Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Tian Ju Prefecture, White Wave Forest.

This ordinary forest is now teeming with various forces.

Hao Xu and Gong Jun transformed into two afterimages, darting through the forest.

Hao Xu narrowed his eyes, transmitting his voice.

"Be careful, this fluctuation appeared somewhat abruptly; it's rather strange."

Gong Jun squinted, patting the toolbox at his waist, feeling slightly more at ease.

"Yeah, be careful."

The two were extremely fast, arriving in less than half an incense stick's time!

Hao Xu gently raised his hand, and then the two stood behind a thick, ancient tree.

Both had already changed into black robes, their auras concealed, almost blending into the surrounding space.

Hao Xu's divine sense scanned the area, revealing a shimmering, distorted rift hundreds of feet away.

The rift was horizontally torn and twisted, about three zhang long and two chi wide.

The space within a ten-zhang radius around it was violently distorted.

Hao Xu licked his lips, his eyes burning with excitement.

"Good stuff, it seems our luck is good; we've actually stumbled upon a fragmented secret realm about to appear!"

As soon as he spoke, Hao Xu's eyes sharpened, and he moved back, hiding behind the tree trunk, sinking his divine sense.

A faint rustling sound came.

Three figures in black robes appeared furtively.

The leader, with only a pair of tiger eyes visible, cautiously approached the distorted rift, carefully observing it.

The other two guarded the surroundings, one on the left and one on the right.

"Big Brother, is it a secret realm?"

"Can we go in now?"

Another person chimed in.

"Hey, this is much better than squatting around for that wild bull!"

"Big Brother, what's the situation?"

The leading man in black frowned, and a white Nirvana spiritual feather slowly emerged.

He reached out to touch the rift in space, holding a black jade pendant in his hand.

He slowly brought the jade pendant closer to the rift.

Buzz!!!

The distorted spatial rift instantly swallowed the black jade pendant, the space violently twisting, and then it instantly disappeared in place!!

The surroundings returned to silence, and the space suddenly darkened.

Beneath the veil, the man's mouth curved into a slight smile, and he transmitted in a deep voice.

"Go! Leave this place quickly!"

After speaking, the three instantly left the spot.

Gong Jun frowned, transmitting in a low voice.

"Who are those people?"

"What was that black jade pendant he threw in?"

In Hao Xu's perception, the secret realm rift had disappeared.

But it seemed to be wandering in the void layer, absorbing the chaotic power of the void.

Hao Xu raised his hand, and the two silently disappeared in place.

Immediately after, Ge Nie and the others flashed to the location where the rift had been.

"Unfortunately, we're a step late."

Ge Nie frowned and sighed; none of them had noticed the previous two groups.

Leng Yan frowned slightly, saying in a low voice.

"We can still clearly sense the residual spatial fluctuations."

"It seems that, as the sect's intelligence stated, a relic secret realm is likely to appear here!"

Ge Nie decisively left a spatial coordinate marker in place and then led everyone away temporarily.

The Great Xia Sword Sect still had two groups of people who hadn't arrived, so they had gained a slight advantage.

After they left, many scattered cultivators and hunter teams wandering in the White Wave Forest also came here.

Several dozen miles away, inside a damp cave, Hao Xu sat on the ground and said in a low voice.

"A total of six or seven groups of people, with three major forces and four groups of scattered cultivators."

"It seems the news here will soon be spread..."

Gong Jun nodded, his eyes flashing.

"Those who aren't strong enough might as well take this opportunity to sell the information and make a profit."

"What was that black jade pendant that person threw?"

Hao Xu pondered for a moment, recalling the spatial fluctuations he had sensed earlier, and murmured in a low voice.

"It should be something that locates spatial fragments..."

"The other party left very decisively; they must be confident that they can arrive the first time the secret realm appears next time."

Gong Jun thoughtfully nodded.

He raised his hand and looked; a transparent, silver-white thread seemed to be faintly visible at his fingertip.

Hao Xu was slightly stunned, looking at the thread on his fingertip in surprise.

"You left a tracking thread on them?"

Gong Jun smiled innocently.

"I thought those guys seemed to have some tricks up their sleeves, so I used the tracking thread to sew them up, just in case."

Hao Xu happily patted him on the shoulder.

"Hahahaha, not bad, Old Gong!"

"This time, we can be the mantis stalking the cicada; following those three will definitely allow us to seize the initiative!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the thread in Gong Jun's hand trembled.

Gong Jun stood up and laughed.

"Let's go; they're almost fifty miles away from us; any further... and the thread will break."

After speaking, the two transformed into two black shadows and disappeared into the cave.

The white-faced man in the dark void overlooked the entire White Wave Forest, took out a jade slip, and said softly.

"Master, everything is proceeding according to plan."

Soon, Long Cheng's voice came from the jade slip.

"Very good."

"Remember, Qing Mian and Zi Mian can be abandoned at a critical moment; you must get that sword coffin!"

The smiling face was startled and said in a low voice.

"Understood."

Putting down the jade slip, Wei Changming's fear of Long Cheng deepened even more.

Two powerful cultivators who had just entered the Golden Immortal Realm could be abandoned and sacrificed.

This showed that Long Cheng was an extremely selfish egoist!

He would use any means to achieve his goals!!

Even sacrifice... Golden Immortals!!

For Long Cheng, it was nothing more than wasting some precious resources.

But this kind of resource was something that Smiling Face and the others could never touch in their entire lives.

That kind of power was simply incomprehensible.

Smiling Face took a deep breath, and the eyes under the mask flickered with a complex light.

He didn't know when he would be abandoned like Qing Mian.

All he could do was desperately complete the tasks that Long Cheng had given him.

Slowly turning around, two figures flashed out of the void and came behind him.

Qing Mian bowed and said in a deep voice.

"Lord Smiling Face, the matter is done; everything was done according to your instructions."

Smiling Face put his hands behind his back, his black robe fluttering in the void.

His voice was slightly hoarse as he spoke in a low voice.

"Yes, let this fragment of the secret realm appear once more tomorrow night; the time will be about right."

"Let's go."

Qing Mian and Zi Mian followed behind Smiling Face, a full two body lengths behind.

His deep and unfathomable aura made them dare not have any second thoughts.

In their eyes, Smiling Face was Long Cheng's right-hand man.

His strength was unfathomable, and his personality was even more fickle.

As for why he was fickle, perhaps it had something to do with the scars that extended from both corners of Wei Changming's mouth to behind his ears.

For a time, the entire White Wave Forest was plunged into an invisible vortex of conspiracy.