The cheat system is useless, but I have the strongest living dad.

Qiuqiu was unable to move, so Ning Yuan had to carry her on his back.

As they were leaving, a blood-red thread of blood swam out from the corpse of the evil cultivator.

Shen Yao: "What is that?"

Upon closer inspection, the cultivators saw that it was a thin thread of blood. Feng Yu released a magical artifact, from which a fine needle with a spiritual thread flew out and firmly embedded itself in the blood thread.

The blood vessel paused for a moment after being pricked by the needle, as if trying to sneak away, and quickly darted towards the cave entrance along the ground.

Gou Yue: "Chase!"

Blood Silk escaped very quickly; by the time it emerged from the cave, it was already flying through the air.

Gou Yue said to Ning Yuan, "You take Qiu Qiu back first, we'll go after them."

Ning Yuan: "Okay, be careful. I'll come find you after I take him back."

Gou Yue, Shen Yao, and Feng Yu chased after it together, but the blood threads quickly disappeared. They could only follow the spiritual threads to catch up.

They followed it all the way to the source of the Di River.

The disciples of the Mingshan Sect stationed at the source of the Dihe River were forming a large spiritual shield to block the blood vessels.

Feng Yu's spiritual treasure pulled back the spiritual thread, trying to pull the bloodstains back.

Blood Thread struggled violently, shrinking even smaller, breaking free from the spirit needle, piercing through the spirit shield, flying straight to the source of the Di River, and quickly rushing into the Di River Secret Realm.

The cultivators pursued the enemy to the entrance of the Dihe Secret Realm.

Gou Yue: "The Dihe Secret Realm hasn't opened yet, so how did it get in?"

It's truly a mystery.

The cultivators waited at the entrance of the Dihe Secret Realm for three quarters of an hour, but there was no response from the entrance.

Ning Yuan had already arrived and was very puzzled when he learned that Xue Si had escaped into the Dihe Secret Realm: "The secret realm is not open yet, and nothing can enter. How did Xue Si get in?"

Feng Yu had been observing for a long time and had also used his spiritual treasure to probe around. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Unless... it originally came from the secret realm."

Ning Yuan and Gou Yue looked at each other in bewilderment. They had been trapped in the Dihe Secret Realm for several months and knew very well what was inside.

Ning Yuan informed Hu Yawu to send more disciples to guard the entrance of the Dihe Secret Realm.

Half an hour later, Hu Yawu arrived with his team.

The wine gourd at his waist was gone, replaced by a golden snake sword.

Ning Yuan: "Brother Wu, thank you for your hard work."

Hu Yawu: "Don't worry, A Yuan, this Demon Ancestor is guarding here, I doubt that thing will dare to come out."

"Okay." After arranging the guards, Ning Yuan told Feng Yu and Shen Yao to go back first: "We'll talk about it when we get back."

Back in the city, it was already late at night. Chongcheng was just as bustling at night as it was during the day, with lanterns illuminating the entire city and cultivators coming and going in an endless stream.

On the way back to the restaurant, Ning Yuan and Gou Yue were preoccupied, and Feng Yu and Shen Yao didn't ask any questions. After returning to the restaurant, everyone went back to their rooms in silence.

Shen Yao sat on a chair in the lobby outside the guest room, gazing out the window in deep thought.

Feng Yu: "Yanzhou, what are you thinking about?"

Shen Yao: "I always feel that the blood streak looks familiar."

Feng Yu: "What happened?"

Shen Yao recalled the scene in the Thunder Secret Realm where she extracted the actor's back spirit root: "When I awakened my spirit root, that spirit root also turned into such blood threads and burrowed into my palm."

Shen Yao opened her left palm for Feng Yu to see. It was a fair and tender palm, without the slightest scratch.

Feng Yu activated his spiritual sense to examine Shen Yao's spiritual roots. The six spiritual roots were of the highest quality and purest, and there was nothing unusual about them.

Feng Yu used her spiritual sense to check several times.

Shen Yao felt that Feng Yu was worrying too much: "Okay, maybe it's just that they look alike."

Feng Yu checked it twice more, then withdrew her spiritual sense: "This concerns the spiritual root, so we can't be careless. Let Dad take another look tomorrow."

Shen Yao: "Okay."

Gou Yue and Ning Yuan spent a sleepless night.

Nine years ago, the two of them led a team of demons into the Dihe Secret Realm to explore.

None of the ten demons survived; each died a gruesome death.

The creatures in the Dihe Secret Realm are incredibly powerful.

The two demon saints fought their way out, but Ning Yuan's soul core was severely damaged.

If the bloodstains emerging from that evil cultivator's corpse tonight are truly related to the Dihe Secret Realm...

Then those monsters are very likely to emerge from the secret realm...

If that's the case, then when the Dihe Secret Realm reopens, Chongcheng might cease to exist.

Even though there were several Demon Ancestors in the city, they were not sure whether those monsters could be killed by the Demon Ancestors.

Chongcheng is in grave danger...

In the private room of the restaurant, Huo Die carefully examined Shen Yao's spiritual root: "I don't see anything wrong with it."

Shen Yao: "Never mind then, it's probably just a resemblance."

Huo Die: "The circumstances of each cultivator's awakening are different; they should only be similar."

Shen Yao: "Hmm, never mind, I'll go see why Gou Yue hasn't arrived yet."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gou Yue and Ning Yuan appeared at the door.

Gouyue: "We're here."

Huo Die: "Good to be here, let's order."

No one drank alcohol during the meal, and after finishing, Shen Yao mentioned that she was leaving.

Gou Yue looked troubled: "Yao Yao, could you stay at the Mingshan Sect for a few more days?"

Shen Yao: "We have something very important to do."

Gou Yue: "This... Wanwan really has a favor to ask..."

Shen Yao: "What is it? Tell me."

Gou Yue looked at Ning Yuan, and Ning Yuan spoke on Gou Yue's behalf: "As you know, my soul core was injured before, which was in the Dihe Secret Realm."

"Nine years ago, a secret realm suddenly appeared in the Dihe River. None of the disciples that our Mingshan Sect sent to investigate returned."

"At that time, many evil cultivators had already appeared in the Demon Clan. The news of the appearance of the True Mystery Realm in Dihe had leaked out, and many evil saints and evil ancestors wanted to come and explore it."

"Left with no other choice, Gou Yue and I took ten demons and entered the secret realm before the evil cultivators arrived."

"The secret realm is a place of ever-changing and bizarre spaces, and it is home to many monsters whose strength is comparable to that of the Demon Ancestor."

"Alas... all ten demons died inside. Gouyue and I were trapped inside for months. When we finally escaped, we were already at Lishui Ridge in the Immortal Clan."

"Lishui Ridge?!" Upon hearing Lishui Ridge, Shen Yao and Xianyu exclaimed in surprise at the same time.

Feng Yu: "Yanzhou, what's wrong?"

Shen Yao: "Xianyu and I were once trapped by a high-level alien beast in Lishui Ridge for eighteen months."

"Those are the Spiny Beasts, the ones that besieged Qiwu City."

Upon hearing that Shen Yao had such an experience, Feng Yu only regretted that he hadn't killed enough during the siege of the Thorn Beasts.

Huo Die also spoke up: "When the Spiny Beasts besieged Qiwu City, I fought my way to Lishui Ridge and found a huge fissure in the mountains, which was full of Spiny Beasts and their eggs."

At this point, Huo Die pondered for a moment and then said, "With so many insect eggs, there should be more than one queen, but I only managed to kill one. I don't know where the rest of the queens are."

Gou Yue said excitedly, "We also know about the fissure in the earth that the Immortal Venerable mentioned! When Ning Yuan and I escaped from the secret realm, we were in the fissure. When we left, we saw countless giant insect eggs, but we didn't encounter any Spiky Beasts."

Ning Yuan: "Those insect eggs should have all hatched into the Spiny Beasts that besieged Qiwu City by then."