"A secret realm!?"
At that moment, shock appeared on Gu Chenfeng's face.
He learned from Yao Ze that Han Heavenly Journey had originally planned to act personally to eliminate Gu Chenfeng and the others.
This was also what the young master of the Purple Cloud Sect wanted.
All of that had changed because of a secret realm in the Borderlands Battlefield.
Ye Canglan, the young master of the Purple Cloud Sect, had led a group of the sect's experts and Han Heavenly Journey to that secret realm.
Gu Chenfeng had not spent so long in Central Province for nothing. He also knew something about these so-called secret realms.
They differed from the "Ancient Ruins" he had previously explored on the Demon Race's border, as those ruins were mostly tombs left behind by powerful predecessors.
The value of such ruins depended on the strength of the tomb's owner.
Secret realms, however, were different.
A so-called secret realm was said to be a special, independent space.
Some secret realms formed naturally. In most cases, extraordinary treasures had, through a fortuitous combination of circumstances, nurtured independent spaces into existence.
Another kind of secret realm consisted of spaces opened up by powerful experts through great divine abilities.
These secret realms were often even more astonishing.
That was because only experts in the Source Venerable Realm, above the Source Emperor Realm, were said to be capable of opening up independent spaces.
Even on the Central Province Continent, Source Venerable Realm experts were absolute pinnacle powers.
Such experts possessed heaven-reaching abilities and strength unfathomable to ghosts and gods.
The Human Race's Nine Great Sects and the Demon Race's Twelve Great Clans could command Central Province precisely because they had Source Venerable Realm experts presiding over them.
Any treasures casually left in a secret realm opened up