Arrogant and insolent.
The deanor Zhao Duan displayed could be considered extrely rude. However, among the more than two hundred martial artists present, not a single one dared to utter a word. Even after Zhao Duan left, almost no one expressed any dissatisfaction with him.
This is power!
As long as you possess enough strength and your fists are big enough, all criticism will naturally disappear.
After Zhao Duan left, the top warriors from the other Divine Domains also left one after another, including Taiyu from the Northern Domain. It was only after these solitary individuals left that the remaining small groups took their turn.
Jing Yan, however, was in no hurry. He remained there, knowing they had three months to stay in the Upper Pure Secret Realm, so there was no need to rush.
"Brother Yan, well... we’ll be taking our leave first!" Zhu Chun said to Jing Yan with a grin.
"Please, go ahead, Brother Zhu!" Jing Yan replied.
Liu Yifan was the first to step out, followed imdiately by Zhu Chun and the others. Before leaving, Hong Jue nodded apologetically to Jing Yan. Fuying Fairy, on the other hand, did not glance at Jing Yan even once.
"Alas, if Yan Jin were to die in the Upper Pure Secret Realm, how would we explain it to Brother Hao Yang when we return?" Zhu Chun sighed during their flight.
"What does his death here have to do with us?" Liu Yifan replied dismissively.
"We’ve all seen Brother Hao Yang’s attitude towards Yan Jin. If Yan Jin really dies here, Brother Hao Yang will surely be displeased. He might even think we were excluding Yan Jin." Zhu Chun shook his head.
In fact, their small group had indeed been excluding Jing Yan.
"You all need not say anything. If Brother Hao Yang really asks, I’ll do the talking." Liu Yifan did not want to dwell on the issue any longer.
"We should hurry up and search for Divine Light Stones!" Fu Ying frowned slightly.
"Fuying Fairy is right; we should focus our energy on searching for Divine Light Stones. Now, let’s separate to search but stay not too far apart. Ensure we can maintain contact through Divine Thought and cover the maximum area possible." Liu Yifan fawningly smiled at Fuying before continuing.
...
When all the other martial artists were gone, Jing Yan leisurely picked a direction and flew away.
The space within the Upper Pure Secret Realm was vast. Spreading two hundred and fifty martial artists throughout it was nothing significant.
Jing Yan, a Divine Soul master, could cover a much larger area than anyone else.
A few hours later, Jing Yan found a Divine Light Stone. It was a single-colored Divine Light Stone, about the size of a fist, with a green light halo flowing across its surface, looking extrely beautiful.
"Such dense Five Elents!" Jing Yan couldn’t help but marvel at the richness of the Five Elents contained within the Divine Light Stone.
The mineral used for crafting Acquired Spiritual Treasures was indeed extraordinary. This was rely the lowest quality single-colored Divine Light Stone, yet it contained so much of the Five Elents. What if it were the top-quality seven-colored Divine Light Stone?
Turning the Divine Light Stone into Chen Qi Domain Master, a single-colored Divine Light Stone earned one point. A three-colored Divine Light Stone earned five points, while a seven-colored Divine Light Stone earned as much as twenty points. This highlighted the enormous difference between the three qualities of Divine Light Stones.
Upon sensing the powerful Five Elents within the Divine Light Stone, Jing Yan had an idea and imdiately summoned the Colorful Cloud Sword. The sword quickly absorbed the Five Elents of the single-colored Divine Light Stone, greatly enhancing its power.
The current Colorful Cloud Sword was at the high-grade Attack Divine Artifact level. If it could absorb more Five Elents from Divine Light Stones, it might advance to the Acquired Spiritual Treasure level.
Previously, Jing Yan had little understanding of Acquired Spiritual Treasures, but after receiving an Undying Battle Armor from Hao Yuntian Domain Master, he beca very interested in them. Acquired Spiritual Treasures carried powers resembling domains, which greatly intrigued Jing Yan.
Jing Yan himself had already mastered the Sword Intent Domain and the Gravity Domain, and the Undying Battle Armor carried the power of a Weak Water Domain. Together, it made three Domain Powers. If the Colorful Cloud Sword also advanced to the Acquired Spiritual Treasure level, it might give Jing Yan a fourth domain power.
However, it was still uncertain whether the Colorful Cloud Sword would carry domain power. It would be unusual if an Artifact Embryo personally refined by the owner of the Death Temple didn’t carry domain power upon reaching the Acquired Spiritual Treasure level.
Once the single-colored Divine Light Stone disappeared from Jing Yan’s hand, he resud his search for Divine Light Stones.
As days passed, Jing Yan consistently found two single-colored Divine Light Stones per day, on average. He did not intend to keep these stones; as soon as he found them, he let the Colorful Cloud Sword absorb them.
On the eighth day in the Upper Pure Secret Realm, Jing Yan was pleased to discover a three-colored Divine Light Stone. Near it, there were also five accompanying single-colored Divine Light Stones. The eighth day’s haul undoubtedly excited Jing Yan.
What thrilled Jing Yan even more was that after the Colorful Cloud Sword absorbed the Five Elents within the three-colored Divine Light Stone, he could sense that the sword was very close to reaching the Acquired Spiritual Treasure level. Perhaps absorbing a few more three-colored Divine Light Stones would make it advance.
Quickly, a month flew by.
During this ti, Jing Yan encountered several other martial artists, though no direct conflicts occurred.
It wasn’t because everyone was wary of Jing Yan’s strength. It was just that the participants had only been in the Upper Pure Secret Realm for a short ti and maintained a relatively peaceful state.
The martial artists intending to kill and plunder would initially suppress their instincts upon entering the Upper Pure Secret Realm. They waited for others to amass more Divine Light Stones before taking action, maximizing their loots.
Even the bloodthirsty Demon Zhao restrained himself from slaughtering other martial artists during the first month.
However, after entering the second month, this situation clearly began to change.
Outside the Upper Pure Secret Realm.
"It’s been a month and a half. Thirty-three red dots have disappeared from the light screen. Of those, twenty-eight martial artists activated the Teleportation Array to leave the Upper Pure Secret Realm, while the remaining five died in there." A Domain Master glanced at the red dots on the screen and shook his head.
"It’s just the beginning; the competition inside will only get fiercer in the end. Chen Qi Domain Master, that Human Demon from your Eastern Domain will probably start a massacre too," the Southern Domain Lord said to the Eastern Domain Master Chen Qi with a sigh.
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