Chapter 333 - 199: Blood Rang Ecosystem

Chapter 333: Chapter 199: Blood Rang Ecosystem

’What kind of attack is this? To think it could affect me for so long.’

Luke shook his head again, his mind feeling groggy.

Fearing he would become trapped in the dream and never wake up, Luke hadn’t dared to rest for the past few days, even with his Contracted Creatures standing guard.

Luke now had a total of twenty-three Divine Origin Value points, having killed fourteen opponents.

Luke estimated that there were probably no more than twenty participants in the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm.

If he could just kill two more opponents, he would have the thirty Divine Origin Value points needed to leave this First Level Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm.

Voluntarily leaving after reaching thirty Divine Origin Value points meant he would forfeit the final reward for achieving a one hundred percent Secret Realm Exploration Level.

But it was better than dying and having half his Divine Origin Value deducted.

Luke was from the Golden Eye Tribe of the Fallen Energy Race. The Fallen Energy Race had once belonged to the Blood Rang Ecosystem, one of the Nine Great Ecosystems.

Within the Blood Rang Ecosystem, they had been a race favored by the ecosystem itself.

If not for the fact that the Fallen Energy Race had immense difficulty reproducing, making it impossible for newborns to replenish their losses during battles with other races...

...the Fallen Energy Race would not have been driven by powerful enemies from the worlds illuminated by the Blood Rang Ecosystem.

And the new generation of the Fallen Energy Race wouldn’t have found it so difficult to awaken their Bloodline.

Luke’s Golden Eye Tribe was one of the only three surviving tribes of the entire Fallen Energy Race.

As a member of the Golden Eye Tribe’s royal race, Luke had been supported by the entire tribe, yet he had only just managed to condense his Fallen Power Heart Aspect.

According to the tribe’s ancient records, back when they lived in the regions illuminated by the Blood Rang Ecosystem, over half of the Fallen Energy Race’s members would spontaneously condense their Fallen Power Heart Aspect upon reaching adulthood.

The Fallen Power Heart Aspect was an Ability the Fallen Energy Race activated through their Bloodline, but it wasn’t the standard for judging the strength of that Bloodline.

The true measure of a Fallen Energy Race member’s Bloodline strength was the Demon Horn that grew on their head.

Luke had only just grown his first Demon Horn, and it was still quite small.

However, among his entire generation in the Fallen Energy Race, only six people had grown a Demon Horn.

And of those six, only Luke himself had managed to condense a Fallen Power Heart Aspect.

’Is the once-glorious Fallen Energy Race truly doomed to extinction?’

The thought left a bitter, unpleasant feeling in Luke’s heart.

He had entered the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm carrying the hopes of the entire Golden Eye Tribe—or rather, the hopes of all the remnants of the Fallen Energy Race.

He needed to use Divine Origin Points in the Divine Origin Store to exchange for the Water of the Primordial River.

The Water of the Primordial River, which cost fifteen Divine Origin Value to exchange for a single drop, was the critical resource that could help the Fallen Energy Race reproduce.

It would directly determine whether the Fallen Energy Race could continue to exist!

Even though he knew it was highly unlikely he could defeat the person who had used that mental attack on him...

...after all, Luke hadn’t even seen who attacked him when the ability was used.

Nevertheless, Luke decided to take a gamble and see if he could survive until the very end.

According to his tribe’s records, achieving one hundred percent Secret Realm Exploration Level in a Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm didn’t reward a Heart of the Secret Realm like other Secret Realms did.

Instead, reaching one hundred percent exploration in a Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm would grant a special weapon called the Godslaying Blade.

The Godslaying Blade was like a living thing and could be bonded to its wielder through a blood Contract.

It was said that the Godslaying Blade had the effect of tearing through Rules.

Furthermore, if one obtained another Godslaying Blade in a future Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm, the two blades could merge to enhance the weapon’s effects.

This would allow the Godslaying Blade to take on a new form according to its owner’s needs.

Rumor had it that merging three Godslaying Blades was a prerequisite for participating in the B Level Talent assessment on the Virtual Source Network.

Luke shook his head again, deciding not to dwell on these things any longer. He prepared for a new round of battle.

By his calculations, the outer regions of the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm should have already started to collapse by now.

And this barren, rocky wasteland happened to be the core area of this Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm.

Eventually, everyone would be forced to gather here, including the one who had attacked him from the shadows.

Meanwhile, Zhong Yi had reached the edge of a dense forest.

Beyond the forest lay a vast, relatively flat expanse of sand.

Wind blew sand across the dunes, making it difficult for anything to stay hidden unless it could conceal itself beneath the surface.

In this sandy terrain, anyone who could command a Power of Rules suited to the environment would have an overwhelming advantage in a fight.

However, when Zhong Yi used a Wooden Eye to scan the area, he couldn’t see a single soul.

’Clearly, this desert isn’t the central area either.’

For the past few days, Lan Po had been consuming a Dream Silver Shuttle every other day to extend and deepen the dream it had previously created.

The target affected by Lan Po’s Basic Skill, Weaving Dreams, was constantly struggling to distinguish dream from reality, causing the Nightmare to spread everywhere.

Lan Po kept indicating the direction to Zhong Yi with its soft, long tail, guiding him based on the location of the target infected by the Nightmare.

Through his communication with Lan Po, Zhong Yi learned that the person afflicted by its Skill of Weaving Dreams hadn’t rested at all.

If this person were to rest, the Skill of Weaving Dreams would inevitably pull them into a dream.

Even from a great distance, while Lan Po couldn’t devour the target’s dream, it could still perceive its contents.

’Five consecutive days without rest, all while in a state of high-intensity combat... this person’s mind must be utterly exhausted.’

Zhong Yi gazed at the endless sands before him and had the Endless Wood Demon use Endless Wood to construct a long snake, dozens of meters in length.

Zhong Yi positioned himself inside the snake’s belly, and with a single motion, it burrowed directly into the yellow sand.

After traveling for less than two hours, Zhong Yi suddenly sensed Energy fluctuations not far ahead.

Energy fluctuations in the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm meant one of two things: either two parties were engaged in a fierce battle...

...or someone was intentionally creating them to lure out opponents.

’Given that no one knows each other’s strengths, only someone with absolute confidence would do such a thing.’

Zhong Yi thought to himself that he had most likely stumbled upon a battle.

This was good news for Zhong Yi. It was a classic case of the snipe and the clam fighting while the fisherman reaps the rewards.

And now, Zhong Yi was going to try playing the role of the fisherman!

Amidst the vast yellow sands, a massive snake’s head emerged from the surface.

However, its color was identical to the sand, making it difficult to spot without looking closely from a short distance.

A Wooden Eye, the size of a fingernail, appeared directly on top of the snake’s head, allowing Zhong Yi to clearly observe the situation in the distance.

The battle had already reached a fever pitch. Both combatants were of comparable strength, and both bore injuries of varying severity.

They were evenly matched, making it difficult to determine a winner.

However, in such a deadlocked fight, the tide could turn in an instant if one of them suddenly played a hidden trump card.

Zhong Yi released Hong Ji and had the Endless Wood Demon construct a smaller snake, over five meters long, from Endless Wood.

This smaller snake would carry Hong Ji toward the two opponents.

In the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm, you couldn’t loot items from opponents; all you could do was kill them to obtain Divine Origin Value.

The moment one of them gained a clear upper hand over the other, Hong Ji would strike.

Having Hong Ji personally kill both of them was the outcome that best served Zhong Yi’s current interests.

Anyone who could survive for five days in the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm had astonishing potential.

The two people fighting ahead of Zhong Yi both commanded powers related to Rules.

According to Zhong Yi’s All Things Exploration, one of them had a blue Fate Grid, and the other had a green one.

So far, Zhong Yi had yet to encounter any Creatures with a Fate Grid higher than blue.

One had to understand that whether it was the opponents he faced on the Soul Fighting Platform or the people who could enter the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm, every single one of them was a chosen prodigy in their own world.

Yet their Fate Grids were all in the bottom three of the six tiers: white, green, blue, purple, orange, and red.