Chapter 168: Promotion

Ran Tianyun: “I will personally experience the Secret Realm!”

In fact, the Adventurers who adventured in the Secret Realm Crystal had already been replaced several times.

He could have entered the Secret Realm long ago, but he was somewhat engrossed in watching the adventure. Now that Mingyue Zhaoxue’s adventure had ended, it was time for him to personally go in and experience it.

Nancy Liya immediately said, “I will prepare a dedicated Secret Realm Crystal for you!”

She highly valued the relationship between her territory and Tianyun Territory.

After all, they were currently the only diplomatic and trade partner.

Even if it was just from the perspective of entertaining guests, it wasn’t too much to offer some small conveniences as a host.

“No need.”

Ran Tianyun had already lined up.

He had also changed his mind: “I am not appearing here as the Lord, but as a Contract Adventurer ‘Sky Cloud Ranger’ from Tianyun City. I will participate in the adventure on an equal footing with the other Adventurers.”

Given Ran Tianyun’s identity.

Given the relationship between the two territories.

It wouldn’t be difficult to apply for a VIP Crystal that didn’t require queuing.

The Secret Realm Hall had one thousand five hundred crystals.

This would not affect other Adventurers.

However, Ran Tianyun thought about it carefully again, and felt that doing so would attract too much attention. Other Adventurers would probably quickly guess his identity, which would cause quite a bit of topicality and discussion.

This is not good!

Given Tianyun City’s fame and influence in Black Stone Town.

Once these Adventurers knew his true identity, they would probably find it difficult to treat him as an equal companion, and it would also be difficult to discuss the Secret Realm’s plot with everyone in a relaxed and harmonious atmosphere.

In addition.

Coming only once would be enough.

But is it possible?

If he were to run to Miracle City every other day.

What would the people of Tianyun and the Adventurers think?

Tianyun City, after all, was currently the number one Underground City in Black Stone Town, and Ran Tianyun was still the recognized first Lord of Black Stone Town. He still had to save face.

Therefore, rather than courting unnecessary trouble and ruining the experience, it would be better to appear here as an ordinary Adventurer… Not only would it not create a burden of identity, but it could also make the atmosphere and experience more harmonious.

Most importantly.

A VIP Crystal was unnecessary.

The total number of Adventurers in Miracle Territory exceeded four thousand.

The Secret Realm Hall had a total of two, of which the Miracle City Secret Realm Hall was a Third-Tier Hall, while the Gloomy City Secret Realm Hall had already advanced to a Second-Tier Hall, with a total of two thousand crystals.

The crystal-to-person ratio was just over 2:1.

Although there were many Adventurers, since at least 80% were First Order Adventurers, with a maximum of 5 points of basic Adventure Energy per day, the crystal resources were completely sufficient.

The Adventurers’ method of draining crystals had also been optimized.

Each Adventurer did not queue in front of a single crystal.

Instead, ten or eight Adventurers from adjacent crystals queued together.

Therefore, even if Mingyue Zhaoxue had a situation like this time, where she played for three hours straight, it was impossible for other Adventurers to wait for three hours.

According to statistics.

The average queuing time for Adventurers was only about twenty minutes per day.

This waiting time wasn’t much, and they could also watch others adventure, which was also one of the important fun.

Now!

It’s finally about to begin!

He had already waited three days!

The moment Ran Tianyun activated the Secret Realm Crystal,

He only felt a sense of heartfelt expectation and excitement, as well as a natural sense of joy from every cell in his body.

This feeling was indeed very wonderful, regardless of whether there were any gains, it was simply an enjoyment.

In the decades since Ran Tianyun became a Lord, every single thing he did was based on the consideration of interests. He hadn’t done a purely enjoyable thing, just enjoying the happiness itself, for many years.

So, being an Adventurer is so much fun?

No, only by being an Adventurer in Miracle City would one have such a feeling!

Even if he ignored the gains themselves, even if he didn’t produce anything, this place was absolutely worth coming to!

The crystal was activated.

Several options appeared before his eyes.

【Secret Realm One: Doomsday Tide. 】

【Secret Realm Two: Foreign Lands Ten Kingdoms Chronicle. 】

【Secret Realm Three: Star Sea. 】

【Sub-Secret Realm: Final Arena. 】

Each Secret Realm was worth experiencing and could be called a masterpiece.

After Ran Tianyun hesitated slightly, he ultimately chose the Star Sea Secret Realm.

After all, this was a new Secret Realm. Joining the challenge of this Secret Realm now allowed him to explore the latest content of Miracle City together with the Adventurers.

As for the Tide and Ten Kingdoms Chronicle? Because there was no need to pursue timeliness and progress, he might as well wait until he had finished the Titan Chapter before calmly savoring it!

Started the Secret Realm.

The adventure journey officially began,

After the brief cutscene ended.

Ran Tianyun appeared in the simulation training cabin of the Macallan aircraft carrier.

He could feel the slight roar during the operation of the spaceship, he could clearly see every detail of the simulation cabin, every button, and everything, as well as the memories in his mind, were all telling him.

This was the real world.

“I am no longer Lord Ran Tianyun.”

“But Star Sea World Rifleman Cooper.”

When Ran Tianyun began the Pilot practice in the Secret Realm Crystal.

The other three Lords had strange expressions, and even a little jealousy!

How could they not want to experience the battlefield of this other world, and feel the novelty of piloting a Mecha?

“When did this old fox learn the Adventurer Clone Technique?”

Li Jianhan said sarcastically: “Why have I never heard of it before!”

Gao Yue: “Hmph, most likely it was learned specifically for Miracle City. A Lord doesn’t properly manage their own territory, but goes to other people’s territory to challenge the Secret Realm. At this age, they’re not ashamed.”

Li Jianhan: “If the people and Adventurers of Tianyun City knew, it would probably cause quite a bit of public opinion. I, for one, can’t bring myself to do such a thing.”

The Lords and Adventurers were relatively equal.

Adventurers were free to come and go, and they could vote with their feet.

But when a territory had reached a certain scale, and the Lord had mastered enough resources, wealth, and population, there was no difference between that and a king.

Tianyun Territory had more than a million formal people.

Ran Tianyun could interact on an equal footing with the local kings and the patriarchs of large tribes on weekdays.

Now, not only did he immerse himself in the Secret Realm role-playing, but he also occasionally communicated and discussed with the young Adventurers who were watching nearby. In the eyes of the three Lords, it was too demeaning and lacked face.

“But come to think of it.”

Ren Wanxiong said at this moment: “The Miracle City Secret Realm does have many things worth learning, and its output is also very valuable. It’s not impossible to experience it in the Secret Realm with a mindset of learning and observation.”

“That also makes sense.”

“We need to establish cooperation with Miracle City and understand the content of the Miracle City Secret Realm…”

The three Lords all had the idea of learning the Adventurer Clone Technique.

Miracle City’s potential was immeasurable. If a long-term cooperative relationship could be established, it would have huge strategic value for the territory… But the biggest problem and trouble now was that the three Lords’ territories were not directly connected to Miracle City!

They could only use Tianyun City as a transit point to come and go.

The three major territories not only had to maintain a good relationship with the Miracle City Lord, but also had to maintain a good relationship with Tianyun City in the future, which was equivalent to being held by them!

Ran Tianyun, this old fox, was too lucky!

“Hmph, we’ve seen the content before the Titan Chapter, and it’s better not to watch this guy’s adventure. Let’s go somewhere else.”

“Agreed!”

In fact, it would be good to watch such wonderful content again.

The operations and performances of each Adventurer would also be different and would not be repeated.

Even in the same Secret Realm, the same adventure, the different challenge processes and the show effects produced by different people were different.

The three major Lords did not continue to watch the Star Sea Secret Realm, not because they had lost interest in the content before the Star Sea Secret Realm, but mainly because Miracle City had two main Secret Realms.

They had come all this way.

Wouldn’t they have to understand it?

So the three Lords wandered around the hall.

The result was, without a doubt, being soul-critically hit again and again!

The Miracle City Secret Realm was far richer than imagined, and the other Secret Realm works were no less than the Titan Chapter, and the gameplay mechanisms and worldview art styles were also completely different!

“Monster!”

“The Miracle Lord is simply a monster!”

“If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed that there would be such a monstrous genius.”

“Biohazard, Blacklight, Ashina, Sui and Tang… Even the King of Fighters Tournament in the Raging Tide Arena Mode and Final Arena is the best of the best, not only enough to make Adventurers addicted, but also full of spectacle!”

“The gap between us and him is too big!”

“I’m completely convinced!”

“…”

While the three of them were sighing.

They found that there were quite a few people gathered around a Secret Realm Crystal in front.

When they learned that the content of this Secret Realm Crystal was the Sui and Tang Chapter, it immediately piqued their interest, because currently, there were fewer than a hundred Adventurers in Miracle City who were capable of exploring the Sui and Tang Chapter.

The operator of this Secret Realm Crystal was the Third Rank Adventurer Biyan Hua.

Gao Yue: “Is it her?”

Li Jianhan: “Isn’t this Biyan Hua, one of the four major Adventurer Team Leaders in Tianyun City?”

Ren Wanxiong: “I remember, although she is the weakest among the four Team Leaders in Tianyun, she is also the youngest and most promising one. I didn’t expect that she has become a Miracle City Adventurer now.”

If they had known this normally.

The three of them would have been surprised.

But now that the Tianyun Lord himself was addicted to the Miracle City Secret Realm.

It was nothing strange that one of the four Team Leaders of Tianyun had run away!

Biyan Hua did not follow the trend and enter the new Secret Realm, because she found that the Ten Kingdoms Chronicle Sui and Tang Chapter had updated a main story area that could be explored, which was the Black Mountain Town in the borderlands mentioned by Master Gongshan, where it was possible to obtain clues to the Shennong Cauldron.

She immediately became very interested.

She entered it immediately!

…

Black Mountain Town in the Remake version of Miracle City.

It was a Sui Dynasty border city full of details!

This place was located on the border of the Sui Dynasty, bordering the Turkic grasslands to the north and the Yellow River tributary to the south, and it was the throat to the Central Plains from the Hexi Corridor.

The city walls were about three zhang high and five miles long, with four gates to the east, west, south, and north. Inside the city, the “Cross Street” served as the main road, dividing the east and west markets, and the north and south were residential areas.

Here, the Han and Hu people lived together.

There were monks, Daoists, and Rangers from the Central Plains.

It was also full of borderland elements such as sandstorms, Hu flute sounds, merchant caravan bells, and Shaman sacrifices.

The entire town did not have many people, with a total of only four or five thousand, but it was full of life details, and the cuisine features, religious folk customs, clothing, and architecture were all realistic and credible, and the foundation was profound.

This place fully satisfied the Adventurers’ feeling of freshness and exotic feeling when exploring the city-states of other worlds.

“Too strong!”

“This place is simply a paradise for our study and travel enthusiasts.”

“Yes, the Sui and Tang Chapter is not like Ashina, Blacklight, and the Titan Chapter. These three chapters all have time limits and not much sense of life.”

“The Sui and Tang Chapter does not require us Adventurers to do anything immediately. The local town life is full of it, and we can completely travel slowly, or even live in it!”

“What’s the difference between this and time travel?”

“Turkic-style roasted whole lamb with Youmian heli, seasoned with wild garlic and sand onions, looks delicious!”

“The signature dish of Black Mountain Inn, the Eight Treasures Mushroom Soup, is also great!”

“The Sogdian dances are beautiful!”

“I must come here to travel!”

“This is a Secret Realm where you can enjoy at a slow pace, but the entry threshold is too high!”

“…”

Black Mountain Town was not only a border town with the background of the Sui and Tang dynasties and the chaotic era of demons.

Qi Ji also set up more than ten side quests, both named and hidden. Adventurers needed to explore in depth to trigger the quests, which not only could obtain corresponding rich rewards, but also could learn more history and monsters and ghosts.

As for the main story.

Of course, it was to treat the severely injured Master Gongshan, and to find the Shennong Cauldron, one of the five Divine Tools, and specially came here to investigate the clues, because the Shennong Cauldron was currently the treasured treasure of the Tuoba Clan.

However.

Not long after Biyan Hua entered Black Mountain Town.

She encountered a Sui Army that captured young boys with the excuse of “the princess needs the fresh blood of boys to beautify her.”

At this time, the Hu girl Tuoba Yuer suddenly appeared to kill the Sui soldiers, but the Sui Army Captain transformed into a demon called a “Evil Corpse Skeleton” and severely injured her.

Biyan Hua immediately took action.

She used Guiguzi Daoist Arts to team up with Yu Xiaoxue.

The two of them spent a lot of effort to defeat this small BOSS and rescued Yuer.

But Tuoba Yuer not only didn’t appreciate it, but because the Adventurers were of the Sui people’s identity, plus they could use the demonic arts （ Guiguzi Daoist Arts ） she was extremely hostile and even drew her sword.

“Tuoba Yuer is too much!”

“Big Shot Biyan Hua saved her!”

“Actually, it can be understood. After all, the Sui soldiers are capturing children everywhere, and they are also transformed by demons. In this case, this Hu girl regards the protagonist as a demon is normal.”

“Although she is a girl, she is resolute and brave. I think Yuer has a personality.”

“Yuer is also so beautiful, and her personality is the opposite of Xiaoxue. I also like such a heroic girl!”

“She must also be a core plot character.”

“One is as fiery as fire, the other is as gentle as water, interesting, interesting!”

“I still like Xiaoxue!”

“Support Xiaoxue!”

“…”

Between the Adventurers’ evaluations.

Another key character appeared.

It was precisely Zhang Lie, Tuoba Yuer’s brother-in-law.

This person was the current Patriarch of the Tuoba Tribe, and this made the Adventurers very surprised.

Biyan Hua was also the same.

“How can the Patriarch of the Tuoba Clan have a Han surname?”

After she learned about it.

Zhang Lie was of mixed Han and Hu blood, with half Han blood.

Although it was so, it was also very extraordinary. This person could make the Tuoba Tribe convinced, and his methods must be extraordinary.

After Zhang Lie cleared up the misunderstanding.

He hosted a banquet for Biyan Hua to thank her for saving Yuer’s life.

And in the process of Biyan Hua’s conversation with him, she found that this person was knowledgeable and had extraordinary bearing, and he had the demeanor of a prosperous age emperor and a chaotic era hero. No wonder he became the tribal leader with mixed blood.

Not only that.

Zhang Lie seemed to judge that the Sui family would decline.

He vaguely revealed his ambition to challenge the Central Plains.

“A tribal leader, who actually wants to challenge the Sui Dynasty?”

“It’s normal. The Sui Dynasty was founded less than twenty years ago, but it seems that there are signs of its demise!”

“Indeed, it doesn’t matter that the villagers of Moon River Village sacrificed young girls to the monsters…”

“That princess, using beautification as a reason, had soldiers capture young boys in broad daylight, and even demons were mixed in the army. How could this empire last to such a point?”

“Not necessarily?”

“Don’t forget!”

“The Sui Dynasty also has a Yuwen Taishi who can fight an army alone!”

“…”

At this moment.

Biyan Hua received bad news.

The Shennong Cauldron had been taken away by the Court a few days ago.

Was it too late?

No, there was still a chance!

The Shennong Cauldron was very heavy.

The Sui Army couldn’t transport it to the capital immediately.

If they could catch up with the army transporting the Cauldron, or if they could seize the Shennong Cauldron before Yuwen Tuo found it… It was just that if they wanted to carry out this plan, they needed Zhang Lie’s support. How could they persuade Zhang Lie to help?

At this time, Biyan Hua learned that Zhang Lie was investigating a suspicious demon army within the Sui Army.

This was an opportunity!

Biyan Hua immediately volunteered to help with the investigation in exchange for intelligence support for the Shennong Cauldron, and Zhang Lie readily agreed to this request.

It’s currently advanced to this point.

In Biyan Hua’s next adventure.

She will infiltrate the Sui Army’s military camp to investigate the demon army hidden within it.

This would obviously be a very dangerous task, but it also fully aroused the expectations of the other Adventurers.

The three major Lords watched near Biyan Hua’s Secret Realm Crystal for several tens of minutes, and they had already been attracted by this textured Chinese ancient style, the dark chaotic era.

The people inside, from the common people to the noble leaders, were all real and vivid, and every character that appeared was very three-dimensional, closely connected to the worldview and the story background without any sense of violation.

And this was only a part of the worldview of the Foreign Lands Ten Kingdoms Chronicle.

This also made them curious and even yearn for it.

If they could enter this exotic world and experience the life of another world, it would be a very interesting thing, right? If, in this process, they played a legendary character and left behind various legendary deeds, it would be no different from a second life!

The Miracle City Secret Realm was convincing!

There was not a single ordinary product after watching these few hours!

When the three major Lords were watching the content of the Miracle City Secret Realm, hundreds of Adventurers who were actively exploring the story of the Star Sea World Titan Chapter also had major breakthroughs.

After the Adventurer restarted the BT and defeated the first enemy Titan code-named Beast.

They defeated several ordinary IMC Titans in succession.

The strength of these Titans was not very strong. Although they fought back and forth, they were eventually defeated by the Adventurers. And just as the Adventurers were full of confidence, they encountered their first truly formidable enemy.

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