After being reborn, I took my childhood sweetheart to cultivate immortality.

Seeing that Gui Changkong had disappeared from sight, Yu Jinchen smiled as he looked at his wife and children.

"Let's go, we should go find Qinghe and the others."

The mother and her two children nodded and silently followed Yu Jinchen toward the center of the secret realm.

If they weren't afraid that those people would send someone to monitor everyone who went to sea, Xu Qingman and the others would definitely have gone back to sea to check again.

No wonder the major sects always like to go into the sea when entering the secret realm; the treasures in the sea are indeed much better than those on land.

Previously, I always thought that the major sects didn't want others to compete with them for resources at sea, which is why they didn't send people to clear out the high-level monsters in the sea.

After getting to know Gui Changkong, they realized that there were countless high-level demonic beasts in the sea, which were far beyond the capabilities of human cultivators.

The reason why the current peaceful state can be maintained is simply because most of the high-level demonic beasts are too lazy to come out.

According to Gui Changkong, most of the sea monsters are very old, and those that have reached the tenth rank or above are mostly ancient monsters that have lived for tens of thousands of years.

Especially the tortoise-type demon beasts, most of them become extremely peaceful as they get older, and they generally don't bother to argue as long as human cultivators don't deliberately cause trouble.

However, having a good temper doesn't mean being afraid of trouble. If a cultivator goes too far and falls into their hands, they will basically face a one-way trip.

Upon hearing this, Xu Shuyi and her siblings expressed their dissatisfaction, saying that their family had easily killed two level-ten Crimson Flame Pythons.

After Gui Changkong explained, they finally understood the reason.

It turns out that these kinds of pythons are just low-level monsters in the sea. Although they are already at the tenth level, if they were to face a dragon, no matter how many Crimson Flame Pythons there are, they would just be easy prey.

A fifth-tier dragon can easily challenge a tenth-tier python, but like their tortoise clan, dragons don't usually fight with humans.

When Xu Shuyi asked Gui Changkong if he could defeat a Transcendent cultivator, he simply smiled and said, "If it were one or two Transcendent cultivators, I would be more confident, but if three came at once, I'm afraid I might accidentally hurt you."

When Xu Qingman's family heard this, they were all stunned.

It should be noted that Xuanwu is only at the ninth rank, and only recently entered the ninth rank. Otherwise, it wouldn't have become three parts human and seven parts tortoise because of its unsuccessful transformation.

After all, when they advance to the tenth and eleventh tiers, they will have another chance to undergo transformation.

But this is easier said than done. Unlike human cultivators, demonic beasts can advance extremely quickly if they have good spiritual roots and resources.

However, it is different for demonic beasts, especially high-level demonic beasts like them. To advance to the next level of cultivation requires an extremely long time and a lot more spiritual energy, making advancement extremely difficult.

Is it particularly difficult for creatures like dragons, koi, turtles, phoenixes, and high-level demonic beasts to ascend to immortality? However, although their cultivation progresses slowly, the strength they gain with each advancement in a realm is greater than that of human cultivators.

Therefore, those high-level cultivators who have suffered losses generally dare not provoke high-level demonic beasts of the same level.

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"Uncle, I've contacted my parents. They said they'll be here in about half an hour."

"Really? That's great! Let's hold on a little longer. If necessary, we can use all the array plates on our bodies."

Hearing that Xu Shunu had finally contacted help, Xu Qinghe finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this point, they had been forced to hide inside the defensive formation for most of the day, too afraid to move.

If Xu Qingman hadn't given them several high-level array plates when they parted, Xu Qinghe and his group might have been wiped out by now.

But if they can't get reinforcements soon, they'll run out of array plates, and then things will get dangerous.

Xu Qingsi never expected that even after two hundred years, Liu Dongfang's family and master would still find out about him.

Killing Liu Dongfang outside Sifang City was out of necessity. I thought the matter was long gone, but who knew that he would come looking for me again.

If they only come after me, that's fine; I can just fight them to the death.

But now he has two nephews and their grandfather by his side, as well as his sister and brother-in-law's disciples and Xu family elites. He simply doesn't dare to and can't let them take risks with him.

The opponent has one early-stage Void Realm cultivator, two Body Integration Realm cultivators, plus a dozen or so Out-of-Body and Divine Transformation Realm cultivators.

On his side, he was the only one at the Integration Stage, while his two nephews, who were of better cultivation, were only at the Initial Nascent Soul Stage.

Adding the two Out-of-Body stage cultivators, the rest are all at the Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation stages.

These people, when facing each other, can only make up a number of people, and may not even be able to withstand a single move.

Seeing that they hadn't been able to break through any of the formations for so long, Liu Qingshan was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

After all these years, he finally found out who killed his great-grandson back then, and he would never let that person go.

It wasn't that Liu Qingshan doted on Liu Dongfang, but rather that Liu Dongfang was not only the disciple with the best spiritual roots in the Liu family over the past few generations, but also successfully became a disciple of the Mingde Ancestor, a powerful figure in the Nine Yang Sect.

In just two hundred years, Ancestor Mingde has advanced from the Integration stage to the Void Realm. How remarkable is the Void Realm cultivation at less than a thousand years old?

If his great-great-grandson were still alive, he would be a disciple of a Void Realm expert by now.

If the Liu family could get in touch with a Void Realm expert from a major sect, the entire family could take another step forward.

But all of this was ruined by the kid inside the formation, how could he not hate him?

Logically speaking, Liu Qingshan himself also possessed the cultivation level of the Integration Stage, yet he was already two thousand years old.

It took him over five hundred years to progress from the Nascent Soul stage to the Body Integration stage, and now it seems unlikely that he can advance to the Void Realm in this lifetime.

Liu Dongfang, however, was different. Because of his good spiritual roots, the Liu family's resources were mostly directed towards him, and he had already reached the Golden Core stage at the age of less than twenty.

Liu Qingshan grew angrier the more he thought about it. When he accidentally learned that the person who killed his great-grandson was Xu Qinghe, he took out most of his family's assets and persuaded Liu Dongfang's master, the Mingde Ancestor, to take action.

Because of Xu Qinghe's grandmaster, the Donglin Ancestor, who had already reached the Tribulation Transcending stage, the Mingde Ancestor dared not make a move against Xu Qinghe casually.

But isn't this within a secret realm? Every time a sect ventures into a secret realm, they lose a group of disciples. If the incident had happened within the secret realm, Xu Qinghe's master probably wouldn't have pursued it too much, let alone his grandmaster.

"Hahaha... Brother Mingde, I think if the few of us work together, their formation won't last long."

Seeing cracks gradually appearing in the formation, Liu Qingshan said excitedly.

Inside the formation, Xu Qing and the others also saw the crack, but they weren't too worried. It didn't matter if the formation plate was broken, since they still had two more that they hadn't used yet.

Therefore, the group even had the mind to calculate how long it would take for Xu Qingman and the others to arrive.

At this moment, Xu Qingman and the others were not as relaxed as they were. Upon hearing that their loved ones had encountered a powerful enemy, all four of them put on their Swift Boots and hurried on their way.

They had originally planned to arrive in half an hour at most, but they encountered two level-ten demonic beasts on the way, which forced them to waste nearly a quarter of an hour.

When they rushed over, they were met with a heartbreaking scene.

Xu Qinghe and the others' array plates were completely destroyed, and they were all lying on the ground, their fates unknown.