"…" Zuo Zhe who also saw everything. Twice – one from the Cleansing Stone and the other is from his system's screen Hey, Cheng Sheng! How dare you make Fei Yin do all that!!! He screamed in indignation inside his mind. However, he can't do anything even if it pains him to see Fei Yin acting like Cheng Sheng's butler. QAQ Fei Yin… I wronged you. I now regret writing a crossover… orz
"This is true love!" the audience exclaimed, which is a heavy hammer that crushed Zuo Zhe's heart.
Inside secret realm, Cheng Sheng wiped his lips with a napkin. "The food is really delicious! Thank you, da shixiong!" he said as he ate for the second time.
Fei Yin is obviously overjoyed, but he didn't show it on his face. His eyes are shining, though. "You're welcome, shidi." He told Cheng Sheng as he also ate.
The atmosphere is so warm no one can tell they're inside a dangerous secret realm. "Heh." Cheng Sheng smiled when he felt the Alliance disciple's presence disappeared just as they finished eating. He immediately took out Cleaning Talismans and the bowls and cups immediately became clean. "Shall we start our own hunting now, da shixiong?" he asked.
"Yes." Fei Yin nodded.
"Wu Xi." Cheng Sheng called. "You know what to do." He told him.
Wu Xi nodded and he immediately flew on his sword.
On Chen Han's side, Xiao Le and Li Tian killed the corpses with their spells and talismans. "Whew!" they exclaimed and turned to Chen Han's side. They were also finished cleaning up the corpses.
"The Zunjingde Sect, Shanliangde Sect and Huakai Sect are really hardworking." Feng Mo exclaimed as they checked the rankings from the Cleansing Stone held by the Alliance's disciple who had just returned.
Jing Cheng was still the first, but Xi Ming ranked up and tied with Tang Zhe in the second place. The third place is Chen Han while Sun Yi is the fourth place. Yu Sheng and Kang Ce became the fifth place. Jing Bai, Gong Xian and Shan Lu are the sixth place. Jing Hei, Feng Mo and Xi Xing are the seventh place. Tang Yun, Li Tian and Qian Lin are in the eight place. Jing Kang is in the ninth place with Xiao Le! Meanwhile, Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin are both in the tenth place.
"WHA - !" they suddenly exclaimed when they saw Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin suddenly ranked up and became the ninth place, while Jing Kang and Xiao Le fell down to the tenth place. "This - !" they exclaimed when Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin ranked up again and replaced Tang Yun, Li Tian and Qian Lin in ninth place!
Yesterday, everyone was obviously not doing their best thus their scattered rankings. Also, they were still adapting in the secret realm. However, today is the second day thus they started!
Jing Cheng, Xi Ming and Tang Zhe saw the rapid change in the ranking thus they immediately ordered their fellow disciples. "Start sweeping the corpses!" they said.
"Yes!" everyone answered and resumed killing the walking corpses which appeared.
Outside the secret realm, everyone watched in awe as countless flashes of sword glares can be seen. "Amazing…" they exclaimed as they watched the contestants. Then, they saw the fifth team used the teleportation array when a large group of walking corpses appeared. The fifth team has only three people remained after a walking corpse pounced on one of them before they could leave.
"AAAAAHH!!!" one of the members of the fifth team cried when they appeared outside the secret realm. "Xiao Tu!" he cried. It was Xiao Tu who was bitten by the walking corpse when they were leaving.
The audience looked away from them. They can understand his agony after they seen Xiao Tu pushed his teammates to the teleportation array. Xiao Tu sacrificed himself for his team.
Meanwhile, the Alliance disciple who was assigned to them teleported away from the walking corpses and looked around. They saw him gathering the qi left by the righteous cultivators. After they kill the walking corpses, the righteous cultivators have their qi left on the walking corpses after they killed it as their trace. This is the basis of each contestant's score. The three people of the fifth team obviously scored the lowest and their names turned pale yellow, indicating they forfeited.
Suddenly, they heard someone exclaimed loudly. "THAT - !" he said and pointed at the ranking's board. "Wu Xi's name turned white!" he said.
"HA!" everyone gasped when they really saw Wu Xi's name is white. It indicated the person is missing!
You Rou loudly gasped and covered her mouth. "No way… he's really missing?! Wasn't he with Cheng-shixiong and da shixiong?!" she said.
Lei Ling's eyes widened. "Could it be… something happened to them?!" he said, his face is filled with horror.
"No way…!" Lei Qing said as she looked at Wu Xi's name in disbelief.
"Could it be…" Zuo Zhe said as he looked at Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin's name in green. "Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin are fighting, but something happened to Wu Xi and they didn't notice?" he asked as he looked at Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin fighting against a large number of corpses on the system's screen.
"That's - !" You Rou said and looked at the image projected by the Cleansing Stone. Her eyes and face is filled with worry and anxiety. "Even Wu Xi disappeared…" she muttered.
Inside the secret realm, everyone was shocked. "Wu Xi disappeared?!" they said. "Wasn't he with Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin earlier?!" they added.
"What's going on?!" they asked. They didn't notice it earlier that Wu Xi's name isn't on the ranking since they were busy increasing their rank and score. Now, when they finished killing a wave of corpses and had a time to breathe, they finally saw Wu Xi's name in white.
On Chen Han's side, they immediately turned to the Alliance's disciple with them. "Hey! How was Ah Sheng?!" he asked before he shook his head. "No. You go look for Ah Sheng! Now! Tell him to send us a Voice Talisman!" he said.
The Alliance's disciple nodded and then teleported using the Cleansing Stone. He appeared on the meadow where Cheng Sheng's group stayed before he finally felt Cheng Sheng's qi. He immediately followed it and he finally found Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin.
"Yo!" Cheng Sheng called and waved at the Alliance's disciple while Fei Yin handed Cheng Sheng a meat bun1. The group of walking corpses were piled up behind them after they killed them.
"…" what was in danger? These two are clearly on a picnic! He thought and showed them Wu Xi's white name.
"Eh? He's missing?" Cheng Sheng was surprised. "Didn't he follow a corpse earlier?" he asked as he looked at Fei Yin.
Fei Yin nodded. "A corpse escaped from my shidi's array, thus Wu Xi followed it to kill it. He went there." He said and pointed the direction leading to the deeper part of the forest.
"…" he had a sense of foreboding. This is a secret realm, and everywhere is dangerous. Can't they read the atmosphere that that direction clearly says, 'do not come, or you can never go back'? He thought and his face was covered in dark lines.
"Aia. Could it be an area recognized as forbidden by the Alliance, thus Wu Xi's name became white when he entered?" Cheng Sheng asked as they looked at the dark road ahead. "But, Wu Xi will come back!" he said and smiled. "He'll definitely come back!" he said.
"…" let's hope so. The Alliance's disciple thought as he counted the new score of Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin before he came back to Chen Han's group and showed them Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin.
"So it's like that." Chen Han sighed in relief when he heard Cheng Sheng's explanation.
Jing Cheng, Xi Ming, Tang Zhe and the others were also relieved. "So there's a forbidden area." Jing Cheng said as he turned to his fellow disciples. "If you saw a suspicious area, don't stare at it and quickly leave. Got it?" he told them.
"Yes!" Jing Bai, Jing Hei, Jing Kang and Qian Lin answered.
Zheng Yi silently watched them before looking at the forbidden area in the image projected by the Cleansing Stone. It's a very dangerous place. Anywhere can be a dangerous place. This secret realm wasn't explored thoroughly. The Alliance also had set up barriers on the places they had inspected. He and the other Alliance's disciples who came to accompany the contestants were already briefed. Thus, no one has gotten into an accident with the forbidden areas.
Not until Wu Xi. "This is really a forbidden area." He said.
"What?!" Jing Hei and the others said as they turned to him.
"This is an unfortunate accident." He said and sighed as he closed the Cleansing Stone. Even though the teams have split up, but it's within the Alliance's expectations. After all, there's a diversity of the contestants.
However, the Alliance's disciples could appear anywhere within Pai Lie's array inside the secret realm, which is the stage for the competition. Thus, the disciples could immediately come to the contestants' rescue if they would ever go near the forbidden area.
However, everything happened too fast. They also didn't expect for Cheng Sheng, Fei Yin and Wu Xi to come near the forbidden area. It was too late by the time they noticed. Wu Xi's gone.
"I'll come back right away." Zheng Yi told the Zunjingde Sect. Before they could react, he already teleported to Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin. "Where's the disciple1 who's with you?" he asked them two when he appeared before them.
Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin weren't surprised. "Of course we had to send him to my brother and our friends." Cheng Sheng answered as he chewed on the barbecued meat. "What if they would also accidentally go to a forbidden area?" he asked. "We can't have another accident again, right?" he smiled.