After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Holding the treasure in Huo Yu's hand, Long Yucheng stared blankly at it as it receded into the distance, and couldn't help but ask:

"Senior Brother Yu, why don't you take that treasure?"

"That's used to suppress the core of the formation."

Huo Yu's tone was indifferent.

"Array eye?"

Long Yucheng was taken aback, then, recalling the theoretical knowledge he had accumulated from reading extensively in his previous life, he suddenly realized...

"You mean, this place might be sealing away some kind of monster?"

"I don't know."

Huo Yu truly did not know.

Based on the passage and Long Yucheng's description of the dragon's breath in and out, he vaguely guessed that this place might be a huge spirit-gathering formation, possibly the cultivation ground of cultivators who used to live in the secret realm.

However, upon seeing the jade ruler that served as the core of the formation, he overturned his previous assumptions.

Spirit-gathering formations usually have no other function, and their core should ideally be an object capable of storing spirit energy.

A low-level spirit-gathering array can use spirit stones as its core, but such a grand spirit-gathering array must have a core that is at least a spiritual vein or something similar, and it is definitely not a jade ruler that has almost no effect on storing spirit.

Moreover, the spiritual light emitted by the jade ruler was righteous and peaceful, yet it faintly revealed an irresistible suppressive power.

The spiritual energy from the outside world, once gathered into this formation, is not used for cultivators to practice, but rather to maintain the consumption of the jade ruler.

All signs indicate that this underground ruin is not a place for cultivation, but a huge sealing formation!

This place must be suppressing some kind of being, but judging from the desolation and ruin of this secret realm, it has obviously been abandoned for a long time.

The thing that was suppressed may not still be alive, but Huo Yu is not at his peak right now and does not want to cause any unnecessary trouble.

This Nine Star Secret Realm is full of mysteries, from the descendant of the Grain Dragon to another kind of spiritual power that is completely different from the spiritual power in the outside world, and the laws of heaven and earth that can obliterate everything that exists beyond the Foundation Establishment stage.

All signs indicate that this Nine Star Secret Realm is a completely different world from the outside world.

Huo Yu adhered to the principle of "it's better to do less than more" and always maintained a respectful distance from the unknown in the secret realm.

However, the others present clearly did not think so.

Not long after Huo Yu left, the burly man from Beast Taming Valley also found the location of the jade ruler.

Overjoyed, he immediately leaped forward, intending to seize the treasure.

The green spiritual light on the jade ruler instantly intensified, suppressing the burly man to a distance of ten feet, preventing him from getting any closer.

The burly man's expression changed slightly. He formed a hand seal and shouted at the winged tiger beside him:

"Shout! Shout! Shout!"

The giant, striped tiger roared and transformed into a beam of yellow light, flying towards the burly man and merging into his spiritual core.

The burly man's veins bulged, his fingernails grew rapidly, a pair of wings sprouted from his shoulder blades, and a "king" character appeared on his forehead. His aura surged, and his cultivation level broke through the ninth level of Qi Refining, entering the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

The giant man, now one with the tiger, roared to the sky and, amidst the spiritual light emanating from the jade ruler, forced himself to advance another half zhang!

At the same time, Huo Yu had already carried Long Yucheng back to the circular hall.

He had just used his divine sense to explore all the forks in the passageway, but found no way to lead to the outside of the ruins, so he had to return to the circular hall again.

At this point, only a quarter of an hour had passed since the dragon breath began, and everyone else was still inside the passage.

After a moment's thought, Huo Yu carried Long Yucheng into the passage he had come from.

Another quarter of an hour passed, and just as the dragon's breath was about to end, the middle-aged Taoist from the Divine Sword Sect was the first to return to the circular hall, his expression seemingly carrying a hint of annoyance.

Immediately afterwards, the woman surnamed Ling from the Qiongshan Sect also flew out of the passage, her face expressionless, it was unknown whether she had gained anything in the passage.

The Qi Refining stage man following behind turned pale and coughed up a mouthful of black blood as soon as he stepped out of the passage.

The woman surnamed Ling gave him a disgusted look and tossed him a bottle of pills.

After taking the elixir, the man immediately began meditating to absorb its energy.

A few moments later, Huo Yu returned from the passage.

He used his senses to explore the passage he had come from, but still could not find a way to the outside world. Instead, he discovered a second array eye, but the object that suppressed it was no longer in its original place.

Seeing Huo Yu emerge from the north passage, the woman surnamed Ling merely glanced at him with a half-smile before looking away.

The burly man from Beast Taming Valley only managed to burst out of the passage in the last breath before the dragon's breath ended, covered in blood, while the giant tiger following him looked dejected.

Upon entering the hall, the burly man first glanced warily at the people present, then raised his hand and released a black mist array before taking medicine and meditating within the array.

The cultivator surnamed Hu from Beast Taming Valley did not appear from the passage even after the dragon finished inhaling and entered the dragon holding-breath stage.

Just as everyone in the hall was on guard against each other and doing their best to recover their spiritual power, a sudden change occurred!

A tremendous tremor came from the passage where the cultivator surnamed Hu had entered. Everyone's expression changed drastically, wondering what had happened.

Without even bothering to meditate and recover, they immediately summoned their magical artifacts to protect themselves.

Huo Yu seemed to have anticipated this, and his expression remained unchanged.

On the contrary, Long Yucheng, who was standing next to him, immediately thought of the seal that Huo Yu had mentioned earlier, and his face turned extremely pale.

With a tremendous tremor, and under the watchful eyes of the crowd, a beam of black light shot out from the passage.

Its speed was so great that no one present could see what was inside. However, the immense power contained in its escaping light and the earth-shaking omen led everyone to conclude that this must be because of the birth of this treasure, which had triggered some kind of strange phenomenon.

Everyone acted simultaneously, trying to intercept the black light that was escaping.

Huo Yu could see it clearly in his divine sense; within the black light was a huge eyeball!

When it sensed Huo Yu's divine sense, its eyes glanced in Huo Yu's direction with some surprise.

Just as everyone was using their unique abilities to try and intercept the black light, the same tremors came from four other passages.

These vibrations converged in the rotunda, making the entire space seem as if the sky had collapsed and the earth had caved in.

Everyone's expression changed repeatedly as they quickly retrieved their protective treasures, no longer daring to make any rash moves.

At the same time, four similar black beams of light flew in from the four passages, and after merging with the previous beam of light, they came to rest in the center of the hall.

Only then did everyone see the true form of those black streaks of light—they were a unicorn, a claw, a horn, a tail, and a giant eyeball!