The beast that lay before Lu Zheng was as large as a mansion and had deep blue fur with white stripes.
Gigantic fangs protruded from its mouth as white whiskers long as a grown adult ran down its face.
On its forehead, a bright prism with eight edges shined.
"A rank eight White Stripes Tiger! And so large!" Lu Zheng gawked in awe at the majestic beast before him.
The rank eight White Stripes Tiger was already dead and a mysterious formation surrounded its corpse.
~The man from Yin Yang Province explained that only martial practitioners below the Acquisition realm could enter this secret realm so who killed this beast?~
Existences beyond the Void Passage realm had numerous dao imprints on their body that small secret realms like this one could not bear their presence.
The secret realm would collapse instantly if they tried to enter.
The rank eight White Stripes Tiger was equivalent to an Original realm expert. It wasn't meant to be able to enter this secret realm at all.
The injuries on its corpse also indicated that the White Stripes Tiger was slain by someone even stronger.
The puzzlement dawning on Lu Zheng became so thick that he felt he was at the very centre of a huge conspiracy.
Lu Zheng cleared his mind and probed the mysterious formation with his Sea of Consciousness.
Only when he noticed that it was safe did he enter its confines.
The moment Lu Zheng stepped into the mysterious formation, an intense cold overcame him that the Vermillion True Flame on his body shimmered down.
Lu Zheng had to expend more bloodline power to keep it stable.
Lu Zheng probed the White Stripes Tiger's corpse and poked it with his sword. He even cut out a large chunk of meat from it.
Seeing that all was well, Lu Zheng retrieved the beast core of the White Stripe Tiger and stored it in his spatial ring.
He then proceeded to cut the beast apart and store its meat one by one.
The moment the entire beast disappeared from the formation's centre, darkness abruptly descended upon the world.
Lu Zheng felt like he was a thief cut with his hand in a cookie jar when he turned around.
Instead of seeing the cave walls, Lu Zheng saw only tall green trees that shrouded the skies.
Lu Zheng felt confused by the oddity of the matters and knew that he was already in the second layer of the secret realm.
A rush of adrenaline flew into Lu Zheng's head as he thought of how he made so many riches by just chancing upon the cave in icy layer.
He wondered what wealth this layer had in store for him.
Lu Zheng took to the air to get a better view of the forest but the moment he was a feet about the ground, a strong formless attraction pulled him downwards.
"Thud!"
He landed fiercely on his butt.
"Strange, the gravity feels the same but just as I began to fly, it increased tremendously"
Lu Zheng attempted to fly again but even though he was prepared, the end result was still the same.
When he released his Sea of Consciousness, only the tall trees entered his range.
Like in the icy layer, there were no other lifeforms than him.
There was no sense of time but Lu Zheng had already walked for many hours yet the scenery hadn't changed in the least bit.
For the first time in his life, Lu Zheng was getting irritated of seeing so many trees.
"Where is the exit!?" Lu Zheng bellowed as fierce lightning Qi and fire Qi burst from his body and struck the trees around him.
The verdant trees naturally caught ablaze but after the fire died out, not a single leaf was even charred.
"Such strong wood path dao imprints!" Lu Zheng exclaimed.
The wood path dao imprints must have exceeded his fire path and lightning path dao imprints by a wide margin since he wasn't able to even char the trees around him.
Even when he used the Vermillion Bird Race's Vermillion True Flame, the result was the same.
Lu Zheng felt a headache brewing.
Lu Zheng resigned himself to his fate and continued to walk.