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"Alright, since nobody has any objections, then let's start entering the mystic realm!" Wu Zhao said loudly.
At this time, a Sea Transformation Realm powerhouse came out from the Heavenly Sky Sect and took out some middle-grade essence crystals and started arranging them at the entrance of the mystic realm.
The entrances to mystic realms were mostly not very stable. They had to be reinforced through array formations, or else it would be very easy to be swept away into turbulent spatial currents.
This Sea Transformation Realm powerhouse was evidently a Heavenly Sky Sect's array formations master.
Before long, another light door appeared at the mystic realm entrance.
"Everyone, to show our sincerity, my Heavenly Sky Sect will enter the mystic realm first!"
When Wu Zhao finished talking, he directly brought the Heavenly Sky Sect disciples and vanished from the light door, entering the mystic realm.
With the Heavenly Sky Sect leading the way, the other sects would not hold back anymore either. They scrambled over each other to enter the mystic realm.
Mei Zhen was not in a hurry. He waited for the other sects to enter one by one.
When Wang Fan was passing by this side, he looked at Ye Yuan and said cockily, "Brat, start praying now! Pray that you don't bump into me inside! Hahaha . . . !"
Ye Yuan shrugged and could not care less about him.
Only after the other sects entered the mystic realm did Mei Zhen turn to the group of disciples and said, "The Heavenly Sky Sect's actions this time is seriously abnormal. Everybody take precaution after entering the mystic realm and try your best not to split up, understood?"
"Understood!" the group of disciples nodded and shouted.
"Okay, let's go in!" Mei Zhen took the helm, and the others also followed one by one.
But Ye Yuan intentionally ended up as the last one. Looking at those essence crystals at the mystic realm's entrance, he smiled slightly and went forward to casually move it around a little before entering the light door.
After Ye Yuan left, another two figures appeared in front of the light door.
"Miss, this Ye Yuan is indeed very strange! The array formation set up by a Quasi-Tier 4 array formations master, but he casually altered it and seized control. We can't enter through this light door anymore!" Yan-er said in amazement.
Li-er smiled and said, "When he rescued us, didn't he also casually lay an entrapment formation? This Ye Yuan's origins is surely out of the ordinary! Come, let's follow in to take a look."
Finished talking, Li-er's gaze flickered, and another light door actually opened up!
It was shockingly easy!
Chapter 298. Sea of Flowers |
"Such rich essence energy! If one can cultivate inside here, one will surely yield twice the result with half the effort!"
When Ye Yuan entered the mystic realm, he heard waves of exclamations and astonishment.
This mystic realm's essence energy thickness was exceptionally high, most likely multiple times of the outside world. Cultivating in here could indeed achieve the effect of twice the result with half the effort.
But the problem was, who dared to cultivate in here?
However, under such rich essence energy, it was also within reason for the mystic realm to produce even more natural treasures.
"Alright, everyone has already entered the mystic realm. Now, let's all set off on our own. I wish everyone good luck!" Wu Zhao shouted loudly.
Although he said this, he did not have any intention of moving.
Right then, somebody suddenly exclaimed in shock, "Quickly look! There are actually layers upon layers of Orchid Heart Flower! That is an exceedingly rare Tier 2 medicinal herb! There are actually so many here! Quickly go harvest! However many we can get counts!"
Everybody traced the direction his finger pointed at and looked over. Indeed, they saw a large sea of flowers.
"Haha, we're rich! This mystic realm is indeed extraordinary! There is actually such a large stretch of Orchid Heart Flowers in the outer regions!"
"The Heavenly Sky Sect really didn't lie! This mystic realm is truly lined with treasures everywhere!"
Obtaining such a great benefit right after entering the mystic realm, everybody's spirits naturally roused. Many people already started thanking the Heavenly Sky Sect.
Those with quicker reactions already sprinted over there frantically.
Although this Orchid Heart Flower was a Tier 2 medicinal herb, it was exceedingly rare in the outside world, belonging to those incredibly valuable medicinal herbs. They were scarce resources to the various great sects.
Seeing so many Orchid Heart Flowers, the crowd obviously could not resist wanting to harvest more.
Mo Yuntian hastily said to Mei Zhen upon seeing the situation, "Martial Uncle, let's hurry over too. Otherwise, it will all be snatched finished by them!"
The Eight Great Sects added up to about a hundred people. Though that sea of flowers was large, it could not weather so many people harvesting either.
Mei Zhen nodded and was just about to speak when he was stopped by Ye Yuan. "Don't be anxious, Senior Apprentice Brother. Let's wait and see first!"
How could Mo Yuntian not be anxious? He urged, "Junior Apprentice Brother Ye! This Orchid Heart Flower is a Tier 2 medicinal herb that the sect is in a huge shortage of! It's of utmost importance to us! If we don't move, then it will have nothing to do with us anymore!"
But Ye Yuan smiled leisurely and said, "What's the hurry for? Take a look, Senior Apprentice Brother, didn't the Heavenly Sky Sect not move too?"
Mo Yuntian was stunned and looked over at the Heavenly Sky Sect's side. Indeed, none of them over there moved.
Mo Yuntian's heart plunged and instinctively sensed that someone bad was about to happen.
"AHHH . . . !"
Right then, a miserable cry sounded.
Immediately following were several more tragic cries!
Everyone was shocked currently, their gazes looking over in the direction of the sea of flowers.
Turns out that there were already several people who ran into the sea of flowers and started harvesting Orchid Heart Flowers.
Except, those earliest few who entered the sea of flowers currently all turned black. It was clearly the look of being inflicted by deadly poison!
Those few people directly collapsed in the sea of flowers and rolled around endlessly, looking very anguished. It was apparent that they could not survive.
The large group who were originally sprinting there frantically were frightened until they hurriedly stopped their footsteps when they saw how hideous those few people looked now.
"This . . . What's going on?"
"What happened to those people? Isn't this the Orchid Heart Flower? Why does it seem to contained deadly poison?"
"Luckily I ran a little slower just now. If I were slightly faster, I'd definitely end up like them."
There were people shocked and people scared. When they crowd watched the few people struggling in the sea of flowers, they all felt a chill down their spines.
This poison was too horrifying. Those few people were all Crystal Formation Realm martial artist, but they got poisoned before they could even react.
The struggles of those few in the sea of flowers gradually grew weaker. Finally, there was no more sound. Everyone's comments also gradually died down.
They only realized now that this mystic realm was not as simple as they imagined!
Many people were only shocked awake now why the Heavenly Sky Sect wanted to find them to explore the mystic realm together!
If this mystic realm was filled with treasures everywhere, would they still get to come and explore?
When the group saw such a large sea of flowers earlier, they immediately tossed danger to the back of their minds and nearly perished.
Greed was human nature. Plus, they did not have sufficient understanding of this mystic realm's dangers, which was why they made such a low-level mistake!
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sp; Over on this side, the Tranquil Cloud Sect people were also shaking in fear after the event when they saw this situation.
If it were not for Ye Yuan just now, they would probably have rushed over thoughtlessly.
This poison was clearly very powerful. Those few were all Crystal Formation Realm martial artist but died in a few breaths of time. Even if Mei Zhen was inflicted, he might not be able to retreat unscathed.
"Ye Yuan, fortunately, there was you just now holding us back. Otherwise, we would likely have fallen victim to it too!" Mo Yuntian said with lingering fear.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "I saw that nobody from the Heavenly Sky Sect moved and guessed that there was some problem, that's why I made you guys wait and see first. I didn't think that a problem would really occur."
Mo Yuntian silently felt ashamed. As everyone's senior brother but without half of Ye Yuan's focus, it was seriously quite shameful.
Actually, Mo Yuntian was over thinking. Facing such a large stretch of Orchid Heart Flowers Sea, not many could keep their cool. Or else, they would not have dashed forward just now without anyone paying attention to Heavenly Sky Sect's side.
Moreover, the reason why the Heavenly Sky Sect did not move was clearly that they also suffered a loss before.
Even if the Heavenly Sky Sect had many Crystal Formation Realm and Sea Transformation Realm experts, it was impossible for them not to be moved by a scarce medicinal herb like the Orchid Heart Flower.
As for Ye Yuan, he saw that sea of flowers right after entering. Even if he did not see the Heavenly Sky Sect's movements, he would not let his seniors go and pick those flowers either.
Ye Yuan did not even need to move closer to observe, just by sniffing the scent in the air, he already knew that this sea of flowers was simply not Orchid Heart Flowers!
Those flowers in the sea of flowers were the Mantu Flower which was extremely similar to the Orchid Heart Flower!
The Mantu Flower was virtually the same as the Orchid Heart Flower. Furthermore, the fragrance it gave off was practically the same, but Ye Yuan could differentiate the minute differences within.
The flower scent given off by the Mantu Flower had an extremely faint blood stench. It was just that the flower fragrance was enchanting. Ordinary people found it very hard to tell this sort of extremely minute differences.
But in reality, the Mantu Flower used precisely this kind of method to attract humans to harvest it, poisoning them from there!
Once humans succumbed to the poison and died, they would become the Mantu Flower's fertilizer, nourishing the Mantu Flower!
But most likely nobody here recognized the Mantu Flower. These people died bizarrely too, and no one knew what happened.
Ye Yuan naturally did not wish to be eye-catching, so he did not explain much. He just used the Heavenly Sky Sect as a shield.
Mei Zhen gritted his teeth and said, "Those fellows definitely knew that there was something shady but did not make a sound. They were waiting for people to be poisoned! Earlier, the few great sects practically all had somebody who succumbed to it. This fulfilled their wishes!"
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Didn't the Heavenly Sky Sect get the other seven great sects to come for the purpose of finding more cannon fodders?"
The other great sects' elders only came around now. They ran in front of Wu Zhao and admonished, "Elder Wu, why didn't anyone from your Heavenly Sky Sect move? Were you all already aware that these Orchid Heart Flowers have some problem?"
Chapter 299. Reversing the Roles of Host and Guest! |
The sect elders were all burning with righteous indignation. They felt like they had fallen into a pit.
Sustaining heavy casualties before the exploration of the mystic realm even began, the sect elders clearly could not quite accept it.
When Wu Zhao saw several sects lose men, he secretly felt pleased. But he looked aggrieved as he said, "By heaven and hell, this Wu really didn't know that this sea of Orchid Heart Flowers actually had such deadly poison! It's just that my Heavenly Sky Sect has vast territory and abundant resources and we're not lacking this bit of Orchid Heart Flowers, that's why we were thinking of letting everyone go first. Who knew that this would happen?"
"Humph! Stop pretending, Elder Wu! Only your Heavenly Sky Sect has come in here before, how can you possibly be oblivious?" an elder said furiously.
Wu Zhao maintained an aggrieved look and said, "It isn't just my Heavenly Sky Sect's group that didn't move here, the Tranquil Cloud Sect didn't move too. Why does everyone come and interrogate my Heavenly Sky Sect?"
When Wu Zhao said this, the Tranquil Cloud Sect group felt their hearts chill. He was trying to redirect the disaster!
Indeed, those elders immediately turned their gun barrels!
They were all wily foxes and knew that Wu Zhao was deliberately putting on a show here. But the Heavenly Sky Sect was powerful, so they obviously had to find a soft persimmon to knead!
They had to find a channel to vent right? Then wasn't the Tranquil Cloud Sect perfect?
When Wang Fan saw the Tranquil Cloud Sect, he instantly became full of enthusiasm. He went forward and grilled them. "Mei Zhen, are you going to give us an explanation?"
How could Mei Zhen not know what these people were thinking? His face darkened, and he said, "What explanation do you want? I wasn't the one who made you all go harvest the Orchid Heart Flowers either. Now that something happened, can my Tranquil Cloud Sect be blamed for it? The Heavenly Sky Sect is the only sect who came in here before. You don't go find them but come to find trouble with us instead, what's the reasoning?"
Wang Fan sneered coldly and said, "You can't say it that way! The Heavenly Sky Sect has vast territory and abundant resources, your Tranquil Cloud Sect can't also have vast territories and abundant resources too, right? Could it be that you guys aren't lacking Orchid Heart Flowers? But you people didn't make a move. Could there be no reason in between all this? Or perhaps you guys already secretly colluded with the Heavenly Sky Sect?"
When Wang Fan said this, the other sects' elders' faces changed!
The Heavenly Sky Sect was already formidable enough. If they add in a Tranquil Cloud Sect, swallowing up the other sects was something sooner or later!
Although the Tranquil Cloud Sect was very weak, which one of the Eight Great Sects did not have any trumps cards? If they threw their lot in with the Heavenly Sky Sect, then the Southern Domain's terrain would be hard to say!
Mei Zhen panicked when he saw the situation and pointed at Wang Fan, saying, "Wang Fan, don't slander people!"
Wang Fan snorted coldly and said, "Slander people? If it's not like this, you guys should have at least reminded us to not go over, right? Now, only you guys and the Heavenly Sky Sect are perfectly fine, how can this not make people suspicious?"
Mei Zhen was so nervous that his forehead was matted with sweat and he felt like he could not explain this even with a hundred mouths.
The Tranquil Cloud Sect's strength was originally weak. If they faced off with several great sects at the same time, then there was only death!
The Heavenly Sky Sect's strategy to sow discord was executed really viciously!
"Senior Mountain Shaker, why did you come out again? Talking so much crap, isn't it all your baseless speculations? You guys were greedy and suffered a loss when you went to harvest the Orchid Heart Flowers, but turn around now to blame others. Where's the reasoning?" at this time, Ye Yuan came forward to say.
When he said 'Senior Mountain Shaker,' everybody simmered with laughter.
But under such circumstances, they should not laugh. Each one of them was very uncomfortable holding it back.
Wang Fan was so angry that he was huffing and glaring. He said in a great rage, "Honorable Nephew, looks like your Tranquil Cloud Sect is resolved to break away from us other six sects!"
Ye Yuan shook his head and said with a sigh, "Senior Mountain Shaker, your Mountain Shaking Divine Skill is already cultivated to the acme of perfection! Sin
ce when can Senior Mountain Shaker alone represent the six sects? Forget about six sects, can you represent the High Clarity Sect?"
"You!" Wang Fan could not help choking up.
Did he dare to say represent? He was only some unimportant elder in the High Clarity Sect. How could he represent the High Clarity Sect's opinion?
"What about me? He's sowing discord so obviously, and you can't even see it; are you a pig? Or are you already bought over by the Heavenly Sky Sect to deliberately stir up hostility between us six sects?" Ye Yuan retorted, hitting the mark with each word.
Mo Yuntian's eyes lit up when he heard it. What a marvelous reversing the roles of host and guest!
Just now, Wang Fan said that the Tranquil Cloud Sect and Heavenly Sky Sect were colluding. Now, Ye Yuan countered that Wang Fan was bribed by the Heavenly Sky Sect, reversing the situation in an instant!
Regardless whether the other sects believed Ye Yuan's words or not, they would not take any rash actions.
"You! You're maligning me!" It was Wang Fan's turn to want to cough blood this time.
But Ye Yuan sneered coldly and said, "Senior Mountain Shaker, save it! In this mystic realm, the situation is incredibly delicate. Don't become a tool for others! Properly seeking out natural treasures and leaving alive are the kingly way!"
His words were clearly for Wang Fan to listen, but in reality, it was said for the other elders to hear.
When the sect elders heard Ye Yuan's words, they also calmed down.
Now, inside the mystic realm, the Heavenly Sky Sect's strength was undoubtedly the greatest. But their strength had limits.
It was precisely because of this that everyone lowered their guard.
But in truth, the Heavenly Sky Sect had advantages that other sects did not. If they became cannon fodders, they would lose more than they gain in the end.
Each sect only had ten plus people now. Once they clashed, nobody would gain any advantage. Instead, it would benefit others.
Not only Wang Fan, but the rest of them also could not represent their respective sects too!
The goal of coming to this mystic realm was to bring back more natural treasures.