81: The strongest team, all of them in the top five! They're all trying to recruit Sun Feifei!

"If he's still alive, I'd really like to know who he actually is. I also came from the Knight Academy for an exchange, but I didn't hide my identity!"

"Why would he hide it? It's not like the Ignis Family is something to be ashamed of, right?"

Dark gold patterns flickered wildly as the Soul Fire sensed a heartbeat a hundred meters deep underground.

Before the others could react, Lu Chen discovered something.

He unsheathed his bone saber and slashed fiercely at the ground.

An abyssal fissure was seen slowly being pulled open.

The earth trembled, and the heavens and earth shook.

This was not Lu Chen's power.

Rather, this place was entirely a Formation.

"That guy probably faked his death to escape!" Lu Chen retracted his bone saber, looking curious. "Could it be that he found the true gods secret treasure and doesn't want to share it with us? Let's go!"

After saying that, Lu Chen wrapped his arm around Ning Xiwei's waist and took the lead, leaping into the fissure hidden by the Formation.

There was the aura of a living person!

It seemed to be that red-haired youth?

Could this person have discovered the true gods secret treasure?

Interesting!

After Lu Chen leaped inside,

He arrived at a place that looked like Hell.

Calling it Hell didn't mean it was filled with undead.

Instead, this Secret Realm was indeed different from the previous Devouring Water Wolf's.

This place was filled entirely with magma.

However, you couldn't feel any heat.

But if you threw a stone into the magma, the stone would be swallowed by it.

Clearly, this place was extraordinary.

As Lu Chen and the others went deeper into the Secret Realm,

Their points actually increased.

On the sky screen they couldn't see,

Not only did everyone's points increase by three thousand,

But Lu Chen's name even appeared on the sky screen.

The most critical thing was that Lu Chen's name was actually blacked out.

This only represented one thing—this person was dead!

If someone is kicked out, meaning they escaped the Secret Realm,

Then your name would be settled and then disappear.

It wouldn't remain on the sky screen's leaderboard.

But when a person's name turns black,

It means they are dead.

Naturally, their points shouldn't increase anymore.

However, what was jaw-dropping was—a dead person's points were increasing?

Is he even human?

What a joke!

Could it be that some big shot is dragging a corpse into a deeper area?

How could that be possible?

Who would be so sentimental?

Moreover, no one had ever heard of the name Lu Chen.

Everyone looked at each other, none knowing where this fellow had popped up from.

Whose Family's Disciple is this?

Only Sun Feifei, upon seeing this name and noticing the blacked-out one,

Had a flash of pleasant surprise in her eyes!

It's Little Skeleton!

Little Skeleton can actually be identified as a trial-taker by the Law?

How miraculous!

Sun Feifei was also very smart and naturally wouldn't expose Lu Chen's identity.

After all, it was far too shocking!

At this moment, several names appeared on the leaderboard—all in the top five!

Ning Xiwei, Lu Chen, Shelley, Morning Dew—Ignis!

They were all Ning Xiwei's people!

By clinging to a powerful thigh, they had directly taken flight.

Back to the present.

Lu Chen was looking around, examining the surroundings carefully.

This place had the aura of the true gods secret treasure.

But it wasn't very abundant.

Clearly, this was not the treasure hoard of the true gods secret treasure.

Rivers of magma surged beneath a dome of skeletons.

Lu Chen wrapped a magic cloak around Ning Xiwei, leading her through the sulfurous mist.

Ning Xiwei was a Summoner, and her own magic wasn't very strong.

Furthermore, she didn't have any shield magic.

So she needed special care.

People like Shelley and Morning Dew could cast magic shields of their respective attributes themselves.

As the girl's hair brushed against Lu Chen's breastplate, a peculiar feeling arose in Lu Chen's heart.

It seemed Lu Chen could sense external things now!

Heat, cold, and subtle tactile sensations?

This was a sign of increasing strength.

Lu Chen's current strength was at least at the level of a Skeleton Guard.

He had to quickly reach the eighth rank.

To directly become a Skeleton General.

Lu Chen and the others walked to an altar not far ahead.

The twelve totem poles here lit up with blood-red flames simultaneously.

"Is this an altar representing the Hell Flame Demon?" Ning Xiwei's voice trembled as she explained to everyone: "In our magic race classes, the teacher told us that legend says Hell Flame Demons are also descendants of ancient gods and demons, and the Ignis Family in the world today has the Flame Demon Bloodline..."

In the center of the altar, a person's figure slowly appeared.

She was condensed from magma.

The magma was like a red veil, wrapping around her slowly rising figure.

The woman's fiery red hair fell to her ankles, and molten lava gathered at her collarbone into a rose tattoo.

When those molten gold eyes opened, Lu Chen, as a member of the Undead Race, felt a resonance with her.

She wasn't of the Human Race either!

"You guys are so slow, but being able to find this place must be thanks to that Little Skeleton, right? He really isn't an ordinary member of the Undead Race!" Shedding her disguise, Ignis raised her fair wrist as magma condensed into a long whip at her fingertips. "So you've seen me in this form after all."

Morning Dew's healing spell almost flew out by accident.

Hearing these words,

Everyone suddenly realized who this person was!

The red-haired youth who had covered everyone's retreat earlier!

It really was a fake name.

And even the appearance was fake.

In the world of magic, truth and falsehood are intertwined.

It really is hard to see through!

However, Lu Chen wasn't particularly surprised.

Previously, he had felt that the red-haired youth

Had not only a strange name, but even the disguised magic skin had been seen through by him.

It was just that at the time, Lu Chen couldn't see through everything completely.

But he knew that it wasn't her true face.

The young priestess looked at the stunning beauty stepping out of the magma, her staff falling to the ground with a 'clatter': "Senior... no, Senior Sister, you're a girl?"

"I, Ignis, am a descendant of the Flame Demon, with a Pure Yin Body." Ignis's exposed waist shimmered with magic runes in the firelight. "My Family had me disguise myself as a man for twenty years just to come to this Eastern Secret Realm and obtain the Flame Demon Blood from the altar!"

After she finished speaking, she suddenly looked at Lu Chen. Her whip coiled around him and pulled him in front of her in an instant!

She scrutinized Lu Chen's pair of Soul-flame eyes.

"Are you really of the Undead Race? — You don't look like it at all!"

Ning Xiwei's staff quickly pressed against the red-haired beauty's back.

Shelley's ice spikes blocked all of Ignis's paths of retreat.

Yet the other party didn't panic; instead, she bit her red lips and kissed Lu Chen's skull.

Magma flowed through the gaps in her teeth into the Soul Fire, and blood-red patterns instantly crawled over the entire skeleton.

"You have the Origin of the Undead Monarch within you." Ignis's fingertips stroked Lu Chen's facial bones where the embryonic form of flesh was appearing. "I've decided to follow you. You can find the true gods secret treasure, so you can do me a favor, and I'll share the power of the Hell Flame Demon with you! — A fair trade."

At that moment, the lava dome suddenly collapsed.

"It seems the Secret Realm doesn't just have a group of Eastern locals; even the Western Magic Council has come and has been chasing me! Lu Chen, is it? You skeleton, this Young Miss is going to stick with you from now on."

Ignis spoke out.