GBP Chapter 433 First Entry into the Secret Realm
Chapter 433 First Entry into the Secret Realm
Lin Liuyi didn't have time to see if her young readers had defeated their love rivals in the end, because she was finally going to find Long Mingyue.
"Liu Yi, you're finally here! Come on, this time we're going to explore Qianfang Valley. It's a famous spiritual herb secret realm in the cultivation world, opening once every sixty years. It contains countless rare flowers and herbs, but also countless dangers. But don't worry, I'll protect you."
The others looked at Lin Liuyi with curiosity. Who was this person? How could his junior sister protect him like this? Didn't you see how dark his senior brother's face was? Luckily, Lin Liuyi was a girl.
However, in the cultivation world, it's acceptable for two girls to be together.
"Long Mingyue, aren't you going to introduce her to us?" Jiang Kuan voiced everyone's thoughts.
"This is Lin Liuyi, my friend!"
"Hey, this is Jiang Kuan, you know him."
Oh, she knows, he's Long Mingyue's unlucky ex-fiancé!
"These are Senior Brother Liu and Senior Brother Zhao!"
“Lindao friendly!”
Greetings, fellow Daoists!
"Ahem, this is my fiancé, Ji Yunshen."
The legendary senior brother, Lin Liuyi glanced at him and thought, indeed a handsome and noble man, quite a good match for Long Mingyue.
"Friendly greetings, Ji Dao!"
"Fellow Daoist Lin!" Ji Yunshen cupped his hands in greeting.
"No, why didn't you say hello to me?" Jiang Kuan protested.
"Then, Brother Jiang, you are indeed kind!"
"Ahem, good friend Lin!" Jiang Kuan also gave a perfunctory bow.
"Squeak!" Long Mingyue's treasure-hunting rat also ran out to greet them.
Finally, everyone in the group, including the mouse, got to know each other.
"Thousand Fragrance Valley is about to open, and our main goal this time is to collect 'Nine-Heart Glazed Grass'. Of course, we shouldn't let any other plants slip by, but everyone, please be careful!"
"Does Fellow Daoist Lin know about the 'Mystic Melody Flower' in the valley that can sing? It is said that those who hear its song will..." Jiang Kuan began to show off to Lin Liuyi, but was interrupted by Long Mingyue at the very beginning.
"Quiet," Long Mingyue interrupted coldly. "Conserve your energy for danger. The secret realm is about to open."
The once barren valley was now shrouded in colorful light, and cultivators from various sects had gathered at the valley entrance.
Lin Liuyi noticed that several people were looking at them with ill intent.
"The secret realm is about to open, stay close to me." Long Mingyue lowered her voice, "Those are people from the Blood Fiend Sect; they specialize in robbing others of their loot."
As soon as she finished speaking, the rosy light at the valley entrance suddenly intensified, revealing a winding path.
The crowd surged in, and Lin Liuyi followed closely behind Long Mingyue as they rushed into the light curtain.
The moment she passed through the light curtain, she smelled a sweet floral fragrance, and the scene before her eyes changed abruptly.
Countless enormous flowers swayed in the breeze, their petals as thin as cicada wings, displaying a dreamy gradient of colors under the sunlight.
Glowing pollen floats among the flowers, like countless tiny stars.
"A sea of illusionary flowers!" Senior Brother Liu excitedly pulled out a jade slip to record, "The 'Record of Rare Flowers and Herbs' says this flower can create illusions, we need to..."
"Mere illusion." Jiang Kuan strode into the sea of flowers. "With a clear sword heart, all evil cannot invade."
Senior Brother Zhao hurriedly caught up: "Junior Brother, be careful! The Phantom Flower Gathering..."
Before he finished speaking, the flowers around them suddenly shook violently, and the petals shot towards everyone like sharp arrows!
Long Mingyue drew her jade sword, its light flashing like a bolt of lightning, slicing off all the flower petals.
But more flower stalks sprouted from the ground, coiling around her ankles like living snakes.
"Step back!" Senior Brother Liu pulled a medicine pouch from his waist and threw it forcefully into the flower bushes.
The medicine sac exploded, sending yellow powder flying everywhere.
The wildly blooming branches wilted immediately upon contact with the powder and shrank back into the soil.
Lin Liuyi looked at the now calm sea of flowers in surprise: "What is this?"
"Sulfur pollen mixed with realgar powder—the Phantom Flower hates that smell the most." Senior Brother Liu scratched his head sheepishly. "I prepared it specially..."
Jiang Kuan snorted: "Then why didn't you say so earlier? Hurry up and pull me out!"
Everyone looked at him. It turned out that he had been entangled in the flower stems as soon as he stepped into the flowers and was being pulled to the ground.
If it weren't for Senior Brother Liu's quick reflexes, he might already be buried under the flowers.
The crowd pulled him out of the ground.
After passing through the sea of flowers, they entered an area covered with vines.
These vines are entirely green, with tiny pores covering their surface. Whenever a breeze blows, they make a rustling sound similar to human speech.
"Echo Vine," Senior Brother Liu lowered his voice, "It mimics surrounding sounds to lure prey. We need to..."
"Help!" Jiang Kuan's voice suddenly came from ahead.
Senior Brother Liu was shocked and was about to rush over when he found Jiang Kuan standing perfectly fine beside him, looking at him with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.
"No, I thought it was you!" Senior Brother Liu said embarrassedly.
"What did you just say? What should we do?" Jiang Kuan asked Liu Shixiong to finish speaking.
"Keep quiet," Senior Brother Zhao finished the sentence for him.
Just then, several vines suddenly lashed out like whips!
Ji Yunshen's sword flashed, severing the vines into several pieces, but the sap gushing from the cuts corroded his cuffs.
"It's poisonous!" Long Mingyue hurriedly pulled out a porcelain bottle. "Quickly, apply this!"
Ji Yun Shen took the porcelain bottle, which contained a milky white paste: "What kind of strange formula is this now?"
“Sea salt mixed with white jade paste, the Echo Vine is most afraid of salt.” Long Mingyue said, scattering salt grains around, and the vines indeed withered and retreated.
The two worked together to clear a path.
Ji Yun Shen cut off the attacking vines, while Long Ming Yue scattered salt around to create a safe zone.
"No, it makes us look so useless!" Jiang Kuan protested again.
"Heh, weren't you useless to begin with?" Senior Brother Liu retorted, then walked up the path. Lin Liuyi quickly followed, leaving only Jiang Kuan indignant. How was he useless?
Halfway there, Jiang Kuan suddenly stopped and pointed to a peculiar plant twining around an ancient tree: "Long Mingyue, look!"
The plant had seven leaves of different colors, and in the center sat a crystal-clear fruit that refracted a rainbow-like luster in the sunlight.
"The Seven-Colored Exquisite Fruit!" Senior Brother Liu's voice trembled with excitement. "It can be used to refine top-grade pills that allow one to break through bottlenecks!"
He was about to step forward to pick some when Long Mingyue grabbed his arm, saying, "Wait."
The soil around the fruit tree was slightly raised, and something could be vaguely seen wriggling underneath.
Senior Brother Liu gasped – it was the mother plant of the man-eating vine, as thick as an adult's thigh!
“I’ll distract it, you guys pick the fruit.” Ji Yun Shen said, already swinging his sword at the mother plant.
The mother vine burst forth from the ground in a rage, kicking up a cloud of mud.
Ji Yunshen's sword flashed like a rainbow as he battled the thick vines.
Long Mingyue seized the opportunity to rush towards the fruit tree, but just as she was about to touch the fruit, she heard a hissing sound from above her head—a small vine was hanging above her head!
At the critical moment, Long Mingyue threw out her jade sword, pinning the small vine to the tree trunk.
Senior Brother Liu and the others quickly picked the fruit, and the group stumbled and rushed out of the vine forest.