I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

Outside, inside the Tiannan City camp.

Shi An was using his magical telepathic vision to survey the entire tower hall. Several hundred people had gathered in this spacious hall; the vast majority of the Dreamers from the Land of Revelation had come here.

At this point, most people are waiting.

The rankings for this trial won't be revealed until half a day later, and it's almost time now.

The high-ranking officials of Tiannan City watched intently, their eyes fixed on the scene.

Most of them were watching the images transmitted by the magic eye, and Master Yunwu did so because the magic eye's perspective was more stable and the transmitted images were clearer.

Although Tiannan City also has similar drones, they are far inferior in all aspects.

Just now, Master Yunwu, on behalf of Tiannan City, purchased 20,000 Witchcraft Eyes from the safe zone.

"no problem."

Shi An agreed and didn't charge a high price.

This magical eye-flying technique isn't expensive to produce, and its grade is only ordinary. However, it's a very mature product, essentially something excavated from ancient civilization ruins, modified to suit the Earthlings, and capable of mass production. Naturally, it's something that Tiannan City's research and development over just two or three years can't achieve. Hearing the shopkeeper agree, Liu Yan's eyelids twitched.

She is the director of the research institute. Although she is only responsible for cutting-edge research and archaeological excavation and never pays attention to those trivial production matters, she understands what it means to be able to directly take out 20,000 witchcraft eyes.

She hesitated, then stopped herself from saying anything.

Master Yunwu spoke up, "How many teams do you think will be able to make it to level twenty?"

They already knew the difficulty of the levels.

However, so far, only nine extraordinary teams have actually taken on the challenge.

Even after transcendent beings form teams, the number of squads they can actually assemble is extremely limited. At most, only twelve squads can be formed with all members being transcendent. Of those nine squads, how many can actually pass the twentieth level?

A deputy corps commander spoke up: "The twentieth level is extremely difficult. It is said to be hampered by more than a dozen mid-stage Transcendental Anomalies, as well as a considerable number of ordinary Anomalies. Normally, a squad with an average of only two mid-stage Transcendental Anomalies would not be able to pass this level."

"However, I think many teams have trump cards. Apart from the team from the three cities of Carlo City, which is definitely not going to make it, I think the other eight teams all have a chance."

Of course, it's just a chance; it's still very difficult.

He glanced at the store manager in the safe zone.

What Tiannan City relies on is "mechs". Without mechs, two out of the three teams that Tiannan has already tested would probably not have been able to pass this test.

The special forces within the safe zone are formidable, and it's said that each of them possesses exceptional sorcery skills. However, without additional trump cards like mechs, their chances of overcoming this obstacle will likely be quite slim.

The deputy corps commander didn't voice these thoughts. The shopkeeper was right there; he naturally had to give the teams in the safe zone some face and couldn't be too tactless.

However, there are too few extraordinary teams, so the guesses are all pretty close.

Someone suggested, "Why don't we guess how many teams will be able to get past the tenth level?"

The tenth level requires dealing with dozens of strange creatures, which is extremely difficult for a Dreamer who is only at the Refinement stage.

Even in Tiannan City, there aren't many squads equipped with mecha-like magical artifacts.

In a normal challenge, relying solely on their own strength, most elite teams at the third level of the Refinement Realm would only reach the eighth or ninth level at most. Therefore, it seems that very few of the Refinement Realm teams from Tiannan City would be able to reach the eleventh level.

They guessed.

At this moment, in the viewing hall of the camp, in addition to more than a dozen high-ranking officials from Tiannan City, Yan Xiangtian, Zhou Huai'an, Zhu Chenying, and even the Lord of Ranfeng City were also present.

Zhu Chenying said, "I think that more than 90% of the refining stage teams in the three cities of Baijiang can pass the tenth level."

He also said it was too conservative.

The gap between most of the Dream Fallers at the Third Refinement Realm in the three cities of Baijiang is very small.

They all possess ordinary magical artifacts, master at least two rare magical arts, and multiple ordinary magical arts at the pinnacle of their skill level. Furthermore, their physical and mental strength far surpasses that of ordinary people at the third level of the Refinement Realm.

The representatives of the Refinement stage from the three cities actually changed a lot after the preliminary selection. A group of people advanced to the Extraordinary stage, and a group of candidates were added, but the average level did not decrease.

average.

And they are strong on average; that's what makes a strong person emerge from a safe zone.

In theory, these people are all relatively "mediocre" dreamers. Only those who have entered the top ten or even the top three on the list of geniuses can be called geniuses.

The crowd was discussing it.

In the waiting hall of the ancient tower, finally, a scroll of light and shadow slowly appeared and fell down.

The battle records of each small team are displayed on it.

"Carlo City Team 1: Level 6, 51%"

"Snowy City Team 1: Level 6, 60%"

"Tiannan - Third Special Forces Team: Level 9, 89%"

"Grey Harbor - Snow Leopard Team: Level 10 25%"

"Black Squad: Stage 11, 11%"

"Grey Harbor City - Squad C: Level 12 15%"

The performance of each team quickly became apparent, from lowest to highest.

The high-ranking officials of Tiannan City watched intently, their brows gradually furrowing.

The number of challenges their own teams from Tiannan City had reached was roughly what they had predicted.

The highest level the Tiannan City Refining Stage team reached was the thirteenth level, and five other teams reached the twelfth level, which was naturally due to their mecha weapons.

Another team, led by a transcendent leader, made it to the fourteenth level.

Of course, the other teams are basically at the ninth or eighth level.

However, there were far more teams in Gray Harbor City that had reached level 12 or higher than them, a total of ten teams!

They know their own mechs inside and out and can fight against the supernatural and bizarre, but they would most likely lose in a one-on-one fight.

Moreover, in this trial, some of the heavy firearms on the mechs were unusable, and their mechs were weakened.

"The Hulk potion in Grey Harbor is a purely biological weapon, and therefore it is not subject to the rules."

"Not only are the Refining Stage teams inferior to the Transcendent Stage teams, but our Tiannan City is also significantly weaker than Gray Harbor City this time."

Of the three extraordinary teams in Gray Harbor City, one made it to the twenty-fourth level and two made it to the twenty-third level.

In comparison, the three teams from Tiannan had a total of six fewer levels.

These are the six levels of the higher-level competition, with a difference of sixty points between them.

In future negotiations, Grey Harbor City will definitely use this as leverage.

"How could we be so much worse than Grey Harbor City?" someone murmured.

Fu Zhixuan, the commander of the Third Army Corps, shook his head slightly. "It's probably because our mechs have suffered a lot of damage after these battles. Gray Harbor City is different; they use potions to purely strengthen their physical bodies, yet they can recover using the rules."

He had intelligence that the super potion used in Gray Harbor City had extremely severe side effects and, theoretically, shouldn't be able to sustain the effects for several hours. This was undoubtedly the rule taking effect.

The rules consider the potion to be part of one's own power, while the mecha is considered to be an external force.

Outside, their mechs can be equipped with more powerful weapons, and can be repaired or have parts replaced if damaged. But the super soldiers of Gray Harbor City will deplete a Dreamer's fundamental potential, turning them into expendable resources.

"What a pity."

He was disappointed, but there was nothing he could do.

Suddenly, Fu Zhixuan realized that he seemed to have missed something.

He looked at the list again, from bottom to top.

"Wait a minute, many of these squads that don't start with a city name are from the three cities of the safe zone, right?"

Some of the team names are quite strange, and at first glance they seem to have no clear purpose.

However, the Dreamers in the Land of Revelation belong to only a few families.

The three locations of Carlo City can be almost ignored.

Aside from Tiannan and Gray Harbor, what's left are just the small teams in the safe zone?

And these squads...

Very few teams in the safe zone's refining phase actually make it to level twelve or higher.

There are only two teams.

This is normal. These teams don't have mechs or super potions, so the Dreamers can't possibly deal with the extraordinary and bizarre. These two teams that made it to the twelfth or thirteenth level probably possess some special trump card that can turn the tide of the battle.

However, the results of the other "ordinary teams" surprised Fu Zhixuan and other powerful figures from Tiannan.

It seems, it appears, it's very likely... all the three cities' refining stage teams have made it to the eleventh level.

They simply fell before the extraordinary and bizarre.

Besides the extraordinary and bizarre, even though there are many ordinary bizarre creatures, and even though there are leader-level bizarre creatures among them, this cannot stop them from distributing them so evenly!

A balanced and powerful force!

This shows that all of these dream-fallen individuals were at the peak of the Third Refinement Realm.

Many of the Tiannan high-ranking officials present exchanged glances, all seeing the surprise and understanding in each other's eyes. They were not unaware of the reputation of the safe zone as a "cultivation holy land" before this.

But they always arrogantly believed that the so-called holy land was only for ordinary forces.

They always felt that the Dreamers of Tiannan City didn't need it, as they had better cultivation grounds and more systematic training methods.

That's what they originally thought, but now the facts are right in front of them.

The training methods used in the safe zone are superior to theirs.

"It's not just these third-stage cultivators; look at the top of the list."

The first and third ranked teams are both teams in the safe zone.

The second is the squad from Grey Harbor.

The superhumans in Gray Harbor City were clearly under the influence of drugs. Their strongest group from Tiannan City was led by someone wearing the Broken Army Mech. This mech was a special type of mech, different from mass-produced ones; it could not only be integrated into the user's body but also grow stronger as the superhuman became stronger.

But what extra methods did these two teams in the safe zone use?

Surely they couldn't have won by sheer ability?

Meanwhile, more and more teams in the Refining Stage were still taking on the challenge.

At the very top of the leaderboard, the total score is steadily rising, getting closer and closer to the baseline for passing the trial.

"We in Gray Harbor City and the neighboring Tiannan City each have one extraordinary team that hasn't been challenged yet. The faction under that safe zone also has an extraordinary team that is still preparing for battle."

"If these three extraordinary teams can all make it to level twenty-two or twenty-three, then our Blue Star civilization will be able to pass this trial," someone murmured.

This trial is actually very difficult. Even with the addition of a group of powerful individuals from the safe zone, the humans of Blue Star only barely met the trial score requirement. Whether or not they can completely clear the Land of Revelation is of paramount importance.

Many people understand this.

Seeing that passing the level shouldn't be a problem, the powerful individuals breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Now that we've cleared the game and figured out the strategy, the biggest question is which team will reach the top."

As for the remaining three teams failing to reach level twenty-three? That's impossible.

In Tiannan City, three powerful individuals with special mechs—Red Lotus, Black Crow, and Winter Snow—are all in this team. The other two are also mid-stage Transcendent Realm experts with support mechs.

In Grey Harbor City, both star powerhouses, Neutron Star and Storm's Daughter, are present, along with three extraordinary powerhouses preparing to receive experimental-grade serums. The remaining safe zone team is a mixed team from the three cities.

The members are: Xuanjian, Xixue, the Coffin Bearer, the Frost Maiden, and the Ultimate Fist!

These five individuals were virtually unknown to the powerful figures of Gray Harbor City and Tiannan City. However, in the eyes of the members of the Safe Zone, they were renowned figures. A strange late-stage Transcendent Realm expert?

They can kill anyone they want!

The members were full of confidence.

because,

"On the Earth Ranking, these individuals have cleared a very high number of levels. Although I haven't seen them go all out, there's no doubt that they all possess the strength to slay a late-stage Transcendent being."

In fact, it can kill more than one!

Three extraordinary teams simultaneously began their challenge.

From the outside, the progress of the challenge is not visible, but inside, the battle is already raging.

The three teams progressed quickly through the first ten or even twenty levels, since they could recover after completing each level, and they only needed to ensure that they did not suffer serious injuries.

at this time,

Inside a certain challenging space.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! We not only need to reach the top of the leaderboard, but we need to do it as fast as possible!"

The neutron star in Grey Harbor City opened.

Only in this way can they demonstrate the grandeur of their Grey Harbor City.

It's a pity that the artifact is disabled; otherwise, he would be confident that he could pass the twenty-fifth level, or even higher.

Surrounding Neutron Star and Storm Girl were three incredibly burly men, their muscles covered in layers of scales.

They roared, they howled, they stood at the forefront.

However, in the twenty-fourth level, two strong men with potions were unfortunately eliminated.

They barely made it through this stage, but ultimately stopped at the threshold of stage 25.

"Grey Harbor Team One: Level 25, 1%"

They were also the first to withdraw from the challenge and return to the lobby.

Looking at this result, Neutron Star nodded slightly. Not bad.

the other side,

The powerful figures from Tiannan City adopted a different strategy, prioritizing the protection of their mechs to prevent damage, which slowed their progress. However, with the formidable strength of the three experts—Red Lotus, Black Crow, and Winter Snow—they still advanced with unstoppable momentum.

"boom!"

A burst of golden-red flames erupted, directly enveloping a strange, late-stage Transcendent being.

The flames blaze fiercely, seemingly inexhaustible.

Until this extraordinary, late-stage, bizarre figure was completely burned away.

Honglian breathed slightly.

Wearing her mecha, it wouldn't be too difficult for her to blast away a late-stage Transcendent being. However, despite their utmost caution, their mechas had inevitably sustained damage along the way, significantly reducing their combat strength.

"Let's fight the final battle."

"Tiannan City Team: Level 25 93%"

They almost made it through this hurdle, which is a real shame.

The powerful figures from Grey Harbor City were somewhat annoyed by this sight.

Fortunately, the gap between them and Tiannan City is not large. And in terms of top-level performance, Gray Harbor is still better than Tiannan.

At this time, the squad in the safe zone had not yet emerged.

"Could it be that this team is using some kind of dragging-out tactic? I say that's a waste of time. In this kind of challenge, your strength is what matters; no matter how much you delay, you won't improve your record."

A Gray Harbor City extraordinary muttered.

at this time,

Xuanjian and his group did indeed employ a relatively conservative tactic of maneuvering and waiting for an opportunity to decapitate. This approach was rather time-consuming in actual combat.

But no way.

After all, this is...

Level 27!

"Now!"

The Xuan Sword plunged into the terrifying and bizarre head, its dragon-shaped blade almost severing the creature in two.

At this very moment,

"The Ultimate Punch!"

Li Yiquan, wielding the Ultimate Fist, unleashed a punch from the side, his body also enveloped in wisps of purplish-black incantation energy.

His muscles bulged inch by inch as he unleashed the strongest Mountain-Crushing Fist, amplified countless times.

At the same time, on the left, Xi Xue also unleashed a punch she had been holding back for a long time.

One sword, two fists.

The fist struck like a mountain collapsing.

The fiery fist was like the blazing sun.

This bizarre being, who had reached the pinnacle of transcendence, had its entire body shatter on the spot and vanished.

Its vitality is indeed strong; normally it can survive being seriously injured more than ten times.

But they won't die; it's just that their firepower isn't strong enough. As long as the output is sufficient, even a supernatural being at the Great Perfection level can be instantly killed.

Level 28!

Level 29!

With their tacit cooperation and their unreasonable, superb spells, Xuanjian and his companions managed to break through to this place.

But in the end, they still failed at this hurdle.

One is that the enemy is indeed powerful.

Another reason is that their magical energy has been exhausted.

The curse energy recovered somewhat during the trial, thanks to the baptism of the rules, but it was far from fully recovered.

"Otherwise, I think we can overcome a few more challenges."

Xuanjian pondered for a moment, then reflected on it.

"However, it is true that we are not strong enough. I still have two rare spells in my major that I have not mastered to perfection. If I could master my spell aura, no, even just the proficient level, I wouldn't have run out of energy so quickly."

"If I had learned the Eye of Clarity, I wouldn't have been injured by that strange sneak attack in that battle."

"One more thing, if we can accumulate merit, we can purchase a 'refreshing potion.' That will also greatly enhance our strength."

He kept reviewing the situation and found that there was still a lot of room for improvement.

There are indeed many.

Xuan Jian thought that if Li Feng, Mr. Xue, and the others could come in and try their luck, they could probably make it to at least the 30th level.

At this moment, in the outer hall.

More than ten minutes later than the Tiannan City team, the team members in the safe zone finally exited the trial space.

"They've finally come out. These Great Xia people love using delaying tactics. Wait... how many levels is this?"

"Level 29, 55%!"

Wardfa?

Is this number correct?

Isn't it right?

"That's impossible!"

But nobody cared.

Most of the extraordinary individuals in Tiannan City also felt that this record was unscientific, but when they turned around, they saw that the Tiannan Dreamers they knew and were familiar with, who had already entered the safe zone, looked as if it was expected and taken for granted.

Wow, that's really impressive!

Absurdly strong.

"What methods did they use? I can't figure it out!"

"Wait, you're saying this level of strength is their normal level?"

At this time, many people were paying attention to the Xuanjian Squad.

However, most people's attention is already focused on the walkthrough tips!

Shi An stared.

Master Yunwu stared intently.

Even the usually listless Liu Yan perked up.

at last,

"Buzz"

A subtle, unseen hint emerged.

This notification wasn't just for the Dreamers within the Land of Revelation; everyone else waiting nearby also received it. "The final trial has been completed. The Land of Revelation is fully open. All Dreamers from the Blue Star civilization may enter."

This suggestion flooded the minds of everyone around.

However, there are two other hints that only a select few in the eight present-day worlds can obtain.

"You have obtained two important clues about this nightmare world."

"Clue: There are passages to other nightmare worlds in the XX, XX, and XXX areas."

Clue 2: The final walkthrough quest for this nightmare world, as well as the cataclysmic disaster, can both be found at coordinates XX.