Chapter 134: Chapter 133: The Secret Land!
Torchlight Base,
Training Ground,
Fang You sat quietly here, his consciousness having entered the trial space. He stepped forward with the Illusory Void Step, step by step, advancing towards the apex.
The space gradually beca viscous, and terrible pressure enveloped him from all directions.
There were also gusts of wind sharp as knives and roaring thunderbolts attacking him.
He moved through the air, dodging continuously until at a certain mont, he could no longer hold on, falling like a bird with broken wings, awakening inside the training ground.
“Using the Book of Trials to cultivate skills indeed increases efficiency by a lot, by over tenfold!”
“In just a day or two, my Illusory Void Step has reached 15.5% of the Pre-Entry level, and this is a blue-level skill.”
Fang You was delighted.
When cultivating inside the Book of Trials, one needn’t worry about the consumption of life energy—die once and after a reset, the life energy is restored.
Secondly, it’s a special space that benefits the cultivation of certain skills.
This ‘Ascend-to-Heaven Trial’ was precisely the trial Black Blade developed, which is closest to the Illusory Void Step.
Third, as one’s own strength increases, especially the ‘realm’ of various skills, cultivating other skills would yield results much faster.
If the skill being practiced is of the sa category, it can be even faster by ten tis.
Fourth, he still enjoyed the focus enhancent provided by the training ground.
With his body in the training ground and his heart in the trial space, he could reap double the benefits.
“However, there are flaws too. The trial space is ultimately virtual and doesn’t train the physical body in reality… To ensure there is no disconnect between the virtual and the real, one still needs to train in reality from ti to ti, maintaining the smooth circulation of life energy and honing the muscle mory for combat.”
Fang You remotely raised a target.
He raised his hand, and a series of Palm Thunders burst out, continuously striking the target. It shook the highest grade training target to the verge of collapse until it finally burst open with a loud bang.
Another one exploded.
But it was quite stress-relieving.
In a mont, he entered another trial space to forge his combat skills.
This was a space filled with a dense aura of Scarlet Slaughter, where countless soldiers wielding blades shouted as they charged at him, accompanied by an overwhelming tide of Scarlet Slaughter intent.
It was as if he was on an ancient battlefield, facing an endless surge of steel waves.
Keep killing until exhausted.
Exhausted in the midst of tens of thousands, yet never falling—that was the trial space of the Blade’s Edge.
It greatly tempered a person’s survival skills on a large-scale battlefield, willpower, and more.
“Right now, my foundational swordsmanship and Palm Thunder are more than halfway to master level.”
“But to break through to the Peak Mastery realm requires a blue-level cultivation card. Black Blade has already used one, leaving only two behind.”
Black Blade is likely to use another one of those cards.
Black Blade’s Swordsmanship realm was rapidly improving because of his ‘Instructor’ talent; as he taught swordsmanship to the students, his own mastery of the sword advanced swiftly. Blade’s Edge, being known by fewer people, didn’t improve as fast, but it was still faster than Fang You’s.
“Reaching the realm of Peak Mastery is indeed powerful, as it allows control over one’s own body and even the surrounding environnt.”
“If Lao Xing’s and Black Blade’s levels were switched, with Lao Xing at third awakening and Black Blade at second, Black Blade would likely still win.”
“It’s just that there aren’t enough blue-level cultivation cards. There are barely enough green-level ones for now, and there’s an excess of white-level ones—too many to use up.”
“I hope that missions akin to the Ghastly Realm Gate can yield more high-level cultivation cards.”
The Mysterious Evil map he provided to the Investigation Bureau previously included only the major towns within its range; he had not provided information about areas like the forests, Ghastly Realm Gates, and so on.
But now that he was cooperating with the Investigation Bureau and since Torchlight was currently short on personnel, there was no need to rely solely on himself to handle the Strange Evil Gate or the Evil Tide.
He could definitely take the lead with Torchlight and call on the Investigation Bureau or special combat teams, using reasons such as ‘detected movents of the Evil Tide’ or ‘the appearance of the Ghastly Realm Gate,’ to make the most out of the mission benefits.
…
The day after the Investigation Bureau visited the Torchlight training base, An Jianyou and Silver Bell, under Fang You’s arrangents, set out with the bureau’s personnel to that mysterious location.
The selection of An Jianyou and Silver Bell was deliberate.
An Jianyou possessed the ‘Passage to the Mystic Eyes,’ which might enable her to see different things in that mysterious location. As for Silver Bell, who was always complaining about the shortage of dicinal materials and all kinds of shortages, it made sense to let her identify them herself.
The mysterious location was an intersection where various mystical materials could be found; perhaps there, Silver Bell would find what she wanted, and she was the only one with the expertise to discern them.
Both took the Investigation Bureau’s airplane and traveled to the northwest of Dong Huang Country, to the vast and desolate desert.
“Is the mysterious location within this desert?”
An Jianyou looked around, the boundless expanse of yellow sand stretched out before her under the blazing sun above, prompting her to shield her eyes with her hand.
The desert scenery was novel to her, but after switching to a vehicle and driving through the endless sand, she quickly grew tired and simply activated her Passage to the Mystic Eyes, surveying the surroundings.
In an instant, the desert was covered with a light gray tint. It still appeared as a desert landscape, but now, figures staggered along their paths as well.
There were also so Mysterious Evils with desert characteristics.
An Jianyou did not look at the Mysterious Evils, she noticed the grey rivers hanging upside down in the sky, andering toward a certain place, and there were several other grey rivers in the distance, winding just the sa, with several rivers converging at so point at the end of her line of sight.
“Is that the secret land?”
She pointed out of the car window, where outside was still an endless desert, and at this ti, a dust storm had risen, coloring the whole world in a hue of yellow and orange.
The wind pounded on the car windows, banging loudly.
Sitting inside the car was like being sealed with a yellow sticker, everything outside was not clear.
But Huang was astonished.
Because the place An Jianyou pointed to was the location of the secret land!
Indeed, none of the elites of the Prothean fire could be underestimated, even the seemingly delicate and ordinary An Jianyou.
“It’s there, we’re not very far now.”
Saying it was not far, the SUV still drove for a good half hour, the sandstorm outside continued, but at a certain mont, the banging of the wind on the car windows suddenly stopped, and the dust storm outside dissipated.
Huang spoke, “From here, vehicles are prone to accidents, so we have to walk the rest of the way, the secret land is just ahead.”
An Jianyou got out of the car as instructed, but the world outside was not clear, the sky was grey, much like the scene she saw through the Passage to the Mystic vision.
Silver Bell crouched down, picked up a bit of sand and gravel, examined it closely, then looked up at her surroundings. “We must already be on the outskirts of the secret land, the air is filled with mysterious elents. Ordinary people staying here would gradually be influenced by them.”
One had recognized the location of the secret land from afar.
The other had yet to truly enter the secret land but had already analyzed the environnt. How impressive!
There was no need for him to introduce it anymore.
Huang Hongtian was helpless.
At that mont, the surroundings were still a desert, nothing else in sight for miles, but after walking a few hundred ters forward, the environnt slowly began to change.
Rolling hills appeared before them with sparse woods growing on them, though their shapes were very strange.
So trees had grown human faces, eerily unsettling.
So branches were like emaciated arms and hands, clawing.
There were also trees bearing scarlet fruits that, although hanging on branches, seed to struggle as if they were alive.
An Jianyou felt goosebumps looking at them. What were these things!
But she saw Silver Bell getting excited, rushing over in a flash. “This is the Devil Tree, the bark peeled off is a rare dicinal material, and the older the tree, the more effective its bark. These Devil Trees seem quite old!”
“And this, the branches of the Devil Tree, although toxic they can be good dicine when fighting poison with poison.”
“This Heart Fruit is even more precious, oh it’s very active, and there are so many here!”
Silver Bell’s eyes were already full of the shapes of these dicinal materials, her gaze was fervent.
If she didn’t rember she was a guest and represented the organization, she would have rolled up her sleeves and started picking them.
But she still looked quite frightening until Huang promised to give her a batch when she left, then Silver Bell gradually returned to her ladylike deanor.
Just a lady? No one thought so anymore.
The range of the secret land was not very large, just a short distance ahead were so low stone houses, and investigators were dealing with the Mysterious Evils.
“Hahaha, honored guests, forgive for not eting you from farther away.”
A resonant voice ca from a distance.
A man with thick eyebrows, a high nose bridge, a face like a weathered square, and an imposing look in his eyes, strode towards An Jianyou and Silver Bell.
“Director Tang, we apologize for disturbing you.”
They expressed their respect.
Huang Hongtian introduced the two ladies to Director Tang and gave them so information about the secret land.
This ti, inviting Prothean fire here was first to reciprocate for its efforts and secondly, hoping for so cooperation regarding the products of the secret land and to gain so guidance.
As it turned out, the invitation was not wrong.
That tall woman along the way identified many nas, many secrets, so of which they still had not fully understood.
However, both Huang Hongtian and Director Tang were most looking forward to the arrival of a certain Prothean fire instructor.
“The instructor said he is coming.”
An Jianyou spoke up.
The next mont, strands of golden light converged in front of her.
A figure, dressed in a white robe and shrouded in a faint Jin Hui, as if opening a space door from thousands of kiloters away, stepped out.
And there he was.
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