The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

“Boom!”

“Rumble—”

“Thud~”

The secret realm randomly teleported their entry point. Unfortunately, the three had just entered when they directly crashed into a forest. Accompanied by three landing sounds, birds and beasts in the forest were startled away, with dry branches and fallen leaves scattered all over.

“Ouch! Pain pain pain pain pain—” Tantai Ming was the most unlucky, being pressed at the bottom.

Above him was Mu Chihuai.

Chu Sang, thanks to the two cushions below, didn’t suffer much.

She quickly jumped down and extended her hand to pull the two up, “Sixth Senior Brother, Seventh Senior Brother, are you two alright?”

Mu Chihuai was still okay, just dizzy and nauseous. He leaned against a tree weakly and said, “Not bad flying, but don’t fly next time.”

Tantai Ming was in a pitiful state, holding his buttocks that had nearly split into four parts, on the verge of tears, “Little Junior Sister, next time you speed on your sword, please remember to give us a heads up.”

Chu Sang felt a bit guilty inside and gave him a large stack of talismans, including the Golden Armor Talisman she had recently drawn.

Tantai Ming immediately revived on the spot, capable of running 800 meters right away.

The three of them were lucky not to have been scattered by the secret realm. Mu Chihuai walked over with his arms crossed. There were two forked paths. He turned his head to look at Chu Sang, “Check the map, where are we roughly in the secret realm now?”

“I remember the map also marked the approximate locations of traps like beast tides, swamps, poisonous mists, and illusion formations. When we walk, let’s try to avoid these traps as much as possible, quickly get what we need, and avoid direct confrontations with other cultivators.”

As a pill refiner, his attack power was almost zero, negligible. If they really got into a fight, he might even become a burden.

Chu Sang was assumed by Mu Chihuai to be a talisman master. Although she had some combat power, once faced with close-combat sword cultivators or body cultivators with slightly higher cultivation levels, she would become extremely passive.

So among the three, only Tantai Ming was truly capable of fighting.

Not to mention that according to the innkeeper’s previous disclosure, not only were there small Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment cultivators coming to this secret realm, but also many Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators who had hidden their auras… They had to act quickly and decisively, staying low whenever possible.

Chu Sang took out the map and looked at it. This map was from an unknown era, the paper yellowed and wrinkled, and the text was in ancient characters no longer used in the cultivation world. Fortunately, she had studied ancient text in the library when she had nothing else to do, so she could read it fairly smoothly.

She quickly scanned it for two glances, then put the scroll back into her storage bag.

Mu Chihuai hesitated a bit, “Can’t understand it?”

He was considering how to offer to lead the way without hurting his junior sister’s confidence when Chu Sang walked past the two of them, decisively choosing the left path. Her voice drifted to their ears, “I’ve memorized it already, no need to look again.”

Mu Chihuai, “?”

He looked at Tantai Ming, skeptical, “Is Junior Sister’s memory this terrifying?”

Tantai Ming was already used to it and calmly nodded, “Junior Sister memorized a hundred talisman books in half a month.”

“…” Mu Chihuai opened and closed his mouth, finding it hard to believe for a moment.

Although he wasn’t a talisman master, he knew that one of the main reasons why the three arts of talismans, formations, and pills were so difficult to learn was because the knowledge within was too profound and obscure.

Let alone memorizing directly, even just trying to understand by pondering required a great deal of time and mental energy.

Tantai Ming, as a sword cultivator, might not understand the intricacies, but Mu Chihuai knew very well. Even for someone with his exceptional talent, to memorize over a hundred pill books would take at least half a year… Could it be that Little Junior Sister was truly a once-in-an-age genius?

“What are you two still standing there for? Hurry up and follow!”

The two looked at each other and followed.

Meanwhile, the thousands of cultivators who had also entered the secret realm were now crying out in misery, hovering between life and death, with people losing their lives every moment.

The secret realm was ever-changing and full of dangers. They didn’t have the scroll map, so naturally, they didn’t know about the traps and could only probe one by one with their bodies.

Most cultivators were struggling to move in the secret realm. They either fell into quagmires, got trapped in illusions, or were stuck in formations losing their spiritual power and getting lost, unable to find their way out for days and nights… Even more terrifying was that for some unknown reason, the spirit beasts had collectively become restless, with raging beast tides attacking many cultivators.

Of course, Chu Sang and her group hadn’t encountered any of these issues.

The three had been traveling exceptionally smoothly for the past few days, eating, drinking, chatting, and laughing along the way as if they were on a picnic, even picking up quite a few spirit herbs.

“It seems this secret realm isn’t as dangerous as we imagined.” Just as Tantai Ming finished saying this, his eyes lit up, pointing ahead, “Look, what’s that?”

Heart Essence Ethereal Grass!

And not just one plant, but a whole patch!

It’s worth noting that even a single Heart Essence Ethereal Grass was priceless and hard to obtain in the cultivation world, let alone such a large patch. They were truly lucky.

Originally, Mu Chihuai didn’t have much confidence, but seeing so much Heart Essence Ethereal Grass, he could repair Little Junior Sister’s spirit root even if he had to force-feed her!

Compared to the excitement of the two, Chu Sang wasn’t too surprised. After confronting the female protagonist earlier, both senior brothers had generously given her some attribute points. Considering the secret realm matter, she had added both points to luck.

Although luck couldn’t be clearly perceived like aptitude, judging from the smooth journey of picking spirit herbs over the past three days, [3 Luck] was more than three times stronger than [1 Luck].

To give an example, under [1 Luck], most of the spirit herbs picked were ten-year or hundred-year varieties, with thousand-year herbs only occasionally found. Under [3 Luck], hundred-year and thousand-year spirit herbs were already common, and occasionally they could even find two-thousand-year spirit herbs.

She called her two senior brothers over and was about to bend down to pick the spirit herbs when several sword qi attacks filled with killing intent broke through the air from behind the forest, directly targeting their vital points!

Chu Sang’s heart tightened, her hand moving almost faster than her mind. She instantly threw out a Golden Armor Talisman to block the sword qi about to hit her face.

At the same time, she drew three Speed Talismans and stuck them on herself and her two senior brothers,

“Run!”

Fortunately, the three reacted quickly, turning danger into safety.

In the next breath, several loud booms were heard. The trees where the three had just been were all cut down by the sword qi, with leaves and dust scattering in a large area.

One could imagine that if those sword qi had landed on them, they would have lost half their lives if not died outright.

Tantai Ming’s entire body tensed up as he drew his sword to shield the other two. His handsome face sank, “So it’s you!”

Qiu Xiude and his group swaggered out from behind the trees, their faces full of mockery, “What a narrow road for enemies to meet. Didn’t expect to run into you again.”

He no longer concealed his late-stage Foundation Establishment strength.

“Your reaction was quite fast. You actually dodged my full-power attack just now. What a pity, I thought I could leave you here forever.”

Behind him, Qin Xixue’s gaze fell on the three, a hint of confusion arising in her heart.

This secret realm wasn’t as simple as the rumors suggested. On the contrary, only after truly entering did one realize it was full of dangers, making it hard to guard against… Qin Xixue’s slender white fingers lightly touched the green jade pendant at her waist. Last time, she had accidentally obtained a soul jade from the forbidden area, containing an old alchemist who claimed to have been a Tribulation Transcendence expert in life.

She had taken him as her master. Thanks to the old man’s guidance along the way, their group had quickly gathered and avoided most of the traps in the secret realm, leading other cultivators by several steps, traveling without rest… But how had these three still gotten ahead of them?