Oh no, I accidentally cultivated three spiritual roots and became an empress!

The black python hissed a few times, then weakly rolled over, revealing its yellow belly.

Zhong Lingxin didn't dare to move; she didn't believe that her few short blades could kill the black python.

After a while, the black python sensed that the cultivator who had just flown down was still there, and knew that pretending to be dead wouldn't work.

It angrily bulged its inner core, wanting to self-destruct.

Zhong Lingxin thought to herself, "That's more like it. Such a big monster, it's tough."

Facing the red demon core that seemed about to burst out from the top of the black python's head, Zhong Lingxin remained calm and took out the spirit-binding net that her master had given her.

As soon as the demon core on the black python's head emerged, before it could grow larger, Zhong Lingxin scooped it up and quickly stuffed it into her storage ring.

Master said that he once got caught in a deep abyss and had to use all his strength to snatch the Divine Binding Net from a remnant soul.

After years of research and improvement by his master, he finally mastered a method that could capture both the divine soul that emerged from the body and the demon core that emerged from the body.

When she entered the secret realm this time, her master was afraid that she would encounter powerful remnant souls or something similar, so he gave her the Soul-Binding Net to use.

After entering the secret realm, she studied the Binding God Net many times, thinking that she would refine one herself in the future.

After the black python emerged from the demon core, it suddenly felt that it had lost contact with the demon core.

It was furious and rolled around wildly in the pool.

But it was already severely injured, and if it lost its demon core, its strength would be reduced far more than just a simple decrease.

Its defensive capabilities have decreased significantly.

The mangled body crashed against the cliff face and quickly disintegrated, revealing the white bones inside.

It died completely in just a short while.

Zhong Lingxin didn't dare to go into the pool for a while, because there was too much poison in the pool, and she needed to be washed away several times by the water flowing down from upstream.

After a night, the pool water returned to its clear state.

Still not entirely at ease, Zhong Lingxin used her spiritual power to swirl the pool water and repeatedly flush it several times in the deep pool to ensure that the venom in every corner had flowed away.

She took out a jade hoe, jumped into the bottom of the pool, hollowed out the bottom of the icy jade marrow, then emptied the storage ring of the dead cultivator and put the entire piece of jade marrow inside.

After thinking for a moment, she continued digging down into the pool. According to records, wherever spiritual creatures grow, there is a high probability that there are spiritual stone mines underground.

When she was with Feng Yihu, she didn't have many storage rings.

Now, she has Qu Xin's information and that of the dead cultivator, so she should be able to dig up more.

When they dug ten zhang deep, the spirit stone appeared.

Spirit stones are really hard to mine, they're so hard!

She dared not release Xiao Huanhuan, fearing that her divine beast aura would be leaked.

Fortunately, both Qu Xin's and the dead cultivator's swords were extremely sharp magical artifacts, so she simply took the swords and slashed wildly at the spirit stones.

All the spirit stone ore that was cut down was thrown into Qu Xin's ring.

At this moment, Zhong Lingxin was extremely grateful to Qu Xin.

Qu Xin's storage ring was simply too big, several times larger than Zhong Lingxin's. Moreover, Qu Xin's storage necklace and a pair of storage earrings had fallen into Zhong Lingxin's hands.

Rich people are different; they have so many storage treasures, and they all ended up being hers.

Zhong Lingxin didn't bother to select them; she simply piled all the chopped ore into her storage ring, planning to pick out the spirit stones one by one later.

She dug with burning passion at the bottom of the pool, swinging her arms and digging and filling with all her might, forgetting what day it was, her only thought was to become a rich woman.

She only stopped regretfully when she could no longer cut out any more spirit stone fragments.

This spirit stone mine is much smaller than the one in the Windwing Tiger's territory.

Fortunately, the spirit stones were of excellent quality, with many being top-grade, accounting for half of them.

Looking at the empty underground, she turned and climbed onto the cliff.

Seeing that the flowers that were in full bloom when she arrived had turned into unripe little fruits, she realized with a start that it was almost time for her to leave the secret realm.

Seeing that no one was around, she affixed an invisibility talisman, dispelled the illusion and defense arrays, and quietly left.

She walked down the mountain for several days before she could vaguely see a few people ahead.

It seems they've caught up with the main group.

Most cultivators who enter the secret realm first go up the South Mountain, then turn to the North Mountain, then enter the grassland from the North Mountain, and finally wait at the edge of the grassland for the jade token on their body to lead them out of the secret realm.

The monks in front were talking animatedly, and listening to their conversation, the red sable suddenly went mad.

Fortunately, the cultivators were all heading north to the mountain, and no one was injured.

Black Tiger of Beishan obtained a lot of elixirs again using the Qingxin Spring, and also received two boxes of tea from Jin Sanbao.

Everyone was guessing that, given Black Tiger's personality, he should have returned the favor to Kim Sam-bo.

But Jin Sanbao wouldn't say, and no one could get the information out of him.

The merchant guild of the Immortal Spirit Continent is a huge organization that none of the five major sects dare to offend easily.

So no one dared to press Kim Sam-bo for answers.

Zhong Lingxin looked up and saw even more groups of cultivators walking together, chatting and laughing as they went.

That was the beginning of friendships formed among disciples from various sects and associations who shared similar interests and temperaments throughout the year.

Each experience or secret realm fosters the formation of small circles and groups.

Some of these small circles and groups are genuine friendships, while others are for upward social mobility.

Zhong Lingxin was determined to ascend to higher realms, so naturally she was unwilling to engage in social interactions with those of lower classes.

But when it comes to upward social connections, if you don't demonstrate enough ability, it's not easy to squeeze into that circle. Even if you leave someone's contact information, it's pointless, and they'll never respond.

Yellow Lion is the most aggrieved of the three demons in the central area. When cultivators arrive here, they can form alliances and call for support from their own sects and associations, or from friends' sects and associations.

Therefore, Huang Shi and his pride would always have to fight the cultivators.

The cultivators, relying on their numbers and the abundance of magical treasures, and also wanting to show off in front of their newly made friends, fought with exceptional passion.

Yellow Lion, relying on the fact that its cubs were generally of a higher level than cultivators, and also because it was forced to fight, fought exceptionally bravely.

It wasn't until now that a decent battle broke out in the Tianyuan Secret Realm.

Zhong Lingxin does not intend to participate.

She was a minor cultivator in a second-level sect, and it wasn't appropriate for her to stand out.

He is currently in the form of a poor cultivator from a rogue cultivator alliance, and it is not appropriate for him to show his face.

Furthermore, she also abducted a divine beast and a divine fire from the secret realm, so she should just lie low and wait for the secret realm to end.

Don't get involved in the conflict, lest you accidentally expose yourself.

In short, she's suited to carrying a jade hoe and digging for medicinal herbs across the grasslands while others are caught up in their passions.

Thinking this way, she didn't go straight to the grassland at the foot of the mountain. Instead, she turned a corner and dug up a few second-grade spiritual herbs that no one else had noticed. She dug as she walked, heading diagonally towards the foot of the mountain, and soon she was getting further and further away from the crowd.

The cultivators walking in front of Zhong Lingxin breathed a sigh of relief.

They were all cultivators from small sects, and they entered the secret realm only for training, so they didn't want to be targeted.

Zhong Lingxin ignored the cultivators and quickly crossed several small hills, circled around to a distance, and slowly headed towards the grassland.