Chapter 816: Strong Nations of the World! The Secret Realm Opens!

The buildings of the Yer base were arranged in a U-shape, with structures on all four sides and the middle left open.

Led by the staff, Xu Jingming walked through a corridor roughly thirty-plus meters long.

Then the view opened up suddenly, and an open space about the size of a football field came into sight.

It was still the dead of night, pitch-black outside, yet the entire open space was lit up bright as day under the glare of the floodlights.

Right at the very center of this open space, one could clearly sense a patch of space that was not quite stable.

It was as fragile as a pane of glass, liable to shatter at any moment.

"That should be the entrance to the Yer Secret Realm — it's just that it hasn't been opened yet."

Xu Jingming swept a glance at the very center of the open space, then looked around at his surroundings.

Apart from the Great Xia, the teams of four other countries had already arrived.

They were, respectively, Mi Nation, the European Union, and Heizhou; after another few minutes, all six giant nations of Blue Star had shown up.

"Mi Nation's Ryan, the European Union's Peter…"

Several days earlier, Lord Xue Jian had already sent over the map of the Yer Secret Realm.

Attached was also a table listing the members from other countries who would be entering the Yer Secret Realm.

Among them, some particularly powerful and highly threatening experts had been specially marked out.

Xu Jingming's gaze swept over these teams in turn, matching each of those people up one by one.

Although they were all six giants of Blue Star, at this moment the gap between them was laid bare without a doubt.

The teams of Great Xia, Mi Nation, and Bear Nation each had an upper eighth-tier S-rank holding the line.

The remaining European Union, Heizhou, and Yin Du had, at their strongest, only a mid eighth-tier S-rank — or, failing that, a peak eighth-tier A-rank.

"The six giants of Blue Star are also divided into the upper three nations and the lower three nations."

Xu Jingming showed a smile,

A peak eighth-tier A-rank he could win against steadily, but an upper eighth-tier S-rank he could not beat.

In other words, his real opponents were only the upper eighth-tier S-ranks of Mi Nation and Bear Nation.

"And that's only for now. Once I gather enough ability points inside the secret realm and break through to the eighth tier, no one will be my match."

Because of the intelligence, in the eyes of the others,

Xu Jingming's combat power was at most only mid eighth-tier, so they wouldn't pay him much heed.

Only after entering the secret realm would Xu Jingming truly bare his fangs.

His gaze shifted, and he looked toward the other side of the open space.

Over there were nearly a hundred people in combat suits, fully armed.

The number of nations on Blue Star was large — a total of 109.

Apart from the six strongest giants of Blue Star, there were 103 other countries.

Those nearly a hundred people had come from those 103 countries.

Of course,

the exotic flowers and rare herbs these people gathered inside the secret realm did not belong to them — 95% had to be handed over to the six giants of Blue Star.

Only the remaining 5% could they take back to their own countries.

They were nothing more than miners, able to draw only a base wage, while the bosses above them were the real winners.

And this, too, was the terrifying suppressive power the six giant nations held over the other countries.

No one would think it unfair, because this had always been a world where the strong devoured the weak.

If it weren't for the founding of the United Nations, which forbade war between nations,

these 103 countries would long since have been swallowed up.

And the situation now was hardly any better — the majority of countries had fallen into becoming vassals of the six giants of Blue Star.

Yet even so, for the sake of that 5% of exotic flowers and rare herbs, these countries still sent ability-users over to take part.

It's just that the levels of these people were rather uneven — well over half of them were merely seventh-tier Masters.

"On the international stage, eighth-tier Grand Masters are the main force; seventh-tier Masters can only be cannon fodder."

Xu Jingming shook his head.

It was foreseeable that quite a few of these several dozen seventh-tier Masters would likely fall inside this Yer Secret Realm…

While Xu Jingming and the others were observing the others, the teams of other countries were also observing the Great Xia team.

When they discovered that the ninth-tier ability-user leading the team was actually Lord Xue Jian, quite a few of them frowned.

That fellow's reputation had been carved out through killing — he had even slain more than ten ninth-tier ability-users.

Apart from Lord Xue Jian, Chen Yang and Xu Jingming within the Great Xia team were also key targets of attention.

Among them, the one that surprised them most was Xu Jingming.

They hadn't expected Great Xia to really be willing to let this current number-one prodigy of Blue Star join the contest for the exotic flowers and rare herbs of the Yer Secret Realm.

"With Xu Jingming there, it's only natural that Great Xia would arrange for Lord Xue Jian to come as well."

Mi Nation's Chief Divine Official Cain said silently in his heart.

"Ryan, Ling Shuang, Xu Jingming… nearly a quarter of Blue Star's backbone strength is concentrated right here!"

Hidden among those hundred-plus people of the other countries' teams, a flush of excitement rose on Heavenly Sword's face.

If he could slay all of these people, it would surely deal a heavy blow to every nation of Blue Star.

"Xu Jingming, so you've come too…"

Within Heizhou's team, there was a dark-skinned man.

A burly fellow with black Lei Ting faintly leaping across the surface of his body stared fixedly at Xu Jingming, a burning greed in his eyes.

Faced with all these varied gazes, Xu Jingming — who had already been through the National College League and the Global Genius Exchange — naturally felt no pressure at all, his expression unchanged as ever.

He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he always felt that from the Heizhou side, some female Grandmasters were casting glances at him with a faint hint of hunger.

It couldn't help but send a chill down his spine.

He could accept both Eastern and Western women, but he just couldn't muster a single shred of interest in the pitch-black women of Heizhou.

"These gazes are really annoying."

Standing prettily beside Xu Jingming, Hearing Ling Shuang's fair, oval face also showed a trace of disgust.

She had sensed some undisguised, burning gazes, especially from the Yindu team and the Heizhou team, where they were strongest.

"What's going on with the teams from these two countries? They're eighth-rank Grandmasters at least, so why do they seem so hungry?"

Xu Jingming frowned, shifted his steps, and stood in front of Hearing Ling Shuang, blocking all the gazes from her.

"Although Yindu and Heizhou are also among the six great powers of Blue Star, in terms of civilizational development, they're far behind us.

In their lands, the rights of ability users are far greater than ours.

In their places, high-rank ability users rule everything.

Whether man or woman, as long as their rank isn't higher than theirs, they can be considered slaves.

Most likely, in their eyes, we're just slaves to be captured."

Hearing Ling Shuang replied in an icy voice.

Her words made no attempt to hide her disdain for Yindu and Heizhou's ability users.

"For two such countries to become great powers is truly a miracle."

Xu Jingming sighed softly.

To put it bluntly, it's because these two countries possess Supreme powerhouses.

As long as a Supreme powerhouse exists, even if their country is reduced to a single person, they still count as one of Blue Star's great powers.

Just as Xu Jingming was sighing, the space in the center of the clearing suddenly let out a soft 'hum'.

The originally calm space churned violently like ocean waves!!

It formed a spatial vortex fully ten meters tall and over five meters wide!

"The secret realm has opened."

Xu Jingming's gaze sharpened, his qi and blood surged, and brilliant golden Lei Ting faintly leapt across the surface of his body.

"The Ye'er Secret Realm has opened. Everyone from Great Xia, enter the secret realm!"

At Lord Xue Jian's command, all the Great Xia powerhouses, including Xu Jingming, immediately charged into the spatial vortex.

Besides them, teams from the United States, the European Union, Heizhou, and other countries also charged in together.

Just a few seconds later, on the vast clearing, only the seven of them—ninth-rank ability users—remained.