Unclaimed secret realm!
Fang You's spirits immediately rose. Secret realms within the Eastern Radiance Nation were maintained by the Investigation Bureau. The produce from these realms was mostly handed over to the Research Institute for development and manufacturing. A small portion of anomalous items were reserved as reserves for the Investigation Bureau and special forces.
Many others were also… exchanged for through fair dealings by him.
The other three secret realms were likely in the hands of mysterious departments of the White Eagle Federation, the White Bear Nation, and the Setting Sun Nation. There were no sinister entities present within these realms.
They were all claimed.
He could only covet them, not consume them. At most, it meant… he could get a little more from future trades with these three countries.
"But this secret realm in the Kangaroo Nation is located in a sparsely populated arid region. Let alone them not discovering it, even if they did, they couldn't develop it."
"After all..."
Around the secret realm alone, there was one 'Four-Star Group' mission and several 'Three-Star Group' missions.
The northwestern region of the Kangaroo Nation where the secret realm was located was filled with countless red mission markers, areas where humans simply could not survive!
"Since this is an unclaimed secret realm, it naturally must be utilized, and quickly at that."
"If used well, a secret realm is a treasure trove that can continuously produce resources and an entrance to the anomalous world. But if used poorly, it becomes a never-closing gateway to the anomalous world, posing immense danger."
"Even for the sake of Blue Star, this secret realm must be claimed."
Fang You propped his chin, feeling a bit hypocritical, but it was the truth.
He planned to issue a mission, tasking Xing Jinglei to lead a team. After thinking, he deemed it unsuitable. "Doing so would be too slow. Flying to the Kangaroo Nation is troublesome, and it would take them a long time to cross hundreds or thousands of kilometers of uninhabited areas."
"The longer the delay, the more likely powerful anomalies will enter Blue Star in areas where anomalies congregate. There's already at least one four-star anomaly; what if a five-star hellish anomaly arrives…"
Then, their Ember organization wouldn't even be able to develop this secret realm!
With this thought, he said, "Little Huan, we're leaving. You immediately search for the closest point to the secret realm from which we can warp."
Little Huan immediately transformed, taking on the appearance of a valiant female general with her long hair tied up and clad in silver scale armor. She said, "It's a bit difficult. I can't find any signals for translocation in the entire northwestern region."
She waved her hand, and a holographic map was projected.
It displayed numerous points of light, concentrated mainly in the southeast. These were areas with mobile phone signals, allowing her to traverse along these signals and jump to their locations in an instant.
A true traversal following mobile phone signals.
But in areas without phone signals, she became troubled. The closest area with a signal was over a thousand kilometers away from the secret realm.
"We'll enter from here. You search for any electrical wire networks or similar things we can traverse. Tell me when we reach a point where we can't proceed further."
"Yes, Master~!"
She transformed into a golden beam of light and entered the phone screen.
The entire screen displayed the appearance of a spacetime tunnel, with Little Huan traversing within. There were even thoughtful annotations, such as "Kangaroo Nation reached," which she had naturally generated.
She continuously traversed and jumped. Traversing via signals was the fastest; other forms of traversal were much more troublesome.
Fang You waited. After about ten minutes, Little Huan informed him that she could no longer proceed and couldn't find any more bridges for translocation.
Then, they would descend.
In a small, ruined town in the arid northwestern region of the Kangaroo Nation, where traces of anomalies were everywhere.
Countless golden particles converged on a utility pole, forming the figure of a tall, young man. "Is the secret realm still several hundred kilometers away?"
He scanned his surroundings. Anomalies lunged at him.
Fang You's fingers twitched slightly. Wisps of fine lightning accurately struck over twenty one-star and two-star anomalies, killing them all in one blow, while keeping energy consumption to an absolute minimum, not wasting a single bit of energy.
However, the number of anomalies was still too great.
He could easily clear out the anomalies in the town, and he could clear out the second and third waves of clustered anomalies. But for this vast arid region, it was quite insignificant.
His life energy was limited, so Fang You stopped attacking. He also didn't ascend – Phantom Step was stylish, but it consumed energy quickly.
He used the Green-tier skill 'Shadow Step,' a low-tier version but also low on energy consumption.
He transformed into a phantom, gliding like a gust of wind past the anomalies, sometimes less than a centimeter away from them, other times gracefully weaving through several attacks.
It looked extremely perilous, but in reality, everything was under control.
When the proficiency of basic skills reached the Expert level, the control over one's own body increased significantly, manifesting as very small fluctuations when attempting to exert a precise punch, and more maneuverability when dodging enemy attacks.
Fang You named this 'Primary Body Control.'
When basic skills advanced to the Master level, it became 'Secondary Body Control,' allowing for dodging enemy killing moves with minimal movement and meticulous observation of the surroundings.
As for skills like Palm Thunder, their proficiency increase was named 'Energy Control' by him.
At this moment, his basic swordsmanship was at the Pinnacle level, as was Palm Thunder.
A giant flesh monster shot its long tongue like an arrow towards him.
Fang You did not dodge. Only when the red tongue was almost piercing him did he slightly lower his head. The sharp tip of the tongue grazed his hair, not cutting a single strand.
In an instant, his body moved like the wind, disappearing from the flesh giant's line of sight.
Sprint.
Sprint again.
The distance of several hundred kilometers was vast, let alone the fact that these several hundred kilometers were a high-risk area infested with anomalies!
Running at high speed, with a faint golden light emanating from him, he was like a beacon, attracting the attention of anomalies wherever he went.
Countless anomalies swarmed to attack him.
It was a desperate sprint for survival. Little Huan watched, her heart pounding.
"Master, slow down!"
"Quick, dodge, dodge!"
"Be careful, there are two three-star anomalies on the left! Ah… and there's one ambushing ahead!"
But Fang You felt it was easy.
With Triple Body Control, Triple Energy Control, and the support of powerful mental energy, it was as if he could project his surroundings into his mind, seeing the movements of the anomalies, the trajectories of their attacks, and the environment with perfect clarity.
"Before, when Brother Black Blade fought the Bone Knight, he relied on perilous micro-manipulations to kill anomalies. But when it was my turn, I realized micro-manipulations weren't perilous at all; everything was under control."
"Even if there were several times more anomalies around, dodging wouldn't be difficult."
"So, I've already become this strong."
He sped along, leaving the anomalies behind him.
When his life energy could no longer sustain him, he found an area with sparser anomalies, cleared out the surrounding anomalies, and established… canceled the entrance to the Heritage Village and relocated it here.
He also threw out Black Pupil to guard the entrance.
Mainly to let it level up. This guy was still in its second awakening, which was a bit disappointing.
Relying on this method and his personal effort, by afternoon, Fang You had sprinted to the front of the secret realm.
Blazing lightning tore through the sky, continuously striking a massive monster with three heads.
For twenty to thirty seconds, the scattered lightning had annihilated the surrounding anomalies.
Finally,
"Ding!"
"Notification: You have killed the Four-Star Catastrophe-level anomaly 'Three-Headed Ogre' and gained 333 points of mysterious value."
"Notification: You have killed a Three-Star anomaly…"
"Notification: You have killed a Three-Star anomaly…"
"Notification: You have completed the 'Four-Star Group (Large Group)' mission, gaining 660 Fate Points, 500 Mystic Crystals, several cultivation cards, and a random small treasure chest (Green)."
Information kept popping up on the panel.
This wave alone, he gained six to seven hundred points of mysterious value! And the entire battle lasted only a few minutes.
"As expected, concentrated high-level monsters are giant experience packs."
"If I could do this kind of leveling a few more times, I could reach the fourth awakening on the spot."
"Although, after this three-minute battle, my life energy is almost depleted."
His head was starting to throb.
After all, unlike last time, he was now bare-handed without any equipment, and most importantly, without Angel's Tears!
His output relied entirely on drawing from his own life energy.
Exhausting.
He immediately opened a secret realm passage, placed Black Pupil there to guard, and then deactivated the possession, returning to the base. DaFeng Novel Network.
He drank a few bottles of recovery potions and began to rest.
After resting for more than ten minutes, he couldn't resist any longer. He got up, walked out of the passage, and entered this secret realm.
Black Pupil was swatting a two-star anomaly that had seeped out from the anomalous world.
"Meow~?"
"You're saying I can go off duty? How can leveling up be called going off duty? This is for your own good."
"Meow!"
"You're welcome. Your work location has simply shifted from guarding the base to guarding this branch, it's the same."
"Meow!" It's not the same, meow!
Not only are there many monsters here, requiring constant work, but…
There's no internet here, meow!
No internet, meow!
Black Pupil felt like its life was drained. The whole cat flipped over and lay on the ground, its pupils devoid of light.
It's not a big problem.
"You can play single-player games. It's not working 24/7, at most 996, and there are people who can rotate shifts with you."
"Meow~?"
When one's expectations are dashed to the bottom, a slight improvement will prevent complete loss of motivation.
Leaving the working cat to guard the entrance to the base, Fang You carefully surveyed the secret realm.
This secret realm was slightly larger than the secret realms in the Huang Nation, approximately equivalent to the area of eleven or twelve football fields. However, he learned from Yi Yueluoxi that secret realms could expand slowly, and their internal resources were continuously produced.
Similar to the Investigation Bureau's secret realms, this place had various mysterious plants and minerals.
And because no one had ever set foot here, after just one round of exploration, Fang You found…
"Thirty-seven anomalous items!"
"Among them, two are purple-grade anomalous items."
One was called 'Thorn Seed,' a life-like anomalous item. Once planted, it would instantly grow into a fearsome thorny vine with powerful entangling and blood-sucking abilities.
However, as an original anomalous item, the Thorn Seed had significant side effects. It required at least a Second Awakening user to activate and would continuously drain the user's life energy and vitality until exhausted, at which point the thorny vine would revert to its seed form.
"Using it once is equivalent to the life of a Second Awakening user. The price is a bit too high."
"Although, it's likely very powerful, capable of being a trump card for any mysterious department. If fully activated, Xing Jinglei might not be its match."
However, it was of little value to his Ember organization.
The side effects were too severe; he couldn't possibly ask his members to use their lives as a sacrifice to use this anomalous item.
"But if Master Wang Chui could significantly reduce the side effects of the Thorn Seed, it wouldn't be a bad anomalous artifact."
"Wait, since the Thorn Seed is a life-like anomalous item, it's alive, and it lacks intelligence, then is there a possibility…"
His gaze fell upon the 'Enlighten' skill of the Glorious Scepter.