Volume Three: Rising Fame Chapter Fifty-Eight: Opportunity

Not only at Li Yu’s location, but if one were to look down upon this secret realm from a god’s perspective, more than ten places would reveal eerie walls of wind suddenly rising. These wind walls did not expand; instead, they swallowed nearby clan members and then silently held their positions.

Observing from outside the wind walls, one would strangely notice that although the internal air currents were chaotic and turbulent, there seemed to be an invisible confinement. Even just a millimeter outside the wind wall, there was no suction at all.

Inside the wind wall, native creatures of the secret realm remained unaffected. Only the external clan members were swept up, tossed wildly in the air.

...

“Whoosh!”

The moment Li Yu returned to the secret realm, he felt the surrounding air currents morph into countless enormous hands, tearing at his body. However, as his spiritual power surged through him, he easily shielded himself from the chaotic airflow.

“This wind wall suddenly expanded fiercely and swallowed me... But after returning to Blue Star and coming back, I’m still inside the wind wall? Could it be that once it swallows me, it stops moving?”

Maintaining his spiritual domain, Li Yu realized that being inside the wind wall stirred no sensation. When traveling between the two worlds, his position did not change. Yet, after just returning from Blue Star, he was still inside the wind wall, unmoved.

This meant the wind wall had not shifted but had “swallowed” him and then stayed put.

Understanding this, Li Yu remained unhurried. The chaotic currents inside the wind wall were powerful—if an ordinary sixth-rank cultivator were caught within, they would be shredded to pieces in an instant!

Only a formidable fifth-rank cultivator like Li Yu could face it with some composure.

“Can't get out either?”

As his body slowly approached the boundary of the wind wall, Li Yu tried to touch it but felt as if he had encountered an unyielding barrier.

“If I used brute force, I should be able to break through... But somehow, I feel there’s something else here... some kind of opportunity?”

Though the wind wall’s boundary possessed a strange power that nullified spiritual energy, this effect did not extend to lightning energy. Coupled with Li Yu’s robust physique, he was fairly confident in breaking out.

However...

Li Yu turned to look deeper within, sensing an inexplicable call.

It wasn’t a sound heard by the ears, nor a whisper in the mind, but a feeling—a strong instinct drawing him toward something valuable.

“Is this one of those... typical scenes where cultivators descend the mountain to seek treasures and experience trials?”

Chuckling softly, Li Yu recalled the novels he’d read on Blue Star.

It truly seemed to match such a scenario.

“Whoosh! Whoosh!”

He withdrew his spiritual domain. In the next moment, a roaring hurricane howled past his ears with tremendous force, like a demon god’s furious bellow.

“Follow the guidance of the direction!”

Li Yu murmured. Suddenly, clarity struck him—he realized what he had to do and acted accordingly.

Once on Blue Star, while walking by a riverbank, he had experienced a similar sensation; closing his eyes, he walked a short distance along a path. Since then, his five senses had become more harmonized, allowing him to perceive his surroundings clearly even without his eyes.

“Swish! Swish!”

With eyes shut, Li Yu noticed that the wind sounds in this area were not uniform. Could it be that the winds inside varied in size and strength?

From the outside, Li Yu appeared to be drifting with the currents inside the wind wall, like a fish riding the waves—harmonious and natural.

Moreover, his speed fluctuated unpredictably, his direction wavering in all directions, sometimes even moving backward!

“No apparent pattern?”

“No, no!” Li Yu suddenly realized, “Actually, I’m steadily moving toward the center!”

With a growing hypothesis, he did not rush to move further, instead pondering deeply.

Though this secret realm seemed to be ever-changing, historical records suggested it bore some resemblance to an important secret realm from the Qin Dynasty era. If not mistaken, this must be the very realm.

“Can a secret realm move?”

Li Yu was puzzled but quickly dismissed the thought.

If this was truly that secret realm, then the Ming Emperor Ying Tian and the “little surprise” he mentioned had their origin. That realm’s primary purpose was to temper royal descendants.

If memory served, the minimum rank within this secret realm was fifth-rank?

Imagining the clan disciples competing at sixth and seventh ranks, this secret realm expedition was bound to be bathed in blood.

“Have I arrived?”

Feeling solid ground beneath him, Li Yu opened his eyes to find he was indeed standing on firm earth.

Looking up and around, it was as if he were underwater gazing upward at the surface. He was now in the eye of the hurricane—a windless zone surrounded by turbulent currents.

“If I hadn’t entered this way just now, brute force alone wouldn’t have gotten me in!”

Approaching the eye of the hurricane, sharp wind currents occasionally stung his skin. If he tried to confront them head-on, Li Yu felt his body would be torn to shreds.

This revealed the true peril within.

“But there’s nothing valuable here?”

Li Yu wandered around, searching, but found no treasures or anything of note, growing puzzled.

Just as he bent his gaze to the ground, ready to dig, a gust of wind in the chaotic currents above him was mysteriously drawn down by an unusual force, enveloping his entire body.

This lasted for nearly half a joss stick’s time before dissipating.

“So this is the opportunity!”

Li Yu’s eyes burned with intensity, fixed on the swirling currents overhead.

That gust of wind was surprisingly gentle, wrapping him with a tingling, pleasant sensation.

The remarkably skillful massage was not the key point; the most vital aspect was that under the countless “little hands” of the hurricane’s massage, his physical body had visibly grown stronger!

The change was evident to the naked eye!

Li Yu felt he could now match that old white fox one-on-one in a fierce battle!

“Come on, bring it on again!”

Another gust of wind was summoned down by the strange force. Li Yu opened his arms and closed his eyes, awaiting the gentlest massage.

Outside the wind wall.

San Yishuang paced anxiously, left and right.

She had seen many enormous wind realms formed by such hurricanes over countless years. Although they posed no harm to her, if she wasn’t inside when they formed, she could not enter afterward.

Time ticked by.

Yet no one appeared within.

San Yishuang suddenly paused.

“Why am I standing here waiting endlessly?”