My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

When Luo Hanying opened her eyes, she felt completely weak. Her blurry vision gradually cleared, and she saw the flickering firelight. She could hear people around her talking in hushed tones.

A composed female cultivator knelt down in front of Luo Hanying: "Fellow Daoist, you're awake? How are you feeling now?"

Luo Hanying was helped to sit up by the female cultivator. She covered her heavy head and said, "I don't feel well..."

Where is this place? Who are you people?

The female cultivator said, "I am Bai Yan from the Sword Inquiry Sect."

This is the Light Ruins Secret Realm. Fellow Daoist, are you unaware that you have entered this secret realm?

"This is the Light Ruins Secret Realm?!" Luo Hanying released her divine sense and was shocked to see a giant panda waving at her. She was immediately dumbfounded. "Xiange?!"

Another female cultivator approached, sword in hand, to observe Luo Hanying's condition. Upon hearing this, she said, "What? Are you talking about your companion? We only saw you."

"Ah, how, how come I'm all alone!" Luo Hanying hurriedly stood up, but everything went black before her eyes, and Bai Yan steadily supported her again.

Su Daiyu took Luo Hanying's hand to check her pulse and said, "Fellow Daoist, be careful. Your injuries are severe and you haven't fully recovered yet."

Luo Hanying anxiously asked in her mind: "Cha Cha, are you alright? Where are you now?"

Upon hearing Luo Hanying's voice, Ruan Chayan exclaimed in delight, "You're awake? How are your injuries?"

"Don't worry, you're both fine, you won't die."

With a nonchalant air, Xiange asked, "Luo Hanying, are you happy to see me?"

Luo Hanying smiled at Su Daiyu and Bai Yan, thanked them, and then asked in her mind, "What happened? When did Xiange return? How did we separate?"

Su Daiyu pointed to Luo Hanying's tattered robes and said, "You should change your clothes."

Luo Hanying was just wondering how to talk to Ruan Chayan and the others alone, so she hurriedly said, "I'm going to change my clothes behind that bush. Please wait a moment, my two benefactors."

Xian Ge shook her head and sighed dramatically: "I really don't know whether to say you two are unlucky or unfortunate."

Luo Hanying tossed aside the concealment array plate, rummaged through her storage bag, and said speechlessly, "Stop talking nonsense! I don't have much time right now!"

So, Xian Ge kept it short: "The old Demon King was poisoned and controlled overnight. The cultivators of Taibai Pavilion and Canghai Realm usurped the Demon King's power. Demon Lord Huaiwei Qin Fansheng encountered the demons, demon cultivators, and Taibai Pavilion's forces in the Demon Realm. Qin Fansheng was outnumbered and had to escape from the Demon Realm."

The city lord of the City of Suicide, the Twin-Headed Fire Phosphorus Python, used Su Xiaochun's identity to lure Luo Hanying into breaking the seal on the Azure Mist Fan, and then used the power of the Azure Mist Fan to severely injure Qin Fansheng a second time.

Qin Fansheng was no match for He Yi'an, so he used all his strength to open a spacetime rift with a divine artifact, suppressing his own cultivation level to enter the Light Ruins Secret Realm to escape the pursuit.

When Qin Fansheng entered the portal to the secret realm, He Yi'an took advantage of the momentary lapse in concentration during the teleportation to strike Qin Fansheng's tail, thus releasing Luo Hanying. You are now teleported to different locations.

He Yi'an did not enter the secret realm to continue pursuing Qin Fansheng, seemingly certain that he would die there.

The long story in the song was actually quite long. Because it felt guilty about the inconvenience caused by the loss of contact, it gave the information in exceptional detail.

Luo Hanying rummaged through the robes, comparing their quality, and finally changed into the disciple's robes of the Shiren Sect. She tied her hair up with a hairband and a wooden hairpin. The defensive formation on them was several times better than that of ordinary robes. Anyway, she was already in the secret realm, and she could contact her fellow disciples to rejoin the group later.

Luo Hanying quickly asked, "Am I close to Chacha right now?"

Xian Ge said, "If you two head in each other's direction together, you'll meet in less than half a day."

"I just happened to run into the cultivators who helped me, so I won't contact you yet. I'll come find you after I thank them."

Luo Hanying put away the concealment array plate used to prevent spying and came out. She solemnly bowed and said, "Thank you for your help, fellow Daoist of the Sword Inquiry Sect. I am Luo Hanying, a disciple of the Blade Sect."

"I don't know how Fellow Daoists Bai and Su healed me, but I will repay them many times over to show my gratitude."

Su Daiyu glanced at the disciple's waist tag hanging on Luo Hanying's waist and said with delight, "Fellow Daoist Luo, there's no need to be so polite. Our Wenjian Sect doesn't save lives for the sake of gratitude. To be honest, our Wenjian Sect greatly admires the Shiren Sect, and it is our honor to be able to help the disciples of the Shiren Sect."

Bai Yan gestured to Luo Hanying not to stand on ceremony. Several disciples from the Wenjian Sect gathered around, and Bai Yan took the opportunity to ask Luo Hanying why she was seriously injured and unconscious nearby.

Luo Hanying then recounted the whole story she had just learned from Xiange. When the Sword Inquiry Sect asked about the current situation in the Canglan Realm, she also told them everything she knew.

Luo Hanying asked her question: "Are you here in the secret realm to search for treasure?"

"That's not the only reason."

Bai Yan said, "We suspect that the appearance of this secret realm is related to Taibai Pavilion, so we came in to check it out."

If not ideal, then at least we can scout out their methods here beforehand and take precautions.

Luo Hanying tilted her head in confusion: "Why is the present world of the secret realm related to Taibai Pavilion?"

Su Dai looked slightly surprised: "Don't you know how the secret realm manifested in the world?"

She kindly explained, "The appearance of all the secret realms hidden in another space-time requires cultivators to break through the shackles of the lower realm and ascend to the upper realm, which will cause space-time disturbances."

As everyone knows, no cultivator in our Canglan Realm has ascended to immortality for over a thousand years. So, what caused this secret realm to appear in the world?

Su Daiyu winked playfully at Luo Hanying, and Bai Yan continued her words: "Apart from privately owned secret realms, public secret realms that open and close at fixed times and locations are compiled and recorded to facilitate cultivators' exploration, such as the Yaoxiang Secret Realm and your Shiren Sect's Lanxi Secret Realm."

Therefore, the Light Ruins Secret Realm could not possibly be a secret realm that existed a thousand years ago but was not observed.

We know that the boundary river connecting the Canghai Realm and the Canglan Realm is closed, and Yingzhou says that no large number of Canghai Realm cultivators came to the Canglan Realm before the boundary river closed. Therefore, it is highly likely that the cultivators of Taibai Pavilion and the Canghai Realm possess the power to distort spacetime.

Su Daiyu added, "We've heard about the Incense Invitation Realm. You and Ruan Chayan met cultivators from the Canghai Realm before the realm opened, which proves that they were able to disregard the realm's laws and open a passage into it."

Since they possess such power, it's not impossible that they would first set a trap in the Light Ruins Secret Realm, then lure us in and kill us by making the Light Ruins Secret Realm appear in the real world.

Luo Hanying felt strange: "But I remember the cultivators from the Canghai Realm saying that they had actually stayed in the secret realm for nine years..."

“Uh…” Su Daiyu was also confused upon hearing this. She said, “You know that there are some errors when we exchange information, which will affect our judgment.”

Now, most people in the entire Canglan Realm believe that the Guangxu Secret Realm and Taibai Pavilion are related.

Luo Hanying was at a loss for words upon hearing this. Although their deductions had some errors, they were indeed quite reasonable, so she didn't bother to refute them further.

"Your Shiren Sect has also sent disciples into the secret realm. Are you going to go find them next?"

Bai Yan added, "If you wish to travel with us, the Wenjian Sect welcomes you to join us."

"No need, I'll contact my junior uncle in our sect."

Luo Hanying thanked them again for their help, and then contacted Ji Daoyun.