Illusory Light Sea Secret Realm (Seeking Follow-ups)

The Primordial Universe is vast and boundless, and Cosmic Secret Realms are as numerous as the stars in the sky, too many to count.

Just within the human database, there are tens of thousands of secret realms recorded that are suitable for King-level Immortals and ordinary Cosmic Venerables to explore, scattered across various regions.

Weaker secret realms, where even Realm Lords can venture, are the most numerous. With a casual glance, Zhang Dong saw no fewer than a million.

There are also secret realms where anyone below Cosmic Venerable would die upon entry, most of which are explored by High Venerables or even Cosmic Overlords.

Zhang Dong chose to pass on this type of secret realm.

No matter how high the rewards, they had to be obtainable. Ganwu Kingdom Master had died once on the Primordial Star, and the other two times were both in Cosmic Secret Realms—the competition was simply too fierce.

Even if he brought the Sun Tree along, his divine body would be larger and his energy reserves higher, but his realm was still lacking, far from being a threat to those super powerhouses.

"Thunder God Temple Secret Realm, Illusory Light Sea Secret Realm, Vast Sky Secret Realm." Zhang Dong finally narrowed it down to three secret realms.

Among them, the Thunder God Temple Secret Realm was within Zerg territory, while the Illusory Light Sea and Vast Sky Secret Realms were farther away, nearly ten billion light-years from the four peak races.

The information on all three secret realms was very detailed, gathered over generations by Hong Alliance powerhouses who ventured in on adventures.

Although the density of powerhouses within the secret realms wasn't high, that was only because the areas were too vast and the environment too harsh to dare random Teleportation.

There were no shortage of powerhouses who enjoyed exploring secret realms.

In the Outer Domain Battlefield, the strong ruled, and it was extremely rare for the weak to obtain treasures and ascend. But exploring secret realms offered the chance to acquire treasures far beyond one's own strength.

For example, those High Kings and Peak Kings in the Outer Domain Battlefield who possessed heavy treasures.

Most of them had obtained them through secret realm exploration. To put it in perspective, many Limit Kings couldn't even produce a single heavy treasure—that was the allure of exploring secret realms.

"The Thunder God Temple Secret Realm is considered a relatively ancient Cosmic Secret Realm, with a very high degree of exploration. The Purple Blue Thunder Glass produced there is a very rare material that even Cosmic Venerables would covet."

Zhang Dong carefully analyzed the information.

Almost everyone who ventured into the Thunder God Temple was after Purple Blue Thunder Glass. If some lucky Marquis-level Immortal picked up a piece, it could save them eons of wealth accumulation.

It sounded like treasure hunting, but it was essentially mining. The strong mined rich veins, the weak mined poor ones, and finding Purple Blue Thunder Glass meant striking it rich.

In Tomato's worldview, ascending was common as dogs, and going mining was the norm.

An ancestral master who commanded wind and rain in the Primordial Universe could become a security guard on the Origin Continent, or open a restaurant and work as a cook.

An emperor who ruled supreme over a great ancient kingdom on the Origin Continent would find it very, very hard to even get a job in the Holy Realm.

Zhang Dong didn't want to go mining, nor did he want to make things difficult for those Immortals working as miners.

After ruling out the mining-focused Thunder God Temple Secret Realm, the next were the Vast Sky Secret Realm and the Illusory Light Sea Secret Realm. These two secret realms hadn't been opened for long, so the intelligence was slightly less detailed.

"Go to the Illusory Light Sea Secret Realm." After reviewing the information several more times, Zhang Dong finally made this decision.

In truth, the density of powerhouses, resources, and number of treasures in the two secret realms were about the same, but the Illusory Light Sea had one advantage over the Vast Sky Secret Realm.

That was the largest core area of the entire Illusory Light Sea, where year-round, unending mist drifted and interwove with light and shadow, making visibility extremely low.

With purely physical eyesight, a King-level Immortal could only observe a few million kilometers, while a Cosmic Venerable was a bit better, at tens of millions of kilometers.

Even human powerhouses couldn't record videos from vast distances and upload them to the Virtual Universe, so using one's abilities here was very safe.

In the Illusory Light Sea, there was no need to worry about any exposure crisis.

Having decided on his target, Zhang Dong first used the Divine Kingdom Teleportation of an Immortal from the Primordial Realm to arrive at a desolate area.

The Illusory Light Sea was simply too far away. Even after Divine Kingdom Teleportation, one normally needed to fly through the Dark Universe for some time.

However, as a First-Tier World God, Zhang Dong had naturally mastered the Space God Heart.

Shua!

After the Immortal responsible for the Divine Kingdom Teleportation left, Zhang Dong began to use Teleportation.

Teleporting with the Space God Heart was naturally slower than using the authentic Space Law, but each jump still covered trillions of kilometers, and the frequency was extremely high.

The frequency of Teleportation was tied to one's willpower intensity.

After tens of thousands of consecutive Teleportations, a vast secret realm appeared before Zhang Dong's eyes.

The Illusory Light Sea had a maximum diameter of 370,000 light-years, making it a small Cosmic Secret Realm with moderate danger. Generally, Kings or some Elementary Venerables would come here to explore.

Occasionally, Marquis-level Immortals would come to try their luck. As long as they didn't go to the central Illusory Light Sea, there was almost no problem.

The Illusory Light Sea was considered an extremely dangerous area, where many King-level Immortals had fallen, and even Cosmic Venerables.

Entering from the outer perimeter, Zhang Dong didn't stop at all. He continuously Teleported, heading straight for the Illusory Light Sea. The ordinary areas on the periphery held no appeal for him.

After Teleporting continuously for 100,000 light-years, equivalent to the diameter of a galaxy, he finally arrived at the Illusory Light Sea.

Ahead, the mist grew thicker, and light and shadow flowed.

The sea seemed endless, with a total diameter of 4.6 light-years. Its widest point was 1.9 light-years across, and its depth was also trillions of kilometers. The seawater was entirely blue, and countless islands floated on the sea's surface.

Some islands might produce heavy treasures, while others held the relics of predecessors.

"According to records, when the Illusory Light Sea was first opened, there were actually native inhabitants," Zhang Dong recalled the information.

Unless it was an extremely dangerous Cosmic Secret Realm, there were usually native ethnic groups.

The Outer Domain Battlefield was a Cosmic Secret Realm that had been opened up by super powerhouses to serve as a battlefield, and the native inhabitants there were naturally slaughtered clean.

Take the Blazing Sacrifice Continent, for example—countless natives were easily annihilated.

The Illusory Light Sea was the same—those natives were even more unfortunate. The first to discover this secret realm was a Universe Master of the Crystal Clan.

After entering and finding natives living there, he began a slaughter.

Nearly ninety-nine percent of the natives were killed, and most of the clan's wealth was plundered.

The survivors, scattered in various places, barely escaped total annihilation. After committing this bloodshed, that Universe Master casually explored the secret realm.

The Illusory Light Sea only produced some heavy treasures, which held little appeal for him. After a cursory exploration, he left.

Later, the Illusory Light Sea Secret Realm was uncovered by the major cosmic clans. Countless Immortal Gods and Cosmic Venerables entered to explore, and the remaining natives, driven mad with vengeance, used their home terrain to kill many powerful beings over time.

"This is the cruelty of the universe," Zhang Dong sighed inwardly.

What had those natives done wrong? In truth, nothing at all. The Universe Master who slaughtered them would face no punishment whatsoever—it was merely the strong preying on the weak. Expecting heavenly retribution to descend was utterly unrealistic.

Unless the Origin Continent were within Minghuang's world cluster, then that Universe Master would undoubtedly be deemed a supreme demon and sentenced to death.