Chapter 34: Ning Shiyan is injured 

Meng Zhang felt something was wrong, but he couldn’t put his finger on it.

He rarely had the experience of flying in the air, nervously clutching her clothes, he looked around, blinked, “It seems like someone is fighting over there.”

In the forest not far away, several clusters of spiritual flames rose up, seeming quite lively.

“It’s really strange, though,” Meng Zhang said, “The Rebirth Secret Realm is large, but it’s too quiet. We’ve been walking for so long, and only now do I feel the presence of other people.”

Although they were trying to sneak into the inner circle, their route was a bit unusual, climbing mountain walls, crouching low, crawling in dark places…

But along the way, they hadn’t seen a single person.

Only now did the distant spiritual flames seem like they were made by living people.

Li Yang glanced over, seeming rather nonchalant, “It’s a bit far, let’s go into the cave first. If there’s no one in the cave, we’ll sneak over there quietly.”

“Okay!”

Meng Zhang readily agreed.

What he didn’t know was that at the place where the spiritual flames gathered in the distance, Fang Yizhou and another Dan cultivator from the Danwang Sect, An Yi, were being attacked.

Fang Yizhou fell to his knees, spitting out blood in a sorry state, his whole body covered in blood.

Another Dan cultivator from the Danwang Sect, named An Yi, wasn’t doing much better either, his whole body was injured.

Their opponents were bloodline cultivators, using blood as a sacrifice, practicing demonic ways, the kind despised by righteous cultivators.

The boy at the forefront looked about the same age as Feng Yao, but he had the cultivation of a peak Golden Core stage cultivator. Fang Yizhou felt that he was no match for Qi Buli.

If Li Yang were present, she would definitely recognize this person—the boy who sold the alchemy furnace at the Bihai City night market, and the generous fool who paid for it.

The boy was the young master of the bloodline clan, and the fool was the Sixth Elder of the bloodline clan.

From the moment they entered the secret realm, they had fallen into the bloodline clan’s conspiracy.

Fang Yizhou gritted his teeth, facing the powerful enemy, he ignited his life source fire again.

“Hmm?” The young master of the bloodline clan moved slightly.

He was kicked away and fell into the enemy’s hands along with An Yi.

Li Yang and Meng Zhang flew to the entrance of the cave.

Meng Zhang raised his chubby fist, as if wanting to show Li Yang his masculine side.

Except… the boy was a Dan cultivator.

He punched the stone, the stone was fine, but he was the one who winced in pain, howling.

The faint white light reflected from the stone wall trembled visibly.

Li Yang casually grabbed a bun she had bought in Bihai City from her mustard seed bag and stuffed it into his howling mouth. After hesitating for a moment, she knocked on the stone wall and softly asked, “Is anyone inside?”

Perhaps her brain was filled with water, she blurted out the classic line, “Little Red Riding Hood, Mother’s home!”???”

The person inside was bewildered, and Meng Zhang’s eyes when he looked at Li Yang were also as if he was looking at an idiot.

The boy took a bite of the bun, incredulous, “Why did you bring buns into the secret realm?”

“To eat,” Li Yang said confidently.

She had more than just buns, she had a full banquet in her space, countless kinds of delicious food.

Meng Zhang expressed his incomprehension.

But he respected her hobby, and he ate the bun with gusto.

There was silence for a long time inside, and a weak, cautious voice came out, “Little… Little Junior Sister?”

Meng Zhang was startled, almost choking on the bun, “There’s really someone?”

Li Yang’s ears twitched, she hadn’t noticed earlier, but now she smelled a foul stench of blood in the air, her eyelashes trembled wildly, “Fifth Senior Brother?”

Ning Shiyan weakly replied with a “Hmm,” as if he were injured, even speaking was difficult, “To the right… the stones below can be moved, don’t touch the middle, I put… a spirit artifact…”

Li Yang followed his instructions, gently moving the stones from the cracks to create a passage for a person to enter.

She successfully saw Ning Shiyan.

The boy was covered in blood, pale-faced, curled up in a corner, holding a night pearl in his arms, looking extremely miserable.

“Fifth Senior Brother,” Li Yang rushed inside.

“Hey, hey, hey, what about me?” Meng Zhang reached out to follow.

However, due to his excessively round figure, he couldn’t get in and got stuck in the crack.

Meng Zhang:” “They discriminated against chubby people.

Li Yang approached and discovered that Ning Shiyan was severely injured, with a large pool of blood on his chest, “How did this happen? Who hit you?”

Seeing Li Yang, the young boy seemed to have been given a sedative, he smiled weakly, “A group of… black-clothed sword cultivators…”

He was a weapon cultivator, thankfully he had Lou Qi’s speed talismans, so he managed to escape.

Meng Zhang wheezed his way in, his body staggering.

Looking at Ning Shiyan’s miserable appearance, the little black chubby boy kept talking, “No kidding, it’s only been half a day, and you look even worse than my Second Senior Brother, who made an early exit.”

Having said that, Meng Zhang examined Ning Shiyan’s wounds.

Most of the Danwang Sect’s disciples knew how to treat injuries.

Meng Zhang frowned, “He’s poisoned?”

“What kind of poison?”

After examining for a moment, he said, “It seems to be a poison that suppresses cultivation, and I’ve never seen it before.”

If Meng Zhang hadn’t said anything, Li Yang wouldn’t have noticed.

Ning Shiyan, like the boy she had seen in the Bihai City night market, had an almost imperceptible black aura around him.

Meng Zhang couldn’t figure it out, so he could only suggest, “Staying like this definitely won’t work. You should teleport out quickly. The City Lord of Bihai City is a good person, and there’s a good senior Dan cultivator in the City Lord’s Mansion. He should be able to help you.”

Ning Shiyan’s eyelids were heavy, his fingers moved slightly, “I… can’t go out.”

Only then did the two of them notice the teleportation token hidden under the boy’s fingertips.

But strangely, Ning Shiyan had already crushed the token, yet the teleportation array didn’t appear.

Meng Zhang: “What’s going on?”

Li Yang injected spiritual energy into him, maintaining her usual carefree demeanor, calmly analyzing, “It should be related to the problem with the teleportation array when we entered the secret realm, causing the teams to be scattered.”

Even if they crushed the token now, they couldn’t teleport back.

She had noticed this in the afternoon. Logically, although the Rebirth Secret Realm was large, people would inevitably encounter each other and fight, it was impossible for everyone to be as peaceful as she and Meng Zhang.

But from entering the secret realm until now, only Song Heng’s name had darkened on the token list.

It was probably because the boy left too early, even earlier than those who were manipulating things, so he managed to get out.

In other words, none of them could leave the Rebirth Secret Realm now.

Meng Zhang’s face twitched as he listened to her analysis.

So… his Second Senior Brother was really unlucky.

Meng Zhang asked, “What do we do now?”

He didn’t know exactly what poison Ning Shiyan had been poisoned with, so he didn’t dare to make a judgment.

Ning Shiyan weakly said, “I… ate… an antidote pill.”

It was just an ordinary antidote pill, and it didn’t work.

Li Yang thought for a moment, patted Ning Shiyan on the shoulder, “Don’t worry, rest first, I’ll figure something out.”

The boy’s pupils widened slightly, and he smiled apologetically, “I’m still… a burden.”

Li Yang thought he was quite childlike, sometimes so obedient it made her heart ache.

“How can you be a burden?” She smiled, “We can’t do without you.”

Meng Zhang: “What are you going to do?”

Li Yang pulled out the only concealment talisman she had, and five speed talismans, stuffing them all into Meng Zhang’s hands, “I’m going out to take a look, you help me watch over him here, and after I’m gone, seal the stones outside and put up the concealment talisman.”

While wandering around with Meng Zhang outside, she had seen Star Spirit Grass and Red Jiao Vine in the mountains to the south. These two were used to make high-grade restorative pills, and they might be useful.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator gave him her life-saving talismans and then stepped onto her Xuan sword without hesitation.

Meng Zhang was stunned for a moment, seemingly moved, “Be careful.”

The boy seemed to be envious, but he didn’t know what to say, so after Li Yang left, he silently put the stones back in place and put up the concealment talisman as she had said.