Chapter 656: Ancient Secret Realms
"Could it be..." Yu Nianzhen started but suddenly stopped, his eyes narrowed into slits.
A moment later, everyone heard a loud crack, and the space began collapsing.
Soon after, the sealed space disappeared, and the five appeared in another space.
"This..." Jiang Yue muttered when he saw the new space.
"Is this also a secret realm?" Yang Xu asked.
"I recognise it." Ao Tian exclaimed, looking around with a happy expression.
"I also recognise it from my inherited memories." XiaoLan said, and everyone turned to look at her.
"It’s the Three Thousand Doors secret realm." She said, and Ao Tian nodded.
"It’s indeed the immortal king level, Three Thousand Doors secret realm." Ao Tian confirmed and began explaining.
"This secret realm has countless doors. The doors are indistinguishable, but each leads to a different space and a unique form of enlightenment." He said.
"Doors?" Jiang Yue muttered and began looking around.
However, all he saw was a vast grassland, but no doors.
"Where are the doors?" He asked.
"A door appears when a destined person nears it. However, ..." Xiaolan started, and Jiang Yue raised an eyebrow.
"However?" He asked.
"Only peak-stage immortal king realm cultivators can enter the Three Thousand Doors secret realm." She said, and Ao Tian nodded.
"In ancient times, enlightening in the Three Thousand Doors secret realm was the opportunity for peak-stage immortal king realm cultivators to break through to the immortal emperor realm." He said.
"Sounds like a good place." Jiang Yue nodded with an excited expression.
"How did you recognise this place as the Three Thousand Doors secret realm?" Yu Nianzhen suddenly asked.
After all, they had entered many secret realms, and some had vast grasslands.
Considering that, he didn’t understand how Ao Tian and Xiaolan immediately recognised the new place as the Three Thousand Doors secret realm.
"Doesn’t the aura remind you of something?" Ao Tian asked instead of answering his master’s question.
"Origin source stones." Yu Nianzhen said, and Ao Tian nodded before speaking.
"The Three Thousand Doors secret realm is one of two ancient secret realms whose aura contains dense heavenly laws."
"I see." Yu Nianzhen nodded in understanding.
"Which is the other?" Yang Xu asked.
"The Ancestral Ruins realm. It’s the only immortal emperor level secret realm where cultivators can gain the opportunity to break through to the saint realm." Ao Tian revealed with an expectant expression.
"What about the God realm?" Yang Xu asked, and Ao Tian couldn’t help but sigh.
"The God realm is a myth. No cultivator has ever been able to become a God." The dragon said, and everyone fell silent.
Thirty breaths, Yu Nianzhen touched the cube and looked at Ao Tian.
"Could this cube have something to do with the Three Thousand Doors secret realm?" He asked, but Ao Tian shrugged before speaking.
"I don’t know, but I have never heard of anything like it." He said.
"Let’s walk around and see if the cube will trigger something." Jiang Yue suggested, and the others immediately agreed.
However, before they could, they felt a repelling force, and a moment later, they found themselves in another place.
"We have been expelled from the secret realm." Yang Xu observed.
"It seems that the cube has nothing to do with the Three Thousand Doors secret realm." Jiang Yue said when he saw that the cube had followed them out of the secret realm.
"I will put it away first. We will figure it out when the time comes." Yu Nianzhen said and put the cube in his planting jade box.
"We have cleared all the S-level and SS-level sealed spaces. Shall we try an SSS-level sealed space?" Ao Tian asked, and Jiang Yue tilted his head; his brows creased in a frown.
He still remembered their encounter with the demon dragon and couldn’t help but feel a little scared.
However, he soon regained his composure and hardened his resolve.
’Azhen and I were immortal realm cultivators when we fought the demon dragon. Although we aren’t immortal emperors yet, we should be able to protect ourselves if we encounter a level nine beast.’ He thought and nodded.
"We can scout one." He said.
"We should be cautious for the time being." Yu Nianzhen said with a solemn expression.
"Azhen, you don’t want to enter an SSS-level sealed space?" Jiang Yue asked with a surprised face.
"It’s not that." Yu Nianzhen said, shaking his head.
"We have been clearing sealed spaces for two thousand and five hundred years and have encountered different types of spaces."
"Some are free to enter and free to leave, others are easy to enter but difficult to leave and so forth. I am worried we may be trapped in an SSS-level sealed space for an unknown time." He explained, but Ao Tian frowned.
"It’s not like we have anything better to do. It won’t matter even if we use several thousand years to fight our way out." He said.
"Have you forgotten..., the cultivators who went to the Reincarnation world at the same time as us are about to return." Yu Nianzhen said and subconsciously narrowed his eyes.
"Our Zhenyue Archipelago is the most prosperous place in the Cangxing continent, and it’s sure to attract many people. We can’t afford to be away when those people return." He said, and everyone immediately understood.
"Azhen is right. Our Zhenyue Archipelago is a fat sheep, and the monkeys may take the chance to reign when the tigers are away." He said.
"It’s not a bad idea to rest for a few hundred years." Yang Xu added.
"Also, we haven’t been back to the Zhenyue Archipelago for two thousand years. We should take this chance to have a proper look." Jiang Yue suggested.
"I understand." Ao Tian said, and Xiaolan nodded.
After deciding, the five planned to go to the Zhenyue Archipelago when Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen suddenly heard a loud buzzing from their storage rings.
"Master, why is your communication jade buzzing so loudly?" Xiaolan asked with a perplexed expression.
"I don’t know." Jiang Yue shrugged, also with a confused face.
