Chapter 1786: Chapter 1786: Secret Realm Closes
"Taoist Priest Wu? Little Mink? You... you’re really here!"
Seeing Wu De and the Lightning Mink, Su Linglong couldn’t help but be both surprised and delighted.
"Yes, both of us have been in this ring for a long time... Oh my, Miss Su, you’ve already reached the second tier of Thunder Tribulation cultivation?"
Wu De looked Su Linglong up and down and exclaimed in surprise.
The Lightning Mink was also full of astonishment.
They had been in Fang Bai’s Five Elements Spatial Ring for quite a while, using the dense spiritual energy here to raise their cultivation level to the first tier of Thunder Tribulation.
They thought they had leveled up quickly enough, but they didn’t expect to fall behind a young girl like Su Linglong, which dealt a severe blow to their inflated confidence.
Su Linglong smiled and said, "Yes! I joined the Love Severing Tower earlier and used its abundant cultivation resources to advance to the first tier of Thunder Tribulation. Then, I just gained insight from the stele body runes in the Immortal Tablet Secret Realm outside, and advanced again..."
"Wait, what secret realm? Be clear!"
Wu De’s eyes lit up as he loudly asked.
Su Linglong briefly explained the matter of the Immortal Tablet Secret Realm, and Wu De and the Lightning Mink exchanged glances, their eyes shining brightly. They simultaneously shouted loudly to Fang Bai, asking him to let them out.
Su Linglong said, "Hey... don’t be in such a hurry to go out! Tell me about the situation inside this Five Elements Spatial Ring first. I’ve just come in and don’t understand yet!"
Wu De waved his hand and said, "Nothing much to say, just stay here at ease!"
The Lightning Mink said, "This Five Elements Spatial Ring is comparable to a Holy Land of cultivation. Cultivation within it progresses faster than outside! But staying too long is boring, it’s more interesting to go outside and train with Fang Bai!"
They both had heard that there was an Immortal Tablet Secret Realm created by ancient powerful experts outside, which contained miraculous steles with mysterious runes that could lead to advancement upon comprehension, so they were eager to go out and take a look.
Fang Bai heard the clamoring of Wu De and the Lightning Mink from the Five Elements Spatial Ring and smiled silently. With a wave of his hand, he let them out of the ring.
Fortunately, Fang Bai was still standing behind the large rock, with no one else seeing this, otherwise, such a treasure like his Five Elements Spatial Ring would once again attract the covetous eyes of many powerful individuals.
"You two have had enough of staying in the ring? Want to come out and join the fun?"
Seeing Wu De and the Lightning Mink appear, staring in a daze at the thousand-zhang-high stele, Fang Bai asked with a smile.
Wu De’s eyes didn’t leave the runes on the stele, grumbling discontentedly, "Fang Bai, you sly fox! Having such a good opportunity, you didn’t even inform me and Little Mink, almost letting us miss a great chance!"
The Lightning Mink chimed in, "Exactly! Such a sneaky move!"
After they finished speaking, they saw Fang Yun, Baili Mingyue, Niu Ben, Xiong Yingxiong, and others, so they stopped paying attention to Fang Bai, walked to the side of these people, sat down cross-legged as they did, and began to comprehend the runes on the stele.
Fang Bai also walked over to sit down, transmitted his voice to Wu De and the Lightning Mink, instructing them not to reveal Su Linglong’s whereabouts.
In the blink of an eye, the opening time of the Immortal Tablet Secret Realm had reached its last day.
On this day, Fang Bai used the Thread Condensation Sound Transmission Technique to relay the stele runes in a simple and understandable manner to the ears of five junior disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect, enabling them to achieve sudden enlightenment and successively break through just in time.
This made Qin Ming overjoyed, thinking that Fang Bai’s words were indeed correct, a miracle had really happened.
After the five junior disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect advanced, they felt like they had just woken from a dream, joyous but puzzled as to who had transmitted the teaching to them, so they bowed in worship to the stele.
Wu De and the Lightning Mink had only comprehended for a day, but both being geniuses in cultivation and having been previously guided by Fang Bai, their understanding of the runes surpassed that of other experts.
Furthermore, they had accumulated massive spiritual energy in their Qi Sea while cultivating in the Five Elements Spatial Ring, allowing them to also break through and advance to the second tier of Thunder Tribulation within a short day.
Wu De and the Lightning Mink danced for joy, laughing heartily, behaving as if there were no one else around.
By dusk, the valley trembled, the stele sank back into the ground, and the seven-colored aura shield enveloping the entire valley gradually faded away.
"The Immortal Tablet Secret Realm is now closed; it’s time to leave!"
"Brother Zhang, congratulations on advancing!"
"Haha, congratulations to you too!"
"It’s a pity, if I had a few more days to comprehend, I could have advanced too! Now I’ll have to wait another five years!"
"Alas, those stele body runes are truly abstruse and difficult to understand, I researched them for ninety-nine days and nights, without grasping their meaning! Could it be that my opportunity hasn’t arrived?"
"I’ll come back in five years! I refuse to believe I can’t comprehend the mysteries within!"
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Amid the noisy chatter, hundreds of thousands of Thunder Tribulation experts got up and walked out through the One-Line Heaven path between the peaks.
Those who didn’t manage to advance were reluctant and unwilling to leave, but knowing it was futile to stay, they eventually sighed and followed the crowd out.
Fang Bai and others had just exited the valley and were about to leave the Great Desolate Mountain Range when suddenly dozens of figures swept over, surrounding Fang Bai.
Fang Bai focused his gaze and found that the dozens of people surrounding him were led by Leng Qiushuang and Leng Qiuxue from the Love Severing Tower.
"Where’s that girl Linglong?"
The tower master of Love Severing Tower, Leng Qiushuang, stepped forward from the crowd, fixating her icy gaze on Fang Bai, her voice grim as she asked.
Earlier, after exiting her cultivation state in the Immortal Tablet Secret Realm, she did not see Su Linglong, and her Divine Sense swept through the entire valley but still found no sign of Su Linglong, making her anxious.
She had long noticed that Su Linglong and Fang Bai were old acquaintances, leading her to suspect that Su Linglong’s disappearance might have something to do with Fang Bai.
She and her sister Leng Qiuxue deliberated for a moment and decided to block Fang Bai after exiting the Immortal Tablet Secret Realm, to see if they could force him to reveal Su Linglong’s whereabouts.
Leng Qiuxue and Leng Qiushuang couldn’t understand how Su Linglong, a perfectly healthy person, could suddenly disappear in the Immortal Tablet Secret Realm.
Could she be hiding in some secret place within the Immortal Tablet Secret Realm that their Divine Sense couldn’t detect?
Or did she quietly leave while they were fully engaged in comprehending the stele runes, hiding herself and planning to reunite with Fang Bai after they left?
Leng Qiushuang and Leng Qiuxue were furious, not only furious that Su Linglong ignored the strict tower rules and consorted with an outsider but also furious that she had dared to quietly leave their side.
Now, to discover Su Linglong’s whereabouts seemed to depend solely on Fang Bai.
"Who is Linglong?"
Fang Bai feigned puzzlement.
Leng Qiuxue snorted coldly, "Don’t play dumb! I saw you and Linglong exchanging looks up and down the mountain earlier! You and Linglong are already acquainted, aren’t you?"
Fang Bai replied dismissively, "There are plenty of people named Linglong in this world, and I know many of them. Like Zhang Linglong, Li Linglong, Zhou Linglong... which Linglong are you talking about?"
Leng Qiushuang chuckled rather than getting angry, "I’ll give you ten seconds to tell me Linglong’s whereabouts. Otherwise... you won’t leave this Great Desolate Mountain Range alive!"
