, it was equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage. Demonic beasts above this level would disdain guarding a mere fifth-grade spiritual herb, while those below this level would find it difficult to protect it.

Yun Sheng was only at Golden Core cultivation, and she had just entered the secret realm. Rashly provoking a Nascent Soul demonic beast was very unwise. But who told her to have already taken on the “grudge of killing its child”? It was the same demonic beast anyway. Provoking it a little more did not seem to make much difference.

Her internal struggle lasted only an instant. Yun Sheng quickly persuaded herself, jumped off the flying sword, and rushed toward the spiritual herb.

The instant Yun Sheng touched the spiritual herb, a certain enormous figure hurrying back from afar suddenly froze. Immediately after, it let out an angry roar. Then, with even greater speed, it smashed through the obstacles in its path and charged straight back!

Compared to Yun Sheng encountering danger the moment she entered the secret realm, Xi Wei’s luck was much better.

In her previous life, she had never come to this new secret realm on the Polar Icefield either. However, relying on the fact that she had lived a long time, she had heard more or less about the situation inside this secret realm. And so, the moment she entered the secret realm, she carefully avoided several traps. At the same time, she easily harvested a whole patch of fifth-grade Soul-Devouring Grass.

This thing was useless to righteous-path cultivators, and even harmful, but she had a way to turn it to her own use.

Setting aside the difference between one stalk of fifth-grade spiritual herb and an entire patch of fifth-grade spiritual herbs, when Yun Sheng was being chased all over the secret realm by a demonic beast, Xi Wei was strolling as calmly as if wandering through a courtyard. While avoiding all kinds of dangers, she observed the situation inside the secret realm.

This was a completely new secret realm, and no one knew how long it had been sealed away before appearing in the world. Because of that, all kinds of resources inside the secret realm were extremely abundant. Not only could one encounter spiritual herbs by the roadside that were nearly impossible to find outside, the number of various demonic beasts also far surpassed the outside world.

As everyone knew, the flesh, blood, fur, bones, horns, and claws of demonic beasts were all cultivation resources for cultivators.

In other words, to cultivators, this secret realm could almost be called a place where treasures were everywhere, as long as you had the ability to take them away.

Xi Wei naturally belonged to the category of people with that ability. She had come to this secret realm precisely to improve her cultivation as soon as possible.

After everything she had experienced in her previous life, she understood better than anyone that the so-called proud children of heaven could never compare to true cultivation and strength. The former merely had a promising future. In reality, they were still drifting with the current, unable to control anything when something happened. The latter, however, were true powerhouses with the ability to decide everything for themselves.

The principle of the weak being prey to the strong was displayed vividly and thoroughly in the cultivation world. Xi Wei was no longer as naive as she had been in her previous life. From the moment she was reborn, even the revenge she had already taken once seemed insignificant. Becoming stronger had become her most urgent priority.

So she came to this secret realm. And when she harvested the Soul-Devouring Grass, she resolved to break through to Nascent Soul here.

This was not difficult for her. The bottlenecks that should be experienced and the state of mind that should be tempered—she had gone through all of them in her previous life. Now, although recultivating the righteous path could not be considered walking the exact same road again, there was a saying: master one method, and a hundred methods become clear. Compared to an ordinary cultivator’s breakthrough, hers would always be much easier.

Holding the conviction to break through to Nascent Soul, Xi Wei began seriously sweeping up all kinds of resources. Added to the fact that this new secret realm was not small, and that there had not been many people beside the icefield rift valley when it appeared, she went several days in a row without encountering anyone.

Until this day, when Xi Wei had just discovered several stalks of Purple-Leaf Lingzhi that would help her breakthrough. Before she had time to pick them, she heard a series of rumbling booms in the distance.

It was not just one or two sounds, but a continuous string of massive movements, and they were getting closer and closer. It was as if some enormous beast were charging toward her. Along the way, whether mountain rocks or trees, everything was swept clean.

This was the first time in these past few days that Xi Wei had heard such a commotion. Her beautiful brows furrowed. Looking at the stalks of Purple-Leaf Lingzhi before her, she chose to abandon them almost without hesitation. She immediately rose on her sword, and in the blink of an eye, she had dodged onto the crown of an enormous ancient tree so wide that several people could not wrap their arms around it.

Facts proved that Xi Wei was indeed decisive, and that she had dodged quickly enough. Almost in the next instant after she hid herself, an enormous figure appeared in her field of vision.

It was a giant python. Its entire body was covered in bright greenish scales, while there was a mark of red right in the center of its forehead, making it look as if it had three eyes. This feature allowed Xi Wei to recognize its identity at once. It was a fourth-grade demonic beast, the Three-Eyed Green-Scaled Python, a troublesome creature said to have thick hide, tough flesh, and immense strength.

She had no idea who had provoked it. The way it charged wildly and smashed everything in its path made it seem as though it wanted nothing more than to flatten this entire forest.

Just as Xi Wei was thinking this, her gaze unconsciously searched ahead of the Three-Eyed Green-Scaled Python, and very soon, she discovered a figure weaving nimbly through the forest.

Speaking of which, this was the first person she had encountered after entering the secret realm. Without realizing it, she paid a bit more attention. And after looking, she discovered that it was even someone she knew.

That person was none other than Yun Sheng, who had been chased all this way by the Three-Eyed Green-Scaled Python.

She was riding her sword in front, her movements nimble as she dodged the demonic beast’s attacks from time to time. At the same time, she was intentionally leading the Three-Eyed Green-Scaled Python to crash into giant trees. No one knew how long this secret realm had existed. Aside from nurturing all kinds of rare flowers and unusual grasses, towering ancient trees could also be seen everywhere.

Continuous rumbling booms rang out. They were precisely caused by the giant python being led by Yun Sheng into crashing against trees. And the Three-Eyed Green-Scaled Python truly lived up to its reputation for having thick hide and tough flesh. In its fury, it did not care about anything at all. Even after knocking down dozens of giant trees in a row, it still had not been knocked dizzy.

Yun Sheng no longer hoped to knock it unconscious, but she still did not want the Three-Eyed Green-Scaled Python to chase her too quickly or too easily. Her gaze swept around, and she immediately took a liking to the largest giant tree nearby.

That was right. It was just that coincidental. It happened to be the very tree where Xi Wei was hiding.

Without the slightest hesitation, Yun Sheng immediately led the Three-Eyed Green-Scaled Python rushing in that direction.

Only when she flew closer did she abruptly sense a gaze land on her, its presence extremely strong.

Yun Sheng’s heart skipped with alarm. She was afraid she had provoked yet another troublesome opponent. She hurriedly followed that gaze and looked up. Through the dense branches and leaves of the giant tree, she met a pair of dark eyes at once, and there was even a hint of familiarity.

In a daze, a familiar name slipped from her mouth.

“Xi Wei!”