Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

211: Chapter 211 It must be the work of calamity!Ye Chen walked aimlessly.

This walk lasted for several years.

He did not remember how far he had walked, how many cities he had passed through, or how many mountains he had crossed.

The Azure Wave Sect had long since disappeared behind him, and he could no longer even distinguish the direction.

He did not know where he was going, only that a voice in his heart was saying: ”Keep walking, do not stop.”

Where did that voice originate?

It seemed to be his own, yet it also seemed not to be.

If it were his own, why would he have such inexplicable thoughts?

If it were not his own, who was at work?

Ye Chen had tried to stop, but whenever he stopped, he felt anxious and uneasy, as if countless ants were gnawing at his heart.

He had no choice but to keep walking, passing through mountains, rivers, wilderness, and ruins.

As he walked, he gradually fell into a demonic state.

Mountains were no longer mountains, and water was no longer water.

The rising and setting of the sun and moon, the changing of the seasons, all became a blur of Chaos in his eyes.

He no longer thought, no longer doubted; he just walked mechanically, step by step, forward.

In these years, the Spirit Realm was more chaotic than ever before.

The spatial rift that had opened in the Northern Plains led directly to the Demon Realm.

An endless stream of the Demon Race poured in from that rift, like a breached flood.

Demon creatures wreaked havoc everywhere, leaving nothing alive in their wake.

Ye Chen had once heard Senior Minghe mention this matter.

It was said that there was a mastermind behind this, intending to make the Spirit Realm and the Demon Realm, both Middle Thousand Worlds, consume each other, and once both were severely injured, they would reap the rewards.

As for who the mastermind was, Senior Minghe did not say, and Ye Chen did not ask.

In any case, even if he asked, he could not defeat them, so it was better not to know.

In a daze, Ye Chen arrived at a Secret Realm.

That Secret Realm was hidden deep within the mountains of the Eastern Continent, with a concealed entrance; had he not stumbled upon it by accident, it would have been impossible to discover.

The interior of the Secret Realm was a world of its own, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, a stark contrast to the Chaos of the outside world.

Many of the Yao Race lived here, diverse in species and with different habits.

What surprised Ye Chen was that, in addition to the Yao creatures, quite a few of the Human Race lived there as well.

These members of the Human Race had no cultivation at all and were all ordinary Mortals without weapons.

Yet, the Human Race and the Yao Race lived together in the same place, living in peace and with orderly conduct.

Seeing this, Ye Chen could not help but sigh inwardly; such orderly and gentle members of the Yao Race were truly rare in the world.

After all, there were many species of the Yao Race here, yet not a single one had the habit of eating humans.

And in this Secret Realm, there lived a very special branch of the Yao Race, called the Tianyu Clan.

Regardless of gender, every member of this clan was born with peerless grace and stunning beauty, far beyond the comparison of ordinary members of the Yao Race.

When Ye Chen first entered this realm and saw a few members of the Tianyu Clan from afar, he found it hard to look away.

After stepping into this Secret Realm, Ye Chen continued as he had in the past, walking tirelessly through the depths of the Secret Realm for three whole years without stopping.

On this day, while walking in the forest, he suddenly heard cries for help from ahead.

He followed the sound and saw a young girl being chased by several Demon creatures.

The girl appeared to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, extremely beautiful, with disheveled clothes, clearly having been fleeing for a long time.

Several Demon creatures, wreathed in black Devilish Qi, were in hot pursuit.

Ye Chen did not have time to think; he raised his hand and slashed out a sword light.

Those Demon creatures were only at the Late Stage of Soul Transformation and were no match for Ye Chen, who was at the Integration Stage.

The sword light flashed, and the Demon creatures fell to the ground, dissipating into black smoke.

The girl, still shaken, slumped to the ground, gasping for breath.

Ye Chen stepped forward and reached out to help her up.

”Thank you for saving my life, benefactor.” The girl bowed gracefully.

The girl introduced herself as Ruoyao, the only daughter of the Grand Elder of the Tianyu Clan among the many members of the Yao Race in this Secret Realm.

Ye Chen asked her why Demon creatures would appear in the Secret Realm.

Ruoyao sighed and explained the reason.

It turned out that after the Demon Realm army poured into the Spirit Realm, a great deal of scattered Devilish Qi had permeated the Void Realm, eroding various Secret Realms.

The Secret Realm where the Tianyu Clan resided was originally protected by an ancient Formation, so ordinary Demon creatures could not enter.

However, some time ago, the Formation had developed cracks due to disrepair, and those few Demon creatures had crawled in through the cracks.

The clan was rushing to repair it, but many clansmen had already met with disaster.

Hearing this, Ye Chen understood.

Ruoyao brought him back to the clan and, as the daughter of the Grand Elder, treated him with warm hospitality.

Although the Tianyu clansmen were somewhat wary of strangers, seeing that Ye Chen had saved the Grand Elder’s daughter and was a Cultivator of the Human Race, they did not make things difficult for him.

Ye Chen settled down there.

Ruoyao came to find him every day, either taking him to tour the mountains and waters of the Secret Realm or discussing the Dao and chatting with him.

Ye Chen had Cultivated for many years, had always been without desire, and had never thought about having a Dao Companion.

But upon seeing Ruoyao, he felt some indescribable emotions arising in his heart.

Every smile and frown of that young woman made him feel happy.

He thought, this must be the feeling of falling in love.

Ruoyao also fell in love with Ye Chen at first sight.

She was born in the Secret Realm and grew up there, never having seen the outside world.

Ye Chen was the first outsider she had ever met, he was her savior, his conversation was refined, and his cultivation was profound, so naturally, she felt admiration for him.

On this day, Ruoyao pulled him to sit by the stream and said softly: ”Brother Ye Chen, will you stay here?”

Ye Chen was stunned.

Ruoyao said: ”Although my father does not like the Human Race, he never eats humans, nor is he an enemy of the Human Race. He even often protects and helps the Mortals in this Secret Realm.”

”You saved me, so my father will not drive you away.”

Ye Chen opened his mouth, wanting to agree, but before the words could come out, Ruoyao continued: ”Our meeting must be an arrangement destined by Heaven.”

Hmm?

These words fell into Ye Chen’s ears like a thunderclap.

He sat up straight abruptly, the confusion in his eyes swept away.

”Heaven’s will?”

”Destiny?”

Ye Chen repeated these two words in a low voice, his brows furrowed tightly.

The tenderness that had just lingered in his heart now receded like a tide, replaced by an inexplicable sense of alertness.

He could not say where this feeling came from.

No basis, no warning, just intuition.

Intuition told him that if he nodded now and stayed in this Secret Realm, what awaited him would definitely not be romantic bliss or harmony.

It would be another tribulation, a tribulation more dangerous than the Demon creatures in the Northern Plains, more dangerous than the Lightning Tribulation falling from the sky, and more dangerous than the thousands of pursuits he had encountered on the road.

It must be Tribulation Qi at work!

Ye Chen felt a chill in his heart.

This thing had never let him go.

It would not take his life directly, but it would lead him step by step into a trap, making him willingly step into the abyss.

Today, this young girl, today, this Heaven’s will, perhaps this was a special chess game woven for him by the Tribulation Qi.

Although he did not know the specifics, he could conclude that it was definitely not a good thing.

Ye Chen stood up immediately, reached into his bosom, and took out an object.

It was a jade talisman, one of the three High Grade Immortal Magical Artifacts that Longevity Dao Lord Gu Yan had bestowed upon everyone with Tribulation Qi in the past, called the Void-Breaking Shuttle; it did not need to be refined, only infused with spiritual power to tear through the Void Realm and travel ten thousand miles in an instant.

Ye Chen infused his spiritual power into the jade talisman, and it suddenly lit up, a radiance enveloping him.

The Void Realm tore open beside him, revealing a pitch-black spatial rift.

Ruoyao exclaimed: ”Brother Ye Chen, you haven’t answered Yaoyao yet! Where are you going!”

Ye Chen’s figure had already submerged into the rift, leaving only one sentence echoing in the place:

”Young lady, fate has brought us together but we are not meant to be. I carry the Tribulation baleful energy; those who get close to me will surely suffer disaster. Let us part ways here.”