Chapter 1009: Chapter 128: Secret Realm_2

“Within the secret realm, there are spiritual items, treasures, divine techniques, and spells that have taken the form of king beasts. By defeating these phantom beasts, one can receive rewards…”

“However, you should pay attention. You can learn up to three divine techniques or spells at most, so you must try to pick the ones of higher quality…”

“Gold, purple, orange, green, white—these five colors represent different tiers, with gold being the best and white being the worst…”

“You can forget about the gold ones, those phantom beasts are generally incomparably powerful and require the joint effort of hundreds of people to deal with…”

“As for the purple and orange ones, grab the opportunity to compete for them if you can, and if you really can’t find any suitable divine techniques, green is also fine…”

“But there’s really no need to bother with the white ones; they’re just too much of a waste…”

After Ji Gang finished explaining, he let Zhao Yu go to a certain place to gather.

Zhao Yu wouldn’t dare to delay. After explaining the situation to Sun Lele and crafting a batch of pills in advance, he then departed.

Upon arrival at the location, he found that there were already nearly a hundred descendants from the Ji Family.

Some were legitimate heirs of the Ji bloodline, and others were like Zhao Yu, who had joined the Ji Family despite being of different surnames.

However, Zhao Yu noticed that among this group of people, a young man was being treated like the star attraction, surrounded in the center by everyone.

Standing beside Zhao Yu, Ji Gang whispered, “That one is a legitimate heir of our Ji Family, Ji Bufan…”

“Despite his young age, he has already mastered several gold-tier divine techniques. He shouldn’t be participating in this secret realm by principle, but I don’t know why he also decided to join this time…”

Zhao Yu asked curiously, “Is he also a seeded contestant?”

“Of course, he’s a seeded contestant at the Foundation Establishment Stage, ranked second and the youngest among them…” Ji Gang nodded.

Zhao Yu was puzzled. “Being the youngest, shouldn’t he be ranked first?”

“No, the first place is too strong. Although older than Ji Bufan, they already have one foot in the Golden Core Stage…”

As Ji Gang was speaking, he received a message and suddenly realized, “Now I understand what’s going on. The person in first place is also participating; it seems like they plan to officially advance to the Golden Core Stage after this trial is over…”

“In that case, Ji Bufan is most likely aiming for that person…”

Zhao Yu nodded slightly. For these legitimate heirs, the status of a seeded disciple was meaningless; the family’s resources were more abundant for them.

Zhao Yu thought that Ji Gang would take him to greet Ji Bufan.

Who knew that although Ji Gang was at the Golden Core Stage, his status in the Ji Family was not as high as imagined; he only introduced Zhao Yu to someone on the fringe of the core circle and asked them to keep an eye on Zhao Yu.

But seeing the perfunctory response of that person, Zhao Yu understood that once inside the secret realm, he would ultimately have to rely on himself.

Their group of a hundred people was mostly comprised of Ji Family descendants. Officially, he could take four people with him inside, and the four accompanying him were also people from the Ji Family.

These four had no intention of greeting Zhao Yu. After all, in their view, the opportunity to enter the secret realm had little to do with Zhao Yu.

“Alright, let’s get started!”

Waiting until the other four hundred people arrived, Ji Bufan, appearing somewhat impatient, urged them on.

This made some of the Golden Core Stage elders dare not say much more and they hastily activated the secret realm.

As a vortex appeared in front of the crowd, each person, holding a token as an admission ticket, entered into it.

Zhao Yu had assumed that everyone would enter the same location, but after passing through the vortex, he found himself alone in a swamp with no one else around.

“Random teleportation, huh…”

Zhao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

Before entering the secret realm, he had noticed that there were no fewer than ten people from the Zhou Family whose greedy gazes were fixed on him.

He understood that it must have been because Duan Yinghong and her husband promised many benefits.

On the other hand, Ji Gang was not willing to promise too much to have people protect him, but there was no helping it.

Although Ji Gang’s initial promises sounded good, when it came time to act, he was reluctant to spend the money.

“Sigh, if I really encounter them, I can just crush the token…”

“No!”

Zhao Yu shook his head quickly. He suddenly remembered the rules: there were five hundred people entering the secret realm, but as a seeded contestant, he needed to be among the last one hundred to leave.

Otherwise, his seeded status would be revoked.

For him, if his seeded status was revoked, it meant the Zhou Family could exert power again and impose compulsory tasks on him.

“This is really…”

Zhao Yu understood. This was a safeguard Duan Yinghong had specifically added in case he crushed the token as soon as he entered the secret realm.

“If that’s the case, then I might as well stay here and lay low!”

Zhao Yu scoffed in his heart.

Facing such treachery, even a clay figure has a temper, much less a living person like himself.

Although he hadn’t learned anything about combat in this period of time, focusing instead on Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and talisman crafting, this didn’t mean he was completely without combat strength.

As a talisman master, Zhao Yu had an abundance of combat talismans at his disposal.

Even though most of them were Tier 1 talismans, they sufficed for auxiliary combat.

Moreover, he had energy reserves, ready to restore his Spiritual Power at any moment.

If it really came down to it, he could play it rough and wage a war of attrition, seeing who could outlast whom.

“However, my luck shouldn’t be that bad. As long as I avoid the Zhou Family’s people, I should be fine…”

“Besides, not everyone from the Zhou Family is out to kill me. Maybe some aren’t interested…”

Having analyzed the situation, Zhao Yu decided on his next moves and then began to survey his surroundings.

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