Chapter 588: Chapter 459: The Seventh Realm, Cruel Cross Boundary

After the end of the first six realms, the arrival of the seventh realm was specifically delayed for a few days, allowing all participants who had survived until the seventh realm to have sufficient rest time.

Because from the seventh realm onward, the most brutal challenges would begin!!

Chu Mu’s seventh realm was Cross Boundary!”

The so-called Cross Boundary meant horizontally traversing a highly dangerous Mysterious Realm from a certain location!

During the Cross Boundary, there were hardly any restrictions on the participants— even if they never entered the Mysterious Realm and instead took a detour to reach the other end of the Mysterious Realm, it wouldn’t be considered a violation of the rules.

However, the game organizer had clear time limits: if the participants couldn’t reach the other end of the Mysterious Realm within the specified time, they would be eliminated. Moreover, the Mysterious Realms chosen by the game organizer were often areas that couldn’t be bypassed.

There were countless high-level Mysterious Realms within the Earth Realm of World City. When Chu Mu initially entered World City from the west to save time, he often traversed the Earth Realm.

The appearance of the Cross Boundary in the seventh realm was well within Chu Mu’s expectations. The Cross Boundary took place in a huge environment— similar to a gigantic competition arena, where all participating contestants could freely perform their skills. In the end, there was a high likelihood that they would all meet in the Mysterious Realm terminal designated by the game organizer and engage in intense duels.

As for the difficulty, Chu Mu naturally chose the second-tier Commander Level. By the time the seventh realm arrived, the distinction between the third-tier, second-tier, and the first-tier was very apparent. The situation where Chu Mu previously ranked on the Glory Board of the first-tier was no longer possible, because now, the real experts of World City had already surfaced. The Glory Board would soon become a list where as long as the competitor successfully completed the seventh realm, their names would appear on it!

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The preparation phase for the seventh realm began.

Before entering the Mysterious Realm, each participant had no idea which Mysterious Realm it was. They would be led there by members of the game organizer from three different forces.

According to information from previous years, during the Cross Boundary, game organizer members usually threw the participants directly to the edge of the Mysterious Realm, informed them of how many days they had to reach a certain location, and then let the participants perform on their own.

When the day arrived, the three game organizer members appeared at the designated location.

They didn’t waste any time and directly summoned their Winged Soul Pets to blindfold Chu Mu and fly him to the Cross Boundary location.

Since this was the Cross Boundary phase of the seventh realm, the Mysterious Realm participants had to traverse would not be as simple as those in the previous realms, judging from the distance alone.

It took the three game organizer members nearly a full five days of flying to finally reach the starting point of the Cross Boundary.

During these five days, Chu Mu’s eyes were covered, so even if he had been to that Mysterious Realm before, there was no way for him to know exactly where it was beforehand.

Participants in the Cross Boundary of the seventh realm were like Chu Mu. The Mysterious Realm they had to traverse might be the same one, but all participants would be sent there from World City via different routes.

To ensure the fairness of the competition, the real Cross Boundary would begin on the seventh day— meaning when all participants were in position, they could only start then.

Under the watch of the three game organizer members, Chu Mu waited for two days until the sunrise of the seventh day, when they informed him of the location of the endpoint.

“The endpoint is on the east bank of Chen Lake, and the time limit is fifteen days. The Main Judge, Vice Judge, and other game organizer members will arrive at the endpoint on the sixteenth day. If you’re there by that time, it’s considered a successful realm traversal.” The member from Soul Hall spoke to Chu Mu.

“So, how are the rankings determined?” Chu Mu asked.

Since the Main Judges would only appear at Chen Lake Waterfall on the sixteenth day, how would they determine the rankings? After all, there were no members of the game organizer at the Chen Lake Waterfall to verify which contestant arrived first.

“We’re not sure about that, our duty ends here.” The other two game organizer members spoke.

After the three of them briefly explained everything, they recited their spells, summoned their Winged Soul Pets, and returned directly to World City.

Chu Mu watched as the three of them left and didn’t immediately move forward. Instead, he continued to ponder the question he had just asked.

“Fifteen days, for the Cross Boundary, is quite an urgent timeframe, but there should be many expert participants in the seventh realm, and a lot of people should arrive at Chen Lake Waterfall. Since the game organizer members won’t appear until the sixteenth day, there’s a subtle hint under this rule…” Fox Elder’s voice gradually transmitted out.

Chu Mu wasn’t stupid. With this rule in place, it meant that the game organizer had no intention of basing the rankings on who reaches the endpoint first.

And the subtle hint that Fox Elder mentioned in this rule was:

“On the sixteenth day, if you’re the only person there, you naturally will be the first place!”

After understanding this implication, Chu Mu couldn’t help but admire the game organizer’s approach to the competition— for the sake of true glory, every step in each realm was filled with the cruel fact of survival of the fittest!

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Chu Mu began to survey his surroundings. Before entering a Mysterious Realm, Chu Mu’s primary task was, of course, to investigate the environment.

Chu Mu was currently standing amidst a cluster of wildly growing bushes and jungles, with the height of these bushes nearly reaching that of many large trees. Towering trees stood tall, and standing amid these huge bushes often made one feel as if they had been shrunk to a much smaller size.

When the race members left, they at least told Chu Mu the direction of East. Chu Mu immediately summoned the Night Thunder Dream Beast and let it head towards the east.

The surrounding tall grass was flexible and strong. As the Night Thunder Dream Beast began to chase, the tall grass split to both sides, but it was not damaged by the lightning speed of the Night Thunder Dream Beast.

After passing through the tall grass, the view suddenly opened up, and the eyes were filled with a curved land covered with low weeds green and lush. Occasionally, green ripples like waves appeared under the wind, and it stretched far away from one side to the other.

On the common weed ground, there could occasionally be sightings of tall grass similar to what Chu Mu was currently passing through, like a small forest appearing on the flat ground.

Chu Mu only had the direction of the east, and when he looked eastward, he faintly saw a winding ridge, the ridge extending in the north-south direction, traversing the path that Chu Mu was about to take.

Chu Mu could not see the area beyond the ridge. He knew that it would not be possible for a lake or waterfall to appear on land like the grassland, but it was only possible in the area behind the ridge.

“Fox Elder, which Mysterious Realm is this?” Chu Mu asked.

“This… I’ve never seen it before,” Fox Elder replied, also stating he had never heard of this place.

Since there was no information, Chu Mu could only continue going forward. He believed that since the continuous mountain range in front was a Mysterious Realm, there must be a designated area. As long as they reached the eastern end of the realm, they should be not far from the so-called Chen Lake. Once they found Chen Lake, they would definitely see the waterfall!

The ridge at the far end seemed to be just in front of their eyes. However, Chu Mu, riding the Night Thunder Dream Beast with its amazing speed, still hadn’t yet arrived after running for a long time on the vast grassland.

Such a visual distance difference often happened in the wild. Chu Mu wasn’t in a hurry, so he continued to run forward at a normal pace, occasionally sweeping his eyes to see if there were other contestants moving towards the mountain range like he was.

By dusk, the so-called ridge finally appeared in full view before Chu Mu.

When watching from a distance, the ridge seemed to be just a few vivid winding lines on the horizon. But when standing at the foot of the mountain range, one could feel its towering and majestic presence stretching across the land!!

The mountain range was not as gentle as Chu Mu imagined. After the Night Thunder Dream Beast climbed several steep cliffs, a path along the ridge barely appeared in front of him…

“Chirp~~~~~~~”

Just as Chu Mu was about to cross the ridge path, the Night Thunder Dream Beast let out a sound to remind Chu Mu.

The Night Thunder Dream Beast had reached the ninth stage, and its perception ability had grown significantly. Chu Mu couldn’t always release his Soul Sense in normal states. At this time, the Night Thunder Dream Beast’s perception played a significant role.

“Is there a smell of blood?” Chu Mu asked, touching the dream horn of the Night Thunder Dream Beast.

The Night Thunder Dream Beast nodded, taking light steps forward. In the steep shadows of the ridge, it slid gracefully with a few flying steps before finally landing on the tree crown of a hanging pine.

Once the Night Thunder Dream Beast remained still, its body naturally blended into the shadows, hiding Chu Mu as well.

“There’s no sign of battle; they should already be dead. Let’s go down.” Chu Mu said.

The Night Thunder Dream Beast’s body reappeared in the shadow, gently stepping on the pine branches and floating down lightly…

Below was a very obvious ridge valley path, extremely narrow, and it was challenging to accommodate larger Soul Pets. Chu Mu approached and deliberately used his Soul Sense to detect the surroundings. Once he was sure there was no danger, he jumped down and landed in the valley path filled with rubble.

The smell of blood came out from between the rubble, and there were faint glimpses of three corpses in the gaps.

The blood on the three corpses had already changed color, indicating that they had not just died recently.

“Young Master, see if there’s an identity badge on them,” Fox Elder said.

Chu Mu nodded and searched the corpses.

Just as he thought, all three of them had identity badges. However, when he saw the badges, Chu Mu’s face changed dramatically!!

“They… ”

“They are race members!”

Chu Mu looked at the three blood-stained badges, took a deep breath, and quickly thought of something. He hurriedly checked the color of the blood.

“It’s been two and a half days,” Chu Mu said, touching the tea-colored blood, and quickly reached a chilling conclusion.

Someone had killed the three race members who had escorted him just two days ago!!

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