A genius girl with her own space

Chapter 316 The Elder of the Divine Realm

Qiqi and Zhou Jingze understood immediately after hearing Kong Ling's explanation.

"Okay, Kong Ling, I'll give you a spiritual fruit as a reward. You come and help us find the roots of the man-eating tree, and we'll dig it up."

"Okay, Master. I'll go look for it now."

With the help of Kong Ling, Qi Qi and Zhou Jingze jointly eliminated all the man-eating trees. They dug out the roots with a shovel, sprinkled some lime on the roots and buried them. They would never sprout again.

After looking at them, the little beast bowed to them and quickly went back to report the news.

Kong Ling was about to return to the dimension. Qi Qi also gave Kong Ling the bats they had caught in their net and asked Little Red Bird to burn them all to death. She couldn't use open flames in the secret realm.

Qiqi and Zhou Jingze took a break. They also saw the path to the third level, which was at the root of the man-eating tree. This path had caused many people who came to the secret realm to return in failure.

They arrived at the third floor.

The entire third floor was filled with houses, as if many people had lived here. Some of the houses were dilapidated. Qiqi and the others pushed open one of them, revealing a bed, a stool, a table, and many other daily necessities. The bed curtains were tangled with cobwebs. The sight filled them with a sense of desolation. They wondered where all the people who had lived here had gone.

They walked through several houses and didn't see anything useful. Maybe everything useful had been taken away by others. As they walked, they looked for the way to the fourth floor. They walked carefully.

"Qiqi, be careful of poisonous snakes." Zhou Jingze shouted, pulling Qiqi behind him. With a flying knife, he nailed the poisonous snake to the beam.

"Thank you, Brother Jingze. You are getting better and better now." Qiqi praised.

Zhou Jingze patted Qiqi's head and said, "Don't be distracted and don't think about random things."

Qiqi and the others walked into several rooms and saw some low-level weapons. They must have been some immortal weapons that had been taken away.

Qiqi saw a reflection on the floor of a room. She kicked it and felt it was a piece of iron. She squatted down and dug it with a dagger, and found it was a large iron plate.

Zhou Jingze helped pry open the iron plate, revealing a downward-facing earthen staircase. Qiqi took out a torch, lit it, and threw it down. The torch was still burning inside, so they went down without worry.

They walked down a long corridor and came to a large room where an old man was sitting. He was covered in spider silk and had been dead for a long time.

Qiqi bowed to the old man and said, "Excuse me for disturbing you unintentionally. Please forgive me. We will help you rest in peace." As Qiqi finished speaking, the old man's body disappeared. A cultivation book was left where he had sat. It read "The Heaven-Defying Sword Manual," and underneath it was a letter. Qiqi gave the manual to Zhou Jingze and picked up the letter. The paper had yellowed with age, but the handwriting was clear.

By the time I read this letter, I was gone. I had come from the divine realm to transcend tribulation, and had unwittingly arrived in this secret realm. I brought a seed with me and planted it at the bottom of the secret realm. It quickly grew and, with my help, gained spiritual intelligence. It wanted to grow stronger and transform into a human, so I helped it. It transformed into a five-year-old child.

I raised him as my own son. I named him Dark Green. I also raised many animals in the secret realm and played with him.

I brought many cultivation books from the divine realm and gave him everything he could use to help him cultivate. I gradually felt my body wasn't as strong as before. I thought my tribulation had caused my power to decrease significantly. My hands and feet ached. I also thought I was living in the dampest depths of the secret realm, so I moved here. I built many houses and converted many animals, transforming them into humans. They were all willing to cultivate with me. During that time, my health recovered somewhat.

I built a circle of houses on the third floor for the animals to live in. I spent fifty happy years here.

One day, I went down to look for Mo Lv and asked for some of his seeds to plant on the second floor. I heard two people talking.

"The old master escaped after going up there. He no longer took poison and his body gradually recovered. When will we be able to control this secret realm? You don't have to worry."

"I have bribed the person who cooked for him. He is now at the end of his strength. There is not much time left. This secret realm will be mine sooner or later. He still has a lot of things and I don't know where he put them. Wait until I find them all and see how long he can live." The old man heard Mo Lu's voice.

They're harming me. I've been feeling unwell these past few days. He quickly left the bottom floor. Returning to his residence on the third floor, he felt his pulse. He was indeed poisoned, and he didn't have many years left. Even if he didn't drink the poison, it would still be the same. Mo Lv was truly cruel. I've raised a vicious wolf.

No, he can't become the master of the secret realm, and he can't transform into a human. That way, he'll rarely harm people. I heard a lot of animals have disappeared in recent years. I thought they all ran away! He must have caught them and sucked their blood dry, using them as his nourishment.

The old man called his mounts, a flying donkey and a flying horse. He told them to secretly nibble on the dark green vines. Back then, it wasn't called a man-eating tree. It was a vine that climbed up trees. If it grew in a sunny area, it could protect people from the sun's ultraviolet rays. People must have liked it.

But now it has become a man-eating tree that sucks the blood of animals. The old man told them that the dark green tree sucked the blood of many animals, turning them into mummies, and the old man also found the place where it buried the mummies of animals.

They were told to be on guard against the dark green. They didn't want it to get tangled up. They occupied the seventh and eighth floors respectively, secretly nibbling on any branches and leaves that the dark green climbed up.

The old man also used all his strength to restore the dark green to its tree form, preventing it from transforming into a human. The dark green was also furious and wrapped itself around the old man, trying to drain his blood, forgetting that he was poisoned. The dark green was also poisoned. Unable to hold the old man anymore, the donkey and flying horse arrived and rescued him.

The old man knew that he would not survive, so he gave several cultivation books to the donkey and the flying horse, asking them to practice as soon as possible and not let Mo Lv bully him. He also asked them to wait until Mo Lv was detoxified, and then save the vines that were eating Mo Lv on the seventh and eighth floors, and prevent him from growing up.

The old man finally used his remaining power to seal the secret realm. Only during one weak day every year could outsiders enter the secret realm.

The old man scattered the books he brought from the divine realm in the secret realm, allowing those who were destined to obtain them. He locked himself in a dark room and passed away.