My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 175 - 173: The Collapsing Secret Realm

Tang Yu was still a bit confused.

Since entering the Secret Realm, he had constantly been searching for something like crystals.

Perhaps it was a pillow-sized crystal.

Perhaps it was a fist-sized crystal.

Or perhaps, only the size of a fingernail? He was deeply afraid of missing anything, almost straining his eyes into presbyopia.

But now, looking at this coffin that he could completely lie down in and take a nap, Tang Yu had never imagined that the Sky-splitting Crystal would look like this.

These days, even cosmetic transformations were breaking the rules!

The system was also at fault, not providing any instruction manual. If it weren't for him, Lord Tang, being resourceful, sharp-witted, discerning, and observant... perhaps, he really would have missed grasping this... this Sky-splitting Crystal.

As he confirmed it, the coffin seemed to tremble slightly, then immediately vanished.

It must have been taken away by the system through some means.

...

...

In the distance, Zuofo was dealing with the desperately entangling Grey Blade.

Although somewhat annoyed that he had only killed a substitute, he didn't care too much; another attempt would suffice. With full force, the person at the Fifth Tier, whether it was a substitute or the real body, would have no chance to react.

He had seen Tang Yu's hand resting on the side of the coffin, "Even if you discovered that this coffin is the core of the Secret Realm, what about it? This entire Secret Realm has been refined by me, the core and the realm are completely merged..."

To separate it wasn't impossible, but even for him, the controller of the Secret Realm, it required time and effort to extract the coffin. In its merged state, the coffin and the Secret Realm were one. Unless one had the power to destroy the Secret Realm, whatever one did to the coffin would be in vain.

Zuofo landed a series of hits on Grey Blade, not even giving him a glance, and wanted to deal with Tang Yu first.

He stepped forward, seemingly not quickly, but in an instant, he had covered dozens of meters.

Staring at Tang Yu, Zuofo's lips were about to curl into a smile, but suddenly, the lips that were curling opened wide, enough to stuff two eggs in.

"This is impossible!"

Just a second ago, he had clearly seen Tang Yu's hand on the coffin, but the next second, the coffin had disappeared.

Where was his coffin?!

No spatial equipment, nor any special maneuvers related to the Secret Realm that he knew of, could remove the core of the Secret Realm so quickly, much less in an instant.

Zuofo stopped in his tracks, his eyes wide open, his face filled with an incredible panic.

His mentality completely collapsed.

Suddenly,

Boom!

The entire Black Stone Hall started to tremble violently.

Those hard walls and floors, which had sustained no significant damage in the previous battles, and where the Super Puppet had only tread some small cracks on the floor.

But now,

from the spot where the coffin's mouth had disappeared, a crack wider than a bucket, crackling and popping, rapidly spread out, along with other slightly smaller cracks, quickly widening.

In just a few seconds, the whole Black Stone Hall was divided.

People looked towards the cracks, their faces filled with horror.

Beneath the cracks lay a void-like space, occasionally swept by gray airflows.

A Heavy Armor Puppet fell into the cracks due to the intense shaking, and a gray airflow swept over the puppet; in the blink of an eye, the puppet dissolved into nothing, not even leaving sludge.

This damn thing…

Other Awakeners were so frightened they lost their souls, those unsteady on their feet hurriedly clung to their companions, resulting in two grown men rolling into a tangle.

The scene suddenly became somewhat unseemly.

Tang Yu was also startled, glanced at Kong and Shay beside him, quickly dismissed a certain unfavorable thought in his mind, then looked at Eileen and Winnie rapidly approaching him, but still ended up not embracing them... Ah, this was to maintain the dignity of a Lord.

He just stepped back a few steps, moving away from those dangerous cracks.

At that moment, the Secret Realm began to collapse.

The cracks grew larger, and the entire Black Stone Hall was now completely fragmented, like separate plates suspended over that endless void.

From his vantage point, through the similarly shattered wall, he could also see the further collapsing Secret Realm maze, as well as the cliffs and the Beast Mouth passage...

"This can't be happening, this can't be happening!"

Zuofo's eyes were lifeless as he suddenly remembered something. The ring on his finger shot out a red light, which plunged into the coffin that once held the Super Puppets.

It was one of the last two remaining coffins.

However...

"Move, come on, activate!" Zuofo shouted frantically, his gentlemanly elegance long gone.

His red light then shot into another coffin and, despite forming several special hand gestures with concentrated Source Power, there was still no response.

"All my backup plans... have failed. Why... does this happen?" Zuofo muttered, "It must be because of the Secret Realm's collapse, all my arrangements were based on the Realm..."

He looked at Tang Yu, his eyes brimming with undissolvable hatred.

His entire aura burst forth like a hurricane sweeping away everything around him, causing the nearby stones to shatter instantly.

Far away,

Tang Yu was startled and had already clutched the Return City Scroll in his hand.

Bang bang boom.

On the floor of the Black Stone Hall, which was splitting all around, a mysterious Rune Array appeared and then shattered, turning into specks of starlight that dissipated into the air.

Just after erupting in aura, Zuofo, in a blink of an eye, seemed completely deflated.

His aura shrank more and more.

Tang Yu hesitated and decisively swapped the Return City Scroll for a series of Spell Scrolls.

Fireball Technique, Thunder Fall Skill, Ice Formation Technique…

He bombarded Zuofo with all of them.

"Serves you right for showing off! Serves you right for cheating!"

The feeling of hitting a man when he's down...

Was simply too exhilarating.

Elsewhere,

The Awakeners were trembling with fear, unsure if it was due to Zuofo's intimidating presence or the gradually collapsing environment around them terrifying them.

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Crash!

A large tile completely shattered and fell into the endless Void.

Those amongst the Awakeners who reacted quickly enough leaped to another piece of tile, while those who reacted slowly fell into the Void, their screams not even audible.

"Look over there!"

Far away, the first whirlpool-shaped entrance to the Secret Realm appeared in a broken passage, and soon, more such entrances followed.

"Let's go that way, it's closer!"

Larger pieces of the ground split into smaller pieces, which couldn't hold up much longer and completely shattered.

The spots left for the Awakeners to stand on were becoming fewer and fewer.

They had to escape through the Secret Realm entrances before it completely collapsed.

Thus began the first Great Escape from the Secret Realm.

The Lindong Mercenaries leaped from tile to tile, while the route they had passed crumbled inch by inch.

Someone looked back and observed in amazement, "The boss is still there. Can it be said as expected of the boss, such composure!"

Tang Yu's location was at the very center of the collapse, with very little space left to stand, yet they saw Tang Yu and his companions still seemingly searching for something.

"Maybe the bosses are powerful enough and confident they can escape at the last moment; we better look out for ourselves..."

Just as he said this, he suddenly saw a burst of light envelop Tang Yu and his companions, and the next moment, they disappeared from their view.

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