"Great, my name is Yao Chen."
Yao Chen introduced himself.
"so Yao Chen, where are you from?" Anna asked tilting her head.
"I am from another world, you know there are a lot of people like you and me."
for some reason, Yao Chen was getting nervous. even though he invited her to come With him, but why? she isn't anything to him.
so why did he?
'I think there isn't a reason as to why? the secret realm is already opened and there will be people now and then. often it might not be a problem for her, but she is too naive, I can not let anyone take advantage of her.'
there are a lot of people in the sects too. and then... she might be strong but ultimately there's always someone stronger.
"Anna don't worry we will definitely find your mama."
"Yes!"
'even if we can't you would come to understand by then.'
that being said he decided to take her with him. It's still unknown as to why he wanted to take her with him, he doesn't understand this as well, he is just doing what he felt is right.
"oh, by the way, Anna you live here, so you must be familiar with this place right?"
"yes, Anna knows everything around here." she nodded happily.
"then can you tell me if you have seen this type of herb before?"
Yao Chen showed her a picture from a book.
"umm.. come with me," she said as she walked away.
he followed her. after walking for a while his eyes widened with surprise.
in front of him, there's a vast and colourful garden.
'well.. that was easy."
he looked at her bright smile and sighed.
'she can be easily taken advantage of.'
but whenever he looked at her face he felt familiarity. like he had seen her before for sure.
"so Anna, you are here for thousands of years, right? "
"Yes, Anna was born here and grew up with mama," she said
"so what do you eat?" he asked curiously, he heard of experts in the heavenly spirit realm who can live without eating, just by cultivating.
"Anna eats this," she pointed at a nearby tree.
there are red berries packed in it.
he was shocked to core eating the crimson spirit fruits on a daily bases?
"i-i see... so you must be strong right?" he asked, as for the reason of her being so mysterious and weird he can not guess at all.
"umm... I felt a lot stronger after I woke up." Yao Chen's heartbeat fastened after she woke up?
' does that mean she had a breakthrough? that makes sense. '
"so you don't know what is your cultivation?"
"Mama said I was in the heavenly spirit realm," she said confused by him.
'Heavenly spirit realm? looks like I am being paranoid for nothing, who can take advantage of her... wait!'
"your mama said? does that mean a thousand years ago?" Yao Chen's hands are trembling.
"yes, she said there more in the path of cultivation. I don't know."
Yao Chen was confused, he kept staring at her.
"good," he looked away and went to pick some herbs, but in his heart, he was very upset. a naive and innocent girl with monstrous strength, while he was working his ass off, but still couldn't feel the spiritual energy.
'well... it's good if she follows me she can protect me in case.'
"hm.. these are the ones mentioned in the 3rd chapter." he picked up a lot of herbs in his spatial storage pouch.
it's a cheap one and has only 3 cubic meters of space inside.
he put as much as he could inside it.
after his storage pouch is full, he went back to her side.
he looked at a lot of rare herbs he picked. it's better to take all of this but he didn't have enough space.
"Yao Chen, come with me there is something I want to show you."
"wait!"
she grabbed him and pulled him along with her.
.....
in the base camp of the Spirit Unison sect,
"grandpa Lin, look I broke through."
Pan Xiaofan cried out in joy.
"It has been only four hours yet you broke through to the 7th stage of the profound spirit realm. good good."
"Elder Lin, over here, we have already prepared everything, let's get to business."
the 3rd elder Liao Yujin said.
"sure, but first let's split into two groups, with two elders protecting each." Elder Lin suggested.
the spirit unison sect had a good atmosphere among the disciples, so there aren't any problems regarding unity.
only some disciples are exceptions.
that being said, Pan Xiaofan went inside a tent to rest.
the elder led the disciples and divided them into two groups to look for treasures in each direction.
'phew... the spiritual energy here is dense. I might reach the middle stage of 8th stage of the profound spirit realm."
...
on the other side Zhong Xuan, Du Lin and the princess kept walking.
Zhong Xuan and Du Lin both were in the true spirit realm, but Zhao Ling is only in the profound spirit realm.
but because of the fact that she is the eldest princess, no one dared to offend her and quietly followed her.
"hey, Du Lin, the princess is so beautiful, what do you think?" Zhang Xuan whispered.
"shut the fuck off. if you dare to offend her, the sect master will personally deal with you." Du Lin whispered back.
"Hey, you two! what should we do? even though we have 13days but there isn't any domain or levels in this plane. how do we find the exit?" Zhao Ling asked,
"that... I heard from the elder they had talismans that can detect the exit gate. we just need to find them." Du Lin spoke.
"I see... it's better if we find them quickly. this area has dense spiritual energy. we can start cultivating." Zhao Ling sighed.
"Look! what's that?" Zhong Xuan exclaimed,
there was a cave in front of them.
but that isn't the most surprising thing. the surprising thing is it's was a well-structured gate. two dragons facing each other with the pillars of dark granite.
"this... looks like some ancient ruins?" Du Lin spoke.
"maybe, this is the core of this plane?" Zhao Lin spoke.
"let's not get involved in this. it's giving off a creepy vibe."
they looked at the entrance, they could barely see a few meters in depth.
they decided to stay out of this and moved forward.
as soon as they left a dark fog came out of the cave and hovered around a bit.
"tsk, these kids are pretty smart." a creepy old voice resounded.
unbeknownst to this, the trio went forward.
.....
"Elder Tan look! that's sister Zhao Ling."
a disciple from the Divine Phoenix sect shouted.
another elder from the divine Phoenix sect 'Tan Ming' noticed her and rushed there.
"Elder Tan!" Zhao Ling bowed.
"haah... it's really you, great. are you alright?"
"I am alright!"
"and these two."
"oh.. they are disciples from the divine sword sect, they also got separated from the rest of their team. I met them coincidentally."
Zhao Ling explained.
"I see.. you two! follow us it's not safe at night. we are lucky that there aren't any beasts around here or it might be very troublesome."
the elder sighed.
"Okay!" Zhong Xuan and Du Lin followed them.
the relationship between these two sects is always good so there isn't much of a problem taking them with them.
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