After the New Year, the location for the Mysterious Realm Trial Grounds was selected.
Chang Le possesses a command-level token, and the token at the Nuwa Base in the Greater Region has authority over it, so it cannot prevent Chang Le from relocating the Mystic Realm.
Of the three god-level secret realms, only the [Agricultural Secret Realm] has a fixed location and cannot be moved. The region is unwilling to give up creating a secret realm, and is naturally willing to lower its stance and negotiate.
Ultimately, the entrance to the trial grounds was chosen in Dingde City, located on the border of Zone 1 and Zone 9, specifically beneath the newly renovated Goose Return Tower. The original entrance located in the underground city of the Nuwa Base was not deactivated, but it was only used as a backup entrance, and entry required Chang Le's approval through [Space] to take effect.
From this perspective, although it was called a discussion, the actual initiative was mainly in the hands of Chang Le of the Long faction.
Just as some were worried that the power of the Ninth District was expanding too much and affecting the balance of the major districts, Chang Le and the Dragon Faction rejected the plan for all parties to reserve the trial slots first and chose to compete for the slots.
While it may seem like a lack of respect for the major clans, it was actually a voluntary concession by them. After all, if it were a matter of pre-selecting slots, the Dragon Faction would naturally have the most, followed by the Wolf Faction, with the Ninth District having the advantage. However, by competing for slots in this way, more people were given opportunities, and it also showed that the Dragon Faction and the Ninth District had no intention of monopolizing power.
After the location is determined, before the trial grounds are opened, they need to be assessed and rated to determine which of the 36,000 trial areas are regularly open, which have a disability rate, and which are suitable for training.
The regional team sent core members of the Sky-Mending Tower and the Hunting Monsters Team to undergo trials, and Chang Le himself also participated.
Chang Le has the authority to open all trial areas and modify certain rules, but he is not the creator of these simulated small worlds and cannot do whatever he wants. For some of the higher-level and more dangerous areas, he cannot know the situation unless he enters them in person.
To put it simply, the [space] has recognized her as its master, but the various areas of the simulated small world haven't, and she's not allowed to view them.
After screening, Chang Le divided these areas into four levels: normal, difficult, dangerous, and unknown.
The ordinary-level trial areas are mostly regularly open and have no mortality rate, similar to the Chuihu Secret Realm, with a total of 100, accounting for about 51%.
The difficult level trials have a certain rate of injury, but it is relatively low, and are suitable for those with sufficient cultivation and experience. (40%)
As the name suggests, the danger level is characterized by harsh living conditions, high mission difficulty, and a disability rate exceeding 50%. Its danger level is comparable to the Thirteen Forests outside Jade Tower Pass, accounting for 8%. Among them, it is estimated that those below the ninth rank have a 50/50 chance of survival.
The remaining 1% is an unknown area, which Chang Le also does not have permission to view. Someone needs to enter and explore it, but such a small secret realm is generally not easy.
After roughly assessing the level of danger, Chang Le chose to enter as Fu Jiu, as Fu Jiu's identity allowed him to use more supernatural abilities.
In addition, Xue Wuwang, Huanbo, Jing Yuyan, Xie Wuyi, Xuecheng, and Ma Yuanhong accompanied Fu Jiu to explore the 360 most dangerous unknown areas.
Gu Yujing, Shen Xiu, Si Yehong, Wei Jinyan, Hua Anning, and others were not the main force in this investigation because they had to take over family affairs.
The main force consists of the hunting teams from the six major district academies and the hunting teams from various guilds, who enter the normal and difficult secret realms in batches and phases according to their abilities.
Dangerous secret realms are then scouted by specialists dispatched by the Regional Secret Realm Management Bureau.
Early February 396.
Fu Jiu replaced Chang Le, and Chang Le was responsible for driving the [space] with his consciousness within the inner world.
At the agreed time, Fu Jiu arrived at the entrance of Yan Hui Pagoda.
Xue Wuwang, Huanbo, and Jing Yuyan came with Him, while Xie Wuyi, Xuecheng, and Ma Yuanhong were already waiting there.
Apart from Xuecheng being unaware of the Ninth District's affairs while in the secret realm, Xie Wuyi and Ma Yuanhong had both assisted Yulou Pass five years ago and had met Fu Jiu once at that time.
Five years have passed, and Xie Wuyi and Ma Yuanhong are both about to break through to the ninth level, while Xuecheng has broken through to the eighth level, all of them making remarkable progress.
After exchanging greetings, Fu Jiu nodded and said to the three of them, "I heard Lele mention that you three are also members of the Heaven-Mending Tower training camp. I thank you all for your care on her behalf."
The three hadn't expected that this newly appointed leader of the Ninth District Dragon Faction, who seemed aloof, would be so polite. They responded courteously in return. However, all three were rather reserved and disliked empty pleasantries, so they simply exchanged a few perfunctory words.
Chang Le also went with Fu Jiu. Perhaps due to her profession as a "psychologist," Fu Jiu was used to observing and analyzing the people around her, and then analyzing her in turn.
After a brief preparation, the group entered the unknown area of the trial grounds together.
The group consisted of seven people, few in number but all of them were elites.
Fu Jiu and Xue Wuwang's martial prowess is comparable to that of someone half a step beyond the ninth realm, Jing Yuyan is a genuine ninth-level expert, Huan Bo, Ma Yuanhong, and Xie Wuyi all have one foot in the ninth level, and Xue Cheng is a solid eighth-level expert. Moreover, this group of people are all practical and taciturn—except for Huan Bo, who talks a lot—and they work together quite well.
360 unknown regions, including worlds with structures similar to this one, as well as other strange worlds, some without a sun, some with two suns, some with doubled gravity, and some without boundaries or ends...
The various strange realms among them will not be described in detail here.
In short, those who can quickly grasp the situation upon entering and establish contact with the control center will quickly withdraw. Only those who cannot quickly establish contact will complete the entire process.
After all, their mission was to investigate the situation, not to hone their cultivation.
Even so, the four years of exploration of unknown trial grounds and the high-intensity missions, along with the tempering in different regional environments, have brought considerable benefits to all seven of them.
After the 360 unknown areas were explored, some were classified into the other three levels, while others were listed as having an additional level above danger, called—Desperate Situation.
With a disability rate as high as 99%, even those at the ninth level of cultivation are not necessarily safe.
For example, in the last place where the seven of them were located, the trial ground "Desperate Situation 99 Hanging Coffin City", if it weren't for the [Space] in their possession, most of the seven of them would have died here.
January of the 399th year of the Chronicle of Natural Disasters
Desperate Situation: Hanging Coffin City No. 99, Trial Grounds.
This is a region completely different from the world they are used to.
The desolate wilderness stretched as far as the eye could see, with only a few clumps of unknown plants lying on the ground and black monsters that appeared and disappeared unpredictably and were impossible to kill.
The wilderness stretches endlessly, with no towering mountains, no babbling brooks, and no bright sunshine or moon. Only countless lights dot the sky a thousand meters above, each light source embedded in a series of closely connected bronze-colored blocks.
Like bronze movable type printing, when magnified a hundred times, hanging upside down in the sky, the countless bronze hanging coffins stretch endlessly, forming the sky above.
Those cubes were the bases of the hanging coffins. It was the unknown creatures that fell irregularly from them that nearly caused the seven people to die here.
The bronze hanging coffins form a giant, mutually pressing hand between the sky and the earth, leaving only a barren strip of land in the middle, where people can barely survive.
Head bowed in deathly silence, eyes raised in desolation, head tilted back with a hanging coffin pressing down overhead.
It's hard to imagine that such a repressive and hopeless world could actually have living beings.
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