#870 - Quasi-mythical realm
Jun Wuxie walked towards the area with dense vegetation ahead.
On the way, more than a dozen of his body's formations were activated, making his body hazy.
Clearly he was walking here, but one could not feel his existence, all his aura seeming to disappear into the world.
His figure gradually faded as he continued to move forward, slowly leaving only a transparent shadow.
As he approached the mountain forest, he disappeared completely.
This was the effect of his carefully engraved rune formations and the recently improved Minor Void Art complementing each other.
Just as his figure disappeared, dense runes emerged on the ground he had walked on, like human blood vessels or the earth's meridians.
These formation runes searched for his trail, sensing his aura, and continued to light up for a long time before extinguishing.
At this time, Jun Wuxie had already entered the mountain forest.
Just as he had guessed, entering this mountain forest meant stepping into an independent formation.
This formation was different from the formations covering the entire secret earth, its rune perception being extremely strong.
The moment he entered, formation runes lit up all over the ground, and dense runes also appeared on the trees in the mountain forest.
He could feel those formation runes sensing his position.
However, he was prepared. Inside the Universe Cave, more than a dozen formations were activated, coupled with the Minor Void Art, making it impossible for the formation runes here, no matter how profound and mysterious, to sense his existence.
He walked in the mountain forest for a long time, only to find himself back at his original position.
"As expected, it's a psychedelic formation."
He carefully observed, using his rune perception, and gradually saw the clues.
However, he was not in a hurry to pass through the formation, but found an area to sit down.
Arriving in this area, he could clearly feel that the suppression of the environment on the growth intensity of talent had weakened a lot. With his current peak of the tenth level of Eternal Legend, he faintly felt that he could continue to break through.
"Let's try it and see if I can break through to the Quasi-Myth Realm..."
He now had a very clear feeling that the shackles faced by his talent growth intensity had loosened slightly.
When he broke through to this level, he directly rushed to the peak of the tenth level. Later, during this long period, the World Tree absorbed the origin of the universe, and the origin was fed back into his body every minute and every second, so the intensity of talent growth was slowly accumulating.
Some time ago, he passed the Great Heavenly Saint Tribulation and used the Wind and Fire Tribulation to temper his body, which made his talent growth intensity very close to the Quasi-Myth Realm.
He incorporated a large amount of purple lightning tribulation liquid into the cave, absorbing the fragments of the origin of thunder inside the lightning tribulation liquid, integrating them into his bloodline, and using the essence of thunder to temper his body.
The power of thunder in this lightning tribulation liquid was even more powerful than the heavenly tribulation. After all, it contained the origin of thunder, which could cause considerable damage to his flesh and blood.
But these were nothing to him. As the life essence flowed, the collapsing flesh and blood were quickly repaired and reorganized.
In this process, the flesh and blood were tempered to become more and more tough, the vitality of life was exuberant, and a more pure life force was derived, which continuously improved the strength of the body.
As his body became stronger, the powerful life essence derived from it continuously accumulated in the cave, making the cave almost submerged by the essence.
This essence was then repeatedly compressed and purified by the Millstone of the World and the Natal Star, pouring into the sea of stars and merging with countless stars.
The number of stars did not increase, nor did their volume change, but after merging with these essences, they were quietly undergoing qualitative changes.
This continued until the third day, when all the stars in the cave's sea of stars suddenly burst out with brilliant starlight.
Rumble!
His cave rumbled non-stop, and vast energy surged, rushing along the meridians to all parts of the body.
At that moment, he felt the power in his body suddenly surge!
At the same time, a mysterious feeling arose in his heart, as if he had instantly stepped into a wonderful world and entered a mysterious realm.
"It's done!"
His heart pounded a few times, filled with uncontrollable excitement and agitation.
Quasi-Myth Realm!
He had advanced to the Quasi-Myth Realm, only half a step away from the true Myth Realm!
Before this, although he was confident, he was still not sure whether he could succeed.
He didn't expect it to be so smooth!
Having reached this realm, although it was only Quasi-Myth, the feeling for the talent growth realm was completely different.
He didn't know how to describe this feeling, but it was very wonderful, mysterious and mysterious, difficult to express in words, only to be understood implicitly.
"It seems that the Myth Realm is a watershed. Stepping into the Myth Realm from the peak of the tenth level of Eternal Legend is not just a simple increase of one level, but a huge leap in level! Although I have only crossed half a step now and have not fully stepped in, many things are different..."
He couldn't say what this feeling was, but he was sure that he suddenly had a deeper understanding of all the secret techniques he practiced.
All the secret techniques and divine powers were synchronously improved at the moment when the talent growth broke through to the Quasi-Myth Realm!
At this time, endless formation runes in the mountain forest lit up, converging and locking onto him.
"I've been discovered..."
Jun Wuxie looked around. The movement when the talent growth intensity broke through was not small, causing his concealment technique to temporarily fail.
"It seems that you are not the person who laid down the formation back then, otherwise you could increase the runes at any time and improve the formation's perception. How could you not discover me, a ninth-level spirit rune master?"
Jun Wuxie looked into the depths of the formation. He could now almost be certain that there was a creature watching him through the formation in secret.
After he finished speaking, his figure became faint again and disappeared into thin air.
Those formation runes frantically searched, but they could no longer find his trace, and even his aura disappeared without a trace, as if such a person had never appeared in the secret earth.
Jun Wuxie hid in the deep void and sneaked, saw through the laws of the psychedelic formation, easily avoided its interference, and soon came to the end of the formation.
Ahead was a huge cemetery, with large graves arranged in a ring like mountains.
Each large grave was covered with towering ancient trees, obscuring the sunlight, making the cemetery very dark and filled with a gloomy atmosphere.
In the very center surrounded by those graves, he saw an altar.
The altar was built high, with steps on all sides, covered with strange runes.
Around the altar were hundreds of light clusters, flowing with various lights, floating up and down. Even from a distance, he could sense wisps of bloodline origin aura.
"That is... the bloodline origin of different ancient bloodlines?"
Jun Wuxie's pupils contracted, and his heart was shocked.
He never expected to see such a scene.
How many ancient bloodlines would that be?
The core area of this secret earth actually gathered so many!
On that altar, there were also many shining rune characters.
Each character belonged to a different script.
Those were bloodline runes, characters carrying different bloodline information, all gathered on that altar.
The ground runes in the center of the altar were dazzling. Talismans were constantly flying out and pouring into a void rift opened in the air in the very center of the altar.
The talismans entering the void rift seemed to have not changed, but careful observation could reveal that the void rift was expanding at an extremely slow speed.
"That is... a Space-Time Gate..."
Jun Wuxie was a rune master, how could he not see what that void rift was?
It was not an ordinary space gate, but a space-time gate, which was more advanced than a space gate.
Usually, only cross-world travel would use this kind of channel!
"So the person who set up the formation in the secret earth, collecting various ancient blood information, is to send this information to another world!"
Jun Wuxie realized the seriousness of the matter. What world was it being sent to?
The Upper Realm?
But he felt that the possibility was extremely low.
People from the Upper Realm could come down to the Lower Realm by paying a price, and they had supported many forces in the Lower Realm. If they wanted to collect bloodline information, there was no need to do so.
"I have to get closer and carefully sense the aura in that space-time rift..."
Thinking this in his heart, he carefully observed other areas before moving.
In this core area, he saw two people.
One was an old man full of decaying smell, whose hair was almost falling out, leaving only a few sparse strands, revealing most of his scalp.
The old man was in front of the altar in the middle of the cemetery, quietly guarding there, his eyes staring at the altar.
His face was so old that it could not be described in words. His whole person was like a dried corpse without water. His face was only left with waxy yellow skin covered with brown spots, which completely highlighted the shape of his facial bones. His eye sockets were sunken, his eyes were green, and his nose was so old that only a thin layer of skin was left.
His two skin-and-bone hands, exposed outside his sleeves, had clearly visible bones and three-inch-long nails. The nails were actually straight, but not black, but brown.
Besides the old man, there was also a child, who looked only five or six years old, wearing nothing on his body, only covering his little ding-ding with leaves, even his butt was exposed.
The child's facial features were very delicate, his skin was white and tender, and his face was full of innocent smiles. He was playing with pebbles by a small stream in front of the cemetery, very absorbed.
Such a scene was quite strange, an old man full of decay, and a vibrant child, the two formed a sharp contrast.
There were only two people here, how did the child come?
Who was the old man, and how many years had he been here?
Jun Wuxie did not forget the things that Qing Yue told him.
The experts from the Tower of Wonders once encountered a terrifying event here, resulting in almost complete annihilation. They didn't even see clearly what attacked them.
“I’ll first sneak near the altar to get a clear look before deciding…”
Jun Wuxie didn't reveal himself. He quietly emerged from the formation. The moment he entered the core area, he stopped, carefully sensing his surroundings, but didn't detect any danger.
However, his Rune Dao Eye saw something extraordinary.
In this core area, array patterns were everywhere, forming a massive formation.
To be safe, he slowly retreated to the edge of the illusory formation.
From this position, he re-examined the entire layout of the core area.
Under the Rune Dao Eye technique, all the formation runes here were as clear as veins.
There were two formations overlapping here.
The first formation spanned the entire secret land, with this place as its core.
He studied it for a moment and determined that this formation had a rather special effect and didn't possess much offensive power.
The second formation was laid on top of the first.
This formation was circular, covering the entire area along the edge of the core region.
The outermost circle of this formation was densely packed with runes, and closer to the middle area were those mountain-like tombs, inscribed with talismans.
Looking at those large tombs now, it was clear that their positions were very peculiar, arranged according to the Eight Trigrams. In the central area of the altar, the inscribed formation runes evolved into a Tai Chi form.
“This is… the Eight Trigrams Tai Chi Killing Formation Diagram!”
Jun Wuxie finally understood why the experts from the Tower of Wonders didn't even know how they died.
Entering such a killing formation would activate the power of the Eight Trigrams. All one could see was heaven, earth, mountains, water, wind, rain, thunder, and fire, as if being in eight special worlds, enduring the crushing and impact of the Eight Trigrams worlds.
Under such circumstances, it would be difficult to resist the killing formation, let alone see who was attacking them.
Even without anyone attacking, this Eight Trigrams Killing Formation was enough to suppress and kill most peak Heavenly God Realm experts.
This was even with the formation having been eroded by time over the long years, losing much of its original power.
Otherwise, with the methods of the being who laid out this formation here, this killing formation could instantly kill any peak Heavenly God Realm expert below the mythical realm!
