12dz Chapter 675: Secret Realm Treasure Fight
Chapter 675: Secret Realm Treasure Fight
In the world of cultivation, the iron rule of strength is supreme. Improving one's realm is as difficult as ascending to heaven. Every step requires going through many hardships and snatching rare resources. Now, Yun Yao is standing at a critical threshold - the Void Realm. This realm is like a towering mountain, lying in her way to the top. If she can successfully break through, she will be able to open up a whole new world, with stronger strength to protect the people she cherishes and explore the endless mysteries behind her life experience; otherwise, she may fall into passivity in this treacherous world of cultivation, or even endanger her life.
In order to achieve this crucial breakthrough, Yun Yao and Chu Mochen set their sights on the "Ten Thousand Treasures Secret Realm". This secret realm is famous and is said to contain endless rare treasures and precious spiritual objects. It is the holy land that countless cultivators dream of. However, its danger is just as great as its reputation. There are many traps and dangers inside the secret realm, and various forces are eyeing it covetously. They will do anything to get the treasures. Over the years, only two or three out of ten cultivators who have entered it can come out alive.
When Yun Yao and Chu Mochen arrived at the entrance of the secret realm without stopping, they were slightly startled by the scene in front of them. The originally vast wilderness was now bustling with activity, like a makeshift cultivation market. Genius disciples from various sects gathered here, wearing various costumes, representing the inheritance of different sects. Some had fluttering sleeves embroidered with lively runes; some wore armor, emitting a chilling cold light. In the crowd, spiritual pressure was faintly surging, and the auras of the strong men in the Transformation Realm and the Refining Void Realm intertwined and collided from time to time, causing ripples in the surrounding space.
These geniuses gathered in groups of three or five, talking to each other. Their eyes showed both a burning desire for the treasures in the secret realm and a vigilant look at their competitors. Occasionally, a few loud words reached Yun Yao's ears:
“I heard that the legendary time and space magic weapon might appear in the world when the secret realm is opened. If I can get it, a breakthrough is just around the corner!”
"Hmph, stop dreaming. With my Lingxiao Sect here, it's not your turn to take advantage of the situation."
Yun Yao was secretly alert in her heart. With so many powerful people gathered, this trip to the secret realm would be full of difficulties. She lowered the brim of her hat slightly without making a sound, and circulated her spiritual power to conceal her aura to the extreme, just like an ordinary casual cultivator. Seeing this, Chu Mochen also tacitly restrained his aura and followed her closely.
The two of them shuttled through the crowd, trying to find some useful information. Suddenly, a noise came. It turned out that the auction at the entrance of the secret realm was about to start. Yun Yao's eyes flashed, and she looked at Chu Mochen, and the two walked towards the auction.
At the auction site, rare items were placed on a temporary high platform. Monks sat around the platform, staring at the stage with fiery eyes. As each item came on stage, bidding sounds rose and fell, and the atmosphere became increasingly heated.
"Next, this item is of great importance!" The auctioneer's high-pitched voice sounded, and an attendant walked onto the stage carrying an exquisite tray. On the tray was a small hourglass. The hourglass was engraved with complex and mysterious patterns, faintly emitting the fluctuations of time and space. "This is a time and space hourglass, which contains the power of time and space. It has a miraculous effect on breaking through realms and comprehending laws. The starting price is five million spirit stones!"
Yun Yao's heart moved. This was exactly what she needed to break through the Void Realm! Just as she was about to raise her hand to bid, she suddenly felt several unfriendly eyes shooting at her. Glancing sideways, she saw several cultivators in blood-red tight clothes staring at her coldly. One of them raised a cruel arc at the corner of his mouth and whispered to his companions: "Look at that woman. Her aura is so well hidden. She must be an ordinary person. Maybe she is the target of the Blood Demon Sect's bounty. If we can capture her, we will get 100 million spirit stones. Will we still worry about not having the resources to practice?"
Yun Yao's heart trembled. She didn't expect to be targeted at the auction site. She clenched her fists calmly, and the power of Hongmeng in her body slowly flowed, ready to deal with any unexpected situation. At this time, the bidding sound surged like a wave:
"Six million spirit stones!"
"Six and a half million!"
Yun Yao took a deep breath and said loudly: "Eight million spirit stones!" Her voice was crisp but firm, and could be heard clearly in the noisy auction hall.
This bid immediately caused an uproar. Everyone looked sideways, trying to find out who the bidder was. The Blood Evil Sect's cultivators had a fierce light in their eyes, and the leader stood up suddenly and shouted, "Capture her! This woman is the owner of the Hongmeng bloodline. The Blood Evil Sect is offering a reward of 100 million spirit stones for her heart's blood!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole place went wild. The monks who were still bidding forgot about the items and looked greedily at Yun Yao. In an instant, the spiritual pressure surged, and dozens of monks summoned their magic weapons and rushed towards Yun Yao and Chu Mochen.
Yun Yao snorted coldly. It was useless to dodge now. The power of Hongmeng burst out instantly, and the "Hongmeng Sky Ring" composed of twelve stars above her head slowly emerged, exuding a mysterious and majestic aura. Facing the attack, she was not in a hurry. She waved her jade hand lightly, and the Hongmeng Sky Ring shone brightly, and an invisible force swept out.
The three powerful masters of the Transformation Realm who were rushing in the front, the magic weapons in their hands that shone brightly, seemed to fall into a quagmire at the moment when they were about to touch Yun Yao, and their speed suddenly slowed down, and then they stopped in mid-air. No matter how the masters urged their spiritual power, they could not move forward at all. This scene made all the cultivators in the audience stunned.
"This...what kind of strange power is this? It can actually make the magic weapon stagnate!"
“Is this the terrifying part of Hongmeng’s bloodline?”
As everyone was shocked, Chu Mochen seized the opportunity, flashed like a ghost, and instantly rushed to the auction table and snatched the secret map. He shouted at Yun Yao: "Yao'er, go!"
Yun Yao tapped her toes, and together with Chu Mochen, she turned into two streams of light and fled towards the depths of the secret realm. Behind them, a group of cultivators woke up as if from a dream, and shouted as they chased after them.
The two of them sped along, relying on their keen perception of spiritual power fluctuations, and cleverly avoided wave after wave of pursuers. Soon, they had already entered the heart of the secret realm. Yun Yao stopped and looked around, only to see that the place was shrouded in mist, with jagged rocks, and faintly exuding an ancient and mysterious atmosphere.
"Chen, this map shows that the space node here is exactly the same as the star map of the Galaxy Wheel." Yun Yao frowned and said, with a thoughtful gleam in her eyes.
Chu Mochen nodded slightly, and looked around vigilantly: "It seems that this secret realm has a deep connection with the Hongmeng Clan. We must act carefully."
Just as they were about to move forward, suddenly, a strange wave came from Yun Yao's arms. She took out the time and space hourglass, and saw that the sand in the hourglass was spinning wildly, and a powerful time and space force gushed out, instantly covering the two of them.
Yun Yao felt the scene in front of her eyes blurry for a moment, and when she could see clearly, she was already in a strange illusion. The scene around her kept changing, as if repeating the moment she entered the secret realm, and every time she tried to make a different choice, the crisis of death followed.
“Is this... an illusion of time loop?” Yun Yao was shocked. She keenly realized that this illusion was no accident. It must be a test set by the time and space hourglass, or it might be hiding the key clue to the treasure.
She calmed down and carefully observed every detail that appeared in the loop. Dying and starting over again and again made her more calm. Finally, in the twelfth loop, she found something unusual - an NPC merchant, whose clothes were exactly the same as those drawn in her mother's diary.
"Chen, look at that merchant!" Yun Yao pointed excitedly to where the merchant was.
Chu Mochen looked in the direction of her finger, his eyes fixed: "There must be something strange about this merchant, maybe he is the key to solving the mystery."
The two quietly approached the merchant, and Yun Yao tentatively asked, "Excuse me, sir, how can we leave this illusion?"
The businessman raised his head with empty eyes and said mechanically: "Only by collecting five Hongmeng star cores and opening the real treasure can we escape." After that, he ignored them.
Yun Yao and Chu Mochen looked at each other and had a direction in mind. They began to explore around in this fantasy world, looking for traces of the Hongmeng star core.
Soon after, they arrived at the gold attribute area. They saw a huge mechanical array blocking their way ahead. In the array, several mechanical beasts were baring their fangs and claws, with metallic light shining all over their bodies and emitting violent spiritual power fluctuations.
Yun Yao stared at the mechanical array, and modern mechanics knowledge ran rapidly in her mind. She found that although the movements of these mechanical beasts seemed chaotic, they actually followed certain mechanical laws.
"Chen, I have a solution." Yun Yao's lips curled up with a confident smile. She picked up a few pieces of gravel on the ground and threw them at different positions of the mechanical array. As the gravel landed, the mechanical beasts' actions indeed became chaotic for a moment.
"Take advantage of now!" Chu Mochen shouted, and the two of them flashed, and while the mechanical beasts were busy, they quickly shuttled through them. At the core of the mechanical array, a Hongmeng star core emitting a dazzling metallic luster was suspended in the air, protected by a layer of spiritual power shield.
Yun Yao summoned the Hongmeng Sword, injected the power of Hongmeng into it, and slashed at the shield. The shield shattered under the sword, and the star core fell into her hands.
The first battle was a victory, and the two were greatly encouraged, heading towards the wood attribute area. As soon as they stepped into this area, a pungent poisonous fog hit them. Seeing this, Yun Yao took out a few talismans from her storage bag without panic. These talismans were "acid-base neutralization talismans" she made in her spare time by combining modern chemical knowledge with cultivation runes.
She threw the talisman paper into the air, muttering something, and the talisman paper instantly turned into streams of light and merged into the poisonous fog. The poisonous fog dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing the road ahead. At the end of the road, a green Hongmeng star core lay quietly on a strange spiritual plant.
Yun Yao walked forward carefully and collected the star core. At this point, they had collected two star cores and were one step closer to opening the treasure.
However, the next fire attribute area is the most dangerous challenge. When you step into this area, you will feel a blazing heat. The ground beneath your feet seems to be boiled by magma. The hot magma flows freely, making a gurgling sound.
Yun Yao looked at the scene in front of her, took a deep breath, and mobilized the power of Hongmeng and the power of time and space in her body. She stared at the magma torrent in front of her, raised her jade hand slowly, and said softly: "Reverse time and space!"
In an instant, a strange scene appeared. The surging magma slowly retreated towards the source like a river flowing backwards. As the magma retreated, a cold pond appeared in front of everyone. The water in the pond was icy cold, forming a sharp contrast with the surrounding hot environment. At the bottom of the cold pond, a Hongmeng star core emitting a faint blue flame glowed brightly.
Yun Yao and Chu Mochen smiled at each other and were about to go to the cold pond to collect the star core. Suddenly, the ground shook violently, and a huge fire spirit formed by magma drilled out from the ground, opened its bloody mouth, and pounced towards the two of them.
Chu Mochen's eyes shone, and he swung the long sword in his hand, and a sharp sword energy slashed towards the fire spirit. However, the fire spirit's body seemed to be not afraid of physical attacks, and the sword energy slashed on it, only splashing a few sparks, and failed to cause substantial damage.
Seeing this, Yun Yao's Hongmeng mark flashed between her eyebrows. She formed seals with her hands and chanted an obscure spell. After a moment, a beam of Hongmeng light shot out from her palms and shot directly at the Fire Spirit. Under the illumination of the Hongmeng light, the Fire Spirit let out a series of painful roars, and its movements became noticeably slower.
"Chen, take advantage of now!" Yun Yao shouted.
Chu Mochen's figure flashed, and he flew to the edge of the cold pond, reached into the water, and took out the star core. At this time, they had successfully collected three star cores, and the hope of breaking through the cave realm was getting closer.
But they knew that the road ahead was still difficult. In the following water and earth attribute areas, they encountered various difficult problems: in the water attribute area, a mysterious whirlpool hidden under the water almost dragged them into an endless abyss; in the earth attribute area, the automatically repaired earth maze made them lose their way for a while.
However, with Yun Yao's rich modern knowledge and the two's superb cultivation skills, they managed to escape danger time and time again. Finally, they collected all five Hongmeng star cores.
When the five star cores resonated in the time and space hourglass, the entire secret realm seemed to be awakened by a powerful force. In the center of the secret realm, a suspended "time altar" slowly rose up, and on the altar, there was a crystal clear pill bottle, and the pill in the bottle exuded a mysterious and attractive light.
Yun Yao walked forward and picked up the pill bottle, only to see a warning engraved on it: "Those who take it will endure the pain of a hundred reincarnations." Her hands trembled slightly. The pain of a hundred reincarnations was by no means trivial. If one was not careful, the soul might be lost in the endless reincarnation.
But in order to break through the Void Realm, to protect the people around her, and to find out the truth about the Hongmeng Clan, Yun Yao's eyes flashed with determination. She took a deep breath and swallowed the pill without hesitation.
Instantly, a powerful force of time and space swept her into the torrent of time. Her consciousness seemed to be torn into countless pieces, scattered in different time and space.
In her first life, she was an ordinary farm girl, living a plain but hard life. However, fate played tricks on her, and a sudden war destroyed her home and separated her family. In despair, she met Chu Mochen, a man who came like a god and led her out of trouble.
In her second life, she became a disciple of a rival sect and stood on the opposite side of Chu Mochen. But every time they fought, she always felt an inexplicable emotion in her heart that prevented her from killing him. In the end, in a life-and-death crisis, she chose to betray the sect and join hands with Chu Mochen.
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Hundreds of lives seemed like a long but real dream. Every death turned into a calamity fire, mercilessly tempering her soul.
Outside, Chu Mochen was anxious outside the altar. He looked at the Altar of Time, his eyes full of worry and anxiety. Suddenly, he remembered his mother's last words before she died: "If you encounter a life-or-death catastrophe, use the Chu Mo family's 'Life Star Lantern' as a guide."
Without hesitation, he took out his natal spirit lamp, injected spiritual power into it, and lit the wick. In an instant, the wick seemed to be connected to Yun Yao's soul, and a faint light followed this connection and slowly penetrated into the torrent of time.
In a certain life, Yun Yao was in a desperate situation, surrounded by endless darkness and despair. Just when she thought she was about to get lost, a ray of light appeared. She looked in the direction of the light and saw Chu Mochen's anxious face.
"Chen..." Yun Yao whispered softly, a glimmer of hope in her eyes. The two joined hands, slashed through the darkness in this life, and continued to move forward.
After hundreds of reincarnations, Yun Yao's soul became stronger and stronger. Finally, when the last calamity fire was cut, the aura of the Void Realm burst out from her body. Under the impact of this powerful force, the Time Altar collapsed, revealing the teleportation array leading to the upper realm.
Yun Yao slowly opened her eyes, and they seemed to contain endless stars. She looked at Chu Mochen who was full of joy and smiled softly: "Chen, we succeeded."
Chu Mochen walked forward and hugged her tightly. The two stood side by side, looking at the teleportation array emitting mysterious light. They were both worried about the unknown upper world and proud after breaking through the difficulties. At this moment, they were ready to meet new challenges and continue to write their own legend.
Stepping onto the teleportation array, a flash of light appeared, and the two figures disappeared from the spot, heading towards the upper realm, and their story has just begun a new chapter...