Ye Shubai had entered the Xuantian Secret Realm once, but the difference was that he was still a young man in the Jindan stage at that time and had never been called an old man.
"It is said that Xuantian Secret Realm is the place where immortals from the upper realm enlighten cultivators. Thousands of years ago, Qingliu Sword Sect had three predecessors who ascended to heaven. It seems that they were all enlightened by immortals in Xuantian Secret Realm."
Ye Shubai was standing beside a gurgling stream at this moment. While carefully explaining the origin of the Xuantian Secret Realm to Wen Yun, he raised the bright wooden sword in his hand.
“Swish!”
When the wooden sword fell and was picked up again, a fat, lively fish was already forked on the tip of the sword.
Wen Yun quickly took the fish and took it to process. He also urged Ye Shubai: "One is not enough, give me a few more. Oh, go on."
So Ye Shubai continued to work two jobs at the same time, explaining to her in between fishing: "But in the past two thousand years, countless people have entered the secret realm, but the immortal has never appeared to enlighten them. The last time it was opened was more than five hundred years ago. It is said that some monks who entered at that time knelt for a month and cried for the immortal to appear."
Wen Yun paused in cutting the fish and looked at Ye Shubai with a strange look.
She had dared to go against the Temple of Light in her previous life, so naturally she would not be afraid of any immortals in this life. Moreover, this secret realm did not belong to any immortals, but was just a piece of land left behind by immortals.
Besides, she always beat others to their knees in front of him, and she never knew what kneeling meant.
Ye Shubai lowered his eyes to look at her and said calmly, "I didn't kneel."
Wen Yun did not hesitate to praise him: "You are indeed a model of sword cultivation, very proud. It is better to trust yourself than to trust in heaven."
Ye Shubai: "While they were kneeling and begging for guidance from the immortal, I went into the Xuantian Secret Realm and searched carefully. By chance, I found a flamboyant tree and used it to make a new sword."
"When the Phoenix Wood Sword was made, I suddenly sensed a trace of the laws of heaven, so I took advantage of the situation and swung the sword, cutting off a peak."
It is obvious that this is the origin of the Tenth Peak. This is the feat of "cutting down a mountain with one sword" that the third senior brother Bai Yushan wanted to learn day and night.
"So the Tenth Peak is actually a peak in the Xuantian Secret Realm?" Wen Yun's eyelids twitched, and she looked at Ye Shubai with a slightly strange look in her eyes: "You not only brought back a tree from there, but also brought back a mountain?"
She finally understood why she mistakenly thought she was at the Tenth Peak when her consciousness was vague, because the Tenth Peak was moved out of the Xuantian Secret Realm.
Therefore, the atmosphere of these two places is extremely similar, both contain incredibly abundant magical elements and spiritual power. The difference is that the elements in the Xuantian Secret Realm are much richer!
Ye Shubai blushed slightly, and after a moment's silence he explained: "I was young and frivolous at that time..."
Wen Yun finally saw what it meant to have a kind face but a dark heart. Look at this person who is so kind and honest, but he took advantage of his competitors who were practicing metaphysics and worshipping gods to cut down trees and move mountains. His behavior of making a fortune in silence is really eye-opening.
She began to care about Ye Shubai's poor opponents: "What about them?"
Ye Shubai moved closer to the stream, stared seriously at the two fish swimming at the bottom of the water, and attacked with lightning speed.
After handing the two fish to Wen Yun, he calmly answered the fate of his opponent that time: "They knelt for a month and didn't even see the shadow of the immortal."
"… "
“You know those people too.”
Wen Yunting wanted to say that he didn't actually know an old man who was hundreds of years old, but thinking about the age and seniority of the person in front of him, he wisely chose to keep his mouth shut.
"Those people are Qian Zhenzi's group. Perhaps because they come from famous and powerful sects, their ancestors have all been able to ascend to heaven, so they have always believed in the existence of immortals in the upper realms, and they only want to step into the blue sky and ascend to heaven in broad daylight."
After hearing this answer, Wen Yun suddenly felt that they were no longer pitiful.
She had witnessed the madness of that group of people. They would do anything to get the jade baby fragments, even turning against their juniors. All they wanted was their own immortality. Becoming an immortal had long been their obsession, and could even be considered an obsession.
Ye Shubai rarely spoke much today. After forking up another fish, he silently took the fish from Wen Yun and skillfully cut open the belly and removed the scales. It was quite unbelievable that such an ethereal person would do such a mundane thing.
Wen Yun sprinkled some wild herbs and chilies picked by Ye Shubai on the grilled fish. Seeing the fish meat turning brown and crispy, she suddenly thought of something: "Wait, since the Tenth Peak is the mountain in Xuantian Secret Realm..."
"Um?"
Wen Yun took the fish meat and blew on it, then handed one to Ye Shubai and bit into the other. "That is to say... the treasures such as the firewood and elderberry that I found may also grow everywhere in other mountains in Xuantian Secret Realm? There may even be a chance to find materials with better quality?"
As she said this, her eyes began to shine, and her originally slightly pale face gradually became rosy, with a slight blush on her cheeks.
The greatest pain in the world is to lose something you once had.
She once had so many wands to choose from, but at the sword-fighting meeting, Qian Zhenzi and others suddenly made trouble, so she didn't take any with her.
Although she can use magic without a wand, without a weapon, the speed and strength of the magic will be greatly reduced. More importantly, how can she strike cool poses and make tough remarks without a weapon
But now the opportunity has come, and she was actually teleported directly to the Xuantian Secret Realm!
Thinking of this, Wen Yun suddenly had a bold idea: "Since you are an immortal here, you are the master of the secret realm?"
Ye Shubai was silent for a moment, and explained: "I am not the master of the secret realm, but my strength has not been sealed by the Xuantian Secret Realm, and I am slightly familiar with it after coming here once. It is not that I can manipulate the secret realm at will as you think."
She casually took out the mustard seed bag tied around her waist, raised her eyebrows slightly, and her tone and movements were extremely natural, looking quite like the charm of her second brother Xu Wanfeng when he was robbing: "Why don't we take away all the treasures here first? Come on, tell me which treasure in the secret realm is the best, and I'll do it now."
Ye Shubai said, "The secret realm has been opened countless times in the past, and all the rare treasures have already been found."
Seeing Wen Yun's expression gradually becoming lost, he narrowed his eyes slightly, pursed his lips, and said coldly: "But if you want to go find it, I will take you there after you finish eating this fish."
Wen Yun was quite touched and immediately handed him all the remaining grilled fish: "Good things should be presented to you, Master. Please eat them. If it's not enough, I will grill more for you."
"..." Ye Shubai looked at her silently: "I have been fasting for a long time, I don't need to eat."
"No, I just want you to taste how hot those peppers you just picked are."
Wen Yun had tears in her eyes and her face was red: "Did you see my face? Is it red? It's spicy."
“…” Ye Shubai was silent for a moment.
His gaze fell on her lips which had turned rosy red. Wen Yun had originally a cold look in her features, which always gave people the impression of being awe-inspiring and dignified. But now with her eyes filled with water, she looked too beautiful.
He slightly shifted his gaze, as if remembering something, and rummaged in the mustard seed sac for a long time, finally pulling out a bag of osmanthus candy with a sweet aroma.
The man's hands were slender and beautiful, and the ordinary osmanthus candy wrapped in an oil paper bag with hemp rope actually looked extra beautiful in his palms.
"Eat this, it's sweet and relieves the spiciness."
Wen Yun was surprised: "You actually brought osmanthus candy with you. It seems that you like eating this very much."
She thought that the spiritual imprint was still there, and Ye Shubai was still her sword spirit after all. Since the sword spirit liked it, she must remember to prepare more for him when she went out in the future.
There's no way around it. As the owner of a pet sword spirit, I have to be so considerate.
Ye Shubai looked at her with clear eyes and told her the truth in a calm voice: "I bought this in Qingshan City."
"There wasn't much food on the Cloud Boat at the time, so we could only eat dry food and fasting pills. You mentioned twice that the fasting pills didn't taste good, so I saw many female cultivators in the city were buying these snacks, so I bought some for you."
But later, before boarding the Cloud Boat, the people from the Qingliu Sword Sect asked the inn's chef to roast more than ten fat cranes. Wen Yun ate them to his satisfaction, so naturally he never had the chance to take out the bag of ordinary osmanthus candy again.
He put the osmanthus candy in her hand, as if he had just done a trivial thing, without any ripples, and then stood up to fork the fish again.
"Eat this first to fill your stomach. I'll grill two more non-spicy ones later."
Wen Yun straightened her back, her face still showing that familiar cold and arrogant expression, but her back was already covered with dense cold sweat. She held the bag of osmanthus candy as if facing a powerful enemy. This crispy and fragrant snack became more deadly than a sword in her hand.
She glanced secretly towards Ye Shubai.
The banished immortal, as beautiful as the snow on the high mountain, held a wooden sword in his hand, with two fat fish poking at the tip of the sword, and the fish tails swinging wildly.
He looked over here and saw that she was still not eating, so he frowned slightly: "Don't you like it?"
Wen Yun looked calm and composed, and replied calmly: "It's OK, you continue."
Seeing Ye Shubai turned around to deal with the fat fish again, she immediately untied the hemp rope and opened the paper bag.
The osmanthus cake is milky white, with small pieces of sugar dotted with light yellow dried osmanthus flowers. It is not delicate, but still very cute.
Wen Yun carefully picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. It tasted really sweet and delicious.
More than acceptable
The Xuantian Secret Realm is actually more like a deserted primitive jungle, with mountains and cliffs, as well as the Xiliu River Valley.
They had been at the very edge of the entrance before, and now they were heading into the jungle. They had been walking for most of the day but had not encountered the legendary thousand-year-old elixir or ten-thousand-year-old spiritual stone.
Ye Shubai: "The richer the spiritual energy, the more likely it is that there will be treasures. I found a top-grade spiritual jade vein here before, but I took it all away five hundred years ago. I'm afraid it will be very difficult to find it now."
This is also the reason why Ye Shubai was so generous.
Sword cultivators, especially those from the Qingliu Sword Sect, are all poor because they have two hobbies: burning spirit jade.
One is sword drawing, and the other is sword forging. These two hobbies are often combined and inseparable.
The former hobby will get hurt if you are not careful, either the sword will get hurt or people will get hurt.
If a person is injured, like Bai Yushan, if he is just missing an arm or a limb, he can just bear the pain and reattach it himself, and save the money to find a black-hearted medical practitioner.
However, if the sword is damaged, it needs to be repaired again. If you know how to forge iron, it's fine. But if you don't, you have to spend a lot of money to find a blacksmith master, and from time to time you have to find some high-level ores to upgrade the sword.
Then once I leveled up, I felt like drawing my sword and fighting with someone...
As the cycle repeats, the swords of the sword cultivators become stronger and stronger, while the spiritual jade in the mustard seed bag becomes less and less.
Only Ye Shubai, who used the phoenix wood sword, did not have such worries. Moreover, he also dug out the entire top-grade spiritual jade mine from the Xuantian Secret Realm.
"I can now sense the fluctuations of spiritual energy throughout the secret realm. Let me see what I can use to make a staff for you."
Wen Yun paused, looked somewhere strangely, and murmured in a low voice: "I think there is some misunderstanding between us."
Ye Shubai was talking about the rare treasures here, which were few and far between. The treasures he was talking about were naturally the treasures with abundant spiritual energy as mentioned by the monks. Wen Yun was a magician by profession, so what she wanted was of course a treasure with abundant magic elements.
Inertial thinking made both of them unaware that something was wrong.
Just like where they are now.
Wen Yun looked up at the bare hilltop. There were only some weeds and short trees growing on it. Even birds were reluctant to build nests on it. It looked like a very desolate and miserable place.
"Ye Shubai, don't you see something wrong here?"
Ye Shubai took a look and said calmly: "There is no spiritual energy here, it's just an abandoned place-"
Ye Shubai stopped talking halfway.
There was a slight flash of surprise in his eyes, and a rare hint of hesitation: "This is..."
"Yes." Wen Yun nodded seriously, approving the answer of this slow-witted and lousy magic apprentice.
"Yes, there is indeed no spiritual power in this area, and it is impossible for top-grade spiritual jade veins to appear again. However, the foot of this mountain is emitting magical elements that are almost condensed into substance. If I am not mistaken, there should be a magic stone mine underneath."
A real magic circle, like a spirit circle, needs to be arranged by magic stones.
However, Wen Yun had never seen the magic stone again after she came to the world of cultivation. She could only use the discarded spiritual jade with exhausted spiritual power as a carrier, infuse the magic elements into it, and created the magic stone herself.
Although this can be used, it is obviously not as effective as the original Philosopher's Stone, and it is also quite troublesome to make.
"Lend me your sword."
Ye Shubai handed over the Bright Wood Sword, Wen Yun took it and made a cool and handsome sword flower, then swung the sword forward -
"Light Arrow!"
A sacred golden light shot out and flew straight towards Bald Mountain.
After blinking -
"boom!"
A big hole had been created at the foot of the mountain by a light arrow.
Wen Yun had a calm expression, but he secretly looked at Ye Shubai's face, but found that he didn't react at all.
She had no choice but to take the initiative to hint: "Aren't you curious why I use sword moves and cast magic at the same time?"
Ye Shubai replied sternly: "I know that you want to confuse the enemy with your sword moves so that the magic can catch them off guard."
Wen Yun admitted dryly: "... You are so smart, you guessed it all."
No, she just had been with Shen Xinghai for a long time, and she always felt that it would be more lethal if she struck a cool pose while using a powerful move. More importantly, it was more cool than standing still and chanting spells.
It turned out that without realizing it, she had transformed from an ordinary magician into a melee mage with the wrong talent points.
This kind of thing cannot be told to Ye Shubai, otherwise he will lose face as the master.
Wen Yun calmly took the lead and stepped into the mine that she had dug herself. As soon as she entered, a drop of cool water fell on her head.
She reached out and touched it, only to find that it was actually the magical elements in the air that were so dense that they had condensed into water droplets...
This is really terrifying. This magic stone mine has been unattended for thousands of years, no, it can be said that it has been since the existence of the cultivation world. How good must the quality be
Wen Yun walked forward a few more steps. Along the way, the magic stone grew from the size of gravel to the size of an egg. As he went deeper, a giant stone as big as a fist appeared.
Fortunately, Wen Yun is a half-god of magic who has seen the world. She had a lot of these things in the magician tower in her previous life. They are rare treasures to others, but common to her.
As she walked, she lowered her head to pick up the Philosopher's Stones and threw them into the mustard seed bag, but when she picked up one piece, she suddenly found that she could not lift it.
Wen Yun raised his head slowly.
What appeared before her was a whole piece of Philosopher's Stone... It was as big as a hill, and she couldn't even see its top when she looked up.
Wen Yun opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
Her mind was in a mess. She first shifted her focus from how to move the Philosopher's Stone to what she should do with it. She even considered what kind of wand could be embedded with such a Philosopher's Stone.
After thinking about it, Wen Yun seemed to have a flash of lightning in his mind.
It doesn’t matter anymore. The Philosopher’s Stone is already in my hands. I can take my time to think about those questions.
Now there is only one crucial question left!
Wen Yun turned around suddenly and stared at Ye Shubai with complicated eyes.
"Wasn't Xuantian Secret Realm built by immortals from the upper realm? But why is there a magic stone here?"