Qiao Mu rolled her eyes at it grumpily.

  She then poked its furry body with her small finger, yet the giant ape didn’t budge at all.

  Qiao Mu was a bit exasperated.

  Qiao Mu waved her hand, activating her defensive mystic weapon. Afterwards, she squatted inside it to start her seven-day cultivation journey.

  She activated the defensive barrier in order to set up a mystic-guiding talisman matrix around her.

  However, because she had used talisman paper for this mystic-guiding talisman matrix, it would probably not work as well after getting wet.

  In the future, when she could produce jade talismans, she wouldn’t need to activate a defensive barrier even if she was in the water.

  The little fellow finally settled down.

  Following this, the entire glacial pond also quieted down.

  The most miserable person was Ying Jian. After his defensive barrier was destroyed, he simply wasn’t able to persist for even an hour in the icy, bone-chilling glacial water.

  At this time, he was glumly lying on his back on the bank of the glacial pond, looking up at the azure sky inside the secret realm.

  It felt as if his entire body had been filled with lead. His body, and even his spirit, felt abnormally heavy!

  When a white light suddenly covered his body, Ying Jian’s heart instantly turned cold.

  Soon, he felt a great force pulling at himself, attempting to transfer him out of this secret realm.

  “No! No!!” Ying Jian’s hoarse voice let out unpleasant yells.

  He turned over and held onto a boulder on the bank of the glacial pond with all his might, vigorously digging all ten fingers into the dirt and grass underneath the boulder as he screamed, “No! I’m not going out! I haven’t made any gains yet! I cannot go out!!”


  Yet it was impossible to resist that ferocious force.

  No matter how Ying Jian shouted and wept bitterly in despair, in the blink of an eye, Ying Jian and the boulder he was holding onto crashed down towards the wet dirt that was carpeted with broken branches and dead leaves.

  The hard rock pressed painfully against his chest, but he leapt up from the boulder before he had time to think about it.

  He was in a spent and sorry state!

  When Ying Jian looked back, he instantly discovered that he had once again returned to the Mystic Beast Forest.

  “Ah!!” Ying Jian roared angrily at the sky.

  The secret realm did transfer him out!

  Ying Jian galloped in this area of the Mystic Beast Forest like a madman, attempting to find the glacial pond from which they had entered the secret realm.

  But unfortunately, no matter how he searched, he didn’t see any trace of the glacial pond!

  Like a deflated balloon, Ying Jian slumped onto the ground and sat there in a daze. He hung his head dejectedly as feelings of regret, disappointment, grief, and indignation clashed in his heart.

  Suddenly, a very small, pointy-nosed rat squeaked at him several times.

  This rat was smaller than his palm, and the hairs on its head were sparse. Meanwhile, its pair of small red eyes fixed on him brightly.

  Ying Jian was wallowing in depression, so he didn’t take notice of it, directly kicking that rat into rolling backwards. After squeaking wildly in fright, it scuttled back into the thicket.

  Ying Jian drooped his head and sighed for a while. When he caught sight of the boulder, he suddenly stood up and pounced beside it excitedly.

  This was a boulder that he had carried out from the secret realm. He wondered if there was anything special about it!