Published: February 10, 2025
The cold wind blew against every human face, and everyone was on guard, filled with curiosity as they looked around at the unfamiliar environment.
Ye Zhongming had finally unlocked the Key of the Blue Secret Realm.
He brought along the Cloud Summit Villa, Ying City Alliance, Guangyao Battle Department, and some others willing to follow him, once again descending into the secret realm.
Although the retreat process was not smooth, as more people entered the secret realm, the defensive forces outside dwindled. Ye Zhongming had no choice but to let the Earth Spirit unleash a tremor to fend off the monstrous creatures. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he first crashed the Jingjue Floating Sphere into the secret realm before finally entering himself.
After stowing away the Key of the Secret Realm, Ye Zhongming surveyed his surroundings, wanting to determine his current location. The landing spot varied each time he used this key, which he found extremely frustrating.
“This is the secret realm?”
Zhao Xingmei looked around with curiosity, especially at the sky that seemed to be torn apart, which left her feeling slightly entranced.
It was a kind of indescribable, incomplete beauty.
Among those who followed Ye Zhongming into the secret realm this time, there were over four hundred Cloud Summit Warriors, more than eight hundred from the Ying City Alliance, and over nine hundred from the Guangyao Battle Department, along with more than three hundred others. Altogether, there were about two thousand five hundred people.
Calculating the time, the cold season of the Blue Secret Realm was nearing its end. Ye Zhongming had promised the posthumous children that he would return to help them fend off the attacks from the Royal City. Now that he was here, he just didn’t know where exactly he was.
After months of separation, he realized he had started to miss this place.
Strictly speaking, Ye Zhongming and Cloud Summit's most significant leap in power began with their entrance into the secret realm. It was here that they acquired a large quantity of magic crystals, which allowed Ye Zhongming to gain a wealth of potions upon returning to Earth, subsequently enabling Cloud Summit to advance its strength, thus widening the gap between them and other forces, and propelling them into the ranks of major powers.
By now, Cloud Summit was starting to take on the semblance of a superpower.
All of this had started here.
Of course, there was also a woman here that Ye Zhongming cared about deeply.
“Ah, why am I… how…”
Someone suddenly screamed, looking at their hands, continuously clenching and unclenching their fists, fear evident on their face.
“Don’t be afraid. Here, your strength will be affected by certain forces. Compared to Earth, your evolution level will drop by one level.”
Ye Zhongming recognized that this person had noticed the drop in strength and quickly explained.
“It will automatically restore when we return to Earth.”
Upon hearing Ye Zhongming's reassurance, everyone finally felt relieved, but the insecurity brought about by the drop in strength still left them uncomfortable.
“But boss, why haven’t we dropped?”
Ayang, who had also tested his strength like the others, found that he wasn't experiencing the same drop in level and asked in confusion.
“Because the scorching flame combat technique you practiced is inherently a power of this place, so you are not affected here.”
Ayang and his seven little brothers were overjoyed at this revelation, their faces wide with pride as they looked around, exuding a somewhat domineering air.
“Don’t get too smug. Setting aside whether there will be side effects from us Earthlings learning the powers here, let’s just say this place is not like Earth during the first year of the apocalypse. No one knows how many years it has existed; this place is home to ninth-level life forms, and countless other powerful beings and entities.”
Ye Zhongming was not exaggerating. When he had previously entered this place, he had not deeply experienced its dangers, but when he was sent here by that Japanese person using a secret technique during the Sea King Disk contest, the scenes he witnessed had filled him with dread.