The Mortal's Path to Immortality

In the red cloud vortex, the environment will not change with the passage of time.

Without the star map, Cao Rui could not know the passage of time accurately.

Unknowingly, a month passed by.

During this month, Cao Rui has been moving around the mysterious and huge red cloud vortex.

He accurately controlled his flight trajectory, and at the same time, he slowly shifted towards the inside of the vortex, searching for the secrets and moving towards the center of the vortex.

Every day, Cao Rui would encounter those fast-moving secrets.

There are so many of these secrets that on average he could encounter five or six times a day.

Behind most of the secrets, there was a group of cultivators who were chasing them relentlessly.

They showed their magical powers and used all their strength to try to repel the contenders and capture these precious secrets.

However, not all secrets would be discovered by the cultivators.

Occasionally, there would be a few secrets that were lucky enough to avoid everyone's sight and shuttle through the airspace alone.

Whenever this happens, Cao Rui would summon the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword, and with the speed increase of the ethereal cloak, he could effortlessly capture them one by one at a terrifying speed.

Of course, if he encountered a heavenly secret that was already being pursued by a cultivator, Cao Rui would not easily give up this opportunity.

He would judge the situation, cleverly blend into the pursuit team, and wait for the best time to make a move.

With his own super strong combat power, Cao Rui successfully took almost all the heavenly secrets he encountered along the way.

After this period of hard work, Cao Rui reaped a lot.

At this time, he already had more than a hundred heavenly secrets of various levels in his hands.

However, since his current location is still in the outer area of ​​the Red Cloud Vortex, the energy here is relatively weak, so the level of the heavenly secrets produced is generally low.

Among these more than a hundred heavenly secrets, most of them are low-grade heavenly secrets, and there are only a few high-grade heavenly secrets.

As for the most rare and precious top-grade heavenly secrets, not even one has appeared so far.

"I don't know where the master went at that time, and he grabbed a full jade bottle of various secrets..." Cao Rui recalled the jade bottle that Zuo Qiu gave him.

According to Chu Xiyue, Zuo Qiu just went to the outer world for a walk, and it didn't take long for him to bring back the jade bottle.

Cao Rui shuttled forward in the red mist.

After a few hours.

A faint fluctuation came from the front.

"Hmm? This kind of heavenly secret breath that seems to exist but does not exist, could it be..."

Cao Rui rushed forward.

Not long after, he saw a faint white light forming in the red mist in front.

"Sure enough, it is the secret of heaven that is being conceived."

Before, Cao Rui heard Chu Xiyue talk about the fluctuations generated when the secret of heaven is conceived.

This is the first time he has seen it with his own eyes.

Cao Rui carefully wrote down this kind of fluctuation of the secret of heaven, so that he can be more sensitive to the secret of heaven that is being conceived next time.

Cao Rui stopped near the white light and expanded his spiritual sense. There were no other cultivators around for the time being. He was the first cultivator to discover the secret of heaven being nurtured here. This was a good opportunity.

The process of nurturing the secret of heaven was extremely fast. After only a cup of tea, the secret of heaven could be seen in the light spot.

Cao Rui rushed forward and was about to grab Tianji as soon as possible.

A team in the distance seemed to have sensed the fluctuations of the secret of heaven being nurtured and was rushing over quickly.

Cao Rui compared the speed of the team's movement with the speed of the secret of heaven being nurtured.

After a little thought, he chose to face the team.

Expanding his spiritual sense, Cao Rui tried to see the details of the team and determine their identities.

However, when they were moving, they used their magic power to protect their bodies and block the detection of spiritual sense. Only vague human figures and external auras could be seen, but no details could be seen.

This was the action that most cultivators in the Red Cloud Vortex would perform.

Only when the details of the enemy and ourselves cannot be clearly found out at a long distance can the sense of mystery be maintained.

Until they came close.

Cao Rui could see their clothes clearly with his naked eyes.

Five people, four men and one woman, all of them were human, wearing the same purple Taoist robes with black clouds painted on them, and without exception, they all had the badge of a warrior on their chests.

The details of their warrior badges were different, and they should be cultivators from different realms who met and gathered together in the outer space of the sky.

It is normal for strong people to form an organization in the outer space of the sky.

If Cao Rui had been in the Red Cloud Vortex for long enough, he would have recognized the name of this five-member team through their clothes - Zixiao Black Cloud.

Zixiao Black Cloud is a well-known organization in the Red Cloud Vortex, and the strength of its members can fight ten people at once.

It is a team that even the star pirates are reluctant to provoke.

Five warriors? Although Cao Rui did not recognize this team, he also adjusted his mind to the highest level at this time.

This was the first secret he discovered. No matter what, Cao Rui still wanted to fight for it.

However, the combat cultivators represent the highest combat power among the refining cultivators, so Cao Rui cannot afford to be careless, not to mention that there are five of them.

This organization should be quite famous in the Red Cloud Vortex, but he does not know them.

After thinking about it, Cao Rui slightly condensed the star map and stored the faces and auras of the five people in it.

In addition to recording locations, the star map can also record people. There are many cultivators in the starry sky. By using the star map to record their information, you can know who you have met.

These five people also discovered Cao Rui.

Walking alone in the Red Cloud Vortex, and with the battle emblem on his chest, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was a tough guy.

However, Cao Rui's face was very unfamiliar.

The five people opened the star map and searched, but did not find any information about Cao Rui.

The five people thought, could it be a cultivator who had just entered the Red Cloud Vortex?

"Five to one, why don't you retreat? You are quite courageous." A hundred feet away, the captain of Zixiao Black Cloud, Guan Yichen, looked at Cao Rui with interest and said.

For a cultivator in the Void Refining Stage, this distance is already the limit distance where the arrow is on the string and can launch a killing move at any time.

Guan Yichen vaguely felt a hint of threat from Cao Rui.

This is also the reason why he did not take action immediately.

If he is really a cultivator who has just joined the Red Cloud Vortex, but his combat power is strong enough and his personality and ideas are compatible, Guan Yichen would like to let Cao Rui join the Zixiao Black Cloud organization.

"I was the first to discover the secret here. According to the rules, it should belong to me." Cao Rui said softly.

The rules Cao Rui said were not empty words.

In Chu Xiyue's words, the first to discover the secret first is indeed a rule passed down in the spirit world.

However, it has long been in name only, and it will only be used under specific circumstances.

Guan Yichen laughed when he heard this: "Rules are only followed when the strength is equal."

"Do you think that the strength between us is equal in the current situation?"

Cao Rui did not answer, but just moved forward a foot to show his attitude.

The Netherworld Spirit Eye on his forehead has quietly opened.

Among the five cultivators on the opposite side, the consciousness of two is not particularly strong, and he can use the Spirit Eye to break the delusion to kill one of them first.

Cao Rui is ready to fight. While the protective mark left by his master is still there, he also wants to see where his strength limit is.