these were just thoughts she had in her heart, and she wouldn't be foolish enough to say them directly to Sang. She had a whole winter season to find a suitable excuse to delay the bonding ceremony....When ripples and Kang Lewen arrived at the Hall of Succession, there were no cultivators around. Apparently, they were the first to arrive.

Kangle Wen was restless and couldn't stay still. He stepped forward and tried to push open the door of the Chuan Cheng Hall, but a barrier blocked him back.

"Senior sister, we can't get in now."

"Don't worry, just wait a while. Maybe the barrier will open once enough people have gathered or when a specific time arrives."

Ripples was not in a hurry. In her over a thousand years of cultivation, she didn't know how many such secret realms she had entered.

On her way to the Hall of Succession, she found many high-grade spirit plants and spirit fruits, hunted down several third-order monsters, and the monster cores and flesh she harvested were enough for her to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage.

So she casually found a place and set up an isolating formation, then began her cultivation. Because she clearly felt that the spiritual energy around the Transmission Hall was denser than outside the secret realm, her cultivation now had no bottleneck. After leaving the secret realm, she would still have to experience the Golden Core tribulation, so it was most practical to improve her cultivation as quickly as possible.

Kang Le circled around the Chuan Cheng Dian before returning to the front of the main hall, where he saw that Qiao Shijie had already begun her cultivation. A massive spiritual energy cocoon had formed around her, causing his eyes to twitch uncontrollably. In the end, he released a formation disk and began his own cultivation.

When the ripples woke up again from their meditation, three days had passed. She had absorbed the entire energy cocoon, stabilizing her cultivation at the peak of the early Golden Core stage, before stepping out of the isolation formation.

When ripples hugged the whirlwind out, disciples of the Five Aggregates Sect immediately surrounded them. After all, Ripples was the one who reminded everyone about the demonic cultivators infiltrating the secret realm, and she was also the one who discovered the Hall of Inheritance and informed everyone. Ripples had unwittingly become their backbone.

"Senior Qiao, have you encountered a demonic cultivator"

"Senior Sister Qiao, the three of us encountered evil cultivators. Their cultivation levels were all suppressed at the peak of the late foundation-building stage. If we hadn't exploded a magic treasure, it would have been very difficult to escape."

“We encountered a demonic cultivator who was ambushing other cultivators halfway through our journey, so we attacked him. However, the guy realized he was outnumbered and ran away by crushing a teleportation talisman.”

"We also encountered them, but it was too late. They had already killed two disciples of the Yue Ming Gate, and we were unable to save them."

The ripples were surrounded by everyone, listening to everything everyone said. Then she calmly pressed her hand down, and the disciples instantly fell silent.

"Be on guard, everyone. Don't think that just because we're gathered here the demons won't be able to get to us. In fact, being together now makes it even easier for them to capture all of us at once."

"When the transmission hall opens in a while, that'll be their best chance to attack. Open all your defenses and don't be stingy with resources. If you lose your life, you lose everything."

With just a few words, the ripples stabilized the disciples of the Five Aggregates Sect. Everyone nodded in agreement and then activated their secret self-preservation techniques.

At this time, Ran MiaoLan was also walking over with the disciples of Yunxian Sect:

"Hello, old friend, it's nice to see you again."

"Ran, Daoist friend, how are the casualties among your sect's disciples"

Several outer sect disciples have gone missing. It's unknown whether they were replaced by evil cultivators or killed, and some disciples are too far from the Inheritance Hall to arrive in time.

Ran Miaolan needed allies, moreover, she still had suppressed demonic energy within her. Therefore, Liàn Yī who had helped her before became the best candidate in her eyes.

"Now twenty days have passed, and in ten days the secret realm will close. After we leave, we'll report to Captain Lao about the situation, and the elders should have a way to deal with it."

"Yes, I estimate that I will experience the Golden Core realm's tribulation when I leave the secret realm. The details of the matter will be told to Captain Lao by my fellow disciples from the sect."

Just now I checked, the barrier in front of the Hall of Succession has weakened and will probably open automatically in one or two days.

As soon as Ran Miaolan finished speaking, the grand entrance of the Chuancheng Hall opened silently. In that moment of hesitation from the crowd, a lone cultivator rushed in first. After his figure disappeared completely within the doors, the remaining cultivators swarmed towards the entrance, none wanting to miss this opportunity.

The ripples absorbed both the whirlwind and the purple tortoise into the Spirit Beast Ring. With a flash of her figure, she also entered the grand hall of the ancestral temple.

" Qiao Lianyi, you have come to this today. Didn't you vow to hunt us down before You even wanted to self-destruct and drag us down with you. I see that you've lost your golden core, how are you going to self-destruct now"

Du Le Le's smug voice drifted into Lian Yi's ears.

After she opened her eyes, she saw Du Lel and Yun Ruibin standing before her. One was smug, the other indifferent. Lian Ri looked down at her dantian, where a bloody hole was gaping. Her golden core was suspended in Du Lel's palm.

Ripples clenched her fist, her gaze lingering on the golden elixir. A flicker of doubt crossed her eyes before she turned to Yun Ruibin and said coldly:

“Yun Ru Bin, you scum worse than a pig or a dog, you actually colluded with this demon woman to destroy my Wuyun Sect entirely, staining your hands with the blood of all our disciples. Such a grave sin, heaven must be blind to let you ascend!”

I curse you to be struck by lightning, your soul scattering, and never able to ascend!

A long string of curses poured from Lian Ri's mouth, the words "unable to ascend" successfully enraging Yun Ru Bin. His figure flashed, and he clamped his hand around Lian Ri's neck, as if intending to strangle her.

Under the ripples, she subconsciously reached out and grasped his wrist. Her counterattack took Yun Ruibin by surprise, and in the next second, his other hand, wielding a sword, lunged towards Lian Ri's chest.

Ripples didn't even think, he clenched his fist and swung out, missing the opponent's sword that came charging in.

"Senior brother, don't waste any more time, quickly eliminate her."

Du Le'er impatiently said.

"Hmph, you've already been killed by me!"

Ripples' eyes narrowed, sensing something was amiss. She swiftly threw a punch, shattering Yun Ruibin's skull instantly. Then, under Du Le's horrified gaze, she severed the man's head from his body.

"I can kill you once, I can kill you twice. Don't test me with such a low-level illusion!"

Rings of destruction, a tornado centered on her instantly swept through the surroundings, everything around her was destroyed in an instant.

The moment she opened her eyes, Lian Ri discovered herself standing inside the Hall of Inheritance. Surrounding her were cultivators who had their eyes closed and struggled, apparently they hadn't escaped the illusion yet.

It's not surprising that there are ripples. After all, if you accept inheritance, you must accept the test. If you can't even pass the test of your own heart, why would the Hall of Inheritance give you good things

...Since Ripples' target was the Crimson Lotus Inferno, she summoned the Purple Turtle from her Spirit Beast Ring without alerting anyone. Following the Purple Turtle's guidance, she entered the back hall. ...

The back hall was empty, save for countless floating transparent bubbles. Inside them were objects—treasures, jade talismans, high-grade spiritual plants, and magic artifacts. Lian Ri tried to move her divine consciousness to search for the crimson karma fire, but she found that her divine sense was suppressed here.

She walked towards those floating bubbles, and the next moment her figure sank, feeling as if a mountain was pressing down on her. This was gravity suppression. With every step she took forward, the gravity on her increased twofold. She was very grateful that she had trained her body under the urging of Grandmaster Qiao, otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to pass this level.oner was also a little stumped at this point. Having examined so many corpses over the years, he had never seen anything like it. There was only a skeleton left, nothing else. And yet, the bones were...