Chapter 1437: The Secrets of the True Earth Domain (Part Two)

Li Yan did not believe that the information in the memory of the gray-haired old man he had just happened to capture was false. That would be too ridiculous.

And the information he had obtained was of course not just this. Why did the black-robed Golden Core cultivator come to capture him, and what were the so-called outsider “Evil Spirit Cultivators”?

The answers were also found in the gray-haired old man’s memory.

This matter had to start with the first batch of cultivators who had entered this place. At the very beginning of this secret realm, there were no cultivators or demonic beasts. At first, only some wild beasts with undeveloped intelligence were drawn in.

But things always had a beginning. An unknown number of tens of thousands of years ago, a sect with only sixty or so cultivators had suddenly, while passing through the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” accidentally entered into an illusory restriction.

At that time, they had just landed on a hilly grassland to rest when, in the next moment, they were drawn into an inexplicable space that made them extremely terrified.

The suction force was so strong that even the strongest Spirit Transformation cultivator among them was unable to resist, even with all his might.

After the initial tension, they were horrified to find that none of them had had any accidents.

With their faces pale and their hearts still pounding with fear, they had appeared in a strange place, safe and sound. Everything before their eyes was no longer the hilly grassland of before.

This made them feel relieved, but at the same time, they were extremely vigilant.

With just a brief check, they found that this place was extremely strange. Their divine sense was firmly imprisoned within their bodies. Only cultivators above the Nascent Soul, with all their might, could release it for a distance of about one to two inches.

At this point, they had all become blind and deaf. This made everyone feel empty and terrified in their hearts.

They were long accustomed to using their divine sense to probe everything. After the initial panic, they could only gather together and begin to explore their surroundings together, not daring to separate rashly.

As they continued to explore, in the end, these cultivators were very surprised to find that after exploring a radius of ten thousand li, they had only found some wild beasts with no spiritual intelligence, and there were no other cultivators.

When they discovered that there were wild beasts here, they also relaxed a little. This meant that this place was not a place of certain death. At least there were living beings.

And among them, some even thought that they should still be on the “Heavenly Demon Prairie.” They might have accidentally entered some ancient formation restriction before and were teleported to another area.

Later, they just had to find the exit, and then they could find a way out. The inability to release their divine sense made them feel no sense of security at all.

This sect of theirs was named “Soul Suppression Palace.” It was originally a sect established by an ascended cultivator from the lower realm. But due to the special nature of the cultivation art they practiced, that is, what others called soul cultivators, this type of cultivator, like poison cultivators, because the cultivation art they practiced was too vicious, often, as soon as they attacked, they would attack the most fragile three huns and seven pos.

This kind of attack, even with a protective light shield, was often useless. Even most magical treasures did not have much defensive effect against it. Often, in a single encounter, one would be either dead or disabled.

So, they were feared by other cultivators, but they were also a sect that other cultivators were extremely eager to get information about. Once they could get the cultivation method of a soul cultivator, it would make their own sect like a tiger with wings.

Even most weak sects and forces would change the fate of their entire sect by changing their cultivation method.

This, in the eyes of a normal sect, was actually a great opportunity to strengthen the sect and carry it forward, and to recruit disciples widely.

But for a soul cultivator sect, it was the thing they were most unwilling to see.

Of course, they were not the only soul cultivator sect in the Immortal Spirit Realm. But those sects had a deep foundation and were extremely hidden. It was basically very difficult to see them.

The Soul Suppression Palace was established by an ascended cultivator from the lower realm. They had long known the difficulty of a soul cultivator’s survival, so they had always concealed their sect’s foundation, for fear of others finding out.

But there are no walls in the world that don’t leak. In the end, they were discovered by others, and they were tracked to the location of the sect. And the other party was a third-rate sect.

So, pitifully, after the Soul Suppression Palace had hidden for several hundred years and had finally managed to cultivate nearly a hundred disciples, they had no choice but to fight the enemy to the death.

Since the other party knew that they were soul cultivators, of course, when they came, they had also made full preparations. They had brought three Spirit Transformation cultivators and six Nascent Soul cultivators, but these people were all killed on the spot in the end.

The Soul Suppression Palace itself had also lost four Nascent Soul elders, and only sixty or so people were left. Among them, the one with the highest cultivation was the Sect Master and two elders.

The two elders were both Nascent Soul realm experts. The Sect Master was the ascended cultivator from the lower realm, a Late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator.

It was he who, with his own strength, had killed the other party’s three Spirit Transformation cultivators, including two Late-stage Spirit Transformation experts of the same realm as him. He was extremely formidable.

But he himself had also been seriously injured in this battle!

After that, he immediately led the remaining dozens of disciples, abandoned that sect location, and fled to a distant place.

However, the matter had happened in a hurry. This sect master and the two elders had no plan and did not know where to settle down. They could only flee on the road while starting to discuss their destination.

In the end, the three of them decided to find a very remote place and re-establish their sect. So they thought of the due west direction of the “Northern Pastoral Realm.”

There was a dangerous desert area there. The living conditions were extremely harsh, and it was also full of dangers. It was usually rarely visited.

If they could settle down there, it would not matter if their sect’s cultivation was a little more difficult. After all, they would have less contact with outsiders.

But if they wanted to get there, they had to cross a section of the equally dangerous “Heavenly Demon Prairie” diagonally.

But at that time, the three of them had no other choice.

In addition, they were only crossing a section diagonally. It was also common for soul cultivators to fight across realms. They felt that it would be fine if they were a little more careful.

Even when they later truly entered the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” they had all had the idea of simply staying somewhere and establishing a sect. It was just that this idea was quickly dismissed.

Although some areas only had third and fourth-rank demonic beasts, there were too many types of demonic beasts. In addition, the “Heavenly Demon Prairie” was rich in cultivation resources, and there would often be cultivators coming and going here, so the possibility of being exposed was still very high.

In the end, they still decided to continue westward. Unfortunately, in the end, they were drawn into this secret realm.

The spiritual energy here was very good, even richer than the spiritual energy at their original sect’s location.

But apart from their divine sense being suppressed, they had also sensed that the five-element rules of heaven and earth here were not so smooth when they transformed into each other.

But for them, this did not affect their cultivation, especially since they were soul cultivators who mainly cultivated their souls.

After searching here for half a year, they still had not found any exit.

In the end, after the three of them discussed it, all of them were injured, and after a long period of fleeing, they had not been able to recover in time.

It would be better to simply rest here first, and then after finding the exit, make other plans.

So, they then chose a place that they thought was relatively safe, set up various formations and restrictions, and began to recover from their injuries.

It was not until seven years later that all their injuries had fully recovered. And what surprised them was that in these seven years, no cultivators or demonic beasts had ever appeared in the place where they were.

And the spiritual energy here was also very good for cultivation. After all their injuries had healed, the three of them, after discussing it, began to carefully explore this secret realm.

This exploration lasted for nearly a hundred years. In the end, they also basically knew the situation here. There were four or five extremely dangerous areas here.

Even the Soul Suppression Palace’s Sect Master, who was at the Spirit Transformation realm, had no confidence that he could enter and come out intact.

And in other areas, there were still a few places where the spiritual energy was so rich that it could even be compared to those second-rate sects in the Immortal Spirit Realm.

This secret realm, apart from a few dangerous areas of unknown size, the entire secret realm was only about three million li in scope. For the cultivators of the Immortal Spirit Realm, this kind of space was actually not too big.

At the same time, after nearly a hundred years, they had still not been able to find a passage to get out.

But as they got to know this place better and better, apart from the suppression of their divine sense, this place was undoubtedly a paradise for the Soul Suppression Palace.

In the end, they simply chose a place with the richest spiritual energy and re-established their sect. And they named this place “True Earth Domain.”

In their view, when they were at a dead end and their future was bleak, it was the “earth spirit” that had guided them here and given them such a holy land where they could avoid disaster and the world. Hence the name “True Earth.”

They then began to cultivate in peace here. Of course, at the same time, they were still looking for a connection channel to the outside world. Even if it was not to go out, they had to prevent others from being able to enter.

Just like that, time passed year after year. These dozens of cultivators, both men and women, also began to have children here.

Slowly, they had completely adapted to everything here, and even had an attachment to this place. But their biggest worry was still that if they could accidentally enter here, then what about other cultivators or demonic beasts?

There would definitely be this kind of probability of being drawn into this secret realm.

But what made the cultivators of the Soul Suppression Palace helpless was that they could not find the entrance and exit of this place at all. Even if they had sent cultivators to station at the place where they had originally entered for decades, they still had no discovery.

So the Sect Master then thought that since they had been drawn in without any resistance, the reason was that their cultivation was not enough, and the entrance channel was extremely hidden.

Perhaps one day when he reached the Void Refining Realm, or even a higher realm, he would be able to discover the entrance and exit of this place, and at that time he could seal it.

But in order to prevent the sudden appearance of other strange experts, they also began to send people to patrol within a certain range.

Just like that, after another fifty or sixty years, in a certain patrol, they really did discover some demonic beasts with spiritual intelligence appearing, but the rank of these demonic beasts was only second or third.

They immediately captured all the demonic beasts they saw. Although they could not soul-search them, their research on souls was simply incomparable to other sects. They quickly made these demonic beasts lose themselves…

From the mouths of these demonic beasts, they learned that they had been fighting in a forest in the “Heavenly Demon Prairie” when the space had suddenly distorted, and then they had been inexplicably drawn here.

The Soul Suppression Palace was extremely vigilant about this. This kind of accident had finally happened after all. So they began to search for these demonic beasts everywhere, trying to kill them all.

And another important reason was that they had to determine what realm the strongest demonic beast that had come in this time was. If a sixth-rank demonic beast had appeared, it would not be good.

So after a search, they had also killed fifty or sixty demonic beasts in a row. The strongest demonic beast they had encountered was only at the fourth rank.

But what gave the cultivators of the Soul Suppression Palace a headache was that these demonic beasts were born with a keen sense. Perhaps in the unseen, they had sensed a life-and-death crisis, or even the aura of an expert.

So after they had arrived here, they had already scattered and were looking for an exit to leave this place.

In this way, the cultivators of the Soul Suppression Palace simply did not know how many demonic beasts had entered.

Although they had also reproduced here for nearly a hundred years, their numbers had only increased by a dozen or so. After all, it was very difficult for cultivators to reproduce.

Such a large secret realm, compared to a few dozen people, was simply impossible to search the entire area, especially since they could not use their divine sense here.

In the end, this matter was left unresolved. At the same time, they also did not find the entrance channel that the demonic beasts had mentioned.

That channel was very far from the location where the Soul Suppression Palace cultivators had entered, and it had also disappeared without a trace…

And after a few more decades, traces of other outsider cultivators had actually appeared in the “True Earth Domain.” This surprised the cultivators of the Soul Suppression Palace, and they could only search everywhere again.

This time, they had searched for more than ten cultivators. And these cultivators, after losing their divine sense, were already in a state of panic. How could they be a match for these soul cultivators? They were quickly captured.