Chapter 677 - 624: Reaching the Peak 33 (4,000 words)
Due to the Secret Realm being sealed, Spiritual Energy does not leak out, coupled with the fact that most High-level Spirit Medicines can absorb and emit Spiritual Energy, increasing the density of Spiritual Energy in the Secret Realm. The richer the Spiritual Energy, the better the Spirit Medicine grows, thus forming a positive cycle. It can be said that the Secret Realm is the Spirit Medicine Garden for many sects and family alliances.
Baiyue Country also controls countless small and large Secret Realms because they need to cultivate cultivators from across the world, regardless of their status or aptitude. The demand is so immense that it’s incomparable to sects and family alliances. Thus, even though the country possesses countless Secret Realms, it still falls short, which is normal.
To ensure the concentration of Spiritual Energy in the Secret Realm, it is not frequently opened, mostly once every ten years, allowing the younger members of family alliances or sects to enter and harvest planted Spirit Medicines. This is an advantage for the younger members; the abundant Spiritual Energy in the Secret Realm enables Spiritual Power to automatically grow even without cultivation.
Of course, this type of Secret Realm is the simplest and most harmless. Some Secret Realms set up trial grounds, allowing disciples to enter for trials. If the trial succeeds, rewards will appear—Elixirs, Spiritual Pearls, Spirit Stones, Cultivation Techniques, Superior Spirit Medicines, and various weapons abound.
The most dangerous are naturally the Ancient Secret Realms. Ancient cultivators were mostly fierce, and their Secret Realms contained everything—powerful Magic Beasts, trial grounds so strong they could be fatal to current cultivators. Of course, there were more enticing Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, as well as Magic Treasures, weapons, and Elixirs left over from ancient times, all coveted items for cultivators.
Of course, the danger level of Ancient Secret Realms varies, such as finding an Ancient Secret Realm of a Major Sect versus a small sect or small family alliance. The level of danger and the amount of good things differ.
The world’s Secret Realms are innumerable, with countless sects and family alliances having myriad Secret Realms, not to mention that the Imperial Family of successive generations controls the most Secret Realms.
From ancient times to now, over billions of years, countless Secret Realms have been buried in time and forgotten by the world, while many Secret Realms have been discovered, establishing a family, a sect, or even a country.
The Secret Realm found by the Tan Family is an Ancient Secret Realm of a small sect, but even so, what is within the Secret Realm provides great benefits to the Tan Family.
Especially since this Secret Realm was sealed for who knows how long after the destruction of that Ancient small sect, the concentration of Spiritual Energy inside is unimaginable, so Spirit Medicines planted here for ten years can be equivalent to those of a thousand years old, not to mention the Spirit Medicines from ancient times left behind, which are even more precious!
This time, the Tan Family generously allowed the younger members of the Liang Family to accompany them into this Secret Realm, expressing a sincere goodwill towards the Liang Family. The Liang Family is not one to take advantage, and they will naturally open a similar Secret Realm for the younger members of the Tan Family in the future.
After advising all those entering the Secret Realm, Tan Liang and the younger members of the Liang Family were escorted by several elders of the Tan Family, boarding the family’s Flying Sky Ship to the Secret Realm’s entrance.
The entrance to this Secret Realm is eighteen hundred miles from Qingyun City. Although this distance is not particularly far, traveling by carriage would be somewhat bumpy, so this time, the Tan Family deployed a Flying Sky Ship.
The Tan Family possesses eighteen Flying Sky Ships, each costing a fortune, crafted by High-level Alchemists and adorned with various Protective Arrays drawn by Great Array Masters, making them extremely safe.
However, the Tan Family rarely uses Flying Sky Ships as each use costs at least a thousand Spiritual Pearls for driving energy and requires a Spirit Stone as the array eye for the Protection Array. The reason isn’t that the Tan Family doesn’t want to use them randomly; it’s simply unaffordable.
The Flying Sky Ship is magnificent, with seven layers from top to bottom, with wings and eaves, windows carved with floral patterns, making it extraordinarily luxurious. Each layer has ninety-nine rooms, and every room is lavishly furnished.
Many members of the Tan Family were experiencing such an opulent Flying Sky Ship for the first time, just as the younger Liang Family members were equally astonished. However, Tan Shuangshuang, being someone who experienced much in her past life, did not show a surprised expression.
The Flying Sky Ship can sail through water or fly in the sky, and at this moment, the Flying Sky Ship was soaring high in the sky, surrounded by swirling white clouds, reminiscent of an ethereal realm. Unfortunately, the Flying Sky Ship was protected by a Spiritual Energy Shield, preventing the experience of external temperatures or the sensation of the wind.
The speed of the Flying Sky Ship is incredibly fast; before everyone finished soaking in the novelty, they had already reached their destination. Everyone reluctantly disembarked from the Flying Sky Ship, watching it shrink to the size of a palm before being captured by a Tan Family elder and placed into a Storage Bag.