After being expelled from the sect, I became the villain mentor

Four days later, the Ling family's Lingyun flying boat finally arrived at a city on Jingshui Island in the South China Sea.

The South Seas are an endless ocean. Only the eighteen islands managed by the Holy Water Sect, one of the ten major sects, have people, and Xiangyang City is the largest city on Jingshui Island.

The scale of this city is comparable to that of Flora Island. The city walls are so luxurious that they are built with smooth jade. The city gates are more than ten feet high, exuding an ancient and majestic aura. They flash with spiritual light in the morning sunlight, making them look even more majestic and magnificent.

Yu Nian and his group numbered over a thousand, including disciples of the Ling family, monks who served as offerings, and their masters and apprentices. They were dressed differently, but they lined up in an orderly manner to enter Xiangyang City, which surprised the monks guarding the city gate.

Although many cultivators have come to Xiangyang City recently due to the secret realm airdrop in the nearby sea, no force has brought so many cultivators.

As soon as Yu Nian and his companions entered Xiangyang City, dozens of young men set their sights on their big fish. They came over eagerly to ask if they needed a guide and to buy a map of the area near Jingshui Island.

Yu Nian chose the youngest one who looked honest and said, "Please show me the way, young man. We are a large group and need to find a larger inn."

This humble attitude flattered the young man who led the way. After swallowing, he finally took his eyes off Yu Nian's face and said, "My dear immortals, I'll leave this matter to Xiaoliu. I'll give you this map."

"Thank you."

Yu Nian took the map, then spread it out to browse the entire picture of Jingshui Island. Every mountain, every river, every small island on the sea, every reef, and every sea area on the map were clearly marked, which was very thoughtful.

A group of people were walking on the street of Xiangyang City, attracting the attention of passers-by. They went to the largest monk inn in Xiangyang City.

The inn is located in the south of Xiangyang City. There is a mountain range behind the inn. As soon as you enter the door, you can see people coming and going in the spacious hall, and these people turned their heads to look at Yu Nian and others who came in.

Then, Yu Nian and others received dozens of hostile gazes.

Those dozens of people were all wearing dark red school uniforms. The leader was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and the others were all at the Golden Core stage. Judging from their demeanor, clothing, and accessories, one could tell they had extraordinary backgrounds, and they were probably from some powerful force.

As if he could see Yu Nian's doubt, Shen Ti couldn't help but gently explain to Yu Nian, "They are people from the Miao Dan Sect."

So that’s how it is, Yu Nian suddenly understood.

One of the men, who was relatively young and quite good-looking, glanced at Yu Nian and the others, crossed his arms, raised the corners of his lips, and looked at them with a look of disdain and provocation, "What kind of sect is this? Even a Qi Refining Stage disciple has come. I'm afraid they have fallen so far as to take all the disciples out to beg for food and pick up trash?"

As soon as these words came out, Yu Nian could feel the anger rising up behind him.

Ye Tang was immediately displeased. "You Miao Dan Sect disciples, are you so great? Watch your mouth!"

"We are here to beg for food. I wonder what this young man is doing here?" Shen Ti said gently with a smile, then looked at the other passers-by, "What are you all doing here?"

As soon as Shen Ti said this, passers-by looked at the dozens of Miaodan Sect members with hatred.

"Junior Brother Jiang, please be patient."

The gorgeous man was about to say something when he was stopped by a handsome and elegant man with his hair tied up next to him. The man then looked at Yu Nian and the others, "Hey, I remember you were Yu Nian, a disciple of Elder Yu Chen of the Yaoguang Sect? Why don't you travel with the Yaoguang Sect disciples?"

"I have already withdrawn from the Yaoguang Sect." Yu Nian curled the corners of his mouth and responded lightly.

"Big Brother, how could someone voluntarily quit the ten major sects? Could it be that they were kicked out?" A very silly and naive Jindan Zhenren pulled the elegant man's sleeve and spoke.

The elegant man immediately put on a stern face and said, "Junior brother, please don't be rude."

Then, the man bowed to Yu Nian again and said apologetically, "Master Yu Nian, I am Canglan from the Miaodan Sect. These two are my junior brothers Jiang Yan and Bai Ran. They are still young and have childish minds, so please don't be offended."

Yu Nian didn't want to cause any more trouble, so she smiled reservedly and said, "It's okay."

Afterwards, the disciples of Miaodan Sect left the inn. Jiang Yan quickly sent a thousand-mile sound transmission note to Miaodan Sect in Zhongzhou, asking Miaodan Sect to send more foundation-building disciples and Jindan real people to enter the secret realm to plunder resources.

After watching the excitement, the others dispersed and moved into their own rooms as arranged by the store owner.

After finishing their meal, Yu Nian and Shen Ti flew over Jingshui Island and looked at the sea northeast of Jingshui Island.

The East China Sea is vast and boundless. The azure water makes the sky appear blue. There are some small islands on the sea. Looking down from above the clouds, they look like stars, dotted in clusters.

The northeast of the sea is now shrouded in a gray mist. Through the mist, one can vaguely see the vast, lush and verdant primitive mountains that stretch for hundreds of miles.

There were countless flying birds and large monsters, and towering ancient trees filled with abundant spiritual energy. They were far larger than they appeared from the outside.

This is the magic of the secret realm. It is like being in a space of different time and space. Although the connection point between reality and it is not large, the situation inside this space is comparable to a world.

This kind of secret realm is mostly created by powerful beings who break through the regional space. This space will drift around with the turbulence of time and space, and will only appear at the right time, and will overlap with a certain regional space in reality before it can fully appear in the world.

When the secret realm just appeared, the space turbulence surrounding it was extremely strong. Only a little bit of space turbulence was needed to cut the cultivator into pieces, and the body parts would fall into an unknown space with the turbulence of time and space. It was extremely powerful. Even the cultivators in the Mahayana stage were powerless to resist the space turbulence.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, judging by the spatial turbulence, it's estimated to dissipate tomorrow... I just don't know how long this secret realm will be open, and when it will return to the spatial turbulence."

Because of this trip to the secret realm, Yu Nian also specifically looked up a lot of information about the secret realm. Generally, a secret realm appears in the world for up to half a year and the shortest is no more than ten days.

Of course, the longer the time, the better, so that more resources can be collected... But this secret realm has never been entered by anyone, and there are no records left by our ancestors, so the opening time of this secret realm is really difficult to control.

The fear is that they haven't gotten out before the secret realm closes and the space turbulence returns. In this way, they might be trapped in the secret realm forever and unable to get out.

If the secret realm is stable and contains sufficient spiritual energy, then it would be fine. Just treat it as a different place to practice.

But such an ancient secret realm is ultimately just a fragment of a world space broken by a powerful being. It is not as stable as a complete world. It floats in the turbulence of space, just like an active volcano, and its eruption time is unknown. This secret realm may be torn into pieces by the turbulence of space at any time.

The secret realm is destroyed, and any creature in it cannot escape destruction.

"Yes." Shen Ti nodded. "When the time comes, we will also send some people to guard the secret realm's open entrance and keep an eye on the situation at the entrance. If anything goes wrong, they will fire a signal flare to pass the message to the disciples in the secret realm and ask them to come out quickly."

Shen Ti and Yu Nian observed the spatial turbulence in the secret realm from the air and estimated that the spatial turbulence would dissipate around sunrise tomorrow morning.

The two discussed the specific arrangements for tomorrow and then returned to the inn to rest. After they had rested enough, they took their disciples and set off early to wait outside the secret realm.