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Hong Ling stared at Lian Chengyue, wanting to find a clue from her body. He really did not think that the girl had already comprehended a consciousness at the perfection-stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi, and was even able to use it.

This was an extremely shocking matter. One must know that even Hong Ling had only completed the awakening of his divine intent after the creation of his body and soul with the two Divine Substance s, whereas Lian Chengyue had only succeeded in his awakening as a normal person.

"Ah Yue, how did you do it? You actually managed to awaken your consciousness at the Essence Refinement into Qi stage?" Hong Ling tried to ask, but he did not hold much hope. Something that even he could not understand, how could he hope for Lian Chengyue to tell him the answer?

"I don't know either. It was just a sharp pain in my brain. After being cured by you, a muddle-headed divine intent was born." Lian Chengyue said with a serious face, as he held his forehead.

Looks like this girl was unable to hold on to hope, but he was not really interested in the matter of awakening his divine sense. In any case, he had awakened this thing a long time ago, so he naturally did not have much curiosity towards it. He turned around to look at Lian Chengyue who was currently staring at the nine gigantic pillars of clouds, and sighed.

"Ah Yue, since you want to come with me to take a look at that cloud pillar, then let's go. However, you have to listen to my arrangements. In this Secret Realm, danger was everywhere. If something were to happen to Lian Chengyue, he really didn't know what to do.

"Alright, I'll listen to you!" Lian Chengyue nodded his head, "Then, can we set off now?"

Looking at her eager expression, Hong Ling felt a headache. Why was this guy so careless?

Sigh, Hong Ling shook his head, and directly jumped down the Demonic Beast's spine, flying forward. Lian Chengyue chuckled, and with a movement of his body, he followed along, walking shoulder-to-shoulder with him.

The two of them quickly discovered something strange. The Bone Beasts that were previously wandering around the secret realm had disappeared, causing Hong Ling to be alarmed, this kind of phenomenon was too abnormal. However, their strengths were currently low, so they could not investigate this matter.

"Hmm? There are a lot of people in front! " The moment Hong Ling's consciousness spread out, he could sense that many people were gathering under the pillar of cloud they were heading towards.

Hong Ling could sense that most of these people were cultivators who were at the peak of the Essence Refinement into Qi just like him, but none of them were at the late stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi. It was obvious that cultivators at the late stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi would have difficulty surviving in this secret realm.

But thinking about it, it made sense that Hong Ling himself had met with level 2 bats in the tunnel, so it wouldn't be normal for those late stage Essence Refinement into Qi cultivators to survive.

From Hong Ling's perception, these cultivators with great perfection in Essence Refinement into Qi were not enough to attract his attention. What truly shocked him was the three cultivators at the early stage of Qi Refinement into Spirit standing in front of the group.

The arrival of Hong Ling didn't cause the slightest of ripples. In this secret realm where there were two such cultivators who had reached the great perfection in their Essence Refinement into Qi, it was obvious that they wouldn't be able to successfully gain the attention of others. This way, the youngster would feel more at ease, as long as no one was paying attention to them, then there wouldn't be much of a crisis for him and Lian Chengyue.

"Shangguan Qinghong, take a look at this cloud pillar, just what is this thing, it has such power, killing all the bone beasts around this pillar!" One of them, who looked to be around twenty years old, said to Shangguan Qinghong.

Shangguan Qinghong furrowed her brow, he did not know what to say, but when he rushed over, those bone beasts had already been summoned by some unknown force, gathering by the cloud pillar and being killed by the unknown power, even their internal cores were minced and turned into the purest Spiritual Power, fusing back into the pillar.

Hong Ling and Lian Chengyue found a spot to stand, and looked at the bronze coffin inside the cloud pillar, their hearts swaying.

The two of them were one of the first to enter the secret realm. Now that they saw the bronze coffin containing the ghost soul inside the cloud pillar, they were naturally shocked. The two of them knew what was inside the bronze coffin, but the bronze coffin now looked more than a hundred times larger than when they first saw it.

It quietly floated within the cloud pillar, the ancient inscriptions on its body were flashing brightly, waves of buddhist chanting came from it, and from it, there were also the shrill cries of infants. All of this made everyone's hair stand on end; this strange bronze coffin was simply too huge, and the shock it brought was far from being as evil as it gave people.

Lian Chengyue pulled the young man's sleeves, feeling a little afraid, Hong Ling suppressed the fear in his heart and kept on comforting her. As more and more people gathered below the cloud pillar, the bronze coffin inside it started to change.

The bronze coffin plate was slowly sliding down, and a dark red colored mucus was slowly sliding down from it. The Demonic Beast bones that were originally scattered on the ground beside the pillar of clouds actually began to tremble slightly, and with a hualala sound, as the coffin board got bigger and bigger, all of the mucus in the bronze coffin fell onto the ground.

Roar ~ ~ Countless wild roars came from the ball of mucus. Under the stunned gazes of the crowd, the mucus slowly flowed through the pile of bones. Then, the countless skeletons wrapped in mucus stood up once again.

The weird thing was, no one could feel any aura from these skeletons. However, danger had arrived just like that.

A shrill roar came from inside the bronze coffin. Everyone looked up and saw the Ghost Nascent Soul covered with patches on its body. As it roared, the bones on the ground turned back into bone beasts wrapped in viscous liquid.

Compared to how they initially looked like nothing more than bones and bones, these bone beasts were now more like real Demonic Beast.

The crowd immediately dispersed, everyone fighting their own way. Hong Ling brought Lian Chengyue, and under the bone beast's chase, he continuously retreated.

There seemed to be a limit to the range of these bone beasts. After they were taken away from the cloud pillar by the group, they would give up on the chase once a certain distance was passed and return to the cloud pillar to guard something.

The dispersing crowd quickly gathered back together, and the way they looked at the bone beasts was completely different. Since these bone beasts had a weakness of not being able to move too far away from the cloud pillar, then it would be easy to solve it.

"Everyone, I believe everyone has seen that these bone beasts are protecting something. I suggest that we work together to clear out these bone beasts and see what exactly they are guarding!"

Shangguan Qinghong obviously liked to be in the limelight, now that she was standing on top of a huge animal bone, she looked down at the crowd below and said in a loud and clear voice.

As the proud leader of the Broken Cloud Sect, Shangguan Qinghong's strength was considered one of the top five cultivators that had entered the. The Four Major Sects had sent out almost thirty early stage Qi Refinement into Spirit s, and Shangguan Qinghong was one of the best amongst them.

However, who would dare oppose him? In front of the heaven's pride level experts of the powerful sects, ordinary cultivators were unable to contend against them, and furthermore, he was a cultivator from a powerful Qi Refinement into Spirit.

Hong Ling frowned, looking at Shangguan Qinghong's situation, he was afraid that he was going to use everyone as a spear, but, since no one had any objections, the young man would not stand up.

Including the three Qi Refinement into Spirit s, there were at least thirty people gathered beside this pillar of clouds. However, the number of bone beasts there were more than a hundred, it was impossible to clear them in a short period of time.

"Ah Yue, save your strength. Deal with it for a while, do not expose your spirit sense, be careful of being targeted!" Hong Ling said in a low voice to Lian Chengyue.

The girl nodded. She had previously attracted a few Skeleton Beasts after him and brought them far away from the pillar of clouds. Afterwards, the two of them had teamed up and crushed these fellows.

Shangguan Qinghong was naturally not idle either. However, the strength that he had displayed was at most at the great completion of Essence Refinement into Qi, which meant that he had some reservations. Everyone was cleaning up the bone beasts tacitly.

After an entire two hours, the last Bone Beast, which was comparable to a level two Demonic Beast, was killed by Shangguan Qinghong and two other cultivators of the initial stages of Qi Refinement into Spirit.

The huge ghost baby roared at the people below it. It grabbed the bronze coffin with its four limbs and disappeared into the cloud pillar in a flash.

Hong Ling and Lian Chengyue wiped the perspiration off their faces. Seeing that there were less than ten people left, they smiled bitterly, and even after luring these bone beasts away and killing them, more than half of them still perished. One could imagine the degree of danger of this secret realm.

"Alright, I've finally cleaned it up!" A Qi Refinement into Spirit cultivator said, "Huh? Why are there spatial energy fluctuations within this cloud pillar? "

"It's an unknown spatial tunnel. No, this spatial tunnel seems to lead to a palace with rich spiritual energy!" The other Qi Refinement into Spirit cultivator was shocked.

"Eh, there are actually two cultivators that didn't belong to the Four Major Sects that survived!" Shangguan Qinghong and the other two cultivators of the Qi Refinement into Spirit looked at each other, their eyes filled with curiosity.

Without a doubt, killing these bone beasts not only required a powerful cultivation base, but also a profound cultivation technique and martial skill. However, how could an ordinary rogue cultivator compare to a cultivator from a sect?

Hong Ling and Lian Chengyue were actually able to survive under the attacks of the bone beasts, it was clear that their own strength was not weak.

"You two, you can leave now!" Shangguan Qinghong looked at Hong Ling and Hong Ling and said softly.

"That's right. This Ancient Desolate Tomb's secret plane is too dangerous. You two rogue cultivators shouldn't blindly meddle in it!" Another early stage Qi Refinement into Spirit cultivator said.

"That's right. Although you have followed us in the process of clearing out the bone beasts, you don't have the qualifications to explore this secret realm with us, so leave and don't get in our way!" The one who spoke was the cultivator from the Qi Refinement into Spirit.

Hong Ling's face instantly darkened, these people, were they planning to destroy the bridge after crossing the river?

"What if we don't want to leave?" The youth asked in a deep voice.

"Suit yourselves, but you'd better ask your fellow disciples from the five great sects if they agree with the weapons in their hands!" Shangguan Qinghong waved his hand and raised an eyebrow at the five cultivators who were standing still.

"Kill them, then hurry over here!"

The five cultivators understood and with a flash, they formed a circle, trapping Hong Ling and Cheng Yue. Shangguan Qinghong then brought the other two cultivators from the Qi Refinement into Spirit and slowly walked into the cloud pillar. With a flash, he disappeared.

"Hehe, right now, the Qi Refinement into Spirit's seniors have left. Gentlemen, are you going to obediently hand over your spatial rings and then leave? Or are you going to resist a little and get killed by us in this secret realm?"

Hong Ling and Lian Chengyue looked at each other and nodded.

"It's better not to. We don't want to die, so we might as well trouble all of you to die, okay?" Hong Ling lowered his head, looking a little bashful.