Chapter 125: A New Idea! (Please Recommend and Save!)

At the entrance to the Kunlun Secret Realm, the mist suddenly receded.

Li Xianyi emerged step by step.

Zhang Daoyi sprang to his feet at once.

Not far away, Dongfang Kui opened his eyes as well. The staff vanished the instant his eyes opened.

Zhang Daoyi hurried over, seized Li Xianyi by the arm, and bombarded him with questions—most of them concerning what the Kunlun Secret Realm was like, what resources it contained, and other such matters.

Li Xianyi was still dazed.

The sight of Kun Sha brutally twisting the head off the Rank Ten Azure Hawk had etched itself into his mind and refused to fade.

Li Xianyi had killed strange beasts before, and he had killed plenty of people as well. But watching a strange beast powerful enough to crush him being torn apart before his eyes, its head wrenched off with sheer force—that was a scene he felt he would never forget for the rest of his life. That bastard Kun Sha had left him with a terrible shadow.

Whenever he recalled the way Kun Sha, drenched in blood, had smiled at him, a suffocating frustration rose in his heart.

Zhang Daoyi asked question after question, but Li Xianyi did not respond.

Zhang Daoyi quickly realized that his mind was elsewhere. He placed a palm against Li Xianyi’s forehead, and Li Xianyi felt a cool sensation spread across his head. The images that had haunted his mind gradually faded away.

Li Xianyi looked at Zhang Daoyi and was about to speak, but Zhang Daoyi stopped him.

The two of them then went over to Dongfang Kui.

Dongfang Kui released his mental power, forming a barrier around them.

Within the barrier, Li Xianyi began recounting everything that had happened inside the Kunlun Secret Realm to Dongfang Kui and Zhang Daoyi.

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“Tell us in detail what happened after you entered the secret realm,” Dongfang Kui said.

“Yes. The exit of the secret realm is located in a place called the Azure Plain. It is the territory of a Rank Ten strange beast, and a great many other strange beasts live under its protection.

“As soon as the students entered the secret realm, they were besieged by countless strange beasts. The attack came without warning, and there were simply too many of them. The students were no match for the beasts and were scattered.

“Yang Fan, Hu Dao, Zhang Liang, Wang Ming, Yue Jiang, and I were chased across the Azure Plain. Later, we were rescued by Kun Li, the daughter of the chief of the Kunpeng Tribe.

“After that, we went to the Kunpeng Tribe. Once its chief learned that we came from Earth, he became extremely interested in our world and treated us with considerable courtesy.

“The world within the Kunlun Secret Realm is incomplete. Kun Sha said that it is a flawed world. There are no Rank Eleven experts there, so their path of cultivation ends at Rank Ten. That is why Kun Sha asked me to come out and ask the teachers whether he could enter Earth in search of a breakthrough.

“Oh, and originally, Yang Fan was supposed to come out. But he was attacked by that Rank Ten Azure Hawk on the Azure Plain, and his life or death is still unknown. While escorting me out, Kun Sha killed that Azure Hawk. He said that since the attack had occurred while I was under his people’s protection, he owed us an explanation. Killing the Azure Hawk was his answer to us.”

Li Xianyi recounted everything that had happened in the Kunlun Secret Realm in a single breath.

When he finished, Dongfang Kui fell into thought.

Zhang Daoyi sighed. “What a pity. Yang Fan was Elder Li’s disciple. After all these years, Elder Li had only ever taken one disciple, and yet he lost him in the Kunlun Secret Realm. Still, how are the experts within the secret realm distributed?”

Li Xianyi replied, “To be honest, I do not know much about the Kunlun Secret Realm either. After entering, our group remained within the Kunpeng Tribe the entire time, so we learned very little about the outside world. Although Kun Sha treated us courteously, he was clearly keeping an eye on us. We never left the Kunpeng Tribe.

“All I know is that there are eighty-nine great tribes within the Kunlun Realm, along with several hundred smaller tribes scattered throughout it. The Kunpeng Tribe ranks among the top ten of the eighty-nine great tribes. Judging from that, at least the ten leading tribes should be comparable to the Kunpeng Tribe, which means they must possess no small number of powerful experts.

“The Kunlun Secret Realm’s greatest weakness is that it has no Rank Eleven experts.”

Zhang Daoyi nodded.

He had never expected Li Xianyi to provide especially detailed information. After all, they had been attacked the moment they entered and then spent the rest of their time living on someone else’s territory. It would have been difficult to learn much under such circumstances.

But knowing that there were no Rank Eleven experts in the Kunlun Secret Realm allowed Zhang Daoyi to breathe a little easier.

He himself was one of the strongest among the Rank Ten Martial Emperors, infinitely close to Rank Eleven. Yet the final step was as distant as heaven from earth. If he faced Dongfang Kui directly now, he might not last even ten moves—and Dongfang Kui’s injuries had not yet fully healed.

That was the power of the Way.

Anyone who had not comprehended the Way was, in the end, no more than an ant.

Since there were no Rank Eleven experts in the Kunlun Secret Realm, then no matter how much trouble they caused, it would not amount to much.

Dongfang Kui alone could suppress them.

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Dongfang Kui was deep in thought.

It was not surprising that the people of the Kunlun Secret Realm wanted to come out. The giant ape had already made it clear that those within the secret realm would emerge sooner or later.

But now someone wanted to be the first to leave. That changed everything.

The Kunlun Secret Realm posed a difficult problem for Earth as it currently stood. None of them had entered it, nor had they spoken with its inhabitants, so they had no way of knowing what those people truly intended.

Earth was presently locked in a tug-of-war with the Dark Realm.

If the Kunlun Secret Realm was determined to emerge into the world, then it had to be guaranteed that its people would stand on Earth’s side. Once that could be confirmed, allowing them to enter Earth would not be unacceptable.

But that was precisely what made the matter so difficult to control.

Dongfang Kui was no longer young. Compared with the people of the Kunlun Secret Realm, he was still youthful, but he had experienced more than enough of the world’s warmth and cruelty. He knew better than anyone that human nature was the one thing least amenable to calculation.

Ever since the giant ape had told them about the Kunlun Secret Realm, Dongfang Kui, Li Tian, Xia Qiuming, and Han Daohong had been discussing the matter.

They had all agreed that it would be difficult to control.

But now Kun Sha had appeared, and with him came the Kunpeng Tribe.

This gave the situation a new direction.

Kun Sha wanted to come out and seek a breakthrough to Rank Eleven. That was not impossible.

But if he wanted to leave, certain guarantees had to be secured.

Enslavement was out of the question. No powerful expert would willingly allow himself to be enslaved. But there were other methods.

Binding an entire group of people was difficult. Binding a single person, however, offered many possibilities.

While Zhang Daoyi and Li Xianyi continued discussing the Kunlun Secret Realm, Dongfang Kui’s thoughts had already turned elsewhere.

Suddenly, Dongfang Kui rose to his feet.

“Wait here. I have something to take care of.”

With that, Dongfang Kui tore open the space before him and stepped through.

Then he disappeared.

Zhang Daoyi showed little reaction, but Li Xianyi stared in astonishment.

Although he was a scion of an influential family and a member of the Special Training Program, he had never come into contact with a Rank Eleven expert before.

Was this the tearing open of the void?

A step through empty space?

As Li Xianyi watched Dongfang Kui vanish into the rift, the fissure rapidly closed.

The goal in Li Xianyi’s heart became clearer than ever.