NOVGO.NET Chapter 1013: Chapter 128: Secret Realm_6
Chapter 1013: Chapter 128: Secret Realm_6
“So rich!”
Zhao Yu’s lips curved upward. Compared to ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators, these two were truly rolling in wealth.
After looking around, he found that among the belongings of the two, only the skill scrolls could enhance his strength.
He unrolled the scroll and saw it was a skill to increase flight speed.
“Learning this skill can improve my ability to escape…”
“But it’s just a green-tier skill, too low…”
Zhao Yu hesitated. According to what Ji Gang said, green was only the fourth rank in the secret realm, not very valuable.
Moreover, after entering the secret realm, they could only use three scrolls.
“Forget it, I’ll still learn it!”
After pondering for a moment, Zhao Yu still decided to learn the green-tier skill scroll.
Green-tier phantom beasts were very tough to defeat, and he wouldn’t be able to handle orange-tier ones alone.
As for purple and gold, there was no need to even think about it; he wouldn’t stand a chance.
Compared to ethereal things, Zhao Yu still trusted the power he could wield right now more.
After all, these skill scrolls were also created by cultivators with profound levels of progress, who had condensed their spells.
In the future, if he wanted to learn gold or purple high-level spells, he could still learn them.
As the green scroll was torn up, a surge of experience memory suddenly appeared in Zhao Yu’s mind.
Immediately afterward, he found that he had mastered a spell called “Shrinking Earth into Inches.”
“An increase of thirty percent in flight speed, that’s acceptable…”
Zhao Yu nodded slightly, somewhat satisfied.
“Should I continue staying here, or…”
After a few battles and encounters with others, Zhao Yu noticed something.
That was, other cultivators were not as formidable as he had imagined. At the very least, the fierce aura on them was not even as strong as that of the Liang couple.
“It’s actually normal. These offspring are either rich or noble, pampered, and would never go out to hunt king beasts. They mainly cultivate within their sects…”
“And their cultivation focuses on level progress, very few people will proactively cultivate offensive spells, right?!”
Zhao Yu recalled that whether it was Hao Wenwen or others he encountered later like Ji Hao, the spells they used to attack the phantom beasts were relatively simple.
They were all simple and easy to learn with not so strong power, which equated to the white-tier level of spells.
“If that’s the case, then I might have an opportunity…”
Zhao Yu thought that with his “Shrinking Earth into Inches,” his flight speed had increased by thirty percent, and maybe he could gain more benefits.
“Damn it, when did I become so cowardly?!”
Zhao Yu suddenly slapped himself.
He felt that ever since he entered this world, he’d been a bit off-balance, always thinking about running away, never about solving the problem.
This might have something to do with not having his clone system anymore, making him feel like life was just a one-shot deal, and thus he was less willing to risk his life.
“Fuck it, isn’t it just life? If I die, that’s the end of it!”
Zhao Yu took a deep breath, started shifting his mindset from the bottom of his heart, and decided to take the initiative.
Soon, Zhao Yu left the edge of the secret realm and flew towards the central area.
As he passed by a phantom beast, he hesitated for a moment, but ultimately, he didn’t make a move.
Compared to taking down a phantom beast himself, it obviously made more sense to snatch it from others.
After all, with his weak attack power and reliance purely on Spiritual Power, killing would require several rounds of energy consumption—it was a waste of energy and he’d rather go snatch from others.
With his “Shrinking Earth into Inches,” the success rate of seizing the fruits of battle from others was high.
After flying for nearly forty minutes, Zhao Yu slowed down.
Several kilometers away, five cultivators were teaming up to attack a phantom beast.
“This is…”
“An orange-tier phantom beast!”
Zhao Yu was overjoyed beyond expectation, the spiritual power fluctuation exhibited by the phantom beast was definitely orange in color.
Looking over the scene, among the five people besieging it, four of them were wearing the Zhou family’s uniform, and the other one he did not recognize.
“It’s such a small world for enemies!”
Zhao Yu sneered.
He had seen those four Zhou family descendants outside the secret realm, and they were the ones eyeing him like a tiger stalks its prey.
At this moment, the five had clearly been fighting for a long time, their bodies covered in various injuries, and their spiritual power nearly exhausted.
And the phantom beast was in the same situation, teetering on the brink of death.
“Who’s there?!”
During the fight, someone with strong perception suddenly shouted in the direction of Zhao Yu.
Zhao Yu, hearing this, did not stop, but instead, activated his “Shrink the Ground to an Inch” spell and rushed over at high speed.
“Such swift rainbow light, who could it be?!”
The five were shocked, surrounded by rainbow light, they temporarily could not make out Zhao Yu’s appearance, but were frightened by the speed of this rainbow light.
Subconsciously, the five thought that this newcomer was a powerful figure.
As the green rainbow light drew closer, just when the five thought the master of the rainbow light would reveal himself, the person instead went straight for the phantom beast.
“Damn it, he’s going to steal the beast!”
The five reacted immediately, but it was too late.
“Swoosh~!”
The already exhausted phantom beast was killed in an instant by Zhao Yu.
An orange glow flashed, and a scroll fell from midair.
“Don’t let him get away!”
The five became desperate, forcefully squeezed out their spiritual power, and launched an attack.
But Zhao Yu, in the motion of raising his hand, threw out dozens of talismans for defense, while he himself reached out for the scroll.
“Got the scroll!”
Without the time to check the contents of the scroll, Zhao Yu, with a face full of joy, once again set up his rainbow light and fled into the distance.
“Stop, thief!”
The five, furious and frantic, kept roaring as they chased in the direction of Zhao Yu.
But with their spiritual power already depleted, and without possessing a green-grade escape skill, in the blink of an eye, Zhao Yu was out of sight for good.
“Damn, to be outmaneuvered just like that…”
The five searched to no avail and could only land on the ground, dispirited and dejected.
“Did you see clearly what that person looked like?”
“It seemed like…”
“It seemed like Zhao Yu?” someone said, uncertain.
“How can it be him, he’s just a…”
Suddenly the group fell silent. According to the records, Zhao Yu was only 22 years old but had already reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment.
If he were from a great clan, reaching the late stage of Foundation Establishment at 22 wouldn’t surprise them at all, but Zhao Yu came from a humble family.
“22 years old, cultivated to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and also skilled in talismans, Artifact Refining, Alchemy…”
“And now, even his escape technique is so powerful…”
The five looked at each other and suddenly felt that Zhao Yu was indeed very capable, and had it not been for the focus on him by Zhou Zhengchang and Duan Yinghong, he might have soared to great heights in the future.
“What a pity…”
“Even if he doesn’t die in the secret realm, once out, it will still be hard to escape his fate…”
They were very aware of the consequences of offending that couple.
Compared to them who also carried the surname Zhou but came from a collateral branch, Zhou Zhengchang and Duan Yinghong were both legitimate heirs, able to mobilize resources, and had networks of influence that were far from ordinary.