C59 (1/2)

Deathly silence filled the entire square. Whether it was the cultivators from the Four Major Sects or the rogue cultivators that had entered, all of them looked at the youth standing in front of the flames with eyes full of fear.

To be able to kill an early stage Qi Refinement into Spirit cultivator while still being at the peak of the Essence Refinement into Qi and looking very relaxed, no one would be willing to offend such a monstrous youth. It was common for cultivators to challenge someone stronger than them, but to be able to cross a large realm was already quite shocking.

This was because the two were originally not on the same level. Moreover, to be able to be chosen as a Heaven's Pride in a sect, which one of them was not a genius?

However, such a tyrannical early stage Qi Refinement into Spirit cultivator was actually killed by a rogue cultivator who was even younger than him by a huge realm. Could it be that Li Heng was not strong, or was it that it was simply because Hong Ling was too strong?

No one was willing to offend such a young yet powerful cultivator. On such a person, there was often a large amount of luck. If they offended him, perhaps their luck would be ruined.

Hong Ling looked at the silent crowd, he kept his sword and returned to Lian Chengyue's side.

Shangguan Qinghong stared at them, although her eyes were full of anger, she did not make a move. Although he was furious, but he was still a man of his word, and the other sects did not make a move either.

They had gone through all sorts of dangers to finally arrive at the secret realm's plaza. If they were to make a rash move and accidentally capsized like Li Heng, they would be forced to suffer in silence.

After settling the trouble, Hong Ling finally focused his gaze on the bronze coffins that were opened. The coffins were originally hung on the cliffs outside of the secret realm, then appeared in the pillars of clouds, and now they appeared on the plaza again, causing people to be suspicious.

”Hong Ling, tell me, why are these coffins here?!” Lian Chengyue walked in front of Hong Ling and asked softly.

She knew that Hong Ling offending the Cangwu Li Clan was all because of her, but he still killed Li Heng and the Li Clan cultivator who had injured her without any complaints. This moved her, but at the same time, she was also secretly worried for him.

Hong Ling looked at the coffins, then looked at the Ghostly Infants guarding outside the coffin, and shook his head. In truth, even he did not know why the Ghostly Infants would appear here.

However, he was not completely clueless about this matter. After all, he and Lian Chengyue had once obtained a command order badge in the palace, but currently, he did not know what the use of that order badge was.

He looked towards Lian Chengyue and was just about to speak, when a change suddenly occurred on the plaza. The evil ghost that had originally disappeared, appeared again.

It roared in the air as it spread out its majestic divine sense, attacking the souls of everyone present, causing them all to have a splitting headache.

The consciousness in Hong Ling's body enveloped him and Lian Chengyue, continuously resisting the soul attack from the evil ghost, but then, something abnormal quickly appeared within the crowd. Weng Weng, lines of light slowly floated out from the crowd, and a few figures wrapped in gold light halos immediately appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

”That's a command medallion!” Hong Ling's gaze turned serious, ”Ah Yue, take out the order badge that I gave you. Quickly!”

Lian Chengyue nodded his head, and retrieved the order badge from his spatial ring. The moment the order badge appeared, it released a bright halo of light, enveloping the young lady and pushing Hong Ling away.

The ten cultivators, including Lian Chengyue, followed the ball of light and floated into the coffin that was blocked by the ghost soul, and disappeared. The remaining people looked at each other, their eyes filled with confusion.

Hong Ling was a little bewildered and uncertain at the moment. He had clearly sensed just now that Lian Chengyue and the other nine people had respectively entered the spatial teleportation passage within the bronze coffin.

However, what made Hong Ling at ease was that these ten people had entered into different spaces, he did not need to worry about Lian Chengyue meeting strong cultivators like Shangguan Qinghong who held hostility towards them.

Roar, the evil spirits in the sky suddenly scattered after the ten tokens disappeared, turning into ten black wisps of air and entering the ghost souls guarding the bronze coffin. The ghost souls, who were originally guarding the coffin, seemed to have escaped from their invisible bindings and rushed towards the group.

”How did these babies suddenly attack us?” He was just a cultivator with great perfection in Essence Refinement into Qi, and was the weakest of the cultivators.

A huge ghost baby's body flashed, it had already arrived in front of him. With a wave of its sharp ghost claws, chi, his body was cut into several pieces by the sharp nails, dying with grievance.

Everyone panicked. Top cultivators of the four sects, such as Shangguan Qinghong and Feng Qiyue, had already obtained tokens and entered the spatial passageway of the bronze coffin. No one knew where they were sent to.

Hong Ling quickly moved his body amongst the crowd to dodge the attack of the Ghost Soul. However, the Ghost Soul chasing after him seemed to have recognized him, and stared straight at him, causing the youth's head to instantly hurt.

He suddenly recalled that when he was preparing to enter the secret realm, he beat up a Ghost Infant. It seemed that the Ghost Infant was the one that was tightly biting onto his body.

There weren't many Qi Refinement into Spirit cultivators that could enter the secret realm anyway. Some unlucky ones died in various traps earlier on, and with the few tokens he had just taken away, there were less than ten cultivators left on the plaza.

These Ghost Souls were very close to the middle stage of Qi Refinement into Spirit. Without the Qi Refinement into Spirit's strength, it would be difficult for him to survive under their attacks.