Chapter 274

Lu Yan looked inside and found that the cave was not deep, but it was very spacious.

There was a large nest made of dry grass, and beside the nest, there were many shiny stones and some rare spiritual herbs. Lu Yan rummaged through them and discovered that these shiny stones faintly contained the power of space, similar to the Space Star Stones mentioned in the refining blueprints given by Yu Su.

Space Star Stones are a type of ore that contains spatial power and can be used to forge spatial magical instruments, such as storage bags, storage rings, and so on. They can also be refined and added to the ink used for drawing talismans to create spatial talismans.

If these were Space Star Stones, Yu Su would definitely be very pleased.

But currently, Lu Yan didn't have any storage magical instruments, so he could only wait for Yu Su to come over and take these items away.

Other than that, there was nothing else in the cave.

Lu Yan then tidied up the items a bit and waited for Yu Su to come.

On the other end, Yu Su had already received Lu Yan's message.

He had just harvested a large area of mature spiritual herbs according to the scanning diagram from the all-skill sprite, so engrossed in his task that he almost forgot he still had someone to find.

Lu Yan's message reminded him in time.

"Damn, how long has it been?" Yu Su stood up.

[Two hours, Jian Ade and Xiong Hui haven't sent a message yet.]

Yu Su frowned slightly; quite some time had already passed.

Could it be that Ade and the others had encountered some serious trouble?

For now, he could only go meet up with Lu Yan first, and then go look for Ade and the others.Based on Lu Yan's message, he was probably on a cliff somewhere in the northern part of the forest.

Yu Su determined the directions and immediately flew towards the north.

...

About half an hour later, Yu Su arrived near the cliff that Lu Yan had mentioned.

The first thing he noticed was traces of a fight all around, with bloodstains still on the ground, but the body of the eagle beast that Lu Yan had spoken of was nowhere to be seen, leaving only some bones.

Yu Su became vigilant, did not land nearby, but flew over the cliff.

Lu Yan walked out of a cave in the cliff and waved at him.

When Yu Su landed, Lu Yan picked him up off his flying sword to check if he was injured.

Yu Su: "I'm fine, how about you?"

Lu Yan: "Just some minor injuries, they're almost healed."

In this secret realm, the spiritual energy was dense, and he had also taken some elixirs, so now his injuries no longer affected his movement.

Yu Su felt relieved and said: "Ade and Priest Xiong Hui haven't sent any messages yet, they might have encountered the same trouble. This secret realm is too big; we don't even know where they might have ended up."

Lu Yan: "Let's collect the things in the cave, and then we'll go look for them."

Yu Su nodded, went into the cave, and found many shiny stones and a lot of rare herbs."Eh, these stones..." Yu Su's eyes lit up, showing a look of surprise, "Space Star Stones?"

Lu Yan: "They were collected by the eagle beast. This secret realm naturally has Space Star Stone mines."

Yu Su's eyes shone, "After we find Ade and the others, we should go look for them."

The unexpected discovery of the Space Star Stones slightly improved Yu Su's mood.

He gathered all the Space Star Stones and herbs from the cave into his space.

Afterward, the two left the eagle beast's nest.

...

At this time, not too far from where Yu Su and his group were.

A group of strangers appeared in the forest. In front, a young man and woman were running in a disheveled manner, with seven or eight people chasing after them.

"I can't, I can't run anymore, you should escape by yourself, don't mind me," the girl said with difficulty.

The boy pulling her didn't let go of her hand: "No, I won't leave you behind!"

The two of them ran slower and slower and were soon caught up by the seven or eight people behind them, getting surrounded.

"Run, run, I want to see where you can run to!" A chubby figure emerged, looking to be about the same age as the two being chased, but his features were almost deformed by his fatness, and his eyes were full of malice.

"If you dare touch us, my Ade and the others won't let you off when we get out!" the girl cursed.

The chubby man said maliciously: "If we kill you and just say you were eaten by beasts when we get out, who would know it was us who did it?"

The girl: "Despicable and shameless!"

The commotion that suddenly appeared in this forest naturally attracted the attention of Yu Su and Lu Yan.

Both were very surprised; there were other people in this secret realm?

And these people's attire was very different; although they were wearing hemp clothes, both the weaving techniques and the tailoring were exquisite, and they were also wearing fine jewelry.

It was clear at a glance that they were not from the same place as Yu Su and his group.

Yu Su was extremely puzzled in his heart, what was going on?

Could there be indigenous people in this secret realm?

But that didn't make sense.

The aura of these people did not blend with this secret realm; it was obvious they too had come from outside.

The two became cautious and did not rashly intervene in the dispute of this group.It wasn't until Yu Su saw the chubby man having his accomplices restrain the young man and attempting to act indecently towards the girl that he couldn't hold back and intervened.

Putting other matters aside, it wasn't Yu Su's style to not stop such actions when encountered.

Several leaves shot out like blades, and just as they were about to strike the chubby man's face, he somehow sensed them and immediately dodged.

"What is that!"

"Who is it!"

The people brought by the chubby man also became alert, scanning their surroundings.

Yu Su and Lu Yan both felt that these people possessed a power different from ordinary people, but they had not detected Yu Su and Lu Yan who were hidden.

Lu Yan telepathically communicated: "Are they also cultivators?"

No wonder Lu Yan was puzzled; these people seemed like cultivators but were different from the cultivators he was familiar with.

Yu Su also observed the group of people and after a while hesitantly said: "They should be."

He let the all-purpose sprite in his mind scan those few people.

\[Master, they seem to be body cultivators.\]

Body cultivators?

Yu Su was surprised; body cultivation was also a type of cultivation method. However, in the early stages, it relied almost entirely on physical strength to win, akin to the path of martial arts. Only when cultivated to a certain level could one break free from the shackles of body cultivation and become a qualified cultivator.

The physical body of a body cultivator is very strong. In pure physical confrontations, most low-level cultivators are no match for them. And once they break through the shackles and become true cultivators, they often become more powerful than ordinary cultivators of the same realm.

But the weakness of body cultivators is also obvious; in the early stages, they are not yet true cultivators and can be easily suppressed by true cultivators, with almost no ability to fight back.

Yu Su remembered reading in some materials that during the barbaric era, many people followed the path of body cultivation because they were born in environments rich in spiritual energy and had strong physical constitutions.

At this point, Yu Su could also be one hundred percent sure that these people were from other places.

But the question was, how did these people get in here?

After being interrupted by the leaves, the restrained girl quickly broke free from her bonds and raised her hand to slap the chubby man hard across the face.

"Slap!"The sound was very loud.

The chubby man's face was slapped until it swelled.

"Stinking wench, you're courting death!" The chubby man, enraged, raised his hand to strike the girl.

At that moment, several leaves whizzed through the air, heading straight for the chubby man's face.

The chubby man had to dodge again, abandoning his attempt to hit someone.

The girl took the opportunity to retreat and hide behind a tree.

"Who is it exactly!" The chubby man roared in anger.

His followers hadn't seen where the leaves had come from and looked somewhat terrified.

"Young Master, could it be the spirits or monsters of the secret realm?"

"Nonsense, why would those spirits side with that stinking wench."

No sooner had the chubby man spoken than he was fiercely slapped twice by an unseen force.

These two slaps were nothing like the girl's strength; they were so powerful that the chubby man spat out a mouthful of blood along with several teeth.

With a cry of pain from the chubby man and terror from the others, they had no idea what had hit him.

It was Lu Yan who had struck; when the chubby man called Yu Su a monster and spewed obscenities, he couldn't stand it any longer.

"Young Master, there really is a monster, it could be a great demon!"

"We should run away quickly."

From these people's reactions, Yu Su surmised that they knew very little about the true power of cultivators; otherwise, their first thought wouldn't have been spirits or monsters but that someone was attacking them.

Thinking this, Yu Su then manipulated the vines underground.

The vines burst forth from the earth, attacking the chubby man and his group with ferocity, frightening them so much that they no longer dared to stay and hurriedly dragged the chubby man away.

"It's a vine demon, run!"

After the chubby man and his people were scared away, the girl quickly helped up the injured young man and looked at the dancing vines in terror, not knowing what to do.

Yu Su calmed down the dancing vines and walked out with Lu Yan from their place of concealment.

"Who are you?" The girl asked in surprise upon seeing Yu Su and his companion.

The young man became vigilant, protecting his sister despite his injuries by standing in front of her.

Yu Su: "Don't be nervous; we were just passing by. Seeing them bully you, we stepped in to teach them a lesson."

The girl's eyes widened even further: "Was that you just now?"

The young man also looked very shocked.

Yu Su nodded: "I have some control over certain powers."

Young man: "Are you a sorcerer?"

Not wanting to reveal his true identity just yet, Yu Su replied: "You could say that. And who might you be? Where do you come from?"

The young man didn't speak, but the girl had already let down her guard: "We are from Pingcheng. My name is Le Xin Tao, and he is my brother Le Xin Wu."The young man wanted to stop them but it was already too late, and a look of helplessness appeared on his face. However, considering that Yu Su and his companion had just saved him and his sister, his expression eventually softened somewhat. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Yu Su ask, "Pingcheng? We haven't heard of this place. I didn't see you guys when I came in."

The girl replied, "You don't know about Pingcheng? How is that possible? The entrance and exit of this secret realm are not far from Pingcheng, and Pingcheng is so famous."

Upon hearing this, both Yu Su and Lu Yan's expressions subtly changed.

They immediately realized the crux of the issue - this secret realm actually had more than one entrance!

Just as the young man became vigilant again, Yu Su had already quickly responded, "We are not from Pingcheng. We only came to investigate after hearing the commotion of the secret realm opening and accidentally stumbled in."

The girl uttered an "Oh": "I see, you guys are the first batch of people who came in."