For a full five hours, Zhang Ye was engaged in manual parsing.
During those five hours, Zhang Ye tried countless methods, every single one of which ended in failure. A taboo capable of affecting the Saint-tier was still far too difficult for him.
However, it wasn't entirely without effect; he was now only one final step away.
Zhang Ye wiped the sweat from his forehead, his eyes betraying a hint of fatigue.
This parsing actually consumed mental strength. Although the rate wasn't very high, five hours of continuous consumption had nearly drained him dry.
Looking at the magic circle before him, he nodded and let out a smile. “Almost there. Now for the final step.”
Labella stood before him without a hint of dissatisfaction. After all, she had endured for over two hundred years; five hours was nothing.
Yet, at this moment, she was slightly moved, her cherry lips trembling. “Can it… really be done?”
“It can. Now, I just need to knock over the first domino,” Zhang Ye said with a smile. He then looked toward Renomon and Lina with an apologetic expression. “Sorry for making you two wait so long.”
Renomon shook his head, unbothered. “It’s fine.”
Lina also shook her head and smiled. “It’s no problem, Brother Ye. I learned a lot, too. The magic formulas and magic line groups you mentioned gave me a lot of inspiration!”
Zhang Ye smiled and looked at Labella. “Are you ready?”
“I am!” At this moment, Labella couldn’t help but feel nervous. After all, this concerned whether she could walk out of this secret realm and escape the control placed upon her.
Zhang Ye took a deep breath, and then the mana threads on his body condensed into a single strand, which he used to tap the empty space.
The Parsing Magic Circle in his eyes instantly erupted with a dazzling brilliance. It then rotated rapidly before shattering, its fragments sinking directly into Labella’s body.
Suddenly, Labella’s eyes widened.
She could feel a sense of ease and freedom washing over her body, as if… the shackles that had been bound to her for so long had completely vanished.
She looked down at her body, her hands trembling slightly. Bolabo was also watching her nervously.
“Labella, you… try to see if you can walk out,” Bolabo said, his voice shaking.
Labella nodded and slowly took a step forward.
In that instant, both the gold and silver siblings held their breath.
Finally, Labella’s smooth, bare foot landed on the red earth, but the expected agonizing pain of her body being sliced apart did not come.
Labella took another step, bringing her entire person outside the Black Zone.
She lowered her head to look at the ground, her shoulders trembling as tears welled up.
She… she had come out!
She was free!
No, there was still one last step!
She suddenly raised her head and waved her hand. Five translucent crystal plates immediately manifested before her, except these crystal plates were pentagonal.
Simultaneously, her cultivation rapidly weakened to the Tier Seven early stage.
“Let us sign the contract!” Labella’s aura was somewhat withered, but she spoke with impatient urgency, her eyes fixed on Zhang Ye with total seriousness.
Zhang Ye said, “Have you thought it through? If we sign a contract, you’ll become my contracted beast.”
“Yes!” Labella nodded. “My brother has already become your contracted beast; I will be with him.”
“Being your slave is better than being trapped here for a lifetime like livestock!”
Hearing this, Zhang Ye’s voice turned gentle. “Rest assured, I won’t let you regret making this choice.”
“Mhm!”
Just like that, Labella also became Zhang Ye’s contracted beast. Bolabo immediately wept with joy.
For two hundred years, they had desperately wanted to escape this secret realm and the captivity of humans. Today, they finally got their wish.
In their eyes, human lifespans were only a century. Even if Zhang Ye became a Demigod, his lifespan would only be one or two thousand years. Being a slave for a millennium was far better than being penned up for a lifetime!
“By the way, now that the two of you have broken away from the secret realm, won’t you be discovered?” Zhang Ye asked.
“We can leave behind a wisp of our origin aura. We won’t be discovered for a short time,” Bolabo said.
Zhang Ye nodded and smiled. “Alright, let’s start farming mobs.”
“Farming mobs?” Labella was taken aback, then she realized. “I almost forgot. You’re examinees and need points, right?”
“Correct!” Zhang Ye nodded immediately.
Labella showed a smile. “I have many magical beast soul essences at my place.”
“The old man who possesses the secret realm core made me guard the origin and also made me restrict the number of Rock Beasts in the secret realm.”
“The birth of a Rock Beast is composed of soul essences and elemental power birthed from the origin. Therefore, once the Rock Beasts reach a certain number, I store all newly formed soul essences to maintain the operation of the secret realm source. The excess is usually collected by that old man. I might as well give them to you. Right now, I have… five hundred thousand Tier Eight and Tier Nine soul essences.”
“Five hundred thousand?!” The three of them were rendered speechless.
Five hundred thousand Tier Eight and Nine soul essences—how many points would that be?
Labella asked, “Do you need them?”
Zhang Ye nodded immediately. “Yes! Of course I do!”
If he had deactivated the Earth Tiger Armor at this moment, one would have seen him practically drooling.
You had to be joking—the points from five hundred thousand soul essences would probably be in the billions!
Of course, with Zhang Ye’s current points, taking first place was already a certainty. Thus, Zhang Ye didn’t want these soul essences for the entrance exam, but rather to increase his mental strength!
It was hard to imagine how much of an improvement five hundred thousand soul essences could bring him!
Labella nodded and waved her hand. A short while later, a ball of light flew in from the distance. The ball of light was incredibly bright, storing a full five hundred thousand Tier Eight and Nine soul essences within it.
Labella handed the ball of light to Zhang Ye.
Zhang Ye swallowed hard and took it carefully.
“Do you two need any soul essences?” Zhang Ye asked Lina and Renomon.
The two were stunned for a moment, then both shook their heads simultaneously.
“Soul essences are generally used to brew magic potions; they aren’t of much use to us,” Lina said. Renomon also nodded, agreeing with her.
The two could also see that Zhang Ye seemed to really want these soul essences, so they smiled and said, “Brother Ye, just take them if you want them. We didn’t really do anything anyway.”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Ye nodded solemnly. “Thank you. Then I’ll accept your kind offer!”
“Beibei, can you help me separate fifty thousand soul essences and store them in the lamps?” Zhang Ye said to Labella.
Labella didn’t have any aversion to Zhang Ye calling her Beibei; she didn’t care much about such names.
She nodded and tapped her finger. Fifty thousand soul essences were separated and then stored into the Soul Essence Lamps on Bolabo’s person. Nearly twenty lamps on Bolabo’s body lit up instantly.
Afterward, Zhang Ye held the ball of light and immediately entered a meditative state.
Under his lead and guidance, the soul essences in the light ball immediately drilled into Zhang Ye’s body at a terrifying speed. His body began to emit a faint glow, and at this moment, Zhang Ye clearly felt his recently exhausted mental strength instantly refill. Simultaneously, his mental strength began to increase rapidly.
He involuntarily released his Divine Sense perception and found that his range of perception was constantly expanding, and everything within his perception was becoming clearer and clearer.
Finally, the ball of light turned into an ordinary glass sphere. The soul essences had been completely absorbed by Zhang Ye, and his Divine Sense perception had expanded from the original 1.5 kilometers to 15 kilometers!
A full tenfold increase!
Furthermore, everything within the perception range was incomparably clear!
With his original 1.5-kilometer perception range, everything beyond seven hundred meters would become blurry, and beyond 1.2 kilometers, he could only sense a general outline. But at this moment, he could perceive everything within a 15-kilometer range. Within ten kilometers, his perception was incredibly clear. Even at the outermost edges, it wasn't so blurry that he couldn't distinguish the attributes of mana fluctuations!
Not only that, but as his mental strength increased, Zhang Ye’s control over mana also became increasingly meticulous.
With a thought, thousands of mana threads, each several hundred meters long, condensed. They were thinner than a strand of hair, and there were thousands upon thousands of them!
Powerful!
Powerful like never before!
These four hundred and fifty thousand soul essences had actually directly stacked Zhang Ye’s mental strength above the Saint-tier!
Even the perception range of an ordinary one-star Saint-tier was only about ten kilometers!
Zhang Ye opened his eyes, which were filled with joy.
This haul was truly an incredible profit!
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