78: Chapter 77 The First Senior High School Student to Slay Gods!!

As soon as they stepped into the Duel Secret Realm, everyone saw an Asura purgatory.

The Duel Secret Realm, which originally had rocky ground, was now covered with an endless expanse of severed limbs, broken claws, and stinking fish heads stretching as far as the eye could see.

Bai Yu narrowed his eyes and said with a grim expression:

"I thought the battle at our main entrance was fierce enough, but I didn't expect it to be even more terrifying inside the Duel Secret Realm."

Liu Shengsheng squatted down, carefully examined the corpses of these monsters, and then said:

"Most of them are white-tier monsters, though some are green-tier."

"This must be because the Duel Secret Realm is connected to other secret realms,

and the monster tide from those other realms flooded in through the connecting portals.

With these numbers, did the experts from the Li Family fall back to reinforce and defend this place?"

Li Tiance pondered for a moment. "It was Sun Po. He held this place all by himself."

The others didn't gasp audibly like characters in a novel; instead, Liu Shengsheng laughed:

"I didn't expect you to be so humorous, Li Tiance, but that joke is way too unrealistic."

But seeing that Li Tiance didn't reply to her and was instead walking hurriedly toward the depths of the secret realm,

the others quickly followed. Liu Jianren, in particular, was practically running.

By now, several of them were running on fumes, having almost no spirituality left even to summon cards.

Even Li Tiance and Guan Zhen, who possessed field cards, didn't have much spirituality remaining.

After all, dealing with over a hundred powerhouses at the high-rank Card Maker level was extremely tough for them, even if those powerhouses were compromised in state.

And that was under the premise that Li Tiance and Yuan Tiangang bore most of the pressure, alongside assistance from a group of un-rebelled teachers.

The further forward they walked, the more alarmed they became. The density of these fish-headed, human-bodied monsters grew higher and higher along the way.

And not a single material had been left behind.

With such a vast number of monsters, it was impossible for not even a single material to drop.

That left only one explanation: while slaughtering these monsters, Sun Po still had the capacity to harvest the materials.

This meant even this terrifying number of monsters hadn't forced Sun Po to go all out.

Even if they were just white and green-tier monster hordes, for one person to wipe out such numbers was still absurdly far-fetched.

Guan Zhen, who was now running along with the group, had originally thought that Sun Po must have exhausted all his means and gone all out when fighting him,

otherwise he wouldn't have been killed so cleanly and swiftly.

But looking at it now, Sun Po going all out was true—except he was probably holding back with all his might just to avoid instantly killing him, the Card Maker, along with his cards.

Xu Xiu recalled how, during the battle at the main entrance, she had felt a terrifying aura coming from the direction of the Duel Secret Realm and had worried briefly:

What if Sun Po died directly in this calamity? How would she seek revenge on him in the future? Wouldn't failing to avenge herself tarnish her sword heart?

But looking at the current situation, there was good news and bad news.

The good news was that her rival wasn't dead. The bad news was that she seemed completely unable to beat him.

Liu Jianren, however, was filled with anxiety; Sun Po had done him a huge favor.

If not for Sun Po, he would still be an ordinary high school senior holding green cards,

maybe working hard enough to barely squeeze into an undergraduate college, but definitely never reaching his current height.

Among everyone, Li Tiance was the most worried. In the original script he had seen, Sun Po indeed went through a monster tide here.

However, because Sun Po possessed the Changyou, which was advantageous in aquatic combat, and the Tianhe Budu, which could unleash floods,

plus his Yin Soldiers, he should have been able to hold out until three quarters past noon.

But from the moment he stepped into this secret realm, Li Tiance knew that things had spiraled out of control far beyond his imagination.

In the original script, the monster tide consisted of creatures known as Deep Ones.

Now, however, the monster corpses on the ground seemed somewhat different compared to Deep Ones.

They looked larger in size, and compared to ordinary Deep Ones,

their most distinctive feature was a pair of antlers that had inexplicably grown on their heads.

This was not in Li Tiance's script.

Walking forward a bit further, Li Tiance saw the corpses of giant Mutated Deep Ones over ten meters tall in the depths, and his expression turned even grimmer.

With his eyesight, even without official smartwatch data, he could tell that

these were monsters of at least blue-tier.

Aristocratic descendants like Liu Shengsheng, Xu Xiu, and Don Quixote naturally possessed such discernment as well.

Meanwhile, Guan Zhen, Bai Yu, and Liu Jianren, despite lacking rich secret realm exploration experience,

could still tell from their sheer size that these behemoths were definitely no walk in the park when alive.

After all, in secret realms, small creatures weren't necessarily weak, but large creatures were definitely strong.

What allowed Li Tiance and the others to breathe a slight sigh of relief, however,

was that although the ground here was littered with corpses, still no materials had been left behind.

At this point, it wasn't just the others who were confused; even Li Tiance was somewhat bewildered.

As a fellow owner of an orange-quality field card, he naturally knew where its limits lay.

Even if that field card called Tianhe Budu was better suited for dealing with large-scale army battles,

and even if an orange-quality field card could provide a Card Maker with more spirituality, everything had its limits.

Even he was only an intermediate Card Maker, and everyone else present was merely an apprentice or novice.

Facing over ten thousand of these strange Deep Ones, could anyone truly win?

Suddenly, the group felt the light from above dim.

Li Tiance also finally laid eyes on that mythical divine monster—the Great Old One Dagon.

Although the monster looked utterly miserable, its hundred-meter-tall body and the divine aura it radiated proclaimed its terror in every way.

Opposite the monster, a small black dot could be faintly seen.

As an archer, Li Tiance's eyesight was naturally far superior to ordinary people.

With a single glance, he saw that the black dot was Sun Po, clad in that strange armor and leaping high into the air.

He was thrusting a spear straight into the monster's mouth.

Li Tiance decisively summoned his bow and arrow.

"[Golden Phoenix]!! Manifest!!"

"[White Phoenix]!! Manifest!!"

Most people only knew that Li Tiance's Golden-feathered Pheasant was orange-quality, unaware that what Li Tiance made was never a Golden-feathered Pheasant in the first place.

Ever since birth, he possessed an innate spiritual space containing two cards, and these two cards could manifest into a bow and an arrow.

One was the ultimate form of Golden-feathered Pheasant—Golden Phoenix, while the other was more like a white mutated version of Golden Phoenix.

Some prodigies in the Five Surnames and Seven Clans circles knew of Li Tiance's abilities and thus called him "Li Erfeng."

This was both because Li Tiance ranked second in the Li Family, where Golden Phoenix served as the core card, and because of his two innate cards.

However, on ordinary days, Li Tiance only used the Golden Phoenix Bow and rarely used the enormously powerful White Phoenix Arrow.

This time, facing a deity card, he unleashed maximum lethality right off the bat.

But before Li Tiance could shoot his bow and arrow, the hundred-meter-tall colossal monster suddenly plummeted down.

Immediately after, a huge purple mushroom cloud rose,

and the aura of the Great Old One had completely vanished.

Li Tiance put away his cards and murmured under his breath:

"Slaying a deity in high school... truly unprecedented."

...