Millennium Tension

"You guys are safe and well now. Little Feng Zhi, how about your exploration? You can tell us now." Elder Mo greeted his disciple whom he had treated like his granddaughter with great pleasure.

"I apologize in advance, but may I ask?" Lin Yu spoke first after the energy purification was done on them.

"Of course, you may ask any questions and are worthy to know." A bluish white-robed and veiled elder lady with an accent of snow exclaimed calmly.

"Thank you Elder Wei, why is there such a large scale barrier installed here? It's as if you are preventing or warding off something? Then why do we have to purify the energy? What happened?" Lin Yu fired a few questions about to fluster her as a representative of the other five confused girls.

The elders of the various sects looked at each other and nodded at something they had agreed on together.

"You seem to be able to guess a few things. Since you've explored the hidden realm and returned safely without being contaminated by evil energy, we will let you know." Elder Mo said as he stroked his beard.

"Thank you, please enlighten us." The confused and curious girls saluted with respect.

"Hm... In all exploration into the hidden realm, you will always find evil energy in some of the young cultivators who made it back from there. That's why we purified your energy." Elder Mo stroked his beard then looked at Elder Su, an Elder from the same Sect as him to continue.

"This barrier is in charge of preventing anything from entering or leaving the hidden realm without permission, without exception." Elder Su nodded after receiving Elder Mo's sign then continued as she folded her arms and looked at the barrier.

"Then is it true that the vanguard team is actually just an experimental team to find out what is actually hidden in the hidden realm?" Xun Ai anxiously asked to confirm the suspicion of their discussion last night with Aizen. She had almost died a while ago, if it weren't for him she wouldn't have been here talking in good health.

"Sigh... Little Xun Ai, I don't know why you have such an assumption." One of the Eternal Snow Sect elders approached the anxious Xun Ai and stroked her hair.

"Elder Fan, please answer my question." Xun Ai whined to the kind-hearted elder of her sect, while Elder Fan became overwhelmed by it.

"That's right, the vanguard team also served as an experimental team. The best young people sent to the hidden realm came for a reason. Hmm... Looks like you can guess that right if I look at your faces." Elder Mo explained honestly and smiled when he saw the shocked and complicated faces of the six girls.

"Hmph! The vanguard team was sent from the three best young generations with a lot of supplies and life-saving treasure to explore the hidden realm so that they have a higher chance of returning safely and reporting what happened there. Why are the young people exploring there? So that we can stop you if something bad unexpected happens! Hahaha! " An elder clothed in red-black with a golden accent with a flaming hue laughed roughly.

"Bai Fang!" The elders of the Heavenly Soul Sect called out to the elder who was laughing harshly. Even the elders from the Eternal Snow Sect looked at him with displeasure.

"What? That's what happened, right? The first exploration was catastrophe hahaha!" Bai Fang laughed happily for some reason as he watched the six girls who had just returned become gloomy.

The predictions and guesses told by Aizen turned out to be true, even the elders admit it. But they soon returned to their composure because they had prepared themselves for the worst.

"All right, now let us report what we've been through in the last two days in the hidden realm." Feng Zhi interrupted the small commotion from the elders because of Elder Bai Fang.

After that, the six of them took turns explaining what they had experienced, starting from Lin Yu's meeting with Aizen's group to the calamitous monster they faced in the ancient ruins eight thousand kilometers below the ground.

This story indeed made the elders almost disbelieve and doubted its validity, but the elders who doubted the reports and stories of the six girls immediately shut their mouths tightly when the girls released concrete evidence.

The few remains of the Sky Spirit Realm monsters and a single scale from the Sovereign Spirit Realm monster became solid evidence for their stories.

"Oh, you poor girls." Elder Fan hugged poor Xun Ai because just a moment ago she almost died, even the Earth Grade life-saving treasure couldn't help at all.

"So the group that destroyed the barrier of the hidden realm gate was led by Aizen of the Trinity... Trinity? Have any of you ever heard of that name?" Elder Mo stroked his beard thoughtfully before turning to the other elders.

Unfortunately, the elders who numbered over a hundred who were gathered there listening to the stories of the six girls just shook their heads, the name Trinity was still so foreign to them.

"Then where is the man named Aizen who helped you in your exploration that far?" Elder Su stood beside Feng Zhi as she asked in confusion.

"He and his group continue to venture deeper into the ancient ruins. They have the power to do that." Feng Zhi answered with a bright gleam in her eyes.

"Hoho ~ Little Feng Zhi finally paid more attention to a man? This is new to me." Elder Su teased Feng Zhi who seemed to have a smitten face.

"Don't try to tease me at this point, Aun. Err... Elder Su. Oh yes, we have very important information that Aizen's group directly passed on to us to report! Lin Yu!" Feng Zhi swallowed her words again when she was about to say 'aunty', then she clapped her hands together about something urgent and important.

Then Lin Yu represented to tell about three dangerous passages with the extremely tight barrier runes that were there. In one of the passages, hidden the oppressive gate emitted an extremely vicious and evil aura.

This information sounded a dire and dangerous alarm for the elders who heard it. Even Elder Bai who had laughed roughly now shed cold sweat.

This exploration has never been accomplished by any disciples so far in history, and if the news about this evil gate is true then only one answer will come to their minds at this time, the hidden realm is actually the realm that is used to seal something very evil and a sign of calamity.

"You have all worked hard! Thank you for this important information, we must immediately report to our respective sect! Hurry, we must hurry! We need to know what course of action should be taken at this time!" Elder Mo as the leader shouted gravely at the other elders.

All the elders of the various sects immediately returned to their tents to contact their respective sects for further information.

They did not question whether this information was true or not, the possibility of the existence of a gate with an extremely evil aura alone was already very dangerous, and considering the events and phenomena that had occurred, it was very likely that what Lin Yu said was true.

Now the six girls were left there with some of the elders who did not go to report because they were already represented by other elders from their sect.

"Lin Yu, you can ask anything at this time and I will answer all your worries. You all went to the hidden realm without much detailed information and it was done on purpose for some reason." Elder Fan spoke subtly to the most talented girl in the younger generation in the sect.

"You are not contaminated with evil energy, so you don't need to be monitored further. Now you have the right to know what happened when you got this far." Elder Su added with a sweet smile and a kind face.

"Um, but can we do it in privacy? I feel embarrassed to stay in the eye of so many people when I ask." Lin Yu understood what Elder Fan meant, her elder was worried because Lin Yu had great innate abilities and suspected that suspicion and bad premonitions must have enveloped Lin Yu.

"Of course! Then, elders, our disciples are quite embarrassed to continue to be the center of attention. Therefore, we excuse ourselves first." Elder Su said goodbye to the elders before going to her tent together with the six girls and Elder Fan.

Then Elder Fan and Elder Su shot out a soundproof barrier so that no one would overhear the requests of the girls.

"Fufu~ Now that there are eight of us left, you can ask questions and we also want to ask. Don't try to lie or you will get punishment from us~" Elder Su gave Elder Fan a wink as a sign of cooperation.

After that, the six girls began to question the truth that had happened which had been hidden from them, it turns out that all of Aizen's predictions were correct and confirmed by the two elders. In return, the two elders asked something about Aizen's group and another private matter which made the six girls blush.