Chapter 871
Martial Arts in the Xuanhuang Realm.
Jiang Ming didn't notice anything unusual about Chen Feng. He patted Chen Feng on the shoulder and said:
"Junior Brother Wang, I just received news that the sect's higher-ups have issued an order that the rewards from the Haotian Secret Realm will be reserved for us. Even if you lose your status as a true disciple, don't worry, you will still receive the rewards."
"Really? That's great!" Chen Feng deliberately feigned surprise.
He naturally knew why Wang Ping had become a true disciple—it was for the rewards from the Haotian Secret Realm.
"By the way, Senior Brother Jiang, have you found out the reason for the changes that occurred in the secret realm this time?" Chen Feng asked immediately.
Jiang Ming glanced around, and seeing that no one was paying attention, he whispered:
“I don’t know the specifics, but I heard from Senior Sister Qin that this matter is very serious. Some of the senior uncles at the Dao Integration level have already come out of seclusion, and they will be coming to the secret realm to investigate soon.”
Chen Feng then asked, "What about the ancestor?"
Jiang Ming was taken aback, then said strangely:
"Junior brother, have you forgotten? The three patriarchs haven't shown themselves in the sect for six thousand years. Why would they come in person for such a trivial matter?"
“That’s true, such a trivial matter isn’t worth the ancestors coming over.” Chen Feng smiled.
Jiang Ming didn't suspect anything and continued:
"We won't be staying here for long. Once our martial uncles arrive, we can leave."
Chen Feng nodded and said nothing more.
It seems that those three old monsters from the Three Saints Sect don't usually show themselves, which is a good thing for him.
He was confident he could keep it a secret from cultivators at the Dao Integration stage, but the existence of those above that stage was uncertain.
Time passed slowly, and the disciples who had explored various parts of the Haotian Secret Realm had almost all returned.
Everyone's expression was unusually solemn.
The group had explored almost the entire Haotian Secret Realm, but found nothing. It was as if the planets here had vanished into thin air.
Just then, two powerful auras emerged from the distant spatial passage.
Sensing this aura, Chen Feng narrowed his eyes slightly.
From this aura, he judged that the newcomer's strength was not much weaker than that old monster from the Sea Fork Clan who had reached the third step of the Dao Integration Realm.
Before long, two middle-aged men emerged from the spatial passage.
As soon as the two appeared, everyone immediately bowed.
"Greetings, Uncle Zhao and Uncle Nie."
"Get up, everyone. Tell me what happened." The speaker was the middle-aged man surnamed Nie.
Elder Mo immediately stepped forward and respectfully said:
“Uncle-Master Nie, we have already investigated. All the planets within the Haotian Secret Realm have indeed disappeared, and we have not found any clues within the secret realm.”
The man surnamed Nie nodded:
"I understand. You can go back first. We can handle things here."
Elder Mo bowed respectfully:
"I will obey my master's orders."
The two Dao Integration cultivators did not linger and quickly disappeared from the spot.
After the two left, Elder Mo addressed the crowd:
"What happens here must not be revealed to the outside world in the slightest, do you understand?"
"Understood!" all the true disciples answered loudly.
The Haotian Secret Realm is the core of their Three Saints Sect. If news of something happening here were to reach the outside world, it would likely cause a huge uproar.
It could even damage the reputation of the Three Saints Sect, so it must be kept secret.
The group then followed Elder Mo back through the spatial passage.
In the crowd, Chen Feng glanced back at the Haotian Secret Realm.
He wasn't worried that the two Dao-merging cultivators would be able to discover the Immortal Array.
After all, that immortal array had already been enhanced by his Dao Seed power.
His concern was that if the two of them also couldn't find anything, it would likely alert the three old monsters who had reached the Dao Integration stage.
He had to come up with a way to distract the people of the Three Saints Sect from the Haotian Secret Realm.
"Junior Brother Wang, what are you looking at?" Jiang Ming's voice came from behind.
Chen Feng replied, "It's nothing, let's go."
Chen Feng immediately followed the crowd through the spatial passage.
After a flash of light, Chen Feng and his group appeared in a bamboo forest.
Every bamboo stalk in the bamboo forest is purplish-gold in color and is thousands of feet long, stretching as far as the eye can see.
Chen Feng knew that this was a place called Zhuxin Dojo of the Three Saints Sect.
Haotian Secret Realm is located within the Bamboo Heart Dojo.
The Bamboo Heart Dojo can be considered a sacred place for cultivation. Cultivators in this bamboo forest can comprehend the laws of speed at a speed more than five times faster than outside.
The Three Saints Sect has many such temples.
Chen Feng glanced back and saw a spatial vortex behind them.
That vortex is where the Haotian Secret Realm is located.
Elder Mo did not linger and immediately led his group away from the temple.
"Disperse, everyone. Go back and cultivate diligently," Elder Mo instructed before leaving alone.
He still needs to report the situation to the sect's higher-ups.
The true disciples did not linger and immediately headed towards different mountain peaks.
Jiang Ming looked at Chen Feng and said:
"Junior Brother Wang, I'll be going now. Remember to contact me if you need anything."
Chen Feng nodded: "Okay."
Soon, all the true disciples present left.
Chen Feng also chose a direction and transformed into a streak of light to leave.
Flying within the Three Saints Sect, Chen Feng had only one feeling: it was vast.
The Three Saints Sect is located within a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of thousands of miles.
Cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage would probably need to fly for a hundred years to complete the entire Three Saints Sect.
However, within the Three Saints Sect, there is a spatial passage at regular intervals.
These spatial passages can quickly connect to various parts of the Three Saints Sect.
In addition, there's the natural environment here.
The primordial energy of heaven and earth here actually took the form of mist, enveloping the entire Three Saints Sect.
Chen Feng felt that just one breath was equivalent to several days of cultivation in the Nine Star Regions.
This place is simply a paradise that every monk dreams of.
Chen Feng stopped after flying to the top of a mountain.
Because he realized he was lost.
The Three Saints Sect has an extremely strong suppression of divine sense. He is currently using the divine sense of the Nascent Soul level, which is being suppressed to a range of several miles.
Chen Feng dared not use his stronger divine sense, for fear of being discovered by the old monsters in the Three Saints Sect.
Chen Feng was about to enter the Mustard Seed Pearl to inquire about the location of Wang Ping's cave, but before he could take any action, a blue light suddenly flew over from a distance.
The blue light landed, revealing a woman dressed in a light blue palace gown.
The woman had beautiful features and a graceful figure, and she bore a resemblance to Wang Ping in appearance.
The woman looked at Chen Feng coldly and said, "What are you doing here?"
Chen Feng looked at the woman's face and quickly recalled her identity.
Wang Ping's older sister, Wang Yanran.
The Wang family is an affiliated cultivation family of the Three Saints Sect, with 70% of the family's cultivators residing within the Three Saints Sect.
Wang Yanran is one of the two people with the highest status in the Three Saints Sect from the Wang family. Wang Yanran currently serves as an inner sect elder of the Three Saints Sect and has the cultivation level of a half-step Dao Integration cultivator.
"Just browsing around," Chen Feng replied.
Upon hearing this, Wang Yanran's gaze turned cold:
"Do you know how much the family has sacrificed to get you into the true lineage? In less than three days, someone will be challenging your position as a true disciple. Instead of hurrying to the Transmission Hall to learn the Daoist arts, you're just loitering around here?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Feng remembered what Wang Ping had told him earlier: becoming a true disciple meant being able to learn a Daoist technique from the Three Saints Sect.
Daoist magic is the most advanced technique of the Three Saints Sect, and only true disciples can learn it.
The Wang family went to such great lengths to send Wang Ping to the position of true disciple, not only hoping that Wang Ping could absorb soul crystals in the Haotian Secret Realm, but also hoping that he would learn a Daoist technique.
"I," Chen Feng was about to answer.
Wang Yanran grabbed him and then fled towards the horizon.
Flying in the air, Wang Yanran said coldly:
"You are not allowed to go anywhere until you have mastered the Daoist arts!"
After thinking it over, Chen Feng decided to give up resisting.
That Dharma Transmission Pavilion is clearly a place where sect scriptures are stored. There might be many scriptures about the Xuanhuang Realm there, so he might as well go and take a look.
The Dharma Transmission Pavilion is located in the inner sect area of the Three Saints Sect.
When Chen Feng was brought here by Wang Yanran, many disciples were coming out of the Transmission Hall.
When these disciples saw Wang Yanran, they all greeted her respectfully.
The inner sect elders hold a very high position within the Three Saints Sect.
"Go in!" Wang Yanran said expressionlessly.
Chen Feng didn't say anything and walked straight into the Dharma Transmission Pavilion.
Watching Chen Feng's departing figure, Wang Yanran frowned. She realized that her younger brother seemed different from usual.
My younger brother used to be terrified of her.
But when he met her this time, she seemed very calm, and he even dared to meet her gaze.
However, Wang Yanran didn't think much of it, assuming that the other party had been discouraged by the geniuses in the sect because of participating in the True Disciple Competition.
After Chen Feng entered the Dharma Transmission Pavilion.
The scene before them immediately changed.
The surroundings turned into a vast white space, and there was no one around.
Just then, the disciple token hanging from Chen Feng's waist flashed, and then a voice rang out in the space.
“True disciple Wang Pin, sequence number 119, is eligible to enter the sixth level.”
As the voice faded, six portals of light appeared before Chen Feng without warning.
Chen Feng looked around but couldn't find the source of the sound.
"Could it be a spirit of the formation?"
The formation possesses a spirit, a fact recorded in some ancient texts of the Nine Star Domains.
In ancient times, some special formations could give birth to formation spirits.
This kind of array spirit can not only increase the power of the array, but also help the master control the array.
It has been many years since any formation with a spirit has appeared in the Nine Star Domains.
Chen Feng inspected the several light gates before stepping into the first one.
Stepping through the portal, Chen Feng immediately found himself in a grand hall.
The main hall was densely filled with jade slips and ancient books.
Besides him, there were dozens of other cultivators here looking through the scriptures.
Upon seeing Chen Feng appear, many cultivators greeted him.
"Greetings, Senior Brother!"
"Greetings, Senior Brother."
These people were clearly surprised that Chen Feng had come here.
After all, this is the first floor of the Transmission Pavilion, which only records cultivation techniques and classic texts related to Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment. Generally, only outer disciples would come here.
True disciples like Chen Feng would only go to the area above the fourth level.
Chen Feng nodded to the people who greeted him, then found a bookshelf and began to look through it.
This layer only records the cultivation methods and spells from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment. In addition, there are some classic texts related to the Xuanhuang Realm.
What caught Chen Feng's attention was that there were actually martial arts classics here.
He had heard Wang Ping say before that martial arts were also prevalent in the Xuanhuang Realm.
People here who lack the aptitude for cultivating immortality will learn martial arts.
Some powerful martial artists can even fight against Nascent Soul cultivators.
Chen Feng was quite interested in this.
It should be noted that the highest level of martial artists in the world of the painting is only the Transformation Realm, and they are already doing well if they can fight against Foundation Establishment cultivators. However, the martial artists here can be on par with Nascent Soul cultivators.
Chen Feng walked to the bookshelf on martial arts and began to read.
In just a quarter of an hour, Chen Feng roughly understood the martial arts system of this world.
The reason why martial artists in the Xuanhuang Realm can fight against Nascent Soul cultivators is that the world's vital energy is simply too abundant.
Mortals cannot cultivate immortality because they cannot sense spiritual energy.
However, primordial energy is different. When primordial energy is concentrated to a certain degree, ordinary people can use primordial energy to temper their bodies through special body-refining methods.
Through generations of research, the martial arts system of the Xuanhuang Realm was finally formed.
Acquired, Innate, Transformation Realm, Kaiyuan, Martial Immortal.
This is the martial arts realm division of the Xuanhuang World. The first three are basically the same as the nine star domains.
However, at the same level, the martial artists of the Xuanhuang Realm are stronger.
Here, even those who have acquired martial arts skills can fight against Qi Refining cultivators with their physical bodies.
Because the people here follow the path of body refinement and the accumulation of primordial energy.
After reaching the Kaiyuan realm, martial artists can integrate their vital energy into their blood and bones, thereby making their bodies stronger.
As for the highest level of martial immortals, they can also mobilize the primordial energy of heaven and earth to enhance themselves.
This is also why martial immortals are able to fight against Nascent Soul cultivators.
"Wu Xian, what a good name, it's just a pity," Chen Feng shook his head.
Although martial artists can mobilize the energy of heaven and earth in later stages, they are still just mortals.
Before a being like Lianxu, who has mastered the power of laws, they are no different from ants.
However, he felt that this martial arts system was quite suitable for Earth.
Earth's population is much smaller than that of the world depicted in the painting, so the number of cultivators born is extremely small.
As for the problem of insufficient vital energy on Earth, that's easy to solve. At worst, we can capture some cultivators and sacrifice them to replenish Earth's energy.
Having come up with an idea, Chen Feng immediately made a copy of all the martial arts classics on this level.
The scriptures on the first floor can be viewed for free by anyone from the Three Saints Sect.
He possesses the identity of a true disciple and can spend contribution points to replicate these classic texts.
After copying all the martial arts classics, Chen Feng went to another place where the history of the Xuanhuang Realm was recorded.
If you want to know whether the Xuanhuang Realm belongs to the same world as the painting, understanding the history of the Xuanhuang Realm is undoubtedly the fastest way.
On the other side, within the Haotian Secret Realm.
The two Dao Integration cultivators from the Three Saints Sect searched the Haotian Secret Realm for several hours before reuniting.
The cultivator surnamed Zhao, who had achieved Dao Integration, spoke up:
"Senior brother, I even used the Heaven Illumination Realm, but I still haven't found any clues."
The cultivator surnamed Nie standing nearby said in a deep voice:
"It seems that the person who made this move is more complex than we imagined."
The cultivator surnamed Zhao then asked, "Could it be the work of some other old monster?"
The "old monster" mentioned by the Zhao family member was naturally one of those beings above the Dao Integration stage.
The cultivator surnamed Nie shook his head: "Impossible. Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors made an agreement with other forces that they were not allowed to participate in the conflicts of the Xuanhuang Realm."
"Who has the ability to silently infiltrate the Haotian Secret Realm and take all the planets here?" The cultivator surnamed Zhao's face was gloomy. (End of this chapter)