Chapter 1 Ancient Secret Realm

Although the Ancient Secret Realm is just a secret realm, its size is several times larger than a large map in the outside world, like a small world.

Even though Shi Feng and the others were all Tier 3 classes, without the use of mounts, it still took them most of the day to arrive at a majestic city standing in a canyon.

The entire city was completely wrapped in layers of magic arrays. Through the magic barrier, one could vaguely see various towering magic towers and buildings hundreds of meters high. There were even floating buildings that could not be seen in kingdoms and empires. The level of prosperity was not comparable to the royal city of a kingdom, or even the imperial capitals of various empires.

Even Shi Feng couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this majestic ancient city for the first time.

Because they were only standing thousands of yards away, they could feel a terrifying sense of oppression constantly pressing down on them, making their bodies inexplicably heavy. If they were Tier 2 players, they probably wouldn't be able to get close to the ancient city.

"Be careful of the statues inside the city walls. Although those statues are wrapped in magic arrays, it's best not to look at them. If you look at them for too long, you can easily fall into a state of mental weakness." Silent Firmament looked at the crowd, who were full of curiosity about the ancient city, and couldn't help but remind them, "If your mind falls into a state of weakness, it will take four or five days to recover. At that time, don't even think about trying to complete the trial; you probably won't even have enough time to return."

"Causes mental weakness?"

Shi Feng couldn't help but look at the carved stone statue wrapped in the magic array. Immediately, he felt a terrifying mental pressure invade his mind. An ancient figure appeared in his mind, making people dare not look directly at it.

In just an instant, Shi Feng felt a palpitation, but mentally, he could barely resist it.

"A Tier 4 Divine Spirit's Will?" Shi Feng felt the mental pressure from the statue and was slightly surprised. "No wonder the Violet Sword, which obtained the Ancient Secret Realm in the previous life, had so many Tier 4 experts."

In God's Domain, ancient gods had long disappeared, and it was even difficult to see a demigod. However, in some dangerous places in God's Domain, there were inherited lands left by ancient gods, and in those inherited lands, there was the will of the gods.

These divine wills outwardly gave people a great mental pressure, making people afraid to approach or even look at them, but they had a great advantage.

That was to temper the mind!

In God's Domain, a player's stamina and spirit were hidden attributes. In particular, there was no clear way to improve the spirit attribute. Generally, it could only be improved by advancing to a higher tier.

Originally, not many players cared about spirit, but as more and more players learned combat techniques, especially top experts learning those advanced combat techniques, everyone realized the importance of spirit.

Because a strong spirit could not only allow players to use more combat techniques, but also consume less energy when using the same combat techniques.

The most important point was that if the spirit was not strong enough, one could not learn and use those powerful combat techniques.

Unfortunately, there was no way to improve a player's spirit in God's Domain. One could only obediently improve the activity of the brain or improve one's tier.

However, as more and more experts began to come into contact with those ancient lands and the will of the gods, they discovered an amazing thing: the will of the gods could be used to improve a player's spirit limit. Although the effect was weak, it was still considerable over time.

It was just that the will of the gods was not so easy to find, and it could not be used to improve a player's spirit infinitely. Depending on the strength of the will of the gods, the upper limit that a player could improve also varied. If a player's spirit was very strong, some divine wills were even useless to the player.

The statues in the Ancient City contained the will of the gods and could temper a player's spirit to the Tier 4 level, so it was called the Tier 4 Divine Spirit's Will.

If a player's spirit was raised to Tier 4, the help it would give to a player's promotion to a Tier 4 class would be considerable.

Because a strong spirit could better control a player's body, strength, magic power, etc., allowing the player to exert greater potential, like a college student doing elementary school homework.

However, because the statues were now wrapped in magic arrays, the transmitted will was severely weakened. It might have some effect on ordinary Tier 3 players, but for top Tier 3 experts, the help was almost zero; it was just a waste of their spirit.

"Guild Leader Black Flame, the entrance to the Trial Land is ahead." Silent Firmament pointed to a huge gate not far away and said slowly, "Because we are challenging the Heroic Trial, we only have one chance. If we are all wiped out inside, we will not be able to enter again. But as long as there are still people inside, even if others die, they can enter after being resurrected. However, the resurrection time here is very long, it takes a full day, so please be careful."

If it was just an ordinary trial, it would be fine, but the Heroic Trial only had one chance. If the players continued to die inside, their alchemical magic array, which lasted a maximum of seven days, would not be enough. So one of the keys to completing the Heroic Trial was to control the death of players, otherwise they would waste a whole day.

This was also why they had tried their best to avoid the regional leaders before.

"I understand." Shi Feng nodded.

Silent Firmament saw that Shi Feng already understood what she meant, so she didn't say anything more. After all, at Shi Feng's level, many things only needed to be reminded once, and he would understand them thoroughly.

Immediately, Silent Firmament, Wildfire Berserker, and others walked to a teleportation gate more than ten meters high, took out a pitch-black crystal from their backpacks, and began to chant incantations at the teleportation gate.

More than ten people chanted incantations together, gradually causing the divine patterns on the teleportation gate to light up, and the magic power around the teleportation gate began to surge.

Just as Silent Firmament and others were opening the Heroic Trial, Explosive Sand and others were quietly observing in the broken rocks five hundred yards away.

"Heroic Trial!" The Tier 3 female knight looked at the teleportation gate with the divine patterns lit up and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "The Violet Sword actually plans to complete the Heroic Trial. That Heroic Trial only has one chance; are they crazy?"

She had personally experienced the trials of the Ancient City, so how could she not know about the Heroic Trial? But the Elite Trial was simply inhuman. If they didn't have many advanced battle arrays, they probably wouldn't have been able to hold out until the feet of the final trial Boss.

She didn't even dare to think about the more difficult Heroic Trial.

"Heroic Trial?" Explosive Sand looked at Silent Firmament and others who were presiding over the magic array and immediately smiled, "Good! Great! Although I don't know what the Violet Sword and those people from Zero Wing are thinking, to dare to complete the Heroic Trial, this is a great opportunity for us. Originally, I was worried about Silent Firmament and Wildfire Berserker, but the opening of the teleportation gate cannot be interrupted midway, otherwise the trial will be invalidated. This is a good opportunity for us to take action."

"But that Black Flame is not easy to deal with." The female knight couldn't help but glance worriedly at Shi Feng, who was beside the teleportation gate. "If we attack head-on, I'm afraid it will be difficult to gain any advantage."

"Don't worry, the vice-leader has already prepared a trump card for me for this operation." Explosive Sand then smiled and took out crystal-clear gems from his backpack. "These are Tier 3 Magic Devouring Gems. As long as they are embedded in a Level 100 Dark-Gold weapon, they can sacrifice that Level 100 Dark-Gold weapon and the Magic Devouring Gem in exchange for us to have true Tier 4 power in a short time. And this thing is not subject to the restrictions of the Ancient Secret Realm. The vice-leader obtained it from the Demon God's Palace before and gave me five of them as a precaution. As long as each of our five captains has one, we will have five true Tier 4 combat powers. With the defense and health of the advanced battle array, we only need to send three people to entangle that Black Flame. The remaining two people can lead the others and completely slaughter the Violet Sword and the others from Zero Wing, making their plan fall short!"

"You didn't take out such a treasure earlier." The female knight couldn't help but light up when she saw the Magic Devouring Gem.

The vice-leader's mission for them was to find a way to disrupt the Violet Sword's plan, and if possible, kill Shi Feng. Now, although they couldn't kill Shi Feng, it was easy to disrupt the Violet Sword's plan with the Magic Devouring Gem. After all, players in the Ancient Secret Realm needed a day to resurrect after death. If they could interrupt Silent Firmament's teleportation gate unlocking, they could completely ruin the Violet Sword's plan to complete the Heroic Trial.

"Okay, each of you take one." Explosive Sand then divided the four Tier 3 Magic Devouring Gems to the other four captains and looked directly at Shi Feng in the distance, sneering, "It's time for us to let this Black Flame know how foolish it is to provoke our Illusory Myth!"