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Chapter 4870: 5.0622 Trespassing

Seeing her unusual expression, Murong Fei knew she had misunderstood and quickly said, "Junior Sister, this secret realm probably opens once every three years, and the passage opens each time. We basically rotate groups of guardians every two turns."

This meant a period of five or six years, after which a new batch of guardians would be rotated in.

Qiao Mu "Oh-ed," feigning an air of "I'm not interested in the arrangements of the five great aristocratic families."

Murong Fei cleared her throat and added, "There won't be any problems here in the outer perimeter. Strictly speaking, you only truly enter the secret realm's interior by passing through the Sacred Gate opened by the Gilded Bronze Key."

Qiao Mu: !

Why didn't you say so earlier, making me hastily reveal my plans to escape to Qin Da and the others, darn it!

Young Master Da smiled. "Typically, ancient natural secret realms have teleportation restrictions, and many other restrictions too. They're not as lenient as ancestral legacy secret realms."

Qiao Mu kept a cold face, squinted at Young Master Da, and silently turned to walk away.

Hmph!

His words implied that even if everyone enters the Sacred Gate opened by the Gilded Bronze Key, I might not be able to escape?

Heh... who would believe that?

Once inside, Qiao Qiao will still run without a hitch!

The group wound their way through this bamboo forest for an unknown duration. A disciple from a minor aristocratic family couldn't help but whisper, "Where could the other people be?"

Earlier at the campsite, when the Sacred Lotus Realm abruptly opened, the light of teleportation enveloped everyone.

Theoretically, including the elderly, weak, women, and children, their group of about a thousand people had been transported into the secret realm.

Yet, strangely, they had been circling in this bamboo forest for what felt like half an hour but still hadn't seen anyone else.

Qiao Mu also felt a bit uneasy.

Most of the people were ordinary commoners with no cultivation. If possible, it would be best to teleport them out as quickly as possible.

"I recognize this place. It's not far ahead," Murong Zhao said, hastily quickening his pace, occasionally looking back to urge his brother and sister.

"Just ahead from here, you can see the guards of the five great aristocratic families..." No sooner had Murong Zhao spoken than he abruptly stopped.

He was at the very front, and his sudden halt naturally caused everyone else to stop with him.

Everyone looked over and couldn't help but feel a slight shock.

Dozens of corpses lay scattered haphazardly on the ground, strewn along the path leading to the Sacred Gate.

These bodies were already unrecognizably blurred and desiccated, looking as if they had been dead for many years.

"What happened?" Murong Fei's heart also tightened. She quickly followed her two brothers to check on the Murong family disciples.

But there was nothing substantial left to examine.

These bodies were basically skeletons, and their clothing was tattered beyond recognition.

Murong Fei and her brothers could barely identify about ten disciples from the tags exposed at their waists. The three siblings' expressions instantly turned solemn.

The disciples sent to guard the Sacred Lotus Realm all mysteriously died at the entrance of the Sacred Gate?

What did this mean?

Had someone broken in and opened the gate long ago?

"What's going on?" Murong Yan murmured with a frown. "Could it be an elder from the Forgotten River Duo Clan again, trespassing into this Sacred Gate?"

Duo Shanmei had been hiding at the back, like a silent little quail.

Now, hearing the Murong clan slander her family, she could no longer endure it.