Celestial Beast Taming

Upon entering the scenes created by the Endless Wood Demon, one could, in fact, discover the anomalies just by carefully observing their surroundings.

These participants, who were on the same Second Level of strength as Zhong Yi, would have been able to spot the problems with the environment if they had just focused their minds.

After all, the scenes created by the Endless Wood Demon were currently unable to simulate living things.

The moment one stepped into a scene created by the Endless Wood Demon, the chirping of insects and the rich aura of Life emanating from the vegetation would vanish.

But Zhong Yi had no intention of giving the participants who entered the Endless Wood Demon’s scenes a chance.

He would immediately change the scene, matching two or three people together in the same one.

It was just as Zhong Yi had predicted.

The participants, complete strangers to each other, had no time to consider the abnormality of the environment or wonder why others had suddenly appeared beside them.

They could only immediately focus all their attention on killing the participants who had just materialized by their side.

Beyond just watching these young prodigies fight, when they were locked in a fierce battle, Zhong Yi would also have Hong Ji and Ice Glaze suddenly deliver a finishing blow.

The first person Zhong Yi killed upon entering the Divine Wood Secret Realm hadn’t dropped anything.

But afterward, almost every participant Zhong Yi encountered left behind some resources for him when they died.

Zhong Yi didn’t even need to collect these resources himself. The Endless Wood Demon, using the scene-switching function of its Exclusive Trait, Wood Realm Prison, would deliver them right into his hands.

When he entered this Secret Realm, a ranking list had appeared on the Soul Fighting Bracelet Zhong Yi wore on his wrist.

This list only recorded the participants still alive within the Secret Realm.

The surviving participants were ranked according to the value of the materials they had collected.

Like a playwright, Zhong Yi had orchestrated hundreds of battles through his scene changes.

Yet on the ranking list, he was only in fourth place!

Although the score gap between him and the top three was not large.

This was enough to prove that the top three were all using their own methods to slaughter opponents and amass wealth within this Second Level Divine Wood Secret Realm.

By now, more than 1,700 participants had already been eliminated.

And the number of participants was still decreasing at an extremely rapid rate.

When the number of participants dropped below 800, the number of people stepping into the scenes created by the Endless Wood Demon noticeably decreased.

It was a case of great waves sifting the sand; the silt had been washed away.

What remained, if not pure gold, was at least gold-rich gravel.

The strength of these individuals was clearly a cut above those who had previously entered the scenes.

Zhong Yi did not kill everyone who set foot in his scenes.

Instead, he deliberately let some of the relatively stronger participants—those with exceptional mobility in this Secret Realm—get away.

Zhong Yi had Lan Po use her Basic Skill, Weaving Dreams, to meticulously craft dreams for these targets, at the cost of consuming Dream Silver Shuttles.

Lan Po now possessed a new Skill called Echo.

Because Echo could bypass a target’s Spiritual Defense.

With this Skill, Weaving Dreams not only took effect more easily, but also much faster than before.

Combined with the Exclusive Trait, Alternating Nightmare, this turned the targets affected by Weaving Dreams into carriers of the contagion, passing the Nightmare to other participants they encountered in the Secret Realm.

Lan Po, at the cost of five Dream Silver Shuttles, had used Weaving Dreams to affect five participants.

As of now, two of these five participants were dead, but three were still inside the Second Level Divine Wood Secret Realm.

Over the past few days, the Nightmares released by the five participants whom Lan Po had influenced with Weaving Dreams had affected nearly a hundred other participants.

Even if these Nightmares didn’t have a major impact on their victims, they allowed Lan Po to use the affected targets to sketch out a precise map of the Secret Realm and clearly track the distribution of all participants on it.

Zhong Yi’s position in the Divine Wood Secret Realm was in the lower-left area of the entire map.

Nestled in Zhong Yi’s arms, Lan Po had done all this work in secret, consuming a great deal of her Spiritual Power.

Fortunately, thanks to a newly acquired Exclusive Trait called Nightmare Link, the targets affected by both Weaving Dreams and Nightmare provided a steady stream of Spiritual Power for Lan Po.

Although two had died, the other three participants were sustaining Lan Po with their own Spiritual Power.

Furthermore, Lan Po could ignore distance and cast the Skill of Weaving Dreams on targets affected by Nightmare from extremely far away.

Lan Po chose a few targets with weaker Spiritual Defense and used Weaving Dreams to subtly influence their subconscious while also receiving a feedback of their Spiritual Power.

Even so, Lan Po’s expenditure still outpaced her income.

Every so often, she had to consume a Dream Silver Shuttle.

Even when the number of participants in the Secret Realm dropped below 600, Zhong Yi still did not choose to leave his current area.

Logically, regardless of the Secret Realm’s size, participants would gradually converge on the central area.

This was because the Secret Realms opened by the Wanyu Betting Company also followed some of the Rules of the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm.

After five days, the outer edges of the Secret Realm would continuously collapse inward.

This meant that simply hiding out in the Secret Realm would yield few resources and made it difficult to achieve a high rank.

Zhong Yi was well aware of this. The reason he hadn’t yet acted was that he was orchestrating a grand scheme against the other participants!