Chapter 227: Getting There First

After Li Yungong took the flying sword and circled around the valley, he confirmed that the other sects around him had not entered the valley yet, then returned to the pool again and shook his head at everyone.

"The people from Xingchen Sect and Lingyin Sect have not come in yet, so it shouldn't be them who did anything."

The old man surnamed Chen looked at the empty pool, lowered his head and pondered for a while, then slowly said: "According to the records in the sect in the past, this Pure Heart Lotus appears about once every hundred years. I didn't see it the last time I came here. It stands to reason that it should be there this time, which is really strange."

"Looking at these places around, the spiritual objects do seem to be less than the last time I came. Brother Chen, do you think there might be some mistakes when the secret realm was opened this time, which caused this object to fail to appear here on time this time."

Just when Li Yungong and the others were still wondering, a dozen Xingchen Sect monks in white clothes on the other side of the valley also came to the deepest part of the valley.

After they entered here, they soon found the disciples of Xiaoyao Sect who entered the inner valley before them. Seeing that they had collected a lot of spiritual objects in the valley, the disciples of Xingchen Sect hurried forward to pick the spiritual medicines near them. Although they and the disciples of Xiaoyao Sect looked at each other, they had some tacit understanding and did not compete for the spiritual objects in each other's position.

Seeing that the people of Xiaoyao Sect were still one step ahead of them, Liu Zongping couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Although it was their Xingchen Sect that first passed through the barrier and entered the inner valley, their luck was still a little worse later. They encountered a demon king who was very restrained by their skills. Not only did they die in a big battle, but they also wasted a lot of time. If it weren't for this reason, they would not be one step behind Xiaoyao Sect.

Fortunately, they successfully passed the last level and came here. As long as they can get the thing that the elder of the sect has entrusted, this mission will be successfully completed. Compared with that thing, these low-level spiritual objects in front of them, no matter how many there are, can't be compared. I thought of this.

Looking at the various spiritual objects that can be seen everywhere, Liu Zongping did not pay much attention. After looking at several fellow disciples with higher cultivation around him, he went directly to an inconspicuous cave at the foot of the mountain.

Like Xiaoyao Sect, among the people of Xiaoyao Sect who entered the secret realm this time, only Liu Zongping and several other core disciples of the sect knew the most important things they were going to get when they entered the inner valley this time.

After entering the cave and turning forward a few times, they soon reached the end of the cave.

Liu Zongping's magic power moved and a ball of red fire appeared, instantly illuminating the entire cave. On a vine climbing on the rock wall, several people found three fist-sized black fruits.

"Hey! I clearly remember that one fruit was almost ripe when I came last time. What's going on?"

Looking at these three fruits, all of which were unripe spiritual fruits, Liu Zongping suddenly opened his eyes wide. This time, something really happened.

"Brother Liu, there is a new cut on this vine. Someone must have taken a fruit not long ago."

After hearing this reminder from a fellow disciple next to him, Liu Zongping hurried forward to take a closer look and found that as he said, someone must have been here not long ago.

"Xiaoyao Sect is really bold this time. They dare to touch our Xingchen Sect's things."

This Taiyue Lake Secret Realm was originally owned by the nearby sects. Although Xiaoyao Sect, which manages the secret realm, has opened the entire secret realm to all nearby cultivators, only seven or eight sects with a history of more than a thousand years know the location of the inner valley in the secret realm and have the ability to enter.

Below the Mutian Canyon, there are many magic arrays to enter the inner valley. When each sect enters the inner valley, they basically do not take the same road. Who can reach the final place first depends on their own ability.

Since the secret realm was opened for thousands of years, those who have the strength to defeat the many monsters outside are generally the Yuanying Sects who first enter here. By the time those Jindan Sects arrive here, the spiritual objects here have basically been divided up by these early comers, which inevitably causes a shock.

In the past thousand years, in order to unite and divide up the spiritual objects here, and to avoid internal fighting and loss of strength, they were exploited by other Jindan Sects. They tacitly marked out a small piece of their own territory.

No matter which cultivator arrives here first, they cannot touch the things in the position designated by the other two. In theory, even if the people of Xiaoyao Sect enter here first, they cannot just break into this cave located in the Xingchen Gate area and take away the spiritual objects.

Seeing that the things that the sect wanted to take this time had disappeared, Liu Zongping naturally thought of Xiaoyao Sect first. When he angrily led the sect disciples to the location of the Xiaoyao Sect disciples, he found that not only them, but also people from Lingyin Sect had arrived here.

"Brother Wu Xian, we have already said that we did not go to your Lingyin Sect. The things that our Xiaoyao Sect wanted to take also disappeared suddenly this time. There is something strange in the inner valley this time. I wonder if someone else got here first."

"Hmph! You just admitted that you were the first to come in. How dare you not admit it? Even if you didn't do it yourself, isn't it possible that someone else from your Xiaoyao Sect did it?"

Faced with the desperate explanation of the old man surnamed Chen from the Xiaoyao Sect, many cultivators from the Lingyin Sect, who were also furious, were not willing to believe his statement. In their hearts, like the people from the Xingchen Sect, they had already assumed that the cultivators from the Xiaoyao Sect who came in first had made a move before they arrived.

Before everyone came in, the elders of the sect had carefully instructed them that it was okay to take more or less of those low-level spiritual objects, but it would be difficult to explain the matter after returning to the sect if the most important spiritual objects were not taken out.

"Does it mean that we took your things just because we came in first? What does it have to do with us if your Lingyin Sect's things are lost? Why do you keep coming to compete with us? Do you really think that our Xiaoyao Sect is easy to bully?" On the Xiaoyao Sect side, Li Yungong, who had a hot temper, gradually became impatient when he saw that the people from the Lingyin Sect were not giving up.

"Li Yungong, what do you mean by that? Do you want to learn a few moves from us here?" The leader of the Lingyin Sect said, and walked out first.

Li Yungong laughed loudly, took a step forward and said generously: "No matter who wants to come and teach me, I, Li, will definitely not refuse."

"Wait a minute, fellow Taoists, and listen to me first."