After Luo Yuan emerged from seclusion, he discovered that his combat strength was not much greater than before. What he truly needed now, however, was a large amount of Origin Force, because he realized that since coming to this higher Plane, he had yet to truly devote time to acquiring it.
This was a tremendous waste for him. As for increasing his strength and cultivation realm, that served no purpose for Luo Yuan, because his existing strength and realm already far surpassed those of the strongest being in this universe. Since that was the case, he needed to actually carry out the plan he had made long ago.
Of course, learning those powerful Secret Techniques to increase his strength beforehand had still been useful, mainly because it would allow him to acquire the corresponding resources in those secret realms more safely. Thus, Luo Yuan immediately applied to explore a secret realm. After all, geniuses like them were entitled to enter secret realms directly to cultivate.
Other geniuses without the support of a faction needed the appropriate qualifications to enter a secret realm. For example, they would have to pay a corresponding price for the opportunity. Otherwise, they could only remain outside, relying on themselves to fight other powerful beings for resources or Origin Force, but that was extremely dangerous.
Moreover, truly powerful beings generally cultivated and explored in secret realms, so only there could one obtain what one wanted. Luo Yuan now needed all the resources in those secret realms to help him quickly increase his combat strength.
In fact, Luo Yuan discovered that although the different spaces were divided according to cultivation realm, they had still created a great many secret realms. These secret realms were essentially shared. In other words, the powerful beings of different factions would send