Chapter 19 Secret Realm
"In that case, Brother Zhang, please come with me." Seeing that Zhang Tie insisted, Xin Ruyin stopped persuading him and led Zhang Tie to a study room.

"Fellow Daoist, you can take a look at the basics of formations here first. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me." Xin Ruyin took out a thick book on the basics of formations from a bookshelf in the study and handed it to Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie thanked him and opened the book to start reading without any hesitation.

Seeing that Zhang Tie was really reading the book seriously, Xin Ruyin felt less worried.

"Miss, does this person really want to learn the formation in three years? He can't be a fool!" Xiaomei's voice became particularly soft when she said this, biting Xin Ruyin's ear.

Xin Ruyin immediately raised her hand and slapped Xiaomei on the forehead, "Don't talk nonsense, go out and prepare food for Fellow Daoist Zhang, from now on, Fellow Daoist Zhang will be in your service!"

Although the two people's voices were very weak, Zhang Tie still heard them clearly, "I am a foodie and I am very keen on ordinary delicacies. Thank you for your hard work, fellow Taoist."

Xin Ruyin nodded, then signaled Xiaomei with her eyes to do it. Xiaomei responded with a strange look on her face and went out to prepare.

Afterwards, Zhang Tie immersed himself in the initial explanation of the formation, and hours passed in the blink of an eye.

The candlelight gradually dimmed. After Zhang Tie relit the oil lamp, he rubbed his swollen forehead with his hand and said, "This formation is really difficult!" After watching it for so long, although Zhang Tie had a general understanding of the formation, he was still a long way from getting started.

"I'm going to blow my own trumpet now. Maybe I won't be able to get started in three years!" Zhang Tie sighed and muttered to himself in frustration. "If it doesn't work, let Xin Ruyin repair the ancient teleportation array."

Zhang Tie shook his head vigorously, trying to cheer himself up, but the words in front of him suddenly became like slippery fish that he couldn't catch. "Forget it!" Zhang Tie exhaled lightly and prepared to go out for dinner to relax.

As soon as he arrived at the courtyard, he saw a short and stocky figure hurriedly walking in. The figure was stunned when he saw Zhang Tie, and then, knowing that he could not tell the depth of Zhang Tie's cultivation, he directly asked, "Who are you? Why are you in Ruyin's house?"

Zhang Tie looked at the short and stocky figure, and combined with the way he addressed Xin Ruyin, he immediately realized that this was Qi Yunxiao. So Zhang Tie pretended not to know him, and said with a smile, "I am a casual cultivator, and I came here specifically to learn the formation from Fellow Daoist Xin."

Qi Yunxiao nodded when he heard this, and walked straight into the yard without caring about Zhang Tie.

"He's really a member of a famous family. He has no manners at all!" Zhang Tie was not angry. He just followed him out of curiosity, just to relax.

The courtyard was not big, and Zhang Tie quickly caught up with Qi Yunxiao. Just as he was about to knock on the door, he heard Qi Yunxiao's excited voice, speaking very quickly, like a string of cannonballs.

"Ruyin, I found the news of the thousand-year-old spiritual medicine. It is in a secret place around Yuanwu Country. It is said that there is a puppet master's cave there, and there are several thousand-year-old spiritual medicines in it!"

"Yunxiao, don't be anxious, talk slowly." Xin Ruyin felt a headache and couldn't help but interrupt.

Qi Yunxiao suppressed his excitement at this time, swallowed the saliva in his mouth, and said, "A few days ago, I was asking about the news of spiritual medicine in the market, but I didn't expect that I would be targeted by some robbery cultivators. They chased me for three days, and finally I shook them off."

"But I discovered a formation by accident!" He said with a smile, "It was thanks to you that you often told me about formations that I was able to find the clues of that place."

"After I broke through the outermost formation, I discovered that there was a very small secret realm inside. I could vaguely see some spiritual medicines inside!"

Qi Yunxiao showed a look of regret when he said this, "But there is a very powerful puppet in it, and I dare not get close to it at all." "So you guess that is the puppet master's cave?" Xin Ruyin asked.

Qi Yunxiao nodded, and then said excitedly, "Ruyin, wait for me to find a way to get rid of that puppet, and your illness will be cured!"

When Zhang Tie heard about the Puppet Secret Realm, he immediately thought of the Great Evolution Art, but then he shook his head, thinking that not all puppets were related to the Great Evolution Art. Then Zhang Tie lost interest and turned away.

In the following month, Zhang Tie continued to study the formation, asking Xin Ruyin for advice from time to time. He also often sent Xin Ruyin a lot of talismans and spirit stones, which made Xin Ruyin's liking for him soar.

Until one day, Zhang Tie was studying a killing array, and suddenly heard a knock on the door. Zhang Tie thought it was Xiaomei bringing food, so he waved and opened the door.

However, the person who came was Xin Ruyin. She was no longer calm and dignified as usual. She said to Zhang Tie with a worried look on her face, "Senior Zhang, can you help save Qi Yunxiao?"

After spending a few months together, Xin Ruyin gradually realized that Zhang Tie was by no means a cultivator in the Qi training stage, so she began to call Zhang Tie "senior", and Zhang Tie had no objection to this.

"Hmm? Did something happen to Fellow Daoist Qi?" Zhang Tie didn't remember what would happen to Qi Yunxiao. Didn't he die at the hands of the Fu family in the end? He thought to himself.

"That's it..."

After some explanation, Zhang Tie realized that Qi Yunxiao had gone to the secret place he had mentioned a few months ago, because Xin Ruyin took the thousand-year-old elixir given by Zhang Tie, but found that it only temporarily suppressed the illness.

Qi Yunxiao couldn't help it and secretly went to that secret place, but got trapped there, so he asked Xin Ruyin for help.

Zhang Tie thought about it and felt that the secret realm that could not kill Qi Yunxiao, a young cultivator at the tenth level of Qi training, should not be dangerous, so he agreed casually, "How difficult is that? It's just a foundation-building puppet at most. I'll go there for you."

Xin Ruyin was relieved when she saw Zhang Tie agreed. "Senior, you have a profound cultivation base. I would like to thank you here. I will give you a powerful formation after I come back this time."

Zhang Tie cupped his hands and said unceremoniously, "Thank you very much, Brother Xin!" Then the two of them turned into streams of light and flew straight to where Qi Yunxiao was.

In just one stick of incense, Zhang Tie and the others had arrived at Qi Yunxiao's place. They saw that the place was ordinary and there was nothing strange about it. Zhang Tie did not find any formation for a while.

However, Xin Ruyin pointed in a direction and then threw a fireball over, hitting a node of the hidden formation. The balance of the entire formation was immediately destroyed, and then a hole appeared faintly.

Zhang Tie was inwardly amazed, he was indeed a master of formations, the difference between him and a half-baked one who had only studied for a few months was huge.

"Senior, let's go!" Xin Ruyin said to Zhang Tie when she saw the formation was broken.

"Of course, follow me!" Zhang Tie said nonchalantly, but he still gave the two of them some protective talismans and defensive magic weapons, and then dived into the cave.

"What the hell is this!" Zhang Tie exclaimed as he entered the cave.

(End of this chapter)