Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

The dragon's roar gradually faded away, and only then did Li Jue and the others cautiously stand up.

They exchanged glances, eyes filled with lingering fear and confusion.

The dragon's patrol of the secret realm seemed to come earlier than before.

Previously, it was every four days, but this time the dragon patrolled the secret realm only three days after its last patrol.

No one knew how long it would be until the next time.

"Senior brother..." Tao Qing was a little scared at this time. It was her first time on a sect mission, and she did not expect to encounter such a situation.

After their group arrived at Wolong Marsh, the moderately difficult mission unexpectedly met with incidents.

For some reason, a large number of demon beasts appeared around Wolong Marsh, far more than ever before.

And these demon beasts, who should have fought to the death upon meeting, surprisingly settled down peacefully near Wolong Marsh.

Li Jue and the others probed several times and found these demon beasts very strange; not only did they not fight each other, but they also only moved within certain boundaries.

They never left a range of five miles from Wolong Marsh or stepped into other demon beasts' territories.

Driven by curiosity, Li Jue and the others did not return to the sect to abandon the mission but instead decided to take the risk.

Li Jue first asked Bai Xiao to confirm the position of the demon beast's egg and then transformed Bai Xiao into a bomber, throwing out half of the hundred or so Thousand Mechanism Thunder he carried with him.

As those demon beasts fell into chaos, Li Jue and the others rode a giant elephant and charged in directly, but just as they were about to escape with the demon beast's egg, a sudden change occurred.

A vortex appeared at the center of Wolong Marsh.

The dragon's roar rose, and a huge suction force pulled Li Jue and the others, the demon beasts, and even Bai Xiao from the sky into it.

When Li Jue opened his eyes again, he found that under Wolong Marsh there was indeed a land unknown for millennia.

Within the secret realm, a world had formed on its own, complete with mountains, waters, forests, and trees, along with birds and beasts, though the boundaries were unknown.

To the east, a blind giant dragon roamed above an ancient forest.

The demon beasts sucked in were all turned into bait for this giant dragon.

Luckily, Li Jue and a few others reacted quickly, keeping their spirit beasts safe within their respective Beast Taming Rings.

Usual communication methods also all failed, except for the small walnut.

Just then, Zhang Ze contacted them.

Li Jue saw three words displayed on the small walnut.

[What are you doing]

And Li Jue only had time to reply with three words. He didn't even remember if he sent it or not.

[Wolong Marsh]

It wasn't that he didn't want to reply more, but that the blind giant dragon noticed them, and before Li Jue could see what was happening, he was sent flying, and the small walnut slipped from his hand.

Had it not been for the protection of a high-level magical artifact, he would have been gone from that impact.

What followed was a frantic escape.

During the escape, they discovered that the blind giant dragon was only interested in moving objects; as long as one squatted down and held their breath, they would be temporarily safe.

By relying on this method, they found this cave to stay in temporarily and have been here till now.

During this process, they also summarized some patterns.

Firstly, the blind giant dragon only showed interest in them, the foreign beings, and was uninterested in the birds and beasts that already existed in the secret realm.

The second point was that the giant dragon patrolled the secret realm once every four days, spending the rest of the time resting above the ancient forest.

Now that the behavior of the blind giant dragon has changed, Li Jue and the others were unsure if it was a blessing or a curse.

Moreover, as time passed, the cultivation of the group gradually decreased, and the unease from losing strength was more terrifying than the blind dragon hovering in the ancient forest.

Fortunately, some of the Thousand Mechanism Magical Artifacts they carried with them did not require cultivation to activate, which provided them with some consolation, however meager.

"Don't be afraid." Li Jue reassured Tao Qing.

"Even if we can't find the small walnut, there's still a way to get out of here.

"We were sucked in by that dragon. When it breathes dragon breath again, this secret realm will surely open again, and we can escape danger."

"Besides, I've already sent a message to Brother Zhang. Brother Zhang is remarkably perceptive. Although it's just words, I'm sure he can discern the situation from just three words."

"He'll definitely analyze that I'm in danger."

"By now, he's probably already brought people to this area, devising a way to break the formation and slay the dragon at Wolong Marsh."

"It'll be fine."

Li Jue was not sure if he had actually sent the message, but he could only comfort Tao Qing in this way.

After speaking, he crouched down and continued to help Tao Qing sort out the Thousand Mechanism Magical Artifacts.

...

Outside Dragon Viewing Mountain, in a small town called Rising Dragon.

The Brother Zhang that Li Jue pinned his hopes on was sitting in a teahouse, listening to storytelling and drinking tea.

On stage, the storyteller was spitting profusely from speaking, sitting half on the table, gesturing wildly.

The storyteller at this moment held the folding fan horizontally in front of his neck, narrating the tale of an ancient hero using the Night Battle Eight Directions Concealed Blade Technique to slay an evil dragon.

"Who would have thought that the hero's blade was so sharp, that before slaying the demon dragon, he cut himself first..."

Noticing the slip-up as soon as he spoke excitedly, the storyteller realized something was wrong.

But once the words were out, there was no chance of taking them back, and helplessly he continued with what he started.

"But this was all within the hero's calculations. In an instant, the headless man reincarnated as the Primordial King, Emperor of the Human Race, his cultivation surged, becoming invincible."

"Seizing the moment when the demon dragon was stunned, he shouted angrily, 'Wa-yah!' with a sharp blade, a crisp clang, the hand raised and the blade fell, in an instant, he severed the dragon's head and placed it on his own..."

Zhang Ze sat below, listening to the storyteller's nonsense while chatting with Li Jue's sister using the small walnut.

[Zhang Ze: I just contacted Li Jue, your brother didn't reply, is it possible something happened?]