Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence - Chapter 531

Chapter 531: Chapter 235 Fate-killing Trap_1
 

A thousand trialists, yet in the end only one can emerge victorious!

All cultivators who entered the Secret Realm Square-Inch were shocked by these cruel conditions.

Although the majority of cultivators were encountering a Secret Realm for the first time, they could still find some records of such realms in numerous ancient texts.

Typical Secret Realms generally rely on either some great power or a special magical treasure for their construction, because a Secret Realm is not an actual world in the truest sense; strictly speaking, it’s just a slightly larger special space, which means the rules within the Secret Realm are also relatively imperfect.

If one’s cultivation strength surpasses that of the creator of the Secret Realm, one can naturally ignore its rules, but if one lacks sufficient strength, one can only act according to the Realm’s rules.

The rules of Secret Realms are varied and unusual, closely related to the Divine Power skills cultivated by the creator of the realm; it’s not always the case that the stronger one is, the more likely one can pass the trial of the realm.

Thousands of years ago, there appeared a Secret Realm created by a Yin Yang Joyous True Immortal, whose internal rules required trialists to complete a union to pass the trial.

However, because of the infamous reputation of the Yin Yang Hehuan Dao, not a single female cultivator participated in that Secret Realm; a group of male cultivators were trapped inside the realm for three hundred years, attempting countless times to cultivate together as men, but they could never trigger the realm’s rules.

Only after three hundred years, when the Secret Realm became unstable, did they find an opportunity to break out and return to the Primal Chaos Realm.

Under such a rule, unless one’s power is strong enough to surpass the creator of the Secret Realm, there is no use for it.

Compared to the realm created by the adherents of the Yin Yang Hehuan Dao, this Secret Realm Square-Inch had gone from one extreme to the other.

The Secret Realm Square-Inch offered no special shortcuts; a thousand trialists, yet only one winner, which represented the most extreme form of brutal life-and-death struggle.

In a normal situation, facing such a crisis, there would inevitably be individuals who would resort to using hidden Divine Skills and Formations to lurk in some place, waiting to reap the benefits at the end, but the special rules of the Secret Realm Square-Inch completely eliminated this approach.

As time passed, the Secret Realm Square-Inch would gradually be consumed by the Endless Void, becoming smaller and smaller until eventually, there would be no place left for cultivators to hide.

Everyone was stunned by the bloody cruelty of the realm’s trials; had it not been for the giant prompts in the sky indicating that one could actively exit the realm, this trial could have been an unprecedented disaster for the Primal Chaos Realm.

A Qi Training Early Stage Loose Cultivator looked fearfully at the script in the sky. Being a loose cultivator and managing to reach the Qi Training Stage at this time, whether due to talent or luck, was enough to be considered top-notch.

In the Primal Chaos Realm, he was someone whom various powers vied to win over, a distinguished guest of provincial aristocratic families, with glory and wealth within easy reach.

Yet, in this Secret Realm Square-Inch, being at the Qi Training Early Stage meant he only just qualified to fly into the realm.

Apart from a few cultivators at the Qi Transformation Stage with flying magic artifacts or talismans, he was practically at the bottom rung among the thousands of trialists.

Without a doubt, under such cultivation rules, those at the lowest level of the Qi Refinement Realm would be the first to be eliminated.

As the rules of the Secret Realm manifested, he sensed several strong and unrestrained presences from over the mountains racing towards him.

Each of these presences was far stronger than him, and one of them seemed to be a powerful expert of Spirit Transmutation.

“I withdraw!”

He hastily shouted out loud.

As one of the top Loose Cultivators in Great Xia, he had a promising future and endless glory and wealth at his disposal; there was no need for him to become cannon fodder in the trials of this Secret Realm.

A streak of starlight suddenly descended upon the Loose Cultivator, and with a burst of spatial fluctuation, the figure of the Loose Cultivator disappeared from the ridge.

Less than three seconds after the Loose Cultivator vanished, a roaring Fire Dragon swept a scorching storm that slammed right where he had stood.

Waves of fire rolled, engulfing a large swath of trees, transforming the area into a sea of flames in an instant.

Nearby, a Qi Training Late Stage cultivator, cloaked in a black robe, looked disdainfully at the sea of fire and snorted with contempt.

“Lucky you got away fast.”

Then, with a swish of his cloak, the Qi Training Late Stage cultivator’s silhouette quietly vanished into the woods, leaving no trace.

Scenes like this were not just happening in this stretch of mountains; almost throughout the whole Secret Realm Square-Inch similar scenarios could be witnessed.

Some were like the Loose Cultivator, fully aware of their own strength and so exited the realm early as the rules appeared, but there were many more who clung to a hope of luck and were easily slain by more powerful cultivators, without even a chance to utter the words to exit.

In the sky, the number 1000, assembled from starlight, was frantically flickering.

991, 978, 953…

Each flicker almost always meant dozens of cultivators were losing their right to partake in the trial of the Secret Realm.

Bloody slaughter became the main theme of the entire Secret Realm Square-Inch.

The killers, the cultivators participating in the massacre, were not necessarily aiming for the first place; most were well aware that in this trial of the Secret Realm Square-Inch, Spirit Refining True Beings, who had their cultivation suppressed, were participating and that the first place would inevitably emerge from among them.

Most of the killers were looking to take this opportunity to slay other cultivators and plunder the cultivation resources contained within their storage magic artifacts.

Especially the more successful Loose Cultivators, lacking the support of sects and noble families, were extremely short on cultivation resources.

In the outside world, they dared not make a move against cultivators from sects or noble families, but in the Secret Realm Square-Inch, now turned into a battlefield of slaughter, they naturally acted without any reservations.