That idiot from the Sword Sect turned out to be a lucky charm.

Chapter 24 Entering the Secret Realm for the First Time

Even the most thick-skinned Valley Master and his daughter were utterly ashamed by the Ninth Elder's sarcastic remarks, their faces turning bright red. They could only laugh awkwardly and take their leave to wait elsewhere.

Lin Jun said to Lin Zhifeng, "Elder Ninth is still as powerful as ever! We can't give this father and daughter any face."

Lin Zhifeng said, "Isn't this just human nature? It's normal! I don't blame them for being snobbish—they wanted to break off the engagement as soon as my father was gone, after all, no one wants to marry a fool. What I despise is that they really have no bottom line. Back when I was a fool, they still insisted on trying to get married to me. In short, this father and daughter are both ruthless people, capable of anything. It's best for us to stay away from people like them."

Lin Jun said, "They come from humble backgrounds. Which of us inner disciples would even consider them?"

Lin Zhifeng said, "That would be the best."

After a long wait, the gate to the secret realm finally appeared.

It's called a door, but it's more like a black hole, with a blinding white light flashing from its opening.

The Sixth Elder said, "You can go in now. Be very careful inside. Based on past experience, the secret realm will be open for a month. After a month, you will be ejected from the secret realm. The Ninth Elder and I will wait for you here."

The Ninth Elder also instructed, "Once inside, remember to act according to your abilities, and always stick together and don't go alone! Go now, the Sixth Elder and I will be waiting for your triumphant return."

The group bid farewell to their elders and surged toward the entrance to the secret realm.

Lin Zhifeng was surrounded and led to the entrance of the secret realm. A huge suction force pulled him into the world inside the secret realm.

When Lin Zhifeng came to his senses, he found himself in a place that resembled a paradise.

He was surrounded by an endless peach orchard. The peach trees were now covered in pale pink blossoms, and Lin Zhifeng admired the scenery with great interest. After all, Lin Zhifeng could no longer see such beauty in his original world; he had only occasionally seen it in a data version within a game world.

After he had admired it enough, he carefully discerned the direction, then took out the Crane Cry sword, leaped onto it, and flew towards the northeast.

Before Lin Zhifeng had flown ten miles, the system notified him that there was a thousand-year-old spiritual herb, Evening Primrose, below, and asked him to selectively pick it.

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhifeng quickly sheathed his spirit sword and jumped to the ground to begin a thorough search.

What about selective picking? At Linzhifeng, there's only one option—picking everything.

Lin Zhifeng searched carefully while remaining cautious. In the game he used to play, thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, flowers, and fruits were usually guarded by ferocious beasts. Lin Zhifeng wanted the spiritual herbs, but he didn't want to lose his life.

As expected, Lin Zhifeng cautiously probed the area and soon discovered a tiger demon, as large as a small mountain, fast asleep on the ground a hundred meters away. In front of its enormous head was a spiritual herb, its entire body shimmering with silver light. Needless to say, this was the evening primrose the system had mentioned.

To harvest the evening primrose, you must first defeat this tiger demon.

This tiger demon was enormous, with four sharp teeth protruding from its mouth. It looked somewhat like the saber-toothed tiger, the ancient ancestor of tigers in Lin Zhifeng's world.

Although the tiger demon is still asleep, Lin Zhifeng would definitely wake him up if he risked going over there.

Lin Zhifeng had no idea who was stronger between himself and the tiger demon, and he didn't intend to take the risk since he was alone now.

But is he really going to give up something so good that's already within his grasp? That's not Lin Zhifeng's usual style.

Lin Zhifeng began rummaging through his props, talismans, and other items to see if there was anything he could use. However, after searching for a long time, he found nothing.

Just as he was hesitating whether to give up or take the risk, the system popped up again and gave him advice: "Master, there are invisibility pills in the shop. If you take one, you can become invisible for an hour. Exchange your luck points for one pill. Once you become invisible, go dig up some evening primrose and run. As long as you are quick, quickly ride the crane's cry to fly into the sky, and that tiger demon will have no way to catch you."

Lin Zhifeng was overjoyed. He had already checked the side quests posted by the system before coming to the secret realm; finding a spiritual herb would reward him with luck points. If they exchanged it for an invisibility pill, at worst they wouldn't get the luck point reward. But that thousand-year-old spiritual herb would be theirs!

Without delay, Lin Zhifeng quickly opened the control panel and found the shop. Sure enough, the newly refreshed medicines included invisibility pills.

Lin Zhifeng immediately clicked to redeem. The moment he received it, he popped it into his mouth and swallowed it.

Before long, the invisibility pill took effect—Lin Zhifeng became invisible.

This invisibility pill is actually quite magical. After Lin Zhifeng ate it, he only appeared transparent, but in reality, his body still existed. However, light could pass through him without any obstruction. What kind of physical phenomenon is this?

Lin Zhifeng hadn't mastered physics in his original world, and he had no intention of wasting his time on it now. In short, in the world of cultivation, anything is possible.

Lin Zhifeng tiptoed to the evening primrose. He took out the small shovel he had prepared in advance in the sect, and with a scoop, a shovel, and a dig, he dug out the entire evening primrose plant, roots and all.

Although Lin Zhifeng was very careful, how could digging for spirit herbs be done without making a sound? The tiger demon was quite alert and was awakened by the noise. It opened its eyes and exclaimed: "Huh? Where did my huge thousand-year-old evening primrose go?"

Although Lin Zhifeng had taken an invisibility pill, making him invisible to the tiger demon, it could still smell him. So the tiger demon leaped up and pounced on the invisible Lin Zhifeng.

Lin Zhifeng released Heming, leaped onto the sword, and urged Heming to carry him away in a panic. The tiger demon was left standing there, baring its fangs and claws, rolling around on the ground in anger.

Lin Zhifeng continued flying northeast, but he didn't encounter a single member of his brotherhood along the way. Lin Zhifeng then realized that this secret realm was probably enormous.

Thanks to the system's prompts, he traveled at his own pace, stopping frequently, and managed to collect several thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. Fortunately, the spiritual herbs he encountered later were not guarded by any beast demons, allowing Lin Zhifeng to pick them to his heart's content.

Lin Zhifeng continued flying. The invisibility pill was still working. If someone encountered him at this time, they would not be able to see him, but only his Crane Cry Sword.

Ironically, the first person Lin Zhifeng encountered after entering the secret realm was Ding Mo.

At that moment, Ding Mo was locked in a fierce battle with a gigantic ape-like monster. This massive, dark creature possessed not only a mouthful of fangs but also ten sharp claws. Even Ding Mo, a Nascent Soul cultivator, could only manage a draw against it.

Taking advantage of Ding Mo drawing the ape monster's full attention, Lin Zhifeng combined his sword and body to strike the ape monster in the back.

Caught off guard, the ape monster was struck squarely by Lin Zhifeng's attack. Unfortunately, Lin Zhifeng's cultivation level was at least a major realm lower than the ape monster's, so although his sneak attack injured the ape monster, the injury was minor and not fatal.

Enraged after being attacked, the ape monster could not see Lin Zhifeng, so it could only chase after the Crane Cry Sword.

After Lin Zhifeng's attack, he had already jumped far away, only using his Qi to control the Crane Cry Sword to interfere with the ape monster.

The ape monster was successfully provoked by Lin Zhifeng and chased after the Crane Cry Sword as if it had lost its mind.

How could Ding Mo, whose cultivation level was similar to its own, let go of such a good opportunity? He didn't use any fancy moves, but simply swung his sword at the ape monster. The ape monster, which had only been slightly injured by Lin Zhifeng's sneak attack, let out a wail and struggled to turn around and pounce on Ding Mo again.

Lin Zhifeng then noticed a deep sword wound on the gorilla monster's back, from which blood gushed. The wounded gorilla monster ran up to Ding Mo, intending to tear him to pieces.

Unfortunately, even in its prime, it couldn't defeat Ding Mo in a one-on-one fight. Now, with such severe injuries, its movements were inevitably restricted. After a few rounds, the ape monster collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

Lin Zhifeng hurriedly stepped forward to greet Ding Mo.

Ding Mo had only seen the Crane Cry Sword and hadn't seen Lin Zhifeng. Now, hearing his voice, he knew that Lin Zhifeng must have taken a high-grade invisibility pill.

Ding Mo wasn't particularly curious about this. He deftly dug out the Golden Spirit Fruit guarded by the ape monster, and also stored the monster's corpse in his storage space. Then he said to Lin Zhifeng, "Thank you, Junior Nephew! I have a great use for this Golden Spirit Fruit, so I won't share it with you. I'll give you these sword talismans instead. Each talisman seals one of my sword techniques, which can be activated with spiritual power when needed."