Chapter 1090: Enter the Secret Realm! The Fantasy Forest World!

With Ling Shuang's addition, the speed of cracking the secret realm increased significantly.

By six o'clock the next morning, as dawn just began to break, the secret realm was finally cracked—only the final activation remained before entry.

At this moment, nineth-rank experts on the ground who received the news all flew into the sky.

"My lord Lei Di."

"Lei Di."

"Deputy Alliance Leader."

"......"

Xu Jingming, clad in black battle armor, arrived with Su Qingli among the Daya team.

As soon as they drew near, every nineth-rank expert bowed respectfully in greeting.

Xu Jingming swept his gaze across the Daya team; besides the three Lord Xue Jian members he had seen yesterday, four more had appeared.

Li Changfeng was among them!

Seeing Xu Jingming look at him, Li Changfeng's expression turned cold, and he immediately turned his head away.

Xu Jingming paid no mind to this.

Li Changfeng was already a dead man; there was no need to pay him undue attention.

"Jingming." Ling Shuang flew over.

Her cold, alluring, fair face was dotted with fine sweat—cracking this secret realm's space was clearly not as simple as it looked.

Xu Jingming handed her an eighth-grade recovery pill; after taking it, Ling Shuang regained her full strength and smiled brightly:

"This time, it was mainly Zhang Hengyang and the others who did the work—their mental exhaustion will take four or five days to recover."

"Mm, they don't need to enter the secret realm this time." Xu Jingming nodded.

With Ling Shuang, an SS-rank lower nineth-rank spatial expert, is enough; Zhang Hengyang and the others are of little use inside the secret realm.

Notably, Su Tianrui went into seclusion immediately after returning from the Li family and did not participate in this secret realm exploration.

"Jingming, shall we stick to what we agreed yesterday—split up after entering the secret realm?"

Lord Xue Jian approached with Cao Shaoheng and the others, smiling as he asked.

"Splitting up allows better exploration of the secret realm." Xu Jingming nodded.

"True—no one knows what's inside this ten-thousand-year-old secret realm. I guess..."

Lord Xue Jian continued speaking.

Most of the remaining Daya nineth-ranks had gathered around Xu Jingming.

They occasionally chimed in, making the scene seem lively.

A short distance away, Li Changfeng's eyes burned with fury he could barely conceal.

If not for Xu Jingming, it should have been him enjoying this treatment!

"Big Brother Feng, don't stare—Xu Jingming is no longer someone you can handle."

A nearby ninth-rank, close to him, spoke to advise him.

Li Changfeng performed well, forcing a bitter smile:

"I know. My Li family's current state is entirely self-inflicted. As for Deputy Alliance Leader Xu, how would I dare harbor ill will?"

"That's the spirit."

The nineth-rank who had spoken earlier finally smiled.

Yet where he couldn't see, Li Changfeng's expression remained icy.

He had long understood he couldn't rely on himself alone.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have defected to the Tianming Sect.

'Let you enjoy your glory a little longer. Once we enter the secret realm and connect with the Tianming Sect's nineth-ranks, it'll be your death.'

Li Changfeng gazed coldly at Xu Jingming, surrounded by others nearby, and in his heart had already sentenced him to death.

One minute later, all nineth-ranks from every nation had arrived.

Besides the six major powers of Blue Star, three supreme forces from the Xinhuo World were also present.

A total of ninety nineth-rank experts and nine supreme beings had gathered here.

As the newly crowned invincible nineth-rank, Xu Jingming naturally drew the attention of most present.

Whether it was those already at odds with Xu Jingming—Flame Divine Sovereign, American Pope Evelyn—

Or other supreme beings, all cast their gazes toward Xu Jingming.

Yet due to his Perfect-level Concealment Technique and his staggering three-million-hertz spiritual force,

None of the supreme beings detected that Xu Jingming's rank had already broken through to upper nineth-rank.

At the Xinhuo Shrine, Aomosi had already removed the black silk band covering her eyes.

Her imposing pale-golden eyes scanned the crowd, silently activating the Eye of Fate while

transmitting intelligence on suspicious individuals to Xu Jingming's side.

"Open the secret realm space!"

At Ling Shuang's soft cry, a massive spatial gate slowly opened in the sky.

An ancient, primordial aura seeped through the gate, evoking an unknown dread.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!...

The nineth-rank experts all shot forward like streaks of light into the gate.

"Let's go."

Xu Jingming led Ling Shuang and Su Qingli into the spatial gate.

Splash—

After a slight sensation of blockage, Xu Jingming's eyes lit up—he had already entered the secret realm space.

"This is the secret realm from ten thousand years ago?" Xu Jingming gazed at everything before him with a look of shock.

He seemed to have entered a dreamlike place, where the trees towered into the clouds, blotting out the sky.

Between the interlacing branches and leaves, fine golden sunlight filtered down, like scattered stars drifting earthward.

The trunks were thick and straight, entwined with countless green vines.

A breath of fresh air rushed toward him, mingled with the fragrance of flowers and the dampness of earth.

Beneath his feet was soft grass, dotted with wildflowers of every color, like a splendid brocade.

Streams gurgled through the forest, producing pleasant sounds.

No roars of fierce beasts, no trace of any unpleasant element.

Xu Jingming had entered his fair share of secret realm spaces, but only this one struck him as the most breathtaking.

The other ninth-rank powerhouses who had just entered were also, one by one, curiously observing their surroundings.

"The oxygen concentration in the air is approximately 35%, and the elemental energy concentration remains the same as in reality.

Judging by this oxygen concentration, this doesn't look like a secret realm from merely ten thousand years ago—it looks more like the Carboniferous period of 300 million years ago."

The green-haired twin-tailed loli Eva poked out from her smart armguard and quickly provided the analysis results.

At the same time, she too curiously observed her surroundings.

For some reason, she kept feeling that the environment here seemed somehow familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before......

"300 million years ago?"

Hearing Ling Shuang's beautiful eyes widened as she asked in confusion, "But according to spatial force calculations, this secret realm space is only a little over ten thousand years away from us."

"It's only that the oxygen concentration resembles that of 300 million years ago—that could also be something the creator of this secret realm space did deliberately." Xu Jingming murmured thoughtfully.

"That's true." Hearing Ling Shuang also caught on.

"Jingming, we'll head off first."

Lord Xue Jian and the others had also teleported over, laughing heartily as they charged into that fantastical forest ahead of everyone.

The ten ninth-ranks of the Ember God Temple, however, had all gathered in front of Xu Jingming.

"Little junior brother, just tell us whatever you need us to do." The leading Priest Luke said with a smile.

Although he was the senior disciple, before Xu Jingming's invincible ninth-rank strength, he kept his own posture very low.

Besides,

there was also Teacher Emers's special instruction—he had no choice but to follow it.

"No special instructions, except that Yun Congling stays behind.

Senior brothers, you only need to explore the secret realm, then notify me through Eva of any anomalies."

Last night, Xu Jingming had already distributed Eva's sub-units to the ten ninth-ranks of the Ember God Temple.

"Alrighty then, we'll head off first too.

This ten-thousand-year-old secret realm—I've been looking forward to it since last night."

Luke laughed heartily, and the group split into nine directions and set off immediately.

Only one petite short-haired girl remained.

She was Yun Congling, who possessed an S-rank support-type ability, at the mid-stage of ninth-rank.

She had an SSS-rank group concealment technique that could erase auras.

It could help Xu Jingming and the others better follow behind Li Changfeng.