In the cabin on the roof of the building, Zhou Yulong took a long breath, with a look of relief.
The people who are struggling to survive in the stronghold only feel that these monks from the secret realm are powerful and noble, but how can they understand their bitterness?
If there is no last resort, if there is no ancestral precept that cannot be violated, who would be willing to leave the safety of the secret realm and come out to serve as a guide?
In today's world, there is no safe place outside the secret realm.
Although they had the spirit ship to rely on, they encountered many provocations from the corpse clan along the way, fought many battles, and almost annihilated their entire army several times.
In history, there is no precedent for the secret realm spirit boat being destroyed by the zombie clan and the whole army being annihilated.
For monks like them who were born in a secret realm and have been pampered since childhood, leaving the secret realm is a gamble with their own lives!
From the perspective of monks outside the secret realm, welcoming envoys is a prestigious job. Whenever you arrive at any stronghold, the people in the stronghold will welcome you and give you warm hospitality. However, no one is willing to take it easy for monks who are truly from the secret realm.
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However, if you want to climb a high position in the secret realm, you must do the job of being a guide, because the first-generation master of the secret realm once set the rules. Only by personally experiencing the difficulty of survival for the outside world, can you
Only then can you learn to cherish everything you have in the secret realm.
The Zhou family from which he was born has a high position in the secret realm and controls the secret realm together with several other major families. He has outstanding talents and has strong cultivation at a young age. He is the most promising star of the Zhou family in the future.
Now that I have the experience of being recruited this time, I will definitely be able to find a good job when I return. In the next ten years, I may even compete for the position of the head of the Zhou family. How glorious will it be then?
The continent is broken, and outside the secret realm, the human race is struggling to survive. In the secret realm, there is singing and dancing. Even the monks, after reaching their own limit, have no desire to continue practicing, and their nature of fighting for power and profit is exposed.
The world doesn't know what kind of filth is hidden in the so-called holy land-like secret realm. If they knew it, maybe many people wouldn't be so yearning for the secret realm.
But having said that, although he had no choice but to go out and suffer because of his ancestors' instructions, Zhou Yulong was quite touched after actually taking this trip.
The life of the people outside was too hard. Several times, he even couldn't help but want to pack up and take away the people in the stronghold.
The secret realm is so big, it's not like it can't accommodate those people.
But I can only think about this idea. If I really do this, it will be taboo.
The secret realm is indeed very large and can accommodate many human races, but it cannot accommodate all the remaining human races in the world, even if all three major secret realms are opened.
Therefore, he can only guide more teenagers and children within his greatest power and responsibility.
As for the fate of these people after arriving in the secret realm, that is not what Zhou Yulong can worry about. At the very least, the environment in the secret realm will be much better than the precarious situation outside. As long as he does not make too big a mistake,
Staying alive is never a problem.
In today's world, life is more important than anything else.
As if he thought of something, Zhou Yulong suddenly said: "Here comes someone!"
Immediately, someone pushed open the door and entered. It was a beautiful female cultivator who was also a servant of the Zhou family. She lowered her head and clasped her fists: "Sir."
"I'm going back soon. I'll ask people to boil some hot water and let the children take a bath and bring them back clean. It can't be so smelly."
"Yes!" the female cultivator replied, turned around and went to work.
After a while, the door at the bottom of the cabin was pushed open. A group of teenagers and children watched a few monks busy. Within a moment, ten wooden barrels filled with clean water were lined up in the spacious place.
A man stepped out, put his hands behind his back, and said: "Master Yulong takes pity on you, and specially ordered me to prepare these, so that you can wash your bodies and enter the secret realm. I will give you half an hour, please hurry up!"
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After saying this, he turned around and left impatiently.
For a person like him, he would not want to stay in such a smelly environment like the bilge for a moment unless he needed to come down to do some work.
Several monks also turned and left, leaving a group of teenagers and children looking at each other.
In the apocalypse, supplies for survival are in short supply, including clean water. People like them, from childhood to adulthood, have to be careful about the water they drink, let alone take a bath.
Many people may not take a shower every two to three years.
Now looking at these ten wooden barrels filled with water, I feel a lot uncomfortable.
It took a while before someone came forward, held up a handful of water with both hands, and took a swig. After a while, people gathered around the ten wooden buckets, drinking water.
Zhou Yulong naturally did not expect that more than half of the water he ordered for bathing ended up in the stomachs of these teenagers and children.
It wasn't until everyone had had enough to drink that they started taking a bath.
The water is cold water. Even if Zhou Yulong ordered his men to boil some hot water, who would go to trouble for the humble lives of a group of people in the stronghold? Zhou Yulong would not come down to investigate in person anyway.
No one fell into the barrel. They all stood beside the barrel, taking only a small amount of water and scrubbing the dirty bodies under their clothes.
Saving everything that can be saved has become an instinct engraved in their bones.
"Brother, don't you go and wash up?" The little girl rescued by Lu Ye came back with wet hair. Seeing Lu Ye and Ying Wuji sitting there indifferently, she couldn't help but persuade her: "It's better to go and wash up.
Wash it, they say, whoever washes it cleanly will be able to leave a good impression on the big shots after entering the secret realm, and maybe he will be accepted as a disciple."
"We don't have to." Ying Wuji looked at the innocent little girl with a smile, "Besides, the two of us are so old, the big shots probably don't like us, so you should behave well."
The little girl suddenly showed an expectant look.
More than half an hour later, the previous monks appeared and took away the barrels. The middle-aged man who had spoken before also walked in and yelled: "Little bastards, hurry up and get home!"
One sentence made the whole bilge boil.
He shouted sharply: "Don't make noises, don't push, and be honest to me when you leave this place. If anyone dares to disobey the rules, I want him to look good!"
Everyone immediately fell silent.
Under his intimidation, the teenagers and children in the bilge formed a somewhat scattered queue and headed towards the exit one after another.
The little girl was about to call Lu Ye and Ying Wuji to join her, but when she turned her head, she saw that there were still two figures beside her. She was startled and almost wondered if she had seen a ghost.
The spirit boat has been moored on a bare mountain peak. Zhou Yulong and the woman who acted with him before were standing side by side, holding a gold plate and looking down.
Before leaving the secret realm, the head of the Zhou family had told him that he must arrive here at a specific time and wait here.
Because at this point in time, the secret realm will drift to this location, and with the help of the special spiritual weapon in Zhou Yulong's hand, the secret realm portal can be opened.
If we miss this time, this place, even for a monk like Zhou Yulong who is from the Zhou family, it will be extremely difficult for him to return to the secret realm.
The golden plate in his hand is the spiritual weapon that opens the portal to the secret realm. There are two golden plates, one yin and one yang. Zhou Yulong activates the power of the golden plate. People who hold the corresponding gold plate in the secret realm can sense it and investigate.
Only after the external situation is confirmed to be correct can the portal be opened.
Being so cautious is naturally to prevent the golden plate from falling into the hands of the corpse clan.
If the portal is opened without further investigation, it will be over if the zombie clan is introduced to attack.
On the mountain peak, Zhou Yulong waited impatiently, looking at the gold plate in his hand for a while and looking at the sky for a while.
It wasn't until the sun was at its peak that he looked shocked and took a long breath: "The time has come!"
As he spoke, he urged spiritual power to pour into the golden plate. In an instant, golden light bloomed on the mountain peak, and all the monks couldn't help but narrow their eyes.
The golden light flows like a real object, and there seems to be a crack in the void, allowing the golden light to flow through it, and the light continues to dim.
Zhou Yulong stared nervously and uneasily at the place where the golden light passed.
After a while, the dim golden light suddenly became brighter. Zhou Yulong felt relieved, knowing that someone in the secret realm was responding to him.
The golden light continued to surge, and then turned into a portal, standing upright on the mountain peak. The portal was not big, and could accommodate three or four people walking in side by side. Beside the door frame, golden light flowed, magnificent.
"Thank you for your hard work, I'll go first!" Zhou Yulong said, then led the woman beside him and stepped into the door.
The door was like the mouth of a wild beast, disappearing the moment the two people stepped inside.
In the secret realm of Silver Snake Valley, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is abundant. In front of the golden portal, the monks on duty from several major families are waiting in formation. In addition to them, the monks on the surface, there are many people hiding in the dark, and there is a large formation covering the place.
Within the secret realm, the defense on this side of the portal is the most stringent. There are a large number of monks guarding it openly or covertly all year round. Even though there have never been any accidents in recent years, you still have to be prepared for what you should be prepared for.
Hundreds of years ago, the number of monks guarding this place was more than five times that of today. However, as time passed, the precautions here were eventually relaxed.
"Jade Dragon!"
Seeing Zhou Yulong's figure, a middle-aged man with a majestic figure came forward to greet him. Judging from his affectionate name for Zhou Yulong, it was known that this man must also be from the Zhou family.
"Third uncle." Zhou Yulong saluted the middle-aged man.
Uncle Zhou immediately reached out to help him up, looked him up and down, patted his shoulder, and praised: "It's been a hard journey."
Zhou Yulong said: "Three uncle's matters are serious."
While they were chatting here, the woman who came back with Zhou Yulong on the other side was also welcomed by the tribe. The woman's name was Ning Tongtong, and she was born in the Ning family, which is one of the major families in the secret realm.
The Zhou family and the Ning family have been friends for generations and have had many marriages. The elders of the two families are now interested in bringing them together, so this time they are responsible for bringing them together when they go out.