I'm Just a Beast Tamer

"Begone!"

Wei Rulin waved his hand, and a hurricane flung the surrounding Divine Body Cultivators far away.

But the hurricane was useless against Jiang Zuo.

In an instant, Jiang Zuo had already charged to within a short distance of Wei Rulin.

"You’re courting death!"

Wei Rulin watched Jiang Zuo coldly and summoned two more fourth-rank puppets.

God Shocking Needle!

But Jiang Zuo’s gaze suddenly turned frigid.

Wei Rulin immediately felt a stabbing pain in his Sea of Consciousness.

’A Divine Sense attack far stronger than his own!’

’No wonder this guy wasn’t brainwashed!’

Horrified, Wei Rulin struggled to focus, trying to see what Jiang Zuo was doing.

Although his Sea of Consciousness had been injured, it wasn’t severe.

As long as he could endure this fleeting pain, he could gain the upper hand with his two fourth-rank puppets.

But what Wei Rulin couldn’t understand was that he hadn’t seen Jiang Zuo make any move.

Yet he suddenly felt an abrupt chill on the back of his neck.

Just as he sensed something was wrong, a cold dread washed over Wei Rulin as he realized his head had been severed clean from his neck!

’The Sword Pill!’

’Sword Control Technique!’

’Just what kind of monster is he?!’

This was the last thought that flashed through Wei Rulin’s mind.

In the next instant, the Sword Pill danced wildly, dicing his head to pieces.

Without Wei Rulin’s commands, the two fourth-rank puppets also stopped moving.

’Heh, a sneak attack with the Sword Pill works like a charm!’

Jiang Zuo felt assured.

Before tossing out Leichan’s Relic, Jiang Zuo had already deployed the Sword Pill.

Under the cover of the Relic’s Buddha light, the Sword Pill, guided by Jiang Zuo, had silently flown to a position below and behind Wei Rulin.

Even at his age, Wei Rulin was only at the early stage of the Three Flowers Realm. Even if he had opened his Sea of Consciousness, his Divine Sense couldn’t have been that strong.

Jiang Zuo approached Wei Rulin and launched the God Shocking Needle, forcing all of Wei Rulin’s attention onto him.

The Sword Pill seized the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, and just as expected, it easily lopped off Wei Rulin’s head.

Jiang Zuo stepped forward, caught Wei Rulin’s headless body, and took all the storage pouches from him.

Jiang Zuo wanted to collect the two fourth-rank puppets standing nearby.

But when he realized he would have to refine them first, he gave up on the idea.

With a couple of quick slashes, the Sword Pill chopped the two puppets into pieces.

Jiang Zuo then looked at Wei Rulin’s storage pouches.

With Wei Rulin dead and his own Divine Sense being so powerful, he could easily open them.

Inside one of the pouches, Jiang Zuo found a Secret Realm Token.

"Who is that man?"

"He’s so powerful! He killed Wei Rulin just like that!"

"No matter who he is, we have a chance to get out now!"

While Jiang Zuo was searching for the Token, the Cultivators below watched him in awe.

Jiang Zuo had already pulled off his mask, but since he rarely interacted with other Cultivators, few people recognized him.

Among the thousand-plus brainwashed Cultivators present, only twenty or thirty people recognized Jiang Zuo.

"All of you, charge! Get Elder Wei’s Token back!"

Wei Rulin’s death did not frighten away the native believers of the Celestial Eye Black Pupil.

Elderly believers like Elder He and Qiu Yiping took over command from Wei Rulin, roaring with fury.

The native believers, fearless of death, now charged ferociously toward the other Cultivators.

The Cultivators who had regained their senses had no time to discuss Jiang Zuo’s identity; they all braced themselves to face the enemy.

"Kill!"

Jiang Zuo and Sikong Bing also attacked without hesitation.

Under these circumstances, Jiang Zuo couldn’t possibly use the Secret Realm Token to open the gate.

A Secret Realm gate is very unstable, especially the gate of an abandoned one like this.

If any Cultivator were to forcefully attack the gate, it would be forced to close.

A massive battle involving two to three thousand Cultivators thus erupted within the Secret Realm.

On both sides—the native believers of the Celestial Eye Black Pupil and the self-restored Cultivators—people were constantly being injured, and some even fell in death.

However, among the crowd was a Little Monk.

He stumbled his way past one Cultivator after another, finally finding something at the foot of Spirit Beast Mountain.

’It’s a Relic from some senior! If I take it back to my sect to be nurtured, I wonder if it will still have its power.’

The Little Monk pinched Leichan’s Relic and couldn’t help but think.

When the World-Purifying Buddha Light descended and the Little Monk regained his senses, he had immediately followed the path of Leichan’s falling Relic to find it.

"Eh? Little Monk, are you a disciple of Leiyin Temple?"

Suddenly, an old man’s voice echoed in the Little Monk’s mind.

"Could it be that Senior is a great Cultivator from our Leiyin Temple?"

Anyone who could cultivate a Relic was a senior, eminent monk. The Little Monk wasn’t the least bit worried about the voice coming from the Relic; instead, he asked cheerfully.

"It’s a long story. Your Cultivation is too low, so you must be careful. Survive this current crisis first."

Leichan said.

He had originally thought he would die after releasing the power of the World-Purifying Buddha Light.

He hadn’t expected to still be hanging on.

He had been thinking he would find Jiang Zuo once the battle was nearly over.

But now, a disciple from Leiyin Temple had found him instead.

Seeing this, Leichan immediately changed his mind.

The believers of the Celestial Eye Black Pupil were all fearless, charging to their deaths.

Furthermore, they were slightly greater in number.

As the battle neared its end, even the believers at the Qi Cultivation stage joined the charge.

The outcome of the battle was exceedingly brutal.

Of the nearly one thousand brainwashed Cultivators, more than two hundred died, and countless more were injured.

And this was only because Jiang Zuo was there; he had killed a significant number of the Divine Body Cultivators.

Otherwise, the result would have been even more disastrous.

However, the casualties among the Celestial Eye Black Pupil’s believers were even heavier.

More than a thousand of them had been killed!

"Everyone, bandage your wounds and rest for a while. I will open the Secret Realm gate soon."

"When I do, everyone must leave through the gate as quickly as possible. Otherwise, if you get trapped in here, there’s nothing I can do."

Jiang Zuo hovered in mid-air, speaking to the crowd below.

None of the Cultivators had any objections.

They had been stuck here for at least twenty or thirty years and were desperate to return to the outside world.

As for waiting any longer, that was even more out of the question.

There were still many believers of the Master of the Black Eye alive in the Secret Realm, and there was no telling if they had a way to send a message out.

If they didn’t leave quickly, they might walk right into a trap set by the Celestial Eye Black Pupil organization upon their exit.

Jiang Zuo didn’t wait long.

Just a quarter of an hour later, under the watchful eyes of all the Cultivators, Jiang Zuo opened the gate to the Secret Realm.

Then, Jiang Zuo tossed aside the Secret Realm Token and, along with Sikong Bing, was the first to charge through the gate.

Behind them, the other Cultivators swarmed through as well.

"You’re the disciples heading to the Second Divine Ruin this time... no, something’s wrong! Force the Secret Realm gate closed, now!"

Outside the gate was a valley.

As soon as Jiang Zuo emerged, he saw a Three Flowers Realm expert waiting outside.

The Celestial Eye Black Pupil’s upper echelons had dispatched a Three Flowers Realm expert to receive the many brainwashed Divine Body Realm Cultivators being transferred to the Second Divine Ruin Secret Realm.

When he saw Jiang Zuo and Sikong Bing, the man didn’t think anything was wrong.

But when he saw an endless stream of people pouring out behind them, many of whom were injured, he realized something was wrong and roared furiously.

The Three Flowers Realm expert pointed a finger, and a rain of fiery meteors materialized out of thin air, smashing down violently toward Jiang Zuo and the others.

"Water Curtain Celestial Splendor!"

Jiang Zuo once again summoned the Water Curtain Celestial Splendor to protect the Secret Realm’s gate.

"Stop them!"

The Cultivators who had already made it out also roared in anger.

There weren’t many Celestial Eye Black Pupil Cultivators around. As long as they could hold on for a while and let more people out, they would have an absolute advantage.

"You’re a Three Flowers Realm Cultivator? No! But how can you block my Magic!"

The Three Flowers Realm Cultivator was both shocked and enraged.

He was clearly just a Divine Body Realm Cultivator, yet his rain of fiery meteors had been completely blocked.

Seeing more and more people charge out of the gate, the Three Flowers Realm Cultivator, despite his reluctance, gritted his teeth and threw a black Thunder Pearl toward Jiang Zuo and the others.

"It’s Yin Sha Thunder! Even a Three Flowers Realm Cultivator would be heavily injured by that!"

"We can’t block it head-on! Dodge!"

Someone recognized the black Thunder Pearl and cried out in alarm.

Everyone, including Jiang Zuo, had their expressions change upon hearing this.

Then, the large group of people scattered in all directions without hesitation.

BOOM!

A massive explosion echoed as the Yin Sha Thunder Pearl detonated in front of the Secret Realm gate.

The power of the Yin Sha Thunder Pearl was terrifying; the Secret Realm gate vanished instantly.

On the ground, a huge circular crater dozens of meters in radius had been blasted open.

The group glared furiously at the Three Flowers Realm Cultivator.

After the great battle in the Secret Realm, nearly eight hundred Cultivators were still alive.

But unexpectedly, only a little over two hundred had managed to get out.

Nearly six hundred people were now trapped inside the Secret Realm.

"Kill them! Otherwise, the people inside the Secret Realm might be in danger!"

Someone roared angrily.

"It’s too late. He’s had enough time to send a message back!"

"I left the Secret Realm Token inside. It can be used again after a certain period. Our fellow Cultivators inside the Secret Realm are not without hope."

"We should leave first. Everyone, return to your sects and discuss a rescue with your elders!"

But Jiang Zuo spoke up at this moment.

"This fellow Daoist is right! We don’t even know where we are. We need to escape first!"

"As long as we can get back to our sects, our elders won’t just stand by and do nothing!"

Although some people still disagreed, more people sided with Jiang Zuo.

The crowd said no more and followed Jiang Zuo, charging out of the valley.

Although the Three Flowers Realm expert wanted to stop them, he looked at Jiang Zuo, who was staring at him like a tiger watching its prey, and ultimately decided not to waste his energy.

’If a real fight breaks out, all my other disciples will die.’ he thought.

"Everyone, I have urgent business, so I’ll be taking my leave!"

Outside the valley, the group faced no further ambushes.

After fleeing for quite some time, someone finally couldn’t hold back any longer and broke away from the group.

Once one person took the lead, more and more people began to leave on their own, one after another.

Sticking with the large group was safer, but at the same time, it made them an easier target for the Celestial Eye Black Pupil.

They had been trapped in the Secret Realm for decades, at the very least.

No one wanted to be captured again, brainwashed, and locked up to be treated like cattle.

Nearly half the people left, but over a hundred still followed behind Jiang Zuo and Sikong Bing.

The group of over one hundred people proceeded with their hearts in their throats, worried about being pursued by the Celestial Eye Black Pupil.

Jiang Zuo, however, wasn’t too worried. He had sent out his Blood Qi Avatar to watch their rear.

If there were pursuers, he would know immediately.

’If it comes to that,’ he thought, ’I won’t be able to worry about them anymore. I’ll have to leave them behind.’

Fortunately, everything went smoothly.

It was unclear whether the people from Celestial Eye Black Pupil had their own concerns or simply hadn’t received the news yet.

In any case, the group traveled for nearly a day without anyone giving chase.

During that day, the hundred-plus people all learned of Jiang Zuo’s identity.