"Look at what we have here, isn't this girl quite the beauty?" arriving from the horizon interrupting the banter of the three young men, a cold, empress-like lady descends from the sky, beside her another young lady, her appearance at the same level as the lady in front of her, yet her charm feels more like a young, caring wife.
Hearing Hua Xian'er's voice, almost as if teasing her, Li Yan couldn't help but get annoyed as an imaginary vein popped out of her head, the fact that a day would come when this little lady will speak to her like this never came to her mind before.
This is hardly her concern though as she starts getting quite nervous facing her beloved daughter, in fear of her identity being discovered by her.
"Sis Xian'er, this is my wife, Su Yan'er" seeing her stiff expression when looking at the two, Wu Xiaotian also understand her concern, prompting him to act and introduce the woman to the two all by himself.
"Heh… already taking the guy's surname, aren't we? Never realized that you can be quite the player, lil' bro Tian" never missing the chance, Hua Xian'er took it and send a jab not only to Li Yan but also towards her sworn brother, something that she will regret immediately.
"How would you even realize when there's only three things that appears in your eyes" he said while smiling at her amiably, making her think that he was about to praise her.
"Is it my beauty, my talent and my charisma?" seeing him not continuing his words, she decided to finish it in her own words with her nose pointed high in the sky, her arrogant behavior making the beautiful lady behind her cringe, pointing out her shamelessness while the others, especially the boys except from Wu Xiaotian, didn't even have the guts to do so.
"Nope, rather, it's money, food and alcohol" Wu Xiaotian corrected causing the group to crack into laughter, the cold, empress-like lady descending into a furious blushing as she tries to shut everyone's laughter up, all while looking at the immortal-like Wu Xiaotian with a tinge of hatred in her face that clearly says, 'I will have my revenge!'
'Humph!!! I have taken care of you for all those months, driving all the opportunistic bastards trying to take advantage of the difference in strength to coerce you into slavery and this is how you pay me? You're cold lil' Tian' sending a telepathic message to him, she made it so that her voice sounds pitiful as she looks at him with a clearly practiced, face teary eyes, trying to invoke some of his guilt.
'My bad, I'll cook you some good food once we're out' clearly aware of the fact that she's just playing with him, he still decided to compromise a bit, smiling at her as he replies to her telepathic message in the same manner, his reply causing her to start drooling as she looks forward to the delicacies that he will serve her later.
Talking even more for a while, the two got to know 'Su Yan'er' better, her character exactly fit to what they classify as someone worthy of being a friend, the way she carries herself whenever she talks with them making them comfortable, weird enough, the feeling and vibes she gives of seems familiar to them, yet they just can't quite put the fingers on it.
Meanwhile, the people around the area, the ones wearing purple uniforms starts to disappear from their sight as said people were all rushing to the figure that just disengaged from the battle, towards their senior brother that they lay all their confidence on.
As time goes by, the now group of nine people continues catching up with each other, telling stories about their time in the secret realm. Eventually, the topic arrived at the barrier near them, sharing the information they gathered all around, trying to piece it altogether.
"So the only thing confirmed is the fact that this is the main inheritance of the secret realm… well, how we know is that there's a record of this secret realm in almost all of the top tier force, and the Crescent Moon Celestial's tomb, that they also set up as their inheritance trial grounds, is clearly depicted in those records" pausing for a bit, Hua Xian'er took out a scroll from her spatial ring, unfolding it, an image of a view, a great river flowing across the lands, separating it into two, one where they come from, a massive forest that will makes one disoriented in terms of direction, and the opposite side a valley with the mountains surrounding it towering through the skies, the flatlands in the middle of if filled with normal grass, some animals prancing around it.
"Lo and behold, the exact same image" Ling Feng smiled and pointed out the fact, the only difference of the painting and the area surrounded by the barrier are the animals moving around, along with some trees that had already grown there after the image from the scroll was taken.
"In addition to that, this is the first time after five hundred years that a massive number of people witness it's emergence" Hong Lian said before pointing out another fact, "There might be other emergence of it during the previous openings of the secret realm, but the fact that it still continues to show itself means that the true inheritance inside has yet to be acquired"
"We will need a plan if we want to stop that Lei Xing from taking it away" Hong Lian finally added, her tone clearly expressing her hatred and disgust for the person.
"Sis Lian, you seem to hate that Lei Xing so much…" feeling her daughter's emotion, Li Yan asked, acting like a curious friend trying to fish out information about her.
"Humph!!! He's the same as that bastard Hong Lei!!! He thinks he's so great that he wouldn't even look under his shoulders, and he's been treating me like his woman ever since we met here, saying that Hong Lei arranged it and so on, and there's nothing I can do about it"
'Hoh… this bastard is really audacious huh…. Not to mention that trash Hong Lei, to think that he will say that just because he has someone backing him, looks like I need to remind him who's stronger between the two of us' clenching her fist as she hears her daughter's complains, Li Yan starts to get angry, ready to ignore the powerful person behind Hong Lei just to teach him a lesson not to mess with her daughter.
"Don't worry about that Sister Hong Lian, I can deal with the guy as long has his strength is still in the Core Formation Realm" after the surrounding turns silent for a while, Wu Xiaotian said, causing everyone to look at him, disbelief, but even more so hope visible in their eyes.
"That's right, how did I even forgot about Ah Tian…" snapping his fingers, Wang Sheng gets closer towards the immortal-like young man, pointing at him as if presenting him to everyone before adding, "This bastard suppressed Ah Chen and me without even moving a single muscle in his body"
Remembering that painful spar, Huo Chen's body couldn't help but shiver, all while looking at Wu Xiaotian thinking that if there's someone who can deal with Lei Xing singlehandedly, it is definitely this absurd brother of them.
"That's definitely worth giving a shot, after all, even Elder Sister Hua and Hong will need some effort to take as down, and they can fight with Lei Xing if they're working together" Huo Chen added, causing the logic of Wu Xiaotian fighting against the strongest participant of the secret realm make even more sense.
"You should really avoid joking like that, that bastard will not hesitate to kill lil' Tian" Hua Xian'er interrupted, worry towards Wu Xiaotian clear from her voice.
"No, they're serious big sis Hua, we saw the two disheveled from a fight and Brother Su does not even break a sweat" Leng Yue supported Wang Sheng and Huo Chen's argument, telling them how the two looks when they finished cultivating in that independent space.
"Yeah, and let's not forget how he effortlessly turned those disciples of the Purple Lightning Temple into idiots" Bing Xue added, increasing the surprise the three other ladies felt, as they were never there to witness those moments.
"Wait… you what!!!???" looking at Wu Xiaotian with disbelief, Hua Xian'er looks intensely towards the young man, causing him to tell everything that happens, with the ones together with him during the incidents vouching for the authenticity of the fact.
Sitting on a large, flat stone nearby, Hua Xian'er just smiled wryly after hearing everything, deciding to let this little monster to do whatever he wants as she said, "Fine, Su Tian will deal with Lei Xing"