Calamity Messenger

Chapter 330 - 267: Tombstone Mountain Secret Realm

Although Yan Qing didn’t know the exact location of the secret realm’s entrance, it wasn’t hard to find, because the entrance to the secret realm must be the most heavily guarded place in every military town, followed by the warehouse of tokens. Even if Yan Qing searched the wrong place, he wouldn’t suffer a loss.

After spending half an hour, Yan Qing finally found a gap to slip through the dual-locked fortress and saw the entrance to the secret realm in the center of the fortress’s open area from afar.

"Deep Inside Tombstone Mountain"

"Background: The Saintess of the Heavenly Repair Sect is an Innate True Man born with a Dao Foundation, renowned as the person with the greatest potential to explore the Immortal Dao in the past century among the Eight Demonic Sects. However, she possessed a quick temper and had secluded herself for years deep within an ancient tomb until the Shizong Walker, Fu Xiang, accidentally intruded into the tomb. Fu Xiang was unaware of the Saintess’s background, mistaking her for a mute and foolish woman, and took her out to roam Jianghu, until her identity was later exposed. When the paths of righteousness and evil diverged, Fu Xiang returned the Saintess to the Eight Demonic Sects. The Saintess ventured out several times searching for him, but due to Fu Xiang’s lineage from the Blood Demon Sect being revealed, he hid everywhere. Thus, she continued to cultivate in the hope of one day being able to protect him, but due to the internal conflicts within the Eight Demonic Sects, a war erupted at Tombstone Mountain. By the time Fu Xiang arrived, the Saintess had already died deep within Tombstone Mountain, and her entire Dao Foundation’s power was usurped. Fu Xiang took the Saintess’s body away, but deep within Tombstone Mountain, occasional calls of ’Fu Xiang’ could still be heard..."

"Challenge Level: 21~35"

"Challenge Participants: Up to 20 People"

"Objective: Slay the ’Saintess Echo’"

This is bad, Yan Qing thought. This is not a Second-Turn Secret Realm; it’s clearly a Half-step Third Transformation Great Perfection Secret Realm. If only Second-Turn Messengers enter, it remains a Second-Turn; unfortunately, Ye Si is now a Third-Turn, so entering shifts it to a Third-Turn Secret Realm!

A Second-Turn Secret Realm still holds some certainty, but a Third-Turn Secret Realm leaves Yan Qing relying thirty percent on hard work and seventy percent on fate. The remaining hundred and forty parts depend on whether the Secret Realm Demon King is accommodating.

However, before that, Yan Qing must first find a way into the secret realm, since the entrance is in the center of the open field, around it is incredibly desolate, illuminated by as many as thirty-six torches, and there are eighteen guards watching with intersecting views without any blind spots.

This is an almost insurmountable difficulty; any ordinary Messenger here would certainly alert the guards.

But ’Ye Si’ is one of the very few exceptions.

After consuming the "Secret Technique Mastery Book: Spider Walk," Ye Si rose to a level even faster than Jiang Shi’s Third-Turn, only to draw out one gold and two blue professions, of which the gold profession was the old friend "Blade Messenger" — one must know that Third-Turn professions will at least refresh with one gold profession, Ye Si here hit the minimum threshold.

However, Yan Qing did not choose "Blade Messenger." Since he already fed the Spider Walk manual, polluting the profession pool, it’s akin to aiming for college but ending up in vocational school — there’s no catching up to the prowess of the elites’ tails. Instead of choosing "Blade Messenger" to level up, he might as well go all-in with a utility profession and walk unrestrained.

Like now, it’s time for Ye Si to showcase his expertise.

Ye Si activated the sliding effect of the "Ranger Rain Boots," carrying ’Yan Shiyi’ in a charge toward the entrance of the secret realm, and while moving at high speed, the figures of both unexpectedly vanished into thin air!

This is the trait of Ye Si’s Third-Turn profession "Divine Messenger," although it adds no combat strength, its effectiveness matches that of a Rare Treasure Token!

"Divine Messenger"

"Attribute Bonus: Qi Blood +15, Vital Souls +15, Dexterity +10"

"Divine Traveler (Blue trait): Your movement speed will never fall below 290, and any negative states which decrease your movement speed will have their duration halved."

"Netherworld Dash (Blue trait): When your movement speed exceeds 450 points, you temporarily enter the Netherworld Realm. In this state, you cannot attack and cannot be observed, with your evasion rate increasing to 50%."

Even with eighteen guards watching together, Ye Si still managed to rush into the secret realm with Yan Shiyi. If looked carefully, some dark silhouettes could still be faintly seen; however, late at night, everyone’s focus wasn’t particularly sharp, and even if noticed, the first reaction would be thinking they saw wrong after a blink.

Surprisingly, inside the secret realm is not a night setting but closer to a dim daylight. They appeared in a mountain path, densely wooded, seemingly covered in layers of white spider webs, resembling rows of white marble tombstones.

No wonder it’s called Tombstone Mountain Tombstone Forest, it lives up to its name.

Now Ye Si no longer needed to carry Yan Shiyi. The two arrived at a vast open area in the front forest, also covered in white spider webs, without any demon fiends in sight. But as Ye Si entered the field, the spider webs started to churn and swell, then corpses draped in spider webs crawled out from the soil.

"Demon Sect Outcast Corpse Ghost"

An immediate appearance of eight Corpse Ghosts, considering it’s a twenty-person limit dungeon, couldn’t possibly be fewer.

After a brief exchange of two rounds, Yan Qing confirmed this was a level 30 demon fiend’s combat strength, though with significantly large disparities: the Corpse Ghosts’ single-attack power is high, capable of breaking the outer defense of the Mountain Heart-Protecting Mirror in one strike, but their attack and movement speed are quite average, almost akin to college students just waking up for an early eight class. Yan Qing could completely ensure dealing with only one Corpse Ghost at a time by maneuvering.

No wonder Baibao could clear this secret realm three times a day, these low-speed monsters are undoubtedly the easiest for locals to handle. Not to mention the Strong Crossbow, even the fire oils could deal Corpse Ghosts a tough blow, and those spider webs appear quite flammable.