I have a city in another world

Chapter 7014 Perilous Situation
Tang Zhen hovered beneath the gray sky, wielding his ancient longsword once more.

There was no earth-shattering momentum, only a kind of precision and majesty that was almost at the level of law, making people's hearts tremble.

The sword light was like cold lightning, tearing through the rocky ground time and time again. Accompanied by deafening sounds of rock shattering, he forcefully cleaved open bottomless cracks, like hideous wounds carved into the earth's body.

Then, something unexpected happened!
"boom--!"

"Boom boom——!"

Thick columns of water, mixed with mud, sand, gravel, and the chilling aura unique to the secret realm, surged violently from the newly formed cracks like water dragons imprisoned for ten thousand years, reaching heights of over a hundred meters!
Amidst the surging water column, figures were clearly visible – the survivors trapped in other corners of the secret realm.

They were swept up by the raging torrent and forcibly ejected into the outside world, where they crashed haphazardly onto the hard, rugged ground.

Rolling around, coughing, his whole body soaked in icy water, panting like a stray dog ​​that had fallen into the water and been rescued.

The intense shock of surviving the ordeal caused the survivors' expressions to change, overwhelmed by extreme joy and bewilderment.

Most of them were confused and couldn't figure out where this sudden rescue came from.

It wasn't until their companions, who had escaped first, urgently told them that it was the god-like figure in the air who had cleaved the top of the secret realm with a sword that they finally realized what had happened.

They struggled to their feet, ignoring the pain all over their bodies, and bowed in the direction of Tang Zhen in the air, murmuring words of gratitude.

Although Tang Zhen was suspended in mid-air with his deep gaze fixed on the distance, he might not have seen or cared about these small gestures, but they still had to use them to express their inner shock and gratitude.

But in the blink of an eye, another unexpected event occurred.

The underground torrents surged forth again, bringing not only survivors but also a large number of water monsters of various shapes and sizes.

They were thrown to the ground by the powerful water pressure, like fish out of water, writhing and jumping painfully on the hard rocks, their slimy skin rubbing against the rough ground, making strange, teeth-grinding sounds.

The number of lake monsters is extremely large, and they were not accidentally thrown out, but rather "delivered" here in batches!
The water monster adapts to its environment extremely quickly, completely ignoring the pain of its skin chafing and cracking. In just a very short time, it struggles to adapt to the way it moves on land.

Those pairs of eyes, filled with resentment and madness, locked onto the explorers who were just inches away. Accompanied by a chaotic and ear-piercing scream, the water monster launched an attack like a black tide bursting its banks, rushing madly toward the explorers who had just escaped danger and were still in shock!

Following closely behind, even larger figures, exuding terrifying pressure, emerged one after another from the cracks in the ground, like demons crawling out of the abyss of hell.

The giant monsters and divine skeleton puppets that ravaged the secret realm's waters also emerged one after another, determined to exterminate these "prey".

Upon seeing this, the explorers felt a chill run down their spines.

They could only grit their teeth, suppress their physical exhaustion and pain, and forcefully muster their remaining strength to get up and fight the enemy.

Once away from its familiar aquatic environment, the monster's fighting ability was indeed greatly reduced, and its movements became clumsy and sluggish, as if a bird had its wings cut off.

But their instinctive, fearless ferocity has not diminished at all; on the contrary, it has become even more frenzied due to the change in environment.

Faced with this monster that disregards its own casualties and only knows how to attack madly, the wizards and explorers were extremely troubled, but there was nowhere to hide. They could only fight in this unfamiliar rocky forest.

The giant water monster and the divine skeleton monster were even more ferocious, rolling and roaring wildly in the stone forest.

It often takes dozens of cultivators working together to barely hold off this monster, while it can easily inflict heavy damage on explorers.

The number of wizard casualties has begun to rise again. A group of ninth-level cultivators, their faces grave, are now dividing up the tasks: some are responsible for blocking the monsters, while others are responsible for finding an escape route.

With his profound cultivation and keen senses, he quickly traversed this chaotic area, eagerly searching for a way to escape.

They realized that the danger had not gone away; in fact, the situation was becoming increasingly dire.

The sluggishness of the surrounding space, the abnormal power of the rules permeating the air, and the ever-present oppressive atmosphere all prove that this place is still in the gap between the secret realm and the real world, an extremely unstable transitional zone!

This place remains extremely dangerous, and may even be more deadly than the previous flood cave.

We must find a way out as soon as possible; the longer we stay, the greater the unknown dangers will be.

There was another matter that weighed heavily on the hearts of the ninth-level cultivators, as if a large stone was pressing down on them.

The four powerful divine skeleton puppets who had fought against Tang Zhen, as well as the terrifying being that Tang Zhen had chosen to temporarily avoid and hide in the deepest part of the secret realm, never showed themselves.

They are the truly terrifying beings at the very top of this eerie and mysterious realm.

The ninth-tier wizard, proficient in spatial magic, quickly surveyed the surrounding area, attempting to find a weak point in the spatial barrier.

After all that effort, a look of frustration appeared on his face, because all his hard work had yielded nothing.

Despite exhausting all means, no breakthrough could be found.

Left with no other choice, they could only suppress their anxiety and fly over to Tang Zhen to ask for advice: "Sir, the space here is strange and abnormal, and we cannot find a way to escape. Do you have any good ideas?"

Tang Zhen's gaze was deep as he silently surveyed the chaotic battlefield below. He said in a deep voice, "This secret realm has been sealed and transformed by a power of rules, resembling a broken divine kingdom."

It's impossible to leave using ordinary means.

He paused slightly and continued, "To escape this place, we must find the hidden nodes created by the imperfections in the operation of the unfinished divine kingdom's rules, and then attack them with all our might. Perhaps we can tear open a temporary gap."

Or perhaps…

Tang Zhen's gaze seemed to pierce through layers of rock, looking into the unfathomable depths of the secret realm. "Find the entity behind everything, kill it directly, and the fragile spatial crystal wall will naturally dissipate."

Upon hearing this, the ninth-level cultivator showed a look of astonishment.

Rule sealing? Building a divine kingdom?
This is clearly an ability that only divine cultivators could possess. How did those monsters manage to do it?
Tang Zhen noticed the doubt and further explained, "The divine skeleton puppet here has undergone an unknown mutation, the kind with an extremely low probability."

It stole the authority of a fallen god and possesses terrifying power approaching that of a true god. Once it successfully condenses its own divine essence, it will take the final step and become a truly reborn god.

"The four divine skeleton puppets that fought against me earlier clearly sensed the quasi-god aura emanating from this mutated puppet, which instilled in them a sense of instinctive fear, and that's why they fled without hesitation."

His final words struck the ninth-level cultivators like a heavy hammer: "All of us, including those puppets and water monsters, are actually trapped inside the unfinished divine kingdom built by this true god puppet."

"As time goes by, its control over the rules will become stronger and stronger, and the crystal wall of the divine kingdom will become more and more solid. Our chances of escaping will only become lower and lower."

"The moment when the divine kingdom is completely stable and formed..."

“Every single living being trapped here will be assimilated and distorted by its rules, eventually becoming monster servants who depend on the divine kingdom, lose their self-awareness, and are neither human nor ghost.”