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Chapter 358, Rank 8

Chapter 358 Eighth Rank

"This space..."

At this moment, Xu Ning was standing on muddy ground, surrounded by a grove of giant trees with dense foliage, about 100 meters tall.

The sky was mostly blocked out, with only gaps in the branches and leaves allowing some sunlight to penetrate, preventing the area from being completely dark.

"Let's go up and take a look..."

Xu Ning began to climb upwards.

Slurp slurp...

Xu Ning moved through the branches and leaves and soon reached the top of a giant tree.

He gazed into the distance, and what he saw was a sea of trees.

"Is this the environment of this isolated space...?"

Xu Ning had a general idea of what was going on.

Based on his experience over the past two weeks, Xu Ning has also gained some insights.

Almost every individual space has a consistent and uniform environment.

It's either a continuous volcanic area, a grassland covered in wild grass, or an isolated lake...

The scenarios are not diverse.

"There are no signs of biological activity in this sea of trees..."

Xu Ning looked up at the sky. There were no birds flying in the sky, only a glowing sphere that emitted light that was almost like sunlight.

"Let's go down and take a look..."

Xu Ning descended from the top of the giant tree and stepped back onto the ground.

As before, he began to explore the space within the giant tree.

While searching for resources and hidden fragments, also find the teleportation portal here.

Xu Ning walked among the giant trees and dense forest.

Whoosh whoosh.

Suddenly, Xu Ning heard a strange sound, and at the same time, a sense of crisis rose in his heart.

Xu Ning instinctively turned around and saw more than a dozen tentacles extending from a short, sturdy tree, lashing out at him.

Those dozen or so tentacles were all covered with barbs, and the surface of the barbs had a faint green glow.

"Secret Realm!"

Xu Ning immediately activated his secret domain, covering his entire body with a light membrane.

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The tentacles lashed directly at the light membrane of the secret realm.

"Plants with independent consciousness...?"

This was the first time Xu Ning had encountered this kind of creature since arriving at the Mystic Tower.

However, this tentacle-covered plant, though strange, did not cause Xu Ning any real harm.

Its tentacles were completely unable to shatter Xu Ning's secret domain light membrane.

Whoosh whoosh!

Xu Ning launched a counterattack.

More than a dozen wind blades swept past, severing the tentacles.

Then, Xu Ning arrived at the short, sturdy tree and unleashed a spiraling wind spike that pierced through the trunk. The wind-attribute power, carrying a strangling nature, directly extinguished most of the tree's vitality.

"There seems to be something inside these trees..."

Relying on his senses, Xu Ning directly cut open the short, sturdy tree and took out a piece of transparent, solid, gelatinous substance.

"What is this... could it be the essence of this tree?"

Xu Ning sensed the last vestige of life in the trees.

At the same time, after Xu Ning touched the transparent solid gel-like substance with his palm, a prompt from the martial arts panel appeared in front of his eyes.

200 units of energy have been detected. Should we absorb it?

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"200 million units..."

Xu Ning smiled: "What a coincidence. Once I gather these 200 million units of energy, I can advance to the eighth rank..."

Without further hesitation, Xu Ning directly absorbed the 200 million units of energy.

Wow.

Just as Xu Ning finished absorbing the energy, the transparent solid gel in his hand instantly turned into a viscous liquid, which fell to the ground.

Xu Ning activated his master's power, and a ball of water condensed in his palm.

The water droplets dispersed, washing away the viscous liquid in Xu Ning's hands.

Xu Ning has now mastered various secret techniques of different attributes and integrated them into his secret domain.

The more secret techniques one possesses, the stronger they become, and the greater the power of the secret domain.

"Ready to advance to the eighth-tier Mystic Master..."

Xu Ning clicked "+" after the realm.

Should I consume 2500 million units of energy to advance to the eighth-tier Mystic Master?

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After confirming this, Xu Ning began to enjoy the pleasure of his improved cultivation level.

"Eighth rank..."

With a thought, Xu Ning expanded the area of the secret domain to over a hundred meters.

"My current maximum range for this secret domain is probably five hundred meters..."

Similar to the Void Realm in the martial arts world, the method of fighting enemies in the Secret Domain is to cover the enemy within the Secret Domain and then strike and kill them.

"Now I'm just one realm away from breaking through to the ninth rank and comprehending the world's origin in the Mystic World..."

Xu Ning felt a surge of excitement.

However, Xu Ning was also well aware that advancing to the ninth rank was by no means an easy task.

Because the energy consumed to advance from the eighth rank to the ninth rank is 12000 million units!

This is an incredibly large amount of resources.

"Now we're just one step away. I need to do everything I can to secure resources and power, but I also need to proceed cautiously and steadily..."

The last leg of a journey is the hardest. As Xu Ning gets closer to the final stage, he must not become complacent and must always stay alert.

After advancing to the eighth rank, Xu Ning felt even more confident.

"Halt! Hand over all the hidden fragments, and I might spare your life!"

After his promotion, Xu Ning was about to explore again when he heard shouts coming from afar.

"Is there a conflict or dispute between the scribes of different factions...?"

After thinking for a moment, Xu Ning decided to go and take a look.

At this moment, amidst the giant trees and dense forest.

A bald young man fled frantically, occasionally throwing out a few secret techniques to hinder his pursuers.

Behind him, three pursuers were menacing and determined to catch him.

"Where exactly is the teleportation portal? Why haven't we found it yet?"

The bald young man was extremely anxious as he watched the enemy getting closer and closer behind him.

This bald young man was Gao Qixuan, one of Xu Ning's companions.

"You're breaking the rules!"

As Gao Qixuan fled, he roared, "Before entering the Secret Master Tower, everyone agreed that we were not allowed to attack each other, yet you still attacked me!"

"joke!"

A pursuer in brown sneered, "A mere formality, and you take it seriously? The Mystic Tower has opened countless times over the years, and this agreement has been with us every time, but nobody has ever honored it. You're using this to restrict us? It's a joke!"

The three pursuers remained unmoved and instead subtly accelerated.

"I'm doomed, I'm going to die in here!"

A sense of powerlessness also arose in Gao Qixuan's heart.

He is only in his thirties, yet he is already a seventh-level master.

With his own talent, he has a real chance to compete for the position of head of the Gao family in the future.

It would be such a pity if he died here.

"This is your last warning. Hand over the hidden fragment, and I'll spare your life!"

The pursuer shouted again.

"I won't pay!"

Gao Qixuan roared angrily.

He knew that his pursuers were not trustworthy at all.

"There's no escape, we have to fight to the death!"