"What?!"
Upon hearing her words, the five were greatly shocked. "Miss, is it true? Is it really a beast tide?!"
Ling Luoyi did not answer. They would know if it was true soon enough.
In less than a breath, they felt the shaking intensify, and the roars of a beast horde grew louder and heavier in their ears.
"Big brother, what should we do? It really is a beast tide!" Shangguan Qing asked fearfully.
Shangguan Ye was also panicking inwardly, but he showed no outward signs. He asked Ling Luoyi, "Miss, can you see which direction the beast tide is coming from?"
Ling Luoyi scanned her surroundings and replied, "All directions, and it will be here very soon."
"What?!"
Shangguan Ye immediately ordered, "Second brother, third brother, take Ting'er and Qing'er to climb onto the thickest trees immediately, and hurry!"
Shangguan Jin and Shangguan Lin each took one person and leaped onto nearby trees. Shangguan Ye also leaped onto a tree. After steadying himself, he said to Ling Luoyi, "Miss, you should climb a tree quickly too! The beast tide isn't just ground beasts, there are aerial ones too!"
As soon as Shangguan Ye finished speaking, a flock of dark, winged beasts flew in from not far away.
Seeing that Ling Luoyi had not moved, Shangguan Ye called out again, "Miss!"
"The beast tide is not the most dangerous," Ling Luoyi said, then looked towards the mountain peak, which was the most dangerous.
In the next instant, Ling Luoyi dashed towards the mountain peak.
Shangguan Ye wanted to say more, but his vision blurred. The person in the air vanished. The winged beasts flew past, leaving only a few feathers.
Before the others could react, they felt the ground shake even more violently. They barely had time to hold onto the tree trunks before a large horde of demonic beasts thundered past, their tents being directly overturned.
The group held onto the tree trunks tightly. After an unknown amount of time, the shaking gradually lessened, and they were able to recover. They looked at the devastated ground.
The ground was pockmarked and uneven, the river water had turned murky, and many trees had been knocked down. Fortunately, they were standing on the thickest trees around, otherwise, they would have been knocked off.
Shangguan Jin and Shangguan Lin were comforting Shangguan Ting and Shangguan Qing. Shangguan Ye looked in the direction Ling Luoyi had disappeared, his mind pondering. What did she mean by 'the beast tide is not the most dangerous'?
Meanwhile, Ling Luoyi reached the mountain peak. A considerable number of demonic beasts and phantom beasts had already gathered there.
Ling Luoyi walked towards the center of the peak, as if in an uninhabited land. The demonic beast and phantom beast hordes, sensing the pressure emanating from Ling Luoyi's bloodline, lowered their heads, allowing her to pass.
As Ling Luoyi rushed towards the mountain peak, she had placed a restriction on herself. The water mirror could not find her, so she was completely unrestrained at this moment.
In the center of the mountain peak was a large rock, shaped like a beast egg, which was currently emitting white light, with a faint golden glow within. The beast tide and the changes in the secret realm were all caused by this large rock.
Ling Luoyi recognized what the large rock was from the white light. It was indeed a rock, but it had a secret technique that encased a beast egg within it.
It seemed the beast egg was about to hatch.
Ling Luoyi intended to help it. She formed hand seals and began to unravel the secret technique. As the secret technique was peeled away layer by layer, the large rock also began to crack and fall, gradually revealing the beast egg in the center. The beast egg had a fine crack, indicating it was close to breaking free.
Ling Luoyi glanced at the formation maintaining the secret realm in the sky. She had to hurry!
Ling Luoyi increased the spiritual power in her hands.
The formation could not hold on for much longer. Once it broke, the secret realm would collapse. At that time, everyone within would face certain death!
Thinking of this, Ling Luoyi used her own spiritual power.
A sacred power spread with Ling Luoyi's spiritual power, controlled around her, without attracting anyone's attention.
The sacred power was very faint, but the phantom beasts close to Ling Luoyi were all imbued with this power. Even though their appearances did not change, their entire bodies had undergone a transformation.
Sensing the changes in their bodies, these phantom beasts looked at Ling Luoyi with reverence, as if Ling Luoyi were their devout faith.
With Ling Luoyi's spiritual power irrigating it, the cracks on the beast egg gradually widened.
Suddenly, a "crack" sound echoed from the sky. Ling Luoyi looked up; it was too late! The formation had already begun to shatter!
Ling Luoyi maintained her spiritual power with one hand and took out a formation disk with the other.
"Go!"
Ling Luoyi tossed the formation disk, and a grand formation unfolded in the sky, gradually merging with the original formation that maintained the secret realm, until it was completely integrated.
Ling Luoyi felt the connection between herself and the secret realm and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she made it in time.
Ling Luoyi continued to irrigate the beast egg with her spiritual power.
The others in the secret realm, after feeling the secret realm shake and then return to normal, were all confused but paid it no mind. After all, the elders would handle it, so they contentedly went back to hunting demonic beasts.
Since the demonic beast hordes were all gathering towards the mountain peak, some of the bolder ones, after recovering, ran towards the mountain peak.
The demonic beast and phantom beast hordes in the other four areas outside the forest also sensed the commotion at the forest's mountain peak and knelt towards the mountain peak, as if subjects paying homage to an emperor.
The people around were curious. Due to the large number of gathered demonic beasts, they dared not approach, only cautiously observing from a distance.
Among them were those who were intelligent and headed in the direction the demonic beast hordes were looking.
In such a situation, a high-level demonic beast should be born!
On the mountain peak, Ling Luoyi had consumed half of her spiritual power when the beast egg finally emitted a brilliant white light. Suddenly, a beam of golden light shot out from the white light, soaring into the sky and fiercely striking the grand formation Ling Luoyi had just laid, emitting a loud "boom."
This loud noise reverberated throughout the entire secret realm. Everyone felt their ears instantly go deaf, and when they touched their ears, they found blood dripping from them.
Ling Luoyi carefully inspected the grand formation. Seeing that it was undamaged, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Crack, crack..."
Ling Luoyi heard the sound and looked at the still glowing white beast egg. The white light had not dissipated, preventing Ling Luoyi from seeing clearly. Ling Luoyi's dark pupils turned golden, and only then did she see the situation within the white light.
The beast egg had turned into fragments, and in the center lay a small white creature. The little creature was holding its eggshell and grunting as it ate.
The little creature ate quickly, and in just a moment, it finished the eggshell.
After finishing, the little creature patted its belly.
The white light gradually diminished and then disappeared. Ling Luoyi's eye color also returned to dark.
Ling Luoyi recognized the creature's species and, looking at it now, her mind was filled with doubts.
The little creature was entirely snow-white, with a pair of transparent small wings on its back, easily overlooked. The most defining characteristic of its species was the golden horn on its forehead.
This was a Holy Light Unicorn!
But why was it born in this secret realm?
She had forgotten to ask Elder Qu about the origin of this secret realm.
While Ling Luoyi was observing the little creature, it also noticed her. At this moment, the little creature looked at Ling Luoyi, its eyes widening in surprise. It extended its small paws and was saying something with its mouth.
Although Ling Luoyi could understand the language of the Holy Light Unicorn, the little creature in front of her, having just been born, had incomplete memories and its language functions were not yet perfect. Therefore, she could not understand what the little creature was saying at all.
The little creature was very happy to see Ling Luoyi. Ling Luoyi walked forward, and the little creature immediately pounced into Ling Luoyi's arms.
The little creature looked around happily. When it saw the surrounding phantom beast horde, its small eyes held great confusion.
Ling Luoyi seemed to understand the little creature's confusion and said, "Stop looking, quickly retract your pressure."
The little creature seemed to understand and obediently retracted its pressure.
Seeing that the matter was resolved, Ling Luoyi quickly left with the little creature.