69: I am Lu Chen, the Skeleton King!

After reaching a piece of high ground...

The abnormal movement underground suddenly stopped.

Lu Chen let go of Ning Xiwei's hand.

He felt a bit strange deep down.

Why did those underground monsters stop following them once they reached this place?

How bizarre!

Lu Chen grabbed a handful of yellow sand from the ground.

After giving it a gentle squeeze...

Lu Chen could be certain that the ground here was not an ocean.

It might be a piece of solid land.

If that was the case, perhaps the source of magic was right beneath their feet?

If so, there would be a chance!

Lu Chen intended to take action!

Meanwhile...

In another space...

Chu Ye, Chu Jian's Thirteenth Brother, was staring in shock at an incredible and trembling scene in the distance.

On a small sand dune far away...

There were over a dozen giant wolves covered in fish scales.

They were the Devouring Water Wolves.

Each one looked like a monster.

If they didn't have the general form of a wolf, you would really doubt if they were even living creatures.

They were perhaps like chimera-like things.

They possessed a wolf-like appearance, but their bodies were covered in armor that looked like fish scales.

It was as if they were draped in shimmering fish scales.

They could flow freely through the desert.

They could even dive underground and move at will; moreover, the underground here was like a vast ocean.

If one fell in and was sucked underground by the surface quicksand...

Even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal would likely lose their life.

No one could save you.

Beyond the help of the gods.

When these dozen or so appeared, everyone prepared for combat.

But when they saw another dozen leap out from the quicksand...

Everyone was slightly stunned.

Then, the numbers kept increasing and increasing.

In the end, there were actually over a thousand Devouring Water Wolves.

This scene made Chu Ye and the others tremble all over!

Why are there so many?

These are all Rank Five Demonic Beasts.

How can Rank Five beasts be so worthless here that so many jump out at once?

Don't they dislike the sun?

Why are they jumping out one by one from that bottomless underground ocean, looking like they're out to sunbathe?

This is dangerous!

Chu Ye and his group didn't dare to make a move.

They were afraid of alerting these monsters.

However, the many Devouring Water Wolves still discovered them.

In an instant, they were completely surrounded.

Each water wolf revealed its blood-red, copper-bell-like eyes and opened its bloody maw, ready to pounce and devour all dozen of them in the next moment.

"We're so unlucky!" Chu Ye cursed. "Seriously, encountering such a situation right after entering. Forget about farming points, we'll be lucky to even keep our lives. How unlucky!"

Chu Ye secretly felt that things were looking bad.

Although he was a Rank Five expert and a Magic Swordsman, there were simply too many of these guys; ants can indeed bite an elephant to death.

For anyone, this was not a predicament that could be easily solved.

If there were only a dozen or even around a hundred of these wolves...

The dozen or so people here could have handled it.

Even though these Devouring Water Wolves were also Rank Five.

After all, they were humans—highly intelligent beings.

But now, they were in trouble.

Because there were over a thousand Devouring Water Wolves here.

If they closed in like this, even if any of them could make it out alive, they would likely lose a layer of skin, and many would have to be sacrificed.

Moreover, in this vast desert, they didn't even know where the entrance to the next area was.

This place seemed to be restricted by Laws.

Just like that voice in the sky controlling everything here.

It was like a game dungeon.

One could only exit through death...

...or victory to enter the next dungeon area.

Otherwise, there was no way to leave.

This was an obvious fact for all to see.

These Devouring Water Wolves wouldn't fight these humans one-on-one.

They always maintained an attitude of attacking together.

In this spot, everyone began to gather their power, using barriers to withstand the surrounding water wolves, but barriers would eventually be exhausted.

So they had to find a way.

"This is bad!"

Chu Ye gritted his teeth and shouted to those around him, "Start running now! Kill as you run!"

Chu Ye decisively made a break for it.

He led his dozen or so brothers and ran.

Other trial-takers had also entered this area.

At this moment, they were in a similar situation.

Seeing that even the Thirteenth Prince of the Great Chu Imperial Dynasty was running for his life...

...they certainly didn't dare to delay and followed suit.

At the very least, they had to escape this area.

Chu Ye was a Rank Five expert, and even he had fled.

Naturally, the others also fled rapidly.

Each one was faster than the last, as if their feet were greased.

Anyone who slowed down was a fool.

In any case, they couldn't stay for even a minute.

Staying alive was more important than anything else!

Awooo~!

The pack of wolves began to howl, and they started chasing their prey.

Clearly, for these natural-born hunters, chasing fleeing prey was what they wanted; that's why they had only been attacking the barriers before instead of launching a full-scale assault.

But when the prey started to run, they truly revealed their fangs; they were the true masters of this area.

This was the key to how they could survive in this Deep Secret Realm until now without being devoured by other powerful magical creatures.

They were strategic hunters.

They succeeded every time, basically never failing.

The army of Devouring Water Wolves began to move, over a thousand of them in a dense mass surrounding these so-called human "experts" who had intruded.

No matter what profession of mage you were, or even a Magic Swordsman of Magic and Martial Dual Cultivation...

...in their eyes, you were all just delicious pieces of meat.

It had begun.

Hunting time.

Compared to here, in other similar spaces...

...their respective hunts had also begun.

Except this time, the hunters were not these human experts, but magical creatures of Rank Five, Rank Six, or even Rank Seven and Eight.

One unlucky human Rank Six Magic Swordsman encountered a Rank Eight giant serpent and was swallowed whole before he could even show his face.

The giant serpent even felt unsatisfied, as if it hadn't had enough to eat.

The upgrade of the Secret Realm was actually just a key.

It was the key to opening the gate to the depths of the Secret Realm.

Without the upgrade, these depths wouldn't even exist.

The Secret Realm would never have opened these areas.

The hunt of the Secret Realm begins!