Know Yourself and Your Enemy

Cheng Ziran continued, "This was originally a normal Race Battle Secret Realm. At first, we and the Yuan Race on the other side were fighting back and forth."

"During that time, another Master of the World came here. That Master of the World was already in the Mortal Transformation Realm, and could also summon four Mortal Transformation Realm and over a hundred Elite Realm Retainers."

"After that Master of the World arrived, the situation started to turn in our favor. The Yuan Race was constantly being suppressed by us."

"Five days ago, a shocking change was discovered in the Secret Realm."

"A Yuan Race Cultivator in the Mortal Transformation Realm, five days ago, somehow managed to kill that Mortal Transformation Realm Master of the World."

"According to the people who escaped back at the time, that peak Mortal Transformation Realm Cultivator of the Yuan Race used a one-time item to kill that Master of the World."

"Originally, even after that Master of the World was killed, we still held the advantage, but three days ago, when the Yuan Race Cultivator who killed the Master of the World appeared again, his cultivation had already broken through to Extraordinary."

"He killed five of our Mortal Transformation Realm Cultivators in a row."

"Afterward, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the vast majority of Cultivators with Commands left the Secret Realm one after another."

"This morning, when the Yuan Race launched a large-scale attack, there were only over a hundred people left on the Human Race side."

"Those who stayed were basically all people with their own ideas. Many were unwilling to leave the Secret Realm until the very last moment."

"Then, before you arrived, among the over a hundred people, some died in battle, some left, and only the fifty or so of us remained."

Zhang Zhi shook his head slightly inwardly. Originally, he had a good impression of this Cheng Ziran, but after discovering that Cheng Ziran saw him as young and easy to fool, trying to deceive him, his impression instantly turned sour.

He chuckled softly and said, "Cheng Foundation Establishment, you should already have a Green Command, right?"

Cheng Ziran hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Zhang Zhi continued to ask, "Then who summoned me, Brother Hu Bin, and the dozen or so Elite Realm Cultivators behind us?"

"If I'm not mistaken, there should have been people summoned before us."

"The people in this Secret Realm are about to be unable to hold on, so why summon us over?"

Hearing Zhang Zhi ask this, Cheng Ziran's expression became a little unnatural. He let out a dry laugh and said, "Isn't it because we summoned you, this Master of the World?"

Zhang Zhi continued to chuckle lightly and said, "Oh, right, you summoned me. So, if my strength were a bit weaker, I'd deserve to die here?"

Cheng Ziran's face was full of panic. He quickly shook his head and said, "How could that be? You only need to kill one Elite Realm Yuan Race member to leave."

"My Thick Earth Ironwood Array has extremely excellent defensive capabilities, and I still have thirteen Spirit Stones here. It can last for at least another day and night. Even if you weren't a Master of the World, it wouldn't be difficult to leave."

Zhang Zhi tilted his head to look at Cheng Ziran, whose eyes were bloodshot, and asked softly, "So, you are making up for the mistake that person made, trying to keep the loss from that person's mistake to a minimum?"

"Even at the cost of yourself?"

"Are you two very close?"

Hearing Zhang Zhi ask this, Cheng Ziran immediately understood that he had already deduced the general course of events.

He sighed and said, "Sigh, that person is my Junior Sister."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhi suddenly interrupted him, "Your Junior Sister? You can enter the same Secret Realm?"

Cheng Ziran was a little surprised by the question from this Master of the World. Based on the strength this Master of the World had shown, he shouldn't be unaware of even this, right?

But he didn't show his inner doubts and said, "In the Secret Realm settlement rewards of the Trial Tower, a Team Contract will appear. Everyone on the same Team Contract will appear within the same Secret Realm."

Zhang Zhi slowly nodded, indicating he understood. This was another piece of information he hadn't known before. Logically, this information should be common knowledge within the Trial Tower, so why was there not a single word left about it in the Academy's Library?

But now was not the time to pursue this. He motioned for Cheng Ziran to continue.

Seeing that Zhang Zhi had no objections, Cheng Ziran continued, "This time, my Junior Sister and I, along with seven Junior Nephews/Nieces at the peak of Qi Refining, entered the Secret Realm together."

"My Junior Sister is the granddaughter of a Nascent Soul Elder of the Sect, but for some reason, she isn't very favored in the Clan, so her personality is a bit eccentric."

"Today, when the Yuan Race suddenly attacked, my Junior Sister, I don't know what happened, returned from outside severely injured and on the verge of death."

"And she didn't have a Green Command, so she couldn't leave the Secret Realm. Therefore, before she died, she activated all the White Commands she had in her hand, totaling nearly thirty."

He remembered that Zhang Zhi might not be very familiar with the rules within the Secret Realm, so he explained, "The Secret Realm will distribute Commands based on everyone's contribution in killing Foreign Races, and the Commands obtained by everyone in the Secret Realm cannot be transferred to others."

Seeing Zhang Zhi nod, he continued, "We were all preparing to give up on this Secret Realm and leave at that time. Seeing my Junior Sister do this, we were naturally greatly alarmed."

"But the big mistake had already been made. We had no choice but to find a way to make up for it, which is why we have been struggling to hold on under the enemy's encirclement, hoping to send everyone summoned by my Junior Sister out of the Secret Realm."

"The main reason I didn't explain it clearly to you at first was also due to the thought that family shame should not be publicized."

Seeing Cheng Ziran looking at him with a bitter smile, Zhang Zhi nodded towards him. From Cheng Ziran's self-narration just now, it could be seen that this Cheng Ziran could be considered quite responsible.

He didn't know how much of Cheng Ziran's words were true and how much were false, but there were still quite a few people in the Secret Realm. He could confirm it by finding someone to verify it later.

Besides, he didn't have moral潔癖. Regardless of what the problem was between this Cheng Ziran and his Junior Sister, if the person who wanted to summon him to die with them was really his Junior Sister, then the other matters had nothing to do with him.

Thinking of this, he spoke to Cheng Ziran, "I roughly understand the situation on the Human Race side. Brother Cheng, do you understand the situation on the Yuan Race side?"

Cheng Ziran nodded and said, "Naturally. I've been fighting against the Yuan Race in the Secret Realm for over a month, so I can say I know their situation like the back of my hand."

"As far as I know, at the very beginning, the Yuan Race had a total of twenty-two Mortal Transformation Realm members, and around four hundred Elite Realm members."

"In this month, the Yuan Race has lost sixteen Mortal Transformation Realm members in battle, seven of whom were killed by the previous Master of the World."

"During this time, the Yuan Race replenished six people, so currently, there are a total of twelve Yuan Race Cultivators in the Mortal Transformation Realm, including the Round Person who advanced to Extraordinary."

"As for the Elite Realm, since many were killed and many also left the Secret Realm, there is no exact number at the moment, but I estimate there are no more than three hundred."

"As for the remaining thousand or so Ordinary Realm existences, they are just extras to us."

"Oh, and the Yuan Race member who advanced to the Extraordinary Realm practices the Battle Qi cultivation system. Their combat power can only be considered average, not particularly outstanding."

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