"All right, I'm ready to go."
Ken said to the empty burrow as he looked at his reflection. He saw a beautiful green-eyed girl, her black hair held by a hairpin. Her high cheekbones were highlighted by makeup and a faint blush colored her cheeks.
He was wearing the green discipleship uniform of a female cultivator from the Serene Lotus Sect. Her body size was larger than his, which was perfect as he didn't want tight clothes that might reveal the lack of curves. He had plenty of uniforms of different sects in his storage ring, so he didn't have a problem finding one.
He meditated through the next 20 hours he had left until the portals to the outside would open, concentrating on learning everything he had seen in the library. Because of the lack of time, he didn't completely assimilate all the new knowledge he had gained.
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Meanwhile in another region of the secret realm:
A young man walked down a hill with a spear on his back. He was handsome, and his strong jawline was emphasized by his smoothly shaved skin.
"Why did the challenge suddenly stop?"
Alaric complained out loud to the empty air. He was in the middle of a challenge at the Arcane Netherlands, where his Sound Qi was tested. It was the site of the supreme elder originating from the Serene Lotus Sect, and Alaric managed to get a great Sound Qi inheritance before the third challenge was suddenly shut.
'I guess I will just wait and cultivate, there's nothing I can do here anymore if there are no challenges and prizes. Even a portal to another place wasn't opened.'
With just 24 hours left before the secret realm closed, he was perplexed by the lack of further rewards. He was unaware that this was due to Ken's instructions to Edmund.
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A stunning lady with golden curls was walking down the frosty lands, stepping on the frozen bodies of other disciples. Some of them were killed by her while others were already there.
"Weird, there are no more rewards. Is it because there are only 24 hours left?"
Tiara found a great place for her Ice Qi cultivation. The place was as rich in Ice Qi as the Mystic Chasm of Ice, and she reached it thanks to the voice's directions, also known as Edmund.
He followed Ken's request long ago to take care of his friends and helped them reach the spots he believed would facilitate their growth. He did it mainly as a final thankful gesture toward the boy who gave up his body for him, but unfortunately, the tables had turned since then.
'I will just cultivate the manual I got from Ken until the portals to the outside appear.'
Tiara found a cave in the frosty terrain and sat down to cultivate.
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Outside the secret realm:
Elders from the different sects assembled together where the portal opened earlier. 2 eighth-stage elders came from each sect, additionally to 10 elders from different evil sects.
"It'd be nice if we could get rid of those evil cultivators. They taint the Verdant Qi Continent with their presence alone."
An elder wearing black robes remarked. Despite his robes' colors, the embroidery marked him as a member of the Divine Sword Sect. The elders were free to wear any robes they wanted; thus their robes' colors didn't follow any pattern other than the embroideries.
"Oh, the righteous Peter. You can go ahead and try to kill some, I will make sure to cheer for you from here," Zara, the elder from the Four Seasons Sect, said with a mocking tone.
"Haha, Peter, I'd happily go to my death if such a beautiful woman cheered me on, don't let this opportunity go!"
"I'm good, Elmer. You're the one who has been trying to get under her skirt in the past century, you should go. Wouldn't you be his cheerleader as he fights them, Zara?"
Peter redirected the fire toward Elmer as the bored elders bantered to pass the wait for their disciples to come out. Each sect had readied only a single airship as they expected a tragic end for most of their disciples.
They didn't mind too much. They all had their favorite core disciples they liked, but as for the rest, it could even be considered a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff, as those who were going to die will be those who were too weak to survive under harsh conditions.
"Radiate boundless love toward the entire world," A bald monk said with his eyes closed.
"The ever-so-hypocrite monks of the Peaceful Demon Sect. Why do you guys pretend to have enmity with the evil sects when all of us trade with them off the books?"
The speaker this time was an elder from the Infinite Wisdom Sect. As a businesswoman, her smile could convince anyone she always had their best interest in mind.
"All of you are hypocrites. Don't you kill and loot others just like us? Didn't you send your disciples into a secret realm to slaughter one another for rewards? Pfft, you can come at us if you want."
One of the evil elders said with an exasperated voice. Nobody enjoyed listening to others talk about killing them, even though the elder knew that none of the righteous elders planned on taking action.
"Anyway, Four Seasons Sect, aren't you overdoing this? You've even brought a ninth-stage elder here in addition to five eighth-stage elders."
"Hmph, we already know you want to hinder us from killing the brat. Don't think you can protect him alone."
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The time passed quickly while Ken was meditating in his hiding spot, and the time to depart had arrived. His beautiful face revealed, he came out of his cave and watched as a portal opened nearby.
'Let's time my exit.'
Ken thought to himself as he watched a hundred disciples flock toward the portal. As there was no meaning to BP anymore and everyone was tired of the restless killing, nobody made any problems now.
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