The tens of millions of inhabitants of the Secret Realm had all witnessed firsthand how Lin Xuankong could reroute the rivers of the Secret Realm with a single thought! He could also flatten the thousand-zhang-high mountains within the Secret Realm with a single thought! Even though Lin Xuankong had never displayed his Pseudo-Earth Immortal body before these inhabitants, this ability to change mountains and rivers in an instant was, in the hearts of these tens of millions of inhabitants, no different from that of a true Immortal. How could they not revere him!

However, these inhabitants, who had once been unable to clothe themselves and often faced starvation in the outside world, felt more than just reverence for Lin Xuankong, the Master of the Secret Realm. Outside, most of them not only had problems with food and clothing but also had to constantly face the attacks of demons. Their loved ones could be devoured at any moment, and their own lives were always in danger. Now, in this Secret Realm, as long as they took care of their medicinal herb plantations, not only would they have no worries about food and clothing, but they would also get their own piece of land. Most importantly, they, who once practiced slash-and-burn agriculture, now found farming with Profound Iron Equipment incredibly satisfying!

With all these changes, the tens of millions of inhabitants of the Secret Realm, during these few years, almost constantly felt as if they were living in a paradise. Under these circumstances, how could they not hope for this Secret Realm to grow stronger? How could they not hope for Lin Xuankong, the Master of the Secret Realm, to grow stronger!

Now, seeing that Lin Xuankong seemed to have refined some incredible treasure, these tens of millions of inhabitants were naturally both awestruck and overjoyed!

Of course, not everyone in the Secret Realm wore a joyful expression. In the north of the Secret Realm, the Seven Great Demon Venerables—including Duobao Demon Venerable and Blood Eye Demon Venerable—Cao Yu, and a few others were moving chaotic stones in the valley with their bare hands. At this moment, sensing the anomaly and looking up to see the light of an Immortal Artifact soaring into the sky tens of thousands of miles away, each of them wore a complex expression, bitterness welling in their hearts.

There were hundreds of other inhabitants with them, doing such hard and exhausting work. After all, not every inhabitant who suddenly began to live a good life would be grateful. As the saying goes, "It takes all sorts to make a world." Even among ordinary inhabitants, there were cunning and malicious individuals. In the past three-plus years, many wrongdoers had already emerged among the tens of millions of inhabitants of the Secret Realm! Thus, these villains, like the Seven Great Demon Venerables and Cao Yu, were all assigned to the forefront of wasteland reclamation in the Secret Realm. They performed the most strenuous labor, ate the most unpalatable food, and also had to endure the curses of the other inhabitants.

Cao Yu, once an Immortal Sect True Inheritance, had gradually grown accustomed to this miserable life over more than three years. The Seven Great Demon Venerables, however, still had not, and each of them naturally lamented their suffering endlessly in their hearts.

Now, as such a phenomenon appeared in the Secret Realm Center, the inhabitants guarding them all prostrated themselves on the ground. The Seven Great Demon Venerables immediately and quietly put down their stones, seizing the chance to slack off.

Duobao Demon Venerable watched closely for a while, a look of surprise on his face, and whispered,

"Such a phenomenon can only appear with the birth of an Immortal Artifact!

"But the emergence of a Fallen Immortal's artifact should occur in the outside world. So why would an Immortal Artifact be born within this Secret Realm?

"Moreover, this phenomenon is even more mystical and astonishing than the one near the Great Xia Prison Dragon City back then... Could it be a First-grade Immortal Artifact or a Second-grade Immortal Artifact?"

The other Demon Venerables also looked surprised, while Blood Eye Demon Venerable couldn't help but sigh,

"The Master of the Secret Realm is Mu Shiba. Regardless of whether an Initial Tier Immortal Artifact, a First-grade Immortal Artifact, or a Second-grade Immortal Artifact appears in this realm, it can only fall into his hands!

"Alas, if we had known that Mu Shiba possessed such a powerful Immortal Artifact, why would we have ever banded together to provoke him!

"Now, our cultivation is completely gone, and the bodies we've reincarnated into have extremely poor talent. I'm afraid that even if we cultivate secretly for a hundred years, until the moment we die of old age, we might not even reach the Late Stage of the First Layer..."

SNAP!

A long whip suddenly struck.

A bloody welt immediately appeared on Blood Eye Demon Venerable, who was muttering under his breath. He cried out in pain, quickly hunched over, picked up a stone at his feet, and resumed his work.

The other surrounding Immortal Venerables, including Cao Yu, couldn't help but look depressed as they watched the whip-wielding monkey. They had all been reincarnated into the bodies of death-row convicts with no cultivation talent, while White Bone Demon Venerable had reincarnated into the body of a monkey. Initially, this had given them a slight sense of solace. After all, seeing someone else's predicament as worse than their own allowed them to find some measure of balance. But who could have guessed? The inhabitant captain managing these prisoners was quite fond of monkeys. So, he trained the monkey—White Bone Demon Venerable's reincarnation—into a 'Sheep Herding Monkey,' akin to a sheepdog, and had it supervise their work every day!

Duobao Demon Venerable and Cao Yu exchanged a glance and sighed deeply. Not daring to mutter any further, they each picked up a stone and got back to work! Who could have imagined that the Seven Great Demon Venerables, who once struck fear into the Great Xia Dynasty and the Rakshasa Kingdom, along with Cao Yu, an Immortal Sect True Inheritance, would become such pitiful figures, to be freely whipped by a dim-witted monkey.

In the exquisite stone building at the Secret Realm Center, the light of the Cyan Nether Immortal Sword gradually receded. Lin Xuankong stroked the Cyan Nether Immortal Sword, which had transformed into a three-foot green blade, as his Heart Spirit delved into his Life Plate.

Lin Xuankong: Remaining lifespan four thousand nine hundred ninety-nine years and three hundred sixty days.

Life Plate: [Vigorous in Old Age]

First talent of the Life Plate: [Old and Wise] Cultivation speed increases with age; at age sixty, cultivation speed is increased sixty-fold.

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