Chapter 155: Top-Tier Combat Readiness

Upon reaching this grand hall, Yishen already felt that he had arrived at the core area of the Human Emperor's Tomb.

The aura here was not only remarkably similar to the overall atmosphere of the tomb, but the way energy flowed was also largely the same. The attraction of the Mountains and Seas bloodline that Yishen had previously sensed from the outside world evidently originated from the depths of this very hall.

As soon as Yishen eliminated the first gate-guarding beast, other explorers began to arrive at the hall's entrance one after another.

However, unlike Yishen, who strolled forward leisurely, they were constantly suppressed by a peculiar force.

"It seems we must first kill monsters to earn points before we have the clearance to enter the hall."

As a few explorers approached the hall, special alert sounds echoed for them.

This hall was an area designated to protect the Blood of the Human Emperor, requiring a certain amount of human race points to gain entry.

They had managed to cross the battlefield primarily thanks to Yishen, and their points had not actually changed much. As for Yishen himself, his points had long since exceeded the requirement, and coupled with his compatible aura, he did not experience any barrier at all.

Once they figured out the general rules, Shen Shimao and the others began deploying personnel and assigned areas, gradually joining the battlefield to clear out the monsters.

Any equipment and items occasionally dropped were promptly put up for auction.

The levels of the monsters in this mystic realm varied. Although most of the dropped gear was quite rubbish, top-tier items or special props would occasionally appear, ensuring their trip was not in vain.

Unfortunately, because Yishen's development speed of this mystic realm was simply too fast, they had been farming the battlefield for a full half-hour without yet meeting the minimum entry requirements for the hall.

During the battle, however, Shen Shimao and his group also discovered a new issue.

Those who had previously entered through the Celestial Gate and the Earth Gate had also joined the battlefield. Their method of entry was rather different, as they directly rode flying mounts, and their data panels even displayed them as hostile entities!

To avoid friendly fire, Shen Shimao quickly established contact with the opposite side.

Although their factions differed within this mystic realm, unless the realm mandated a special fight to the death, everyone would default to not attacking each other upon encountering opposing forces.

After exchanging information, everyone was astonished to find that the quests for the Celestial and Earth factions were actually to storm this Human Emperor's Hall and seize the supplies inside!

They were able to invade without needing points, though they had to break through other humanoid native creatures of this world that acted similarly to NPCs.

Thus, the battlefield outside grew intense once more.

While fighting, everyone cast peripheral glances toward the hall.

After all, everyone who had entered knew by now that there were treasures inside this grand hall, and that a top-tier powerhouse had already penetrated into the Human Emperor's Hall.

Occasionally, they could even feel the shockwaves of battle emanating from within.

Some hoped Yishen would clear the realm quickly to end the torment of this mystic realm, while others hoped Yishen would slow down so they could reap more rewards.

Among the crowd, a few vampires whom Yishen had previously overlooked began plotting, trying to figure out how to acquire some of the Blood of the Human Emperor while avoiding the terrifying Black Devil King.

The Human Emperor's Hall was divided into nine zones.

Having easily dispatched the first gate-guarding monster, Yishen originally thought he could quickly obtain all the Blood of the Human Emperor, but to his surprise, he got stuck at the third stage.

By this time, Yishen had already acquired two portions of the Blood of the Human Emperor. He was currently in an area with walls covered in special characters, and he needed to decipher the information encoded in these symbols to obtain the third portion.

Yet, perhaps because he had moved too fast and missed some clues, he had no impression of these wall inscriptions whatsoever. Moreover, these characters were connected to the entire mystic realm and could not be destroyed.

After a brief exploration, Yishen deduced that he probably needed to rearrange and combine all these symbols.

Furthermore, every failure would incur an attack.

The attacks dealt negligible damage to Yishen. Armed with holy light energy, he could rapidly restore his condition to full.

Therefore, the method Yishen adopted was brute-force enumeration. Judging by the shapes of these characters, there were roughly over ten thousand possible permutations.

By filtering out completely implausible special shapes, Yishen estimated he would need about three to four thousand attempts to exhaust all possibilities.

This method was not difficult; the only requirement was a certain amount of time. Turning back to search for clues would likely take even longer, so he simply chose to slowly crack the puzzle.

Moreover, the more he tried, the more Yishen began to understand the information carried by these characters. They seemed to bear a special power and contained an immense amount of information—a single character might represent multiple meanings. When combined occasionally, the Mountains and Seas bloodline within Yishen would produce a certain resonance.

This gave Yishen a lingering hunch that these characters might also be a part of the inheritance of the Mountains and Seas bloodline, merely preserved within the Human Emperor's Tomb.

Soon.

Time ticked away bit by bit.

The massive mystic realm of the Human Emperor's Tomb had finally begun to operate normally.

More new explorers were driven into the Human Emperor's Tomb by ferocious beasts, initiating a new round of choosing among the three gates, while others entered the ancient battlefield, surrounded by monsters.

The lucky ones found the path Yishen had left for them and reached the temple area all the way, while the unlucky ones were snapped up by the shadows of the ancient tomb right after emerging, serving as a warning to others about the unpredictable dangers within this realm.

Yet, far more terrifying than the perils inside the Human Emperor's Tomb was the fact that at least twenty-odd ferocious beasts had now arrived near the Suizhou Safe Zone.

Flying creatures, running beasts, and even bizarre spatial monsters were all lingering around the Human Emperor's Tomb.

Some beasts attacked each other, some preferred to act alone, and some approached the tomb to hibernate, throwing the entire Suizhou Safe Zone into utter chaos.

These ferocious beasts should have been a headache for every safe zone in China, but now, concentrated near such a small safe zone, explorers simply could not withstand them.

The Suizhou Safe Zone had activated its highest-level combat readiness, and even the surrounding safe zones were ready at a moment's notice to arrange personnel evacuation and rescue.

The scale of this incident generated even more buzz than the previous one at the Jinmen Safe Zone. Because every ferocious beast potentially carried a unique bloodline, all the top explorers in China, and even elite explorers from other countries, were rushing toward this direction!