Swallowing the Stars: Primordial Heavenly Dragon

Chapter 29 The Secret Realm of Emptiness

Before the vast and mysterious realm, spanning 1 billion kilometers in length and width, the mercenaries participating in the Samsung Trial gathered in small groups to build relationships and prepare to form teams to explore this secret realm together.

"Brother, team up with us. It's too difficult to complete this assessment alone." A three-eyed human realm lord took the initiative to approach Yan Yong, who was standing alone at the back of the team.

"Thank you for your kind offer, brother, but I'm confident I can pass this test alone. You should go find someone else," Yan Yong politely declined. Regardless of the other person's motives, their invitation to team up was well-intentioned and not rude.

"Brother, we might encounter the 'Void Beast King' in this secret realm. That's an immortal-level ferocious beast. Only by teaming up can we fight against such a beast," the Three-Eyed Realm Lord continued to advise.

"Really, there's no need. We might not even encounter the Void Beast King, and even if we do, I have a way to deal with it. Brother, thank you for your kindness." Yan Yong refused again. He only had one goal now: to quickly complete the trial mission and join the core layer of the Giant Axe Arena.

"Alright then, be careful, brother." The Three-Eyed Realm Lord didn't want to make a fool of himself any further and went to find other people to team up with.

A moment later, a towering figure descended before the crowd, the aura of an immortal powerhouse shaking the entire scene, and the once lively group instantly fell silent.

"Dear mercenary examinees, the assessment is about to begin." The Immortal, the examiner in charge, looked around the room and said, "You have all received your respective mission objectives. Once you complete the mission, you can come to me to hand over the mission materials and obtain the three-star mercenary certification. This trial has a 150-year time limit, so I hope you will all hurry up."

After saying that, he opened a spacetime portal through the virtual universe system and began the secret realm assessment.

"Go ahead." The immortal host waved his hand, signaling that the realm lords participating in the mercenary assessment could go in.

……

After a shift in time and space, Yan Yong arrived at a stone forest filled with strange rocks.

"Based on the previously circulated maps of the Void Realm, there should be a Void Beast's lair in this stone forest. Let's start with that lair."

Since the Stone Forest was not large, Yan Yong did not summon a spaceship or the Eight Desolations Pagoda, but instead traveled directly in his physical body.

Before long, they arrived at the Sky Beast's Nest, which was marked on the map.

"roar."

Above the nest, a colossal Void Beast, far exceeding the size of the other Void Beasts, roared fiercely at Yan Yong, warning this outsider to leave its territory immediately.

"As expected, it's just a ferocious beast, acting entirely on instinct." Yan Yong swung his halberd, and a fiery dragon roared out, instantly engulfing the nest. The weaker Void Beasts were instantly reduced to corpses under the onslaught of the flames.

With Yan Yong's current level of mastery over the secret techniques, controlling the power of his attack to kill the opponent while preserving their corpse is quite easy.

"roar."

The strongest Void Beast did not perish in the sea of ​​fire like the other Void Beasts. Instead, it roared and charged out of the fire towards Yan Yong.

"It seems we've encountered a Void Beast King." Seeing the complete aura of the Wind Law spreading across the Void Beast, Yan Yong recognized it as a Void Beast King.

"Boom!"

The Void Beast, filled with boundless hatred, lunged at Yan Yong, its claws, teeth, head, and tail all transformed into weapons. Its fierce attack seemed determined to tear Yan Yong to pieces to quell its rage.

"This is the law of the universe; the battles between different races are so cruel and merciless," Yan Yong realized, sensing the hatred emanating from the other party.

"As long as my strength continues to grow, I will not suffer the same hardships you have today. Strength is the most important thing."

The halberd crashed down mercilessly, instantly turning the immortal body of the Void Beast King into nothingness.

The entire Kongming Beast Nest was overturned, revealing the Kongming Stone hidden inside.

"This time, we obtained 17 corpses of Void Beasts and 6 Void Stones. The mission progress is not bad."

"Xiao Ye, search the nearby Void Beast Nests, make sure they're large," Yan Yong ordered the catgirl perched on his shoulder.

"Master, we have found three large Void Beast lairs within a 1000-kilometer radius. Each lair contains dozens of Void Beasts and should yield a good number of Void Stones." The cat girl quickly marked the target locations for Yan Yong.

Void Stones can help Void Beasts advance in rank. The more powerful the beast's nest, the more Void Stones it will collect. Therefore, finding large Void Beast nests will not only allow you to kill a large number of Void Beasts, but also greatly increase your chances of obtaining a large number of Void Stones.

The distance of 1000 kilometers is not far for the Realm Lord. In just a few minutes, Yan Yong had swept through the three lairs of the Void Beast and obtained a large amount of Void Stones and Void Beast materials.

……

"This task is really not difficult for me. This secret realm doesn't seem to have anything worth exploring in depth. It's not as good as the Yantian Continent. The secret of that strange fluctuation is still unknown."

In less than three days, Yan Yong had collected all the materials and was ready to leave the Kongming Secret Realm to deliver the mission.

"Boom!"

The earth began to tremble inexplicably, and smoke and dust filled the distance, obscuring the entire sky, creating a scene resembling the apocalypse.

Even with Yan Yong's eyesight, he couldn't see through the smoke and dust. The earth began to darken, and no light could penetrate the smoke and dust to reach the earth.

"Run! The Void Beasts have rioted! It seems someone slaughtered too many Void Beasts, causing the largest Void Beast nests to join forces and launch a beast tide." Beneath the smoke and dust were the space mercenary trial participants fleeing in a disheveled state.

"Who is it? So shameless, slaughtering so many Void Beasts, wouldn't it be enough to just complete the mission?" Yan Yong asked a powerful snake-man next to him as he retreated with the crowd.

"I don't know, but he seems to be a ruthless person who uses the laws of fire. I saw him make a move from afar, and his power was far beyond that of ordinary immortals. Even the Void Beast King couldn't last a single breath against him." The snake-man expert turned his head and replied, "But brother, you look kind of familiar to me."

"You've probably mistaken me for someone else. I have an average face." Yan Yong turned her head away, avoiding the other person's gaze.

"Impossible. Your appearance and demeanor are outstanding among the entire human race. I must have seen you somewhere before," the snake-man expert said with certainty.

"Run! You're going to be caught!" Yan Yong sped up and quickly left the crowd behind.

"Since I caused the beast tide to break out, then I will end it." Yan Yong felt a little ashamed. If he hadn't slaughtered the Kongming Beast Nest in a short period of time, this riot wouldn't have happened.

After shaking off the crowd, Yan Yong changed his route and arrived at the very back of the crowd. He wanted to stop the beast tide here, quell it, and bring the trial back to its original rhythm.

The sea of ​​fire suddenly erupted and began to spread, soon rivaling the vast expanse of smoke and dust, occupying half of the sky.

"Boom!"

The beast tide quickly surged forward and pounced on Yan Yong, who was trying to intercept them.

"roar."

"roar."

The first few Void Beast Kings at the forefront recognized the person before them the instant they saw the sea of ​​fire. They were the powerful outsider who had slaughtered too many Void Beast Nests, and immediately let out a series of angry roars.

"Roar roar roar".

Upon receiving the signal that their enemy had been found ahead, the Void Beast King behind them let out an even more ferocious and furious roar.

The entire Kongming beast horde began to form a strange array in an orderly manner, condensing the power of the entire Kongming beast horde together.

Seeing this scene, Yan Yong immediately sensed something was wrong. He knew that the combined attack technique was an extremely precious technique. There was no combined attack technique in the entire primordial universe. At most, only the Zerg Queen could command Zerg warriors to attack a single target at the same time, but this was just a simple overlap of energy attacks and not a true combined attack technique.

"Damn it, we can't let them actually combine." Yan Yong had a headache looking at the powerful formation of hundreds of thousands of Void Beasts in front of him.

A regular ninth-level Realm Lord only needs 300,000 people attacking together to severely injure a low-level King.

Moreover, this beast tide not only includes ordinary Void Beasts at the Realm Lord level, but also Void Beast Kings at the Immortal level. Furthermore, this kind of combined attack formation will raise the attack level to a higher level, and may even pose a threat to high-level Kings. Although we are not afraid, our purpose is not to slaughter them.

If the other side can truly unite and elevate their attack to another level, it would be inappropriate to reveal their strength without restraint during the fight. This is an assessment realm; who knows if there are any alien spies? It would be difficult to deal with them lying in wait on the way back.

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