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Chapter 1144: Chapter 1041: Leaving
Li Zhirui dived deep into the lake, originally wandering around the bottom of the lake, looking for traces of Water Essence, but unintentionally he discovered waves of Spiritual Energy fluctuations coming from not far away. Thinking it was some kind of Spiritual Object maturing, he approached out of curiosity.
However, unexpectedly, it turned out to be an entrance just over three meters wide, pitch-dark inside, but intermittently there would still be bursts of Spiritual Energy fluctuations.
At first Li Zhirui didn’t think much of it, assuming it was a Spirit Cave of a Spirit Vein, or that a Spiritual Object had just happened to grow there by chance, and subconsciously used his Divine Sense to probe into it.
But as his Divine Sense delved deeper, Li Zhirui began to realize something was wrong because the further he went inside, the wider the entrance became. By the time he had used all his Divine Sense, he could no longer describe it as a tunnel, but rather as a not-so-small flatland.
This unexpected discovery aroused Li Zhirui’s curiosity, so he temporarily gave up looking for Water Essence and instead turned to investigate this mysterious underground space.
The tunnel initially went deep down, but after approximately several dozen miles, forming a land of a hundred miles in size, it suddenly changed, and the passage began to extend upwards.
About half an hour later, Li Zhirui emerged from the water, but the passage had not reached its end, and he could only continue to fly upwards.
After nearly fifteen minutes of dedicated flying, when Li Zhirui left the passage, what met his eyes was a boundless plain, and in the distance, one could even see an undulating mountain range.
He actually went from the bottom of the great lake, back to the surface!
But what surprised him most was that this place didn’t look like it was within the Five-colored Secret Realm because not far away, Li Zhirui saw a large Medicine Garden that was obviously cultivated by the human race!
"This must be where those big powers nurture Spiritual Objects using the Secret Realm," he said as he took out the map to check.
Sure enough, his current location was not shown on the Jade Slip at all.
"I wonder how those big powers have managed to do this, after so many years, these secret bases have still not been discovered."
But soon, Li Zhirui thought of another possibility!
Perhaps cultivators had indeed discovered this piece of territory, but they were dealt with by the cultivators from those powers!
In the Secret Realm, let alone a few cultivators, even the deaths of hundreds or thousands wouldn’t make people sense anything amiss.
As such, naturally, no one would leak the secret!
"However, how did they manage to eliminate every cultivator who accidentally discovered this place?"
While talking, Li Zhirui’s gaze unconsciously looked towards the map Jade Slip in his hand.
Recalling a piece of information he collected before, Li Zhirui’s face suddenly changed. He clearly remembered that in Kunlun State, no other cultivator or power was allowed to sell maps of the Secret Realm! Only Thousand Realms Hall had that privilege.
And once discovered or reported, as long as the evidence was solid, it is said that they have not been seen again.
"Wait, there will always be people who trade maps clandestinely, and they enter this place by accident. Without an official map marking, how are they dealt with?"
To ensure that the secret isn’t leaked, the problem of dealing with every cultivator who accidentally enters this place must not be with the cultivators themselves, but rather within this piece of land!
Li Zhirui cautiously concealed his presence, constantly scanning for anything suspicious.
"Thousand Spore Spirit Flower!"
After identifying the correct direction, Li Zhirui quickly found his answer, focusing his attention on an unremarkable little white flower.
It was a very special and obscure Spirit Flower, constantly dispersing spores at all times, and the range was very wide. Just one Spirit Flower would fill the air with spores within dozens of miles!
Once contaminated or inhaled, clothing and the body would exude a faint fragrance, and it would linger for a long time. It is recorded in the Classics that, unless the fragrance is deliberately removed, the scent of the Spirit Flower would last for years, and the more one inhales, the longer the fragrance would persist.
If it wasn’t for Li Zhirui’s realization that something was amiss, and also being an Alchemist, he probably would not have noticed such an average-looking Spirit Object.
Because the appearance of the Thousand Spore Spirit Flower is just like a common weed by the roadside, blooming into inconspicuous little white flowers.
The moment Li Zhirui figured it out, he conjured a curtain of water to encase himself, keeping the spores out.
With the Spirit Objects that are used for marking and are not eye-catching, those big powers just need to raise some Spirit Beasts with sensitive noses, train them to remember the scent of the Spore Flower, and station people near the Teleportation Array to lock onto any cultivator who inadvertently enters the area.
In this process, surely many cultivators were wrongly accused and killed in error.
But why would those big powers care about the lives of cultivators? 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
Once the news of their secret bases in the Secret Realm is leaked, it would undoubtedly cause a great commotion and could even trigger an internal conflict among cultivators.
After all, those powers have already taken all the advantages, and now if it’s revealed that they have hidden so much more, other cultivators would hardly be satisfied.
However, all of these matters are too distant for Li Zhirui, and they have no benefits for him at his current stage.
Of course, spreading the news wouldn’t pose any problems for Li Zhirui because he has the ability to conceal his fate from the heavens, so there is no need to worry about being deduced by those of Great Ability in the Immortal Realm.
As for whether to blow the whistle on this issue, Li Zhirui doesn’t have an answer yet.
However, one thing is certain: Li Zhirui will not let go of the Spiritual Objects in this land. Although they are not yet mature, he has a spatial artifact with him, and he isn’t worried about the Spiritual Objects being damaged by transplanting.
