Watching Jiang Man and the other two leave, the three who had stayed behind glanced back.
"Who is he? Why would someone like him come out of there?"
Unfortunately, no one answered their questions.
As Jiang Man walked along, he spotted an enormous stone stele.
It towered into the clouds, extremely conspicuous.
"Does that record the rankings?" Jiang Man asked curiously.
"The rankings are delayed, and they probably wouldn't use such a huge stele for them. That might be a stele belonging to the secret realm itself," Number 99 said.
Number 98 nodded along. "I heard there are four steles recording the rankings, one for each location."
Jiang Man did not particularly mind. He merely asked how much they knew about this place.
Or rather, what the best things in the secret realm were.
"Nothing inside the secret realm is made public, so you have to discover and fight for the best things yourself," Number 99 explained.
Jiang Man frowned. "What about the rankings, then?"
"They're based on actual combat," Number 99 said.
Jiang Man thought briefly. "Does that include the Five Elements Technique?"
He felt as though the Five Elements Technique had been made for this secret realm.
The instant he had acted earlier, he had felt that the Five Elements Technique was stronger than expected.
Its power was astonishing.
It was not because he was extraordinarily gifted and could unleash greater power.
Rather, the secret realm was special.
So with the Five Elements Technique added in, he felt his combat ability would rise a whole level.
"It does," Number 99 said seriously. "Anything that proves effective counts as part of actual combat. For instance, some people know formation arts. If they set up a grand formation here and win with it, that counts too."
Jiang Man nodded, somewhat