Chapter 127: Secret Realm No. 79

"What kind of thing is inflamed?"

Ye Lin frowned, feeling somewhat puzzled.

The tall man's face flushed, and he said with some embarrassment, "I went to get a foot wash earlier, didn't wear protection, and got infected and inflamed."

Ye Lin: "..."

"I'm telling you to speak! I'm not asking if you have an inflammation!"

Ye Lin was almost amused to the point of anger; he had never seen such lunatics, and he even felt a bit reluctant to kill these two talents.

"Oh, oh, oh!" The short man was the first to react and asked cautiously, "If I talk, will you let me go?"

"Of course I will, don't worry. If I lie to you, I'll cut off my own head," Ye Lin promised, patting his chest with conviction.

The short man breathed a sigh of relief and then began to speak.

"The people who hired us to kill you are a few lifestyle-class professionals from Qingcheng. They feel that the task you posted has disrupted the market."

"Names?" Ye Lin pressed.

"Senior Blacksmith Yin Xiang, Senior Alchemist Yun Yingfa, and Senior Alchemist Zhou Heping." The short man sold out all his employers without hesitation.

"Fine, I've noted them down. Now, what's this about the Secret Realm No. 79 you mentioned?" Ye Lin continued to ask.

"Secret Realm No. 79 is a new secret realm that suddenly appeared near Qingcheng these past two days. It's located thirty kilometers north of Qingcheng. I don't know anything else, but every time a new secret realm appears, there are always quite a few good things."

The short man was shivering from the cold, but he still answered Ye Lin's questions very earnestly.

Hearing this, Ye Lin began to ponder: should he go to this Secret Realm No. 79 or not?

Might as well go. After all, recently, professionals have been everywhere around Qingcheng hunting monsters, and the number of monsters has already decreased significantly.

Besides, he had just finished collecting monster corpses from the Professionals Guild, and the next time he could collect them would be in three days.

Three days is enough time to take a trip to a secret realm.

"Big Brother, I've told you everything I know. Can you let me go now?" The short man's upper and lower rows of teeth were chattering; he really couldn't stand the cold anymore.

"Let you go? How could such words come out of your mouth?"

With a thought from Ye Lin, the ice crystals began to freeze again, spreading toward the faces of the tall man and the short man.

"You go back on your word! You're shameless!" The short man's eyes were filled with terror and resentment.

Hearing this, Ye Lin was instantly displeased.

"Don't talk nonsense! Be careful, or I'll sue you for defamation!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Lin condensed an ice blade, swiped it lightly around his neck, and detached his own head.

The wound was frozen the moment it appeared; not even a single drop of blood flowed out.

"I am a man of my word; what I say is final. I said if I lied to you, I'd cut off my head. Look, see? It's cut off."

Watching Ye Lin, who could still talk after taking his head off, the tall man rolled his eyes back and fainted from fright.

Although the short man didn't faint, his complexion was no better; his two rows of teeth were clattering together wildly, though it was unclear if it was from the cold or the fear.

When Ye Lin put his head back on, both men had already frozen into ice sculptures. With a light flick of Ye Lin's finger, they turned into two piles of ice crystal powder and dissipated between heaven and earth.

"Alright, let's set off for Secret Realm No. 79!"

Along the way, Ye Lin encountered many teams hunting monsters, which warmed his heart; it seemed that in three days, his level would certainly be able to rise again.

Night gradually fell, starlight dotted the sky, and Ye Lin arrived at a place thirty kilometers north of Qingcheng.

The entrance to Secret Realm No. 79 was like a huge black vortex, constantly exhaling a gloomy aura. Ye Lin could feel a powerful force radiating from within.

At this moment, quite a few professionals were gathered at the entrance, watching and discussing among themselves.

"What exactly is inside this secret realm? Why hasn't a single person who went in come back out?"

"Exactly. The first batch of people who went in have been inside for almost two days now, and there hasn't been a single sound."

"I'm waiting until someone comes out before I go in. Who knows if it's a death trap? There will be other secret realms in the future, but everyone only has one life!"

Many of the people gathered here were harboring the intention of waiting for others to scout the path first.

Not every secret realm is suitable for professionals to enter to grind levels and improve their strength.

The reason this secret realm is called Secret Realm No. 79 is because it is the seventy-ninth secret realm to appear near Qingcheng.

Setting aside Secret Realm No. 79, nearly half of the other seventy-eight secret realms were death traps.

Enter, and you die.

In those secret realms, the temperature was either extremely high, and a flesh-and-blood body would be burned to ashes the moment it stepped inside.

Or the temperature was extremely low, and a professional would be frozen into an ice sculpture upon entering.

Or they were filled with poisonous gas, or contained radiation sufficient to cause death.

These were all things that previous bold and curious professional predecessors had discovered with their lives.

Therefore, every time a new secret realm opened, the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Central Hospitals of Qingcheng would send ambulances to the entrance of the secret realm to fight for business.

Professionals are never short of money; doing business with one high-level professional could support a hospital's revenue for a month.

Secret Realm No. 79 had only opened two days ago, and after it opened, everyone who went in never came out. Who knew if it was also a death trap?

Just as everyone was discussing, the black vortex at the entrance of the secret realm suddenly became transparent.

Through that transparent vortex, everyone saw a brilliant light, and within that light, an object seemed to be slowly rotating.

Everyone held their breath in an instant, staring fixedly at that object!

Suddenly, the light in the center of the vortex erupted, becoming brilliant to the extreme, as if a scorching sun had risen from the depths of the earth's core, stinging everyone so much that they had to close their eyes.

When the light dimmed slightly and everyone cautiously opened their eyes again, they saw a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives!

A slender scepter was floating in the light, with seven-colored radiance flowing along the staff, as if it contained the purest power in heaven and earth.

A transparent crystal gem was embedded at the top of the scepter, with ancient runes carved upon it, emitting an ancient and mysterious aura, as if it could lead all living beings toward an unknown world.

The crowd gathered at the entrance was shocked beyond measure, staring blankly at the suddenly appearing scepter, unable to say a single word.

"What a terrifying aura... could that scepter be a divine artifact?" Someone in the crowd muttered in a low voice.

This sentence was like throwing a giant boulder into a calm lake; the crowd instantly boiled over.

Following that, the many professionals who had previously been in a wait-and-see state rushed toward the entrance of Secret Realm No. 79 like a swarm of locusts.

"The divine artifact is mine! Whoever tries to snatch it from me, I will kill!"

"Hmph! That depends on whether your Excellency has the ability! Those who kill shall be killed!"

"Such a treasure should naturally belong to the virtuous! Martial virtue is also virtue!"

The muscles on the back of one professional knotted, slowly condensing into the character for "Virtue."