A few days have passed since the start of the second stage of the big tournament. In those days, tens or hundreds of thousands of people have died in every possible way. Whether by traps, creatures that dwell in the secret realm, by other participants or by other factors.

Somewhere in this forest, it was possible to see a person wearing a black cloak that completely covered her body, that person was walking slowly while holding a map that had only the general design of the secret realm, there was a rather large object, held diagonally in her back, and it was covered with black cloth. This person was Zi Jiao.

After several days walking through the initial zone, Zi Jiao managed to find some participants who were killed, while checking the bodies, she managed to get the identification tokens.

Although she had found the thousand token that was needed to pass, she was not satisfied, she wanted to go further to prove her strength in front of Liu Yang's wife, who was Xinyue, the only one she knew. Zi Jiao felt more pressure when she heard the news that Xinyue had entered the Floating Feathers Sect.

Zi Jiao was determined to get stronger to show that despite having different statuses, her strength would not be less than that of his wife. In this second stage, Zi Jiao did not intend to draw attention to herself, as it would be extremely dangerous, she will show her true strength only in the last stage, which was the stage of the fights.

There were several million participants, those who came from clans who had some influence on their respective worlds were around several hundred thousand participants. Overcoming all of them would be extremely difficult since their wealth was much greater than hers, because of this, all the items they wore were better than hers.

The only advantage of Zi Jiao was that she had an extremely monstrous Strength that could destroy everything that had weaker resistance than her attack power. Zi Jiao could easily defeat these youngsters if they were in a one-on-one fight, but it was impossible to do so since they were always in a group, unlike her who is always alone.

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Zi Jiao was currently struggling with some blue lions with white stripes, the bodies were the size of an ordinary pickup truck, the paws had razor-sharp nails, the two rows of teeth in the mouth were large and sharp, the hair seemed to be stakes of and the tail looked like a long whip with a sharp point.

Zi Jiao did the same thing, as usual, she used a heavy sword to break the bodies of her enemies to kill them instantly, if it did not die right away, she would just crush its head then.

It's been a few months since the second stage began, along the way, Zi Jiao sought only creatures to kill, she wanted to level herself and the two little snakes.

The location that Zi Jiao was at the time was the middle zone, she was just running around and looking for creatures to kill to level and pick up items to trade with the alliance. She managed more than a thousand token without killing a single participant, due to a large number of participants, many of them were killed by other creatures or by traps.

Zi Jiao only explored the locations while hunting the creatures, in this way, she found thousands of corpses from other participants. This made her focus on leveling.

Zi Jiao's running speed was quite fast, even carrying the giant sword, but when she kept the sword, it was like a projectile fired from a gun. Her speed was like lightning, because of that, Zi Jiao did not care much about time, as long as there was enough time, she could run at full speed and reach the center zone.

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Going back to the current time ...

In the immense sea of golden sand, a large carriage was wandering around the Golden Desert site aimlessly.

An ordinary-looking young man in light clothes was holding the reins and beside him was a pretty young woman who was also wearing light clothes, the girl was leaning on the young man's shoulders as they enjoyed the trip. The two were Liu Yang and Saya.

It had been two months since Liu Yang and his group left the City of the Desert again in the past, Liu Yang had the women fight the desert beasts along the way, that was to keep them always active.

Liu Yang asked Xillia Wolf if she would have a map on where they were, she just sent a general picture of their location.

Before falling into the Seventh World, Xillia Wolf had recorded in her mind the places nearby where Liu Yang fell. Due to the height, Xillia Wolf totally saw the Seventh World, although it is only a general image of the continents.

Liu Yang's goal was to compare the map he had seen in the memories with the map of Xillia Wolf. According to the map, he is a two-year journey from where Arthur Pendragon found a secret realm that had not been explored before. However, Liu Yang did not know if this secret realm was explored after a few million years later. He would try his luck.

Two years could be considered very little for the people who trained in the Nine Worlds, but for Liu Yang who came from the Tenth World, two years was a lot. The life expectancy of Liu Yang reached about twenty thousand years, two years for him would be almost nothing. But he did not want to waste these two years just traveling through the desert.

To try to increase the efficiency of the trip, Liu Yang did an absurd thing that even Xillia Wolf and the dryads princess were frightened. Liu Yang gave the two drop of Juice of the Fruit of Reconstruction to two Desert Horses, a drop for each. For the two women, this was a huge waste of wealth, feeding two common horses with an item worth more than a great city in the mortal world.

Due to the great amount of energy, when ingesting the drops, the horses could have exploded. Liu Yang made the horses absorb the energies gradually, this was to restore the energies whenever it was tired. With the power of the juice drops, the horses could travel for several months without stopping and with maximum speed, this shortened the trip a lot.

After seven months of traveling without stopping, the carriage finally stopped and the horses fell to the floor of exhaustion. Liu Yang only used a spell so it could rest, he was also very tired, because, during the ride, Liu Yang used spatial distortion thousands of times to further increase the efficiency of the trip.

Looking at the site, Liu Yang saw that much has changed after millions of years, much of the mountains turned to sand, there were only a few that were the size of a small hill.

The sand of this part of the desert was not gold, but red, this place is known as Desert of Blood, due to the color of the sand. The creatures that inhabited this place were different from the Golden Desert.

Even after millions of years, there were no towns nearby. Xillia Wolf used her divine sense to verify, and the princess also verified, the two women did not find anything in this place. They did not know why Liu Yang came here, but they knew it was related to the memories of Arthur Pendragon.

After the first three months of travel, Liu Yang made all the women fall asleep until he reached the secret realm, he did not want them to discover the location, for it would be extremely dangerous for them to know about it.