Chapter 95

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Chapter 95- Cultivation (6)

Gu Anran was currently eating the delicious delicacies made by Hong Qingyi. Each piece of meat and vegetable retained 90% of its spiritual energy, making them excellent dishes to enrich one’s cultivation. Iff sold in the outside world, each dish would cause quite a sensation. Gu Anran believes that if Hong Qingyi opens a restaurant in the world, she will get rich quick. This is because the chefs in this world can usually make food that only retains about 15% of the ingredient’s spiritual energy, yet the price of these foods is above the level an ordinary immortal can afford. The number of times an average cultivator can only afford to eat these enriching dishes in a year can be counted on one hand.

However, both Hong Qingyi and Gu Anran did not even know the value of the food they ate. This is because the original owners did not have the strength nor background that allowed them to eat these types of foods. For the two of them, when they ate these dishes, they only knew that their absorption rate of the spiritual energy increases significantly. The food was also one of the reasons why their cultivation improved so quickly.

「Ding! The female lead’s favorability has increased by (80) and is now at (60).。」

Gu Anran, who suddenly heard this, jumped in shock.

“What’s the matter?” Hong Qingyi asked in surprise.

“Qingli’s favorability suddenly increased.” Gy Anran raised her eyebrows, feeling a little puzzled.

“Huh?” Hong Qingyi was also suddenly. dumbfounded.

“Mengyan too, it seems.”

The two stared at each other, neither having a clue at what had happened.

“Could they have gone through some kind of shock?” Gu Anran said tentatively.

“Who knows? What does that have to do with us! Let’s eat! Eat!” Hong Qingyi shrugged.

Although she pretended not to care, Gu Anran could see the joy in Hong Qingyi’s eyes. She chuckled lightly, but didn’t comment on it as she ate her food slowly. Anyhow, they’re currently inside a closed secret realm and who knows if they’ll ever meet those two again.

Cultivators don’t need to sleep, and there is no difference between night and day in the secret realm. The sky remains the same color throughout the day and if it weren’t for the system keeping track of the time, the two of them wouldn’t even know if a day or two passed.

Gu Anran sat cross-legged on the ground after eating to meditate. She felt that she was close to the bottleneck of the Core Formation, and was about to break through to Nascent Soul soon.

Hong Qingyi saw that Gu Anran was entering a trance and quickly packed up their things and erected a barrier around them. Then she herself also entered a meditative state.

Meanwhile, in the Demonic Sect, the council was finalizing the list of names who would be entering the secret realm this time. The secret realm is not only open to righteous immortal cultivators but anyone of any type of cultivation. Not to mention, there are several entrances leading inside. Even if the immortal sects tried their best, they could not control every entrance and stop every demonic cultivator from entering. Of course, if the two sides collided at the entrance, a light skirmish might break out. However, in the end, neither party would want to give up the opportunity to obtain treasures and rare skills.

In the Great Hall, Mu Qingli sat in the seat below the head’s seat. Ever since the head went into closed door cultivation, everything had been left to her to take care of and so everyone must stand below her.

“Young Head, this is the list of people that are eligible to enter the secret realm this time around.” The Left Protector handed over pages worth of lists to Mu Qingli.

Mu Qingli glanced at the list, and saw that there were many who were at the Spirit Severing rank included. Of course, the Protectors, elders, and demon generals are not included on this list, but the heirs of those important people were. Among them, the strongest is Chi Mengyan who is at the late stage of the Spirit-Severing rank, the heir to the Right Protector who is in in the middle stage of the Spirit-Severing rankl and the inheriting disciple of one of the five elders just entered the Spirit-Severing rank not too long ago.

“Isn’t the secret realm only open to those below the Spirit-Severing rank?” Mu Qingli rubbed her chin and glanced at the Left Protector.

“Reporting to the Young Head, originally this secret realm opens only for one month once every ten years, but last time the secret realm did not open for some reason. Another ten years have passed and now the spiritual energy inside the secret realm has doubled. After some investigation, we found that all cultivators under the Synthesis rank can now enter, but there are now also age restrictions. Only cultivators under 100 years old can enter.” The Left Protector respectfully explained.

“Then add me to the list, this time I will lead the group.” Mu Qingli said lightly, and handed the list back to the Left Protector.

“Understood.” The Left Protector hurriedly said, and then asked his subordinates to go and notify the selected disciples.

No one will oppose Mu Qingli’s decision, because they all had high expectations for Mu Qingli. As long as Mu Qingli becomes the Head, the glory days of the Demonic Sect will definitely return. She is less than thirty-years old yet is already at the Form Separation rank!* (*T/N: the rank above Spirit-Severing and under the Synthesis rank).

Such a profound cultivation at such a young age was unheard of! She is undoubtedly the number one of the young generation! Even the head disciple of the Xuantian Sect was only in the late stage of the Spirit-Severing rank!

The two ranks may seem the same to most people, but as veteran cultivators, the elders and generals knew very well the difference between these two ranks was like the difference between heaven and earth. NOt to mention, most of them didn’t even reach the Nascent Soul rank until they were at least 150 years old. Now so many of their juniors have reached this level and above it or will at least surpass them in less than ten years. These elders both smiled and weeped at the great progress the young generation has made.

It simply made one feel frustrated! They were once called geniuses before, but now, looking at the younger generation, they realized they could not compare. These youths were the true geniuses, no, it’s more accurate to say they were true villains and the greatest villain among them is their Young Head! (T/N: Ok a bit of play on words here, genius is written as 天才 which translates literally as ‘heaven’s talent’. So the author is making a bit of a joke here that since they are demonic cultivators they are not accepted by the heavens and shouldn’t be called 天才 but rather 妖孽 instead. 妖孽 means evildoer/villain but literally translates to something like ‘demon’s spawn’)

“If there is nothing else, all of you may leave.” Mu Qingli waved her hand and then stood up. She flew on her sword to the head of the sect’s largest mountain. The view here was beautiful and at the bottom of the mountain was a dense forest where rabbits frolicked and foraged in the grass.

Every immortal cultivator treats demonic cultivators as something unforgivably evil. Whether it be their behavior or where they lived, those people liked to paint a dark picture. The people who lived under a demonic cultivator’s rule would grumble in suffering, the demonic cultivators themselves lived a life of debauchery and these demonic cultivators like to use blood to decorate everything and collect the bones of their enemies.

Mu Qingli had always sneered at these rumors. Not all demonic cultivators are psychopaths or had such problematic tastes in their aesthetics. These people have clearly never interacted or even visited them before, yet these immortal cultivators still slander them. Little did the mortals know that these so-called righteous cultivators constantly fought each other for power, killed others for their treasures, etc yet always proclaim that they walk the path of the heavens. When in fact, they are all just hypocrites.

“Qingli.” A voice sounded. Mu Qingli did not raise her head, but touched something on her hand. A beautiful carved storage ring was wrapped proudly on her finger, one leagues above the level of storage rings that Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi had. After all, the rings Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi had were those of the lowest and worst quality.

She took out two jugs of wine from inside the ring and threw one to the side while opening the lid of the other. The sweet aroma of wine slowly wafted out and Mu Qingli took a sip before she said quietly,

“Is there any news?”

“….No.” Chi Mengyan appeared beside Mu Qingli and sat down. She took the other jar and began to sip as well.

This was a habit the two of them had developed over the years. They would come here to drink quietly and look in the distance, as if they were waiting for the person they longed for to paper in front of them. Unfortenley, after waiting for so long, there has been no news of them, nothing at all.

“Do you think we will find them eventually?” Mu Qingli pursed her lips and asked.

“Of course.” Chi Mengyan said firmly, as if to comfort Mu Qingli, and as if to convince herself.

“En….”

The two did not speak anymore but continued to look out into the distance while they drank.

One month later, Mu Qingli led the sect’s disciples to an entrance to the secret realm that was nearest to the sect. There were many disciples of other demonic sects here and also many rogue cultivators. Seeing the Demonic Sect* of the demonic sects, the other cultivars quickly parted and gave the best position to them. (*T/N: So I should probably mention that the author never bothered to give the Demonic Sect that Mu Qingli is in a name and just called it “the Demonic Sect”. So when you see it capitalized, most of the time I’m referring to the one our MCs are in.)

Why does no one complain? Are you joking! Could you not see that 80% of the disciples of their sect came on flying swords? One must know that you can only fly on a sword if you’re in the Core Formation rank! In a regular sect, if 1 in 10 disciples are at the Core Formation rank, the head would laugh with joy.

The people in charge of the other sects were almost crying in bitterness. Why is the gap between them so large! Are all disciples of the Demonic Sect cultivation weirdos?

And look at the extremely beautiful woman learning them all! She is stronger than most of their heads! Just a few of those dispiles with that lady could destroy their entire sect! The Demonic Sect already has a Head in the Transcendence rank, so why is this new generation of disciples so good! Those sects who wished to be like them could only step to the side with discouraged hearts.

Mu Qingli scanned the surroundings with her spiritual sense, but did not comment on the admiring or jealous gazes of the other sects. After all, they had nothing to do with her. Furthermore, most of these people here hadn’t been there when they accepted their Demonic Sect’s disciples, and hadn’t taken the test to enter the sect. So what qualifications do they have to be jealous?

One must know that the Demonic Sect’s entrance examination was much stricter than that of the Xuantian Sect. Character, aptitude, physique, etc. had all been assessed and so the disciples of their sect were all first-rate. While the righteous immortal sects and other demonic sects just accepted anyone with talent. In terms of evil, the Demonic Sect might even be cleaner than the Xuantian sect.

Recently there have been rumors that several of those righteous sects went to war not long ago and a bunch of people died over a small treasure or something. It was completely ridiculous.

Perhaps there are some demonic cultivators who act the same but most of the time it was only small fights. Furthermore, it was impossible for the Demonic Sect to fight with others for such a small treasury unless there was a very important piece of treasure. If you want to get a treasure, you must rely on your own ability and if you don’t have the ability, don’t even think about it. Even if you did get it, you will be killed by others in the end due to the lack of ability and the gain will not be worth the loss.

Shuaaa—–

A bright light lit up and gradually a large circular hole opened. There was a thin glass-like layer on top so that one couldn’t clearly see inside, but everyone knew that this is the entrance into the secret realm and the thin layer is a sort of enchantment. It prevents high-ranked cultivators from going in and those who tried would be turned into ashes by the enchantment. After all, how can one person compare to the will of the world? No matter how profound your cultivation is, you are but a shrimp in front of the laws of the world.

Once the entrance stopped shaking, Mu Qingli called out to everyone.

“Let’s go.”

Shuaaa—-

The group of people broke through the enchantment and entered the secret realm.

“Split up.” Mu Qingli waved.

The group split into smaller groups made up of one Nascent Soul cultivator and a few Core Formation cultivators while the Spirit-Severing cultivators could do whatever they wanted. The people of the Demonic Sect quickly relegated themselves into their groups before disappearing. Only Chi Mengyan stayed behind.

“Mengyan.” Mu Qingli clutched her chest tightly, her indifferent expression now long gone and replaced with a look of joy and anxiety.

“I can feel it! I can feel her! From the moment I entered the secret realm, I could feel her presence. Although only for a moment, she must be in one of the corners of the secret realm!”

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