Chapter 127 - CHAPTER 126 – THE BEYOND REALM SECT COMPETITIONS (2).

The moment Behan's spiritual projection appeared above the elites and ancestors, everyone kept quiet because they knew from the intelligence that the spiritual projection before them was none other than Behan. They all knew that this spiritual projection, though not the true form of Behan, meant that either his actual body or a clone of it must be present, and they were too weak to see his true form. The spiritual projection of Behan looked like an old, bearded man with short hair and a silver robe. The projection of Behan looked at the ancestors gathered and nodded to them. Among the great beings above the fifth peak- turn, Behan was the friendliest, and he recognized the strength of the ancestors of the beyond realm and sometimes gave out pointers. Behan then said, "Everyone knows why we have gathered here today, and not to waste much time, my colleagues and I have descended to witness this batch's competition. We will personally take it upon ourselves to accept new disciples among the top six candidates who would perform outstandingly well and grant them resources. The sect they hail from too would receive our protection in dire situations. Without further ado, let the competition begin."The moment he finished his statement, he waved his hand and a sinkhole appeared beneath each candidate participating in the competition, transporting them to the deepest part beneath the secret region. Black god Solanky, Goldie, and Elisa, who were close to each other, all fell in the same direction, as they felt they could see that the surrounding space had changed. A new world spanning several billion kilometers with several ecosystems and terrains had appeared before them. They weren't surprised because, from the intelligence given to them, they knew the dangerous secret regions all had a world hidden underneath them, waiting to be explored, and the rules of such regions varied. Some allowed the entrance of ancestor-level beings, and others restricted ancestor-level beings from entering, and such hidden worlds were often used to train the beings beneath the ancestor level and use them to investigate such worlds. Solanky's group landed on a mountaintop together with some elites from other sects and clans, including Solanky's group; the number of candidates on the mountain alone was 583. Solanky telepathically communicated with Goldie and Elisa to be wary of their surroundings because the moment they landed on the mountain, he could feel a terrifying malevolent spirit stare at them from the distance, waiting to ambush them. Goldie and Elisa nodded and decided to sit down and calm their minds before anything else, and as they were doing this, they were also planning how to complete their first task. Goldie, being the most powerful amongst them, suggested they descend the mountain, as the other elites from other sects who landed in different location might have already begun their quest of slaying the malevolent spirits and obtained their orbs to help them advance deeper into the hidden world. They descended the mountain and arrived in the vegetation beneath the mountain range, as they arrived, they could see that the tree canopy was very vast and full, making it difficult to see past them. Elisa sent out countless black flames the size of a speck of dust to explore their surroundings; with her connection with the flames, she could see what was happening within a 1000km radius of them. She had discovered some candidates, but she carefully avoided them, being led by Goldie whose reputation had risen after defeating Zanshu was a breeze because most of the elites knew his true strength wasn't something they could handle without suffering losses, and in this competition they all knew suffering losses was a bad thing.After walking for some time, Solanky discovered that the canopy of the trees around had begun to secrete a poisonous colorless mist which could trap a person's mind in an illusion. He quickly released his velvet world of contamination to counter the effect of the colorless mist; a velvet flashing dome seemed to have covered their team before it turned completely invisible.The other candidates who couldn't detect the mist flew into an illusion with their minds trapped. Solanky's team knew that in order to be safe, they had to exit the forest canopy and get to the nearest bare land where some ruins of ancient buildings existed. As they walked through the forest, they were confronted by several weaker malevolent spirits beneath the half-step peak turns level and harvested the orbs. As they drew closer and closer to the ancient ruins, they could feel the surround energies get heavier and heavier, indicating that the terrifying malevolent spirit, whose gaze was fixed on them, was getting closer and closer.All of a sudden, the light source coming from an orb hanging in the sky became dim because of it been obscured by a dark fog spreading from the horizon into the skies. Solanky's group been 18,000km away from the ancient ruins, instantly noticed the unusual phenomenon in the skies above the forest rapidly closing in on them. Elisa squinted her eyes to look at the unusual phenomenon formed by the dark fog and realised that that fog wasn't any ordinary fog. Within the dark fog were millions of malevolent spirits, with over 80% of them at the half-step peak turn level, with the terrifying spirit from before leading the charge.Elisa then shouted at Solanky and Goldie to run at their top speed because within this world only true peak turn beings could fly. Luckily for them, the forsaken god lent them the flying boat to escape perilous situations. Goldie waved his hand, and the boat appeared before them. They hopped on the boat and shot out at a terrifying speed towards the ancient ruins. After nine seconds, the boat had already reached the range of the ancient ruins. A bubble-like dome seemed to encase the entire ancient ruins, preventing the malevolent spirits from entering but allowing cultivators and elites to seek shelter within. As the boat made contact with the bubble-like dome's surface, a small passage appeared, allowing the boat to pass through it, and it sealed itself once again. Goldie, Solanky, and Elisa all breathed a sigh of relief because millions of half-step peak turns beings were troublesome to deal with in a space where most of their movement was restricted.After entering the ancient ruins, they saw seven huge pyramids arrange in a heptagonal formation with a huge black spherical object in the center of the formation. Each pyramid was hundreds of thousands of meters high with three massive gates on each side of the pyramid. Goldie waved his hand, and the boat disappeared into his internal world. They walked several meters away from the dome and saw thousands of elites sitting in groups according to the clan they hailed from. Elisa felt one of the powerful elites, the harvester, was looking at her curiously before evading her gaze as she turned.Black god Solanky then looked at the black sphere and realised that the sphere was the core of these entire ancient ruins, and it was the reason why the bubble dome was still actively keeping the millions of malevolent spirits away from the ancient ruins. Solanky being a craftsman in his previous life before reincarnating, knew that this was a form of screening to recruit and train elites to prepare them for the realms and dangerous worlds outside the beyond realm. With his true observational eye, he deduced some secrets of the mechanism of ancient ruins. He then sat down to arrange the clues and pieces he had discovered ever since they entered this hidden world. Solanky then rearranged his findings and hypotheses and infused it into a memory jade slip it to Goldie and elisa to study it carefully. After Goldie and Elisa studied it, they were shocked, and some things of the hidden world became very clear to them. From the memory jade slip, they got to know from Solanky's analysis that the entire ancient ruins with collapsed buildings and pyramids were all a world treasure built by a super being at least comparable to the forsaken god, with the black spherical object being the last thing containing the will of the being and also the core of the entire hidden world. But due to it being damaged, the spherical ball could only protect the pyramids which contained the legacy of the being.