Tania began scanning the entire secret realm with her soul sense. The secret realm was really a great place for cultivation for mortals, the amount of spiritual energy flowing within this realm was incredibly dense. In many areas with a high concentration of spiritual energy, lakes filled with pure spiritual water and high-grade spiritual springs, formed from condensed spiritual energy, appeared. The beauty of these springs, much like the previous man eating forest, was so captivating that any mortal cultivator would be mesmerized. However, the powerful spiritual beasts guarding them were very powerful.
The power difference in the secret realm was not vastly different from the outside Banana Continent; due to the dense spiritual energy, the cultivation levels of the beasts and monsters here were quite high. Many of the beasts would have already ascended if not for many dying because of the infighting and territorial wars among themselves and the restrictions of the secret realm , which prevented their cultivation from advancing. Additionally, numerous ancient runes and inheritances from senior cultivators were scattered throughout.
It took her two whole days to scan only one side of the realm from her current position, and in this part alone, there were countless treasures—truly a blessed land. However, just the act of scanning was nothing compared to the time-consuming task of carefully checking every creature. This side of the realm was significantly larger than the Apple Continent which was already many times larger than all the continents combined on earth from her previous life, but there was no signs of humans.
On the third day, Tania had to pause her search because she encountered a very strange active volcano in the volcanic region where she was sitting. This volcano was covered by a barrier made of powerful energy, one so powerful that even Tania couldn't penetrate it with her soul sense. A normal cultivator wouldn’t have even noticed the volcano's existence. This barrier was protecting and concealing the location of the volcano or the Thing hidden inside that volcano. As usual Tania would have ignored this also but There was something within it calling to her, it was the same attraction Tania felt upon entering this realm. Driven by curiosity, she decided to stop her soul sense outside the concealed volcano and observe the powerful energy barrier that could withstand even her probing.
The barrier was unlike any normal barriers she had previously encountered, such as the one surrounding the secret realm; it stretched like a field and produced energy waves that deceived the senses. The calling from within only intensified as she began to delve deeper into the field for research. Tania had no idea what lay inside this barrier, but after observing ithis field created by the barrier and its nature, she was certain of one thing: the Thing hidden here belonged to her, but the right time to claim it had not yet arrived.
"Hmm, should I go back and talk to Anna about this? Maybe her grandmother shared insights about such situations among primordial beings,” Tania mused, freeing herself from the alluring pull of the Thing. Although she felt attracted to it, she did not dislike the sensation. She gazed in the direction of the volcanic region and pondered, “It looks like I will have to explore that place when the destined time comes. I don’t know how fate will arrange for me to be here when the time is right.” After a moment’s consideration, Tania decided against further exploration for now. First, she would gather information from Anna and then ask if she wanted to accompany her when the time was appropriate.
That place could affect even a primordial phoenix, so it must be a fascinating place. Anna would definitely be interested in this secret realm, and they could explore it together later. Otherwise, Anna would blame Tania for venturing into such an exciting place alone again. A small smile crept onto Tania's face as she thought about Anna; it had only been three days, yet she felt a sense of worry. “Let’s hurry,” she muttered as she spread her soul sense in another direction.
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While there were many suspicious points and interesting locations in this direction as well, Tania chose to ignore them and continued her search. However, as she pursued her investigation, she couldn’t help but express her irritation.
“What is this place? How come I didn’t know anything like this existed in any of the mortal world while I was living in the immortal world? The more I explore this secret realm, the stranger it becomes. How did a place like this come into existence within this mortal world?” She frowned deeply “It seems that even the Luck Absorbing organization is oblivious to what lies inside this secret realm; otherwise, the phony Heavenly Dao would not have ignored it for so long.”
As Tania extended her soul sense further, she discovered many treasures and legacies that could incite a bloodbath even within the immortal world, let alone the locations where mortals could never go due to the restrictions imposed upon them.
After ignoring numerous enticing and distracting treasures over five days of searching, she finally found the only group of humans residing inside this realm. it was quite a lot of trouble to find them since most of the land in the secret realm was uninhabitable due to natural disasters, some places would freeze you to death in seconds and some places would burn you to ashes in seconds. The thunder forest containing a lot of Thunder beasts and heavenly thunder raining down for the sky. There were also bloody deserts with remnants of many brutal battlefields from the past. The remnants contain a lot of grievance from the dead and the bloody killing energy that would made anyone mad with a twisted desire for killing just from being there. Every weapon on the had turned into a demonic weapon, which if used will corrode the mind.
Many areas were merely ruins overrun by monsters, mindless beasts, or man-eating forests. Additionally, there was a spiritual beast kingdom that occupied most of the habitable regions, governed by a descendant of a divine dragon as their king. Although there were quite a few different races in different places ruling their respective areas, Tania deemed them unimportant and chose to ignore them.
The humans were living on the edge of the secret realm, opposite Tania’s location. They were situated on five distinct islands, separate from the whole secret realm. These islands were the largest among all others in the sea and the safest places within this realm. Even the sea disasters and attacks from the aquatic beasts were prevented from happening because of the protection of a natural Array formed around the five Islands. Outside that was a complete hell with constant boiling and freezing sea with numerous aquatic beasts with very high cultivations. The islands were interconnected, as the five main nodes of the natural array were situated on each island. These nodes formed an air pathway made from condensed spiritual energy stones produced by the array, facilitating travel between the islands. The human population was divided into five kingdoms, each numbering in the millions. The last user of the artifact had to be on one of these islands, and to find them among so many faces, Tania would once again need to use the time-manipulating treasure. Although the time treasure had difficulties working in the realm due to restrictions, it could easily detect the User or provide general directions if the User was nearby.
Without delay, Tania tore through space and created a spatial tunnel to travel directly to the islands. Although Tania would have liked to explore this new lands but she did not want to waste a lot of time here. She had a foreboding feeling that Anna might cause trouble due to the influence of the primordial blood. Tania wasn't worried about this few mortals who would die but if Anna used a large amount of primordial energy that exceed the amount the Apple continent can bear, then any powerful person searching for her by divination would be able to trace her location and even the Mark of fate would be unable to stop it. Anna don’t see anyone except Tania as her equal, everyone is beneath her, so she can't tolerate any thing she feels disrespectful, that's why as a mental adult and a member of the primordial clan Tania has to take care of the cub who has newly entered into the outside world.