Primordial Emperor
Chapter 454: Huddling Together for Warmth

Chapter 454: Chapter 454: Huddling Together for Warmth

Boom——

Boom——

Purple thunder and lightning continuously interweaved over the pond, and with massive explosive sounds, columns of water shot up from the lake surface into the sky.

For three days, Lin Chen had completely mastered the power of the Heavenly Thunder Pearl, using it with ease.

Xia Wanxin and the Purple-robed Maiden, witnessing Lin Chen’s formidable combat strength, were thoroughly shaken.

Lin Chen’s power grew stronger by the day, yet during these three days, they had only managed to heal their wounds.

Now that Lin Chen’s cultivation had broken through to the Heaven-reaching Realm, and Xia Wanxin and the Purple-robed Maiden had also recovered their strength, naturally, the three of them could no longer continue to hide in this place.

Therefore, they left the pond.

With just one month left until the end of the trial, countless martial artists had been fighting over command tokens during this time, and nearly half of them had been eliminated.

Of course, many martial artists were killed by others, unable to muster their spiritual power to crush the Teleportation Jade Slip in time.

After the trial began, many martial artists, like Lin Chen before, sought out secluded spots to hide, hoping to last until the end of the trial.

Because regardless of their scores in the previous four stages, in this fifth stage, the final 1,000 individuals to leave the secret realm were all eligible to become Outer Sect Disciples of the Formation Sect.

Therefore, many harbored the thought of hiding until the end, squeezing into the last 1,000 to secure their qualification.

Consequently, the number of those hiding was not small. However, not everyone had the same idea. Unlike those martial artists who sought to conceal themselves, many desired intense battle, such as martial artist Qin Kaifeng.

Among these, Zhao San and Li Diaode were such martial artists. The two did not know each other initially, but during a battle where they teamed up to pursue other martial artists, they discovered their attributes of spiritual power were exceedingly compatible. Together, they could unleash a combat strength that far exceeded the sum of one plus one.

Therefore, the two temporarily formed an alliance, continually searching the secret realm for martial artists to plunder, dividing the acquired command tokens equally.

In truth, both were well aware that with their strength, they were only mid to low-tier participants in this secret realm trial.

If they did not join forces, odds were they would be eliminated before long.

But after uniting, their strength greatly increased. Many martial artists they encountered were defeated by them, earning them a considerable number of command tokens.

However, precisely because they had amassed such a significant number of command tokens, they inevitably drew the attention of many martial artists.

One month of carnage left only slightly over 6,000 martial artists in the secret realm.

These martial artists were not fools; many banded together to form alliances.

At this moment, Zhao San and Li Diaode were being pursued by a team of nine martial artists. Both had sustained injuries and their speed had slowed, looking as if they would soon be overtaken by the nine behind them.

Seeing this, Zhao San and Li Diaode were prepared to abandon the command tokens they had obtained, hoping that the nine would let them go in exchange for a chance to survive among the last 1,000.

If that failed, the pair would crush the Teleportation Jade Slip to teleport out of the secret realm.

Having snatched command tokens from nearly two hundred martial artists, Zhao San and Li Diaode were acutely aware that the reason those who perished at their hands were left with no escape was that despite knowing they couldn’t win, they clenched their command tokens tightly, forcing them to fight to the death and leaving the losers with no chance to crush the jade slips.

However, just as they were about to stop and negotiate with the nine following them, they discovered another group of martial artists at the road ahead.

These martial artists, more numerous than those pursuing them from behind, were close to twenty in total.

Zhao San and Li Diaode’s expressions immediately soured, as their situation became dire.

"Brother Zhao, what do we do?"

Li Diaode looked at Zhao San, his heart filled with panic, even reaching inside his robe to touch his jade slip, ready to infuse it with spiritual power and shatter it to escape the secret realm.

Even if he couldn’t become a disciple of the Formation Sect, he didn’t want to recklessly lose his life here.

"Scatter the command tokens and throw them away. While they’re distracted with the scramble, we’ll split up and escape."

Zhao San cast a glance at Li Diaode and softly made his suggestion.

Li Diaode thought it could indeed be a strategy—as a last ditch, the two might still find a chance to flee, surviving until the end. Even if, in the end, they had no tokens and no outstanding results, missing out on the Formation Sect’s rewards, he would still be content.

"Throw them!"

As the two enemy teams converged on Zhao San and Li Diaode, Zhao San immediately yelled out.

Subsequently, Li Diaode tossed his hundred-plus command tokens haphazardly in all directions.

But Zhao San had not thrown out a single one.

Nonetheless, just like Li Diaode, he took advantage of the moment when everyone else was fighting over the tokens to escape.

"Damn you, Zhao San, how dare you deceive me."

Li Diaode saw that Zhao San had not parted with any command tokens and cursed out loud.