Chapter 549: The Martial Mystery Realm

While Ye Feng was immersed in devising battle formations, a sensational news had already spread widely in the Divine Realm—the Martial Mystery Realm was about to open.
Thirty days before its opening, Ye Feng was finally awakened from his cultivation by Jin.
“What’s the matter?” Ye Feng, who had stepped out of the cultivation realm, knew well that unless it was an emergency, Jin could handle it on his own. His mastery of laws had now reached the ninth level of the first stage, allowing him to summon three peak Saint-level magical beasts. Moreover, he was someone whose law mastery had reached the second level of the second stage—ordinary strongmen surely couldn’t do anything to him. So Ye Feng simply left the responsibility of managing Cent City and the auction hall to him.
“The Martial Mystery Realm will open in thirty days, so I had to interrupt your cultivation,” Jin explained.
“Are there many treasures in this realm?” Ye Feng couldn’t help asking.
“It seems you’ve had too much time for cultivation since coming to the Divine Realm…” Jin sighed.
“Is this realm very famous?” Ye Feng touched his nose awkwardly.
“The Martial Mystery Realm has existed for a long time—even in the Ancient Divine Realm, there was already such a realm,” Jin patiently explained. “Back then, stories about it were widely circulated in every street and alley. Just walking into any small tavern, you could hear people discussing it.”
“It seems it’s really famous…” Although Ye Feng said this, he wasn’t embarrassed at all. “Was the martial god who created this realm very powerful?”
“The Martial Mystery Realm got its name not because of any one person, but because every time it appears, it selects a strong warrior and transforms them into an invincible martial god. It became famous because of creating martial gods.” Jin clearly held great admiration for this realm.
“Invincible in the Ancient Divine Realm?” Ye Feng could imagine what kind of strength that was. After all, there were many Supreme Saint-level strongmen in the Ancient Divine Realm. To be invincible there clearly meant being a strongman beyond the Saint stage. The fact that the Martial Mystery Realm could achieve such a result surprised Ye Feng greatly. With his current wealth and the various resources he could obtain for free in the fourth realm and below, he could barely create a Progenitor God-level strongman, and even that would be one with a weak foundation, making it difficult for them to progress further in cultivation. But the Martial Mystery Realm could create strongmen beyond the Saint stage—this truly seemed incredible to Ye Feng.

“That’s right. In the Ancient Divine Realm, the Martial Mystery Realm appeared a total of four times, giving rise to four Martial Gods, each of whom was an extremely terrifying existence. I still clearly remember that one of these Martial Gods who emerged from the realm was pursued by a super sect because he had stolen a sacred treasure belonging to that sect from within the realm. As a result, the sect’s protective formation was broken, many supreme elders, and even two beings beyond the saintly realm were severely injured, leading to the sect being completely removed from the list of super sects.”
“So powerful?” After hearing Jin finish the story, Ye Feng became even more eager to see this so-called Martial Mystery Realm. “By the way, after the Ancient Divine Realm, did this Martial Mystery Realm appear again?”
“No,” Jin shook his head. “The Martial Mystery Realm doesn’t open on a regular schedule. There’s no pattern to its appearance—neither the time nor the location follows any rule. The two closest instances of it opening were separated by trillions of years, while the most recent ones were only separated by tens of thousands of years. It can appear on the bottom of the Endless Abyssal Sea or in the Gale Zone above our heads. I even suspect that its appearance is related to humans. It seems to only open when the person it has chosen appears. Although there’s no pattern to its opening, about a year before each appearance, a huge black token-like shadow appears at the location where the realm will emerge, with a red character written on it—‘Martial’. Whenever that happens, we know when and where it will open.”
“Wait…” Listening to Jin’s description, Ye Feng suddenly remembered something. It seemed he had a token just like the one described. He carefully searched through his space ring and then took out a palm-sized token, completely black in color, with the red character “Martial” written in the center. “Is this it?”
“The Martial God Token? Where did you get it?” Jin was also surprised.
“I got it accidentally when I was in the lower realm,” Ye Feng didn’t mention that he had killed a few guys from the divine realm back then and found this item in their storage ring. Because of its strange material and unclear purpose, he kept it. “Is this thing related to that realm?”

“This is the Martial God Token. Only those who hold the Martial God Token can enter the Combat Training Hall in the Martial Mystery Realm. No one else, no matter how powerful they are, can get in. The Martial Mystery Realm is open to everyone, and as long as one’s strength is recognized, they can enter various main halls and side halls. But only those who hold the Martial God Token in person can enter this Combat Training Hall.” Jin’s eyes were filled with envy.

“What’s inside the Combat Training Hall?” Ye Feng pressed further.

“The four invincible Martial Gods all emerged from the Combat Training Hall…” Jin touched his nose. “I originally thought you didn’t have the Martial God Token, so I planned to keep this a secret for now. There are a total of eight Martial God Tokens, meaning eight people can enter the Combat Training Hall each time. The eight people who enter don’t all come out together. Although the first seven will see a significant boost in strength, their memories will be erased, and they won’t remember anything that happened in the hall. Only the last one to emerge is the strongest and likely retains complete memories of what happened there. But those four powerful individuals have never told anyone what’s inside the hall or what happened there. So since you asked me this question, I don’t know how to answer it.”

“Alright, another question.” Not getting the answer he wanted, Ye Feng thought of another question. “You just said that as long as one has enough strength, they can enter the other main halls and side halls, right? Doesn’t that mean all the treasures in those halls have already been taken?”

“I do know a bit about this. I can tell you that’s not the case. The total number of treasures taken from those main halls and side halls over the four visits adds up to less than one percent of those in the Martial Mystery Realm.” Jin gave an answer with great certainty, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

“How do you know? You just heard about it. Maybe they’ve already been taken all.” Ye Feng was skeptical.

“I didn’t hear about it. I went in during the fourth opening of the Martial Mystery Realm. I saw it with my own eyes.” Jin’s face turned slightly red as he awkwardly touched his nose. “It’s a pity I headed straight for the main hall right away and didn’t manage to get a single treasure… So I’m not very willing to mention that I was there…”

“Why didn’t you get any?” Ye Feng asked, puzzled.

“Because outside all the treasures, there were various powerful defensive and offensive arrays, even highly potent combined arrays… Only by breaking these arrays could one obtain the treasures. Back then, relying on the sensitivity of the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts, I discovered a spiritual treasure in the main hall and tried to take it, but was severely damaged by the offensive array and almost died. So I had no choice but to hide in the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts to recover, ending up not getting anything at all.” Jin finally confessed this embarrassing incident.
“Since it’s about arrays, then it’s easy…” Ye Feng immediately became full of confidence. He had already mastered over 23,000 of the arrays given to him by the Heavenly Dao, making him a true expert in arrays. Even when he had mastered less than 8,000 arrays, he had already encountered some basic arrays from the ancient divine realm and found them not difficult to crack. Now that his array skills had improved significantly, he didn’t think the arrays in the Martial Mystery Realm could stump him.