As everyone knows: A hundred years ago, Dragon Nation's Asura, relying on his own strength, repelled the Tier 9 beast tide, defending Dragon Nation and even the entire world completely.
And in fact, that wave of Tier 9 beast tide came from a King-level Secret Realm.
That was the first King-level Secret Realm in history, and up to now, still the only one in history.
King-level Secret Realms always break the current structure and exceed everyone's expectations.
A hundred years ago, even the concept of beast tide had just been born in the minds of professionals. People had just started resisting Tier 1 and Tier 2 beast tides when the King-level Secret Realm [Magic Beast Cave] suddenly descended. After the combined strength of all people in the world failed to resist, the monsters in the Magic Beast Cave Secret Realm began passing through space fissures, invading the real world from the Otherworld.
And the monsters that came out of the Secret Realm formed the Tier 9 beast tide.
Since then, Asura became a god in battle…
Countless people once imagined: if there had been no Asura a hundred years ago, then perhaps today's world would no longer exist.
Humanity, perhaps, would have long gone extinct.
Therefore, to this day, in the face of another descending King-level Secret Realm, the world feels endless fear.
Especially those veteran professionals who personally experienced the King-level Secret Realm [Magic Beast Cave] a hundred years ago. Precisely because they experienced it themselves, they fear this Secret Realm even more.
Even the Beacon Nation's veteran professional, Five-Star General [Amathers], upon hearing the announcement, couldn't help but sigh, "The King-level Secret Realm has returned. Humanity's doomsday is here."
Ghost Swordsman Elf let out a cold snort, "Is Asura really a god? He was only powerful because a hundred years ago, the world had yet to give birth to real strong people. If Asura had been born in this era, he would be nothing."
"What Asura did a hundred years ago, I, Elf, can do today, and I can do it ten times better! A hundred times!"
"Mere King-level Secret Realm! This time, I, Elf, will defend this world!"
Currently, everyone's attention is focused on the terrifying level of this King-level Secret Realm. Everyone is analyzing the disaster the Hell Gladiator Arena might bring upon all of humanity.
Yet no one noticed one problem, who activated this Secret Realm.
And in fact, as the activator of the Secret Realm, Zhang Yue was also a little dumbfounded at this moment.
He had considered that this Hell Gladiator Arena might be a very difficult Secret Realm or dungeon, otherwise, the clearance reward, namely the champion reward, wouldn't be as generous as a Myth-grade Profession Scroll.
But he really hadn't expected that this Hell Gladiator Arena would actually be a King-level Secret Realm.
Chen Zijin beside him was also too shocked.
"My… God! A King-level Secret Realm?"
"Zhang Yue, what did you do! You activated a King-level Secret Realm?"
"A King-level Secret Realm! In the hundred-year history of the Otherworld, there's only ever been one King-level Secret Realm. I remember the last time the King-level Secret Realm Magic Beast Cave appeared, the one who conquered it was…"
Speaking of this, Chen Zijin suddenly looked at Zhang Yue, paused in silence, then said, "Seems like… it was you…"
"But if the world finds out that this King-level Secret Realm was opened by you, won't they hold it against you?"
At this point, Chen Zijin suddenly seemed to realize something.
"Wait a second! So, that armored guy went to great lengths to make you open the Hell Gladiator Arena, was his goal to use this King-level Secret Realm to destroy our human world, and at the same time make you the scapegoat who brought disaster to humanity by opening the Secret Realm?"
Undeniably, Chen Zijin had a point.
That Flowing Gold Warrior probably already knew that the Hell Gladiator Arena was a King-level Secret Realm, and his collusion with the three main gods alone was enough to show his ambition to lead the monsters of the Otherworld, invade the human world, and become the overlord of both worlds.
Just as Zhang Yue was thinking about this, Chen Zijin said, "Forget it. The Secret Realm has already been opened. It's meaningless to think about this now."
As she spoke, Chen Zijin asked Zhang Yue, "So back to the point, what made you suddenly change your mind just now? Didn't you say you'd never give up your bottom line, and wouldn't open the Hell Gladiator Arena? Why did you still open it?"
Chen Zijin's words actually reminded Zhang Yue.
Enter the Hell Gladiator Arena to find the Netherstone.
And at the same time, receive the activation reward of the Hell Gladiator Arena.
Just then, a pleasant prompt sounded in his ears—
["Ding~ As the activator of the King-level Secret Realm [Hell Gladiator Arena], congratulations, you have received the only reward: [Nether Earth Stone]."]
Hearing this reward, Zhang Yue's heart suddenly trembled.
'Netherstone?'
'So, the Netherstone is actually hidden as the activation reward of the Hell Gladiator Arena.'
In the air, a glowing stone gradually floated into Zhang Yue's hand.
Looking carefully, he saw it was indeed the Nether Earth Stone.
The ring sensed the Netherstone was in the Hell Gladiator Arena.
Zhang Yue had originally thought he would need to enter the Hell Gladiator Arena and go through countless hardships to obtain this Netherstone.
He didn't expect that just by opening the door, it was lying at the entrance waiting to be picked up.
Truly, "worn out iron shoes with nowhere to be found, only to obtain it effortlessly."
With this, he had now collected the Nether Sky Stone, Nether Earth Stone, and Nether Black Stone.
Only one Nether Yellow Stone remained to achieve of all four Netherstones.
Just as Zhang Yue was thinking this, he suddenly seemed to sense something. Raising his arm, he was shocked to see: the ring on his hand was still emitting a faint light.
"Hm?"
'Logically, the Netherstone has already been obtained, so it shouldn't be glowing anymore.'
'But the ring is flashing. Doesn't that mean a new Netherstone is nearby?'
"Could it be…", Zhang Yue looked up toward a rift floating not far away in the sky.
He saw within the rift, flashes of lightning flowing continuously.
Zhang Yue knew, that was the entrance to the Hell Gladiator Arena.
Just like a hundred years ago when the King-level Secret Realm [Magic Beast Cave] descended, at that time too, space rifts suddenly appeared in the skies all across the world.
At first, people didn't pay attention, not even realizing that was the entrance to a King-level Secret Realm.
Because although the system had announced the arrival of the King-level Secret Realm, and notified professionals to quickly conquer it, otherwise the Secret Realm would invade the real world, the system never told the world how to enter this Secret Realm.
As a result, the professionals of that time wasted several days in vain, and by the time they finally figured out how to enter the Magic Beast Cave Secret Realm, half the strategy time had already passed.
Ultimately, even with all the professional powerhouses of various countries joining forces, they couldn't conquer the Magic Beast Cave within the remaining half of the time.
So, when the rift reappeared this time, Zhang Yue instantly understood, the peerless war from a hundred years ago was about to arrive once more.
And when Zhang Yue raised his hand and brought the ring close to the rift in the sky, sure enough, the glow from the ring became even stronger…
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