I’ve Reloaded the Save File! [Transmigration] 14

14. Danger

Where is Mo Xiao? Where did Mo Xiao go? Did she abandon me?

Discovering that the hand she was holding had turned into a vine, Zuo Wuyi instantly flew into a rage. Only with the system’s placating did she manage to calm down.

[Host, you are in a secret realm! You and Mo Xiao were just separated by the realm, she didn’t abandon you! Calm down, you will see each other when you leave the secret realm!] The system spoke as if it were afraid of not being fast enough, rattling off this long string of words without even taking a breath. Not that a system needed to breathe, of course.

“Is Mo Xiao in danger?” Zuo Wuyi asked, still worried.

The system was silent for a few seconds. [Host, I think you are in much more danger than Mo Xiao right now. You are only at the Qi Refinement stage.]

Zuo Wuyi was unconcerned, a disdainful smile gracing her lips. “In the eyes of cultivators, I am indeed at the Qi Refinement stage, that’s true. But System, don’t you forget what I have on me.”

Hearing Zuo Wuyi’s words, the system seemed to recall something, and its code became slightly jumbled. [Host, calm down! We haven’t reached that point yet. If you release that power now, the plot will be completely messed up!]

Zuo Wuyi ignored the frantic system, tossed the vine in her hand aside, and began to observe her surroundings.

The mist had now almost completely dissipated, and Zuo Wuyi could clearly see the scenery around her: a lush green meadow, towering trees that seemed to touch the sky, and bushes about as tall as she was.

“System, can you provide a map of this place?” Zuo Wuyi circled the area. Apart from the slightly higher concentration of spiritual energy, there seemed to be nothing unusual.

[Apologies, the system has not yet fully recorded the map of the secret realm. Moreover, your current cultivation is too low, Host, which has also limited some of the system’s functions.] The system quickly replied.

“Tsk, useless,” Zuo Wuyi scoffed, then drew her sword, touched the jade pendant Mo Xiao had given her, and, relying on her intuition, chose a direction and walked forward.

On the other side, Mo Xiao followed the passage forward. As her divine sense spread out bit by bit, her pace became faster and faster.

Mo Xiao had never expected that this secret realm would separate her from Zuo Wuyi. She had clearly held Zuo Wuyi’s hand tightly the entire time, never letting go.

Thinking that Zuo Wuyi was now alone and only at the Qi Refinement stage, Mo Xiao couldn’t help but feel regret. She should have entered first to test the waters and only brought Zuo Wuyi in after confirming that there was no danger.

Unfortunately, it was useless for Mo Xiao to regret it now. She couldn’t change what had already happened. She could only figure out the structure of this secret realm within a secret realm as quickly as possible and find Zuo Wuyi sooner.

Using her full strength, Mo Xiao soon found that the light in the passage was getting brighter and brighter. Before long, she reached the end of the passage: a stone gate that looked very similar to the entrance.

Without much thought, Mo Xiao drew her sword and slashed at it. With a loud rumble, a thick layer of dust fell from the stone gate, making Mo Xiao cough twice.

Looking at the shallow scratch on the stone gate, Mo Xiao’s brow twitched. She then repeatedly swung her sword, striking the same spot, hoping to create a hole in the gate.

The hardness of the stone gate exceeded Mo Xiao’s imagination. After a quarter of an hour of continuous striking, the scratch had only deepened slightly. The stone gate showed no signs of being broken.

Mo Xiao panted heavily, sweat continuously rolling down her forehead. The hand holding the sword was already trembling slightly. This gate seemed exceptionally hard. The sword in her hand could even break through the defense of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, but it couldn’t break this stone gate.

Feeling the emptiness of the spiritual energy in her body, Mo Xiao could only sheathe her sword for the time being. While absorbing the spiritual energy in the air to recover, she began to study the stone gate, looking for a way to break through.

When her spiritual energy had recovered by half, Mo Xiao finally noticed something. She quickly took a step back, swiftly drew her sword, and hacked at the stone gate from top to bottom.

With Mo Xiao’s movements, small pieces of rubble began to fall from the surface of the stone gate. After about a quarter of an hour, the gate had completely changed its appearance, revealing a black iron gate hidden beneath the stone.

Mo Xiao panted slightly, looking up at this nearly five-meter-high black iron gate. When she saw the pattern on it clearly, she couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

Carved on the black iron gate was something like a reinforcement formation. If she didn’t dispel the formation first, with her current strength, she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to break the gate no matter how hard she tried. But in her past life, Mo Xiao had majored in the way of the sword, only dabbling in other areas. She had especially little contact with formations. She could only brace herself and begin to study the formation before her, searching for a way to break it.

An hour later, Zuo Wuyi looked at the almost unchanged scenery around her, her face turning sour. Just as she was about to drag the system out for questioning, a cloud of white mist appeared out of thin air in front of her. Before she could react, two people holding longswords stumbled out of it.

[Host, be careful! These two are both at the late Foundation Establishment stage! They have the scent of blood on them, so they must have just killed someone!] The system provided the relevant information before Zuo Wuyi could even ask.

“Where is this place?” asked cultivator number one, holding a longsword.

“Why is there a little girl here?” cultivator number two frowned. “We should still be in the secret realm, right?”

Cultivator number one stared at Zuo Wuyi for a few moments, then squeezed out a smile. “Little miss, do you know where this is?”

“In the secret realm,” Zuo Wuyi remained vigilant. These two people’s cultivation levels were both above hers. If they attacked her, her situation would be very unfavorable.

“So we are still in the secret realm,” cultivator number two said. “Little miss, you’re only at the Qi Refinement stage. You didn’t come alone, did you? Did you get separated from your companions?”

Zuo Wuyi nodded. Seeing the two of them walking towards her, she placed her hand on the hilt of her sword, ready to draw it at any moment.

“Little miss, which sect are you from?” Cultivator number one and cultivator number two exchanged a look. They had some discernment. Although the little girl before them was dressed simply, the material of her clothes was not bad. If she was from a major sect, she must have many good things hidden on her.

Zuo Wuyi’s brow furrowed. “Wen Dao Sect.”

“Wen Dao Sect?” The two cultivators stopped in their tracks, turned their heads, and exchanged another silent communication, then put on smiling faces. “So it’s a fellow Daoist from the Wen Dao Sect. Then you must not have come alone, right?”

“Of course not. I came with my senior sisters,” Zuo Wuyi did not let down her guard just because of the change in their attitude. After all, the malice in their eyes just now had been too obvious for her to ignore.

“Are the little fellow Daoist’s senior sisters nearby?” cultivator number two asked.

“Of course,” Zuo Wuyi replied, a sense of foreboding flashing in her heart. The look in these two people’s eyes was starting to change again.

“In that case, I wonder if the little fellow Daoist could let us meet your senior sisters? We two greatly admire the Wen Dao Sect.” As they spoke, the two of them began to slowly walk forward again. Seeing that Zuo Wuyi had no reaction, they couldn’t help but reveal a slight smile. It seems we guessed right. This little girl is alone!

It seems it’s time for a desperate struggle. Seeing that the two of them had made up their minds to attack, Zuo Wuyi struck first, drawing her sword and attacking the one who looked weaker.

“Careful!” The two cultivators hadn’t expected a little brat at the Qi Refinement stage to dare to attack them. Caught off guard, one of them got a cut on his arm.

“It seems the little fellow Daoist is unwilling to get along with us,” cultivator number one’s face fell. He directly attacked Zuo Wuyi with his sword, his first move a killing blow.

Zuo Wuyi barely managed to dodge the first move, but she couldn’t evade the second move that followed from cultivator number two. She could only brace herself, raise her sword to block, and prepare to be injured.