Ming Zhitian smiled faintly, "To kill you, I'm like taking a single grain of rice from a vast granary."
Mao Bujin, indignant, brandished his top-grade artifact and said, "But he broke my top-grade artifact! How do we settle this score?!"
Fei Yining picked up her artifact and said, "I say, Mao Bujin, he even dented my super-grade artifact. What's the big deal if your shoddy artifact broke?"
The two were putting on a show, delaying him from refining the inner cores. Ming Zhitian grew impatient. "Hey, you two, get lost!"
"What? He dared to speak to the two sect leaders of Shiying Sect like that? Doesn't he want to live anymore?"
Though Mao Bujin and Fei Yining had a million wild horses stampeding in their hearts, they had to humble themselves. They wanted to live. They knew all too well that those in high positions usually had the final say. They believed that if Ming Zhitian willed it, neither of them could escape.
"Let's go!" To the stunned disciples of the three great sects of Kaishan Sect and Gui Zai Sect, Mao Bujin and Fei Yining led their three thousand disciples away, dejected. Seeing this, the disciples of Tianmen Sect also scurried away with their heads tucked.
"This, this... is amazing..."
Xue He stepped forward and walked up to Ming Zhitian. "Brother Ming, if you need anything, just tell us. I, Xue He, will grant any wish!"
Ming Zhitian nodded and smiled knowingly, then cupped his hands. "Thank you all, farewell."
Ming Xin asked, "Can... can we travel together?"
Ming Zhitian waved his hand. "No, farewell."
After bidding them farewell, Ming Zhitian said to Jie Qingxia, "Since you've found your fellow disciples, I'll take my leave now?"
Jie Qingxia hesitated, then nodded. "I... it's nothing. See you outside..."
Ming Zhitian nodded and bowed gentlemanly. "Goodbye."
Jie Qingxia was momentarily stunned by his gesture, but Ming Zhitian had already walked far away.
Ming Zhitian found a cellar, took out eight inner cores of the Fiery Bird, and began to refine them. These scorching inner cores were wondrous and extraordinary. Half a month passed...
The secret realm ended. Ming Zhitian first broke through to the tenth level of the Transcendence Realm!
Then, after consuming the inner cores, he refined them one by one within his body with the help of the Longevity Art, directly breaking through to the first level of the Royal Field Realm!
His cultivation was still soaring! "Royal Field Realm level three! Four! ... Ten!!"
He then refined the last golden inner core. He was almost melted by the hundreds of degrees of heat in his inner sea. Fortunately, he used this opportunity to successfully advance the Longevity Art to the twenty-fifth level, and break through to the first level of the Asura Realm!
Within the Forgotten Secret Realm, a beam of rainbow light shot straight into the sky! Like an aurora piercing the bright moon! A world-shattering, ghost-crying, divine power pulsed throughout the entire Four Symbols Diagram!
The cherry blossoms, green grass, forests, and wastelands were all affected. Those with slightly lower cultivation directly knelt and prostrated, not daring to speak.
Tian Nan Jie, who was over a thousand years old, was only at the third level of the Asura Realm. Ming Zhitian, at the young age of twenty-one, was in his prime. Who would believe it?
Upon reaching the Asura Realm, Ming Zhitian found that his eyes had become much more precise. He could now see everything within a thousand meters with perfect clarity.
He could also control magnetic fields and open spatial rifts, allowing him to intermittently traverse distances within five kilometers.
He suddenly realized that the Forgotten Secret Realm was a complete illusion. Everyone was trapped in an illusion, and all the spells controlling the climate were useless. But now that he had reached the Asura Realm, he was immune to the restrictions of the barrier here.
When he exited the secret realm, he was the first person not to be automatically teleported out. If he wished, he could stay in the Forgotten Secret Realm for as long as he wanted.