"Senior, are you really unwilling to stay with us? As long as you stay, this secret realm will be yours. You can do whatever you want. I and other elders will listen to you!"
Beside the slowly flowing stream, a middle-aged man spoke to Chen Lin sincerely with the utmost intention to keep him.
Chen Lin shook his head and said, "Stop talking. I have something important to do and cannot stay here. However, I have not found any powerful monsters in this area. As long as you are careful and rely on the secret realm to survive, there should be no big problems."
The middle-aged man showed disappointment when he heard this. If such a strong man with a decent personality could stay in their secret realm, they wouldn't have to live in fear every day.
What is possible is that their secret realm really can't offer anything that can make the other party linger. There are only some young and beautiful female cultivators, but the other party doesn't seem to be interested in women and doesn't even look at them twice.
Not daring to force it, the middle-aged man smiled helplessly and said, "Then I wish you a safe journey and hope you can find the person you are looking for soon. If there is any news about the Taoist friends you mentioned, I will inform you as soon as possible."
Chen Lin nodded without saying anything else, and disappeared in a flash.
"Why, Senior Chen didn't agree?"
After Chen Lin left, the skinny old man he had rescued before flew over and asked.
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said, "Our secret realm is now bare, without even a single spiritual herb. How can we keep such a strong man here? Don't dream about it. Hurry up and find a way to get food, otherwise we will all starve in winter!"
The old man's face fell when he heard this, and he sighed and said no more.
Chen Lin flew for a while, then stopped to observe, and flew again after determining the route.
After the battle of Dawn City, all the seven demon clones were destroyed, the evil thoughts of the ancient demon became silent, and Tianyuan Island also disappeared. It has not appeared again for twenty years.
In addition, news also came from the southern world of immortal cultivation, and the situation was better than expected.
Although the Starry City was destroyed, the high-level sea demons and other monsters were slaughtered, and the losses were lighter than those in the Dawn City.
The Fairy of Flowers was severely injured but did not die, and her whereabouts are unknown.
True Lord Wan Meng led the remaining troops to retreat into the sea to preserve their strength, and together with the sea monks, he built a big city, the Immortal City of Light!
This city can be said to be the spiritual pillar of today's monks and a place that all monks yearn for.
However, although there are no such super powerful monsters in the Starry Continent today, it is still extremely dangerous. There are many dangerous areas. The surviving low-level monks can only move in a small range, and there is a huge barrier blocking them.
So even though they all yearn for the Immortal City of Light, they can only yearn for it, especially the cultivators in the north, who cannot go there at all.
However, in addition to the Fairy City of Light, some new forces gradually emerged, and the cultivation civilization began to revive.
After more than twenty years of recuperation, a large number of young cultivators were born, thus preventing a gap in the world of cultivation.
This is all thanks to the Fire Project.
Most of the Qi-cultivating and foundation-building cultivators who were sent into the secret realms back then were female cultivators, and their primary task was to reproduce. As a result, the population of all the secret realms has increased dramatically, and resources are in serious shortage, so they have to leave the secret realms.
Moreover, the rules of heaven and earth in most secret realms are incomplete. It is okay to practice Qi and build a foundation, but it is impossible to advance to the Golden Core Realm. If you want to have a higher level of cultivation, you have to come out.
As Chen Lin hurried on his way, he thought about what had happened over the years and felt very helpless.
In the past twenty years, he has basically searched most of the areas in the northern cultivation world, but he still can't find any trace of Qin Lingyu and others.
At that time, his blood boiled and he rushed into the city and started a bloody fight with monsters, killing countless monsters. In the end, he was targeted by a powerful monster and chased all the way.
Although that monster was not as strong as the seven clones of the devil, it also had the strength of Nascent Soul level.
He used all his skills, relying on the super defensive power of the Black Tortoise Shield and the flexibility of the Thunder Escape Technique, and fought with the opponent for three days and three nights before he used the Five Thunders and the Soul-Destroying Finger to wear down the opponent bit by bit.
When he returned to Dawn City, the battle was over. There was no trace of the monks or monsters, only ruins remained.
The courtyard where he lived was razed to the ground, but the formation plate in the underground secret room was safe and sound, with no signs of having been used.
He was very sad at the time, thinking that Qin Lingyu and others had been killed and eaten by monsters. But later, when searching in the wild, he met a team of survivors, led by a Jindan cultivator he was familiar with.
The other party told him that before the Immortal City Command made the decision to fight to the death, it sent out a group of potential cultivators through a secret channel. Qin Lingyu, Sun Caiyi and Chen Qingying were among them.
This news shocked Chen Lin, and he immediately asked where these people were sent, but the other party didn't know either.
However, the other party provided a secret information, that is, the Elder Council knew in advance that the monsters were going to attack the city in a large scale, so they sent out many key figures in advance, and the rest were all short-lived, and they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to cripple the monsters in one fell swoop.
In order to prevent any spiritual monks from interfering, this news was not told to anyone until the monks with potential were evacuated again before the self-destruction, and then the news was spread in a small area.
Chen Lin suddenly understood.
The Silver Fairy, as well as him, and Tan Lingyu who had just been promoted to the Golden Core stage, were all people who received special attention.
Because they are all young and energetic and have room for development.
He felt that the mission came very suddenly at the time, but he didn't think too much about it. Later, he found out that there was a secret realm under the Crystal Fairy City. The Fairy City assigned him this mission, probably wanting him to lead a group of team members into the crystal secret realm.
However, they didn't expect that the secret realm would be discovered by a monster, and all the monks in the secret realm were sucked dry by the monster with red lines and died.
But after Tianyuan Island disappeared, the huge monster also disappeared with it.
The fact that Qin Lingyu and the others were not dead gave Chen Lin great spiritual support. He then practiced while searching everywhere.
Unexpectedly, the search lasted for twenty years.
In the past twenty years, not only has no one been found, but almost all of the communication talismans have been used up. Currently, there is only one super long-range talisman left, and the other party is the Silver Fairy.
He didn't dare use this one, just waiting for the Silver Fairy to contact him, so as to keep a glimmer of hope.
As for the one with Luo Qinglan, it was used up ten years ago. At that time, when the construction of Guangming Fairy City was completed, Luo Qinglan invited him to go there. He decided to wait and look for Qin Lingyu and others, and go there together after finding them.
Later, not only was the person not found, but a sudden change occurred in Wanhun Ridge, blocking the way.
With Wanhun Ridge as the center, the ground cracked into an extremely huge abyss that extended to infinity.
The abyss emanated a rolling dark energy that rushed straight into the sky. Even Nascent Soul cultivators did not dare to come into contact with it, otherwise they would be corroded by the dark energy and die.
Thus, an insurmountable barrier was formed, dividing the starry continents in the north and south.
Now he couldn't go even if he wanted to.
After thinking for a while, Chen Lin sighed.
It is so difficult for people in this world to live.
Even the current situation was achieved through the foresight and sacrifice of lives of countless powerful people.
Think about the spectacular scene of the group self-explosion back then. Even if most of them were monks who were about to die, it was enough to show their courage.
After all, no one wants to die even if they can live one more day.
But now in the northern immortal cultivation world, Nascent Soul cultivators have become a rare existence, and Golden Core cultivators are even fewer. Although many newcomers have been born in the secret realm, including some extremely talented ones, the time is still short, and it is unknown when they can develop.
"I don't know if this damn world will give them a chance to develop!"
Chen Lin sighed with disappointment.
"Hehe, you have such a strong body. Where are you going in such a hurry, young man? Why don't you spend a night with me, your grandma, and then continue on your journey!"
Chen Lin, who was flying slowly, suddenly stopped and looked at the person blocking his way in front of him with an expressionless face.
Although her voice was charming and alluring, she was extremely ugly and was licking his lips with her long tongue.
He looked around and found that the surroundings were filled with gloomy energy and he had unknowingly entered the dark realm.
Ever since the shocking incident at Wanhun Ridge, many dark places of varying sizes have appeared on the continent. These areas are filled with gloomy auras and there must be strange things in them.
However, under normal circumstances, these strange things will not leave the range covered by the yin energy. As long as you carefully identify them and be careful not to enter the dark land, you will not be attacked.
This time he was distracted by his thoughts and accidentally deviated from his route.
Chen Lin didn't take a mere weird thing seriously, and he didn't have the mood to argue with it. He just raised his hand and pointed.
Energy with a little silver light shot out, and the ghost who called herself grandma howled, and instantly turned into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated into the air.
"Hehe, my dear, the power of your Soul-Destroying Finger is becoming more and more overbearing, and you are also very overbearing. I like it very much!"
Just after killing the ghost, Chen Lin felt his sleeves tremble, and the wooden hairpin floated out by itself. The body of Yun Xiu Niang appeared, looking at him with seductive eyes, like an infatuated man.
Chen Lin was too lazy to pay attention to the other party. The other party was also a ghost and loved this kind of yin energy the most. Every time he entered such an area, the other party would run out impatiently.
However, over the years, it was thanks to the other person's company that he was able to feel less depressed. Otherwise, walking alone in such a desperate environment, even if he didn't go crazy, he would be mentally twisted.
"How about it? Have you sensed any other dark things here? If there are any, let's deal with them together. It can also be regarded as doing something good for the monks nearby."
Chen Lin came to the place where the ghost was killed, checked it, picked up a black crystal, and asked casually.
"Humph, you are so arrogant! I want to see how you deal with me!"
Before Yun Xiu Niang could answer, this cold voice sounded from the depths of the underworld, and then a sedan chair carried by eight people appeared from the darkness!