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In the Red Cloud Vortex, the environment will not change over time.

Without the star map, Cao Rui would not be able to know exactly how time passes.

Before I knew it, a month had passed.

During this month, Cao Rui has been moving forward around the mysterious and huge red cloud vortex.

He precisely controlled his flight trajectory, and at the same time slowly moved towards the inside of the vortex, while searching for the secret and moving towards the center of the vortex.

Every day, Cao Rui would unexpectedly encounter those rapidly moving divine powers.

There are so many of these secrets that on average you may encounter five or six of them a day.

Behind most of the Tianji, there is a group of monks who are chasing them relentlessly.

They each displayed their magical powers and used all their efforts to try to repel the contenders and capture these precious secrets.

However, not all secrets will be discovered by the monks.

Occasionally, there would be a few lucky ones that avoided everyone's sight and flew through the air alone.

Whenever this happened, Cao Rui would summon the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword and, with the help of the speed-increasing ethereal cloak, he would effortlessly capture them one by one at his terrifying flying speed.

Of course, if Cao Rui encounters Tianji who is already being pursued by cultivators, he will not give up this opportunity easily.

He would assess the situation, cleverly blend into the pursuit team, and wait for the best opportunity to strike.

Relying on his own superior combat power, Cao Rui successfully took into his pocket almost all the secrets he encountered along the way.

After this period of hard work, Cao Rui reaped great rewards.

At this time, he already had mastered more than a hundred secrets of various levels in his hands.

However, since his current location is still in the outer area of ​​the red cloud vortex, the energy here is relatively weak, so the level of heavenly secrets generated is generally low.

Among these more than one hundred secrets, the vast majority are of lower grade, and there are only a few of higher grade.

As for the most precious and rarest of the best secrets, not even one has appeared so far.

"I don't know where my master went at that time, but he just grabbed a jade bottle full of various secrets..." Cao Rui recalled the jade bottle that Zuo Qiu gave him.

According to Chu Xiyue, Zuo Qiu just went for a stroll in Tianwaitian and it didn't take him long before he brought back this jade bottle.

Cao Rui moved forward in the red fog.

A few hours later.

There was a faint fluctuation coming from the front.

"Hmm? This seemingly mysterious aura, could it be..."

Cao Rui rushed forward.

Soon, he saw a faint white light forming in the red fog ahead.

"Sure enough, it's a divine clue that's brewing."

Before this, Cao Rui had heard Chu Xiyue talk about the fluctuations that occurred when the secret of heaven was conceived.

This is the first time I have seen it with my own eyes.

Cao Rui carefully took note of this fluctuation that was giving birth to the secrets of heaven, so that he would be able to discover the secrets of heaven more keenly next time.

Cao Rui stopped near the white light and expanded his spiritual sense. There were no other cultivators around for the time being. He was the first cultivator to discover the secret that was brewing here. This was a good opportunity.

The gestation process of the secret is extremely fast. After only a cup of tea, you can see the secret taking shape in the light spot.

Cao Rui rushed forward, intending to seize Tianji as soon as possible.

A team in the distance seemed to have sensed the fluctuations of the heavenly secrets and was rushing over quickly.

Cao Rui compared the team's speed of movement with the speed at which Tianji was conceived.

After a little thought, I chose to face this team.

Expanding his spiritual sense, Cao Rui tried to see the details of this team and determine their identities.

However, as they flew, they used their magic power to protect their bodies to block spiritual detection, so only vague human shapes and emanating auras could be seen, but no details.

This is an action that most monks in the Red Cloud Vortex will perform.

Only by not being able to determine the details of the enemy and ourselves at a long distance can the sense of mystery be maintained.

Until they came close.

Only then did Cao Rui see their attire with his naked eyes.

There were five people, four men and one woman, all of them were human. They wore the same purple Taoist robes with black clouds painted on them, and without exception, they all had the badge of a warrior hanging on their chests.

The details of their combatants’ badges are not the same. They must be cultivators from different realms who met each other in the starry sky and gathered together.

It is normal for strong people to form organizations in the outer space.

If Cao Rui had stayed in the Red Cloud Vortex long enough, he would have been able to recognize the name of this five-member team from their attire - Purple Sky Black Cloud.

Zixiao Black Cloud is a well-known organization in the Red Cloud Vortex, and each of its members is strong enough to fight ten enemies at the same time.

This is a team that even pirates don't want to mess with.

Five combat cultivators? Although Cao Rui didn't recognize this team, he also focused his attention at this time.

This was the secret that he discovered first, so Cao Rui still wanted to fight for it no matter what.

However, the combat cultivators represent the highest combat power among the refining cultivators, so Cao Rui cannot afford to be careless, especially since there are five of them.

This organization should be quite famous in the Red Cloud Vortex, but I don’t know them.

After thinking about it, Cao Rui slightly condensed the star map and stored the aura of the five people's faces into it.

In addition to recording places, star maps can also record people. There are many monks in the starry sky. By using star maps to record their information, you can know who you have met.

These five people also discovered Cao Rui.

Walking alone in the red cloud vortex, with the combat badge hanging on his chest, any discerning person could tell that he was a ruthless person.

However, Cao Rui's face was extremely unfamiliar.

The five people opened the star map and searched, but did not find any information about Cao Rui.

The five people pondered, could it be that he was a cultivator who had just entered the red cloud vortex?

"Five to one, and you still don't retreat? You're quite courageous." From a distance of a hundred feet, Guan Yichen, the captain of Zixiao Heiyun, looked at Cao Rui with interest and spoke.

For a cultivator in the Void Refinement Stage, this distance is already the maximum distance where a killing move can be launched at any time.

Guan Yichen vaguely sensed a hint of threat from Cao Rui.

This is also the reason why he didn't take action immediately.

If he is really a cultivator who has just joined the Red Cloud Vortex, and his combat power is strong enough and his personality and ideas are compatible with each other, Guan Yichen would like to let Cao Rui join the Purple Sky Black Cloud organization.

"I was the first to discover the secret here. According to the rules, it should belong to me." Cao Rui said softly.

The rules that Cao Rui talked about were not just empty words.

According to Chu Xiyue, whoever discovers first gets the secret first, which is indeed a rule passed down from the spiritual world.

However, up to now, it has long been in name only and is only used in specific circumstances.

Guan Yichen laughed when he heard this: "Rules are only followed when the strength is equal."

"Do you think that under the current circumstances, our strength is equal?"

Cao Rui did not answer, but just leaned forward a foot to make his attitude clear.

The dark spiritual eye on his forehead has quietly opened.

Among the five cultivators on the opposite side, the spiritual awareness of two of them is not particularly strong, so you can use your spiritual eyes to break the delusion and kill one of them instantly.

Cao Rui was ready to fight. While the protective mark left by his master was still there, he also wanted to see the limit of his own strength.