152: The water realm has come to an end, and everyone has returned!

After Bedrock's figure vanished.

In the spatial turbulence, the grayish-white fragments, representing Lu Yuan's "remains," floated silently.

They were not ground to dust by the turbulence as Bedrock had expected.

Instead, under the pull of an invisible force, they slowly began to converge.

"Buzz—!"

A surge of Frost Flame Power emanated from the center of these converging fragments.

Nirvana Fire (Passive)!

The ultimate life-saving talent of the Winter Frostflame Phoenix had quietly activated the moment Lu Yuan "died"!

"When the Winter Frostflame Phoenix (Card Master) suffers fatal damage, it will detonate all Frost Flame Power within its body, causing a destructive Frost Flame impact on the surroundings, then transform into a frostflame egg."

The terrifying power that had previously severely wounded Bedrock was precisely the Frost Flame impact detonated by Nirvana Fire!

Now, the true Nirvana had just begun!

Fine cracks began to appear on the surface of the converging stones.

Through the cracks, a strange light, a blend of crimson and icy blue, shone through.

Extreme cold and extreme heat were performing an inconceivable melting and restructuring on these fragments that were once part of Lu Yuan's body.

The stony gray rapidly faded.

In its place was a new texture, warm and smooth like jade.

Small and easy to handle!

They melted and deformed into each other.

Finally, all the fragments completely merged into one.

A giant egg, about half a person's height, floated in the spatial turbulence.

The egg's body was entirely crimson, as if solidified from burning flames.

Its surface was covered with intricate icy-blue patterns, like shattered ice crystals.

Crimson as the base, icy-blue as the pattern.

Heat and cold were perfectly unified on this giant egg.

frostflame egg!

It lived up to its name!

A powerful life aura subtly emanated from within the egg, standing out remarkably in this dead silent turbulence.

Even more strangely, a faint pressure of the crown also emanated from within the egg, accompanying the life aura.

That was the aura of the flame heart crown!

It had been successfully placed into Lu Yuan's card slot, and at this moment, it was resonating in some mysterious way with this process of Nirvana rebirth.

The frostflame egg drifted aimlessly in the spatial turbulence.

From time to time, violent spatial storms swept over.

But whenever these storms approached the giant egg, the Frost Flame Power on the eggshell's surface would circulate on its own.

Either freezing them with cold or incinerating them with heat.

The seemingly fragile eggshell was indestructible.

It drifted for an unknown period.

Time lost its meaning in this chaotic place.

Suddenly.

Not far ahead, a rift appeared in the void without warning.

Emitting a powerful spatial suction force.

The frostflame egg was completely unable to resist.

It was violently pulled by that suction force, and with a flash of light, the giant egg vanished into the rift.

The moment it passed through the rift, there was a dazzling white light.

Immediately after, a rich, moist air, carrying the fresh scent of plants, rushed towards it.

Below was a vast, boundless primeval forest.

Lush, towering ancient trees blotted out the sky, stretching as far as the eye could see.

It was just unknown whether it was another secret realm or a Beast Hunting Zone.

The frostflame egg descended at high speed, like a meteor from outer space.

"Crack! Crack!"

Countless branches were snapped by it.

Finally.

"Boom—!!!!"

An earth-shattering roar.

The frostflame egg slammed into a massive lake deep within the primeval forest!

Towering splashes of water shot up dozens of meters into the sky.

Birds and beasts by the lake scattered in fright.

As the water splashes settled, the agitated lake surface gradually returned to calm.

Only ripples continued to spread outwards.

The frostflame egg had sunk to the deep bottom of the lake, disappearing from sight.

The lake water was icy cold, but it could not erode the eggshell in the slightest.

Instead, the Frost Flame Power originating from the Winter Frostflame Phoenix seemed to develop a subtle affinity with this watery environment.

The hatching began!

...Scene change.

Lost Water Realm.

Day six, noon.

Above the sky, the previously relatively stable spatial barrier suddenly twisted violently.

Immediately after, a loud "tear" sound!

A colossal black opening appeared out of thin air.

"Attention all Card Masters in the Lost Water Realm!"

An urgent voice echoed from the rift, resounding throughout the entire secret realm.

"I am Provincial Governor Duan!"

"The Lost Water Realm will be completely formalized and solidified within eight hours!"

"All contestants, immediately! Right now! Evacuate through the spatial rift!"

"Repeating! Evacuate immediately!!"

Somewhere in the secret realm, within a hastily built makeshift camp.

Yao Yong and Yao Cheng, the two brothers, were gathered around a small bonfire, roasting an unknown monster's leg.

Upon hearing Provincial Governor Duan's voice, both of them jolted, leaping to their feet.

"A-Yong! It's Provincial Governor Duan's voice!" Yao Cheng threw away the beast leg in his hand and wiped his hands.

"I heard it!" Yao Yong's face lit up with joy as he quickly stomped out the bonfire.

He grabbed a large, bulging package nearby, sewn from several monster hides, clearly full of things.

Most of it consisted of low-tier cards and scattered materials; though not highly valuable, their sheer quantity, pieced together, amounted to tens of millions of star coins in profit!

"Let's go!"

The two brothers no longer hesitated, shouldering the heavy package, they activated their Source Power, transforming into two streaks of light, and shot straight towards the giant rift in the sky.

"A-Yong, what do you think happened to Lu Yuan and the others?" Yao Cheng asked, panting, as he flew.

"They must have made a fortune!" Yao Yong replied enviously, "He's not like us two cowards, I bet he earned at least a hundred million!"

"Damn! Is that true or false!"

On the other side, next to a dilapidated ruin submerged in water.

Zhou Wanhe was covered in blood, his eyes crimson.

In front of him, two cold corpses lay silently.

He silently bent down and retrieved their backpacks and cards from his two brothers' bodies.

He looked deeply at the corpses on the ground, then lifted them onto his shoulders.

"Dajiang, Dahai, I... I'm taking you home."

He looked up at the rift in the sky.

His Source Power erupted, transforming into a bloody streak of light, and shot into the sky.

Not far away, Zhang Yue and Duan Kong were leading the remaining Provincial Government team members, struggling to break out of a swamp.

Although they were disheveled and most of them were wounded, the team was still relatively intact.

"Everyone, maintain formation! Target, the sky rift!"

"Yes!"

After the final day of scavenging, they had gained some small harvest, but at this moment, nothing was more important than leaving alive.

A dark underwater cave.

De Xiner's eyes were empty as she slowly surfaced from the water.

Her body was covered in countless wounds!

After seven days of secret realm training, only she had survived.

She didn't know how to face her master, and... not only had she gained nothing, but she also hadn't killed Lu Yuan!

"Alas..."

Provincial Governor Duan's voice reached her ears, and her numb eyes finally showed a flicker of emotion.

Leave?

She looked at the deep water below, and a bitter smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

It's good to be alive.

And so tiring.

She no longer lingered, urging her Source Power to transform into a poisonous mist, flying silently towards the sky.

In every corner of the Lost Water Realm.

Those Card Masters who had fortunately survived, no matter what they were doing before, no matter how much they had gained, now had only one thought:

Escape!

Leave this damned place alive!

Streaks of light shot up from mountains, rivers, swamps, and ruins.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Finally, as the last Card Master stumbled through the rift.

The massive rift spanning the sky suddenly trembled!

Immediately after, it rapidly contracted and closed at a visible speed!

"Buzz—!!!!"

The entire Lost Water Realm, at this moment, let out a massive, unbearable groan!

The earth trembled violently, rivers flowed backward, and mountains collapsed!

All the rules that constituted this world were frantically breaking apart!

The sky was no longer the sky, the earth was no longer the earth.

Everything was twisting, everything was reshaping.

Eventually, all anomalies ceased.

The Lost Water Realm completely fell silent.

It was no longer a secret realm full of variables.

Instead, it had transformed into a completely formalized and solidified new region on the Card Continent map.

Waiting for the future, perhaps new Card Masters would come to explore its solidified secrets.

But that was a story for another time.