205: Chapter 204 Black Rhinoceros Protects, Fiery Dragon Attacks!!

Chapter 204: Black Rhino Protection, Flame Dragon Attack!!

Earlier, Wuzhiqi mentioned that it would take Li Tiance's guaranteed-hit arrow of the Heavenly Khagan to deal with this Sæhrímnir.

Sun Po was puzzled; he had no idea where Li Tiance currently was, yet Wuzhiqi had started condensing the Ren Water Divine Power on its own.

In the void, while condensing the Ren Water Divine Power, Wuzhiqi explained via telepathy to the depths of Sun Po's mind: "Master, that talisman of yours awakened a portion of the unawakened bloodline of the Six-Eared Macaque, which greatly enhanced my eye and ear sensory abilities in a short period. This perception can transcend time and space; within this secret realm, for a period of time, I am practically in a state of omniscience."

Therefore, earlier I was able to accurately find the method to make the "fruit" manifest prematurely in the Fenglei Mountain Range.

It was precisely because the fruit was revealed that the Sæhrímnir guarding it was awakened, and this leaf micro-world was also exposed.

Since I can make the "fruit" in a leaf micro-world of the Fenglei Mountain Range secret realm reveal itself, I naturally also know the method to prematurely reveal the "fruit" of the magma secret realm where Li Tiance is located.

Sun Po asked: "So you plan to go directly into the secret realm where Li Tiance is located and pull Li Tiance out?"

"Then cooperate with Li Tiance to kill this Sæhrímnir?"

Wuzhiqi's voice sounded: "Precisely. However, the opening method for the leaf micro-world of the magma secret realm is somewhat different from the Fenglei Mountain Range secret realm where you are, Master. Or rather, the methods to make the fruit prematurely manifest in each leaf micro-world of this secret realm are all different."

"The critical node of the Fenglei Mountain Range secret realm where Master was previously is at the fissure of the secret realm entrance, and the method to make the fruit manifest is simply to directly carry out a divine power attack of that intensity."

"As for the leaf micro-world of the magma secret realm where Li Tiance is, it requires three attacks in three places, with different sequences and varying attack intensities, and there cannot be the slightest error."

"Although I am in the void, I can clearly locate the three critical nodes of the leaf micro-world where Li Tiance is. Therefore, prematurely revealing the monster entity in Li Tiance's leaf micro-world and thus having him rendezvous with Master in advance is not difficult for me. At that time, I will pin down this monster in the void, but as for helping Li Tiance, Master will have to put in the effort personally."

Sun Po, as if he hadn't heard the last sentence, asked: "How many leaf micro-worlds are there in this secret realm?"

Wuzhiqi replied: "Innumerable. They are conceptual things that exist only because of possibilities and cannot be measured by numbers. But this time it is certain: with over a hundred contestants entering, there are naturally over a hundred leaf micro-worlds."

Sun Po's inner shock could no longer be suppressed at this moment. Until now, Sun Po finally gained an understanding of the omniscient state Wuzhiqi mentioned. In fact, the rules for the premature manifestation of the "fruit" in these leaf micro-worlds were similar to puzzle-solving games Sun Po used to play in his past life.

"It just so happened that the critical node of the Fenglei Mountain Range secret realm where Sun Po was located was at the entrance fissure of the secret realm, and it just so happened to require only a single divine power attack. That was why Wuzhiqi previously seemed to have just run to the entrance fissure of the secret realm and waved casually, causing the Fenglei Mountain Range to shake and revealing the huge main body of the guardian monster."

"If it were other secret realms, it might be a location that required a long time to explore, and then perhaps required more than a dozen attacks of varying intensities, which would not have looked so relaxed and effortless."

"But regardless, over a hundred leaf micro-worlds correspond to over a hundred completely different 'puzzle-solving' methods. And these over a hundred puzzle-solving methods include not only the positions of the critical nodes corresponding to each leaf micro-world in the void, but also the different attack intensities and sequences corresponding to each location."

"Perhaps hearing it individually doesn't sound too difficult, but if multiplied by a hundred, the increase in information volume and difficulty is far from being just a hundred times simpler."

Although Wuzhiqi spoke lightly, Sun Po felt the terrifying nature of this ability at the very first moment.

And this was merely the change produced by waking up a small portion of the unawakened bloodline of the Six-Eared Macaque; he couldn't imagine to what extent a complete Six-Eared Macaque bloodline would reach.

Sun Po asked another question that had been puzzling him for a long time: "If one cannot correctly attack this critical node and keeps hard-killing monsters, can one kill until the fruit manifests?"

Wuzhiqi's voice sounded once more: "Yes, or rather I estimate this was originally supposed to be the normal progression of the competition. I feel that according to the official estimate, one should first... Well, our current method is actually taking a shortcut."

"We all know that the root of an inner-domain secret realm is the secret realm core, and the reason monsters appear in the inner-domain secret realm is also the secret realm core."

"If one wants to make an inner-domain secret realm reveal the secret realm core, generally the only way is to destroy the inner-domain secret realm with overwhelmingly powerful force to make it emerge."

"If one merely slaughters the monsters in the secret realm, it generally has no impact on the inner-domain secret realm."

"But I don't know if it's because of the outer-domain secret realm, but in the micro-worlds of this Yggdrasil branch secret realm, it is not like that."

"These 'fruits' were born relying on the Yggdrasil branch secret realm, resembling a secret realm core yet not quite one, each having accompanying guardian monsters born according to its own characteristics."

"Once these accompanying monsters are slaughtered to a certain extent, the most powerful guardian monster in the secret realm will awaken."

"From this point of view, this secret realm is indeed incomparably suitable as a venue for competition trials and the like."

"And for the authorities to arrange the competition like this, I'm afraid their understanding of this Yggdrasil branch secret realm is not much less than mine."

Sun Po was puzzled: "But isn't this secret realm only accessible to those below intermediate Card Maker? That's why there is this global league?"

"Why are the authorities able to understand it so thoroughly without even entering this secret realm?"

Wuzhiqi replied in his heart: "I'm afraid the authorities are simply restricted by certain unknown rules, making it impossible to let higher-tier Card Makers enter. Just like my pair of eyes and ears can have complete mastery over everything happening inside without entering each leaf micro-world."

"The authorities surely have some means to achieve a similar degree without entering this secret realm."

"O"

Sun Po thought of the live broadcast outside this secret realm, and thought of the great tianji mirror hanging high in the void; in his heart, he felt increasingly unable to see through the authorities.

When he first came into contact with this world, he only felt that the authorities merely relied on the massive number of Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals to barely split honors evenly with the major noble families, and were even faintly at a disadvantage.

But as his experience grew, his standing became higher and higher, and his understanding became deeper and deeper, Sun Po increasingly felt how ridiculous his original thoughts had been.

Split honors evenly? At a disadvantage? Relying solely on the massive numbers of Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals?

Even Titled Card Makers numbered five openly, and several of them came from major noble families; even so, they were still subject to the control of the authorities.

And now, the global tournament was also initiated by the Yanhuang Ancient Country, with the number of participants almost equaling the Bald Eagle Federation and far surpassing the other three nations. Furthermore, the great tianji mirror could convert the conceptual existence of leaf micro-worlds in the World Tree secret realm into images without entering the secret realm, projecting them to the whole world. These successive performances looked nothing like a weak and feeble authority; this was clearly an incomparably powerful and unfathomable authority.

But regardless, Wuzhiqi right now was an absolute overpowered existence in this secret realm; even the so-called great tianji mirror would probably find it hard to compare.

Wuzhiqi continued: "Even if the authorities are ever so magical and resourceful, after all, they are restricted by those unknown rules; not being able to enter this secret realm is still in vain. Therefore, I feel that countries around the world sending the younger generation of talents to train is one aspect, but more importantly, it is to contend for the core fruits of these leaf micro-worlds to bring back to their respective countries, and even——"

Sun Po thought in his heart: "Even to contend for the core of this entire secret realm—that branch of the World Tree Yggdrasil."

Wuzhiqi continued: "Indeed, Master. Originally, we were also standing at the same starting line as the various contestants. I can see the current battle footage of this batch of contestants; among them, a few contestants didn't even go all out when facing the orange monster tides, possessing quite a bit of strength."

"And even if our strength is strong enough to crush ordinary monsters in every leaf micro-world, we would still be bewitched and influenced by that squirrel Ratatoskr, and we wouldn't know the situation of the micro-world fruits and the methods to make them manifest prematurely, which would waste a lot of time."

"But with Master's talisman, we have already seized all initiative and can completely plot for more. We can first pull Li Tiance and Liu Jianren out from their respective micro-worlds. That way, not only will we be more efficient when plotting for the subsequent fruits, but the pressure will also be smaller when facing subsequent sieges and contentions."

Sun Po pondered for a moment, and asked again in his heart: "If each leaf micro-world exists because of a contestant, then after that contestant is eliminated, will the corresponding leaf micro-world disappear?"

Wuzhiqi was clearly stunned for a moment, and muttered: "That won't happen."

Immediately afterwards, Wuzhiqi looked at Sun Po in disbelief: "Master, could it be that you want to—?"

Sun Po nodded: "The bold are stuffed to death, the timid starve to death!!"

In the leaf micro-world where Li Tiance was located, the huge Xuanwu Gate stood towering amidst the magma river.

The surface of Xuanwu Gate was somewhat damaged. Holding a golden bow in his left hand, Li Tiance looked at the monster corpses piled up into hills in the magma river, with an arrow floating above the corpses.

"Snap!"

A subtle snapping sound rang out. Li Tiance lowered his head slightly and looked at his slightly trembling right hand.

On the thumb of his right hand, a jade-green, lustrous thumb ring developed a tiny crack, and then that crack gradually expanded, finally shattering completely.

Li Tiance sighed softly. Although he felt that this national competition had many abnormalities, news about this national competition was guarded very strictly; even he had only heard a little wind of it, and only learned what specific secret realm they were facing before the competition started.

Therefore, after entering, Li Tiance had no particular direction for a time. After exchanging a few words with Sun Po through the arrows of the mind, he was interrupted by the monster tide.

After repelling the purple monster tide, Li Tiance found a fractured flint.

That flint faintly emitted a powerful divinity, proclaiming the extraordinariness of its owner.

Li Tiance had the intention to slay this powerful monster and make a fortune in points.

Through the guaranteed-hit effect of the Heavenly Khagan, he shot an arrow at the owner of the flint, tracking it all the way to the front of this huge abyss.

Beneath the abyss was an endless long river of magma and countless demon-like, orange-tier monsters.

Following that was a bitter battle, a truly bitter battle. Li Tiance knew this was only the first day out of seven, so he was also subconsciously conserving his strength, merely dealing with the enemy using the less costly golden bow and white arrows along with Xuanwu Gate and Yuchi Yigde, basically not deploying too many trump cards.

The price was that Li Tiance pulled the bow until his hands felt like they were about to break. Even though he had intentionally undergone special training before the competition started, he felt that such high-intensity shooting was a bit too much to bear, and even the archer's thumb ring that had accompanied him for a long time shattered.

Fortunately, this wave of orange monster tides was finally repelled. He could now continue following the arrow pointing to the owner of the flint, but Li Tiance truly felt he needed a moment to ease up. His right hand for drawing the bow was already trembling, and the jade thumb ring had also broken. Although he could wrap his thumb with the power attached by the Saints Heart Formula, his mind also needs some relaxation.

Otherwise, there were still six days left; if he maintained a state of concentration at all times, he definitely wouldn't be able to hold out.

Li Tiance leaped down from Xuanwu Gate and walked toward the palace behind the gate.

These palaces were the mutations produced when Xuanwu Gate evolved after Li Tiance obtained the Power of Merit, and they were also where his true trump cards lay.

Suddenly, Li Tiance felt the ground shake once.

Li Tiance thought it was his own illusion, little knowing that Wuzhiqi in the void had already struck out with the first strand of Ren Water Divine Power.

Right after that came another vibration; Li Tiance was very certain it was definitely not an illusion.

The next second, violent shaking and an extremely intense burning sensation struck. The ground beneath his feet cracked, viscous magma emerged from beneath the earth, and faint cracks appeared in the crimson sky, revealing the dark color of the void.

Li Tiance turned around, raised his head, and looked at the incomparably thick giant magma pillar rising from the abyss, then looked at the "guiding arrow" shooting rapidly down toward the abyss, his eyes full of helplessness: "Couldn't you wait a bit before coming?"

In the void, the huge Sæhrímnir had locked onto Wuzhiqi and Sun Po, who stood atop the water clouds.

After three balls of Ren Water Divine Power light went down, Sun Po could already see that trace of fiery red faintly bleeding through from the void not far away.

Wuzhiqi sent a telepathic message to Sun Po in his heart: "Master, there is no need for you to strike personally; the flame dragon armor is precisely that fellow's nemesis."

Sun Po's heart stirred slightly: "Black Rhino protection, Flame Dragon attack! Very well, let's give it a try!!"