Li Cunxu stumbled into this situation by accident.

Wukankan's talent is Fear Illusion (Purple), which allows him to transform into whatever his opponent fears the most, making the appearance of this fear seem reasonable.

As long as his talent is unknown, without prior preparation, there's a ninety percent chance one would be fooled and killed by him.

He used this trick in the virtual arena with great success, effortlessly killing his opponents every time to secure victories.

Watching Wukankan's fading phantom body, Li Cunxu shook his head.

This arena was specifically designed for Beast Master battles, where summoned beasts should face off properly, not mess around with such devious tricks—it's not the right path.

Then, Li Cunxu pondered, "His talent awakened a deep-seated fear within me. It turns out I'm most afraid not of the Four Gods, but of Lin Qingwei."

"It's true, compared to the Four Gods who are far away, hovering beyond this world, the childhood bully and lunatic Lin Qingwei has indeed left a psychological shadow."

"Speaking of which, what happened to Lin Qingwei? Haven't been in touch recently."

Ever since Li Cunxu helped Lin Qingwei absorb the dragon's curse, she contacted him daily. This January, she mentioned entering some secret realm and then lost contact.

Li Cunxu asked Lin Qingwei's father, Lin Jiusan, who assured him she was fine.

He continued matching opponents.

...

Li Cunxu pushed forward until he encountered him.

The figure across from him was a faceless man in a black robe; his first summoned pet was a Gale Vulture.

The arena's Beast Master battle uses a 3v3 format, but even one beast can fight.

"Gale Vulture, Tornado."

A bald, large bird with green, red, and brown feathers circled the sky, conjuring a tornado like a natural disaster. Xiaoruan's water ball, fireball, Cyan Lotus Sword Blade… all its skills were helpless, getting swept into the tornado.

Even Xiaoruan struggled to keep steady in the face of the tornado.

"This tornado skill must have broken limits several times."

Li Cunxu didn't command Xiaoruan to counter; given this opponent's strength, defeat was certain without even engaging.

The faceless man sneered, "Knowing you can't win, you don't fight back. Is your will to battle really that weak? You might as well not be a Beast Master."

Li Cunxu's whole body shook, and he solemnly clasped his fists, saying, "Thank you for the lesson."

The faceless man secretly enjoyed this, yet another person goaded into fighting back.

Actually, he wasn't some benevolent person enlightening others; he loved to torment opponents. He deliberately lowered his rank to crush lower-ranked players, relishing the thrill of domination.

As for why he enlightened Li Cunxu?

It was merely for his amusement. Defeating a non-resistant opponent is boring; only fighting desperate ones is thrilling.

"Xiaoruan, unleash the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade at full power."

Xiaoruan waved the green grass in its small hand, slicing through the thirty-meter-high tornado with a ten-meter-long Cyan Lotus Sword Blade.

This strike brought a slight sense of threat to the faceless man, but only just slightly.

The faceless man laughed heartily, "Now this battle is exciting, Gale Vulture, Divine Bird Strike."

The Gale Vulture soared high, descending with immense wind-type spiritual energy, on the verge of crashing Xiaoruan to dust, the smile on the faceless man's lips harder to suppress than an AK.

Moments later, the faceless man stopped smiling.

Li Cunxu had surrendered.

Just as the Gale Vulture was about to hit Xiaoruan, Xiaoruan exited the virtual arena, leaving the Gale Vulture crashing into thin air.

The faceless man was infuriated, Li Cunxu's surrender felt like being denied a penta-kill with just one last head to claim, only to have that last opponent retreat to base and go idle.

After exiting, Li Cunxu saw he had ascended to rank ninety-eight on the freshman leaderboard.

The reward of one hundred academic credits had already been added to his account.

As long as he stays within the top hundred by month's end, he'll receive a reward of twenty credits.

Ding dong~

A message arrived in his account.

It was from the faceless man who recently defeated him.

[Battle Invitation: I admire you and wish to spar with you.]

Li Cunxu's face showed a trace of confusion.

Are people so friendly nowadays?

Accept?

Of course, it was a refusal.

Li Cunxu's mind was focused on strategizing the secret realm, leaving no room for a duel with the faceless man.

[Battle Refusal Message: Thank you for your admiration, but I'm busy, maybe another time.]

The faceless man grew even angrier, but with Li Cunxu's refusal, he could only seek other opponents to vent his frustration.

Li Cunxu began selecting a secret realm to strategize.

The secret realm he needed had to be large enough to accommodate the expansion of the Slime tribe.

If the resources were abundant, even better.

After sifting through options, Li Cunxu chose the 'Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm', a vast realm ranking high among bronze secret realms in terms of size, covering 510,000 square kilometers, with extremely rich metal resources.

This secret realm allowed team strategies, with a maximum team size of ten members.

However, despite this, the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm remained unconquered for fifteen years, with 9,853 failed attempts.

Seeing that number, Li Cunxu was taken aback.

Nearly ten thousand elites from the Shendu couldn't conquer the secret realm.

"Let me see what's going on."

Purchasing entry for the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm, he opened the accompanying information about it.

Originally, the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm was under the jurisdiction of Shendu, where they planned to build a secret realm city. At that time, the secret realm was even larger than now, with no level restrictions. The Shendu Alliance invested numerous construction robots inside to build the city. The city was halfway completed when the Mechanical God Sect, led by the Crowned Evil God, intervened.

First, they severely damaged the secret realm, causing its downgrade to only accommodate bronze levels. Then, the Mechanical God Sect implanted a data virus in the construction robots' systems.

During the day, the construction robots built the city normally.

At night, the virus-infected construction robots transformed into ferocious demolition machines, wreaking havoc and destruction.

"Uh, building by day and destroying by night—what a perfect cycle."

Li Cunxu read on.

Rough statistics show: there are over ten million bronze-level demolition robots, and over one billion iron-level demolition robots.

"No wonder so many people failed to conquer the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm."

Seeing these figures, initially confident Li Cunxu, ready for action, couldn't help feeling a bit doubtful.

With ten million bronze-level demolition robots attacking together, even gold-levels would be exhausted to death.

Unable to refund the chance to enter the secret realm, Li Cunxu could only face it head-on.

"If only the life-preserving jade from the old president could be used, conquering the secret realm would be a breeze. But, unfortunately, it can't be used; otherwise, a single strike from the life-preserving jade would destroy the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm."

In truth, even if the life-preserving jade were usable, Li Cunxu wouldn't want to use it.

The life-preserving jade, containing one strike of the old president's power, is more valuable than the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm.

Exchanging a watermelon for a sesame seed—Li Cunxu wasn't willing.

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