Chapter 259: Gathering of Experts

Two mountain ranges away from East Extremity Mountain, Lu Zheng and over sixty martial practitioners stood in a deserted valley. A grand spatial gate stood before them.

An Yin had already explained the situation to Lu Zheng and Immortal Star. Exactly seven days ago, Gu Clan, a clan with equal strength as a Palace, had discovered a secret realm at the periphery of Eight Extremities Palace's territory. Naturally, they could not hide it from Eight Extremities Palace.

In order to avoid being cheated since Eight Extremities Palace was very strong, Gu Clan shared the news with three other clans, Dong Clan, Yi Clan and Xiong Clan.

Eight Extremities Palace was very strong but two fists cannot rival four palms, they had to concede to the strength of four Palace ranked clans. The five forces would all share the secret realm with Eight Extremities taking the highest amount of people in and the other clans, with the exception of Gu Clan, taking the same number of martial practitioners in.

Yet, when the five forces initially attempted entering the secret realm, they discovered that experts above the Original realm could not enter the secret realm. In fact, only five Original realm experts could enter the secret realm at a time but any number of weaker martial practitioners could enter.

The Clan Heads all felt insecure if they could not enter the secret realm. They had to change their plans.

They forced Eight Extremities Palace into agreeing that they could only take a certain number of martial practitioners into the secret realm.

Eventually, they all agreed to take one Original realm expert from each force and eleven Acquisition realm experts. Eight Extremities Palace was strong and Gu Clan discovered the secret realm, exceptions had to be made.

After much deliberation, Eight Extremities Palace was allowed to take fourteen Acquisition realm experts while Gu Clan could take twelve. But there was still one flaw.

None of the five forces had enough Acquisition realm experts.

Eight Extremities Palace planned swiftly. They created the Envoy system to take in strong lone martial practitioners and barely, they managed to complete their quota. The clans had low quotas already. All they had to do was to sacrifice some face and invite lone martial practitioners and even demonic path martial practitioners.

Finally, they were all assembled here, sixty four martial warriors representing the five forces. Nobody dared to make a fuss.

The Clan Heads were all present but the King of Eight Extremities Palace did not come, East Extremity came in his stead. They were to ensure that nobody cheated the other.

After a short while, the spatial gate opened and a part of the secret realm could be seen. The grasses were tall with different colours and the sky was dim red.

An Yin was Eight Extremities Palace's Original realm expert. The Eight Extremities could not be bothered to explore a secret realm.

"You should be careful when we enter the secret realm. Nobody knows what is inside the secret realm. It is also possible that we do not even end up together. Also, I have a feeling that the clans may be conspiring against us. Trust no one except for yourselves"

The martial practitioners of Eight Extremities Palace moved into the spatial gate and after them was Gu Clan. Soon, only the Clan Heads and East Extremity was left in the space before the spatial gate.

The spatial gate flickered for some time and its light disappeared. The vital stones that provided Qi for the spatial gate broke and turned into fine powder and the space Qi that had gathered dispersed.

The Clan Heads had different expressions as they gazed solemnly at the spatial gate. Only East Extremity was calm and composed. Without even attempting to socialise with the Clan Heads, he turned into a streak of light that flew into East Extremity Mountain.

The Eight Extremities of Eight Extremities Palace were cultivation maniacs. They spent every passing moment honing their techniques and cultivating. The manners of the righteous path were completely foreign to them.

The Clan Heads spoke for some time and after some customary greetings, they also returned to their clans. From that moment onwards, no one could interfere with whatever happened in the secret realm.