Immortality from Taming Elephant

Chapter 737 - 326: City Facing the Abyss

The largest city in Penglai Eastern State is named Lin Yuan City. Built against the mountains and by the sea, its towering city walls are inscribed with densely packed water-repelling and demon-repelling runes.Due to its location at the edge of Penglai Palace’s sphere of influence and convenient sea transportation, this city has always been prosperous, with merchants and cultivators coming and going from the north and south.

This place has always been a bustling area of Penglai Eastern State, which serves as the gateway connecting Hongze Central Domain and the Eastern Domain. Going east leads into the Eastern Domain, going west leads to the Central Domain.

For countless years, many powerful figures have traversed this land.

Secret realms often appear in Penglai Eastern State.

Lately, however, a brilliant glow soaring to the sky has emerged from Falling Star Valley, and news of a secret realm coming into being has spread across the surrounding seas. Its greatness rivals that of any fully revealed saint-level secret realm from before.

This is enough to prove that its level of secrecy might even exceed that of a saint.

With this news, all of Penglai was shaken.

Not only did various local noble families and loose cultivators of Penglai get stirred into action, but sects from nearby states and even forces from the Central Domain also sent people, and many solitary masters and old monsters came too.

The city closest to Falling Star Valley, Lin Yuan City, became the forefront of this storm.

Xu Guang and Jin Buhuan concealed their aura, disguising themselves as ordinary traveling cultivators entering the city.

General Wei followed them, his reduced size making him unnoticeable.

Upon entering the city, Xu Guang immediately felt an unsettling and restless atmosphere.

The crowd in the streets was alarmingly large, with an impressive proportion of experts, indeed surpassing Beiji City.

To know, Beiji City is the strongest of the Thirty-Three Eastern States and has the North Emperor Academy overseeing it, where the density of experts is already quite terrifying.

What they saw.

Four realms, one nirvana in abundance, and occasionally, even a vague, deep, and unsettling aura that was the presence of five realms and two nirvana level existences.

Jin Buhuan frowned, "Are all these attracted by the secret realm?"

Xu Guang was not surprised; although the Celestial Venerable Han Secret Realm had not fully manifested, its radiance had already surpassed saint-level secret realms. Anyone with eyes could see that great secrets were hidden within, and those with ambition would naturally not want to miss out.

On one street, the aura of these powerful figures was even more astounding, with one nirvana experts visible almost everywhere.

On both sides, some people were hawking their wares.

"Superior breaking evil talisman! Falling Star Valley has heavy Yin Qi, better to have a few as a precaution!"

"Buying secret realm-related intelligence, the price will satisfy you!"

"Forming exploration teams, requirement minimum four realm peak, experts in arrays or beast taming preferred!"

"Penglai Fury Wave Brigade in business, idle people avoid!"

The sounds of hawking, recruiting, and shouting were incessant.

The shops on both sides of the street, especially those selling elixirs, talismans, weapons, and armor, had booming business. Some taverns and teahouses were even filled with no empty seats, with cultivators engaging in animated discussions, exchanging various true and false rumors they had heard.

"Did you hear? Three days ago, the Young Sect Leader of the Chiyang Sect led over a dozen good hands into Falling Star Valley to investigate, but only three returned, all babbling nonsense!"

"Not just that! An Elder from the Listening Tide Sword Pavilion, with a five realm cultivation, argued outside the valley yesterday and was heavily injured in just three moves by a mysterious grey-clothed man, sword broken and escaped!"

"Tsk tsk, this time there are too many ruthless individuals. Yesterday, in the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, I personally saw someone immediately trade three Sea Heart Marrows for a whole set of superior five realm array flags without batting an eyelash."

"Rumor has it that the Falling Star Valley secret realm is not just a saint-level secret realm. Some old experts say it’s at least Saint King level relics, maybe even the tomb of an Eight Realm Cocoon Robe Supreme!"

"Eight realms!???"

With these words, people around immediately gathered.

Six realm Heaven Stepping cultivators are revered as Saints, seven realm Fire Raising cultivators as Saint Kings, and eight realm Cocoon Robes are the legendary nirvana Supremes, while nine realm Reverse Dao Immortal Venerables are beyond imagination.

The Falling Sun Valley secret realm being an eight realm Cocoon Robe Supreme remnant is already the limit of what these people can imagine.

Xu Guang and Jin Buhuan calmly threaded through the crowd heading towards the eastern direction of the city.

"This place is far busier than we imagined." Jin Buhuan quietly transmitted to Xu Guang.

"Countless five realm cultivators and two nirvana martial artists have gathered, and this is before the secret realm has fully opened. Once these people realize the secret realm is an Immortal Venerable legacy..."

Xu Guang also frowned.

His gaze swept over several seemingly idle yet keen-eyed individuals studying the surroundings.

"Penglai Palace is probably also troubled. So many outsiders gathering, one wrong move, and it becomes a big upheaval."

Just then, from the crossroads ahead came a commotion and the sound of shouting, with the crowd scattering away like startled fish.

In the middle of the street stood two groups facing off.

One group of about seven or eight people wore uniform dark blue outfits, with a sword-shaped emblem surrounded by waves embroidered on their chest, representing the local Penglai force, Listening Tide Sword Pavilion disciples.

Leading them was a middle-aged man with a stern face and a long sword on his back, whose aura had reached the peak of four realms.

The other group consisted of only three people, but their presence was equally strong.

In the middle was a stout old man with a rich man’s round face, wearing a brocade robe, holding two large iron balls in his hand that clinked loudly.

To his left was a pale young man with sunken eyes, holding a short bone staff, exuding a sinister aura.

On the right was a tall, enchanting woman in revealing red clothing, her alluring eyes capturing souls as they glanced around.

"The local Penglai snakes, Listening Tide Sword Pavilion." Jin Buhuan whispered, "Those three... by their attire and cultivation technique, don’t seem to be from the Eastern Domain."

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