HLnovel Chapter 81 The Lost City of Time 1
Chapter 81 The Lost City of Time 1
The seven of them hid in the woods and watched as Nabu was taken away by her father. The other party did not ask them for help. This was their family matter. They were just strangers who had met by chance. If they interfered too much, it would only annoy them.
After watching the group leave, the group gathered together. Yingyue took out the spirit-binding bag that had once contained the little ginseng demon from her ring, opened it, and found that it was indeed empty.
Yingyue searched carefully: "How did that little guy escape? I remember feeding it pills yesterday."
The little ginseng demon wasn't the kind that wouldn't eat or drink. Although Cheng Jiu and Yingyue had no good intentions in capturing it, they never thought of abusing it. Yingyue even fed it a pill every other day, being a very good owner.
"I don't even know where this is!" Liu Shaoyuan looked around and then at the city not far away. This place was clearly a desert area before, and he guessed it should be a polar day region, but the sky was gradually getting dark.
“Let’s split up and meet up here in three hours,” Yingyue suggested. “Let’s see if we’re still in the secret realm.”
The group nodded. Cheng Jiu was exploring the area near the ocean, since she had landed there before and was quite familiar with it.
It was indeed very familiar—the familiar strange bird, the familiar strange fish, and the familiar no-fly zone. It flew out for quite a while before returning, just in time.
Even though we were going at the same speed, it took half the time to get back.
After getting off the little cloud beast, the group returned quite a while later.
"Well, tell me about them one by one. I'll start with mine." Yingyue said calmly, "This should still be that secret realm, just as poor as that one." As she spoke, Yingyue took out two first-grade spiritual herbs she had found from her pocket: "Look, I found the exact same ones in the forest before."
"My brother, Senior Brother Nan, and I went to the place where Senior Brother Nan had been before. It was surrounded by a simple array. We also saw rows of slaves being led by iron chains, as well as Gu cultivators!"
Gong Yu felt a chill run down her spine when she heard about this. She had only heard of the cruelty of evil cultivators before, but she never imagined they were this cruel! In their eyes, those people were not human. They were driven into the valley like cattle and sheep to be parasites of Gu worms, and then they were eaten to pieces.
Gong Yu wanted to rush out to rescue them, but Gong Cheng stopped him, thinking it best not to alert them and forcibly brought the two back.
"This is still a desert, but the desert area we were in has become a large oasis," Liu Shaoyuan said.
"And then there's the city of Kamuler, the ruins we explored before. There are a lot more people in it now, and some have even entered the city. We followed the flow of people to investigate, but we found that we couldn't get past the edge no matter what we did."
"And those people are sentient beings; we interacted with them just like real people," Wen Sishu added. "We didn't know a single one of them—their origins, backgrounds, or cities!"
"According to them, they came to the Western Regions to trade and sell goods. Some are from tribes, while others say they come from the Central Plains. We speculate that the Central Plains refers to the area where our sect is located," Liu Shaoyuan added, noting that the two had gathered quite a bit of information.
"Their goods are also very strange! In addition to the usual elixirs and gems, the goods brought from tribal areas also include what they call slaves."
This is quite normal; the Western Regions were chaotic before, and after battles between tribes, the victors would turn the defeated tribes' people into slaves. It was only after the Wuji Sect intervened that this outdated practice gradually changed.
Liu Shaoyuan interjected, "But the goods brought by the people from the Central Plains are different. Some of them are from the mortal realm, including humans and half-demons! And there are quite a few of them."
"Although it is customary for mortals to keep maids, none of the three great dynasties would allow the cultivation world to prey on their own people. I don't know where they got the ability, but this kind of trafficking of humans and half-demons is illegal."
Wen Sishu gets angry just thinking about it; if Liu Shaoyuan hadn't been holding him back, he would have rushed over at any moment.
Cheng Jiu: "I rode the little cloud beast and flew outwards along a road, and the return time was halved. But the ocean and that secret realm are no different."
Nan Yanzhe took out a divination stick and calculated for a long time: "No, there is no divination result!"
"Could it be that some powerful being sealed off this space?" Cheng Jiu speculated based on this information.
"Actually, there's something else very important: there has never been a city called Kamule in history, not even a single word about its resources has been left behind!" Yingyue affirmed. "Even our Guiyuan Sect's library has never had any related records!"
The Guiyuan Sect's library is undoubtedly the largest and most comprehensive in the cultivation world, located within a forbidden area.
Most people wouldn't go there, since each of the seven peaks has its own small library, which is enough for most disciples!
Judging from Yingyue's words, she had been to the library. Then the question arises: a city that has not left a single word, yet is indeed located on the Xuan Tian Continent!
Thinking of the picture I had seen before, that the demon had drained the life force of everyone in the city overnight.
Perhaps the annihilation was too rapid, and no one escaped, thus leaving no relevant records.
But this is a secret realm! The cultivation world has long established that secret realms are small, nearly destroyed worlds that the Heavenly Dao of the cultivation world pulled from the outside world, places where powerful beings were dying, and places of inheritance that they created themselves.
But if this city truly originally belonged to the Xuantian Continent, what immense power it would take to separate a city from the Xuantian Continent!
"Such secret realms are usually the obsession of someone, if they want to get out."
"Either we release the obsession of the master of this secret realm, or we break it open with external force."
"External force!" The external force that could actively break through this secret realm was definitely not something they could do.
If they just wait, it will only make their masters realize something is wrong and come to their rescue.
But these were all chosen ones, how could they sit idly by and wait for their doom?
The only way is to resolve the obsession of the owner of this secret realm.
The group exchanged glances and set their sights on a goal: to find the little ginseng spirit and the girl Nabu.
What a coincidence that the firelight brought her here and she ended up running into her. Maybe she's the one who caused this secret realm to be formed!
With a goal in mind, the first step was to enter the city.
Cheng Jiu and Ying Yue felt very uncomfortable along the way. The procession into the city was very long, but most of the people were merchants, whether from the Western Regions or the Central Plains. There were no female cultivators like them at all.
Even women of the same gender as them were imprisoned in prison vans.
The way these people looked at them was with disdain, scrutiny, and provocation.
Especially when the leader of the caravan behind saw that Cheng Jiu was young and a girl, he reached out to cut in line.
Just as his lecherous hand was about to land on Cheng Jiu's shoulder, all that was seen was a flash of sword light!
"Ah!" the caravan leader screamed as his arm flew off!
"You, you all!" The caravan leader pointed at Cheng Jiu: "You bastard! You bastard!"
The next moment, his head flew off silently.
The room was completely silent.