Chapter 52

In the corners of his heart Mimi whispered, just like how you were my lord. The old ghost's eyes landed on Tian Mengshen. The old ghost quietly handed the contract to Tian Mengshen. Tian Mengshen's ghostly small hands signed the contract.

Even now my lord you still seek my council, Mimi couldn't help but smile.

Tian Mengshen saw the look on the old ghost's face and said nothing.

A small burst of spiritual energy surrounded Tian Mengshen. Seeping into his skin. His meridians felt warm.

He was now Tian Mengshen, the disciple of the Ghost Venerable, Luo Huifang.

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"So this is why Xiao Jing always told us that none of her sworn siblings will visit us." Yellow Prance hummed, there was a hint of redness on her cheeks. Her hands reached out for Feng Delun's cheeks.

Feng Delun retreated a few steps away from Yellow Prance.

"Oh, are you a shy one perhaps? Don't worry there's nothing to be shy of. Your beauty should not be hidden away!" Yellow Prance proclaimed righteously.

Feng Delun effectively dodged Yellow Prance's hands. The array master sent a questioning look towards his sworn sibling.

Wu Jinjing, the party who invited Feng Delun over for his help, looked like she was about to die from embarrassment. This was why she never took any of her sworn siblings back home and introduced them to Yellow Prance!

Yellow Prance was an overbearing person. She'll throw her body weight around not to suppress others, but to squish them. Squish as in "squish"....

When Wu Jinjing was a little girl, Yellow Prance would hug her tight. Carry Wu Jinjing around on her back. Where Yellow Prance was, Wu Jinjing will be attached to the tree demon. Back then Wu Jinjing was like a little necklace hung around Yellow Prance.

Wu Jinjing didn't know why Yellow Prance had this little fascination over living beings that the tree demon could potentially squish under her palms. She had a lot of theory for Yellow Prance's fascination, all of which seemed more impossible than the next.

She shook her head. She could think about why Yellow Prance was so crazy another day. Right now she needs to stop the tree demon from molesting her elder brother.

Hooking her arms beneath Yellow Prance's, Wu Jinjing pulled and restrained the tree demon. "Yellow Prance, elder brother is here to help us move the secret realm. If you keep on distracting him, he won't be able to move the realm."

"Oh…"

"..."

What was that response? It sounded like Yellow Prance didn't know the consequences of harassing Feng Delun. Or has the tree demon forgot all pretenses of human etiquette.

Yellow Prance cleared her throat. "You may release me Jinjing. I won't try and bite your elder brother."

Wu Jinjing doubts that. But she still moved away and released Yellow Prance.

Smiling, Yellow Prance properly greeted Feng Delun this time. "I am Yellow Prance. This hidden realm's overseer. Thank you for looking after our little Jinjing."

Yellow Prance's image was swinging around like a pendulum. She was trying to squish Feng Delun between her hands. Now she was a graceful host.

"Stop calling me little." Wu Jinjing mumbled.

Feng Delun nodded. After what happened he was rather wary of Yellow Prance and decided to keep his distance from the tree demon. Feng Delun decided to forgo his politeness and tackle the purpose that brought him here. "May I have a look around the realm?"

"Of course."

The three floated up high into the air. Feng Delun had a clear view of the secret realm entirety.

Feng Delun was not expecting this secret realm to be larger than the Da dynasty. Larger than the largest recorded Da dynasty secret realm by five times.

There's a high possibility that the maker of this realm was an immortal who had ascended to celestia a long time ago. "I am guessing that you were here since this realm was created?" Feng Delun asked

"My, oh my, asking my age already?" Yellow Prance fluttered her eyes rapidly.

Came Wu Jinjing's exasperated voice, "Yellow Prance…"

"Let me play a little Jinjing." Yellow Prance tutted. Then the tree demon decided to answer Feng Delun's question, "I am as old as this realm itself. My exact age in human standards should be a few tens of thousands."

Feng Delun jerked and looked towards Yellow Prance in surprise. Wu Jinjing was not as surprised as her elder brother. She had roughly estimated Yellow Prance's age through counting the tree demon's original body form's trunk's layer. Each year a tree ages a new layer to their trunk will be formed.

Feng Delun's gaze returned towards the realm's entirety. Tens of thousands of years ago was a long time even for a cultivator's standards. As a master of arrays Feng Delun has the ability to discrete hidden array formations without seeing its physical form. From a first glance the arrays that formed and kept this pouch of plane of existence, was an exquisite work of art.

There were parts to the arrays that Feng Delun recognized as the arrays creator's personal array technique. It did not look like the array's people were using nowadays. Squinting his eyes, he could see that sections and parts of this array reminded him of several array formation's base roots.

Those array formations were not tens of thousands years old. They were at least five thousand years old. Perhaps this realm's array formation was the origin, the source of inspiration for all those array formations.

There would always be a person out there that would claim what others have created as their own.

Feng Delun wondered, 'Curious… perhaps there is something in this realm that might give us some clues as to this realm's creator's.' Then he asked Yellow Prance if there was anything in this realm that looked out of the ordinary.

"Out of the ordinary?" Yellow Prance took a moment to herself, the tree demon tilted her head to the side, as she had recalled something. "I suppose the little house near my bed of earth is out of the ordinary."

Wu Jinjing frowned. "What house?"

Yellow Prance did not loiter and led them to the house.

As the tree demon had said the house was small. It was not out of shape after all the years it spent unattended.

"Why have I never noticed this house before?" Wu Jinjing was in disbelief.

"It was cloaked, hidden." Feng Delun crouched down and examined the array formation that kept the house hidden. "It slipped out of my notice."

Wu Jinjing was surprised, "Even elder brother missed this house?!"

"I've only found this house myself a thousand years after I gained my sentience." Yellow Prance admitted.

There was a possibility that this cloaking array was also the very same reason this secret realm was left undetected for so long. Feng Delun studied the array, prodding his spiritual energy to it. This array indeed stretched outwards from the house and covered the realm.

It was divided into three layers. The third layer of the cloaking array was outside, by the secret realm's perimeter. The second layer covered the inside of the secret realm. While the third covered the house.

Dividing the cloaking array into three layers made the first layer's cloaking the most potent.

Why was this house so important.

Feng Delun asked Yellow Prance, "Have you been inside?"

"Yes, it's nothing but an ordinary human house. Though… I suppose the style looked different from the human houses I've observed."

They went inside of the house. Two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, a tea room, and a small hall. It was too ordinary to be well hidden.

The style and the appliances within the house was reminding Wu Jinjing and Feng Delun of something similar.

Wu Jinjing was studying a cupboard with a perseverance and temperature control array. "Elder brother don't you think this house—"

"We'll have Lan Jianhong and Jiang Xiaotong look over it." No use for them to overthink of the possibility as to whom this house might have belonged to. "Let's focus on moving this realm."

Feng Delun went out of the secret realm. To the third layer of the cloaking array.

"Shouldn't you be inside if you were to try and move this realm?" Yellow prance was confused.

"It depends on what type the secret realm is. Secret realms are space — or planes of existence — that are compressed into a medium with many arrays holding it together. The medium could be a pouch or a mountain.

"Depending on the medium used, the secret realm will either be a stationary realm or a mobile realm. The medium used is the core of the secret realm. This secret realm is a stationary one. Which used this entire mountain as its core."

From the outside the secret realm took the shape of a nondescript mountain. Far from civilization and the chances of any mortal settling nearby was low.

The owner of the realm had calculated this factor when hiding this realm.

"Stand back." Feng Delun ordered.