Chapter 134: Minor Formless Realm

“That must be Qingcheng’s Ancestral Hall, right? Just like our Thirty-three Heavens Ancient Path, once inside, you cannot receive any Flying Sword Messages from outside, being completely cut off by a mysterious power. I never expected that not long after you became the Chief Disciple, you already had a chance to enter the Ancestral Hall!”

Blood Colored Poppy smiled slightly. Qingcheng’s Ancestral Hall was extremely famous among top players and was no secret. While it didn’t possess endless treasures like the Thirty-three Heavens Ancient Path, it had endless wonders for enhancing a player’s own Dao Spells, something no other Sect on the Far Shore could compare to.

Regarding the information about the Ancestral Hall, the Herbal Hall had also collected a special set of reference materials.

At this moment, he compared the clues: no Flying Sword Messages could enter from the outside, and they indeed hadn’t traveled far from Qingcheng. That meant only the Ancestral Hall fit this criteria.

Yijian Kurong had become the Qingcheng Top Disciple. If he accumulated enough Sect Contribution Points to enter the Ancestral Hall, it wasn’t impossible. He just didn’t know what benefits Yijian Kurong had gained inside. It was said that during the Closed Beta, Qingcheng also produced two top-tier Dao Spells through the Ancestral Hall, but the Qingcheng Disciples who obtained them weren’t competitive enough and failed to unleash their true power.

Thinking this, Blood Colored Poppy couldn’t help but feel a twinge of jealousy. In any Sect, disciples with special status had much higher chances to train in such places than ordinary disciples. This was true whether in Qingcheng or Kunlun, in the Ancestral Hall or the Thirty-three Heavens Ancient Path.

Kunlun’s four Great Stewards had each entered the First Heaven and Second Heaven of the Thirty-three Heavens Ancient Path multiple times. There were even rumors that one of them had reached the Third Heaven, Qingming Hetian, and obtained an ancient, supreme treasure.

As for Blood Colored Poppy herself, she had exhausted countless schemes just to get one chance to enter the Taihuang Huangzeng Heaven. During that time, she drove a group of Herbal Hall disciples who entered with her, exhausting the entire team’s efforts, just to obtain that Pale Moon Boat.

Unfortunately, one wrong guess led to more mistakes. She had absolutely no way of knowing about the existence of the Golden Cabinet Water Manor, so she couldn’t imagine the second special space where Ye Rong could block external communication methods. She also didn’t know that Ye Rong hadn’t entered the Ancestral Hall after becoming the Chief of Tianshu Hall, but had actually entered once even before the Sect Minor Competition.

“Haha, Brother Poppy truly has sharp eyes, worthy of being a top Kunlun disciple.”

Ye Rong laughed lightly. Blood Colored Poppy’s smug answer saved him the trouble of fabricating where that special space was located.

As a Core Member and one of the leaders of the Herbal Hall, Blood Colored Poppy was extremely busy with matters. Just during her conversation with Ye Rong so far, she had replied to no less than twenty Hundred-Mile Voice Transmissions, received ten Flying Sword Messages, and had to reply to each one via Flying Sword.

Watching one message-carrying flying sword after another shoot out from Blood Colored Poppy’s person, Ye Rong clicked his tongue in admiration. These were all uniformly Fourth-Rank Flying Swords, with even a few Fifth Tier Flying Swords mixed in. He figured these were probably Blood Colored Poppy’s commonly used weapons.

The dazzling stellar Sword Light she used when sending Ye Rong the Flying Sword Message was also among them. When held in the hand, it truly had little scattered starlight drifting and swirling on its surface, dazzling to the eye. Staring at it for too long could really make one feel as if they were situated in the vast Stellar Sea.

“Being a Faction leader is this busy? If all your time is spent handling Faction affairs, when would you have your own gaming time?”

Ye Rong watched, shocked. If creating a Faction meant falling into such a state, he’d rather give up the idea of creating one early on.

“Haha, these past few days have been especially hectic. With the burden of the Guild Creation Quest weighing on me, wanting to relax just isn’t possible.”

Perhaps sensing the meaning behind Ye Rong’s gaze, Blood Colored Poppy gave a bitter laugh and explained.

“Our Herbal Hall will have five Core Members in the future, plus a large number of mid and high-level members. After the Faction is created, all those trivial matters can be delegated. Only when something major happens would it bother the Core Members.”

“That sounds more reasonable.”

“By the way, if you’re bored waiting, you can go to Kunlun’s Minor Formless Realm to slay demons and farm some experience.”

“Minor Formless Realm?”

“Correct. The Minor Formless Realm has endless demons. It’s said they were all suppressed inside by the Kunlun Patriarch thousands of years ago. They can even reproduce and divide themselves, so now no one knows just how many there are.”

…

Ye Rong patiently listened to Blood Colored Poppy’s explanation before he learned exactly what kind of place the Minor Formless Realm was.

Only by holding a Green Jade Bodhi could one enter the Minor Formless Realm for six hours. You gain experience by slaying the demons inside, but no Karma Points are recorded. Because the demons inside are endless and densely distributed, killing them is extremely convenient, making it an excellent place to farm experience.

Moreover, after the six hours, the results of demon slaying are tallied. The player with the most outstanding performance can receive an additional reward. The content of the reward is also bizarre and varied; anything could appear.

Although the Minor Formless Realm wasn’t limited to Kunlun players—any disciple from a Righteous Faction Sect was qualified—the Green Jade Bodhi item was only produced in front of the Jade Void Cave on the Kunlun Mountains. Formal Disciples of Kunlun could only receive one every seven days, so basically, it limited ninety-nine percent of those who could enter to being Kunlun Disciples.

However, Blood Colored Poppy clearly could obtain more than one Green Jade Bodhi every seven days. She casually tossed one to Ye Rong, not seeming to care at all.

“Oh, Kunlun actually has such an interesting place? Qingcheng has nothing like it at all.”

Ye Rong curiously took the Green Jade Bodhi and looked it over. It was just an egg-sized Guozi emitting a faint, clear fragrance. On the surface, it didn’t look special at all.

Blood Colored Poppy was so busy; clearly, she couldn’t accompany him on a tour of Kunlun. And just dryly waiting for the other six people to arrive seemed too boring. Especially that player from the Southern Sea Xuan Turtle Hall; even if he used the fastest means to come the moment he received the Flying Sword Message, it would still take a day or two.

After the last System Update, changes were made to the Teleportation Talismans that could be requested at the local Earth God Temple, mainly targeting the Dragon Riding Light Escape Talisman.

Originally, once the Dragon Riding Light Escape Talisman was used, no matter where the player was, they could randomly choose one Main City to teleport to.

Now it had changed so that you must already be inside a Main City to use the Dragon Riding Light Escape Talisman and choose to teleport to another Main City. This was equivalent to turning it into a simple means of travel between the nine Main Cities, and it also had a very long cooldown time added.

Ye Rong even guessed that as players’ Levels got higher and higher, and Sword Flight speeds became faster and faster, the restrictions on these Teleportation Talismans would also become greater and greater, further reducing their usefulness.

Leaving the Pale Moon Boat, and following the directions Blood Colored Poppy gave, Ye Rong headed straight for the Minor Formless Realm. It was located just a hundred miles behind Kunlun Mountain, within a mass of white clouds.

“Ah! I forgot to tell Yijian Kurong not to venture too deep into the Minor Formless Realm! I treated him like a Kunlun Disciple, thinking everyone would know these basic common sense!”

About ten minutes after Ye Rong left, Blood Colored Poppy suddenly slapped her thigh, interrupting her state of writing furiously with her head down. She wanted to send a Hundred-Mile Voice Transmission or a Flying Sword Message but received a System prompt stating that the target player was currently in a special space and could not be contacted.

“He probably won’t be too reckless and just charge forward randomly, right? Plus, as the Qingcheng Top Disciple, he must surely have life-saving consumable items like Substitute Life Charms. Even if he unfortunately died inside, the loss wouldn’t be too great.”

Thinking this, Blood Colored Poppy felt much more at ease. At most, he would lose one Substitute Life Charm. Compared to the losses from dying, it was certainly not worth mentioning.

Items like Substitute Life Charms were basically available in every Sect. Their functions were mostly similar, just the names differed.

Based on Blood Colored Poppy’s speculation, as the Qingcheng Top Disciple, Yijian Kurong must have accumulated a large amount of Sect Contribution Points. The first thing he would do was exchange for a Substitute Life Charm. That way, no matter what crisis he encountered, it would be much easier to handle, and he could act much more boldly with fewer worries.

She inferred this from the situations of the Kunlun Stewards and herself. She never expected that Ye Rong just happened not to have a Substitute Life Charm. He had never thought to exchange for one.

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The Minor Formless Realm was hidden within the void, a Sumeru space created by the Kunlun Patriarch, a Celestial Immortal rank figure, who suppressed countless demons inside. It essentially served as a trial ground for Kunlun Disciples.

If Blood Colored Poppy hadn’t told Ye Rong the exact location, he truly might have missed the mass of layered white clouds before him.

Flying up to the white clouds, he plunged right in. Sure enough, there was another world inside—a vast, boundless plaza. There were about a hundred players in the plaza talking, or turning into beams of white light and disappearing, officially entering the Minor Formless Realm.

Judging by their clothing and appearance, all these players were Qingcheng Disciples. Players from outside like him probably weren’t present at all.

Blood Colored Poppy was really quite generous. She just gave away something like the Green Jade Bodhi just like that.

“Spirit Summon!”

Ye Rong held the Green Jade Bodhi and silently recited the phrase in his heart. Immediately, a woman in plain Daoist robes, with almond-shaped eyes and peach-blossom cheeks, beautiful as a Celestial Immortal, appeared before him. She slowly performed a curtsy and spoke in the softest, most graceful voice:

“Do you wish to enter the Minor Formless Realm immediately? Once inside, the duration is six hours. Exiting midway will grant you no rewards.”

“Yes!”

Being spoken to by this immortal spirit, Ye Rong felt his bones go weak. Fortunately, he remembered his purpose for coming here and firmly clicked confirm.

A flash of white light passed, and Ye Rong also disappeared from the plaza.