Chapter 42 Mountain Gum
The secret realm is like a black hole. Once a person steps into it, it’s like stepping into the void, and the whole person is crushed inside.

Jiang Lisheng had never been to the secret realm before, and he screamed, "Ah ...

An Ruxu grabbed Jiang Lisheng's arm tightly and shouted, "Junior Sister Jiang, don't worry."

"Ahhh!"

"Ahhh!"

The amplified volume, with a shocking sound, were the screams of two people.

At first, they kept falling, and then the sky and the earth were spinning, and strong winds and air currents were surging. Even if An Ruxu used up all her strength, she could not stop the storm in the secret realm. The hand that was holding Jiang Lisheng's arm loosened uncontrollably and finally slipped away.

Jiang Lisheng thought it was over.

An Ruxu also felt that it was over.

They won’t all fall to death!
A series of people behind them also lost control and became separate individuals, flipping, falling, and nothing could be seen clearly.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Lisheng was knocked to the ground with a "bang". She had always forbidden falling or hitting others. She remembered that this was a secret place full of dangers and it was not a safe place for her to just lie down, so she quickly got up from the ground.

It was a dense forest, and she fell between two dead trees. Fortunately, she didn't fall on the tree, otherwise the dead branches would have pierced her. Fortunately, the fallen leaves accumulated on the ground were thick enough, so she didn't faint.

It was very quiet here, with nothing but fallen leaves from the trees.

Jiang Lisheng looked around for a while and found that there was not a single living tree here. These trees seemed to have been dead for a long time, probably for many years, but the fallen leaves did not turn into mud.

She stood there and waited for a long time, but no one fell here with her. She didn't dare to shout, for fear of attracting something. She felt that she still had some common sense.

She fumbled to take out the communication card and tapped the communication symbol An Ruxu had placed on it, but after tapping for a long time, there was no light on the communication card and no movement. She realized that communication was not possible here.

She had heard from her master about secret realms, and each secret realm was different. As for the Qishan Secret Realm, she had also heard An Ruxu and Lu Shaoling discuss it on the way here. They had both done some research and preparation, saying that there was a lot of iron, jade, and chalk in the dark, and that there was an immortal grass that would keep one from dying if taken. But they had never mentioned that there was a dead forest that stretched as far as the eye could see.

It is said that Kunlun's library records in detail the situations inside the secret realm of Qishan, but the records are different every hundred years. Every hundred years, the mystery inside will change again. Only by breaking the mystery can you see the truth. She was locked in the room at the time, refining medicine and weapons. After hearing this, she did not go to the library. Anyway, the situations are different every hundred years. She felt that instead of spending her time reading, she might as well refine something to save her life. What's more, she had An Ruxu with her.

Who knew that An Ruxu was forced to separate after entering the secret realm with her.

Obviously, these dead forests are some kind of maze.

But she didn't know how to solve it.

She could only walk forward cautiously, her feet stepping on the dead branches, which made a creaking sound. After walking for a while, she didn't see anything dangerous and gradually became braver. When she thought about it, when she fell in, she made such a big noise, but nothing was alarmed, which showed that there seemed to be no danger here.

So, she summoned her courage and shouted loudly, "Brother An! An Ruxu!"

She shouted several times, but no one answered. She took out her sword, stepped on it, and decided to fly away. Fortunately, the communication card failed, but her spiritual power did not fail. She cleverly planned to fly the sword to a high place and jump out of this huge endless dead forest, but she was shocked to find that as she flew the sword higher, the dead trees around her also grew taller. When she flew the sword higher by an inch, the dead trees grew taller by an inch. When she flew the sword higher by a foot, the dead trees grew taller by a foot.

She tried for a long time but failed to jump out of the dead forest. She could only drop her sword downwards. As she fell, the dead forest fell with her. Until she landed on the ground, the dead forest returned to its original shape.

Jiang Lisheng took a breath, "You are deliberately going against me, right?"

No one in the dead woods answered her.

Jiang Lisheng struggled for a long time and didn't want to move anymore, "How do I get out?"

She put away her sword and quickly came to her senses. She didn't need to look for the immortal grass or seize any opportunities when she entered the secret realm. She just needed to avoid being eaten by monsters and save her life. There didn't seem to be any danger in this withered forest, so why was she still bothering? She could just stay here and wait until the time in the secret realm was up, then she could just jump out, right?
So, she found a place to sit down and opened her storage bag. Packs of snacks exuded a fragrance of various kinds, which smelled extremely appetizing. She took out a pack and started to eat it.

She was eating with relish, when suddenly a furry paw stretched out from behind her and quickly snatched the snack from her hand.

Jiang Lisheng was startled and jumped up instantly. She turned her head and widened her eyes. She saw a beast that looked like a pig with fur as red as fire where she had just sat. When it saw her jumping away, it bared its teeth at her and spoke in human language: "You son of a bitch, why are you running?"

Jiang Lisheng: "..."

This thing starts swearing as soon as it opens its mouth.

She looked at it defensively, "You stole my things and cursed at me!"

The creature looked at her with a fierce look on its face, "Give it all to me, or I'll eat you."

Jiang Lisheng didn't want to give it anything. She would be staying in the secret realm for a long time. If she gave all the snacks to it, what would it eat? With the experience of the last time Tu Luo snatched its snacks, she knew smartly that beasts were beasts. No matter how much she gave it, it would not be enough. She might as well not give it anything at all, even if she was beaten to death.

But what was this thing called? Was there any such thing in the monster book her master had taught her since she was a child?
She thought quickly in her mind, searching her distant memories. The shape of this thing seemed to be called mountain jelly, but mountain jelly was produced in Kushan Mountain, which was more than 500 kilometers away from the secret realm of Daxian Mountain. What was going on? Why did she fall here?
Seeing that Jiang Lisheng didn't give it, Shan Gao became angry, opened his mouth and attacked her. It was very fast, like a fireball, and in the blink of an eye it was in front of Jiang Lisheng.

Jiang Lisheng couldn't dodge in time and immediately swung her sword. Her sword pierced into its mouth. With a "click" sound, her sword was actually chewed into pieces by this thing.

Chewed it up!!!
Jiang Lisheng was holding the hilt of the sword and was shocked. Seeing that something was wrong, he smashed the hilt against its eyes and then turned and ran away.

And Shan Gao naturally wouldn't let her get away. He nimbly dodged the sword handle that was about to hit his eyes, opened his mouth wide to spit out the broken sword pieces, and chased after her.

The entire dead forest was filled with the crackling sounds of Jiang Lisheng crashing into dead branches as she ran away, as well as the constant curses uttered by Shan Gao as he chased her.

He called her stingy, called her a good-for-nothing, called her a son of a bitch, a short-legged brat, and threatened to tear her apart if she ran away again.

Jiang Lisheng was so angry that she wanted to fight it, but it could chew up a sword, so she didn't dare. She could only run forward desperately, trying to get rid of it with her sword-controlling speed.

Fortunately, she had a spare sword in her storage bag, otherwise she would have been doomed today and would have been eaten on the first day she entered the secret realm.