Secret Realm, Yuan Race

Zhang Zhi stared at the words "Trial Battlefield Secret Realm Unlocked" that had appeared for a long time.

He had never even been to the Trial Secret Realm, let alone the Trial Battlefield. None of the information he had looked up mentioned the existence of a Trial Battlefield.

Judging by its name, the Trial Battlefield was clearly far more dangerous than the Trial Secret Realm.

Was this a stage specially prepared for powerful experts?

Did this mean the Trial Tower considered his Combat Power quite impressive?

Was it because of his Hundred Consecutive Wins?

That made sense. The Breaking Through Battle certainly wasn't something an ordinary person could win, but he had technically cheated his way to victory.

After resting for a while in the Trial Tower Rest Area, the World Bead trembled. Zhang Zhi realized that the time of the summoned cultivators was almost up.

If he wanted to maintain them, he would have to continue investing World Power.

After weighing his options, Zhang Zhi severed his connection with the World Bead.

For him now, being the Realm Lord had both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage was that if he had allies, the identity of Realm Lord seemed to be a bonus. The disadvantage was naturally that this identity carried an innate taunt effect for enemies, especially races hostile to humans. They would definitely target the Realm Lord first.

He wanted to see what the Trial Ground was really like.

The Trial Ground was the essence of the entire Trial Tower. Now that there was also some Trial Secret Realm, if he wanted to obtain more resources, he absolutely had to go.

Taking advantage of this brief respite, he opened the Trial Tower Point Exchange Interface.

The cards inside dazzled him.

He immediately found the blue Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card. Each one cost ten thousand points, while he currently had five thousand one hundred and twelve points.

He glanced at the Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card's remaining quantity in the exchange interface—999+—and wondered whether he should fight in the arena a few more times today.

As long as he didn't encounter a Transcendent Realm opponent like the Bird Demon who could fly, he should be able to overwhelm his opponent with numbers. That way, he could earn more points and might have enough to exchange for a Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card. The drawback was that it would consume quite a bit of World Power, and he didn't have much left.

After browsing the exchange interface for a long while, he found quite a few things that truly tempted him.

For example, "Initial Understanding of Spiritual Energy"—a genuine cultivation technique of the Immortal Hero Path. With it and a First-tier Spiritual Vein, his Small World could continuously produce cultivators in the Mortal Transformation Realm and Extraordinary Realm.

That cultivation technique wasn't expensive, either. It cost only eight thousand five hundred points and could be cultivated up to the Foundation Establishment stage, which was the Extraordinary Realm. It was somewhat cheaper than a Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card, but there were rather few copies of the technique left. The Trial Tower Exchange Shop had only eleven remaining.

Zhang Zhi calculated inwardly. He could still enter the Trial Secret Realm once, and the Trial Tower's cooldown time had been halved. After coming back to the arena later, he should still be able to win several consecutive matches. Within a month, his points would definitely exceed ten thousand.

Hopefully, "Initial Understanding of Spiritual Energy" would still be available then!

He decided to exchange for Initial Understanding of Spiritual Energy first. After all, there were still plenty of Tier 1 Spirit Vein Cards.

After browsing the exchange interface a little longer, he discovered something that surprised him. Despite looking for a long time, he hadn't seen a single card related to military strategy in the exchange interface.

It seemed that military-strategy cards were completely exchanged away as soon as they appeared!

After looking for quite a while, he finally tore his gaze away from the exchange interface reluctantly. At that moment, he finally somewhat understood how girls in his previous life felt when they went shopping:

I want this one, I want this one too, and I want this one as well—but I'm too broke!

After closing the exchange interface, he turned toward the Trial Secret Realm Teleportation Gate.

That was right. Dying in the Trial Secret Realm truly meant death.

However, the Trial Tower definitely wouldn't let the Realm Lord be sent to his death. The place he was teleported to at the beginning would only be a Safe Zone.

After entering the secret realm, he would act according to the circumstances and summon Fang Yun and the others if anything went wrong.

He stepped into the secret realm teleportation gate. A flash of White Light passed, and he appeared on a plaza.

Just a moment ago, he had told himself that the Trial Secret Realm couldn't possibly send the Realm Lord to a dangerous area. But in the next moment, as the White Light vanished, the sight before him gave him a huge shock!

The area before his eyes was densely packed with aliens. One particular alien race had four eyes, four arms, and four legs. It was known as the Yuan Race.

They were called Round People because the eyes, hands, and feet of this race each faced one of four directions. They had no concept of a back, which was why they were called the Yuan Race.

The Yuan Race's strength was fairly decent. They were distributed across several Main Worlds, and their cultivation paths were also diverse.

After recalling the general information about the Yuan Race, Zhang Zhi was just wondering what was going on in this secret realm when a person beside him saw that he seemed dazed after teleporting in and immediately shouted, "The enemy has the advantage! Hurry over here!"

Zhang Zhi turned toward the voice. Dozens of people were relying on a protective shield to fight the densely packed Yuan Race outside.

Only then did he realize that he was standing on the plaza in front of a Trial Tower. Perhaps because of some kind of protective mechanism, the Yuan Race had not set foot on the plaza in front of the Trial Tower.

He swept his gaze over the Yuan Race outside and saw at least ten or more cultivators in the Mortal Transformation Realm, as well as several hundred in the Elite Realm. He wasn't sure whether there were any in the Extraordinary Realm.

Seeing that Zhang Zhi, who had just teleported over, still hadn't moved, the person who had shouted earlier called out to him, "Are you at the Elite Realm? Is this your first time entering the Race Battle Secret Realm? Hurry over! Everyone needs to work together to protect themselves. You have to kill an Elite Realm member of the Yuan Race, or we won't be able to leave."

Zhang Zhi thought it over. He was completely confused and had no idea what was happening, so he didn't rashly step off the plaza.

Among the dozens of people inside the protective shield, three were in the Mortal Transformation Realm, while the rest were all in the Elite Realm. They were relying on a protective formation activated by what seemed to be a formation disk from the Immortal Cultivation Path to contend with the densely packed Yuan Race around them.

It seemed that only these people were left in the entire secret realm. Judging by the constantly weakening White Light, the protective shield didn't seem capable of holding out much longer.

The Trial Tower plaza was directly behind them. Taking one step back would let them hide in the plaza, where the Yuan Race couldn't enter. Yet aside from a few people who had been seriously injured and sent into the plaza, everyone else was still struggling outside.

The information he had previously found contained no detailed explanation of the Trial Secret Realm. Thus, he had no idea what was happening and didn't dare rashly run into the middle of that group of humans.

At that moment, another person was teleported over. The newcomer glanced around, was greatly startled by the situation, and immediately charged toward the protective shield. When he saw that Zhang Zhi was still standing where he was, he turned back, grabbed him, and tried to pull him toward the protective shield.

He was still saying, "Hurry and provide support! If they can't hold out, those aliens will be able to charge into the Trial Tower plaza."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhi understood. "As long as there are still humans outside the Trial Tower, the aliens can't enter the Trial Tower plaza."