Come On, Son! You Got to Breakthrough Now!-Chapter 1177 - 660: The Eerie Land

Before stepping into this ancient and mysterious secret realm, Gu Qingfeng had thought that the suppression rules here might be similar to those in other secret realms.

Mainly targeting the Immortal Realm as a life tier, it could be seen as a form of rejection or test by the secret realm owner towards newcomers of the same tier.

However, reality quickly provided him with a clear answer.

The suppression here is far more impartial than imagined.

It doesn’t simply check if you are an Immortal Heavenly Venerate, but directly affects the power itself!

As long as your power tier exceeds a certain undefined threshold, the rule-driven will akin to the Heavenly Dao overseeing ants will immediately descend.

Gu Qingfeng’s mind stirred slightly as he attempted to communicate with the ancient bronze axe within his sea of consciousness.

This Supreme Treasure bestowed by the Ancient Barbarian Heavenly Venerate, though damaged, undoubtedly contains power of a very high tier within it.

He wanted to test whether the secret realm’s definition of external power is consistent with its own cultivation suppression.

"Buzz—"

Within the sea of consciousness, the Heaven-opening Axe seemed to senses its owner’s will. The axe body gently trembled, and a sleeping, ancient, domineering sharp aura began waking. A faint yet incredibly high-tier Power Path essence glimmered along the axe blade’s edge, as if it could slash a chaos-tearing strike at any moment!

Just at the moment when this power was about to be invoked and manifest externally!

"Boom!"

A terrifying pressure, indescribable and seemingly rooted from the entire secret realm itself, emerging from the origin of the Great Tao, descended unexpectedly from the void, suddenly shrouding Gu Qingfeng.

This pressure was far stronger than the usual suppression felt upon entering the secret realm, carrying a pure, cold erasure will, making him instantly bristle with chills, and his Divine Soul tremble vastly, as if death was looming from an unimaginably large primordial beast watching him, poised to crush him.

This feeling was like mortals facing Heavenly Punishment, like ants staring at the sky about to collapse!

It was an instinctual fear of absolute destructive power originating from life itself!

Gu Qingfeng’s heart alarm sounded fiercely. Without hesitation, he severed the power connection with the Heaven-opening Axe, forcefully pressing that awakening axe intent back to the depths of his sea of consciousness.

Almost simultaneously as he retracted, the terrifying pressure filled with penalizing essence backed away like receding tides, as if it had never appeared, leaving only beads of cold sweat drenching Gu Qingfeng’s back and a lingering solemnity in his heart.

"Indeed..."

Gu Qingfeng’s eyes hardened, completely understanding the rules here.

"Not only is the cultivation power suppressed to an upper limit, but even external items carried, as long as their power tier exceeds a threshold, will similarly trigger warnings from the secret realm rules, possibly leading to direct attacks by the rules!"

He was almost certain that if he had truly invoked even a sliver of the immortal-level power contained within the Heaven-opening Axe earlier, the outcome would not merely be a warning pressure.

It might directly provoke the remaining Dao Rule Power belonging to the Eleventh Immortal Realm presence in the secret realm, enforcing suppression upon himself.

The Ancient Barbarian Heavenly Venerate stated clearly that this secret realm rejects immortals entering personally; now, its essence seems to repel any existence or manifestation surpassing a certain power tier.

Gu Qingfeng rapidly analyzed.

"The best result might be being forcefully repelled out of the secret realm by this rule power.

But more likely under rule attacks is perishing, totally falling."

He wouldn’t naively expect that the secret realm rules left by a supreme immortal would show mercy.

To challenge rules often implies destruction.

Therefore, despite his inner curiosity, Gu Qingfeng has absolutely no thought of wanting to test the rule attack power personally.

That’s akin to suicide.

Even the Ancient Barbarian Heavenly Venerate, a top-tier existence at the Eighth Immortal Realm, is greatly wary of this secret realm, finding it difficult to enter bodily, indicating its remaining rules’ frightening nature.

Though he possesses the battle power to counter an Immortal First Realm, when confronted with such suspected Eleventh Realm means remaining, the gap remains astronomical.

"Without breaking through to immortality, lacking the undying and unbreaking characteristic, one must act with utmost caution within such secret realms."

Gu Qingfeng cautioned himself.

However, this harsh extreme rule does bring a faint fairness, or potentially a latent advantage for Gu Qingfeng.

"Since I can’t use the Heaven-opening Axe, and my personal strength is also suppressed below a certain upper limit, what about others?"

A sharp gleam flashed in Gu Qingfeng’s eyes.

"Even if the Evil God Clan’s Immortal God Masters grant top Heavenly Venerates under their command Forbidden Artifacts or means containing the Power of Immortality, they similarly cannot deploy them here unless they want their own first eradicated by secret realm rules."

Originally what he feared most was the Evil Gods Immortal possibly temporarily attaching partial power or will to their agents entering the secret realm, or granting them one-time immortal-level, killer treasures.

In that case, even if his strength were immense, facing genuine immortal-tier ambushes or assaults would likely result disastrously.

But now, this iron law of power ceiling within the secret realm acts like a solid barrier, greatly reducing such worst-case scenarios.

At least inside the secret realm, everyone relies more on their regular strength after suppression.

"Thus, as long as I don’t provoke the rule, my advantage rather increases."

Gu Qingfeng harbors absolute confidence in his battle power below immortality.