The Cockroach-like Girl Is My Beast

Outside.

The Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm has eerily fallen into a calm.

Countless golden birch trees lit up on the ground, like starry sparks spreading rapidly, suppressing the imbalance of the entire secret realm.

Innumerable golden energy roots grew and spread at a terrifying speed, covering Celestial Ladder Mountain.

The True Men no longer needed to maintain the stability of the secret realm, and they landed on the ground, rejoining the links below.

And at this moment, the link to the Inheritance Secret Realm was naturally reconnected.

Zhao Qin hesitated to use the "Three Thousand Dream Prophecies" to probe inside, fearing the realm's shattering.

But this withered old man easily restored the link, allowing the anxious True Men to know what was happening inside the secret realm.

Not only that.

He even suppressed the acceleration of the entire secret realm.

From more than five hundred times the acceleration, it weakened to within a hundred times.

But after sharing the perspectives of all Trial Takers, no True Man could remain calm.

Because they knew, the negotiation between Elder Jin and Qing Yueyang had failed.

This altered inheritance must continue.

And those who could cross the stone tablet serving as the final marker were only five.

Led by Jiang Nalan, followed by Zuo Qingtian, Zhao Yue, Du Qing.

The last was... Lin Guang, seemingly unable to move due to severe injuries.

They seemed to be only hundreds of zhang away from the mountain peak.

But...

Each step Jiang Nalan took seemed to raise the peak slightly.

And at this point, even though his Spirit Beasts were extraordinary, all handpicked and cultivated with all efforts by the three great families, the cost of each step now was tragic.

His blue robe was already full of blood, with almost no intact flesh on his body, so he could only let the Spirit Beast take the damage.

Jiang Wencha gritted his teeth: "...Damn it! Has everything been laid bare?"

Zhang Tingqiu's brow furrowed tightly: "The Trial Takers' information is too asymmetrical; they don't even know this third trial is actually this guy's Domain."

"They might not even know that this guy is still alive."

"This Qing Yueyang directly raised the peak of this mountain using domain authority, with the secret realm's authority!"

"Moreover, the extent of the injury to the Spirit Beast with each step is completely up to him."

Clearly, Qing Yueyang was no longer hiding, directly interfering with the trial.

Although in theory, a Tier Three cannot have domain deployment ability.

But as the Inheritance Spirit and the Secret Realm Master, Qing Yueyang, with five Dao Marks, using the secret realm's rules to deploy his Domain was conceivable.

And the Domain's characteristics of moving as he wished meant he had greater freedom, seemingly able to some extent to bypass the secret realm's rules.

Playing against him in another's Domain, how could one possibly win?!

Releasing the Domain, revealing his true form, Qiu Zhenjie said: "Now it seems the only possibility of reaching the summit is to use the Spirit Pattern, given by the supreme-level Compass that grants immortality, to battle authority with authority, forcibly swapping the opponent's power and authority."

"This is the only normal route to complete the third trial."

A True Man eagerly said: "But that's even more unrealistic!"

"They are not us, without the True Intent to maintain their personas; at that height, each step comes with a too-powerful spiritual attack."

"Once their consciousness collapses, they're truly dead!"

"Do you not see that young man named Lin Guang, despite every step being the correct choice, is the only one in the frontline who's already on the brink of death?"

"..."

Kong Guofeng also lost composure.

Because, as he said, Lin Guang was now stopped at the stone tablet and was the most severely injured among the top five.

At this time, Lin Guang's body seemed to bristle with small, sharp black crystal stones from his wounds.

Could this be... Ore Disease, the otherworldly calamity from Terra World?

Kong Guofeng was even more anxious.

Since Lin Guang's rise, Kong Guofeng had naturally kept an eye on Terra World and had checked many records through Great Xia's officials, knowing this otherworldly disease could potentially be passed to Spirit Masters through contracts.

But...

Kong Guofeng had never felt any abnormality in Lin Guang's aura; he was always integrated, extremely powerful.

He did not know Lin Guang had this disease.

If so, he would not have ignored it.

Could it be that due to prolonged stay in the secret realm, there was no effective means of treatment?

With a touch of urgency, Jiang Wencha clasped his fists, posing a question everyone cared about: "Elder Jin, dare I ask if you can intervene to save him?"

-- Lin Qingxuan once said, unless proficient in space manipulation, it would take two Seven-Star Peak individuals to break open this secret realm intact.

But at this moment, it was only Jin Lao who could come.

The Secret Realm is about to collapse in no more than five minutes!

What extent can he achieve?!

For a while, all the True Men turned their gazes over, with a touch of urgency and hope in their eyes.

"At the very last moment of the Secret Realm's collapse, I will take action."

Jin Lao slowly opened his eyes, with a solemn expression flashing in his golden eyes.

But before the True Men could show their joy, he shook his head: "But I can't guarantee the success rate."

A True Man from a small family was anxious: "May I ask, if Jin Lao forcibly takes action now, how many people can he save?"

"...Fifty percent."

Jin Lao raised his open right hand, "At my level, I can only save at most fifty percent of the people in the Chaos Void."

"And—"

Before everyone could digest this number in their hearts, Jin Lao added: "I can't specify any particular person or group of people, it depends on fate."

"Because at the last moment, it is likely that I and it will take action at the same time, saving each person is like fighting it from afar once."

"Relying on the power of the Secret Realm, along with the Divine Object and Inheritance Rules, it is far easier for it to kill than for me to save."

As soon as the words fell, the expressions of the True Men changed dramatically.

The inheritors in the Secret Realm, even the one ranked last, would undeniably be a genius in the outside world, having the potential to leave their names in the history of Zhen Sheng City or even Great Xia in the future.

A fifty percent survival rate is simply too low, too low for anyone to accept such a loss.

Jiang Wencha's face turned black, like dark clouds about to burst, and he was the first to ask: "Jin Lao, what if we give up on preserving all and focus only on a few?"

Jin Lao was silent for a moment, then replied: "If I strive with all my might, focusing on saving just four or five people, there's about a ninety-five percent chance, but if the number increases to six or seven, there's only an eighty percent chance."

"..."

For a moment, the air became somewhat subtle, with Jiang Wencha being the most uncertain.

Should everything be left to chance to save more people, or should specific individuals be saved?

Jin Lao, however, did not speak, seemingly wanting to leave the decision to these True Men.

Yet at this moment.

All the True Men, including Jin Lao, suddenly turned their heads.

An unexpected change occurred.

Suddenly, an aura that even all the True Men present could not ignore appeared at the entrance of the Celestial Ladder Mountain Secret Realm, hundreds of kilometers away.

A noisy sound came over, as if someone from the outside world had forcibly broken through the array's protection and squeezed in.

That was…

A green meteor.

On the silhouette like a dragon or snake, stood a graceful figure in a white coat.

Their entire aura could no longer be suppressed, boiling violently like a volcano, covering the distance of hundreds of kilometers in just tens of seconds, reaching the foot of Celestial Ladder Mountain.

"…?"

Almost all of the True Men glanced curiously.

—With everything in such chaos, how can there still be a level sixty intruder entering?

Moreover, this aura lacked the traces of Spiritual Power, unlike a Spirit Master, more like…

Two Beast Kings maintaining their free forms?

Only Jiang Wencha and Kong Guofeng slightly paused.

Among all the True Men present, perhaps only the two of them knew this person's identity.

Doctor Kaiwen.

The Huai Family and Jiang Family communicated, knowing of her existence, and naturally, Kong Guofeng knew what she looked like.

It was just unexpected that…

Her true identity was not a Spirit Master but rather two Beast Kings who seemed like twins.

Moreover… seemed to be Magical Beasts?

A True Man probed cautiously with Spiritual Power: "Who are you?"

Kaiwen had no intention of replying, retracting [W3] as she descended from mid-air, landing among the True Men, with emerald green waves spreading out, as if forcibly integrating into their vision.

Kong Guofeng hesitated for a moment, then explained on her behalf: "She is Lin Guang's mentor."

"..."

All the True Men present immediately understood the source of her urgency.

Zhao Qin, who still had her Domain unfolded, also shared the scene with her.

And almost at the instant of understanding the internal situation, all the True Men could see, on the face of this beautiful woman in a white coat, the intense urgency that appeared out of nowhere.