This was a formation shimmering with divine light, within which grew all sorts of lush medicinal herbs.

"Are there no demon beasts guarding this place?"

Wan Lei was a little curious. Didn't places with secret inheritance techniques in the forest always have demon beasts guarding them?

"There are."

Sui Xiaohang nodded.

"Where?"

"…They must have been killed. Otherwise, how did we break the formation earlier? Young Master Lei, is your intelligence sufficient? If not, I'll ask Fairy Xu Qing to step in again."

"You're looking down on my intelligence? I really don't know your own capabilities."

When it came to intelligence, Young Master Lei only deferred to Sui Xiaohang.

Back then, he couldn't even see through Feng Silu's crude scam.

"Alright, stop the nonsense and break the formation quickly."

Sui Xiaohang urged impatiently.

Wan Lei scanned the crowd. When he saw Xu Qing, his eyes darted, and he smiled slightly, an idea forming in his mind.

Xu Qing felt a shiver down her spine at his gaze. If she hadn't been unable to defeat him, she would have definitely gone up to punch that lecher.

"Oh my, didn't someone question my formation skills before? Why aren't they speaking now?"

Young Master Lei looked up at the sky, speaking sarcastically.

Fang Xiaoyu covered her face and sighed. This guy was going to trick someone again.

"Yes, it was me who questioned you. So what?"

"Then do you think I can break this formation?"

"Yes."

"…" Young Master Lei.

Why were the lines different? Shouldn't you have said something like, "You can break this formation? Don't make me laugh. Even in three years, you couldn't break it. If you can, I'll bet you how much money?"

And then I could have conveniently tricked you out of some spirit stones?

Wouldn't that be good?

Why isn't it following the normal plot? Extras should know their place.

"Then how long do you think… it will take me to break it?"

"Within a minute."

"…Oh."

Damn it, how could she be tricked?

Do I have to be the one to say that we should make a bet?

Isn't that what the villain is supposed to say?

Wan Lei would rather jump off from here and die outside than say something like that.

"Do you want to make a bet?"

Young Master Lei said one thing but meant another.

"As long as it's not a bet of spirit stones, anything else is fine."

"…"

This is boring, I'm not playing anymore.

"If you can break it within a minute, I will plead with the Sect Master of the Heavenly Formation Pavilion to allow you to study formations there."

Xu Qing's lips curled into a cold smile.

She smiled maliciously.

Young Master Lei felt like he had been tricked. This girl was trying to poach him.

Tricking others, but ended up tricking himself?

"Forget it, forget it."

"Don't forget it. Are you betting or not?"

"Gambling is illegal and not encouraged."

"Heh."

Young Master Lei failed to trick someone, so he could only put on a show.

Alas, it was so bland.

He walked up to the grand formation, activated his formation eye, and all the profundities of this formation were laid bare before him.

Seeing this, Young Master Lei patted the formation, then continuously used his Lightning Escape technique, patting the other three corners of the formation, and finally arrived at the center above the formation, emitting his divine sense power and entering the core of the formation.

Then, he flew back.

"Done."

"Young Master Lei, I'm uneducated, don't lie to me. This formation is clearly still here. Are you just trying to show us how fast your teleportation is?"

Young Master Lei glanced at Sui Xiaohang with satisfaction. After all, he was one of their own and understood how to cooperate in showing off.

"Heh, open your dog eyes and look carefully."

Young Master Lei reached out, inserted his hand into the formation, and then abruptly tore it.

Riiip…

A large rip appeared in the formation.

"I have refined the formation. There is no danger, please enter."

"As expected of Young Master Lei. Brothers, let's go in and pick the herbs.

Don't let anyone else in, don't ruin the herbs."

Sui Xiaohang waved his hand and led the people from the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion into the formation.

Even the guards of the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion, even if they couldn't refine elixirs, were extremely knowledgeable about medicinal herbs and were very professional in picking them.

When they picked herbs, they wouldn't dig up the roots. They only picked the parts that could be used as medicine, leaving the rest in place.

After all, medicinal herbs were plants that could continuously bloom and bear fruit. Digging up the roots was an act of extreme selfishness, despised by all in the world.

Even though this Wood Immortal Secret Realm only opened once every thousand years, and they didn't know if they would ever come again, they would still leave blessings for future generations.

There were many medicinal herbs, and the people inside were carefully picking them. Those outside were not knowledgeable and couldn't even recognize the herbs, so they naturally wouldn't go in to cause trouble.

They sat in groups of three or five, chatting and talking. When people approached from a distance, those who entered the formation area also wisely left.

"Wife, is this Wood Immortal Secret Realm always a forest? That's too boring. This place is so vast, it's hard to even find a worthy opponent."

Young Master Lei leaned against a large tree. This tree had tried to ambush him earlier, and he had already killed it. The other trees were trembling under his previous lightning burst, so it was safe here now.

"It shouldn't be. Although the scene in the secret realm changes every time it opens, there's no record of it being a single unchanging landscape."

"That's true. We've been in here for so long, it's all just forests and demon beasts, which is monotonous. It's time to change the map, otherwise, the readers will get aesthetically fatigued."

"…Stop indulging in your novel world. You dream every day as if it were real, treating yourself like the protagonist."

"Of course I'm the protagonist. Otherwise, who else could it be? The two most handsome guys in the entire Central Region are you and me.

Hmm… let me think, according to the usual tropes, it's time for Sui Xiaohang and the others to find something good. This thing will be very important, it will help our cultivation, then we'll happily snatch it away, and then both of us will eat it, and everyone will be happy.

At this time, he should exclaim in surprise.

For example: 'Young Master Lei, look what I found!'"

"Young Master Lei, look what I found!"

Inside the formation, Sui Xiaohang stood up, his face filled with surprise, holding a green fruit that looked very ordinary.

"You really predicted it all, didn't you?"

Fang Xiaoyu was dumbfounded.

At that moment, she really thought Wan Lei was the protagonist.

"Yes, let's go, it's time for us to eat that fruit."

Wan Lei stood up with a grin, pulling Fang Xiaoyu along as they walked over.

Suddenly,

Boom!!!

The green fruit in Sui Xiaohang's hand exploded violently, and everyone in the formation was blown away.

Sui Xiaohang himself was even worse off. The fruit was in his hand, and his arm was instantly blown to smithereens.

This sudden turn of events stunned everyone.

"Oh, the fruit can't be eaten anymore."

Fang Xiaoyu's eyes widened, looking cute and charming.

People reacted and immediately rushed into the formation to rescue the injured.

As for Wan Lei, he was still standing there blankly, his eyes shocked.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Seeing Wan Lei like this, Fang Xiaoyu was a little worried.

"Wood… Wood Lightning."