Swallowing the Stars: The Puzzle of Everything!

Chapter 82 The Strange Stone Wall

One by one, the spaceships disappeared.

Almost the instant the secret realm appeared, the realm lords who had already arrived set off simultaneously, rushing towards the entrance.

This naturally includes the Ancient Realm Lord.

Looking at this guy who was clearly on his deathbed but still insisted on entering the secret realm, Perseus instinctively sensed something was wrong.

He entered the secret realm with the others, but his mind was on the entrance beside him.

Sure enough, after everyone entered the secret realm...

"Rumble..."

The enormous vortex collapsed in an instant, and a yellowish-brown shockwave swept out, but it didn't attract much attention. In fact, many of the realm lords present thought it was a normal phenomenon.

They are world lords!

If the entrance to the secret realm is closed, you can simply enter the spatial turbulence layer. Although it is difficult to locate the secret realm from the spatial turbulence layer, it is rare to be unable to get out from the inside.

But Perseus noticed something was wrong.

He raised his hand and pressed it on the space in front of him, creating a ripple. The strange sensation was like pressing a rubber ball, requiring more effort to open the originally closed space.

Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, he quickly thrust out a finger like an arrow, but it only burned a small hole in the void.

Perseus's expression immediately turned serious.

immortal!!!

Only immortality can break the seal, but the current situation...

Perseus turned his head, looked at the many powerful figures who were gradually leaving him behind as they moved forward, and then looked at the surrounding sandstorm and void. He chuckled and quickly followed.

Anyway, it poses no threat to me.

A mere peak Realm Lord with mediocre strength, such a configuration, no matter what schemes he may have, will ultimately only benefit himself.

……

Soon a floating landmass appeared ahead.

If the void was filled with nothing but sandstorms when they first entered the secret realm, the expressions on everyone's faces immediately changed subtly upon seeing land.

They seemed to see the treasure beckoning to them, and their hostility towards others intensified.

But this land looks even more strange.

As soon as Perseus rushed into the airspace, he felt his body sink. When he looked ahead, he saw that the Ancient Realm Lord, whose life gene level was lower than his own, was so relaxed.

With doubts in his heart, he lowered his body and stopped on the uneven rocky ground.

A boundary lord was already inspecting the rock strata nearby.

"Click...click click..."

He cleaved a deep fissure in the vast earth with a single stroke, extending outwards for nearly a thousand kilometers, but made no remarkable discovery.

It looked like an ordinary rock.

However, the gravity was so strong that it could affect the realm lord, and everyone felt that there must be a secret beneath the rock layers.

"A few people, please help!"

The woman in spiked armor shouted, and several people approached her. They then attacked together, striking the crack in the ground.

The cracks have deepened.

The pitch-black rock wall seemed like a passage to hell, but the eyes of the several realm lords who were attacking together lit up at the same time, as if they had discovered something.

"The energy concentration has increased so quickly—at this rate of increase—there's a mineral vein down there!"

Several more realm lords immediately joined in.

Perseus, however, saw a smile on the face of the Ancient Realm Lord in the distance, a smile filled with deep malice, as if something particularly terrible was hidden beneath the crack.

He quietly moved a little further away.

So, not long after...

Just when Perseus thought, "Tonight is just an ordinary night."

"Waaaaah..."

A sharp gust of wind blew from the crack, and billowing mud gushed out.

Within these extremely viscous and energy-absorbing special substances, a strange shadow constantly lurks.

"Damn it, this mud can absorb the power of the world!"

"How come even the world projection isn't working?"

The lord communicated with the inner world and released a projection outward, attempting to break free from the constraints, but it silently disintegrated upon touching the mud.

Only when the shadow constantly moved back and forth did it finally emerge as some kind of extremely ferocious-looking fish.

This fish does not have eyes.

Because they live in darkness for a long time, their eyes have degenerated, and their heads only have two overlapping mouths, one large and one small.

However, some crystals seemed to have appeared in the mud.

The earthy yellow color has a halo, which is not faint, but rather gives people a feeling of extreme refinement.

The group of realm lords screamed in agony as they were bitten by the fish. When they finally managed to get rid of these troublesome creatures from the secret realm and took to the air again, the other realm lords saw their miserable state.

His armor was shattered, his body filthy, and his face pale, like a vengeful ghost.

That "filth" was actually the mud from earlier.

This substance has extremely strong adsorption properties; it only falls after drawing out enough energy. Although it is not enough to kill a realm lord, it is like a toad crawling on your foot—purely disgusting.

The group couldn't help but look at the Ancient Realm Lord, whose face was full of mockery.

Why weren't you reminded?

"I thought you wanted those things!"

The magma flowed slowly, leaving several crystals on the ground. The crystals contained abundant energy, making them excellent cultivation treasures for earth-attribute realm lords.

Fortunately, they managed to leave behind some after a biting spree. The group divided the crystals among themselves, and their expressions were much better than before.

As for further exploration... unless we have the tools to deal with the mud, the gains from going in and out will be less than the losses.

"Let's keep going in."

In fact, quite a few realm lords had already flown forward before.

However, as the remaining realm lords caught up, they discovered that the previous five or six realm lords had disappeared without a trace, as if they had been swallowed by something.

"Are they moving too fast?"

Realizing that something was amiss, Prince Ziyuan and a few other shrewd realm lords lagged behind and came to Perseus's side.

"President Xinghuo, have you discovered something...?"

The sound abruptly stopped, somewhat eerily.

Centered on Perseus, a ring of pink mist floated and silently seeped into his body. At the same time, strange 'green seeds' flew out rapidly, in conjunction with the new blue mist.

The eyes of the several realm lords underwent subtle changes.

Of course, all of this was done in an instant.

When the Ancient Realm Lord turned around and looked at the group of Realm Lords who had fallen behind, they had already returned to normal and were speeding up to catch up with the main force ahead.

"Why is it so slow?"

The Ancient Realm Lord lagged slightly behind, asked a question, and, not noticing anything unusual, continued forward.

Finally, the remaining realm lords arrived together outside a stone wall.

Looking up, the stone wall seemed to have no end.

A narrow gap split open in the middle, just wide enough for one person to pass through. Seeing the basic situation here, many realm lords secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Everyone should be inside now."

"This secret realm... it doesn't look like it was formed naturally."

"Lord of the Thousand Darkness Realm, where did you get that idea? It wasn't formed naturally, so you didn't create it yourself, did you? From the beginning until now, have you seen even the slightest trace of human intervention?"

There are indeed no traces of human intervention here.

However, as the group flew into the crevice one after another, they went deeper inside.

Finally, half an hour later.

A prescription pit appeared before them, recessed inwards from both sides of the stone wall, and in the center of the pit was the corpse of some kind of humanoid creature with its legs curled up.

Most importantly, this pit wasn't completely full...