Published: February 7, 2025
"Sorry, I'm late today. Old Phantom apologizes~~~"
Ye Zhongming knew many ways to enhance mental strength, such as learning more about professions, or after upgrading the rotating roulette, a type of mental potion would appear. There were also certain potions created by pharmacists or alchemists, and even powders made from brain worms.
However, there was never a method that allowed humans to increase their total mental strength through personal cultivation! Perhaps there was, but at least Ye Zhongming didn't know of any.
Similar to the roulette, humans needed to consume Evolution Potions to become powerful, and they could not break through their bottlenecks through other means to achieve a qualitative change.
Whether it was professions, bloodlines, or even other things that appeared in the advanced roulette that granted humans tremendous power, none could surpass the limitations set by the roulette.
Humans in the apocalypse all understood that the roulette was both hope and a shackle.
It was what gave humans the capital to survive in the apocalypse, yet it was also a tight curse wrapped around their heads.
Anyone, including Ye Zhongming, felt as if they were grasped in someone else's hand, their lives and deaths controlled by another. No matter how powerful they became, they would still fear the creator of the roulette.
This feeling was like a festering wound, tormenting survivors while they were awake.
The higher the evolution level of the survivor, the more intense this feeling became, as they were approaching the end of the predetermined path given by the roulette, unaware of what awaited them ahead.
In his past life, Ye Zhongming also had this thought, which is why, upon witnessing the Golden Holy Ship after his rebirth, he felt a strong impulse to seek answers.
Because Ye Zhongming knew that even if he eventually became a nine-star evolver, he would still be a slave to the roulette. Although the creator of the roulette never revealed themselves in front of any Earthling, the feeling of having one's life and death controlled by another was unpleasant, and Ye Zhongming was no exception.
He was very displeased, and after his rebirth, that displeasure only grew.
Previously, he had the idea of resolving it all and was working hard towards it, but he could only follow the path he had taken in his past life. What Ye Zhongming could do was to evolve faster and become stronger, shortening the time needed to get closer to answers.
But in reality, he didn't have any good methods, which directly affected his confidence.
However, when he saw the great thousand soul refining technique and the content within it, Ye Zhongming felt his very soul tremble. He knew he had finally found a possible method to break free from the roulette!
It was this technique referred to as a secret method by Afo!
Perhaps there were magic crystals here, along with magical creatures containing magic crystals, or maybe the Key of the Secret Realm required to unlock this place, the so-called secret realm, was intentionally discarded by the creator of the roulette. Perhaps the shadow still existed here...
But ultimately, a glimmer of hope had appeared, hadn't it!
How long had humanity searched for this glimmer of hope?!
In his past life, there were also those who mastered secret realms. Ye Zhongming could now dare to speculate that those powerful individuals who grasped the secret realms might have also found this glimmer of hope, but the calmness of his past life made Ye Zhongming realize that those powerful beings likely had not achieved any results yet, had not freed themselves from their predetermined fate, and were still struggling in the secret realms or other more miraculous places.
Now, having entered here himself, Ye Zhongming believed that he had come in much earlier than those powerful beings from his past life. From this perspective, he had far more time than those predecessors to explore, to seek, to resolve.
Since that's the case, then... let it come.