Chapter 125: Big Yellow Dog
“It should be.”
“If a secret realm forms naturally, or if someone deliberately creates it, the final energy will converge in one place and collapse.”
“And this place is usually where the best things in the secret realm are.”
Song Jiulai’s heart burned upon hearing this: “Then if I can find it…”
“Even if you can find it, you need to be sure you can take it.”
The System didn’t really pour cold water on her: “It depends on the rules. It might be easy, or it might be difficult. Also, I have to remind you, if you take this thing, this secret realm will be gone.”
Song Jiulai was stunned for a moment: “You mean the secret realm will completely disappear?”
“Yes, every secret realm has a core. Once the core is taken, the secret realm naturally cannot sustain itself. However, this core is not easily taken. I see this secret realm has probably been opened many times, and no one has taken it, so perhaps it hasn’t been found yet.”
Song Jiulai suddenly understood.
Although she didn’t expect to definitely get the core of this secret realm, she would definitely go to join the excitement.
Meanwhile, the disciples of the Four Great Sects also began to gather gradually.
Along the way, they would encounter and fight different disciples.
Each sect had ten disciples entering the secret realm, and now only a few remained.
Tai Xuan Sect having three left was the most tragic.
Especially when disciples from other sects saw Yi Tianhe was alone, they were somewhat surprised.
Outside the Water Mirror, the people from the Four Great Sects breathed a sigh of relief when they didn’t see that unfamiliar disciple.
Fortunately, it seemed they didn’t have to worry about her taking advantage of the chaos.
After all, the final reward was a Tier 5 Spirit Herb.
This Tier 5 Spirit Herb was the rather rare Tier 5 Myriad Spirit Grass.
After refining the Myriad Spirit Grass into a Myriad Spirit Pill, it could allow a cultivator stuck at the Late Foundation Establishment Stage to form a Golden Core.
Although great experts had also said that forming a Golden Core by force with such a pill was not as strong as forming it naturally.
However, as long as one could cross that hurdle, there would be greater hope.
Such a thing, one would only wish for more, no one would complain about it being bad!
Myriad Spirit Grass itself was rare, and not many Myriad Spirit Pills could be refined. Every year, even if only one appeared, all the major sects would fight for it.
While the disciples of the Four Great Sects were eyeing them covetously, Song Jiulai was leisurely walking towards the place the System had guided her to.
She saw dozens more Tier 3 Spirit Herbs, and some that were needed for relatively rare, niche pills. Song Jiulai dug them all up.
She urged the Longevity Sect disciples to quickly sell the Tier 2 Spirit Herbs, as they were running out of space!
In the end, Chen Miaomiao spent all her Points and even bought some from other Players to purchase a large batch of Tier 2 Spirit Herbs.
This was because she was about to start Alchemy.
As Song Jiulai walked, she discovered that the convergence point of the energy was a small village that somewhat resembled the environment of the Longevity Sect.
It was probably the small houses that the second batch of New Players had built outside Wang’an County.
But it was still somewhat different from the Longevity Sect.
These houses were scattered, had been abandoned for a long time, and no one should have been living in them.
Because this was a secret realm.
Song Jiulai went into every house.
They were all empty. There was a lot of furniture made of bamboo, and everything that should be there was present, but there were no traces of anyone having lived there.
She didn’t know why such a village had formed here.
Anything that was there had long since been searched by other cultivators.
Song Jiulai walked along this area twice.
She really couldn’t find anything.
She sighed slightly: “It seems I won’t find it.”
System: “If you can’t find it, then so be it. You’ve already profited from this wave.”
In one go, the sect had temporarily become rich. Coupled with the efforts of the Players, the future of the Longevity Sect was incredibly promising.
“Indeed.” Song Jiulai wasn’t a greedy person. She was just stingy, but easily satisfied.
It was fine even if she didn’t find anything here.
She would just wait for the secret realm to end and then leave.
However, as Song Jiulai was wandering, she saw a dog dart out from the end of the stream.
An Earth Dog.
Just the kind of Big Yellow Dog commonly seen in the countryside.
It tilted its head and looked at Song Jiulai, as if both the person and the dog were shocked by each other’s existence.
“Holy crap, why is there a dog here?!”
And it was just an ordinary dog!
Song Jiulai didn’t feel any Aura from the dog.
But the Big Yellow Dog still had a bit of intelligence, barking twice at Song Jiulai.
Song Jiulai stomped her foot at it: “Shh—”
It was like a conditioned reflex from when she used to encounter unfamiliar dogs and wanted them to leave.
Then she realized, a dog in a secret realm, could it really be an ordinary dog?
She was already a cultivator, so why should she be scared.
Thinking this, Song Jiulai squatted down again and beckoned to the Big Yellow Dog: “Wang Cai, come here.”
System: “How do you know its name is Wang Cai?”
Song Jiulai: “All dogs in the world should be called Wang Cai.”
System: “…I have to remind you, Wang Cai shares a name with the black pig raised by a Player.”
“Huh? Such a sophisticated name was taken by someone else?” Song Jiulai continued to beckon the Big Yellow Dog, changing her words casually: “Fa Cai, come here.”
System: “I can hear your eternal deepest desires from your naming.”
The Big Yellow Dog looked at Song Jiulai, hesitating and seeming afraid to approach.
After a while, the Big Yellow Dog took two steps towards Song Jiulai.
Song Jiulai saw that it was wearing a necklace.
A jade bead was faintly visible within the dog’s fur on its neck.
Judging by the dog’s demeanor, it seemed to be well-cared for.
Song Jiulai was somewhat surprised: “Can dogs really exist in a secret realm?”
“Hard to say. After all, I just arrived. What if they can?” The System cleared some data: “Generally, they can’t. Things that exist in a secret realm should be the concretization of the secret realm owner’s mind. This dog should have its meaning here. Try to see if you can take it away?”
Song Jiulai continued to beckon the Big Yellow Dog. To avoid frightening the dog, she didn’t use any Magic.
She patted the ground with her hand, saw some grass by the roadside, picked two stalks, and used them to tease it: “Come here, Fa Cai.”
The Big Yellow Dog slowly walked towards Song Jiulai.
When it reached Song Jiulai, it stopped.
It didn’t get closer, but squatted down on the spot, looking at Song Jiulai.
This dog had three tufts of white fur between its eyebrows, which were likely natural.
Song Jiulai was truly amazed: “Do you have an owner? Did the secret realm owner raise you?”
The Big Yellow Dog tilted its head, neither barking nor making any other indication.
Song Jiulai dangled a small blade of grass in front of the Big Yellow Dog.
The System began to prompt Song Jiulai: “The edges of the secret realm are starting to collapse, the energy is becoming unstable. We have at most half an hour before we have to leave the secret realm.”
Song Jiulai looked around, feeling that she probably wouldn’t find what the true Secret Treasure was.
The only point of interest now was this dog.
But this dog didn’t seem real.
She reached out and even pinched the jade bead on the dog’s neck.
“Woof!”
The Big Yellow Dog barked, but didn’t dodge.
Hmm, the touch felt quite real.
Unfortunately, it was also an ordinary thing.
