Chapter 49

How, how could she be seen? Xiao Liu, who had fled all the way to the secret realm "Zhou Chong," panted heavily and carefully checked the protective boundary pearl barrier that enveloped her.

There was nothing wrong here, nothing wrong there, everything was fine. No matter how she checked, Xiao Liu got the same answer—the boundary pearl was not malfunctioning, and the barrier that protected her was operating perfectly.

Then why was she discovered by a human? Could that human be a top-notch immortal art practitioner, capable of seeing through the disguise of the boundary pearl that even the secret realm's laws could not deceive?

Could it be that she had already been targeted? Could it be that the human was now nearby, ready to grab her at any moment...

What should she do? Xiao Xiang! Xiao Liu habitually called out to her other half, but received no response for a long time. Only then did she remember that to create the passage to get here, Xiao Xiang had expended too much energy and was now in a deep sleep to recover.

"Sniff, sniff, sniff!" At a loss, Xiao Liu curled up in a corner of the secret realm and cried.

She really, really wanted to go out. The power of the boundary pearl was finite and would not stop just because she was hiding here.

But if she went out and encountered that human who could see through the boundary pearl's disguise again... She didn't know what would happen, but she felt very afraid.

She liked the human world, but she didn't understand the human race. Both Xiao Xiang and the other senior secret realm beings had told her countless times that humans were a very, very dangerous race, the killers of countless secret realm beings.

If it were Xiao Xiang, who was so powerful, confident, and seemed capable of anything, what would she do?

She would never hide in a remote corner like this, but would walk out boldly.

Unlike her, Xiao Xiang was always fearless and incredibly powerful, unmatched in the endless sea of blood, even praised by the senior secret realm beings, believing that she had fully awakened her ancient demon god blood, the purest descendant of the ancient chaos.

Ah, how envious. Compared to Xiao Xiang, she was so weak and immature.

But even she, as weak as she was, should be able to do something.

Her only wish could not be abandoned halfway.

The next day, the girl in the red immortal robe bravely walked out of the secret realm and saw the golden light rising at the horizon.

That was the light of the sun, which illuminated the seas and mountains, a light unseen in the secret realm.

"Unafraid! Unafraid! Unafraid! Xiao Liu!" The girl clenched her fists, bravely spread her arms toward the sun, and felt the taste of the sea breeze.

Today, she would go to the human world, observe human activities, and experience this world, so different from the secret realm, with her own eyes and ears.

This was a world larger and more extensive than any secret realm, a world filled with countless races and beings, a world brimming with infinite possibilities.

All secret realms coexisted with this world, but due to the lack of many laws, they could not fully integrate with this world, ultimately forming independent small worlds.

If this world were compared to a vast sea, the secret realms would be the bubbles on the surface of this sea, coexisting with the world but not fully connected.

There were some unstable spatial passages between secret realms, which were mostly unstable most of the time, but sometimes they would stabilize, allowing different secret realms to connect.

And every so often, under the power of an extremely powerful secret realm being, all passages could connect to a super secret realm, a period when all secret realm beings were active.

Marriage, trade, matchmaking, inviting other secret realm beings to visit, for the intelligent beings living in the secret realms, this was the most important festival.

Therefore, the prince who could connect all secret realm passages was revered by all secret realm beings and was considered the strongest demon god among the myriad secret realms.

This time, Xiao Liu obtained a high-quality boundary pearl, the key to the human world, during the gathering period, and with Xiao Xiang's help, she came to this weak and less noticeable secret realm "Zhou Chong," thus fulfilling her wish.

Because it was so difficult for secret realm beings to come to the human world, Xiao Liu cherished this hard-earned opportunity more than anyone.

In the bustling market, Xiao Liu stood among the crowd, looking at the surroundings, immersed in the scenery that the secret realm could never have.

So many, so many humans, even though it wasn't a festival, so many humans gathered together.

This was the "town" formed by humans, the great "civilization."

Over there, the "floating mountains" sailed from the distant coast, the means of transportation connecting the various human forces across the seas and mountains.

Over there, the humans used "amulets" created by human immortal art civilization, the green light indicating a wood-based immortal art.

Over there, there were temples worshipped by the people, some belonging to the Buddhist sect, others to the immortal sect, all filled with things she had never known before.

This was the world where humans lived, a world full of infinite colors and vitality.

Every moment, every second, was changing here. Humans had transformed the seas and mountains, constantly advancing.

In contrast, the world of the secret realms, if not interfered with by human power, would remain unchanged for a thousand years, ten thousand years.

In the secret realms, there was always a ruler controlling everything, and the other beings in the secret realms were all humble existences beneath this ruler.

The ruler controlled everything in the secret realm and could easily slaughter all the beings in the secret realm if displeased.

There was no need for balance or development, for as long as the ruler existed, new beings would continuously be born in the secret realm, and there would never be a worry about the secret realm being empty.

If the ruler died, the secret realm would need a considerable amount of time to nurture a new ruler, and then the cycle would begin again.

For a very long time, the secret realms were controlled by rulers until humans began to invade the secret realms.

When humans defeated the rulers, everything in the secret realm would be controlled by the human who defeated the ruler, equivalent to the ruler's position being replaced by that human.

If humans failed to defeat the ruler, the secret realm would remain unchanged.

Most of the time, humans could not defeat the rulers of the secret realms because the secret realms had different laws from the seas and mountains, and using a sea of people to defeat the ruler was impossible.

If the invader's strength far exceeded the limit of the secret realm, the secret realm would completely reject the invader's entry, and might even collapse on its own.

To defeat a ruler with the power of the secret realm, only those whose strength did not exceed the limit of the secret realm could challenge the ruler, and such a victor would be recognized by the secret realm.

Even if they temporarily obtained the position of the ruler, humans found it difficult to maintain it.

Because there were "passages" between secret realms, the most enthusiastic thing for powerful secret realm beings was to eliminate those humans who had become rulers of the secret realms.

The upper limit of the secret realm laws only affected invaders, not other secret realm beings, so humans suffered several major losses before finally understanding this rule.

Thus, "boundary towers" came into being.

Each boundary tower was a perfect crystallization of human immortal art, a point of intersection between the laws of the seas and mountains and the secret realms, something almost impossible to destroy from the outside.

From then on, humans no longer obsessed over the position of the ruler in the secret realms but used the number of boundary towers to represent their control over the secret realms.

The many secret realm beings ultimately had to reluctantly acknowledge the existence of the boundary towers, tacitly accepting the rules of the battle between humans and secret realm beings.

Humans could use boundary towers to enter the secret realms, but once they left the boundary towers, they would be mercilessly slaughtered by the secret realm beings. There would only be one boundary tower in each layer of the secret realm, and each use of the boundary tower to teleport to the next layer was random.

Like the secret realm "Qing Xu," under the continuous efforts of humans, boundary towers, symbols of immortal art civilization, had been successfully established in the first eight layers.

But the ninth layer, the deepest area where the ruler of Qing Xu resided, all human explorations ended in total annihilation. Not to mention establishing a teleportation boundary tower, even placing a single cornerstone was a pipe dream.

Because Xiao Xiang, the ruler of Qing Xu, disliked humans, if it weren't for the difficulty in dealing with boundary towers, she would have dismantled all the boundary towers in the upper eight layers.

Xiao Liu, who had once studied boundary towers, was once amazed by this technology, a field that many secret realm beings had never encountered, a spatial fortress built with countless immortal stones, a beacon that even the powerful Xiao Xiang could not easily destroy.

It was precisely because she realized the continuous progress of human immortal art civilization that Xiao Liu hoped to come to the human world to see, to understand the gap between secret realm beings and human immortal art civilization.

Now, she had her wish. She saw the boundless potential of humans and the power of the seas and mountains that gave birth to all secret realms.

It was an unstoppable, unresistable force, the gap between a civilization that was constantly advancing and a secret realm system that remained stagnant.

"Like this... we..." Knowing the terrifying gap, Xiao Liu was even more worried about the future of her race.

Can't everyone see it?

This can't go on. Standing in the bustling crowd, Xiao Liu felt at a loss.

Then, she saw him, the young man.

In the young man's eyes, she saw her own reflection, a small, red figure.

Indeed, he could see her. In the eyes of everyone else here, her figure did not exist, but only in his eyes was there her reflection.

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