Chapter 54: The Image Quality Gradually Grows Blurry

“All right, raise your heads. I’m not embarrassed, so what are you embarrassed about?”

Bai Kun beckoned to the many flying swords on the ground. Flying swords of all different sizes and shapes lined up in a long dragon and entered the sword case one after another.

“Yes, Martial Uncle,” the two answered in unison. Yet, without prior agreement, both decided to bury this matter in the deepest part of their hearts, unless one day their own cultivation caught up to or surpassed Bai Kun’s.

“I more or less have some clues about the thing outside this secret realm. There’s a strong chance a powerful restriction has been arranged around the secret realm’s outer perimeter.

“I attacked three times, each stronger than the last. If it were an array, then even a sect-level array would still produce some kind of change.”

No matter how powerful an array was, it would always have traces to follow, with one layer linked to another. A restriction, however, had no reason to it at all. It did not require any conditions. It simply denied you the opportunity to make a move.

Even if you flipped the table outright, you still had to see whether you possessed the strength to flip it. At the same time, once it was overturned, the secret realm inside the restriction would also be affected, and the things inside would be all but destroyed.

“Martial Uncle is absolutely right.” The delicate-looking cultivator and the other man pondered Bai Kun’s words. Although he had slightly overturned just now, they still did not doubt his conjecture in the slightest.

“I’ll try again and see whether this restriction has any flaws.

“Logically speaking, for a secret realm that can produce third-rank spiritual plants, there is absolutely no need to use a restriction. I wonder what intentions the cultivator or Aberration who arranged the restriction has.”

As he guessed, Bai Kun took a white jade bat out of a cloth pouch. The white jade bat lightly flapped its pair of crystal-clear wings, and one fan-shaped ripple after another, visible only to Bai Kun, swept toward the secret realm.

Under the effect of the restriction, they vanished without a trace.

Inside the cave abode, after the three successive flying sword attacks and the white jade bat’s probing, several crimson eyeballs that had been patrolling the cave abode’s outer perimeter rapidly moved their pink tentacles and rushed toward the edge of the cave abode.

Hiding behind the Mind-Bewildering Flowers, they sensed the three cultivators not far away, and the eyeballs vanished one after another.

Strictly speaking, the Primordial Taiyin Restriction applied outward, not inward. If cultivators or weird entities outside wanted to enter, they had to obtain the restriction master’s consent. If those inside wanted to leave, they could choose to do so on their own.

Of course, after entering, if they wanted to enter the cave abode again, that would not be so easy. They would likewise need Lu Yuan’s consent before they could enter.

In the wilderness countless li away, the Little Paper Man drifting with the wind stopped in its tracks. Its hollow eye sockets stared at its own arm.

On its arm, a huge crimson eyeball struggled out from the white paper arm. Its pink tentacles grabbed the ground, and the eyeball spun wildly back and forth.

Lu Yuan immediately understood what it meant. His divine sense was still entrusted to the Little Paper Man as he connected with the Illusory Yin Eye.

After a bout of dizziness, Lu Yuan’s divine sense shared the vision of the Illusory Yin Eye’s six clones.

In his field of vision, he could see three cultivators standing in a triangular formation at the edge of the secret realm. The cultivator at the very front was controlling a white jade bat, circling around the secret realm.

Of the three cultivators, two were unfamiliar to Lu Yuan. The remaining one, however, was an old acquaintance. It was precisely the delicate-looking cultivator who had taken a third-rank Sword-Nurturing Gourd.

“This image quality is seriously high definition…”

In his vision, the three cultivators were shown in perfect detail. Even the patterns on their clothes were clear as day. The image quality was quite conscientious.

“It’s just that the memory consumption is way too huge…”

Seeing such high-definition image quality, Lu Yuan felt a swelling sensation coming from his divine sense.

Outside the cave abode, Bai Kun felt a faintly discernible gaze gathering on him. His expression did not change, and his spiritual sense carefully searched the surroundings.

A crimson flying sword flashed past, piercing through a large tree. A crimson eyeball was pinned to the other side of the tree, and foul-smelling pus flowed from the pierced area.

“Ah, my eye!”

Lu Yuan felt as if he were experiencing it himself. He had the feeling that his own eye had been pierced through, and he could not help the urge to cover his eye with his hand.

Of course, in actual operation, it was the Little Paper Man reaching out to cover the Illusory Yin Eye’s crimson eyeball.

The sword cultivator Bai Kun repeated the same method, piercing five crimson eyeballs in succession. The final eyeball had actually appeared on the back of the spiritual plant cultivator’s head.

The sword qi instantly transformed into sword threads, picking the eyeball out from the back of the spiritual plant cultivator’s head and bringing with it a bright red tentacle covered in fresh bits of flesh and blood.

“It’s fine, don’t worry. Eat spirit beast meat for nourishment for two meals, and you’ll be as good as new.”

Bai Kun comforted the spiritual plant cultivator, who had been more frightened than injured. The spiritual plant cultivator hurriedly nodded. The instant the sword threads came at him, he had thought Bai Kun was planning to kill him to silence him!

One eyeball clone after another was pierced by Bai Kun, and the shared vision’s image quality gradually grew blurry as well. It was like jumping from 4K ultra-high-definition straight to AVI, and Lu Yuan was a little unable to adapt.

It was all mosaics, carrying a kind of advanced hazy beauty.

Lu Yuan secretly complained.

He had left fewer than ten clone eyeballs in the cave abode, and that swordsman had wiped out more than half of them in one go. It made Lu Yuan ache with distress.

The Illusory Yin Eye’s main pupil had come to the wilderness together with the Little Paper Man. The clone eyeballs could not produce new clones. New clones could only be split off from the main pupil.

Outside the cave abode, Bai Kun withdrew the sword threads into the black sword case.

“Let’s go. This means the secret realm’s master doesn’t want us entering the secret realm without permission. We can only wait for the next guidance from that paper slip you mentioned.

“Now that a restriction has appeared, we need to prepare for the worst. Either the original master is expressing their determination not to let us enter, or a powerful cultivator wants to occupy the secret realm alone.

“No matter which possibility it is, we need to prepare as much as possible. A third-rank Sword-Nurturing Gourd and an unknown stone cave are also worth taking this risk for.

“After you go back, find as many of those paper slips as possible. I estimate the price of paper slips will get higher and higher.

“Wenxuan, didn’t you say you knew a cultivator closely connected to a mysterious Paper Figure inside the cave abode, and that he even had paper slips for sale? Find him after we go back. If there are paper slips, buy as many as possible. At the same time, ask him more about any information related to that Paper Figure.”

As Bai Kun gave these instructions, he looked upward with deep meaning, then turned and left.

Behind him, the delicate-looking cultivator named Wenxuan and the spiritual plant cultivator also looked up. The sky was clear, with white clouds scattered across it. Other than that, they saw nothing.

Countless li above the secret realm, a streak of white light flashed, and a woman with a graceful figure appeared in midair.

A pair of wings grew from the woman’s ribs. The wing bones were white as jade, with sharp feather branches hooked together front and back, covered in countless pale white feathers. Her entire body was covered in tiny silver scales, with only a few key areas blocked by thin fabric.

“That kid’s sword intent is so sharp. I almost got discovered!”

The winged woman’s tongue stretched out like a snake’s tongue, forked in the middle and extremely slender.

“That also adds a bit more interest to this exploration.” The woman looked coldly at the secret realm beneath her feet, now shrunken by countless times.

“I didn’t expect a small secret realm to actually have a restriction arranged around it. Looks like I need to reassess this secret realm’s value.

“I wonder, aside from the third-rank Sword-Nurturing Gourd, what other existences worth looking forward to are inside.”

The winged woman lightly waved her white wings and instantly vanished into the horizon.

Second update. It’s a bit late. Please keep reading and recommend it.

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