The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1070

Chapter 1070: Chapter 167 Separation Chapter 1070: Chapter 167 Separation On the nine-zhang high platform, everyone had already taken their seats, and the Tianji City elders, having fulfilled their duties, were also walking toward their own seats.

“Elder Qi, just by selling these Suspended Sky Mirrors, your Tianji City must have made a fortune, right?” Cheng Yaojin teased with a smile upon seeing this.

“Duke Cheng jests. Our Tianji City can only rely on making these ingenious and crafty things to save up some family wealth. We can't compare with your family's grand enterprises and profound heritage,” Elder Qi replied with an embarrassed expression on his face.

Upon hearing this, everyone laughed without saying anything.

Tianji City of today is certainly not the small household that Elder Qi described, nor did it become wealthy by relying on ingenious craftiness. The various Yanshou, levitating machines, as well as the refined Magical Treasures they produced, were extremely attractive to both cultivators and ordinary people. They had branches all over the Three Realms, and their shops had even extended to Yama's Palace.

If it were only about trade, even if they were the number one merchant association of the Three Realms, Tianji City wouldn't draw such attention. However, the problem is that all their Yan masters and Grand Yan Masters are without exception high-ranking cultivators with considerable cultivation levels, which is why they could stand on equal footing with the great celestial and demon sects.

In the upper right corner of the Suspended Sky Mirror to the due south, a densely shaded mountain forest appeared.

Shen Luo's figure turned into a streak of flowing light, descending from the sky, and appeared in an open ground in the forest.

Before he could steady himself, two streaks of flowing light fell one after another not far in front of him, and two figures emerged in succession.

The first to appear was a man with a thin body and an unusually long neck, with two slanting eight-character moustaches above his lips. Although he showed no obvious beastly features, it was clear that he was not of the Human Race.

The next to appear was, to Shen Luo's surprise, none other than that tiger-headed creature, Fu Donglai.

The three of them were positioned in such a way that they were at the corners of a triangle, each glancing at one another.

“Daoist friend, I am He Qianshan from Cloud City. What if you and I join forces to kill this demon first?” He Qianshan looked at Shen Luo and transmitted his voice.

As he spoke, he glanced at Fu Donglai from the corner of his eye without making it too obvious.

Fu Donglai, with his tiger-head and naive appearance, seemed not only devoid of fierceness but somewhat simple and honest. But after all, he wasn't truly foolish and could clearly see through He Qianshan's intentions.

“Friend Shen, and this demon friend here, I am here to replace someone else in entering this Secret Realm, with no intention to fight with others. All I want now is to wait for the trial to end and to be able to exit alive,” Fu Donglai confessed frankly.

“Do you know each other?” He Qianshan furrowed his brows and quickly retreated a few steps, further distancing himself from the two.

“Elder He's good intentions are well-received, but let us forget the idea of forming an alliance and going together. As Duke Cheng said earlier, we are encouraged to form alliances within the same race, so we should each go and find members of our own race,” Shen Luo replied with a clasped fist.

Seeing that Shen Luo did not reveal his intention to gang up and kill Fu Donglai, He Qianshan took the easy way out:

“Since that's the case, I won't insist, farewell.”

With that, he abruptly turned, flapped his arms which transformed into white crane feathers, and his figure flashed out of sight among the trees.

In the mountain forest, only Fu Donglai and Shen Luo were left, looking at each other. They each kept their guard up, tacitly acknowledged with a cupped fist salute, and departed in different directions.

Although they both were acquainted with Lu Huaming, considering the difference in their races and the fact that they were currently in the midst of the Three Realms Martial Arts Conference trial, it was natural that they couldn't let down their guard. It was for the best for them to go their separate ways for now.

After leaving for a few hundred feet, Shen Luo stopped under an ancient tree, closed his eyes, and extended his divine sense to probe the surroundings.

However, as soon as he tried, he found that his divine soul could only reach a few dozen feet before being negated by an invisible force, unable to extend further, and even less than what his eyes could directly see.

And in the surroundings of Heaven and Earth, although there was air and the flow of wind, he could not sense the existence of Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi.

Having known the news in advance, Shen Luo had brought with him quite a few elixirs to replenish his spiritual power. As long as he did not engage in prolonged combat, he should be able to cope until the end of this trial without any problems.

He looked around, finding the forest dense and deep with no clear path, so he randomly chose a direction and started walking forward.

But he hadn't gone far when suddenly a gust of wind arose beside him, followed by the pounce of a leopard over two zhang in length that was covered with golden brown spots. It snapped a tree as thick as a bowl and lunged at him.

“There are monsters too…”

Shen Luo turned his head and saw, to his surprise, a Grain Avoidance Stage Mad Leopard with a flash of astonishment in his eyes.

Immediately, he raised his hand and swung it accurately and firmly, slapping the Mad Leopard on the head. The beast was sent spinning three times in the air before crashing heavily to the ground, its neck twisted into a braid.

Seeing the now certainly dead Mad Leopard, Shen Luo could not help but remember the time, that year during the Enter Dream trial when he first encountered a Mad Leopard on Mount Fangcun and both he and Ying Luo were pitifully chased.

Shen Luo chuckled to himself and continued walking deeper into the forest.

Before long, he walked out of that forest and saw a mountain peak that was several hundred feet high.

In the very center of that mountain peak, a crack ran from top to bottom, splitting the peak into two halves like it had been cleaved by an axe, forming a narrow canyon in the center.

Shen Luo hadn't approached yet when he heard a woman's cry for help coming from the valley, echoing continuously against the walls of the mountain on either side.

He hesitated slightly but then hastened his pace, rushing toward the canyon.

After a few swift leaps, Shen Luo arrived at the entrance of the canyon. He did not rashly rush in but instead leapt onto the left side of the mountain peak, to obtain a high vantage point, and peered down into the canyon.

It seemed as if a great battle had just taken place in the valley. The mountain walls on both sides showed signs of violent fighting, with many large boulders knocked down and piled up in the center of the canyon, completely blocking the way.

Shen Luo frowned as he immediately spotted behind the pile of rocks, leaning at an angle, a white-clad woman. By her looks, features, and the aura on her body, she seemed to be a member of the Human Race.

Her clothing was torn, her body covered in deep bone-exposing wounds, an arm chopped off and lying beside her. Her face was filled with terror as she watched two Demon men closing in on her.

One of the men had green skin and tusks, while the other had a horn on his forehead and double wings on his back. Both men were wrapped in an unmistakable Demonic Qi, not bothering to conceal it at all.

“Didn't the rules earlier say nothing about not eating each other?” the green-skinned Demon licked his sharp teeth and asked.

“They didn't,” the one-horned Demon responded coldly.

“If they didn't say it, it means we can. This woman is mine,” the green-skinned Demon said, salivating as he walked toward the woman.

“Idiot, drain her essence blood and mana quickly and let's go. We don't have time for you to gnaw on bones here. If more Humans come along later, we may not be able to cope,” the one-horned Demon scolded angrily.

“Humans are the most selfish, who would risk coming here?” the green-skinned Demon said unconcernedly.

“This woman is yours by agreement, do with her what you will. But if you want to dawdle here and be a live target, I won't stop you. I'll be leaving first,” the one-horned Demon rebuked.

With that, he truly abandoned the green-skinned Demon and walked toward the other exit of the canyon.

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