By the end of the Great Axe Conference, consensus had been reached.
No one raised any objections.
Bai Yue's plan was unanimously approved.
"Since everyone agrees with Hun Yuan's proposal," Great Axe Founder concluded, his voice carrying unquestionable authority, "then under the name of the Human Race, we will mobilize all available forces. Expel the Universe Exalts of the other Three Major Groups and completely occupy the G547 Secret Realm!"
With the final decision set, the meeting dispersed. Each Universe Lord immediately began mobilizing the Universe Exalts under their influence, issuing orders and making preparations at the fastest possible speed.
The Barrier Weakens
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
After remaining stationary for many years, the Feiyuan Divine Boat finally restarted.
The colossal palace treasure slowly advanced, its vast hull cutting through the void as it once again approached the secret realm barrier—an immense region still shrouded in spatial vortices and endless seas of lightning.
Compared to when it had first arrived decades ago, the changes were obvious.
The oppressive power radiating from the secret realm barrier had weakened considerably. Even more importantly, the Primordial Universe's origin consciousness, which once pressed down heavily on this region, had clearly retreated.
Bai Yue, seated in the control room, immediately sensed the difference.
"It's receding much faster than expected," he thought calmly.
"I need to finish verifying all remaining nodes as soon as possible. Once the universe origin consciousness fully withdraws, I can attempt to force entry with the Feiyuan Divine Boat."
Without hesitation, Bai Yue refocused.
Just as he had done for the past sixty years, he controlled the Feiyuan Divine Boat to weave through the weakening lightning storms and spatial vortices, meticulously examining the remaining nodes on the surface of the barrier.
This task was never simple.
To determine where the secret realm would first connect to the Primordial Universe, one had to sense the relative distance between the two through the barrier itself. Domain-type techniques and domain treasures were completely useless here—any attempt to forcibly probe could provoke a violent backlash from the barrier, making matters even worse.
The secret realm barrier possessed its own judgment mechanism.
It actively rejected intrusions, yet paradoxically allowed subtle fluctuations—law ripples, treasure auras, and energy signatures from within the secret realm—to leak outward. This contradiction was precisely what Bai Yue exploited.
More importantly, after obtaining Zuo Shanke's inheritance, Bai Yue had re-forged his Chaos Domain according to the guidance in the secret manual.
Chaos Laws—the highest level of material energy laws—carried formless and intangible properties. When applied carefully, Bai Yue's Chaos Domain could slowly seep through the barrier.
Though the loss was enormous, it allowed him to perceive far more information from within the secret realm than before.
With this improvement, the remaining work accelerated dramatically.
What would have taken decades now required only eighteen additional years.
The Critical Node
When the final node was verified, Bai Yue issued a command.
"Long Kui, based on all recorded data, calculate which node will be the first to connect with the Primordial Universe."
This level of computation was trivial for Bai Yue himself—but with an intelligent assistant available, there was no reason to waste effort.
"Yes, Master!"
Long Kui's crisp, cheerful voice sounded immediately.
Seconds later, the result appeared.
"Calculation complete. Node 7005 will be the first to connect. Estimated time until connection: 67 years."
Bai Yue's eyes narrowed slightly.
With a thought, the Feiyuan Divine Boat flickered through space and arrived near the 7005th Node, hovering quietly in the void.
From this point onward, the Divine Boat would remain here—both to monitor the node and to receive the final wave of Human Universe Exalts.
As expected, his actions did not go unnoticed.
Within the Monster Race's camp, inside Lord Meng Wan's massive stone tower treasure, a report was delivered.
After hearing it, Lord Meng Wan let out a cold laugh.
"So that's where the Human Race intends to enter," he sneered.
"This Lord of Hunyuan relies on a peak palace treasure to recklessly probe the barrier, doing all the hard work for us. In the end, he's just paving the road for the other races. Stupid Human."
Similar reactions played out in the camps of the Insect Race and the Automaton Race.
They all believed the same thing.
That Bai Yue was merely revealing the optimal entry point for everyone else.
What they did not understand was that Bai Yue simply did not care.
He knew perfectly well that every move he made was being watched, that the nodes he painstakingly identified would be learned by the other Three Major Groups almost instantly.
But that knowledge was meaningless without strength.
The newly promoted Universe Lords of those races likely didn't even possess high-grade flying palace treasures. Even if their races temporarily bestowed top-tier palace treasures for this operation, they still could not hope to force their way in alongside him.
As the Feiyuan Divine Boat stabilized near Node 7005, the Human Race Universe Exalts who had been waiting across the region began to arrive in large numbers.
Under the orderly command of Gui Yi Venerable and others, they entered the Divine Boat one group after another and settled in.
Bai Yue did not personally oversee any of this.
Instead, he remained seated in the control room, quietly sensing the retreat of the Primordial Universe's origin consciousness while leaving a fresh batch of treasures in the main hall for borrowing.
The second wave dwarfed the first.
More than four thousand Human Universe Exalts arrived in this batch alone—nearly half of the Human Race's total Universe Exalt population.
Following established procedures, they entered the treasure hall, selected the items they wished to borrow, and returned to their cabins to familiarize themselves with their equipment.
No one dared to cause trouble.
Time flowed on.
The Primordial Universe's origin consciousness continued to fade, and the secret realm barrier visibly thinned—especially at Node 7005.
The lightning storms vanished entirely.
Spatial vortices collapsed one after another.
Through the translucent barrier, hazy scenes from within the secret realm could already be glimpsed.
Finally—
Bai Yue's voice resounded throughout the Feiyuan Divine Boat.
"The Primordial Universe's consciousness has fully receded. All personnel, return to your cabins and prepare for entry!"
In an instant, over ten thousand Universe Exalts awakened from cultivation. Defensive treasures activated one after another as everyone entered full combat readiness.
The Feiyuan Divine Boat accelerated.
Under countless watchful gazes, it charged straight toward the secret realm barrier.
"It's moving!"
"The Human Race is entering!"
Alarms rang out across the camps of the Three Major Groups as spies hurriedly transmitted the news.
Moments later, the Divine Boat collided with the barrier.
Inside the control room, Bai Yue felt an overwhelming pressure descend—pure, unsuppressed power from the natural environment of the universe.
His god power surged without restraint, pouring into the Feiyuan Divine Boat as he forced it forward.
Inside the ship, the Universe Exalts felt only a single heavy tremor—then smooth, steady motion resumed.
The terrifying barrier power that could shatter peak treasures had been rendered meaningless before an Eternal True God–level palace treasure.
Still, the resistance was immense.
The Divine Boat's speed dropped drastically as it pushed deeper.
Two full days passed.
"The pressure is dropping sharply," Bai Yue murmured.
"We're almost through."
With a thunderous ripple, the Feiyuan Divine Boat broke past the barrier and entered a world filled with endless white mist.
The mist itself was lethal.
In Bai Yue's perception, even F-grade metal spacecraft would eventually be corroded into nothing within it.
This was the nature of Universe Secret Realms—formed during the earliest, most violent transformations of the Primordial Universe. Each was unique, unpredictable, and deadly.
Even the lowest-grade secret realms generally required World Lord–level strength to explore.
The more dangerous the realm, the greater the potential rewards.
At some point, Bai Yue appeared at the bow of the Feiyuan Divine Boat.
With a thought, his Chaos Domain spread outward, abandoning control in favor of pure detection.
A radius of 120 light-years unfolded before his senses.
What he saw astonished even him.
Below lay a colossal river—thirty light-years wide and over ten light-years deep. The white mist permeating the space was formed from the river's own waters.
Within and around it drifted countless ice-and-snow planets—some no larger than dust, others rivaling stars—hurtling downstream at terrifying speeds.
Including the mist and planetary debris, the river's total breadth reached seventy light-years, with a thickness nearing forty.
All of it flowed relentlessly from right to left.
Behind Bai Yue, more than fourteen thousand Universe Exalts stood silently on the vast deck, awaiting orders.
Bai Yue extended his hand.
A massive gray palm, condensed from the Chaos Domain, descended from the mist and seized an ice-and-snow planet hundreds of thousands of kilometers in diameter.
With a gentle squeeze—
The planet shattered.
Fragments scattered into the void, revealing a single droplet at the core—over a hundred kilometers across.
An icy aura colder than the surrounding mist radiated outward.
"Light Spirit Divine Water!"
Exclamations erupted across the deck.
One cubic kilometer of this divine water was worth roughly seven million Hun Yuan units.
The droplet before them exceeded one million cubic kilometers.
Its value alone reached six to seven treasure points.
Stunned silence followed.
Bai Yue's gaze remained calm.
"This secret realm will not lack treasures," he concluded.
He turned back to the gathered Exalts, his voice carrying absolute authority.
"The Universe Lords of the other Three Major Groups will not be able to enter this realm. I guarantee it."
"As for their Universe Exalts—deal with them yourselves."
"Expel them. Kill them. Leave nothing behind."
"If anyone falls, the race will bear half the resurrection cost."
"You may act alone or in teams."
"Human powerhouses—disperse!"
In a flash, more than ten thousand Universe Exalts vanished into the depths of the secret realm.
The true battle had begun.
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