Bai Ran stored the Vermillion Bird egg in her spatial dimension. Shi Tian, upon seeing the transformed egg, excitedly embraced it, eager to finally see the beautiful little Vermillion Bird!
Composing herself, Bai Ran ate breakfast and then resumed her cultivation.
Three days passed in a flash, and the day for the Royal Secret Realm to open arrived.
Inside the carriage, Bai Luohan saw Bai Ran, a killing intent flashing in her eyes.
Bai Ran, don't celebrate too soon. Once you enter this secret realm, your life and death will be beyond your control!
Bai Ran walked past, ignoring Bai Luohan, who looked like a resentful woman, and boarded another carriage.
The carriage traveled for a long time before stopping.
After disembarking, Bai Ran saw the ten people entering the secret realm: three from the Qin family, five from the Bai family, zero from the Hua family, and two disciples from other minor families. The royal family was notably absent.
She observed everyone with interest, thinking that this Royal Secret Realm would not go smoothly.
Qin Mu Bai searched for Bai Ran, his eyes brightening as he ran towards her.
Bai Ran watched a pink mass running from afar stop in front of her.
"Miss Bai, thank you so much last time," Qin Mu Bai said, scratching his head.
"It was just a small favor," Bai Ran replied, waving her hand.
"Miss Bai, this time in the secret realm, can I… can I follow you?" Qin Mu Bai asked timidly, looking at Bai Ran.
In truth, Bai Ran preferred to act alone rather than in a team, as it meant fewer brainless teammates.
"No," Bai Ran said, patting Qin Mu Bai's shoulder. "Young Master Qin, you must rely on yourself."
Qin Mu Bai lowered his head, his small, chubby hands clenching his clothes.
He had already guessed that Bai Ran wouldn't take him along because he was too weak. He had to become stronger, he absolutely had to!
The secret realm opened.
The ten people entered the secret realm one after another. As the secret realm was about to close, no one noticed two figures slipping inside.
Upon entering the secret realm, Bai Ran shivered from the cold. Seeing the icy, snowy landscape surrounding her, she retrieved a winter robe from her spatial dimension and put it on.
In the frozen land, Bai Ran stood alone in a vast expanse of snow, alert to any movement around her.
The Royal Secret Realm transformed based on the potential of its entrants. This time, the secret realm was extremely dangerous, but correspondingly, the treasures would be more abundant.
After walking for an unknown distance, Bai Ran finally spotted a cave in the distance. She quickened her pace and entered it.
Not far away, Jing Feng was startled. "Where did she go? How did she disappear while walking?"
He stood at the spot where Bai Ran had vanished, touching and probing everywhere, but found nothing. It was an ice plain, and a living person had disappeared?
As soon as Bai Ran entered the cave, a wave of heat washed over her. The sudden temperature difference made her face turn a little pale. She slowly moved deeper into the cave, the temperature gradually rising as she advanced.
After walking for a long time, Bai Ran saw a stone pillar about two people's embrace wide. A fiery red box lay quietly on top of it.
It seemed the heat was emanating from the contents of this box.
Bai Ran approached the stone pillar and opened the box, revealing what was inside.
A cauldron wrapped in silk, yet the easily flammable silk remained unharmed.
Meanwhile, outside:
"Why are there suddenly so many fifth-tier mystic beasts?" Jing Feng asked himself in confusion as he fought them off. He hadn't touched any treasures, so why were these beasts attacking him like they had gone mad?
Jing Feng didn't know that while he hadn't touched anything, Bai Ran had! The secret realm was indeed dangerous, but the danger was for him, while the treasures belonged to Bai Ran. He was merely a diligent laborer.
Mystic beasts on the continent were classified into ten tiers, and fifth-tier strength was already comparable to a human Golden Core stage. Yet, Jing Feng was dispatching them as if slicing vegetables.
Inside, Bai Ran looked at the cauldron before her and slowly reached out.
Suddenly, the cauldron inside the box moved. It shot out with a bang, tearing Bai Ran's hand. A contract array appeared, and the contract was formed.
Bai Ran was stunned. She didn't even know what this thing was, and it had already formed a contract with her?
Her expression turned grim. She looked at the jubilant cauldron before her and slapped it, saying, "You're quite something, aren't you?"
The cauldron trembled a few times from the blow, then flew back to Bai Ran's side, nuzzling her. "Master..."
Bai Ran glared at the cauldron and asked, "What are you?"
Master doesn't remember? Big Brother said Master might die. He was always worried. He saw Master just now, so he was too excited...
Master is fine, right? It's just that he doesn't remember him. That Big Brother is a liar.
"Master, I am Fen Tian, your alchemy cauldron!" Fen Tian circled Bai Ran a few times.
"Fen Tian Cauldron?" Capable of alchemy? She was indeed lacking an alchemy cauldron. The spirit herbs she had bought earlier were gathering dust in her spatial dimension.
"Understood," Bai Ran waved her hand, and Fen Tian was sent into her spatial dimension.
Upon entering the spatial dimension, Fen Tian happily flew around. Wow, this familiar place, these familiar faces! He was finally back!
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As soon as the cauldron entered the spatial dimension, the temperature in the cave plummeted, returning to normal.
Outside, Jing Feng had finished dealing with the mystic beasts and sat on the ground, also noticing the rise in temperature.
"Why are you here again?" a woman's voice called out. Jing Feng jumped in fright.
Where did this young lady crawl out from? She scared him!
"It's not safe for you to be alone. Master sent me to protect you," Jing Feng said irritably, looking at her.
Looking at the corpses of mystic beasts littering the ground, Bai Ran raised an eyebrow. "Not bad, you're quite diligent with your work."
The scenery changed, the original ice plain transforming into a dense forest.
Looking at the crisscrossing roots, Bai Ran walked forward, and Jing Feng quickly scrambled to follow.
After walking for a while, both of them sensed small tails following behind them. People were coming, at least a dozen.
The hunt had finally begun.
She knew that some people could not tolerate her. She had disrupted the balance between the three great families. Her rapid growth, yet inability to be used by the royal family, meant she had to be eliminated. And this was the Royal Secret Realm, where royal family members could enter and exit freely. If not for Murong De, who else could it be?
"I'll take care of them," Jing Feng whispered.
"Mhm, remember to leave one alive," Bai Ran said calmly, her expression unreadable.
Soon, Jing Feng returned, dragging a comatose person.
Bai Ran went to examine him, then delivered a palm strike. The person immediately fainted even more deeply.
Watching Bai Ran's actions, Jing Feng's lips twitched. A heartless woman.
Bai Ran tied up the unconscious person and threw him into her spatial dimension, instructing Shi Tian to knock him out with Fen Tian if he woke up.
Before they had walked much further, the two encountered another group of people.
"Hand over the items!" a Qin family disciple brandished a knife at Qin Mu Bai's face.
"Why are you talking nonsense with this monster? Just kill him and take the treasure," another chimed in.
There were two Qin family members, plus two from a minor family, and Qin Mu Bai, bound and tied.
Qin Mu Bai? Is that Qin Mu Bai?
Why had he become so thin?
Qin Mu Bai glared at the four people before him. He had only recently obtained a treasure before being ambushed by these four. He had been too careless.
"What? Angry? You can only blame yourself for being the Qin family's legitimate heir and blocking our path!" a Qin family disciple lunged at Qin Mu Bai with a sharp sword.
Bai Ran, hidden in the shadows, narrowed her eyes. With a flick of her wrist, a pebble flew from her hand, knocking the sword away.
The four were startled and looked around, "Who's there!"
Another pebble flew out, its sharp edge severing Qin Mu Bai's ropes.
Qin Mu Bai blinked in surprise, then composed himself, pulling out his sword from his spatial pouch and charging forward.
As expected, Qin Mu Bai's naturally robust physique gave him a significant advantage in the fight.
The four were already only slightly stronger than Qin Mu Bai. Combined with his reckless fighting style, they were beaten into grimacing heaps and could no longer endure. They fled in disarray.
Qin Mu Bai collapsed on the ground, panting heavily. He had won!
The two hidden figures intended to retreat stealthily, but a sudden voice rang out.
"Isn't this the Qin family's monster?" a woman's voice came from the distant jungle. It was Bai Luohan.
Bai Luohan was accompanied by a man, Murong Jin!
Bai Ran glanced at Bai Luohan, then at Murong Jin. They had actually followed her into the secret realm. How painstaking for them.
Qin Mu Bai, seeing the newcomers, propped himself up, biting his lip tightly. The previous battle had depleted all his spiritual energy.
Even if his spiritual energy recovered, these two, one who had been at the third stage of Qi Condensation for a long time and the other at the fourth stage, were not someone he, who had just reached the third stage, could deal with.
"Hand over the treasure, and we'll let you go, how about it?" Murong Jin said with ill intentions, looking Qin Mu Bai up and down.
The slender youth before him had the demeanor of a gentle scholar, his fair face looking as if a pinch would draw water. It truly inspired envy.
Murong Jin's eyes were filled with calculation and covetousness.
Is this all I can do...
Qin Mu Bai clenched his fists, lowered his head, and said, "Kill me or flay me, just do it quickly!"
Jing Feng, hidden in the shadows, looked at Bai Ran beside him. "You're not going to save him?"
Bai Ran's eyelids twitched. She had helped him so many times, and now he was causing her trouble again. She found it bothersome.
To Bai Ran, Qin Mu Bai was merely a stranger.
However, the two opposite him were not.
Bai Ran chuckled softly. "Do you want to watch a play?"
Jing Feng looked at Bai Ran, very puzzled. Watch a play?
Bai Ran casually waved her hand, and a hallucination pill flew out, landing at the feet of Bai Luohan and the other man. It dissolved into transparent smoke and slowly rose into the air.
Bai Luohan and Murong Jin, who were standing, didn't notice anything.
A fourth-tier hallucination pill?
Jing Feng knew that in the lower realm, third-tier pills were already rare, and fourth-tier pills were priceless. She could produce a fourth-tier pill with a mere flick of her hand?