After saying that, the woman in black immediately rose and left, leaving Xiao Yan and Qingtan staring at each other. While they were still scratching their heads, Tianhuang appeared beside them again and said slowly, "She's actually letting you enter the Nine Nether Secret Realm to train so soon. It seems Tianling thinks very highly of you."
"Patriarch Tianhuang, what is the Nine Nether Secret Realm?" Xiao Yan asked.
"The Nine Nether Secret Realm is a training ground established by the Nine Nether Sparrow Enforcement Team. Only those in the Supreme Realm are qualified to enter. However, the environment there is rather unusual and extremely dangerous, so very few pass. But every member who makes it through goes on to achieve great things, provided they don't meet an untimely end along the way," Tianhuang explained.
"What happens if we don't pass?"
"If you don't pass... naturally, you die." Tianhuang paused, then continued, "Don't think that's cruel. The Nine Nether Enforcement Team lives by licking blood off the edge of a blade. As an army that protects our entire race, if its members haven't been tempered by blood and fire, they're worth less than guards watching a gate."
"That's understandable." Xiao Yan nodded lightly. He had come to the Great Thousand World to pursue greater power, so naturally, he did not consider such a trial particularly cruel. Besides, judging by Tianhuang's words, passing through the Nine Nether Secret Realm would clearly bring considerable benefits.
"By the way, keep your Nine Nether Tokens safe. They aren't merely symbols of your membership in the Nine Nether Enforcement Team. Each is also a quasi-divine artifact with quite a few functions. They can connect to the Nine Nether Enforcement Team's headquarters and transport things."
"Transport things?"
"Yes. As members of the Nine Nether Enforcement Team,