Chapter 517: Reasons, Truth

Besides the two of them, the rest were people from the Treasure Pavilion who had entered with them.

They had all fallen unconscious; their faces were drained of color, and their lips were dry and cracked.

Xiao Fan walked over to check on them and discovered that these people had all fainted from hunger and were severely dehydrated.

This underground palace was different from the outside world; hunger set in very quickly here, and one became thirsty much faster than outside.

Xiao Fan couldn't think of the reason, but now was not the time to ponder such things.

He opened his Storage Pouch, took out some Spirit Spring Water, and then fed it to Qiao Rong and Wu Qingyan…

After drinking some water, the two women gradually regained consciousness and saw the person in front of them hazily.

"Xiao, Xiao Fan." Qiao Rong spoke, her voice weak.

"You really came…" Wu Qingyan also spoke; both women were extremely weak.

"Here, drink some water." Xiao Fan was generous and handed two jars of Spirit Spring Water directly to them.

The two women didn't even have time to say thank you and began drinking deeply.

After their bodies were replenished with water, the complexions of the two women improved significantly; at the very least, their lips were no longer cracked.

Xiao Fan took out a large amount of dried meat from his Storage Pouch and handed it to the two women…

The eyes of the two women lit up when they saw it. They didn't even have time to ask Xiao Fan how he was able to open his Storage Pouch; they prioritized eating first…

The two women wolfed down the food, looking like they had been starving.

Xiao Fan looked around and took out another container to feed water to the others.

Besides Wu Qingyan and Qiao Rong, there were three other people nearby.

These people also woke up one after another, and Xiao Fan gave them dried meat.

Their reactions were the same as the two women; there was simply no time to ask questions, as eating was the most important thing.

Since becoming Cultivators, they had all forgotten the feeling of being hungry…

A moment later, Wu Qingyan and Qiao Rong were the first to finish eating…

"Feeling better?" Xiao Fan looked at the two women.

"Thank you!" Wu Qingyan said. She hadn't expected Xiao Fan to actually come.

"I knew it! I knew you would come!" Qiao Rong was very happy. She had known Xiao Fan for a long time, and they had a very good relationship.

Xiao Fan shook his head with a bitter smile: "No need to thank me. But what exactly is this place, and why is our spiritual power under a Seal?"

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet: how are you able to open your Storage Pouch?" Wu Qingyan's eyes widened, as she finally remembered the important point.

After they entered, they suddenly discovered that their spiritual power was gone.

And the biggest difficulty when spiritual power was gone was that the Storage Pouch could not be opened…

Unable to open the Storage Pouch, and without spiritual power, they were no different from ordinary people.

"Before I came in, I was holding a pot of Spirit Spring Water. It turned out that although my spiritual power was gone, the Spirit Spring Water could replenish the spiritual power in my body…" Xiao Fan explained: "You can do it now too."

The two women didn't doubt him; they had just drunk some Spirit Spring Water and felt that their own spiritual power had recovered slightly.

"After you contacted me, why couldn't I find you…" Xiao Fan asked: "What exactly is going on?"

Qiao Rong looked at Wu Qingyan, who nodded.

Qiao Rong looked at Xiao Fan and explained: "This is an underground palace that our Treasure Pavilion discovered when we came here last time. The corpse with Three Heads and Six Arms that you saw earlier was actually discovered at this underground palace."

Xiao Fan nodded; it matched what he had guessed…

"Actually, saying it was here isn't quite right. It should be said that it was discovered outside this underground palace…"

"Outside the underground palace?" Xiao Fan was stunned.

"That's right, outside the underground palace. That corpse was used as a Formation eye to maintain this Secret Realm!" Qiao Rong said.

These words made Xiao Fan's eyes widen. Using a dead corpse as a Formation eye?

"What is going on?!" Xiao Fan was greatly shocked.

"No one knows how long this Secret Realm has existed. Our Treasure Pavilion came in and found many treasures inside, which you also know…"

"The first time we came in, we discovered that corpse with Three Heads and Six Arms, as well as that black long saber. Both of these items were near this underground palace…"

"At that time, there was a very strong Restriction near the underground palace, so we couldn't get close because there was no Formation Master who could break it… So, we took the corpse back."

"As a result… because the Secret Realm lost the corpse, it began to become unstable, which led to experts above the Yuanhun Realm being unable to enter… And by the time we discovered this and wanted to bring the corpse back in, it was already too late…"

"And as for that corpse, we have already studied it. Apart from having some mysterious power, the rest of its mysteries couldn't be deciphered, so we simply took advantage of this Treasure Pavilion auction to sell the corpse… After all, the Wuhuang Dynasty is also very short on money."

"Moreover, we didn't hide this Secret Realm. According to the requirements of our ancestral teachings, we notified other forces so they could send people to enter together. We even brought a Formation Master this time, hoping to try and enter this underground palace… We previously speculated that this underground palace should be a large tomb; all of this was based on what we saw in ancient books."

Qiao Rong gave Xiao Fan a detailed explanation.

Xiao Fan gradually understood the reason, but his shock remained significant.

He had seen that corpse with his own eyes; a dead body that could still emit the pressure of the Pi Hai Realm!

It was hard for him to guess how strong this person had been while alive!

But using a corpse as a Formation eye to maintain the stability of this Secret Realm—this was just too exaggerated!