79: Chu Jian's manipulation, Sun Feifei speaks out for her best friend

Lu Chen and the others continued their journey.

Along the way, they discovered some trial-takers who had already perished.

Many of them were from other academies.

There were people from every academy.

Even many from Jie Dao of Jidong City had died.

I wonder if Chu Ye, whom Third Prince Chu Jian arranged, is here.

Or has he also died?

As they continued walking.

Lu Chen also started chatting with Ning Xiwei and the other two along the way.

The concentration of magic in the Secret Realm.

Allowed Lu Chen to be continuously nourished.

The feeling of walking like this was just like idling in an experience pool.

Lu Chen's strength had already reached the fifth rank.

There were even signs of entering the sixth rank.

This was quite unexpected for Lu Chen.

"We're approaching the Illusion Point up ahead. No matter what you see later, don't be fooled!" Ning Xiwei put away the map she had scavenged from the body of a trial-taker.

She was certain the area ahead was an illusion zone.

So everyone should be prepared.

As for Lu Chen, being an undead himself, he wouldn't be affected by any illusions.

However, the two girls who had joined them and Ning Xiwei would certainly be affected.

This made Lu Chen a bit worried.

As everyone continued forward.

They eventually entered a red mist.

Passing through the mist, they finally reached the center of the Illusion Point.

Here, Lu Chen saw a scene that shocked him.

Four carved doors emerged within the Crimson Mist.

Morning Dew's door was entwined with grapevines and a holy grail, Shelley's door frame was covered in ice roses, and Ning Xiwei's door was locked with twelve golden shackles.

And the door in front of Lu Chen... was a relief of a bronze throne, with black blood seeping from the door's cracks.

"Each of you choose a door," a voice from the Void Realm echoed with multiple reverberations. "Or be trapped in the illusion forever! With your strength, it's already a surprise to this old man that you could reach this point. This is the Secret Realm, the place where the true gods secret treasure is hidden, and you? You're too weak!"

Lu Chen listened to the voice from the Void Realm.

A look of disdain appeared on his Face.

"Is it you playing tricks behind the scenes?"

"It is not I; I am merely an old man guarding the secret treasure."

"No rush. When my bone saber is buried in your head, you'll know the consequences of speaking in riddles all day."

"You, a summoned creature, are quite peculiar. Interesting!"

With that, the old man stopped speaking.

Lu Chen intended to take the first step.

His bone saber was suddenly pressed down by Ning Xiwei: "You enter mine."

Her ears were red, but her tone was firm. "If we enter different ones, even if it's an illusion, it won't affect what we don't have, right?"

Ning Xiwei was very clever!

Morning Dew bit her lip and also grabbed Lu Chen's arm bone.

"Um, Skeleton Big Brother, I've never encountered a situation like this. See if you need..."

Shelley directly threw out an ice chain to wrap around the skeleton's waist. "You, this undead skeleton, are very interesting. Do you want to join our Family?"

Under the pull of the three forces, Lu Chen's bones creaked.

Lu Chen was helpless.

Then he pushed the three women aside at once.

"Alright, I'll go in one by one. Isn't it just clearing a stage? I'll handle the whole place alone!"

Saying this, Lu Chen's Soul Fire suddenly erupted with energy, pushing everyone back.

Then, carrying his bone saber, Lu Chen crashed through the Bronze Door.

Unexpectedly, a powerful suction pulled the three beautiful figures into the door at the same time.

It turned out to be the one Lu Chen had chosen.

Damn, there was no choice after all!

When Lu Chen regained his senses, he felt the world spinning before opening his eyes.

He saw the ruins of a battlefield under a blood moon.

Ning Xiwei was forming hand seals.

The summoning Formation beneath the girl's feet suddenly exploded, and his skeleton body climbed out of the Formation—it was a replay of the scene from the day of his Transmigration!

"So back then..." Lu Chen saw himself instinctively blocking the explosion's impact for Ning Xiwei, his bone fragments tearing the girl's clothes.

The younger Ning Xiwei touched his cracked skull and poured all the healing potions onto the undead creature.

The illusion suddenly shattered.

Lu Chen felt wet all over.

It turned out they were standing in lake water.

A soaking wet Morning Dew fell out from the water curtain, her robe clinging to her curves!

"Skeleton Big Brother, I saw... there's a Formation in this Secret Realm, we can Breakthrough!"

She suddenly realized the illusion might have shared memories, and her cheeks instantly flushed red.

Because she had also seen the scenes of Lu Chen and Ning Xiwei together before.

Amidst the sound of shattering ice crystals, Shelley landed stumblingly.

The usually cold ice beauty's lips were pale.

It seemed very cold here.

An abnormal cold.

The last to appear, Ning Xiwei, was the most disheveled, with rose petals from the illusion still stuck in her hair.

She glared fiercely at Lu Chen. Why didn't he take the initiative to hold her?

These two teammates she'd met by chance had only fought one battle together, right?

Were they already going to share life and death?

"It seems we've shared some memory fragments."

Lu Chen pretended not to see Ning Xiwei's flushed cheeks.

His bone saber pointed toward the Crystal Coffin at the end of the ruins. "But now... that's the center of the Secret Realm's Formation!"

Outside the Secret Realm.

At this time, another group of new experts.

Had arrived here.

It was the Knight Academy under the Magic Association.

They were affiliated with the West.

They had magic branch schools in Huaxia.

And had deep cooperation with various major magic academies in Huaxia.

A white-bearded old man leading the group.

Walked over to greet Chu Jian as soon as he saw him.

"Grand Magister? What brings the Vice Dean here!"

Chu Jian looked at the white-bearded old man walking over.

He asked with a fake smile on his Face.

The white-bearded old man was none other than Grimm, the local Vice Dean of the Knight Academy.

He was also a dual-element Grand Magister.

"Hehe, some Disciples are undergoing trials inside. Naturally, this old man has to come and look after them."

"Is that so? Your Disciples, Shelley and Morning Dew, are in fifteenth and sixteenth place. As for that red-haired youth with a pseudonym, his name seems never to have appeared, nor has it lit up or gone dark..."

"Hehe, no rush."

New forces entering the Secret Realm.

Made those who had fled from the Secret Realm.

Even more regretful.

—If such big figures have come, the true gods secret treasure must be real!

Sun Feifei was currently bickering with a defiant fifth-rank expert.

It was this fifth-rank expert who had been speaking insolently and insulting her Best Friend.

Now, this guy was about to make a move.

Sun Feifei naturally wouldn't show him any Face.

Her sharp tongue was reclaiming the honor for her good sister.

This fifth-rank expert couldn't easily make a move at this time.

He was practically driven to tears by anger.

He was already one of those who had fled.

Now, he was being looked down upon by a third-rank little girl.

He really wanted to cry!

What's wrong with this world?

This world is truly too terrifying.

Just then, Jie Chu, a sidekick of Jie Dao, didn't give any Face at all.

"Hehe, seriously, how embarrassing. A third-rank little girl is insulting a fifth-rank expert like you, and you're just listening? You should probably make some kind of response, shouldn't you?"

As soon as these words were spoken.

The atmosphere in the valley turned tense again!