Entering the Secret Realm

Given the temperament of Dou Wang Experts, they would naturally snatch high-grade treasures. They might not even care for low-level items. As long as they stayed away from these people, they would still gain something.

However, Dou Ling Experts could not participate in the battles among high-level experts, so their targets would naturally be those at the Dou Ling level and below.

One Dou Ling was enough to give them trouble. These factions had sent several at once and moved in groups. Who could endure that?

Apart from a few Rogue Cultivators who were unafraid, everyone else present wore exceptionally grim expressions.

The Dou Wang and Dou Emperor Experts hovering high in the air did not know what these people were thinking. Of course, even if they did, they would not care.

To them, everyone below was no different from ants.

If necessary, any one of them could slaughter everyone below the Dou Ling level. Dou Lings would merely require a little more effort. So who would care about the thoughts of ants?

Likewise, they merely sneered at the Dou Lings from other factions who had dismounted from their Magical Beasts behind them, paying them no further attention.

At that moment, more than a dozen people hovered in the sky, all with brilliantly colored Dou Qi Wings on their backs. None of them were fools. As they watched the white pillar of light at the center of Jade Stone Plaza, they did not act rashly, their minds racing.

After observing for a while, they had discovered something.

"Big Brother, this phenomenon doesn't look like a treasure appearing. It looks more like a Secret Realm opening."

The speaker was a sinister-looking man who appeared to be around thirty years old.

Two men who resembled him somewhat stood beside him. They were likely related by blood. The three wore robes of the same color and stood impassively in the sky, wings growing from their backs.

Anyone with wings growing from their backs was undoubtedly an expert at the Dou Wang level or above.

Hearing his third brother say this, the eldest brother felt somewhat embarrassed when he recalled his earlier shout.

It turned out that he had been the one who had shouted when Xiao Ming and the others heard that cry earlier.

"Ahem, a Secret Realm definitely contains treasures too, doesn't it? I wasn't wrong."

The second brother glanced at his speaking brothers but said nothing. In any case, he was not the one who had embarrassed himself by speaking too quickly.

The conversation among the three attracted the attention of some people in the sky.

A bare-chested middle-aged man, with the faint tattoo of a giant lion roaring at the sky exposed across his chest, shot the trio a sidelong glance. A bloodthirsty smile appeared on his face.

"I didn't expect the Yao Clan Three Brothers to be here too. I heard they offended the Gold and Silver Elders a few days ago and have been hiding everywhere. Coming out at a time like this, aren't they afraid of being caught by those two?"

"Perhaps Gate Master Tie Wu does not know that the Gold and Silver Elders have been occupied lately and have no time to deal with the three brothers. So, do you want to invite these three Dou Wangs into your Mad Lion Gang?" A scantily clad, alluring mature woman beside him covered her mouth and laughed coquettishly.

The woman had a fiery figure. Near her ear, a black, seductive poppy was tattooed on her cheek. It was beautiful, but carried a deadly poison.

From her words, it was clear that this bare-chested middle-aged man with the roaring lion tattoo on his chest was Tie Wu, the Four-star Dou Emperor and leader of the Mad Lion Gang.

Tie Wu glanced at her and said, "The Yao Clan Three Brothers are unruly, and now they have offended the Gold and Silver Elders. Who would dare take them in? If your Rakshasa Gate isn't afraid of the Gold and Silver Elders, you can try inviting them. I'm just afraid they won't appreciate your goodwill."

Dou Wang Experts already carried immense weight in the Black Corner Region. In many factions, their strongest expert was only a Dou Wang.

He had naturally considered recruiting the three brothers before, but that thought had vanished after they offended the Gold and Silver Elders.

Either one of the Gold and Silver Elders was far stronger than he was, and the two also had a joint attack technique. Together, they could wipe out his Mad Lion Gang completely. He would have to be out of his mind to provoke them over three Dou Wangs.

For Tie Wu to speak so calmly to her, this seductive woman was naturally no ordinary person.

She was Su Mei, the Gate Master of the Rakshasa Gate and one of the rare female Dou Emperor Experts in the Black Corner Region.

As the only female expert in the sky, she was also quite beautiful and attracted many gazes.

Xiao Ming looked at Su Mei in the sky and suddenly had a bad feeling.

For some reason, he suddenly thought of the miserable experience from one of his simulations.

The female Dou Emperor from that simulation couldn't have been her, could it?

Xiao Ming thought uncertainly.

Female experts near the Black Corner Region were exceedingly rare. Only occasionally would a female expert pass through.

To happen upon a female Dou Emperor by chance was truly difficult.

He had really been rather unlucky in that simulation.

Moreover, during that Life Simulation, his later self had been imprisoned from beginning to end and never even left through the door. Every day had been monotonous and repetitive, so he had naturally had no way of learning any specific information about that female Dou Emperor. He could not even avoid the danger.

However, Su Mei was currently only a low-star Dou Emperor. Aside from her full figure matching the description, her strength did not match what the Simulator had said.

Still, it was better to be careful.

Thinking of his imprisonment in the Simulator, Xiao Ming could not help pulling his black robe lower.

Whether she was that person or not, being cautious could not hurt.

After all, some people were simply perverted, and the Black Corner Region produced more than its share of them.

No one noticed Xiao Ming's small movement.

In the sky, the experts who had encountered acquaintances gradually ended their conversations.

With powerful experts suppressing the situation above, the little fry below also wisely shut their mouths, afraid of drawing attention.

For a time, the atmosphere became rather quiet.

This atmosphere did not last long before Tie Wu, the leader of the Mad Lion Gang, broke it.

Looking at the increasingly dense crowd below, he frowned and said to Su Mei and Yuan Yi beside him, "There are more and more people. We are all Dou Emperors. How about we join forces to drive some of them away, then divide this Secret Realm among our factions?"

Yuan Yi was the Gate Master of the Eight Gates and the organizer of this Black Mark Auction.

Such a major event had occurred west of Black Mark City, so he had naturally come to investigate.

Yuan Yi was somewhat tempted by the proposal, but he could not make up his mind. Besides the Mad Lion Gang and Rakshasa Gate, other sects had also arrived. Driving them away was not a good idea for someone like him, whose strength was only at the One-star Dou Emperor level, because most of their Sect Masters were stronger than him.

Furthermore, some Rogue Cultivators were difficult to deal with as well, such as the Yao Clan Three Brothers.

If they were driven away and later sought revenge, the Eight Gates would find it difficult to bear.

Before he could refuse, Su Mei beside him spoke first.

"Hehe, the Secret Realm may be fraught with danger. It is good to keep these people as cannon fodder. In any case, they cannot take away the truly valuable things."

Su Mei clearly did not agree with Tie Wu's idea either.

Hearing them both reject him, Tie Wu said nothing more.

Su Mei was right. These people would only serve as cannon fodder if they stayed.

How could they possibly compete with Dou Emperors for the truly good treasures?

Time slowly passed.

After observing for a while longer, the experts in the sky were becoming impatient.

However, their years of experience traveling outside told them to act cautiously, so they did not rashly enter the pillar of light like those Da Dou Shi had earlier.

Dou Qi circulated in Tie Wu's hand, and he sucked a figure standing near Jade Stone Plaza up from the ground and into his grasp, holding him like a chick.

His sudden action drew many gazes.

Xiao Ming looked up and discovered that the figure in Tie Wu's hand was the skinny man who had made a throat-slitting gesture at him earlier.

The skinny man's face was filled with fear. He desperately suppressed the terror in his heart and said to the Dou Emperor before him in a trembling voice.

"M-my lord, did you call me over for something?"

"Nothing. You were standing so close to the front, so you must have arrived early, right? Tell me what you know." Tie Wu spoke with a bloodthirsty smile at the corner of his lips.

Hearing this, the skinny man secretly sighed in relief. So that was all. Then there was no problem.

He then told him everything he knew without leaving out a single detail.

"Oh? This plaza is actually so strange? It can make people explode into a pile of Blood Mist out of thin air?" After hearing the skinny man's account, Tie Wu frowned tightly.

"Yes, my lord. This one was not lying. Here—"

Bang!

"So he really wasn't lying."

Tie Wu muttered as he watched the man he had thrown onto Jade Stone Plaza turn into Blood Mist.

Watching the man become Blood Mist, Xiao Ming could not help narrowing his eyes.

The Dou Qi Continent really is this dangerous. One careless step, and someone can crush you like an insect.

After this trip to the Secret Realm ends, I need to improve my strength further before venturing out again.

As for the people who had been with the skinny man, they watched their companion get killed yet did not dare utter a word.

Instead, they lowered their heads, afraid they would be next.

Tie Wu's attack caused a small disturbance. Just as the crowd became uneasy—

A faint humming sound gradually began to ring out.

As the sound slowly grew louder, the white patterns on Jade Stone Plaza became increasingly bright.

Until, at last, a dazzling white flash swept through the area.

The white pillar of light vanished, replaced by a pitch-black rotating passage more than ten meters wide.

"Is that a spatial passage leading into the Secret Realm?!" An experienced Dou Wang Rogue Cultivator cried out after seeing it clearly.

At those words, everyone's breathing quickened.

Space was a domain only Dou Zongs could touch, and creating a Secret Realm required even greater strength!

There had to be good treasures inside!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

More than a dozen figures shot into it.

The experts above had flown into the Secret Realm Passage.

Without the powerful experts restraining them, the people in Jade Stone Plaza hurriedly squeezed toward the entrance of the Secret Realm.

But the entrance was only so large. How could it possibly accommodate so many people entering at once?

Thus, in their struggle to enter the Secret Realm, they began fighting bloody battles on the spot.

Screams rose and fell one after another.

Xiao Ming did not participate in the bloody struggle. Instead, relying on the advantage of his Movement Dou Technique and his position, he entered the passage ahead of everyone else.