The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

After the Divine Scale Pavillion's flying ship appeared in the area, most of the other ships also looked at them. As the Pavillion was a powerful sect, a lot of places put their attention on them. The only power that did not give them any attention was the royal family. The royal family already had several true god realm powerhouses and this secret realm was not very important to them.

But still they send one of the Princes following the suggestion of the ministers.

The elder who was in charge of the group greeted all the other superpowers politely but with firmness. The Divine Scale Pavillion was strong enough to not bow down to anyone but at the same time, they were unwilling to make enemies everywhere. So all the members of the pavilion were told to be polite and well behaved.

The Demon Slaying Division had also sent a small team of 5 here. As they were mostly related to the royal family, they were also not very interested in this secret realm. But getting supplies for the division would not be bad and that was the reason why they sent a team here.

Obviously the division wanted to send a bigger team but in the Guandong region, many demons had suddenly appeared and were rampaging around. That region was a big remote and not many people lived there, so the other sects did not worry too much about the situation. But a decree came from the royal palace for the Demon Slaying Division telling them to exterminate those demons.

That was the reason why they were unable to send too many people here.

After the Divine Scale Pavillion appeared, the people of the demon slaying division came to talk to them. The elder of the demon slaying division wanted their five disciples to join the group of Divine Scale Pavillion. That was because Colinde was here and she was technically still a member of the demon slaying division.

They did not go to the royal family as the royal family already had many people joining them. So if the demon slaying division also went, there would be a high chance that they would be used as a meat shield by that group. So staying with the Divine Scale Pavillion was safer.

The Pavillion also had no reason to reject this idea and Rein was also fine with five more people joining them. Colinde actually knew about these disciples and had worked together in various missions. So she was also very fine with it. That was how the Demon Slaying Division and the Divine Scale Pavillion joined forces to take on this secret realm.

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After that more and more sects appeared in that location. Not all the sects had flying ships and most of the weaker sects were able to send only one or two disciples inside so they did not even need a flying ship. Most of the disciples from weaker sects gathered together to make a team.

Two other disciples joined the team of Divine Scale Pavillion who came from sects who had a very good relationship with the Pavilion. So it was finally decided that Rein's group would have a total of 32 members.

After waiting there for about half a day, the island before them started to release a special kind of aura. This was the sign that the secret realm was about to be opened and everyone got ready. Then suddenly a bright white light shone on the island and a portal-like structure appeared.

As soon as that happened, all the people who would be going inside took out a token and held it tightly. This token was the key to entering this realm and the large sects were in charge of handling these. Then a suction force appeared and sucked in all the disciples with the tokens inside the portal.

Rein felt the suction force and judged the power behind it. It was definitely strong and Rein would not be able to resist it with just his cultivation. But he was very much capable of resisting it if he used his skills. But currently he had no reason to resist this suction and allowed the secret realm to suck him in.

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There was a moment of darkness before everyone was able to see again. All 32 of them had appeared inside a forest and they were able to see a large mountain at the distance. This secret realm was different all the time it opened. So there was no way for anyone to use the knowledge gained in the past. Last time there was a harsh desert in the secret realm and this time there it was forest and mountain.

Rein asked everyone to stay close by while they entered deeper in the forest. There was also only a single goal for all of them and that was to reach the centre of this realm. There would be a special trial place in the centre and just entering that trial would reward the disciples with valuable treasures.

So the main objective of anyone entering this secret realm was to reach the central trial ground.

But reaching that place was not easy. There were a lot of dangers in the way to the center and only someone truly powerful would be able to reach the central grounds. So for anyone who was not that brilliant, it was advisable to group up together or to follow a powerful person to reach that place.

It looked like this time the trial ground would be located at the top of the mountain. This was very troublesome as the mountain was extremely tall and almost straight. Climbing it would not be easy even for a cultivator. And there would surely be dangers on the way and everyone needed to be careful about that.

Most of the disciples of the Divine Scale Pavillion had physical skills so they all were capable of fighting in the front lines. That was the good thing as they all were capable of taking care of themselves in a dangerous situation at least until help could arrive.

The disciples from the demon slaying division were also experienced fighters who had been through life and death struggles, so they were also very much capable of taking care of their own safety. The other two disciples were a bit weaker and also had less experience but still they did their best to support the others.

So the journey was going relatively well and not many disciples were injured. But then suddenly one of the disciples was thrown backward while fighting a beast. He had defeated this same type of beast but was never overpowered by it, so everyone was surprised. Then a black aura appeared on the beasts body and it became slightly bigger and significantly more powerful.

Then it let out a pain filled howl and attacked them again.

Now the real danger of the secret realm was starting to appear.