Chapter 227 One Million Spiritual Stones
More than ten days passed in Chaos City.

Xie Yao finally checked out the remaining four secret realms one by one.

However, since someone had returned alive from each of the four secret realms, she was a little undecided and needed to discuss it with Ruan Xing.

Ruan Xing didn’t need to think about it. After understanding the basic situation of the four secret realms, he directly started the real-life simulation.

Just try all four and you’ll know.

Of course, this extravagant move directly caused her to lose 400,000 points.

The benefit was that it helped her eliminate three secret realms.

There were even unexpected gains.

She considered her words and said to Xie Yao, “Based on my experience, there is no need to look at the last two. The secret realms are old, but useless. They don’t have the potential to develop into small worlds. Wait a few thousand years and let them settle down, and maybe there will be a chance.”

“As for the other two, the Purgatory Secret Realm is still worth a visit, and the Heavy Mountain Secret Realm is also somewhat valuable, but it does not have the consciousness of a small world. I say valuable because this secret realm will produce many spiritual minerals, which can be mined and used to refine magic tools, but there are also many dangers inside, and you may not have enough manpower to do this. My suggestion is to take this secret realm to the secret realm core and then sell it to the people of the Immortal Sect.”

Purgatory Secret Realm and Heavy Mountains Secret Realm are the names given to these two secret realms by the demon cultivators, which are very direct.

In the secret realm of Purgatory, there are large active volcanoes that erupt from time to time, spewing out thick magma like a river, flowing freely. The area where people can stand is like the chess pieces on a square chessboard, pitifully small.

There are also some strange humanoid creatures among them. They hide in the flowing magma. Once other creatures set foot on the land, they will suddenly emerge and attack in groups.

After those demon cultivators entered, some were attacked by these humanoid creatures and died there, while others, after exploring for less than an hour, could not stand the scorching smell of fireworks and the steamer-like environment. They felt as if they would be roasted to death if they stayed there any longer, so they had to leave the secret realm early.

Ruan Xing entered the simulation and only took a rough look. She let the puppet step onto the land while she flew in the air, but those humanoid creatures did not appear.

This surprised her a little, because after listening to Xie Yao’s description, she originally thought that those humanoid creatures used gravity, smell, sound, etc. to detect unknown enemies and then attack them, but they did not attack the puppets, so all previous speculations would be invalid.

The difference between a puppet and a normal person is breathing, blood, temperature, and life.

Puppets don’t have these things.

Ruan Xing felt that these humanoid creatures were likely to be intelligent, which meant that the essential laws of “life” had emerged in this small world of the Purgatory Secret Realm.

Then it must have the Hongmeng purple energy.

After Ruan Xing confirmed this, he exited the secret realm and tried the next one. After all, simulation time could not be wasted.

The secret realm of heavy mountains is full of mountain canyons and steep cliffs. Several demon cultivators fell into a canyon and found many unmined ores. They were not attacked by any creatures, but all of them began to experience blurred vision, vomiting blood, and symptoms of blocked meridians and inability to flow magic power. After hurriedly leaving the secret realm with some ores, these people died of magic power exhaustion in less than a day, but the ores they brought out did not show any abnormalities, and were kept by other demon cultivators day and night, without affecting the physical condition of the people carrying them.

Ruan Xing guessed that there was something wrong with the air.

After she entered, she used a spiritual power shield to seal her mouth, nose and skin all over her body, so she was not disturbed by the toxins in the air. After several experiments, she quickly determined that the plants in these places would secrete a gas that would fill the entire area with a transparent, colorless and odorless miasma. Once inhaled into the mouth and nose or got on the skin, it would irreversibly poison the lungs. Only the spiritual power shields used by cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage could temporarily resist the miasma.

Because most toxins in the world of immortal cultivation can be neutralized and purified by spiritual power, all research related to poisons in the world of immortal cultivation is actually very niche and stagnant. Whenever a toxin that can ignore spiritual power appears, it will become a difficult problem that will cause headaches for everyone.

Ruan Xing felt that if they wanted to mine the raw ore in this secret realm on a large scale, in addition to a large number of Nascent Soul cultivators, they might also need to refine a batch of protective magic weapons with the main purpose of isolation.

After listening to Ruan Xing’s analysis, Xie Yao was both amused and annoyed, and said incredulously: “What are you kidding me? I don’t have any manpower to waste because I made a deal with Ruan Xing to attack Zhongzhou. You asked me to sell the spiritual mine secret realm that can be used to refine magic tools to the Immortal Sect. Isn’t that just strengthening their military power and weakening the chances of the demon cultivators winning?”

“Why are you in such a hurry?” Ruan Xing smiled. “How long will it take to attack Zhongzhou? How long will it take to mine ore and refine magic tools? How many Yuanying cultivators in the Xianzong are willing to risk their lives to enter the secret realm of the spiritual mine? They want to refine a magic tool to protect against miasma, and then let low-level cultivators mine it. Will it take time?”

“If you take all this time into account, and if a few more Nascent Soul cultivators from the Immortal Sect accidentally die in the secret realm, do you think this will be considered a reinforcement for them?”

Xie Yao thought about it.

What this messenger said makes some sense…

However, she never told anyone about her plan from beginning to end!

How can this messenger be sure whether he will fight this year or in five or six years?

The time gap between these two sounds small but it actually is huge.

Xie Yao narrowed his eyes and asked, “Do you know when I plan to take action?”

“Of course, you decide the time yourself. How could I know?” Ruan Xing said with a smile, “However, it is better to do it sooner rather than later. You should know that the last auction of Dongzhou Wanbaolou will start soon. It is widely rumored. Who knows, it might be the trick of the people of the Hidden Sect?”

“You know I want to find the Hidden Sect.” Xie Yao said in an affirmative tone.

“This isn’t hard to guess, is it? Didn’t you capture the Third Master of Wanbao Tower, Mo San? That’s why Wanbao Tower decided to close down. The news of this matter has not been blocked, and few people on Xianyuan Continent don’t know about it.”

“But he didn’t admit it.”

Xie Yao was also a little distressed at this time.

She has had Mo Cijun in her hands for several months.

But there was no progress at all.

Instead, it alerted the enemy and caused such a huge ripple that led to the closure of Wanbao Tower.

Could it be that Mo Cijun is really not a member of the Hidden Sect?
Xie Yao’s heart had begun to waver.

“Then I will give you another small suggestion.” Ruan Xing smiled, “Now the last auction of Wanbao Tower has become the biggest hot spot and news in Xianyuan Continent. Even if it may have nothing to do with the Hidden Sect before, it is probably related to it now. You might as well release the third floor owner Mo and, by the way, close the deal for the Spirit Mine Secret Realm.”

Xie Yao sighed, “But he’s almost dead. He won’t live long if we let him go.”

Ruan Xing raised an eyebrow and said, “What does it matter? As long as we throw the secret realm of the spiritual mine out, it will disrupt their desire to unite.”

She was sure that the immortal sects, who were unaware of the impending invasion by the demon cultivators, would fight fiercely for this unexploited secret spiritual mine.

Even though we know that the entrance to the secret realm is in the north, we still don’t care.

Xie Yao also completely gave up her suspicion of this envoy. She didn’t seem to care about Mo Cijun’s life or death at all, and didn’t look like a cultivator from the Immortal Sect at all.

It turns out that not all immortals are hypocrites, there are also real villains.

Xie Yao laughed in an ambiguous tone, “You are so active, do you want some benefit?”

Of course, because she had weakened the power of the demon cultivators before, now she also wants to weaken the Immortal Sect!

How can you only cut grass on one side? Of course you have to cut grass on both sides.

She was very familiar with this matter, as it was closely related to her career in her previous life.

But she didn’t say it out loud. Instead, she said, “Saint Demon Lord is wise. How can the Immortal Sect want this secret realm without paying a price? Although the ownership of this secret realm belongs to you, I made the idea. It shouldn’t be too much to get some benefits, right? I don’t want much, one million low-grade spirit stones, is that okay?” She estimated that the value of this spiritual mine secret realm was about four or five million.

However, because the entrance to the secret realm is located in the northern border, no one would dare to come except for the big sects. The final competitors are only the Xuanbing Sect, the Xuanji Sect and several sects in Zhongzhou. If they reach an agreement, the most they may get in return is only three million spirit stones.

She asked for one third.

But Xie Yao didn’t care about her greed.

For Xie Yao, this battle between immortals and demons is the last event in her life in the world of immortal cultivation.

If successful, she will ascend to the spiritual world. Everything in the immortal world will have nothing to do with her, and no matter how many spirit stones she has, they will be of no use.

No, she has lived for six thousand years and it is time for her life to come to an end.

She agreed: “Okay, I’ll give you the million.”

Ruan Xing smiled and said, “Thank you, Saint Demon Lord.”

“What about the Purgatory Secret Realm?” Xie Yao asked, “We have information about the secret realm in advance this time. Do we need to prepare?”

“No need.” Ruan Xing said confidently, “Saint Demon Lord, just wait for the good news that Elder Xisin and I will bring back to you.”

She also has a big gift ready for Xie Yao.

Xie Yao asked Chuan Zhen to rescue Mo Cijun, and after Mo Cijun recovered a little, he would personally discuss the business of the spiritual mine secret realm with him.

Mo Cijun had to agree no matter what.

As long as he wants to go back alive, he must agree.

This matter was not difficult for him, as for the hidden sect or something like that, maybe he himself was unwilling to talk about it or he simply didn’t know about it, or maybe he had made some oath to heaven that made it difficult to speak out.

But doing business is his forte.

You can’t refuse it after all.

Ruan Xing withdrew after his mission was accomplished, and went to join Xizui, preparing to enter the secret realm of Purgatory.

Although no preparation was required, Ruan Xing still drew some talismans such as cooling talismans and fire-avoiding talismans.

She had been in a simulation and almost had PTSD about the steamer and oven.

It’s really too hot, so preparing some talismans will at least make you more comfortable.

After all, she didn’t know how many days she would stay in the secret realm.

As usual, there are three people.

Ruan Xing, wash away the sins, thank Feng.

After entering the secret realm, she reminded the other two not to land on the exposed ground casually, and then began to scan with her spiritual sense.

Thick black smoke was rising from the active volcanoes.

The flowing lava rivers divide the land into small grids.

There were almost no living creatures as far as the eye could see.

“It’s really strange.” Ruan Xing frowned and said, “Such a secret place doesn’t meet the standard of survival, how can life develop?”

Xizui continued, “In fact, according to the investigation of my men, this secret realm is the Guixu Land of a demon king. This demon king’s experience is somewhat miraculous. He once fell into the flames of the earth’s core, and his bones and blood were burned out, but he still came out alive. Later, when he was promoted to the Guixu Stage, he became possessed and fell into madness. But even so, he still succeeded in being promoted… This demon king did not have his own territory. After he went mad, he appeared and disappeared at will. At that time, no one in the northern border had the strength to drive him to the City of Disorder, so he could only stay like this.

Later, he disappeared inexplicably and everyone suspected that he was dead.

Therefore, I cannot confirm whether the source of this information is true, and I cannot be sure that this secret realm is his Guixu place. I can only infer based on the currently known information that this secret realm is most similar to him.”

“Whether a secret space can develop a small world consciousness actually has nothing to do with its owner before the secret space was formed… Forget it, let’s get to work.” Ruan Xing sighed.

The three of them flew in the air and moved forward slowly.

Xizui also used his spiritual sense to scan the volcanoes and magma below, and even went deep into the ground, but still did not find the humanoid creatures mentioned by the demon cultivators who had been sent before.

But seeing Ruan Xing’s serious look, he didn’t say anything to disturb her.

But looking at Xie Feng, he looked uncomfortable, as if he was trying to endure something.

Xizui opened his mouth to ask, but after thinking for a moment, he said nothing.

Ruan Xing used his spiritual sense to plow the ground and magma inch by inch. Although he did not find any humanoid creatures, he discovered several strange places.

There are hundreds of active volcanoes of various sizes in the entire secret space.

But when she probed her spiritual sense into the largest ones, she felt a sense of blockage.

The cracked ground and gushing lava in the center cannot be seen.

She was just about to say that she would go over there and take a closer look, but she noticed that Xie Feng’s face looked strange.

She stopped and asked, “What’s wrong? What did you find?”

“It smells terrible. All the food here is not tasty.” Xie Feng said with disgust.

Ruan Xing was stunned.

She rarely saw Xie Feng say that something was not tasty.

In the past, whenever Xie Feng saw something edible, his eyes would light up. He was really scared of being hungry in the Jintai Secret Realm, so he cherished food very much.

But it tasted bad and was disliked. She remembered that Xie Feng had only used this evaluation to describe the demon cultivators in the City of Disorder.

The characteristic of those evil cultivators is that they are all crazy.

Ruan Xing said in a strange tone: “You can’t tell me that these volcanoes, magma, and charred rocks are all alive, and they are all crazy, right?”

She didn’t feel any lifeline!
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