Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 101

Chapter 101: 88. A Different Kind of Reunion (3.4K words - Please Subscribe)

Three days later, at Chen time...

Song Yan never expected that his first entry into a Secret Realm would be under such circumstances.

Without a doubt, this Secret Realm called "Candle Land" should be quite ordinary, at least not comparable to the "Demon Swamp", nor to the Giant Elephant Plain he had heard of before at the Cold Pool Valley Market.

The entrance to the Secret Realm was a transparent film slightly emanating Profound Qi.

Song Yan had explored this place before, but he hadn’t discovered it then.

At this moment...

Protector Du was at the front, Song Yan following behind.

Protector Du turned back, giving a wry smile to Master Li behind him.

Master Li also returned a helpless smile to him.

Protector Du gritted his teeth and rushed forward.

The film rippled, and Protector Du had already disappeared.

Song Yan then awakened Granny Fox, watching the film together until she nodded, then he took a step forward and entered.

When Granny Fox was an enemy, she exerted strong pressure, but now that she’s his spirit ghost, she gives a sense of reassurance.

After the ripples, the scenery suddenly changed.

A moment ago, it was still the wasteland outside Chao Li County, now two towering green mountains rose on both sides, the thin morning mist in the canyon carried the scent of earth and stone.

There were many plants, but the silence was terrifying.

It felt like a dead mountain with no living creatures.

"Ah... Achoo!"

A member of the Flying Knife Gang sneezed, the sneeze rebounding off the narrow canyon cliffs, creating a deep and strange echo.

The surrounding group of cutthroat men were startled, the continuous sound of knives and swords being drawn could be heard, as everyone vigilantly looked in all directions.

Seeing nothing moved, Protector Du went up and slapped that member’s shoulder hard, saying, "Make another sound and I’ll kill you."

The member nodded hastily.

Everyone fell silent.

The gang leader had brought a full thirty people in, and now gathered at the valley entrance, staring at the distant gorge like a thread of the sky, feeling the deathly silence around them, everyone’s faces were not looking good.

Fortunately, six cultivators soon followed inside.

Lady Ling and the petite female cultivator named Zhu’Er walked in the middle.

"Master Chief, please have the people walk ahead," Lady Ling said calmly.

Upon sensing some of the people in front turning back to look, Lady Ling added, "The exit is one-way, coming in here does not mean you leave from here."

The Flying Knife Gang leader gritted his teeth and stepped forward, saying, "Lady Ling, since we’ve come this far, can you give us some honesty?

Can we... leave here alive?"

Lady Ling nodded, replying gently, "Of course you can."

Her voice, though somewhat hoarse, had a convincing power.

She had once ruled the Jianghu, her every move exuding a queenly aura.

The crowd, after hearing this, felt inexplicably relieved.

But Song Yan was somewhat speechless.

He was too familiar with Hua Linglong.

Whenever Hua Linglong’s tone became gentle, that definitely meant she was lying.

"Of course you can" meant "of course you can’t."

This was somewhat beyond Song Yan’s expectations.

But on second thought, Hua Linglong was never a kind soul, nor a pure-hearted good lady, but a ruthless, unscrupulous heroine.

He somewhat had a bias seeing her as a "vulnerable group."

If he didn’t have the Remaining Life Dao Fruit, and he was placed in the same place as Hua Linglong to compete and battle, he feared he would be utterly defeated.

His initial thoughts of "reuniting secretly" and "rescuing the beauty" paths were immediately overturned because... "the beauty in that clichéd plot" might just still be a "scheming little BOSS."

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’Can you see any danger around here?’ Song Yan asked.

Granny Fox replied, "Master, for now, I cannot see any."

She then added, "The demon beasts in the Secret Realm are usually very singular, but their numbers are vast.

Singular means they have fixed patterns and habits, as long as you pay attention to these patterns and habits, the chances of survival are high.

The large numbers mean that these demon beasts have varying levels of growth, weaker on the outskirts and stronger inside.

At the deepest part of the Secret Realm... there is usually a Blood Pool.

That is an extremely pure Blood Pool.

How it forms is unknown, but I guess it may have originally been a burial ground for these singular demon beasts after their deaths, then due to some strange changes, it turned into a pure Blood Pool.

My previous Six-winged Horror Bat Blood was obtained from a Blood Pool deep within a Secret Realm."

"By the way, Master, this Lady Ling’s claim about the exit being one-way, hmm... she probably used some Secret Technique to seal the entrance. Then she bullied these little cultivators, Jianghu people, saying the exit is on the other side."

"I wasn’t sure before, but with what she said, I guess she’s leading the cultivators here to feed the demon beasts in the Secret Realm."

As Granny Fox described, Song Yan felt like he was reading a "strategy guide."

Before the other party could implement their conspiracy, the old Demonic Fox had almost stripped the opponent bare.

And Granny Fox continued to speak: "Before in the Mountain and Sea Kingdom, I heard of some mysterious cultivators who, for unknown reasons, would actively feed demon beasts in Secret Realms.

Some would even intentionally gather cultivators to certain places, as if farming. When the cultivators became powerful, they would be sent batch by batch into the Secret Realm."

Song Yan’s expression slightly shifted.

What Granny was describing was exactly like "Snake Corpse Market", wasn’t it?

He thought and asked, "Could it be that the Secret Realm demon beasts implanted false Profound Roots to control the cultivators?"

Although he regretted it, he had to understand Hua Linglong’s current state.

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