<h4>Chapter 445 – Fortune in Misfortune</h4>


    Trantor: Coca5156


    Editor: Drea


    “Say something! How are you going to exin what happened to Elder Wuxin?” The elder from the Xijian n demanded.


    Gong Yichen got forced to take two steps back as his mind spun quickly, trying to think of an answer, “Elder Wuxin may have fallen because the disciples in his n were too weak and he got into trouble while trying to rescue them.”


    Everyone’s attention was drawn to the two of them fighting and no one noticed how Gu Lingzhi’s body stiffened as she caught sight of someone within the Tianyan n. Her face distorted with hatred.


    Sensing the mood in Gu Lingzhi change, Rong Yuan immediately grabbed her hand and tried to console her. His eyes were indescribably gloomy as he looked across.


    Hearing this excuse, the people from the Xijian n were extremely disappointed.


    Conspiracy!


    This word was present in the hearts of everyone in the Xijian n. The small amount of hope they had left had evaporated along with Gong Yichen’s meaningless retorts.


    This was a conspiracy set by the Tianyan n and the Deity King!


    No matter what their goal was, at this very moment, the people from the Xijian n knew that they would never be loyal to the Deity King ever again. They will not be a sacrificial chess piece of his.


    “If that is the case, then you all should stay here too.” The elder from the Xijian n suddenly imed as he drew out his sword, pointing it directly at Gong Yichen.


    If the Tianyan n could plot against them then they could counter attack as well. He did not believe that with so many of them, they could not defeat the people from the Tianyan n.


    Hearing the sound of his sword unsheathing, Gu Lingzhi refocused on the situation at hand, burying her strong feelings of hatred. Taking a deep breath, she turned to the elders of the Xijian n and said, “Let’s go.”


    “Go?” The elders of the Xijian n could not believe what they heard, “Are we just going to let them go?”


    The Secret Territory was extremely big. If they missed this opportunity, who knew when they were going to meet them again? If they did not grab the chance now, they might never have the chance to take revenge.


    With her back towards the people from the Tianyan n, she used her eyes to get everyone’s attention on her. In a calm voice, she said, “What the elder from Tianyan n said is right, it was our choice to enter the Secret Territory and whether we live or die is up to fate. We shouldn’t me the people who organised this just because we met with some danger.”


    As she finished speaking, she then led the Gui Yuan n people away from the Tianyan n. The Wanhua n muttered within themselves before deciding to go with their ally.


    Only the Xijian n was left. With only their n, it would be difficult to deal with the entire Tianyan n who was stronger than them. The elder from the Xijian n had no choice but to lead the Xijian n away.


    When they were far away enough from the Tianyan n and were sure that they would not be overheard, Elder Leng Shuang from the Xijian n asked, “Elder Gu, why did you ask us to leave? Now that we have missed that opportunity, there won’t be many opportunities that we will be able to make them pay.”


    The people from the Wanhua n looked at Gu Lingzhi with simrly confused looks, wanting an answer.


    Gu Lingzhi pronounced every word in this single sentence clearly, “The man wearing ck among the Tianyan n is Pan Luo.”


    Afraid that there would be some people that didn’t know who Pan Luo was, Gu Lingzhi added on, “The Deity King.”


    The Deity King was amongst the Tianyan n!


    “What is the Deity King trying to do? Does he really want to build the strength of the Tianyan n and reduce the power of all the other ns?”


    In order to obtain good results in the n Tournament, all the participants were the pirs and backbones of every n. If these people were to die, in the next few thousands of years, the Realm of the Gods would continue to be dominated by the Tianyan n.


    The elder from the Wanhua n scoffed, “Isn’t this what the Deity King loves to do? It is not like we are short of people that he has harmed before. He is just a wolf in sheep’s clothing!”


    In the next few days, as everyone was trapped in the Secret Territory, there were more and more deaths. On the outside, everyone was condemning the Tianyan n like never before due to the loss of numerous of their important members. They forced the Tianyan n to activate a spell to protect the ns, if not, the Tianyan n was going to perish under all the furious ns.


    However, the spiritual mountains that were used to conduct the n Tournament could no longer be used.


    In the Secret Territory, the space which had once been overflowing with an abundance of green was now in a discouraged state. The only colour came from the decaying nts, which was a greenish-yellow colour. The group with the Gui Yuan n had be a lot bigger. The small alliance which had started off with three ns had now be an alliance containing the remaining members of over ten ns.


    On this day, everyone was working together to kill the Demon nts that were surrounding them. All of a sudden, the ground beneath their feet shook.


    In the north direction, a strong green light exploded into the sky.


    “That is...”


    “Could it be that someone found the exit to the Secret Territory?” Someone shouted in happiness.


    Rong Yuan pondered for a while before deciding, “Whether or not someone found the exit, we must go over to take a look.”


    The huge disturbance must mean something.


    Everyone had the same thoughts as they changed direction and headed towards the source of the tremble.


    Luckily, the epicentre of the tremble was not far from where they were and they reached in two hours.


    When they rushed there, there were over ten people already surrounding the halo of light. Everyone looked exhausted as an aura seemed to ripple around their bodies. With one look, anyone could tell they had been through many life-threatening situations.


    When Gu Lingzhi and the rest saw them, they also saw the grouping. Seeing this group of people supporting each other and forming aplete group, their pupils shrunk.


    In the Secret Territory, usually, only one out of ten people could survive.


    But looking at this entire group in front of them, they did not look like they had gone through a rough battle. Especially those that were even luckier and had joined the Gui Yuan n early, their groups were the mostplete. It was soplete that it made them jealous.


    “You guys...” An old man’s lips twitched. His clothes were in shambles and there was hardly a part of him that was not injured. Looking at Leng Shuang amongst them, he said, “Elder Leng, why are you all...”


    Before the old man couldplete his sentence, Leng Shuang already knew what he wanted to ask and chuckled bitterly, “We were very lucky to be helped by friends from the Gui Yuan n and manage to save our energy. If not, we would have lost our lives to the Demon nts on the second day that we entered the Secret Territory.”


    The other ns echoed along about how lucky they were and how grateful they were to the Gui Yuan n.


    The old man’s gaze fell on Gu Lingzhi and Rong Yuan who were leading the Gui Yuan n. Rong Yuan immediately reacted and said sincerely, “They are too modest, we were set up by evil people and should naturally work together. That is the only way to survive. By helping them, we were helping ourselves too. If not, this journey would be too dangerous and with just our Gui Yuan n, we wouldn’t have been able to make it.”


    “Elder Rong, you are too polite,” someone eximed, “Whatever the case is, we will forever remember the Gui Yuan n’s grace. As long as we can get out of this ce alive, my Wandao n will forever be an alliance to the Gui Yuan n!”


    Leng Shuang immediately joined in, “My Xijian n as well.”


    “And my Wanhua n.”


    “My Tianxin n too.”


    “...”


    Everyone from the different ns who managed to survive all expressed their friendship towards the Gui Yuan n.


    This development caused Rong Yuan’s eyes to shine.


    He did not know why Pan Luo had sent them in here, but from the looks of things, things were developing to the advantage of the Gui Yuan n.


    Before this, he was thinking that their alliance was not strong enough and was afraid that they would not be able to do anything to Pan Luo. But from the looks of things now, Pan Luo was digging his own grave.


    With one move, he had offended so many ns. There was only one sentence for this - when heaven brought about catastrophes, we might be able to survive them. But when we brought bad karma upon ourselves, there was no escaping!


    As the people surrounding the light saw their behaviours, they asked if they knew anything about the Secret Territory. When they found out that the Secret Territory was a trap set by the Deity King to force them to their deaths, they exploded with fury.


    They then heard that the Deity King was hiding amongst the Tianyan n. In addition, as long as they did not attack the green light, they would not be attacked by the Demon nts within it. If they attacked any Demon nts, they would be counter-attacked by all the Demon nts within 50 meters of them. When they heard all this, their hatred for Pan Luo reached its maximum.


    They had every reason to believe that this entire scene had been orchestrated by Pan Luo to reduce the power of the top 100 ns in the Realm of the Gods.


    On the other hand, Gu Lingzhi and the rest believed that the halo green light in front of them could very well be the exit to the secret territory.


    It was just that everyone had been traumatised by the light rays containing Demon nts and was afraid that if they got anywhere closer than one meter of the green light, whatever horrific thing that was hidden within the green light halo would kill all of them here.


    Rong Yuan was simrly undecided about the green halo. Just when everyone could note to a decision, a group came rushing towards them from a distance.


    Who else would it be other than the Tianyan n?


    The person leading the group was wearing ck as his pitch ck pupils shone with wild delight. When they were still a distance away from the light ray, he could not help but attack the light ray. His golden sword energy striked the light ray, causing the halo to tremble violently.


    Behind him, Gong Yichen immediately bellowed, “Aren’t you all going to quickly open the exit? The first one out will be ranked first in the n Tournament!”


    No one moved.


    If it were a few hours ago and the people that first discovered the light ray did not hear the truth from Gu Lingzhi, with this instigation, they might have actually struck at the green light and helped Pan Luo open it.


    But now, they were not going to.


    Knowing their plot, why would they still help them?


    “Why are you all standing there and doing nothing? Aren’t you all going to hurry up?” Gong Yichen encouraged them as he led the Tianyan n to attack the light halo behind Pan Luo.


    “Tsk, then as you wish.” Leng Shuang snorted. His long sword was set aze with an orange me that looked as if it could burn even the air around it as he struck ferociously at the light halo.


    “Stay here and pay for the innocent lives of my Xijian n disciples that were lost!”


    With this one strike, he opened the gates that held back the fury he was holding in for days. Not only did he take action, the people that first found the gates also charged at the Tianyan n.