Qiao Yi quickly made a decision. With a wave of his hand, ten or so rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures floated in mid-air.
The floating spiritual lights were of various colors, nearly blinding the eyes.
"Qiao Yi!" A cultivator who had narrowly escaped with Qiao Yi felt that Qiao Yi was thinking too highly of these cultivators from the minor worlds and disagreed with his actions, but he was glared at fiercely by Qiao Yi.
With Cai Zhi and another person absent, he was no match for Qiao Yi alone. Seeing this, he could only swallow his displeasure.
Qiao Yi said, "Fellow Daoist, you surely don't want to be enemies with our Zi Huang Zhong world, do you?"
Qiao Yi had no doubt that anyone capable of trapping Cai Zhi, Hou Changming, and the others would definitely know the fame of the Zi Huang Zhong world.
A sound came from ahead. Qiao Yi immediately raised his head to look and saw a cultivator in green standing indifferently not far away.
The strong wind continued, but his light, gauze-like green robe stood perfectly still, unaffected by the wind in the slightest.
His eyes glanced over faintly, and he said emotionlessly, "Someone from the Zi Huang Zhong world."
It was not a question but a statement of certainty.
Qiao Yi's companion couldn't help but say, "You from a minor world, do you know how powerful our central world is? Young man, I advise you to stop now, or you won't want to know the consequences."
"Shut up!" Qiao Yi reprimanded his companion.
His companion said indignantly, "Qiao Yi, you have no right to order me around."
Qing Lan Daojun was not seeing such a person for the first time, and he paid no mind to the other's rudeness, calmly stating, "You all leave Shen Qi. When the secret realm opens, if the entrance is within Shen Qi, then you may set foot here."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiao Yi's companion exploded.
"On what grounds!"
"Bang!"
Qing Lan Daojun waved his sleeve, and a green mist suddenly drifted before the man. Before the man could react, the ethereal mist instantly gained the weight of a high mountain, directly forcing him to his knees.
The man's face immediately turned green and red!
It was a mixture of embarrassment and anger.
"What are you doing?" he fumed powerlessly.
Qing Lan Daojun said faintly, "Are you leaving or not?"
Before Qiao Yi's companion could speak, Qiao Yi immediately said, "We're leaving. We're leaving now."
The green mist dispersed, and Cai Zhi and the others who had been encircled by the green mist finally escaped its grasp. Qiao Yi hurried to lead them away together.
"Do not remain in Shen Qi, or I will kill anyone I see."
The indifferent voice, like the first snow of Tianshan, echoed. Qiao Yi stumbled, and leading the group, he changed their route. He had originally planned to fool this person and then find a way after he left, but now he had no choice but to honestly fly out of the Shen Qi minor world.
"Qiao Yi, are we really going to listen to him?"
"Otherwise? Can you beat him?" Qiao Yi asked his companion coldly, adding irritably, "If you hadn't insisted on provoking him, why would we have been driven away without even being able to negotiate with him?"
The other person said unhappily, "Even if I hadn't provoked him, I don't think he's the type of person who can be reasoned with."
"Forget it, forget it. Now is not the time to talk about this. Let's think about what to do next. The domain-outer void is not a place we can stay for long. We should look for a place to settle where the mustard seed layer borders the void," Qiao Yi said with a headache.
On the other side, after Qing Lan Daojun confirmed that these people had truly left, he looked into the distance and chuckled, "What, you've returned but won't come out to see your master?"
"Master."
Bai Shengyi walked out from a spatial rift. With a wave of the Reincarnation Brush, the strong winds around them stopped.
"Master, did you also sense the arrival of outsiders and come here?"
Qing Lan Daojun shook his head, "Not entirely. I received a distress message from Xun Meng."
"Xun Meng is here too?"
Bai Shengyi frowned deeply, forgetting to speak with Qing Lan Daojun, and ran towards the group of unconscious cultivators.
As expected, she found Xun Meng inside, her face pale and her consciousness lost.
"Senior Uncle."
Qin Si's gaze followed Bai Shengyi. Seeing her checking Xun Meng and the others, he greeted Qing Lan Daojun faintly.
"A Si." Qing Lan Daojun didn't mind and nodded, "It's good that you're back."
Qin Si: "Your cultivation, Senior Uncle... Sage realm?"
A faint smile appeared in Qing Lan Daojun's indifferent eyes. He neither nodded nor shook his head, but instead said, "A Si, since you're back, go and help Yue Shanzhu and the others. If my guess is correct, the secret realm might open the day after tomorrow."
Qing Lan Daojun was not speaking without reason.
For the past half-day, the Huan Yu Secret Realm had been emitting various unusual phenomena. Sometimes it radiated colorful spiritual light outwards, as ethereal and brilliant as a ten-thousand-zhang sunset glow. Other times, it emitted "dong dong dong" sounds, as if beating a drum.
Qin Si could also feel the restless energy in the surrounding world.
He lowered his gaze to Bai Shengyi, "I'll go in a moment. Will you stay here, Senior Uncle?"
"Yes, more people have arrived," Qing Lan Daojun said faintly.
Xun Meng and the others were not seriously injured, only suffering from excessive blood loss. Bai Shengyi refined a batch of blood-replenishing pills on the spot for them, and they were fine.
As she was preparing to move them to a safe place, Qin Si stepped forward and took care of these matters for her, whispering, "People have arrived."
"Hmm?" Bai Shengyi wanted to ask where they were, but then remembered she was still angry with Qin Si, so she fell silent again.
Fortunately, within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Bai Shengyi saw the newly arrived group.
There were seven of them, all demon cultivators.
"People from the Yue Xing Zhong world?" Bai Shengyi exclaimed in surprise. Could it be that the Yue Xing Zhong world was entirely populated by demon cultivators?
Qin Si seemed to understand her confusion and explained, "There are also human cultivators in the Yue Xing Zhong world, but the human cultivators are no match for the demon cultivators. The demon cultivators are the rulers."
Bai Shengyi understood.
With Qing Lan Daojun present, neither Bai Shengyi nor Qin Si had the opportunity to act. Qing Lan Daojun wasted no words and directly warned the group.
"This is the territory of the Shen Qi minor world. Please leave quickly."
"Who are you?" The leader of the Yue Xing Zhong world was a female demon cultivator with two small horns on her head, wearing a raven-blue tight-fitting outfit that shimmered like scales.
Qing Lan Daojun said, "Of course, I am a cultivator of the Shen Qi minor world."
As he spoke, his powerful aura was directly revealed.
The female demon cultivator's expression did not change. "Fellow Daoist, we can leave, but what if the entrance to the Huan Yu Secret Realm is in the Shen Qi minor world? You can't possibly expect your Shen Qi minor world to monopolize such a precious realm, can you?"
Clearly, she was very wary of Qing Lan Daojun's strength.
Qing Lan Daojun repeated what he had said to the people from the Zi Huang Zhong world.
The female demon cultivator did not argue unreasonably but instead led her group away decisively.
"This demon cultivator..."
"Master, what about the demon cultivator?" Bai Shengyi asked Qing Lan Daojun curiously.
She actually quite liked the female demon cultivator's style – decisive, straightforward, and efficient.
Qing Lan Daojun frowned slightly and shook his head, "It's nothing. A'yi, go with A'si to the area above the secret realm. I can handle things here alone."
As he spoke, his gaze glanced towards Qin Si, and he said softly, "With A'si's help, Yue Shanzhu and the others will have it much easier."