Chapter 25 Spirit Communication Secret Realm
Nonetheless, Ziyun Taoist probably doesn't intend to lock them in the secret realm for ten whole years.
For when four young men in green robes carrying swords arrived at the seal of the secret realm, timing their arrival with its opening, they realized they weren't the only ones here for 'demon extermination'.
There were also four other groups who arrived one after another, likely brought by Master Zi Yun.
The group dressed in mourning clothes was the most exaggerated, arriving early and even setting up a memorial hall outside the cavern of the secret realm, burning paper, armored beneath their mourning garments, looking ready for battle, glaring intensely at them. Their background was the most clear.
It was exactly the remaining members of the Shi family, three men and one woman of various ages. The men had Domineering Bodies of Divine Gang, Outer Pills from the Demon Palace, and were Generals from the Domain Army, wielding swords and spears. The woman was slightly less dominant, only using a Foundation Establishment Pill externally, carrying an Eight-Petal Purple Gold Hammer, evidently skilled in Body Refining Techniques.
Another group mingled with the Shi family, comprising six cultivators who appeared to be a mix of loose cultivators, mixed cultivators, and martial cultivators, also possessing Golden Core Realm Divine Gang bodies, seemingly all friends from the Jianghu the Shi family gathered over the years, tribute trusted aides, coming today to help and seek revenge.
The third group was also easy to identify.
Leading them was a young lord in luxurious clothes, face covered by a brocade handkerchief, his attire radiant with treasure light of ten colors, adorned with jade and a gold medal, bringing numerous magic treasures for self-defense. He rides on a gold-eyed, green-horned Qilin beast, appearing to have developed spiritual wisdom, formed a spirit pill, surrounded by clouds and mist, lotuses blooming beneath its feet, seemingly about to transform.
Following behind the Qilin lord were a black and a white divine steed, each carrying a concubine in sheer gauze skirts, almost see-through and barely clothed, one playing a lute and the other a jade flute, providing musical accompaniment all the way, evidently there to serve the young lord.
Next, three tribute mages rode tigers and leopards, four Dominating Body guards tamed golden eagles, followed by two dog handlers leading eighteen dogs, a grand ensemble of man and beast resembling a circus troupe.
Such an opulent display, such pomp, clearly demonstrated the propriety of the Demon Palace, a direct descendant of the Three Constellations.