Snake Remains

Upon entering the Spatial Channel, Xiao Ming felt a wave of dizziness in his head. By the time he adapted, he found that he had Appeared Before another world.

The First Time his feet touched the ground, Xiao Ming took out his weapon from his Na Ring—a Black Broadsword that didn't particularly Make People Feel notice it.

This was one of Xiao Ming's spoils from over ten days in the Black Corner Region.

When he acquired this sword, Xiao Ming had tested it. Its durability was sufficient for his use.

He used this sword rather than his previous Fifth-Tier Magic Core treasure sword because the latter was too conspicuous. If Let Others see it, it would definitely cause trouble. At other times, it would be one thing, but now experts had gathered within the secret realm, including Dou Emperors and Dou Wangs. Keeping a low profile could never be wrong.

Thus, Xiao Ming took out this sword.

Holding the black sword, Xiao Ming first Glanced At his surroundings, only to Astonishedly discover that there was no one nearby.

The Dou Emperor and Dou King Experts who had rushed into the secret realm ahead of everyone else had also Disappeared.

"That shouldn't be possible," Xiao Ming said doubtfully.

Dou Emperor and Dou King Experts could fly, so it was understandable for them to vanish in the blink of an eye.

But what about Those People who had entered at roughly the same time as him?

There was no reason for them to be absent too, was there?

Xiao Ming was deeply puzzled. One Must Know that he had taken out his weapon Just Now to prevent Those People from launching a Sneak Attack against him.

Now that no one was around, he seemed to have made a fuss over nothing.

Still, with Those People absent, it saved him quite a bit of trouble.

No longer needing to guard against attacks from others for the moment, Xiao Ming first took several steps to the left to prevent anyone from Appearing Behind Him, then Began To examine this secret realm.

Looking up, he saw that this world was exceedingly dim. The sky was a vast gray haze without a single cloud, while the heavens hung so low they seemed within reach. One glance was enough to give Make People Feel a sense of gloom.

Not far ahead lay a small mountain range. Many towering trees Xiao Ming had never seen before grew within it, and faintly, pavilions and towers seemed to be visible among them. At the center of the range stood the Highest Peak, where a pillar of light identical to the one outside rose into the sky.

Xiao Ming turned and Glanced At Behind Him again. Several meters away was a Black Passage over ten meters wide, and farther beyond lay a Gray Plain whose end could not be seen clearly.

"The mountain range should be the center of this secret realm. There should be more than one such Spatial Channel; several of them probably exist at the same time. That explains why there was no one beside me Just Now. They're all by the other channels."

In this brief span of time, Xiao Ming combined the information he had obtained In The Simulated Life with what he saw and reached this conclusion.

After reaching that conclusion, Xiao Ming felt that his luck was Quite Good. This Spatial Channel offered a view of the pavilions in the mountains, and there was no one around him.

As Long As he was fast enough and no flying Dou King Experts Appeared behind him, he could get there first and take the treasures inside instead of, like And Others, bitterly fighting people for them.

Didn't Expect his luck to be Quite Good today.

Delighted, Xiao Ming no longer hesitated. He circulated the Dou Qi Inside the Body, lifted his feet, and shot toward the distant mountain range.

Just As Xiao Ming Disappeared, several figures Appeared where he had been standing.

Each of them had a chaotic Aura, their bodies covered in blood. Some were even wounded, and droplets of blood fell From Time To Time.

After landing, they too, like Xiao Ming, took out their weapons at the First Time and warily watched one another. Once they Saw Clearly the surroundings and the distant mountain range—

They all burst into wild laughter.

"Hahaha, that wasn't easy. I finally squeezed my way in. I have to say, those lunatics struck really hard."

"There are pavilions there. There must be treasures!"

"Treasure, here I come!"

"Hehehe!"

After laughing and speaking, they no longer cared about anything else. Once they had cautiously put a little distance between themselves, they all took off at full speed toward the pavilions Xiao Ming had headed for.

What they did not see, however, was that all the blood they had dripped onto the soil quietly Disappeared, as though something had absorbed it.

After traveling for some time, Xiao Ming finally entered the forest within the mountain range.

Xiao Ming's first impression upon entering the forest was that it was huge.

The trees in the forest were even larger than Xiao Ming had anticipated. Every one of them required more than a dozen people to encircle.

"This forest is dense with branches and leaves, with tree branches growing everywhere. Every branch could easily hide someone. It's quite a good place to ambush others."

As he circulated his Dou Qi and moved swiftly like a ghost toward the pavilions he had spotted earlier, Xiao Ming looked at the massive trees and A Trace Of thought Flashed through his mind.

As time passed, more and more people would certainly enter this secret realm. Those who entered later definitely could not, like him, seize the first share of the spoils.

When that time came, the Desperate Criminals who had grown accustomed to lawlessness in the Black Corner Region certainly would not be willing to accept it. This place was so suited to Murder And Robbery; How Could That Be miss such an opportunity?

Can Be Foreseen that over the next few days, this forest would certainly devour many lives.

"Hm, what's this?"

Xiao Ming, who had been advancing, suddenly noticed something and stopped.

Something had blocked his path.

What blocked Xiao Ming was not a person, but a field of bones.

Xiao Ming stared Astonishedly at the enormous skeleton Before Their Eyes.

Judging from its appearance, the skeleton was roughly a hundred meters long and over ten meters wide, winding and coiling through the forest. From its form, one could conclude that it was the snowy-white remains of a high-tier Snake Magical Beast.

Perhaps because too much time had passed, or for some other reason, cracks had already formed in the bones, and little of its Remaining Aura remained. Thus, Xiao Ming found it difficult to judge the corpse's exact tier.

However, Xiao Ming guessed that when the owner of these remains was alive, it might have possessed the strength of the Sixth Tier.

Of course, Xiao Ming was not making a random guess. He had grounds for it—he was judging based on its size.

Although the strength of Magical Beasts was Not Necessarily correlated with size, and high-tier Magical Beasts could often be very small—

Low-tier Magical Beasts, however, truly were always small, at least those that lived on land.

As for why that was so—

The reasoning was simple. If one was weak yet large and conspicuous, it was easy for other Magical Beasts to kill and eat it.

Moreover, a large body meant needing more living space and having to compete with other Magical Beasts.

Only the strong were qualified to possess large territories. The weak could not possibly seize land.

Therefore, on land, Magical Beast races that were outrageously large yet weak had long since been exterminated in ancient times. Only in certain special places with little competition might some have survived.

In the ocean, due to differing ways of survival, there might still be many weak but large Magical Beasts.

But the Black Corner Region was nowhere near the ocean, so Xiao Ming concluded that these might be the remains of a Sixth-Tier Magical Beast.

The remains did not hinder Xiao Ming for long. Circulating his Dou Qi, Xiao Ming leaped between the bones.

He quickly passed through the skeleton and continued toward his target pavilions.

However, Xiao Ming soon encountered another skeleton. It was the skeleton of an ape over ten meters tall, nowhere near as enormous as the previous Snake Bone.

Xiao Ming Didn't Care About it, but then all kinds of Magical Beast skeletons Appeared one after another. Human bones even Appeared.

"I wonder what the force that once possessed this secret realm encountered, to have Disappeared just like that. There are so many bones in the secret realm. A fierce battle must have taken place here."

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