The Cockroach-like Girl Is My Beast

At this moment, it seemed as if an invisible and capricious giant hand was tearing at the painting named "Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm."

In that dense, siphon-like tide, the firmament had already cracked, with dense, web-like fissures spreading out from the summit of Celestial Ladder Mountain, vaguely revealing the dark and profound chaos void beyond.

Moreover, a dozen or so spheres of different colors were faintly visible unfolding in the sky, with several Beast Kings floating and sinking within that massive funnel.

These domains were each pulling and stabilizing the space in various ways.

This was the True Men forcibly resisting the spread of the void fissures, preventing them from rapidly expanding throughout the entire Secret Realm.

—This was a prelude to an extreme situation known as the "Great Collapse."

Ether is a kind of extraordinary energy, the foundation of most extraordinary phenomena on the Blue Star, and the existence of Secret Realms on Blue Star as independent spaces cannot be separated from their relationship with internal Ether.

If the Ether fluctuates too violently in a short time, amassing in one point while other areas become void, it's easy for an imbalance to occur, leading to the collapse of the spatial barriers.

At this moment, at the foot of Celestial Ladder Mountain, at the entrance to the Inheritance Secret Realm, half of the True Men were already gone.

They had all flown into the sky to use their domains to maintain the stability of the spatial barrier, leaving only those who couldn't get away or couldn't help.

Jiang Wencha had to maintain the "Hundred Boats Racing," so naturally, he hadn't left.

But at this moment, his face had already turned an ashen green.

The faces of the other True Men who stayed were also no better, not at all like the always composed figures in the public imagination, but more like ants on a hot pan, appearing quite anxious.

Only Lin Qingxuan, as an outsider, had a relatively calmer face since he had no disciples or juniors inside the Secret Realm.

For the inside of the Secret Realm had already lost contact.

With the collapse and contraction of the Inheritance Secret Realm, along with the restraints of the Secret Realm Master, it had now become quite fragile, forcing Zhao Qin to stop the "Three Thousand Dream Prophecies."

Thus, the True Men now had no idea what was happening inside the Secret Realm, with the last piece of information being that Zuo Qingtian and Jiang Nalan had both breached the eighth checkpoint, entering the ninth Demon Race battlefield.

In the real world, it had only been a few minutes; in the Inheritance Secret Realm, a day or two might have already passed.

Celestial Ladder Mountain itself, as the source of the Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm, was almost equivalent to the foundation of the entire Celestial Ladder Mountain.

And that "Liu Cheyi" inside, as the Secret Realm Master dependent on Celestial Ladder Mountain's Inheritance Secret Realm, although now only at the Tier Three limit, as a former Seven-Star Peak powerhouse, could still command the outside world and activate the fallback plans left behind.

This means that to some extent, it can also be regarded as the Secret Realm Master of the entire Seven-Star Secret Realm, although it can't control the Power of Heaven and Earth like a true Secret Realm Master, it is definitely fighting on home ground.

This is why all the True Men present were always stumped by it, almost unable to rescue the trial takers inside, needing Seven-Star powerhouses to come to the rescue.

And if the Secret Realm Master had acted during this period, this group of prodigies would have been turned to ashes long ago.

But even so, we still have to fucking help stabilize the situation of the entire Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm, according to its wishes.

Because if it's not stabilized and the Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm collapses, the Inheritance Secret Realm would explode even faster.

It would be impossible for the people inside to survive.

Almost all the True Men present felt a certain kind of humiliation from being fooled.

And just when all the True Men felt stuck.

Suddenly, a golden wind swept through the whole world.

Countless leaves emitting a dazzling golden-yellow radiance surged from who knows where, soaring into the sky, adhering to the cracks in the firmament, preventing them from expanding further.

At the same moment, many inconspicuous golden-yellow trees began to grow on the cracked ground at an eerie speed.

Once they appeared, they spread over the mountains and fields, their roots interconnecting, gradually healing the cracks on the ground as if stitching them together.

The imbalance of the Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm was suddenly restrained.

Whether it was the True Men who had unfolded their domains or those waiting at the foot of the mountain, upon witnessing this phenomenon, they immediately felt invigorated and looked in a particular direction.

At some point, a figure appeared there.

It was an old man, wearing a deep gray Great Xia ceremonial suit popular from over a hundred years ago, pressing his hands on a cane made of Golden Birch Tree branches, with a gaunt visage resembling withered wood, yet with his pupils burning with seemingly eternal golden flames.

Except for Lin Qingxuan, all the other True Men heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing the old man.

This person was Jin Lao.

A Seven-Star Peak powerhouse.

The true foundation and guardian of Zhen Sheng City!

...

At the same time.

Zhen Sheng City.

Sitting in the underground laboratory of the research building, a beautiful woman in a white coat stopped her actions suddenly as she watched the screen.

For some reason, a wave of intense unease had been rising in her heart for the past few minutes.

Even the back of her pale neck, at the spine, began to flicker with emerald green light.

[M3] also felt the same emotion.

"..."

What exactly was making them feel so anxious?

A Beast King over level sixty, if it had some whimsy-like intuition, it certainly wouldn't be a mere illusion.

The Boss wasn't in Zhen Sheng City, having gone to another grand province of Great Xia, so Lin Guang's safety shouldn't be a concern for now.

...Wait, Lin Guang?

Kaiwen suddenly looked up, her emerald green eyes seemingly piercing through the entire ceiling, looking towards the sky.

At this moment, over the skies of Zhen Sheng City, dense clouds started forming, as if a heavy rain was about to come.

The weather forecast hadn't announced any rain today.

Generally, the weather in Zhen Sheng City was manually controlled, so the so-called weather forecast referred to the official arrangement for the city's weather rather than a prediction, making prediction errors non-existent.

If such a sudden downpour occurred, it was usually because the ethereal environment had been violently disturbed in a short time, resulting from the rich Water Attribute Ether due to Zhen Sheng City's proximity to the sea.

Kaiwen remembered the last time this happened was nearly five months ago, just when the Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm had descended.

The descent of Celestial Ladder Mountain.

Her pupils suddenly shrank to pinpricks, her entire aura momentarily halting.

Two hours ago, Lin Guang had even messaged her, saying he was going to participate in the contest for an inheritance within the Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm.

So could this premonition mean...

A few seconds later, Principal Liu, who was sipping tea in the office, suddenly saw...

Within the Experimental School, a deep green meteor, with an incredibly urgent momentum, shot through the sky, heading out of the city.

Principal Liu touched his balding Mediterranean scalp, a look of astonishment on his face: "Doctor Kaiwen?!"

"Gah hah hah!"