This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 230 - 225: Secret Realm Opens

Chapter 230: Chapter 225: Secret Realm Opens

Birds chirping softly, spring breezes sweeping through the woods, and the fragrance of flowers overflowing.

A common little deer hopped out by the clear flowing stream, cautiously scanning its surroundings. After detecting no threats, it relaxed and lowered its head to drink the water with loud gulps.

However, before it could drink much, it was scared by a tunneling light falling from the sky and frantically took to its heels.

"It should be here, no mistake."

The newcomer was naturally Liang Yi. After several days of travel, he finally found the place from his past life’s memory.

A stream located deep within the old forest.

Master Orange stood on Liang Yi’s shoulder, looking around, and saw no creature or plant with Spiritual Power. This place was as ordinary as they come, a completely unspectacular mountain.

"You’re saying the Qingyue Secret Realm is here?" Master Orange hopped onto the grass with glee, bouncing a couple of times before turning to look at Liang Yi squatting by the stream.

"Indeed, the entrance is here." Liang Yi dipped his hand into the cool stream, letting the water flow through the gaps between his fingers.

Judging the direction of the water flow, Liang Yi walked upstream. Master Orange, who was playing with a butterfly behind him, saw this and hurriedly abandoned the butterfly to follow Liang Yi.

One person and one cat, one after another.

As Liang Yi walked, he surveyed the area hoping to find the rock from his memory, recalling that the entrance Array was inside that rock.

This deep mountain was almost impossible to discover normally; even if a Cultivator passed by, they wouldn’t pay any attention to this place devoid of any fluctuations of Spiritual Energy.

Yet there will always be utterly bored individuals resolved to traverse every inch of the world—these are tomorrow’s "Scenery Enthusiasts" players.

You’ll never see them in brawls, but you’d see their traces in every beautiful scene.

This secret realm was discovered by a Scenery Enthusiast friend of Liang Yi’s who sent him the coordinates. That friend had no interest in secret realms, so he sent the coordinates to Liang Yi almost immediately.

And indeed, this small secret realm had nothing: it was poor as dirt.

However, just as Liang Yi regretfully prepared to leave, he stumbled upon the old, nearly incapacitated Array.

Curiosity piqued, Liang Yi took considerable effort to gather the necessary materials and repaired the once-use Array, through which he discovered another entrance to the Purple Cloud Phoenix Extreme Secret Realm.

However, due to his level, he didn’t manage to touch much before being caught by the Sword Cleanse Heavenly Pool. He wasn’t punished, though; after confirming the Array could indeed only be used once, the Sword Cleanse Heavenly Pool let Liang Yi leave.

Primarily because Liang Yi really hadn’t obtained much from inside, only after leaving did he realize he had been transported to the Purple Cloud Phoenix Extreme Secret Realm, and he deeply regretted it.

Now, he had gathered all the materials needed to repair the Array from the Demon Clan, and he could now proceed directly to the repairs.

"Oh? Found it." Liang Yi walked and stopped, finally spotting a large bluish rock beside the upstream.

"Just this?" Master Orange leaped, jumping directly from one side to the top of the large blue stone across the stream.

"Nothing special about this either."

Puzzled, Master Orange tapped and felt the stone with his paw, fiddling around for a while but finding no Mystical Mechanism, and even his Divine Sense under investigation revealed nothing but a normal blue rock, perhaps just slightly harder?

"The back door of Purple Cloud Sect wouldn’t be found so easily, would it? If so, it wouldn’t be the back door, but the main door," Liang Yi said with a slight smile, then leaped to the grass beside the blue rock.

Master Orange stood above with a "let’s see what you can do" expression, watching this youngster pull some tricks.

As Liang Yi closed his eyes and placed his right hand on the surface of the blue rock, feeling its rough surface.

A breeze started to rise, the canopy of trees shaking, the grass swaying, with Sword Qi from Liang Yi stirring everything around, most concentrated around his palm.

When Sword Qi penetrated from the surface to the inside of the blue rock, and under Liang Yi’s subtle control, a barely detectable Array was discovered, a faint glow lit up on the rock under Liang Yi’s palm, which then brightened enormously, expanding from the size of a palm directly to the size of a door.

"Alright, the door is open. Come on down," Liang Yi retracted his hand and called to Master Orange above him.

Grandpa Ju curiously leapt lightly, gently landing on Liang Yi’s shoulder, still baffled.

Clearly, the rock under his investigation was just an ordinary rock. How could it hide an Array?

Shaking his head, Grandpa Ju took out some dried fish to soothe his gloom.

After Liang Yi and the others entered, the grand light gate on the bluestone disappeared, and the deep mountain woodland regained its rightful silence; warm sunlight pierced through layers of tree leaves, casting spots of light on the forest path.

Extreme East, Sword Cleanse Heavenly Pool.

Snow swirled in the sky and the howling cold wind was sharp, but it couldn’t get close to the figures at the mountain top.

In front of Zhou Yuzhi and others was a Snow Mountain Heavenly Pond. The extraordinary feature here was that the pond water never froze despite the extremely low temperature.

Yet, it was the entrance to the Purple Cloud Phoenix Extreme Secret Realm.

"Has everyone entered?"

Zhou Yuzhi looked up at the empty lake surface, which had just been densely filled with many young people.

"Yes, Sect Master. A total of one hundred and thirteen people from other Super Forces and First-Grade Sects have all entered the Purple Cloud Phoenix Extreme Secret Realm," said an attendant dressed in a white Taoist robe and carrying a longsword, bowing respectfully.

"Okay, let’s temporarily close this area and wait for their return."

Zhou Yuzhi gave the clear, transparent pool water one last look, then turned and disappeared into the snowstorm.

With the addition of Su Youyi this time, their harvest at Sword Cleanse Heavenly Pool should be even more abundant.

The attendants behind him activated the Great Formation carved on Snow Mountain, linking it with the Protector Sect Great Formation, temporarily sealing off the entire mountain while awaiting the return of those in the Secret Realm.

Based on past experience, it should last around two months at most.

Inside the Purple Cloud Phoenix Extreme Secret Realm.

A dizzying sensation struck, and when Su Youyi next opened her eyes, gripping her longsword, she was no longer amidst the icy snow but at the foot of a mountain.

Before her eyes was an imposingly beautiful Immortal Mountain, surrounded by mist, with cranes crying and flying around!

"Junior Sister Su!" A lazy voice sounded from behind Su Youyi.

"Senior Brother Ke." After recognizing the person, Su Youyi turned around and bowed slightly.

Behind her was Ke Mengzhan from Sword Cleanse Heavenly Pool, currently the only True Inheritor from Sword Cleanse Heavenly Pool to reach the Fifth Realm with the appropriate bone age.

Since her master allowed her to temporarily act with Sword Cleanse Heavenly Pool, she had no grounds to refuse.

After helping Ke Mengzhan gain some opportunities to settle debts, she would then seek her own opportunities.

"Senior Brother Ke, being the master of this Secret Realm, should know something about it, right?" Su Youyi pondered then bravely asked.

She had no clue about this place, and her master had not informed her about what conditions were inside the Secret Realm, so she was utterly confused now.

"Sorry, I was too busy sleeping, didn’t catch what master said..." Ke Mengzhan yawned, his sleepy eyes indicating he hadn’t slept enough.

Seeing Ke Mengzhan, who likely knew very little and was even planning to find a place to sleep first, Su Youyi felt somewhat headache.

"Is he really planning on thoroughly sleeping before exploring the Secret Realm?"

Although Su Youyi had met Ke Mengzhan a few times in Qingliang City, she still highly doubted his interest in sleeping surpassed that in cultivation.

Thankfully, the development of events hadn’t yet taken a turn for the worst.