Novel Full Chapter 229 - 227: Departure, Secret Sanctuary
Chapter 229: Chapter 227: Departure, Secret Sanctuary
[Would you like to open the Secret Realm Gate?]
The emotionless prompt echoed in Lin You’s mind.
After making thorough preparations, he finally arrived under the World Tree on the morning of the second day to activate the Secret Realm Gate function.
This prompt sounded right when he chose to activate the function.
Lin You glanced at the large number of species within the territory and took a deep breath, directly responding:
“Yes!”
In an instant.
Light suddenly radiated, converging from all directions beside the trunk of the World Tree, gradually constructing a spatial vortex large enough for one person to pass through.
The spatial vortex spun rapidly, faintly emitting a pull.
It looked somewhat like a teleportation entrance in a game dungeon.
Meanwhile, a few prompts immediately followed.
[Congratulations Lord, the Secret Realm Gate has been successfully opened.]
[By passing through the Secret Realm Gate, you can directly teleport to the Secret Sanctuary at the continent’s center.]
[The Secret Sanctuary is a Neutral Zone, with no rules for protection, please always be cautious.]
No rules for protection?
Lin You was momentarily stunned.
It seems that it’s necessary to be careful when going to this Secret Sanctuary.
Although most of the people encountered are from the Primordial Continent, for resources, they don’t care about tribes or races.
Furthermore, it’s the continent’s center, a place of great spirits and influential figures, likely with no shortage of high-tier cultivators amongst the natives.
Thinking of this, Lin You took out the Tier Eight Silk Armor previously repaired by Mageon from his personal space and put it on.
After checking his belongings once more, he slowly stepped into the vortex.
Whoosh!
A flash of light.
A sensation of weightless dizziness hit, similar to long-distance teleportation.
However, this feeling came quickly and left swiftly.
When Lin You stabilized himself again, he found he was already on a bustling giant platform.
“Tier Eight E-level multiplayer Secret Realm, looking for reliable teammates!”
“Are there any brothers who want to challenge a D-level Secret Realm? Interested ones come! Preferably with healing species!”
“I’m Tier Seven Elemental Type, with two Tier Eight species, able to provide elemental attack buffs to the whole group, looking for an E-level or above Secret Realm team!”
“Come and take a look! Maple Squad recruiting members, must have at least one rare species!”
“Freshly made species secret treasure, along with other Secret Realm treasures, interested ones come and check it out!”
…
E-level?
Squad recruitment?
Multiplayer Secret Realm?
Listening to the shouts around him, Lin You was momentarily bewildered.
He always thought the so-called Secret Sanctuary would be akin to a battlefield, filled with yellow sand and demon all around.
Unexpectedly, he saw such a lively scene.
On the platform he’s on, there are constantly Lords and cultivators passing by, accompanied by a diverse array of species.
Some even set up stalls right on the platform, vigorously selling their wares.
This wasn’t the most surprising to Lin You.
The thing he never expected was.
The platform he was on was actually floating in the sky!
And not just the one beneath his feet, there are several other giant platforms floating beside it, connected by paths forming a magnificent series of floating islands in the sky.
Beneath the islands, a grand and majestic Holy Light City is situated on the ground.
With the islands as the center, extending in all directions to the visual horizon, the streets are bustling with people and activity.
Vaguely, Lin You could even see in three directions of the city, three towering giant swords that were estimated to be thousands of meters tall!
Even from afar, he could feel the terrifying aura emanating from the giant swords.
“Is this the Secret Sanctuary?”
Lin You was full of doubt.
But before he could think more, a prompt sounded in his mind.
[Detecting area change, switching in progress…]
[Switching successful, current area: Secret Sanctuary]
[As this is the Lord’s first arrival to the Secret Sanctuary, soul binding is in progress…]
As the prompt sounded, an invisible energy shot from Lin You’s brow.
In the air, it transformed into a stream of light and merged into a statue in the center of the platform.
[Soul binding successful, summoning function activated.]
[As long as you are in the Secret Sanctuary, the Lord can directly contact the territory and freely summon species.]
Ah, so that’s how it is.
It’s similar to the soul statue over at the main city, binding allows the Lord to have the ability to remotely contact the territory.
Looks like it was indeed constructed by the Great Emperors.
Lin You’s face showed realization as he looked across the bustling platform toward the center.
On every floating platform, there were ten gigantic statues, each representing one of the ten territory cores.
For instance, the Plant Type’s World Tree, the Demon Type’s Blood Cross, the Humanoid Type’s Sword Shield…
The energy that Lin You had just emitted had fused into the World Tree statue.
And in the middle of those ten statues, there stood a Space Gate, sealing a terrifying rift in the middle.
Groups of Lords and cultivator squads constantly passed through the Space Gate, disappearing from the platform.
If Lin You guessed correctly.
That should be the spatial rift connecting to the Main Demon Plane.
Unexpectedly, it’s been sealed away by the Great Emperors using floating islands, turned into a series of Secret Realm Gates.
In other words, each floating island represented a spatial rift, which is indeed a remarkable number.
The previous demon riots probably destroyed quite a few of them, right?
Just as he was thinking.
From beneath a light-enclosed stone tablet far away, a large commotion suddenly erupted.
A crowd gathered around the stone tablet, exclaiming in surprise.
“Damn! That freakish score has increased again!”
“I remember it was only 687 yesterday, right? How did it suddenly jump to 690 today?”
“Is he trying to break into the S-level Secret Realm?”
“Hiss! S-level? Is that even possible for humans?”
“The monsters in an S-level Secret Realm are about the same as Tier Eight, right?”
The lords were discussing with palpable astonishment in their voices.
Lin You walked into the crowd, puzzled, completely unaware of what they were talking about.
However, his gaze was soon drawn to the information displayed on the stone tablet.
[Secret Realm Individual Ranking (Tier Seven)]
First Place: Jiang Shennian [Insect Type] A-Level 690
Second Place: Sun Daoting [Undead Type] A-Level 685
Third Place: Zhou Qi [Demon Type] A-Level 684
Fourth Place: Cheng Fangfang [Humanoid Type] A-Level 683
…
[Note: Secret Realm levels are divided into nine difficulties: F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS, with each difficulty having different points and monster attribute bonuses. Only the highest score is recorded.]
What’s this?
Lin You was full of questions.
He really felt like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, knowing nothing at all.
In desperation, he had to seriously listen to the surrounding discussions to collect useful information.
And to his surprise, his method was quite effective.
After just a short while, he understood the general idea.
It turned out.
The Secret Realm here isn’t as simple as he imagined. It’s divided by difficulty levels.
Each level of Secret Realm, influenced by the aura of chaos to varying degrees, affects monster attributes differently.
Even the lowest F-level Secret Realm increases monster attributes by at least 20%, almost like chaos demons.
Moreover, each difficulty increase in the Secret Realm further boosts monster attributes by 10%.
The SSS-level Secret Realm just happens to boost them by 100%. That’s absurd!
But at the same time.
Clearing a high-difficulty Secret Realm enhances the rewards.
For instance, clearing an SSS-level Secret Realm grants rewards also at the SSS level.
You might even obtain an SSS level species secret treasure!
Lin You was absolutely thrilled.
Considering.
The species secret treasure he currently holds is only at E-level.
The power of the highest level species secret treasure is unimaginable.
No wonder he hasn’t seen many lords above tier seven in the border battlefield and duchies; they must have all come here.
However, clearing an S-level Secret Realm is no easy feat.
You can tell just by looking at the leaderboard.
The highest score on the Tier Seven ranking is only nearing an A-level, close to S-level.
Lin You was confident, but he didn’t believe these people on the leaderboard were weaker than him.
If even they couldn’t clear an S-level Secret Realm, the difficulty must be imaginable.
“How about… maybe give it a try first?”
Lin You pondered quietly.
After listening to the surrounding discussions for a bit longer, he broke away from the crowd and joined the lords at the Secret Realm Gate, summoning Lingxi to his side.
“Brother, heading to clear a Secret Realm? Want to join us? We just need someone with healing species.”
“Join our team, brother? We’re just short of one person to set off.”
“Friend, interested in teaming up?”
The nearby lords noticed Lingxi next to Lin You, extending olive branches to him.
This Lin You had heard mentions of earlier.
Secret Realms could be entered by multiple lords together, but the reward was still singular.
Lin You took a look.
These tier seven lords had at least two or more tier eight species alongside them.
Though not weak, they didn’t offer much help to him.
Plus, entering a Secret Realm together would lead to the issue of distributing the final treasures.
So after some thought, he decided against it, kindly refusing those lords’ invitations and walked into the Secret Realm Gate alone.
Soon after.
Just as those lords discussed earlier, a difficulty selection interface appeared before him.
After thinking a bit, he directly chose the tier seven A-Level difficulty Secret Realm.
[Difficulty selection successful, Secret Realm allocation in progress…]
Swish!
A flash of light shone, and Lin You vanished from the spot.
When he stood firm again, he found himself on a scorched black ground.
Simultaneously, several notifications rang out in succession.
[Secret Realm teleportation successful.]
[Current Secret Realm: Demon Valley (Tier Seven A-Level), Estimated Difficulty Score 660]
[Note, due to infection from the aura of chaos, all monster attributes increased by 70%, exercise caution.]
Goodness.
It’s just as those lords said, the higher the difficulty, the more outrageous the attributes.
Attributes increased by a full 70%, almost doubling.
Even combining Lingxi, Deceit Willow, and Divine Fragment only boosts species all attributes by 46%.
Adding in other recovery-type aura buffs, plus Demon King Dragon reducing enemy attributes by 5%, and Cyan Rattan diminishing 10% spirit through negative aura.
It barely reaches a 50% boost, but pales compared to the A-level difficulty Secret Realm.
“Roar!!”
Lost in thought, suddenly a loud roar came from afar.
A group of large Two-headed Hellhounds appeared, surging towards him from the depths of the scorched land.
Their immense numbers, over a thousand, caused the entire ground to tremble violently!