Chapter 41: Out of Secret Realm

On the way back, Yun Shang and his companions encountered several groups of robbers and treasure hunters. Most cultivators avoided them because they were numerous and their cultivation was basically in the late stage of Qi training. However, there were some who were blind.

"Hand over your storage bags, and we will spare your lives."

"Why?"

"With the weapons in our hands, since you don't know what's good for you, I'll send you on your way."

After saying that, they launched an attack just like Yun Shang and the others. To be honest, this group of people were quite strong and it seemed that they robbed people frequently. The battle was over soon and the group of people was captured by Yun Shang and the others.

"Wait a minute, just take their storage bags, there's no need to hurt their lives." Seeing a Du family disciple about to kill one of the cultivators, Yun Shang stopped him.

"Fellow Daoist Yun, people like this should not be let go. If we don't kill them today, they will turn around and kill us when we meet them in the future. Besides, they are here to steal our things, so we should teach them a lesson." said the sixth son of the Du family.

After Du Laoliu finished speaking, no one else in the Du family spoke, as if they agreed with her words. Du Laoliu looked at Yun Shang with a bit of complacency, which made Yun Shang wonder, as if she didn't provoke her.

"No, please let us go, we won't dare to do it again." A monk who was captured said quickly.

"Taking their storage bags means that their entry into the secret realm is in vain. This is a lesson for them. Why do we need to take their lives?" Yun Shang continued. Although she had never faced life and death, nor had she killed anyone, she was not a soft-hearted person. She just felt that it was unnecessary. The secret realm was about to be closed, and it was not easy to survive until now.

"How can we do this? What if they come to cause trouble for us once we get out of the secret realm? You have to be a good person and don't use us as scapegoats." Du Laoliu immediately retorted.

Yun Shang didn't expect Du Laoliu to say that, and she didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Xiao Liu, talk less. I think if you swear an oath in your heart that you won't cause us trouble when you get out and you won't attack us if we meet you in the future, then we will let you go." Boss Du said.

"Okay, okay, we'll swear right now that we won't cause you any trouble after we get out, and we won't attack you if we meet you next time. Otherwise, we won't make any progress in our cultivation for the rest of our lives." The captured monks swore immediately.

"Hmph, you guys got a bargain, get lost." Du Laoliu said fiercely. Then he went to the other side and ignored others.

"Don't mind it. Most cultivators do this. There are very few like you." Xia Tianwang looked at Yun Shang standing aside, walked up to her and said.

"Really? If you hadn't met a rare monk like me, you probably wouldn't be standing here. I just think it's not easy for everyone, maybe we should give others a chance." Yun Shang said as she looked at the end of the forest. What if her life and death were in the hands of others? No, she must be a strong person and not put her life in the hands of others. This was the biggest touch Yun Shang felt when she saw those monks kneeling on the ground and begging them to spare their lives.

The Du family also heard Yun Shang's answer. The sixth son of the Du family seemed to want to say something, but was persuaded by other Du family members.

Who would care about a stranger who just met by chance? She thought sarcastically. Yun Shang didn't want anything she got from other cultivators. Now she just wanted to get to the exit of the secret realm quickly so that she could separate from them.

In the following days, they encountered several waves of robbers. Yun Shang quickly knocked them down and told them to get out. After a few times, few cultivators dared to provoke them. However, her behavior made several cultivators of the Du family unhappy, especially Du Laoliu.

By the fire at night, Yun Shang was chewing on spiritual fruit while thinking about the gains from this secret realm.

Watching Yun Shang leisurely chewing the spiritual fruits without sharing some with them, those spiritual fruits looked delicious, but she didn't even ask them and just ate them alone.

Thinking of the waves of people who were driven away by Yun Shang, Du Laoliu felt a nameless anger in his heart, "Fellow Daoist Yun, what do you mean by coming all the way here? You have a background and don't need those things, but do we still need them?"

"What do you mean? Are you saying that those people were driven away these times? I just don't want to see anyone die. If you are really not used to it, we can go separately." Yun Shang said indifferently.

"Senior Sister Yun, that's not what my Xiaoliu meant." Du Laosan said.

"Then tell me what it means?" Yun Shang looked at this cultivator with sarcasm, who was actually older than her but looked younger than her.

"It's just not interesting, just don't think too much about it," Du Laosan said hurriedly, then turned and left.

Haha, don't think too much. Do you know how to speak?

The eldest brother of the Du family anxiously winked at his sixth sister, asking her to stop talking. Du Sheng guessed that Yun Shang must be from a noble family, otherwise she, a cultivator who had reached the great perfection of Qi training, would not be able to kill a fifth-level monster.

It must be something that her elders gave her to save her life; that compound formation, that thing is not easily available to ordinary people; and that profound strength, the elixir she took out casually and the spiritual fruit she ate. Xiaoliu may not know what spiritual fruit it is, but he knows that it is a high-level spiritual fruit that can eliminate impurities from the body and beautify the skin. It is very popular among high-level female cultivators. This kind of person can only be made friends with, not offended. If you can make friends with them, you will benefit a lot.

Two days before the secret realm was closed, Yun Shang and the others rushed to the exit, waiting for it to open and be teleported out.

Linglong Secret Realm is closed and will be reopened after ten years

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When she arrived at the exit of the secret realm, Yun Shang looked around and found that the other disciples seemed not to have arrived yet, so they were probably still on the way.

"Sister, are you looking for something?"

"No, I just think other disciples haven't come yet."

"Is that so? Senior Sister, have you ever been to the inner peak of the sect? Is the spiritual energy there really several times more concentrated than that of the outer peak?"

"It's not that exaggerated, but it is definitely thicker."

In the past few years, Yun Shang has also visited many places in Immortal Sword Sect and knows that the spiritual energy on the peak where the outer disciples are located is not very strong.

"I'm so envious."

"If you practice hard, you will have a chance to enter the inner peak."

"Really? I will definitely try my best."

"Of course, hard work pays off."

After leaving the secret realm and boarding the spaceship back to the sect, Yun Shang felt at ease, but she was still a little impatient. Three months, she was alone outside for three months, and she was still very capable. In fact, as long as you dare to try many things, you will find that things are not as complicated as you think.

Most of the disciples on the spaceship were discussing the gains from this secret realm. They were all talking and planning about using the materials they collected to exchange for more resources for cultivation.

After returning to the sect and getting off the spaceship, Yun Shang said goodbye to Xia Tianwang and ignore Du Sheng and others as she really doesn't have a good feeling for them, then left.

"Xia Tianwang, is Senior Sister Yun Feng really an outer disciple?" Du Lao San asked a little unconvinced.

"Well, I'm not really sure."

"Then why do you say she is an outer disciple?"

"Okay, third brother, let's go back quickly."

It's only been three months since I left Yunhai Peak, and she miss it so much. Yun Shang first went to Qingmu Daojun's cave and reported to him what happened in this secret realm.

"Master, there's something bothering disciple."

"What is it?"

"Master, when the groups of robbers want to rob and counter-attacked, others want to kill them as a matter of course, but disciple averse of it and decline to kill them. Then other say this is normal and afraid being retaliated. Is disciple wrong, Master?"

Qingmu Daojun was surprised that her disciple soft-hearted and adverse of killing, but it's understable.

"Why you don't kill them?"

"Because disciple doesn't want unnecessary killing, and from the start they don't post a threat to disciple so thinking just killing them just like that make her feel uncomfortable"

"Your reason is valid, but in this world there's no single answer for everythings and people's heart are hard to guards against, but this kind of things is something you have to experience it yourself to understand so Master will not tell much. Oh, when your Great Master know master accept disciple, She ask master to give this jade slip to you. This is communication tools that can connect to another realm."

"Great Master!? Is it really alright for disciple to own it?" Yun Shang was shocked, great master means Qingmu Daojun's master, right? They must have be a bigshot, it really make her nervous.

"You don't have to be so nervous, although your great master is a little eccentric, She was great person."

It's easy for Master to say! It make her more nervous. 

Qingmu Daojun encouraged Yun Shang a few words and let her go back to rest.

Before leaving, Yun Shang took out the Medicine King Cauldron that flew into the dantian and showed it to Qingmu Daojun. In the end, Qingmu Daojun couldn't tell what grade of spiritual weapon it was, so he just told Yun Shang to keep it well.

After leaving Taoist Qingmu's cave, Yun Shang went to Lin Luo's cave to thank him for the talisman he gave her.

Yun Shang felt relaxed all over after returning to her cave, she lay on the bed to rest for a while.